The Love Tluil Lasts.
" I liked a slcighritlc, io," she unfit,
Doar Grandmother, whoso face in fair.
Though five mil seventy yearn have spread
Their silvery snow-shower* oil licr hair,
" I liked a slcighridc, too," naid she.
" And there was one 1 used to know
Who liked full well to ride with me."
"But that wan long ago,"
1 aaid.
• Yo a; that wan long ago."
' And I was fond of moonlight walks.
We'd pare the village through and through,
And have eueh friendly, pleaaant talks,
Much friendly, pleasant ipiarrelM, too.
My eyee were bine ami hia were brown;
My tongue wan quick anil hia wna alow;
1 alway* laughed hia logic down."
" But that waa long ago,"
1 aaid.
"Yes; long ami long ago."
" My hooka were few, in those old timea;
But eacti a word of sweet delight!
And I remember writing rhyme*.
And thinking I wa* l>om to write.
The fooliah verae* ! Yea, 'tia true,
They tloweil aa fountains upward tlow,
i'ree a* the wind- aa empty too."
" But that waa long ago,"
I aaid.
•' \h ! long, long ago."
"Yet, first and last ami Wat of all,
1 loved great nature's royal grace;
The atar.n that glow, the atorma that tall
Aeroa* the beauty of her face;
The ripened fruit, the whirling enow,
The fresh graaa springing by the way."
" But that," 1 aaid, " wa* long ago."
" Nay, that wa* yesterday,"
Bhe said,
"To-day and yesterday."
.Viiri/ Aingf Ik- fire.
LOVE ON THE OCEAN.
"Now," aaid tho captain, "wenhati't
woe any more land for a week, and yon
young ladios'll have nothing to do bnt
let some of thoao young follows fall in
lovo with von."
" Fall in lovo," criod Hetty, her tip
tiltod noso curling with incredulity and
disgust. Who eonld fall in lovo at son,
I'd like to know ?"
" Wlto could ?" ftskisl tho captain ; in
innocent surprise. " Why, everybody
does. Why not 7'
Hetty smiled in evident nnWliof, but
glanced furtively across tho dock toward
tho handsome young oftioor where lie
leans on the rail blowing rings of smoke
into the deep bine sky.
Mi* hievous Doll and tho quirk-sighted
captain detect both, and laugh unmerci
fully. Hetty blushes, and tho first
officer uncompromisingly turns hialtack
and a deaf oar to tho captain's guffaws.
It is evening on ship Ward, dinner is
over, tho day's work is done, and all are
assembled on dock.
Tho sun which has hung all day like
a copper gong tipon a brass coiling, is
now mercifully disappearing. The
nionntains of Lower California shine in
■ his fast fading rays like " tho golden
hills of heaven," whilo one little hum
mock of an island, long ami -high and
narrow, ri'-rs ont of the sea like the
grave mound of sorao ocean god.
For once the water is smooth ; noth.
ing breaks its stillness but tho steamer's
trail, and tho sea-gulls now and then
brushing its surface. Far, far away—
far as tho eye can reach is nothing
but tho same expanse of deep blue
waters, broken only by thoso yellow
hills, now fast vanishing into distance
and night.
Overhead, only another and wider ex
panse, still "deeply, darkly, beautifully
bine," and behind a cloud the new moon
jnst beginning to look forth upon the
,;erons world below.
Frigsby, from London, explains to a
gaping audience how tho scenery now
before them suffers from comparison
with that of tho Ithinc. Sam Boland, of
Han F raticisco, carelessly replies to an
inquirer that he is going prospecting
for gold in Guatemala, acknowledges
it to be a " pretty risky badness," admits
tho conntry to bo fnll of road agents
and bushwackors, "but reckons he'll
pull through." Meantime Hetty and
Dell, seeing tbo captain had a story in
reserve, settled themselves to hear it.
" Didn't 1 tell you how my first officer
got married ! No? Well, nobody could
* been sicker'n his wife when he courted
Iter. I'll jnst tell you all nliotit it, if
you like,
" Well, you see, I haven't always been
I captain of a first-class steamer no,
ire! I ran away to sea when I was
twelve years old, and I've worked my
way up from the bottom of tho ladder.
