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Pa, where he nill prompt , I, attend te all colts Wide profeeslon cith thief he may b. tesored. Office and residence nest or the Court Hyman near Flteb dr, Wannue• otter. Montrose. rebel:Lary 8.1811. F. CHURCHILL, Justice of the Peace: *face era L. B. Lenhefte'S 'tote: Great Bead boo:Yeah, Snsquellsons County. renn'a. Ils. the set , leases( of the dockets of the Late hoot Iteckhow. decease& Ogles beats from 9to 19 Vele* S. es.. and from I to 4 o'clock p. petit Bead. Oct. Im. WM BURNS if NICHOLS, i 15.41111 in Dregs. Xolleines, Cho:steals gye• StAis,pstias.olls.Varnish. Liquo rs , Spices:Fumy 4a.cles,Parans itatteines, Pertameryand TolletAr• dales. torpromar,iptions caroially compounded.— wish Meek. Illptrose, Miami. • r0..21,1m . • Bing me me that song no more My lost life I deplore, I float along the shore Cit the far lands of memory, The wild and sad refrairi Pidses with bygone pain ; My tears fall down like rain, My struggles are all in vain, I heat along the shores of memory, Thy wind-harp's wailing spell, With tides that rose and fell, Has borne me of Its swell To the far lands of memory My eyts with tears arc wet, My heart doth Idly fret, I vex with vain regret; AL, might I once forget The purple light on the shores of memory ! Fur 1 can nener land Upon their golden strand, Nor step upon the rand Of the far lands of motion-, For mists and fogs are met And rag , „,,,sl rocks beset Each harbor of regret, And sails are never set Winch find the silvery shores of memory —June Gnin.ey. Soft breathes the south along the buddin. wold, The crocus lifts her slender lance of gold, ' And faint o'er you gray summits, wcired and old, The roseate dews unfold. And o! the clear-eyed Goddess Spring again, With song and bloom and sunlight in her train With balm gale, and silver twinkling rain On a roof and lattice pane. Far as the sun his golden legions hurled. When winter fled with sullen banners furled The matchless blue of sea is curled Around a glad new a urld Shut in my narrow p 1 kop room I hear. A Geld, the plough boy whistling shrill and chair, And know the happy Morning dratrtah near— The sunrise of the year. Oh, weary data. that once were such delight ! Oh. sad, sad Jars that fade in sadder niTht ! No more your shining paths my steps invite By flowery reit and height. Cry. Vernal Winds! through all your punt, ring Untimely' Autumn's hollow muttering. Cry Winds! no more your lialtny pinions brim Tic 'waling of the Spring! Y. Ledger. The Story Teller Miss Barbara Snyder eat in her straight baded chair before the fire, her feet on the fender, her head drooping. to r eyes closed—to tell the truth, although slit won Id have indignantly denied it, Miss Barbara Snyder was asleep. Her maid a hard featured, middle aged woman, who was moving about the room putting it in order, as she did fifty times a day, at her mistresses Command, watching her fur tively to see that she did not fall into the dre. "Jane," said Miss Barbara, suddenly waking and sitting bolt upright with unblinking eyes, "if he comes—and lam sure he will—don't let him it "No, ma'am," answered Jane, submis sively. "Tell him he has seen me for the last time, the hypocrite! to pretend always to be so fond of me, and then go and marry an empty headed dollbaby I Be sure and send him away, Jaue." "Yes, meatn." A sudden commotion in the lower hall interrupted them; a few bars of a popu lar air, whistled in a masterly manner, a rapid clatter of boot heels on the stairs. and then a young gentleman, who might have sat as a modern Hercules, rushed in, and falling over an ottoman, upset ting a chair,and making confusion worse confounded in the quiet room dashed at Miss Barbara and took her by storm. • "Congratulate met." he cried, after imprinting a half dozen kisses on her withered cheek. "Aunt Barbara, she is the dearest—" Jcuoas Dcvr rrr "You may go Jane," Miss Barbara had recovered from the shock a little, and as Jan' had retired, she folded her mitten ed hands tightly together, and turned upon him. "Nephew John." There was a comical expression of de spair on the young fellow's face at this unpropitions beginning,but he said noth ing. "Nephew John, I'm disappointed in you! I am not angry,but I'm deeply griev ed—,, "Why Aunt Barby !" The blue eyes of her listener opened wide, but she silenced him with a stately gesture. "Please be quiet—l wish to speak. I have done my duty to von. John (there was a little tremble in her voice as she said this but she went on grimly,) and, now you are just coming to manhood (John was twenty-six.) and I had just be gun to trust in you a little, and now you desert me for a doll baby." "She is not t doll-baby!" said the young hnsband, indignantly. "If you only knew her yon *Mild love her • dear— lyn "Nonsense :" the black eyes snapped decidedly. "All girls are foolish now-. a-days ; but no matter, yod have chosen between us. My will is made, and I will not change it, but you will never be again to me what you were before" There was real distress in John Barton's heart as he rose and stood before her. on only let me bring her here to son.