When I Mean to Marry.
When do ¥ mean to marry? — Well,
*Tis idle to dispute with fate;
But if you choose to hear me tell,
Pray listen while I fix the date
When datighters haste with eager fees,
A mother’s daily toil to share,
Qan make the puddings which they eat,
And mend the stockings which they wear,
When maidens look upon a man
As in himself what they would marry,
And not as army soldiers scan
A sutler or a commissary;
When gentle ladies, who have gos
The offer of a lover's hand,
Consent to share his earthly lot
And do not mean his lot of land;
When young mechanics are allowed
To find and wed the farmers’ girls
Who don't expect to be endowed
With rubies, diamonds and pearls;
When wives, in short, shall fully give
Their hearts and hands to aid their spouses
And live as they were wont to live
Within their sires’ one story houses,
Then, maiden—if I'm not too old—
Rejolced to quit this lonely life,
I'll brush my beaver, cease to scold,
Aud look about me for a wifel
~ ARTHUR.
Several years ago I lived in a narrow |
street near the Champs Elysees, known |
as the Passage des Douze Maisons, |
Picture to yourself this silent and de.
serted ner of the faubourg, over
shadowed by the grandeur of a more
aristocratic neighborhood, and its still-
ness only interrupted by the occasional
noise of
Year
rice or
property
contrast
The low
look th
CO
a rolling carriage.
after year, whether from ava-
it unimproved, in strange
surroundings,
brighter out-
neglects d
its beautiful
with no
iny and
awkwardly
rit ai
Ouisiue,
0
hay Bg
HOUSES,
an their
were
¢
gardens, most built,
the steps running up on the
with here and there wooden platforms
used for the two-fold purpose of dying
clothes and for affording refuge to half
starved cats, pet ravens and tame rab-
bits, These tenements were the homes
of mechanics, of people forced to prac- |
tice the direst economy, of artists (the |
latter attracted by the trees), and near
by were some lodging houses 80
mean an aspect that the fact of their
having sheltered misers from time im-
memorial seemed loudly proclaimed.
Yet in this immediate vicinity lay
the Champs Elysees in all its noisy bril
liancy. There one heard a steady rol
of wheels. a constant clanking of har-
of
_
i
chains, upon the
of
ige
quick footsteps
heavy
roned
ness
pavements, or the
gates aller some
had rat
the muflled
violins in
and,
TOWS ¢
standing
dows, half
eries, 1
panes
varied hues of rare
flowers within.
This
Maisons,
seemed
:
tii
wild
shu 1g
carri
At times
1 of a prano, or of the
embia
1 through them,
sOun
Mabille, fell upon the ear,
d to all, were
{ impo gracefully
out agai
sl
Lhe
1 1 Yue
pied
ted
the candelabra
and any
Liu gilt of
gloomy Passage des Douze
shyt
+
High
ed by a single street
like a side of the
neighborhood. All that
was superfluous to the
lamp,
scene more
brilliant for
the moment
splendor there, courted idleness here;
liveried servants, clowns in costume, a
colony of English grooms, hostlers from
the circus, the two little hippodrome
riders on their famous ponies, and one
might even see tiny goat wagons and
pretty toy suggestive of chil
amusement, In the midst of
a dreary procession ol
theatres,
dren's
this, however,
blind men, who cleverly converted their
and evening
wander back
tune
misfor
after evening they would
into capital,
to the alley, carrying their camp stools,
accordions and wooden bowls,
During
of these poor creatures married, and his
wedding was the occasion of night's
to
t one
my residence in the stree
a
merryinaking, a fantastic concert,
which clarinets, hautboyvs, organs and
accordions all contributed, giving forth
those familiar to
every b (Quiet
each and
usually
in this quarter, for
vagrants seldom returned
sk, and then indeed with very
weary Hmbs, It was only on Saturday
night, after Arthur had received his
wages, that there was any disturbance,
Arthur was my neighbor. A thin
wall, lengthened by a trellis, was all
that separated my humble lodging from
the room which he and his wife occu.
