The Children Wo Keep. The children kept coming, ono by one. Till tho boys were live and tho girls wore three, And the big brown house was alive with run From the basement floor to tho old root tree. Liko gsiden flowers the littlo ouos grew, Nurtured and trained with the tenderust cam; Warmed by lovo'a sunshine, I sit hod in its dew, They bloomed into bounty, liko roses ruro. But ono of tho lioys grow weary ono day, And, loaning his head on his mother's breast, lie said, "1 am tired and rannot play; l.ot mo sit awhile on your kneo and rest." Pho cradled him close in hor fonil embrace, tihe huhod him to sloop with her sweetest song, And rapturous love still llghteys proudly went from tho father's side. The girls wero women so gentle and fair That lovers wero speedy to woo and to win; And with orange blossoms in braidist hair, lhe old home was lull, new homo to begin. !k>, one by one, tho rliil Iron have gone— Tho boys wore five, and tho girls wire three; And the tug brown house is gloomy and lone; With but two old triks for its company. They talk to each otber at-ait the past, As they sit together in eventide. And say, "all tho children wo kept at last, Arc the boy and the girl tin In childhood dial." Out of the Poor-House. "I'm sure I don't know what tod-> aln-ut it," said Mr. Griggs, liojK-lestsiv, scratching his ear with the feather-end of his quill jn n. It was a glorious August day at Ilil berry Four Corners. The mullein studded pastures were l iked with heat; the closed cups i>f the morning glories hung disconsolately among the wilting leaves, while the cattle st">d knee-deep in the Bilberry River. where pollard willows made a friendly •hade. At the Town House, however, there was no such luxury as trees. Trees shaded the cabbage Held; their roots drew all the strength out of the gar den soil, where onions, j tat' i-s and sugar-lusts were to be grown, and their leafage made a green mold on th> roofs. The Town House was meant for use, not show; and the selectmen had no nonsensical scruples on the subject of Imatity; and so the sun came in. like the breath of a fiery dragon, through the uncurtained casement, and smote Mr. Griggs. the •up*rintendent, on the very crest of his bald head. "I'ull down the window-shade, somebody!" said Mr. flriggs, writhing uneasily in his chair. "Oh. dear! oh, dear! I wish Mrs. Bibb was here. She knows!" "What is the man calling about?" vaid Mrs. Griggs, bustling in from an adjoining room. "!>on't you know that Mr. i tern as Dodd is waiting?" "Take the books for yourself," said the superintendent, pushing a huge pile of folios toward ids better half. "What is one to do? There was two of 'em left on tho doorstep the same night. We called one Ruth, and the other Naoinl; and we surnarned her Snow, because it was an awful stormy night. The equinoctial, don't you rememWr? /nd here's Demas l)odd says one of 'em is his darter, and he wants her; and Mrs. Bibb is gone to bury her second son. And how in the nnme of all creation be I to tell which was which?" "Let him pick and choose for him self." said Mrs. Griggs, impatiently. "Tell him jest how it was." "No," sxid Mr. Griggs, authoritative ly. "That would derogate from the dignity of the town superintendent. I ain't to he took unawares like that It ain't to be supposed that the Town Honsc authorities can lxi mistook." "Stuff and nonsense!" said Mrs. Griggs. "We're all human, ain't we? But if you feci liko that, why, flip up a penny. If It cotnes up heads, say Naomi; if it's tails, say Ituth." And sho produced a copper cent on the spot, twirling it nimbly on tho table. For a second or two it spun around —then fell heavily on its side, revealing tho expressive lineaments of the God dess of Liberty. "Heads!" said Mrs. Griggs. "Send Naouii down to him. And I ain't sorry, for Nnouii always was a careless, Mighty tiling, and Ruth is dreadful handy with tho house linen and men's wiish." "But a man ought to have his own daughter," feebly remonstrated Mr- Griggs. "We can't do no better by him," said Mrs. Griggs. "And if ho hadn't no more naterai affection than to leave his own daughti-r on the door-step such an awful stormy night its that was—" "It wasn't him; it was old Miss Dudgick, Ids wife's aunt," explained the Superintendent of tho Town 1 '(Mir. J "You sec ho was awful down in the world, and he had gone to tho Azores to gather yarbs to make a cough curi as should knock everybody's colds into the middle of next year. An' when he heard the child was dead tie hadn't 1 no heart to come hack. And lie never | know'd she wits livin' until old Miss i iHulgick