‘qe pleaded; "I am sorry you are o 'displeased. Aunt Barbary; don't let this part us." "Yon have etaseur The Sphvnx could not bate lathed Moro untrioved.-- 4 .lordered theta not to admit y da—you need not collie a,, , voin.ff "If you *ill only heat we—" "But I won't good afternoon." Add so John Barton left her, *ith her fare turned away from him and her hands etill alas rd before her. JUICI Num°Ls Poetry. ASSOCIATION DT EIIILY E. PORT). NO none JOHN'S WIFE. "TRUTH AND RIGHT : GOD AND OUR COUNTRY." MONTROSE, PA., WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 1873 Miss Barbara Snyder was mond. Miss Barbara Snyner was fond of her own way. But she was still a woman, and iu her heart of hearts she loved John Bar ton, her handsome nephew, dearly. His . mother, her only sister, had died when he was a little child, and his father dying soon after. Miss Barbara had, in a fash ion, adopted him. She indulged bins from the first day of his entrance into her house; she had watched ni c e him and made him her one object in life. lle had been the gleans of sunshine in her life, and to his honor be it said, he had never been unworthy of the love and . confidence which she gate hint. "Aunt Barbary" was to him the only person in the world, and although people marvell ed at the affection of the bright faced young man for his grim old aunt, it was genuine and trite. He had gone through college in a thoroughly satisfactory man ner, and afterwards had settled diew • u into as steady and trustworthy young business man as there was in the eitv.and for three years had behaved entirely according to his aunt's wish in every respect. One day, howeNer, the peace and tran quility of Miss Barbara's hulls:chola were broken by a rumor which came to her cars. John. her,J,hn, was pity mg atten tion to somebody! She was at first Meted talons, but us the days went she was forc ed to believe it; fur one night John, sit tang at her feet, his yellow hair shining, in due firelight, told her with much tmtit tinti and embarrassment that "he was go ing to he married." Miss Barbara was a good woman, but she was very w himswal, a little selfish, and above all, very jealous of her own dignity, and the knowledge that John had tvseited his own independence. at.ti ac'ually planned nut his tuture out consulting her beforehand, was a hard .hing for her to bear. She was not pa tient nor forgiving, and the re'ult of .lulm's confidence was a very unpleasant 4cetie. She who had never ,y..keti Iht:,h ly to him before, overwhelmed him with tiard, blue' worth, !vitt then.w i VII hi' was ;"Ile. wept herself to sleep over his gratitude." as she called it. When at last he was rea!lv mai-m(l.ller Inger knew no hound., and hi; first .sit liter that event endtd a. we I;3‘e sen. The days passed slowly after .loLu,i, oright fair, nut rn;gmg 10IC1', • ntni,ht - d. and Rarhaca, half regret tug l i ar l .4l l nes-. ”fit a tI•111 pled {(.1171 for hint ag;1111 ; Lut ller oinuancY, of - pride." as she called tt, presorted her. and so she fretted and worried. Jam , vas almost driven distracted by irritabili ty and unreasoualdeness. She was so cross. o hard to please,and so'-awfully savage," as John would have said, that Jane be came at WS worn out. and our day, when her duties were unit-malty hard. site sur prised her mistiess by packing up her moveable property and departing from the house. Then Miss Barbara was wretched. For three days she sat in S‘lit:lrl" and then sending for her lawyer. directed him to insert an adyntisement in the lead ing papers to the effect that she wanted a "voting. neat and ladylike person for a companion." “No more old women PA roe," she said, savagely, in response to her lavers look ..f surprise, "after the behavior uf Jane. who has been with me for thirtv-nme years," and then authorizing pins to t 'onl ine each applicant, she sent him away and waited. Two days afterwards the lawyer relnrn eil, accompanied by a tall, slender yonng woman. who had come to see it she (Miss Barbara) would engage her. Miss Barbara's black eyes looked keenly at her for a moment, aria after inquiring sharply into her antecedents, references and the like, Miss Alice Worthington (as the lawyer called her) was duly installed in the office of "companion," and a most d.lightful companion she proved to be. Miss Barbara was at first disposed to be a bit critical and c tinning ; but the young girl was so anxious to please, so sweet. tempered and amiable, so quiet and se:f forgetful, that Miss Barbara's severity melted away by degrees, and at last she began to love her attendant and to try in various little ways to make her cheerful and contented in her new home. "Alice," said she, one day, as the young girl sat opposite her before the ti:e, "how old are you ?" 