Time. la the gnat sfloara of a oily, dreamily, a flgore itftods. With the water dimly Sowing through its syse and lips and hands, AIM! the throngs that pass end ponder, that weird masterpiece eubUtne Little it is the picture of the solemn lapse of Time; Of the though time lapee of Time, fflith ita melancholy mnsic and its and, heart broken rhyme. Oosing, trickling, babbling, gleaming. Laughing, weeping, sobbing, streaming, flailing, marmoring, sighing, dreaming, Flowing, flowing on. So, stand we that fbunteined status, God s great maaterpieoe of art, And the lap— of time is flowing on thro' each oblivioaa heart; minute*, meeting, fleeing into day* and months and years, Swell the rapids of the ages till at laat Time disappear*. With its flood of bopespnd tears, Through life's dimly-lighted valley, thro' the valley of our teen, Tinkling, plashing, rippling, sleeping. Bounding, sparkling, dancing, leaping, Foaming, billowing, tumbling, sweeping, Gliding, gliding on. —A rrinctUmian. DORA'S IGNORAMUS It was n lovely Juno morning in the oountry; the air redolent with thesorat of myriad bloeeoma and musical with the tongs of as many wild birds, when Don Olsde stepped over the threehold of her rustic eohool house to encounter s surprise not altogether pleasant. Sinee the first of May Miss Glade had been teaching this eohool of perhaps two doaen urchins, whose sgee ranged all the way from five to fourteen years. On this particular morning, however, there eat within the schoolroom, pa tiently waiting for the arrival of the teaoher, a tell, well-built young man who was oertainly several years her senior, and whose sppearanoe indicated that he had oome to stay. The teacher herself was just nineteen, •lender and graceful as a willow, with n oharu,.ng admixture of womanly dig nity and girlish shyness in her manner. She did not always know exactly what to do even with some of the rough youngsters already in her charge, and now her fair faoe darkened with a look of undisguised dismay, aa she stopped short in the doorway, regarding this new specimen with a private oonviction in her soul that she should never prove equal to the teak of managing him. She looked upon hie intrusion into her little fold muoh as some peaceful shepherd might st the sudden ippssr anee cf a mountain lion among his inno cent flock. Mastering her chagrin aa best she con Id, Dora called her school together, and soon after approached her unwelcome visitor with a very evi dent air of embarrassment. "Do you intend to remain in the school, sirf* For the life of bra she didn't know how she ought to address him. " Yee'm," answered the new-oomer, with a meekness which, contrasted with his fine, powerfnl physique, made her strongly inclined to langh in his face. " I calk'late to oome afternoons. Can't oome much mornin'e, bein' aa I hov to help Uncle Jake with the crops." "Oh t" said Dora, gently, suppress ing a smile, " your name, pleeae?" - Larry Farnsworth. Squire Jake Farnsworth over yonder," with an awk ward nod of his handsome head in the direction of the squire's mansion, " where I'm eteyin', is my uncle." " Yea," said Mias Glade, with a polite interest. "And now please tell me what you wish to study, Mr. Farns worth." " 'Bpoee ye call me Larry, Miss," mid this great, fine-looking fellow, with the faaahfnlneee of a child; "I ain't much used to bein' mistered, an' anyhow I reckon Fm one of yer scholars, jist like the rest." - Oertainly." said Dora, somewhat re lieved, and determining to put a bold faoe upon the matter at once. " And now, Larry," with a rose blush, in spite of herself, " let us prooeed to select your studies." But the verdant young gentleman soon disclosed the fact that what he did know of books might be comprised within a very email space, indeed, while a model list of what he didn't know would form a record aa voluminous as that of the Whitteker testimony. Days passed on, and Mis* Glade found them passing very pleasantly. Her new pupil, though extremely igno rant, evidently did his best to improve, and was otherwise a model of perfect good behavior. The younger boys, also, gave far leas trouble than at first. Whether he issued private orders to them oatside, or whether it was a threatening glanoe from those com manding bright gray eyee whenever any incipient rebellion arose against the teacher, certain it was that the trouble some urchins behaved much better than before the advent of the "big scholar." Aa for Miss Glade's opinion of our hero at the end of a month, perhaps we could not ascertain it more easily than by glancing at this portion of a