made an afferdavy on her death-hed, and it w ;ts sent to him by the lawyers. And here ho is now." "And here's a grown-up darter for him," said Mrs. Griggs, curtly. "And he'll la- suited, and we're suited, and I dare say Niiomi'll he suited into the bargain, and nobody need never he no wiser." With which astounding succession of double negatives the matter termi nated. Naomi was a pretty, blue-eyed girl of seventeen, who was to have been "bound out" the very next week to the clergyman's family. Iluth was a dimpled, smiling hru- i nette, whom ail tho little childn n instinctively sought in times of trou- I hie, and who was Mr- Griggs' right hand woman. And the two solitary young things hud always loved each other like twin sisters. ' "I wish papa could take us both"' j sot. IN d Xa<>mi, with her arms around Ruth's neck. "I'on't hint at such a thing," said Mrs. Griggs, indignantly. "And after all," said Iluth, who al ways -aw the consoling side of things, "we can see each other often. And isn't it exactly like a novel, that your father should come to claim you aft r , all these years?" v • Naomi went to the pretty old t rii k house which (tenuis J'odd, who j had contrived to make a fortune out of his "Oriental Cough Cure," htul pur- , ch.i-ist a picturesque old place, all j mantled with ivy, where there was an am ient garden, full of swot Williams and lilac hush*"*, and wandering ten drils of clematis; where monster jar trees thing tle-.r pennons of shade in ro-- tlie I • x-lMirdered paths. What a change it was after the i< a | and drudgery of the Town Poor House, this life of easy cum fort, with the -oftly-carpcted ih- rs, th> curtains; of snowy muslin looped with ril.l-.ii_ , the l-Miks, the Mowi rs, the atmosple re ' of repose! Naomi's young life -eemed to expand i within it, like a daffodil in the sun shine. And li mas Itodd, himself j scarcely forty, was so gentle, so rcllm-d, so companionable. "l'apa," cried Naomi, who was an impetuous little creature, anil always' spoke out her thoughts and fellings, | "you are so nice' I don't think I cvei i loved any one as much as I love I you." And yet there was a certain shadow of awe in the girl's manner toward him. " What is it ?" Naotnl asked herself. "I am riot afraid of him. Ho all girls feel so toward their father? But then I haven't known pnpa all my life, (if course that accounts for it. It's sim ple enough when one comes to think of it." Demas I)odd's daughter had scarcely dwelt in her new home a month when a greasy, ill-spelled note arrived from Mr. Grigg, the superintendent of the I'oor House. "He wants me to come down there," said Mr. Dodd. "I wonder what for ?" "l'apa, can't I go, loo?" asked Naomi. "Not this time," Mr. Dodd responded gently, "but perhaps 1 will bring Ruth back with me to Spend the day—if Mrs. Griggs can spare her." The superintendent was sitting up in state lwfore his ledgers and account books, when Mr. Dodd was shown into the reception-room. "Mrs. Bibb has come home," said the superintendent. " Mrs. Bibb is j our matron." "Has she?" said Mr. Dodd. "But I atn at a loss to know how that fact can possibly affect na" "She has opened our eyes," said Mr. Griggs, with a flourish of his left hand. "Oh!" said Mr. Dodd. "Prepare yourself," said the super-' intendent "We've been mistook. Na omi's the wrong one. Ruth was your darter oil along. Mrs. Illbb known. .She brung *em up both, by band. Naomi belongs to tho old brick maker, who fell into tho kiln and broke his nock, aixtoen year ago. Truth la truth! And I ain't tho man willingly to deceive my fellow creetera, not if it was law to. Nuomi'a the wrong one, and Itutli ia your darter, Mr. Dodd." Mrs. JJibb, an elderly female, with a bottle-nose, ami a succession of double chins, was called to give her testimony, and it was incontrovertible. "1 am sorry for thia," said Mr. Dodd, gravely; "I have grown very fond of Naomi." "Kuth'a a deal hnndier aliout tho house," interposed Mrs. Griggs. "Na omi always was a feathcr-head-d croc tur. She's got a pretty face, and that's all." Little Kuth came in, trembling ami pale. Was the fairy story aliout to l revived? Was she the disguised prin cess, after all ? She would rather have drudged on at the poor house all her days, than that Mrs. liihh should have divulged Naomi's identity thus. Hut, as Mr. Griggs deelansl, "truth was truth." Naomi returned to tho poor house, and Kuth took possession "f the pretty old rcsl brick house, where the China rosea smelled so sweetly, and the canaries sang in the hay window. "My dear," said Mr. Dodd, stroking the pretty head, "I