'Not quite nineteen," was the shy an swer "Not quite nineteen," and yet so quiet I and dignified and womanly. It was al most incredible. Miss Barbara looked at her again, and, with a new approbation in her face, saw how pure and sweet the fair face looked, with the sky-blue eyes half hidden by the white lids; she saw -how smoothly and plainly the brown hair was fastened hack, how neat and trim the dark dress, how snowy was the cuffs and the narrow collar, and her heart was filled with wonder. A girl in the nineteenth century without a ruffle. a puff, a crimp, an overskirt, a sash, or a suspicion of a panier about her! Truly, wonders would never cease. As she gazed on this rera anis her heart was filled with pity for poor John. who had thrown himself away. "She's just the wife for him," she thought; "if ho bad only waited a little he would have liked her,f am sure." And then she dismissed the thought witit a sigh, and turned to Alice for consolation. As the days went by. Miss Barbara's heart began to yearn for her nephew. She loved Alice dearly, but even she did not take the place of the absent one. His handsome face haunted her day and night, and often, as she heard a sudden noise in the ball or at the door, she would look np eagerly, half expecting to see him, as she need to do. "I am getting old," she raid to herself. "Perhaps I was a little hard with him— my boy. ask Alice." And so one night she called Alice tp her,ana she sat at her feet in the twilight, as John had done go (Maio she told her all about it, and now she longed to see him again. "Pm getting old, Alice," eke said. I may die soon, and I want to see my boy, Perhaps I was wrdug about hie wife. It would do ate no bend to see them once, Alice." • And Alice answered gently that perhaps it would be better for them all to do so; but she avoided her kind friend's eyesiand there was a scarlet flash on her face that was u n usual. The next day Alice, under Miss Bar bara's directions, Wrote a little note to John Barton. " "Tell him to come soon," she said, and as Alice wrote this Miss Barbara sat and thought intently fur a time, her face rest ing on her hands. "Tell him," she said again, "tell him he may bring his wife if he likes—l ran at least see her to please him." And so the note was written and the messenger dispatched. After this decisive step was taken Miss Barbara was in a flutter of nervousness all the time. lihe donned h••r richest dress, her most costly cap, and then sat expectant, until she heard John's step on the stairs, mid John himself canto 111 us of obi. Of course Lhere were a few in flutes during- which they both talked at once, and tle-n, when the first excitement was )I ivy Barbara s illdenly grew grave. '•\\here's tour wife i she asked in her old grim vt,ty. John rose and lung the hell. "She's dos n stairs. 1 told her to stay till I sent for her." And then, as the servant made his adpearance, "Show np my ti ife." Al is» Parham waited ydet ly. — You will 10‘e her a little for my salt.r pleaded .10110, as a I.ght footstep was Iteara at the door, and then, greatly to Itattatra's zurpri6e, Al tee Worth- III:11.01 CAM(' ill. "My nephew, Mr. Bart ~n, Miss Worth ing!oli," she sald, tl u turning to Alice "l am ttigag.q.l now, mid ruin may b e ex T. her surprise John coolly put his nrm aronnd the waist of his new ae (p.aintace and led her acres the room. Worthington Raclin. Aunt Bar Ica. - hr sail ; and then, with the old mischief in his eyes: "Love her a tittle for Inv sake. plczoe." There are children's voices in the great hiinse now. and Jane, who wits in the plot and is now liaek in her old place. and Mis pets them almost to Meath. while John, the rogue, teases his. aunt 'laughingly itliont the "doll-baby" ro whom she con,idered him sacrificed. But if there is anv one person whom Miss liartiara loves as dearly as "her hoc," 'tis the sweet f.iced, gentle girl whom that h,c mane 1. her mind all feminine , zrades unit r rtlies are possessed bi . ",lidiu's .le.” GUELDEWS LAST DRINK "I have traveled this road every day of my life, ever since it was laid, in charg of the San Francisco, the prettiest and hest engine on the