FISHING,
A vouth bes=do tha Cater sits,
The noonday sun is warm!y beaming;
His nose and neck are turkey rod.
iis eye with radiant hope is gleaming,
He watches close the bobbing cork
Advance upon the tiny billows;
A jerk, a swish, and high above
Ho lauds a sucker in the willows,
That's fishing.
A fair maid trips the tennis court
A dozen eves admire her go
Her black-and-ve!l.w blazer burns
ing:
A hole right throngh the sunset’s glowing.
Bla drives the ball across the net,
Aud into hearts consumed with wishing
Bhs drives a dart from ( upid s bow:
She’
v's fishing.
and a sucker, too,
That's fishi
My little wife beside me
And steals a dimpled arm around me;
stands
A kiss upon my that's bait
Some information to astound me,
Her bonnet is quite out of style
Her summer wrap quite
That lovely
Is just y one
one
» cheap at Brown's
she would be ch
O8Ing.,
That's fishing
80, whether the game bo fish «
The bait be kisses
The place at home
Ur tennis gron
"Tis the old ¢
With Mother
And Ads
Will love
NOIRAUD--THE GUIDE.
“Don't
miss
been t
never have
derstand,
stance wher
of an hour
There
had been
driver w
“You
the
notice
was
Sta
to se
the m
that ©
pened
ves. gene
f ha it}
gench ny vil
flanked
with i
heads
down
with the
best guid
low, Fath
I we
little |
, it's to go to the Caldron
“Well,
ing, Father Simon- have
out, He cannot go. But don't |
ried ; there's some one to take
—there's Noiraud.”
“Very well, let me have Noiratd
“Only I ought to let you
isn't a person
he's not hee nw
since
3
joory
-
his
know
Noiraud.”
“Not a person?”
“No, it's our dog.”
“How,
“Yes,
well, as
to it.”
“Used to it
“Certain
your dog?"
Noiraud, and he'll guide you
well as my husband, he's used
for vears and vears Father
he's learned
the places, and now he mar well
alone He has taken 1 }
and has always been
for
IOS VOry
travelers
As
as
complimented.
, don't fear He has
much as vou and L He only
speech. But speech is not necessary if
there was a great building to show, ves,
then you must know ;
story and give dates r
nothing but the beauties of
Take Noiraud., Then
for my husband: Ne
and he'll
gous as my husband for §
“Well, where & Noirm
“He's asleep in the su
He took some
morning. Shall I call him?” __
“Yes, Call him!"
“Noiraud! Noirmmud!™
He came through the window
bound. It was an ugly little black
with curly and tumbled he
not pretty, but he had an air of gravity,
decision, importance, His glance
was at me, direct, precise, confident,
which took me in swiftly from head to
foot, and said plainly, “It's a traveler.
He wants to see the Calderon.”
. ty:
tollivronen
intelligence
Incks
now to recite the
But ¢ there's
nature
its cheaper—3f
ir ped is only
nuch
§
i
30 sous,
show vou as 1
}
ped?
n in the garden
people up
this
English
with a
dog,
cont was
first
day, and 1 explained to the good woman
that I had absolutely only three hours
for my trip to the Caldron,
“Oh, I know perfectly. You wish the
4 o'clock train. Fearnothing, Noirmud
will get you back in time, Come, Noiraud,
Start, my boy, start,”
But Noiraud showed no disposition to
start. He remained motionless, regard.
“Oh, I'm stupid,” said the old woman,
“I was forgetting the sugar.”
“That's why he would not start. You
had not the sugar. You see, Noiraud,
Monsieur has got the sugar. Now start,
my boy. To the Caldron! Go! To the
Caldron! To the Caléron!
She repeated these words three times,
speaking very slowly and distinctly, and
I watched Noiraud attentively. He an
swered his mistress with little movements
of his head,
with a final touch of impatience and ill
i humor. They could be translated ‘Yes,
{ vos, to the Coidron. [I understand,
gentleman has the pieces of sugar, and
we are going the Caldron That's
understood, you me for a
dunce?”
