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A Summer's day In leafy June i
The birds were all In sweetest tune,
The roses nt their best :
But fairest of all things to sec,
That perfect day In June for me,
A blue-bird's peaceful nest.
I found it In a hollow shell,
V hich crowned, ns I remember well,
A shapely pyramid ;
Five little eggs were also there,
Blue as the sky when 'tis most fair,
Half in the grasses bid.
0 favored shell I whose kindred went
On cruel errands to bo sent,
To mutilate and kill ;
Whilst tbon, removed from all the strife,
Dost feel with love and dawning life
Thy bosom gently thrill.
1 said : " This thing which her 1 sen
Uhull be a precious propbecv
Of what the world shall win,
When all the days of war shall cease,
And all the blessed years of peace
Shall gloriously begin."
And better yet : peace after war
Hath many un ugly rent aud scar
For time to smooth away ;
But peace in war doth not await
A blessing coining slow and late
Its blessing is to-day.
My bird's nest In the hollow shell,
A heaven miniature In hell,
Shall symbol be of this :
That in aud through and over all,
Whatever scemiug curse befall,
God's love forever is.
He doth not wait till war Is done,
And all its barren victories won,
To enter nt the door ;
But lu the furnace of the strife
He bears for aye a chftrjned life,
And blesses evermore.
Deep at the heart of all our pain,
In loss as surely as In gain,
His love abideth still ;
Let come what will, my feet shall Btiind
Jn this Urm rock at his right hand :
" Father, it Is Thy will."
THE MAGNIFICENT.
Ia tho ancient Roman citv of TUth.
about the end of the last century, while
ii iuu retained mucn ot tne tasuion and
celebrity it had reached in the days of
Beau Nash, the frequenters of tho Pump
room and Balls were divided into two
rival factions, and long and fierce were
their quarrels over the topic of dissen
sion. This was neither more nor less
than the not inappropriate one of the
merits of two rival doctors, who divided
between them the smiles aud guineas of
the elite of Bath. Dr. Heatbcote, the
senior of tke two, long ruled over the in
ternal economy of the upper class of
patients with undisputed sway. Ha
was a handsome, dapper, dignified, well
:spolien little gentleman, with undenia
ble manners, silk stockings, and shirt
:frill. Among the dowagers his word
wvas law. Ac whist or piquet he was an
(oracle, and not unircquently the young
er ladies would coulide to his safe ear
aud kindly counsels maladies of the
heart. If he did bow a little low to a
baronet, and still lower to a coronet, it
was his only foible ; and as that was
part of his professional manner, it was
pardonable and not unpopular.
The reign of this -ICiculnpian poten
tate was at last rudely distut bed by the
arrival of a pretender to the Throne.
Where Dr. Lenoir came from, who he
was, or whero be had previously prac
ticed, no one knew, or, to tell the truth,
had ever ventured to ask. lie was a
man of immense frame, over six feet in
height, with a large head, black eyes,
and a good-tempered, sanguine complex
ion. He had commenced his Bath cureer
by becoming the tenant of a large house
on the outskirts of the town, which ru
mor said was used as a lunatic asylum.
But he made his appearance in the
Pump-room and the evening recreations,
. and, as he proved to be a man of wit and
.information, soon became a favorite with
-the lounging society of the place. Even
-.in his most familiar moods, however, he
ihad something formidable about him.
.No coxcomb ventured to ask him ques
tions, and he assumed a quiet superiori
ty which was only not galling because it
was so thoroughly good-tempered.
With his patients he was exactly the
reverse of the reigning sovereign. He
was gruff to the great, kindly to the
poor, to children gentle as a woman.
Ilules of practice he set entirely at de
fiance, and was said by his enemies to
toss up for each case whether he should
kill or cure. Cure, however, he did
many cases apparently hopeless, and by
devoting much care to soothing the suf
ferings he could not cure, and making
the approaches ot death less agonizing,
he earned tho gratitude of surviving
relatives, buch were the . rivals, for
whom the card-tables of Bath waged
war.
The rivals themselves were sworn
brothers Dr. Heathcote at first was
scornful, and then was testy ; but he
could not rtsist the spell which Dr. Le
noir seemed to wield ; and although at
consultation and on professional visits
he wore his dignified sneer with due
propriety, many a hand at piquet did he
hold with his brother physician, and
when none was by to see or hear, would
make his old consulting-room ring with
laughter at the exuberant humor of
his companion. Lenoir, on the other
hand, bowed iu public, with the modesty
of a younger man, to the more mature
practitioner, and assumed his plaoe with
so much kind-hearted deference that the
other was entirely disarmed. But a
kind of ' undefined pomp followed his
footsteps. In the Pump-room and at
the bails he bad a chosen place which
ne one ever usurped ; and he went by
the name of "Doctor Magnitious,"
which, contracted by the unlearned into
The Magnificent, was his ordinary title.