line. It was a south wester road, miming, as we will say from A. to Z. At A. my mother lived, and at Z. I had the for -Kest little wile in the world, and a haby-, the very image of its pa. 1 had always had a dollar or two put by for a rainy day, and the !toys spoke or ins as an odd kind of man - To be shot up with an engine, watching %lith ail your eyes and heart, and soul, don't make a conscientious man talkative, and I twrer,atuandereti my leisure, spinning varns and listening to railway jokes in the round house. Aly wife's name was Josephine, and I called her 'Joe.' "I never belonged to any of the-.rail way clubs or other organizations, and never should if it hadn't been for Gran by. Granby was a nephew of our divis ion superintendent, and it's a failing of ive men of the load that we like to be no."ieed by the fellows at headquarters, if on ly nermitted to touch the hens of their garments. Granby was a showy fellow and often rode with me from A. to Z.— Ile had a good opinion of me, and, as far as I know, we were good friends. Once he said to me: "You ought to belong to the Railway Scientific Club, Gue!den." "Never heard of it,' &aid I. "IVe meet once a fortnight," he replied 'and have a jolly good time. We want practical, thinking men of your sort, and I'll propose ycu if you like. -I was fond of such things, and I had ideas that I fancied might be worth something. But the engineer don't have many nights or days to himself; arid the Out) would have one evening a fortnight from Joe, I said. '•I will ask her. If she likes it, yes." "Ask whom ?" he said. "Joe," said I. "If every man had asked his wife, ev ery man's wife would have said : 'Cant spare you, my dear,' and we should have had nu club at all," said Granby. "But I made no answer. At home I told Joe- She said: "I shall miss you, Ned; but you do love such things, and if Granby belongs to it. they must be superior men." "So I said, yes, and Granby proposed me. Thursday fortnight I went with him to the rooms. The real business of the evening was the supper. "I had always been a temperate man.— I did not know what effect wine would have on me, but coming to drink more of it than I had ever before at the club table, I fun id it put steam on. After so many glasses I wanted to talk, and after so many more I did. "I seemed like somebody else,the words were so ready. My ideas came out and were listened to. I made sharp hits and indulged in repartee, told stories and even came to puns. I heard somebody say: "Granby, by George, that's a man worth having. I thought him dull at first."— Yet I knew it was better to he quiet Ned Gueldeu, with his ten words an hour, than the wine made wit I was. "I was sure of it when three hours af ter I stumbled up-stairs to find Joe wait ing for me, with her baby on her breast." "You've been deceiving Me," said Joe; I suspected it, but wasn't sure. A scien tific club couldn't smell like a. 4 bar room.' "Which means that I do," said I. "And look like one," said Joe, as she locked herself and baby in the spare bed room. "One night I was dressed in my Bun• day suit, ready to go to the club, when Joe stood before me." "Ned," said she, never had a fault to find. with you before. You've been kind and good and loving always; but I should be sorry we ever met if you go on in this way. Don't ask what I mean— you know." "It's only club night," I said. "It will grow," tiaul. she. "Then she put her arms around my neck. ".Ned," mid she, "do you think a thing so much like a bolted and strapped down demon as steam is fit to put into the hands of a drunken man ? And some day, mark my words, not only Tbursdays night, but all the days of the week will be the same. I have often heard von wonder what the feelings of an engineer who hasubout the same as murdered a train full of people must be..atl you'll know if you don t stop where you are. A steady hand and a clear head have been your blessing all these years. Don't throw them away. Ned. if you don't care for my love, don't ruin von reel f." y little Joe. She spoke from her herrt And I km: over Rod kissed her, `•llun't be afraid, child; I'll ney - er pain you again. And I meant it; but at twelve o'clock that night I telt that I had forgotten my promise and my resolution. I couldn't gu home to Joe. I made up my mad to sleep on the club sofa and leave the place for good :he next day. Al r•ady I felt my brain reel as it had never done bt-fore. In au hour I was in a kind of stnpor. It was morning. A waiter stood ready to brush my c..at. I saw a grin on Ir is fate. My heart seemed ready to burst ; my hand trembled ; I looked at my watch : I had only just live minutes to reach the depot! Joe's words came to my mind ; Was I at to take charge of an engine? 