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