FOB THE FIIB HEX.
Newi Nl for Women.
In Chicago women dross so much l.Le
men that they arc allowed to hang on
the strap of street cars without recog
nition.
At Chatanooßn, Tenn., a weddinß
dress was made for a bridemaid in tive
hours. She had lost her trunk in a rail
road accident, and there was no lime to
spare.
Some parties in Deadwood intend
' making the effort to import 900 or more
women to the hills a* domestics, hut
with the ulterior promise of furnisbiiiß
them all with husbands.
Novelties in advertising are not yet
exhausted. Two pretty girls walked
down Broadway yesterday displaying
the card of a soap manufacturer on their
backs. — Xcw York Tribune.
In breaking the ground for a Metho
dist church, in St. liouis, one hundred
women took part in the ceremony, each
tossing some earth into a cart with a
polished brass shovel.
Vanity is not absolutely confined to
women, as witness this little story told
by the London Truth: A young officer,
wishing his feet to look their best and
smallest at a dance, hud the soles, heels
and toes of his socks cut away and the
remaining portion firmly stitched to his
patent-leather dancing shoes.
Miss Chcssar, who died recently in
London of apoplexy brought on by ov* r
work, had written the leading articles
in the London Queen for eighteen years.
She had been a member of the Ijondon
school board.
In Philadelphia the other day a police
man arrested a woman giving the name
of Annie Burke for attempting to steal
a piece of rope from a store. TV hen she
was searched the following choice
collection of goods was'.found under her
shirts: A childla chair, one large coffee
pot, a pint measure, two pairs stockings,
one glass pitcher, a small tub and a lot
of calico. The stove was too hot, or it
is thought she would have picked it up
also.
Kanhlona In Mnarnlnv. air.
Dresses for deep mourning wear are of
black woolen goods without any luster,
trimmed with English crape. For second
mourning such materials are employed
as alpaca and woolen grenadine. The
trimmings generally consist of em
broidery, passementerie and black fur.
The bonnets are of silk grenadine, trim
med with jet-work, black flowers and a
little silk. Caps are also of silk grena
dine. ,I.<ong crape veils are thrown
back, and a small round veil Is worn
over the face. Dresses for still lighter
mourning arc of silk tissues, ranging
from the heaviest silks to the light
est fabrics. Confections are either in
materials matching the suits or of
light tissues trimmed with jet. em
broideries, feathers, cr fur. Bonnets
and head dresses re of lace and silk
gauze. Gloves r the deepest mourn
ing are of undressed kid, or " hourre de
soie," and for the lighter mourning they
arc of kid. For house wear, cachemire
dresses have the lower parts half covered
with crape, and are suitable for ladies
of all ages. Young ladies can wear
skhrred woolen dresses, cut prineesse
shape, or a polonaise draped over a
plaited skirt. The latter has only on
the lower part three rows of stiching.
A dress for deep mourning wear is
made in a round skirt, tr.mined with
four rows of plaited flouncd, over this
are sewed bands of crape. The tunic
is rounded and open. It is bordered
with a crape hand. The basque waist
is trimmed in the same manner. The
crape collar is square. Down the front
of the waist is a pquare breast-piece
and crape draperies, with crape bows
on the lower part. The cuffs are
also of crape. The Marie Stuart shaped
crape hat is covered with a long crape
veil. Another toilet is of India cache*
mire bordered with a plaited flounce.
Above this the skirt alternates in plain
and plaited pieces. The visite mantle is
of the same material na the dress; it
falls in large, regular plaits. On the
lower part in front is a deep crape band.
The square collar is of double crape.
The capote worn with this suit is of
crepe lisse, trimmed with black feathers.
The strings nnd rosettes are of crape. A
bonnet for deep mourning wear may be
covered with crape. Over the brim and
part of the crown are nine rows cf crape
pipings. In front of the crown is a
large crape inching. The crape strings
are taken from the top of the crown.
Another bonnet for lighter mourning
wear has a plaited crape scarf around
the crown. This crosses in the back and
is fastened by a jet buckle. In front of
the crown is a garland of jet flowers.
Around the brim is a crape ruching.
