Trip Lightly. Trip light I) over trouble Trip lightly over wrong; We only mslte e grief double By dwelling on it long. Why ehup woe's hend eo tightly Why ting o'er hloeeotni deed ? Why oling to forme unsightly ? I Why not eeek joy instead T , Trip lightly orer sorrow, Though ell the wnys bo dark, Tho ran may ehino to-morrow j And gaily ring tho lark. Fair hopes hare not departod, Though roses may have tied, 1 Then never tie dowii-hoartod, But look for joy instead. , Trip lightly over sadness, < Stop not to rail at doom i We've pearls to string of gladtieas On this side ot the tomb; Whilst stars arc nightly shining, And the heaven is overhead, Kncournge not repining— But look for foy instead. j DELILAH. i i Sir Thomas Winston was a widower, t and his present family consisted of two daughters somewhere between eighteen 1 and thirty ami a son. There were | several guests besides myself at Win- : ton hall—Capt. Seymour, a brother of- t fleer of young Winton's, with a sus- •• pected desire of forming another fra- ] ternal connection with him; "Paddy" ' O'Rrian, a sort of social Crichton, and I others. Of the fairer visitors, I need i only mention one, Ada Dart, for what ' man of sound mind could notice any i other girl when she was in the room ? 1 Well, Capt. Seymour, could do so, but | then he was infatuated and not of s sound mind—suffering from younger - Miss Winton on the brain in fart, it < surprised ma very much to see the beautiful Ada sail into the drawing room before dinner on the evening of < my arrival. I hail met her at a din- < ner party and three balls; I had attend- t ed her with grateful humility through- " out the whole of a picnic, and her i image rose before me rather more than I I liked. i I could not remain long by her side; | the room was full of strangers, with ' many of whom I hail now to form ac- 1 quaintance for the first time, even the I ladies of the house being unknown to I me. I was eventually paired ofT with a companion, and dinner was spoiled ' by a perpetual dread of speaking with ; levity of things she reverenced. The place I coveted at the side of Ada Dart was filled by I'addy O'Brian, ' who had a wonderful and enviable 1 power of show ing politeness and np parent attention to the general corn- i panv while really attaching himself to I one selected individual. Before the evening was over I felt certain that I had no chance of "walk- 1 ing over" for the prize, and also, that ' she was worth winning; for Paddy was not the man to court undowered beauty. Indeed, lie could not afford so romantic a proceeding. When the iadios retired, most of the men repaired to the billiard room, where cigars were provided, but the majority were tired an 1 went to lied, early, leaving O'Brian and myself to ' finish a game. "Well." said he, as soon as we were ' alone, "I suppose that you and I have 1 been asked down here for the same i thing." "Oh yes; the shooting, you mean," I ' replied. "Shooting! That's the polite way of paying us. They want us to help them with their private theatricals." "Oh, they're going to get up private theatricals, are they?" "To be sure, or you would never have leen asked to Winton hall, nor I j either, faith! I got it out of Miss Dart." "Who ill tell us what to do at>out scenery, dresses, and all the little de- j tails''" said Miss Winton, when the family took the stage fever badly last summer. 'Don't you know some one, papa?" "I have it," cried Sir Thomas. "On of my acquaintances is great on the drama; at least lie talks of nothing else, and though not a Solomon, that seems to be his specialty." "But is he presentable?" asked Julia Winton -"Seymour's girl, you know." "Oh, yes," replied Sir Thorn an; "he has paid up on his shares, and he as pirates his h's, and he has really very fine whiskers!" "Shut up, O'Brian!" said I. "I)o not foist off your own imperU-nencies upon the innocent. And what were yop asked here for?" "To act, of course. If It had not l>en for my success In Sir Lucius O'Trigger at Lady Sock's I might have gone hang before ever I'd have l>een a guest in this elegant establishment. Oh, there is no shirking the truth with me. my boy; nobody does anything for nothing in this world." There was uLdoubtedly a sentiment of truth at the bottom of this frothy cynicism of O'Brian's; for on the fol lowing day the subject of private theat ricals w as quietly broached in my pres ence by the Misses Wiaton. My theatrical tastes had never as yet led me to take a part