Farm Scenes In Jienr fork.
Tho cider mill challenged the boy'a
attention in tho fall, when apples were
brought by the cart-load atul dumped in
huge piles on tho ground, then curried iu
large baskets to tho hopper, to bo con
verted into pomace. The sternly old
horse turned the creaking mill. When
tho pomace was put into form and
pressed the sweet juice ran out into
tubs that invito sampling. Cups and
i glosses were a barbarism; tho only
proj>or instrument for tasting and teat
j® ing was tho long, bright straw. No
I cherry cobbler was ever so delicious as
| that new eider. It was good s)>ort to
"\nt liens' eggs, in obscure manger cor-
Vs, or high hay-mows, or in the tall,
.anding grass ; to see the swarming bees
f nettle on a limb of the near poach tree,
I and watch the process of hiving them ;
| to ride on high loads of fragrant hay ;to
K trap the sly woodcliuck, and see his grit
■ as a prisoner; to follow the harvesters
I afield, and stack tho clean oat-sheaves
i> in " shocks," and to see the same oats
| fly from under the alternating flails,
jr. Aliout tho best fun of all was in tho
1 huskings on the great barn floor. Here
I were at once activity and repose, indi
f viduul excellence and social enjoyment.
I' Every man has his stories to tell. The
' gray-haired grandfather recounted his
arly exploits, and told how his nimble
' bet used to trip those of heavier and
| stronger wrestlers. " Stand up a min
(j, nte," ho would say to his best hired
t man ; and, taking him by tho collar and
elbow, bo would illustrate his youthful
"science," and send his man tottering
across tho floor. Hardly less was the
sport of shearing time, when the boys
r: _ were allowed to hold tho big shears and
|< trim the sheep's fleecy legs. The shcor
± ing was preceded by a general sheep
| hashing, at tho bridge on the nearest
£ poss-rood. It was "high jinks " for the
|J .toys to stand waist-deep in the water,
I pass along the swimming shoep, and give
H the larger lambs a useless bath by them
j : selves.— Martin Kellorjij, In September
K Califurnian,
Br ———
I " ~
Human Work and Human Haste.
1 I Work means waste, equally to a hu
man Is sly and n locomotive engine.
" More work, moro waste," is a motto
alike true of the mechanic's ap
paratus and of tho mccluuiic himself.
Not an action, wo repeat, is performed
by us which is not accompanied by an
expenditure of force derived from and
accompanied by a proportional waste of
■nlwtance. The movements of muscles,
the beating of tho hoort, the winking of
an eyoiid, the thinking a thought, entail
wear and tear ujKm tho muscles that
, work and the brain-cells that think.
Every action necessitates bodily waste
and corresponding physical repair.
Waste, however, cannot of necessity be
a single and final process in a living
body—unless, indeinl, wo were born
full complement of matter, and
matted in the order of nature to
the principals with which we
n provided, instead of wisely us
t principal as a means of gaining
lood through the interest it ac-
That wo are not so constituted
ident fact, henee our lodip de
>retty of instant repair as a com
notion to thnt of work, labor and
This process of repair consists in
ption of matter from tho outer
n the transformation of thismat
ourselves, and in its utilization
work and repair of the frame,
utter we shortly name food, and
cesses whereby it is converted
• own Ixxlily substance wo term
n.— Chamber*' Journal.
icror Alexander's Marriage.
Mr of Russia is believed to hav
the Princess Dolgorouki, al
the czarina was so recently upon
h-bed in the royal palace at St.
