1 Handle of Letters.
Strange bow much •entiment
Citing* like a frag re lit acent
To the*© love letter*, sent
in their pink covers:
Day alter day they ratine.
Feeding love'a tickle flame;
Now, ibe has changed her name—
Then, wo were lovers.
Looaon the ailkon band
Round the square bundle, and
See what a dainty hand
Scribbled to tin it
Full of faceliona chat;
Fancy how long alio aat
Moulding the bullet* that
Came with each billet
Ah, I remember atill
Time that I naod to kill
Waiting the postman's shrill
Heart-stirring wineries,
Calling vague doubt* to mind.
Whether or no I'd find
One ho hud lclt behind,
Of horepiatloa.
Second* become an ego
At thia exciting atagc;
Two eager eye* tho page
Scan lor a m.utile;
'llicn, with true lovor'a art,
Study it part by pari,
Until they know by heart
Everything in it
What ia it all about?
Dnahea lor words left out—
Pronouns beyond a doubt
Very devoted.
Howell* aho's joal begun ;
Dob-on her heart baa won;
Locker and Tennyson
Frequently quoted.
Ctiaa-eroas the reading goes,
Rapturous rhyme and pro*©—
Wi.nl* which 1 don't (uppoM
laiok very large in
Hooka on the ologita;
Then there'a a tiny frieze
Full of awecta in a squeeze,
Worked on the margin.
lautlr—don't panto to laugh!—
That ia her autograph
Signing thi* truce for half
iler heart'* *urrender;
Pnst-Hcriptutn, one and two —
Dessert—the dinner's tbrm igb!
Linking iho ' 1" and "You"
In longings tender.
Such is the type ot all
Save 1 ne, and lei inn call
Uriel notice to this small
Note ma'ly written:
Tia but a curd, you **c,
Gently tnlorming me
That it can never tie'
This i* the mitten!
Frank It Sherman, in the Century.
AUNT PHILENA'S MONEY.
There was by no mean* unity in the
Jenkinson household. "Birds in their
little nest* agree," a* we are told by
the p<et. In this respect the Jenkin
son family differed from "birdsin their
little nest," upon this balmy Septem
ber morning.
"I won't have her in the house'"
sab) Mr*. Jenkinson. wle> was a large
female, with a high color, snapping
black eyes, and lip* which were halst
ually Compressed until they were a
mere thread.
"Madam," said Mr. Jenkinson, a lit
tle man with a head smooth and shin
ing as .1 billiard-ball, a red none and a
stiff moustache, "you will do as I or
der you! Who is the master of this
house you or mo?"
The lady burst into tears.
"Jenkinson," she sobbed, "you are a
brute! To speak so to your w ~-w
wife!"
"Well, then, my dear," said Mr. Jen
kinson, "do conduct yourself like a sen
sible woman! Extend your hospitality
In a gracious manner to my Aunt ITii
lona."
"ll—but," spattered Mrs. Jenkinson,
"I don't want any Aunt I'hilenas
here! I've only one spare chamlter.
and that I need for Alexandra's school
mate, Mi.* De Bourgoyne."
"But what are we to do?" said Mr.
Jenkinson. "She has written that she
is coming. Can I turn my father's
only sister out of my house?"
"Can't we have her hoarded some
where in the neighborhood ?" hazarded
Mrs. Jenkinson.
"She is a Jenkinson," said the gen
tleman, loftily. "The Jenkinsons never
endure slights."
"Ma, don't be a fool!" said Miss Alex
andra, drawing her mother cautiously
aside. "You know perfectly well that
pa always will have his own way. Let
Aunt I'hilena come. You can easily
manage matters so that she won't want
to stay very long. I'ut the lumpy mat
tress in the guest-chainlrer, and take
down the paper curtain on the east
side, so that the morning light will
shine in; and chain up Bacchus under
the window Bacchus how ls ail night;
and don't have anything for dinner hut
■alt pork and potatoes the whole time
she Is here."
