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2 Metempsychosis.
‘o™} printer was busy in front of his case
FHA slowly a pi A made [ts way o'er AN
face,
As he thought what a field was presented to
view ' .
in omse ransmigration slould prove to De
wae:
And his funoy, in light typographical play,
Wove itself round the theme lu the fouowing
way:
There's a girl ever peering with curious eyes,
fo hopes of a “nd” 10 amuse or surprise
Your (etters she bholde to the flare of the light
Tosee if the signatures somewhere in s.ght
Upon her demis f our guess we don't mise,
ELe'll return to our vie hy in ashape Like to this:
Another is falras the lily that nods
A salute to he sua as through heaven be
plode,
But astonishment has her held tight in its
spoil,
Ehe's Aled with surprise o'er each
you tell,
With “Goodness!” “Oh My!" and the like she's
so free §
That some day like this she will certainly be:
i
fact that
nd one has a tamper like pepper, cayenne;
urls angry explosives with tongue and with
pen,
Fach word is as sharp as the sting of a bee,
ach sentence as long ss a wind from the sea,
Keonest satire condensed has its home (a her
mind,
A form like tothis she fo certainly find,
But one is as tenderly soft as the light i
Which beams on the earth from the sky's
vaulted height.
No star in the beavens
clear
Than this acme of all that can charm and en
bas radiance more
dear,
Her likeness? The types are in woeful dis
grace,
Yor this is the best to be found in the place:
Ber
or — Washington Post.
FIFTY CENTS A TICKET. -
1
She was spreading towels and tal)!
cloths on the crisp, short grass to
bleach, when he saw her first i
Diana-like young creature, with
limpid eye=, a brown skin not
innocent of freckles and ar
shining hair, which had brok
from its coarse horn coml
ink-black rip;
There was a
transparent
nari
Pa
dered Gessn
Charlotta Core
i DAYS si
re, which attr
aT Season. very farme-!
ge in the vicin ty was o1
{ & “lecture” was gsomething
stagnation of their
»
the everv-d
Paul
RU
stir
~ (Gessner
ish
reached
New E
repeated. “Oh,
) it's out of the quest
For Natty's slender wages were
of them expended in the support
good-for-nothing old grandsire
when Fe was notdrinking a great deal
too much whisky, was suffering
heard-of agonies with the rheumatism.
all
who,
like a modern Cinderella, without any
of the eciat which, in ancient story, ap-
pertained to that young person.
Bus later in the evening the head
stable-man looked into the kitchen,
wns preparing brook trout for a break-
fast for the morrow's early travelers.
“Where's Jim? said the head stable.
man,
“Gone out,” sald Mrs.
curtly.
Podham,
stableman.
“He's a picter-painter, I guess.
wants moonlight effects, he says” (with
a chuckle.
“I'd a deal ruther bev feather-pil-
low effects myself. Then where is
Dick?
wanted,” Mrs. Podbam replied. “I
kaven't seen him since supper.”
“Then he'll lose a 50 cent job,” said
the stableman, “Well, I s'pose I can
bunt up some one somewhere.”
“Fifty cents!” cried Natty Purples,
springing to her feet. “I'll go, Thomas!
I'm handy with the oars, and I'm just
perishing for a breath of cool air from
the water.”
“Them napkins isn't mended,”
aroaked Mrs. Podham, discouraging.
“I'll finish "em when I come back."
said Katty, coaxingly. ‘Do let me go,
just once!”
to that when Mr. Gessner came out
to the edge of the lake with his picture
‘sque Spanish cloak thrown across one
oulder, and his sketching apparatus
‘er his arm, Nattie Purple sat in the
,48 ready to row him whether he
ould f°
os I" sid Paul. “Why, you're
®
‘Yes, I'm a girl,” apologetioally con
fossed Natty, “But Im » xogd hand
to row, and I know all about the lake,
I can take vou straight to Echo Cove,
where the water-lilies grow thickest,
and past the O.d Indian roek, and —--"
vAgreed,” sald Paul, good-humor.
edly, ‘But was there no man about
the place to undertake this disagreeable
job?"
