A MOTIIKR'H IIIAHI,
Morning 1 B#t>y on tho floor,
Making for tb# fender:
Sunlight gecniH to make it nnooso;
lUbjr " on a Inqidtr?"
▲ll tli ftnoola uptat and gono,
Chair* drawn into fllo,
Harm Mod Rtrtngn all strung tcroM,
Ought to inakr on# amilo.
Apron clean, curie emooth, ryea bins
(How thmo ihartmi will dwindle!),
For I rather think— don't you
Baby " la iNwlmlloT"
Moon! \ tan-led. at I ken iloti
Getting in bin# oyiaj
Apron that will not keep clean,
If it baby trice!
Otic blue shoo untied, ami on#
Underneath the t*hle;
Chair* gonn toad am! block and toya,
Well a* Uioy arc able;
Baby in a high chair, too,
Yelling f r bU dinner.
hjoon in mouth; I think - don't yon-
Bab} " a aiunert"
Night! Chain all set back agafn,
Blocks aud anoon# In order;
Oro bloc -hoe lM'iicalli the ruat
Tall* of a marauder;
Apron folded on a chair,
IMald dr •< t >rt* and wrinkled,
Two pink f* t kicked pretty bare,
fdttl# fat kneoa crinkled;
In hi* crib, and conquered, too.
By llcrp. h*t evangel.
Ni w 1 ir !y think dou't you
baby Ih an angel ?
""
OM'-TIME JRKMISiI.SCEM'ES.
Knugh Traveling In Virginia ami Kentucky,
In Karly Time*.
BT W. W.
Ou one occasion it was my fortune to
take a horseback trip from llig Handy
to tho Kan a whs valley, serosa the coun
try ; ami, as uiy time was rather limited,
I was constrained to rido after dark in
a region at that timo altogether un
settled and wild; and, worst of all in
my case for a night ride, one quite un
familiar to me. On tho night in ques
tion, I hud gone on several miles after
passing the last cabin seen in the after
noon, und as the thick darkness came
down like a pall, preventing me in the
dense forest from even seeing the ground
itself under my horse's feet, to my dis
comfort and perhaps dismay, I began to
hear the deep muttering of thunder re
echoed by tho mountain ranges in the
far distance ; while so rocky and rough
was the winding pathway along which
mv tired horse was stumbling that there
was no such thing as hurrying him in the
chance of finding some place of shelter
for the night, and from the 3ctiling
tempest.
Of course. I blamed myself for not
stopping at the last cabin I had passed,
instead of tempting untried and wild
forest paths at that time of night, but
that did not help the case, and I could
only drop the reins on the neck of my
jaded steed, and leave him to find his
way to some " clearing," if such was
within reach, in timo enough to escape
the storm.
I was creeping along in this manner,
slowly, my horse sometimes stumbling
over a log or fallen tree aud coming to
bis knees, at other times sliding down
some bank, when, in the far distance,
I heard something that sounded
worse than the muttering thnnder to
mo— that pest of those wild mountain
regions at that period—the scream of a
panther. It came occasionally in short,
snappish quavers, making my horse
restive and fairly tremble under me;
and yet, after hearing it oneo or twice,
I felt reassnred when it seemed to grow
fainter, as if dying away in the distance,
finally ending altogether. Bnt it had
bad the effect of hurrying me forward
at whatever risk of possibly breaking
my neck, until at length I was satisfied
'.hat I had gotten into tho bridle-path
again, as I came to an open pieco of
water, the crossing of a creek, appar
ently—the faint reflccqjin of the sur
face, despite the deep darkness, making
it plainly perceptible.
Supposing, of course, that it mnst be
a " ford," or regular crossing-place, I
rode straight across, and found myself
ou the opposite sido in a thicket of
laurel bushes- -I could feel them—but
my horse couldn't climb np the steep
bank. Thoroughly perplexed, and get
ting nervous ss the heavy thunder
storm was rapidly coming closer and I
had no <L *iro to be canght out thcro in
the creek, or even on its banks, I got
off ray horse and down into the water,
and undertook carefully to feel for
horse tracks, to see, if possible, how,
after entering the creek, thej turned on
leaving it. Enable to satisfv myself,
I next tried, in the deep dark
ness, to ride down the bed of the
creek; bnt fifty yards or so of experi
ment, as I floundered in and ont of deep
holes and over sunken logs, satisfied me
that it wouldn't do; to,returning to tho
ford once more, fortunately a sharp flash
of lightning showed me horse tracks,
and a sort of path leading down the
bank of the creek on the same aide I
had approached it; and finally a nliarp
gallop of twenty minutes, as the light
ning was more frequent, enabled lue to
leach a clearing and a cabin, and to get
mv horse and myself under shelter just
as the storm came down with the utmost
fury, making me thankful enough that
it bad not caught mo ont in the dirk
woods. That jaunt was one of many
such experiences, where I had, in the
blind forest-paths, to trust the instincts
(i my horse for holding the right di
rection to places of shelter, although—
as it proved—he was not capable of
leading off after getting clear of the
woods snd into the bed of the creek.
