Surprise. Did 1® one ever lotia to see n too® IN ith such intensity of strong desire 1 lui{ their swift soul went seeking it through spnce, In ongrr restlessness tlmt naught could tire ! "I hen, one good day, lo ! nt the open door, The face was there—a glad and sweet I surprise— And they with kisses touched it o'er and o'er, I etching fresh love from the bright trend ing eye*. Did no one ever for n voice so long That they were aching with a listening painr j 'I hen start to hear it shedding sudden sou-1 j And sweet glad laughter through thei j houie again? The nngels of our lives, who sentinel Our hearts and homes and ways with guardian eyes, Ilarely lo those who watch a joy foretell; I'or they delight iu giving sweet surprise. Unrjirr't Weekly. A LESSON IN ECONOMY. Milly Harrington was only eighteen when site i tine to live at Holly Lodge. Very young to he married, said the gossips of the neighborhood; still younger to assume till the cares and responsibilities of the household. And there were not lacking divers doleful prophets, who declared, with eyes rolled J up and mouths drawn down, that Mrs. j Harrington never would "get on" with the old colonel. "He is so fastidious," said one. "So ditlii alt to suit," said another. "His ideal is so impossibly high!" de clared a third. Hut to their surprise—perhaps a little to their disappointment -Milly and her father-in-law were the best of friends from the very lirst moment in which they looked upon each other's faees. Milly was so anxious to learn, so eager to comprehend the ins and outs of the great, roomy old farmhouse, so ambitious to excel every house-keeper in the neighborhood, that the old gen tleman said, with a smile, to his son: "Don't let that little girl under ake too much, Dudley." And Dudley Harrington answered, with a yawn; "There's no danger of that, sir. The ladies of Holly Lodge have always been first-rate housekeepers, you know. And if a woman is at work, she isn't sj>ending money foolishly, or gossiping." Colonel Harrington's keen, hlje eye rega riled his son, sharply, for a moment. "Do yoti think Milly is addicted to either of those pernicious practices?"' said he. "Theycome natural to ail women, don't they?" said Dudley, shrugging his{shoulders. "Not to all!" said the colonel. And in his secret soul he wondered if Dudley was really worthy of such a , jewel as Millicent, his wife. So the weeks went on, and Milly stood bravely to her helm, until, one bright October day, the colonel, chanc ing to pass the low kitchen window, where the hop-vinestmade a screen of moving shadow, looked smilingly in to where his daughter-in-law waa at work. "Have you got a glass of cool milk for me, little girl?" said he. Milly brought the milk promptly. "See, papa." she said, triumphantly pointing to the table, "what a baking I have done to-day! Three apple-pies, 1 three loaves of hre.nl, a pan of biscuit, a loaf of cup-cake, and a dozen plum tarts!" "Bravo!" said the colonel. "But, Milly, wh'y are you baking? Where is Hannah?" "Hannah wanted her wages raised," said Milly, rather soberly. "And Dud ley said it was all nonsense keeping a girl, when Iwas s fonilof housework, fvi she has gone." "But are you fond of housework?" asked the colonel. "In itself, as an abstract thing. I mean?" . "Yes papa," Milly answered, with some hesitation. "But I'm a little tins! this tin rning. I rose early and i swept the house through before break fa-t, so as to have time for the bak ing." "You are a good little girl," said the ' father-in-law. "Hut we must'nt let you work too hard." te "I'apa," said Milly, with downcast I lashes, arid a deep pink shallow creep i ing over her cheek, "I've ls-en think ing for some time that—that—" "Well," said the colonel, encourag tngly. i "That I should like to ask you for a little money." faltered Milly. "Money !" echoed Colonel Harring ton, in surprise. "Doesn't Dudley give you all you want ?" Once more Milly hesitated. "He went* to know whats-verything is for," said she. "He thinks fifty cents is too much for ribUm, and he says bonnet-frtiroes ought to lie had cheaper than a quarter of a dollar, and