LADIES' DEPARTMENT.
When ti I* llcut to Itrrlarr Onr's l.otr.
Tho following linos worn taken from
the scrap-book of a grandmother:
Long lived will the happy maiden prove
Whom- lover on Monday declares hie love,
l'lntua and Hymen will eweetly emile
If on Tuesday ehe yields to her lover's wile.
Wednesday, thov toll Uie, is lucky, hut rain-
Will dampen your pros|e>ote. Oh, refrain.
Itash man ten, nor plunge into ileejx'st w oe.
If he sues on Thursday hid him " go."
Friday, though some foolish folk may duuht it.
* Is perfectly safe; that's all about it.
Have no fears, maiden; ail will go well
If on Saturday he his tale doth tell.
As home from church you wend your way,
And one short word is all you say.
Oh, happy maiden, you'll be blest;
Your Joy begins on the day of rest.
n ha Should How First <
Who should bow first ? Some authori
ties insist that a gentleman should not
bow to a lady until she bows to him ;
the author of the " American Code of
Manners" says that this is all wrong ;
" A gentleman should always bow first
to a lady, no matter whether she returns
it or not ; if he sees by her face that
she does not wish to return it ho can
refrain from bowing the next time!"
This is on the ground that " a lady, par
ticularly an elderly one or a society
leader, perhaps, lias so many acquaint
ances that she does not remember all
the young men who have been present
ed." This, however, does not seem to
settle the question conclusively, for it
may be that the young man has quite as
many acquaintances as the lady, even if
an elderly one. Ho may himself, too,
very likely lie a society leader ; in fact,
a very largo number of tho leaders of
society at the present time are of what
would have been considered fifty years
ago a comparatively immature age. Our
own opinion is, and it has been arrived
at after long reflection, that both per
sons should bow simultaneously; per
haps in the case of very near-sighted
persons a little latitude might bo given,
providing the fact of myopia can be
clearly proved bv medical evidence.
There is, however, always danger in
these exceptions to social rules, and
therefore it may be safer for near-sight
ed persons to bow in all cases of doubt,
accustoming themselves to do this with
uniform courtesy whether they are
themselves recognized or not .—XrUion.
Fnim. l*arttol. Hosiery. rtr.
The newest fan is of large size anil
of cretonne figures, ontlined with crewel
silk and tinsel tambour work. The
faces and general figures are not
touched, but the hair and lace trim
mings of the dresses are elalorately
worked in the silk. They are mounted
on plain ivory or fancy wood sticks, and
have a chain and ring attached to keep
the fan from spreading when closed.
Parasols are of the most elal>orate de
scription, with stripes, blocks, etc., in
serted in the ontside and two or three
colors in the linings. They are often
made of the material forming the gar.
den suits of gingham, flowered satteen,
foulard, etc. For street costumes they
are of the trimming on the dress or are
trimmed with the same striped or black
trimming when mneh is used. Those
having old frames often ntilize them in
this way. Hosiery and slippers are an
important item in the costnmc at water
ing-places and country houses. The
stockings mnst match if possible either
the dress trimming, the tie, cap or
gloves. The newest colors are a bril
liant scarlet, called ponceau; that is
one of the favorite colors for millinery
also this season. Carmelite slate, bish
op'a violet, pilgrim gray, canones,
blue, cardinal red, bronze, rose, olives
steel mixture, plumb blue, montarde
Anglaise and sapphire, mignonette, etc.,
are the favorites. Hi Ik hosiery, forty
inches long, is in these colors, in vari
ous designs, from the plain rib at B'2 a
pair to the jardinerc at 815. The latter
has natural colored flowers embroidered
on the black silk stocking in the most
beautiful manner. Vertical stripes of
alternating contrasting colors, or of a
black or white stripe, with one of color,
are among the newest. Embroidered
and lace open work is seen on many of
the choicest. Slippers are finished on
the toes with steel or colored stitching,
and are sometimes of colored morocco.