in any perform ance, and, indeed, of the ladies and men forming the present company, Ada Dart and O'Brian were the only two who were not about to make their first appearance upon any stage. Of course, these experienced members took a prominent lead, besides being necessarily drawn together in a con j fidential way which it was very un pleasant for me to witness. Jealousy I and envy so stirred my bile that I was inclined to regret the good old days of duelling, when I might have picked a quarrel with my rival, and so had a chance of removing him fromniy path. But the way in which the odious Irishman knocked over pheasants and rabbits, and a particular snap-shot, lired from the hip, which w;is fatal to a woodcock, forced ine to own that there was a deep truth in the ingen ious assertion so constantly repeated J in newspaper articles, that private combat is a "cowardly practice." The fine old hall of Winton park was to he our theater, and it was my particular province to take the best advantage of the many natural facili ties of the place; to arrange about the scenery; to find out what were the proper dresses fur the plays we were to perform, etc., and Ada Dart, being the only person whose counsel was of real service in case of a difficulty, I was perpetually obliged to appeal to , her. Dangerously intoxicating were those conferences, which, I confess, i prolonged needlessly; indeed, I lisisl sometimes to get up a vexatious oppo sition to her wishes in order to give our discussion a matrimonial flavor, lleigh-ho! The plays selected were "The Belle of Penzance," followed by the farce of "Eves and Nose," and the distribu tion of parts was a work for Job and Solomon, most of the company at first declaring their utter inability to take the simplest characters, and coming round gradually to demanding the principal mles. At our first general meeting it really seemed doubtful whether it would be possible to cast the mildest and lightest of pieces, but at the end of a fortnight if "Othello" could have been rewritten with three Moors, four Desdenmnas and two lagos, our little company "had stomach for llietn all." I was cast for Fortescue, which w as too prominent a part fur my taste; fur beside that, on principle, 1 very much prefer that other people should amuse me to reversing that proceeding; i li.ited having so nitieh to learn by heart. In a little time matters liegan to run smoothly and we had our first re hearsal. Ity recalling to mind the dif ferent actors I had seen in my part, and endeavoring to imitate them, I succeeded better than I ha I anticpa ted, and gained considerable applause. "But," said O'Brian, "yon must shave, you know. The Idea of Fortescue with those whiskers is too al>surd." Now. my whiskers were black, pen dant, silky, and had <-ot mean infinity of trouble. It had taken five years of constant care and scientific training to bring them to their pr-wnt state of perfection. Any one without experi ence in the matter would scarcely credit the amount of time and lal*>r. not to mention tin- mere money, that I had expended upon them. Little soft brushes, delicate combs, txitth s >f a peculiar oil, more delicate than is ever ilsasl for the head, were appropriated to their service. When I visited my hair-cutter that artist would delller ate for at least five minutes before he could come to a definite conclusion upon the important jviint whether he should take the "bends" <>lT. When I took my walks abroad and the breeze Muttered them over my shoulders, scornful indeed was the lieauty whose eyes did not light up with a<l mi rat ion as she passed. Even envious men were unable to withhold their tribute of praise. "('hoovers, my boy," utwerved Riv ers, who has spent his own fortune and is looking out for a wife, "my figure is twenty thousand, but, by gad. if I had your face hair, I'd make it forty!" Von may judge my feelings, then, when it was seriously proposed that I i should shave. I repudiated the notion [ with a shuddering earnestness which seemed to amuse some of the company, ami they ail set to work to argue rne out of my objection to the sacrifice. "They will grow ngain," said one Miss Winton. "I am sure Mr. Cheever's face would look better without them," added the other. "Yes; there Is a particularly fine contour, which is completely hidden at present," said O'Brian. "How do you know that. Faddy?" "Contour or not," said I, firmly, "if you cannot put up with a whiskered Fortescue, some one else must