-— Curiosity. [ wonder who those people are That live across the way; [ wonder what their business is, And how they pass each day. I wonder who she is that lives Upon the upper floor?” Lind if those children both are hers, If she be rich or poor? Aud who is she that always wears That deep~dyed erimson sack; Whose face as pure as marble gleams Neath hair of raven black? And who is he with whitenad locks, And who the maiden fair, With ros s in her rounded cheeks And sunlight in her hair? [ wonder if I always will Go wondering on this way, Or shall 1 get acquainted, And know them al! some day? Know who they are, and what they have, And how thev came to be I'lie tenants of the house that stands Right opposite to me? Know who the man is that goes oud So early in the moru; And why the parlor window shades Are always closely drawn? And why Inside t Jt I sha Of curiosity. ~-but there, 1 must arrange 10086 LO sae, 1 know 1 shall! FOUND IN THE ASHES. She wasn't o own to that and he could judge anyone could. Joe was an Ward Nine, and used to see her three summer and the basement door remove the ash bajrels, was always In such a hurry! forthe 1 e flung to others; indeed, | like joking with her, He always felt hiroat ICH made ioarser still whe he n front of No, 72 sling througi then it was Millie when pen! So it went on, and the lump hi Diroat Kept growing, Ames a week, thie Opened And she A) net ug! Joe tc his deep called ** Ashes!” stubborn door did ing he lock, and when lew jeard ninute he Arms w inder it Wot, He carr rance uj nme sieps ticked at the kitchen door. uickly. and Joe walked in and laid his Xs tr! little ery, a was whiter than ever ong en- and the floor, saying ce, mum, do ye think Lis ‘she fel the ion she's killed?” Next t him in mlrels Rick 10 , \ a strange giri rol came to the emply ash day i } ANG as jie led ¢} Bilao i jaces place er *Was she hurt bad?” it would lay her up for six wpital right away.” 1ired with much stammer- huffling of his big cow- ther’ was a gal taken I ined ankle t'other day?” I'he man the gold nose glasses said **Yes: are you her brother?" “0! No, sir,” said Joe with red face, Ah!” the questioner, Every week Joe made his appear- wee at the office and said: Will she ye out this week, sir?'’ at last they old him ‘Yes, to-morrow 10 y'elock,” and ‘riend to go with the cart in his place, and half the next his best, waiting n wit said at + ina Past nine ound him dressed in it the door Presently a thin, poorly-clad girl came lowly down the step and started in sur- rise as a big, bashful man stepped up her and said, “Millie!” She don’t tnow him. How should she, when his ywn mother would scarcely recognize 2im in his week-day garb of dshes and nud, and she had never seen him in any other? *‘I’m Joe, the ash-man, ye snow!’ he spoke quickly, and then her rightenedd look gave place to a wan answered, “Oh! I dida't Y ou must excuse me,” Ye sntle as alie iow you, “Course “No, 1 didn’t [{ knowed.”? “That's why I come; 1 thought meb- we you'd wemed wr nel s.ink to see anybody no friends » 1 jest slip- like ye didn’t bav ly to care for ye, =« Ain't goin’ back to 72, be ye?” jon't know nobody else in this city, an’ Miss Benton is kind hearted if she is a ittle cross onct in a while.” “Well, I'll go ’long with ye, an’ see what she says.” After that they walked on slowly and yasement door, Mrs, Benton spoke to the girl kindly and told her she might stay there til she found another place, for souldn’t discharge any of her “help.” 30, pale Millie went and told Joe, and he promised to come the next evening and tell if he heard of any place, As ne walked away, he muttered to him- wif: “What's the matter with me, anyhow?” That was just it. He souldn’t have told, to save his life, Ah! Joe, Joe, that same question has puzzled wiser, shrewder brains than yours, lo, these many years, The next evening he rang the base- nent bell and was led by Sally into the same kitchen he had entered so many weeks before, and Millie stood up to shake hands, with much blushing, and then Joe said: “It won’t hurt ye to sake a little walk, will it? The night's real clear and purty, an’ it ain't muddy.’ So they went out, and was it the witchery of the night or the subtle in- fluences of the moonshine (or can such things affect hearts that beat under such uncouth raiment) that made Joe say what he did?” “Ye didn’t hear of no place?’ he asked, hesitatingly, after a bit. “No; I went to some places that was in the paper, but they all said I didn’t laok strong. an’ I 8’sose ' oy mind easy 'bout a livin’’' She spoke despondently, and just then Joe put his anl bright on his hard hand. That settied Joe, “Millie, will ye marry me?” He hurried over the words as if they chok- ed him, *Iain’t got much to offer ye, but I'll work to make ye a home, ef you'll come an’ share it with me, Will ye?” “0, Joe, you mustn't! I you're sorry fer me, but you mustn't marry a girl jest ‘cause you feel sorry fer her, you know!’ This last very timidly and tearfully. And then Joe knew ‘what was the matter” with him! He knew that he would rather have this girl to work and slave for all his life than the richest beauty In all the land. *“Tain’t that Millie, but I love ye an’ will be proud and happy to call ye ‘wife.’ They had reached one of the small parks now, and le made her sit down on one of the rustic seats and one of her hands in a strong clasp as he repeated: “Will ye, Millie?" GLIMPSES AT CANTON. om ———— Hostile People. lavishly hospitable Seymour, Esq., we sallied forth to view the city. Sedan chairs ware provided for us, carried by coolies, who were under the supervision of vy superior Chinese guide. This Ki ad brought a covered chair or palauquin for me, as 1 was the only lady in the party, and was very much disgusted when I declined to use it, but as 1 had gone to China to see, I did not propose to hide my light under a bushel, Our guide consequently appropriated have gone through Canton blindfolded, however, he was quite as well there as head of the procession, while we fol lowed, It was evident that we made a great impression upon the natives. They you, my reader, would lave never be- stowed even a passing glance upon its ing of a true soul, in the eyes that met hers, and love, the great beautifier, made this common face beautiful in her One line in the daily papers, under the heading, *‘‘Marriage “Joseph Rivers and Liceuses,’’ Mildred Grant,” For the rest, a few words mumbled by a fat, good-natured 'Squire in his stuffy office and Mr. walked out into the sunlight of that They had dinner in a cheap but clean of the house across the alley. During the year that fo'lowed coaxing, won his consent to go out for a day’s work, ant 1 i ts “ gathered, piece by piece, ed, and, as I fancied, with intense ad- until I discovered that the word ‘fanqual,’’ after us, means The streets are paved with stone and narrow, not more than six seven feet room enough for two chairs to The # o“Panqual? We these two foolish creatures, low dandelions showed their heads above the ground, a tiny yellow head nestled on Millie's breast and Joe boasted to his comrades that ‘that little chap of mine is the purtiest little feller And he was pretty! And then, O, sad in-coming of the dent while at work. The Ice seemed to have a special grudge against these two warm young hearts, for struggli its contents into the cart, Joe's foot slipped on the frozen curbstone, and down he went, barrel and all, They lifted him from and fifteen minutes later Joe was inside the stone walls that sheltered Millie so long. Next day, fortunately,” was day and Millie, with her chubby boy in her arms, asked, with tears in her eyes, to see her husband. “0, Joe, my poor Joe, how bad is it?" she sobbed, “*There, I'll get along all “But how wouldn't tell me.*’ “‘It's my leg, the left one, the doctor set it right away, an’ says it'll be as strong as ever, how are you to get m here?” he groan- visitor's tant ory aon’ cry Millie, they b say right, are you | wa hurt? They ut I ed. ““‘Don't worry about me, I'll get an' come an’ see you every Lime Now kiss Joey for I see them to tell me to go.” drew the baby away who had clutched both dimpled hands into h's father’s along along, I can. . comin Light. They saul “good-bye” soberly, and Millie kept back her tears until she knew he couldn't see them, then she buried her face in her baby’s soft frock and sobbed, *O! baby, baby, what will we do?” It was a hard time for her, but she worked bravely, taking the boy with her when could, and when could him at the home ashe not, leaving lasting Love,” and through the street of “Refreshing Breezes,” which tainly a misnomer, for Canton beals Both Restaurants abound, dogs, dried rats and The flesh of black cats and dogs is much prized than that of cats and dogs of any other color, and the unskinned tall chaser, I had a black chow dog, WW f hungry glances cast by the coolies upon that unoffending quadruped whenever we took our walks abroad me to part with it In the fish market the about In little tanks, 1 saw al man select one, from the side of wl the vender cut a pound or two and returned the bleeding, ga object to the tank to swim sOotne other