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T E A NSIF.NT advertisements must be ;paid for. I,: Al/VANCE. _ , Time InCh ALL Resolutions of Associations, Rommtanlea -lions orlimlted or individual Interest,-and notices of Marriages and Deaths. exceeding five lines, are charged TEN CENTS PER LINE. JOB 'PRINTING. of every kindf.in plain and Caney colors. done. with neatness and dispatch. Handbills, flanks. Cards. Pamphlets. Billheads, Statements, Ar... of every variety and style, printed at the shortest notice. Tint RErCiItTETI effects v. et: supplied_ with' power pres”s„ a good assort ment of new type. and everything In the Printing lines can be executed do the most artistic manner and at the lowest rates.- TERMS INVARIABLY CASH Pnfeszicaal at! Szdness J.- A.74ES WOOD,. - ATTORNF.T-AT-L AW, I. in AP-76 • TOWANDA, PA. TWIN F. SANDERSON, ATTI)RNEY-A_T-LAW, OF FI C E.—Meani Bullding corer Towell7s Store) rnele. l -7G , TOWANDA, rA. TA D. SMITIT, DENTIST;; - j_f • Towanda. Pa. Office on Takk• street, north side Pablie ware, next tc: linuse. Etneho-74 C• . & lym.• LITTLE, A T TO; NE VSLA T-LAW, TOWANDA. PA °thee In Patti a's 131aA, eor. Main and Bridge-Sts. i'aivanda, Pa,. April 18.16. GEORGE D. STIiOtID, TTOR:VE A .yD UNSEL L T-LAW f,,ur do l .t - s North of IVarl Practi..o, in Supreme coarl ) . . of l'ennsyhania and United TO\VANI)A. PA UT-STREETER, fls LAW OFFICE, 11 , g11. FONVANDA. - O VERTON tk; 111ERCI:R , ATTOItXEY .1T LAW. TOWANDA PA. °Me over Stontanyes 0n.ty67.5 D'A. oVERTON. - RODNEY A. MERCITR W M. MAXWELL, A TTOiLVEF-A T-LA TV OFFICE OVER DATTON's STORE, T.iW - ANDA 3 PA. A pill 12. 1 A'FRICK Ar. FOYLE, TOR, E T-L A Tr. Towanda. Pa. - ;:yl7-73, nfli in 3! 1116e1:. 17 •J. ANGLE, _1 _J. T 7':;. VI: 1:- AT- L A Ti" vt Itlt Dal rt:no•4an, tunT.ritla, Pa •! 4 '"7 F. MASON ATTOI:NEY AT LAW. 'VOW A NDA PA, e Srst door ,outli of C. C. Pat. ti t ' Nov. "7-1. 11, 1 L. :1 J. - ATTORNEY-AT-1-k W. Tow A NI, A. I . A. MolitatlY, . .I.NDREIV WILT, le_P • • . _ A T 7%-.4:NEY AND 6irNSELOR-AT-LAW, 4.r:, ~ver 11,.k St,w , t, two (1..,r,1 o,rlll of Y 1..)1:7, Tim:l%ll3, l'. L„ ?lay 1;t•, :1141, prit ' 111111 it KINNEY, .2;dl :4i'7 , . RSE. Y - 7- L t$ A. PA. Ch7.ll:e in Triey Lt i !s:rit , it, t 's 1110-k MEER vutni,tta ilk earl' In Bin,' fora, aLtit.,lllll:g t Mice with tJe L. LAMB ELSBREE. A.TTOI:NEY-AT-I. "4 - t-,N , ANI , A. PA ATTOIZNEY-AT-L AIN NV I LI; E. 5-11 A i.r.ruptly attended VI: lITO &F.LS I; E ATTOR- Ey' , AT LAW, TOWANDA, PA. Having : ! . 'r tlwir profs ,tolizt , N to ::1•• Sp-. !at given to Op]. Court::. ADILL CALIFF, _LTA_ ATTOILNEYSt T LAW • TOWANI.A., PA. e"1.••• fir.t (1.0 r ,or,:t4 of the Yiret n•ii tlit EME=flll =MTh P.IDLEY ATT9MVEIS-S-AT-LA TT STI: ELT =I =9 MANNI ATVAZNEy AT I!ANK AND • u. 5. t'4_I.M.A.IISIO7CF.R. TOWANDA, PA SW:e PrMr 5,,,1.1r, TVA VIES N, . - EX'S AT LANs% _ MERCER BI;OCK 1 ) ,- In -7 ' FEET, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. r • IN I , ; :arN praelice all bran. Lc of ltlx T.rt, 111.0 t: K. (eolm:o o on south P. 1.. s -ian . 011 t; ver A. 1:1;;k's • 'II 11I..ANNr„ IL . ean he eon -4 to I:: %. : from . th,.. Ey, alid,E3r. T ;of. 1 , . 744 f. . • _IV IS. JOHNSON & _NEWTON. - x vhi.•;..1.,,...i.,: 5.., ;: t.,,,-... thttre Iff er Dr. 1••,• •.)- k ,Pt1 . ...1).,.. - , :nr... T. , %:01q:1. P.I. • 1`...1.1:4 , 1r,`,.. ,, :. ! . .i. D. I'. N. .:s. EWTON, M. D. I). L. DO I ) SON. DENTIST: • in 3,1 3:nie ;•..pt. 21; mar I. foutoll In Ihe Horr 0:` Dr. Trait's Lew • •i or, !- - ,1•• 11,1•11A;,s.:1, \ 13.‘1;71:LLY, PENTI: : - .T.-011;ce - 1,,,r M. E. P.l. (41. M. a:vt A 1• Troth ex:rwieil without yuln. EMS C. M. STAN - I.Y. DENTIST, :)..11131 on., Into Trary H. 1.. ver Walrous' .I'.l “; Mork. EIMEM i.lik a iv•W 1 - 1-1 LE 'I'XTTON, Alfz9Tits for lII . TFAL LIFE INSURANCE _compANy. 3 I Pattou's Muck, Bridge Sts. Mait'h ;. (1 S. RUSSELL'S _ _ • GENERAL INSURANCE AGENCY, Mayl -7 'l' 1876 • riIOWANDA INSURANCE AGENCY :Iran Strft!, Corr! Ihntße NOhLE k.VINCENT, MAN AG EIZS 0...11001/1, BLACKSNIITIL Does all kluds of work In Lis line. : 1i01;. , E-SIIVEING A SPECIALTY. - tti ,- ased fee: irea:.•d. Nlanu - fac:ures the cele tried• CALIFORNIA PICK. , on"Pialik 1:.:34. Lear Agrlcult. Works. T—scan , ls, Pa.. ran. C. '76-tf. INSURANCE AGENCY. - . .Tl:c RELIABLE AND FIRE TRIED Conipan!es rerneszeitod : LA NCSIIII:E.; . PLICENI X, - -HOME, MERCIIANTS March 1,41.1 S. W. ALVORD, Publisher. VOLUME XXXYIL TO THE WORKING CLASS:- We are prepared to furnish all classes with constant employment at home, the whole of the time, or for their spare momets. Business new, light and profitable. Perssons of either sex easily earn loom so cents to tA per evening, and a propor- Bona] sum by devoting their Whole time to the bus- Irmo% Boys and girls earn nearly as ranch es men. That all who see this notice may send their ad dress, and test the business, we make this unpar alleled offer: To such as are not well satisfied we will send one dollar to pay for the trouble of writ tug. Full particulars, samples worth several dol lars to commence on, and a copy of Home and Fire tide. one of the largest and best Illustrated Publi cations. all sent free by mall. Header, if you want permanent, profitable work. adtlress G wilt: E STIN SON dc Co., Portland. Maine. . jan2A,T7. FARM AT PRIVATA 'SALE.- A Farm of 100 acres within 2, , i miles of To wanda Borough, on a gond level read leading from Towanda to Monrrxdon, with plenty of good Fruit. —apples, pears, peaches, plumbs, cherries, grapes, &e.-2 apple and -I peach orchard. A good frame dwelling honse, with 11 rootni andt 4 cellars, with water in the house brought from a valuable spring, through pump logs, also running water in the barn yard the year, round supplied 'from the same Fprinz,' One goo,' underground stone basement stable. for horses or cattle, also 2 horse barns—one Cr../ corn house—poultry yard and underground ehi'kery and other out buildings. 77,:u . res HO proved the balance In a nods. The land is welt wa tered. and Iles to the east. and under a good state of r'linvation.anti within '2O minutes tide of the village. It Is owned by a gentleman residing In Tmramia. wipt on account of advanced years., fle= sires to Iv, out of the farming business. It can be bmlght any lime between this and April next for CA p..r.acre. P 050.5.19:: given April Ist 1577. Ad are, .I:'Andrew Wilt4. 4 Attorney-at-Law, 'Towanda. Pa. JOnli. VOll, SA LE.—A Farm of 34 acres, _L . iNllon Bill. in .3lonroe iwp.. all Innprovrci. A g(s , kl rloinq and Barn, and nice young; orchard thereon.. Well fenced with atone and atunip. Frk particulars, enquire of .lUter Vangord..r, on Jan4-If. FAMI. FOR SALE.—The Farm lately owned by Matilda Vangorder. of AFy him twpc Lr offered iit private sale. The farm C 1111• tains al acre , , all improved. well watered and fenc ed : live miles front Towanda, and. convenient to •who•ol and church. For terms, &c., inquire of PE TER VANGoRGEtt, Liberty C o rner s . E. 11. DE. Li iNG, near the premises, or G. 1.. BULL. Mon rneton. Oct. 2. 70-tf. FOR SALE.