2 STIjc Ttmc0 - Nop Bloomftclir, )a. MR. VERLEY'S MECE. 6 ,4 ND don't you know whcu you Xjl will raf9 through this part of tho country again, Mr. Vcrlcy !"' " No I don't," said tho old bachelor, decidedly. IIo was something of a hear to answer ho crustily when Uarbara Smith stood in tho doorway, with tho shadowy lashes drooping over the soft brown eyes, and roses melting into deep carmine on her rosy check, until her muslin dress was plain in comparison. Such a pretty, big cyed, loving littlo ISarbara as she was, iu nil tho blondo freshness of her eighteen summers, and tho soft sigh that flutter ed from her lips as the onc-horso carriage drove away, was checked instantly. .ISar bara had no idea of becoming a victim to unrequited love, though she had rather fancied Jlr. Vcrlcy during his brief so journ at her father's house. Mr. Vcrlcy drove away through tho rustling green draperies of tho Hummer lanes, whistling sadly as ho drove. " I shall bo in very good timo for the 12-30 train," ho meditated to himself. " Punctuality is tho soul of business, and I never was one of the behind-hand tribe, thank Providence. Besides, I think it was becoming dangerous to remain in that placo any longer. I am thirty-nino to-morrow, and that is just twenty years too old for mo to go making a fool of my self. Fancy me getting married ! No you don't, Joseph Vcrlcy, my friend." As ho settled himself comfortably in the crowded railroad car, and opened a letter, tho subject again occurred to his mind with curious pcrsistance. "Tho letter of my poor brother's execu tor came just in time, or I should certain ly have fooled away more time than would have been scnsiblo or profitable. Poor dear Harold ; I don't see what cm earth possessed hiin to full sick and dio on his way homo from Vcnico and leave his daughter on my hands too. Why could he not have left a son instead of a daughter? I never did understand a woman's ways, and what's more I don't want too. I am to meet her at Specdvillo, and tako her homo with me. " O !" groaned Mr. Vcrlcy referring despairing ly to his letter. " And what I'm going to do with her when I get there, I'd like to know ! I suppose she's a great crea ture, with ringlets and ribbons, and just as likely ns not an Italian lover talking sentiment to her a creature that reads Byron, and keeps an album, and cats slate-pencils and chalk. I'll send her to a boarding-school, that's what I'll do with my nieco and perhaps when she has graduated there tho schoolmaster can sug gest some means of getting rid of her. Of course she'll have a dozen large trunks, and a bonnet box and a parrot's cage that's tho way women generally travel, I believe. I am glad I am out of the way of Barbara's fascinations now." Mr.-.Vcrley looked out ol tho car win dow, r a sort of calm desperation at tho prospect before him. " I suppose she'll want a piano, and maybe a poodlo dog, and there's no know ing what elso. I don't sco why Harold wanted to dio and leave his daughter to my care just now. Specdvillo station twenty-seven miles further. I wish it was twenty-seven hundred miles that's what I wish." And with this vindictive sentiment in his mind, our hero tied a red silk hand kerchief over his head, and tried to lose himself in a series of brief, troubled dreams, wherein tho vision of a tall, uico young lady figured conspicuously. "Aro wo hero already?" hostummcrcd starting to his feet, as tho conductor bawled out " Specdvillo Station," and seizing umbrella, valiso and traveling shawl, with tho bustling bewilderment peculiar to pcoplo just aiouscd from sleep, he alighted. Specdvillo was rather a large-sized vil lage, situated at tho junction of several railways, with an imposing American Gothic structure for a depot. Into this building Sir. Verley wulked, looking right and left for tho young lady whoso guar dianship ho was to assume. "Of course," he responded mentally, she'll be on tho lookout fur me; women aro proverbially curious." But Harold Verley's daughter was not on tho lookout for her uncle. When tho crowd incident to tho evening train had subsided and tho pcoplo had gone their different ways, the only remaining occu pants of the depot, were Mr. Verley, a lame old man who sold peanuts and ap ples, and a decent loooking colored woman with a brilliant Madras turban on her head, who took 1 caro of tho building. Neither of these could bo his neico, so Mr. Verley, after a littlo perplexed hesi tation, addressed himself to the colored woman, who was busily polishing tho