Walking boots are made with moderate
sized heels, and aro sometimes of kid,
combined with patent leather. The
latest importations of gloves for snmmer
wear are of silk, without buttons, reach
ing above the elliowsand wrinkling like
the Monsqnetaire, which is also worn in
the Swedish nndressed kid, eqnally
long, and confined at the wrist by two
or three bnttons. The silk gloves are
8-3 a pair, aad the Swedish 82.50 to
83.50.— Nmr York /feral,i.
Fnahlon Nairn.
t Pokes grow larger and larger.
Satinette is the Paris name for sateen.
Pink crape has been revived for bon
nets.
Very little jewelry is worn with white
costumes.
Necklets of beads are becoming very
fashionable.
Walking jackets never go entirely
oat of fashion.
Steel and gold are the admired com
bination this stunmer.
Hashes of ombre ribbon will Ik> much
worn with white toilets.
Mother Hubbard is the fairy god
mother of fashion this spring.
Trained skirts are worn only by mar
ried or matronly women.
Tan-colored undressed kid gloves are
worn with white costumes.
Sateen or satinette isthemost popular
wash fabric of Parisians.
There is a brisk demand for batistes,
seersuckers and ginghams.
All young women wear Mhort, untrain
ed skirts on all occasions.
A new collarette called the Medici is
made of pufTs of mull muslin.
Charlotte collars of immense
size are worn by English women.
Mixed black and whito feathers are
used to trim black rough straw hats.
Oilded bamboo and violet wood
sticks are the most popular for par
asols.
Hteel appears as a part of tho decor
ative effects of every dressing toilet.'
Block costumes are brightened with
ombre Surah or Bayadere striped goods.
Bright gold color, not to say yellow,
is one of the most popular shudes in
dress.
Little puffed pockets of ombre and
Bayadere silks aro worn with sashes
to match.
Albatross cloth is the new material
destine to rival Chuddah cloth and nun's
veiling.
Embroidery of the finest kind is con
sidered more elegaut on mull drosses
than lace.
Sateeu and cambrics are more in de
mand at the moment than muslins,
lawns or linens.
Bright and soft colors harmoniously
combined form tho marked feature of
snmmer fashions.
Many small tucks, much shirring and
fine embroidery aro the adornments of
mull muslin toilets.
Ombre or surah is in demand for col
lars, cuffs and rovers of suits in sober or
nentral tints.
Shirred waists, with shirred yokes and
belted in fullness at tho waist line, ap
j>ear among late novelties.
Brocaded stuffs, with the flowers and
figures outlined in gold or silver, are
used to brighten dark and dnll tinted
toilets.
Bayadere striped goods form thectiffs,
collars and rovers of k all dressy cos
tumes of silk or wool in solid xdors or
cheviot mixtnres.
Gray snmmersilk suits are beautifully
brightened with collars, cuff* and acces
sories of Bayadere stripes in shades of
jw-acoek bine, maroon, garnet, old gold
and steel.
A wide straight scarf of white dotted
muslin edged with Irish embroidery is
|<ass4>d around the neck, brought down
the front to the waist line and arranged
there in loops and ends.
Block and white half-inch striped
silks anil satins, block patterns of black
silk, light fonlards and also light small
fignred brocades, are made into round
basques to weal with black or dark
colored silk skirts.
How ail Artist Fainted a Olllnir.
Probably yon have heard of Whist
ler's extravaganza in house*. He was
engaged to decorate a noble mansion in
Belgravia; tho price was no object to
the owner—and for that matter neither
was it to Whistler. One day a 'riend
asked me to go over and see one of the
rooms that was nearly completed, and
I hastened to accept the invitation.