I had dropped in npon s settler
namtdßill Short, who, late as it was,
did not intend to let me go snpperless
to lied. With a house full of children,
and only tlu* one room below and the
loft above it to accommodate the whole
crowd, he Wrs alauit the jolliest chap I
bad eneoni.teied for many a day. Tak
ing down some strips of dried venison,
bis wife soon made a sort of savory stew
.of it, and this, flanked by corn-dodgers
hurried up in the same handy way, and
some honey—for he had fonnd a I lee
tree a few davs before left me nothing
to wish: for. besides this, milk supplied
the place of coffee, to me always a first
rat.) substitute or alternative.
The lodging was not so aasiiy man
aged ; at least there was uo chance for
mo except on the floor, with my saddle
for a pillow snd my saddle-blanket un
der me; bnt it has always been a ptix
zlc to ino where and how the good
woman stowed away eight children,
three of them daughters almost grown,
nlthoilgo two truckle-beds played a
large iart in disposing of the suialiei
fry aud the loft sufficed for tho boys,
there being hut two beds in the room
Inflow. It, after all, shows how very
little coulil accommodate, and satisfy
too, the early settlers, for a merrier
crowd I have seldom fallen among in
unv circle cr conditio*! In lifo.
The next morning, when I came to
leave, I couldn't induce my kind-heart
ed und pleasant host to take anything;
hut it won some satisfaction finally, to
remunerate him with n good supply of
ponder, which I caiuw-d to ho conveyed
to him; for that artiol.) seemed to bo
all that ho craved or needed to make
him reasonably happy, apart from his
innate aud complete freedom from
eaie.
On on return hv another road, how
ever, on reaching tho hnnka of llig
Handy, and proposing to ford it, I was
diverted to a ford several miles from
where I struck the hunk of the river;
lint my trials on this journey apjicurcd
uncommonly numerous, for, on calling
at a cuhiu in tho vicinity of tho pLaoo
where 1 was expecting to cross tho
stream, a little boy was sent with mo to
point out the crossing, I didn't much
like the looks of tho alleged "ford " (if
it was one), hut, riding into tho river
promptly, I soon found my stood swim
ming instead of wailing the stream.
However, considering myself fairly in
for it, I pushed boldly for tho other
side, hut, to my disgust, on reaching it
I found 1 hud to encounter a ledge of
rocks under water, and not far beneath
the surface; but, after two or three
efforts, my horse reared out on the hank,
after narrowly escaping rolling over
backward into tho deep watei, and I at
last succeeded in getting up the high
hank. Encountering just hero an old
hunter, who lived in the neighborhood,
I inquired of him " if that was indeed a
' ford ?'His reply was startling enough.
"I reckon, stranger, you're the first
one that ever forded it, for it's tho
deepest part of the river this high up."
I have never yet been able to tinder
stand what tho people were thinking of
who sent to that point for a " ford."
Bnt even yet my mishni>s were not
ended. Obliged to find my way along
the high bank of the stream for some
miles before reaching my destination, I
finally got tired of ruling around tho
heads of tho small, although deep,
gullies which cut the river bottoms at
the edge of tho hank. I was mounted
on an extra-fine horse, one I had taught
leaping, with the purpose of more easily
getting over large fnllcu trees and logs
always encountered more or less in rill
ing through the primitive forest.
Glancing across the ravine, some ten or
twelve feet wide, although the depth of
the same must have been aome less
than that, aud, seeing that it extended
almost a quarter of mile, irregularly, for
me to ride around, I determined to teat
the jnmning powers of my horse by a
running leap. 1 tot i ring, perhaps, twenty
or thirty yards, I came at the ravine on
a full run, and my horse, indeed, cleared
it, or would have cleared it handsomely,
hnt his hind f*v>t broke throngh tho
edge of tho ftirlAcr hank, where an old
stump hail rotted out, and down he
went backward into the deep gtilley, I
sliding off lieLind as I Ixet could. lie
fore I could straighten up ho rolled
oTer toward me, and I was compelled
to make a sort of scramble on all-fours
out of his reach, until, with one or two
flounders, he stuck; and, when I got
him tin Bnd ont of the place, I found he
limped, and, to punish me for my ad
venturous folly, ho never got over it.
I have only to add that this adventure
pretty well cured mo of attempts to
play the English fox-hunter in the
wihls of Kentucky.
