LADIES' DEPARTMENT.
A Varan's Wnlnin* Dross
A sensible walking dress is worn in
the Carpathians, for mountain climb
ing. by the queen of Ronmauia, her
maids of honor and other ladies. Her
majesty's usual morning dresß when
she went to take the douche 'at the
new baths and for a long walk after
ward, was a chocolate-colored serge,
the skirt plaited from the waist in large
box plaits. The skirt only came to the
calf of the leg, and was met by gaiters
of the same color as the dress; a loose
thick jacket and a Tyrolean hat. The
maids of honor usually wore high boots
(to the knee) instead of gaiters, dark
green serge, short dresses and large
hats. Every one had a spiked Car
pathian stock, oven those whose gowns
and boots would quite preclude any
thing hut walking on level ground.
A Mpurtnu Ilrlde.
A young man and hiß sister were
hired to teach a school in Clay county,
Kentucky, in partnership, the young
lady to teach the first half of the school
and her brother the other. Very soon
after the young lady began teaching
one of her largest male studeuts became
her "fellow," and in a very short time
they were married. Not long, however,
after they were married the young groom
and another one of t he bride's students
engaged in a little "knockdown." Each
of the offenders woco bronght before
the fair disciple of ;the rod, was given
an impartial trial, and the young groom
was proven to be equally guilty with
the other, and was given his choice of
leaving the school or taking a whip
ping. lie chose the latter; so his new
ly-made bride did herself fair justice
in tho use of the rod, gave her husband
not a few stripes, and cutting the blood
oQtin not a few places. Since then every
thing has passed off smoothly.—Chi
¥ign Time,s.
Wuan'a Answer*.
We do not know the origin of the
following talk on the intuitive methods
of women :
" In a talk which followed our defini
tions I called the attention of our
friends to a marked peculiarity in
woman's way of answering questions ;
a peculiarity which even Mr. Howells—
the finest, keenest and gentlest modern
observer of feminine traits—has never
noted, so far as lam aware. It is the
oonstant habit of women, when asked
a question, to make no direct response,
but to reply by another question sug
gested by what they believe their inter
locutor's intent or wish. I noted this
four times yesterdav in talking with
your anut, who, saying your presence,
Clara, is the most intelligent woman I
ever knew. And yon shall have all five.
In the morning I said, 'Orsula, do you
thiuk it look'i like rain?" To which she
replied, 'Vthy, do you think of inviting
me to take a ride?" Soon after I
asked her if she 'thought alias Win
dermere was as old as twenty,' and she
responded by inquiring 'if I thought
the girl too young to be engaged T A
little later I wanted to know if we bail
any brandy in the house, and she asked
me where I felt sick. And toward
evening, as I was dressing for dinner, I
interrogated her as to the number of
handkerchiefs I owned in the world,
and she replied, ' Why, rani, can't you
find a clean one in your upper
drawer?" This trait sometimes occasions,
I remarked, great inconvenience to the
more simple masculine mind. But on
the whole it is charmingly feminine,
ahowiog as it does the qnick sympathy
of the sex and their consequent desire
to avoid nnnccessary processes anil get
directly at the arriere pensee. They
generally guess right, too. Yonr aunt
did, three times out of the aforesaid
four. It is when a man is in a hnrry
and really want* the information lie auks
for that he finds the habit a little ex
asperating."
Fnslilnn
The tailor-cut jacket retains its place
among faehi matile winter wraps.
Large pokes with sugar-loaf crowns
take precedence of all other bonnets.
Plash is the prettiest trimming for a
cheviot dress when it is trimmed at all.
Bed, yellow, bronze green and tnr
qnoise bine are Immensely fashionable.
Puffs a la epaulette appear in a gath
ered, shirred puff on many tight sleeves.
Two or more materials combined to
form one costume is as fashionable as
ever.
Frog buttons and parallel rows of
Titan braid trim oloth dresses very ele
gantly.