irg. His children protested
the ceremony, and all hut one of
left the country in order to avoid
ig the nuptials. The ceremony
ecret that little is known as to
is of the union, although it is
y believed that the marriage is
utic, the Princess Dolgorouki
(for herself and children to make
is to the throne or possessions of
Had he contracted a marriage
her terms, his sons might have
'esentment more vigorously than
ing in foreign lands. The czar
t always been free from suspi
at nihilists have obtained secret
gement, if not aid, from his own
ild. He would not willingiy add
rowed enemies his own sons. His
v will he more likely to increase
diminish his unpopularity. Ad*
'opolT has been made sick by
lest nihilists should Introduce
res on board the new yacht l.iva-
Ich the czar named In honor of
itryof the Princess Dolgorouki's
Livadia, where the pair now arc
secutors of their sovereign aver
infernal machine is now secreted
acht, and the czar may find, if he
kes a wedding journey on board
ft. that his admiral ia not the on
on board. The czar of Rus
kely to lack nothing of excite
r hia diversion during the remain
lia life, and a singular feature of
is that a consciousness of hia
la give# him the apprehenaion
rilmtion will follow him in a ae
itlocks which will at laat proa
im aa the victim of assassins.—
Mait.
A Chinese Romance.
Living in a village In the province of
Kwangtnng were two brothers. " Broth
er," said tho yonnger, one day, "you
aro 40 years of ago, wny don't you
marry ? At tbia rate we aliall never be
able to perpetuate our lather's family,
nor to raiso for ourselves any sons
against our declining yoars."
"The reason I do not marry," re
sponded tho other, "ia that I cannot
afford it—otherwise I would where
upon tho yonnger of tho two implored
his brother to sell him, and buy a wife
with the proceeds I
The proposal was indignantly scouted
by the elder. "What," said he, "ex
change a brother for a wifo ? Never !
A wife I may at any time be able to pro
cure, but I can never get another broth
er."
But a wealthy neighbor, overhearing
tho conversation, called upon tho two,
entered into an insinuating colloquy
with the older man, anil finished by of
fering him SO toels of silver for his hiting
ti. Tho temptation was too strong the;
young man was sold and went into vol
untary captivity to his new master, re
ceiving boarding and lodging in return
for his services, while tho elder went out
anil bought a wife with tho money. On
the arrival of this lady at home, she lie
gan to question her lord as to tho where
abouts of his brother. "I always heard,'
she said, " that there were two of you ;
what has become of him ? "
" My dear," replied her spouse, " the
fact is, I have sold him; anil, what is
more, if I hail not ilono so, I should
never have been able to get you."
Hia wife was greatly shocked ; and,
going back to her father's, she told him
the whole ptory, beseeching him to fur
nish her with means of bringing back
her brother-in-law. Two days afterward
she returned joyfully with the necessary
amount, which sho deposited for safety
under her lied ; but, alas ! a short time
only elapsed before the box containing it
most strangely disappeared. This so
affected her miiul that she tried to hang
herself; anil was so far successful that
she was put into a oofhn, and taken out
to lie buried. Present at tho funeral
waa a sister of tho widower, swathed up
to the eye# in white bandages, and
mourning piteonsly. Suddenly there
came on a fearful thunder-storm ; tho
rain poured down in torrents, crash -.ins
Ceded crash, and flush followed flash,
until one ribbon of flame passed through
tho body of tho disconsolate sister-in
law, stretching her a corpse npon tho
ground. As sho fell her jacket opened,
and out tumbled the missing coin. The
same flash that killed her shattered the
coffin, and aroused the apparently-dead
wife; and so the judgment of heaven
was fulfilled. The false sister was
speedily packed away in the ooflln, and
buried ; the husband and wife trudged
piously home with their recovered treas
ure ; the younger brother was redeemed
from slavery, and tho family lived hap
pilv together for the remainder of their
lives.
Kr.rKNn.Y complaints have l>oon mails
to the French authorities that oleomar
garine butter has been substituted for
the genuine article in the asylums of
Paris, Tho Paris Acndcmy of Medicine
has made a vigorous investigation, un
der an order from tho Government.
Tho report of the committee ia against
the use of margarine in tho asylums,
and is also adverse to its general use as
a substitute for butter. Tho margarine
as originally prepared is no longer an
' object of commerce, being too dear.
That which is actually in use is an ia
ilustrial product open to various frauds.
Vegetable oils are especially introduced,
and if it is easy to decide by chemical
analysis whether a given product con
sists of butter or margarine, it is very
difficult to affirm whether this margarine
is pure or mixed with oils, and vegetable
oils are known to lie moro difficult of di
gestion than animal fats. It was found
to bo a miserable conglomerate of pea
nut oil, diluted milk, aud beef.