take the part." And to that resolution I stuck in spite of Mattery, persuasion and satire for three days. And I got it hot, too, at times. First one and then another male visitor was tried in my part, and found wanting. On the fourth morning after break fast, Ada Dart expressed a wish to learn how to play at billiards. O'lirien was not in the room, and I seized the | opportunity of offering my services, j which were accepted. "I am so sorry, Mr. Cheevers," said she, "that you cannot take the part of Fortescue. You must change with Mr. o'ltrian; that is the only way in which wo can manage it, and even ! | that will spoil the play." "Is it quite necessary that Fortescue should IHJ whiskerless?" 1 asked ) faintly. "Why, judge for yourself; how ' would a powdered wig look with - them? The worst of itis," she added, ' "that when I undertook the—the part ' of Maria it was with the supposition that you would be Fortescue," and she blushed slightly. Those who are unacquainted with "The I idle of IVnzance" must be told that Fortescue is the lover of Maria, : and several half-romping, half-loving scenes are enacted between them. "Hit your ow-ow n b ldeball in the exact center, and rather high," I stam mered, "and you you would not like o'Hri that is, any other fellow to— ,to to take that part, in fact." "I declare I won't answer you!" she cried. "(>f course, I know you, and never saw most of the others liefore, and such things make all the difference, you know. To Is* kissed, even in make-believe, by a man one has seen for the first time a week before, makes one feel nervous. Hut there!" (At this (mint I went down on one knee ) "(let up; there's some one coming!" It was Miss Winton and Captain Seymour, who came just , in time t<j prevent a formal offer. I went off t<i my l*"droom, looked the door, opened my dressing-case, took out scissors and razor, and finished the dreadful task. <>n my way down stairs, 1 met Sir Thomas, who stopped, stand, and asked my name. He did not recognize me. Young Winton, who was always late, was breakfasting when I entered the morning-room. He dropped a cup of hot coffee fiver his knees, anil nearly choked. Leaving him in his misery, I encountered a young lady visitor, who crammed her pocket-handkerchief in her mouth and tied. Hut it would lie tedious to recount the effect I pro duced ujon each individual memlier of the household. All. even tlie faith less Ada, lauglusl at my appearance, except o'ltrian. who looked ujmn my transformation from a purely dra matic |H>int of view. Others were di vided as to whether I most resembled a plucked fowl or a recently shorn sheep, but the veritable amateur said: "sure, he will make an elegant 1"..r fescue," and stiii k to that View of the question. The company soon got used t i the alteration, and the dra matic business now went as smoothly as a hand passed over mv cheeks. I had the intoxicating privilege, the tan talizing element in which was tem pered by hope, of making second-hand love to Ada in daily rehearsals, till at last the day of positive performam arrived. We all knew our parts, but whethei we acted them welli.r not it Is difficult to judge, our audience was liound in common p<diteness to )• pleased, and the (lattering applause and profuse congratulations we received cannot 1* counted for much. At any rate, every- IMMI y seemed delighted, and the whole affair was voted a success. On the morning following the per formanee, I awoke early with a firm determination to turn mimic court ship into earnest, and force a plain yes or no from her that very day. To lie in lied with such a prickle in the pillow was quite impossible, so I got tip, dressed and went for a walk. On passing through the garden on my way back to breakfast, I liecame aware that some one else was also in high spirits, for a well-known voice liehind j the shrublierry was singing " The Pigs in the Morning," and on turning the corner of a path which brought me ; into a little open dell. I came upon I O'ltrian. with his hat stuck on the j hack of his head, executing a par #CM/ I to a vocal accompaniment. " Ah !"he cried, on seeing me, "sure I you have caught me making a fool of myself. Hut it is a good thing my j mother's only son has done for me this : morning, t'ongratulate me, my ltoyl' 1 " Certainly," said I, feeling a little sickly. " What on ?