letter written by her to her boeom friend in the city: •'Yonhere not forgotten my Ignora mus, ofwhoml wrote yon. Kittle? Well, we •till here the honor of hie attend ance et the school, end I will frankly admit that I ehonld hardly know, now, how to keep the name school without him. How or why he doea it Ido not pretend to know, bat he seems to hare those old-time ' intraoteblea' under such a spell that I do not believe one of them would dare disobey me, if he felt so inolined. " One other fact is unquestionable to my mind. Were he only blessed with the cultivation and the gentlemanly, social poliah which Mr. Arthur Hughes possesses, Larry Farnsworth would be my very beau ideal of a man. Often, as he sits poring hopelessly over the multiplioation-teble, in his homespun suit, sans coat, I catch myself watching the splendid figure, the clear-cut, intel lectual faoe, with its broad, sweeping brow and facinating gray eyes, almost expecting to beer their owner oharm my senses with the eloquence of a Cicero, or thrill my soul with poetic dis quisitions on the wonders and beauties of the old masters. He looks as though nature had formed him for a leading spirit among the choicest favorites of literature and art. Silent, those hand some lips seem the very home of poetry and eloquenoe; but the moment he opens them to speak—shades of Murray I how my fairy castles tumble to the ground I He is an Ignoramus, Kittle —a hopeless Ignoramus I—celling me to his side twenty times a day to unravel problems which ought not to punle the intellect of a child often. Worse than all, he does not realise what he has missed. Oh, what a blunderer was destiny, thus to dray this man the one gift that would have made him irresistible I" And then the poetcript: " I have at last fnlly decided not to acoept the hand of Mr. Hughes. May he find better appreciation elsewhere. With all his sloganoe and culture he is not the man who oan fill the heart of " DORA GUDE" And theee word* of Kittie'e letter, in reply: "Look oat, my dear, or the Igno. ramus may capture the heart that a man of intellect haa failed to win. Stranger things hare happened. Many a man haa been educated by hla wife.' Dora'a lipa curled and a flash of annoyance crossed her fair, expressive features aa ahe read. "Bah!" ahe exclaimed, contempt uously, crumpling the letter in her hand and toaaing it into her desk. But why did her fair face soften into infinite tenderness, again, and a blush deeper ' au a crimson rose bathe her cheek and brow and snowy thfoat aa ahe remembered oertain thrilling glabcea from a pair of bright gray eyes ? And why did this worshiper of intellect murmur to herself with a kind of fleroe delight f "He loves me! I know it I I know itr During the summer days that followed, her thoughts often turned to Kittie'a letter and the tempting possibilities it suggested. But ahe quiekly put them from her. It was exquisitely sweet, this city girl who eras well used to re fined and cultivated society could not deny to herself, to note the electric influence of her power in the dark flush rising to a manly cheek, the quick thrill of his powerful frame, at her slightest toueh, and the passionate light she sometimes caught' in the finest eyes she had ever seen. And per haps her own heart responded to every sign. But it could go no further. Dora's mind was one of those which ever unconsciously reach out toward all the richest treasures in tho world of art and learning, and she knew that it could never be satisfied with the companion ship one who could not, at least, keep paoe with her in all the finest charms of intellectual life. She resolved never to make such a dangerous experiment, even for "love's sweet sake." And we think that she was right. It was the last evening of her stay. Her pupils had all reoeived their little tokens of remembrance, had said good bye to their pretty girlish teacher, and were now gone to their several homes, leaving her alone to gather up her few effects and indulge in a parting reverie upon the events of the pest three months. Larry Faraswocth alone had been absent that last day, but la her secret heart she thanked him for it, for there had been something in his manner of late, and a strange disturbance in her own feelings also, which made her doubt whether her dignified firmness could have stood the trial of a final parting. How strongly her heart was beating now, as she thought over the past even ing when the splendid-looking Ig noramus had walked beside her down the long lane leading from the school house, and the low-spoken "good night" of esoh, as