win dow with a picco of crumbled newspaper. " Ahem ! I was to meet my nieco here to-day, and I don't sco her." " Your nicco, sir 'I what is her name ?" " Verley." " () yes sir; sho has been hero theso two hours, bless her dear heart j she's asleep now." " Asleep '." gasped Mr. Verley ; but tho stewardess only answered him by bustling into the inner upartmeiit and bringing out what oppeared to bo a compact bundle, with a pink i'aco at ono end of it, and a mass of long trailing embroideries at tho other. Joseph Verley roooiled as far as tho angle of the wall would permit him. " "Why it's a baby!" " To bo sure it is, sir," said tho woman " and as fino a littlo girl as ever I saw; bless her sweet bluo eyes." " But isn't thero a nurso orsonio such person here, who would tako chargo of her V " Thero was a nurso brought her on, sir, a queer foreign-looking thing, with a yellow skin and hair as black as night and big gold hoops in her cars ; but sho talked something about tho next steamer I couldn't understand her lingo, sir and went right back to New York on tho two o'clock train." Joseph Vcrlcy stood aghast, staring at the rosy baby as it lay crowing in the woman's arms, and wondering which of his lucky stars he should call on to aid him in this unlooked-for emergency. A full-grown young lady neico would have been bad enough but a baby ! " So this is my niece," ho muttered. " And what am 1 going to do with her 1" He turned suddenly to the colored woman. " What timo does the next train for Winficld leave ?" " In an hour, sir." " Would you bo kind enough to tako caro of tho child till then' I suppose I must tako it homo with me ; lor I can't very well drown it, or throw it under t ho car wheels." " Sir 1" ejaculated tho astonished stew ardess. But Mr. Verley turned on his heel and strode out of tho depot, scarcely ablo at first to comprehend the disaster that had befallen him. The train was at tho depot when ho re turned, and the woman awaitcd'him with tho sleeping infant in her arms. " Asleep, eh '(" commented Mr. Verley. " Well that's luckv." "Where's the tho nurse, sir!"' in-! quired the woman. " Tho nurse '( What nurse V " Why, I suppose you went to get n nurse !" " Never one thought of it !" ejaculated Joseph madly smiting his forehead. 11 Hero give the thing to mo quick, the train is moving." IIo had hardly time to spring on board as tho locomotive gave an unearthly shriek while tho baby followed suit in both respects. lie staggered to his seat, holding tho umbrella and child in one hand, while iu tho other his valiso swung backward and forward. " There ! there !. bless its little heart '! ho exclaimed, imitating the colored woman " Wo won't cry so wo won't." But the baby evidently had an opinion of its own on the subject and would cry in spito of tho various blandishments practiced by tho bewildered uncle such as shaking tho umbrella handle, swinging his watch, and trotting both knees. Pcoplo begun to look around, reproach fully; young men shrugged their shoulder and young ladies giggled. " Hush ! hush ! there's a darling !" whispered Mr. Verley. But still tho baby wept and wailed, and gnashed its gums, for of teeth it had but two. Mr. Verley began to look round in tho car in search of some matronly dumo of whom ho could seek counsel, but iu vain. . They were only three ladies in the car, and they were young, with round hats and dimpled cheeks. " They don't know anything about it," groaned Mr. Vcrlcy. in anguish of spirit. "Oh, why didn't 1 have common senso enough to go and get a nurse '( I suppose there is no danger of a baby bursting its lungs; but I should think if thero was such a contingency, this baby was in a fair way of mectiug it. " Well, roar away, my young friend; I can staud it as long as you can." Vain boast, as futilo as vain, as Mr. Vcrlcy very soou discovered. Tho baby not. only cried, but it screamed, it kicked it doubled itself over in moro ways than a contortionist's wildest dreams could im agine, and became apparently frantic with passion. The perspiration broke out in hugo beads on Joseph's brow; his faeo flushed, and still tho cars thundered on " What's to becomo of mo V ho pon dered, holding desperately on to the strug gling infant by tho sash that encircled its littlo waist, and watching its purplo face witli a species of detestation. " I don't wonder Harold died. I shull dio in a week if this thing goes on. And it seems so easy for Barbara Smith to tuko caro of her littlo brothers and sisters. If Bar bara was