Mrs. Jenkinson smiled faintly,
"But, Allie," said she, "If your pa
"Ilush!" said Alexandra, imperious
ly; "I'll manage it!"
And so Aunt I'hilena arrived at the
Jenkinson homestead -a little, with
ered old woman, with a dried-up faro
: likeun Egyptian mummy, a much
worn silk dress, and a frilled cap.
"IIo!" said Miss I'hilena ".So this'
is my niece-by-marriage, is it? What's
her name—Eliza? Well, Eliza, If you'll
take an old woman's advice you won't
wear such good gowns about the house
every day. And this Is your darter
eh? Alexander? Lund's sake alive!
What did you want to give her a hoy's
name for? She's a nice-looking gal
enough, hut 1 don't think gals used to
wear strings o' heads about their necks
when / was young. And a store car
pel, too, on the lloor! llain'tye never
any rags that you could weave up? I
could show Alexander how to manage
a loom easy if—"
The heiress of the Jenkinsons hither
lip.
"Alexandra, aunt, if you please!"
she ventured to suggest.
"It used to las Alexander when I was
a gal," said this terrible old woman
"and I'm too old it dog to learn new
tricks. Where's llosea? I've come
here especially to see llosea about the
investing of my money."
"Kh?" said Mrs. .lenkinson, her apa
thetic face suddenly brightening into
new interest.
Aunt I'hilena chuckled.
"So you thought I was poor," said
she. Well, I ain't <juite a beggar, Eli
za. and what little I've got I don't in
tend to squander in wild-cat bonds and
wat errs I stock*. I lose a used to be a
good business man. I'm goin' to con
sult him."
"Dear Aunt i'hilena, do sit down
and have a cup of tea before you go up
to your room," said .Miss Alexandra,
hurriedly opening the caddy w here the
best young Hyson was kept. "I'm sure
you must he dreadfully tin*! with that
odious railway journey!"
"Well," assented Aunt I'hilena, "I
don't say but what a cup of tea would
be refreshing. No sugar, please, and
the least bit of milk. Cake? Well,
jest a littli .'"
"I have been thinking," said Mrs.
.lenkinson, "that llosea and me could
just as well sleep up stairs it you would
prefer the bed-room off tie- hall. Aunt
I'hilena It's very cool ami comforta
ble this hot weather, and then there's
the stairs saved."
"Well," fomplaeently remarked Miss
I'hilena, "I '<• rather rheumatieky; and
if 'twouldn't l>e no great inconve
nience to you, Lb/a, I in/tihl prefer to
sleep do\\ n stairs."
Alexandra hastened t<> dr>~s the U*l
with ruffled pillow-cases and the t>est
linen sheets. Mrs. .lenkinson rushed
out <>f the b.c k-d<e>r to catch a chicken
for dinner, and llosea sat amiably
down to listen to Aunt I'hilena's finan
cial perplexities.
"ln\• sfinents. eh ?" said he, fis-ling
his long moustache. "Why. Aunt I'hi
lena. I didn't know you had property
to in\est!"
"Folks don't always know every
thing," said the old lads oracularly.
"Left to you. eh?" *aid her nephew.
"Nome on it," said Miss I'hilena.
"and some on it I've saved up here a
penny and there a penny. And what
little I've got, I mean to hold on to."
"Where is it now?" Insinuatingly
questioned Mr. .lenkinson.
"Don't you wish you knew?" said
Aunt I'hilena. closing one eye, and put
ting her head on one side, like an eld
erly magpie. "That's neither here nor
there, llosea. What / want is an in
vestment."
"Government bonds'" suggested her
nephew.
"Don't pay interest enough." retort.
<-d Miss I'hilena. with a grimace.
"Nix |>er cent, bond and mortgage?'
"Thire's always the possibility of
foreclosing." said Miss I'hilena. "And
I don't want no real estate on my
hands."