hope you will l very happy here." "I'apa," said Kuth, plucking up cou rage. "1 can t lie happy without Na I omi." Mr. Dodd smiled. A tendersoftnc-si ■ ati.e into his eyes. "That's what I was thinking my self. Kuth," said he, "Mb all Igo after , horV" "Dh. papa!" cried the girl, ccstuti* | eally. "if \ m only would!" Toward evening Item as J.1<1 came back to the old r<-d brick house with Naomi sitting )-. side him in the jwny phaeton. Kuth ran to meet her. and in half a : minute the girls were clasjx-d in each other's arms. "e his wife, and " "fi. Ruth! Kuth!" erb-d Naoinl, clasping her hand oti the other's mouth, "You are a veritable fortune-teller, j We were marrie 1 tins rmirning." Kuth utter- 1 a little outcry of joy, and shower- 1 kisses on Naomi's fore head. li; s arid throkl. "Oh I am so glad'" she exclaimed— "l am S" glad'" An-l it is re t probable that a step mother ever received a warmer wel come than Kuth accordM to her that day. The troublous question was settled satisfactorily at last. Kuth and Na omi were happy, and so was Mr Demas Dodd. And the whole thing went to prove that romances may lo evolved, even fr>m the st. ir walls of a town |>oor house. Stit'ii'luy Sight. Trick* In the Markets, Cut this out and run it over prepar atory to marketing: < >ranges are occasionally boiled to make them larg) r. Dried peas are soaked to imitate the fresh, green article. Samples of nuts or fruit cracked or cirt and exposed are not at all truthful- The l*"-t or biggest fruit is always on the top of the liox or basket. < dwerve if your butcher allows your meat to remain on the spring bal ance scales until the scales have ceas ed to quiver and the index is station ary. The markets are full of these little tricks of the trade. They come of generations of study and practice, and as a rule in buying any kind of ar ticle. if you find the dealer putting up a package out of sight look out for some kind of shave. . In the pyramids and regular em bankments of oranges the ls-st are al ways in front, while the dealer fills your paper bag with the poorer ones concealed in the rear. Keep your eye on the dealer when he fills your banana paper bag, for if your glance wanders a moment he deftly casts in from a poorer lot closo at hand. Look at the nice, flat hunches of cel ery and you find the greener and tougher stalka In Its roar. The steamer Durham City passed ' through several large Icebergs on her voyage, one of which was two miles long and three hundred feet high. SCIENTIFIC NC It A I'M. It Is now thoroughly believed by as tronomical arid other scientific persons that tho cyclone epidemic is caused by spots on tho sun. Dr. Hrown-Kequard has discovered a 1 now anesthetic which destroys sons ! ibllity, but not consciousness or phys ! leal activity, for an entire day or more It is found by the survey of tho Croat Lakes that there is a slight tide I In them but riot of sulllcient extent to 1 be noticeable without special care, the amount of rise and fall not exceeding j two inches It is denied by Schmidt Muhlheiiu that the formation of part of the milk obtained from a cow begins with the process of milking, and that the udder I is too small to give room for all the fluid to Is; obtained at one milking. On the contrary, the most thorough effort will leave some milk In the ducts, whence It is driven Into tin milk reservoirs by the newly formed secretion pushing from behind, and which may be obtained after the lapse of an hour from the time the milking began. The heat from an are electric lamp of I'HI < aridle power is from . r .7 to I.'- heat-uuits, that of the incandescent lamp of equal brilliancy from t<> -VIO. The argand gas-burner Is the next best light ill point of coolness, but this is represented by f.Hi'si heat units. a eol/.a oil lamp by •► •. fiat wick petroleum lamp by a paraf fine c andle by . and a tallow can dle by '.1.71H(. Light for light, there fore, the beat of an electric are lamp under the most favorable circumstan- : ces is to the heat of tallow candles as 1 to 170. A new explosive has Iss-n Invented by M. Turpin, a Parisian chemist. It is said t<> 1M- very jiowcrfui, and, un" like- nitro-glycerine,dynamite and gun- : cotton, it has the highly important - property of not Is-ing affected by con clusion. It is made by the conbina th-n of two liquids, which < an IM- trans port- I like ordinary cbemioUa, and Dead I only be mixed when tie- explosive i* aD-utto IM- us.-d. It can IM- employ. 1 J in its liquid form, or when alisorbed by j siliriotu earth. Frost .1-M-S not aff. t it. At '"berlsiurg experiments have lss-n made with this aulsdance tip- n slaty rocks containing quart?, and al* - ! ujM.n old rerm-nt-w. rk, and the r.