customer ix it, or until death relieved its su ings. During our ramble we met Mr, Howqua, one of the richest mandarins in China, and he took us to his house and introduced us to his wives, They were much powdered and rouged, Their feet were about three in length and their fi to seven inches longer In keep the nails from breakin slipped into gold sheaths aimlessly from t little Howqua's wives are beauty, though 1 am quite preg believe they may be joys forever, conversed as fluently as our very limited acquaintance would allow, examined each other's clothes and hair with in- tense interest and drank enough ing tea to float our internal ~ wa found time hang a compelled fish PROT, about until ght the rest of fy +} \ ChHes in nger-nalis from live Wh he 4K scald- organs ‘ Laid, iittie heavy “Ch and move on, was very warm and our coolie bearers became, y degrees, alarmingly conspicuous by its absence, They their garments at the earliest oppor heat and the trotted it seemed in-chin’ The day clothing of b shed nether tunity, zeal with which t cruel to protest, Qur ears were greeted Ly the shrill sound of Chinese pipes and the mono- wonous beating of gongs, which always heralds the approach of a procession of some kind, and **following hard upon,” hey wheres she knew he was when for him at night! Joe could hardly wail for his weekly sight of wife and baby, and 80 the slow weeks dragged on, and on baby’s birth- day Joe, with eager steps, limped along she came ed and how good the dinner was! and made everything tidy, she said: able, an’ I don’t see how I could have an’, O, Joe. it’s so nice, and we'll go, won't we?" “Why, Millie, I didn’tknow ye cared about such things.’ **1 didn't either, Joe, but it rests me.” “Well, we'll see about it; it won't hurt us, I know, an’ mebbe there is something in what folks call religion. I never knowed much about it,” They did ‘see about it,’ and with recovered strength Joe worked with good heart and his new friends founda steady, honest worker worthy of their kindness, and, as one bright young girl said, as she gave Baby Joey a great bag of Christmas sweets with Sweeter kisses thrown in. **Who would have thought of finding such a precious, pretty jewel in the ashes, mamime?’’ But Joe 1s no longer calling ** Ashes!” but 1s raising day by day in the esteem and good will of his employers, but he never will regret the humble work that Ted him to his wife, *‘the best and bra- vest listle woman in the world, with a heart big as all outdoors,” he fondly as. serts, ~Traveling cloaks are made of striped limousine, with visite sleeves and a pointed hood at the back, a string of small boys bearing banners, lanterns and red flags, and beating gongs, tom-toms and drums. Some musicians were behind them, and they in turn were followed by men beanng richly decorated canopies, under which the like, ornamented with bright red paper roses with vividly green leaves, Then came a coffin shaped precisely like the trunk of a tree and drawn by a number of bearers, and behind it the mourners in jéinrckshas drawn by coolies. There were two mourners in each ricksha, their faces concealed from view by pieces of thick cotton cloth, under which they were supposed to la- ment without ceasing. Two or thres ’ and, in the event yf any mourner ceasing from his labors, he was reminded by an energetic prod. i i would be apt to create. The din was deafening. There were some women in the procession, but not many, and the small boy there, as everywhere, seemed to predominate, Many coflins are deposited by the roadside on trestles or little piles of matting or pleces of tin, but oftener with no covering at all, and there they remain for years and years, until they finally burst open and fall apart. They are never disturbed, Very few coffins seem to be buried under the earth. They have the appearance of being placed under the ground and turfed over, At first sight these little mounds and hillocks of irregular shapes dotted about here, there are everywhere in the middie of cultivated fields, by the road- side, in private grounds, and especially in large vegetable gardens surrounded by beds of lettuce, spinach, radishes, ote., struck me as horrible, but one grows to like them, They give some relief to the otherwise perfectly flat ap- poatancs of the landscape, There is no eadstone and apparently no mark by which to distinguish these graves in any way from thelr neighbors, but that they are so distinguished is beyond auetion. for the Chinsse. mora than | i | ! | any other nation, hold their head in | reverence, and the severest