he declares it's all noncense to buy silk gloves when cotton will do as well. And Ido need another plume for my hat since the rain sailed the canary colored, one, hut I donJt.like.tuJwk Jblm ! for it." "Do you mean to sat'," said Colonel ; Harrington, leaning his elbows on the ! sill, "that you don't have a regular al j lowanee every week?" "No, papa !" said Milly, lifting her prettily-arched brows. "Dudley says women don't know how to use money, and that a wife should always receive every cent sho spends from her hus i hand. And—l tell you, papa, because , you are so kind to me—l am so ashamed |to have him think inn extravagant, j ! and I do really need so many little ! things that men haven't any idea of. j i It's a little hard, sometimes." Colonel Harrington took a goodly ! roll of bills (nit ol bis pocket and laid 'hem on the window-sill. "Here, little girl," he said; "you have earned them a dozen times over !" Milly reached up to kiss him through . the vine-leaves. "Oh, papa, you are such a darling !" she said. He only patted her cheek in reply. "Dudley don't know what a treasure he has got," he pondered, ;LS he kept on his walk up to the front verandah, I where a great maple-tree was showing ! its yellow trophies over the steps, and ' the balmy sunshine slept on the painted lloor. "He is making a ( ireassian slave out of that dear little woman." And the colonel took his book, and j stretched himself comfortably out in the hammock for his evening's reve ries. It was the next day that his son came to him, in the library, where a little lire of log-, had been kindled, for a chill northeast rain had blown all the j yellow maple-haves awav, and the sun ! was obscured in driving clouds. "Well, my boy," said the colonel, kindly, "You are oIT for the city, I -.up i pose?" "Yes, sir," -aid Mr. Harrington, ju-1 nilir, a tall, straight, handsome voting man, with a brown complexion, and dark, sparkling eyes. "And lie fore I go, perhaps you had better give me a cheque on the bank, if it's quite con venient." "A cheque!" said the colonel. "For w hat ?" "I'm aliout out of ready ea-di," said Dudley, carelessly; "and a little spend ing money would come very handy for current • xpenses." ' i "Ah!" oliservcd the colonel. "And , what are you going to buy?" Dudley looked at his father in amaze ment. "I need a fall suit, sir," said he, "and " "Yes. yes!" nodded the old gentle man. "And how much do you pay for a fall suit now ?" "Oh, thirty-five or forty dollars!" answ risl Dudley. "Thirty-five or forty dollars!" echoed Colonel Harrington. "Isn't that rather vague?" "A fellow never knows exactly explained Dudley. "Ah, but you might to know!" intor rvpted the old gentleman. "And now I am on the subject, you buy your clothes of Lanier, don't you? And aren't there cheaper places?" "And," added Dudley, "I've a little hill at the cigar-store to settle, and there are some new books I should like ! to read; and—" ".lust send in the hills to me," said Colonel Harrington, gravely. "Young men have so many fictitious wants nowadays! But, as I said la-fore, let all the bills lie sent to me. And as for spending-nioney, here is enough for the present. lledrew out a bank-note, and handed it to his son. Dudley stared at it in amazement. It was a one-dollar bill. "I exjiected a check, sir," said he, somewhat discomfited. "Did you?" said Colonel Harrington. "It isn't agreeable to be put on such an allow ance," went on Dudley, sharp ly. "I'm not accustomed to it, and-—" "Not agreeable, eh?" said the col onel, comfortably adjusting his feet on an embroidered rest.