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'Lims to Iho First Fly of 1879
1 ; l)ance on my unso With your tickling loot, i
, Ulno bottlq flyt , '
Sing in my cnrs with your buzz to greet
Mo, as 1 lie.
You will seek me out in my dnrk retreat, !
With an eager zeal that no screen can boat, ;
Anil I try to slap you cloar into the swoot,
Sweet, by-and-hye. . i j
I haven't scon you sinoe 'seventy -eight,
Little houso fly;
And I see you now with the bitterest hato
You can dcly.
Oh, how I hato you, nobody knows,
Author nt half of my summer woes,
Oh, how I prayed that you might bo froze,
' Villainous fly.
All through tho winter yon did not ircozo,
Not much, Mary Ann.
Now nil tho summer you'll do as you pleaso,
That is your plan.
When, in the warm afternoons, wo would sloop,
Near us your wakofulcst vigils you'll keep;
Precious is sleeping, but waking is cheap,
Sleep, man, il you can.
Oh, how I wish that my t wo broad hands,
Spread loft and right,
Stretched from tho poles to Equator's bands,
Giants of might.
Some summer day in my wrath I woidd rise,
Sweeping all space with my hands of sizo,
And smash all tho uncounted million of flics
Clear out of sight.
Vain ore my wishes, oh, little house lly, .
You're hard to mash j
Strongmen may swear and woincn may cry,
Teething their gnash;
But in:.o tho house your friends you'll lug,
You'll bathe your foot in tho syrup jug,
And your cures you'll drown in the baby's mug,
Cheeky and brash.
Still, precious lessons, dear littlo houso fly,
You touch to me. -
JIatcd or loved, you tell mo that I
Happy may bo.
Why should 1 cure, when I tickle a nose,
Whether its owner's conduct shows
That he likes it or hates it, just so it goes
Pleasant to me.
Tliis lino should read: " Gnashing their
tooth," but it little poetic license was necessary
to bring in the rhyme.
Burlington Hawktyc.
'IILLY.
" Asked Tilly?''
" Yes, actually. I heard him myself.
Did you ever!"
Miss llosie (liven, for an answer,
looked unutterable things. Miss Posie
Green took oil' her sundown nnd fanned
herself vigorously with it. She looked
warm ; her lace was Hushed with JL'eling
no less limn 'with the weather. She ami
her sister were no longer as youthful as
their names suggested. Moreover, irri
tation brings out Iho lines and wrinkles
of a faee, and it is unquestionably irri
tating to he passed over for a slip of a
thing with a doll-baby face, not one's
own flesh and blood nt that.
" It's all pa's fault," Miss Rosie pur
sued, presently. "lie does spoil that
girl so abominably. Thero will be no
enduring her presently."
"I shouldn't be ono frit surprised if Mr.
Leonard makes so much of her .just to
please pa. Men are such time-servers.
Of course it's to his interest to keep, in
pa's good books."
"There they go now!" cried Miss
llosie in an excited whisper. Hying to the
window, and peeping through a crack in
the shutter.
" For goodness' sake, don't give her
the satisfaction of seeing you look at
her."
" I don't cave whether she sees me or
not not a rush. That old pink calico
on! I do think she might have had the
decency to make herself look respecta
ble, riding out with pa's young man."
" l'a's young man! What a way to
putit!"
" Well, isn't he, for the present? lie's
l'c.iding medicine in pa's office, I'm sure,
and he takes the messages that arts left,
and tells pa afterward. For my part, I
think he is bound to be civil to pa's
daughter's."
U'cll. he is being civil lo one of them."
"Yes. That's I lie worst of the way
a treats Tilly. It's real unjust to us.
X
laiefnl little piece!"
A case of cruel step-sisters, you are
thinking. However, thero was no tie
either of blood or of marriage in this in
stance. Dr. (!reen had adopted Tilly,
brought her with him when he moved
to Woodbridgo fifteen years ngo. . Site
was a mere baby then, nnd his wife was
still living, nnd cared for the child like
her own. She was a motherly soul, nnd
loved babies. Her own girls had left
infancy half a score of years "behind
I hem.. Since her death life had not been
so smooth for Tilly. Perhaps tho Green
girls would have been kind to another
person in the same situation, but they
certainly made life a burden to their lit
tle adopted sister. There is no account
ing for likes and dislikes. It did not
prove Tilly morally deficient because
she aroused the worst feelings in Rosie's
and Posie's natures. It is an unpleasant
mystery why certain antagonistic na
tures should be subjected to certain ex
asperating frictions. There are those
whom it sets wild to feel the down of the
peach. Others' bite through the skin
with unalloyed enjoyment.