Satin and plnsh muffs take the place
of fnr ones in all bnt the severest
weather.
The fiahionable brocades of this
winter are very magnificent, but very
expensive.
Fall ruffs of hleck or white lace ap
pear among the latest production* of
neck lingerie.
Jackets of black Jersey cloth with
triple collars of red are affected by very
yonng ladies.
Pilgrim gray beaver felt bata, timmed
with large and long red pinnies, ar
very fashionable.
White bonnet* are much worn at
theatera, receptions and for evening
visits of ceremony.
Tinsel effects are introdnoed with ad
mirable taste into fabrics, trimmings
and millinery goods.
Crystal and pearl t>eads decorate
with fine effect pale blue or rose
colored evening dresses.
Seal-brown cloth, with plush to
match, is the favorite material for ele
gant promenade costumes.
Ribbons striped in moire and plash,
or moire and satin, are in high favor
for bonnet and hat trimmings.
Largo hats with obelisk crowns and
halo brims are the first choice of the
most fashionable yonng ladies.
Brighter color and stronger contrasts
are worn this winter than have ap
peared in many decades of fashion.
Velveteens are so beautifully im
proved nowadays that they can scarcely
be distinguished from silk velvet even
by experts.
Prince's feather is among the new
flowers used in embroidery. The foli
age is worked in crewels, the flower in
French knots.
A new stuff which is especially de
signed for dress goods imitates plaited
pekin on the right side, bnt on the
back one sees that it is woven, and that
the plaits are held in place by a net
work.
Shaded surah fans have the mount
cut from the whole width of the material
so as to show every tint, from the
darkest to the lightest, and the down
with which they are bordered follows
the shading of the material.
ihc lien Convention-A Fable.
A Fox who found bard picking in a
certain neighborhood one day visited a
farmer's Dog and said :
" I have lately undergone a change
of heait, and I wish yon to make known
the fort to yonr master's Fowls. They
treat me as if 1 was a murderer, and it
really hurts my feelings to see them
hurry into tho coop at snnset. The
Farmer, too, seems to distrnat me, for
he has made the coop so tight that I
cannot find a single knothole. What
sort of away is that to treat a Fox who
is doing his best to earn an honest liv
ing P
" I presume yon would like to stst
yonr case to the Fowls in person T
observed the Dog.
"That's it—that the very idea," re
plied tho Fqx. "B*y to them that I
should like to meet them in convention
under this tree to-morrow at noon. I
will then explain my feelings toward
them, and trust that the Fox and tho
Fowls will hereafter live in the great
est harmony. Innerd, the only differ
ence between ns is the fact that I have
no wings, and they ahmldn't hold me
in suspicion on that account."
The Dog agreed to act a* mediator,
and at noon next day the Fox crept
carefully through the weeds to the
rendezvous, and crouched down to
await the coming of the Fowls. There
was presently heard a great whirr and
clatter, and two-score hens alighted in
the branches of the tree over tho Fox.
" The convention will now proceed to
business," said an old Hen, as she peered
down npon the Fox.
" Jnst so," grinned the Fox. " Please
come down, and we will proceed."
" Thanks ; but, if it's all the same to
you, we'd rather you'd come up here,'*
replied the Hen.
" But I can't fly."
" And we are poor mnners."
The Fox not being able to fly np, and
the Hens refnsing to fly down, the for
mer was skulking off, when he met the
Dog, who said:
" My friend, the difference Ist ween
undergoing a change of heart and de
siring to undergo a change of diet and
position is so oliscnre that many people
never stop to fish for it. As a Fox, yon
were respected for yonr canning ; as a
hypocrite, even tho old Hens despise
yon ."—Free Frr,*.
Peculiar Acrid* nls.
A. O'Connell, of Helena, Montana,
met with an accident that is perhaps
without a parallel. While sneezing he
fractured one of his ribs.
A boy riding on top of a load of hay
with a nmfll-r abont bis neok at Ghent,
N. Y., waa drawn from the load by a
branch of a tree and hung by his mnf.
fir nntil almost dead.