"t'he-apeake and Ohio I tail road?"
"I haven't no faith in your railroad
Iwnda," said Miss I'hilena, dubiously.
"Adams' Express stock ?"
"Ain't to le had."
"Dank shares?"
"The premiums is too high," shrewd,
ly nodded the little old lady.
"Well, 1 declare 1 don't know what
to say!" said the pn/tied Mr. Jenkin
son. "I'r'aps if you could wait a lit -
tle—"
"Oh, yes, I'll wait!" said Miss I'hile
na; "and you can think it over. P'r'aps
the president of the Mullein-stalk
Dank, here, may know of some good
investment. Hut it must l>e grxxl,
mind you, llosea. or I'll have nothing
to say to say to it. / ain't going to
n.sk my money on none of your flash
! in-t.he-pan telegraph stocks or Western
j mining shares."
Ami HO Aunt I'hilena curled herself
up on the l>cst coverlet, with Alexan
dra's newest silk quilt spread over her,
to take a before-dinner nap.
"Hosoa," whispered Mrs. Jenkin
son. "why didn't you tell me she had
property ?"
"Didn't know it myself," said Mr.
Jenkinson.
"How much is it?" •
"Haven't an Idea."
"It must le a deal, ma," said Alex
andra, "or she wouldn't be so independ
ent. Why, she actually told me iny
Kensington work was hideous, and said
she wouldn't givo iny wax
house-room."
"Only to think, my dear, of your be
'r,K •'"> heiress!" said Mrs. Jenkinson,
ecstatically.
"Do you suppose it's ten thousand
dollars, pa?" said Alexandra, in ao.
cents of suppressed emotion.
"I wouldn't wonder if it was twen
ty," said Mr. Jenkinson, with a little
sound in his throat, as if he were
swallowing something too big for him.
"Or thirty—or even fifty!" said Mrs.
Jenkinson. "There's alisolutely no j
telling how inueh these eccentric old !
females may have hoarded up. How
lucky it was that she came here! And
you must write and put Miss De Hour
goyne ofT, Alexandra. All our atten
tion and time must lie devoted to Aunt
I'hilena now."
"Dear old lady!" said Miss Alexan
dra. I love her already."
Miss I'hilena Jenkinson spent the
summer at the farm, and a hard sum
mer it was for her nephew and his
family.
The chickens were all killed, because
their matutinal crowing disturbed the
old lady's slumbers; the barn was
moved down into the meadow below
the swamp, because the cows would
persist in lowing at untimely hours,
and seasons; the trees which shaded
the house were mer< iiessly leveled by
the gleaming axe, Ix-cause Miss i'hile
na declared that they harbored mosqui
toes and bred blue mould.
The entire household was put on a
vegetarian diet, and compelled to eat
Graham bread, and drink cold water
The president of the Mullein-stalk
Hank was brought up in Hosea's bug
gy-wagon on an averageof once a week
to talk finance, and Miss I'hilena
mailed mysterious letters at intervals
to tiie secretary of the Treasury, the
officials of most of the metropolitan
trust companies, and ail the prominent
bank-officer- whom she had ever heard
of.
I loses Jenkinson went about mus
ing dei ply on percentages and proiit*.
Mrs. Jenkinson's plump face assumed
a troubled and careworn expression.
Alexandra herself to wonder
what she should ever do with so much
money when she came into jx>s*essioti
of it.
And summer waned into autumn,
and autumn froze and congeabsl itself
into winter.and the Jenkinsons -ettbsl
into a state of the most abject slavery
and Is.ndage to the terrible old woman
who talked and dreamed, night and
day, of nothing but her money.
I "ntil ■ ne day she died.
.ill the neighleirs rallied to the funer
al. Even tin- presi lent of the Mul
lein-stalk lank drove througli the
snowdrifts to la- present at the ( u
seqnies.