TUB recent colliery exploaion in En
gland has incited some historical statis
tician to an enumeration of similar ilis
osters in that country, who finds that in
the numlier of lives loot this one will
"rank with the explosion of thcCymmcr,
near Pontypridd, in July, 1856, when 114
men were sacrificed to the insanely reek
less practice of testing headings sup
posed to be dangerous by approaching
lighted candles to them; of Lnndhill, in
February, 1857, when 189 men of '2OO
were killed ; of theßisca colliery, where,
in Decemtier, 1860,142 miners were slain
by an explosion caused by one of their
number uncovering hia lamp to light his
pijie; of tho Oaks, in December, 1866
(seventy lives had been lost there in
Marcli, 1847) —when 340 men wero
stricken down ; of Fcnrdale, in Novem
ber, 1867, when but three souls of 170
were saved; of the Swartho Main, in
December, 1878, when 135 lives were
lost; of the Blantyro pit, in October,
1877, when 200 men and boys wero
killed ; of the Wood pit, at Haydoek, in
Jane, 18T8, when 183 perished ; of the
Aliercurno colliery, in Beptemlier o( tho
same year, when the death-list contained
260 names, and of the fatal Risen, where
two months ago 119 men were blown on
of existence."
OUR JUVKNILKN.
Dotm If* I.lk* ttutfrt
Well, to brgia 1
First put tlia oowallp undor hl chill.
And when you MO that dlmpli-dest plsos
Of all bU dimpled and ruMvt fw
Show Jut tha tint tlist th cowiilip allows,
Thst la s mirn proof, I suppoiin,
Tht Uio little boy (I meau our Nod)
1 fond of buttor upon bio brood.
So for, no Rood 1
But what If tho rooy Hurfaco should
Show no tint of tho yellow ot oil T
I should soy thst tho flower woo too smstl,
Or thst something slos woo wrong In the tost,
For, whsterer tho sign In, I know boot I
Signs soinetlmoa foil; but I know thst Nod
Likes plenty of butter upon bis brood.
Perhaps tho ton
On the sun-browned cheek of ths little man
Dulls the mirror to which I hold
Tho blossom up to reflect Its gold.
Or pirn the dimples ripple the glass
Whom the shadow of color ought to pass,
And only ths warm blood shows Instead;
But hs dot* Uke buttsr upon bis bread
Youth i Companion.
ifnpsnMr lining Folk s.
There is no country in the world
where there aro sb many toy-shops, so
many children's fairs, or where older
people do so much for young people, as
in Japan. As a general rule, Japanese
ehildron are seldom known to be pun
shed. They are greatly petted, and do
not quarrel anil cry HO much as children
in our own country, anil aro always
good-natured, con (en toil and happy.
Tho children are so unusually good,
some persons say, because their parents
let them do as they please ; yet, if they
were better taken care of and better
governed, perhaps there would not be so
many sore-eyed, sore-headed, crooked
backed children n there are.
BOTH seldom play ball, but find their
enjoyment in tops, stilts and kites, some
of which are six fecfl square and very
gay in appearance, and others are made
to sing as they fly through the air.
Another cnoicc game is Battledore
and shuttlecock. The battledore is a
wooden bat, and the shuttlecock is a
round Hoeil stuck round with feathers.
Tho boys as they play sing that the wind
may blow, and the girls that it may ho
•aim so that their shuttlecocks may fly
•traight. As for " Mother Goose" liter
ature in the way of story-books, lullabys
anil nursery rhymes, they are as plenti
ful as iu our own land, but all are char
acteristic of their country. In our
games, for instance, of "puss wants a
corner" and "prisoner's base," the
devil takes the place of puss or the offi
cer. Japanese children are peculiarly
fond of playing " make-believe," anil
will pretend to lie sick and send for the
doctor. There arc " make-believe" tea
parties, weddings and even funerals.
Games of cards are very popular, and
some of thom are played after tho man
ner of our "old maid." Forfoit* are a
part of almost every game, and oonsist
sometimes in painting tho faces of the
lioys with ink and sticking straw in the
girls' hair.— Xorthern Christian Advo
cate.