- "Then why do you practice the system with your I wife?" "I give her all that she needs to spend," said Dudley, coloring up. "And I have given you all that you I need," asserted Colonel Harrington. "I am a man !" said Dudley. "And she is a woman !" retorted the colonel. "I am the inanagex of your down town warehouse, and I claim my honest j remuneration as such," cried Dudley. ; "I am no beggar. There Is no cent which I ask that I do not earn." "That is Millirent'a case exactly," j said the wise old advocate. "She doe* the work of the house and does it well. She is an economist in every sense of the word. Is it right that she should receive merely her Ixierd and clothes? Is sho not entitled to a regular allow ance to s|end as she pb-ases? Do not think me a meddlesome old fogy, my , son." Colonel Harrington ad'hxl, rising and placing his hand kindly on his son's shoulder. "But I have been ob- ' !OCXXIn# merely WUllted to giVU you U-pcrHOtlul Upplica tioii of this lesson in political economy. | Vou see how it humiliates one to have to beg humhly for thu money that one I has honestly earned to he culled upon ! for an account of every penny one wishes to spend. Don't put your wife into such a false position its this. Treat her :ts one of the llrm of Harrington & CO." Dudley Harrington stood still a mo ment, pondering; and then he said | earnestly: "1 will, sir! You are right!" And Milly was delighted, that very | j i lay, to receive a cheek for an ample , ! sum of money from her hushaud. "Is it :dl for me?" she cried, with | glittering eyes. "Yes, all," Dudley answered, laugh ing. "Hut what am 1 to do with so much money?" "Lock it up in your desk, dear," he answered, "and spend it for your needs its they occur." "Hut I never had so much before all at om; time!" exclaimed the amazed Milly. "No you never had, more shame to me," acknowledged Imdb-y Harrington. "Hut I me to the conclusion, Milly, that you arc no child to he given , a few cents at a time. You are my little housekeeper, and deserve vour regidar salary. I shall give you this check of fifty dollars, for your own ] personal expenses, at the beginning of 1 J every month, and you shall use and ; economize it, ;ts you choose. The household ex|icnscs, of course, will be paid out of the common stock." Milly clapped lo r hands joyously. "<>h, Dudley. I never felt so rich in my life!" -..id she. "N >w 1 can dress like other women, and give a little money to the church, and help the poor, and feel independent' And I e;ui lay up a little, too. I mdh-y, ■ < ry month! l Oh, you shall mo what an excellent manager I can be!" Dudley Harrington looked at hit young wife with a sharp pri< kof em- Mience at his heart. Why bad henevet made her so inms-ent ly lumpy before ? : Simply Is-eaus. it had never occured to ' him. i And Millv ran eagerly to her father in-law. "J'apa'" sh'- cried, "I am to have | lifty dollars a month, all for my own, i and never to give a count irar< 1. Casting Sins into the Sea. A strange scene was witm --'-d by an Knglish visitor at Odiasa on the first ' day of the pr<-sent Jew ish year. Late in the afternoon a large numls-r of tin ,'iihmi ,r HO,'**) .few s inhabiting Odessa wended their wav toward the sea with the purpose of throwing their last year's sins into it. in order to begin the new year w itli a clean soul. They stood alout In groops, closixv packed together in some places, look ing toward the water, mating , ravers, or reading Psalms or a potion of Isaiah. The groojis were formed f..r the most part of listeners, with a man, and, in a very few instances, a woman —an old woman with sjss-tiu h-s on her nose reading to them. Home of the : people turmsl their pockets inside out and shook them toward the sen. Others merely made a sign of throwing some thing into it.- l.ruurt Hour. In the Mniter of llcst. Judge Hinckley, of the Supreme | Court of Georgia, having resigned, read the follow ing verses on the con clusion of his last opinion. The verses may be found in •! tin., p. 4.aJ : Kent for my hnml. nnd bruw, and brenat. For fingprs. heart and brain ! Host and i-oacc A long •lease From ln!x>r and from } i in; Pain of doubt, fatigue, despair— Pain of darkness everywhere. And seeking light in vain. Peace and rest ! Are they the beet For mortals here below t Is soft repose from work and woes A bliss for man to know ? Ibis* of time is bliss of toil; No bliss but this, from sun and sod. Does (iod permit to grow. Hurdette tells ntsnit it and says it happened at Lancaster. Penn. The major sat looking earnestly ami affec tionately at his friend. "Hob," he said presently, "I dreamed at suit you last night." 