The World is Urowing Better.
The world is growing l-elloi!
Though it taken ft wider sweep.
The Intnil ol sturdy labor
With a tumult y hatul wo grout;
Wo will not drink the bitter
When so littlo iiinUos it awoet.
The world is growing iichor.
In wi-alth brought from the earth-
But, hotter far, with Immures louuil
In tniuos ol sterling worth.
!• or noble deed arn honored morn
Than simple claims ol l irth.
Iho world is growing hotter!
With fewer musty creeds,
W th more of human rtiivings
To answer human needs.
With precious hcrvext garnered
As the growth of precious seeds.
• A SCHEMER FOILED.
"I'apa is not like himself. He never
was harsh to me before," murmured
poor Kate.
"Yet you must not be unmindful
that your father believes he is acting
for your best interests," was the rather
doubtful remonstrance of Mrs. Scott.
' "Papa is acting entirely under the
1 Influence of Percy Talbot," tho girl
1 asserted excitedly; "if he were not, lie
would understand how grievous it
would be should I marry a man whom
I detest—how utterly impossi
ble it is when my whole heart is given
to another. Oh, mamma, surely you
cannot blame me?"
What could the gentle wife, the
troubled mother, say? She loved her
husband, unreasonable as he might lie,
she idolized her only child, and she j
shrank from holding either blamable. j
So she remained silent, while two big
tears rolled slowly down her fair,
faded cheeks.
"Mamma, my dearest, you do not
blame me, do you?'! pleaded Kate,
crossing the room and throwing her
self on her knees beside her mother.
"It would break my heart to give up
Robert! I love him so dearly—oh,
mamma, so very dearly. You like
Robert, t<x>, and so did papa before
this Percy Talbot came here to make j
nothing but trouble for us all. And I
have fancied sometimes that you dis
t rust him quite as much as I do. You
do not really wish me to marry him, do
you ?"
"Your father is determined that you ]
shall be his wife, Kate," said Mrs.
Scott, winding a kindly arm about the
siim, kneeling figure, and drawing the
pretty, brow n head to her bosom.
"I know. And if I disobey him, he
declares he will no longer recognize
me as his child," returned Kate with a
little gasp of anguish; "he will send i
me away from him, from my home,
and from you. Oh, mamma, it is hard!
And yet, if you would not blame me,
if you can trust me, I had rather go.
After a time papa might relent, and
wish me to come hack to him."
The mother sighed, but she clasped (
the pretty pleader more closely to her ,
tender heart, and fondly kissed tin
sweet bright face.
"I do trust you, Kate," she answered
with ranch earnestness. "Always
reinemtier, darling, that wherever you
may lie, I shall trust my daughter to
do the right. If you choose to go
rather than become Mr. Talbot's un
loving wife, I shall not judge you too
harshly; and it may he that sometime ,
the storm will pass over, and that this
trial will end happily for us all."
After such a concession the mother
could scarcely refuse to acquiesce to !
anything her child might decide to la
best Anil so Kate took her last re
gretful look of the dear familiar rooms;
with quivering lips she kissed her
weeping mother; and then in the t
early, quiet morning she left the
pleasant house, the doors of which, as
it might be, had-been closed upon her
forever.
i "She has made her choice," her
father said briefly in grirn anger; "and
henceforth she is deal to me."
From his home, his heart, his lips, 1
he had banished her; and he forbade
the mention of her name in his {ires- [
ence.
And for Percy Talbot he began to
manifest singular partiality—a special
liking that was frequently shown by
considerable monetary favors. Per
haps he fancied that he owed some
sort of reparation to the Idckless indi
vidual who had been so signally dis
dained by his handsome and refractory
daughter!
"It seems strange that a rich man
would borrow such sums, and so
often," Mrs. Scott ventured to observe,
i "You know nothing about such
matters, Maria," was the sharp re
sponse. "Talbot can lie trusted with
anything. He is a shrewd man too,
and if our last speculation succeeds, I
shall be as rich as he is."
"What speculation, Peter?" his wife
inquired uneasily.
"1 doubt you wtmld understand if I
should tell you," he answered testily.
lie had yet to learn that his own un
derstanding of the speculation into
which he had been persuaded was
somewhat deficient.
It was the "oft-told tale" of the cred
ulity of one man and the duplicity of
another. And there came a time when
IVter Scott knew that he was beggared
when he discovered that all his little
fortune, earned by years of honest
zeal, had been, hv some manner of
chicanery, transferred to the possession
of Percy Talbot.