Dr. Leuoir bad been about three years
at Bath, when the events happened of
which J am about to speak. Little
more wag known of him then than when
he lint arrived. It was known ha was
unmarried ; but he was plainly not a
marrying man. He flirted in his good
tumored way with all the pretty girls,
but it was evidently flirtation of society,
not of the heart It was also certain, by
his style of living, that ho was in easy
circumstances, and that he had resources
other than his profession. The only in
stance in whioh he ever unbent from his
superb demeanor, was when in company
wiia jurs. xeurey, an exceedingly beau
tiful and attractive woman, who, with
her husband and two young children
had lived for more than a year at Bath
Dr. Lenoir rlainlv admired her much.
Col. DeUrcy was a good-lcokina man,
with a military air, aud manners which
bespoke knowledge of the world. He
was not a favorite, for his demeanor was
reserved to the crowd, altu'ough when at
nis ease he could converse with annua
tion, and was well read and well travel
ed.j But his wife was all that was charm.
ing. Lively, spirited, kindly, and
thoroughly true, without a dash of self-
conceit, or a thought ot evil ; ready in
repartee, Bparkling in small talk, but
with au ever open heart and hand for
real sorrow, she was the joy of all who
j knew her; and veiy honestly distressed
were tne .rump-room gossips wnen they
heard that Mrs. DtGrey was seriously
ill.
Col. DeGrey affected Lenoir's society
much ; for his powers of conversation
were remarkable, and they had many
tastes in common. But when his wife
was taken ill ho sent for Dr. Heathcote,
to the amusement of the Bath scandal
mongers, who set it down to a slight in.
fiibion of jealousy. Now and then, as
Jjeuoir stood leaning like a Hercules
against his accustomed pillar, some wag,
wno tuougot himself privileged, launch
ed a shaft at him witu this barb to it :
but Lenoir, without the slightest dis
composure, or even alluding to the gibe,
shot back some sarcastic remark on his
assailant, which made him tingle to the
tips of his fingers. But he inquired
witn real solicitude of Ur. Heathcote as
to his patient's health.
" lo toll you the truth, my dear fel
low, said Heathcote one day, " I wish
they would call you in. Of course you
know cannot ask. for a consultation
with a junior ; but 1 wish they would
pay me of?, aud take you. I am fairly
puzzled; aud all the medicines I have
given her seeta to make her worse."
" Ho wonder," said Lenoir ; ' but, doc
tor, it would be pity that harm should
come to that poor creature because we
make up our pills differently. If you
make au excuse to imt mo attend for a
day or two, I will tell you, to the best
of my judgment, wha I think of the
case."
Bo Dr. Heathcote made his excuse, and
Dr. Lenoir was called. And the Pump
room scandal-mongers talked more than
ever.
Col. DeGrey lived in a handsome villa
close to the town; and thither Dr. Le
noir proceeded. Tho Colonel received
him at tlie door, and shook him warmly
by the hand.
" My poor wife is very ill, I fear, and
I am sure you will do your best to bring
her through."
.Lenoir auswered this appeal uy a
grunt, and walked stra ight into the din
ing-room, and looked out at tno win
dow. " I suppose Dr. Heathcote has told you
the symptoms that sho .never can take
her food '"
' He has told me noth-abig'. If he had,
I should not have believtul iiixn. I don't
want to know anything .titout symp
toms. Can I see her ':"
" Certainly. She is rafier hotter to
day, and very anxious to Bee 5-011. You
will find her in the drawi ag-ceom."
Lenoir went up stairs and entered the
drawing-room, the Colonel simply an
nouncing him, and then leaving the
room.
Whatever ho thought of the wasting
ravages which a month had made on
that lovely face, he said nothing on that
subject, but put his questions more dis
agreeably than usual.
" You are not to be so cross, Dr. Le
noir; Dr. He.itb.cote was never cross,"
she said, with, a wan nraiUi lighting up
her faded cheek.
Leuoir flushed for an. instant, and
then replied, " Cross ' yes, I'm always
cross with people like you. It's good for
tbem."
As if she had not heard what he said,
she again addressed him.
" Am I very ill, doctor '("
" Nothing but fancy and temper the
matter with you. Why do you mope up
here '("
" I cannot go out. You cannot tell
how weak, and ok 3 how sick 1 am. O,
Dr. Lenoir ' can you not cure me i If
you can't, 1 shall die, aud leave dour
Fred and my poor little children." And
the poor woman burst into a paroxysm
of tears.
Lenoir sat until the storm had burst,
and had spent its forct-; but tears stood
in his own impassive eyes, and his voice
trembled in spite of himself when he
spoke to her.