Mr, Leonardo-he hoped to he Dr.
Leonard this time next year drovo a
fast horse before a shining new buggy.
it was a bright day, and ho had a pretty
girl beside him. His spirits rose to the
level of the occasion. ' Tilly nnd he
laughed and talked in u way that would
have driven Miss Posie frantic. I specify
Miss Posie, because Iter, sister, had ac
quired two or three years' additional
resignation in which to bear tho ills of
spinsterhood; wall-flowering had be
come almost a socond nature. But Tilly
laughed on regardless. She was happy.
John Leonard was tho handsomest, best
mannered, tho best-dressed young man
she had ever 1 nown, and he had singled
her out for his especial favor. She was
willing to believe, anything of an auspi
cious fate. . r
John Leonard compared her mean
while to a wild rose, her bloom was so
exquisite, her whole effect so dainty.
Her largo dark eyes were wonderfully
bright and shining. I am afraid she
Was quite unaware how much they
. avowed as slio raised them to John's
face now and again. Prudence should
r have kept. them averted. -. i i
w v.l: V.Fn?d. mX . finger. to-da'v," sie
said, n.sPIaymg it, " taking the baked
custard out of the oven." 1 -
I " Why. the poor littlo finger,! And
such bad stuff as custard is, after all." '
t, " Do you think soP Pa likes It." ?
" Yes. So.did my molhorW She- al
ways considered it an especial treat. I
was a tender-hearted chap. It made me
unhappy because I hated it ; it seemed
ungrateful."
Tilly thought this a delightful trait.
" We often have custard," she pursued.
" It's so hard to think-up ow kinds of
desserts."
" And a great waste of brains."
" Perhaps it is. I often wish I had
more time for improving my mind."
" You should take the time," dogma
tized John. Ho had had it on his mind
to say this. - It struck- him- that Tilly's
education was shamefully neglected.
Sho wrote a wretched, scratchy little
hand; she stumbled in reading aloud an
ordinary newspaper paragraph; she had
once committed herself to the opinion
that Vienna was in France. It was
strange that beauty could be so illiterate
strange and a shimie. The poor child
was kept drudging from morning till
night, cooking, sweeping, dusting. Why
didn't those two Bisters of hers nut their
shoulders to the household wheel? It
was nil they were good for. Some one
had said that Tilly was not old Green's
own child. The more fool she to wear
herself out in his service; but women
were apt to be fools; they would slave
themselves to death for. any man who
gave them a kind word. .At least so his
mother had always said. And old
Green was certainly affectionate enough
to the girl. Poor little thing, who
could help being good to her? All this,
while he kept up at the same time an
animnted conversation with Tilly. .-' -
Nor was that the last drivethey took"
together, He asked her all the oftener
when he saw it made the "wicked sis
ters," as he dubbed them, -angry. As it
proved, he asked Tilly far oftener than
was good for her. This was ,only an
episode with him ; with Tilly it was the
most real experience of her life. John
Leonard seldom talked of his plans, but
she had mapped out his career for him,.
When lie graduated in medicine he
should become her father's partner, and
finally relieve her father of the burden,;
f his practice, nnd then and then :
Tilly, always herself shared these air
castles with John. .
This was a long,-long time agobe
fore the war, almost ; accurately, at the
very breaking out of tho war. Those
drives occurred during the April and
May when the first regiments were put
in the field. At first John ' Leonard,
who was an Englishman, escaped the
war fever. Lot these brothers tight out
their own family quarrels. Hut gradu
ally the soul of the war clarions "passed
into 1 1 is blood." He must have a hand
in this himself. A man must belong
somewhere. So he coolly informed Dr.
Green one day that he had enlisted; he
was going to light for his shoulder
straps. " As for my diploma, I'll wait
awhile for that."