This is what I saw on entering: A very
slim, spare figure extended on a mat
tress in the middle of the floor; beside
bim an enormous palette, paints, a half
dozen long bamboo fish-poles resting on
a line with their bntts close at hand,
and A very large pair of binocular
glasses. Whistler, dressed wholly in
black velvet, with knickertxicker pants
loons stopping jnst below tho knee,
black silk stockings and low pointed
shoes, with silk ties more than six
inches wide and diamond buckles, was
flat on his liack, Ashing rod in hand and
an enormons eyeglass in one eye, lili
gently putting some finishing tonclies
on the other end of the fish-pole. Oc.
casionally he wonhl pick np his donble
glasses like some astronomer peering at
the moon, and having gained a nearer
and better view of the effect, he would
again begin to agitate the paint-brash
at the other end of the long pole.
"Now wouldn't I be a foot" aaid he,
"io risk myself on a scaffolding and
nearly twist my head off my shoulders
trying to look upward wheo I can over
come the difficulty and annihilate space
so easily, thus V—and he gavo a wave of
his fish-pole.
And sncb a room I One mass of gor
geous purple and bine, ornamented
solely with an enormons number of the
eyes of a peacock's feathers. It was s
room to make a man a lunatic in a week.
It was as if all the peacocks inOhristen.
dom had settled down upon one, and
were about to smother one in tail-feath
ers. And this was the celebrated " pea
cock room" about which all London
went wild not long afterward.—London
LtUmr.
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.
Water is called hard when it holds
limo in solution.
Melted snow produces about one
eighth of its bulk uf water.
The greatest natural cold absolutely
known is 60" below zero.
In slacking lime the water becomes
fixed by combination, and the atoms
exhibit their lost motion in the heat of
the lime.
All plants require alkalies, which are
contained in some in the form of sili
cates, in others in that of tartrates, cit
rates, acetates or oxalates.
The telephone is used with great
success in the scientific explorations
now conducted in the Bay of Naples.
By its means the diver can communi
cate with those in the boat above with
out the possibility of mistake.
The light from the sun occupies 8 1-1
minutes in traveling to the earth, the
distance being 92,000,000 of miles. The
light of the fixed star Hirius, supposed
to be the nearest of the stars, ia 3 1-1
years in reaching the earth, the dis
tance 1 icing over twenty millions uf mil
lions of miles.
It is maintained by Professor E.
\\ oolnev that soil heaped up around
plants has, during the day, a higher
temperature than earth not so treated.
During the night the billed earth ta
coinos colder. The explanation sil
van ceil is that earth which is heaped up
around plants dries much more rapidly
than level soil.
In winter, spring and autumn, the
sudden falling of the mercury in the
barometer, and tbat for a large space,
denotes high winds and storms ; but in
summer it pressages heavy showers, and
often thunder. It always sinks lowest
of all for great winds, though not ac
companied with rain, but it falls more
for wind and rain togothor than for
either of them alone.
A Romance of Our Day.
< HAITEII I.
Pi ton was in trouble. His check was
wan and his eye lasterlees. He bit bis
mustachios nervously and ga/cd ab
stractedly out of the shop window. The
sun was shining. The birds twittered
merrily in the trees. The human tide
ponred down the street, some laughing,
all happy. But Pitou was sad. Nobody
came to do business with him.
Nanine entered. Hhe was I'iton's
•laughter. Hhe was also sail. There were
traces of tears atatit her.
"Where are yon going, my child ?"
asked Pi ton.
" Nowhere, pajra," replies! Nanine, " I
am waiting,"
"Waiting? And for whom 7" inquired
Pitou.
"Jacques," answered Nanine.
"Ah !' said Pitou.
ciiaitkh u.
Jacques was Nanine's lover. Ho was
also in love with Julie, tho daughter of
Pierre. Jacques was a pleasant gentle
man, but bo was poor. He was ambi
tious to link his destiny with a made
moiselle of financial ability.