My adventures on my way down the
river some six weeks nfterward were not
much ot an improvement on those I
have already given. Having business
down the Ohio river, I concluded to
tako my way down Sandy to its mouth
in a small canoe or "dug ont," in com
pany with a remarkably tall fellow, some
six fret fonr inches high, and, with a
small liox containing his "plunder," we
started. The river was quite low, and
by this time the nights had l>ecome
frosty, and, while my companion was
too big and clumsv to stand up and
"polo" the canoe, f could do it when
tired of paddling the craft.
Jus", a ont annaet, whilo I was thus
occnpit-ti and while looking for some
settler's cabin on tho hank of the river
where we conlil ajx-nd tho night, tho
canoe struck a saml-t>ar with such a
shock ss to throw me out into the river.
The water was not very deep, hnt it
certainly wss very cold, and, wet almost
to mi shoulders, and the weather frosty,
as I have alieady said, it became pretty
imperative to stop somewhere soon.
And here was the first occasion where I
hail reason to complain of loth Vir
ginia and Kentucky "hospitality," for
the river was the lioundary along there
lietween the two Htatea. Calling first
on the Kentucky side, after a shivering
walk tip to a double log cabin, I found
some sort of a grand frolic on hand—
perhaps a wedding—and no chance to
entertain strangers. Getting into the
canoe again, I resumed the paddle, and
my teeth fairly chattered as the ni(jht
became colder; suffice it that I tried
three cabins in going several miles
down the river in the cold and dark
ness, hsving had a long tramp up and
across the river bottom in one instance
to where I hail seen a light. Variona
excuses were -profferred until at last
having, in tho dark, come to a part of
the river stndded with great rocks and
where the water ran more swiftly, I de
termined to borrow a light, and, build
ing a bonfire, spend the night in eamn
ipgoutaswo best oonld. Fortunately
we, at unit that time, heard the harking
of dogs, and, following tho sound, we
finally fetched up at an old settler's
house, who welcomed us with a biasing
fire and the other accommodations so
much needed. For some time after
ward, however, Virginia and Kentucky
" hospitality," I must confess, seemed
somewhat at a discount with me; but,
after all, it is fair to suppose that the
banks of a river, in almost any ease, are
not a fair teat for a section or district,
and for the very good reason that it is too
often tried overmuch by s elans of
roughs seldom seen to so much disad
vantage in the interior, to say nothing
of the frequency of such occurrences.
lint perhaps a settler whom 1 once
encountered, and at whose cabin I
lodged upon the heal waters of the
j Kentucky river, could beat even my
friend Bill Short, in hia placid content
ment with short commons and other
disabilities, always more or loss inci
dental to an endoavor to make one of
the army of occupants or skirmishers
on the outposts of eivilixution. An wns
so often the ease, wo had loon driven
into harbor with him by sirens of
weather, mid the slim chance there was
to reaching any more eligible place;
and after lodging myself and compan
ion in a bed I but hud about two inches
of straw on the boards, ami that stood
at right ungles to mid almost touched
that of himself and wife, all he could
furnish us besides was some frost-bitten
sweet potatoes and a tin cup of water.
It didn't appear to discompose the good
couple at all. llesaid he "had intended
to take some corn to the mill and get it
ground; and ho had intended to go
and shoot a deer, but ho had put it oil."
My friend thought that his cabin was
something like what is said of the bot
tomless pit-if not "paved with good
intentions," it was for nny traveler
driven to it—"tophot" all the same.
However, I consoled both him and my
self finally with the suggestion that if
the mountaineer could stand such the
whole time, surely we should put up
with it onee without grumbling.
CtuMtao. ill.
CURRENT CURIOSITIES.
THF.KK were two chickens hatched
from the same egg, at Cumberland, Ky.
a few weeks ago. Both are living and
doing well.
A OUILO was bom in Queen's county,
Canada, u short time ago, with a bear's
head, the rest of the IKMIT being per
fectly natural. The mother was at
Froiierictou with her offspring during
the visit of Hnrntitn's exhibition, and
the veteran showiriau, hearing of the
curiosity, attempted to purchase it, bnl
nothing would induce the woman to
part with her child.
AN English physician relates that on
the 11th of February his wife, after mix
lug some mm meal for feeding the
fowls, missed h< r wedding ring from her
finger, and after a fruitless search gave
it ni> for lost. On the Htli of April,
while eating an egg at breakfast she
feit the eggs|xx)i grate against some
thing hard at the lsittom of the egg be
low the yelk, and on further investiga
tion found the lost ring flrmlv fixed by
membranous adhesions to the Isittom
of the egg. The egg was of extra large
size, and was laid the dsy before.
