Christmas Is Coutlag !
Feathery flakes are dancing, dancing.
In the gray mom's frosty gleam—
Hsralds they of reindeer prancing
From the gardens of our dream—
From the bright land of the elf-king,
Where the bonbons gayly grow
Just like sweets of rammer gardens,
When the tulips smile in row.
Feathery flakes are falling, falling,
From the skies in softest way i
And between are voioes calling ;
"Boon it will be Christmas day 1"
Don't you know bow in the springtlmo.
Wintry snows are soattered wide
Ere the lovely purple blossoms
Dare to pssp from whers they hide?
Feathery flakes are sifting, sifting,
Through the chill December air—
Here, and there, and yonder drifting,
Making everything more fair ;
Laying whiter folds than Unsn
On the houses and the trees.
Softer than the richest damask
Bprssd our dainty'guest to please.
Boon the bonbons will be falling
As the flake# have fall'n to-day.
And the children will be calling
To their patron saint so gay :
" Ah! ws know when oame the snowflakes
Too wonld oome, dear Santa Olaus—
For we always (you remember)
Know the wind's way by the straws."
Bee. the tree* are fair as any
That elves have wreathed with enow.
Will be planted—oh! so many I
In oar better homes. And Io I
Something better far than snowflakee
Shall be hung about their green—
Candies, toys, and fairy taper.
Lighting up the merry scene.
And the children dancing, dancing.
Till all tired their little feet.
Shall, with half-shnt eyes np-glancing.
Wonder : " Why is life so sweet ?"
And some tender voice shall whisper—
Flake-like falling from above :
" Christina* ie so sweet, my darling,
Just because It's king is love 1"
Charity's Charity.
"You'll repent of this, Charity, mark
my words."
Charity Atherton laughed good Im
morally, "If I do, yon will have the
immense satisfaction of saying ' I told
yau so.' Auntie, pray don t argue the
matter any further, for it will not im-
Cre the case, and, besides, there is a
t to my patience."
" And to mine, as well, Miss Charity,"
retorted wreihful Aunt Dorothy. " Yon
So to your dressmaker's, are detained
ve minutes, overhear a sewing girl
telling a pitiful story, and yon mnst
needs bring the creature here to spend
the summer, and squander any amount
of money in making her presentable I
Patience, indeed 1 My patience was ex
hausted some time ago.
" Half a dozen pairs of gloves and
slippers won't empty my purse ; neither
will three or four muslin ureases. It is
very unjust in you to judge Rose before
you have seen her. Bhe is an Atherton,
too, remember."
" But no relation of yours, and why
you should ask such a creature "
Miss Dorothy paused as Charity drew
herself up. " I have invited Miss Ath
erton to my house, and while she is
here aa a guest she must be treated as
beeomes my friend."
"And equal," added Miss Dorothy,
sarcastically. ." Pray what do you think
your brother will say to all this 7"
" As his advioe will not be asked, he
will probably aay nothing," and, at the
last word the clock struck four, and
Charity stepped into the pony phaeton,
by which she had been standing daring
the disenseiou. "Good-bye, auntie;
I shall bring ROM home at half-pMt
Miss Dorothy Arnold stood looking
after the phaeton until a turn in the
road hid it from view. " Willful, will
ful, willful I What will she be st next 7
One comfort, Wsyne will be here before
long, and then—bnt she is of age, so
there's nothing to be done," and, with a
sigh, Miss Arnold went into the house
and took up her novel. It proved inter
eating, and, in what seemed a very short
time, the sound of wheels on the gravel
rodi made Miss Dorothy peep through
the half-opened blinds, to see Charity,
and by her side s stranger, who was
Miss Atherton number two.
"Bhe is pretty, very pretty," said
Miss Dorothy, becoming more kindly,
as she surveyed the slender figure, the
bright-brown hair, the pale,>iatfa] face,
ana the beautiful, half-mournful blue
eyes. What a contrast to brown-eyed.
<Urk-haired Charity, who waa the very
picture of careless happiness Mid health.