The crape strings have fringe on the
•ides. A fichu may he of a it night
piece of crape, plaited in three pin its
The outer border is surrounded by
fringe. On the inner edge is a crape
plaiting, forming the neck trimming and
extending all the way down. The fichu
la crossed at the waist, and tb'n falls in
one straight end. Another fichn is of
grenadine covered with jet embroidery
on black tulle. Around the neck and
down the front is a plaiting. Ths ends
are short and narrow. The fichu msy
be half covered with jet-work, making
a bordering, with the inside arranged to
form a plaited drapery.
CMnlrr Mlrls.
Meta Victoria Fuller, in a sisterly way,
thus talks to country girls:
" The farmers' dauguters are soon to
be the life as well as the pride of this
country— >a glorious race .of women
to other land can show. I seek not to
flatter them; for bef ;rc they can be
come this they will have to make an
earnest effort of one or two things.
There are some who deprecate their con
dition, and some who have false pride in
it, because they demand more consid
eration than they merit. A want of
intelligence upon all the subjects of the
day, nnd of a refined education, is no
more excusable in a country than in a
townbrci girl in these days of many
books and newspapers.
" Many girls are discouraged because
they cannot be sent nwny from homo to
boarding-schools; but men of superior
mind and knowledge of the wond rather
have for wives women well and properly
educated at home. And this education
can be had wherever the desire is not
wanting. A taste for reading does
wonders; an earnest thirst after knowl
edge is almost certain to attain a sweet
draught from the ' Pierian spring.'
" Thore is a farmer's daughter in this
very room in which I am writing—a
beautiful, refined and intelligent woman
—in whose girlhood books were not so
plenty as now, and wl.oohtnined her tine
education under difficulties which would
have discouraged any hut one who had
a true love for study."
r'Afllitoit IloUfl.
l'ne open sleeve is revived for house
* ear.
High standing Bernhardt ruches and
fraises for the neck are more in vogue
than ever.
Necklaces are worn agnin. Those
formed of large balls of carved jet arc
stylish with black dresses.
Jet is not so much in favor in Paris as
formerly, and handkerchief cjstumes
have ceased to he fashionable.
Irish laco appears in the same old
patterns of wheels, and in the same
shapes for ties, mils and collars.
The new glove Listens only at the
wrist, and above it is closed like a stock
ing, and wrinkled stylishly on the arm.
On all toilets is worn a profusion of
lace. Cascades of it run and ripple all
over the costumes, and it lightens even
the plainest dress.
l<arge hair-pin* of gilt nnd smaller
pins of gilt, silver or pearl, with oval
heads, are stock here and there among
the trimmings on bonnets.
It is the fashion abroad for ladies to
part off the entire front hair, cut it off
snort enough to he manageable, and
arrange it in thick, close curis upon the
head and forehead.
With the small bonnets now worn on
the back of the head, smooth hands, or
else natural looking waves, arc best for
the front hair, al these add nothing to
the size of the head.
Since white petticoats have been pre
scribed for street wear a host of elegant
and varied styles in colored ones have
been designed. Beginning with the
most modest grade, and provided lor
those who go out in all weathers, are
black cashmere petticoats trimmed with
a plaited flounce, bound with a bright
color. More costly ones are black satin
skirts trimmed with white lace, under
which a baiayeu.se is fastened with but
tons, sons to be readily taken off and re
placed. The plush petticoats are very
scant nnd arc sometimes shirred a con
siderable dis'-anqp at the top, so as to fit
closely below the waist.
A great assortment of fancy gaiters
and slippers have recently been brought
out. Among these arc kid lacing shoes,
with the laces embroidered with gilt
thread. They arc worn over iigle-thread
stockings in the color of the toilet.
When the shoes arc embroidered, the
hose must be plain. Black velvet shoes
are very suitable for ladies with small
feet. The heels are also of velvet, and
the trimmings consist of Louis XVI.
buckles. They are generally worn with
short black velvet or satin suits, over
pearl-colored stockings. For young
ladies, kid shoes are more suitable than
velvet, and are much more durable.
Many plush shoes and gaiters are
now made to match the dresses.
