FOR THE FAIR BEX.
smUM NMM.
Coiffures tend to compactness, and
are worn lower in the back.
Braids or short enrls down the back
are worn with dressy evening ooiffureo.
Bmall bouffant draperies or paniers
are arranged back of the waistcoat on
to drossy Parisian toilets.
Oriental bilks, Persian end Egyptian
silks, satins, velvets, brocades ana oor
duroys are all used for waistcoats.
Very small figures, checks and stripes
on white grounds, are the featnres in
the new spring calicoes and percales.
" Pekin," the name given to velvets,
silks, and woolens having alternate dull
and lustrous stripes, is all the rage at
Paris.
A double eape of heavy ailk chenille,
with tinsel thread twisted in the same,
is the latest novelty for the neck in
place of a scarf.
The long waistcoats worn with dressy
toilets are separate garments, and may
be worn with several different kinds of
•oats and skirts.
White satin dresses of creamy or
leaden tint are worn by elderly ladies
for full dress, with foil trimmings of
creamy old point laces.
Birds of paradise, butterflies, and in
sects of all sorts in the form of gold
figures and Impegan feather ornaments
are worn in the hair for full dress.
The belted Josephine corsage, the
corset basqne, and the oorsage with
long points back and front are all worn
for evening toilets with low, square
necks.
For street wear, under all circum
stances, a very simple dress, although
it be a little shabby, it is preferable to
one more elaborately draped and
trimmed that has lost its freshness.
All morning toilets for the street
should be short and very dark or black.
The materials may be vigogne, cash
mere, camel's hair, and all woolen
goods, bnt the trimmings may be of
silk.
The fancy ef the moment in short
costumes in a skirt and jacket of seal
brown cloth, the wrap also of the same
in English coat shape, trimmed with a
collar, revere, ruffs and pocket straps of
fur seal
The newest hats for yonng girls in
their teens are of felt, nigh crowned,
with sqnare tops, trimmed with three
rows of inch-wide ribbon in bands
placed quite far apart around the crown.
The brims roll in Derby shape. Other
felt hats have a scarf of brown or navy
bine satin with white polka dots.
Cravat bows have superseded the
eravats that pass around the neck; if
the latter are used, they are placed in
side the dress, instead of concealing the
neat collar of the dress, and only the
cravat bow is seen. White muslin
cravat bows are preferred for plain
suits in the morning and for dressy af
ternoon wear. When colored cravats
are chosen, they are folded like gen
tlemen's scarfs to fit in the revers col
lar of a coat, or else they are as narrow
as the lawn neck-ties worn in full dress;
the latter are made of foulard, and em
broidered on each end.
A Wife'* RIM Hatband.
A fast yonng man who had Jived hard
and wasted a splendid constitution fell
ill at Rome. At one moment it was
thought he wonld die. His disease was
contagions. Hia friends fled from him
with fear. When he reooverod from the
danger which threatened he was blind.
When he was told he wonld be blind for
life he cursed heaven, hell and earth !
His enraes were answered by an angel's
voio© and a woman's band gently
smoothed his pillow. Never had a voice
so touched his heart. Who was this
woman who was caring for him when all
bad fled ? Who was this ministering
angel ? He was told that she was the i
daughter of s family in the house, and .
that when she heard of his desolate
position she wonld have no nay, bnt
spent her days and nights by bis bed
side, never sleeping, never oeaaing her
watch, until he waa ont of danger.
When he heard this he forgot the terri
ble misfortune which had struck him.
He forgot that he was blind. He forgot
everything, save the girl who had risked
her life for him, and this time he blessed
Providence for the inexpressible boon
granted him—a true woman's love.
They were married. Bnt each time that
the poor blind man said,." I love yon,
darling! Love yon more than I ever
loved before I Nor did I think I con Id
love so much I "—each time he spoke of
love, each time he pressed her in his
arms, the poor wife felt her heart beat
loudly in her breast and her cheeks grow
red as fire. Why? Becanse she was
ugly and knew it. " Yon arc beantifnl,
my own." he wonld say. " No, I am
ugly," she wonld answer, with a forced
laugh, while a tear of something like
shame trickled down her cheek. He
only thought she was jesting, and he
kissed her all the more. Besides, what
did it matter? Washe not blind ? And her
voioe was the sweetest of any be had ever
heard. Several years panned thus, years
of untold happiness to the loving wife,
who, on account of tier homeliness, had
never dreamed she oonld be loved. Bnt
suddenly one day her husband exclaim
ed, " I see! " As soon as he found out
that she was homely he ceased to love
her, and resumed his old life of debauch
ery. She has the crosses and suffering*
of an abandoned wife. Her only hope
is that her husband may again lose his
sight and return to her anna.