ROM Atherton, however, found Miss
Dorothy's welcome none of the most
oordial, though Charity was agreeably
eurpriaed at its comparative friendli
ness. Her own welcome, however, was
warm enough to make up for Mias Doro
thy's coolness, and ROM fait well satis
fied, as she followed her hostess into the
sonny, prettily-furnished room which
she was to occupy. " I think you will
find everything yon want; bnt if not,
ring for it Dinner will not be served
for an hour, so you oan lie down if you
you feel tired. Try to get a nap ; I will
call von in time to get reedy for din-
Bar."
The door oloeed at Charity's last
words, and that young lady ran down
to Mies Dorothy.
" Now, anntie, confess that yon are
surprised."
"She is gaits pretty, and is lady
like," said Mia# Arnold, slowly. " but
I vary much doubt the wisdom of bring
ing her here."
" She is a lady, I am sura of it," said
Charity, apparently unmindful of the
1 latter part of the remark,
Miss Dorothy might have been satis
fied had she only known the qualms
that Charity experienced as she began
to sea the possible troubles into whioh
her hasty invitation might speedily lead
her. Perhaps something of all this waa
apparent in Mias Athsrton's faoe, for
Minn Dorothy's grim looks relaxed, M
she added :
••At all events, she's here, and we
most make the best of it."
Gharity laughed reassured. " I pre
diet that Rose will be the belle o! Ard
leigh."
"Heaven forbid!" said Bliss Dor
othy, as she went to drees for dinner.
Charity was right. Within ten days'
time Rose had beoome decidedly popu
lar, for, being naturally of a buoyant
disposition, she had oome to Ardleigh
prepared to forget both the past and
the future, and live only in the happy
present. Ardleigh was a quiet plaoe,
but still there were plenty of picnics,
croquet parties and archery meetings,
moonlight sails upon the lake, morning
ridee through the dewy woods, and un
der the combined influence of a pleas
ant home and bright companions, Rose
brightened amazingly, nuu became a be
ing very unlike the pale, sad girl who
had entered Charity's door a few short
weeks before. Her quiet life was, how
over, soon to oome to an end.
"Good news," cried Charity, one
morning, as she tossed down a letter.
" Wayne is coming home in the Russia,
whioh arrives in New York on—let me
see—the sixteenth, Wayne says. Dear
me, he will he home on Thursday, and
this is Monday. Is it not delightful to
think of seeing him, auntie? Rose,
actually he has not been here for three
years."
" He has been abroad 7" asked Rose,
feeling that she was expected to say
something.
"Oh, yes, everywhere. First in Eu
rope, and latterly in Japan. I am wild
to see what he has brought me in the
way of ivory fans and queer umbrellas.
Only think I he says that the Japanese
beauties are the prettiest women in the
world. I always imagined that they
looked like the hideous creatures on
fans, but he is bringing some photo
graphs which are to change my opinion."
" He will spend the summer here?"
said Dorothy, inquiringly.
"Of course—at least I shall ask him
to do so. He is only my half-brother,
?ron know," she added, seeing Rose's
ook of surprise.
" Only 7 said Rose, half laughing.
"It is all the name, of oourse," said
Charity, smiling; " oome up to my nit
ting-room, Rose, if you have nothing
better to do. I want your advice on the
subject of my embroidery." Rose, hav
ing, apparently. " nothing better to do,"
accepted the invitation, and the two
girls walked away together, while Miss
Dorothy sat down to look over her
budget of letters.
" Auntie is really Wayne's aunt, not
mine," said Charity, as they went up
stairs. "She was his father's oniy
sister, and thongh, at tirst, she and
mamma did not get on well together,
she was very kind to poor mamma after
Mr. Arnold died. Ik-fore her second
marriage mamma had grown no fond of
Mias Dorothy that papa asked anntie to
make her home here, and I, of course,
have never altered the arrangements
which he then made. Poor anntie I
She idolizes Wsyne, bnt he is
always doing something to disap
point her. She has net her heart on
bin marrying Mildred Scott. Just nee
if he doesn't manage to fall in love with
some girl who hasn't a penny. That is
always the way with him—make up your
mind in one direction, and he is certain
to do jnst the opposite thing."
" Flattering description I How much
be wonld enjoy bearing it," laughed
Rose, as she took up her work.
Wednesday evening oame, and
brought with it Mr. Arnold, tweuty
four boors before he was expected.
Rose, coming into the library before
dinner, found there a gentleman calmly
engaged in reading the New York jisper.