Tlir. Mexico (Mo.) Led-jer relates the
following: "On the 23d day of last
May, Daniel Corker, of South Mexico,
died, as it was thought, in rather poor
circumstances. B. It. Cauthorn was
appointed administrator of the estate,
and a few days since, M. Y. Duncan and
J. J. .Steele, as appraisers, visited the
house of Corker to invoice the projH-rty
of the deceased. After going over
various eld notes, ete., cte., they were
about to leave when they saw an old
leather trunk in the corner, which they
kicked open more out of enri.-wity than
with the expectation of finding any
thing valuable in it. When will wonders
cease? In that trunk was nearly *20,-
000 in old. rusty coin and musty Iwnk
notes. The coins aud notes all le*r an
old date, showing that Corker did not
Is-lieve in 1 ankiug his money, bnt
harded it up."
Wr clip the following from the Tal
lahassee florid ian : " We are informed
that a gentleman residing in Wakulla
county, by the name of Cox, who is cul
tivating a small farm, upon arising one
morning last week was surprised to find
that diinng the night his residence had
l>oen changed from a region w here water
couhl not lie seen and was situated on
the Imrder of a lak. When ho retried
the evening before his house waa far
sway from any pond, lake or river, but
npon going out next morning his snr
prise ran lie imagined when, instead ol
ids garden, an immense sink, fifty or
sixty yards square, filled with water,
running up within eighteen or tweuty j
feet of hia residence, met hia gaze. ,
During the night this transformation
occurred, leaving not even a vestige of
the tallest pine trees which were stand
ing in their full majesty only twelve .
hours before. Theeo sinks, however,
arc not infrequent in that county. It
has only tiecn a short time since that a
sink occurred near Lavender's mill,
more remarkable than the one alluded
to alKivc, in that it occurred upon the
very top of a hill—one of the highest
points of land in that county. Will
not some one explain those occur
rcucea ? "
indlsn Wnr The Rights of Enlisted
Men.
The Secretary of War lim ing decided
that enlisted men who have served in
Indian campaigns approaching the mag
nitude of wars are entitled to wear dia
tinotive eherron "for service in war,"
following campaigns against hostile
Indians have been selected, and are an
nounced as taring within the scope of
the Secretary's decision:
(,'ani|iaigii in Southern Oregon and
Idaho, and northern j*rt* of California
and Nevada, 1865 to 1 868.
Campaign against the Cheyennea. Ar
rapahoes, Kiowna and Comsnches in
Kansas, Colorado and Indian Territory,
IK6B to 1869.
Modoc war, 1872 to 1873.
Campaign against the Apache* of Ari
■on*, 1873.
Campaigr against the Kiowsa, Co
nianches and Cheyenne* in Kansas, Col
orado, Texas, Indian Territory and New
Mexico, 1874 to 1875.
Campaign against the Northern Chey
ennea and Hionx, 1876 to 1877.
Nex Perce war, 1877.
Bannock war, 1878.
Campaign against the Northern Chey
enne*. 1878 to 1879.
'the Panama t'snm.
M. do I,esse pa, in a lecture at Amiens
on the Pauama canal, stated that in No
vorober he should start for the isthmus,
that the first sod would bo turned on
New Year's day, and that with 30,000
or 40,1 HK) navvies, somo of them Chi
nese, bnt 15,000 of them free negroes
from Uracil, whom the Emperor Pedro
would doubtless agree to scud, the
work would be completed in aavoo or
eigb* years.
OUR ¥ Oil Ml FOEKM.
I >lain 7 lioct,
Tit* llltln dolls' BiMuins bad wsnhnd •* ihtlv
rlotliM
And bun? tl.rm'nll oat on ths Uuo. I auppos#
Vour rhlidrou don't have aurb a terrible waaht
And, pray. IIOMI yonr line evrr fall with a rraahT
Bnl at laat their all liunw in the etinllKlit to dry
Hatd Julie: • I flnk 'at my Dalay did ky."
He. wiping tha soap from bar pretty white It an da,
Mhe trottod np ntairs, where the baby house
a tan da.
I Hh< oprned H i door; all waa atill aa a tuouat.
AIM* J>aJay, the dolly, waa not In that liouae.
No Mai *y up stair* and n Malay In bed.
•oh! what aball I lo if my dolly** went dead?"
Hitid Mrs. Maioma. *' i' r ape ahe'e deal runned
away.
Don't oo fink ao,. Kitty?" * Miatirr." Kitt)*4lc
•ay.
"Oh! I'aiy, my own 'lttle ifnrl, am oo dere? M
But the whole row ot dollim did nothing but stare.
Iter liltb white 1 at Mamma Julie put on,
To If hrr rhJld to the r*rdn bad gone.
