The Comet. Mflrojr lovo us ! Far above u! .•w-ci tho comot #la#liiii' round; Fifty million Million billion Billion mil"# above tlir ground. With it (nil, Like it whale, Hoc it mvxit and whi/. and roar; With it# flipper In tho Dipper, How it roil"# tho Major Boar. Now it'# tryin' For O'Kvan fir; U iliap that killed the bull). And tho moon, Pridtv noon, Giro# tho comot'# tail a pull. Ib re and there, Everywhere, ltcMtli'## sprite of #ky idea#; Awful i>ert. Hoc it tlirt With lloli'ii Potter's Pleiad"#. Unbeliever! Famine, fever. Plague and (toetilenee and war; Fret and worry. Trouble, hurry, That i* what a comet'# for. l*it# of debt. Too much wot, Haiti and hail and idoot and flood. Hurtling drought. Torrid south, Hun-baked field* and acta of mud. I'.lood and l>ono#. Tea## and groan#. Gnashing teeth and horrid erie#. Howl# and yowl#. Frown* and scowl#. That's aliout the comet's *tzo Everything It will bring That i# bad beneath the *un; How it hums 1 Here it come# I Goodness gracious, let u* run ! Ilurlinyhm IhiTkryt. The Two Orphans. A BTOHY OK A PROMISE. She came flying ilown tho path, her long, straight black hair streaming lie bind her, her great eyea Rparkling, tho dark, thin, irregular features fairly alive with vivacity. She looked to the very life like the wild little creature that she was ; but into the face of the bean tifnl, fair-haired girl whom Nell Ilavi land was coming to meet there flashed tne'u a look of love that a stranger woui 1 hive known tha*. the girlish sister was very near to tho heart of Alice Haviland. TLt- two were orphans, supported by the iniuatry of Alice, the oldest, who was well known in town as a very skill ful teacht rof music. The younger was of an entirely ■l'.lfcn nt nature from the quiet, steady, lovable Alice. The towns folk said that her baptismal name of Eleanor was altogether too grand and stately for such a hoidenish creature, and so it had become shortened to the monosyllable " Nell." "Alice," said Nell, "von cannot guess what I have done ?" "Something impossible for any one else to do, I presume," said the sister, smiling into the eager eyes. "I climbed into the old oak and tied my handkerchief to the top," said the girl, pointing triumphantly to the flut tering white morsel. " Did' you?" asked Alice, absent mindedly. "Oh, dear!" said Nell, pettishly, "you don't hear a word I say. Yon are thinking of Goddard Tressil. I wish yon wcro not engaged to him, Alice, for yon don't seem to care a bit for me nowadays." " Nellie," tho love in the tones re buked the girl, " I shall always love and caro for you, darling sister, come what may;" and putting her arm caress ingly around Nell's waist the sisters went into the house. The humble supper was over. Alice was sitting at tho little pijno, weaving a sweet harmony from the ivory keys, when she heard a step on tho walk which summoned her to tho door. " Alice P* and her hand lay in the han l of her betrothed, Goddard Tressil. The tall, handsome young fellow that stood before her was the heir of the "Cliffs," the great mansion, around which lay its extensive farms—"the best place in the conntry." " It is too Ann a night to remain in doors, Alice. What do you say to a moonlight row 7" " It wonld give me mnch pleasure," •he said ; and, running upstairs for a shawl, she paused n moment, and opened the door of Nell's . iiamber. The sound of her low regular breathing satisfied her, and she ran downstairs to rejoin her lover. hey walked alowly down the path, drinking in the intense loveli ness of tho night. Tho moon was at its full. Oroat golden stars seemed melting into blue ether, and white weird drifts, like phan tom fleots, floated across the sky. Tho calm ocean ended their walk. Each of its waves seemed tipped with a diamond crest, an 1 the reflexes trem bled in pearl and axure. Assisting Alice into the boat, Trenail pushed out so as to clear tho shore. The little skiff rooked lightly on the slow, outgoing tide, and the oars splashed with a musical rytlini very pleasant to hear. A silence fell over the two. It was broken by the voice of Tressil: " Alice, I have something important to say to yon to-night." " What is it about?" she questioned, wondoringly. " About—Nell." The words wore said hesitatingly, as if he was nerving him self for an effort. "About Nell?" she repeated, in sur