"And I" think." said he, "that she
died without having found a suitable
in\- vtinent for that money! I'rrhaps
I can Is- useful to Mr. Jenkinson, for
of course he will tie tlx legatee""
"Don't say a word." said old Deacon
I-idgertleld. with a chuckle,. "The
family are all up t.irs in a terrible
pucker. They've had Law yer • "rocker
read the will. And how much d'ye
a'jHise the old woman lias left?"
"I am sure I cannot guess." said
the I .ink president
".left a hundr- 1 and fifty dollars."
s.a'd D<a. ri I.idgcrlield. "And that
is bequeath-! to an old lady's home
out in Ohio!"
The president of the Mullein-stalk
bank whistled a noiseless whistle ; the
funeral was over, and thus |>eri*hcd
all the hopes which the Jenkinson
family had so fondly entertained of in
hcriting a fortune!
What Mio Ought to Have Said,
At a dinner party, a young and gab
lant fellow .asked a Western girl to par
take of some cake, and received the
reply
"So, I don't w ant no more. I have
had a genteel sufficiency and my stom
ach is diabolically full."
"You shouldn't say that," remarked
alb is ton girl. "You should ejaculate,
'By no means, sir; iny gastronomical
satiety admonishes me that I have ar
rive! at the ultimate of culinary deg
lutition consistent with the hvgenic
code of Esculapius.'"— Hoosier.
An Incorrigible Hoy.
The Philadelphia youth is growing
more and more precocious. An up town
I grammar school boy liecaine so olwtrep
erous, that his teacher, new in her vo
cation. young and pretty, determined
to try the plan of keeping him In.
After school, she sat with grim deter
mination until it became dark, and
then she let. hlin depart What was
her astonishment at the gate to ond
the youth awaiting her. He greeted
her with :
"It's too dark for a young lady to l
alone on the streets. Will you allow
me to see yon home ? "
England's wheat crop grows smaller
every year.
A FIMH WITH A WEAI'OJI.
on Vraifia Illustrated In Hntmm He
lliarkable
In IH7I the little yacht lied Hot, bf
New lied ford, Mass., engaged In sword
flailing, was struck by one of these
fishes so effectually as to sink h<-r.
She was ultimately hauled up and af
terward used by Prof. Hairdin the ser
vice of the Fish Commission. A Glou
cester schooner, the Wyoming, on her
way to George's Hunks, in IH7. r i, was
struck at night by a sword-fish, the
sword penetrating the hull to a dis
tance of two feet. The shock was dis
tinctly felt by the captain. The lisli
finally broke away, leaving its weapon,
that if it had pulled out would have
undoubtedly gunk the vessel As it
was, she leaked badly.
J. F. Garwood, master of the HriU
ish brigantine Fortunate, reported an
in dance similar to this. While on bis
passage from the Hio Grande, this ship
was struck by a large lisii, which made
the vessel shake very much. Think
ing the ship had been merely struck by
the tail of some sea monster, he took
no further notice of the matter; but,
alter discharging the cargo at Hun
corn and coming into the Canada half
tide-dock, he found one of the plank
ends in tiie stern split, and, on closer
examination, lie discovered that a
sword-fish had driven iiis sword com
pletely through the plank, four inches
in thickness, leaving tiie point of the
BWord nearly eight inches through the
plank. The (ish in its struggle broke
the sword off level with the outside of
th" vessel, and by its attack upon Un
ship lost nearly a foot length of the
very dangerous weajsin with which it
is armed. There is no doubt that this
somewhat singular occurrem e took
pla c when the vessel was struck, as
Captain Garwood dc-c-rilied.
A sword-fish weighing over four hun
dred pounds struck th<• b-hing boat of
< apt a o D. D. Tburlow, while In- was
hauling a mackerel seine, off Fire Is
land. and came near sinking her. The
captain made several half-hitches
around the weajion and Uie fish was
secured, and M-nt to Fulton Market
The sword was nearly four feet long.
