CURFEW-TIDE. lit cemented and zanctified the union | of the two, who were now associated ' together in the same domestic circle and in the same worship, guard, afler the imperceptible man-| staing away and ebanged her frock. { ner of his kind, kept that carriage | She looked like a frash rosebud, but empty until the train started and | her face grew deathly pale, her eyes , they found themselves alone, secure- | dilated, and the nerve lines deepened LEAPING FROM CLIFFO. California Sea Lionz are Champicn “The long day closes,” | Jumpers. ye soi sivas i Rh aa The thrushes singin ever WHERE BRIDES ARE CAPTURED OR PURCHASED, treo; » The shadowa long and longer grews Broad sunbeams lie athwart the lea; The | Round roof and tower t And slowly, slowly si x At curfew Wh i das oxen low: he swallows slide; 1 ks the sun, tide is done, 's fairest child © pinions spreads ; Bweet sleep. the ni tis O'er nll the Each flower, hen Fresh The owls, on silent wing Steal from the woodlands, one by one, At When day wor influence mild, + sheds: and wide, arfew-tide, is done, sey rings a noisy bird; No more the clanging rook With voice of man The startled wood dove’s clattering wings NO more a With sound li Soft breezes thre &£ x Y re heard: rs faintly sighed, » top s FUE, 30 may it be wher When ne'er an as 3 tia Nor light ox Then softly To realms of platfor Southses for th bags of man, and puff: he we iS 4 new annd have s facial di dently a de that led mak. she avoiding moved with : she sen platior; : white vously moroc ried. tance, | easy, firn like. g and waited calmly-——perhaps breathed more quickly. He raised hat, courtly bow sgid in perfe with the scent of “Pardon me, you are Have you missed your maid! be of any service to you?" Now his hat was off he appeered a prematurely white-haired man of forty-five or filty., with a firm face and voice—a man evidently used to command. * Thank you very much,” came in a soft, sibilant voice from beneath the thick gossamer. ‘I have not quite lost my maid, but my portmanteau. I am afraid it is under the pile of luggage, and ""—with a little shrug— arrival gle nde twitched n indie no " . t Cas ghee x Core eye from a dis- d toward her with the f 1 v yo 1 ii-assurance that women Ble saw ie was coming to her his soft accent distressed. Can 1 + § neve an at 12 yours." “* That is mine, madam. your bag at once. you are going? I will got May I ask where To Southampton, ou should not miss this train? on, do not trouble: I will see that all is arranged.” A few words to the guard, a rapid ge of backsheesh, and the miss- ng bag with a dainty monogram and ly locked in. A sudden start frame. nsked quickly: the next train Southampton?” He was missed ! not for some hours, ran She paused, and Do you know when leaves W desolnted, COUrsa, wer madd, bu L Wwas Madame is g me is afraid ofl b ing followed?’ ‘Yeas, not wish to be take hateful She does nnd forced madame into an prettily. The ol elderly le No mother She was flying from Azureg Vis d. old Lory ‘aad 1 : father, wer, titled, rich horrid. brother. bondage to her Guernsey Lady Con iy me glton's dance? That imi COUrse, stern but no tar IO Sisiel aunt, Fore, in stance t her 80 io 8 - But ‘4 i wus a line man, sithing motionless tern sheets holding the yoke “Do you know a respectable wom- an who ean look after this mail boat asked the vince, as he handed her carefully ward and passed her portmanteau. She carried the morocco ease herself, “Well, surr, I've took the liberty of invitun’ my old woman on board to-day. She has been a stewardess, surr."’ “Capital, captain, way!" The boat soon shot alongside a beautiful schooner yacht, Tke crew manned the gangway as the Prince ond Lady Constance came on board, and a motherly, sunburned woman Jady until he starts?”’ : P on Now, lads, give furnished saloon cabin into & bijou boudoir with a lace curtained bunk and a host of feminine fripperies, “1 may sail to-night. Is all ready? Take the boat and go ashore, bring off my baggeze amd anything we may want from the ship's stores, And Johnson, Keep the men afloat, but you just find out if there is any hue nnd ery about a lady eloping.”’ Cantain Johnson, an old merchant eaptain, slowly winked and looked very knowingly. “Hm! he said to himself, ‘*1 half s’spected as much. That's the sort of owner I likes to sail with. Lots 'o yellow boys kick ing. E “ment. In about an hour he returned, and “I spoke to my cousin, the | when he told He thought ints marks of agony i though to catch her. With asupreme effort she regained her self-possession Take me to Guern- or I will jump “Oh, save me! gay in your yacht He turned on his heel without ré- i way on deck. “Johnson, your wife doesn’t mind a trip to sea?’ “BJ Your Royal 'Iness, dying for a sniff of the ocean !”’ 088 she's under welgh at once,” aye ! All hand 30 Tumble up, my hearties!’”’ Lady Constance’s face fl ly whe heard the clank of the chain pump and the flapping of the foresnil, and she thanked the Prince with both hands and asweet smile, Under the sir 8 On de k! ushoed deep- n she k of ti a good southwesterly breeze throws yacht sir tho CLEANED BY DIVERS. Removing the Barnacles from a War~ ship's Bottom. n ttended this man who ur F'wo hie other men of them other two bow and stern The divers were lim- hours’ work a day, and an hour in addition to regular pay. u he time n to clean the Bot. tom once and to clean one-third of it a second time was two months, The work was done under adverse circum- stances in the harbor of Valparaiso, where frequently a sea would stop the work. The barnacles on the bottom of the Jaltimore the firgt time that she was cleaned averaged two and three-quar- ter inches in length, Some of them were more than three inches long. They were often in clusters, so that they extended six inches or more from the ship's bottom, After the bottom wag cleaned, the gunner made an inspection, and re- ported that the .cleaning was well | done, Lieutenant-Commander Se. | bree says, that in his opinion a ves. { gel can be kept practically clean and | suffer no serious loss of speed for at | least a year by the use of her divers | at a cost of $600 for Inbor, und about $600 for the pump.