Winter. Though now no more the musing oar Delights to listen to the breeze That lingers o'er the greenwood shade, I love thee, winter I well. Swe. t are the harmonies of spring ! Sweet is the smnmor's evening gale I Pleasant the autumnal winds that shake The many-colored grove. And pleasant to the sobered soul The sileuco of the wintry scone; When nature shrouds lior In her trance, In deep tranquillity. Not midelightful now to roam. The wild heath sparkling on the sight; Not undelightful now to pace The forest's ample round. And see the s)>ajigltode; and if Mrs. Morris indulged herself with a new silk, Mrs. Templeton always counted her flounces, and made her own phylacteries ' broader. When ono day, then, Mrs. Mcrris ap peared at church—the usual place in the town of Carleon for ladies to exhibit their toilets—with a pretty little pair of diamonds sparkling in her oars, yon can imagine the state of disgust and wrath in which Mrs. Templeton walked home, and the very disagreeable time that Mr. Templeton had of it as ho walked beside her, endeavoring to look like the happiest domestic man in Gar leon. The sermon was criticised, the minister made ont a time-server, the parish denounced collectively and per sonally, his own peculiar friends among Um rest, and finalh his oonsin Hetty Was reached, and her habit-., her man ners and her dress were ruade the text on which to hang anathema maranatha j of worldliness, affectation, bad taste, low moral sense, irreligion, and last of all, extravagance—his dear little harm less Oonsin Hetty, whose red curls lighted such a frank, child like counte nance, tuql whose two diamonds, he had been guilty of thinking, just matched the limpid sparkle of the clear dew drops of her gray eyes. But Mr. Templeton had far too much experience to say any-j thing of the sort. "James Morris could not pav his debts if he were sold out to-day." said his wife. " And look at his wife's dress I—Maria, how many times must I tell yon to keep those children inside the curbstone ?—his ' wife's dress; just one glitt r of satin and jet. And I declare it was impossi-1 ble for me to fix my eyes on tho lectern f.t the way in which she kept thoso diamonds twinkling before me, with her hoad on the perpetual dance. A ; , pretty place for diamonds—chnrch I I ' % know a woman who wore them to her j * father's fnncral; I suppose she wonbl I should think, at any rate, she could havo controlled her inclinations, and waited till n*xt Sabbath—diamonds on Palm Sandsy 1 But it's high time of j day, I must soy," warming np with her husband's silence, "when I am without a single diamond to my utane, and there is James Morris* w s fe—James Morris, who owea yon 95,000 borrowed money—" It was very weak in Mr. Templeton to interfere; but one cannot be always ; on one's guar 1. "I understand, Jnlict, my love," said he, "that Hetty's Uncle Roberts sent her thooe earrings." " Uncle Roberts, Indeed t I should like to see Uncle Roberts tor once, if tphe is net a mythical personage alto gether," cried his wife, with the air of expecting Mr. Templeton to produce the alleged Uncle Roberta immediately. " Uncle Roberts! Uncle Roberts. It is always Uncle Roberts, And yon •un derstand* forsooth I Why didn't I un derstand? Why were the earrings cou eealed from me ? For all I know, you gave thom to her yourself. Perhaps jo . are this Uncle Roberta who is al ways brought to the boat at every pi t piece of extravagance. For my part, I wish I had even a husband, not to spick of an t'nclr Roberts, who would not sec pre UtMtn ufc'-fcar f*ot by as. little minx who chooses to torn her head above ma—" " My dear! my dear 1 just remember where yon are; just remember the children," murmured Mr. Temploton, floundering in a little farther. , " Where Icm I I suppoaeyoU don't want all Carlaon to bear bow I'm oat raged. Yon'd like to keep it a secret. You'd like to have me endure it in silence. Of course you don't want the children to hear their mother tell the plain story of your neglect, your out rage—" Here Mr. Templeton took off his has and made a low bow with a glittering smile to a gentleman and lady passing in on opposite direction. " What in the world is the matter with Mrs. Templeton f asked the gen tleman. "Bho lookH like a thunder olond fall of lightnings." "Hetty Morris' earrings, 1 guess," was the answer. "She has probably seen them at church to-day. P or Mr. Temploton! What a life that vixen leads him 1" " I don't know about that. lie is 1 tremendously in love with her."