*' " I am going to lie married to the prettiest little angel that ever wore I loots, and has a nice little sum all at her own disposition into the bargain. Whoop!" ' It was too true; he had stolen a I march upon me. I left Winton two hours afterward. I At present my whiskers are in the i blar-kin g-brush stage SCIENTIFIC SCttA PH. M. Nchlumberger recommends that a bottle of ammonia should le placed in each barrel of petroleum. <>n ignition, by accident or otherwise, .the bottle would break and theammoniucul vapoiN would at once extinguish the lire. Hr. I'ietra Santa proposes to apply this method to collieries liable to lire-damp. ] Tanks lilh-d with ammonia, would, it j is said, stop the combustion, as it could riot continue in an ammoniacul atmos phere. How do earth-worms increase the fertility of the soil? is a question j which may well he asked, since it is i plain that these creatures can arid no I new material to the soil. HerrHensen has anaw ed by proving that the worms greatly aid plant-growth by making | burrows through which the delicate ( j roots reach the moist subsoil. They ; also draw into their burrows vegeta- [ , hie matter from the surface (where its | fertilizing ingredient* would be wasted) | hasten its decomposition and distribute it through the various layers of the Soil. Besides the conspicuous displays of aurora Isirealis so frequent iri Arctic ! regions, several obserx ers have rejwrted the presence at times of a peculiar dif fused light after the total disappear ance of daylight. The phenomenon was witnessed last winter by I'rof. ■ Lcmstrom from his observatory in Lapland. He describes it as a phos- j phoreeeent shine or diffused luminosity, j of a yellowish white color,rendering the | night as light as when the moon shines through a thick hazy air. He is dis js>sisl to believe tbat the apja-arancc has an auroral nature, and that it is present in Northern Lapland during most winter nights. Ir. Hoetan iHdaunay has just coin- i municated an interesting paper to the French Anthropological society, in which he seeks to establish that right handedness is not an acquired habit, , hut is a natural attribute, character!*- I tir of the superior races. >avagi tribes, he stat<-s, and communities in i an inferior state of civilization, show a much larger proportion of left- j handedness than highly-civilized peo ple do. Idiots and epileptics offer a very large percentage of left-handed Individuals, and there are more b-ft handed women than men. His gener al conclusion is that in the evolution of the species there hits M-en a steady tendency t" the development of tin right side of the Imdv at the expense of the other, and that the examples of left-handedni-ss still t.. Is- no t with in the superior race are mere -survi vals." Prince and Prince** of Wales. The London mrres|Mindent of the New York ' ■imm'T'-itil, having seen the Prince and Prims-** of Wales at the o|era. draw* this picture of the royal | air "The Prim Wale*. ' who was linking uncommonly well, studosl his libretto with hi* usual dili gence. I have remarked this fait, that 'the royalty' scarcely take their eves from their book*. The prince has probahlv s.-en -Lohengrin' fifty times. I will venture to sav that during a. many evening* he has held a libretto in hi* hands from the commencement almost to the close of the js-rforin- i ari'-e. The Princes* of W ales, by the way. iisualtv in fact, always doe* the same. How much she is loved by everyls*ly. Her ebk—t son sat lieside ner, and she looked young enough to le bis sister, she was drcssisl in a dinner gown of pale blue silk, high in the back, and Vt) mined with magnifi cent Vab-nciennes lace. Her hair wa* dressed high, and several diamond or naments glittered among her tresse*. she is to my rnind the most distin guished and lovely woman in England. Her face is sweet beyond words, but very sad. 1 have never si-en her smile more than good breeding would sug gest. Is it etiquette or melancholy which imposes such quietness upon the featuresof so charming a woman? I have often wondered." Catching a Prairie l>or. I was assured that I might as well try to dip the creek dry. a* each dog hud a passage from his residence to the level of the creek, that all the water that could l>e emptied in would not rabe an inch above the river l>ed. 1 didn't take much stock in this watir passage idea, however, so. after secur ing a box for the game and half a dozen water buckets, I took three or four tnen and ran the engine up to the water tank, filled up the engine tank, and then ran down to call on the deni zens of prairie dog park. The