In a runaway accident at Brighton,
Mich., John Dnffey was canght under
the box and a bag of flonr in the wagon
was thrown over his head and pressed
down by the box so that he was smoth
ered to death.
William Allen, of Eckford, Mich.,
died from the bite of a weasel. The
animal was robbing a hen'* nest, and in
crying to catch it Mr. Allen was bitten
on the hand. Tho bite cause I a pain
ful illness, whioh terminated in death.
Miss Ma>y Ps|>e, of Muscatine county,
lowa, aged sixteen years, lost her life
by wiping tier month with hr apron
npon which some strychnine hid acci
dentally been spilled. Bbe waa taken
sick the same day and died at night in
great agony.
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.
A little praise upsets a little mind.
The pureat water runs from the hard
est rock.
A man of littlo wisdom is a sage
among fools.
The thing that makes people strong
is the moral oourage to do right.
It is right to be contented with what
we have, never with what we are.
An untruthful man ia taking his first
lessons in learning the language that
fills the vocabulary of crime.
" Man is moved by his senses, woman
by hor imagination; hence absence
oondncts him imperceptibly to forget
ting, while it exalts her pasaion to idola
try."
If man, or woman either, wishes to
realize tho fall power of personal
beauty, it must be by cherishing noble
hopes and pnrposes, by having some
thing to do and something to live for.
A certain amount of opposition is a
great help to a man. Kites rise against
and not with the wind. Even a head
wind is better than none. No man
ever worked his passage anywhere in a
dead calm.
In general pride is at tho bottom of
all great mistakes. All the other jute
sions do occasional good, but wherever
pride puts in its word everything goe
wrong, and what may bo desirable to
do iniotly and innocently, it is morally
dangerous to do proudly.
t onxuntptJon.
Consumption usually begins with a
slight, dry cough in tlic morning, then
on going to bed, getting more and more
frequent, with more and more phlegm,
increasing debility, thinness of flesh,
shortness of breath, and quickening
pulse. In fatal cases its average course
is about two years; hence the import
ance of arresting the disease at as early
a stage as possible, and the sooner ra
tional means are employed for this pur
pose the greater the chances of snocesa.
Tho disease is owing to an irritation
commencing in the throat and extend
ing to the Inngs, ao that their action is
interfered with, and the blood does not
receive sufficient oxygen to purify it-
The first thing to he done is to remove
the obstruction, which is the irritation
or congestion of the lungs. Four
ounce* of glycerine, two ounces of
alcohol, two ounces of water, snd one
grsin of morphine make an excellent
mixture for relieving the cough. It
should betaken in tlosraof two teaspoon
fnl* every two hours until the ootigh
is relieved. The chest just below the
neck should be rubbed with tartar
emetic ointment every morning over a
space ss large as the hand, nntil a thick
crop of aorcs is brought out; then mb
the ointment between the sores to bring
ont s Dew crop. Meantime, the patient
should take regular and vigorous exer
cise in the open air There is nothing
that equals horseback riding as n r- ns
edy for this disease a consni ip'.ive
were io " live in the saddle " and sleep
out of doors, taking care to keep ihe
feet dry and warm, and to live upon
good, nourishing food in short, o
" rough it," he wt txl.l recover his b<anb
in a few months, even if the disease bad
made considerable progress. The trouble
is that it reqniros a strong will to carry
out so severe s course in spite of tlie
languor and debility which dispose* an
invalid to quiet despondency. The
mrst marked sign of lung disease is
emaciation, and the most positive indi
cation of returning health is increase in
weight.— Half* Journal of Ur-Hh,
Planting Tobacco.
M. Quad deaoriWs the method of
planting tobacco in Virginia a follows :
The tobacco crop in Virginia has long
Iwn a sonrcn of great revenue, and
there was a time when any agriculture
outside cf tobacco raising was snppoecd
to be a lowing business. Tobseeo land
must be prepared as carefully ss the av
erage farmer would prepare a garden.