# " How ran ho be?" "Force of habit, maybe And she is a beanty, yon know. And when she is good-natured there's nobody like her." "Well, by Easter you'll see her with a pair of solitaires, 111 wager another pair. Tate me np?" " Not L I shouldn't have any nse for them if I won, except to give them \ back to yon; and I couldn't afford to 1 lose. Besides, I don't bet on a cer tainty," said the careful Mr. Bowman. And jnst then, Hetty Morris coming np, they stopped to admire her precious acquisitions; and Hetty heard of the wager, and shamed Mr. Bowman into taking it, before they parted and went their opposite more merrily than was their Sanday wont. Not so Mr. Templeton. As soon as bis wife had banged the door behind her she tore off her bonnet and threw herself on a sofa, and called for Jano to bring the ammonia, and her husband to drop the shades, and Maria to take the children where she could not hear them, for her head was splitting with pain, as any one's would be, treated as she was. And sho would not go upstairs to bed, and Mr. Templeton's Bumlgfr romp with the children was abrogated, and his dinner was made an act of silent and solitary penance; and if he told his wife he was going to afternoon ncrviee, and did go ovi-r to his cousin Hetty's, she, at least, had no right to blame him. Bnt woe for Mr. Templates when he came home that evening Tenple ton had l>een removed to her own room, which reeked with a team of camphor and alcohol; ahe lay there in her white nightgown, with her black hgjr stream- J ing oror the pillow, with her great eye* rolled tip and fixed on a remote j point of tho ceiling, and with standing on her lips—ghastly, *tyflr arxf 1 immovable. It made no od.I/to Mr. Simpleton—l mean Templeton— that he bad seen her so fifty times before', ■ in fact, always when sho wanted hOtno thing she conlJ not have. Cold terror I struck to his soul lest ho should lose I his torment; all her virtues swelled 1 into the hosts of heaven, ail her faults were wiped oat AS with a j sponge. He wan down on hia knees bo-' sido hor in a moment " Oh, my dar ling I my Juliet! my love 1 speak to 1 me! TeU me yon know mo I" he cried, j M Ran for the doctor, Jane. Where is J Dr. Harvey? Why haven't you had him here already? Oct him at once. Give ino the brandy. Heat those soap stones. Where are the hot-water bags?" And he waa bathing her lips, and rub bing her hands, and kiaaing her fore head, and adjuring her to give any rign of life. Bnt it #as not till the doctor's steps was heard that Mrs. Temploton vouchsafed tho least indication; and then her breast began to heave, her Imnds to tremble, her long supple body, that had been stiffly resting on its Lead and heels only, began to sway and snbslde, her feet to twiteh, and presently those feet were beating a tat too on the footboard, and the lips parted in shrieks, and the shrieks tamed to sobs, sad the doctor was pour ing chloral between the teeth, and the sobs sank away into sleep, and tho hys terica were over. •' What could have excited you so, my dearest, and thrown you into such a terrible convulsion?' Mr. Tcmpleton waa saying next morning. (" Hyster ics * was a forbidden word. Mrs Tern plot on would have bad another attack at the sound of it.) "It must have been the beat of tho chtsreb; it waa overpowering. Thurlow has never learned to regulate that farnaoe." " The beat," sighed Sirs. Temploton, faintly, "and the glitter of those dia raondr. Tbey kept dancing so before my eyes with their bright spots that they dsaslod the brain. I am afraid I was very cross yesterday, Jarius. I didn't know what I was saying. Oh, I never want to see any diamonds again." "You shall hare a pair of your own before lam a week older," exclaimed the feeble husband. ' Oh, ao, i~, io I 1 shooli be so ashamed. 1 don't deserve thorn. I—l couldn't think of it. Indeed, indeed, 1 wouldn't have you, Jnrius darling; I should foci just s if I had bogged for them." But when Mr. Tun pic ton returned from tbe city that night, a* pretty a pair of solitaire earrings as he could bny with tho bond he sold glittered in i velvet case marked with her name. As ho opened tho case and held it before her, Mrs. Ternploton shuddered, and turned her glance away from tbe beautiful white sparkle, ami said they looked at her with two great eyes of reproach, and she ought not to have th em, and they were as heavenly as twin stars. And presently they were glittering in her ears, aud all the faint ncss and languor were gone, and she was running to tho glans and holding ler head on this side and on that, and ad miring herself, and turning to her hus band for admiration. Looking, with her large liquid dark eye*, her pale face, her perfect feature*, her dazzling smile, all illumined by the shining drops, as beautiful as the most beaut i i ful Juliet that wa* ever loved. And her j hneliand felt twice and a hundred timos repaid for tho sacrifice of his little sav ing* iu tho only bond he had yet linen aide to buy anl layby for tho future by tho vision of her and by tho delighted kisacs she showered U|>on his bps, and , the warm embraces of tlio long white I arms. It wa* not once, bnt twenty time*, ; that Mrs. Templeton looked at the flash i