Th* .funAm f'4ty.
Who ha not hoard of tho unnken citj
that lies stately and far beneath the sea?
Temple and tower and slender column
and rich fretted palace halls lie buried in
the deep, anil tho mariner sails over the
sjMit, ignorant of tho hidden glories
underneath. Only at sunset tho l>ells
from tower and minaret peal forth a wild,
sweet music that floats faintly over the
waters, and to him who listens comes a
grent longing to see the mysterious
beauty of this hidden city, lapped in tho
waves of ocean. Still, as he lingers tho
desiro grows stronger ; a strange, sweet,
overpowering force urging him to de
scend through the cold, pure water, un
til with his own eyes he can behold tha
loveliness that lies concealed licnoatb.
If ho is strong in spirit he closes his ears
to the impelling music and steels his
heart against tho yearning voice within.
If he is weak or sorrowful or wide-eyed
with hidtlcn fancies he yields to tho spell,
and the sunken city holds another vic
tim, lying dead amid the beautiful deso
lation below.
Dozily floating in a small l>oat were
two men, ono gray-haired and #)>ent and
worn, with a far-off look in hia tired
eyes; the other young anil strong and
happy with the ignorant happiness of
youth. The day was drawing to a close
and the sunset gilded the sraixith waters
on which the l>oat rooked gently, while
l>oth men sat almorbed in thought and
hardly conscious of each other's pres
ence.
Suddenly the younger started.
" Hark I " said he; " what far-off bells
are those that can lie beard at this dia
tanoo from the shore ?"
The other listened. Soft and clear
and strangely sweet they rang, now dy
ing into silence, now pealing forth anew
over the waters. Spellbound they
listened as the sounds swept by them on
tho evening winiL " They aro the liclls
of the sunken oity,' said the gray-haired
man st last, " and it most lie beneath
us now."
In silent awe they Iwth leant from the
boat and looked long and earnestly into
the quiet waters. Clear and green they
lay, bathed in the radiance of the set
ting snn, and, ss they watched, it seemed
to l>oth that the rays of light were re
flected back from gloaming roofs beneath.
Intently they gazed, and gradually un
folded before their eyee lay etately tow
ers and minarets, vast marble balls and
strangely-gilded domes and steeples.
Between them surged fathoms of crystal
water, but underneath all u atill and
fair and beautiful and shrouded in a
mystery no man could penetrate. The
sunken city lay revealed in this brief
hour of sunset to the rapt watchers
overhead.
Neither spoke a word, but, straining
their eyes to see more, gazed at the
shadowy Iveauty of the soene and listened
to tho wild, sad musio of the bells.
Strange visions floated before their be
wildered sight, and the deserted streets
and lonely grandeur of the buried city
told to each silent watcher a widely
different tale.
The young man with glowing eyes bo
held beneath him all his hopes and do
sires reached and fulfilled. All that
ho worked to possess awaited him in the
sunken city, peopled with the shadows
of those he loved, rich with the wealth
he longed for, teeming with the fruition
of his proudest hopes. His life and its
completion lay there ; if he would but
take the step and reach it; and what
should hold him back ?
And the other man, older in work and
disappointment than in years, saw be
neath him in the sunken oity all the past
joys of his life return. Those whom he
had loved and lost walked through the
deserted streets, and his bygone youth,
rich with the hopes now dead, shone al
luringly before his eyes. One down
ward plunge, and ho could regain it all.
With a start both men rose in the lit
tle boat ready to leap into the waves,
when suddenly with a faint, echoing
sound the music of the bells broke and
died into silence, and the glories be
neath grew dim and indistinct before
their straining eyes. Tower and turret
end gilded roof molted aoftly away into
nothingness, and they saw only the lap
ping waters growing gray and misty in
the approaching gloom.
With a shudder the young man drew
back from the edge of the boat. "It is
over," he said, "the spell is post and
night is coming on. We must retnrn te
the shore without delay, an l in the real
world and following out my own life I
will gain all that I have seen shadowed
forth to-day. My path lies before me
ami I am eager to tread it. Let lis
hasten back."