In gardi it am? or hard no dolly m < tn,
Though the cherrlte wtro ripe and tha a|<j Ira am
iittl .
So down to the rnrad.w, whom graaara are deep.
Hhe tmttrd. and found, naath a hayrt k. aaierp
Fray, who d" )oq think' KJttl* truly Boy Btaaj
In the very ljlte ja k< t that Mt|er Mocae kr.aw.
And alowly he ojxtied hia havv, aweet eye,
j And looked at sweet Julie with aUvyy aurprlw*
LIRIL* D Ml 11X411
Oh! Ittle Boy Blue, laoo oo truly?
Maa what's my name. |*wt ittle MulJt
Ber-ourwe. Why. I'm the whole of three.
Don't oo wis oo waa aa old aa ma?
I'm dot a broMrry dr*aa. Have oo?
One aaah an' live an' 'leveu' an'two
I>da of Oh! where*a my Daisy?
Bhc'a my dolly. I'Taj* oor lu,
Willi be jr. oor rr, itnmi *T
*llll. trlrl. ÜbtQ't ought .-{, ,u ,i,y'
1 l. Iwu towti tbr-r. long wtijou.
Oh: to.ll What ,',ll 1 dot
Sh'. ry lUwt tlld of ,U!
Nh.'. dot on t truly ahawl.
An' ony fr lag. an- on. nn.
W.'. dot hy. 100. up'n our barn.
Dr-ru-. . f-owr right by your bwl.
'litis hoy. D-JU't you Bnk II .
Oh! s.k. up, j, r U a. -nil. U.y ! bay,
ISdu'l toy tuoi <lH_wy'
Lirri r am Maw
How roald S fallow salaap in tha hay
Know If a dolly should ba|>|-m I Ida way?
1 waa fagg-d oul. yoq aaa, wa'rhiug th ky,
liluar and hiurr and w*ar ao high!
I aaw tha (louda aa thwy I'lrtr l up tbe rain,
Hjitlllng a hit), tltbnh.c! again
<>U of thrlr apron*, ao funny and grar.
That l w !g.n aiur-Hing U,<- brwalh of" U>r- bay,
K ill of rod iSssw and |-rlly d-d Sowar*.
I'lmly of thiuga ran away with tha houra.
I ll* II r n.onlh of littla hnx-k k:od
I udgr lla h nr.rl of whllo ru mi g lutat;
Saw tha iky look and gr dra lfnlly rd,
Ti.rri 1 hoard all thai thr Hit)* l.ir.l* aald.
I haard ll,a graaaboppaiv j.inn.tig who.l* all
llufr.nilng *1 {.nr. In Ih.ir I oo!. graaay hall.
Ij*tn! a fairy ia blowing Ida horn'
Ho. htm thoro. jwroho.) on Uial law j of rorn.
H'tiling to t&t, rrj- to fairy land. I'ray
Now, litllo girl won't y. u j loao. run away!
Ho IdlUo fv y lllnw impidiUly turnwt oror.
To again In Iho warm, arantod r|o*or.
Kar off |n Ibo dlaianrw u> maiTy Ulh' Itina
Told whorw lia *h*wj wand.rod this bright aflar
noon.
WT lla drwr U-'l r Ju'lo. dlwr.a lata ir.olhor.
Soon trvttod away, with h<r grlfo. lo a-wi o id hrr
MiA-mt K. least.
Tha Tlfar norm.
DKAR CHTLDRKN ; I am a Tiger
Beetle. This much is easily told, but a
man might say his name vaa John
Kmitli, and you would be oa wire aa be
fore; s<i I am afraid it may be difficult
work to make you understand who I
am, so that you can reoognite me when
you s-e me again, in case yen are not
alreadv acquainted with me. I did not
liave the choosing of my own uame, but
since it lis* been given to me I have
marie the beat of it, and arlopWhl it till
I can get one I like better. Although
most of you who Jive in the country
havo re on me. yet I venture to say that
very few of ycu who have aeeti roe hare |
taken the trouble to aacertain who I .
am, and where I live, and what I look 1
like close by; so,for the benefit of who
ever may want to know, I will tell all I '
can about mvrelf. Pray don't respond,
though, by chaaing ua about next sum- ,
mer, and sticking pins through us, and
calling us "bugs" after yon have caught
us; for we don't like such treatment s
Irit 1 >eter than you would. I will,
however, give yon s cordial invitation,
one and ail, to call around next sum
mer, and make us aa many visits s* you
please, provided yon will leave mo alone
when you depart, and will promise not 1
to carry me off with you; for, if yon call
without such a promise first Wing
mode, I am afraid I will havo to bo ao
impolite aa to W " not at home."