she tuned to cross the narrow field in the direction of her lodgings. She remembered, with n thrill of wondering pleasure, how his awkwardness bed almost entirely van ished in the unconscious devotion which he raid her. No, die reflected, with' a deep sigh, as aha turned to go, it would never do for them to meat again. She must go back to the city and forget. Forget the lowly youth who had power to atir the very depths of bar soul aa no other mortal man had aver dona I Yet her heart bitterly rebelled against the fata which made suoh renunciation neoea •ary. Glancing through the open door she aaw a stranger ooming up the path—a tall and handsome man, well-dressed and elegant There was a something strangely familiar to her In his looks, and yet—it oould not be 1 Ah, but it oould i for the next mo ment her hands were clasped in those of the tall stranger, and bar unbelieving eyes ware gasiug up into the handsome, saucy face of Larry Farnsworth. "I came to bid my little teacher good-bye," he aaid, looking down upon bar mischievously, a aly smile quivering under the slight dark moustache. " Larry 1" It was all she could my, for, unable to bear a certain new expression in the glance of those gray eyes, and the rush of memories it brought bar, she aank upon the nearest bench and covered her faoe with her hands. Larry sat down, too, with a warm light of tenderness in his resolute, saucy faoe, but the first words that Dora faltered forth made outright - Then yon are not the Ignoramus, after all T still with her faoe hidden from the roguish eyes. " Well, no, not exactly, since I have had the honor of graduating from old Harvard," replied the Ignoramus, with exasperating coolness. " Miss Glade— Dora," drawing her hands away from the blushing faoe, " please forgive my masquerade I Hearing much of the pretty schoolma'am from my ancle whom I was visiting, I began it through a pore love of fun, bat soon found it so dan gerously fascinating that I oould not give it up. It was so pleasant to have you lean over my shoulder to correct those dreadful examples which you couldn't have done, yen know, if I had not been your pupil." 11" And yon might have been teaching me all this timet For shams, sir!" pouted Dora, thinking with burning cheeks of her patient endeavors to edu cate this Harvard graduate. " I dare to hope that I have tsogbt yon something, Dora; a lesson that is not fonnd in school books. And now, sinoe yon have taaght your stupid Ig. noramns to love you, tell me frankly if yon will marry him f" "I would not, if I could have escaped seeing him* again," aaid Dora, wieuedly. ' ■ Bat since yon could not f Dors turns an arch faoe, wet with happy tears, to meet Lawrenoe Farns worth'* thrilling kiss. And thus we ■Wve them to a future bright and peaoefo] as the lovely soeoe outside the school-house where Dors Glade fifst met and lovad her Ignor amus. Extraordinary Preseaee sf Mind. How true it is, aaye a faoetiona Cali fornia paper, that fame and fortune both hinge upon some trivial circumstance. The most successful artist at the annual exhibition of the Academy of Fine Arts in IsLndon this year is a young Oalifor nian, named Baldwin Bowers, who made each a hit painting carriages and bouses some six yean ago in Oakland that ha waa sent for study to Florence, where, as every one knows, paint is much cheaper. Mr. Sowers' peculiar line la the de lineation of still lift, and so be painted a cheese, though, as it was a Limburger ahaeaa, it oould hardly be oalled a still life subject after aIL Alleged judges, who saw this mssterpieoe after comple tion, aay it resembled a mud-pie more than it did a cheese; but this was prob ably envy, as, after it waa hung, some malicious persons slipped into the gal lery the night before the exhibition sad deliberately cut a round hole in the canvass, completely removing the cheese. When the examining oommittee ware on their rounds, they caste to the de faced picture, and angrily sent for the artist to give an explanation. An or. dinary painter would have been over come with despair at the outrage. Not ao our fallow citiseu. When the chair man said, sternly: "Where, sir, is the cheeseT Ha responded calmly: " Alas I gentlemen. I peroeiva 1 have painted it with too greet fidelity. The mice have eaten it" They awarded him the first prise. Desert of Makers. Dr. Lena affirms that the soil of the Sahara is not as sterile as is oommonly believed. In Iguidi, in particular, they found many foraging piaeee for the camels, and they often sew troops of antelopes and gaaellea fleeing at the ap proach of the caravan. Doctor