Well, when I was thirty I was captain
of a largo sailing vessel that was in the j
Booth American trade.
" I sailed from the )>ort of Caliao, Han
Francisco being my destination. My
weeond officer was an Knglishman, lint j
my first was an American, only two or
throe years vrmiigor than I as good
looking a yonng fellow as ev. r I saw; ,
tall and'straight and handsome, with
eyes like blno china. He was a right
#©od fellow, too, brave and honntt, but
frisky as a kitten and up to all sorts of
larks.
• Well, wo crept up the coast, stop
ping at every ninth door, as our orders
obliged us to do, taking in all sorts of
things, I looked for San Francisco.
Finally we came to Han Jose do Guate
mala—that lies ninety miles inland— \
and there we hove to, and waited for a
eh an co to go nshoro.
"Did you ever hear of the surf on
that coast, ladies? No? Well, it often
rolls fifteen to twenty feet high, and n
good part of the time no boat oau live
in it. Horry wo are not going to stoji
this trip, or you might seo it. You sco,
there is really no harbor nothing bnt
an open roadstead and, except in tho
Bay of Fundy, this plaee shows the
highest nnd lowest tide in tho world.
The people there tried to build a break
water out beyond the surf, but it breaks
over it half the time, and when it doesn't
it knocks it to pieces. Sometimes ves
sels have to ride ut anchor for a week
before they can put a boat ashore.
" We'd only just hove to when I no
ticed that a ship at anchor not far tiff
was making signals of distress, and that
a boat was putting off in our direction.
Of course we were anchored fur out be
yond the surf, and it was comparatively
easy for the boat to reach us ; so it was
soon alongside, and one of the men
canto tip tho ship's side and told me
! what was wanted.
" It appears that the ship was a coffee
ship front Han Francisco, and hade com
to Han Jose for a cargo. It wa; only
j half loaded when one of the boats cup-
I sized in tlit* surf, drowning the captain
I and first officer. The second officer was
j very low with a fever, and thoy had
] nobody to navigate the vessel ;so
| they'd had to wait in port till some other
ship came along and could lend 'em an
; officer or somebody who understood
navigation.
" Well, I called tip my first officer and
; put hint alsiard the coffee ship, and in a
day or two wc both sailed. We were
' going over jnst the same ground—or
sea, rather and as the two vessel*were
equally fast we kept each other in sight
most of the time. We'd boon ont about
ten days, and were in American waters
again, when all of a sudden the ship
hove to, and signaled us to stop. We
ray as close to them as we could, and
then we hove to, and presently, through
the gloss, I saw a boat being lowered,
and there was a woman in it.
'"I was surprised, as you may imag
ine, for I did not know there were any
passengers <ut tho coffee ship, though
there were half a dozen on inv own. In
a few minutes up the side came my first
officer, earryit. .• the prettiest little
Sjtani.di girl 1 ever -aw. t >h, ladies,
lie wa.' a beauty! ]'. > like tie tars
;n the i! •!', and the sw.-cti t little fa -e
—kisses just sticking out all over it '
But wasn't she the sieke . little mortal
that ever '• t fo-c on <1 h ? I tell von
she was all green and yellow, and looked
hiflf-siarv. 1. 1 do not b- ie-ve slo-'d
kept down a quarter of a dinner for a
j month past. *
" ' Hull- . Jack !' aid I. 'what' the
matter?' And 1 gave the huly u scat on
the lounge in my cabin. The |w>or lit
tle thing couldn't ,t up straight, so I
just hoi ted her frcLnp and made hr
comfortable among the pillow
" 4 Captain,' said he, 'I want yon to
marry me to this yonng lady.'
" ' Marry you !' said f. 'What do yon
mean? She's too sick to be marriisl,
man! Site can't stand tip If yon and
she want to lie married, why don't you
wait till yon get ashore?
" Yon see, Indies, wc talked right out
free before her, for she couldn't under
stand a word of Fnglish.