".My dear sir, it is one of the freaks
of fortune and is neither curious nor
uncommon," Talbot said blandly to his
victim. "In my career as a speculator,
I. too, have sometimes lost—even to
my last farthing. 1 have been left
with nothing, absolutely nothing but
my debts. Hut 1 never lost courage;
nor must you do so now. Ib-side, if
you will bring back your pretty fugi
tive daughter and induce her to become
my wife, I will make you a free gift of
the property that once was yours."
For a moment Kate's father regard
ed his interlocutor with a lixed and
scathing ga/e. The scales had fallen
from those tired and troubled eyes.
"My daughter," at length he enun
ciated, with a dignity that was majes
tic, "was wiser than I—she could not
he deceived by your pretensions as 1
have been. I may be a pauper, sir, but
I shall still be honored that I have a
child who would prefer death to
marriage with such as you."
Ho turned away haughtily and went
hack to the home that was no longer
liis. Hut the shock had been too
sudden, too overwhelming; and an
hour later he lay writhing in mortal i
agony at the very gates of death. In
his delirium he raved pitcoiisly of his
folly, and of tin- man whom he had so
trusted only to l>e befooled, robbed and
insulted. And to his disordered senses
his bonny Kate was everywhere pres
ent. He would listen fur her gay
voice and light footsteps; he seemed to
behold her bright and U-autiful image,
and he would pathetically entreat lor
to forgive him for his harshness and
his great mistake.
Meanwhile, Kate was far away, and
not altogether unhappy. She felt that
somehow, in a blissful time to come,;
she would be providentially guided
back to contentment with her beloved
ones.
One morning a visitor was an
nounced, and with much surprise she
turned to stand faro to f.e-e with 10-r
old suitor, I'erey Tailed, a->
ever. sle k. smiling, insignificant.
"You wish to see me'?" she queried,
coldly, startled by something oddly
assured and exultant in his aspect.
"I wish to discuss a matter of busi
ness with you," he returned, glibly, as
with great nonchalance he appropriat
ed a cosy chair. "Will you not be seat
ed, too'? Where are the roses of your
cheeks, Kate ? Are you ill, <>r has my
coining disquieted you?"
She was pale with anger at his inso
lence, at his stare of ardent admira
tion; and she trembled with vague
alarm before his strange b*>k of
triumph; but she stood quite still and
regarded him with calm inquiry,
"You may not be aware of what has
happened at home," he pursued, still
with the honeyed voico and hateful
smile.
"No," w as her simple utterance.
"My mission is not a particularly •
pleasant one," he continued cautiously;
•'and you make it harder for tne, Kate,
you seem so indifferent; and I have
only come to serve you. Your father
is very ill; he may not recover."
Yet she remained silent, watching
him witli her scornful, questioning
eyes.
"And lieside," her visitor went on,
with a semblance of the sympathetic,
"he has been unfortunate in business,
and everything he jiossesxes will be
sold at once if there l>e no friendly In
terposition. I alone have power to
aid him, and I will do so if you—oh,
listen, for I love you, Kate! If you
will lie my wife, I will stop this sale,
and your parents shall still have their
home."
He had arisen and approached her
with outstretched arms; but at that
instant the door opened to admit one
whom he had not anticipated meeting
precisely then and there.
"Ah, Mr. Merle," he articulated,
with extreme politeness. "Tills is in
deed a surprise."
"A mutual surprise," Itobert nmend*
ed drily. "My wife and I hail scarcely
expected a visit from you."
"Your wife," hp stammered, in swift
confusion.
"With mamma's approval, Mr,
Merle and I were married the day 1
left home," Kate explained, civilly.
"Ah! then I have come only to con
gratulate yon," he succeeded in saying,
even as lie recoiled diseotnfitted before
the contemptuous scrutiny of Kate's
handsome young hushnnd.
Hut he bad no desire to prolong so
unsatisfactory an interview, and lie
sjieedily departed.
"lie comforted, my dearest," Hubert
enjoined her when the guest had gone,
"I have foreseen this day of trouble
for your father, and providentially I
have been given means to help him.
Would you care to be back in the old
home, Kate?"
Would she care? Had she not
longed every hour for months to behold
the dear old plage? And (he beloved,
familiar face?