" Cure you 'i Of courue I shall, if you
don't give way to such folly; and when
you are crd you will say you got well
of yourself,"
"Do you Teally mean it'r" she said,
faintly.
DroDDinz his gruff style, he said in a
softer tone, " I think 1 can cure you."
And with thoso words he lett her, aud
rejoiuod the Colonel iu the dining-room,
and straightway agiin looked out at the
window.
" Quite a common, case," be said, as if
to himself; "have seen it a hundred
times ; must have a nurse."
A nurse !" said Col. DeGrey. " What
do you think of my wife '( What is her
illness?"
, " A very common complaint, Colonel,
stid the doctor, " although I have not
often met with it in this country. Bat
she must have a nurse who understands
sudorilics, and with your leave I will
send one."
And without waiting to kuow wheth
er the Colonel wished to have a nurse
cr not, the doctor stalked out of the
house, . (y P . ' ' 1
If apy one had seen the doctor's ex
pression of countenance as he strode
down to the gate, he would not have
liked it. Was it wrath, or malignity,
or cunning ' It was a very unlovable
expression, and not like the doctor's
usual face.
Within two hcyurs the nurse arriyed ; a
tall, gaunt French woman, with a reso
lute set of features, who understood aud
could speak English when she nhose, but
not otherwise. .
She brought with her a small phial of
medicine, which she explained to Airs,
DuGrev was to be taken everv hour dnr-
ing the night, and the effects of which
required to be cartfully watched. She
seemed to consider this her peculiar
charge, for on Col. DeGrey taking out
the stopper to smell it, Bbe snatched it
away, with a pettish Preuch excluma-
tion, and without much reverencs.
A fortnight passed over. . Dr. Lenoir
came every day. Hu prescribed nothing
but this nightly potion, which was erad
ually discontinued ; and Mrs. DeGrey
began to rally, her appetite retnrmed,
ana (i tie was apparently getting well.
The Colonel was greatly relieved, and
was profuse in his thanks.
People began to say thut there was no
neq? ssity for the doctor visiting quite so
often, iiut the Colonel did not seem
to think so, for the doctor dined with
him almost every other day. To Dr.
Heathcotu's inquiries, Lenoir only said,
to his great wrath, that there never had
been anything the matter with hrr but
his medicines.
One evening, as the Colonel and he
were si tune at their wine after dinner.
the former said, " When do you think
airs. leUrey will be able to travel .-'
think a change of air would do hor
good ; and 1 begin to fear Bath does not
agree with her.
' Boon, I should think," said Lenoir :
" and as she is so much better, I propose
to be absent for a day or two, as I- have
business in the country. So, if you think
I can be spared. I shall eo to-morrow.
But don't change her regimen in my ab
sence, nor give her any ot old Heath
cote 's potions. They are all very well
m their way, but she has done better
without them.
The Colonel laughed, and srave his
word to eschew the established order of
things ; and next morning tho doctor
left.
Four days passed awav. and on tha
fifth Leuoir again appeared at Prospect
Villa.
Col. DeGrey was at home, and an-
peared dejected. "Things have not been
bo well," he said. " Your patient has
had a relapse of her sickness ; and some
thing has happened which troubles both
ner una me.
" What is the matter V" said the Mag
nificent.
" Well, I don't like to inspire suspi
cions, but I fear that nurse drinks."
"Why do you think so r"
" Because Mrs. DeGrev tells ma that
she saw her conceal a bottle in her pock
et. The woman thought she was asleep,
fieu, 0n er moT'IJK concealed it hur-
" Have you observed any other symp
toms of drinking '(" said Lenoir.
"No, I cannot say I have, excepting
that her manner is very abrupt and
rude.
" I shall probe this to the bottom, you
may depend on it," replied the doctor ;
" and I shall examine her about it at my
own house to-night. Meanwhile say ;
nothing more while she is here."
lie saw his patient, and ionnd she had
decidedly relapsed and was greatly do-
pressed, ilis visit had little tllect iu re
viving her spirits, and again, as be
walked from the house, the evil shadow
came across his face.
The same day brought a letter by post
for Col. DeGrey, desiring his immediate
attendance in London on urgent busi
ness ; and he started the same night by
the mail. Next morning the Magnih-
cent paid the lady a visit. Hhe seemed
greatly excited.
" Doctor," she snid, " you must take
that woman away ; sho is a drunkard
and a thief."
" She may, perhaps," the doctor re
plied, " take a drop of brandy now -and
then. But remember what fatigue she
has undergone in sitting up with yon."
"Well, but, doctor," said Mrs. De
Grey, " she is a thief. I saw her yester
day put my soup into a bottle and hide
it in her pocket. Hhe did not know I
saw her." i . '
The face of the Magnificent for a mo
ment exhibited great agitation. " If
this is true," he said, " 1 will take her
away, and send you another on whom I
can depend. The Colonel spoke of fresh
air for you ; do you think you are strong
enough to travel ? He gave me some
directions about that."