They do not even wear as well
as velvet, but are quite necessary, as
satir. is not suitable for this purpose
with plush toilets. Fancy gaiters are
also of silk, worked in all kinds of fine
designs. Some iiave roses on black
groundings and button on the side like
ordinary gaiters. The smnil •' sultano "
shoe is still generally favored; it is a
better support for the foot than an or
dinary shoe. The lacing on the side is
left far enough open to show the stock
ing. This shoe ts of kid, stitched with
white. Gaiters worn over the shoes is
an English fashion, and is very appro
priate for extremely cold w<ather. High
heels are gofngoutof use. Fashionable
ladies have adopted very low and
broad leather heels. Shoes for full
dress purposes have the Louis XV. heel.
This does not reaembl in the least the
present heel called by the same name, as
it is almost straight, and of wood, cov
ered with the same material *\s the shoe;
it is quite low and placed where it
should he, on the back ol the shoe, in
stead of in the center. Very warm shoes
have double soles with a sheet of India
rubber between.
The ("op that Cheers.
The principal com pom nU of tea ars
thr ice and essential oil of tannia. The
best time to take tea is about three
hours after dinner or any other heavy
meal. The excess to whioh tea drinking
is carried by some people induces a ner
vous disorganization nnd impedes diges
tion. The sole difference between black
and black and green tea is one of prep
aration, as both kinds can be obtained
from the same plant. Tbe adulteration
of tea has much declassed of late years.
—Profeuor Q. R. Ttrsedte.
TIMELY TOPICS.
Dr. Maclaron, of Fldlnburg, Scot
land, states that of insanity
have changed within modern times,
For instance, acute delirious mania is
now comparatively rare, but mental cn
fucblement attended with paralysis is
becoming more and and
is the result of the overwork and worry
of the struggle for existence at the
present day,
In 1011 Holland offered a reward of
86,000 guilders (nliout 910,000) for the
discovery of that northwest passage
which Professor Nordcnskjold, the
Swedish explorer, has at Inst in our day
accomplished. This offer was long for
gotten, but it was never recalled; and
ii is now probable that Holland will
pay the 'promised reward ta the suc
cessful explorer, little though ho
dreamed of the possibility of such com
pensation when he started on his
enterprise.
A Japanese lalwrer lives in a house of
not more than four rooms; one for eat
ing, sleeping and sitting, one for cook
ing, one lor bathing, and one to spare.
He never wears boots, nor brings mud
into the house. He and his family sit
on the floor when they cat and take
their meals at a low table. The floor of
their dining and sitting room is covered
with clean solt mats, upon which at
night cotton comforters are spread to
sleep under. Such a house can be built
and furnished for SIOO, r-nd though
cheap and small, is comfortable. The
bath, found in almost all laborers'
houses, is in daily use.
They fih now b7 telegraph in Nor
way. Stations have ticen buiit along
the coast, and during t lie herring season
which is at its height for about six
weeks, a sharp lookout is kept for shoals.
Wherever one is sighted word is sent
along the line, and the available fisher
men promptly give chase. The old way
was for the fishermen to cruise along the
shore, trusting hi luck or the reports
they might hear to come upon the her
ring. Now, every morning during the
season, the position of the shoals which
are watched is noted and posted at the
principal telegraphic stations.
Official statistical returns ot the Aus
tralian colonies for 1879 show an area
of |9.380,3894 square miles, with a popu
lation of 8,05'),779, and revenue of £15,-
987,4*0), of whi:h £5,987,036 was raised
by taxation. The value of imports was
£-17,37*1,703, and the exports, £41,876,-
*56; miles of railway open and in use,
4.33*4. and miles under con struct ion,
9371; 86,8411 miles of telegraph lines
were worked, and I,3*vi miles were in
course oi building. Of sheep there were
66,914.336; of horses, 1,061,640; of cattle.
7,87* 556; while of pigs then- were Out
a little over 888,000. Tlie public debt is
£77,85*, I*3.