—A farm of 100 acres, bo Improved. , outlo.we,t put of Smithfield P• . Prad ford Cc , ., Pa. ,T mu orchards, tno,tly graftod fruit, h0u, , ,, of 11 M0r0 ,, , art:tug:4l fikr one vr two families . , two barns. For particulars, ,etk ,zi re br, pre tul.,es„ or cf . a tit:2 1 , 11. 1 ,'"W1S FRENCH FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN.- -, A good fans, containing t,fi acres, In Orwell 1 " 4-11 `iiiP. , Excellent fruit, a g , . 41 house. 4t , ', Wk•ii a.l.sptt,t to either grain or dairy purpo,l.:s„ Tenn,to salt purcint,erl. Enquir , of .. .1011. NT LLACK.• tact. I hay, ah,. ^ larg.• farm, which I now the 1 as 111 M-11 ehyap. T OW RENTS To CORRESPOND J WITH THE HARD TIMES.—.t ounihor dwol:ing lo , tow:aor rrut, lrw•atrd on. Main. n,ar Ih.• rent n• of tho Boroogh. - AI-0. several ilweliings i4uttable for mechanic., anal latior..r,. I'. ices reduced to eatrrospnllli NV1211111,2 2 113111 times. 1;..1a!v to .1. N WIEW WILT. °Mee over rt'ae , ' lino); Store. Patton's ttnaelt._ 0:1 , 119 : X0(1( CAN'T K• MADE BY • y r every r.azent every month In the bal-at aa''s • 172. 2122 111241, 12211 t Wow %%Manz to work can C.21, tlv urn a al.azen dollars a day light In their own lawalaties. have no more. lariat 10 explain here. Paastaaess jalea‘ant 32111 honorable. Women. Nays mad girls do a. Well as then. We furnish yea a complete etutfit free. Thc• lauslnes4 'pays batter Orin anything els.% We will bear ,expense o r saartaw; yott. Par ieulars free. Write anal see,. Farmers and lit •claames, their inns anal daughters, anal all ran In wed of paying work at Maine. saw dal n to us awl leare ab about the work at awee. Na-w i. the l;nte. Pou't delay. "Aalalre.ss Tut , /. 8 a aa.. Autths!aa. Maine. rt Week 10 Agent,. 10 (tuffiterr t ,- , I U. VICKERY. Align:Va. L'EELEY'S OYSTER.BAY AND_ N 11 , P1"SE.—.1 frw ioors'snnth nt tl by the day or W(*): 4,11 terms. %Varn ta• al:..t.rrvv(l at all hours. :0 and rt!tail. SO3IETILING NEW! • REES! 'F. H. LEWIS, V. S., Itas r ..„„, 1 alfir.pitai far SI, k and IClser.setl at Towanda. ra. of for trrat tor la fart 1.11.• (Al/ flstnla, alt ib!pf , and rau,, , r,,ti: crri i ic. Wart , and tumors of all ryes. [rind as 1.1 . 11" !Nitwit laturrie,it erred (Lunchnut rrnuairtl):, i•tirictihr. or gp , r , e heel -trains' or (molder: rioitrarted fort. and all dvi.easi; t-\, pt tiontagiiins sitingt at hisliiipirq. .ircl.—au .i.vn:tiluti that the atiru thin and apprtilintiii*l oprratltin which tho tIZ" anti tit:nattier adding year; to dorking, tit liiklng and stralgotrolng uf .7 tily 27,-6 N. C. r: ca..str.ill , ,tt loor•t•i k-rk•••,11.. Yjr a' kir :hi. , 1:1.141 hr 11:1.1 as fhc tkav•-•:11.-q , k.,=. The], will be 4n exlklikitbak ,at bls unly k•kaapieik• ai.aluzny of the bon,: in .t of th, 2:7 a.! 1 rark , , i,ritnei, of ktirgkw3 - rik-rforin 4111 him. 11... rig secured ....it Ices of .1. S. V. S.. a!:! by gen: it 11.1Jv kleperina.k.t az:4l kgriet attrn -10 13,11: :11 , , -,Z...!'111 p 1.7.,! the pkilnie, ar.d ,V,lbera:rll.4, vt 11,h - ika:rkkikagv. N.rALFFF •..tai a: t. , 1,1 !on given to II I , ra.zs of Horn Cat: ie. fir. 1. tWI , Vi t. at any distancr for rrn , ;•rty. consultations KING2,I:I.:tIV, LI VERT STALPI. =EOM Ton an.la. Der. '2l, IKG THE FARMERS' 'MUTUAL 7x SI:RANCE CO.. of TrA'A FARM PROPERT`: ONLY Each member Tei , •s a feP. at thr• time cr to 'rover charter atll , :tote;ital (files of the Co.. uo payment requirol., ex , ept to rue,: Ileum I , y Ere among: the InemberNhip. Thl. , of In.uranee for I: a IZSE rapidly into favor. : !MEM ZI:wo of I:u•lnes7, SPRINo; BILL PA. Th, n't will I . :. T.:1%11:401,s of TIISC3- n•ri, IVyaln".l , lg. Al.yltun, Terry a• 01 Stallingand furnwrs lu tlm-e Ton cr ir.forniatlnn, tray ad- I=M2l A. B. SI'M N ER. See. and A rzr.. prng. hill, ltr.mt \V. M. Sift:lllVA Y. I'r.-s. .14174 ni B 11). - A NrS POPULAR HISTORY OF TEE' UNITED STATAS rrc .11 the tit,c,,%ery t.i.B7c. i , r. 1 , •4,1 , y ,I;el ell pre-:ii,;(•rte periG , l and .I..ge of the hionili! 1,1111,:e;-f, WIELIAM Cr 1.1.1:!: BRYANT AND SIDNEY }MI::: rust ra7..•11 .1:11 origln3l‘l--!end, to i.e ro a r• I:. f,. ;r larg- . tavu, 7 , 5) pages 1.301. rms:-.7ig & Co., putkllsbens :43 &:+i, r..11.ay.. New Yolk. mai MATTES , vN k .1:)(1 , ...n. Gerirra: A grilt4, Ch—wriu: Pllitadrlpl)l3. Or' M. S l- . CON V Ag. ut Ivr Noraim. Pcnrl - 311 AV Elmira, N. y. • pooK I:lN . l)EliY.—The public is 14,1,r:rainy Informed ttaa: the Iluada. La- W.' r...1:.• , ‘ , 0 :1 if. the RE.VvItTE/: BUl:Cntig third zta a rty_ atha r— El 1m done 1300 K-BINDING In at! It; cart-.n tranrhe., nn ttnirr will n:luw. Thu !tindery v. - 111 tzLider filo t lia.ge of C. ' 11. C. WIIITAKER,i- An experienced and all work T:111 be , !enirt,v done in 3 niar.novr which rannot exeellvd. • NoV“l , 3Te•I',. out L. 11114 in every style. Partleubr a.t:ev zioa "ill be P. 1341 to 1141 Ruling and Binding of any de.0..-ed pnttern, which. in quality and dura bility will be warr-n:ed. 4.11 - . All work will bo ready for delivery when The patronage of !ho pabac is snt!cit and per *all! factb.n FIRST NATIONAL BANS TOWAN DA, PA CAPITAL SURPLUS FUND This tank offers FNUSUAL FACILITIES to the transarthm of a . . GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS INTEREST PAID ON DEPOSITS ACCiiiRDIN STECIA;; CARE OtTEN TO TrIECCLERSTION OT MUTES AVD CIILCF 8,. rartlPs to'SEND NMNEY to mar part of the Unltel Slates, England, Ireland, Scotland, or the prlcelpal elites and towns of Europe, can here procure drafts for that purpose. PASSAGE ,TICKETS To er from the Old Country, by the best steam or sailing line, always on hand. r A LIZA VIIOUGHT orrat. DIDL : CLD lIATT.S; highest -.rice paid for 11. S., Bonds, Jos.Vo WELL, N. N. BETT, JE. President, Casidor 0. A. BLAB% Miscellaneous Advertisements. .1()11N I:LACK F. 11. LEWIS. V. S Is now I<sn!nz perpr tU3i p•IDrlo on }1 4 .W.11:1) BLANK BOOKS, OF TOWANDA. $125,000.- 80,000 TO AGREEMENT Gold and Silver. Vedcd flatke. ==l SCHOOL BEOIEWS SO-DAY. fly JOUN 11. WATER I'm glad vacation's oTer, and school ['called AVID! FM. thirteen weeks my romping boys have crazed • . their mother's brain; • • For thirteen weeks rve counted the sultry days - I'm glad vacation's over and satiool begina to-day. They say that teachers cannot teach, that acho'airs cannot learn, • Thro' all the days of summer—the days that fairly • burn. I wonder if they ever ask how mothers get along With romping boys who lied their joys In doing something wrong ? There's John. and Joe, and Jimmy—their clothes were nearly new . When they Came home from school that, day, and said the term was through. Now John, and Joe, and Jimmy, with sun-brown bands and feet, Come in at night about the plight of_ beggais on the street. There is no order in the house; I cannot And .a thing; The drawers aro tumbled tip Aide down with six - bands hunting string; _ Thu chairs am alvi'ays in a row, the whole hotise fairly Jars . • With Jimmy running.off widen to•rn9 his train of QM My brand-new caning knife I found. out In the grass where Joe,. Had ttsed it making armors for Jimmy's little bow; And John came home !min fishing—came whist ling through the gate— 'With father's best tobacco ota filled up wlthworms fur