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EDGAR A. TURRERL,
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MONTROSE DEM 0 CRAT.
TWO DOLLARS PER YEAR IN ADVANCE.
VOLUME 31.
It chanced that I, in years gone by,
Bought out one del, I scarce know why,
The market of Aubette :
And I saw there a maiden fair,
With midnight eyes and golden hair,
And fate and I had met.
I went again somehow, and then
I often went—for when, 0 when,
Will heedless youth beware?
The sweet surprise within her eyes,
As when the morn lights up the skies,
Allured me unaware.
Ber timid gleam did co entrance,
That, I beguiled thereby perchance,
Deemed a mere caprice:
Ah well-a.day 1 how quickly may,
We fritter golden hours away,
Which promise Joy and pence;
An attic high against the sky—
dfarie &amour—a fragile tie—
Two swallows 'neath the eaves;
One hoer ago I sought, and lo
No birds were there: the one, 1 know
Has gone, the other grieves.
Dear lost Marie! I would not see
The heaven of love in store for me,
But turned with prole away:
So now I weep, and sadly keep
My mournflil vigils o'er the sleep
Ot her I spurned that day.
Could I forget, I would ; and yet
Remorse is keener than regret.
Requitting pain with pain ;
And when the bells ring solemn knells,
I hither bring sweet intenortelles;
Dead birds come not again.
THE ORIGIN OF DIMPLES.
—o—
My mischief loving maiden, Belle!
Sit here and listen when I tell—
Awhile your saucy tongue to tame—
A pretty tale without a name,
Save this, of ••how the dimples came."
A merry girl, the story goes,.
NVith oyes of violet, cheeks of rose,
One day with feet that noiseless stepped
Behind her lover, tiptoe crept ;
And ,ieepcd with many a bow and bend,
While he, all unsuspecting penned
A humorous sonnet to the maid,
Which dotibt'd, hop'd,despair'd and pray'd.
She peep'd, and read, too pleased by halt,
And smiled, end smiled, but Must not
laugh ;
And so a strange event occurred ;
It happened thus so I have bawd,
The dainty month, too small, I doubt,
To let too much of smiling out,
Became a prison most secure,
And held the loving legions sure_
Wearied, at length of durance vile,
Impatient grew each captive smile;
Stilt, fain some outlets new to seek,
They wreathed and coiled in either cheek,
Still at the ruby portals fast
Vainly sought exit: at the last,
Grown desperate, so the story closes,
(lett a new passage throuettout the roses,
Love's kisses healed the tender harm,
And gave the wound its dearest charm ;
Since not unthankful, Beauty keeps
Her cheeks less sacred than her lips.
.;„ And while they smile their prudent "No,"
So fair the deepening dimples show,
That Love, reminded or his claim,
May take the enerdon withunt blame;
And this is how the dimples came.
MISCELLANEOUS RE ADING
A LITTLE FOOL.
_o__
Florence Reed WAR a tittle fool, and
Juba Willis, her cousin, it was who called
her DO. You can judge between them if
you like : it is a story that will not take
long in the telling.
Florence—or Florry, for nobody ever
dreamed of calling her anything else—
Florry Read was not in the least what
one would call a beauty ; but then she
had the softest yes and sweetest lips in
the world. Sometimes at least to that
effect Charley Dennis had been beard to
declareand it is very mach to be believed
that he spoke as one who should know on
this subject.
The two had been lovers for quite a
while, lovers in the bud, as one may say,
and every body knows that the bud is the
sweetest part of the whole blossom sea
son. The declaration has not been reached;
it was the time of broken biota and se
cret hand-piesenres, of stolen kisses and
general felicity. Florry walked on air,and
forgot that it was not her native element,
till one unlucky day the cloud melted
Under her feet, and let her down t o earth
again with a rade thump.
It was the day of a celebration given
in Blackville to commemorate some event
perfectly uninteresting to the world at
large, but of the very least importance in
the eyes of the Blackvillana Nor though
Blackville was a little place, its inhabi
tants were men and women very much
like other people, and measured the uni
verse on the Blackville yard stick after
the orthodox and proper fashion.
The festivity, begimng with an oration,
ended with a picnic in a grove just out
side the town,a magnificent grove, whose
violet scented solitude it was almost a sin
to profane with the clatter of hardware
and the posing of ginger beer corks.