pied. Thus, in spite of myself, there
was the necessary intimacy of proxim-
ity, and every Saturday 1 was forced to
become the silent witness of a horrible
drama, so often enacted in the homes
of our Parisian workingmen,
The opening scene was invariably the
game, The woman woult be preparing
the dinner while the children played by
her No matter how busy she
wight be, she always spoke gently to
then, Seven o'clock, 8 o'clock-—no-
body! As the hours passed her voice
would change, and stifled sobs seemed
to echo her anxiety, Then the little
ones, growing hungry and tearful,
would begin to fret, Their father did
not come; they mast eat without him,
By and by these tired children would
drop off to sleep, one after the other,
and as the mother stepped out on the
narrow wooden Laleony 1 could hear
her crying bitterly and murmuring,
“Oh! the wretch! the wretch!”
The neighbors coining home saw and
pitied her. “You had better go to 1d,
Muse, Arthur, You know well enough
a unds SO
ridge of Paris,
Ie ged
these street
supreme
belore du
side,
on his pay day.”
Then would follow advice mingled
with idle gossip. *I would not act
thus were I in your place. Why not
complain to his master?”
But this sort of commiseration only
served to make her weep the more, and
still hoping, she would patiently wait,
The doors opening into the silent alley
being closed, fancying herself alone,
and with that peculiar indifference of
the lower classes, who live half of their
lives in the street, she would lean on
her elbows and loudly relate her tale of
suffering, thought having concentrated
upon the fixed idea of her misery. Some
On these
pecasions it was Arthur who was the
wit and attraction of the party. You
haps the baker, who refused to supply
What would happen were he again to
coms home without money?
one of those model workingmen who
spend their evenings in lecture halls,
He would speak in a sweet and well
modulated tone, and, profiting by cur.
rent ideas, would advocate the rights of
labor and denounce the tyranny of cape
ital, His wife, weak from the blows
of the preceding night, would glance at |
Mm with evident admiration, nor was |
she alone in this. “What if dear Ar-
thur did amuse himself?’ sighed Mme,
Weber,
Then the women would urge him to !
sing, and he, amiably consenting, would |
give them something of Beranger’s, |
Oh! what a sonorous voice, full of
affected pathos and vibrating with the |
long afterward, when I imagined ber at
rest, I could hear some one coughing
on the other side of the partition. Poor.
unfortunate woman! She was still there,
tortured by anxiety, straining her eyes
to penetrate the gloom, and seeing
nothing save her own distress,
One o'clock, 2 o'clock, often later, a
voice might be heard singing at the end
of the street, Arthur was returning.
as far as the door: “Come on,
and even there he would loiter,
inowing full well what awaited
beyond its threshold, he felt too
cowardly to As he mounted
the +53 of the house lent
an emphasis to nis heavy tread,
made him experience something akin to
knock.
stairs the stilin
and
re He would talk aloud to hun
on each wretched landing,
“Good evening, Mme, Weber; good
Mme, Matthew,” and if the
sal ions failed to elicit any respouse,
a storm of curses followed until every
loor and window opened, and his own
profanity would be returned with
terest,
morse,
'
self, pausing
evening,
3
1
v1 tert
Ula
f=
This was precisely what he wanted.
When he had been drinkl nothing
pleased him better than brawls, for,
thus fortified by anger, he could wear a
bolder face as he
ng
HE
knocked at his own
door.
This homecoming was terrible!