Jacques stalked gloomily down the
boulevard. He intended to visit Nanine,
but Pitou * shop wore s deserted ap
pearance. The people passed it by and
surged in great swelling billows into
Pierre's shop. Jacques was quick to de
tect this. He was a man of the world
" Mon Iheul I have had a narrow es
cape," he said to himself as he paused
Pitou's dcor and entered that of Pierre.
• MAitkh 111.
" 1 on have come," exclaimed Julie, as
Jacques clasped her to his t>o*om.
"And you love me!" asked Jacques,
giving a hasty glance at the crowd of
patrons in the shop.
Ere she could * ply, Pitou and Nanine
stood i:i their presence.
" Monsieur, von are a rascal!" said
Pitou. " You have broken my Nanine's
heart."
"No, monsieur," said Jacques, "It is
yon who have done this. Look around
yon. This is Pierre's shop. All is thrift
and prosperity. Wealth ponrs in. Cus
tomers comes leagues to buy of l'ierre.
lietnrn to your own shop and look
around you. You see deserted space,
goods unsold and bankruptcy staring
you in the face, fs it not so?"
" Monsieur is right," aaid Pitou, low
ing his head.
" Leave me with Julia," said Jacques.
"Go to your ahop. Advertise In the
paper* as Pierre has done, and yon may
yet prosper, and Nanine may yet find a
husband."
CHAITKK IV.
Pitou went. Next morning ho hail a
double half colnmn in the Tim**. That
week he sold sixty thousand francs'
worth of dry goods, and taught a corner
lot in Mnlkey** addition. In two months
Nanine married a plntnber, and now
lives in a palatial residence, and ia the
happy mother of twins.
" Ah!" says Pitou, softly, " I did well
to follow Jaoqnea' advice."
Pitou's head is level. Well, yes. We
should smile.—A 'nana Oily Tim**.
Bleaeed ta he who gives to the poor,
albeit only a pinny ; doubly blessed be
be who adds kind word* to bia gift.
How Kentucky Horses are Trained.
A letter from Lexington, Ky., describ.
ing how horses are trained, Hays :
" One after another beautiful saddle
horses were ridden out over the track,
moving at a gentle, easy gait, flying at it
rapid canter, racing or breaking into a
trot, iih the rider willed. All these
horses, I believe, were thoroughbred,
and their prices ranged from 8300 to
81,000. Ho well were they gaited and
trained that the rider hail but to touch
the mane in a given place or make a
certain signal to have them take a rack,
canter, trot, run or lope. Any one can
learn to manage these gaits in a very
short time, as I found from experience.
But the method by which these horses
are so perfectly trained I could not
learn. Either the trainers do not know
exactly how to impart this information,
or they are determined to keep it to
themselves.
"Home answered my (pieslions by say
ing : 'lt is easy enough. You can mako
a horse do anything you want to. Only
let him know what yon want him to do.
You had better wear spurs in riding,
give him his head freely, and if he takes
one gait when you spur him on (Ee
right side, just spur him again there when
you want the same gait.' Here a horse
(lasscd on a rack, and as the rider
touched him with the top of his finger
on the head, he Ktruck out on a fair
trot. 'Now,' said I, 'bow was that
horse trained so as to strike a trot by
that signal ? ' " Why," answered the
Kentuckian, "our saddle-horses all learn
that from the time thev are colts." I
asked Mr. Lindenberger, ' What is the
secret of the superiority of Kentucky
horses?" "There is a combination of
causes,' he answered.
" 'The great majority of the hcraes here
liave some good blood in them, and you
will find it crossed somewhere back in
their iKsligrees. The liest strains of
running or trotting blood have been
taken from here to other Htates, and
tliey there fail to produce the desired
results. There is something in the
blue grass, the water, the ntniosphere
and the general climatic influence, and
then, as Mr. Treacy told you this morn
ing, there is everything in judicious
breedand training. We force our
horses to a gait when they are one year
old, anil at three years old I hey are
pretty well developed. The Northern
men, however, always improve them."