The doctor told him he was mad, and
urged him at least to wait a year. But
much' reckod- John; it -is at wHSto of
words to answer a young man except ne-'
cording to his folly. John was an ardent
soldier by this time. He had come to
America to seek his fortune; perhaps the
way to it lay along the path of glory.
When ho came to bid Tilly good-bye,
sho burst out crying. That settled the
question as to their manner of farewell.
He took her in his arms and kissed her
repeatedly. This was decidedly wrong,
decidedly imprudent, although they
were only affectionate, brotherly kisses
Miss Rosie came in as ho released her.
" Well, Matilda Green! " sho cried, with
an intonation that meant anything but
well. But Tilly was too heart-broken to
extenuate her conduct. She left that
to John, who said, good-naturedly:
" You'll give me a kiss too, won't you,
Miss llosie? Remember, you may never
see me again,"
And he actually kissed her too. Ho
wanted to put it out of her power to
tease poor Tilly. Shehad been guilty of
the same impropriety herself.
Poor Tilly was wretched, wretched,
after he was gone. But she was buoyed
up by hopes and visions. She had a
brave picture, too, of John which he
sent her when lie was made a lieuten
ant. Oh, how proud she was when that
came !
Sho never forgot that speech of John's
about improving her mind. She tried
hard to find time to do so. Her favorite
method was the composition of letters
to John, which were never sent, in the
course of which sho would laboriously
hunt out in the dictionary nearly the
words she wanted to use, to insuro their
correct spelling. She also endeavored
to find time to read such light literature
as wits contained in the weekly paper of
the household. Sho read the love
stories, to he sure, with an especial zest
apart from their purpose as educators.
They struck a kindred chord.
Ono day John Leonard received in
camp a copy of this same paper tho
Woodbridge"Arews. It contained a mark
ed paragraph. "Good gracious!" he
said, reading it, "old Green's dead.
How fearfully sudden!"
His particular chum, Lieutenant Phil
Ross, was standing by. This gentleman
was a cormorant of facts a trait which
the thoughtless are apt to confound with
curiosity; but I contend that there is a
difference between inquisitiveness nnd
acquisitiveness. Mr. lloss stretched out
his hand for tho paper.
"Old Green? Ilum! ah, yes Dr.
Green! By Jove! 'Philbrick GreenJ for
merly of Greenbrier, New York.' I
knew the man. I hail from Greenbrier
myself. So he hits turned up again, has
he? 'Woodbridgo, ltockland county,
Pennsylvania.' 15een in Woodbridgo,
eh ? What ever took you there?"
"I studied medicine in Dr. Green's
office. There was an excellent opening
for a country practice."
" Let us see : he had two daughters
Rosie and Posie."
"Three."
"The third was only an adopted
daughter. She accounts for my interest
in him. Her mother -was a distant
cousin of mine. Left a widow with
three children, utterly destitute Sewed
for her living. The Greens took a fancy
to her little Tilly, and offered to take her
off her hands. She agreed, rather than
let the child starve. The Greens moved
away shortly .afterward. The last time
I was in Greenbrier (I run up thero
every summer to see my mother) I found
that my cousin had married a very
well-to-do man, too. Her other children
had died meanwhile, and she had set her
heart on reclaiming Tilly. Her husband
had made inquiries for Dr. Green, but to
no purpose. He had made two or three
moves since leaving Greenbrier, and no
one' knew where he 'had moved to last?.
My cousin was fretting- herself sick, t
can't say that I Ditied her as much as
though she had nek given, up her child I
of hep- own free 'will; te begin with. ' lij
always seemed nn taninotilorlv filing to
mo. - And here I 'havo -suddenly un
earthed tho girl!" '.' ; U t . i
.. .'! Iaiokily enoifab, fo iier,?' .1. John
opined. " Rosie and l'osio will lead bef
it life of it, I daresay. They'll have it
all their own way now, ami a very un
pleasant way it is, as I happen to know."
" Had old Green, as you call him, any
money ?"
- ." Should-say ho had. I hope ho has
left Tilly her sharo of it. She will get
nothing by favor from those two close
fisted old maids that does not come to
her by right."
" I'll write to her mother this
day."
very
, " And I'll write to Tilly ," John added.