At her entrance he started forward, then
panned, half onorvtain as to the identity
of the intruder. "Charity? It can
not be little Charity 7"
" Mias Atherton will be here in a few
moments," said Miss Atherton number
two, prepsring to retrest, bnt the gen
tlemen stopped her way.
" Pray don't go—you are Miss Rose
Atherton, I am nure. Let me intro
duce myself aa Charity's brother, Wsyne.
Barely we mast be some sort of oousins,
since you are sn Atherton 7" After all,
the much dreaded Mr. Arnold seemed
inclined to be friendly. Rose bad en
tertained some fears lest he should side
with Miss Dorothy, bnt, since he had
made the first advanoos, she was willing
enough "to make friends," as the
phrase is. She waa looking very pretty
in her soft white, mnslin, with wild roses
st her hair and throat, and Wsyne was
quite able to appreciate the effect.
Charity, coming in five minutes later,
found them tete-a-tete, and chatting
sociably.
" We made a capital trip, sod, instead
of stopping in New York, 1 came on at
onoe ; so I waa able to surprise you all.
I came in about four o'clock, and
that yon were all ont driving, ao dressed
for dinner, oame down here half an hour
ago, and have improved my time by
making Miss Athortou'a acquaintance.
There is Aunt Dorothy in the hall."
And Mr. Arnold vanished from the sight
of his sister and her friend.
The evening that followed may have
been entertaining to some of the party,
but certainly it did not prove so to ROM.
Accordingly, she soon excused herself
under the pies of " a headache," and
went up stairs to her room. Aunt
Dorothy was taking her usual after
dinner nap, and while ROM threw her
so If down on ths floor, sod leaned her
bead against the sill of the open window,
Charity and Wayne stepped on to the
piazza, and from there soon strolled
down the moonlight watk.
Ob, unlucky ROM I Truly, listeners,
even accidental ones, never hear any
good of themselves. Charity asked s
Cstion, to which ROM pahf DO stten
, but, in an instant, sue was roused
by the sound of her own name.
" ROM I Yea, I rather like the name ;
and, as to the fair maiden herself, she
is quite pretty enough to flirt with
during a lazy summer Holiday."
"Wayne, if I thought'— began
Charity, indignantly, bnt BOM heard
no more, for she retreated to the other
end of the room, and when aha came to
the window again the brother and sister
were out of sight.
flow waa she to know that the words
had been spoken merely in careless
jest?
Nevertheless, despite her indignation,
Rose allowed no hint of it to eaospe her,
She intended to pay Wayne to bis own
coln—ao, at least, aba aaaured herself in
the first haat of bar anger. At all
evente, Mr. Arnold fonnd bar vary
charming, and inatoad of flirting, dis
covered, bafore tvo months bad pasaed,
that be bad loat hia heart. Charity bad
bar suspicious, bnt Mian Dorothy re
mained in bliaafni ignorance as to the
true state of affairs.
The last Thursday in August aas an
evontfnl day for Rose. An old friend of
Miae Dorothy's, traveling to the lakes,
stopped for a flying visit at Ardleigh.
Mrs. Homers (such was the lady's nstne)
seemed much struck with Rose's face,
and at last, an opportnnity offering
itself, she drew the girl aside. " Par
don me if I seem inquisitive. Are you
English ?"
"I oomo from Virginia, but my father
was born in Devonshire," answered Rose,
in surprise.
" I thought ao. Tell me, was your
mother's name Rose—Rose Larrimer?"
"Undoubtedly," replied Rose.
"I knew it," cried the lady, evidently
mnch excited. " Rose, your mother and
I were old schoolmates and dear friends
years ago. I waa sure the moment I
saw vour face that you must be her
daughter. Where is your mother now ?"
"In heaven, I hope. Bbe died three
Bus ago. Von know my father was
led in tho war, and we lost oar prop
erty. After that, marrma took in sew
ing, and I—l did what I could. After
she died I struggled along- how, I do
not know—for three years, and this
summer Miss Aiherton found me,
brought me here, and haa helped me in
every way. She haa fonnd me a place
aa oompaaion to an invalid lady, and I
go there in two weeks."
" How old are you—twenty ?"
" Eighteen," said the girl.