“Qh, it isn't disagreeable,” said
Natty, earnestiv, ©] like to row! And,
besides, I do so much want to earn 49
cents.” 4
“Do vou? sald Paul. ss tHe littls
Joat ‘propelled bv Natty's ful
81 vanished into the deep shadow
of the overhanging birches that fringed
the lovely tic sMay I vealuse toa
i BT4 & MULE - Y ) “ Uus Kk
1
SRA
SLIGOK ES,
Wi
of Vs se ™¥ ani Catte
Ul, ves, pi : v.
“Ti'a
ciure
no
LO
.
\
secret, i want to go to the le
hp}
morrow night.”
Paul Gessner smiled to himself in the
as he sat there like a
“Do you suppose it will be very in.
teresting?" it he.
“Interesting!” echoed Natty. “Of
course it will be. Haven't you heard?
Mr. Gessner is to deliver a lecture on
the literature of Queen Anne's time."
‘*And who is Mr. Gessner?" demand-
ed the young man.
“If you don’t read the magazines, of
course you can't be expected to know,"
said Natty Purple, with some natural
impatience. But I have read ever-
He is stopping at our |
tell me.”
Paul. “You
'
“Is he?" sai are the
“No, Iam not,” acknowledged honest |
Natty. “I help in the kitchen. *f am |
’
“Well, then, to be honest with von,
Miss Purple,” said Paul, feeling a sting
of conscious, *'l1 am Paul Gessner!"
Nattie gave such a start that the
caresueq Gar gerd 8 y WO O0¢ §iCH
8.AY
she
direct.
io vou not go to Boston and
ho he questioned
' eried Natty, clasping her hands
“do vou think there would be
f of my obtaining a situa-
mod
eagerly,
any possil
3
’
“We must ses what can be done”
reflectively.
So Grandfather Purple was left in
charge of a thrifty neighbor and staid
by himself that winter, while Natty
went to Boston to try her luck in one of
the grammer schools. In the
spring
shie came back. apparently (ranstormel
“I didn’t want you,” growled the old
man. “The Widow Malley takes good
To tell you the
granddarters around.” i
“Oh. grandfather, I am so glad!”
eried Natalie, turning pink and white
in one breath. “Becanse I am not
“Oh, I understand,” said Grandfather
chuckled hoarsely. ‘You're
to be married, too.”
“Yes,” said Natty, “I'm going to be
married.” }
Thus ended the little Brookbridge
fdyl. Natalie was happy. So was Paul
As for Grandfather Purple
and his elderly bride, let us hope that
they were npt very unhappy. For the
roses and nightingales of life can not
be enjoyed by everyone and the spring-
tide of the world comes but once—dmy
Randolph in N. Y. Ledger.
Yu
¥ The Blame Whero it Belongs, 7
Here is a chance for a lively discus. |
sion over a provincialism. A New Ene
land woman thus writes in the Boston
mseriplt: *'I am a Yankee, born and
bred. 1 have lived much in the coun
try,and I never heard a New Englander
say ‘haow' or ‘caow.’ On the other
hand, I have never mot a Philadelphian
or a Southerner who did not say ‘haow,’ |
‘haouse,’ ‘caow.’ Lay the blame on
the shoulders of the culprits. Don't |
malign us poor Yankees. We ‘guess’
that we are faulty in many ways, but |
we know that we do not commit the |
erime with which you charge us.”
Now, what are thy fgets?
~
MAKING BILLIARD BALLS,
A Description of the Delicate Processes In
Thelr Manufactare.