1 was not tit to answer. I ought to have asked some sober man. As Ito was I only caught my hat and rushed`tiway. I was just in time. The Sari Francvsct glistened in the sun. The cars were filling rapidly. From my putt I could hear the people talking—bui— ding each other good hye, and promising to 'trite and conic agaiu. Among them was an old gentleman 1 knew by sight— one of the share-holders. He was bidding two timid girls adieu. "Glo , l bye Kittv,; good-bye Lee," heard him say ; "don't he nervons. The San Franniseo is the safest engine on the line, and Gneld.ti th^ most c a r e f u l engi neer; I would not he afraid to trust every mortal to their keeping. Nothing could happen wing with the two together." I said, "we'll get throtigh it somehow, and Joe shall never talk to me again. Af ter all, it was easy enough." I reeled as I ,ipOke. I heard the signal. We are off. Five hours from L. to D ; five hours back again. I knew now that on the last run I should be myself again. I saw a a 'hitter, and never knew what it was un til we had passed the train at the wrong place. Two minutes more and we should have had a collision. somebody told me and I laughed. I beard the share-holder say, respectfully: "Of course, Mr. Gadder), yon know what you are about ?" Then I was alone and wondering whether I should go faster or slower. did something, and the cars rushed on at a fearful rate. The same man who had spoken to me before was 'standing near me. I heard the question : "Ilow many miles au hour are we mak ing?" I didn't know. - Rattle, rattle, rattle! I was trying to slacken the speed of the San Francisco.— ) could not remember what I should do— was it this or that—faster or slower? I was playing with the engine like a child. Soddenly there was a horribly roar—a crash. I was flung somewhere. It was in the water. By a miracle I was sobered, not hurt. I gained the shore. I stood upon the ground between the track and the water's edge, and there gazed at my work. The engine was in fragments, the cars in splinters; dead and dying and wound ed were strewn around—men and women and children, old age and youth. There were groans and shrieks of despair. The maimed cried out in pain ; the uninjured bewailed their dead, and a voice unheard by any other, was in my ear, whispering "murder The news had gone to A. and people came thronging down to find their lost ones. Searching for an old man's daugh ter, I camo to a place under the trees,and found fivebodies lying there, all in their rigid horror—an (Id woman, a young one, a baby and two tiny children. Was it fancy—was it pure fancy, born of my an :visit—they look like—oh, heaven! they were Illy mother, my wife, my children— all cold and dead. how did they come on, the train ? What chance had brought this about? No one could answer. I groaned, I screamed, I clasped my hands, I tore my hair, I gazed on the good face of her who gave me birth, on the lovely, cold face of my wife, or. my innocent children. I called them by name; there was no answer.— There never could be.—there never would be. A whistle! Great God! Onward up the track thundered another train! Its red eyes glared upon Mor, I threw myself be fore it; I felt it crush Me to atoms! • * • • « • • "His head is extremely hot," said some body. I opened my eyes and SAW my wife. "How do yen feel ?" said she ; "a little better ?" I was so rejoiced and astonished by the sight of her that I could not speak at first. So repeated the question. "I must be en:wiled to pieces." said I, "for the train went over me, but I teel no pain." "There he goes about the train again," said my wife. Why, I tried to move—there was noth ing the matter with me. I was in my own room; opposite to me was a crib in which my child was asleep. My wife and child were safe. Was I delirious, or what could it be ? "Joe," I cried, "tell mo what has hap. pened." "It's nine o'clock," .said Joe. "Yon came home in such a state from the club that I couldn't wake you. You weren't fit to manage steam and risk people's lives. The San Francisco is half way to A. I suppose, and you have been frighten ing me half to death with your dreadful talk." TWO DOLLARA PEft 'TEAR IN ADVANCE, Termsl IP NOT PAID IN ADVANCE. AO CTIL EXTUA. And Joe began to cry. It was only a dream; only an awful dream. But 1 had lived through it us though it were a reality. "Is there a Bible in the house, Joe ?" said 1. "Are we heathens ?" asked Joe. "Give it to me this moment, Joe." She brought it, and I put my hand on it and took the oath (too solemn to be re peated here,) and what had happeneild never should occur again. And if the San Francisco ever comes to grief the