' How long have Kentucky horses held
their high place?* I ijueried. "Noone
heroetaut can tell. I know men who
have lived here eighty-five years, and
they state that from their earliest child
hood they have heard of the superiority
of our horses. Their fathers before them
hail the same story to tell. The fact is,
that somewhere in the past there wa
brought into this Htatc a pure strain of
thorongh blood, derived from the best
stock of the mother world, and it has
transmitted its qualities from sire to son
to the present time. It is a lamentable
fact that wc have not the exact data upon
which to l*se a history of the Kentucky
horse." The fastest horses in the world
have been bred and trained in this
ncightarhood. Matid Htone, lietter
known as Maud H., record, 2:10 34;
Wedgcwood, 2:19; AAoislford Mariibri
no, 2:24 ; Trinket, 2,191-4 ; Diek Moore,
2:22 ; John Morgan, 2:24 ; Indianapolis,
2:21 ; Voltaire, 2 2", are hut a few of
the racc-liorses that have Iwen sent out
of Kentucky, while the number of her
carriage, saddle and trotting horses
that have Iw-en sold alive, and are now
scattered throughout our large cities,
could no more lie calculated than one
could count the trees of the forest."
A Petroleum Deposit.
A very remarkable deposit of petrol
eum is deserilied as existing in Venet
ucla between the Kio Tara and /ulla.
Near the former there rises a sandliank
about thirty-five yards in extent, and
some ten yards in height. On its sur
face is visible a collection of cylindrical
holes, apparently artificially made,
through which streams of petroleum,
mixed with boiling water, gush ont with
great violence. occoni|>anied with a noise
resembling that of several boilers blow
ing off steam. The column of vapor
that ascends from tlio spot would doubt
less be seen from a long distance were
it not shrouded by the thick forest, to
which the petroleum liedsthat evidently
lie underneath give a |>erpetual green
ness and richness of foliage. From one
of these holea oil has leen collected at
the rate of four gallons per minute. A
carious phenomenon has been occasion
ally seen in Venezuela, consisting of
frequent lightning unaccompanied by
thnnder, wbicli is oliservablo from the
bar at the entrance of the Lako of Mara
caita, and which has l>een attributed to
the vapor ascending from the ('ienega
do Agna Oaliente. It is more probable
that this appearance, called by mariners
" Elfarol do Maraeailio," is dno to the
inflammable gas that permeates the
whole district to such an extent that
it is known by the natives as "El In
| ferno." There ia no donbt that the
supply of petroleum is very large, not
only at this point, bnt in the neighbor
ing republic of Colombia, where, be
tween Esemjne and Bettijoque, the
laborers gather if up in handkerchiefs,
which when saturated are sqneesed out
into barrels.
RELIGIOUS READING.
A Carl Cat aft With aa As.
" Do you see thin lock of hair?" said
an old man to me.
" Yea; but what of it? It in, I sup
pose, the curl from the head of a dear
child long ago gone to heaven V
" It in not; it in a curl of my own hair,
and it in now nearly seventy veara since
it wa cut from thin head."
" But why do you prize a lock of your
own hair so much ?"
It hoa a atory belonging to it, and a
strange one. I keep it thus with care
because it sjwaks to tne more of God
ami his esjiecial care than anything I
pomeaa.
" I was a little child of four yearn
old, with long curly locks, which in
•ran or rain or wind hung down my
cheokn uncovered. One day my father
went to the woods to cut up a log, and
I went with him. 1 was standing a lit
tle way behind, or rather at his aide,
watching with interest the strokes of
the heavy ax as it went up and cartie
down upon the wood, (tending off splint
era with every stroke in all directions.
Home of the splinters fell at my feet,
and I eagerly stooped to pick them up.
In doing so I stumbled forward, and in
a moment my curly head lay upon a
log. I hail fallen just at the moment
when the ax was coming down with all
force.