“Open! let me in,»
I'ben I could hear the woman's bare
feet crossing tl } yf
matches, and
lod
he 4 ing
the striking
in irying to stammer an excu
always the same, howeve
ii}
"1 have no
1 i
ita,
*You lie!”
he midst of
i VOIO8 Io»
hl
» did, in fact, for in
his carousing he always
to Keep a few Sous,
Monday
satisfis
1 td
WORKInE
.
thirst
nanaged
forward to , When his
: } it
$a
iv
1, and was for
mall balance of his wages that his
Arthur never
Yieide
J he
“that I it all
Without answering a word
tell you exclaim ed,
drink.’
she would
nave spent
on
'
angrily catch hold of 1 and a
METILY CaLChD Od OL Nin, and wilh
wer whole strength shake him, search
through his clothes and empty his poe-
kets,
sould hear money roll upon the ground,
the woman it with of
triumph.
“Oh! I was right, you Then
an oath, heavy blows; the drunkard was
After
yn nothing could arre
In the course of a few minutes |
SelLing
a cry
geal”
taking his revenge. once giving
vent to his passis st
its flood. All that is evil or destructive
n the vile liquor sold at low drinking
shops rose to his brain, seeking an out.
ot wild The wife
ridely startied
{rom their sleep, began to cry, and the
very furniture of the
seemed to echo these dismal, heartrend-
ng sounds, The window would be
hrown in the alley, and some
sould be heard explaining:
“It is Arthur, only Arthur!” Oceca-
sionally the father-in-law, an old rag-
picker living in the next house, would
run to his daughter's assistance: but
Arthur,
look the precaution of locking the door,
Then would ensue through the keyhole
for its frenzy.
sereamed; the children,
vel
miserable he
open
Beyond the moldy, tar painted plat. |
form, tattered clothes were drying, and |
here und there between
patch of blue sky might
the lines
be seen
a,
at |
which these poor creatures would gaze |
with moistened eyes, longing in their |
fashion for a glimpse of the ideal. am.
In spite of all this, however, Arthur,
on the following Saturday, would squan-
der his wages and beat his wife,
then, of the young Arthurs,
the years advance, will
Think,
who, ns i
in turn wasle
their earnings and abuse thelr wives
ty
AS AN ENGLISHMAN,
The Efforts Young America
to Pose as a Briton.
Makes
There is a large n
men in these free states w
ject in life is to be taken
men,
The youth who wants to pass as an
Englishman is obliged to put himself
pre
usually ox
through a long and tedious
preparation. He
with a study of the “E
The f
how to talk “‘away down
NNInences |
of speech, irst task is to
in the chest,
revolting dialogue full of horrible de-
tails:
“Ah, robber!”
ry,
snough for you?’ amd
wretch loudly answering:
“Yes, for two years I was in prison;
what of that?
febt to the world,
the same?”
the drunken
Why do you not do
:
matter in this light: He had stolen, he
had served out his time for the theft, so
be and society were once more upon an
equal footing.
vert the ragpicker to this view, so that
rushing out, would fall upon father-in-
law, mother-in-law, neighbors, beating
them ene and all like so many puppets,
" Wher
upon is, invariably, .
accent
he ean say this with the
he next ventures
He then 4
tences as ‘How ¢ illy jolly.
iy Jove,
proper
‘ou don't say
sor" such sen-
I cawn’'t |
believe it, you kn 80 On,
If you live in the same hou
a
LO a inte hi
and ov
Sip
wey
CaAWl
8 lear is
Jones is *
He woul
+
y INAaKe 8
breec)
tell you conldentinll
wefew to say bags; it's awfully
; the best fellows say i
In this way does the youn
himself,
coed to Anglicize
But you can be English in more ways
than in speech. Dress oftener proclaims |
the merican Englishman than any-
tl Any afternoon about this
t
me of year you may see dozens of
ing else,
American Englishmen on Fifth avenue |
or in the neighborhood of the Hoffman |
house, the Brunswick, or Fifth Avenue
hotel, They are pretty to
dressed in large pattern checks, to carry |
enormous canes and to have their trou
A pair of |
legs is the |
sure be
sers turned up at the legs
trousers turned uj the
most English sight that you can see,
WITH TROUSERS TURNED
I know a young American
man who runs the
morning on rising to see if he will have
an opportunity of turning his trousers |
legs up, If the day looks fine he comes
from the window with a disappointed
air and says, “Too bad, by Jove, It
isn't going to wain afteh all.” Once he |
has become a thorough Englishman,
however, he will walk through Broad-
way the sunniest day in the year wilh
his trousers turned up.