bait. The liens hay.r had a frightful time the whole va - Cation through; • They could not hide a nest away the hest that they _ could do. I heard the rooster crow this morn; to me It seem ed to say ••I'm glad vacation's over and school begins 'to day:" ' "All work," they say, " without some . play makes Jack a stupid tsiy." Wel!, Olio's a grs_id. old -adage, and gives the ur- s chins Joy; But if the man who wrote It Hied now and twined .a nun sit up late and benttch his pate to write a dif fereut °tie. There. there, I'm hot e.omplatultig! Tho' weary of the poi.: • • 1 Imo, as only mothers can, my rattling, romping boys: And 111 watch for four o'clock tiugli every cow - lug day, When LVan see my darlings out In the yard at I've 011eldear,buy 110 W sleeplng beneath the snin :q;l; Ite took a long vacation when he went home, to God; • When We's rough school Is over VII meet him by ME Where graves iw'er hide our treasures—where dear oues never die. —R , ,che-R . ter P. m ocr;at aif;rellaitral o . The White Chrysanthemums. Marian Gray!s heart was full of -bitterness. Two years ago she had gathered these very white chrysan themums of the first week in Novem ber to lay on h&•r mother's coffin. There had been plenty of the. usual - funeral tlowers—japonicas and tube roses and white. heath and the rest ; but Marian had stolen out and_ gath ered the chrysanthemums because her mother loved thein, and because they grew in the ohl.garden at hoine. "She will not care fur the others," she had said to herself ;- "she always hired our ownflowers best, and she shall take them with her." Marian was fourteen then—old enough to mourn fur her mother passionately— old enough, too, to understand and feel deeply what her mother said to per just at the last. "You must- care for papa and the :boys. Marian. - You will be'mistress now, I think, young as you are. At least you can be if you are so careful of papa's comfort that he doesn't feel the need of getting any one to keep house : and I trust the boys to you. You must be elder sister and mother too, and never let them miss -am more than you.cau help." And then Marian remembered how her mother's sad eyes had searched her face, and how she had kissed her at the end, and said, "It's a hard lesson for you to learn, when you are so young; but you must always think of yourself last, and by and by you -will see that $ brings its own exceed ing great rewaid." - Mi.s.Gray had lived several hours after that, and had kissed Marian again, and - kissed the boys also, and blessed them, and then gone to sleep, like a child, on her husband's shout , der. with a child's smile - on her lips and a beatitY of long passed youth, at which the . children wondered: on her face. But Marian always felt that her true parting with her Mother was in those few moments when they were all alone. and mamma had charged her to 'be her father's com fort. and the boys' mother. And she had tried faithfully.. She looked back now over the two years that had passed, and she said, with 1 tears streaming down her cheeks;. l " Yes, mother, I have been faithful." ' she had left school, and devoted her self to making her. mother's plate, good. She hadkept-the same servant her mother had ; ' and tile. woman, touched by the unconscious pathos of the young girl's elibrts . - to make good that vacant place, helped her silently in a thousand ways. And Marian thought she had succeeded. She could- not see that any comfort had been lacking in her father's home; and as fur the boys—Hat and Geor diethey almost - worshipped her, "But of what use had it all been ? " she thought, bitterly ; for now .her father was going to bring home another wife in her mother's stead. He had told her very tenderly, to be sure. • He said . that he had felt she was too - young for such care. - She ought to be in school ; and in bring ing home to her for mother the only woman he knew who seemed worthy to till her own mother's place, that he felt he was securing as great a blessing to her as to him Self; and then he had said, as. he kissed her good-bye: "Make the house look as pretty as you can—won't you, Marian? Eliz abeth loves beauty.. I . don't think there are . many flowers left except those white chrysanthemums; but I wish you'd put some of -those into her room." , . Marian timuiht she could have borne it all, if it hadn't been for that last request. The white flowers that she had gathered justlwo. years ago TOWANDA, BRAD - FORD COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 'B. 1877. for her mother's funeral, to do duty as bridal flowers for thnusurperl - It seemed' to her that:this was the one drpp too much. She did not 'consider that her father could, not have thought Of this • that; indeed, he probably never knew that she had made the wreath,of them for her mother's cof fin at all. Her passionate girl's heart swelled almost to bursting with the bitterness of the thought that she was to,nse thelloweis she had always held sacred to her mother for this new bride's pleasure. • "0, she shall have them all," she cried, passionately; "and much good may they do her! They are funeral flowers. It is a bad omen." . . Then she went' out and 'gathered them, every one. She made bouquets of Wen] 'for the mantel; she - put knOts of them in the looping of the windoW curtains; and a glassful upon the bureau. Everywhere in the new mother's room gleamed their white ness=—fit for bridal or burial. In the parlor below she-would'have none of them. That was garnished with the fire-tinted leaves she had igathered in the late September, and with the pale-bleached fernS she had brought home in - October—ferns that seem - always lik9 the ghosts of thee dead summer, holding pone of its warmth or brightness, but only a hint of its vanished grace. Then she went into the kitchen with the pretty little mistress-of-the-family. Or which be came her so well. " Bridget," she said, "Mrs. Gray will be coming to-night. Let us give her a good supper, she will need it after :.her journey ;• and then,"' she added, her native honesty coming to the front, "I don't want her to think no one - ,kneiv how,to keep house here until she came." , r Bridget understood and Smiled. There was no danger but the Cabe would be clear that night, - and 4 thC wadli!s light, and - the broiled chicken done to a turn. Then Marian went into the parlor and sat down in her, mother's'eliair. Her eyes filled with tears, as they had so many times that day. She closed them, and her thoughts went back to the hour when her mother had bid her good-bye. She thotight the whole scene over, as she had so -often, and seemed to hear every one of the words afresh, in he i r. mother's low, tender voice. .And, somehow, a new sense Of her mother's meaning came to her. "You_ must always think of yoursetf last," liet mother had said. Was she. doint , that now; ? Was she not thinking of herselffirst —of her own pain—of the wound of her self-love in being set aside where she 'Thought she had done so well— of having some one else nearer her father than she was--of being no 9t the head ? " - No,' she