"'lf yon wait till then,* said he,
'you and I'll be going to her funeral
instead of her wedding. We've got to
be married, and right away, and von
have got to marry us.'
" You see again, ladies, we w re very
great friends outside the ship, and wi;< n
we were alone together wc dropped all
ceremony.
" ' What in thunderaro yon in such a
hurry for?* said I. " Why can't yttu wait
until yon're ashore? Where are the
lady's friends?'
" ' Her stepfather's aboard mv ship,'
he said.
" ' I thought so;' said I; "nnd I won't
have anything to do with it.'
" He jnst turned nnd winked at me
out of the tail of his eve,' and I then
remembered, in a moment of misplaced
confidence, I Intd told him some little
circa instance* in regard to nty own
marriage.
"'Hem!' said ho, grinning like a;
I monkey. 'I think they're sometimes
justifiable. Now, jnst look here. Cap ;
| listen, and I'll tell yon all ahont it.
That little girl hits no relations -noth
ing but n stepfather, and she's dopend
ent on him for support. Well, the old
■toot's a doctor, and crazy at that, or if
he isn't he's the meanest cuss on earth,
j He's taken it into his addled old head
to discover a sure euro for seasickness,
' and because just the name of a ship sets
j poor little Dolores to casting tip ac
j counts, he's Wen taking her on all aorta
| of long voyages, and trying hia various
decoctions on her. Ho I want to marry
( her to get her ont of his way. (if course
Fin in love with her and all that,' said
he, lo king kind of foolish, ' bnt if that
was all, I'd wait till we got ashore. Of
course I can't make him let tier alone un
less she's my wife, and if he has control
of her much longer she'll never see port
again.'
" ' Do you mean to say," said I, star
ing at him in surprise, ' that he tries ex
periments on her—give's her things that
aint medicine F
a "' I do,' naitl nl"; ' and I mean to
nay Unit tint hint thing ho gave her wax
i a bottle of bug poitton, and it most
i killed her.'
a By the Plying Dutchman !' sniil I;
it ' 1 should think it would! Where's the
i old ooot now V
i, "' Tn irons. I told him I wouldn't
t have any such doing aboartl my ship,
u and ho slapped my face. Ho I put him
rt in irons and came off to you.'
"Well, ladies, I just went over to the
. sofa where the little girl was rolling her
a big black eyes at us, and wondering
t, what in thunder we were saying.
" 'How old are you, my dear?' I asked
c in Spanish.
" You see, I'd beeli married inoro'n
two years, and I thought I'd a sorter
j- right to be paternal,
t "'Eighteen, Honor Captain,' said she,
in tint softest voice in the world.
"Haiti I: 'Do you love this young
~,111011 and want to marry him? Yon
, I needn't if you don't, because I'll see to
( I it that your stepfather doesn't bother
> ] you any more.'
, " I didn't dare look round at .luck, ft.r
! 1 know he'tl In- looking blacker'n thun
tler at me just then. Ami, imb ed, lie
took step toward us; but I made liiiu
keep off till she eonbl have answered for
herself.
' I " Well, she blushed very prettily, olid
> ! hesitattsl for a H(>eond, then miHwered
I very sweetly that, if the Helen- Captain
i didn't miml the trouble, she should
• j marry the Senor First Ofliei r. That the
Seiior First tUlieer had been her only
I friend; that although she had taken
! many voyages and seen many people,
; 1 she had never before found uny one who
, ! dared to interfere in her behalf; that she
' felt von grateful to the Honor First
■ ' t iflict*, and had now I woo me attached to
hie:, and with the Honor Captain's jwr
mission, would gladly become his wife.
"As she said this. Jack got out of
sight liehind the door, put his thumb to
his nose, and twirled his lingers at me
- in the most disrespectful manner. 1 hail
a great mind to put liitn in irons for
mutiny—but no matter.
"Of course there was nothing to ls>
done except marry them; she was over
eight, en, ami at sea the captain's on good
as a |tarsou, you know.
"Hoi called Up the jiassi-ngers and
the officers; and the ladies dr- - . 1 her
up in their own tlm ry, and we had a
wedding in very short order. After
that the • -hip's surgeon pn scribed an
antc<lnto for the bag j>oi .on.