1 have an indistinct recollection of
tiaaaing through a long, happy " hunch
backed " childhood, living in a hole in ,
the sand, out of which I pulled myself
by the aid of a pair of hooka in my
hack, whenever I got hungry, and
wanted to go up and take the fresh air
and procure something to eat. I was
undeniably homely then. I must con
fess, with my hnge teeth, big head and
small body, with the hooka I spoke of
firing mo a humpbacked appearance.
never strayed very far away from
borne, for there were always plenty of
small inaeets, weaker than I, crawling
aWnt, to supply me with food, and
with plenty of that and plenty of sleep
I waa content. At last, when I grew
large, I grew lar.y, ton, until a strange
feotirq <-*mn over me, and I went to
sleep. How long I slept I never knew,
for when I woke I crawled out of my
hole in the sand, and fonnd I was en
tirely chattgod; and in place of my
former ill-looka I was exceedingly
handsome, if I do aay it myself, and
could run and fly aa fast aa yon please
Hinee then I have enjoyed myself in my
own peculiar fashion, and fee' aa young
and spry to-day as I did a month ago.
For myself, I prefer a jolly good picice
of sandy shore, like the one where my
childhood waa spent; but some of my
cousins would rather live among the
graaa, and I have even heard it reported
tiiat sotne of ray fifth cousins, who live
away down at the Tropica, are in the
habit of staving np in the tree* all tha
time. Well, everyone to his taste; but
after all, what pleasure ia there tn£living
where there is not plenty of sand to run
and race over?
In walking along a sandy road in the
springtime, yoti have very often seen
my brothers and me, aa we jumped np
arid, flying a ways, lit, to repeat the
operation when yon were again near
enough. And ytra have, no donlit. won
dered to yourselves what kind of "flies*
those were, bnt moat of rou have gone
on and were content with merely won
dering. If you had tried to catch me,
yon wonld havo found plenty of busi
ness on hsnd before yon got mo there,
for I haven't lived ao lon|i and looked
out for myself for nothing. A good
share of my life baa been apent in gut
ting what I wanted to eat, and I am
Mrased with a good appetite, too, 1 toll
yon; and when lam not huuttng l am
playing hide-and-go-aeek with my broth
ers and play-fellows, dodging in and
out of the gram and weed* right mer
rily. A cheerful, good-natured com
pany we are when the aun shines warm
and the wind don't blow; for when it
blows we can't always go the way we
would like, and sometimes, I am sorry
to say, this makes ns cross and disa
greeable. You can hardly imagine a
more pleasant sight than a group ot us
chasing each other up ami down and
aiound until our legs are 'most ready
to drop off. For we are good-looking,
and no mistake; for some of my cous
ins wear a green-and-gold suit, and
some n purple. I urn more modest,and
HIU content with a brown c<*t, curiously
figured with white, and unlcr I wear u
satiny grecn-and-gold vest. lam very
careful of my clothes, since one suit has
to last a lifetime, and many and many
j on hour I spend in washing and brush
ing myself from head to foot, polishing
1 ami rubbing till my breast shines like
an emerald, and a speck of dust gives
j me a great deal of uneasiness till it is
j removed.
My legs are long and slim, and I nm
i quite famous among the other beetles
for the rapid walking and running I
can accomplish when I have a mind to
try. This speed is useful to me in
more ways than one, for when I want
my dinner it is not very difficult to run
somo down; and, when once I have
outrun my game, it doesn't take ma
Jong to tear it to piece* and swallow it.
Cook it? Why, that's the very way to
spoil it, for my eating, anyway. I once
happened to come on a place where a
man had eaten somo lunch and scat
tered some cruml* of meat, and, just
out of curiosity, 1 tasted them; but you
can't make mo do it again, since that
experiment made me ao sick I thought
I wonld die. Raw and warm is the
only way to eat it, and if you knew as
much as 1 you would agree with nia.
My mouth is quite a savuge-looking
piece of machinery, and perhaps yon
would like to hear alx>ut that. Instead
ol owning a whole row of teeth, I have
only two on each aide of my head, but
those two are so long and so strong that
any more would only be in the way.
They are curved like an old-fashioned
sickle, and are notched on the inside of
the curve, something like n saw. Be
tween the teeth, or mandibles as they
are called, above and below, are several
pairs of joined fingers, or w hat answer in
the placo of fingers, for holding what
ever I am eating, and for turning it
around as I eat it. These "fingers"
are called majrultr, and are so useful in
taking care of my dinner that without
them 1 should be as helpless as an old
man without teeth. Immediately back
of my mandible* are set my eve#, which
are so placed on the aide of my head
that I can see lack ward as readily aa
forward. Like tboae of most other in
sect*, my eyes are compound -that is,
made up of bnndreda of small eye*
close together, and this fact explains
the difficulty you may have in approach
ing me, when 1 appear to be perfectly
motionless.