ver dict will not be: "The engineer was drunk." A Panoz,yrte on Woman Read directly, then read flrgt and third and second and fourth lines of each verse, and lo the difference: The bliss of him no tongue can tell, Who in a woman doth confide: Who with a woman Komi to dwell Unnumbered evils will betide. They make the daily path of life A pleasant journey, strewed with flowers; A dreary scene of painful strife Tidy quickly change with matchlms powers. Domestic joys will fast decay Where female Influence is unknown; Whereer a woman holds the sway, A man In perfection shown. She's never tailing to display Truth in its native loveliness, A heart Inclined to treachery. A woman never did possess. That man true dignity will find \Yho tries the matrimonial state; Who pours contempt un womanhood Who mourns his foils , when too late. How Much do I Coat A little daughter, ten years old, lay on her death-bed. It was hard parting with the pet flower of the household.-- The golden hair, the loving blue eyes, the bird-like voice, the truth ful, alrectionate,large hearted,pions child How Could she be given up? Between this child and her father there had al ways existed not a relationship merely, but the love of the congenial natures.— He fell on his knees by his darlings bed side, and wept bitter tears. He strove to say,but he could not, ''Thy will be done!" It was a conflict between grace and na ture, such as he had never he-fore experi enced. His sobs disturbed the child, who had been lying apparently unconscious.— She opened her eyes and looked distress ed. "Papa, dear papa," she said at length. "What my darling ?" answered the fa ther, striving for composure. • "Papa," she asked, in a faint broken tone. "how much—tlo I cost you—every year r, "hush, dear, be quiet;" he replied, in great agitation ; for he feared deleriorn was coming on. "But please, papa, bow much do I cost you To'soothe her he replied, though with a shaking voice— " Well, dearest, perhaps ten pounds.— What then, darling_?" "Because, papa, I thought may be, you would lay it out this year in Bibles, for poor children to remember me by." With what delicate irstiuct had the dying child•touchell the strings of com fort! A beam of heavenly joy glance() in the father's heart, the bliss of one no ble spirit mingled with its Eke. Self was forgotten, the sorrow of parting, the lonely future. Naught remained but the mission of love, and a thrill of gratitude that in it he and his beloved were co workers. "I will, my precious child," he replied kissing her brow with solemn tender ness, "Yes," he added, after a pause, "I will do it every year as long as I live. And thus my Lillian shall yet speak, and draw, if God shall bless the menus, many after her I o heaven.' The,child's very soul beamed forth in a long, loving, smiling gaze, into her fath er's eyes, loviog,and stil gazing, she fell asleep. Waking in a few minutes, she speke in a loud, clear voice, and ith a look of papa, "Oh papa, what a sweet sigh ! The golden gates were opened, and owds of children came pouring out. h, such crowds t And they ran to me, a d began to kiss me and call me by a new name.— I can't remember what it was, but it meant •Beloved for my Father's sake." She looked npward,her eyes drenmy,her voice died into a whisper, "Yea, yes, I come! I come!" and the lovely form lay there untenanted of the lovelier spirt. John Lee rose trom his knees with a holy um mph on his face. "Thank God," said he, '•I am richer by another treasure in heaven." "Goon morning, Mr. Smith. On the sick-list to-day ?" "Yes, sir ; got the. ague.' "Do you eve: shake ?" - "Yes; shake fearfully." "When do you shake again ?" "Can't say when ; shake every day.— Why do you ask ?" "Oh, nothing in particular; only thought if you shook so, I'd like to stand by and see if you couldn't shake the five dollars out of your pocket which you have owed me do long." A stsouLAn epidemic broke out in a Kansas town, the other day. Evefy wile in the town was suddenly attacked by an irresistable desire to present her husband with a nice little dressing case,with shav ing materials complete. An attractive young woman has opened a barbar shop in the village. Tun latest thing in glove boxes is the exact fac-simile of a glove in Russia leath er. It is deep, opens on the side. and the glove fits the box "exactly like a glove." These unique affairs have just been introduced here, and are made in Vienna. Josu BILLINGS says: Yu kart And contentment laid down on the map, it is an imaginary line not settled yet; and thoto reach it soonest who throw away their compass and go it blind. , NUMBER 31. For The Ladles A wolfs in Aferidan, Ct., was arresi • ed lately