And before the third “to the Caldron”
was fairly uttered, Noiraud, clearly hurt,
turned on his heels, planted himself right
in front of me, and, with his
| the door, said to me as plainly as a dog
| could say it
“Come on, come on!”
I followed him with docility. We
| set out, he before, I behind, We passed
{ through the v itllage. Children play ingin
the street recognized my guide, ‘Oh,
| Noimmud: Bon jour, Noiraud!" They
| wished to play with the dog, but he
turned his head disdainfully with the air
| of a dog who has no time for
{ is on duty and must earn his thirty sous,
| One of the childr
3
him alone
to
Do
take
glance on
play,
n cried
i He is taking the gen
| tleman to the Caldron. Bon jour, M'sien !”
And then they all laughed, Tepe iting the
but
embarrassed, i
ven, The
Ss my
miled,
ttle
inimal dominated
} knew
master: hu £
i Wis
Ww her
. ‘ to get
h Noiraud
which i
ich it
i
up ms
we, street
jui And n
I. Notraud was walking
of walking in os
paths of the
A road
wsitation on Noi
op n+«
meses by and keeps or
thead, but not i
trouble in his
He made a mistake
Yes, for he retraces his steps, and
take the road to the left, at the
end of a hundred brings us to
“ srt
of
some
stops must have
we
which,
paces,
amphitheatre, and Noimud, nose
in ai contemplate the very
respectable height of the
of
impassable
rocks forms this amphithe tre,
When Noirawd and | have contemplated
sufficiently [
the little p
raud had org
amphitheatre
paired.
The
broken, diffi
thout face! and we resume
Noi
mi Ky
quickly re
sith through the wood
the ros
route oon becomes
alt. [| «
wly with infinite precaution
very
addy ane
Noiraud
but
an
only
ih ;
leaps lightly from rock to rock, does
not He waits for fixing
look of the most touching
Finally I begin to hear a sort
Noirmud yelps joyously,
desert me
me 0
i solicitude
{of boiling :
“Courage,” he said to me “Courage
We are nearing it. You shall the
Caldron A stream, modest enough and
from a modest height, falls with back.
| ward jets and rebounds into a great rock
| slightly hollowed out. 1 should
be paid for this laborious ascent by see.
ling this mediocre marvel if I had not
| had for a companion this brave Noirmud,
who is much more interesting and very
much more remarkable than the Cal.
dron.
mao,
upon
nee
| On each si‘le of the stream, in little
| Swiss chalets, are placed two milk stands
| kept by two little Swiss girls, one blonde,
tone brunette, both in the national cos-
{ fume, eagerly watching my arrival from
| the threshold of their houselets, veritable
little boxes cut out by machinery,
It seems to me that the little blonde
| has very pretty eves, and [ had already
| made three or four steps towards her,
when Noimuad, breaking into furious
barks, resolutely barred my passage. Can
he have preference for the little brunette?
I change my direction, Yes, that was
it. Noiraud's friend enters her little
nyse and Noiraud follows at her
Pe Through a half opened window I
followed Noiraud with
wretch,
my eyes. The
He is being served before me.
milk, He is venal,
After which, with little drops of milk
on his mustaches, Noiraud comes to keep
drink
BULNY,
and watch me
him a bit of
absolutely
our
me company
milk, 1 give
both, satisfied with each
I other, breathing lungs full of the
{ light and lively air of the mountain at
| this height of a thousand or twelve hun
{ dred feet, we puss a delicious half-hour,
Noiraud commences to give signs of im
perturbation I read his
eyes now like an open book, We must
start, I pay, rise, and as I stare to the
wht toward the road that brought us up
I noticed that my Noiraud
ws gone and planted himself on the left
He
look
my
and
patience and
ri
| the mountain,
{1
at the entrance to another road
fastens upon me 8 Serious,
{ How much progress | male
| couple of hours, and how the silent elo
Oh
severe
have in i
quence of raud has become familiar
to me
“What do
Noirnud to me
me gavs
I'm
nnd
guide,
suppose
going to take A sime go
twice! },
I know m
{ by another road
We
which is fa
2 rood
P LROWNH
raud mer
a little al:
SCIENCE NOTES,
thunders
it 1s rave
When a thunders
and is pass
servers thers
fact to A
storm is reported fron
from Ithaca, the
can caleulate
report
¥ Yirvivned
the under.