A >MIM-Uk I'MKtU*.
Tbe Dmnport (IOWA) Democrat
* says : A solitary gentleman, sixtv veers
of AAA, possessing property end being
filled with • desire to hero • home of
bis own end e wife to keep it in order,
conceived tbe idee of celling upon e very
estimable lady whom be bed beerd of,
bat never met or spoken to, end oil pre
senting the ooee for her consideration.
Be celled et the hanse where the object
of bis choice resided end asked to
see her. She made her appearance and
be made known his business. He stated
briefly that he was alooe in the world,
derired to marry, had beerd of her emi
wi oent qnaliflcatirm, offered to provide
ber a rood borne, to care for her, and
aaked her to become hie wife. In tbe
■rote strictly business manner the lady
responded that she bad heard favorably
of her present caller; she had no borne
lit .. v 7- ',
of her own end bed no objection to
sharing one of his providing. The hap
py arrangement was thus at onoe con
cluded, and the gentleman left On
Wednesday ho called again for her, they
walked to a minister's residence and
were married. Neither of the parties
had known each other previous to this
unique beginning of their aoqoaintanoo.
The lady is abont forty years of age.
New* and Nelr* far Wmm.
Gerster, the opera singer, has fflOO a
week. Minnie llauk lias S2OO.
A New York jeweler exhibits a Chinese
empress' robe, broidcred in gold.
A New York lady has nineteen eats,
collected with reference to their delicate
shades and tones o( color.
Professor Billroth, of Vienna r has
founded a society for the odnoation of
nurses for wounded soldiers.
In the retail dry-goods stores of Berlin
only yonng girls are employed behind
the counters to display and sell goods.
After s long snd-severo examination a
Viennese lady has been admitted by the
university of Zurich to the degree of
doctor of philosophy.
Bouquets of dried flowers and grasses
are sold in England for interior decora
tion, jnst as they are in America. The
flowers are dried in warm sand.
A Florida woman recently chopped
off the head of a great eagle that had
beoome entangled in a honeysnekle vine
while trying to kill her chickens.
A key was all tho present that a New
York bride received from the bride
groom's parents, hut it opened the door
of a splendid house, and the yonng lady
did not complain.
Opera scarfs three vards long and
more than half a yard wide are now
popular in Paris for winding around the
hair and throat. The newest opera
cloaks, enveloping the whole person,
are of thick, soft camel's hair, with a
hood.
The following extract is from an ao
connt of the recent visit of the Marqnia
of Lorne and the Princess Louise to
Niagara Falls: The ladies all appeared
at dinner in fall dress. Her royal high
ness wore a black silk dress, with court
train, the only trimming being crape.
Upon her neck was a necklace of Whitby
jet beads, throe strands, and diamond
cut. Her hair was arranged in plain
bands, with jet ornaments, and she
looked lovely. The other ladies were
also in court costumes, and the gentle*
men were in fnll dress.
('•"•red With IMb mood*.
" Rich and rare were the gems she
wore," is s fashionable tnne in Ban
Francisco. There is a lady at one of
the leading hotels who never appears in
the dining-room with less than from
$25,000 to $30,000 worth of diamonds on
her person. There is another lady at
another hotel wh<> wears a pair of soli
taire earrings worth 950,000. They be
longed to the collection of jewels of
Queen Isabella of Bpain, and were pnr
chased at auction in Paris. These two
stones were bought for $24,000.
Another lady with a brooch shajied like
a fern leaf and glittering with fifty or a
hundred diamonds is estimated as hav
ing a superficial value of from 915,000
to $20,000. Home thieves recently crept
into a lady's room at a hotel while she
was dining with her husband. They
ransacked trunks and drawers and ob
tained a watch and chain and some coin.
But they got no diamomla. The lady
hat! gone down to dinner with every
jewel glittering in her toilet.
lladly Bemurallxed.