prise. " Yes ; whore is she going to live after we are married ?" " Going to live ? Why, with me, of course," said Alice, wondering what would come next. "It cannot be, Alice. Hhe must be sent to a boarding-school or some where." " Why, Goddard, what put that into your mind?" exclaimed Alice; "she would not tav at a boarding-school one moment, it would kill her to separate us, for I am all she has in the world, and I promised mother, when she was dying, fliat I would never leave or for sake the chihl-sister intrusted to my eare." "But, Alice, mother and Isabel said "Goddard, please tell me precisely what your mother and sis er have said, so that I may know just how the mat ter stands." " Well, they s.y that they can wel come you very gladly, as a daughter and sister, but they cannot endure the idea of having Nell under the same roof, and she must abide somewhere else." "And you—Goddsrd ?" said Alice, im ploringly. "What can I do, Alice?" said he, in u sort of helpless way that struck a chill to the girl's heart. "So it is a question of decision on my part between you and my sister Nell ?" "Yes, Alice." Alice fought a de perato battle liet wc-n love and duty. "Goddard, I have chosen. I cannot leave my sister." Ho tried to break this decision by passionate pleading; but the tones were firm and unshaken, as she said, at last: " Goddard, it would lie unjust to sav I do not love you, for you know that I do, but I cannot lie false to my charge. '• And they parted —he to walk home as if pursued by furies, thinking bitterly of " woman's obstinacy," and yet in his secret heart honoring the girl who walked so unflinchingly in the path of dntv. Alice went upstairs, and bnrying hor face in tho soft cushions of an arm chair, I nature took her revenge for the self-con- j trol of the lant hour. Her eye* throblied anaro feet on the floor, and a little white-rolled form knelt down beside her, ami the dark face with it* weird eyes |>eepod into hers. "What's the matter, Alice?" "Why, Nell, I thought you were 1 asleep. Come, dear, go back to lied; | you will catch cold up here." " I don't want to go. What is the , trouble, Alice?" (M-rsiated the girl. And Alice told her all. Nell kissed her sister passionately, then, clinching her little brown fists, she said, fiercely : j " I hate those proud women ! I hate j Goddard Tressil! And I will pay 'em bock for what they have said, for every word 1 " " Hush dear ! " and Alice dried her ! tears hastily. "Nell, I want yon to j promise mo something. Will you, dar ling ? " " Anything !" said Noll ini]>etnonsly. "I want yon to promise that if it ever lies in your power to do r.,e a favor for any one of the Tressil family I may depend upon your performance of that favor ?" "Oh, Alice, anything, anything but that." "Promise me, Nellie?" a ring of de cision in her voice. There was a silence for a few mo ments. Then in subdued tones, came the words: " I promise." • • • • • • TheHeptember sun, with its ripening tints of amber, lay warm and golden on the garden walk and the terrace of the cliff*. The waves of the ocean crept shoreward, drifting into fantastic shapes, and then breaking, scattered the pearly spray far np on the land. " Mother," and Isabel Tressil stopped before the open door of the pleasant sitting room. " I lost my bracolet down in the cove this afternoon, and I did nut notice that it had slipped off nntil I got home. I must go and recover it be fore the tide comes in." " Cannot Goddard go for yon T" said her mother. " I don't know where he is." " Very well, be carofnl about the tide," said the mother, anxiously. " I will Iw caroful," *a,'d Issbel, con fidently. " Adieu, Ma Mora, " Hho wont down to tlie foov l 0 cliffs, which gave hor home its n a,u, ' hy n broad, gently-sloping path. The" hor puth lay along tlio sands to the I cove. The long parallel walla of rook made off from tho ahoro, and during high tide tho littlo covo tliua formed Wna a mass of toaaing foam, but now it waa a long, narrow atretch of wand. Isabel Tressil at length reaohed the cove, and began to anarch anxiously for tho miaaing bracelet. It waa a present from Goddard, and alio valued it very highly. Hho waa about giving it up for lout, when suddenly alio caught Might of it, almost hidden by u moan of 1 seaweed. Isabel caught the bracelet up hastily and turned to