" I don't think I could. He surely
did not mean me to go beforo he came
back."
" He left you entirely in my hands,
and I tmift take you well, as I said I
would." .
" Not before he comes back, at any
rate, doctor."
" Very well," said he, resuming his
gruff manner. "People always know
better than their doctors. Good-bye ; I
shall see you to-morrow."
The next day, in the Pump-room
" She is off, I assure you," said Mr. Hen
shaw, a dyspeptic barrister, with the
tongue of a viper; "she was gone this
morning, and so was her nurse, and no
one knows where, excepting that the
Magnificent is gone also. '
" Who told yon 'i How do you
know ': ' atked half a dozen tongues at
once.
" I shall not give up my authority, I
can assure you ; but if you step out to
Prospect Villa, you will find it to be
true."
" I don't believe a word of it," said
Sir Bernard Brand, a (tout supporter of
Lenoir, who had cured him by making
him drink lemonade instead of port; " I
don't believe a word of it It's some of
that humbug Heathcote's nonsense."
But when' the whist tables were set
for the evening, behold the tale was
true, and the universal community of
Bath were ringing with it I But to the
still greater astonishment of every one,
there was the Magnificent, looking more
magnificent than ever, seated in his ac
customed place, and glancing benignly
from under bis swarthy brows. '
" Magnificent," said nenshaw, " have
you heard what people are saying '("
" Yes, Henny, I have heard it.
" Well, what is the story ?"
"They say you are not to have that
place in the Customs, becauno, you can't
keep a secret."
Ilenshaw's face grew livid, for the
El ace in the Customs was lifo or death to
iru, although ho thought no one knew
it. Ho plucked up cotmigp, however,
aud retorted :
' They want to know what yon have
done with Mrs. DeGrey."
' 1 believe Mrs. DeGrey has gono to
tno country lor tier ccaito. ur course,
Colonel DeGreJf Is the best authority on
that subject."
" Lenoir, I doubt you are a villain,"
said a voice behind him; and, turning
round, he saw Dr. Heathcote. " I have
just seen the ColoneL and he is raging
at the disappearance of his wife. He
says she went away lust night, and no
one Knows wnere. lie was on his way
to your house when I met him."
" Dr. Heathcote, you jog-trot practi-
wuuers ;uuge oy ine lnosi superficial
symptoms," said Leuoir. in the loltinat
tone. " I shall see the Colonel if he has
returned, and to-morrow I shall take
occasion to request an explanation of
tno epitnets whiuli you have used, and
the impertinent suirirestions of that lit
tle lawyer.
" Meantime, with your leave, I shall
unisu my ruooer." ' i '
But the party broke up, and declined
to finish the rubber; and the Magnifi
cent took his hat and walked slowly
from the room. His faction retired home
in great discomfiture.
Meanwhile Col. DeGrey, in the great
est perturbation, having found his wife
gone on nis return, and no trace of her,
went on to the house of Dr. Lenoir. It
was a large, gloomy mansion, with high
walls, and surrounded bv trees: a dun.
glimmering light shone over the door
way. The Colonel's knock wus not an
swered at once, aud he thought he heard
a window open arid shut. At last the
door was opened by a thick-set, power
ful man with one eye.' 7
" Is Dr. Lenoir at home " said the
Colonel.
" Yes, 6ir," said the man. " Be kind
enough to walk in."
Uol. DeGrey entered, and followed the
man up-stairs. He thought he heard
the outer door locked as be went up.
He was ushered into a strange-looking
room, with very little furniture, and a
window at tho roof, so high as to be be
yond reach. The moment he wus in the
room the door was violently shut and
locked, and h was left in absolute, dark
ness.
Ho rushed to tho door, rased and
stormed, bellowed at the. top. of his
voice, Put no answer was returned. Half
an hour had elapsed, and at last a trap
in the ceiling opened, and a light ap
peared through it.
" The master be coom," said a voice . ,
ter iX all pay for this !"
"The master Ve coom. Wilt 1:0
quoitly ?" - ' -'
Another volley of wrath was about to
escape from his lips, when he bethought
him that his better plan would be at
least to feign submission.
" I shall be glad to tell your master
what a blackguard he is. I shall do that
quietly enough."
On this assurance the trap was closed ;
and in a few minutes the same one-eyed
man, with a companion of equal strength,
opened the door and invited the Colonel
to emerge. . .
He saw at once that ho would have no
chance in a struggle, and determined to
see the matter out, resolving to use vio
lence if he could not otherwise escape.
Passing through a narrow winding
passage, a door opened, and he was
ushered into a well-furnished sitting
room, and there, seated in an easy-chair,
wai the imperturbable Magnibc, nt.