Tho insurance agents are not "chron
ic grumblers," bnt there is an element
of discontent among them that has a
tendency to elongate their faces and
make some of them ill-natured at the
sapper table. Our reporter was hang
ing around one of the prominent insur
ance offices last week and overheard the
following conversation:
Applicant for insurance steps in and
addresses the agent—" How ranch will
von charge for 95,000 insurance on my
house up on the 'reserve' for three
years ?"
Agent (smilingly)—" How much are
yon wilting to pay ?"
Applicant—" lam not willing to pay
anything. 1 want to know bow cheap it
can be acme."
Agent—(tremblingly)— " My dear air,
oar rate hau been one cent for each SIOO.
With mv policy I shall present yoa with
a pianoforte, a aewing machine, an or
gan, a bedroom net, a lire baby in a
patent jnmper, or at title of 100 acres
of stamp lands ont of our gift department
if yon leave the risk to me. ' Yon nays
yonr money and takes yonr choice,'
Will yon allow us, sir, to write the
risk r f
Applioantfftaming to leave)—" No; I
will look about a little first and perhaps
I can do better."
The agent sank into his chair exhanst
ed, and asked our reporter if he coald
lend him half a dollar with which to in
crease the next " bait. "—Sauinaw
Herald.
!*early Burled Alive.
The New Fret* Presm of Vienna tells
of the narrow escape of sn aged Hebrew
of that city from being bnried alive.
He bad been bedridden for a long time,
and being taken with violent oonvnlsiona
became stiff and cold, and was taken for
dead. It is a custom among the ortho
dox Jews, which may have ceased many
a premature burial, and whieh the re
formed Jews have entirely diaoarded, to
inter their dead on the day of their
decease, Fortunately for Pej rex Fischer,
the day of bis supposed demise was Fri
day, and it was impossible, on account
of the approach of the Sabbath, which
with the orthodox Hebrews begins at
sundown on Friday, to bury him with
the usual dispatch. He was laid out
and two faithful believers were set to
watch and pray over him until the close
of the Bab bath. Toward dawn of Satur
day, while the watchers were occupied
with their devotions, Pejrei Fischer re
turned to consciousness, and perceiving
the meaning of his surroundings, arose
with rage, horror Mid mad imprecations,
while his terror-stricken attendants took
to precipitate flight. One of them was
so frightened that be fell sick rod .<as
since died; bnt Pejrex Fischer is <u s
fsir wsy, from tbe shock be bas received,
to enioy better health than be had be
fore his supposed death.
POTATOES AND DIPHTHERIA.
Navel Thaerv mt a Nebraska Darter, whs
ClslM* Dlpbiberla la PraSaeaa br Ks
eeeetre Ilea efPetaieea.
Melville 0. Keith, M. D., of Lincoln,
Neb., writes to theOhioago Inter-Ocean
as follows: Borne seventeen years ago
the attention of my father, Dr. Alvan
Keith, late of Augusta, Me., waa called
to the fact that onildren who were not
fond of thotnber known ns Irish potatoes
wore not subject to attacksof that mncli
dreaded malady diphtheria. Following
out this hint, he advised families of his
friends to avoid the use of this vegeta
, bio smoug the children, and until his
decease he was accustomed to make the
assertion that rotten potatoes produce
the throat disease known as diphtheria.
It may not be inappropriate to remark
that he was considered a very IUOOCSS
fnI practitioner in the treatment of this
disease.