In a little room of a factory in this
city there is suspended in nets from the
eailing, undergoing
ing and%easoning
what represents $60
jard balls errried tl LF
he firm. Of course th
stock of this kind is very h 1
billiard-ball manufa
reco
mass of balls t
small portion of
bill-
Ly
00 worth of
round
insurance
ir
but no
destrud of a
1 or
tion
rou 1 intense col
intense heat unless it is thas the dam-
! rect result of a
ht of frosty air
ruined,
COL=
mpense io the
npense iol 3
. 1 : 1
& OF 1088 1
AD
To thoroushiy understand this indus.
ry of making billiard valls one must
begin at the very bottom, or, in other
words, makea flying visit with the
rica, where the elephant abounds. We
all know to some extent how the pachy-
derm is captured, or killed, as the case
The tusks are removed, and
save for a brief washing at the hands
of the natives, are immediately sent to
one of the trading stations. Thence
the tusks are forwarded, when the
amount is lurge enough, to firms in
London, Amsterdam, Hamburg and
New York. Most of it goes to Ham
burg, and it is from that city that the
manufacturers in is country obtain
the supply that is directly intended for
billiard-balls,
The firm in Hamburg that handles
bas such por of the
usks as are suited to billiard balls cut
nto small ble Ont of one
nd is the crest of the firn he size
f the hall
Ce he
intended to be om that
apd
ATLINC
a year to dry. No inl
eat is used, but every eff rt is taken to
prevent extreme heat or cold reaching
the nets,
Besides the size the weight mnst also
be exact, for this is essential to the cor
rect playing of the game of billiards
Balls of the same tusk vary considera-
bly judged by the density of the pores,
and so there must be a careful selec-
tion. After the balls have been thor-
oughly seasoned they go through what
ed it is hung up witl ows in a
t
i
}
process of manufacturing —that is, the
final turning and polishing. The pol-
ishing is done simply by whitening and
water with a good deal of elbow grease.
A ball always retains its beautiful pol-
The life of a billiard ball is very un-
certain. It will pot remain true no
matter how much it is scasoned be-
cause of its continual concussion,
which causes the pores of the ivory to
close up. If a ball is played with fre.
quently in a hot room it is liable to
crack and become untrue. It is not an
taken in manufacturing, for a ball to
become untrue in a match of a thou-
sand up. Ouce this thing happens the
ball is returned to the factory and
not more than one-twentieth part of
an inch is turned off it, but thereafter
the ball thus operated on cannot be
used in a match game. If the core
does not run straight through the ball,
because of being cut out of a circular
tooth, it always runs ustrue. XN. JY.
Herald.
Population of Berlin.
Berlin now has 1,580,000 population,
to which shonld be added the suburban
pulation of 175,000. The mass of the
nhabitants are persons of very modest
incomes, and living is very cheap.
issues of lire.
not till thy th t
has silently mat ott
itself.
word thon but is 8 seed cast
grows through all eternity.
An
ous thinreig'n guideboard 1s a danger-
i
A Female Lawrver's Case.
Oo] was sitting in my office cne day
Dis.
trict Attorney Lipscomb to a Washing
Post
oung
some years ago,” said Assistant
beautiful
all
and sealskin sacque, and
man, “when a
woman flounced in,
told me a story. She had come
way from the giate of vell
ume to eet
Ti 173
mmy,
Known congressma
ill €X~,
iy 0 find tl
y
and trust had only beer
he
that wouldn't marry
had a big bale of very inecrim nating
'
and red-hieaded letters which she was
prepared to swing on him as right and
left bower, both aces, and the joker,
I didn’t want to tackle it, so I « med
her grief,
aer some smelling-salts, and said;
“ ‘You want revenge?
¢ (Yes, revenge!’
“ ¢And damages?
‘“ «Yes, heavy damages:
“¢Ahl my dear young lady, T will
make your cause my own.’ I scribbled
a few lines on a sheet of paper, folded,
‘Take this let
Thi
Washington
entati
ive of her sex. She il
inclosed, addressed it.
ter to the address given,
at the head of the
DIT eS
tas y 4
bar as
* Year w
lib —
Sat Upon.
The Young Woman (on top pl
: ¥
a8 $4
int-
form of Eiffel tower)—Doesn’t it seem
that
little oscillation is noticeable up here?
strange to you, Spoonamore, 80
The Young Man (eagerly)—Not at
all, Miss Ethel. 1 have no doubt there
is a great deal of it indulged in up
here, but it can’t be seen from below.