-j- rt of the engineers praises it very much. An Kncllsh Picture. The fish markets at Shrewsbury and the other cities were full of fine fish fresh from these rivers. Tho rea--n is that there* is a -Irict system of pr<-*- vrvation. Th-re are time-- when net- , ting is allowc-d. and rod-fishing in tie season is |M-rmitted on application; but the Aineri> an uietho l of sc -oping out the contents of a riser in one year, and of imlfs. rimlnat- antl improvident consumption, is n--t tolerated. At all t!i' railroad stations in this vicinity you set- fishermen with rod and reel, and, of course, water-proof overcoats, on their way to or from the river. With all the abundance-, however, the salmon is not so very cheap. It brings a shilling, or twenty-five cents a |M.und. in th<- markets, and 1 regret t-- say they do not se-ni at the hotels to know* how to cook it. As a rule, they fry it. When they undertake to I>i 1 it, they stop 1-efnre it is half clone, and thus save coal, and fish also, for that ; matter. This, though, is the only hasty act 1 have yet discovered. Asa ! rule, as much time as possible is con j sunml at whatever is done. Kcir in stance. they pronounce Hereford in three syllables, instead of two, which ran lie aecountcsl for on no other ground than to use up time. The place itself, however you pro nounce it, is one to IM- heartily enjoy | ed. Here, for the first time, we put I up at a real Knglish Inn—the Green Dragon. It was neat a* wax. and save for the boot-black and JM.rter, offlcercsl throughout by women. The clerk was a young woman; the bar was tended by two neat and tidy maids with pretty white rajvs. and the bar-room was as quiet and orderly as a parlor. It is possible thus to pass judgment upon it without tasting the liquors, because with its flowers, its easy chairs, Its big, open chimney, and its opportunity to smoke there, it was the cosiest room in the house. It certain ly offered a most suggestive contrast to the bar of an American saloon. Here there w as no vulgar talk, no spit ting on the floor, no profanity or filth- One man after another, and one group after another, would drop in and order their drink, oftener whisky than any other, and would drink it, chat a bit, and, with a pleasant good-night, go out. At home such a room is a scene of riot, confusion and profanity, noisy, and indecent Perhaps it ia better that it should he so, hut I am only drawing a contrast and not a moral.— Eneli*h Cor. Hartford, CL, Courant. A THIEF'S CUBE. Thtt Vnfort iinal* Maula from Whlrh a • on*lil wm Hfllrtcii l,y > Hum.on. Said Governor Dluckbuni, of Ken tucky; "I know a young man of excellent family who had the misfortune to l*j wounded in the heart with a pistol-hull. 1 Shortly after he had ap|>urently recov ered he rob lied a store of a lot of stuff that was of no earthly value to him. He then stolen buggy, loaded the other stolen property Into the vehicle and hauled the entire bu*(n<-Hs Into a piece ] of woods, where he concealed the buggy and content*. The young man wan arrested, the property he took was recovered, and he was sent to the Frankfort penitentiary. He served (■is time out, and, going back home, burglari/cd the name store, taking the same class of goods, which he loaded into the buggy hi: bad run off with be fore, and he concealed the things in the same place he had hidden them on i the occasion of hiH iirst offense. "Once more the youth was sent to the penitentiary and had nearly com pleted his second term when I got a friend of mine, whom I knew to be an intelligent gentleman, to act as physi cian to the prisoners. The ease I speak of was brought to his attention because it was one of unusual inter est. The doctor gave it as Ids opinion that the bullet which bad struck Un voting man's head had indented the 'skull suflich-ntly to cause it to j res* on the man's brain, and that this was the reason lie committed the burglarb j i that couldn't possibly )•!,<•) t him, bu ; were sure to send him to prison. The ; doctor aid that lie believed tin- young man cotil 1 Ist enrol by trepanning the skull, but as bis time was alsmt to ex pire, he w uldn't take the responsibil ity of perfonning the ojieration. So tin- prisoner was shortly after ward sent home. He 10-t no time in heeling Up the old buggy again with the same class i f gosls that he had obtained on two previous occasions when ho burglarized the same store that he en 't' n*l for the third time. Of course, immediately after the things and the buggy were missed, the owners knew w here to lind them, and in no time at all my \ ung friend was back at the prison. "The doctor then said that he was going ttrepan that fellow's head if it wa- the last act of his < ilicial life, the death i i the pr.