hero " And Verley pulled tho baby up into a sitting posture with a sudden jerk. "I'll do it," quoth Mr. Verley, "I'll, take tho buck express ut four in the morn ing and go straight thero. Ah you may stop crying you littlo hypocrite; but it won't do any good ; I'm not to bo caught twice in tho samo trap." Barbara Smith was watering her tubo roses in tho bright morning sunshine, as Mr. Verley drove up, with the valiso and baby in tho carriago. " lcar me, Mr. Verley," she ejaculated, blushing "celestial rosy red." "Why, what a sweet baby.' " Yes, very sweet," ho responded dryly. " It is my nieee that I was to meet at Specdvillo." " Why, I thought that bhe was a young lady ?" " So did I but it seems she's not. Bar bara, what do you supposo brought mo back ?" ho added, speaking very fast for fear tho baby would cry. " I don't know," faltered Barbaru, crimsoning (Still moro. " Perhaps you forget something." " Yes, I did." " What was it?" said Barbara, a littlo disappointed. " I forgot to ask you if you would mar ry mo !'' " Bear mo 1 was that all!" said the young lady demurely. " Isn' t that enough ? Say, . Barbara, will you ?" " I'll think of it," answered Barbara, evasively. " No, but tell me now. Quick tho baby's waking up." " Wrcll then yes." Barbaraluul taken tho littlo thing in her arms, and disappeared beforo it had timo to utter its waking yell. A week afterward Mr. Joseph Verley took the 12:1)0 return train with his wife and niece, tho happiest of reclaimed old bachelors, and it was all tho unconscious baby's work. A Dutch Account Rook. OXCH upon a timo three lived a jovial Dutchman, whoso first name was Hanncss Von ShrimpstiefFol. He had a wife. He also had a little grocery, where beer and such personal property was sold. IIo gave credit to a parcel of dry customers, and kept books with a picco of chalk on tho head board of his bedstead. Ono day Mrs. Shrimpstiefl'el, in a neat fit, took it upon herself to clean house and things. So sho did, and sho cleaned tho headboard, and with soap ,iiud water settled tho old man's accounts by wiping away every chalk mark. Pretty soon before long tho vender of things came into tho houso and saw what ruin his frau had wrought. Then he said : " Mcin Gott, Frau Shrimpsteifi'el, what you make a ruined man of me, 1 guess not? You mado wipe away all dem names and fitiures what I owe dem fellers what's going to pay mo before they get ready, und 1 lose moro as swei hundred tollar !" His frau left tho room in fear and dis gust. When sho returned ho had re covered tho head board with chalk marks. Then said she : 'Hanncss you have make them all right again, don't it V ' Veil, meino tourer frau, I make tho figures all right, but I puts down some potter names as dem odder fellows vot you wiped out !' tils' On ono occasion a young and zeal ous lawyer, not over punctillious iu his allusions to tho court, nor very formal iu his manner, was urging a question before a judge, and in tho course of his argu ment, by way of illustration, wished tosup posc a case. " Wre will suppose, your honor," said he, " that your honor were to steal a horse" " No, no, no," interrupted tho Judge. " Xot at all, not at all ! ' Tain't a suppesa blo case." " Very well begging your honor's par don," proceeded tho eager lawyer, with more zeal than prudence, "very well, then supposing that I steal a horso " " Ah, yes, yes, yes," said tho Judge ; " that's a very different thing. Very likely, Mr. S.,vory likely. Proceed, Mr. S." Mr. S. proceeded to take a scat, amid tho shouts of his brethern, and had the good senso to take tho joke in good part, and repeat it often to his friends. . . A father, living near Cincinnati, was ono evening learning his little boy to rccito his Sunday-school lesson. It was from the 14th chapter of Matthew, wherein is related tho parable of the ma licious individual who wont about sowing tares, etc. " What is a tare, Johnny?" inquired tho parent. Johniiy'hesitated. "Tell mo, my son, what a tare is." "You huvo had 'cm.you know, "father," said Johnny, casting down his eyes and wriggling his foot. " JIad 'cm!" repeated the astonished purcut, opening his eyes rather wide; " why, what do you mean, Johnny ?" "When you didn't come hemic for throe days lust week," replied Johnny, " I heard mother tell Aunt .Susan that you wus off on a tare !" The school was brought to a close rath er abruptly, and Johnny retired supper loss to ted th.it evening. Hh2 A story is told of u drowsy I). I)., who preaches in tho Disciple's