Lens did not follow the example of Berth, but went rather to pay his address to Kehia, who made his stay in Timbuotoo the most agreeable possible. He gave him a fins bouse, and served him each day aa abundant and delicious repast— wheat bread, butter sad honsy, mutton and beef, chickens and gems. CLIPPING* POR Til CUBIOCR. Black lead pattella van known to the ancient Roman*. Pilot* were anciently called lodtsaea, from lode-star, the polar alar. Coral waa anciently deemed an excel' lent antidote against poison. Bracelets ware gives as a reward of bravery to soldiers in the middle ages. It is aaid that eagles carry living pray to their yonng and teach them to tear and kill it. The spicy breams of Ceylon are per ceptible to the sense long oaf ore the island is reached. Mo spot of the same sise on the sur face of the earth oontains as many voloanoes as Java. The sense of smell may be made for the time more acute by filling the month with very oold water. The ancient Scandinavians celebrated days of death with rejoicing, and those of birth with mourning. In early times cotton vac spun by hand, but in 1767 Mr. Hargrasvas, of Lancashire, invented the spinning jenny. The connection of the amount of rain fall with the increase or the decrease of the olinchbug has been rCoorded by entomologists. From animal remains it is concluded that Great Britain waa at one time oon n acted with the mainland, and the Eng lish channel waa dry. The strongest known glue is that made from the skins and eounds of fishes, and the strongest of this class is made in Lapland from the skins of a perch. The western coast of Afrioa furnishes our principle supply of palm oil. The ground beneath the trees becomes covered with a fstty material formed of the ripe berries. The phrase "He's a brick " originated with King Agesilaus, who, on a certain occasion, pointing to his army, mid: ' They are the walla of Sparta. Every man there is a brick." The number of insane persons in the United States is put down by experts at 100,000, and the aame authorities say that from tan to twenty per oeet are curable by the present method. Fifty-two is a remarkable number. There are fifty-two cards in a pack and fifty-two weeks in the yaar. The five books of Moses were written 1,562 years before the present mode of computing time. The building of Rome was com menced 762 yean before the aame event. Julius Cnsar made the first in road into Great Britain fifty-two years B. C., and the king of Oreat Britain waa carried to Home A. D. 62. Con stantinople was taken by the Turks A. D. 1462, and the new style waa intro duced into England in 1752. The highest Egyptian pyramid is 452 feet in height. A New Trtek. The New York "oonfldence" opera tor* who infest the river front in spite of the steamboet squad officers, hive s new trick which is * modi host ion of the old pocketbook dropping device. Brass rings which cost $1.23 s dosen, but which hsve the weight end eppesrsnoe of solid gold rings worth $l2 to $l5 esch, end which sre initialed and marked 18k on the inside, and a pair of glares, are their implements. One of the rings is poshed into a finger of the I lore and this glove is tamed beck at the wrist as if it had jnst dropped from the hand of a careless person. In some instances this idea is still farther car ried oat by wrapping thread aronnd the ring to make it appear too large for the owner. Provided with this lore the operator and a confederate in wait for a "greenhorn." The glove is dropped before him end one of the operators stoops and picks it np jnst as the "green horn " comes to it. The operator makes a great fans about Um glove, asks the "greenhorn" if he hae loei one, and at the suae time oontrivds to exhibit the form of tho ring in the finger of the glove. Then Ute confederate cornea op, the ring is discovered and taken out, end the " greenhorn," if be is diehoneet, as is often the ones, is entrapped into going ahares in the find, pays the opera tor two or three dollars andteoelves the glove and the ring. Many persona have been swindled by UM brink reoeoUy. Artificial Pearls. Ia Fiaaoe a pearl costing sixteen dollars Is now imitated for fifty esnto or a dollar, and so eutissasfaUy as to bo sold at too pries of too gen alas article to aaj one net a veritable ax pert, sad even toe latter class are often ponied. The artificial pearl, however, is simply a glass bead or globe which is first coated on toe inside with a gloe made of parchment, then treated with peculiar so-called " asanas," after which it is filled with wax. The essence is the chief pearly ingredient, and