Bat the other did not heed him. His
eyes were fixed u|>on the water. Be
neath lAy hidden the golden vision of
the past and he could never hope to re
produce it on earth. An overwhelming
yearning seized him. All that he valued
lay in ttie sunken city and he would join
them there.
There was a faint cry, a audden
plunge, and the young man sat alone
within the l>oat as the twilight darkened
into night.
Words of Wisdom.
Ovr day is worth three to him whe
does everything in order.
Hit is not only idle who does nothing,
hut he is idle who might lie better em
ployed.
Tin youth who thinks the world hi*
oyster, and opens it forthwith, finds no
l>earl therein.— Mar Donald.
As TO Wing prepared for defeat, I cer
tainly am not. Any man who is pre
pared for defeat would be half defeated
before he commenced. I hope for suc
cess, shall do all in my power to secure
it, and I trust to God for the rest.—Far
ragut.
Tins greatness show s itself in ignoring,
or quickly forgetting js rsonal injuries,
when meaner natures would be kept in
unrest by them. The less of a man one
is, the more he makes of an injury or an
insult. The more of a man he is, the
less lie is disturbed by what others say
or do against him without cause.
IT is not good to Vie angry with those
who may seem with malicious intent to
assail onr cherished beliefs. A few
burning weeds may produce smoke
enough to hide tho stars, but tho stars
are shining all the same. It is not wise
to vex and weary ourselves by angry de
nunciations of the smoke which will
soon pass off without our labor.
Thr human mind is so constituted
that whenever it sees an event it is
obliged to infer a cause ; also, whenever
it scea adaptation it infers design. It is
not necessary to know the end proposed,
or who were the agents. Wo do not
know who built Htnnchenge, or some of
the pyramids, or what they were built
for ; but no one doubts that they were
the result of design.
A nrw process Tor the preservation ot
forage crops in their green state is be
ing tested at Bnffleld, Ct. Into a cutter,
which goes by steam, are run half a
dozen corn-stalks at a time, which are
cut into very small pieces. Afterward
they fall into a slide which takes them
to a vault fourteen by twenty-six feet
and ten deep, which has thick concrete
walls, and is capable of holding eighty
flve tons of this fix-d. When the vault
is filled anil closely packed down, thirty
tons of stone is placed on top. It is
claimed that the fodder will keep green
and retain its sweetness as long as it is
kept covered, thus making it one of the
lxwt as well as the cheapest kinds of feed
obtainable for cattle the year round. It
is not intended, however, that this feed
shall be sold, and indeed it could not be,
aa after twenty-four hours' exposure fer
mentation would set in, which, of course,
would ruin it It can be taken out only
a little at a time aa it is needed for ilm.
Errors of Speech.
It is so easy, from mere thoughtless
ness and unconscious imitation, to fall
into a pernicious way of talking that
continual oircunißjjootion is required to
prevent a lapse. How often people who
should know better say, " It is a differ
ent thing to that," instead of "from."
How can any one "differ to? " Again,
" ft isn't, I don't tliink," is constantly
heard, when the speaker means just tho
opposite of what he says, as may be seen
by inverting the sentence thus : "Idon't
think it isn't," which must bo equiva
lent to " I do think it is." " Hadn't
used to," "Didn't used to," "Hadn't
ought," "Didn't ought," are vulgar
errors, while "It was her," for "It
was hlio " It was me " for " It was I
"Between you anil I," instead of "Be
tween you and me "Like I did," in
stead of "As I did;" "Those sort of
tilings," instead of " That sort of thing
"Laying down," instead of "Lying
down," are common violations of Eu
glish grammar.
For those who have never learned the
mien of syntax, or, having learned, for
gotten them, it will lie useful to point
out that in cases of doubt ulxiut a sen
tonce the correctness of it can often be
tested by a rearrangement of tho words
of which it is comprised, and by reca
pitulating those words which are not ex
pressed but understood. For example :
" He sat near to you and I" is shown to
Is; wrong, thus—" He sat near to you
and [he sat near to]" —evidently the pro
noun me follows instead of I. Another
common instance—" Who is there?"