punishment | cause whatever disturbed a coflin or a | grave, transportation, strangulation and decapitation being among the mildest forms of penalties Incurred. ——— SHAD THAT si NG. Musical Members of the Finny Tribe Giving Concerts at Cape May. The singing shad has been seen and heard in lower Delaware Bay this spring, It hasn't been seen in large quantities, of course, for the appear- ance of this odd fish In these waters is arare occurrence, But few of the sing- ing shad have enchanted the [ishermen since the season began. They come from the South and only when the wind has died down and the water is quiet, They come in schools, emitting musical notes as they swim along. The sounds they make are soft and something like those of an wmolian harp. Its hard to express, or rather imitate, on paper, the melody they sing. It runs something like this: dum. This sound cannot be made with any effect except when the shad travel in The singing of a single shad | #3 too feeble to be heard above ple of the water, the first, probably i no shad had singing shad has schools, This year has been for a decade, that the favored the fishermen of Delaware Bay, Captain Arnold, one of the oldest and most truthful of South Jersey fishermen, said the other day that he had heard the singin i a number of times in his { career, ‘‘They are rare, of far North as this, Even when coms only old fishers are apt and distinguish them. We about them and are more or less on th lsokout for their occasional arrival They really belong off coasts of and Chill. There they quite common, are narrated about fishermen, breed In pls © the them by The singing also Japanese walers, when they strike a school of singing shad. They follow thew up reverently, fish are ed. They throw them food and ne catch or eat them.” The singing shad common buck or roe shad, large and there is a slig the formation of h. Only an pert fishermen can tell when he has ught one of { finny songsters, Oid herman regard i rizes and do not is different fron Jt is n ifference in the mout the the musical nless they hem. Their singin OwWin ¢ “rd $e py # . A consians 1 Ady wt Aci it i few sounds, that He Bane theses pecull Delaware or move on to New York ¢ mingle with the plain every-day Hud son river shad is 1 They lo t huand Ler LEH Ar 18h ever go on iy ait ity inde MLL} fish and i Why Germans Use Glasses, ‘It comes I: oculist, “Yes, but why more near sighted t Do they read more?’ **1 don't think do, bu kind of books they read ti their vision to be defective.’ “How so?" *The German books are j the dazzling old English tries the eyes more than any other type use in civilized countries, It quires such close scrutiny that the eyes are Invariably strained. >o well known is this fact that recently the Austrian minister of public ti very sensible decreas forbid of books printed in smal public schools. Now, w school books this would not be 80 nece:- sary, but German books to be harmiess must be printed large, bold faced characters, is a large party of v 1 > HE reaiing, a} sid SA Lan Germans be Americans? they do, but it is the Wa iat causes rinted in types, which in [¥ nm issued a ling the use type in the $natri INSLT Ud : : it { ' in There iy changed to Roman, and the use of English script has largely taken the place of the German script in « pondence. Educated Germans read one style as readily as the other, and the former is growl rapidly in popu- larity, It will not be before books will appear in the same char ng ong when that time comes the eyes of suc- ceeding generations will be stronger than those of the present, but I don’t apprehend that this will happen early enough to injure my business, come slowly and physicians will find their hands full until the dawn of the a He Iospired Hope. In Queen Anne's reign, Lord Bate- man married three wives, all of whom were his servants. A beggar-woman meeting him one day in the street, made him a very low courtesy. “Ah God bless you,” said she, “and If you do but live long enough, we shall all be ladies in time,’ ~Treasurer Powers, of the National Trotting Association, has completed his bond In the sum of $20,000. His sureties are William Edwards, Morgan (G. Burkeley and E. A. Buck, Sheer white woolen fabrics are combined with Roman red India milk in the construction of gay afternoon dresses for the seaside, «The tennis shoes of the season are of soft, good-wearing leather, with ankle straps, But for those who do not like straps there are laced ones, — New French basques, close-fitting at the back, with deep pointed yoke and semi-loose fronts snugly