isob obtetoed by robbing together white fish, so as to remove toe aoelee; toe whole is then strained through linoo end left to deposit He sediment, which is the ssesnai ia question. It requires about 17,000 fish to prodnoe a pound of the pearly essence. wit.iht. ... ..t*- •*s!. i UUUV DEPARTMENT. nutiMli Wmm la it* Serf. We landed at Champerco. Itn thatched buta, sheltered by royal r*i m * and sur rounded by orange groves, presented tha idaal tropical picture, which waa wall oonflrmsd by tha fei taut baat of tha aim. Oar aniloatty btisg aoon grati fied, we atvollad down to tha baaeh. Several hundred man, women. yoatha and ohildrao ware toaaing and floundering in tha foamy surf. *• Thaaa'a your bright bronsad maidena of tha sun," exclaimed onr poet in rap tnraa. " How about tha sharks?" inquired a mora practioal trarelar, whan it waa propoaed that wa Join the bathers. "Oh, they won't touch yon in tha surf," a jolly tar replied. " I're never heard of anybody being hurt by a shark in tha surf. They can't aaa in the enrf." Confiding in this pleaaant theory, wa participated in tha general enjoyment. The brown eanoritea manifested no sur prise or disapproval, and aaanmad no prudish airs. They laughed, shouted and plunged into the roaring breakers with as much indifferenoe aa though they wore the most elegant bathing coa tumas ever manufactured. The women of Oentrel America are famous for beauty of form, which is chiefly due to the fact that they ignore those appliances of civilisation that twist their paler sisters out of shape.— San FramcUoo Ckronicl*. Tk OM r*lk iMMIakM. Carrie Bradford ft< a rich St. Louis belle, and lovsd Thomaa Ryan, a poor young man. Her parent* objected to his attentiona to their daughter and drove him trembling from the door. Mim Bradford wee aent to Virginia, but before ahe left abe vent v ith Ryan to a clergyman and they were aecretly mar ried. That night Miaa Bradford left for White Sulphur Springs. She re mained at the Virginia raeort until a few days ago, and when ahe got back Mr. Ryan called at the Bradford man sion and was refused admission. In a last desperate effort he demaoded that he be allowed to see his wife. This was an astonisher fur the Bradford*. They consulted together, the doors were opened and their son-in-law was reluctantly reoeived. After diacusning the situation it was agreed to bare a second ceremony performed, and as a result on Wednesday evening Mr. Ryan and Mr*. Ryan were remarried by the Rev. George A. Lofton of the Second Baptist church, at the residence of the bride's parents, in the presence of friend*. The newspapers had an ac count of the wedding next day, and the young eouple immediately made their home, where it is still, in the Bradford mansion. Vasfcls* Pairte*. P le blondes cannot wear gray. Linen cuff* are thing* of the past. Jet bangles remain in high fashion. Puffs in the arm-hole are ooostionslly ■sen. Very long pile plush is much used in millioery. Feather turban* are revived to a limited extent. The most f**h ion able trains are long and sharply pointed. Red ooetumea, red jackets, end red hats are worn together. Red silk pompons on gray and drab felta are very fashionable. Wired ©oiler* become none but tall \ women with long necks. Madras handkerchiefs continue in vogue as parts of oostumos. The new pokebonnete have immense ly protruding brims in front. Very fawge hats and medium sisedand small bonnets steal! feshionab * Diesne are made in as greet a variety of styles es they were la*t season. Fur or beaver felt is the leeding material for winter beta and bonneta. Darby felta, under new names and only slightly different forma, are again worn. Peaked or pointed bodioee with gath ered scarf penier draperies are much von. i It takes very little of striped novelty gooda or pi nab to renovate a half-worn Puffs a la epaulette appear in a fflkwl, shirred puff on many tight deems. w ... % Moire is ae fashionable this winter as surah waa last, bet surah is by no means discarded. Even when sew skirts are round and clinging in effect, the draperies are extremely bouffknt. Floral decorations, either of real or artificial flowers, are coming in vogue for wedding oaks*. Longitudinal-striped plushes in Roman and Spanish colors are used for entire skirts of some dressy ooetumea. Shrimp pink and white make the most recherche combination for evening dresses of plush and satin merveWeuae, Feather* of all kiaddress whole end half bird*, heads and wings, to ostrich pluses and tipa are extremely fashion able. The flnast and most sf estiva evening toilets are in one color, though