of her new splendor* in the mirror, I took them ont of her earn and put t.iotn - back atrwio, tangled her hair in them so that her husband might loocn thorn j an 1 be struck afzwu, a* lie did so, with j the pale pink aea-shcLl of tho ear, the curve of the throat, the exquisite oval j of the chocks; and she went at lost to l the window and shielded tho pano with | her hand* white looking ont and up at j th<- stars. "I declare," ahe said, "the I glistening of Orion's bell is no more | splendid than my diamonds. I never thought I should have diamonds, Jairns." Nor did she hare diamond* after that i one erening of eesteey. The little j borough of Ckrleon was no better than | otle r places, and while -he stood at the | window comparing h-r gems with Orion's a pair of enterprising burglar*- ! who at that" moment were not "bur gling," chanoed to obtain a view of their [ opportunities, and they went through : I tho house that night, and tbo diamond* i | went through their finger* the next day. Alas for Mrs. Templet on ' It would have been idle for her to have another convulsion. Her husband had not an other Ixiad for another pair of stones. And so the mother of tho Gracchi could not have played a morn magnanimous 1 part than she did. " Oh, what do I caro for jowels!" she cried, when Hetir ran over to s-.irr.-y "tjitli her big, pitying eye*—eyes much beautiful ah in She sp.rkle in her oar*—the seano of ruin, where tbe buo. gla.- hod left their matches aod eaten ' their cold cakes and coffee—"what do I care for jewel*? They might have j taken tho children. Oh, Hetty, how thankful I am thsy didn't Uko the chil- j dren I" "As if," said Hetty to licr own has band afterward, "any burglar under heaven would want those horrid Ten pit ton children, the worst imps ever bora of hysterias and temper I Now if it hal been our children, Louis P " I (think yon had bet .er toll her,' though, tnst your dia-nonds are only i Alaska crystalsail Louis. "Pretty bite of glass, but only gonuius gla-*, that Uncle ltibert* nut for mischief." " Well, I don't know but I will. Bat ! I think I'll lend them to her to wear to church on Easter first, for Ido waat Clara Bowman t j win her earring* they'll be the only genuine diamonds among u* all. And she him money enough for Mr. Bowman to af ford iter whatever ahe want*; and I heard her lay the wager with him my self that Mr*. Templetea would wear a pair of solitaire* to church on Easter." —Warp*ft* lintar. Prom Tbl* to That. "We don't know much about it, of course," say* the editor of the Bnrling ton Ifawkn/t, "bnt we should think after a man has been secretary of the treasury for three or tonr years, and had occasionally ' dumped $£50,000,000' into Wall street to relieve the market, and had called in 820,000,000 sixes at one time, and bought $2,000,000 of bond* ovary week, and disbursed 811,000,000 one week and 818,000,000 the next, wo ahonld think it wonid grave] him aw fully to go back into his law office when the administration changed, and make out on abstract of a farm away cut in Bnckahaw county and sell it for an old woman down in Ktckspoo township to an old fellow out in Waukindaw settle, ment, sad only gst a fee head of Queen Elizabeth, or j M&rgoerite cut in mother of pearl, j l'ricc fifteen dollars a dozer . 11 Tbe Sand Blast. Say* the Journal of Science: Among the wonderful and useful invention* of the times is the common blast. Sup- I pose you desire a piece of marble for a j gravestone; yon cover the stone with a I sheet of wax an thicker than a wafer; then you cut in the wax the name/ , date, etc , leaving th • marbre exposed, j Now pass it under th* blast aud ths | sand shall cut it away Remove the I wax sod you have the cot letter*. Take | a piece of Preach plate gla*, say two by six feet, cover it with fine lace, and pass it under the bloat, and not a thread of the ism will be injured, but theoand wili 'e*it deep into the glass wherever it is. aoloovereJ by th* loop Now re ] move the loo* an l ycut here a delicele and beautiful figure raised on the glass. In this way beautiful figure* of alt kind* are cut in glas* and at a small expense. The workmen can hold their hands under tbe blast without harm, even when it is rapidly cutting away the haidpt glows, iron or stone, but they ma*t look ou'. for finger-nails, or they will be whittle 1 off right hastily. If they pat on steel thimbles to protect thenoilsitwilldobutlittle good, for tbe sand will noon whittle them ashiy; bat if they wrap a piooe of oolton around them they are safe. Yon will at once see the philosophy of iJL Tbo *nnd trbitUes awsy aud doSlrnys any hard iukstinsohLcvefi gloss—bat doe* not affect substances that are soft and yield ing, like wax, cotton, fieo Uee, or even tho human hand; Where Rose* Abound. There la la Konmalia a valley known as the KeueanUk, entirely given up to rose culture, During tho flowering season it is from the Up of the hills on either aide one moss of flowers. Bo saturated is the air with ths perfume that it clings to lbs hair and the and the meat remote* for day* on the lotttr. The wwnen sells %hoi*al mi Paris at 1,500 and ,3* the kilo, and is t|tslie4 at 5,000 *' ™ htiKsTinr MCKAPK. Our taste recognizes a solution of one part sulpbarlfc acid in f.OOO part* rater. Horn filler, or chloride of silver, contain* *eventj-flye parte silver and twenty-five parte chlorine. TJio coloring matter of the jelly-fish line been fonud to consist of minute particle* imhcd.