"The -is-ami oflicer went ov, r and
took command of the cofi'-e ship in
•link's place, and ntbm-k Doloters'
trunk and < lotliing. At first I thought
we couldn't ;-ct along without him, for
Jack wa.. deeply in love with his little
•Ifk girl I till) igllt he'll be of no
manner of use. But we had good
west her most of the time, ami Jack did
his duty like a man.
" But it was teal touehin rto • e him
go to his wife's cabin every day and
bring her on deck and_tix ber comfort
ably on a be 1 the steward made for her
under an awning. And there he'd nurse
Imr and care for h<-r just as if he'd bi-en
a sistciwof charity. Y'on might have men
then. Mi s lietty, how a sailor eon love
a woman.
" Well, she soon got liettcr and
stronger. Jack and tin* doctor fixed
her up between them, and a healthier,
livi licr, happi-r little woman never *et
foot in Han I r.incise-i. Jack took Imr
right to his married sister's, and there
she stayed Wtwcen voyages till she had
a lot of children, ami her husband
bought Imr a house of her own.
" What about the coflee ship? Oh,
that made port a day before us, and the
old doctor hail us all arrested the min
ute we toadied land. Ho we were all
hauled up iii court, and Jack had it out
with his stepfuther-in law.
" 1 think that the court was ratlmr
against us first, but the bug poison ami
the slap in the face did the business,
and turned everything in our favor. He
was afterward decided to In* a lunatic,
and turned over to bis brother's keeping.
" What's lieeome of Jock? Why, lie
sailed with me for several years as first
officer; now he's captain of the enm
panion steamer to this. That good
looking yotutg fellow that's been making
eyes at von, Miss Hetty, is his son, and
I dare say that he agrees with his father
' that seasickness makes precious little
difference when a man's in love."
The moon is quite up now flooding
the sea with silver. Between us and the
shining mirror interpose* the heod of
young Jack, in fine, clear cut
silhouette. What wonder that Hetty
has to put severe straint upon her eyes
that they shall not wander in that di
rection ?
The captain saunters away to do the*
agreeable to other |>a*sengcr* while
Dell strays down to the deck to tisten.
fit a little closer quarters, to the tinkle
of a guitar, and to a soft voice humming
a Hjninish love song.
As she strolls back she finds a mascu
line form usurping her ploee, and |>eep
ing tinder Hetty's downcast litis are a
pair of earnest sailor eyes, whose dawn
ng love and ho|>os cannot frighten or
quell.
The widow of Judge Crocker (Cali
fornia's Cni'sns) has built a largo green
house for the lieneflt of the jioor, who
are allowed to help themselves to the
flowers.
" Indian ('duration in Virginia,
• The effort lias been for a natural, all
-1 round growth rather tlinu a rapid one.
Books, of course, are for a long time of
• no avail, and object-teaching, picture/.
1 and blackboards take their place, with
every other device that ingenuity is
equal to, often on the spur of the mo
• j nmnt, to keep up the interest anil ntten
" i tion of the umliseipled uiinds that, with
I the best intentions ami strong desire to
' , know English, have small putience for
r preliminary steps. A peripatetic class
| was thus devised to relieve the tedium
I | of the school-room, and hud, to speak
literally and figuratively, quite a run.
It usually began with leap-frog, and then
went gnyly on to find its "books in the
| running brooks, sermons in stones," etc.
Geography is taught with molding saml
! and iron raised dissecting maps ; aritli
r | met it- ut first with blocks. Tim Indians
( are particularly fond of each, and the
advanced class is quite expert in adding
up columns of figures as long as a ledger
i page, and equal to practjcul problem! of
I every-day trade ami simple business ac
| counts.
Nothing, however, can equal the
i-hsrm of the printed page. Jt hits llm
' olil*iiiv-t.-ry of " the papt r that talks."
I "If I cannot read when I go home,"
; i -aid a voting brave, "my people will
j laugh at tne." The gratitude of the Ht.