But I am getting hungry, and I think
there is a fair chance of some dinner in
yonder clump of grass, ao, if you will ex
cuse me for this time, I may give you
another talk some day, or ooax some of
my cousins to do so; that is, of course,
if yon haT* not grown weary listening
to me. Truly your fnand,
Crciypx.A VcLttiKH.
The footman lVhe Wouldn't Announce
Bismarck.
They are telling a good story in Bor
lin of the visit |>aid by Bismarck to
Lord and Lady Dufferin, at the Koiser
hof. when the newly-made Ambassador
and his wife we re passing through the
Knirerstodt. The footman to whom
Bismarck gave hia card returned, after
keeping the I'nnce waiting several min 1
ute*, and, in reply to the Prince's de- :
mand whether he bad announced ' im, '
said, rather impertim atly, "NoI" ?'ow
Bismarck, as I supp -so all the v rid I
knows, is irritated m n moment, and he
flunkey's imperturluT'Jity simply tb w
him into a white heat. In great r {o
he burst out, "Yon old fool! why I' i?"
and was going away when Lord Duf
ferin looked out of i is room and pro
ooodrdto explain. It seem* that La<lv j
Dnffpnn was dr<-*"ing.and that Chawle*. j
wfclTth ought the I'rince wished to see
the Countess, had leen told by the
Lady's maid that her mistreas was not
at home. By the time that Lord Duf
ferin had explained the mistake to Bis
marck, Her Ladyship had finished
dn-asing and was able to receive the
Prinec. Now just imagine what tre
mendous consequence* might have en
•nod from Chawle*' absurd mistake.—
London paper.
The Three R's.
Bornebody mourns because he has
nothing bnt the three It's to teach.
Poor aoull From the very depth* of
our feelings we nity yon. Nothing tc
toaoh I The world ia before you. Hnn,
moon and atom*, stars and comets, •
whole universe full, and nothing but
the three It's left you. Bnt after all we
suspect yon have not taught those
branches very much. Can yon read?
\\ e should like to exgptine yon. How
we would try yon all the way np from
Mother (loose to Milton. Can yon
write? We wonld give you a r-en. and
ten minute* in which to wiile a thought
worth rememoering one second. Then ■
arithmetic I Why, my dear, ignorant
•oul | do yon not yet know that arithroe- 1
do is the science of sciences, that even
the highest ealenlua ia only an expand
ed arithmetic? Oohomel Leave your
work to others who will honor the
grandest of all studies, reading, writing
and arithmetic. There are tnose who
understand that to know these well ia
to lie well learned. God blew the
teacher who knows the three H'a 1 God
b'ea* the child who learns them I— Ed
ucational Monthly.
Experiments with (toasters.
Dr. P. G. 0. Hnnt, the dentist, has
been experimenting in tooth-grafting.
Two weeks ago he took a couple of ro
bust chanticleers and inserted in each
of their comb* a human tooth of the
bicuspid variety, and to-da* the teeth
are as firmly imbedded in the combs as
tf they had grown there. A chicken
fancier who saw the fowls desired to
buy them of the doctor, being under
the impreerion that the birds were of a
new strain. To secure their growth it
was necessary to remove the nerves and
fill the orifloes in the teeth. -Indian
tpolU Jfawt,
\Ux\W\ Pemssst IXIMM.
Hoene, Main strM-t, Bodie. Drama
tis personsß : An old resident and a new
arrival. Time, 4p. m.
O. Li—There Jack Dull in g.
N. A. Who's be?
©. 11.—One of our first citizen*.
Haven't you heard tell of him ?
N. A.- No.
O. It. \t hy, he killed Tom Wilkin*.
He'* a prominent aaloon man. There'*
Hill Thompson stepping up to *i>eak to
him.
N. A.—Who'* Thompson?
O. It. One of our leading citizen*.
Haven't vou heard tell of him?
N. A.- No.
O. It. That's queer. Why, he killed
Handy Howen* and Alock flaggi* and
ii'it l'ete Hcragg's eyo out in one nighk
le'* a prominent saloon man, too.
Hullo, they've stopped to speak to Abe
Dickey?
N. A.— Who's Dickey?
O. It.—Oh, he don't amount to
nothing.
N. A.—Never killed any one, I sup
pose?
O. It.— He kill any onel Pshaw! He
wouldn't kill nobody. Hullo 1 Hy thun
der, them three's having a spat. Hunt
yer hole, stranger, they're pullin' their
pop.
[They hunt their hole*. Rapid firing
ensues, and ceases. Old resident and
new arrival emerge fiom under ths
; stove and seek information.)