An Aiuiricnn gentleman, largely in
tercstcd in flour mills in the Western
States, according to the Ixmdon Times,
lias been inspecting the Hungarian mills
with a view to adopting the machinery
and system of working in his own coun
try. The Hungarians use a large num
ber of rollers—between thirty and 'forty
—made of chilled iron ami porcelain, in
piace of t lie burr stones used in other
countries. Tiie Hungarian plan and
manufacture are more expensive than in
Amcrira, but the former gets eighty per
cent, oi flour from the wheat, while in
the United States the average yield is
only about sixtv-nine per cent. The
Hungarians have also sent a commission
to America to study the operations here
so as to enable them, if possible, to re
sist American competition in Austrian
markets.
The recent decline in coffee, of which
this country uses more than any other
nation in the world, and five times a*
much as Great Britain, will probab y
prove permanent, a* it is due, not to the
casual over-supply, but to a change in
he manner of conducting the trade.
Railroads, recently constructed from Rio
Janeiro, bring the coffee more speedily
from the plantations, [and steamers,
which have supplanted sailing vessels,
have greatly shortened the trip from
Brazil to this country. The trade in
coffee, in other words, lias gone through
the same secular change as the trade in
tea. The day for great firms buying by
the ship-load and carrying great stocks
lias passed. Orders by cable, shipments
by steam, and purct.ascs by job lots
have taken the place of the slow hut
princely methods of a few yc ars back.
Of Arizona little is known to the
world at large, and many there are
doubtless, who regard the Territory as a
desolate waste. A correspondent of the
Boston IltraUl, who has been over the
line of the Southern Pacific railway,
writes that tiie Territory is increasing
rapidly in population, and the comple
tion of the railroad will naturally bring
more immigrants. Although mining is
now the great interest the prospects for
agricultural pursuits are encouraging.
It is estimated thst there are from 15,-
000,000 to 90 000,0000 acres of rich la d,
but, owing to a scarcity of water, only
ahont 3,000,000 are available It is be
lieved that water for irrigation can be
obtained from artesian wells. The
climate, owing to the various altitudes
of different parts, ranges Irom that of
the Northern States to thst of tbs trop
ics. The canons of Arizona are among
the grandest on the continent, the most
notable being that of the Colorado,
which sinks to the depth of 6,000 or
7,000 feet. This river is navigable at all
seasons 519 miles from its mouth.
I)r. B. W, Richardson, the wsll
known English authority on hygiene,
referring, in a recent lecture, to the divi
sions of temperament established by
Hippocrates and lord Bacon, said that
his own division was into the sanguine,
which lie associated with the Celtic
race; the nervous, which characterized
the Haxon race; the bilious, which
showed itself in Eastern or Semitic
blood, and the lymphatic, which was
noticeable in the Northern or Scandi
navian kind. He believed the time
would come when the schoolmaster
would be able to clarify his scholars
by a study of their temperaments, and
gave some practical hints as to the par
ticular modes of dealing witli children
distinguished by the temperaments to
which he had referred. ,
The criminal and prison systems of
Switzerland are as diverse as the can
tons of which tlie Confederation is com
posed. Within the very wide limits
laid down by the Federal constitution
every canton is a law to itself. While
in Geneva the utmost punishment
awarded to murder is twelve years' se
clusion, the penalty for the same crime
sin Zurich is imprisonment for life,and in
Zug death by decapitation. JnSehwytz,
the most primitive of the primitive can
tons, which recently, like Zug, has re
established capital punishment, the
only jail ie an old farmhouse, where
prisoners are placed in charge of a rural
policeman and an aged man, the latter
oi whom accompanies them on pilgrim
ages.takes them for walks in the country,
and trusts to their honor not to run
away. The canton most in advance
in these matters is probably Vandl
whose reformatories and penitentiaries
might well serve ai: a model for neigh
loring States.
The effects of the recent earthquake at
A gram, Austria, are more serious than
was at first supposed. Not r. house re
mains intact, and the aspect of the .own
is such as might have been presented
after a severe bombardment. Unfor
j tunately several lives were lost nno
many persons were injured. The cn
j tire population was panic-stricken.
Everybody rushed into the streets, and
many families forthwith left the town.
A scene of indescribable terror and con
tusion prevailed the whole morning
No fewer than 900 private houses
i have been irreparably damaged, while
| two churches nre in sei dangerous a state
that they will have to be demolished.