, Augu-tini .over their tirat text book in
1 geography was touching. Beading,
writiugand pi lling are taught together
v by the word method and charts, loiter,
, attractive little priiuaries have been
very useful, and unbound numlx'rs of
, eliildreii's liiugit/.inns, sueh as are used
. in the schools. Most of the
t Dakota* can now read at sight as simple
j English as is found in these, and are
. beginning to take pleasure in reading
, or in listening to easy versions
f of our childhood classics of Hob
, inson Crusoe, ard Oiristopbcr ("olum
, bus, and George Washington with his
I little hatchet. One of their teachers
r who tried the hatchet story on them in
preparation for the li'-id of February
says: "Such attentive listeners 1 never
r ■ saw before, Thi v v. ere |s-rfeetlv en-
I raptured. They understood everything,
j even to the moral. A few dr.vs ufter
I this I was annoyed by talking in the
i slmb. Wbt n 1 dki 1 who di 1 it, Cray
, one blame 1 bis m iglil* r. I said: ' V w,
Imys don't t. II a lie. Who will be a
. (Jcnr ■" Washing! n ' Two b. at
one. it > .I up and said * We did it.' '
j Another ti-aele was b > -ncc< *f.;l
( with Imr moral, in trying to explain a
. hymn they had learne Ito recite :
, " Vtald list I . U-i!>|Sti in. r. r jrir J bug
Iho n* ' day one of the girls came to
i her, exclaiming, triumphantly: "I vie
, tory' Ivi - ory' E mi.i Bulih< .1 g. t
• mal with me. H'o* big temptation, I
fight lor. I ri. t<.rv"' // , IF. /- /
• ■
' Bnnr After Seal.
On one < ,i.n J fin,] capitnl <q>-
portunity of observing tjm movements
of a b a* whi).- en -.*. • <1 in ati attempt
' t" pr -tire him- if a meal. Bruin was
first -. i n on tlm ice. about I.OflO * n I*
from us, stealthly advancing toward a
that was lying apparently a-h-. p
I about &0d yard* off. AN ialiing to observe
his motions, we made the lioat fa-t to
the ice and concealed ourselves st the
1 >ot U>m. The Ix-ar enjit up verv
oaution-ly toward his would-ls* pri r.
', ocra.ion;, 11 breakin • through tin* thin
rotten iee and swimming for some di
tailed, irneliini - altogether under
water. Having apjirooelusl to within
about twenty or thirty yards of hi*
victim, he nmde a rapid, headlong rush
toward it, but only to meet with disap
pointment, for quick a* had !x*en In
motions, thoae of the > al win* more
rapid still, and In* vanished down his
■ blow-hole heforo his a -gressor had
covered half the distance thai Mcpanticd
thiyn when lie mule his final elinrge.
Tim l*nr, however, follow* d into the
water, where he rvinaim 1 diving and
searching abou' fur some little time
ls*fore In emerged, snapping his jaw*
j viciously, exidently much enraged at
hi* failure, and behaving altogether in
u very ravage manner. At this juncture
tlm harpootier who was with me imitated
the cry of n walrus, ami with sueh sne
ei si a - entirely to dr-ctfvc the liear, who.
pricking up bis cars, quickly advnncad
toward us, but only to meet his death
from a bullet out of my rifle.—Cajihim
H'trl/iam, oi (Si -ni H'nrrfa.
Mlemfopic Wrlling.
On a postcard on Tiewat an exbihition
in Germanr there had l>eeti written in a
< Human system of shorthand the large
linnilierof "-1,000 words. Hubsoquentlv
Mr. Hurst, of Hheificld, inKuglond, the
publisher of the a short
hand magazine, offered prizes for minia
tun* shorthand. The writing was to lie
legible to the naked eye, and Ut 1m on
one side of an English jiostcard, which
i* considerably smaller than a German
card, *.£i,<KM) words on the former being
reckoned equivalent to .'ta.tNH) on the
latter. l"ho first prize in this competi
j tion was awarded to 0. H. Davidson,
whose |H>stcanl contained 89,888 wonls,
including ,the whole of Goldsmith's
"HhttHtoojsti Conquer," an essay on
John Mor lev, and half of Holcroft's
" Itoml to Ruin."