A few years ago the brig I'. M. Tinker
was hauled up at the Norfolk ship
yard for repairs, and uj>n examina
tion it was found that the leak wac
caused by a sword-fish, the sword being
found broken off. forward the bands,
alxiut si vteen feet al aft the fir< -f.it
The fish, in striking tin m— el, must
have come with great force, as the
sword |H-nctrated the copjx-r sic .(thing,
a four-inch birch plant, and through
the tiuit-ers alsiut six inches m all
ale.ui t-n im hi-s. It <•< urr-l in the
morning when the ship .v < .ghtecn
days out frcm Hio, and in the rough
lorhood f Cape St. 11l j 111- --lie was
pum|Mil alxiut four o'clock in the
morning, and found free of w .it-r At
six o'clock the same morning she was
again pumped, when water was ob
tained, are), on examination, it wa<
found that she had made t< ri in- lies of
water The men were kept steady a'
the pump- until her arrival at Hirh
tnond. and while there- and on her trip
to Norfolk.
Captain Dyer, of New Hedb-rd. had
a curious experience some years ago.
He struck a sword-fish from a thirty
foot lxat forty miles smith-west of No
man's Land, threw overlxiard the keg.
tacked and stood by to the windward
of it. When nearly abreast of it the
man at the ma-d-hcad <alhsl out
"Why; here he is, right alongside."
The fish was then aliut ten feet from
the loat and swimming in the same
direction, but when lie got where he
could we the splash of water around
the Uixv he turned and struck the Ix.at
al>out two feet from the stern and just
fielow the water-line. The sword went
through the planking, which xvas of
cedar an inch and three-quarters thick,
into a lot of loose iron ballast, break
ing off short at the llsh's h< ad. A
numlier of lxiats, large and small. hax e
been "stove" by sword-fish on our
coast, but always after the fish hail
been struck.
The power of these fishes is incon
ceivable. In the planking of the ship
Leopard a sword was found that had
pierced the sheathing one inch, then
through a three-inch plank, and be
yond that three and a half Inches into
the hard oak timber. The men at work
estimated that it would takcto drive an
iron spike a similar distance nine heavy
blows from a twenty-five pound ham
mer.
In an examination of the ship For
tune, a sword was found that had lieen
driven through the copper sheath
ing. a IwiarJ under-sheathing, a three
inch plank of hard wood, then through
a solid white oak timlier twelve inches
thick, then through another two and a
half-inch hard oak ceiling, and finally
through the head of an oil barrel,
where it stop|ed, not allowing a drop
of oil to escape. A solid shot could
hardly have done much greater dam
age. A good example of timber dam-
aged In this way can be seen In th >
museum of the J'liiladelphia Academy
of Sciences.
—■ - i
TIIE Sqi'ATTEIt'M Itl.'SE.
If* Mav** * S'ricnd Mr Ills Irrz Kvaitva
A Hstters,
Several weeks ago a party of revenue
inen stopped at the rude house of an
Arkansas "squatter." He saw at a
glance who they wore, ami when they
called to him, he Unified out to tiie
lence.
"How do you do, sir ?" said the com
mander of the squail.
"i'utty well, thank yer. Won't yer
light an' hitch ?"
"No, we are in something of a hurry.
What is good land worth?"
"I dunrio."
"That's singular."
"If mout bo te.- some folks, but It
ain't ter me. Say thar, Jim" turning
: to his son, "drive the sow outen the
! bouse, for she mout turn over the
sugar trofl an' spill the young 'un."
"Do you know a man in this* m-jgh
j borhood named Hob Hlakemore?"
"Is he got a sort o' moon eye on one
side an' a sort o' rainy day eye on
j tuther?"
"That's the man, I believe."
"Sorter walks like he didn't kere
wiiar he was gwine, do he?"
"Yes, from what I know of bitn he
: does.
"Sorter whines when be talks, like he
was a longin' fur sutbin' be ant got?"
