Sa Cm—— —— ———— a— yp ———— _- - THE CATES OF YESTERDAY. My love and I strayed hand and han In the wake of the clover-weeking he The sweet, wild grape in that land Had flung its festoons on hush ane tree; And red wood-lilles, a sentinel band, Guarded the entrance tp Arcady, A wiilte mist from the river curled, Deep into the woodland we! And swayed in a breeze from the dis tant sea; pearied, In the morning land of Arcady, June send heralds gay world may we Only when Into the bee: Ouly when And the and grasses bend and sway, wild grape tree, festoons terday, And linger again in Aready NANCY MANN WADDLE. MR. MEEK'S DINNER. Mrs one “I wonder, James,” said Meek doubtfully, to her husband ing, “if you could get your own to-night? You servaut go on her holidays for see, I've had two, and they want me desperately at the Ald and Relief Bazaar to help them with their high tea 4:30 to 8 If you thought manage by yourself “T'H try to Meek good-natu will prove fatal.” “I'll get n ing, then” fully, ner.” Woman's from 30, survive Foast an went on “and you ca “Thank “you'll do nothir fancy | much ever I suspect you," about Mrs most M1 as well Meek he Wives, x inter some oyster soup to begin ol He was so tickled wit he promptly rushed and purchased half a peck of then hured into a eating apples and without a thought of the ife at to order for his w iy five o'clock he beautifully, and a start, By six o to enjoy stewing i the ovste contentedly on The oysters ret arrived. “Dear me,” mb gentleman, “I wish uid thought in time, and I'd | pied patties for a final deser BOS Of t. Hello what's this? ¥ thunder, if Insting pighen me some cold By the Lord Harry throw the whol back yard The patural doc however, prevailed, noxious viands unmolested, ceeded with his dinner, the chops on to broil, old days of yore” allusion to the style of cooking occasioned hy one of them accidentally dropping the fire, whence he with great presence of mind by the joint as sistance of the stove lifter and one of the best table napkins 3¥ the time the chop was thos rescued both it and the table napkin were fairly well don ~t0 say nothing stronger. This trifl- ing difficulty by putting the erring chop on the window sill to cool, and the nap- kin into the fire--to do the other thine, This accomplished, and with chop gently cooking on the gridiron that ey hasn ham and for two cents into the tis hig yf 4, Hity of his nature and he left the ob and pro At 6:30 he put “as in the good this Proert e into resoned dow-sill, he started paste for his apple pudding. proved most fascinating. large quantity of flour In a smallbowl, emptied a jug of water on top of it, ad- ding butter to taste, and proceeded i mold it deftly into shape, ax he had often seen his wife do. water promptly forsook the bowl and betook themselves to his hands. Then the milk for the soup began to burn just as the potatoes boiled dry. to * portion of the paste fairly evenly di vided between the handles of the two At this saucepans and the stove lifter, | juncture the tomatoes started in to see if they couldn't the milk in | | burning They succeeded The cat, J which was accustomed to a 6:30 dinner, [| walked off with the chop on the win. { dow-slil, while the chop on the fire grew 1 | beautifully black on the “down side.” { So many thing were now burning ali at the same time that Mr, Meek gave [ up all hope of trying to discover just whieh burning “1.01 [ the dashed things burn till they're sick [of It!" was the extremely broad-mind {ed way in which he up the With the astuteness that { characterized him distinguished {| from his fellow-men, he at gave up all efforts to track the truant paste, {and simply popped his apples into the oven to bake, now BUIHISS one wus most, summed | situation is once fire much about 7:30, and the hotter than pretty | anything on earth, unless, perhaps, Mr. Meek He turned all the | dampers, opened all the doors, and took | off all the lids. This resulted satisfactorily, the fire began to cool, It didn’t It got, if anything, a little low After that Then it went He rushed for a kindling took his head off Just he had got through expressing his view on clothes that about twice head off same clothes-line on his way back. It was was gelling | Wis most sti, it got very low, out, nearly and on a ns nicely i clothes line, and clothes line went general in particular, he far taking ines in ns toward lis on the Fhe gentlest of patures when roused He used up and coal oil are often the most terrible enongh kindling, profanity ignited the pyramids of Egypt {to have * stamped and shoved, and poked and and enrsed and shook till even it had had its i Hin and dinner and Kitchen to try latory gr » table wi Meek had heard enough