" Me," is the answer, but it should be,
of course, "I," the words [am there]be
ing the eomplenu nt of the sentence.
Of almost equal importance to gram
matical accuracy is the avoidance of all
slang words, terms and expressions. All
slang is vulgar, and displays a poverty
of language, as well as thought. And it
is a great mistake to suppose that slang
is in any way witty. Only the very
young or the uncultivated so consider it.
Avoid also a vague, indeterminate
manner of speaking, such as using the
word "thing," instead of naming the
object meant, and such expressions as
"The what do yon call it," "The what
is it," "The thingurny." "Take the
thing sway off the what do yon call it,"
is an example of what this bar] habit
will produce.
Other improprieties of speech are
clipping off the last letter of a word,
as " speak in'," "talkin'," "readin',"
"puddin'," and of adding an extra final
fitter, as "garding," " parding,"
"heighth;" drawling out tho letter
"o," so that dog is sounded "dawg,"
and God "Gawd;" sounding "ow"
" or," as " piller " for pillow, " winder "
for window, "elber " for elbow, etc.; of
sounding a redundant "r" in such
words as drawing, often pronounced
" droring," sawing "Boring," gnawing
"noring," with "dror" for draw, and
"noro" for gnaw, "curst" for oost,
"lorst" for lost, etc.
Theodore Parker, a distinguished
American and rationalistic theologian,
was lsvrn at Lexington, Mass. on the
24th of August, IH]O. His education
was lie gun on his father's farm, and there
he continued to study even nfter lie had
entered Harvard College in IS.' tit. In
IMI he entered the theological school,
in which he remaini-il slxiut two years,
lie first began to preach in Barnstable
in IHdfl. In April of the following year
he married Miss Lydia Cabot, and soon
nfter he settled as Unitarian minister at
West Roxbury. His views had previ
ously been but little in advance of the
average Unitarianism of the time, bnt
his growing acquaintance with lie
Wptte, Eiehborn, Paul us Bauer, and
others, was not long in producing a
change in his opinions. His new
doctrines gave offense to some of the
more conservative New England Uni
tarians, and, after his discourse on the
"Transient and Permanent in Christ
ianity," tho opposition to him became
much more decided. In 184.1 he visited
Europe, returning in the summer of
1844. Soon after his return he 1 vegan to
preach in Boston at tho Melodeon,
where he was regularly installed in
1845. He was tho principal editor of
the Ma**arhu*rftt Quarterly. In addi
tion to his duties as minister, and his
lalxiriou* intellectual pursuits, he gave
numerous lectures on various subjects.
His health having lvecome greatly im
paired by his unceasing and intense ac
tivity, in February, 1859, he visited
Santa Cruz, in the West Indies, and in
tho following summer went to Europe,
sjiending the winter of 1859-60 at Rome.
He left Home in April, 1860, and with
difficulty reached Florence, where he
died on the 10th of May. Of his exten
sive collection of luniks he left the prin
cipal part, amount'ng to 11,190 volumes
and 2,500 pamphlets, to the Boston
Public Library.
Axtkrioan oysters are taken to Europe
now, not alone for immediate, but for
prosjK-ctive, consumption. The Bchles
wrig owners of oyster bods have already
laid down a good many American oysters,
and a new company has just been formed
for doing the same tiling on a vaatly-in
creased scale. So with each year Amer
ica liecomcs more and more the food
supplier tho Old World, aa well aa on
an augmenting scale the recipient of her
surplus population.
PLKAHANTKIEH.
Ajf otrnoe of conviction is worth m
pound of concern
Foe whom wuh Eve made ? For Ad
am* Express Company.
" Wiir should we celebrate Washing
ton's birthday more than mine?" asked
a teacher. "Because he never told a
lie !" shouted a little boy.
" Pbeahx to understand," said tha
honorable Billie the other day, " I'm
not such a ford as I look." " No," said
Bob, "that would bo too much."
A HCHJiAND telegraphed to his wile
" Wlmt have you for breakfast, and how
is the baity ?" The answer came s
" Breakfast cakes and measles."