"He's the man, 1 have no doubt."
' Wars a par o' shoes what was maiie
bv Josh Simmons, with one In*. ] tinser
way an' tutber thater way," making
signs w itii Ids bands.
"Thai's the individual. Where can
I limi him?"
"Well, ef ver kn >w bitn a well as I
do yer ougbter know whar tolind him."
"When did you see him last?"
"Don't ric-oll<-'k the last time as
well as Ido the fust. The fust time I
ever seed hiin we fit. We fit till his
wife she come, an' then till my wife
she come, then we all fit Airier
awhile we g.,t mixed up. an' rny wife
she tit me an' his wife she fit him,
an'—"
"Well, we don't i an- anything about
that. I'd like to know where we <an
find hiin, as we can doubtless strike a
trade."
"Yas, but lemme tell yer. .-ay, Jim,
did yer drive out the sow ?"
"Yas. pap."
"Did he spill the young tin."
"No. pap."
"L<xk here, my friend."
"Ion't know as I'm yer friend, but
I'm er lookin' ft.ar."
"We want t-> find Hob Hlaketnore."
"I 11 tell you how ter find him ef
that's whtit yer want .Sex- that hog
path *"
"Yes."
"Wall, take that path till yer come
ter ibo deer-lick. Bob's a mighty
hunter an" yer air migtity likely s> r
find him thar."
"Suppose be isn't there?"
"Then I ken tell yer 'ractly where he
is."
'•Where?"
"summers else. Say, Jim, is tiie sow
all right?"
"Yes. pap "
"Look here—"
"Lix.kin' thar agin."
"We want to go into the house."
••-artinly, come in," and the 4>arty
dismounted and entered. After look
ing around, and seeing nothing but a
bed. a kettle, a sugar-trough < ralb- and
a baby, they went away. After they
had Ims-ii gone aw hile, a blanket in one
corner of the room moved and Hob
ltlakcmore's head ap|>oared. All the
time the old "squatter" had lxeen en
gaging the revenue men in conver
sation. Hlakemore. who knew that
tbgbt would Im- useless, was digging a
hole in the dirt floor, and when lie
bad crouched down and covered him
self with the blanket, the boy, Jim, dis
covered that the sow was "all right."
.IrI'INMI TtlOPtl' r.
A Trial of Horses at Heavy Pulling.
In trials mad" not long ago at the
Illinois industrial university it ss
proven that a pair of more than or
dinarily powerful farm horses, one
weighing alxmt 1,250 pounds and the
other over 1,400 pounds, at a 'Mead
pull" drew 1,000 and 1,025 each. This
was done when the Itand was tight
ened so that the straightening of the
traces gave the horses the benefit of
their own weight With loose band,
allow ing the trace* to rise naturally,
each horse drew 300 pounds leas.
These horses were loth well shod.
Another horse of about the same ap
parent strength as these, but unshod,
could only draw 675 pounds with tight
i . liand. In each case the horse was
> hit lied to the end of a rope about 150
feet long, having the twneflt of the
at retching of the rope as a relief from
> . a "dead pulL" The maximum strength
I seemed to lie exerted at each trial, all
the horses being accustomed to heavy
> | pulling. i
The Kerentera-year Locusts Hue In
1884.
The seventeen-year locust is not, as
many suppose, several years late. He
Is duo In 1884. Everybody knows the
insect which buzzes and hums from
the limbs of our trees. The veins in
its wings mark a Won its back, and
its note is ii< ard at intervals of about
three minutes. This Is the common
'■i'fuUi autumuallM. It is with us ev
ery year. Its brother, the seventeen
year visitor, has the W in red veins on
its back and is a little smaller. It
comes in great swarms, but does no
great amount of damage. Popular
prejudice is against the seventeen-year
year locust It is firmly believed by
some that great mortality prevails dur
ing its stay, and that its hite is fatal.