The door was closed behind him, and,
looking reund, he could not have told
where it was.
Lenoir motioned to him to sit down ;
but giving n) heed to the invitation, he
exclaimed :
" What is the meaning of this infamous
conduct? Where am 1 i"
"In a mad-house," said tho doctor,
composedly.
" And on what pretence have you de
coyed me here, you scoundrel, and whero
is my wife 'i
" Don't you think," rejoined the Mag
nificent, in the same tone, " thut should
your wife die, you had better be mad
for a little 'f"
"What on earth do you mean 'r" said
the Colonel. But his face blanched,
and he sank iuto a seat.
" Col. DeGrey, I knew you a long
time ago. Do you remember Dr. Ge
ronimo Spiretti at Padua Y"
t " Gracious God I" said the Colonel.
" I was bis assistant when you studied
poison under him. I was a lad of six
teen, but you have not changed. Now
you know all."
The wretched man for a moment near
ly fainted. He tried to speak, but could
make no articulated sound.
" Don't glance at the poker. Killing
me would be your own death. Listen.
I knew from the first, and I mistrusted
you from the first, and but for the sweet
woman w ho is linked to you, and who
still trusts you, you should have met the
doom you deserve, as far as I am con
cerned. But to expose you would kill
her.
" I was certain, from Dr. Heathcote's
account, how the matter stood. I knew
you would discontinue your doses while
I was there. You thought that was the
cause of Spiretti's antidote.
I knew the attempt would begin when
I was absent. The nursj brought me
the poisoned soup. I have had it ana
lyzed in my presence by two careful
chemists, aud the analysis and the sub
ject of it are so bestowed Drop that 1"
he thundered, and dealt DeGrey such a
blow on the arm as to nearly fracture it.
He had attempted to seize the poker. The
pain of the blow was intense for a mo
ment, but Lenoir gave him a glass of
brandy, and proceeded : . -
"Your wife is where none of Spiretti's
recipes will reach her. She believes
you have sent her there, and is content.
You will now writ two t letters before
yon leave the room. One to tell your
wife that you are obliged to go abroad
for two months, and requesting her to
remain where she is until you return ;
tho other to request mo to attend her
,1., 1 , i , . . . ,
uuiuig hit ausonce at ner new residence.
"I shall Rand iha t.vn fhilr1rAn ii Yiw
At the end of two months, unless the
last aoso was too strong tor hor shattered
SVRtem. Klin will Vin nnitn .f.ll ntirl vnn
may rejoin her. Until that timn ynn
.. A V.i ..... 1. i .
" Ono wore more. You now know that
the Insurance Company, in whioh you
had that-, itnlli.v nt, ,;r..a i;iv. k
J v.. J J tAL VVJftVO UK IJH3
failed. Perhaps you do not know that
Mrs. DeGrey has succeeded to an annuity
of 300 a year from an old friend of her
family.
" You stay here for a week, then, go
quietly to Paris; but, mark ! if your
wife die in any circumstancesof myRtery,
whethtr I am alive or dead, retribution
will hunt you to the end of the earth."
"But Virginie the nurse r" stam
mered the self-convicted wretch.
"Virginie knows nothing excepting
that tha did what she was told. She
will never open her lips on the subject.
You are perfectly secure, for the chem
ists had no idea on what their experi
ments were made." .., ...
Next day the Magnificent was in Lis
place in the Pump-room as usual. ,
Men loolcad ahv nt. hi
J - vuf uiiA nuuiGM
looked shy. - He was as cool and lofty
as ever. ... .
He waited nnt'il tha
and then, taking an opportunity when
iitniutuio iuu ueusnaw were Close to
mm, ne called out, " Mr. llenshaw."
Ho took no nnt.inn. TTn ronouD.l T:
call with the same effect . Lenoir took
two strides toward him, and lilting him
by his shoulders, placed him with his
buck to the pillar, and then said :
"You presumed yesterday to make
remarks disparaging to a lady. ' You
will be kind enough now to retract
them, or I tirnnnRA ti Iriolr vmi
' X X - ... J VI. i L L' 1 . 1 utAt?
end of this room to the other."
Pale aud sffrighted was the little
lawyer; but Dr. Heathcote interposed :
" Dr. Lenoir, this mint- nut ha I
the first accuser yesterday, and you
. 1 H-., l ,1 .1 ;n i. rf
must uj&i, ueai wiui me.
" True, niv dear TTotiipnt lit T
' J VUU A lUDKII
to deal with each after their kind.
You are a gentleman and a man of
honor, and as such 1 intend to treat you.
T J iL .1 ti
Dr. Heathcote r,arl to his infanon as
tonishment tho following note :
BATn, August 12, 179-.