And while the train that bore bet
homeward was rattling across tho
white, winter world, her parents were
making ready to leave the house where
they had livod all the years of their
wedded life. Everything had been
solih The ominous red flag yet waved
over the entrance, about which was
a melancholy and suggestive litter.
Inside, in tho only apartment safe
from intrusion, lay the unfortunate
man, sufficiently convalescent to realize
that all his gains had been taken from
him, and still weak enough to hold
valueless the life that hud been rc-given
him.
"We are not yet so old, Peter—you
and I, that we need fear beginning
life anew," his wife lovingly reminded
him.
"But what will give me hack my
child?" he asked fretfully. "What will
restore to nut her affection, just as
fond and just as trusting as it wits
in-fore I drove her from her home by
my severity ?"
"Our Kate will never reproach you,
Peter," wits the soft reply, "And all
Is well with her. 1 have hidden some
thing from you, dear—something that
once would have- angered you, hut that
now may comfort you instead."
Just then a carriage rumbled to the
door. The purchaser of tin- property,
that had bi-en bought by proxy, hail
arrived, and directly was admitted to
the room.
But the sirk man was greatly per
plexed when he beheld Hubert Merle
standing In-fore him.
"A little legacy, not altogether tin*
expected, came to me just 111 time," ex
plained the generous young gentleman,
"and I bought the old place as a gift
for my wife."
And then, like a bright spirit, Kate
glidtsl in and dropped on lu-r knees
ix-side her father's couch.
"O, papa forgive me," she cried,
with her sweet face pressed upon the
yearning hands that clasped her quick
ly.
"Forgive you, dear child?" ejaculat
ed the father, like one amazed. "It is
I who should in-g to lie forgiven.
But I scarcely understand what it all
means. I>oes it mean that you and
Hubert and mamma were all leagues!
against me?"
"I am afraid so," was the roguish
confession. "But Roliert had a little
secret of his own. though." she add-sl,
with a happy glance toward her man
ly husband. "He kept me quite in the
•lark al/out his legacy and his purchase
of the old place until he had brought
me here - brought me back to the old
home that shall still IN- yours, papa"
How C(l4i are Taken.
A person in good health, with fai
play, says the London //jimf, easily
resists cold. But when the health
flags a little, and lihertim are taken
with the stomach, or the nervous sys
tem. a chill <s easily taken, and accord
ing to tho weak spot of the individual,
assumes the form of a cold, or pneu
monia or. it may !*, jaundice. Of all
causes of "cold." probably fatigue is
one of the most efficient. A jaded man
coming home at night from a long day's
work, a growing youth losing two
hours' sleep over evening parties two
or three times a week, or a ng lady
heavily doing the season, young child
ren over fed and with a short allow
ance of sleep, are common instances of
the victims of cold." Luxury is favor
able to chiU-taking; very hot rooms,
soft chairs, feather beds, create a sensi
tiveness that deads to catarrhs. It is
not, after all, the "cold that Is so much
to l>e feared as the antecedent condi
tions that give the attack a chance of
doing harm. Some of the worst
•'colds" happen to those who do not
leave their house or even their l>ed. and
those who are most invulnerable are of
ten those who are most fx posed to
changes of temperature, and who by
good sleep, cold bathing, and regular
haliits preserve the tone of their ner
ous system and circulation. Probably
many chills are contracted at night or
at the fag end of the day, when tired
|eople get the equilibrium of their cir
culation disturlttil by either overheated
sitting-room* or underheated bedroom*
and beds. This is specially the case
with elderly people. In such cases the
mischief is not always done Instantane
ously, or in a aingle night It often
takes place insidiously, extending over
days or even weeks. It thus appears
that " taking cold" Is not by any means
a simple result of a lower temperature,
but depends largely on i>ersonat oondt
tioos and habits, affecting especially the
nervous and muscular energy of the
; body
"YANKEE DOODLE."
Intertilling Kart* About til* Origin of
lh. Twm,
Tho |{fK)(l tho Rhlne-SODR <loi to Domain
hosrt ■,
Or thin* Maraoiltaim to Franco'* fi*ry blood}
XhaK'xxl thy niitbin*i| harmony ini|*rta,
"(ol nave thn Qjo*n," to Knxla'wl'a hold ami
flood,
A homo born blc*ina, Nut urn'* boon and
A rt'a.
The wm* hoart-cheoring, spirit-wowiiiix good
To ii and oura, whnro'or wo war or woo,
Uhy wordi and inuaio, Vunkoo Doodle —do.
Ilallfk.