The beds for the plants are generally
prepare 1 on a piece of new laud and in
localities sheltered from winds snd hav
ing a southern exposure. The i.ahe*
from the burned shrnbs, haves and
limbs are carefully worked Into the
bed. The seed is then noma as we sow
fot cabbage, and the plant* come up
the name. When they are large
enough to transplant tbey are aet about
three feet apart, and at>ont 4,200 plants
lathe average for an acre of gruund.
At a certain age the plants must be
" pruned," which ooDsista of breaking
oil the anoota and suckers snd pinching
off the head, and again the tobacco
worms must be hunted off the plants.
Tobacco growers generally put in corn
and other crops as well, so that bands
can be shifted from one growing prod
uct to another as necessity requires or
the state of the crop permit*. A fair
average per acre is 700 pounds. This
must lie sun-dried on scaffold* in the
field, end afterward hang in barns and
rmoked. The stflwt price for
this heavy toiiacools seven cents
per pound. An acre of land is
thus made to yield abont SSOO. Grow
ers estimate about 1,000 pounds to
every hand jmployed, and the care of
the tobacco crop is only one-half of
their labor.
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.
As we ascend from the earth tho air
grows thinner and thinner. From this
fact astronomers believe that the limit
of the atmosphere is 200 miles from tho
earth's surface.
In Alpine regions thore are more nar
row, partly-closed flowers than else
where, and u greater proportion of
long-tongued insects, the flora seeming
to be exaatly adapted to tho insect* feed
ing on its honey.
Coal consists of from eighty to ninety -
flve per oont. of carbon mixed with a
small proportion of mineral substances,
whioh, after it is burned, remain as
ashes, and of an inflammable gas con
tained in its interstices.
Professor Morangoni shows by a ooa
elusive set of experimouta that moist
air ia not a conductor of electricity.
He proves that the loss of enrrent in
telegraph wires and tho want of action
in electrical machines during misty or
wet weather aro duo to the condensa
tion of moistnro, carbonaceous deposits,
adherent dust, spiders' webs, or the
contact of branches of trees.
According to M. Treve the flame of a
lamp ap(>eara brighter, and a vertical
shaft, a post or mast is seen more dis
tinctly through a vertical than through
a horizontal slit, while a house, a land
scape or the disk of the sun or moon
is perceived more clearly through a
horizontal slit. He flnds similar dif
ferences in photographs, according as
the light passes from tho object to the
plate through a vertical or horizontal
slit, and ascrihea the results to the
action of diffused light.
Iteuulled After I went) Years.
Tho following romantic story comes
from Davenport, Iowa: One day re
cently the raft steamer Clyde went Into
Davenport on her way north, and Cap
tain Dons lass tied up his boat for a
while in order to permit some of his
crew to go ashore and mak<- purchases.
Among others who went ashore was
Aaron Carter, a rafUman. The weather
was very oold, with a keen northwest
wind. While going along the street
Carter m.-t a poorly-clad little boy, who
was running along, crying bitterly.
Carter asked him what was the matter,
and the little lad sobbed out: • I'm
cold." "Come with me," said Carter,
and taking the boy to a clothing store
he bought him a suit of warm clothes
and a pair of mitten*, lie th- n asked
the boy bis name. " Aaron Dunlap,"
was the reply. Carter was thnnder
'truck. •' Aaron Dunlap!" be cried.
" Where are your father and motuerf"
" Father ia dead," the boy replied.
"Well, take me to your mother, then,
as quickly as you can." aaid Carter.
The boy took him to his humble home,
and when Carter entered the house
the boy's mother rushed into bis arms
with a shriek that msd<- all the other
occupant* of the tonerm-nt-houae rush
into the hall to see what was the mat
ter. Carter had found a sister he had
not seen in almost twenty years, or
since the year 1862, when he went to
war with a Maine regiment, for his
father was a lumberman from Maine.