Mr Dkak Lenoir : As I am oblio-ed to o-o
to the Continent for two mouths, 1 nope you
will allow me to leavo Mrs. DeGrev under
your charge, should she nt her present resi
dence require your nuvicc.
1 ours, very truly. F. DeCJuev.
" Read it, doctor," said Lsnoir. and
the bewildered man obeyed. : .
" jnow you thunderous little toad, eat
up your calumnies on the spot !" said
- '-li'Bjx'juia mwver.
" I will make ycu repent' ' V-a-wi' -oAt
"iiat them 'up, 1 -say, for the last
time !" And terribly he looked down
on Uenshaw.
The latter quailed. "I admit," he
said, " they have turnad out not to be
true."
" Aud ought not to hive been spoken."
And ought not to have been spoken."
" Go, then, and be warned." .
" You will hear from me to-morrow,
however, for all this."
" I think not, said Lenoir, when he
h id gone. And he did not ; for the pur
veyor ot scandal thought better of it,
aud transferred his attentions to Scar
borough. " Aud now. Dr. Heathcote, I presume
you retract that epithet which you used
yesterday. 1 admit appearances were
against me; but a true physician dis
trusts appearances."
" 1 iorgive the banter, and cuec-rfiilly
retract the expression ; but after what
tho Colonel said, hung me, doctor, if I
know what to make of it."
" I never supposed you did," said Le
noir; and the Magnificent reigned in
Bath for many years afterward.
The gaps in the story you may till up
as suits you best. Leuoir, in his trip to
London, had consulted his solicitor, who
told the story to my late master. The
cautious London lawyer told Lenoir he
might be hanged tor compounding tel-
ony ; and Leuoir told him he might be
hanged tor his advice. The annuity was.
the solicitor believed, provided by Le
noir himself; and the surmise was, either
that he was in love with the lady, or
that he knew more of her history than
bo chosa to explain or probably both.
The Colonel aud Mrs. DeGrey never vis
ited Bath again ; but the annuity was
paid for many years afterward, the Col
onel, probably, being as anxious to keep
his wife alive as he had been to destroy
her ; aud she, poor thing, with the con
stancy and credulity of woman, rejoic
ing iu her inmost soul at tho increased
tanderneR3 of her husband.
Lcft-Handediitss.
Various attempts have been made to ac
count satisfactorily for the use of the left
in preference to the right hand in those
i a 1 . .. 1 : u.,4.
1 11 WUUUI VU15 pruuuaLiiy cjiiais, uuu, tu
cording to the Lancet, without success.
Dr. Pye-Smith takes up the question,
and, disposing of the theories that left
handedness is to ba accounted for by
transposition of tho viscera, as asserted
by Von Baer and others, or by an abnor
mal origin of the primary branches of
the aorta, proceeds to argue that right
handedness arose from modes of fighting
adopted, from being found to be followed
bv the least serious consequences. " If
a buudred of our fighting ambidexterous
ancestors made the step in civilization
of inventing a shield, we may suppose
that half would carry it on tbe right
arm, and fight with the left ; the other
half on the lett, and fight with the right.
The latter would certainly, in the long
ruu, escape mortal wounds better than
the former, and thus a race of men who
fought with the right band, would grad
ually be developed by a process ot nat
ural selection." Of course the habit
once acquired, of using the right hand
more than tbe left, would be hereditarily
transmitted trom parent to child.
A St. Louis lawyeress isn't afraid of
losing htr reputation y practice, as
she d never heard that lawyers had any
reputation to lose.
j : ' Vision of 1000. .
Can nny one realize the exceedingly
torobable fact that in 1000 only twentv-
nine years from now- -tho popu.ation of
tho United Mates will number 7o,000,
000 of, wo trust, froo and independent
citizcus'f Yet, says the Keening Mail,
Mr. Samuel F. Ituggles proves that this
will bo the case, without making allow
ance lor annexations, JS ortu and Kouth,
that will certainly como about, Mr.
Sumnor and all others to the contrary
notwithstanding. He shows the reasons
for his prophecy iu figures, and although
the old saw that " figures won't lie," is
the most unveracious of proverbs, Mr.
Rugglea' figures have acquired a reputa
tion of their own, and a good ono ot
mat. t or tne past thirty or forty years,
he has been figuring abont our internal
aud domestio oommerce ; and although
he has often been accused of romancing
in figures, tho facts have always sustain
ed ins predictions, tt hen, therefore, the
ablest, most experienced and most trust
worthy statistican now livine, tells us
that we shall havo a population of 75,
000,000 in 1900, the younger part of the
present generation may as well consider
what awaits them in their maturity and
old age.