"And yon have been motherless for
three years, poor child I Give me vour
address; I may want it. There is Miss
Arnold looking for as—oome," and Rose
fonnd herself listening to her own story
before she fairly realized where she was.
This was event number one. Number
two was almost as snrprising to her.
Wayne, coming in from a walk late in
the afternoon, looked into half a dozen
rooms, then went to Miss Dorothy on
the piazza.
" Auntie, whore is Rose f
" In the murden," answered Miss Dor
othy, and then, seeing Wayne hesitate,
she added, "she is alone, if yon want
to speak to her."
"Then you know began Wayne.
But Miss Arnold interrupted, "Of
course I know. Do speak to her at
once. The Carrots are coming on Sat
urday, and I should like thia affair set
tled at once. Have yon spoken to
Charity? "
"No, there will be time enough for
that afterward," and Mr. Arnold walked
away, while Miss Dorothy gave a sigh
of satisfaction. "She will go at last I
If Wayne had only taken my view of the
case before—and yet I half like the
child. Btill, she had Itetter go at once."
Twenty minutes later, Wayne came
slowly t>ack, looking decidedly crest
fallen. Instead of a gentle, timid girl,
and a whispered yes, be had fonnd a
very thorny Rase, and bail received a
very decided rejection. Wayne had pnt
hia question with too much self-con
fidence, and Rose's pride bad speedily
given him his answer. Mr. Arnold de
parted for Portland the next rooming
"on business," and Saturday saw Rose
on her way to New York, leaving Chari
ty very much exasperated at the result
of what Miss Dorothy had dubbed
j "Charity'scharity."
Time sped on, and at last there came
j s change for Rose. Charity, looking np
from an open letter, one morning in
December, ottered an exclamation that
! caused both her companions to look np
inquiringly.
'' Ross haa gone to Europe. Her
' uncle Hugh, Mrs. Atherton'a brother,
; lias come here to take her to hia home
iin England. It seems he loat an only
I child, two voir* ago, and he is going to
i adopt our Rose. Her mother married
| against her brother's wishes, and for a
| long while there was no communication
between them. When be did try to
trace his sister, be oould not find any
news of her. It is through Mrs. Homers
that he has found Rose. Bhe now
seems to be very happy."
Charity was right. Rose was happy;
and no wonder, since she had a pleasant
home and the kindest of friends. Both
sunt and ancle were well prepared to
love their new-found niece, and before
the girl had; been a week in her new
home abe had won a warm place in tbe
hearts of both. Bqnire Rammer began
I to indnlge the hope that Rose won Id re
! main Rose Atherton all her days, and
stay quietly at home ; bnt the fates in
terposed. One chilly day in spring the
squire came hastily into the room where
Rose and her aunt were sitting. There
had been z fire at the village inn, and
one person, a stranger, had been bally
hurt " I told them to bring him here,
he said, opening the door of the next
room, which happened to be a bedroom.
" It was the bravest thing I ever new. A
child had been left in the attic, and when
abe was discovered, no one would risk
trying to save her till thia yonng Ameri
can came forward. He saved the little
one, bnt it waa a narrow escape for them
I Kith. The child is not hurt, but my
brave fellow will lose his right arm, they
say; a rafter fell on him and crushed it.
How he ever managed to save the ehild
is z mystery little short of z miracle.
There oome the men. Ran, Rose, and
bring me plenty of bandages. The do©-
tor will be here in a moment Thia way,
men. Pnt him on the bed gently ; so."
Rose.ootning beck, oaught one glimpse,
through tbe half-opened door, of z pale
face. " Oh, the poor fellow I" she cried,
with all her heart in her voice; and that
voioe caused the dark eyes to open in
an instant
" Rose I" Only that one word, but it
was enough.
" Wayne I Oh, my poor, poor boy I"
and in another moment V lose was kneel
ing by the bedside, sobbing ss though
her heart would break.
" Heyday I" cried the squire in amass
ment, end Rose looked np smiling
through her tears. "He loved me over
there, uncle, and if he oaree for mo
still
Well, no matter what Wayne said,
snfflee it to add that a very happy wad
ding was the result of " Charity's char
ity*
" Honor and wealth from no condition
rise; set well yonr your part yonU
never get bleak eyes.
a* ! V* isH
On aa Ocean N learner.