In 1866 the writer visited Ban Fran
cisoo, and was there engaged in the
practioe of medicine until 1867. During
that period of time he had an opportun
ity of fully testing the truth of the
statement of potatoes being a producer,
or at least an approximate cause of the
condition known as diphtheria. In 306
cases in and about Ban Fran cisoo, the
fact was noted that every one who had
the trne diphtheria was an eater of Irish
potatoes. The writer is well aware of
the presumptive charge of novelty, to
say the least of the assertion, and for
this reason has hositated to place himself
on record. The condition of many fami
lies in the West, and more especially in
this Btate and Kansas, urges the under
signed, as a matter of interest to the hu
man family to mako public a series of
observations for the past two years in
the West. During this time thirty cases
have come under my direct supervision
and prescriptions. More than 200 have
lieen carefully inquired after, and in
every case it has been proven that the
diphtheritic patient had been a potato
eater; and in a large majority of in
stances the patient had been known as
an excessive eater nf the tnber. A rule
to hold good should be valid from both
sides. The undersigned made the fore
going statements to a very intelligent
lady of this city, now a teacher in a din- •
taut city, and the result has been that
where the diphtheria prevailed fatally j
last year they have (by the influence of
this lady) largely refrained from eating
potatoes, or only eaten thorn to a very
moderate extent, and the disesse is af- ,
most unknown. In my practioe in this
city an-! county the offer has been to j
treat any one free of compensation, if '
they would avoid the use of Irish pota- j
toe*. As s sequence not one of the pa- '
ticnts who was not a potato-eater has i
been threatened with the disesse. In
many of the inland towns of tliia Btate,
the writer has patients, and in some of
the infected districts the families of
those who have learned of this simple
preventive have escaped any attack of
throat disease, although the potato-eat- •
era on either side of them have unfor
tunately had cases of diphtheria wnicli
resulted fatally.
It would not be in accordance with the
well-known proclivities of medical men
if the writer did not have a theory to
account for those facta, and a special ]
treatment to correspond with the belief
of the constitutional cause. He has;
but the theory, like many others, is
only partially developed or proven, and
could easily be argued. The facts, em
bracing a period of seven tee u years and
a knowledge of 1,100 cases, are, in the
writer's estimation, incontrovertible, and
may be summed up as follows: The
writer maintains that the portion who
docs not use the tuber known as Irish
potato can never have the disease known
■a diphtheria; that in every ease of
diphtheria (trne) will be fonud an
habitual eater of Iriab potatoes.
i'lew-loaday
All over England, in years gone by,
the time-honored festival of Flow-Mon
day WM joyously observed by the peas
antry. On this day, which is always
the first Monday after Twelfth-day,
agricultural laborers and husbandmen
were sccnstoroed to draw aboat a plow
and solicit money, with mummeries and
dancing, preparatory to the recom
mencement of their tasks after the
Christmas holidays. In a few places
they still draw the plow, bnt the aport
is mostly now confined to mumming
and alms - gathering. Formerly the
"fool-plow,* as it wa called, was abso
lutely essential to the exhibition, and
was dragged in proceaaion to the doors
of townsfolk and villagers. Long ropes
were attached to it, and from thirty to
forty stalwart young fellows, in clean
white ahirta or smocks, but protected
from tae weather by warm waistcoats
underneath, drew it along. Their
smocks were gaylv decorated all over
with bright-colored ribbons tied in knots
and bows, and their hats were adorned
in the same way. The pageant usually
included an old woman, or a boy dressed
up to represent one, who was gayly
bedisened and called "Bossy." There
was also a country bumpkin dressed np
to play the "fool." lie was covered
with ribbons and clad in skins, with a
depending tail, and carried a small box
or oan, which he rattled about among
the spectators to collect donations in.
These mmsqueradera were attended by
music and morris-dan cars. And there
waa also a frolicsome romp by a few j
Crls in gaudy finery. The money ool
oted was afterward spent in feasting
Mid conviviality. In olden times very
little work waa ever done during the
twelve days devoted to Christmas, and
farmers were then wont to feast and re
ward their husbandmen for past indus
try. Plow-Monday seemed to remind
them of their business; and on the
morning of that day both men and
maidens strove who could show their
readiness to commence the labor* of tbe
newly- awakened year by rising the
earliest.— Chamber* Journal.
AM editor in Ireland being short of
editorial oopy, or something, out a huge
leader out of the Loudon Time*, clapped
thereto a one-line introduction, " What
does the Time* mean by this f" and sent
the paper to press. Howe ten yean ago
a Montreal paper announced, " Edi
torial—There is no editorial to-day "
and not long afterward, when an awk
ward question came up that it waa dan
gerous to handle a all, began, "With
reference to this vexed matter we must
say that "—and then left half a oolurao
blank.
FOR THE YOme PEOPLE.
•aa Vml
Osn yen msks a rose or a Illy—lost one t
Or eatob a beau of U golden ran ?
Oan yon oonnt the raindrop* u they fall >
Or the leaven that flatter from tree-lope tail ?