The origin of "Yankee Ionlle" in by
lio means an clear as American anti
quarians desire. The statement that
the air was composed Dy Dr. Shark"
burgh, in 1755, when the colonial
groups united with the llritish regu
lars near Albany, preparatory to tin
attack on the l-'rench posts of Niagara
and Frontenac, and that it was pro
ducts! in derision of tin- old-fashioned
equipments of tho provincial soldiers,
as contrasted with the neat ami order
ly appointments of the regulars, was
stated some years ago iu a musical
magazine published in 1 Jos ton. The
| account there given as to the origin of
the song is this: During the attacks
upon the French outposts in 1755, in
America, Governor Shirley, and Gen
eral Jackson, led the force directed
against the enemy lying at Niagara
and Frontenac. In the early part of
June, whdst the troops were stationed
on the banks .of the Hudson, near Al
bany, the descendants of tin- "Pilgrim
fathers" flocked in from the Eastern
provinces. Never was seen su< ha
motley regiment as took up its posi
tion on the left wing of the British
army. The band played music as anti
quated, and outre as th>-ir uniforms;
officers and privates had adopted regi
mentals each after his own fa-hion;
one wore a flowing wig, while his
neighbor rejoiced in ha r cropped
closely to th<- lo ad; this one I.ad a coat
with wonderful long skirts, his fellow
piarrhed without his upper garment,
various as the colors of the rainbow
were the clothes worn by the gallant
band. It so happened that there was
a certain Dr. Miackhurgh,wit,muitician
and surgeon, and one evening after
mess lie prodii'isl a tune, which he
earnestly recommended as a well
known piece of military music, to the
officers of the militia. The joke sur
reisled. ami Yank<. Do >ll< was haihd
with acclamation as t > their own
march. This a'fount is somewhat
a|tocryphal as there is no song, the
tune in the t'nitesl states is a march;
there are no words to it of a national
character. The only words ever af
fixed to the air in tins country, is the
following doggerel quatrain: -
link*# IKKVII* rfttn# to town
t 'p**n ft litU# pony ,
Mr rtnek * (rftthftr in hit hut
Ati i m.ifd it rnftCftrom.
It has 1-es-n aasertesl by English
wTiters, that the air and words of these
lines arc as . Id as From well's time-
The only alteration is in making
"Yankee IVoorlle" of what WAS "Nan
ke- imMlo." It is asserted that the
tune will lie found in the "Musical
Antiquities" of England, and that
"Nankee Doodle" was intendesl to aj
plv to Cromwell, and the other lines
were designed to "allude to his going
into Oxford, with a single plume
fa*temsl m a knot called macaroni-"
The tune was known in New England
before the Devolution, as "I.ydia Fish
er's Jig." a name derived from a fam
ous lady who lived in the reign of
Charles 11. and which has Icon ja-r
-petuated in the following nursery
rhyme:—
J.irkj Istehrt lost her pocket
Kitty Ftaber I ootid it-
Not • bit of money in it.
Only binding nrand it.
The regulars in Boston, in 1785 ami
1776 are said to have sung verses to
the same air:
Yankee Doodle mm* to town
For to Ist? s Die-lock
We will tar and tenther biro
And no will John Hancock.
The manner in which thetnne came
to lie adopted by the Americans, is
shown in the following letter of the
Uev. W. Gordon.—Describing the bat
tle of Lexington and Concord, before
alluded to, be says:—
"The brigade tinder Lord Percy
marched out (of Boston) playing, by
way of contempt, "Yankee Doodle."
Tney were afterwards told that they
hail been made to dunce it" It is
most likely that Yankee Doodle was
originally derived from Holland. A
song with the following burden has
long lieen in use among the laborers,
who in the time of harvest, migrate
from Germany, to the Low Countries,
where they receive for their work as
much buttermilk as they ran drink,
and a tenth of the grain secured by
their exertions:—
Ysnkcr did*), dnnd*l dooa
I>id*l, dndd Uat*r,
Yank* hr*r roov*t mown
Boturroilk and 1 SUUMR.
That Is buttermilk and a tenth.
CLIPPHVU* FOB THE CUKIOL*.
' Small clocks are attached to the
principal lamp posts in Amsterdam.
' Dynamite is safer to trans j urt than
gunpowder, according to English ex
perts.
1 Along the roal from Mohileto Mont
i gomery there are miles of turpentine
orchards.
Fairmount park, Philadelphia, is
thelargi-st park in the I'riited Status.