Edward King writes to the Boston
Journal: "Itla a pleaanre to go to sea
in anoh floating palaoos aa the Oermauio,
and it is to be hoped that any new
American line which may spring up will
have all the modern improvements of
which this flue ship boasts. Many a
Ant-class aotel furnishes service and
lodging inferior to that which one baa
on these massive ocean ferryboats of
five thonsand Ave bnndred tons burden.
And the great srk slips along with snob
speed and comparative abaenoe of dis
agreeable motion that the journey is de
lightful. ' Here oomos the old gray
hound again ' say the sailors of the
second-class line when they see one of
these ' expresses of the seas' dashing
through the foam. One day, just before
coming under the lee of tbe land, theses
was almost calm, and we went through
tbe water with tremendous rapidity.
The sun shone with dazzling radiance,
and aa far as we oo'.ld see in any direc
tion nothing but A vast mass of what
seemed rrpoutte silver work was visible.
By and by a school of |wnx>iaes became
violently excited, as tbe uermania rush
ed through its playground, and the
sportive Ashes lo*|>cd and raced for half
an hour beside us. Now and then one
of the boldest would spring completely
out of tbe water close to the abin s side,
and his eyes seemed to snap with excite
ment, One might have fancied him al
most inolined to attack our craft had it
only been a little loss swift. Preseutly
we saw a French brig dancing along
merrily enough, her white sails shining
in the luminous air. By tbe rate at
which we pasaed her we could judge of
our own speed. Almost before we had
thought of turning to look back at her
she was a lonely point upon the far rear
ward horizon. It must now and then
cause something like despair in the
hearts of sailors on ships subject to
every caprice of the breeze to see tbe
matchless speed of those grand moving
homes, which are, despite the attention
paid in them to comfort and elegance,
as fine ships to encounter rough seas as
sere ever made. There is no nonsense
in the captains; tbey take no risks, bnt
they fear nothing. And tbe discipline
of officers and men is simply perfect.
The sailors work with a will, 'and take
pleasure in their lsbor. They are as
proud of the ship's rooord as tbe csptain
is, and when, at the end of the voyage,
they hear the question: 'What's the
time ?' and tbe answer cornea, calculated
to minntea and seconds, they fall to
j computing as eagerly as do the offloera
that they rosy see if the ship has won s
i new triumph"over distance.'
Tigers at A action.
A score or more of men assembled in
the menagerie in Central park, New
York. Tbe king of beasts resented the
intrnsion and roared with such force
that he shook down the monkeys who
were hanging by their tails from the
wires of s cage in another bnilding.
The monkeys rubbed their heads and
chattered till they aroused the bald
eagles. The eagles srrremad so tond
that the red little birds in another cage
were terrified into a pale pink, and the
one-legged storks, who were standing
around and speculating on the length of
time tbe seals oould stay under water,
actually went ao far as to let down an
other leg from underneath their feathers,
and looked aa though they were going
to move into different tracks for the
winter. While this commotion was
going on without, the noises within the
room of cages hail )>eoome bewildering
and almost deafening. The Bengal
tiger, presumably a royal one, seconded
the lion'a objections to the intrusion.
Tbe hyenas pawed up supposititious
graves and laughed fiendishly. Tbe
panthers slid their sleek hides' around
over their bone work and gave forth
deep gutturals. The lioueasee put in
their roar and tbe aun bear fondled
hia paw with increased industry, and
gave* forth a sound aa though be were
winding himself np to join in the gener
al outcry. And the black wolf stood on
his hind claws, pointed his nose toward
tbe zeuitli and bowled dismally. The
other animals stopped to listen to him,
and he stopped for tbe reason that he
only started because the rest of them
were making noises.
Then Auctioneer Bnrdett said :
"Gentlemen, the two tigers in those
cages yonder and the one up in that
cage, will be sold bv order of the col
lector of customs. The terms are cash.
What do I hear for tho three tigers ?"
Calvin Witly started them at $2O.
John Nathan, in behalf of Barunm, bid
$3O. The tigers leaped to $7O by ten
doll*/ jumps, when Robert RobeVteon
bid $BO for the three. Tbey rapidly
went np to $2lO, where tbey hnng for
some time and then went se high as
$250. at which figure they were sold to
Mr. Robertson.
Coat of the I lIN Mete* Capital.