cried, hotly. "It's not that; its having some one else in my mother's place. -He had no right —no right." But a tender; unseen presence seemed near her, all the while breath ing gentler thoughts. Something told her that her mother up in Heav en would not' be jealous for herself; and something else asked her if she were sure she could so devote all her future to her father as to keep him from needing that companionship which is the very life and soul of the living. She would not yet - confess it. bukshe knew, in the soul of her soul, tinit' she had been wrong; and as she got' up to call the boys, she said to herself, "Think of myself last'? I can try to do that for your sake, mother, and for your sake I will keep the boys as happy as I can. If they arc too young and unreasoning to feel it, so 'much the better; you would not want their hearts to ache as mine does." She went to the door, and called the little fellows playing outside, and they hurried in. "Come, boys," she,said, 'you must go and dress. - I want you - to.. look nice when your new another sees you for the first time." The , boys looked at her curiously. Not at all in this tone had she spoken of the new-comer before. ~ Was she going over to_ the ,enemy? She ain't my iiiother—is she ?" said sturdy Geordie. "She is your own m'amma,"'ltarian said, resolutely—trying .to do what her mother would have wished ; "lie's not the dear, sweet mamma NO om God gave you first, and then toe i home to leaven, because I do 62 ieve she-Was too good for this ~,1., we iLd ; but she's ) our new mother, wh in papa thinks it best for you to have. - e ought to know that papa's judgment is better than ours; and lies been oo good a father to us all our lives or us to have any right to suppose he is not doing now what he truly thinks will be best for us." 'The words had cost Marian a gnat effort, but she had uttered them qui etly and resolutely. The bOyS felt that she was in earnst, and went away to dress with a new sense of trust in their father. "But, mother, it is so hard !" Mari an cried out when she was left alone. "How can I ? 0, how can I?" Night brought the new mother. The boys had been growing- recon ciled to the idea of her since Marion's words of an ,hour before, and they ran to meet her with smiling faces. Marian tried to go forward, too, -but it seemed to her that her_ feet were ,fastened to the floor, and it was all she could do to stand still and keep the tears back. "Here are the boys," , She heard her father say, cheerfully.- No doubt he and his bride kissed . them, but. she could not see; she was for a moment very, very dizzy. "Ana ,here' is Marian,"---in the same cheerful voice; "my one daugh ter, and my faithful housekeeper." Marian looked ,up, struggling with herself, and saw- her new mother. Her own mamma had not been-beau tiful, but , lovelp—a woman whose sweet cliarms every beholder must feel. If this one should be younger and handsomer,: flighty .girl-bride, Marian - felt that all the grace in the world would not keep her from hating her. But . she looked and . saw. -that she might have truated her father. The new,wife was a large, fair wo man, not beautiful, but with a-noble and serene face, where large ano generous thoughts had their home. She was certainly not yoUnger,:than Marian's own mother: had been ; and REGARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER. • .• in' the t siaber richness of her dress there was none of that girlish flighti ness which Marian had dreaded. The girl's judgment was forced to approve, but her heart was alien still. She went forward a' step, and put out her band. No - doubt Mrs. Gray under= stood her feeling, for she . made too ardent demonstration. She:only bent a little (she-was a tall woman), and `touched her lips•yto her new daugh ter's brow ; and then she said some thing about the pleasantness of the house, and Marian took her up stairs to her own room. . , 'She looked around as'she entered it, and saw .-the chrysantheninms gleaming everywhere. Marian, who was furtively watching her, thought she grew a little pale ; but she only Said very cuietlyct, • . - "My litho brought inc home a new mother; Marian, when I was your age. I understand it all.'! Marl heart warmed toward her a little then ; 14 it grew hard' and cold again when she went down stairs,, for - she-found het. : tather in the parlof looking unmistakably happy and ra diant. -Had he no heart- 7 -no thought for rthe dead, who had lived There With them so long? .In that mot efit she . felt as if she hated the new comer. Het' 'father drew her toward him. "Well, girlie, surely you like . her ?" he asked eagerly. • `She withdrew herself from his arm. - am not a man. 1 think I NV:IS not made for forgetting," she an swered 'Her father's face darkened: He spoke with a tone diffet'ent from any she was accustomed to in .his "Marian, yoO knew your mother well. Do you think she lorcld me so selfishly that, since I could not have her, she *club] prefer that I should live out my life alone? If that were so, she must have changed, indeed for she • always thought of herself .1 Marian could not reply, fOr Jost then the . new mother came down stairs and took what was to be hence forth her ;household place. It was not in , the chair thrt.had been the dead wife's. ; Had shc i avoided that -by some delicate act, or was it o!,1y. that she 'was another mould of wo: man froth the first Wife, and her taste was different ? Marian never knew. TiMe went on, and Marian went back to school ; _and she really en joyed ,her freedom from care, her op portunity to return to the books she loved. Only there was a cold, hard spot'in, : her heart, and she would not own to herself that there could be any gain in the coming of a new mother into luir own mother's•platc. 11 the winter passed, and the spring and the summer. Marian was per fectly' respectful, perfectly obedient, always ..kind; and et her father, who knew her so well, knew that, she was no more like the same Marian than - a stone statue is like a living woman after whose graces it is to be modeled. It was one bitter drop in the sweet cup 'of his new domestic happiness. • With October he was taken very ill. A typhoid fever, which had been prevalent that fall, seized him, and for a long, time there was great doubt whether he'woald recover. Then for the first time , Marian realiied what their houSehold had gained When the new mother came into it. She lier seliwould have done all she could, but she lacked the wisdom and extm- Hence which made Mrs. Gray the most-perfect of nurses. "Will he get better? Is-there any hope ?" she asked - the old doctor, whom she had known all her jife long, one day when he was going away. "If he does," was the answer, "his wife will have saved him . Such care I never saw." Marian went out into, the old gar den. It was the first week in Novem ber, and the white chrysanthemums were all in flower. Would she be gathering them next to put on her tlttlier'S coffin ? .0, what would the wag(' be worth then ? " tlad she made him happy, this last year ?" a,,ked her conscience. If he had been happy, surely he did .not owe it to her. She had been thinking of her self all the time, of her Own pain, and loss, and heartache. If he got well. would he forgive? If he died, could she forgive herself? She stood there, leaning sadly over the white flowers, which meant death to her. She did not bear any ap proaching. foOtfall, and she startedlin' surprise when her step-Mother's Im.tid touched her. "lie is,,aS•leeP, Marian. 