Charley Dennis and Forry were there to
gether, as they were together everywhere.
But uufortunaely for Florry, Miss Adelta
Brent was there also.
The young lady was not 131ackville
born. She came from a much larger
town, a town that would have turned up
its nose very high indeed at poor little
Blackyille, had it happened to be aware
of its existence at all. For which reason,
the Blackvillans naturally looked with
admiring awe npon it and all that per
tained to it. Miss Adele, then, being a
visitor just arrived among them,her delrut
was au event second only to the great
event commemorated by the day. She
was not prettier than half their own girls
there present, but abe was wholy unlike
them in dress and style : in a word, she
was something new ; and if novelty is
one of the greatest of all charms any
where, it certainly is not the least so in a
small country town where a wholesome
fear of his neighbor holds each in decent
restraint. So all eyes were fastened on
the stranger, when at a rather htte hour,
she made her appearance on the ground,
which in nowise discomposed her. She
settled herself and her flounces, gave a
final toss to the frizzy wilderness mar
mounting her little head, and turning
back her fan, parasol, looked around her
with much the air with whioh a traveler,
stand;ng among savages, might observe
their barbarous costumes.
Amos NLCIIOI.II
The first of the natives on whom her
glancee chanced to rest, were Florry and
POETRY.
HAIM.
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MONTROSE, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1874.
Charley, and she vouchsafed them a pro
longed examination, under which Florry's
eyes fell and, her color rose ; whereupon
Adele, who had already inventoried her
as pretty, but deplorably without Style,
regarded her anew, with amused compas
sion, as a girl who could actually blush
for being looked at I
Charley did not blush, though. On the
contrary, he returned the gaze with one
which might have abashed some girls.
But Mies Brent was a young lady not
easily abashed, and if the very evident
admiration in the handsome savage's
black eyes affected her in any way, it was
certainly neither to embarrass nor offend
her. That was plain from the manner in
which she received his advances later;
else the two would not have made so rap
id an acquaintance, nor have been miss
ing when, be and by, a stroll was propos
ed, eo that Plorry was obliged to put up
with the escort of her cousin Fred Willis
a necessity considerably more agreeable
to him than to her.
Oh, what a cloudy ending for a day
that bad begun all sunshine! Florry
wondered piteously, when, the festival at
an end, they drove back irough the eve
ning together, could this be the same
Charley, who, on that very road, only a
few hours before, bad said—well, it was
not so much what he said as the way,and
especially the look, with which he had
said it,—could this be the same, this ab
etracted individual who had to keep roue
ing himself out of some revery over—
what? The chrams of Miss Adele Brent?
Florry greatly feared tit.
Yes, that was it. New brooms sweep
clean, and Miss Adela's flounces and friz
zes had swept Charley quite away from
his moorings. In a week, she could turn
him round her little finger ; in another.
he had as completely deserteil"the softest
eyes and sweetest lips," as if that and
many a like speech had been but empty
air.
If Florry had.been a heroine, she would
probably have broken her heart; have ta
ken to writing poetry and reducing her
weight at the rate of a pound a day. But
then she was not a bit of a heroine ; an
army of little brothers and sisters to at
tend to left her no time for poetry-writing
while Blackville, although, us before eta•
ted, an insignificant place, had a bracing
mountain air which forced people to eat
iu spite of themselves. So }lorry, occu
pied with small frocks and stockings, did
not lose her pretty color or roundness,and
if there was sometimes tears in the "soft
est eyes," and sighs on the "sweetest lips,"
why, that is only what is happening ev
ery day to eyes and lips that are neither
soft nor sweeL
No, Florry had no Lotion of sittingfor
a picture of despair. She had a stout lit
tle heart of her own, as brave as it was
warm, and whatever the trial she "grin
ned and bore it,"—metaphorically speak
ing ; Nature in bestowing on her a pair
of dimples. having put the grin sardonic
out of her power. It was very hard, very
provoking, very cruel of Charley, no
doubt, but still it was Charley, and she
was not going to make an outcry against
him. That was Florry's way of looking
at it ; there are such people now and then
in this medley of a world.