Loot Jane Congress colled upon the
secretary of the trceanry for a tabulated
statement of oil money spent by the
government, since its origin, in tbe Dis
trict of Columbia. This statement hos
l**en prepared, ond is fnll of interesting
figures. The totol expenditures for
what may be colled permanent improve
ments, inclnding original expenditure*,
the ooet of repairs, furnishing and keep
ing in order tbe public in dilution* in
Woohington ore as follows :
TkseapMol SIT.IM.4SI It
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Prn*l lurtHaUoM 4,41 aSW It
Watsr work* WN.id IS
*avr depart m*ni (tooladiaf jard) ... t,MS,IMM
Ir*p*rtm#ot of tsHealtur* ai:.its
KmUlimriUh ln*ltaUon ISS.WN
!*■. s*tao*oi olslikMM
W*r df[*rt ni.nl 1044,041 41
TarSa u4 pabllr grnnnda l,m,MTn
Tb* *otittr* mum U4 around* MS.IM IS
aS!S
Tha Meant? *arae ~,, THUS M
Worbiol n, paint Ins*, Uunra~Cnr
antaa sUary **•*. OHMS' IS
Qanala SST.4I* SS
glmflnnw 100,440 CO
rir* 4*taHaial (baiMlat*, mini,
IHSSSSS
Court* HW
T*al
Western swindlers happen into sa
loons, moke bete on future stents sad
giro the stoke* to tbe landlords to bold ;
then, a few days later, happen book,
ond agreeing to drew tbe bet, obtain
good money from tb* saloon-keeper,
their base crmlerfeito boTSg meanwhile
been mixed up with his oath.
Interesting Educational NUtlstica.
Tho reoently-issued report of ths
commissioner of the bureau of educae
tion presents autne interesting statistio
of the education of the young men in
the United Btates for what are known as
" the professions." The following table
will show a comparative statement of
the schools of law, medicine and theol
ogy :
K*knt. JMa.lt TIUaW
V / <"•'
I*. Mtdirims. taut I"
Number of institutions.... 44 218 2 664
Number of Instructor*.... 102 1,301 10 148
Number of student* 134 600 4268
Totals 30H 1 ,999 17,075
It is, of oourse, the fact that lawyers,
especially in the country, obtain their
profeasionsl education in tbe offices of
older practitioners, and it is estimated
that only one out of every thirteen ever
enter their names npon the rolls of a
law ooliege. The same condition exists,
although not to ao great an extent, in
the medical profession, hut theological
learning is almost universally acquired
in institutions established for tho pur
pose.
The several schools of praotioe in
medicine and surgery are represented
aa follows :
ir. <>r An. o/ *■*. if
J+rtituHnni. JnarrWora. : fud+nU,
Regular 63 M 7,493
KolecUc 4 36 314
Homeopathic..., .11 138 H27
Dental.... II 152 530
Pharmaceutical... 12 54 934
Total a 102 1,301 10.143
The following shows the relative num
ber of theological schools, professor*
and students among tho various reli
gious denominations :
JUmt /Vo if
Mrt##. /<t*ov*
Roman OatboUe IS 112 897
lYoteatant Kptaoopal ..17 62 367
Presbyterian 16 78 624
Baptist 15 68 702
I.ntberan 14 46 #54
Congregational .. 8 69 341
Ifatbodlut Kptaoopal. 7 62 370
Christian 3 6 82
Reformed. 3 8 67
United Presbyterian 3 11 79
Cumberland Prtabytarian .. 2 7 48
Free-Will Baptist. 2 9 44
Methodist Episcopal (Mouth) 3 6 74
TnaeeUrian 3 10 99
Reformed (Dutch) 2 9 44
Universal Ist 2 8 59
African Methodist P.pisoopel 1 3 6
M enuonlle 1 6 36
Moravian 1 8 84
Hvedenborglan 1 2not kept
KvangaUsaL. 1 5 SO
Unitarian. 1 7 17
Uuited Brethren 1 3 35
He Bet tbe Pas*.