—{ New York Sun. Wa —— A Remarkable Grindstone. ines take The most remarkable grindstone on earth is owned by J. J. Patterson, of Hawesville, Ky. It has been in use on his farm since 18560. It was made from stone on his farm; {it is used by the entire neighborhood and wears with the times. In good times it sheds its gritliberally, but in hard times it becomes as flint. This year the sparks from it have put out the eye of a boy who was turning is and wet fire to a pile of straw fourteen Or'g'n of the Wedding Feast-Dan- gerous Weapons Thrown at Bridal | Couples- Boxing the Bride's Ears. The institution of marriage to-day off rs us illustrations of which se iW necessary institution, and yet for rntionn ex should be nt a loss Lo ex we not al to the of history and call them sury How can we « xplain the wedding cake, t the storm of rice ceremonies part of the if we wero asked slunations of 1 them, we nble to evidence ville, | brid taur ie brid tour, i ¢ and old shot accompany departure of the happy couple stoms of Black, Ph Monthly. Out an append 1t + on past? writs . { D.. in the Popular Science The ¢ IWWDESS of ie Ovy fribes we 0 rpetuated in the CANOES ; in throug! ob race, or w the race may tents in Siw § Gustructi hase ¢ of { : ot Lroon by and if he be the gaunti ! MOVviseg of the specessin jumping imj hurdles in time a fleet-footed than her lover, to wait kindly in the last tent until he joins her. Thus it is general among uncivil- ized peoples to accompany the wed- sort. Kicking and screaming on the part of the bride are considered an evidence of modesty : and the stouter her resistance and the more violent her convulsions the greater is she appreciated ever after by her husband and her own friends. It is said even to-day that the young girl hardest to woo is best appreciated by her lover, Marriage ‘among the Greeks and Romans consisted of three acts: First, the quitting of the paternal hearth; second, the conducting of the young girl to the house of her husband, necompanied by relatives and friends and preceded by the nupital torch. Then the act of vio- lonice survives in the following, the third part of the ceremony; for at this point it was the duty of the groom to seize the bride and carry her into his house without allowing her feet to touch the sill. Around the do- mestic hearth the husband and wife now gather, offer sacrifices, say prayers and eat of the sacred wheaten enko. This last pérformance, which stil survives in our wedding-cake of to-day, was of great importance, as The wedding feast is origin, and Westermarck points out, in the ¢ 1 of ancient originated, the feast w prt the the room: probably chase stage, wher garded 1 price pai where the e parents of th sation for * the hid The cus the bride i rin In al from the p groom to th is Oo i b oor “% wore mot haid bride, as part a2 sum of purciinse sim pres nt hich in sd bride mere A Remarkable Dog. ii ad toward of three feet through the bos free himself. was nearly when foun having been twenty-six hours une One eye was entirely closed the other nearly 80," == naa nearly eaten to exhausted in his from sand, They Disapprove of Bikes. Austria, great The people of Vienna, presents itself. The other day two workmen, with the spprobation of a considerable erowd of onlookers, am- bushed themselves near a bridge in the suburbs of the city, and in the course of hall an hour knocked six- teen cyclists off their machines, crip- pling the wheels at the same time, The riders took their machines on their backs, and amid the hootings of the crowd went to the neighboring police station, where they received but cold comfort.~{ New Orleans Pic- ayune, ———_ Men Stronger than Oxen, Perhaps the most amusing feature of the Cemberland Fair was the cone test between a yoke of oxen and an equal weight of men. The deag which was hauled by the contestants was loaded with granite blocks, weighing in the ate 4,060 pounds. The cattle weighed, with yoke, 8,220 pounds, and twenty men were allowed to offset the weight. The men took hold of the drag first, and walked ff with it easily, covering a distance of ninety-five feet in two minutes, The cattle, on their trial, failed to equal same time. in HANGMAN OF PARIS. A Much-Mated Individual, Who is Master of His Business. Deit tha P Was Tr Was re- i spectfa i 3, 1 “0 fully wait fram hie hints went irom hi 30 } the populace as the plas de Paris’’ grewsome | of execution | is a thorough masterof h and says he never felt at all the affoid except when art in the execution of Rava hist After this noted n bound he was put | into the hearse to be conveyed to the i place of execution, some distance in | the town. Though perfectly livid, he | began howling a vile song and kept j it up till the guillotine was reached. He endeavored to address the enor. mous crowds assembled, buj the as sistant executioners forced him on the bascule. The howls and impre- cations of the anarchist continued with such fury that Deibler for a few moments became unnerved, but he speedly recovered himself, He re- leased the knife, and as it whizzed down the groove the crowd heard the anarchist shout: “Vive la repu—"’ The official standing by the guillo- tine affirmed that as the head dropped into the basket the lips dis. tinetly emitted the concluding syl- lable “*blique.”” The assertion gave rise to a good deel of controversy among the Fronch savants, but it was generally conceded that the guillotine severs the head with such terrific suddenness that it was pose- sible the sound which the fellow wa. uttering was emitted after the knife | calling. | nervous | taking 1 ng Se chol. the hist eriminal had bed $y vi nd actually performed its deadly work. ; . M. Deibler hasa fortune of about $80,000, and receives for his work as executioner $300 pe oath He lives quietly to be saving
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