Church, Charlotvillo, Ya., and has a nice dog. The dog always accompanies the divine to church ; and tho other Sunday, in tho iniddlo of tho sermon, tho dog got up and yawned in sympathy with tho con gregation, und straightway took his mas ter's hat to him in tho pulpit. The doctor confined his sermon, and the im patient dog produced tho old man's cane and placed it beside tho hat with an ap pealing wag of the tail. The doctor took tho hint, and remarking that tho dog was probably right, dismissed the congrega tion. All of which is queer if true. I Every evil to which wo do ; succomb, is a benefactor. not SCIENTIFIC READING. .Ynrnlsh-Miiklng. riIIH beautiful black varnish which is JL so much admired tho world over, is tho production of a tree which grows wild in Japan and China as well. It is cultivated in plantations, and is so much improved by the treatment it receives that o cultivated tree affords thrco times moro of this valuable product than the wild one. Tho tree has somo resemblance to tho nsh, with leaves shaped like those of laurel, of a light green color, and feel downy to the touch. It is of uo great beauty, but it is valuablo as tho source of a very lucrative manufacture. These trees aro capable of supplying the varnish when they have attained the ago of sev en or eight years. The varnish is gath ered in tho following manner : About the middle of tho summer a number of laborers proceed to tho planta tions of these trees, each furnished with a crooked knife, and a largo number of hollow shells, larger than oyster shells. With the knives they make incisions in tho bark of the trees abovo two inches in length, and under each incision they forco the edge of the shell, which easily pen etrates the soft bark, and remains in tho tree.- This operation is performed in the evening, as tho varnish flows only in the uight. Tho next morning tho work men proceed again to the plantation ; each shell is either wholly or partially filled with tho varnish ; this they scrape out carefully with their knives, deposit ing it in a vessel which they carry with them, and throw tho shells into a basket at the foot of tho tree. In tho evening tho shells aro replaced, and the varnish is again collected iu tho morning. This process is repeated throughout the sum mer, or until tho varnish ceases to flow. It is computed that fifty trees, which can be attended by a single workman, will yield a pound of varnish every night. When the gathering is over the varnish is strained through a thin cloth, loosely suspended over an earthen vessel. Sweeping the Ocean Bottom. Science is busily at work exploring air, earth and sea. During the past summer and autumn, on expedition has made many remarkable discoveries in dredging the bottom of the sea from the Bay of Biscay to tho Faroe Islands, from a depth of a few fathoms near tho shore, to near ly three miles out at sea. It ascertained that there is a stratum of water from 1,10 fathoms upward, a stratum of ice cold water from 1300 fathoms downward, and a stream of intermixture between tho two. It was formerly supposed that no animal could exist lower than 1500 fathoms, but various forms of animal life have been brought up from the prof'oundest depth of the ocean, many species have been found altogether new to science. Some of tho animals brought up from tho depth of 1270 fathoms, or nearly a mile and a half, had perfect eyes, while tho color of theirshclls indicate tho influence of light. liahu Mr. James Glassier, F. 11. S., of Eng land, in a accent lecture, said that the whole of tho rain hud its origin and-full 800 feet from the earth. Desiring to dis cover the influence of tho moon on the elements, ho found, after a long scries of investigations, that on tho ninth day of the moon there was much more rain than on any other day, und that on the first and last week of tho moon there was tho least amount. lie had taken account, from 1815 to 1SH!) of every day on which thero had been an inch of rainfall, and ho had found that on July 20, 1857, the rainfall amounted to three and seven tenth inches tho largest amount that had fallen in ono day at tho Itoyal Ob servatory. From careful observations mado by him, he had no doubt that the moon did exercise un influence upon rain. Another of his investigations wus as to the timo of day that rain fell most, and ho had found that the largest quantity of ruin fell at about -1 o'clock in tho after noon. The Weight of Woman's Clotliliijr. 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