0, so calm, lv and so sweetly ! I had to come to tell you ; and there is hope now." "And you will have saved him," Harlan cried, her eyes shining thro' their sudden tears:with such a- light as Mrs. Gray had never seen in them before. "The doctor said it would be you if he lived. You have saved him for me, aildi have never loved •: "Was that not because you thought I expected to become your mother?" Mrs. Gray asked, with a quiet tender ness in her voice and manner. "We can hai.e but'one mother; and if you -call me so, it is a matter of form. I cannot be to you in place of the dead; but I might be your friend dear, just as if I were not your father's wife.", Marian drew closer and clung to her silently. She' could not speak just then. "Don't you know I t(kd you, that first night that I knew it all ? hen I saw those white chrysanthemums they almost broke my heart,for they brought an old pain back so keenly. I had gathered them once myself,. and put them in the chamber of my father's new wife, as you had done in mine, and Ilnul suffered just, as you did. But long afterward I knew that a blessing had come to-me-with her; and 1 mefint to be a blessing to you if i could." Still Marain did not speak; but she bent and gathered little knot of white chrysanthemums- , - . the purest and brightest she could find. She touched 'the little - posy tojter own . lips when .she had mane it, and then fastened it in her stepmother's bo som. The white chrysanthemums had been flowers for the, burial,: and noW-they were the blossoms of recon ciliation. • Tag Norwich Bulletin found a way to keep cool.. It proposed to buy a suit vof perforated buckskin and then cut the buckskin out. HOW TO TURNIP A HOUSE. There is this;sat,isfaction in wall furniture, that it cannot, as"a general thing, be sat upon nor covered up, but it is the very point in furnishing that is-most, frequently open to criti cism. Wall-papers. are seldom What they - should be; and many '"sweet things" at the paper-hangeWare transformed into unexpected ugliness by the proce4s of hanging. -Looking at paper in the-roll IS such a different' matter from seeing 'it on the wall' that, to prevent a disagreeable ser prise;several widthS of it should be held side by side in the room for which it is intended; before the paper -is decided ,upon., It is' apt to look darker when on the wall. For a hall, - the palest, of greens or browns is usually the most pleasing in effect; or the walls • Mity be paneled artisti cally. :Paper is a very importiat item in the furnishing of a room; and should be selected with great care, 'to har monize with the other appointments. Plain papers that have the effect of painting are generallythe most sat isfactory; ' and they should contain just the least suspicion of the tint to be aimed at. .The palest of pinks with lines of vivid crinsson in the corners, and a narrow,hand of it just below the moulding .of,dead gold, is beautiful for a parlor where the pre vailing. tonelof. the furniture is gray. If furnished in'thimson or blue, the wall-paper should be of a pale-gray o • cream color. A paneled paper for h, Its ; may be!made by covering• the w Joie surface with paper of the body colot,afid then taking a darker shade of the same color to form the divid line. ' " Failed - . leaf' shade is reeotn mended, by .a. good 'authority, for a dining-roomparticularly if the pic tures .there are in gilded frames. But the tint is only to be distinguish ed. from white by. laying *a \ sheet of pure white paper it, It iS further , advised that "the wood-work of the room so preparedjshould - be of dirk or black walnut; and just under the cornice, and two inches from the wood-work, Should be a fine, ribbon- like line. mit out of paper, of ad pure and bright primary red about 1.-one sixth of ,an inch in width. The -cor ners may be' enriched by giving to the lines some curving knot or, ree- taraular fret; a little.ingenuity and a sharp pair of .scissors will produce them an fast as, wanted." This tended to give the effect of fresco or oil painting at a small expenw. Another authority says that paper- hangings should never cover the whole space of a wall from floor to ceiling.; but that a " dado," or plinth space, of plain color, either in paper or astemper l - should be left to a height Of two or three feet from the door. A a light wood moulding, stained or gilded, should separate this from the paper above. A second space, or frkze, just below the ceil ing, filled with arabesque ornament painted on a disteMpered ground, is always effective,—but, of Rourse, in volves some additional expense. An unrelieved pattern of monotonous design, or a plain paper, continued over an entire wall, has a very dreary effect, as the eye craves rest in trav eling over a large space." The \yonder is,. that people don't do more pretty things with their houses when there are so many to he done. For who, while extending the cordial invitation of Madame. Ai achne, can supplement as she did: "Ti the pW.Alest little pArlor that over you tild ,pr? Not people who furnish in "suites," and have their ;ornamental things in pairs, like the contents of toy arks hut, possibly, stone unacknowledged poet, or poetess, who has. to save, and consider, and get things by piece meal. It is a blessing in disguise to people when they cannot get every thing-they want at once, nor get it at the Saine place. Picking up here and there, nt odd times, produces the most charmiwesults; and furniture thus obtained has au individuality and a meaning which the upholsterer, whit make 4 to order, fails to give it. People Nibo are not in slavery eo the carpet-idea can do •_great things with a little money ; while these who are need expect nothing beyond tie orthodox yard; of flowers and foil:lpp, or geometrical patterns, done in wool. A room with a grand, new-looking e.irpet in it, and very little else, :is a dreary place enough.; 'while one with scarcely any or no covering at :ill, but plenty of:oiher things o can ho made. cosy and delightful. Let be straw matting and home-made' rugs, or painted floors and ditto ; . hut, mi ta_ a parlor : is provided with a few good piethres, flowers either cut or growing, and, at least,: a white-clay figure, or group of some kind, it has no' right to a =carpet. These things -titlucate, and -.the carpet does not; one ever called a carpet a :loop, bole- of the soul 1 • \-rery few carpets are. properly used: men 'with. slippers On their feet, and tac . ks in' their mouths, pull and stretch it into every possible corner, So that not an inch of space shall be left un covered, . and obligingly - notch out. places for the various recesses; . until the expensive fabric is utterly spoiled for any other room than the one to which it is fitted.