She married and cam* West the year
after, and the family in the course of
ten veers lost all sight of her because
her husband turned out bally Ho died
in West Liberty, lowa, ten years ago,
three months before her yonngest child
was boni. The joy over this meeting
cannot be described. Carter returned
to the steamer sod told Captain
Donglass that he would go the real of
the way home by rail, and on the fol
lowing Friday morning he took the
flrt train for the North, with his siater,
her two dsiighters and her son, clal
more comfortably than they had Wen
before in many a year, for the family
had seen bitter poverty. Carter is un
married, and is a re>idnt of Chippewa
Falls, Wis. He has been s ItimWrman
in that region for many yeara, rafting in
the snmmer sod logging in the winter.
He sai I he ahould buy a home and place
his sister in it. His benevolence to the
half frozen bay restored his sister to
him.
I'rics Under the Confederacy.
A friend eenus us the fallowing cir
cular, and writes; •' Provisions are high
now, but they might be worse; for ex
ample, note the inclosed:"
Ooiotdbbatr HTATKS FAMKIIK A, 1
ctrnsisTF.scK DKPAtrrMENT. v
IltrnMoKD, Va.,September 2d, 18 A J
The following prices, Wing the
average of late schedules established
by commissioner* for States east of the
Mississippi river, with cost of transpor
tation iocltided, will be charged for
subsistence stores sold to officer* under
the aet of February 17, 1803, and
amendments, in Virginia, North Caro
lina, South Carolina. Fiori la, Gs >rgia,
Alabama, Mississippi and East L>m-i
--ana, until further order-: Bacon, $2 50
par pound; fresh beef, 70 cent* per
pound; flour, $lO per liarrel; corn tin a',
$4.50 per bushel of 50 pounds; riw, 80
cents per pound; p*, SO.IO per bushel
of 61 pnnl<; sugar, 8,1 per pound;
coffee, $5 per pound; soap, $1 per
pound; candles. $3 26 per |ound, vine
gar, $2 5u per gallon; $lO pr
gallon; salt, 80 cents per pound. —CV
lumbia (cf. C.) Hgi*trr.
TUB FAMILY DIM TOtt.
Starch poultices arc very nnirritating,
and may be used on the most delicate
skin, even if there ba an eruption on it
—as in "shingles," for instance. Taey
also retain heat well, and are lighter
than linseed.
A glass of hot milk is au immense
stimulant for a person fatigaod either
by mental or physioal exertion. Milk
heated to above 100 degrees Fahrenheit
loses while hot much of jis sweetness
and density.
Mothers and nurses cannot be too
careful ab >ut the soap they use on the
little ones. Few but physioians know
how many of the so oalled skin dis
eases among children are caused by the
use of adulterated, poisonous soap. An
analysis of several cakes of the pretty
and perfumed toilet soaps tlut are sold
on the streets showed the presence of
ground glass, solablo glass, silex, pipe
olay, rotten stone, borax, plaster of
Paris, tin, orystal, migaosia, pimice
stone, oat meal, and oth *r substances,
which are added to give the soap
; weight, hardness, toughness or oloar
| ness. The common colorings are ver
j miliou, Venetian rod andfiarmine, ultra
j marine green, pot pigment green, cop
• peras, Spanish brown, ultramarine
blues, yellow an 1 starlet anilines, anl
burnt umber. .Many of the perfuming
ingre limit*, though harmless in them
' selves, become oh-mically poisonous by
admixture. Alding,tho danger fro a
all these to the rancid, dissassl, putri 1
, qualities of grease ;use 1, *n 1 mothers
I may well be appalled at the permanent
| evils these neat-looking, delicately
j Hosnlol blocks soap contain,
rea ly to be released whenevor moist-
I en<td and apolieljto the babe's body.