line of the tw distance
4 ompute
the
predict with
between the
very closely which
storm is travel
considerable accuracy when it will reach
retorms de
and
which
this city or vicinity Thund«
humidity
ound over
The ¥ Ios He
rule, from f othe
to northeast AOTOr thi State,
{| When a thunderstorm is reported from
{| Buffalo, and later from Ithaca, it «
| pretty generally relied upon to re
| vicinity if the
ditions of the atmosphere
If not, we get rain anyhow. so
report is
ular MOrviIice
pend upon temperal
s condition of the
| the storm is Pasi
w ent fo
west
+33 bee
ach this
and
favor
that
the
urred
was reported
temperature Con.
$1
Avie,
the
ire
valuable to
A case
A thundes
from Sandusky, Ohio
| ning it was reported nt
fou.
UK
recently
Th sme
Buffalo, and later
st Ithaca, but the temperature in this
| section was too low for t
The rain, arrived time,
reaching Albany nest morhing Albany
is an excellent point from which to dis
Ove.
a thunderstorm
however, on
| telegraph communication with the sur
i rounding country, It is already being
i
| the field will be widened as fast as
i
pos.
i sible,
{ New York, and from them disseminated
:
value to farming people.
Halr Wreath of Ten Thousand Locks.
Miss Hattie Chipps of Budde Lake, N.
hair, It comprises 10,000 locks from as
many different heads, and is arranged in
curious and beautiful designs, principally
leaves, flowers, ote. She spent over a
year in collecting the hair, which is of
every shade and color, before the wreath
itsell was begun. It is a unique orna-
ment, *s well as a triumph of patience
and ingeouity. —{8t. Louis Ra ie.
THE JOKER'S BUDGET.
OF THE PRESS.
Mallee Familiar
Concentrated Wisdom
Busluess, Ete, Ete,
Feminine to Them
FEMININE MALICE,
Miss Esmerelda Longeoffin and Birdi
both belles of Harlem,
\
Not
cliinnis do not
love each other exces
io Tom Anjerry called on Mi
coflin
sively
Long
and iring the conversation the y
to talk about Miss McGinnis
‘ Bhe has tiful auburn
offin
her,”
quite d
WI
beau 1OCKS
marked Miss 1a
‘Last time
her hair was
YALL
| saw
irK
put oil on her to
darker
sh mild bye
ring oil on
Wie
“Qu
has been coo
No. the %
Any visi
“Not ever
daughter's French teach
* Hum Better drop Freon h,
[New York Weekly
HATIIER
Bilkin Thre mes Jinks
hateful fellow
Wilki one of thes mi
sl-Deats
OSVIURIXG
serable.
low d who are always
borrowing money ?
Bilkins-—N ’,
never ans
Weekly
ho eu h
to lead
um er
New York
‘
nas
PUT TER
Mother The word that
he gave you an extra dozen of eggs by
mistake Where are they?
Small Son] seed 1 had a dozen to
spare, =o | threw ‘en at some boys wot
was Kiddin’ me. You oughter seen ‘em
scoot [Good Niwas
FOR TO FLIGHT
grocer sends
CLOSE AS W*E EVER GOT
Microscopist Tid you ever look at a
thousand dollar Lill through a micros
cope?
Fepeennions Friend-—No; always used
a telescope. | Chisago News,
TLELRS IT NOME,
In the Furniture Store, Lady-- What
has become of those handsome sideboards
you had when we called last?
Salesman (bashful, yet gratified) I've
shaved them off again, miss, —{Pick-Me-
Up.
AIGHT ON A DARK SURJECT.
Table~Do you like to have that young
Billington call to sex Miss Cooington?
Lamp—No. 1 am always put out
when he's here, | Puck,
A WOMAN'S POLITICS
She fever the breakfast table
¢C news!