- it is very ugly, too,iirranged in this way—tbeing far marepictureSque as a large square; or oblong rug, bordered and trimmed with fringe, and showing all around it a yard or so of dark, polished floor. A bordering of inlaid wood-work, knoltn as parquetry;,is very pretty, and not much more expensive hant first-class Brussels carpets. Such a floor -N vexing has a sort of old-time and Ea tern look about it, and may be t Ikea - :up and shaken with com 7 partitive ease- T aifew nails along the edges keeping it in place when down. . The designs on Turkey carpets are small, and: the color amirably blend- , .cd, which makes them particularly de:firably ; -, but they are expeftsive. and often so well imitated in Brus sells, and even ' in ingrain ,fabrics, that the additional outlay is scarcely warranted where economy is'at all to' be considered:. - 4 crimson carpet 'of very small pattern,' in two' or three soft shades of the sawe'color, is Tay pretty with , a dark floor-border—par tictilarly With ,a pale-pink or cream .colored paper, with corner lines of crimson in it. With this carpet the, furniture-covering should be ashes of roses, ornamented with crimson fringe and brass-beaded nails • the sofas of divan shape, . well stffed, but with no wood-wor visible; the chairs may be bought at a chair-fac tory in a skeleton state, and either transformed into enameled wood by paihting with three coats of - dead white and varnishing, using a little dead-gold judiciously, or ebonized by substituting black paint for white. —9pplelon i s' Journal. A LITTLE IfISTOBT Notable among the pretty stories that history hinds down to us Is' the saving of the little town of St, Geniere, on the Upper St. Lawrence, by a boy and a pair of skates: The town was besieged by Indians, and the few settlers, hardy Frenchmen, took refuge in the block-house _fort. For days and days the seigers held on, warring their victims where they ; might, well knowing that hunger Must at last fotce them to surrender. But still the Frenchmen kept their flag flying, meted out their provis ions, in scant rations ; and hoped and (attack for helpil! 17 - 0 go out - and lattack the Indians was defeat 'and _certain death!; to surrender was..no better. They must wait and starve unless succor came to 'them from the British fort, twenty miles below. So they waited and waited, but ,no help flame. Could they but. get a message to the fort they were saved. But the Redskins surrounded them' on all sides, and to !show heart or foot be yond.the walls of their narrow prison was to court death by a poisoned arrow. Every day their provisions grew less, till at' length their.only choice seemed to: - be - between death by hunger or by massacre. Men were weak and 'dying from ,starva tion ; women and children were cry ing for bread. The last ration had beeir,,kgiYen out;, and all hope was gone. Nothiny., to eat; ammunition nearly exhausted, and no help from the fort. But just then the wind v(:ered round to the north and it be g:tri to grow cold. Every minute it grew colder, and a gauzy film Of ice formed on the surface of the St. Lawrence. In an hour the filin . had . turned to a sheet of glass. \Men the • sun went down the river was covered with hard, springy ice. Then a brave little French boy, whose name history 'has forgOtten, bUt whose noble deed will be remeni bered forever, said that he could save his Countrymen. The block fort stood on the river _bank . ; the British.fort was within gunshot of the - Shore, twenty miles below. He had skates, and knew .how to, use them. At mid night, when the ice had thickened, his father should lowev him 'with a )pe from the rampart to the ice be- low ; and well-aimed should be the arrow that would harm him, in his speed through the darkness. When his mother protested that he was rushing into certain death, that the river bank was lined with hostile Indians through all the dangethus route, " is it .not better," he replied " that I should die trying to reach the fort than that we all. Should stay here and starve ?" So he went. At midnight he dropped quickly down the 'rope,•with skates already strap- peel to his feet; and before his friends knew! that he had tokhed the ice, he was flying (limn the dark, datigerowi river.. On . he went; over the slippery ice. Now and again Lis quick strokes were heard on the shore and a ran dom arrow sped after hita. Flying over thin places, narrowly escaping one obstruction and another as it .e:ame in hid way, - on he flew. The fierce wind was at his back and help-. el him on his 'voyage for life. The moon, as if td shield him from dan ger, hid _herself - behind a•big, black cloud, till, exhausted," panting, lie reached the fort, and then she shone out in all her silver glory_in honor of his heroic deed. In an hour, through darkness and danger, he had model , the trip. Before the sun.shone again ; the King's red•cciated men, equally. swift in their mission of mercy, were at the little block fort. St. Geniere was saved. The brave boy and the trusty 'skates had done their work. There are skates hanging in some Market street window that may. some day or Othe'r, do as bold a thing as Vas. For the boy—trust Philadel phia for that. - 7 -Philadelphia nave. FATHER'S BETTER OFF. Ile was a white-headed man, who had passed his four-score years, vint was 'only quietly waiting' till= he should besummoned home; though to practical John, his son; or Mar tha, John's energetic wife, he seldom' of \ate had spoken concerning this, for be had h, and them talking of him to -each other, With coMpa4ionate pity. Childish," they Saethe- was growiug,," and ,a little troublesome .So he hail. of into the way ,of remaining.on the stinny piazia in fine weather ; sitting there with the (pen Bible till the rays of the Setting sun threw their falling" gleams Over the rays of the. western . hilt, when he quietly went 'to hisi,owti moth.. Not that - they were unkind to him —oh, not Only .461 in said , that " father's faculties are not' what they used to be ;" and Martha, who was orderly , to a painful: &Tree, was ' worried " when she discovered-his, cane or his spectaEles misplaced— :And them he often forgot to carry the easy -chair in from the portico, or omitted to hang his hat on its euS totnar.fitail in the entry. " I do_wish - you would be more partiCeir4Atiker," she had:said, rah-, cr sharply" you left, the , west door open twice ,and 'yOu ; always forcretttoViipe your fe4lon the husk I, -It Was not - the ;Cords that touched him ski detply,.but the-tone. .. As he took his accustomed . place after dinner, on the pleasant portico,, lie felt a greater • degree of languor. 