There are those who are constitution
ally opposed to granting favors to their
fellow-beings—an uncomfortable class,
who deserve no considerstira from any
one. Then there are those who are con
tinually thrusting their favors upon
others— a class almrst as uncomfortable
to along with, especially as the re
cipient of their attentions is invariably
left under a sense of obligation. Rut
there is a class of favors which may be
accepted without any such feeling, since
they coat tbe giver nothing, either in
time or money, yet are invaluable to the
recipient. A poor fellow who bad been
badly injured in a railroad accident out
West " drew the line " admirably. He
waa a brakemau, and had been finrt in
the discharge of his duty. His home
was in the East, and the road which be
had served passed him to the terminus
of its line. The next did the same, and
also the next ; bnt at last be came to a
superintendent who hesitated. The poor
fellow pleaded bis case. He waa a rail
mad man. He bad been hurt at hia
post. He had been passed by all tbe
other roads. "All very well," said the
superintendent; " bnt I can't see my
way clear to give you a pass. If yun
were working for a fanner, and were to
get hart in hia employ, wonld yon ex
pect another farmer to get out hia team
and take you to the next town ?" " No,
sir," said the brakeman ; "not that ex
actly, bnt if be waa bitched up and go
ing my way, I should think he waa
nighty mean if he wouldn't give me a
ride." He got tbe pass.
Con merer In the Arctic Sea*.
There is one hardy navigator who
pursues a laudable ambition to explore
the Arotie regions in the in which
all the early discoveries wr.o made in
other seas—by commercial ventures.
This is Oaptgln Wiggins. In 1877 he
made a voyage to the Kara sea, the
gulf of Obi and tbe month of the Yeni
aeiriver, on the Arctic ooast of Siberia.
Hia report of bia experience there and
tbe inferences drawn were that voyages
oould be made along that coast in sum
mer all the way from the Northern
ocean to the Pacific, and that they
might be made commercially important
An effort was made to interest tbe
British admiralty in the subject and to
induce the government to defray the
expense of an exploration that would
ultimately, it was bell, develop a great
trade in wheat. Bnt the government
wonld not undertake it. In the lest
summer Captain Wiggins repeated his
voyage, and carried a cargo from Liver
pool to the mouth of the Obi and return
ed with another of the products of the
country. He made in that Arctic bay
the singular discovery that a commerce
more or lees irregular now actually ex
ists between the Siberian rivers and
Hamburg.
Easy Chairs.
A recent titimber of Nature contains
en article on " Euj Chair*." After
notioing the favorite aU.it uilea of differ
ent races, anch aa the Hindoo, aho cite
on the ground with his knees drawn np
to his chin ; the Turk, who squats cross
legged ; the European, who poeee on
s chair ; the American, who lolls with
his feet raised above his heed, the writ
er snma np the modes of getting rest
from moscular laaaitode as follows;
"For an easy chair to be perfect it
ooght not only to provide for oomplete
relaxation of the muscles, for flexion and
consequent laxity at the joints, bat also
for the easy return of blood and lymph;
not merely by the posture of the limbs
themselves, bnt by equable support and
pressors against as great a surface of
the limbs es possible, Hnoh are tbe
theoretical demands, and these are ful
filled by the bamboo easy abairs manu
factured in India, made in the shape of
a straggling W, which the languor con
sequent upon a relaxing eliaate has
taught the natives of India to make, and
which the rest of the world appreciates.
Baby FMM.
1 passed t pretty oottaf o on my homeward
path on night,
And Ita window* glowed tike erysta! In the
mellow erecting light-,
And between the erlmeon oortaini stood en
infeot bright end fftir,
With my own deed darling'* bezel eyes and
waring, ann tipped hair.
I paused to gaze upon him, aod my heart wee
filled with wo*
At thought of my dear on* lying neeth the
winter * froet and enow i
And I to ■■red to kiaa the tweet Up* that were
prtwsad agsinat the pane,
For sake of the buried baby-Up* that I nerer
*h U Mat again.
Oh, babier with happy faoes, and eye* ao
tender and tree.
May Ood in Hi* mercy goidejyoa Hfe'a deriona
winding* through I
May neree a ehadow of aorrow, and nerer a
thought of guile,
Chae* the angel-hght from your lunny eyea,
nor darken your haby-emiie !
Itrni of Interest.
A rining man—L. E. VaU-r.
Are watered ailkt dry good* ? Puck.
" Happy to meat yon," said • polite
butcher.
Patient waiter*—Physician* withont
practice,
A muddy country road ia something
to add mire.