for forcing her five year old son to drink himself drunk. A Mammrts belle created quite a sen sation by appearing at church with nei ther jewelry nor false hair.. GAuze veils are now fisbionable, and will be until sunburnt and freckled faces are cousideree an evidence of beauty iu Fits generation• of one family wer , present at the recent wedding of ono or its members at Columbus, Cui. 1r is said that while "beaux" are per matted to go on in the way they are bent "bellies," are expected to go in the Iva, they are "told.' MISS S ui.EY, prominent in the Society of Friends, is going to make trends of "society" at Satatogn, where she is build • ing a cottage. A PRINCETON, 111., girl actually died of grief because her new spring hat fell into the river and was ruined. CARTHAGE, N. Y., comes forward wit'• a woman who, at the age of one hundri , l and one, jumps rope and plays at "lea., frog." -Next! THERE is a young lady in Yorkshire win, is six feet flee inches high and five feet. six inches round. Could there be more beautiful proportions? IT is proposed by some gentleman to start a regular city club at Long Branch. The ladiesobject,saying they hate enough of club life at home. As old maid in Pittsburg bas mane. factured 115 worsted cats this spring,aild a Racine woman has killed several dog with a revolver. Which is the more ust: ful member of society ? As orphan, tinder age, married his fe male guardian in 111., the other day, ant was compelled to get her written coned'' , to his marriage before the wedding could take place. A LONDON mendicant took occasion t. , poke the eyes out of a lady who reftiseit him alms. He ought to have a new trial or something. Ir London, recently, a girl in order to save her lover, who was the real cnlpri:. went into court and swore that she stok• a certain dininond ring. A 3ftssornt lover called his girl 8 Ifo.duck, in response to which misunder stood compliment the lass lifted a hand full of hair from the top of his head—a modified scalping operation. Tile meanest man on record ir -a Ver monter who refuses to pay his first wifii the money which ho borrowed from her to buy an Indiana divorce and cover tb.• experso of his wedding topr with anoth• er lady. Chit•Clini• —o— ME most beantifill tortoise Shell jew elry in the world is made to Naples. NEW York girls are Wearing Norman= day caps the size of ham bugs. • • TIIE new fashions snit dumpy ladies the best. LIVERPOOL newspapers speak of Ane mias Ward Beecher. • INDIANA'S new divorce law has been named the Hoosier Separator. THE people who spend the most at we tering places are the old mea with young wives. AMBER ießeiry is becoming very fash• ionable'again ; 1: looks very well with, light spring dresses. AnujuA.l, Gale is erecting a 8200,001 cottage at Newport. The Gale must hay• been very successful in "raising the wind." VERY brilliant jewelry is made of th •. heads of the Brazilian - hAlmming-birds set in gold. A LADIES' boat club has been organizol in Philadelphia, and .seeine to be a great !UCCCS& THE Commencement season has begun. and the voice of the graduate is heard in the land. A LATEtr married couple came .nsar separating on itecount of a sgnabblo4ker their wedding presents. THE latest thing in married announce menta reads thus: "No cards. No pre:: eats. No divorce." ME most stylish young ladles in tow!: have struck against the tyranny of 'the milliners, antimake their own bonnets. kr is a startling fact in natural history that children who are "perfect littft• lambs" usually grow up to be "mutton heads." SOUR very slanderous person assert , . that the New York ladies have gone to Paris this spring for the express purpose of having their faces' enamelled. At:GUST BELMWST has been elected n member of the London Jockey CM. distinction hitherto exclusiiely reserved . for nativet of the British Islands. Tun sights of four able-minded me: playing croquet is considered by tb, Louisville Courier-Journal to bo tb, snblimest spectacle-tbat an impoverisbe country ever beheld. A Nnu* YOttx lady wears a set of Etruscan jewelry made over. a thonsanr years ago, which is pronounced stiperio: in design and finish to anything mule, a. presen t. TALK abont the length of time it take to aget'ready." We know a young lad!. who was invited unexpectedly, at to: o'clock on Friday night, to go to Enrol • for a year and sailed at eight on Eatarda:= morning. THE Memphis "Avalanche" says :,"Th.: young misses with their amorphous- !t•-• tragalar developments trip merrily, t school or market with the buck hair mi.' bias; lowing- recklessly- out from undei the biggest and , ugliest • boys'„ hats:evel Econ.
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