go, saying to herself: "I i must hurrv or bo caught by the tide." At the thought her eyes turned to ward the termination of the point j around which alio must go. Her heart almost froze with horror at the aight that met her gaze. The waves curled ! at the foot of the point, soft us "carded wool." • ••*•• "Help! Help!" The cry sounded faintly above the : beating of the tide on the rocks, anil ' reached the ear of Nell llaviland, who I stood watching tho waves as they 1 slowly encroached upon the sand. "Some one in the cove," said the girl, and running along the edge of the cliffs, she bent over the rocky precipice. ' She saw a woman evidently half dead 1 with terror crouching at the foot of the cliff. I "She will bo washed away before I can get help. I must help her myself," I said Nell to herself. There was an almost imjiereeptiblo path down the precipitous wall. Though she was as used to climbing as u goat, Nell found it no oasy tab, Nell I dear Nell! save me!" she cried, clasping her hands imploringly. 1 A vow registered itself in Nell's soul. "I will keep my promise if I drown." " Take hold of tiiat little bush," she said, "and put your foot there," point ing to a little projecting stone. I-als-l's terror caused her to catch at the guiding hand instead of at the seem ingly insecure bush, and her excess of weight cause,! Nell to fall downward. A stone dislodged struck Nell's foot, and to her dismay she found herself unable to step. She braci-d herself ngninst the wall and nrgi-d remorseful Neil to seale tho cliff She tried in vain. The un-1 used muscles refused to perforin the task given them. Then with cold, crawling waves around them, they screamed in nnison. No answer. At last, with a moan of utter despair, Isuls-1 gave it tip. "Nell, it is of no use; wc have got to drown. But I cannot, cannot die! Oh God, have mercy!" and in an abandon ment of agony she buried her face on Nell's shoulder. The words of the grand old hymn she hail often heard Alice sing came into Nell's mind. She put her arm around the trembling form of the terror-stricken woman, and then the strong young voice rang out ele* r and sweet as a bugle call, flinging a grand defiance into the very face of death. Josus, lot or of my soul. Dt me to Thy IKMOOI fly. The cold spray struck the brave young singer harshly in the face, as if ' to stop her utterance, but the next sec- 1 ond the words, While the billows near me roll. While the tempos! still i high, floated over the water. Htrength came ( back to Isaliel ; her voice joined Nell's, and steadfastly they awaited tho seem ingly inevitable. •••••■ " Goddard !" Tho anxious fsoe of his mother startled him as he entered the hall. " 1)., go and look for Isaliel. She went down to tho cove and has not re turned." He wait oil to hear no more, but in a moment was running in the direction of the covo. Hark I Above the roar of the snrge, steady and clear, sounded the death song, Oh, receive my soul si last. He reaohed the cove and commenced descending tho path at a breakneck speed, ss his horrified gaze discerned two women at tho foot. They both looked up an he called, •' Hold on for a moment!" The possibility of lming saved took away Isaliel Trenail's strength, and hor horror-stricken brother saw hor fall for ward into tho embrace of tho foam created wave that had jnst swept up. But no. Tho pale face of Nell llavi land gleamed from the water, and the almost exhausted face said : "Take her, quick!" Treasil snatched the senseloss form of his sister and groaned. M Oh, God f must I leave you to be drowned, Nell?" 1 ,il " You cannot take us both. Toll Alice that I kept my promise." And Nell turned her eyes away to watch with a curious sort of expectancy tho gigantic billow slowly crawling toward licr. It swept over her, and tfifc." "ho felt herself lifted up and borne off; btw bi her bonumliod sense of. hear ing it sama, I; Kent nek y, 11; Tonnoaaoo, 11; Ohio, H; Illinoia, 1; Arkanaa*. 