If every one knew the valno of butter
milk as a drink it would be more freely
lartaken of by persona who drink so
exoessively of other beverages, and
; further compared its effects upon the
system to the cleaning out of a cook
i stove that has bean clogged up'with
ashes that, having sifted through, till
up every crevice and erack, saying that
the human system is like the stove, and
collects an 1 gathers refuse .'matter that
can in no way bo exterminated from the
system so effectually as by drinking
buttermilk. It is also a specific remedy
for indigestion, soothes and quiets the
nerves, and is very somnolent to those
who are troubled with sleeplessness.
For s beverage there is nothing more
ln-althy and strengthening. Tne
churning half digests the milk, and
buttermilk makes gastric juices, and
contains properties which readily as
similate, with but very little wear on
the digestive organs.
The Owl Trade.
"How is the owl trade to-day?" in
quired a New York reporter of a bird
I dealer.
M The owl trade is rather dull," said
| the dealer. " The fact is," he con
tinued, "that there is never a steady
trsdn in owls. Tne demand for owls is
principally confined to the require
ments of zoological collections. To
make a collection complete it is neces
sary to hsve an owl in it. Bat the bird
is uninteresting. It mikes no notae
worth hearing, and it is not pleasant to
look upon. It sometimes catches rats
and mice, but it is not valuable for that
purpose."
" What is the price of owls V
" For the ordinary Itaruyard owl there
is no market value. Occasionally a
man who has ah >t one wants to get it
stuffed, but the live birds sre not kept
on sale. It would not pay to feed and
take care of them. There is, however,
a market for white owls, which are
csnght in Canada an 1 the West and ex
ported. The highest price for a nice
white owl is $5. Sometimes owls are
used as decors to catch other birds-
Tney sit ao still in the daytime that
other birds will go near them feirleasly.
Other methods of bird-catching are,
however, more in favor. Owls are
ea-ily caught in the daytime, as then
they see little, and can be easily ap
proached an<l ta"en from their roosts."
"H >w do you account for the owl
being an emblem of wisdom and held,
as it was lin ing the ancient Greeks and
It itnaus, sacred to Minerva T"
" I can't aoooant for it; but I sup
po-e, as a matter of Tact, that there are
many students who look as wise as an
owl but know no more."
" ~
The Angel of Death not Wanted.
To people who in rash moments wish
thern-elve* deal, comes this para'd*, to
show them that if taken at their word
they would soon retract and plead to
j life: A certain feeble old man bad
K*thor*d a la l of sticks and was carry
ing it home. H • lireuM vert tired on
•he road, and latingdown his burden he
cried ont: -Oh, Angel of De.tb, deliver
m- from this mi-eryt" At that instant
the Angel uf Dea'h, in obe I ence to his
summons, appeared hefo-.- him and
sake I bint whs? h wanted. On seeing
the (rightful (1 (Urn the eld man, tr- m
hling, replied: ' Oh, litend to please I
to ait me, that I taav lilt mmm more
* hi* burden upon tar a >oulder; for turn
purpose only have | nailed yon I"
Ck iwtbcrj Jimrnat.
The Heart Hoar.
A silver tongas and sparkling •f*
Ars lovely, to bs sure;
An 1 •ana? inilas -yet all la rain,
Unless the heart la para.
A fairy aU|>, startle, free, •
Haul* small and lily whits
Ars wall enough -yot aU in rain,
Dnlaaa the hoart u right.
And wit an 1 beauty, wealth and faraa,
All gracefully combined.
Will win applauaa—yet all la rain,
(Jules* the hoart la kind.
Bach graoee many frion'la may bring.
And high position, too;
Tot know this woll—'tla all in rain.
Union* tbo hoart ia Into.
ToiUh'g Ojmpinio*.
PO.tMBVr PAKIWK&PfIH.
Switch tenders Hair-pins.
" You're stu II ig tno," at the turkey"
aaid to the cook.
Tiie amateur comet to
reaeire blow for blow.
Toe wstcbm iker can't afford to do a
oath business, booause he mikes his
profit* on time.
Peacock feataers are etnbleme of
vanity. They terra to point a moral
and adoro a tail.