But her cousin Julia, Fred Willis's sis-
ter, was quite of another mind. Julia
was a young lady who had opinions end
liked to speak them. She considered
that Charley Dennis was behaving him-
self in a weak, wicked, and alltogether
disgraceful manner, which Florry was
bouud to resent ; and this quite apart
from her pet plan of making a match be
tween her cousin and her brother, for
Julia, if prejudiced, was honest. So she
bud no merry for the truant Charley,
abusing him as often and as openly as
Florry a reserve would allow, till one day
the barrier broke down, and let the full
tide of her wrath sweep over
Fred was describing a party of the pre
vious evening,at which neither of the girls
had been present
"I suppose that Miss Brent was there
as large as life ?" said Julia, whew habit
it was to use the pronoun of censure in
referring to Adele.
"Yes, she was there," answered Fred,
and laughed to himself for a moment.
Then, aloud, "The fool Charley Dennis
makes of himself with that girl !" he said'
"And what he can see in her !" eaclaim-
Julia. `.•She's no beauty, certainly."
"Oh, tui to that, she's pretty enough,"
said her brother—mast:dine and feminine
eyes so apt to see this matter differently
—"but as out and out a little flirt a s ever
I saw. Friend Charley'll find himself at
the end of his string one of these days,
or I'm much mistaken."
"And serve him right !" pronounced
Julia, with vicious emphasis.
"Why serve him right?' here unexpect
edly put in Florry, with more spirit than
was usual in her soft voice. "Why should
anybody object to Charley's waiting on
Miss Brent, if he likes?"
"Oh, if it suits him, I've nothing to say
against it., I'm sure," was all Julio could
say in answer. Each one of the three
knew quite well what had been meant by
his being served right, sad each knew
that the others knew, but still it was the
thing to ignore it in Fred's presence, so
Julia could only look the pins and need
les she longed to speak.
But the moment Fred was gone, she
indemnified herself for this forced clem
ency. She pounced down on Flurry, and
never left her till she had worried her in
to tears and confession. limn she paused
half in triumph, half in pity.
"Now don't be a goose, Florry," she
said, soothingly, tapping the bit of flush
ed cheek not hidden in the clasped hands
"if ever there was a man worth crying
about, I'm sure it isn't Charley Dennis."
Vlorry made no reply to this, but she
lifted her head and set some stiches rath
er blindly in the embroidered frock in
her lap. But it is lucky that Master
Harry, for whom it was destined, was not
a connoisseur in fine needle work, else it
is to be feared that the cotton rose-spray
would have been a thorn in his side as
long as anything remained of it.
"Depend upon it, Florry," resumed
Julia after a pause, "you're well rid of
him, if you would only think so, A man
that don't know his own mind better
than that! Why, Ido believe it is a full
mouth since he has rot his foot is this
Devoted to the Interests of our Town and County.
house—he that used to be In and out till
I was fairly sick of the sight of him. I
only wish went on Julia with energy,
"he would come again, just once, lost to
see how much difference it makes to us—
and I declare," she broke off abruptly,
looking out of the window, which she
faced, ‘if there he isn't this minute open
ing the gate ! Well, the— what you-call
him is near when you talk about him
sure enough."
Charley it really was at the gate,and at
the gate we will be impolite enough to
leave him, while we explain how he came
to be there just in the nick of time.
It is a very common rural custom "to'
improve the shining hours" of the full
moon '• not, indeed, as "loth the little
busy bee," but after afashion quite agree
able, if less industrious. Each Jack,with
his chosen Jill beside him, bowls along
the open country roads at a pace to be
settled by his own taste and the powers
of his horse. Now, the Blackville moon
being just at present at the full, a jollifi
cation of this sort had been arranged for
the morrow evening, and Charley accord
iugly took an early opportunity of mak
ing sure of Miss Adel Brent.
But, if the truth must be told, Miss
Adele was growing rather tired of this
rustic homage. Add to which that her
own particular "young man" had just
come from town to see her, and it will
easily be perceived that Cbarley's chances
were not so good as be fondly imagined.
The pair stood in the porch, watching
him as be approached, and indulging in
comments which, if there be any truth in
proverbs, should have made hie ears tin
gle..
"Oh 1 it is us Father Noah intends hon
oring with a visit," remarked Mr. Walter
Wilmington, when Charley's 'ark,' as the
other had irreverently dubbed his car
riage, drew up before the gate. "Am I
to relive you to a fete-a-tole, Adele ?"