And now,
sure~you
The elevation is too great.
Miss Ethel, you will—1I am
will pardon———
The Young Woman (arresting his
forward movement by a freezing look)
~] said oscillation, Mr. Spoonamore,
not osculation. (After a depressing
silence). I think, Mr. Spoonamore,
it is time for us to descend.—Chicago
Tribune,
ts ——
An Objectionable Baby
A tiny baby made its appearance on
Cass avenue the other day. It was a
very small baby. The children after a
time were invited in to see it. They
looked at it carefully, but it was evi-
dent thst they were not very favorably
impressed with the new-comer, Af
a long silence the eldest of the t¥o
said: “If I'd known papa hadn't pene
nies "nuff to get a big baby I'd lent him
some of my pennies that’s in my badk.”
“Yes, and get a fite one, and not a
yed, yed brudder,” said another voice.
Hiram Smal digging in Henry Mil.
ler's farm at us, N. Y., un-
cola, dated from 1761 to 1195 He
°
claims that It is part of Capt. Kidd's
long sought treasure, Kd; however
vos Langed in 1701, treasure
Soaking faver hus broien.out #8 Chap-
. PE
WILL POWER,
Nature,
Three stories were told over after-
dinner cigars the other d
Boston G
iV, Bays the
4 Po } TIO ART Gp £
“zee, 85 POWER 0)
fore death,
bed
never get up again
excitedly
1 will
: ; .
and show him.
walk
to the doctor mveel
He jumped to the floor, walked across
the room and fell
The second
dead,
Was
stabbed through the heart. He
the
blade had
man by the
struck him, pressed
the ground, drew his revolver, and d:
liberately thy
ling prisoner’
gil i ner
“Are wi
shirts
unsure, J
}
ael
are
“Positive.”
Search number two resulted in 8
| “ailure,
“Mr. Ovode,” the
| Moody, “are you absolutely positive
said
{ that your shirts are here? There must
! be some mistake.’
| «No mistake at all,” rejoined the
| Texan— “no mistake at all.
y
Stopped
i at St. Charles Hotel and lost my shirts.
There is your printed note, telling me
to go to Moody's and get my shirts
They must be here somewhere!”
Then the advertising dodge was ex-
plained to the Texan youth, and he
concluded to look for his “wash”
elsewhere,
No Boquets,
A circular has been addressed to the
artists of the Dresden State Theatre
warning them that for the future it
will be considered a breach of disci.
pline to accept offerings of flowers and
other tokens of admiration, or in any
way to recognize the presence of the
audience during the course of the pers
formance of serious operas and dramas.
This regulation has been in force for
a —
FOuo rOR THOUGHT.
———
Hold £.#t tha" which is good,
GVET ATE,
1
Two of a trade ca
It is |
iy
: ¥
of the Le
l.ovée bh
bx 0K,
Worry |
1IERBEer.
Love speaks
The man who tra
yiigh man lies
th and resolves
is weary when
id'care remal
A queer tmag about a strike is that
it always comes Lo an end as s00D as 18
get In working order.
Ag the sweelest rote grows upon the
sharpest priciie, so Lhe hardest labor
brings forth sweelest profit,
A willingness {o divide with his eap-
tor has protected more thieves than the
law has protected honest men,
A great many of our would be ree
formers are like Lhe 10an who stays up
all night trying to get the people lo go
to oa
1t is a melancholy fact and much $0
be regretted that good pe ple who want
only what is right often get what is leit.
Modesty weighs a pound, impudence
only six ounces, This accounts for the
diffidence of the one, and vivacity of
the other,
A man may get a big foot or a pug
nose by birth-right; but pine-tenths of
his virtues are the effeet of association
or education,
You can’t praise a man for having
done a great thing without hearing
from the little man at his side who
vised him to do it,
It is easy enough to tell on Sunday
who belongs to church and who to the
world, but it Is not so easy to disung.
uish chuich wembers during the week
Eloquence is not confined to oratory.
Thereareeloguent painters and eloquent
sculptors, canvasses and marbles that
thrill us with vivid expressions,