If a man really wants to know of how
little importance he is, let him go with
hi wife to the dressmaker's.
Oorn is the worst used of all the corealfi.
Ho matter how fraitfal it is, it is only
grown to hare it* ears polled.
A cynioal old oacholor says that
"lorers are like armies; they get along
well enough till toe engagement be
gins."
A book, m.ssing twenty years, has
just been returned to the Boston publio
library. Home people are snob terribly
slow Madera
A little boy s remirkeJ: "I like
grandpa because he is sash a fgentlo
miuly man; healway* tell* me to help
myself to sugar."
A Kentucky .girl is charged with hav
mg said: "If a cart wheel has nine fel
lows, it is a pity that a pretty girl like
myself can't hare one."
It is a mean boy who, knowing that
his sister's yoaag mn is still in ths
parlor, will slip downstairs near mid
night an l gayly ring the breakfast belL
Oae of the paragraphert has disoor
orol that, as a three-wheeled rehiole is
j a tricycle, and a two-waeslal rehicle a
bicycle, awn* <lbarrow mast bean icicle.
4Thia u a Picture ofj Freddy's Rabbits.
But it is the Piotnre of a Fox. |Tne"
Fox is very Fat. Waero are Freddy's
i Raboit* f Freddy's Rabbit* sre in ths
Fox.
Two girl* at Greenwich, England,"
climbed fire fancaa, wrencheioff alock,
and plaalercl a hoase lately. If this
goes on, male burglars will haTe to
strike.
A scientific man aays great noises will
make milk soar. Tner will also make
the average c. tir.cn pretty soar, .espe
cially if they com* at |aight when be
wanta to sleep.
No better ovidenoe of human progros*
can bo found thin in toe fact that each
new number of a monthly magazine is
aanonocil by its publisher* to be]in->
fluitely superior to it* predecessor*. •,
" Where is the islsud of Java situ
ated?" aske la school-teacher of a small,
rather for'orn looking boy, "I danao,
sir." "Don't yon know where coffee
comes from T* "Ye, air; we borrows
it r aly parched from the next-door
neighbor."
A clergyman in Scotland preaohed a
few days ago from the text, "If ye do
not ye shall likewise perish."
Tne wife of a farmer who wa* present
went home and t >ld her husband that
the text was, 'df yon do not pay rent,
you shall leave the parish."
They know how to havo fan in Ken
tacky. At a recent fair a grab-bag was
a feature; it sras tweaty-five cents a
grab, and the graba were numerous, bat
nobody got anything, thongh every fol
low wa* satisfied 1 Tue bag contained
a young alligator I
It has taken seven years to adit tbo
correspondence of Peter the Great, the
first volume of which will shortly ap
pear in 81. Petersburg. Aud yat sra
don't believe it will have at large a sal
in this country as ' Mid Joe; or tha
G >d L ttle Boy who Murdered his
Kind Grandmother," which wa* written
in four hours and a half.
"now arcs a ass is i,i* a* ot.o saos P
Hew much a mm i like old she**;
Kor insUnor, bom a soli- may I MW ;
1 11 ilk have iinoo I, both am mads light
lly oobbinra. IJ .th get twit mi l right;
Both niwl ■ mate to i nssplrla
And both tif ma le to go on l-se.
Tusy both ns*d healing, ofi arc aotd.
And both in Haw inrn *ll to mold.
Wi htb w the last is fi at. with msa
The first -hail be tbo la-t, ami whsa
I'lie shoes woo out they're mm lad naw;
When men wear ant thy'r.> men d-od, too.
Tet lmth am tro I upon ; and loth
Will tro ad on others, nothing kith.
Itilh have 10l lb*. >n I b .th luolina,
>\ Imn p diahs i, in iti • w wkl to shis*.
Au 1 but i peg out—and won d you ehooaa
To baa man or be Uia almas?
—T, C. fMfs
Whether or not coming events oast
their shadows before depends upon the
position of the sun.