"Oh, for mercy's sake no l" answered
Adele, "for he is such a bore"—(poor
Charley'.)—"he would still forerer!"
So Charley waited in vain for Mr. Wil
mington to go and give him a chance to
make known his errand. At last, as it
became evident that he did not intecd
going, and Charley could in decency wait
no longer, he opened the subject with an
introductory remark on the fineness of
the weather.
"Good weather for green things," non
chalantly observed Mr. Wilmington, with
a glance at Charley easily understood.
"Especially the carrot crop," returned
Charley, with an equally intelligent look
at his new acquaintance's perfumed luxu
riant locks, which undoubtedly did bear
on the auburn. After which little ez•
change of civilities, Mr. Wilmington re
tired into the privacy of his sear smoke,
and Charley proceeded to make his re
quest.
"Well. I klnn't know," iepticl Moo
Adele, languidly playing witn her fan,
"that sort oohing is so apt to be tiresome
—don't yon think so ?" Charley, who cer
tainly had not thought she found that or
any sort of thing tiresome in his company
remained speechless, while she resumed,
"I'm really afraid you must °lease me
this time—but I dare say, Mr. Dennis,
Miss Florence Wells would be happy to
go if you asked her."
The blood rushed to Charley's face at
this last piece of politeness, and he took
hie leave of the younglady, inwardly vow
ing that be would excuse her not only for
that, but for all future time ; that if she
were to remain for the rest of her natur
al life in Blackville, she should be troub
led with ao more tiresome stteotions from
him.
"Florry, indeed !" he vaid to himself,
indignantly. "She may sneer if she likes
but she's not one half so nice as Merry—
and, take away the frizzes and flounces, I
do believe not one half so pretty I"
He really did believe it, none the less
that it was wounded vanity which bad
opened his eyes to the perception. And,
with all his auger and mortification, there
was mingled an odd sense of relief,which
would seem to indicate that it was noth
ing deeper than his fancy which had been
taken by Miss Brent.
"What if I were to ask Florry ?" his
reflectiens went on. "Only it is so long
since l've been near het. But, then,shes
such a sweet tempered little thing. l've
half a mind to risk it." And the end of
it was that he did risk it ; and that was
how he came to give Julia Willis occasion
to quote a very unflattering old proverb
on his behalf. And now, as he has wait
ed at . the gate quite long enough, we will
let him in, and see how be fdred within
doors.
It was an absurdly constrained inter
view. Neither Florry nor Charley felt
equal to bearing the burden of the con
versation. Julia could have done it well
enough, if she had chosen, but she would
not. So there were meaningless remarks
interspersed with pauses longer than the
code of well regulated society admits.
"It is quite a while since I was here,"
blundered Charley after one of these, in
sheer despair of anything better to say.
"I wonder what you are here for now?"
retorted Julia, unable longer to keep si
lence, while Florry stitched as if for dear
life.
Charley could not very well answer the
truth, and, not knowing what else to ans
wer, be held his tongue. Julia, howevet,
had no scruples to bold hers, which, more
over, at the best of times was apt to he
an unruly member, so she said in her
downright way.
"I suppose that Miss Brent has bad
enough of you, and given yen leave to
remember old acquaintances at last."
This hit the case so exactly, that it left
Charley without a single word to say for
himselt. Perceiving which, Julia laughed
in scornful triumph, and rising from her
seat, added ironically,
"It is bard to have to lose the pleasure
of your society now that it is grown such
a rarity, but I have an engagement, so I
hope you will excuse me." With which
parting squib, and a whisper in passing—
"Be firm, Florry l"—she left the room.
And we can not do better than follow
her,
Having proceeded to fulfill her engage
ment—the Inturnaging of a chest of
drawers, up stairs—Julia, who guessed
Charley's_errand well enough, waited for
him to guilts it known and De gone. Rut
never, anrely, had a simple proposal for a
drive taken such a while in the asking
and refusing ! Exactly how long the had
to wait, Julia could not say, but a very
long time, indeed, measured by her pa
tience. Just as the last thread of that
was giving away, she heard the outside
door close, and, flying to the window,mw
Charley Der.nia's head
,bobbing in and
out beeween the tall hollyhock borders.