Gen yon run like the brook and never tire ?
Can yon oJimb like (be vine beyond tb* spire?
Can yon fly like a bird, or weeve a neat.
Or make bat one festber on robin's Iveset ?
Can you buUd a oell like the bee, or spin
I.lke Uie spider a web ao One and Ibln ?
Oan yon lift a shadow from off the ground t
Can yon ace the wind, or tneasnrn a auund t
Oan blow a babble that will not burat ?
Oan yon talk with echo and not speak firat ?
Ob, my dear little boy! yon are clever and
strong,
And you are ao buiy the whole day lons
Trying as bard as a little boy oan
To do big thing* like a " grown up" man '
hook at me, darling ! I tell you true.
There are some things yon never can do.
Maty K. folsom, in M. AWs-fcu
Naaalr's lltrda.
Many years ago there was a little girl
whose name was Nannie. She lived
among the hills which rise higher and
higher until they form the Alleghany
mountains. Like most farmers in these
semi-mountainous districts, her father
grew little grain, bnt kept all the cattle
and sheep his land could support.
Now-a-days he would be called a stock
farmer. There were clumps of bushes
and many stones, and a few great rocks
in the pastures; and the little lamls
often strayed awav from their mother*,
and as Boon as they were out of sight
the silly little things thought they were
lost. Nannie liked to search in all the
hiding-places for the wandering babies,
and when she bad found them it was
bard to tell which was the happier, she
or the old sheep, Bhe made herself very
useful in this way, and saved her father
much time and trouble. Bhe was very
brave, and never felt in the least afraid
—not that there was really anything to
be afraid of, bnt there are not many lit
tle girls who would like to go out in the
fields all alone. Bhe made many friends,
and found many playmates among the
little creatures whose homes were in the
thickets. Bhe learned a great deal about
the wild birds, and became more familiar
with their habits than abe could have
been had she only read about them in
books, though no donbt books would
have told about a much greater variety
of birds. Nannie was very fond of her
little |ets, and as she was always very
kind to them they were very fond of
her. Sometimes she did some mischief,
bnt it was always unintentional. Once
she found a robin's nest built low
enough for her to reach the pretty blue
eggs, and she used to take them out
every day and turn them over in her
hand and look at them. There were
never any little robins in that nest.
Once some bluebirds made a nest where
the twigs grew so as to form a cup, with
the nest in the bottom. Nannie put her
banti over the twigs, and when the old
bird flew out she < atight her and looked
at all her pretty feathers. The birds
never went bock to their nest again. A
pair of ptuelic-birds bad bnill their nest
under the eaves of the bam every year
ever aince Nannie could remember.
Every spring they came, and every
summer at leaat three broods of young
made their appearance from the* little
neat.
One Sunday afternoon,looking toward
the barn, Nannie eapied aome naughty
boy* with long polea reaching up to the
pbwlx-a' neat. Hhc knew there waa
cruel aport on foot, but *be oould do
nothing until the boya ha.) gone away;
thru ahe haatcued to aee what oould be
done for the poor birda. She found
them in great diatreaa, for the neat ha<)
been torn down and the four little onea
lay on the ground. One waa already
dead, and the othera aoomed jnat ready
to breathe their laat. Nannie picked
up tboae that were yet alive and put
them in the neat. Then ahe faatencd the
neat aa near the place where it waa be
fore aa ahe ootxld, and hid cloae by to aee
whether the old birda would And their
young. They were flying about in deep
trouble, but they did not aee their neat.
She moYod it to what ahe thought
might be a better place, but with no bet
ter ancceaa. She repeated the experi
ment acveral time*, but failed in all her
effort*. At laat ahe found a hoard, and
making one end aeenre in a chink in the
wall ahe put the neat on the other end.
Then the old birda flew to it joyfully,
and with warmth and food nnraed the
poor little anfTerrr* back to life.
Tbey cared for the little ones tenderly
until they were aide to fly. Then they
taught them the use of their wings, and
sent them nut into the world to look ont
for themselvee. They performed every
duty faithfnlly until the last little bird
was gone, and then they deserted the
place and never risked another nest
near the barn.