The walk of the American English.
It is not,
y at
er.
English- |
every
to window
stride. The feet are kept well apart
the walker wore spurs. The left arm
is curved and is permitted to swing but
very little. The cane is carried perpen-
the ground almost three feet in front of
the walker. It is not good form to
throw the chest too prominently fore
ward, but you will notice a gracefu'
The single glass eye is nearly an abe
and the
Englishman uses it in public just as |
out opening his mouth, Several young
gentlemen of my acquaintance have
seriously injured their eyes by using
But jury to one’s eye is a
small penalty ta pay for such a fashion.
one of these frequent exhibitions of
pockets empty, he would pass the day at
Lome, Mme, Weber, Mme, Matthew
“I would wawthaw endangaw the total
ewy English.”
But the pillow of the young swell is
very often a blunt spoken, honest man
“If fathaw would only
altaw his speech a twifle I would give
half my allowance, He would nevvaw,
nevvaw pars for an Englishman,” This
is the sad wail of many a young gentle-
in the city of New York and
through this country,
a ————
Flooding the Sahara,
Every one is familiar with occasional
projects for “flooding the Sahara,” and
the possible effect upon the climate of
Europe has frequently been discussed
by people who are blissfully ignorant of
the fact thut the bulk of the great
desert is high above sea level, A much
more practical scheme was placed be-
fore the British Association the other
day, and one which has a more definite
object, namely, the storage of the sure
plus flood water of the Nile for use in
irrigating the delta during the dry sea-
son.
About seventy-three miles south of
Cairo there is a large depression called
the be filled
with water at the time of high Nile,
Mr. Whitehouse, to whom the
scheme i8 due, calculates that the cost
of the sary works would about
£1,000,000, for which a supply of
000,000 cubic meters per day for a
taian Basin, which coula
Cope
neces baer
2
1
dred days could be obtained,
were Lo be carried out during
temporary administration
Britain they should |}
a magniicent
LS
An Able Thousand Islands Fish Story.
Hon. D. E. Petit of
~~
Hotel,
sman, where 8 number of
w
Ww
&% procured to
n
K
ry i
IINedGl
find
h. 1 ately
the
all disappear
get the fis he party
’ and island had
d The party of «
inte ax the fish could not be
{
fish, tree
Were, ourse, disap.
weigh-
is
tica Herald
Language of the World,
While the lingual
iO HG POs 8 new tongue
« DOINmerce, and
nits of brain and brawn are rapidly
talling the superserviceable e :
of the The English
language
na sense and to an extent that can be
truthfully affirmed of no other tongue.
not the tongue of
ritain, Canada and the United
States, but you hear English plenti-
in Gibraltar, Malta and Cyprus,
British provinces of East and
India, Australia and South
Africa; that is, in large paris of five
continents, On the continent of Eur-
ope, English is as necessary as French
in the English is the lan-
guage of commerce, and that means
that eventually it is likely to forestall
Volapuk.—Lewiston (Me.) Journal.
A Pigeon Decides a Law Case.
A novel decision was rendered af
Youngstown, O., by Justice Miller in a
suit before him, between John P.
Kirby and John Scott, each claiming
the ownership to a certain carrier
pigeon, which was brought into court
in charge of an officer.
in order to settle the ownership bevond
question, ordered the pigeon placed in
the hands of two disinterested persons,
it four miles south of the
and released it, After it had
started, two chasers were sent up by
Kirby, and Scott followed suit by re-
The pigeon
to the
are getlir
on
TRIKS ig
the
invention other
hd
LEE a
cranks,
only
Crreat
iv
in the
schools,
controversy flew straight
is now
EE ———
Whenever you find a muan who Is
strictly honest,
truly courageous,
whieh you claim for yourself,
Whem it come to giving us ady
gant.