In less time than it takes to tell it, she
was down in the parlor, where she found
Florry still stitching away, as if the com
pletion of six-year old Harry's frock was
the one thing for which the whole uni
verse was waiting.
"Ah !" said Julia, exultantly, as she
advanced, "revenge is sweet, let the mor
alist say what they like ! I haven't seen
you, I don't know when, with such a nice
color. Well, I hope you have sent Mr.
Charley Dennis properly about his bald
ness ?"
~N—no,' said Flom-, with an increaeo
of the nice color.
"No 1" repeated Julia, looking doubt
fully at her, "what do you mean by 'No?'
What have you done, then —never prom
ised to go with him, surely ?"
"I-I'vs promised to—marry him,"
answered Florry, in a voice between
laughing and crying.
• Julia dropped into the nearest seat.
"Well, you are a little fool 1" said she,
when she could find her tongue.
Was she not ? But then, you see, she
loved him ; a poor excuse, no doubt ; but
the only one her historian can find to of
fer in her defense.
• FENNY JOllll.
-o
A New York paper has a funny travel
ing correspondent, who signs himself
"John." He appears to be in California
at present, and he writes back as follows,
viz :
One meets with genus homos in Cali
fornia that appear to 'be stewed down in
funnyness, both kinds of sauce. 1 con
versed with some of 'em. I was on the
cars, there was a fellow in the next seat,
he hadn't had his hair cnt since the cold
summer of 1816. He looked like a phre
nologist that had been examining the
head of a whisky barrel,and be had either
been taking drawings from it, or else he'd
eaten a pretty big piece of mince pie with
an awfull quantity of brandy in it. I in
troduced myself.
Says I, 'What's the difference between
a dead man and a corpse ?'
Says he, 'There ain't none.'
Says I, 'There ain't hey ? Supposing
the corpse is a boy ?'
Says he, 'That's so.'
He bad a ring on his finger, and says I
'Stranger, that's a nice ring.'
Says he, •Yes, that's an engagement
ring.'
3ays I, No. Wore you in the war ?'
Says he, 'No sir. Why ?'
Says I, '1 was in an engagement once:
Says he, 'No; did she have von ?'
Says I, 'No, sir, she didn i t but ho
came darned near having me.'
Says he, 'How was that?'
Says 1, 'My engagement was before
Richmond.'
Says he, 'O6, oh, yes. I referred to a
different kind of engagement. I grit this
ring when a suitor.'
Then I said 'Oh, yes,' to him, and we
got to knowing each other as well as
though we'd been cradled and thrashed
together in infancy, eaten spare ribs'off
the same carpet tacks,or partaken ef ten
derloin steaks off the same beat pins,
when we knew morn about birch rods
than stair rods. He turned out to be a
philosopher with a pocket compass trav
eling to the windward for his health, he
remarked, 'What a lot of grunters there
are in this world.'
I observed, 'Yes, sir ; especially in Cin
cinnati:
He remarked, No, I don't mean hogs,
I mean people.'
I observed, 'Oh, yes, yon mean people
afflicted with not being satisfied with
their conditions in life and all the time
grumbling because they weren't born
some other fellow.'
He remarked, "Exactly ; the good
book says, 'Cast thy bread upon the we
ters,for thou shalt find it after many days"
I observed, should think it. would get
wet and taste doughy.'
Right here we changed our tactics; but
instead of remarking, he observed; and
I, instead of remarking, commenced to
remark.
He observed, 'The majority of people
are just mean enough to spend their lives
chucking little hunks of bread overboard
so small that yon could drive a spike team
of 'em through the eye of a needle with
out hurting the needle's bead, and then
grunt-and growl because those crumbs
don't come back to 'em in loaves so big
they couldn't put two of 'em into a coal
cart.' •
I remarked, 'That's so.'
He observed, 'Young man, everybody
should be satisfied with their lot.'
I remarked, 'Yes, sir; I'd like one with
a house on it.'
He observed, mean his lot in life.'
I remarked, 'So do I. I don't refer to
a lot in a burying ground.'
He observed, 'All right.'
I remarked, 'There are lota of loss,aint
thee, not including old Lot, whose wife
was a well/preserved woman ?'