HpoopcmljkeN Adventure with a Bog.
" Ijook here, my dear," said Mr.
. SjMiopiuidyke, as h led it huge and
f shaggy dog into his wife's room, "I've
got a dog a frieml of minn gave ine.
1 What do you think of him ?"
"Good gracious I" exclaimed Mr*.
' Hpcopondyke mounting a chair in dis
may. "Is ho mad ?"
1 " No, Mrs. Hpoojiendykc," retortml
1 her bustnind, " lie not only is not mail,
but lie isn't 11 stepladder either, or a
1 bird's-eye view. He's a dog, and if yon
, don't get down off that chair, he'll
probably bite your legs off."
Mrs. Hpoopemlvke sat down 011 her
foot and eyeil the brute with some trejii
-1 (hit ion.
• " Maybe he's got the hydrophobia,"
he suggested byway of u hearty we|-
' ; come.
1 1 "P'raps ho lias," agreed Air. Hpoop
emlyke, " but if lie has lie' got it in his
pocket. Cotno In re, doggim, iloggee,
r i doggee !" and Mr. SpoojM-ndyke Kiiap
jh-iI his fingers persuasively.
" Why don't he coine when you call
hiin ?" ttskeil Sirs. Spoopemlyki-, ■]■ eidv
interested in the proceeding .
, " Bccsu -- you make *ueh adod g.i*
, ted noi-'i yon scare him," exclaimed
, Bpoopondyke. "Gome, dogge.-, ih>g
gee !"
" i don't quite like (ho Way his
tongue hang, out,"objis-tcd Mrs.'Sp'sqi.
endykc. "It don't look natural."
" Maybe you don't like the way hi
tail bangs out, either. I r raps you
think that's artificial, too. With your
I information about dogs you only need
a slat bottom and a brok< 11 hinge to lx
n dog jxiuml. Keep quiet, now, wliile I
tench him i-onn- trick-. Come here,
doggee ! Hit up, sir!"
'I lie dog stretched out his forelegs,
opened !5 month like a folding IsMlsteud
and gr<>wl-il.
"What nuikes him do tlmt, Mr.
Kjxxq endykc. " Who do you s'|xise
made him do it ? Thinks he works on a
wire? Got a notion he goes by steam?
He don't. I tell ye, he's alive, and lie
ibx-s it lx . atl-i* that's the bent of his
measly nit d. AN hat an* ye sitting up
there for? Can't ye see he d -n't like
itf Now you -g -till. Here. •! .
ih'gg. e, I- id doggee, jt Hp Ilx •
and Mr. Hjioopcndyko held up an
admonitory finger.
"II- I - • .1 Mr. Hp--0J < i.dy !.e
v-ith ativt! !lian i. -.- ng ,la , <-.
"lie' h .-ri -* y," -i ■ -!•• 1 Mr-• Hpoop
• udyki-. "D ■ -> d-> not like tint wln-n
the;, want to be la)., , down in the var-I
and fed."
"(f e- :r( • u knw," gruinbled
Mr. B]Ki|xtnlvkc. "All you want is
JH rfert jgi oroin eon the part of the po
lice )■ t a <log f -ht. (t it anything in
the h ;i> ft r him b <-. it
"Til- i--'s ■-ui.<- eoi-1 oy-.ter t< iv arnl
a piece of cu-tar-1 pie "
"That's i'!" rarad Mr S| peudykw.
" i 111•' i what the matter with the
dog. He want- pit ! Aon'v.* -it it.
bill "nil • In - miT.iitti ■ and ali ht
ox i r the proceed* to be a bench show.
AYliere" till iV'tirs? Hain't ye got
une e !<1 i he? (iivc him a lem-yi to
star hi stomach!" and Mr. Hjxi-qicn
dyke jttmjxcd strsi-tht up into tlm air
and l.n i 1 on tlm dog. The dog made
for tlm op-*n air with a le-wl. and Mr.