BCILENTIFIC.
4 novelty in chemical science is the
turniog to practical account the fact,
Jong so well known that carbonie acid
gas, under pressure of thirty-six atmos.
pheres and at a temperature of 0° C,,
passes Into the liquid state, The im-
portant feature of thus proceeding con-
8ists in providing a vessel capable of
holding the acid under the necessary
pressure, and yet so that it should be
avallable when required. This is ef-
fected by constructing a wrought iron
cylinder of about ten liters capacity,
representing a quantity of hquid acid
which 1s suflicient when liberated from
carbonic acid gas of ordinary density,
At one end, and screwed into the metal
of the cylinder, is an exactly finished
lar in principle to a
water top, by which the exit of the gas
into the garometer or other vessel at
any rate desired,
in fact, with a temperature of 200° C,,
it Is claimed that the enormous pres-
sure of twelve hundred atmospheres
can in this way be ade applicable,
men AM
Large quan'ities of adulterated olive
oll have for a long time been
tured in this country and abroad, much
of it, indeed, being simpl
which, when cold pressed,
colorless, of agreeable odor
olive-like flavor, Int
the latter the clean
is almost
and
Kernels first
ale
expressed
bs 2 1.4
ii are iui
the
, three
BL gives
of
Purposes, -
per cent.
meniary
moistening with cold waler,
per cent, of a fine ol! suitable for
ng and for woolen dressing ,—the
yields six per cent. of good oll for m
superfine ol
fis
s ML
the secon
afford
Fh gle
A recently invented life buoy has as a
novel feailure a seamless brass reservoir
runsiog eutirely around
which is filled with oil through a hole
in the the top, which 1s then covered
by a cap which screws on. On each
side of the upper part of the oll tube is
imilar to those
caus—s0 that when the
ung
1 can escape,
hor zontally Lhe
10 sscape and covers tl
of oil, spread
the
vessel's
but them
aid
iquid
Bea
upon the
Ie
ie
ng
( Lt ram
Ei ii OuUs Ia
* nti 5 ry
Gt uni a IRTEe
ain wWhik
rhs
A dog «
high is rec
1
HIgh
mmended
the
the
10
or twenty incl
as likely to be mosl serviceable in
work: but be should be trained by
walchiman so a8 10 be always ready
make rapidly the rounds or
before the walchman starts, The plan
1s to send the dog through the mines
If he returns, it
mine is safe, Failure of doggy
come back indicates danger from
What
rust protector is amoung the recent Ger-
man inventions. It consists of
nary oil paint mixed with ten per cent,
of burned magnesia, baryta or strontia,
as well as mineral oil. This neutralizes
os
to
rust,
with a mixture of a hundred parts of
resin, twenty-five parts of gutta percha,
fifty parts parafline and twenty paris
magnesia, besides mineral oll. A tem-
prevent diying.
pathy is opened,
feeling at = distance the
of another mind
yet unrecognized, There are two
forms which elephatic phenomena are
beld to assume. One Is that of simple
thought transferrence, or mind reading,
under the control of scientific experi-
ment. In a mesmeric or pynotic condi.
tion, and, indeed, without it, expen-
ments are held to have shown that im.
pressions or ideas can easily be trans.
ferred from one mind to another by an
act of will, The second form is that of
a sudden, unexpected impression pass.
ing from one mind to anotber, as a sort
of presentiment or apparition. The
writers treat not at all of apparitions
of the dead, but only of the living.
impulse
A correspondent in Florida speak-
ing of the defacement of paint by
the inadvertent or heedless scratching
of matches, says that he has observed
that when one mark has been made
others follow rapidly, To effectually
prevent this, rub the spot with flannel
saturated with any hquid vaseline.