'Did you. Ad." his friend re plies!. his eyew filling with tears. "Yes," sail the major In heartiest tomw, "1 had the nightmare." And then the sounds of two strong men "rastling" under tho table was heard in the distance. The ftuniranre Chronicle reports 424 deaths by suicide in the United Stats-s in tho three nutumn months of 1882. ! The occupation furnishing by far the ' grnotost numlier was fanning 54} next ' comes merchant, 28; clerk, 12. TOPICS OF Till: HAY. All ancient and remarkable clock"' has been recently set up in the read- I ing mom of tho municipal library of Koucn. A single winding keeps it running for fourroon months and some middays. It was constructed In 1782, underwent alterations in IHlb, was brought by Koucn for 1,000 francs in IH.'IH, and has recently been repaired and just set going, Tho enormous mulplication of rab bits in New /.eland has caused such d<>- struction to tho crops that the colonial government has asked the Govern ment of India to send out for aclima tization a number of mongoose, ani tuals chiefiy distinguishisl for their dis position and abiltv to destroy tho par i tieular pc-,ts from which New Zealand j is suffering. So urgent Is the neec--itv 1 for a war of extermination that it has not been thought worth while to con sider whether an exchange of rabbits for mongooses will not be jumping from the frying pan into the lire. The mongooses meanwhile are being rob leetcd from various parts of Ib-tigal and can fully kept in the zoological 1 gardens at Calcutta, whence as soon as a hundred couples have been gathered they will be sent to their new home. A New York paper estimates the night-laboring population of the city at about l(Mt,(*m telegraph orpcrators, printers, teamsters, restaurant-keepers and others. The work is hard on b>y, but not unendurable by men on the i eonditi ui of taking plenty of sleep in l the forenoon in a quiet, dark -tied : room. Neither is this IJtel of work ' nee, -airily bad for the eyes. They •an lie used as nnieli by an artificial light as by sunlight, if care is taken to have the lamps or gas-burners properly arranged. First, there should lie plenty of light, which will not often be provided. Without the necessity of j it Is pointed out to the employer. A great point is g.-iitusl when the walls jof the room are white. The light should be so pl.e is| that no shadows fall on the paper, and so evenly balanced that ther< is no ■ train on either eye; that IS, tb" re luiist not lie more light from the left than from the : right. 'Mo re should be no flickering of thune.anda shade over the eyes will serve to keep the heat from drying the IVI balls. The eves should lie perfectly clean. If the dust has blown into' them. ,n the vv av to the office they should lie carefully washisl in cool water. The eve is a delicate instru ' tncnt. but bardv. and if common-sense pre, auti.'lis arc taken it 1.111 Is- usisl almost steadily, with-at harm, by day or night. The X< w York H< roW declares that -the accounts in late Knglish journals of the newly discovered prm i-ss of making cheaper aluminium have little doubt that this metal w ill have, as the Rnj/in" r suggests, a 'vastly extendi-d Use.' It IS true the new prOCCSA diss not cheaj>en aluminium so as to bring its price anywhere near that of iron or 1 steel. Hut the discovery by Mr. AY pro,-! ss nftiminiuin is obtaintd at a cost of alsiut five hundred dollars per ton a reduction of about eighty per cent on the old price. These figures bring it when ued as an alloy, within the j*>s sihility of economic employnient in many manufactures (or which it is preferable to any metal now known. Ita conductivity to the galvanic cur rent is set down as eight times better than that of iron, and as it dues not rust it may 1m- highly useful for tele graphic purposes. Already samples of wire made from Mr. Webster's alumi nium bronze have been sent to Glas gow and London, and are b ing testis!, it is said, in the latter rity for electric purposes. Hut the great tensility and lightness of aluminium, as well as its lieing rust-proof, Indicate, jwrhajis, a large demand for it for ship fittings. | and esjiecjally for steamship propellers. 