Time, 8 p. m.
O. It.—l tell you the camp ought to
Ire proud o' that feller Abe Dickey. He'*
got nerve. I hope the boy* will turn
out big at the double funeral. I used
to know Abe's brother in the Htates. He
come of a gritty family. Wonder what
his bail 11 be?— Virginia ChronicU.
Hon to tot a Lever.
In Lancashire, if an inquirer wishes
to know the abode of a lover, au apple
pippin is taken between the thumb and
finger, and, while moving round,
squeezed out, when it is snppoead to fly
in tho direction of the lover's bouse.
These word* ore said at the same time:
I' l I Sri pippin, ptnAih*.
Icllm. wfinr. my tru- lor* liaa:
i-hjft. WMrt. ttnrih Ot MOO).
IllJln* lirtir or OoclmavnU.
Halliwell, in hi* "Popular Rhymes*
(1K49;, says that girls former)v prac
ticed divination with a "St. Thomas
onion," which they peeled, wrapped in
a clean handkerchief, and laid under
their heads, saying the following
rhyme:
O'-od at. Thomas. &•-, m> rtrfct.
Sail IW my tyn. 1<; , v> nlgtit.
Thai I ma; aaa him la Ih. la/,
And him ts kind arma am brae*.
In Hhropahire, to find one's future
partner the blade-bone of a lamb must
be procured, which is to be pricked at
midnight with a penknife, and these
words repeated:
' n noil hU lvfk* I rlh to ptfi,
l*nt my lown b#*rt I wih to prvt.
If b* OGID** Dot hldftlt,
I*ll |.rv* nrd yri< k UIJ it t* iigbt.
In Derbyshire they have a method
which it would take a bold heart to
perform; the young woman, to find out
her future husliand, runs round the
church at midnight, as the clock strikes
12, repeating the following :
I sow hfti.p aard briapaaml I turn;
J!• tJifct )n\m m br*(
Mrl aftrr m mm.
After which her destined partner is be
hoved to follow her.
"Mother Shlotwa."
Concerning " Mother Hhipton's Proph
ecy," Iwginning—
rarriarra without noma ahatl *o.
and ending
b*!l st I flirt Mn!l a
Thr world b- *D4 %Uali oma
In boodrnd and *tt on*
" Texan " writes to the New York fforld
from Texas, to ask who was the author
and when was i* mblished, and that
paper makes repj . This prophecv ia
an old friend of ours. It appeared in
the edition of MothfT Shiptoti's proph
ecies issued by Mr. Charles Hindley, of
Brighton, in I*o2, a book purporting to
be an exact reprint of s chap-book ver
sion issued in 1041, but really as old as
1448. It did not take long to ex|>os6
the frand. The earliest edition to lie
fonnd in the British Museum proved to
lie of 1041 .and neither that nor any of
the later one* contained a line of any
importan - being a vague jumble of
local predictions, and not long after
Mr. Hindley confessed that he had fab
ricated the " prophecy" of which our
correspondent speaks, and tea others,
so as to make his hook selL
( Varieties.
The old system of cutting cemetery
grounds into small lots surrounded by
hedges, lids fair to |<**s sway entirely.
All over the country, the park land
scsj>e or lawn system is gaining favor.
It consists in a series of plantations of
shrulw and trees, so arranged that the
effect of the entire cemetery, from the
main drives, ia that of an extensive
park, all evidence of existing burial
grounds Uiug shut off hy foliage. Of
course, in this system, the hedge and
fence monstrosity finds no place.
Vaults or catacomb* are excavated in
the hillsides, and memorial buildings of
all kinds erected in retired nook*. More
land is required for this arrangement,
but its attractive, rural character seems
to commend it to all
He bet <ML
A fit tie fi-year old hoy in Nate lies,
Mass., had lieen listening to the re
marks of a legal minded uncle in regard
to the prospect of an indicted person
getting clear by seen ring a continu
ance of his case from tune to time.
Hhorily after the little fellow got into a
scrape, which secured for kirn from his
mother a promise of a little dose of
slipper at an early period. He anx
ious! ly nought hi* nnrie for advice on
the subject, but could get sympathy
only, with no prospect of relief.
Finally, said the younster: "ITnolo,
dont you think you could get mother
to continue the vase? If we could get
a continuance, I think I could get off."
He got off.
Another Cure tor njerepastu.
Another alleged cure for hydrophobia
ia reported from Russia It is simply
the inhalation of oxygen gaa A little
girl who had been seised with convul
sions was made to inhale three cubie
feet of tha gas, when the symptoms dis
appeared. They returned the neat day,
and the treatment was repeated with
such success that they had not returned
at last accounts.