-led in the protoplasm. The worm-like fi*b, ampbioxus, bee no special heart, bat a number of con tractile bnlb In the rein*. The eel baa an auxiliary heart in its tail. J here ia in the Pari* Electrical exhi bition an induction coil capable of | (jiving a rparh forty-two inches long find piercing a block of glavi six inchoa j '.Lick. flie telegraph liaw between Paria and Nancy, a distance of 200 miles, are being placed underground. The wire* ' are incloaod ia iron tub**, provided ' wit'u manhole*. M. Dobrn has in trod need the tele ! phono in connection with his scientific explorations of the bed of the Bay of Naples. liy Its use the diver and the boatmen overhead are able totommn aicate with each other quickly tt nd in telligibly. MM. Moleschott and Fabini find rea son to believe that the elimination of carbonic acid from animal* increases under the influence of light, and that light act* not only through the eye, bat over the whole surface of the body. Observations by M. itene Tbnre show that the telephone i* remarkably sensi tive to lightning. He stretched a metal wire between two house*, connecting oao end with the earth an 1 the other with a telephone, Daring every than der-storm since 1879 be ha* leen able to lx;ar sonndadn the telephone at the instant of the lightning-flash, and this even whan the lightning was estimated to be twenty or twenty-five miles aw.r. At times the sound* became quite load. Wigs. A ccntary ago little boys of four years had their heads shaved prepara tory to putting on a wig. This not only distinguished rich men'a sons from the masses bnt w*i regarded as much neater thin wearing onV own hair. The French revolution and its revolt from artificialilias killed the fa*ldou of wig wearing, hut then it had died and revived a score of times before. It* modern revival in Europe was au imi tation of the long and beautiful hair cf the young Loafs XIV. of France, who had recourse jto artificial lock* when hi* own supply gave on". A century after his time ali men who coatd afford it were wigged, though daring tko latter half of the seventeenth century the law fulness of the practice was bitterly de bated among theologians, Catholic and .Protectant. A prrfewsor, Bivicrs by name, shocked ail eca&erva tivos in both churches by writing that the use of a wig wis nr.c'.ioned , by Christian liberty. On the other aide, i the Catholic Dr. Thiers assailed wig | w.wring priests in a gooJ-Mxc.l r.iluuio. ! The fashion aeen>* dead enough now, ex cept among those who haro become bald, hut the ancient Egyptiaua and other nation* wore wigi, and the early | Christian* would not take them off. | Terinliian in vaio declared them device* i and invention* ot tbo evil one, and | Clement, of Alexandria, warned his I hearer* that when the sacred hands of the clergy were laid oc thoir head*, the blessing would* not pars through the fal-ehair. Hi*to l>- aoped that the civilised {xx>pie of onr own day and of ; fntnre geu*mH>n* will be > atiafied. with ; their natural hair or accc;.; ba' lnes* as I incurable, but we observe with some alarm that the gentler rex it going further and lortiiar toward actual wig Wearing. No longer are braids sufficient, no more ia long back hair the main re quisite, bnt actual front and top pieoos, j really little better ih in the " fronts " of old ladies are being advertise 1 as Vienna and Lisbon waves etc. White horsehair perukes are not yet called far by onr yonng nu u. hut there ia no knowledge that thsy are vary far off. Fashion, like thesotai oircu nf.-rcneo of a water whe-I, disappear* only to return to sight again —Ciwcfewatt Uamtlf, How to Lite <.II Trn Uolar- a W.rk, A man with $lO a week and another to support must live at horn*. If be livts out be will get inferior food and those dependent on him will have to go short at Lome. He should spend on lodging $2; ou food for two, $5; 00 coal, light, dress, etc., £& Pieces ol fried meat are extravagant; stewa, with vegetables, are profitable; fish, dressed with apuoe and vegetables, to make meals M< profitable; eo are fliah-piea; good, wl-tWckE. <1 soopej frnih pud- . ding*; small jploes* 0/ roast for/sundry* with aoooul pan ring vegetable* and well elected j adding, A "mall {sees of chuck beef roasted and doring the a