The Jilted Star. I was sitting alone In the gloaming. Casing into a quiet sky ; My thoughts were tired of roaming, As weary anil tired sa I, When all at ones in the sky shore Shone s star of radiant light. And then it was in iovo that 1 fell With this star, so strangely bright. I knew 'twas a world many miles away, Far greater and fairer than this. But I watched for its coming at close of day, And always threw it a kiss. To my tinst self it became a friend. Bringing rest before unknown ; Its tender radiance seemed to blend In ray heart and make m its own. Bnt alas ! too soon I grow weary Of its cold, dispassionate face, And a little mortal pang la my heart crept into its place. And when at the close of day, With my new love at my side, We talked in voices gay, And she promised to be my bride. The star looked down from als>ve As wo stood there talking together, And I thought of the etiauge in my love, Ami she of the change in the weather. But that night, when the world waa sleeping The rain in torrents fell. And I thought could my star lie weeping For the false one she loved so well ? LOVE AND HUNTING. "Please, sir, arc these for von?" It was my man who npoke, ami as he diil so ho hold np for inspection an im macnlate pair of "tops" in one hand and a pair of painfully new breeches in the other, while his countenance wore an expression of mingled fear and astonishment. With an inward sinking at my heart I turned from my morning paj>cr and cutlet, and having nodded a gloomy assent to his query, said : "That will do, James ; lay them on the sofa." The above conversation took place in my bachelor apartments in tho Albany, j and the reason for the apjiearance there in of the aforesaid tops and breeches I am al>out to explain. lam not a bant ing man. I never could see any joke in bumping about on a hard piece of a pigskin in pursuit of a draggled piece of vermon called a fox, although some people say the fox enjoys tho fun. It is all very well for those who liko it; and Mr. Jorricks, of immortal memory, may call hunting "the sport of things —the image of war without its guilt and only twenty-five percent, of its danger," if he likes, but I confess I can't see it in that light. It was with feelings the reverse of pleasant, therefog', that I re ceived and accepted an invitation from Sir Harry Bullfinch to stay a week in his " box " in Warwickshire, and avail myself of his hospitality and a mount with the renown j>aok which hunted that country. I was nrgeil to this ac ceptance of what in my saner moments I shonhl have indignantly treated as a practical joke by a slight attack of the nuQtcr passion. I met Mir Horry and his ilanghter, Kate, in London, during the past season. We had frequently met at variously balls and entertain ments, and on several occasions hail enjoyed the balmy fragrance of Bushy park and the still delights of a t>oat on | the upper reaches of the Thames, bnt with my .natural timidity I had never ventured to ask the question which was forever on the tip of my tongne, but never got further. The invitation ap- ; peared to hold out promises of quiet tete a-tetes, so I electrified my toiler and bootmaker with orders for the necessary " togs " with which to carry on the campaign. I remember having somewhere heard or read that in order to acquire an easy and graceful seat on horsetmck, sitting astride on a chair and holding on by the back was excellent practice, so, liavißg called James and given him most A press instruction to deny me even to my most intimate friends, I proceeded to struggle into perhaim the tightest pair of cords that were ever made for mortal man, and, with the aid of a brandy and soda and a couple of boot books, to poll on a pair of boots which nearly gave me a fit of apoplexy and made my corns barn for hours. Armed with a cutting whip, I then mounted astride the strongest chair in the apart ment, and continued the exhilarating exercise with the firmness of a stoic and a martyr, and with only one interval for luncheon, throughout the entire day. lfy train left the Great Northern station at 4:30, and landed me safely at my destination. In tine coarse I found myself seated next to the fair Kate, with my legs comfortably stretched wader Sir Harry's mahogany. "I suppose our dull country pack will seem quite s second rate to yon." said Kate. I was murmuring something in re ply, when Sir Harry cut in with: "Ah! Fve got a splendid mount for yon to-morrow, my boy 1 A trifle play ful, perhaps—hasn't been hunted yet this season, bnt will carry yon like a bird." Oh, yea," said Kate. " Cxar is such A nice creature." Hmfe&.a.'