Seventy-five millions of people in the
United States implies the settlement of
the entire South and West by as dense a
population as that of Massachusetts ;
tho reclamation of tho arid wastes of the
great Plains by irrigation ; the develop
ment of States as strong as Ohio, In
diana . and Illinois along the Bocky
Mountains ; the settlement of the Utah
Basin by four or five millions of ntrri-
cultural and pastoral people; tho de
velopment of a tier of agricultural states
along our northern border, from Lake
Superior to the Paoifio, ns populous and
prosperous as Missouri and Minnesota ;
the growth of the Pacific States into
commonwealths as rich and populous as
iew lorKana i-ennsylvama. It moans
that New York will cover the whole of
Jkanhattan Island with a population of
at least two millions, to say nothing of
the outlying suburbs in New Jersey and
across tho East River; that Chicago and
St. Louis will each become as lanre cities
in fact, as they are now in their own
estimation, and that San Francisco will
have. half a million of inhabitants. The
national debt will have become a tradi
tion, and it will be difficult to under
stand how it was ever hard to raise three
or four hundred millions a year by tax
ation. Such are tho glowing visions
which are excited by the prosaic and
Careful figures of Mr. Buggies. It any
of our readers are unduly " Bearish " in
their tendencies and inclined to get tho
blues over our future, we advise them to
indulge in the line of speculation sug
gested by his striking statistics, and
carry our predictions more into details.
There is one kind of flattery which is
common to both men and women, and
that is the expressed preference of sex.
Thus, when men want to flatter women,
they say how infinitely they prefer their
society to that of their own sex ; and
women will say tbe same to men. Or if
they do not say it, they will act it. See
a set of women congregated together
without tho light ot a manly counten
ance among them. They may talk to
each other certainly; and one or two
will sit away together and discuss their
private affairs with animation ; but the
great mass of them are only half vital
ized while awaiting the advent of the
men to rouse them into lifa aud the de
sire to pleaso. No man who goes up
first, and earlier than ho was expected,
from the dinner-table, can fail to see the
change which comes over those wearied,
limp, indifferent-looking faces and
figures as soon as he enters tho room.
Ho is like the prince whose kiss woke
up the sleeping beauty and all her
court ; and can any one say that this is not
flattery of the most delightful kind ? To
be the Pycnialion even for a moment,
and for tbw weakest order of soul-giving,
is about the greatest pleasure that a
man can know, it he is susceptible to the
finer kinds of flattery. Some women, in
deed, not only show their preference for
men, but openly confess it, and confess
at the same time to a lofty contempt or
abhorrence for the society of women.
These are generally women who are, or
have been, beauties, or who have literary
and intellectual pretensions, or who de
spite babies and contemn housekeeping,
aud profess themselves unable to talk to
other women because of their narrowness
and stupidity. But for the most part
they are women who, by their beaul y or
their position, havo been used to receive
extra attention from men, and thus their
preference is not flattery so much as ex
tgeance. Women who . have been in
India, or wherever else women are in the
minority in society, are of this kind ;
and nothing is more amazing to them
when they first come home than the at
tentions which a certain style of Eng
lishwomen pay to men, instead of de
manding aud receiving attentions from
tbem. These are thoso sweet, bumble,
caressing women who flatter you with
every word and look, but whose flattery
is nothing but a pretty dress put on for
show, and taken off when the show is
done with. Saturday Iteview. ' .
The Chicago Miil says : ' A decision
has just beon rendered in the Superior
Court in this city which shows that
women have rights even under existing
laws. Mrs. Mary Mason sued the Farm
ers' and Merchants' Insurance Company,
of Illinois, tor payment ot an insurance
policy of $2,000 upon her stock of millin
ery with furniture and fixtures, which
were destroyed by fire at No. G8 Lake
street. The defence set up was that
legally a wife's property belongs to her
husband, but it was shown that in this
case the wife had acquired the property
by her own earning, and thus, by the
married woman's act of 1861, was en
titled to its separate ownership. The
complainant was therefore justly award
ed a verdict of l,S7a.7 as damages."
" Are these pure canaries '(" asked a
young gentleman who was negotiating
for a gilt for his fair one. " Yes, sir,"
aid the dealer, confidently, " I raised
them ere birds trom canary teed."
MISCELLAN EOL'S ITEMS.
" Father Cleveland," the" City' Mis-'
sionnry of Boston, who will cntrt his
100th year in Juno next, was lately
visited by his sou a stripling of only
73 whom bo had not seen for 20 years.
In Iowa City a prospective child was
pledged to a creditor to cancel a debt,
should tho offspring be a boy. Tho
baby proves to bo a boy, and the credi
tor demands him on contract. Tho
mother refuses, and the creditor pro--poses
to bring suit for the child.
A thermometer which has been kept
for seventy-five years in tho vaults of the'
Paris observatory, at a depth of ninety
one feet below the surface, has not varied
more than half a degree during the en
tiro interval. People who wish a cli-
mate without change will find there,
what they want. .