It contains '2!f.1l acres.
Darwin asserted that monkeys flush
when angered, and the oh crvations of
younger naturalists confirm him.
The use of joints only became gene
| ral when forks were suhstituti-d for
lingers in the reign of Elizabeth.
! The first work favoring the use of
i Saturday as the Christian ,Sabbath was
puhlislii-d in lb2* by Theophiltis lira-
I bourne, a clergyman.
The /•>(> I'rtMf of San Antonio,
Tex., tells of a speei-s of ants found in
that stat- which make a honey equal
' to any that is produced by bees.
r Stone mortars, throwing a missile
; weighing twelve pounds, are mention
| ed as being employed in 757 A. I).
ami in 1232 A. D . it is incontestable
i j that the Chinese la-sieged in t'aifong
i fu used <an re/ii against their Mongol
enemies.
I Some of Uie best English jockeys are
women, daughters of farmers, or of
, country squires, who have l->st their
, fortunes. They have ls-en accastorned
t to ride to hounds from tbeir childhood
are perfectly fearless, and their light
, weight in the saddle makes them desir
able as jockeys.
; 1 There are ninety-one city companies
•in London, 'if these, twelve, the
lIUTC- r-, gr-" <TS, drapers, fishmongers,
, goldsmiths, skinners, merchant
tailoi*, hahf-rda-hcr*, Salter-, iron
mongers. vintners and elothw rk< rs
are sub-d honorable. The wealth of
tic se I slies is enormous.
English gentlemen - f Qui-en Eliza
ix-th's time were accustomed to wear
handkerchiefs in their bats as fav.rs
( from young la<li-s. Ti,<-se. art.-i- t
when wrought and edged with g-.ld
were worth from live pence to twelxc
pence each, their xaluc was not great
ex en iri good (jis+n Bess's time, when
a pennx w.i* a penny.
The Jiayeux tapestry contains,
1--ides the figures < f 505 quadruped-*,
t-irds. sphinxs, etc.. the figures of '>23
men. '2"2 horses, 55 dogs, .'{7 buildings,
41 ships an/I boat- and 4M tre--, or a
grand total of 1512 figures. The tajo
estrv is divided into seventy-two sepa
rate compartments, each representing
one particular lust- rical occurrence
and lie.irmg an explanatory Latin in
i script ion.
The Chinese and Egyptians reckon
ed by the livi-s of their king*. The
Itoinans liegan with the founding of
tiu-ir city 753 B. C. The Greek*
cotin'e<l the years l>y Olympiad* of five
years each. l-eg-.nning with the first
Olyrfipic games, in 776 11. C. The
Mohammedans reckon from the flight
of Mohammed to Medina Savages
notch ujion trees a mark for ca< Ii year
as it passes.
An Aggraiating Little Wretch.
S>me of the city stores are constant
ly annoyed hv children coming to the
I door and asking for cards, empty lmxes
and that sort of thing. The clerks
are, of course, down on the youngsters,
| and the warfare never ends. The
other day a little girl opened a store
; door, and sticking her head in, called
] out:
">ay, mister, have you got any
I empty boxes?"
"No!" said the clerk, not very polito
|iy.
"Got any cards?
"No!"
"Got any almanacs ?"
"Nor*
! "Got any empty lxittles?"
"Nor*
"Got any pictures?"
"Nor
"Got any sense?'
"No—yes—no—yes—you miserable
little wretch!" arW the clerk flew ou
of the door; but the youngster was Sn
the next alley making faces at hirn,
and he came hack maihfer than he had
lieen since his salary was reduced,
5# l*se.
A citizen of Brooklyn who had been
run down by a bill collector, used some
pretty plain language, and wound up
with:
"It is lucky for you. sir, that duelling
is not permitted in this country.'l
"Would you challenge me?" I
"Certainly I would." A
"Oh, well, it wouldn't lie of air use
to do that," was the calm reply. I "You
couldn't get credit anywhero'wtthin
fifty miles of Brooklyn for enough
powder to kill me withT IFu/i
Street Nein*
CIIILDKKS'* COLL'IIS.
Can't ( atrh It*
OilMr'ri. what it that you '•an
never i atrh. ni'ii if you were t-i chaw
after it. an 'jui'-k as possible, v.itli the
; -ift<*Ht horse in the world ?
Vou <an never catch the word that
' hai once gone out of your li j>h.