I'art of the cathedral wili require to be
i reconstructed. The nalace and country
sent of the cardinal archbishop of
A gram, the n ilitary school and the
government eigar manufactory have
be<n half destroyed by the earthquake
shocks, and t< rrible damage ha* is-cn
done to the farm buildings in the neigh
borhood within a radius of aUiut four
teen mi.fi. The pecuniary losses caused
in A gram alone are estimated at 3,n00,-
tso florins, without redeeming the incal
culablc damage done to the cathedral
and churches. I>ar.: go to buildings
lias also been done at Salweiasenburg,
Essegg, Cissek and Caristadt. The
Emperor Francis Joseph has sent
10.000 florin* lor the relief of the suf
ferers.
In Honor itonnd.
A properly conducted printing office,
says an exchange, is as much a s< eret a*
a Masonic lodge. Printers are not under
oath ot secrecy, but always feel them
selves as truly in honor bound to keep
office secrets as though triple-oathed.
Any employee in a printing office who
willingly disregarded this rule in rela
tion to printing office serrcts would not
only be scorned bv his brethren of the
craft, but would lose his position. We
make this statement because it some
times happens ttiat a communication
appears in a newspaper under an as
sumed signature which excites com
! mcnt, and various partiis try to find out
who is the author. Let all be saved
the trouble oi questioning the em
ployees o r the printing office. Tliy
are " know-nothings" on such points
as these. On such matters they have
eyes and ears, but no mouth; and if
any fail to observe this rule, let them be
put down as dishonorable member.- of
the cratt. It is the same in job printing.
If anything is to be printed and kept
secret let proper notice be given ol ttie
desire for secrecy and you might as well
question the Sphinx as one of the
printers.
Hoj* Who Wish to be Men.
Boys, do you wish to make your mark
in the world P Do you wish to lie rncnP
Then observe the following rules:
Hold integrity sacred.
Observe good manners.
Endure trials patiently.
Be prompt in all things.
Make few acquaintances.
YtaM not to discouragements.
Dan to do right, fear to do wrong.
Watch carefully over your passions.
Fight llie's battles bravely, manfully.
Consider well, tticn decide positively.
Sacrifice money rather than principle.
Use ail your leisure time for improve
ment.
Attend carefully to the details of your
business.
There are only 15,000 real estate hold
ers in New York city in a population of
1,000,000. The tenement-house system
is the only resort of the masse*, and
about 600,000 of the population live in
tills manner. The entire Fifth avenue,
three miles long, contains a small)r
number than some ol Mic more densely
populated squares
"I am satisflid witli my lot," said a
rfal estate owner who held a piece of
city ground worth 93,000 a foot.
The Agonies or on OpiasTFater.
The New York Hun contains a Jong
account of a confirmed opium eater's
ten years' struggle with the terrible
drug. The writer tells how he became
a ddieted to the use of opium and how
he mastered his craving for it. De
scribing his sufferings he says:
I had reduood the dose after horrible
suffering to one grain and a quarter.
Hut every effort to get below I that
amount was futile. It seemed too much
for human endurance. I decided to
come down to zero at once and' put
f pium entirely away. The struggle was
a savage one. All that I had before
undergone would bear no comparison
with the awful burden of mis
cry which crushed mc then.
For thirteen days and nights
I did not sleep a moment. I could not
remain in any place or position for more
than a minute at a time. I llew from
one locality to another with seommand
ing intensity of nervous excitement.
Depressed, desperate and suffering from
the very incarnation of anxiety I passed
from room to room in a condition to
which all the horrors of a strictly or
thodox hell would have been powerless
to give an ndded agony. Every breath
was drawn by the violent exercise ol
wili—a ton weight was upon my chest
and was fastened to me with hands oi
steei. It was only by thejutmost energy
of celf-oontrol that I kept myseif from
throwing my suffering body out upon
the pavement below me. On the morn
ing of the fourteenth day I took a half
g rain of morphia, and obtained three
hours of sleep. This last effort decided
the battle. Opium, the conqueror, was
at last conquered, (or I did not afterward
1 exceed the half grain, and soon reduced
thai dose by sixteenths, and was free—
free from the opium habit, but not yet
free from its consequences, for months
of suffering were yet before me.