- tar. and he did. Not only that, hut he did it successfully, and I j anion cd the young man. He went home and 1-ehavid himself like a perfect gentleman, -ir. and never male the slight- -t attempt ' i steal fien a pin. I firmly Wlieve tliat if that man had m-t lssn oj>erated upon he would have repeated the offense f.( burglar izing that store and biding that old buggy in tin- woods till doomsday, could he live o h>ng. There is n th ing like having intelligent officers alna <-f I'rc-ldent (>re vy, according to the Paris Figaro. which tells us that the head of the re public mas frequently le. i Lieutenant Southerland, of the Brit ish army, is eight feet four itches high, and weigh* alxmt thr<-e hundred and sixty-four iound*. The costly pharmaceutical preparation in tiie market is the Urea- den ergotine, the active principle of ergot of rye. The price i* .50 a grain. The dome of the new Pari* observa tory will (>• floated in a trough filled with an aqueous solution of chloride Of magnesium, which will not freeze, and will preserve the equilibrium of the dome even if the building should settle unequally. It i--> esti mat--I that Pennsylvania i lia.* eoal enough to upjly tin- demand 1 for three centuries. The total anthra cite area before mining commenced was li-l'M*") square mile-. Allowing ( 1<*0 tons to the acre, a foot in depth would gi\< t< >ns . Assum ing that the depth average* thirty feet it gives a grand tot a) f 9,•>>",<*' frit) tons. At the present time the con sumption averages about bM,0" , .',U00 tons a year. London jewelers have l*-<-n making a remarkable ring for the king of Ham, which is to In used by his iiiaj •~ty only once ay ar, and then as held of the- Buddhists in La-tern India. The central stone is one and one-fourth Inch in diameter, and is en circfixl by a ruby, an emerald a sap phire, and five other stones. The mounting is doscriljod as light and ele gant, though strong. Emblems of the Buddhist faith are displayed. A Pugnacious Sailor. 1 Lord J'< re-ford is --mall in stature, a car< l' -s. < asy-going follow , with a g<*id taoe and bright eyes. He is a toother of the marqu - of AA'aterford, and, be. longs to a family of fighters. Villi am, the son selected for the army service, would soon'-r scuffle than eat. It is I nothing 11 hear that one of the Here*, fords has broken a 1-ne Charles William de la I'oer li< r sford, the naval captain, is a favorite of the Prince <>f Vales, I* • :ius he is "one of the L'VS." Alsiut ins fa e and head he resembles Lord Byron, and has the shoulders of an athlete. Several I Bemford is said to like nothing letter than to prowl alxmt of an evening with some othsr military i. direr. put | tlieir caps .in their pock - nre of the Prince of Wales. The French minister was accompanied by Admiral KeppeL I Everything went well and merrily ' until after the ladles retired from the table and the cigars and light wines were brought in for the gentlemen. | The conversation soon drifted to the i i Chinese war and then a debate was started by Lord Charles lteresford upon the merits of the English and French navies. The hero of Fort Merv grew | warm with wine, and he gradually be came very offensive In his remarks The efforts of the l'rinoe of Vales and ' others to check him into decorum served only to make him pugnacious. He fell to ridiculing the entire French fleet, and wound up with the itatoj mcnt that he could take the Condor, the little gunl*>*t with which he nosed arnind Fort Merv during the hora hardment of Alexandria, and chase the whole French fleet in Chinese wsters away from the Annan coast. ( M. Vaddington considered Lord Beres ford's conduct so extremely insulting, that he arose from the table, demanded i his carriage, and actually left the jiousc. The hostess followed him, and by the most earnest solicitations, final ly persuaded him to refrain from going to a hotel and to reenter the house, j In the meantime the British officers/ present comjielled Beresford to leave I the place, and such was the noble lord's I resistance of this treatment that hia I ejectment practically amounted f to 1 being kicked out. Every effort was mada I to bush up the matter but nothing I could suppress M. Vaddington's Indlg- I nant denunciations of the treatment to, I which he bail been subjected, and the I affair is the scandal of London. J