Hi Well,
She Why, |
nominated
He-—Well,
| Btevenson is
steven
know
she I thought Reid
President
He Yeu
snd thor
too
Mh y
He Then
| and Stevenson
but Reid is a Tu
must be a Democratic
publican,
nominee,
I'm a Demoer
ite for Cley
tones ¢ 1% those of
ited 1
:
aavertising posters §
« florid
OTN he native
or crudeness of
:
his
( rawing,
and if
in tiv
tures have doy merit it is
of tr Forin
cathedral of Gundet, in a
Israclites er
ing the Red Sea, Pharaoh carries in his
right hand the latest Se six-
and in his left hand he holds a
while the Egyptian
nost sport Remington rifles
originaiity catment
tance,
picture representing the oo
imen in
| shooters,
i pair of opera glasses,
All movement of figures is from right to
in all pictures are full-faced
exception of Satan and the
vptians, who are painted in
to show their lack of hon
van 1 good faith, and their inability
| to look vou straight in the face. It is a
depl fact, and one which, ladies
: Ww say at once, only proves ignor
| ance and barbarity of the Ethiopians that
the evil apirits in these compositions are
alw AVS represd nted by the softer sex.
generally showing their naughtiness by
exhibiting their tongues,
The church painter goes so far as to
{ question the gallantry of St. ‘George, the
{ Abyssinian patron saint, by depicting
| that warrior, instead of doing battle with
the dragon, as spearing the graceful, un.
| dulating form of a long-tongued woman,
-{ Century,
acute pi
plorable
9
iil
the
A SAH A LSA
Sacred Fires of India.
The sacred fires of Indian have not all
been extinguished. The most ancient
which still exists, was conseorated twelve
centuries ago in commemoration of the
voyage made by the Parsees when they
emigrated, from Persia to India. The fire
is fied five times every twenty-four hours,
with sandal wood and other fragrant ma-
terials, combined with very dry fuel,
Thin fire, in the village of Oodwods, near
Bulser, is visited by the Parsees in large
numbers during the months allotted to
the presiding genius of fire. [Brooklyn
Citizen,
“KREPING COMPANY.”
woot homely phrase, so often spoke
Among the kindly
country
Whan voruth fal i x
sy non youll love they smile
i ‘
A Bere WO are "kes ping
g compan)
and in higher setise
voars of rich experiences
tin true of vo
# gladness and surprise
utmost test of ill
ing
DYNAMITE.
Facts Not Known Aboud
this Explosive,
Generally
ing a very
Detroit Free
Hints for Boys.
sb wv to
Aris fifty
es before
nber he se-
ae rest, “y
said a friend, “‘on
iat boy with-
You
“he
his feet
the door
careful;
0 lame old man,
ng 1} we was kind and thougt-
ful: » TOD his cap when he came
questions promptly and
hi was polite
he picked up a book,
urposely laid upon the
i it on the t while
i over it or shoved it
waited quietly for his tum,
q rowding sh wing
When
that his
his hair
eth ns white as
name |
clean,
and dismissed
seman,
sd
i
was
Fave
showing
in a
that
resp owing
and
which 1
floor
#1)
and replace able,
IC rest stepp
aside : and he
instead of pushing or
that h» was honest and orderiy.
I talked with him i
f
clothes were careful
noticed
iv brushed,
Yo for and hia ¢
in nice order, and his ¢
milk ; and
noticed that h
his
s finger nails wen
when he wrote
these things letters
Ido, and I would
what | can tell about a
YOu oail
give more for
all the letters of re ommendation he can
[ Seientific American.
Now 1 In the Fox.
ne.
Not long ago, in hope of mitigating
the intolerable pest of rabbits, the an
loose,
From latest accounts these seem likely to
prove = greater pest than the one they
were intended to destroy. An Australian
journal says that foxes have already spread
over a wide area, and are most destruc.
tive to lambs and poultry, They attain
greater size and strength in Australia
than in England, and the mild climate is
highly favorable to the increase of their
numbers, “It must be very dishearten-
ing,” says the writer, ** to all who have
stock of any Kind to lose, to find them.
selves confronted by some new enemy ine
trodu ed by thoughtless cr selfish persons,
If some energetic steps are not soon
taken, nothing can prevent the spread of
foxes over the whole continent," Now
Orleans Picayune,