earn poaed sometimes ef two or more ma terials. Plush of vary long pile, combined with moire, makes the most fashionable of all combinations, whether for bon nets, draasee or wraps. A new stuff which is especially signed for dross goods imitates plaited pekin on tha right side,.but oa the beck one sees that it ia woven, end that the, plaits are held in plaoe by a network. Divorcee. Divorcee era the jarring sounds of three little syllables combining all manner of mischief and evil, mournful epitaphs heading the graves of wedlock; horrid bombshells exploding the noble towers of matrimony; disgraceful sequels to numerous weddings; mill if able relics of many marriages; unfortn- * nate realisations of bright anticipations; profane desecrations of sacred institu tions, and wretched inventions to shirk lawful responsibilities. Yet, good men, if you but build your home castles with beams of solid integ rity and strong rafters of devotion, scat tering throughout kind words, like ao many beautiful window* through which can enter the pure atmosphere of affec tion, no fear that divorcee—those hur ricanes and pestilences of life—will sweep away your mansions of happi ntua; while you, deer women, who ao willingly don the holy garbs of mar riage, remember that what matters it if cares and disappointments render them threadbare, so you but retain the pro tecting mantles of love with which to conceal their defects and forever pre serve them against the destructive thorns and tearing briars of divorces; for, alee I divorcee—those melancholy insignia* of broken hearts, wasted sym pathise, vice and sin—are indeed lamentable, and we often wonder why those villainous parasites of society keep such time with civilization (though it is whispered that curtain lectures ere very productive of them!) and we would fain see them disappear, even at the risk of appearing no better tbao the poor beasts of burden patiently carrying our saddle bags of trouble until the good Master above suffers us to lay them down and : repose in death.—Carrie Xamirtt. Bew to Shake Heads. There are only two or three people now living who can so ooresfully shake hands. There is e good deal of hand shaking done through the oountry, especially at this season of the year, bnt only a very small per cent, of the shak ers and shakeea know how to do it ao as to get the entire amount of exhilaration out of it Borne grab the hand of an adversary in a quick, nervous that scares the victim nearly to death, while others slide the cold and clammy paw at yon so that yon feel the seme as when you drop e cold raw oyster with vinegar on it down your back. If you are shaking hands with a lady incline the heed forward with a soft and grace ful yet half-timid movement like a boy climbing a barbed-wire fence with i a fifty-pound watermelon. Look gently in her eyes with a kind of pleading smile, beam on her features a bright mid winsome beam, say something yon he*e heard some one else say on similar ocoasious and in the mean time shake her hand in a subdued yet vigorous way, not ss though yon were trying to make e mash by pulverising bar fingers nor yet in too conservative s manner, allowing her hand to fell with a sicken ing thad when you let go. Gsre should be taken also not to hang on to the hind more than half an hour in public, as bystanders might make remarks. This is now oonsidered quite outre end mandamus.— Ny't Itonmsmng. A Pcm Picture sf Jefferson. The following description of Presi dent Jsffenqn is given by Mr. Floesr, no English gentleman, who in 1815 traveled on horseback through Tennes see, Kentucky and Virginia, and waa Mr. Jefferson's guest at MoottoeUo: Mr. Jefferson's figure is rather —Jrntlii Tall—over six feet—thin, and rather high-shouldered, manners simple, kind and courteous. His dram, in form and color, was quaint and old fashioned, plain mid neat A dark, pepper-and salt ooat, out in the old Quaker fashion, with a tingle row of huge metal but tons, knee breeches, gray worried stock ings, shoes feat sued by large metal booklet—such was the appearance of Jefferson when I Orel made kis ac quaintance in 181 ft. His two grand daughters (the Misses Randolph), well educated and accomplished young Indies, were staying with him at thi time. The chief charm oI the visit was la the evening conversations with Mr. Jefferson, who gave me the inside his tory of events, before only kacwu to , me, at to the world In general, hi the published record or outside history which is all that the public is generally allowed to ess. An exchange sake "Do hetta peyf Dead bests never pay,