1; Michi gan. 2; Miaaiaaippi, C; California, 1; lowa. 2; Minnoaota, 1; Kanaa*, 1. Thia last resignation waa made under coropnlaion, that ia to say, tho inontnltont hid tho choice of resign ing or mooting tho alternative of eipul aion. John M. Berrien, of Georgio. resigned on three different occasions I*2'., 184.1, and 1H.12. This is tho only EASE in the history of tho Henate, When bo ten dered his I esignation the second time tho legislature accepted it, hut he was immediately re-elected by a nearly un animous vote. Ho was a man of tho very highest order of ability, his public and private morals above reproach. The following named .Senators, the most of them distinguished iu tho annals of fame, each resigned their seats on two different occasions ; " Daniel Webster, llannil>al Hamlin, Himon Cameron, John M. Clayton, John Fersythe, Jef ferson Davis, Ooorge W. Campbell, Andrew Jackson and ohn J. Critten den. When General ('.as* was nominated for President, in 1848, ho resigned his seat in the National Henato, dooming it a proper and dignified course. This act olioitod much comment from the proas of tlwt day, and the nrh:g papers especially predicted his defeat for the presidency, and as a candidate for re election to the Senate ; bat when the logislatnre of Michigan assembled in January following, ho was re-elected to complete his original term, it being nearly as long in duration as that of Mr. Oonkling when ho recently sur rendered his senatorial trust to the ap pointing power. Brick making along the Hndrcs is a most important industry. One yard last year tnado 18,000,000 bricks. In this yard 120 men are employed and a large nnmlter of horse*. The total produc tion of eight brick yards is 2,000,000 bricks per week. MORAL AND RELIGIOUS. Home Prlfndli!p. If we cultivate homo friendships with the same assiduity that wo give to those outside, they will yield us even richer and fairer returns. There is no friend ship so pure and beautiful in its nature, ho rich and full in its jiower of blessing, or so singularly rare in its occurrence, as that between parents and thoirgrown up sons and daughters. Where the parental and filial instincts are supple mented by that higher and more spirit ual affection that hinds together minds in intellectual communion and souls in heartfelt sympathy, few deeper or more delightful friendships can l>e imagined. The guaidian ami dependent gradually lose themselves in the dear companion and true friend of later life ; and youth becomes wiser and age brighter, and both nobler and happier in this loving and abiding union. MHltfloim S*MHiint| Noiru, The District of Columbia lias ten white and thirty-two colored baptist churches. The Presbyterians have now two colored churches in Houston county, Texas. The'Haptist denomination is reported as having spent g*>H,ooo last year in planting and sustaining Sunday-schools in the South and West. At the commencement of the Crozer baptist Theological seminary, at Ches ter, Pa., fifteen young men received certificates. The John I'. <'rozier hall, erected at a cost of SIO,OOO, was dedi cated. The l'reedmen's Aid society of the Methodist F.pisropal church has been in existence fifteen years. In that tine it has received over s'.*lo,ooo from the chun h, and expended it in the acqui sition of property and support of schools of various grades in the Southern States. The Missouri Lutheran synod has re -olved to erect on the site of the present edifice, at St. Louis, Mo , a new theolog ical seminary building at a maximum cost of £IOO,OOO, not more than ten per cent, of this to be expended in archi tectural emls-llishment*. The meml>ersbip of the United Pres byterian clinr'h m the United States has been increased by profession 3,H07. •tf these, U. are of Christian parent age, and IfJ have been brought in from the world. The increase by certificate is .'I, spj. The losses reach the sum of •1,875. The net pain is Til, and the present apgri gate *1,564. The statistics of Protestant Sunday schools in the city of Paris show H'.t schools, having 7.596 scholars and 675 teacher*. The Protestant population of the city is estimated at from 40,000 to tIO.OOO, or between two and three js-r cent, of the whole nmnlwr of souls. Fifteen Protestant ]>eriodical* are pub lished in the French capital. The statist ic<. which have l>eon issued by the synod of the Presbyterian church of England with respect to con gregational matter* show that in Eng laml there are 273 congregations, with 136, *96 sittings in chnrcbes, of which 63,227 are let. The churchea and man* scs are insured for $3,810,000, with a debt against them of $021,000. There are l.fktj elders, 013 deacons, and 2,011 manager*. The nnmlter of communi cants in I**o was 55,201, and in 1870 54,187. There have been 602 marriages, 3,190 baptisms, anil 70* deaths. There are 1,572 district visitors, 3,270 mem t>ers of Dorcas societies, 6,139 Sunday school teachers. 