He observed, 'Yes ; but remember there
aro 1,300,000,000 people in the world.'
I remarked, 'lncluding the Smiths and
the town of liempsteeol ?'
He observed, 'lncluding everybody.'
I remarked, 'Are you prepared, to make
a small bet on that ?'
He observed, never b-t'
I remarked, 'Well, I kind o' thought, if
you were prepared to bank up your state
ment that there are 1,300,000,000 people
and folks on this here sphere, I'd go you
the drinks that you are at least 120 out
of the way.'
He observed, 'How would wo prove itr
I remarked, 'l'd let you count 'em'
He observed, 'I was goingto say, with
such a vast number of people in the world
how few, bow very few ot na would like
to take the risk of being born over agaiii.
How slight would be the clianco of being
born a Victoria or a Czar, and how fear-
fully great the chance would bo to be born
a John Chinaman or a nigger r
FIFTY CTS. EXTRA IF NOT IN ADVANCE.
Says I, 'That's so. Speaking of being
born reminds me of something I have at
home.'
Says he, 'What's that P
Says I, 'Street music.'
Says he, 'What's street music to do with
it r
Says 'My street music is a baby. If
you should bear it yell for its paregoric
at nighta you'd think it was street mush)
enough fur one family.'
Says he, 'I will observe you are a re
markable man.'
Says I, 1 will remark, you are an ob
serving man."
PCTSVTI' es. POSSIMSION.
He has told you the same old story,
Told ever anew by wooers—
The story of pure devotion,
Unchanging while life endures—
This passionate, palpitating,
Persistent lover of yours.
Ile has called you by every title
Which lovers delight to repeat—
A queen, a godess, an angel,
With changes tender and sweet—
And laid the troublesome treasure
Men call a heart, at your rect.
You ask me what you shall answer?
Ah, child, can my counsel throw
The weight of a thought against an?
Love lover hesitates so
Answer him No, fair-doubter,
Forever and ever No ?
There lives a marvelous insect
In the Southern meadows fair,
Where the wild white ibomens ,
And the passion flowers are,
That even in broad bright sunshine,
Gleams like a living star.
It circles, a flying jewel,
Beautiful to behold ;
It settles to rest a moment,
A globe° of molten gold ;
But once in the hand imprisoned,
Its color grows dull and cold,
You grasp at a flashing jewel
Worthy a monarch's crown.
Glistening, darting, glancing,
A glittering up and down,
And capture—a shunted beetle,
Sluggish and dull and brpwn
And thus, to a youth's mad fancy,
Is the object of love's wild guest—
Reckoned above all blessings,
fleetest and first and best—
So long u remote and elusive—
But worthless when once possessed.
So weariness comes of having,
Since happiness means pursuit;
And love grows dwarfish and stinted,
And bears but a bitter fruit,
For the serpent of self forever
Coiling about its root.
Bo lips which have met In kisses
Grow chary of tender speech,
Be hearts that are bound together .
Grow burdensome each to each,
Since the only things men value
Are those which they cannot reach.
So the gainer counts m nothing
The blessing that should have been;
The conqueror (nen% indifferent
1i Ono he ishirind in,
Longing, like Alexander,
For lovelier worlds to win.
Who cares for the road side wises,
Which bloom within rencb of all,
While their Inaccessible sisters—
Less lovely and sweet and tall,
But dearer beexinae of their distance—
Lent over the garden wall?
1 ben answer biro "No," young maiden;
Be pittiless and serene;
There are heart sick wives in plenty.
But an angel is seldom semen,
Keep to your cloud, bright goddess!
Stay on your throne, fair quEen
"I HAVE NO MANOR"
Don't say that young man. Yon have five
chances on each hand. Then you have thirty
six at least in your head. Every faculty you
have will vote you into office, if you only en
franchise it, and form a confederation between
freemen at the ends of your arms.
Chances, plenty of them, fall under our eyes,
if we have only eyes to see them and hands to
pick them up.
The falling of an apple was the opportu
nity for Newton to wive the secret of the
skies.
A floating sea-weed, drifting by , the vessel
when the crew were uttering mutinous threats,
was the chance seized by Columbus to pacify
an incipient rebellion, and to inspire his men
with' the promise of a sow continent and a new
world of enterprise.