William L. Barry, a compositor on the
Lebanon (Tenn.) Herald, has just passed
his 01st birthday. He is promptly at
his case at 7 o'clock every morning, and
Sets six thousand emu a dav witVimit tha
least difficulty. He began to set typo
1 a years ago, ana sun ioiiows tne busi
ness out of love for the art. hnvincr nn
need to work for mnnev. nmrrit pfill
hale and vigorous, and full of animal
pmia. 1 , . ,
A Western D.lTinr tr.lla n. tnurrl, cinrv
about a nartv of miners nrncnoetitio. in
on isolated place where they were with'
l j: 1. . . . . , ....
uuu iiesu meats ana vegetable tood till
they were afflicted with scurvy. Six
the worst caspa vrora nlatitail in tlia
earth up to their necks and left alone
over mgnc witn a chew ot tobacco
apiece. Tho result of tln'q Attpmnt n
earth cure might have been happy, but
iur me iact mat in the night coyotes
came along and ate off all the six heads,
Wm. Hawk, of Sandusky, Ohio, saved
the life of Andrew Phelps by dragging
him out of the Housatonio River, in
Massachusetts, in 1S20, and a few days
BSTO lnnc .ftr h hnrl fnro-nttan oil
about it he was rewarded for his brave
act by a service of silver from tho man
he had saved. This is a noticeable cor
roboration of the Serintnml nrnnont
" Cast thy bread upon the waters, for
thou shall find it after many days " in
this instance as ninny davs as there nrn
in 01 years.
The second volnmn nt Ilia lifu rf K.
thaniel Greene, just printed, contains a
letter ironi ueneral Ureene, stating that
he had dined at a tahln in Philndalnhia
where ono hundred and sixty different
dishes were served at the meal. This
was Previous to 1780. firearm alarv tar.
that Washington was a vigorous dancer,
and at one ball danced three hours with
Mrs. Greene " without once sitting
down." In another place he declared
gornVTenod''tnoWr164 in
During tho past winter a friend of
ours employed a hard-working woman
to do jobs of scrubbing, etc., about the
house, lie wag accustomed, when he
saw her, to ask kindly questions as to
her family and general welfare, tier
answer invariably comprised a complaint
that her husband's business was very
dull. Noticing the fact, our friend
asked her, one of the coldest days in
January, what her husband's business
was. " He s a Btrawberry picker, the
woman replied. Our friend had no
difficulty afterward in understanding
why her husband's business was dull. .
A young man at Holly Springs, Miss.,
recently volunteered to aid in taking up
the collection at one of the churches
there, and succeeded in raising a con
siderable sum. ne approached the door,
and was about to go out with his hat full
of contributions on his head, when the
minister said solemnly, " Young man, if
you leave here with that money, you'll
be damned." The young man, however,
left in a hurry, and, as he shut tho door
behind him, a worthy old bachelor, with
a voice in F sharp, who put a dollar in
the hat, piped out to the minister, " Well,
if he ain't gone with it, I'll be d d '"
Ma-y Wager Bays she knows a man
who nraved night and moraine, preached
on Sundays, and was a rich farmer be
side. His wife milked the cows in all
sorts of weather, cut most of the wood,
built the fires, churned, economized, and
died of consumption. He put a weed on
his hat, tried to resign himself to tho
" dispensation ot Providence," when he
ought to have been tried for woman
slaughter in the first degree and sen
tenced to chop wood and milk cows in
the rain all the rest of his life. She
wants the debating clubs to discuss
whether it will go harder with him or
with Jim Bludso, in tho day of j udgment .
The Omaha Herald says : "A party
coming East have chartered the magnifi
cent drawing-room and sleeping-oar
Huron, and contracted that it shall run
for them directly through from San
Francisco to New York. They also stop
and interview Salt J-mke on the way.
This is reducing the inconvenience of a
j jurney to an inconceivable fraction of
what it once was. J. he only tear is as to
the effoct of so much luxury on the race.
Won't we get to be too much like the
Sultan, who, on his approach to London
and when the talout and beauty and
grandeur of the greatest city in - the
world were waiting to welcome him,
ordered his train to stop till be could
have a quiet snooze : , .c : j x
' Readers generally know' the fact that
Benjamin Franklin left by will a few
pounds of money for tbe bentfit ot tha
' young married artificers," or skilled
mechanics, of BoBton. The money has
been carefully invested and reinvested
by the authorities, until now it amounts
to more than 150,000. The "young
married artificers," however, have never
realized anything from it ; but now it ia
proposed, since the .fund has become
large enough to be made available in
helping the class Franklin wished to
benefit, to carry out the purpose an
nounced in the will as far as practicable ;
and with this end in view this intention
is to lend money in small sums to per
sons of moderate means, to enable them
to secure neat and comfortable homes ia
the vicinity of the city of Boston.
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