Weight of hand—Refusing a charm
ing young lady.
A bouquet is a good soent-pieee for
the dinner-table.
Ton can't tell the age of an " old saw '
by looking at ita tcctu.
Only merchants of ad.-Tentare can
sell goods in dnll time*.
" All the world's a stage," bnt the fare
doe* not nit ererybody.
Fruit for oculist*—The apple of the
eye and pear of spectacle#.
The first American copper cent waa
coined iu New Haven in 1687.
Broken should attend agricultural
fain and read worka on atook-raising.
Hnnflower* originally came from Pern,
and were a aacrod emblem with the
' devout.
Crime ia divided into three classes in
Pan*—conscious, semi-conscious and un
conscious.
The highest navigable water on Una
continent is Chatauqoa lake, New
York Btate. e
It ia claimed that paper barrel* can
be made for one-third the coat of good
wooden flour barrel*.
Nearly 2,700 people are drowned ev
ery year in the riven, iakee and canals
! of England and Wales.
" Do fishes go crazy ?" is a conun
drum proposed by Beth Green. Home
time# they get in aeine.
Students find it easier to graduate
from college than to graduate either
their appetites or petty expenses.
" A tie which ia all a U*
Can he met and fought with outright.
But a lie which i* half a Ue
1* a harder matter to fight."
The heat of the earth increases npidly
a- we descend into its depths. At 4,000
feet deep the temperature ia 105 de
grees Fahrenheit
The repartee of a mule ia said to be
UDeqnalcd, aod the way to draw him
out is by polling ont one little hair
from the tip-end of his stumpy tail.
Black silk dresses for bouse and even
ing wear are usnally combinations of
several material* made into a fall, flow
ing trained r't rt, and tight baaque at
tached to the same.
Aunt Prudence, in the Pnlaaki Demo
crat, say*: There ia not a particle of
satisfaction in telling a man he ia a
liar ; for if he ia he knows it, and if he
isn't who does the lying f
The first time we ever ran for office
we www beaten. It was while we were
serving as "devil," and onr employer
found us playing marbles, and caught ns
before wc reached the office. We were
beaten badly, too.— Gowanda Enter,
prise.
The magnificent recreation ground of
Epping Forest, 6,000 acres of green
sward and noble timber, within half an
hoar's rail of the poorest districts of
London, is now secured to her citizens
forever, mainly through the pnblic
spirit of the corporation.
A German paper asserts that prosaic
acid onlv cause* suspension of life at
first, and that one who taken it can *
restored to animation by the pouring of
acetate of potash and salt, dissolved ia
water, on the head and spine. Rabbits
have been so recovered.
Three hundred and fortv distinct
specie* of hamming birds have been
classified. These little feathered eree
tares are found only in America and its
islands. There are hamming birds
which, when stripped of their feathers,
are no arger than a humble bee.
"Oet right out of this," shouted an
irritated merchant to a mendacious
clerk, "this is the third lie I have
caught you in since ten o'clock this morn
ing." "Oh, well," said the new man,
"don't be hard on me. Give a fellow
time to lean the rules of the house."
A rod of brickwork is 272 superficial
feet, one and a half bricks (hick, or
4,850 bricks average work. One yard
of paving is thirty six bricks Out. or
fifty-two on edge. There are 884 brioka
to a cubic yard, and 1,000 brioka closely
stacked occupy about fifty-five cubic
feet
nucas or arrewnm.
"Pappose." said ha. la acosaissoft,
• A faUos, last life# sss
Kboaid ails IUUa gtri to wsd~
rihat would tfas aeswar bar
The amidaa drop* her liquid eyaa-
Hs snitss with btnshss aHswta—
" Why aaak the bridle haMtr ehsa
Too may Uvs on. Bar, etngts 7"
And tbsa ha spoke-"Oh, bewy brtda.
1 ask yoa saas agato ;
Tee era ths smprsss ad TOT soak
And thsrs shall aver rate.
•' rn MTW Mrs of kindly <bed
Th wis yoer fsatla heart,
And saddle ha &e shaft that mads
Oar happy Uvas apart T
Dm bar ohish ths maiden Ml
The mantling Mashes pk>—
Ms took him tar has fhMfal kh-
T shut* Ms whssl *r whoa.
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