'steal over him than Usual, '' much so that he said rather :feebly to: Mar :ilia, who was vigorously ; sweeping fhelittle4ntry: " ".1 guesi; Martha, if you'll give fne younrra, I'll lay, down a while on the sofa in the dinifeiroom ;. I don -4el as though I could,get , up . stairs to bed:" "Nonsense, father," wi's Martha's $2 per Annum In Advance. NUMBER 32. careless answer, - "dinin' room's got to te,Swept and aired, and the furni ture dusted and the drugget put down; you'd better sit still awhile, and if you don't feel better, I'll come and help you up-stairs.". • •-The afternoon waned,, and. as, the old man ,watched the shadows creep over . the purple*hills, a , golden ray lingered fora moment on the 'open leaf of his Bible. by .whose •softeued light his dimmed eyeo read: wire: giveth power , to the ;faint, and to' them that . havO no might, he increaseth strength. Even the youth shall be faint and weary and the yOling.rrian shall utterly fail." ]. • The _tide of,years rolled back•.and he saw himself, young,. wilful, and pleasure lovina,•casiing. behind him all restraint an d e taking his - own path that led - 'now through. flowery mead ows,tut oftenest over.,'steep moun tains and by the edgo of terrible abysses, plucking from the, !over hanging boughs fair: fruits which nauseated, and vainly, attempting to slake his thirst with bitter waters, al 4iVays striving to fetich a gorgeous -city whose:palaced domes appeared ever ahcad—the,, city of ,cloudland. And then he saw a band'outstreteli ed, leading the wayward yout h from the path lie had chosen, .arid - with a thrill of fullness of joy, he saw Hiin, crucified,- saying, " Follow thou Me;" 'and in spirit he again 'rose- up, and folloWed, leaving the *past, with its sins, in the land which had first guided him; no tears - might• avail to blot, them out; remorse' could atone for them--only in 'God's keep :4lg Was the past lost to vipw. Often times fainting, I with; feet :weary and sometimes bleeding, ,he followed the divine footsteps thrOugh , the years ; for a time 'so nigh, him that,he could almost touch . the' hem of ids garMents; Sometirnes'at a tance, when his form seemed indis tinct and shaddwy,, he fainted by the wayside and fain would rest ; but 'ev en then did the prophecy some true, and asking, his strength was in creased. His way, in. the last years, had" been through deep rivers, but •when, at times, their waters' had almost gone over him, and yet hall receded, even then fiad he sect' the form of Him whom lie followed still beckon ing. from the other shore, middle had heard his voice saying, alu; with you all the 'days; .even unto the; end:" . - " The - 3' that wait on the Lord." The gloaming of evening was around him. but he wist ' not; the words seemed to be shining from the page before him. " !rave I not waited 'on thee Lord." was the cry of his heart, "imperfeet ly and feebly, yet 'according to the strength which thou, gayest. me Lord Jesus, let not thy waiting, be very long, if so be thy holy will." It -wa• dark when. Martha remem bered that he had not yet come in ; the tea table was standing, and John 12.1(1 somewhat impatiently exclaimed: "I wish father wouldn't always keep-us vl.aiting !" And Martha, as she laid her hand on the old man's shoulder, had a like utterance on her toncrue • but there Was no need of it His stiffened finger had fallen On thiS sentence : " They *shall mount up with wings as eagles . ; they shall .run and not be weary ; they shall Walk and not be faint." Curious eoincidence wasn't it ?" remarked John at,the funeral. • And Martha, Who Was putting away his cane and spectacles in their little back closet answered, with a mechanical sort.of sigh : " Well, father's better off." . Beyond all comparison and measurably better otT. THE ESSENTIAL FOB A HOME There is no ride which, .philoso phers can devise for choosing either, husbands or 'wives wisely that has very much-effect, for the young do not trust the old upon That subject. and choice, for womeaf, especially, is by no means so free as we all street. to believe. Not_ one woman in 'fitly —unless she, is for some reason, such as fortune, rank or beauty, a great "catch "—has anything like a real poWer of selection among admirers, and, even when .she has, she often gives it awa3, in obedience to a pl.ss ing, pcSsibly sensible ? possibly blun dering, fancy that she has found an ideal. But, we should haVesaid thac there were two broad rules still worth teaching,, because :they have some ch'uces of being believed, and they were these :. Let the woman's first reirtisite,be a man whose , hoine hill be to her a rest, and the man's first object be a woman who can make home restful. _ It is the man with' many interests, with erwroSsinir . ,oecupation, ,with plenty of people light,Ywith a struggle to maintain against' the Who is the , : really (lomestie, man in,the.wife's seuse, who enjoys; home,:who is tempted. to make • a friend'of his wife; who. relishes prat, 7 tre' Who :feels • in'Alfe small circle' where nobody is ahoVe, him; and na body unsympathetic with-him, as if he were in a heaven of ease and. rep aration. The drawback of home life. its contained possibilities of insipidi. ty, sameness and consequent weari ness is never present to such a man. lle is,rio more bored with home than 'with sleep. •He is no more tired of his Wife than of his own ham moo& He -no 'more plagued „with his children than with his 'own lighter - th Oughts. The. worry, and the sameness, and the weariness, are all outside, and hothe no more insip, id than his berth to ) - a sailor or his tent to 'a' soldier on active Service': He gets from the home just the change, the fill the pleasant sti mu his,which the idle man receives from the, society he happens to enjoy. There is not much champagne in life anyhow, but for the active man niost of the 'little' is' at • home.--Zondern Spectatoir. " SAitranKr night an enibuilastic Demo . cratic politician returned to his berne at his usual hour, 1.30 Si.. and. found every door in the house locked tight, *l4le a transparency in one or. the up- , ta-ra. dows brightly beamed on the night with the legend , 61 We cultist:have, la change." 'He merely iettiat4sid that that was a little .too much usufruct for him, and went and slept in the , woodshed. HT JOHN /immix. Meals, young, and sweet, and fair, Sits In a queer old higlexteteekealr, • And makes with luck a petty air Pretense ot spinning: And with her bright inillatqlblng eyes She looks across the wheel she plies; Round her Ulf -parted Ups there Mi - A smile so whuzing. And with what seems an Wilco Once How swee'llyy, (loth her lovely, rimie Rise o'er her rars Modelling lace, • • And set as drowning • - Of roses peering from the snow, As bright her blushing cheeks do gibw . As say, rose that ere did blowy- With rare sweets teeming. . - And like Uri* stars her glatrefint eyes Reflect, from out their twitted skies, The light a painter well might prize Beyond his medal. - Graceful she stretches faith her hand, As if to start the distaff's Wad; Beneath, her light foot steels out and Moves rho , swift treadle. A little cup of sable hue Her brown halrhides, yet lets us view, Beneath Its upturned edge of blue. Soft fringes, shouringi-,, ' A rose blooms at her snowy throat, And o'er her silken petticoat An apron white doth downward float To her feet going. . Her namesake sweet she doth recall; 'Her downy kerchief's rise-and Doth strangely move us one and all, Till-we're beginning - Within our hearts, some how, to feel We are at a shrine where we must kneel To that fair Saint behind the 'Wheal, • •Priscilla, spinning. —Boston 7;aneert*. TUB, PACT AND PAOETIS .MRS. FARMINGTON wishes to know why the captain of a,vessel can't keep a mem omndum of th e weight of his anchor, in stead of weighing it every time he leaves port. • "Is your master up ?" 