&j 'it . " Indeedl" said I. "I am rejoiced to hmr it. Of course you accompany us to the meet ?" " Yea," alio replied. " and jwpa liaa said that as yon arc going out I might oven follow the hounda a little way. You'll look after mo, won't you, Mr. Do Boota?" I promiaod to do my devoira, hut in my heart of liearta thought I should re quire aome one to look after me. The following morning at hreakfaatt which waa early on account of our hav ing to go aomo distance to the meet, the horses wire brought round—a sturdy, thick-set, quiet-looking weight carrier, a neat-looking gray mare, and a bright, fidgety chestnut. The latter gave his attendant groom some trouble, and insisted on waltzing around on hia hind legs a good deal more than ap eared to me to bo necessary. " I am afraid your papa will find that animal rather troublaome," I remarked to Kate. "That," alio answered, "oh, that's not papa's—that's theono you are going to ride—C'zar." My appetite left me, and as I rose and • walked, in as unconcerned manner as I could assume to the window, I saw that i tho Czar had reversed the order of things bv putting his head between his forelegs and lashing ont with his heels in a very vicious-looking and anything | but "playful" manner. A general move was now made to the front door. Kate looked at me anil evidently expected mo to " put her up," but I knew better than to attempt it, and pretended to be intent on buckling a strap of tho pair of spurs Sir Harry had lent mo until she was safe in the ' saddle. Czar was then brought up for me to mount, which, after several abor tive attempts on my part, I effected, and : we all jogged on toward the meet. Con- ; trary to my expectation Czar behaved in a most exemplary manner, and I even ventured to swing my whip with a jaunty air without his taking the slight est notice. But it was too good to last. Presently a red coat pop|>ed ont on ns from a by-lane, and tho Czar's ears began to twitch. Two or three more horsemen overtook us, and his tail Isegan to describe circles, and he proceeded on his way with a crab-like . movement, which was anything but eh- i gant and eminently disconcerting. Almost l>efore I could realize) tho po- ' sition, a stern voice shouted: "Now, you sir, mind the hounds, will yon?" and a muttered oath, accompanied by an ex- I pression which sounded very much like j " tailor," drew my attention to the fact that we had arrived in a field by the | side of a wood, in which was gathered some seventy or eighty horsemen and a pack of hounds. Luckily for myself, and also for the hounds, on whom Czar seemed to think it great fun to dance, the master at this moment gave tne sig- i nal to " throw off." It nearly came ! being prophetic in my case. In less j time than it takes to write, a fox was started. I lost my hat and my head at one and the same moment, and nearly my seat, and the next thing that I re member with any degree of distinct ness is clinging with the blind energy of a drowning man to the pommel of the saddle, and regarding with despair a linge fence which seemed to approach me at a terrific rate. There was a sud den rush, a tremendous spring—l nvm to have left the lower part of my waist coat and its contents on the other side of the obstacle—and, with a jolt which pitched me somewhere in tho vicinity of Czar's exrs, we were over. The field wo lauded in was a stifllsh fallow, bnt Czar still " urged on his wild career" with unabated speed. I shook back into the saddle, and a pass ing regret that I had neglected to insure my life against accidents flitted through my mind. I continued to cling to the |>omniel, and in this manner we nego tiated three more fences, and got into aqniet lane, when, mnch to my aston ishment C'zar stop|>ed dead short. We had, to my sincere delight, lost the hounds I I patted Czar gently on the neck, and quickly dismounting, led him slow y down the lane. We had not proceeded far when I discerned a conn try lad coming toward me, carrying in his hand my lost hat, which had been battered out of all shai>o by a horse's hoof. I recovered the lost headgesr climbed ltack into the saddle intending to walk Czar quietly homeward, when I could discover in what direction home was. Bnt as ill-luck would have it, at that precise moment the sound of a born was heard far off in the distance. Czar pricked np his ears and gave a sudden start, and on my attempting to check him, reared straight on end, while I lovinglv clasped him round the neck with loth arms, and with one plunged forward and upward we left that lane and that country youth forever. We landed in a pasture, and were going at a tearful )>aoe up a slight incline. Ar rived at the top, the whole hunt was to lie seen coming down the valley. And now Csar would take no denial. Rushing down the slope st a speed to whi<* all former exertions of his hsd been as mere child's play, flew over a double ]>oet and rails, and I found my self a good field in front of the fore most flight of horsemen and close on to the hounds I still onward ! until loom ing in tho distance appeared a strag gling lino of stunted willows, which, oven to my initiated vision, meant " water." Splash 1 thoro goes the fox! Splash ! splash I there go the hounds I I hoar voices shouting he hind mo as if