1 This alloy will tiear a strain. It is said, of forty tons to the square inch, or fourteen tons more than gun metal j and twelve more Hessemer steel. 1 f its cost can lie sufficiently reduced to make it available for propellers one of the j wfeakest points in steamship machinery could lie strengthened and the safety 1 of ocean navigation greatly increased." In her book on Japan Miss Bird ' described the curious people called Ainos, who live, in the province of Soudnl and are supposed to lie the aboriginal rare of the country. They are thickly covered with silky brown hair, and Miss Bird asserts that she saw "two boys whose backs were cov ered with fur as fine ami soft as that! of a cat." A creature similar in most respects to the Ainos has been on ex hibition as "the missing link" at the 1 Itoyiil aquarium, London. According 4-Vj the pi|b)isjmd accounts she was ea 11 gliT~vviffi"lfcF~paFentfn tho forest near Laos by a Norwegian explorer named Hock. When the little one at tempted to wander the parents called her lutek with a plaintive cry, "Cra-o," and that is tlie name which has since been given to her. The father died at Laos, and the King of Siain retained the mother at, Bangkok, but allowed the chihl to proceed to Knglaml. ID-r eyes are large, dark and lustrous; the nose is flattened, the nostrils scarcely show ing ; the cheeks are fat and pouch-like, the lower lip only rather thicker than is usual in Europeans ; but the chief peculiarity is the strong and abundant hair. On tin- head it is black, thi' l. and straight, and grows , j over the forehead down to the heavy 'eyebrows, and is continued in whiskc"- like locks down the cheeks. The rest ■if the face is covi-rcd w itli a line, dark, downy hair, and tin- shoulders and arms have a covering "f hairs from an in.ih loan iin h and .1 half long. 'I lu re is, it is said, a slight Icnghhcning of the lower vertebra-, suggestivi ofac.au -1 dal protuberance; and there arc points in the muscular conformation arid otherwise which will provoke discus j sion. Kr.ao has already pi< k"l up a few i words of Knglish. She is said to be of a frank, affectionate disposition, and shows truly feminine delight in her clothes, jewelry and riblmns. Snobbery Even in these enlightened days there are people who affect to "look i down" u|nm women who arc obliged to work for tin ir own li%eliho*l. Ac cording to their code it is far more ! creditable for a woman Lodcjiend ujion j the grudging Ismnty of relatives and 1 friends to be, in fact, a pauper in all but name than fur her to go out into ; the business world and win a liveli- i hood f,,r hi r ■ If. A girl may accept , ! costly gilts (ruin her male a< plain- i tarn • - "ii the most lliinsy pretext- and j not 1 but if she enters a fac tory. store or office, the doors of society arech -i I against h'-r. This applies to j all tin: industrii - and to all but a few | of the professions. For the great lssly "f working women srk the young girls when iii-trurb-d j in dejHirtim nt are warned against I walking on the wist or east avenues at six o'clock or then almuts, and ail- ! jured never to appear on the street j with unglovisl hands, and all this that j they may not Is-mi-taki n for working j girls. Could snobbishness go further? | It 1 s not to be womb nil at that in i ord< r to escape v., disgraceful a fate as ! that or In ,ng compelled to support themselves, girls should revirt to all I manner "f unwomanly and indelicate manu uvres to secure rich husbands. If a girl is without money, and if she may not earn it. she has no choice but to marry it. and if the sjks tacle of a girl paying court with matrimonial intent to a rich man is repulsive, the blame for the unwomanly exhibition should l>e laid at the door of society, which scorns the woman who works. INI I A Schoolmistress anil Stocks. "Guess I won't go to school to-day," said a Carson urchin with an Appeal in his hand. "Why not?" "Concordia has fallen off b n cents, and I d"n't dare show up until it picks up some." "What h;is the fluctuation of C-on cordia got to do with your studies?" "A gih si deal," answered the