The picking up of a pin In a street of Paris
by a poor bciy, as ho was going from a great
bank, saddened at the denial of his application
for a place, was the founding of the success
and prosperity of one of the greatest bankers
of the queen city of the world. That sim
ple act illustrative of economical spirit asserting
itself over present grief, was observed from the
window ; the lad was recalled at the same mo
ment. industry, patience and honesty did the
rest.
A Jumping tea•kettlo lid is said to have put
the steam iu that boy's head who gave us the
great giant of modern industry.
A kite and a key, in Franklin's hands, were
the grandparents of our telegraph and all the
blessings of modern invention applying elec
tricity.
A swinging greasy lamp, Just tilled with oil
by a verger in the Cathedral 01 Pisa, caught
the eye of Galileo at eighteen years of age,
taught him the secret of the pendulum, made
manya discovery in astronomy and naviga
tion possible, and gave tis the whole modern
system of the actuate measurement of time.
FATS OF TES prasmENra
An extraordinary circumstance in the history
of the country occurred on the recent death of
Mr. Fillmore. Never before since the adminis
tration of Jefferson has It happened that only
one person was alive, except the Incumbent,who
has filled the Presidential office. Andrew John.
son is now the only ex,Presideat living, and
even ho was not elected to that office, but came
to it as Vice-President on the assasathation of
Mr. Lincoln, While the younger Adams was
President the elder Adams. Jefferson. Madison.
and Monroe were living. When Buchanan was
elected, Van Buren. Tyler. Pierce and Fillmore
were alive. When Lincoln was inaugurated
Van Iluren,Tyler, Pierce Fillmore and Buchan
an were living. Within lb° past thirty-seven
years seven Presidents have been elected be.
tides Grant. It is an extraordinary fact that
not dna of tire wen is now alive.
Atuiong the most toodee couveleueles In
gm latest dwelling house Is the cremation eel•
lar with self•rototing master, odorecspo cues
and emlbrlable ram for the mournert—eour,
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enc., and a reliable class of adcellisement.
0= moan. 01 of =lochirptart.)l week' to no. SI •
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Insertion, ILIA 5 eta , allot each tobsequent tto•olloo.•
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This Is an tapeclally Appropriate scitson 4
the year to make the windows beautiful wick
plants. There Is a great pleasure In bringint
spring In-doors by collecting the flowers which
are now in bloom In the hot-house and Omens
them in the handsome boxes or baskets reads
for that purpose. Window gardening Is de
lightful In winter time. Nevertheless, them
the hardest plants suffer more or less for trek
air. At the time there are hours at noon when
the windows can be thrown open,and the plants
which have been housed in greenhouses ap
parently speak their thanks for the subs
The plants now In blossom are the hyacinth.
narcissus, tulip, daffodil, cenemaria, heath vio
lets, lilies of the valley, and several other
vatitetles, very charming as companions in Vies
sitting-room. Shallow cigar boxes are vtrt
useful for planting seeds, and can be twangs,
to look nice in the windows.— In two or three
weeks tram this time it will be proper to plaits
migonette and sweet clyilum, those fragrant
and most suitable plants for window boxes.—
Tbe vine seeds should then be put into the
hanging baskets. They am the most herd e r
vines. The morning glory is easily cultivateC.
and is exceedingly graceful in leaf and flown:
It will grow readily In a sunny w Indoor. Violets.
early flowering snow, drops, anemone!, forget
me-note and primroses are the best plants fur
culture in outside window boxes. The exqui
site loveliness of the rose will not permit It vs.
be omitted from the window garden, notwith
standing it is with difficulty kept in a thriturg
condition. Tea and China roses are the best
adapted for culture In boxes.--. 11: P. Covuner
cad Advertuer.