"It was too late to stop the blow.
Down came the ax. I screamed and my
father fell to the ground in terror. He
| could not stay the stroke; and in the
blindness which the sudden horror
caused he thought he hail killed his
tay.
"Ws soon recovered—l from my
fright, and lie from his terror. He
caught me in his arms and looked at
me from head to foot, to find out the
deadly wound he was sure he had in
flicted.
" Not a drop of blood or war was to
be seen.
"He knelt ujmn the grass and gave
than ks.
"Having done so, he took tip his ax,
and found a (gw hairs upon its edge.
He turned to the log ho had taen split
ting. and there was a simple curl of his
boy's liair, sharply cut through and laid
Upon the wood.
"How great the escajiel It was as
if an angel had turned aside the edge at
the moment when it was descending on
my head. With renewed thanks upon
his lips, he took tip the curl, and went
home with me in his arms."
Mrllgloua NmißDd Nolct.
It is stated that all the members of
President Garfield's cabinet are regular
church-goers.
Doctrinal topics will be excluded
from the Methodist ( l>timenical confer
ence for the sake of harmony.
The Iter. Silas Hatch, a graduate of
Madi*on university, died recently at
Colorado Hpringa, in his thirty-fifth
year.
The great camp-meeting of the sea
son at Ocean Grove is set down for
August, beginning on the 16th anil
continuing for ten days.
The opponents of organ music in a
Presbyterian church in Toronto stopped
its notes i ffectually by j>ouring hot glue
into the pipes and upon the keys.
The Baptist church nt Port an Prince,
Hayti, presents an ojien opportunity for
candidate seeking a pastorate. The
climate ia hot and only moderately
healthy.
The Year-Book of the Presbyterians,
issued in Philadelphia, gives the nuni-
Wr of Presbyterian communicants at
3,<no,(*io anil the ]opulation of adher
ents 12.0110.000.
The receipts of the American Baptist
Missionary Union for the financial year
just closed were as follows: Donations,
? 1 IKTt.TM; legacies, $28,651.10; from
woman's societies, s.**, Ho9.f>2; from
other sources, $30,566.44; total, 82hh,-
802 *4. The debt of the union now
stands at 812,650 OH.
The following is a general summary
of work by the missionaries of the
American Sunday-school union from
March 1, ]HHfI, to March 1, IHHI, and
eoni|iariaon with previous year:
lsMi. isan.
New arhools organised 1,415 1,277
Teachers 6.295 5,629
Krbolsrs 52.43H 46,727
Hi-Ihsils ailleil B.HK7 2,9tt*
Teachers 16,014 16.510
Hcholars 157,649 147.491
Miles travcliil 29M25 2*2,136
Addresses and sermons 6,704 5.977
nildes distributed 5,476 5.614
Testament* distributed 10.177 9.176
Families visited 23.396 1H.173
Etlwin Cowles, of the Cleveland
(Ohio) IjKuicr, ia the victim of a singu
lar infirmity of hearing. He says it
I>artakea somewhat of the nature of
color-blindnesa aa that affects the eye,
he Vicing unable to hear certain sounds
at all. For example, he has never heard
the sound of a bird's song in his life.
A whole room full of canaries might be
in full song and yet he could not hear
a note, but the rustling of their wings
would be distinctly heard by him. He can
hear all the vowels, lint there are many
ronaonate sounds which he has never
heard. He can hear a man whisper bat
could not hear him whistle. The npper
notes of a piano, violin or other musical
instrument he never heart, bnt the
lower notee bo bean without difficulty, j
I'FAKLH OF TIIOUOHT.
To him that liri* weJI every form of
life in good.
Hhe grieves sincerely who grieves
when alone.
H'ippioeM consists in the oonstitution
| of the habit.
I lie torment of envy i* like a grain of
sand in the eye.
Dcsjieration in sometimes an powerful
an innpirer an geniu*.