'asked an early visitor of a nobleman's valet. "Yes, sir, " replied the falet, 4 lwith great innocence ; "the butler and .I carried him up about three,o'clock." TILEAE is a man in Yew iork so close that when he attends church he occupies the pow farthest from the, pulpit, to sare ;the interest on, his money - whild the col ',lectors are pissiog qle plates, for coutri 'bution. ; • I;' • A fit old g,eptleman.was bitten in the calf of the leg by .a dog. He at once rush ed to the office of the justide of the peace and preferred a complaint against a man in the neighbOrhood whom he supposed to be the owner of the offending cur. A darkey who was stopping to wash his bands in a,,Creek did'nt notice the cellar actions .of a goat just behind him,• so when he scrambled out of the water and was asked how it happened, he an swered : "I dunno 'zackly ; -but . 'pearPd de shore kinder, h'isted and frowed me." 'A gentleman in Virginia City, Nevada, whose 'Chinese cook left him, Was unable to retain'any 'the numerous, " Johns" for more thana day, until he induced one of them to explain that some apparently nilaningless strips of red paper - 9n the kitchen wall contained the Chinese inscrip tion : "Boss woman, long time tongue, Muchee jaw, jaw.'" - . . "MAnY,” said his,lonor, " you appear charged With sleeping in store boxes." - PriSoner—And where would I sleep? Court—(very sternly)—Mary, if you'd ;are your money you would have a bid. Oriksier—And where would I put it? 'c'ourt—ln a house, to be sure. Prisoner --(with withering scorn)—O! mother of 'Moses ! he Wants me to buy avlipuse, too. Nov Malt ye raisona,ble ? A horse doctor was: brought tip - in the Ntaine Supreme Cohrt as a, witness. His replies to the many qiiestions were ren lered in an exceedingly low tone, and on& the members of the bar.at.last spoke , ant sharply that he must reply so that he.' could be understood, or he could not pro-' reed. The judge then:said; "I suppose that the:trouble arises out.ot a habit of speaking low in the sick room." "IlsvF. you any rebutting testimony to offer, Patrick?" asked the justice -of a prisoner arranged for - goat killing. .Pat -crotched his head a minute, and a new 'light seethed to dawn on him. "Rebutt ing, is it ? Shure an' that's what's the [natter, yer honor ; the bloody baste butt ed me til a divila stitch of sate was left on my breeches, per honor an' that's why I'm here to-day.' Pat was acquitted. As Englishman who insulated his bed stead by placing underneath each post a broken off bottle, says he had not been tree from rheumatic gout for fifteen peat* ,and that he began to improve immediately - after the application of the insulatori. --- -,41. paper gutting this wisely adds: "There's many a fellow who could cure his gout, if be would break off the bottoms of his glass bottles in time." ;•_ The following Was the defence offered on'tbe trial : 1. , Bytestim,ony in favor of the general goodtharacter of my dog I :hall prove that nothing coulil make him so forgetful of his canine dignity as to Tito a •calf. He is blind, and cannot see to bite. 3. Even if he could see to bite, it wo-dd be utterly impossible for him, to go out of his iway to do so, on ac count of his severe lameness. 4. Grant ing his eyes and legs to le good, he.has nu teeth. 5. My doc,, , died six weeks ago, 6, I never had any'liog. THEY were giving "Pique" at a the- . at re one ,Saturday afterno6n lately. TWo young ladies, fivin'g at a distance, having lo take - the train at an early hour, were .klig,ed to leave before the representation sis finished.' Selecting, as they thought; 4.7 very quiet time in the play, they were passing down the aisle, when au - actor suddenly appeared on the stage, and re-, o,•ating a part of his role exclaimed, There they go • the only two women I , over loved. One I could'ut have, and the other I can't get" As. a gentlenian stekted into a New York drug shop and called for a glass of •:,da •water, the boy at the fountain jok it.gly asked, "Will you have a fly in it •• :Yes, sir," said the man protnptly. The b scooped one off the wall, and dropp ii g in the syrup drew one the water, and . t it-'down for the purpose of continuing tl.ejiare, but before he could withdraw it -Ile stranger seized the glass and swallow- e I the beverage, Hy and all, remarking as tio wiped his - , mouth, "I'd a swallowed that if it had been au elephant, rather'n have a boy with no hair on his lip got the best of pc." . . • A eyrii6 who recently - attended a fa.sh i,mable church•_thus describes- t e sing ing : " Worship • was introduced and the opening 'piece was a solo, faultlessly ren dered by the } leading singer, accompanied by the organ, • Consider the lilies of the fivld,' and when she Came to the applida t ion it ran' thus: And yet I say uuto:i, you ---that even Solomon in all his glory— was not arrayed—was not arraya—like one of these C introducing the organ)&-was not arrayed (interlude)-like one of these.' And then she went back again and assert ed in the most emphatic manner, say. onto you that even Solomon in all his lory ; --was not arrayed'.(pause), until I began to despair lest poor Solomon? would 'never get his garments on." ' LEVI to. man with second-hand - coat to ',:ell—• 11,:/o you know how much rwouldn't Of for dot goat? I gif twelve shillings." Oivner—" Its worth five dollars." "Fife, tollar Shuit wait tillll gall my wife and dell dot we haf a lunatic in der store. Why, - mine goot freut, you must haf been sunstroke by der beat last sum mer." And he got 'it for two dollars. Some man in the evening to Levi; while oraminitig same coat-" How much'for this old coat?""Old goat why, dot goat was made only - last week, and worn to one party." "I'll give you two dollars." "Two! Here, wife, hurry up! Put up der Plinds, lock der doors. Shoat tink of dot man offering me two toilers for dot goat' wlmt, you bought of a great alderman yes terdby for five 1" - ,; ONE of three or four passengers on a horse car was a young lady, and all at duet: - she asked the driver's permission to take the lines. "It would beLsci awful romantic, yea know, fir me to write to ma that I bad driven' a street car," she added as he hesitated. . He passed the lines over, and - for a few reds all went well. Then a sudden pull on a rein at the wrong moment sent the car off the rails. "How' nice—how romantic," cried the young lady, as showas' jostled around. "Gimme them lines I" growled the driv er, as he reached out. "This: may be a mighty romantic thing for you, but when 1 ge; down town , four. ;minutes behind : time it will take a ton of lying to make the timer believe I struelc a load of hay and went offthe
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