Hpoop- i dyk- f-a'lo r--1 up Iw.-It.- En -
ket* of him i-lf and lo k-- l after hi
prize.
" Never mind, dear," sn*il Mr*.
Hpoop. . .lyk--. S 'dlnnglv, "he'll come
lck."
" If he doe* I'll kill him," shouted
Mr. HjvKip ndyke. " Hi-<* w hat you've
done ? A iri've made me ln-e mr dog
and torn my trousers. Anything more
about dogi yon don't know? Got any
tnor intellitfpne- to impart about do -*?
All you want i* a bucket of brandv
around Totir imck and a anow-stonn to
be a monk of Ht. Bernard," with which
logi- al conclusion Mr. Kpoopcndyke le
--gan exploring hia outlying districts for
possible bites, while hi* wife -jx*cu
lated upon the snlxation of tie* cold
nyst. ,-n and tie custard pie bv the sud
den and eminently satisfactory disaf
fection of tlm dog.—HrfuJcfyn .
AN bite House Fxpen-e*
It rany bo news to some jx rons to
know that the President's salary of
s.*■o,ooo a year is not one-half the ex
penses of the White House and it* oceu
pan!* to th" government. Wo give the
. items of the pa*t year a* an illustration:
( VMnpcaxoti-n of Pmi-tiat jy^nw
of tYivate Nccri-tary. ;; 2Vi
do of Assi-l-nt K-st-!rx 2, VVI
to of l*o lb.. • itire llms at
*(.■< 4.0*1
do of Kt"feoara|*(ii-r.. l.*i*t
do of Niewatd i,*i*i
do l Mossenaor ainl t sbi-r
do of l'arnaei'-keeix r wa
do of me* Niiftif Wslcbmau KM
do ..f one NiVit t'sber |JM
do of two tinOl'abera a 11. |i-
do ' of ism t'-bcr at Mivn Vary'a
duo* I,*lo
do of two Ip(.rlp(.r at si.KOI 2 l'<
ilo of onef'lrrk 1.-i*'
do ofofipCterk !.4*
do of i xi* Icrk I 200
do of om* Trlcgrapb 0|- rator.. 1.100
do f.r four Mi-s-h-hu* !* (to wait
i I hi- tlx- tlirro Clerks
and Tr!i-g(S|d fVjwiastor*
nominallv. hut r-all* c-r
--x-an'c) tU ll.it*' 4.000
Tarn hotv.w for Mcs-cagrrw, to tw* for
uislnst by Hecrcbiry of War. nomi
nallv for il*. of kiwntlrra, l*t
really for Hc-ri tao '* earriaK*
not given—new iti-ml ——
CfNilingnnt • x|*cnw-s fi,o(w
fironnds aontli of Kxrsnltvc Mansion.. R, OIKI
ItefnrniatilnK, Kspaira and Onrcnhmiai*. S.V.nno
Total #120,210
AII Extraordinary
•. i Ami Hit extraordinary natural aoci
,j dnt, un<i one for tho discussion of
e physicians, came to light short lime
, j ago at Louisville, Ky., in whicli a noodle 4
tnkon into tli'- f.x.t of a lady nine yearn
( ago worked out of tin- thigh of her third
j child t on.; jor. Tim lady in
• question i tho wife of Mr. Harry I aims,
J a cigsrmakor, who live* on Market
! street, near Wctixel. At tho time of
the accident Mr*. Isaacs W* unmarried,
and wan then Miss I'aulJno Guldens.
Tho needle was encountered in a ear
pet and jx iietrated her foot the full
j length. A physician was celled in irn
mediately, but the needle could not IM.
found, although it was known
„ t'i be in the foot. Hhe RtifTered great
pain and for four months was unable
to leave her bed. During that period
three physicians ma<lo frequent at
-1 tempts to extract the needle, and the
• knife was used extensively, however,
• without success. Miss Cftklciu was
quite fleshy lx fore the accident, hut fell
oil greatly from her long confinement.