Little Nannie's brown lock* grew thin
and gray long year* ago, and now they
are as white as snow; but she still re
member* the old farm, ami her children
and grandchildren are a]moat as familiar
with every nook sod corner a* she was
heraclf, though not one of them has ever
seen it; and now her tiny great-grand
children begin to clamor for " stories
about when she was a little girl."
Aa Awkward Blunder.
In Paris a young lady went into one
of tbe gTeat drapery 'booses to shop
with her maid. They keep watcher*
there; and one cf these, making sure
he had eeen something, presently tapped
the yonng lady on the shoulder and
asked her to fouow him to the search
ng-room. " Ton have just pnt a pair
of new gloves in your pocket, mademoi
selle; don't deny it." " I know I have,"
said the young lady quietly; "and if
you will be good enough to look inside
them you will see that, as they were
bought at another house, they could
hardly have been stolen from this."
Tbe watcher had made a mistake; and
he and tha whole gang of searchers be
gan to grovel in excuses. " Now," said
the lady, turning to her maid, "go to
tha nearest commissary of polios and
tell him tha the daughter of Prince
Orloff requires his protection." It was
the very awkward est of blunders; her
father was the Russian ambassador.
The contrite drapery company offered
thousands to htish it up.
The Chinese have a very effective, if
somewhat primitive, way of preventing
the directors of a savings bank running
the institution they control into inset*
| vency. Tbey reckon the preeident'u
1 head among the aaseta.
Celery for Rheumatism.
" Long MO we proteeted that in celery
there must be some • pedal virtue, if we
only knew what it wee," aaya an ex
change, " Nothing ie made in vain, and
the powerful smell and extraordinary
taate of oelery were, we declared, inti
mations from nature that it had some
special mission. Mr. Ward, of Perria
ton Towers, Koas, writes to the London
Times to tell ns that rheumatism be
oomes impossible if celery is freely used
as an article of diet. Unfortunately, he
says oooked oelery; and it is the article
in its raw state to which we are all ac
customed. 'Cut the oelery,' he aays,
' into inch dice; boil in water until soft.
No water must be poured away unless
drunk by the invalid. Then take new
milk, xlightly thicken with flour and
flavor with nutmeg; warm with the
oelerv in the saucepan; serve with dia
monds of toasted bread a round dish,and
eat with potatoes.' ' Permit me to ssy,'
he adds, ' that oold or damp never pro
duces rheumatism, but simply develops
it. The acid blood is the primary cause
and the sustaining power of evil. When
the blood is alkaline there oan be no
rheumatism and equally no gout.' And
Mr. Ward proceeds to say: • Let me
fearlessly say that rheumatism is impos
sible on such diet, and yet our medical
men allowed rheumatism to kill in 1876
j 3,640 human 1 eingw—every caie as un
necessary as a dirty tare. Worse still,
of the 30,481 registered as dying from
heart disease, at least two-thirds of
these are due directly, more or less, to
rheumatism and its ally, gout. What a
trifle is Hmallpox, with' its 2,408 deaths,
alongside an immense slayer of over
20,000 human beings ! Yet rheumatism ;
rosy lie put aside forever by simply
obeying nature's law in diet. j
The largest Libraries.
A correspondent asks which are the
largest three libraries in the world and
which the largest three in this oountry.
By far the largest in the world is the
National library at Paris, which in 1874
contained 2,000,000 printed books and
160,000 manuscripts. Which the next
largest is, it is difficult to say, for the
British museum and the Imperial li
brary of Ht. Petersburg both had in I
1874 1,100,000 volumes, After them ;
comes the Royal library of Munich, with
its 18)0,000 books. The Vatican library
at Rome ia sometime* erroneously sup" 1
posed to be among the largest, while in
point of fart it is surpassed, so far as the
number of volumes goes, by more than 1
sixty European collections. It contains !
106,000 printed books and 25,600 manu
scripts. The National library at Paris
is one of the very oldest in Europe,bav
mg been founded in 1350, while the ,
British museum dates from 1763,0r a trifle
more than four hundred Tr-ara later. In
the United States the largest is the library
of Congress,at Washington, which in 1874
contained 201,000 volumes. The Boston
Public followed very closelv sft or it
with 260,600 volumes, and the Harvard
university collection comes next, with
200,000. The Aster and Mercantile,
of New York, arc next, each having
148,000. Among the colleges, after
Harvard's library comes Yale's, with
100,000. Dartmouth's is next with 60,
000, and then came in order Cornell
with 40,000; University of Virginia with
86,000; Bowdoin with 36,000; the Uni
versity of South Carolina with 30/100;
Ann Arbor. 80,000; Amherst, 29,000;
Princeton, 28,000; Wesley an.|25,600; and
Columbia, 26,000. —Arte )"orA- Tribune.