Tuk world is always interested to know
the last words of a man. It doesn't care
so much ataut those of a woman. Bhe
l as her last word all through life.
" Dok'T you <S*r to kiM rr> ooot,"
Hh- cried with bUzlx*# mjm
At Jobn, who feJt h.xumlt ooliepwwi
To half bl uaual ■lre.
u I won't," be eeid— M pieeee taa,
And I will be eo nlow—"
Hhe smlied and eald: u Dear John, I dido t
Bey you ftbouldn't klee me twloe."
A Torso lady surprised the gentle
manly clerk by offering him 50 cents in
payment for a dollar purchase. "It
amounts to Si, if you please," said the
gentlemanly clerk. " I know it does,"
was the answer, " but papa is only pay
ing 50 cents on the dollar now."
" PaisOKKK at the bar," said the
Judge, "is there anything you wish to
say before aentcnoe is passed upon
you ?" The prisoner looked wistfully
toward the door, and remarked that he
would like to say, " Good evening," if it
would be agTeeable to the company.
A I'aktt of aca|*gracea, meeting a
pious old man named Bamson, one of
them exclaimed, "All, now we're safe I
We'll take Samson along with us ; and
then, should we be set uj>on by a thou
sand Philistines, hell slay them all.
" My friend," quietly responds] the old
man, "to do that I should have to bor
row your jaw -bone."
She was a 4-year-old blonde, general
ly quiet and tractable, but mamma had
provoked her. "I don't love you any
more, mamma !" " Very well, dear, you
needn't." "Well, I don't love you.'
" All right, dearie, mamma will try to
get along." " Well, Ido love you; but
I don't feel just like it now."
LrrTi.E RoßitY came home in Boston
with his new hat limp as a dish-cloth.
" For goodness sake 1" cried his mother,
" where have you l>een ?" Robby began
to whimper as he replied, "A fall ex
Uirew my hat into the frog pond.'
"Oh, Bobby 1" exclaimed his sinter,
" yon threw it in yourself. I saw you
do it!" "Well," said Robby, con
temptuously, "ain't I a feller?"
Ad Artist's Struggles.
Most of our readers have heard of,
and many may have seen, Banvard's
great " Panorama of the Mississippi."
It is said that the author of this im
mense work conceived its idea and de
termined on its execution when he waa
a mere boy, during a trip acroas the
Mississippi in a row-boat at sunset.
The story of his after-life is a record of
singular persistency and success in car
rying out a boyish dream.
W lien his father died, John Banvard
was left a poor, friendless lad, and ob
tained employment with a druggist.
But, so foud was he of sketching the
likenesses of those about him on the
walls jrith chalk or coal, that his master
told liim he made tatter likenesses than
pills ; so poor John lost his situation.
Re then tried other p<~.". and met
with many disappointments. Finally ha
obtained en<>. rii money to begin his
great work. He bought a small skiff,
nnd set off alone on his perilous ad
venture.
He traveled thousands of miles, cross
ing the Mississippi backwards and for
wards to secure the beat points for
making his sketches. All day long ha
went on sketching, and, when the sun
was about to eat, he either shot wild
fowl on the river, or, haulLig the little
l>oet ashore, went into the woods, with
his rifle, to shoot game.
After cooking and eating his supper,
he turned his boat over on the ground,
and crept under it, rolling himself up in
a blanket to sleep for the night, safe
from the falling dews and prowling ani
mals.
Sometimes for weeks together he
never spoke to a human being. In this
manner he went on sketching for more
than 400 days before the neceaasry
drawings were finished, and then ha set
to work in good earnest to paint the
picture.
He had only made sketches in his
wanderings. After these were completed
(here were colors and canvas to be
taught, and a large wooden building to
l>o erected, for he determined to paint
them on one piooe of canvas, and thus
make a panorama
When it was finished it covered thres
miles of canvas, and represented a range
of scenery 3,000 miles in extent; and
that all this magnificent work waa exe
cuted by a poor, fatherless, moneyless
lad ought to make us ashamed of giving
up any undertaking worth pursuing,
merely because it would coat us soma
trouble.