These ideas are erroneous as most pop
ular entomological theories. The cto
da Krj>(tm-d"nrn is a queer insect. The
sexi-s only live long enough to mate.
The male ds sin a day or two, and
the female, with a spur, which is car -
ried beneath the abdomen, punctures a
small branch of a tree with little holes.
An eg/is then deposited in each hole-
The mother diet in eight or ten days,
and the eggs bateh by themselves. The
larva- fall to the ground and com ■
mence to dig. K entuslly these em -
hryo insect* find their way to the ut
termost roots of the tree. There they
exist for sixteen years and a few
months, undergoing development into
the perfect lis ust. Their food is the
sap of the tree. In seventeen years
these return to the eartti and produce
the young, which go through the same
process. The locust eats nothing
when above ground, le ing provided
wotli no mouth. A sjx-cies of giant
u .tsji, w in< ii < arris a jxiis .nous sting,
is it- cneiny. among other lards and
bca.sU. It stings tbeloeust and car
ri<-s it underground to its nest. The
belief that the locust's sting is fatal,
arises from the fa-1 that j<ersonssome
times brush away a h>-ust that iias
fallen from a branch ateive, and are
stung by the wa-j. which is • linging
toils victim uno*>s'-rved. The sting of
this wasp is Siiriii-tuni-s fatal The
'in da tr'-il'ii-i,, or thirteen-year lo
custs. an- smaller specimens of the red
veined cicada, wli - h conn* lx-fore the
main army; some "f them are with 11s
now . The farmer might w ell rejoice
securely in his growing crops if every
irjse. t were as harmless as the so called
locust, whose urn pie voire through the
summer woods is only a part in the
Oongloim-rati n <-f la.y summer sounds.
• llaltimort .*.
A Itamrnl Through the Head.
A rather remarkable prophecy was
l r ,ght prominently to light hv the
late Tn hiorne - laimant Karly in the
wvciiti-i nth century I.aly Tichborae
1 • gi;ed "f Iter husband to < reate a dole
for the p- ->r; that he should set aside a
portion of land, the pristurt of which
should lx- givn them. Tin- lady at
the time w.i- *:.k in Im.;. and not ex
pected ti live long. Her husband, to
avoid the gift if possible, l"ld her he
would give all the ground she would
walk over. In spite of her enfeebled
condition and the 111 mediate danger of
death, she left her l*sl and actually
crawled over several acres of good
ground, and was carried back to her
b<s| t.. die. That portion of land is
called <'raw Is to the present day.
lb-fore hi r death "hi- ma le this
prophecy that if the dob wire neghvi
ed the house would fall; that the
family w..uld 1-eoomeextinct from lark
of male loirs; that a generation would
aj pear having seven sons and no
daughters,and the generation following
would have seven daughters and no
sons, and in this way the line would
Iterotne extinct.
The dole was continued until 1791k
In 18(1.1 part of the horse frlL Sir
Henry Tichlrnc, seventh of the name,
son of the one who stopjwd the dole,
had seven sons and no daughters.
Sir Henry Tichborne. eighth of the
name and eldest sun of the alove, hail
seven daughters and no sons.
The prophecy and its fulfillment are
tcm lengthy to follow out; but a few %
years ago the fortunes of the house L
depended on a single male heir, and
then the dole was re-established, and
after this that puny little fellow seemed
to thrive. Of course it remains to be
seen whether or no the rc-o*taltlishing
of the dole has broken the spelL .
44siting for the Cow.
A boy was sent to milk the cow. and
after he had been gone over two hours
his father started out to look him up. Ho
found him sitting patiently on a threo
-1 egged stool in the corner of a ten-arm
lot
"What the mischief ate you sitting
there for?" demanded the irate father.
"Why don't you do your work and
get back to the house t"
"Because," answered the boy, "the
teacher said to-day that all things come
to him who waits, and I aiu waiting
j for the cow."— J*HUadtlphia CM.