At this period a temptation came
which nearly cost me my cure. At
I twe;ve o'clock one night I heard a
strange noise; someone was throwing
small pebbles at my window panes.
Raising the sash I saw a boy about
sixteen who beckoned vigorously and
i pointed to the front door Greatly
ast >nisbed I dressed, and, crawling
j down the stairs, confronted my strange
visitor- He placed his finger on his lip
md said, hurriedly: " I've got n drachm
of it—right here—a whole drachm—
don't you wan', it ?"
" Want wiiat " I whispered in a sort
j of terror.
" You know," said he, "morphine."
"Great liravens !" I exclaimed in my
agony, " who told you I wanted it *"
"Oh, I've heard the doctors talk in
our drug store.''said he, " and I know
you want it; you can have it for five
dollars." fit was worth about eighty
cents.]
" I do not want it," 1 said, astounded
at the proposition, "and now you go;
what is your name p"
At this question the boy took to his
heels, and more dead than alive I
'rawied back to bed to count the
minutes before daylight.
It was a narrow escape, tor had I
failed then I wouid not have consented
to the hell of another cure. I have since
I learned that some of the youthful
sharpers of drug stores watch for these
opportunities and use them. House
hold servants also minister, when wc.l
paid, to the cravings of the opium
cater, and his path of cure is beset with
j every kind of thorn. Another fart in
j this connection is worth recording.
Certain of the wealthier clans of opium
caters, who are t eriodically falling into
the hands of their friends on account oi
the habit, often arrange with a drug
gist's cfbrk in such away that if the
victim does not call at the store for his
regular doses, the clerk shall go to the
patient's house, and if he sees a certain
prearranged paper figure pasted upon
the window pane, he shall bring around
a disehm ol morphia at midnight, and
beliberaliy rewarded.
Of ('sirs* She Failed.
" So she's all broken up, ehP" replied
a Detroit landlady when she beard of
the failure of another woman in the
same business in Toledo. " Well, I knew
it was only a question of time. I was in
her house for a week, and I saw plain.y
that she had no economy about her. I
tell you, a landlady must think and
plan."
" Yes."
" Not only in great tilings, but in
small. There's philosophy in running
a boarding-house."
"HowP"
" Well, I can't stop to tell you more
than one instance. I have hues wheat
pancakes every morning for breakfast
for fourteen boarders. Tbey use butter
on their cakes. I keep the butter on ice
until it is as hard as a rook. Ti.e cakes
are allplaced on the table, not smoking
hot, but mildly warm just warm
enough to soften the outside of a lump
of butter. In this way I make a saving
of two pounds of butler per week over
the usual way of rushing on hot pan
cakes. It's only one dodge out of a
hundred, but the landlady who doesn't
play more or less of them must ulti
mately come to grief."— Drtroti Prre
PrtM. ______
An English magazine discourses on
"Cheap girls." It says: "No young
miui, not even the worst, wants any
thing to do with a cheap young iady."
This is a mistake. No matter bow
cheap a girl may be, her young man
always thinks she is a" little d -ar."—
Momitars Ihrald.
Salicylic acid is much used in Ger
many to keep water free from impur
ities.
Ole Ball's Costliest riddle.
"In H39 I (tare sixteen concert* at
Vienna, and then Rhehazek was the
great violin collector. I aaw at hia
houac this violin lor the first time. I
just went wild over it. ' Will you sell
itf" I asked. 'Yes.' was the reply, 'for
one-quarter of all Vienna.' Now
Rhehazek was really as poor as a church
mouse. Though he had no end of
money put out in the moat valuable in
slrumenta, he never sold any of them
except when forced by hunger. I invited
Rbebaaek to ray concerts. I wanted to
buy the violin to much that I made
him some temptingoffcni. One day he
said to me: 'See here. Ole Bull, j| J do
sell the violin, you shall have the
preference at 4,000 ducsts.* 'Agreed,'
I .cried, though I knew it WM a big
sum.