Once spoken, it it out of your power;
I do your best, you can never recall it.
; Therefore take rare what you nav,
for "in the multitude of words there
tvaneth not sin; but he that refraineth
his lins is wise."
flow a lllrd Oni % Itted th* Moafc
"Of all tin- hanging nest*. commend
ne to that made of grass by the I/ay a
sparrow r,f India. It is one of the
most perfect bird-houses 1 know of,
and seems only to need a fire-place to
1 make it a real house, it is entered
through the long nerk at the lower
end. The bed for the eggs rests in the
, bulb, or expansion at the middle of the
i fiest, where there are actually two
1 rooms, for the male has a perch divided
j off from the female by a little partition,
where he may sit and sing to her in
rainy weather, or when the sun shines
| very hot, and where lie may rest at
. night. The walls are a firm lattice
work of grass, neatly woven together,
I which permits the air to pass through,
( hut does not allow the Innis to he seen.
The whole ri'wt is from fourteen to
eighteen im hes long, ari'l six inches
wide at the thickest part. It is hung
low over the water, — why, we shall
presently s<-e, _ and its only entrance
is through the hanging neck.
" Why do birds build hanging nests ?
"Thoe h.r'Ls that do make hanging
nests, undoubtedly do it because they
' think them the safest. Hird's eggs are
' dehra< i-s on ttie bill of fare of several
• animals, and are eagerly sought by
' them. Snakes, for instance, live almost
entirely upontl,/-m, during th< month of
1 June; s'jiiirrels <at them, no-coons also,
' and opossums, < at-, rats, and mice.
Hut pone of the-i animals could ereep
. out to the pliant, wavy ends of the
- willow branches -r Mm tw:g, and
i cjing He re long enough to get at tho
I c ntents of a Haltiinore oriole's nest.
I "In tie- country where the baya
. sparrow lives, there are snake- and
op sums. an<l all the rest of egg-eaters;
i and in addition there are tr<*'ps of
ii u.hes*. wb. h are more to 1/e feared
tl a - , all th rest t' gether. Monkeys
a:> v mlerfully/ Xpert climbers, from
. whom the <ggs. in an ordinary open
top jxiueh nest, lik<- the oriole's would
L nt Ih si-,aire; f. -r if they can get anv
w>.i re re ar. they wall reach their long,
slender lingers down inside the nest.
, The baya *j arrow discovered tins, and
learned to build a n'-st inclosed on all
side-, aj.d to enter it from underneath
by a neck t >n long for a monkey to
conveniently reach up through, lb-side
tiii. she took the precaution to hang
it out on the very tips of liglit branches,
' upin which she thougiit no robber
' dare trust himself. Hut she found
that the monkeys 'knew a trick worth
two o'that.' They would go to a higher
limb which was so strong, and one
would let him*<lf down from it, gra*p
' ing it firmly with his hands; then
another monkey would crawl down
and hold on to the heels .of the first
one, another would go below him. and
so on until several wore hanging to
each other, and the lowest one oould
reach the sparrow's treasures. He
would et them all himself, and then
one by one they would climb up over
each other; jand last of all the tired
first one. who had loen holding up the
w <ight f all the rest, would get up,
t(>. and all would go noisily off in
search of fresh plunder, which, I sup
pose. would be given to a different one,
the rest making a ladder for him as
before.
"Now the cunning baya sparrow
saw away t > avoid even dangerous
| trickery. She knew that there was
I nothing a monkey hated so terribly as
to get his sleek coat wet. He would
rattier go hungry. 8o she hung her
nest over the water close to the surface,
' and the agile thives do not dare make
a ciiain enough to enable the last one
to rea h up into iter nest from below,
, as tye must do. for fear that the springy
I branches might lend so far as to souse
them into tlie water.
" The sparrow has fairly outwitted
| the monkey I"
Ths Greatest Tramp.
One Christian Frederick Schaefe, a
Hessian, who recently died in New
South Wales, was prolmhly the great-eft
tramp of the century. He 1 (egged for
food and clothes, but would not accept
money. It is supposed he walked more
than 1 .V),(KXi miles in making success
fully the tour of Germany. France.
Spain, Northern Africa, Turkey. Italy,
Greece, F.ngland, the United States,
New Zealand and Australia.' Occasion
ally, when absolute necessity required,
aa for instance on shipboard, he would
do a little work, but his apparent feeble
ness always excited pity and saved him
from hard labor. Ho was honest ami
harmless.