five niinttes ing Mrs, Meek a plece oled pie apples NO « might do; You re not in her mission ‘nts she reappeared. and placed th before her lord were about the sizo the color of ebony way they rattled on a muscle, and master, 1 hes walnuts and ¢ (1) Judging by the flint Mr. Meek rose with an awful look his eyes, “I'm afraid” observed his wife “they're like the overdone.” harma—just a shade “If ever I eateh that eat,” remarked Mr. Meew, as that sleek feline purresd past him with a playful frisk of tzil. “I'll break every bone in its body only he described its body with sundry adjectives that were very strange io the ears of Mrs, Meek. At least, 80 sho said when she described the oceturrence {to her bosom friend, Mrs. Muggins next day. ity Origin of the Nightshirt, Thirty-one million nightshirts are said to be manufactured annudlly in three towns in the United States. There [are several patents on them, including some on the collar, yoke and button. Many gaudy foreign ones from and England find a market here, also, but the good, old staple arti. cle is made up and used as a home pro | holes, France would go several times world stitched together, shrouded in sleep. around the Its origin is "REVEILLE ON SHIPBOARD. The Bugie Calls All Hands to Lash Up the Hammocks. Let us spend a day on board a man of-war and this Last as suppose that she (8 in port, We take pur pace on her deck very early in the are bright with see how in done morning. The heavens stars, and about us masts and Figging, Hp ventilntors, amd rise in shadowy outlines, while the big guns loom ill-defined and ghostlike, In the gangwany bridge a quartermaster Keeps his looks out; and back and forth on the quarter deck an officer, By Hght of a lantern he presently consults a book for the “morning orders,” kmoke-stacks sentinels are paclug: on the paces nlane the which have been written by the executive of then he di quartermaster enll the hammock atid the bugler ficer the night before: and the boatswnin's fein to inte, the rs, the master-at-arms, hen during passes a period of ten minutes, shadowy thelr beside the long troughlike places (nthe bulwalks netting, which a few figures ippear on deck, and take stand ship's Known as the ham them up and pre of the Opening for the Theu in the morung orders, 1 1 aring them reception at the thme assigue the officer of th ves his first routine orders ile! Call all hands” the hither merry bugle of us bo words: ‘ » i KR Ki Sound the reve here in ings out ship those Boles all them fitted the to almost cant Hp this released off the pasture, herd liane SC IROTE suntre seine to noth tions of affection. mi onship when he was gone his fi i f iwimer on One to Le i fF wit her head over the palings, and low, [ did for months Nhe this at intervals several A Maine Sampson’ Harbor, the home of the famons bull-wrestier, has produced another Rams=on, Dr, FF. C. Ames, who hag been utertaining the Bangor folks this week such feats as bending gas pipe Bar with and iron bars, and finally wound up the exhibition by lifting three men, whose ombined weight was 525 pounds, and walking about the room with them as easily ax an ordinary man would carry a basket of feathers. The heavi- eat of them, weighing 230 pounds, was perched on his shoulders, while he ear. ried the other two, weighing 145 and 150 respectively, in his arms. In the Penobscot Exchange he jifted a bad of 500 pounds and carried it around the room with 2ige, wig witnessed by severul well known wen. Last avinter in Bar Harbor he lifted a load of 770 Ibs. The most remarkable feature of this physical wonder is that Dr. Ames was a weak man and a wreck from disease ten years ago, but by dint of careful train. ing he had developed his muscles and body, until to«day he is a perfect giant, Therein is how be beats Sandow apd the other giants of these days. - pe Egyptian Troops Capture Firket, Egypt. 1,000 DERVISHES KILLED, Emir Hammuda, a Great Favorite With the Khalifa, Who Com manded the Dervishes Forces, Among the Dead. Pirke early hour of t was taken by Egy an Sunday mo manner asquittin first engagement of mn to command of ther, given satisfactic The Egyptian forces Egyptian outpost, Juae Was a surprise, as it sasemed termined to hold Akashe. a8 an ou thi the hot season is past and the period ar- rived for the Dongola in intter part of foros ayer in Beptember, responded pron orders, how. and for The d Gn idl 1INIRLO right to accomplish WHR soon wa poip? is twenty t , and it whole atest secrecy had boen nn and Alntaln arrangements every it 3 Was taken to prevent the pews i ieakin steadiness and dash the Aght was twenty killed and Hundreds of ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE. Miss Helen Gould