Craftiness in a quality j n the mind
and a vice in the character.
Men with mission* do not disappear
till they have fulfilled them.
The nymjiatby of norrow in ntronger
than the sympathy of prosperity.
There are aome nilent people who are
more interesting tiian the bent talkers.
He tliat han no inclination to learn
more, will be very apt to think he knows
enough.
A) warn there in life while life lasts,
which, rightly divined, implies a divine
nat infection.
Hoeing much, and suffering much,
and studying much, are the three pil
lars of learning.
As many an are the difficulties which
| virtue han to encounter in thin world,
j her force in yet sujierior.
Human nature is no constituted that
all see and judge better in the affairs
j of other men than in their own.
Who is jioworful ? Who can control
his passion. Who is rich ? He who is
contented with what he lias.
He who can contemplate his past and
not receive many warnings from it,
must have a remarkably stupid exist
ence.
Kailroad (rovrth.
The vast railroad system of this coun
try, and, indeed, all the railroad sys
tems of the world, are the growth of half
a century. In 1830 the whole number
of miles of road in operation in the Uni
ted Btates was only twentv-tliree. For
nineteen years ending in 1849 the pro
gress of railway construction was very
slow, and there wan comjmratively little
system .aliout it. The average annual
rate of construction was only .114 miles.
During the next twelve years the av
erage annual rate wan 2,055 miles. Then
came the war period, w*heD the energies
of the people were diverted from peace
ful pursuits, and the average annual
rate of construction; for the four year*
ended in 1*65 wa* only 812 miles. But
the war period was not lost, for it
brought to the knowledge of men cer
tain possibilities in railroading not be
fore realized. The consequence was thst
when peace was restored railway con
struction was resumed with great en
ergy, and the number of miles of track
laid increased year by year from 738 in
1864 to 7,670 in 1871. Daring the years
of depression following the panic there
was a decrease to a minimum of 1,917
miles in 1875. Then came another re
vival. and the construction last year was
aliont 7,500 miles. We had twenty*
three mile* of road in 1830 ; we have
now more than 94,000 miles, and by the
end of the present calendar year we will
have more than 100,000 miles, or more
than enough to girdle the globe four
times over at the equator.— Chicago
Ttntm.
Fretting.
There is one sin which seems to me is
everywhere and by everybody under
estimated, and quite too much over
looked in valuations of character. It is
the sin of fretting. It is as common as
air, as speech; so common that nolens
it rises above its usual monotone we do
not even observe it. Watch an ordi
nary coming together of people and see
how many minutes it will be hefors
somebody frets —that is, making a more
or less complaining statement of some
thing or other, which, most probably,
eTery one in the room, or the stage, or
thejstreet-car, or the street oorner, as it
may lie, knew before, and which, most
proliably, nobody can help. Why say
anything abont it ? It is cold, it is wet,
it is dry; somebody has broken an ap
pointment, ill-cooked a meal; stupidity
or bad faith somewhere bss resulted in
discomfort- There are always plenty
of things to fret about It is simply
astonishing how annoyance and discom
fort may be fonnd in the course of
•very day's living, even at the simplest
if one only keeps s sharp eye ont on
that side of things. But even to the
sparks flying upward, in the blackest o(
smoke, there is s blue sky above, and
the less time tbey waste on the road
the sooner they will reach it.—/ Man
Fsst
" Owgtu"
Those who are sometimes troubled
to know how to pronounce the termina
tion " ongh " —so troublesome to for
eigners—may see bow simple sad assy
the following makes the task;
" Wife, make m*mem* dumpling* of dowgh.
They're better than meal Cor my cough;
Pray let them be uoilcd till hot through.
Bat sot till they're heavy and tough.
H Now 1 sort ha off to my plough.
And the boys (when they've bad enough;
Moat keep the flies off with a hough,
WIUI* the old mare driakaat the trough.
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