“After that people may try to strike
their matches there as much as they
like, they will neither get a light nor
injure the paint.” And most singular
!
i
Although the new technical college
yet been opened, complaints are al-
made about the luconvenienge of
taarrangements, erection of this
central school is & waste of money--the
more
technical instruction at University Cole
lege and King's College,
p——
FOOD FOR THOUGHT,
Bear ye one another’s burdens,
N wan Is a hero to his fellow hero,
The lowest ebb 13 the turn of the tide,
The art of reading is to skip judicious.
ily.
Anger fatigues itself and courts de-
feat,
The basis of good manners is self relis
ance,
i The man who loves his duly never
i slights it,
Personal sacrifice is lauded, not emu-
| lated,
{ A geod conscience can bear vety
i much
We become charitable by
nen,
knowing
Castles in the alr do not bring any
: rent,
Yielding tempers pacify resentments,
A man is a man first and a lover alter
ward,
What Heaven wills can never with-
stood,
Good tools
skiliful.
Common sense 1s a hard thing to have
i too much of.
never made a mechanic
Where rumor
smoolh sailing,
is afloat gossip finds
Women are more susceptible to pain
than 1o Pp ieasure,
The bu
ean tro
In the lang
half its
sessed ob
where the world
A room
bung with
A man
for his
je cures is arcom
is to bs valued
y
, like
manner in
Know something of everything and
L)
everylhing of something,
If your life is not a Liessing {fo others
it is not a blessing to you.
iv
Ci nh
1 ed Christian charity, but
8 PO the olher sort.
A woman forgets when she forgives;
a man forgives when he forgets,
he man who is slowest in promising
wsieEt In keepiug his word.
were will be no theatre hats nor plug
uo Heaven,
n't shrink from contact with aay-
i TAIN,
n never made a man
nied,
TEA
ng friends is to
n expectancy.
Keeani
Ree]
ft ois ta
LO€ln
¢ greatest j » 10 a man is how
cal |
mit the right though
ged to say *'l
wWolnan
you
i ‘ "
inisasen,
are
Le reat w forever down
hange,
inging grooves
Don’t argue wit il. or the ¥slen-
ir of you.
f life, but
and bread.
steady
o@
aif
a
An unsocial man is as devoid of Infla-
We learn to love those whom we have
despised by rubbing against them,
A woman never reaily learns how to
pray until she has a man to pray for.
A man never gets too old for his
| mother to stop calling him **her boy.”
| Put alazy man on a bot griddle and
| be would want time to turn himself,
{| 1 had rather posterity should ask why
| I bad not a statue than why I had,
No man tastes pleasures truly who
does not earn them by previous business,
Those who are good when they are
young are prettiest when they are old.
The Innocence of
nothi
he intention abates
o! the mischief of the example,
|r
»
The pulpit is mightier than the stump,
The fact that you do not understand
a mau ls quite as likely to.be {anit as
The love of glory can only create a
i hero; the contempt of it creaies a great
ft is the street-car conductor who re
member Lot's wife, He never looks
back,
Keep your heart open for everybody,
and be sure that you shall have your re-
ward,
Thesublimity of wisdom is to do those
things living whichare to be desired
when dying.
The roses of pleasure seldom last Jong
enough adorn the brows of those who
pluck them.
According to authority, we never
thoroughly know people until we hear
them laugh,
How good a manis to his wife the
first day after she had caught him doing
something wroag
A woman's face alway reflects the
hidden tragedy of her life, if there isone,
For every industrious man there isan
idle one wantling Wo borrow money of
him,
The person who can least spare it is
often most willing to give others piece
of his mind,
As “the joy of the Lord is our
strength,’ so the sorrow of our spirits
is weakness,
We are alway conplaining our days
are few, and acting as though there
would be no end of them.
You do not always get returns from
your wisdom, but always get bg re-
turns from your folly,
We may all beliave in liberty, equality,
fiaternity, but we want to be even with
the folks who are on top,
lg