Your every day toilet is a part of your char
acter. A girl who looks like a "tiny" or &slo
ven In the morning Is not to be trusted, how
ever finely she may look in the evening. No
matter how limbiq your room may be, there
are eight things It should contsin,viz imlrror.
washstand, soap, towel, comb, hair, nail and
tooth brushes. These are just as crsential as
your breakfast, before which you should have
made good and free use of therm. Parents who
fail to provide their childen with such applian
ces, not only make a great mistake, but com
mit a sin of omission. Look tidy In the morn
ing, and after the dinner work is over, improve
your toilet. Slake it a rule of your daily iirjt - ^
to "dress up" for the efterntxm. Your ilm.ll'
may, or need not be, anything better than
calico; but with a ribbon, or some bit of onin:
meat, you have an air of self:lisped and nth
fiction, that invariably comes with being well
dressed. A girl with floe sensibilltes cannot
help feeling embarrassed and awkward it} a
ragged, dirty dres‘with her hair unkempt, if a
stranger or neighbor comes in. Moreover,your
self-respect should demand the decent appar
eling of your body. You should make it
point to look as well as you can, even if you
know nobody will see you but yourself.
Lenwenhoeck tells us of animated insects
seen with the microscope, of which tyre:ay
seven millions would only be equal to a mite.
Insects of various kinds are observable in the
es:shies of a common grain of sand. Mold Is a
forest of beautiful trees, with the branches,
leaves, flowers, and iruit fully discernible. But
terflies are fully feathered. Hairs are hollow
tubes. The surface of our bodies is covered
with scaler like a fish ; a single grain of sand
would cover 150 of these scales; and et single
scale covers 500 pores ; vet through these bar
row openings tho sweat eludes like water
through a sieve; how minute then mu.st.be its
particles ! The mite makes five hundred steps
in a second. Each drop of stagnant water
contains a world of animated beings, swim
ming with as much liberty as whales in the sea.
Each leaf has a colony of Insects grazing on it
like oxen in a meadow.
L PIISLMINID btu WID.II2IIDAT
Advertising Sate:
WINDOW GARDERLVO.
PLAIN TALE TO GLRLS.
DISCO TERMS BY THE MICROSCOPE.
LOSS OF OCEAN STEAMERS:
From the commencement of steam trans-at
!antic navigation in 1840 in the end of 1873,11
is stated, 51 steamers havoheen lost—the Flea.
dent being the first and the I.4kraerique the
last. The Cunard Company has only lost two
of all its fleet—the Africa and the Tripoli—
during this period of 33 years. The Allan Idne
at present composed of 17 steamers, has lost
7 since 1852, and the Collins Line which et
isted only tram 1852 to 1837, lost 2 of 4 veinal
of which it consisted. The German companies
of Hamburg and Bremen, established to 18514
have lost 4 of their steamers—the National
Line 2, the Anchor lied 1, the Onion Line be
tween 1868 and 1872, 9 and the White Star I.
The French companies of the 3lessageties
Maritimes, with their 60 steamers, trading In
all parts of the world, in 22 years of existc.nce
have lost 14. The Transatlantic branch, before
the shiptirock of the Ville du Havrodost only
oniNthe Darien, which went ashore on the coast
of Cuba. The Royal Mall, with which this
line Is In opposition in the West Indies and
Brazilian trade, has lost 15 of Its steamers In
tho Ea years of Its existence. About 12 steam
ers belonging to various small companies were
also lost in the Atlantic. It Is estimated that
10,000 voyages, going and returning, across the
Atlantic Ocean, have been, made by all the dLt•
ferent steam tines.
When we see a man einuffino we are apt to
say. "Ho was unfortunate hereditarily; orbs
has been exposed himself." Maniere likely than
either he has been over fed or under exercised.
Most Olds are from over eating or eating grow
fooa. Strong persons with large lungs who
exercise a great deal and breathe much, can
dispose oT a large quantity of food but thole°.
ble and sedentary moat cat moderately. Or
break down early. 'Many of our Ills are fr
an over burdened stomach, resulting In clogged
liver, Impure blood, and Sluilly„ perhaps, to
gorged fangs in form of cold or consumption.
Oue single remedy would cure- a largo OM Of
diseases; viz., rut of the rupplia,
While In the Bost the past season MO beta
comparatively without anew, In Oreen the
snow fell almost ematkluensly Iron the lit 01
December until March 9,with OCCItaI9IIIII MIMS
which drenched the grass, and rendered the
ccuullilon of the cattle deplemble. Ofono bud
of oboort, umubenng 8,030 bead. 2,000 died, =4
nearly all the stock In that section is dead 011
dying. Yet it Is within a short distance of AM
far Dated banana belt.
S Ile 4ea ao legs but a :caudal Wu win.