old pioneer was at his post as usual, hut disappeared like a flash when the en gine stopped opposite his door. 1 dis connected the hose on the engine tank, and the bucket brigade went at it live ly. Dozens of buckets of water were used, and the tank was getting low. when at last the hole was filled to the i mouth, and shortly the old fellow put his noss out for a little fresh air. He was put in the box, and in less than an hour he hail a dozen more to keep him company. AmerUxin Field. Why ( orhlncal and Carmine are so Costly. The IroiiiH'jngtr, of London, explains why the beautiful cochineal and ear mine colors are so exjiensive. It says: One of the beet and most powerful animal dyes used in the arts and man ufactures Is the body of the female cochineal insect, dried. This insect exists on a species of cactus, and when alive is about the size of a ladybird, or perhaps a trifle smaller. It is wing less, rather long, equally broad all over, and is marked behind with deep inci sions and wrinkles. It has six feet, whieh, curiously enough, are only of use directly after birth, and secures itself to the plant by means of a trunk which is found between the Lire feet and derives its nourishment from the sap. The male cochineal is like the female only during the larva period. It changes into chrysalis, and even tually appears as red Hies. The female deposits some thousands of eggs, which she protects under her body un til they are hatched, and on the ajc pearanee of the young ones the parent dies. While the young are in their larva state their sex cannot be det -r -rained. They lose their skins several times, and while the female fixes her self on the plant, the male, after get ting over the pupa state, is winged. Two or three months is the extent of the life of these littl- insists. They are gathered before they lay eggs, and an- then rich in coloring matter. Carmine i* prepared from the cochi neal insect, the <'r) -ti.i arti, which is collected by brushing the branches of the Cactus with the tail of a squirrel or | other animal; this is very tedious work. They are kiilisl by immersing them in Muling water, and this has to le done at once or they would lay their eggs, and thereby lose much of their value. There are many processes for prepar ing the carmine. The French process may be taken a* an example: one jwund of the powdered cochineal in sists is boiled for fifteen minutes in three gallons of water ; one ounce of cream of tartar is then added, and the Milling continued ten minutes longer ; then one ounce and a half of jsiwdcred alum is thrown in, ami the Muling con tinual for two minutes longer. The ; liquid is then [toured off, and set aside the carmine to settle down. In other processes, carbonate of Soda or js>tash is used. Color-Hearing. Popular expressions are often very significant. " I saw throe dozen lights of all colors," or some similar expres sion, may frequently M- heard from jwrson* who have received violent blows <>n the head or face. Under the I influence "f shocks of this kind, the eye really seem* to *<-e infinite numbers of -park- Shocks of .i certain class uu prcssed u|-n the nervous system seem to have the faculty of producing phe nomena of light. This remark ha* been suggest'*l by the facts which we ire uM>ut to relate, which lead us to tippoc that sonorous vibrations are susceptible in certain cases of provok ing luminous sensations. There are, in fact, persons who are endowed w-ith siu-h sensibilitv that they cannot hear a sound without at the same time per | cciving colors. Each sound to them ha* its pis uliar color; this word corres pond* with nsl. anil that one with green, one note is blue, anil another is i yellow. This phenomenon. "Color hearing." as the English call It, has loen hitherto little observed. Ir. Nusshauiner, of Vienna appears to have Iws-n the first person who took serious notice of it. While still a child, w hen playing one day with his brother, striking a fork against a glass to hear the ringing, lie discovered that he saw colors at the same time that he per ceived the sound ; and so well did he discern the color that, w hen he stopped his ears, he could divine by it how loud a sound the fork had produced. His ; brother also hail similar experiences. Hr. Nussbautner was afterward able to add to his own observations nearly identical ones male by a medical stu dent in Zurich. To this young man. musical notes were translate! by cer tain fixed colors. The high notes in duced clear colors, and the low notes dull ones. More recently, M. Pedrono, an ophthalmologist of Nantes, has ob served the same peculiarities in one of his friends.