owns a rare | is valued at #315 000 and takes in the horticultural EBx-Governor B { 25(0 geres. an “rous agricuiturists # worth upward of $300,000 General A. DD. MeCook represcniatives of Slates at t bo ts i the Cen New rs Y.M C A in ita favor the sdly 1 fam, Hoseberry's friends state that his is good and that he is not suffering from insomnia. They declare that there is resign the leader heaith bho reason why he should ship of the Liberal party. Hr John Thompson, who died recently in New York, was the first European to estab lish 8 mercantile station at He was given a testimonial for personal bravery in saving seven saiiors of the ship Sappho wrecked on the African coast. Morooeo Ruskin's bad state of health is shown by the fo lowing referance in a letter to a friend “No maiter how foolish one mayhave been, one can't expect a moth with both wings burnt off and dropped into hot tallow io sing psalms with what is left of its anten- nas," Mayor John Boyd Thateher, of Albany, is watching the attempt of the free silver men to earry the Chicago conve ti fon with a great deal of uneasiness. He intimated the other day that in case the free sliver men dintated the nomination and the platform at Chi cago, a groat deal of iassitude would be de. veloped among the leaders in New York, so far as the national election is concerned William Churchill, who has been nomina- tod by the President Consul-Cleneral at Apia, Hamoa, who is on the editorial staff of the Brooklyn “Times,” has written a good deal for the magazines and a sovel, “The Prin cess of Fil © He will be at home in Bamon, As he bas lived there, as well as in other Bouth Sea islands, and speaks the innguage of Samoa, PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS Epitome of News Oleansd From Various Parts the Btate A fire broke out in the No. 11 and burned it and the cagine ground By forming a bucket brigade saved, 1 surrounding bulldings were fire originated from the The lk machinery will amount Many hands will bs idle bullding is erected, Now that the French has and mand Incomotive, the bullding to several the 88 On loliars, unt new canned beea satisfactorily disposed of Lv th Agricultura next have a siege with the exporters of o Nice, Italy, The pure food law are being tolerat ly well « In Pottaviil ete | thers Hinte Department, the oll in provisic i Hye save in the hard coal regions, Pottstown, Beading, have been numerous flagrant transgressions of the which will br the n ns, There are now at the department ten dif ferent pampies branded as “olive ofl Nice, which pon analysis cotlon seed oll prove ¢ followed up, Miss Maud Tanner, aged her he Minersviile rout Aly was in Philadelphia and I'he me in Mr elr Islan oes, and } The bodies ered, Ten days ago Mr. and Mrs ine and their three cf went. nt CRA, Mt, Carmel to vis Throe dave after ne year-old daughter, My let fover and died, Ti aged € years, also and Webster, pired from the Wils : wh saan] was wife, parents and three married onl He had it i» had Leen three H- ore the a brothers, lays be! ident happened Vera Cruz to see his wife, and gone t that he requrned the supposition 1 i Emaus on & freight train aud was fatally injured ip jumping off the train. + August Grasin, aged 49 years, left bis home aar'y the other morning saving he was go. the A fow hours ing upto a mine breach on hillside south of Ashland for some coal inter two other men from the neighborhood also struck out for the same breach. Arriv. ing there they noticed that the top had fallen in and a moment later saw a boat protruding from the heap of dirt or coal It was the dead body of Grasin, who had evidently been caught by the rush and killed, He leaves a “vife and seven children, A sad acrident was that which happened to the 1%-months-old daughter o! Clayton Dueck, of Milhelm, when a tub of boliing water was upset upon her and she sustained injuries which caused her death. The mother had left the chiid to go to another room, and het ring & orash, came back to And her little daughter writhiog in agony on the floor, She lived but a { w hours aftee the scclient hap. penod Though its first house was built in 1636 Brooklyn was but a village at the beginning of the century, with a popu lation of only 2.378 Now it couta'ng 125.000 houses and a population of 1.100.000. It is good policy for New York to consolidate before its saburh passes it in the race. SEVEN KILLED. Myterions Assault on a Corpus Christi Proczssion, FIFTY PERSONS INJURED The Explosion Occured Near the Church of Santa Maria del Mar «Fol lowed by Rending Cries of Fifty in the Heart of thy City Injured, i FURR AND SKINS, { MUSKRAT 3 Racooon Bed Fox Skunk Biack, Opossum Mink Ofer NEw yong FLOUR--Southern....... 8 WHEAT