' At length she was able to got about
with the aid f crutch's, but she earn tin
ned to sutler from the noodle. The
pain decreased gradually and she re
-1 gained her former fleshiness. Finally
she felt the needle only at periods
when tlcre was a chang • in the weather,
a The movement of tho needle seemed to
lx- upward, and tho jxiint was uot s'a
tiolmrv, but moved with tho needle,
s About live years ago sbe was marred to
a Mr. Harry Isaacs. Three children are
r the fruit of their union, the youngest of
| which is a lx.y named Arthur, who is
altout a year old. The pain which
I troubles! the mother left her even ln-fore
, t the birth of the child. and tho total .lis
apjx-arance of tlicj'ain she was wont to
, feel was a subject of remark and pleas
-1 ore to lier. On a recent Monday her
l*by, who has since its birth mani
fested a kindly disposition, was
e very restless, and criod un-
ceasinglv all night. The cause of the
'> child s ailim-nt was not discovered until
e the following morning, when in giving
„ it n bath the mother discovered some
, thing black protruding through the
skin of the child's thigh. Hho caught
t hold of it, and was frightened when she
• fonrd tli thing of a resisting substance.
, She, however, used a little force, and
soon extra--te<l tin-dark obj. t Imagine
her surprise when she found it was a
needle, black and corroded. The eye
br< i. off in her band wbib examining
it. TIL" recollection of DM M lie,
. w i.icb li:. 1 cans, if Jo r niuch pain, came
|'| Hj b f .re the mother, and she f, It
keenly for her child, i hemaicmhcraiicc
of her relief from the fain also 1 rcod
it if on the mother, and the csiinec
tion of the two -erred as a dew as to
bow the needle carnt to be in the child's
thigh. The mother aav* it would IK*
almost impossible for the child to have
t.. en ~j. the nc dl. without hcrfinding
it *ut. a. th< Id would have made it
known in piteous cries as it did when
the needle worked out.
I tattling.
i !:o end of the day is the best time
for a -bath; a sponge and a
course towel have often cured insom
nia whore di.e >dinm failed. A bucket
ful f tepid water will do for ordinary
purposes; daily shower baths in winter
lime are c prep. .-.tenons as hot drinks
in the .fog days, lins-ian baths and ice
water cur. owe thoirropute to the same
popular delusion that avriW* miracu
lous virtues to nauseating drug, the
mi-trust of our natural instincts culmi
nating in the idea that all natural things
must lie injurious to man, and that the
efficacy *>f a rem. ly d<q>en.l* on the
degree of its repulsiveneaa. Ninety
nine boy in a hundred would rather
fake the bitterest medicine than n cold
l<ath in mid-winter. If we leave children
luid animals to the guidance of their
1 instincts they will Weorne amphibious
in the dog-slays, and quench their
thirst at tlm coldest sjwing without f.-ar
<>f injurious consequences; but in winter
time even wild tx-nsts avoid imm.-rsion
with an instinctive dread. A Canadian
War will make a wide circuit, or pick
his way over the floe* rather than swim
a hike in cold weather. Itaptist mission
aries do not report'many revivals Wfore
.hum. Warm springs,on the other hand,
attract all the bird* and Wast* that stay
with us in winter-time; the hot spas of
Hock port, Arkansas, are visited ly nightly
by raccoons and foxes in spite of all
torchlight hunts; and Hax than sen tells
ti* that in hard winters the tlieren:. of
Pactigorsk, in the eastern Caucasus,
attract deer and wild lioga from the
distant Terek valley. I know the claims
of the livdro]int.liic SCIHM.I, and the
arguments pro and con, but the main
points of controversy still hinge upon
the iasue Wtwcen nature's testimony
and lr. PrieasntU'a.— P-pnl-ir Science-
A Wall'for Win*.
An Jowa paper cla ms that the sup
ply of marriageable girls there is not
equal to the demand, as there are two
men to one woman in that State. Tho
paper send* the following wail to other
States:
" Send along your sister*, and your
cousins, and your aunt*. KemcinWr
we want none'of your scrawny, wasp
wanted. squint eyed, coeroetio-waahed,
freckled laced kind, but healthy, hand
some, wide-awake, go-ahead girls, who
have been pr emitted to grow up as the
Lonl made them."