beited, are oom by handsome silver girdles with chatelalne and attach- manta | FASHION NOTES. i Summer mantles are short and more in the mantilla than in the visite | style, ~The magpie style of dress is still in high vogue, and stylish costumes of black and white are being made and imported suitable for every occasion, from the pretty morning dresses of French zephyrs to luxurious gowns of satin and lace. — Dancing gowns of tulle In quaint colors will be garnitured with orchide, hops, dandelion blooms, thistle flowers, sweet pea blossoms and other flowers that have hitherto been little used, or else the ornaments are entirely of gilt or silver leaves and vines, —**Orlental crape,’’ costing 35 cents a yard, or cotton crepe de chine, as some call it, is a beautiful summer fabric, fine, soft and exquisitely dyed, made in excellent imitation of crepe de chine, and at a short distance not unlikely to be taken for tho article itself, ~The Marguerita 18 still { gant, being of some Lne woolen ma- | terial, beaded all over with jel; lace basque at the back, peaked lappels, | trimmed with lace and jet In front; | sleeves, composed of alternate rows of | jet fringe and gatherd lace fril do | not come down below the elbow. ~The Miranda is a taste'ul mantle of black beaded gauze, trimmed with lace and passementrie, The shape is well-fitting at the back, with a lace quilling forming a sort of basque; visite sleeves and loose fronts | finished into a point, The ming forms a quilling down the front. i § il igs, 18 in the shape of a short cape well fitted to the shoulders, and continued It is made of a fine, | fabric, beaded with jel, and a strip of wide jet-beaded galloon each side The lapels are ders to the waist on the up jreton had made with a square neck of which vest, drawn permitting the removal of the vest in play. too 1s very plain fwith a long draped tunic arranged s0 as to hamper the little as possi- bie. —Cream-white Flemish lace Is much deep Charles X collars or lea gowns, and also dressy summer that are Intended to have a picturesque air, In often of tinted China silk, with a skirt of moire or faille Francaise, and drap- ery of lace, Black is frequently chosen for this combination, and the soft ma- terials readily lend themselves LO graceful lines, quaint siyie, have deep t with lace. We have also a number of pretly summer bonnets describe. The on sleeves covered and the puffed inted silk cuffs, 10 A tasteful mode is of fancy gauze, trimmed with cross-siripe with a large cluster of fowers in front, and strings of faille ribbon to mateh. The small capote is also black tulle and lace, with a cluster of flowers 1n front and faille strings. The Directolre capole looks very it Is trimmed with side the large open border. made of colored satin straw, ribbon and ostrich tips. —For dressy gowns are rich silk passementrie yokes and cuffs to be laud One matching in effective and of gold and olive-green shot slik, with cuffs, and a pointed girdle with pendants which held the plaits of the bodice at the waist. All these silks and decora- tions were made in close imitation of chain armor, The ornaments, though shades in the changeable silk. —Piaited shirt walsts for neglige various fashionable resorts over skirts of every description. Waists in this style made in Paris, are formed of “gunshining.” a new fancy silk with a These waists are finished with sailor collar and deep cuffs of moss green velvet. Other waists are of plain milk briar- stitched in various colors, and plain styles are of figured percale, herring- boned with Turky red cotton down the edges of plaits, and on collars and cuffs, # —For tennis gowns all sorts of flan. nels are used as well as all colors, bright colors, howaver, predominate. There is very little variely in the man- per of making or draping, but the style of trimming is maltitudineus, Braid. ing and embroidety are both in use, but the favorite garniture seems to be the new galloons, both plain and in tinsek Of course, the bodices are mostly in the blouse form, and the skirts with as little drapery as possible, so as not to incommode one in ran- Bing re is almost as much necessily for freedom of movement in a boating costume a8 in a tennis gown. This does not, however, preclude having a pretty and becoming costume. Fian- nel seems to be the favorite material, although all wool goods are popular. The latest idea In tennis as well as in pink and qray, and blue stripes, or polka dots, are worn with dark blue or red White serge is also used fat blouse or skirt, and braiding HORSE NOTES. -Miss Ford, whe had