in warning, but all I can do is to hold on and trust in Provi dence. Our pace, if possible, increases, and with a sort of idea of going up in a balloon, Czar and myself seemed sus jiendcd in the air miles above tho brook. It Booms ages boforo wo come down again, which wo do with a jerk that would have unseated mo had it not been for Czar suddenly springing for ward and shaking mo back to my proper place. Wo rush on to where tho hounds seem to be scrambling for something and quarreling amongst themselves— they have run into the fox and Czar comes to a standstill just outside tho worrying pack. Up comes the first whip and flogs them off their prey, and 1 see Sir Harry advancing toward me, red in tho face and violently gesticulating with his heavy hunting crop. What have I done ? Have I unconsciously infringed some point in hunting etiquette or havo I hurt Czar? Neither the one or the other. Sir Harry, hastily tlinging him self off his steaming horse, cornea up to me and seizing me by the hand nearly wrings my arms off and bursts out with "Well done, my boy! You rascal, you! You've * pounded' the whole of us. Never saw such going in all my life. I>on't believe there's another man in the field that could have done it. Here, Ix>rd Oeorgo"—to the noble matter who at that moment rude up—" permit mo to introduce my friend, Mr. Do Boot*." "Delighted to make jour acquaint ance, sir," says hit lordship, shaking mo heartily by the hand. " I trust ty l>o able to show you some gooil sjort if you are thinking of remaining in our country, though if yon do we shall all have to look to our laurels, for you went like a bird, sir." While he is speaking several gentle men rido up, to all of whom 1 am in troduce!, and all of whom praise what they an- pleased to mil my " plucky riding." Miss Kate comes up as the last olmo quii-s are being performed, and on the huntsman, obedient to a nod from his lordship, who is no lover of women in the hunting field, presenting me with the brush, I handed it to her with all the grace compatible with mud-stained habiliments, and a crushed and bat tered hat. We rode home together—Kir Harry and an old crony of his riding some dis tance in the rear. Cr-ar was complacent and hail apparently had quite enough, at any rate, for that day; so thinking that 1 might never have another such opportunity, I gently took Kate's whip hand and ventured to put tliat question whieh had l>oen so long on the tip of my tongue. Her answer was a whisper " Yes;" but suddenly turning to me she added: " On one condition." " Name it, dearest," I replied. " You are so rash and daring that you must promise me never to hunt after we are married!" Need I say how readily I gave the re quired pledge, and how faithfully I kept it ? How Ham Solon Fired a Bun. Colonel Solon's boy Sam traded off his yellow dog lost week to Jim Jenks ! for the latter's old army musket. Sam had never fired a gun, but ho hail a notion how it shonld lie done. His father had half a pound of powder in the house, which Sam poured down the muzzle, then jammed down a whole newspajier, and filled the remaining space with chunks of lead which he cut j off from the lead pipe in the kitchen with the butcher knife. The cap was ; put in place, ami armed with this czar deatroyer the boy went forth in search ;of adventures. Upon the roof of an ad joining house were a flock of doves, and Sam rested his gun over the fence, pointed the mnzzlc in their direction, and saying to himself, " They won't know what hit 'en," shut both eyes snd palled the trigger. For about half a minute that neigh borhood was so filled with feathers, noise, chunks of dove's meat, pieces of wood, boya' yells snd women's shrieks that the people on the sonth side thought there bail been s collision on the circus train, and the elephant was taking out an old grudge on the lions. Sam laid fist on his back, with the gun a rod tiebind him and still shivering from the concussion. Half of Sam's face was black snd blue, snd he didn't dare to get tip until he was sure the gun had got all shot off, and even then be wasn't certain that more than half the load had gone out. And those doves f Why, two down had been paralyzed, and the top of that bouse looked as if a shell had burst in the attic snd blowed s feather bed with a servant girl up through the roof. There wasn't enough left of the doves to dis tinguish s fan-tail from a bull terrier, and people in the neighborhood are preparing to move away nnleas Ham is sent into the country.