" That violin came strolling, or play
ing, ratber, through my brain for some
years. It was in IH4I. I was in Leip
sic, giving concerts. Liszt was there,
and so also Mendel-sohn. One day we
were ail dining together. We were
| having a splendid time. During the
dinner came an immense letter with a
i sea.—an official document. Haid Men
i deiasolui: ' Use no ceremony; open your
! letter.' 'What an awful seal!' crted
Liszt. 'With your permission, 1 said
,I, and I opened the letter. It
was from ithehazek's son, for
, the collector was dead. His father had
said that the violin should be offered to
me at the price he had mentioned. I
told Liszt and Mendel'sobn about the
. price. ' You man from Norway, you are
crazy,'said Liszt. 'iUnheard of extrava
gance, which only a fiddler is capable
of,'exclaimed Mendelssohn. 'Have
you ever tried it P' they both inquired.
\ ' Never,' I answered, 'for it cannot be
; played on at ail ju*t now.'
" I never felt happier than when I felt
sure that the prize w:m mine. Origi
nally the bridge was of box-wood, with
. two fishes carved on it—that was the
zo 'iacai sign of my birthday, February
| —which was a good sign (>b, the good
| times that violin and I have h id! As to
its history. Rbebazek told me that in
IKIW, when Innspruck was taken by tbe
French, the soldiers sacked the town.
! This violin had been placed in the Inn
' spruck museum by Cardinal Aidobrandi
at the close of the sixteenth century. A
French aoidier looted it, and sold it to
Klichazck for a trifle. This is the same
violin that I played on when 1 first
came to the United States, in the Park
j theater. That was on Kvaeualion day,
1*43. I went to the Astor house, and
made a joke ; I am quite capable of doing
such things. It was the day whn John
Bull went out and O.e Bull came in. I
remember that at the very first concert
one of my strings broke, and I had to
work out my piece on the three strings,
and it was supposed I did it on pur
pose."— II irptr'r Magazine.
Tbe Man Who Boasts.
Ths man who boasts is twin born
1 to a liar, for neither of them can tell
the truth, except by accident, and yet it
must be very comfortable to feel that
what you do is tuways the very best
tiling be done by anyone, and
that you know just a little more than
any liviug man. We are acquainted
with a tender-hearted gentleman, whose
experiences are always exceptional, and
who has seen thousands of things
which no mortal eyes save his own ever
' looked upon. When he went up tue
Kigi it was the clearest day that
had been known for a full cen
tury. and wben he traveled over
the St. GoVbard he went through
a storm of bailst:nes, tbe least
of which was bigger than a hen's egg.
and the guide, who was threescore
years and ten, and had been over tbe
pass more than two thousand times.de-
I dared that he had never in his life wit
nessed such a spectacle before. The old
gentleman crossed tbe ocean in tbe
greatest hurricane on record, and saw
more icebergs than tbe oldest sea cap
tain in tbe service. His children were
all geniuses and be found a governess
for them who proved tbe most learned
and accomplished woman in the world.
One day tbe poor man was stricken
j with paralysis, and we feared that bis
happy boastfulness was over; but after
six weeks we met bim on tbe street and
he told us that he had been visited by
eighteen doctors, who all dee'.ami that
that kind of paralysis bad never before
made its appearance. So be lives on in
tbe cheerful belief that be has the best of
j everything, and every time we see bim
we envy him. Our toothache is of tbe
grinding sort, while bis makes him feel
as thoagh be bad a music-box in his
month. When our leg gets broken it is
only an ugly fracture, but bis is a com
pound fracture of a compound fracture.
We send lor a doctor to cure our lib,
and he proves to be only an ordinary M.
!).. but when he seek* a physician be
finds a man who has taken every known
degree in every known science, and who
cures the worst cases ever heard of.
Whea our friend dies he will probably
come (sack through some medium rust
to tell us that bis death was tbe moat
wonderful death in tbe world, and that
be found, when be got up yonder, that
they bad saved ■ choice little corner lor
him, where be expects to be more com
fortable than anybody who ever entered
the celestial region*. Il all this is mere
boasting and lying, then boasting and
lying are no longer gross fruits, but
very comforting virtue*.
He was a fine-looking man, and be
proudly stiuttSd down the sidewalk,
with the air of proprietorship in every
movement. "Beg pardon," said a
stranger, as he stepped tp to him, hat
in hand, in utmost humility. "Do I
have ytur permission to remain in lowa
over night P"