been ver strongly backed for the Suburban pulled up lame at Jerome on Saturday. June 24. — Macbeth, winner of the K-n‘uek) Derby, Jacobin and Lela May, belmg ing to the Chicago stable, have beet shipped to St. Louls, -~Jewett, pacing record 2.14, is trot ting this season, Peter Schatz has en tered the black son of Allle West lp the 2,22 class at Terre Haute, ~Colonel John Hayes, of Mifflintown, Pa., has purchased of T. J. Middagh the 8. ¢. Edmond Lavingston, by Wood. lawn, dam May Queen, for $500. —~Aurelia’s Croton handicap at Je rome Park recently was the best por formance of the season, and stamp her a great mare beyond question. — Virginia's State Agricultural Bo clety will give $10,000 for trotling and running races at its Fall Falr, which will be held in Richmond in October. ~The dates of the Amenia (N. Y. fall meeting have been changed fron september 4 to 7 to September 11 U 13, bringing it the week after Paw hing. —A number of Washisgton (D. C. gentlemen have decided to bulld a new half-mile track near that city, or leas Brightwood Park and hold weekly matinees there, ~The 2.19 class at Charter Oal Park, Hartford, June 22, Is a good oue Spofford, Skylight, Pliot, Starietta, Ids | Belle, David 1.., Olaf, Rosaline Wilkes Favonia, Jessie and Lady Kensett ar in it, -Lavin'a Belle, winner of the la { tonla Oaks at Latonia, bears a ver, i close resemblance to her full brother Freeland, having the same siripe 0 white down her face and the same gen eral conformation. — Pierre Lorillard, Jr., has trade the brown Dalesman, by limp Pizarro, Nutwood Mald, by Lexington with Mr. John Croker, for the chest nut mare Witch, 5 years, by imp. Mor | temer, from Lady Wallenstein, by Lex ington. -]t was fortunate the book makers that thers were only mutual | sold at Jerome on the day Aurelia rut the City handicap, for if they had beer All Haggix would have about swamped some o colt for — The American Trotting Associa to meet the amend | ment to Rule 6, Section 4, made at the | February Congress of National Trot | ting Association, by allowing hors | that have never started in a public rac to change name without paying a re | cording fee of $50, During a race on Thursday, June 5th, at Latonia a serious accident oc curred to the valuable @lly Irene Dil of Mr. She was in the lead and Scot run Hx struck her on both legs, cutting one o — Four of Electioneer’s get have en and al in races Stock Arbutus reduced his record 4 —Prince Wilkes’ frst engagemen Ollver K. and Mambring tis owner has declined sev Cleveland, Philadelphia and New York. After Detroit, Prince Wilket will trot through the big circait in the free-for-all class with Crit Davis be- ~The Gentlemen's Driving Club, of The officers elected Presi. Vice President Patrick Rodgers, Treasurer, and Frauk W. Adams, Secretary. The Execu tive Committee, whica will in the fu. ture have full control of the track,Wu James Thurs and J. D. Mallory. —The Bard is sick again, seriously, The veterinary but who no has membrane lining of the bowels, It gives him some pain, and he turns hi head and sort of bites at his fank, It 1s a recurrence of last Summer’ trouble, and the truth is the horse wil always be liable to it while he Is In training, as after such an attack as he had last Summer there is always a sen sitiveness or weakness to the part at tacked, at least for a long time.”’ ~The American mare Misty Morn- ing trotted her maiden race on Euro pean soil at Lyons, France, on May 13, over a half mile course with a loom surface used for runners and trotters alike. The distance was two and i half miles and the pole was on the right hand, Kozyr, the winner, wen! to saddle, the others in harness. Fo wore than a mils and a half Misty Merning led the way, taking the centry of the track, when Kozyr, who stuch to the pole, came away with a mixed ted French mare, and beal the ankee out. The time of the race was 6.24, or at a mate of 2.35 pe mile, «The Withers stakes seem destined never to be wholly satisfactory and are full of sensations. The Dublin incl. dent of 1874, the of the favorites Basil and Leonard in s leaving Har old at the post in 1879, and Mr. Keene winning with Dan Sparling instead of Spendthrift, much to of the public; the disputed finish of Ferncliffe and Grenada in 1880, the Tyrant run- away and sensational success in 1885, all combine to makes a chapter of accidents such as have rendered the race an object of superstition on the part of maay, while with those who are take a ore worldly view of it never ceased to be a matter com
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