— Oil City /ferric*. PIMM TOR ON TIIK I'LANKTN. Worlu I. Sol la lr IMatarltrd. When Professor Proctor and his nowly-marriod wife were in Chicago, a short time ago, a reporter visited the celebrated English astronomer, and the following interesting conversation en sued : "How much truth is there, Profes sor," asked tho reporter, "in all tho worry that the hnman family is having just now about perihelion and floods and tho stars in general ?" " Not a bit —not a bit, lunghod the professor. "Well, how about the comet some liody by tho name of Hwift discovered tho other day ?" "Hwift? Is it so? Has he discov ered another comet ? Well, I didn't know it, I'm sure. I'm the worst per son in tho world to come to to learn about such things now; I'm so busy traveling and lecturing, you know. But it's a telescope comet, I suppose a little fellow —don't amount to much, probably. But let's take n s<-at, and I'll tell you about some of these things." And, seating himself, the professor flx-sl his eye on tli i office flagging and turning over tho card meditatively be tween his fingers, kept gazing at this and this spot on the stone floor as if ho had a constellation in the range of vision. " It used to bo thought," saiil he, "that the stars had an influence on the weather, on floods, pestilence and all that sort of thing, but science lias dis proved it. The truth is that the influ ence of all the planets together is not equal to the difference between the greatest and the least influence which the moon exerts m a year. And if all the giant planets—those OUtside the earth's orbit wore to come into con junction and perihelion, all at the same time, they would not exert as much in fluence as that very small ratio of the moon's influence, namely, the mere difference lietween ltsgri-atest anil least influence." " Then the world is not going to pieces this year ?" "Not at all. Why, some of the planets are coming into conjunction every n<>w and then all the time. Two of them came into conjunction on the nineteenth of last June. I,et's see—nothing hap pened tliat day, did there?" " And tin-re will la- no mors trouble this year lavause so many come to gether?" qncrb-d the reporter. " There is no more reason to cxjoct it than that Jupiter has effect on the sun spots." The reporter said that somebody boil stab-1 that the developments of astrono my w. r<- more and more demonstrating that there was after all some ground for ancient astrology. Did the professor think so? "On the contrary, if anybody reads the works of ancient astrology," said he, " they will see what a mistake that is. The astrologies claimed, not that the relation of the planets to each other bail any effect on the destinies of men, but that the position of the planets in the sky—tliat is in the canopy above the horizon—hail such effects. For instance, the ancients thought the stars in the ascendant—which means those i-oming up from the horizon- were those that would influence the career of a child born during their ascendancy ; but that hail nothing to do with |>eribelion and conjunctions." " Well, what almut Jupiter's influence no sun spots, which yoti spoke of a mo ment ago ?" " Why it has been said that scientists admit that Jupiter affects the sun's spots, but the truth is, scientists have only thought such a thing |>ossib)e, be cause Jupiter's js rioil is ten years and ten months, or about that—of course, one can't carry all these things in one's head—and the sun-spots' period is ten years and one month. But nine months make* a great ileal of difference." "What do you think of the idea that the sun-spots affect the weather?" *' I think they do not do so at all. I have watched the sun-spots through cold and warm winters and through hot and cool summers, and I could not nee that they hail any effect whatever U|>on one another." A Premium for Scorpion Scalps. A Dnrango correspondent describes a terrible scorpion, known as the alacran, which infests that region. Its sting jia mortal in every case, and no remedy has ever been found to counteract its deadly poison. The spasms are so violent that it takra three or fonr strong men to hold a patient stnng by it. Happily the suffering is short, for after two or three hours the suffering is all over. Patients emit from their month a greenish-yellow scum, which tnras into a black spongy matter in a short while. Every year thirty or mora deatha are recorded as the work of the alacran. The government pays a premium for their scalp, and boya hunt them and de rive quite a revenue from that source, but the pest does not seem to diminish any. They are said to occupy bat a ■mall belt of land running east and weat, taking in Durango and Masatlon. —&tn Antonio (Twtat) Hwrnld. TIIF. FAMILY DOCTOR. To Rimnrvn ASTHMA— Hoak blotting ' or tissue paper in strong sal tpoter water. Dry and burn at night in the bedroom. To KK.MOVK Pnoto Fl.KSll.— Pulverize loaf sugar very fine and apply it to the part afflicted. This is a new and easy remedy, and is said to romoveit without pain ; or burnt alum pulverized and ap. plied is an old and reliable remedy. To PIIEVKXT CIIOKIXO. —Break an egg into n cup and give it to the person choking, to swallow. The white of tho egg seems to catch around the obstacle and remove it. If one egg does not answer tho purpose try another. Tin white is all that is necessary. M err AIM PI.AHTKII. By using syrup or molasses for mustard plasters, they will keep soft ami flexible, and not dry up and become hard, as when mixed with water. A thin paper or fine cloth should come between tin- plaster and tho skin. The strength of the plaster j is varied by tho addition of more or , less flour. 