Imiv. "My teacher has l*l shares of the stock, and w hen it falls a few cents we catch it heavy. I keep my eye on the list, and w hen there's a break, you b-t I don't go to school. I play sick. Golly! how she touted me the time Mount Diablo went down to (2. When it was swelling at f2O she was as gissl as pie. I was the first feller that got on to the break, ami told the ltoys of my < lass that if she didn't sell there'll tg> the devil to pay. I heard Uncle i Frazier say that it was a good short, | and I never slept a wink for a week 1 grabbed the Apjtral the first thing every morning; when I saw her keel down to #ld 1 skip|>od to the hills. 1 My! how she did leuig Johnny Dolison around that morning! 1 was in hopes | that blasted mine would pick up. but the water got into the lower levels, and I knew we were in for it. She | licked soraeliody for every dollar it j dropped. After it struck $8 it picked lup a little, and we had time to git. My mother's Is-en patching my pants ever sinre the big break in the Sierra Nevada, and if the market don't take a turn pretty soon I'm going to quit the public school and goto work on a ranch. | —Carton City Appul. lie is 11 great simpleton who imagines | that the ehief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundrcd.it creates more w ants than it supplies. The Orlirln of the Rose. In ltd green J'MturOH sporting* Tore from n Ui'tTriy twig Ii fresh green drapery. The twig, hnrp fingers, RnsU-heil front tbu Ttwitrem A liltje tuft of f|i*ce, To clothe itself anew. A nightingale rami! seeking Hoft tliinip to line her rust. And thought this snowy flow* Was j .r-tt i-t nlace." Why bugle trimmings are so-called: "Why are those things on your ilress f-allerl bugle trimmings?" George w anted to know. "Oh," Emily re plied, lightly, "lieeause pa blows so 1 over the bill. A I'hil elelphia inventor has worked for a year trying t-i make a pin which, women would not put in their mouths, lb ha* succeeded, but don't expect to sell many. The j ;ns arc ae big a* rail road spikes. A young pilitician explained tho tattered eonrlition of his trousers to hi* father bv stating that he was sitting under an apple tree enjoying himself when the fanner's d<>g came along and | contested his seat. Mrs. Kay, the first woman that went to I.eadville. dug in the mines, scoure® the plains aa scout, took in w ashing, and now has a fortune of 9lX*>o,ooo. 11 -r husband undoubtedly regards her as a "bright ray." ".lane," said a father, "I thought yon hated stingy people, and yet your young man—" "Why. pa, who said he was stingy?" "<>h. nobody," replied pa "only I could sis- he was a little closo as I passed through theroom." Woman's love: "I>" TOU believe that a woman nowadays would die for the object of her love?" asked a bache lor friend. "1 d>n't know whether she'd die or not," answered the Benedict, "but I've know n her to go wild w hen the trimming didn't suit her." I'neonsrious repartee. Uncle Dick (an artist)—" Well, Johnny, and what are you going to l>c?" Johnny—"l shall IK- a judge, like papa." Uncle Dick—"Ah! but you haven't brains ctwntgh, my tay." Johnny—"( \then I'll IK- an artist, like you." "My mother's awful fickle," said lit tle Edith to Mrs. Smith, who was mak ing a call. "When she saw you com ing up the street she said, 'There's that horrid Mis' Smith; I hope she isn't coming here,' and a minute after she told you she was real glad to see you.** A farm item remarks that in fly-time cows should Ite kept in stalls. This ia for the convenience of tho fly. increas ing his opportunity of concentration, and economising much valuable time that would be otherwise consumed in chasing a frisky heifer through a ten acre lot. At the butcher's: Irate customer— "That goose I taught here last week w as as tough as leather judgment, and you said it was only six months old. My wife says she tats that gosse has seen twenty winters." liutcher— "tjuitclikely." Irate customer—"What do you mean, then by saying it w as but six months old Y" Butcher—" Vou for get, sir, that it was a female. Gallan try to the sex would not permit me to put the age beyond that."