61,902 ttnnday-school scholars, 6,338 scholars in day schools, 3,010 in young men's societies, and •>,852 in Bible classes. The total amount raised for all purpose* in 1880 was $1,027,430, against §901,345 in 1*79. Why She Stole. Instead of tlis silk dress with a shirred front and lwvul embroidery which Kva llirsch, alias Era Jacobs, alia* Clara Morris, the pretty young woman, wore when sneak thieving in New York and Brooklyn, she wore in Raymond street jail a calico wrapper which the matron hae in this place." ___________ __ In Germany sugar is made from old rags. Here is a scheme for the util isation of onr tramps which should not be allowed to pMa unheeded. *f - 4 g\ mw* * % jjNf 'w . a • so. jl> Aflg The Metallic Fly of India. Ono of India's peat* is the metallic blue-fly. Yon nink the leg* of your gf furniture into metallic docket* filled with aalt and water, and pock vonr clothing in tight tin boxen, to prevent the incur niona of white ants ; but yon have no remedy! againat the metallic bine-fly, which fill* every crevice, every keyhole and every key itself with clay. The fly in an artistic an well as an industrious worker, and he worka always with an object. He firat select* a hole, a key hole, or an empty space in any metallic substance is preferred, but, in the ab sence of any such material, the holes in the bottom of a cane-seat chair, or any perforated wood, will answer the par pone. Aftei seeing that the hole is cleaned and in good order, he commences opera tions by laying on the bottom a smooth carpet of clay ; then the let lies of sev eral defunct spiders are triumphantly placed ujsin the clay carpet. On top of these spiders the eggs of the female fly are deposited. The tomb is then ready for closing. The top is neatlv covered over with clay, but it still lias an unfinished look. This is remedied by a thin coat of whitewash, and then the fly looks upon his work and pro nounces it good. When this tomb is opened there are more metallic blue-flies in the world than there was before. You are anxious to examine or w-ar some of your valu - ables, which you always keep under lock and key, and you take your kev and endeavor to unlock your trunk, but it is only an endeavor. There is re sistance in the keyhole. You examine the key, and find that it is nicely sealed up with clay, and the keyhole in the same condition. It is a work of pa tience to destroy the nursery of the poor insect, and lay his castle in ruins ; hut a determined wFI can accomplish much. ( .iiic-Kcated chairs arc sometimes so occupied by these clay homes as to make it hard to determine what the original substance was. Making Thing* Oter. ".Maria," said Mr. done* ti|on one of his worrying days, "it seems to me you might 1- more economical; now there's rny old clothes, why can't you make them over fr r the children instead of giving them away T " lb-cause they're worn out when you're done with them," answered Mrs. .lone*. "It's no use making overthings for the children that w< n't hold to gether ; you could not do it yourself, smart as you are." " Well," grumbled Jones, "I wouldn't have closets full of things mildewing for want of wear, if I was a woman, that's all. A ]>enny saved is a penny earned." That was in April. One warm e a swarm of leos. The keeper of the frnit-stand on the corner, who had an eye for business, proceeded to capture the swarm. Turn ing an old fruit barrel bottom-side np, |8 he performed frantic incantations over it with a green bough. The insects were soon borne off iu triumph. A reporter followed the fruit-dealer to the office of The lire Kwymr* Journal, where the rebel colony was safely lodged on the roof, along with almut aoventv five other communities. After the editor, A. J. King, had given the fruit man $1 the reporter asked him why he kept so many bees "To raise queena," he said, "sorno of which are worth S2O apiece." An incident similar to this happened in the Ktrand. London, some weeks ago. lor* Bm*. Amors glorious victory cannot be gained over another roan than this, that when the injnry began on hia part, the kindness should begin on our*. rr " m l\