8< AIII.IT FKVKH.- An eminent physi-j rian savs he cures ninety-nine out of) every hundred cases of scarlet fever by giving the patient warm lemonade with | gum arabic dissolved in it. A cloth wrung out in hot water and laid ujmri , the stomach should be removed as rap idly as it becomes cool. In cases where physicians are not easily obtainable, i simple remedies are riot to be despised. AITW-S.—A more extensive use of apples as food at our meals will do much to diminish dyspepsia and biliousness. They are " loosening," and therefore tend to remove constipation—a promi ; nent cause of digestive derangements. The acid of this fruit—one of th<- very Ix-st known in aid of digestion- acts favorably on the liver, causing it to so crete tho bile, which is nature's cathar tic, thus preventing this constijiation. While eating tliern between meal- must derange the stomach—like tin- use of all food at that time—they arc really a very valuable food, demanded especially ;in waim weather. They may be too cooling in the coldest weather, while the more acid berries are lotter in the ; spring and summer.— l/r. J. //. Ilina ford. ________ A Wandering ( she. A recent issue of the Sodalia (Mo. //.< says: One day during the past week there arrived for Express Agent Fanlhal r a box about twelve by fifteen inches in size, which cam- in from the north. It was apparently obi and well battered, and contained a large jelly cake w. 11 wrapped up in tissue paper, on which was the following inscription: "Thiscak- wai baked on January'i t, IST". I 'ass it along." This Ixix was opened and Mr. F. and his assistants gazed in spot-ehless amazem- nt at the contents. The cake ! was well pr- scrved, though as dry as Egypt and hard as the heart of Pharaoh, and notwithstanding the fact that it has lc-n on the road for years it had a won dcrfnlly innocent appearance. The box was ornamented in every available spot with lalx-ls from different companies through which it jiasscd; for • ach agent to whom it had ix-en con signed had paid the charges (fifty cents), and, appreciating the joke, remarked the box and sent it forward to some j other txiint. Thns the lalels showed conclusively that the box with its pre cious contents had visited every fttate in the Union from Maine to Texas and ! Oregon to Florida, and it is probably doomed to lie a constant wanderer npon j the face of the earth until the end of time, for as long as it is kept going no one has to pay for its transportation. Each agent upon receiving it simply sends it on, marked C. O. I>., to the next man, who treat* it in the same manner. And so it will go until some fellow get* disgusted, pays the charges and kicks the parcel ioto the street. Attaches] to the I HIT was a string | of tag* on one side, on which wen- the usual directions, while on the other side waggish fellows along the way hail made such remarks as they deemed ap propriate. One says: " Too rich for onr ! blood;" another "Yum, yum;" and othera, "We pass," "Dry ujs" " Baked j ly Eve in the Garden of Eden for ' Adam's Express rompany," " When j shall we meet again," etc. It we* aent from Bedalia to Fort Worth. Who Ktartcd it no one know*, and there ia no way of finding ont. Conld the box talk it eonld donbtlca* tell an intereating tale of UwTel, bat it* beginning wna a myatery and probably it* fate will le the name to all bat the fellow who finally "take* the cake." .4 M-hcrman' Odd f'ateh. Thonia* Lipecomh recently had some hooka aet ont on Little rirer. Two of the hooka were aet pretty doee together and one of then caught an eel during the night, and the cel. in attempting to get off the book, had twiated the line np until he wan entirely ont of water. When he went to examine hia hooka he fonnd a large hawk caught on the hook near the eeli He think* the hawk aaw the eel al>ore the water, and in attempt ing to catch it got caught on the other hook dangling cloae by.—H'mAiaected of one whose life was passed on the frontier. He was bred a soldier, and loved tie service. His face had a pleasant smite at limes, bat was often impressed with the stern character of military life. Fillmore had a lymphatic countenance —doll, except when lit up by business or pleasure. He wws agreeable in aooiety and inter esting in conversation to a degree much beyond many cf his predecessors. He was of mora than an average aiae, and of proportions that auggnated dignity if not elegance. Buchanan was a feeble looking old gentleman, whose white choker suggested the clerical order. It ill Mtircmtod that something be tween 800,0110,0.10 and 1,000,000,000 foot of logs are ;e irly made into shingles in the United Htatea.