Fire Worshiper* Oierthrewa.
A curious story is current in the east
ern portion of central Am* respecting
the overthrow of the Onebre fire wor
ship ODOC predominant there by the
Buddhist creed imported from Chins.
Whether historically true or not, the
talc is st least thoroughly characteristic
of the people and the country which
pro J need it. It was the custom of the
(inebrc* to insist that whenever any at
tempt was made to introduce the wor
ship of a foreign got!, the new comer's
image should be brought into direct
contact with their sacred fire, and that
the votaries of the conquered deity
should st once quit the field. For
many years the fire had the liest of it,
and the unfortunate gods who faced it
either crumbled to ashes or melted
away in a stream, according to the
material of which tliev were composed.
At length a colony of Chinese Buddhists
came in from the East, and the usual
test was applied to their sacred image.
But the high priest of Buddha, thinking
that the latter's divine power might be
none the worae for a little secular aid,
had previously filled the image with
water, and stopped with wai tbe tiny
holes which perforated its sides. Ac
cordingly, the moment the wax melted,
the hitherto invincible fire began to hiss
and spatter in s very unpromising way,
and finally went out altogether ; where
upon its crest-fallen worshipers instant
ly abandoned the field to their oppo
nents.
" Suppressing " a Marriage Notice.
The efforts cf people to keep their
names out of the newspapers are among
the moat interesting features of journal
ism, but they sometime* lead to amua
mg results. In a city within three
hundred miles of Detroit, Midi., the
Mail is one of the liveliest paper*, and
it hates to lose a good item. The daugh
ter of one of that city's wealthiest crti
xena went out for a sleigh-ride with a
young man whom her father bad for
bidden the house. They returned not
Tbe excited parent found, on inquiring
at the Union depot, that a similar pair
had purchased tickets for Boston. Like
Lord UUen the old man " fast behind
them rode " on the next train, bnt he
reached Boston only in time to find
himself the father-in-law of that forbid
den young man. Be returned borne,
resolved to have the account thereof
suppressed in the city paper*. Tbe
Mall promised to keep out the name,
and in the body of the article said that
for " obvious reasons the names are not
given." Tbe account ends with : "The
young people were married in Boston,
and their marriage notice is published
in this paper." Of course everybody
turns to the column bead, " Manias.*,
and reads: "At Boston, by the Rev.
Mr. etc., etc., etc., etc. Ifo sards,"
full names being given. This is ie of
lbs best instances of suppxenaton on
tecord.— Nam York JSrpress,
Tha duty on sugar ia to use about wo
lumpe to every cup of coffee.
Qniet Lives.
In valley, MdtariM f°,
Orew * little fmra leaf, green tod *leo4er
▼etnlag delicate ud fiber* tender;
Waring when tbe wind* crept down ao low.
Bube* UU, and bom and ptN pn
round It,
Playful ranbeanu darted In and found its
I >ropi of daw (tola down by night and ar own
ad It;
fiat no foot of man e'er eaane |H way,
• Earth *w yonng and keeping holiday.
Uaele#* '< hut ? Thar# oam* a thought/*
man,
Searching nature • aaeraU far and daap;
From a fissure in a rocky ataap
Be withdrew a (too* o'er which thai# ran
Fairy penciling*, a quaint design,
Leafage, reining*, fiber* clear and floe,
And the fern'* life lay in every Una !
80, I think, Ood hide* aotoe acral* away.
Bweetly to rnrpriae na the laet day '
ITEMS OF UTERES!.
Reigning favorites—Umbrellas.
Fallen leave*—A dropping book.
A dealer in extracts—The dentist.
Excellent wash for the faoe—Water.
A bad thing to sharpen—The water's
edge.
Wanted—A life-boat that will float on
a sea of troubles.
The fop feela too big for bis boots
until be gets corns,
Violet was at one time the prevailing
color for mourning.