— popular Science Monthly. A man asked for admission to a show for half-price, as he hail but one eye. Hut the manager told him tt would take him twice as long to aee the show as It would anybody else, and charged him double. There are only five states In which no beer is brewed Arkansas, Florida, Maine, Mississippi and Vermont. Laat year Alabama produced only eight lmrrels and North Carolina thirty-one. t'HIIJWKVN COLUMN. Mrtiool* Out. /V>t M'l Kirlf Corn* out to play. Pot took arid alat And alu'ly away. Coma willi a about. Coma with • call, Coma with aiexxl-will Coma otia and ail. 'lliara ara Charriaa and totri<a, And awnat-acenlnd cloaer, ItoaiMi and poaixa, * The whola wida world over, v/ut in tha inaadowa lieneath tha warm auo, Itip'niiix and waiting For children to coma; Put book, and alata, and aludr away. , Vacation'* here, it'a lima for play. Chrittian at h ark. I'mtly'a awarm. One day Patty ran into the house with her yellow hair a tumble, and her blue eyes sparkling with excitement. "Mother, <> mother," he cried, her little brown hands fluttering like the wings of a bird, "the bees are swarm ing." "Sure?" asked her mother, doubt fully. For, you see, Patty was the least bit in the world like the lxiy in the fable who cried "Wolf! wolf !*' when there was no wolf. Not that she meant to lie, but so many ix-ea / would fly about making such a buzzing in the warm spring sunshine, that Patty w as often quite certain that they were swarming, when they hadn't any idea of it. And that is why Patty's a mother ask'-d in a doubtful way, s "Sure?" "Yes'rn." said Patty meekly. Her mother stepped to the door. 1 True enough, there was a roar like I that of a very small waterfall in the air, and over the bee-hives floated little black cloud. "I do believe they are," she said. "But they're not all out yet, I guess, and will not begin to light for some little time. Bun down to Mr. Jessop'a, I'attv, and tell your father—no, I'll go," with a smile, remembering that Patty ha/1 gone for her father once be fore, when the bees were not swarm ing after all. "May I go out and watch 'em, mother?" asked Patty, dancing heel and toe on the white kitchen fl'*>r. "Yes; put on Aunt Nabby's shaker and don't go t/*i near." I So Patty got into Aunt Nabby's big shaker bonnet which was so much too large that you could not see her little round face, unhtss feeling quite sure it was there, you stooped and jteeped in. and the brow n calico cape almost reached the hem of her short skirts. Then l'atfy went into the garden and sat down on a box by the cucum- ( lwr lx-d. Sh<* watched the dancing black swarm until her eyes grew heavy. The sun shone brightly, the wrest wind ] ffl fragrant. The buzzing of many toes grew louder and louder, until it seemed H to swallow up every other sound. Then the big shaker togan todroop. an 1 that fl was all Patty knew, until "Patty' Patty, child' Iton't stir for your life'" This wa w hat called Patty out of Hrearoland, her father's voice, deep and hoarse. At first she wonderel where she I was. There was a roar, like distant thunder, in her ears. "IXm't move, Patty dear. D /n't lift your head!" That was her mother I The words sounded to Patty a great I way off, and there was a tremble in I them and a sob at the last. What could it mean? Patty was frightened, but she was a brave little girl, and had always taught to oley. So she sat very st with scarcely a quiver of an eyelid. andH presently she felt the big shaker lifted from her bead. "All right!" said her father. And Patty looked up with s littljfl cry to see the shaker—Aunt Nal shaker, truly, hut bigger than with that great cluster of buzzing bees hanging to it— within an empty hive. Then Patty laugheil. "Did they on my head?" she criel, jumping upH "What fun!" jH lint her mother took the little girl ifl her arms, and carried her into house and cried over her. are such queer people, "That shall be Patty's hive," safl her father, coming in later; with a twinkle in his eye, "I've of a l>ee in one's bonnet, but I n< fif saw so many bees on one's bonnet ifl fore," "Nor I." said Patty, laughing rtfl "They shall make me some honey pay for that,"—ToMtAV Companion. U In ten years the wheat the United has 19,000,000 tt^fl ported at W 000 at the w C.
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