Gi >vea were first worn by oar band
ceetors in the tenth century.
What is the aire of the needle that
carried the threads of diaoourse ?
Insects have no longs, bnt breathe
through spiracular tabes in their sides.
The locks ased in the new war offioe, in
London, are of American manufacture.
English life insurance companies
charge an extra per ooat, on old bache
lors.
The power to do greet things gen
erally arises from the willingness to de
small things.
We are afraid the London Truth
does not always tell it It has five libel
anits on its bands.
Why doeathe new moon remind one of
a giddy girl ? Because she is too yonng
to ahow much reflection.
Quiet is often strength; silence, wis
dom. The awift stream is not always
powerful, nor the noisy one deep.
A cynical old bachelor saya: " Wed
lock ia like a bird cage; those without
peck to get in, and those within peck to
get out"
He put it down again without any
one telling him to do ao, and peevishly
remarked that •' a women was a fool to
set a red hot flat-iron on a kitchen
chair."
The ladies who bang their hair have
encouragement from -an unexpected
quarter. Chief Joeeph wears his ooal
blaek hair banged cm bis forenead and
braided behind
Examination of 8,000 grammar school
pupila at Boston sbowa thai about five
per cent, of the boy* are color-blind,
and only about one-ball of one per
cent of the girls.
' There is nothing impossible,' ex
claimed a man who was discoursing on
Edison's achievements. That man, to
find oat bow egregioasly he is mistaken,
has only to attempt to cat his own hair.
" My dearest Maria," wrote a recently
married husband to hia wife. Bbe wrote
back : " Dearest, let me correct either
your grammar or your morals. Ton ad
dress me, 'My dearest Maria.' Am Ito
suppose you have other dear Mariaat"
The aong " Sweet By-and-Bye" was
written by J. P. Webster, in Chicago,
in 1868. The man who gave it the fame
it baa attained in this country waa the
late T. P. Bliss, who, with Rev. Mr.
Whittle, introduced it in their famous
gospel meeting*. - - Ixatitvillr Courier -
Journal.
A heavy man, while attempting to get
into a carriage on Saturday, fell with
the greatest display of cmphaticness
ever witnessed in these parts. He mart#
such a depression in the earth when be
struck that he ia positive the flagstaff an
the palace of the emperor of China
gouged him in the back, We think he
lies—at least be did be for about two
minutes.— Xorristrm-n Herald.
" Will yc lev* m# Urn* forever 7"
And abs looked Into hi* eye*
With * glance that e*emed a token
Of the fervor of her aigha
" I wttdnl guaranty it,"
With e smile responded Pat,
" For I'm hardly av the notion
That HI tasht aa long a* that!~
A dime, a nickel and a penny were
found in the crop of a Montpelier (Vt.)
rooster. The cat of a resident of East
Berlin, Mo., swallowed a $5 gold puma;
and the village butcher offered 82.50 for
her. While Mr. Jaa. Rnby, of Bar
tonia, Ind., waa feeding hut hogs, he
dropped his pocket book among them,
and ere was be aware of his loss they
bad contracted the currency 1894.
The New York commissioner* of mi
gration expect a large increase in the
emigration to America this year aa com
pared with previews yean,' Since 1871
the emigration has steadily decreased
from year to rear up to 1878. In 1878
the total number of alien passenger* ar
riving at tha port of New York wsa 121,-
869, an increase of 10,811 upon the num
ber of 1877. This Is counted by the
commissioner* as an important indica
tion Una the flow of emigration has
begun to increase again, and they have
many facts in their possession which
make them believe tha it will continue
to Increase
The off years between the great
world's fairs give mi opportunity—
a* uslly taken prompUy—for corner* of
the world a little out of the moot travel
ed way*, to bold in tea naiiwisl exhibi
tion* of their own. Bach was the case
with Chili three or four yean ago, sad
with Australia yam before last; and
•Rich, next autumn, will again be the
oi ve with Australia, which & to bold an
a bibitton of all aatkma a Sidney. Erse
•• woe, free motive power, and freedom
fiom customs duties ale guaranteed,
a d aa acre of exhibiting area ia aa
a art for America. One w**el has
e ready gone from the Untied States,
c crying goods for the exhibition. There
•re medals, mooey prise* and certificate*
of merit tor Urn beat exhibits.