He wrote to tho , mother, too: he
seemed so anxious, as Phil said, to liave
his finger in every corner of the pie that
Phil waived his rights of acquaintance
ship and permitted his friend to make
the disclosures to Mrs. Katon, Phil con
tenting himself with inclosing a few lines
to his cousin indorsing John's moral
character in. that yoting man's own
words.
Speedily came' tlio answer. A very
incoherent,. ngitated, short little note
from Tilly, so badly penned nnd ex
pressed as to bo almost illegible and un
intelligible. But John made out from
it that sho was very unhappy, and would
hail any change with joy. Mrs. Eaton's
missive was blotted with tears. She
had evidently a talent for letter-writing,'
that is, for the writing of letters consid
ered as essays. This one invoked bless
ings upon John's head. It referred to
the writer's past sorrowful life. It was
a dirge.
-""She always had that-whining way
about her," Mr. Ross -commented, after
perusing it. " Coddles her miseries, you
know." . - .:.,; -
- Not lon afterward arrived the news
that Tilly had gone on to her mother in
Greenbrier- John,.breathed"a sigh', of
relief.- Ho ' had learned that Dr. Grepn
had died intestate. His property had
gone to his legal heirs. It would have
been hard lines for Tilly, slaving all the
rest of her days for those hard task-mis
tresses, tho " wicked sisters." Tho life
long bondage seemed inevitable , to
John's excited imagination.
( . So several months passed. Then John
appliod for leave, on his doctor's advice,
who said he needed rest. It was a problem
w here to spend it. Ho had no mother or
sisters to hasten to who would receive
him with open arms, and make each
day he was at home a' holiday. He had
distant relations In England, none in this
country. He would have gone to Wood
bridge, as being the nearest approach to
home, had Dr. Green and Til fy still been
there. lie would like to see Tilly. She
had cried when ho had bidden her good
bye. He did not think that any one else
had shed tears for his sake since. Poor
littlo Tilly! Pretty little Tilly! Ho had
a great notion to go to Greenbrier and
look her up. ' He wanted to find out
whether she would be glad to see him.
He went to Greenbrier, fie found the
decent, tidy little brick house where the
Eatons lived: ijlo w;is .fchowi) . into a.
dark little parlor. The woman who ad
mitted him went up stairs to tell Miss
Tilly so noiselessly that John thought
sho must be in her stocking-feet. And
when Tilly came down to "him she ap
peared to have on list shoes. Every
thing about the house was mullled.
" Mother has a dreadful headache,"
Tilly explained; "she sutlers terribly
with neuralgia."
It was impossible not to see that Tilly
was extremely agitated. The hand she
gave to John was like ice, and trembled
to his touch. He almost seated her, still
holding her hand, and she looking up at
him with , tho old wistful look in her
eyes. John was touched.. lie always
had liked THly. And, poor little soul,
how thin she was! Was it possible that
she had only exchanged one kind of
bondage for another?
Sho went out to the front door with
him when ho left, and he saw t hen in the
daylight how pale she had grown." The
little wild rose had lost her bloom. lie
asked her to take a drive with him for
tho sake of old times. "You look as
though you needed fresh air."
" Yes, I do not get out often ; mother
is so ailing."
On the evening of his last day in Green
brier he had made up his mind that he
would ask her to marry him. Ho hud
very little doubt of her answer, poor
foolish child ; for his own part lie fancied
lie was in love with her. At all events,
he ought to be in lovo with some one by
this time. Tilly was almost tho only
girl ho had ever known well.
But fate interfered witli his intention.
Mrs. Eaton was so ill that Tilly could
not be spared from her side for more than
tivo minutes. Sho ran down just to say
good-bye.' John resolved that he would
write instead. Ho told Tilly ho would
waile. "And take care of yourself," he
added. She did not cry this time. Per
sons who take an extreme view of human
maladies would perhaps havo said that
sue looked simply hroken-liearteil.
When John did write, it was a differ
ent sort of letter from tho ono lie had
planned. On his return to camp he was
confronted by a crisis in his life. X gay
party from Washington came down lo
dance and flirt in tho tented lield in lieu
of tho conventional ball-room. Of its
number was Maud Ga.e, who, if experi
ence goes for anything, should have been
an adept in both dancing and flirting.
A society girl par excellence., but tho first
of the type who had crossed John Leon
ard's path: ' She had cultivated fascina
tion to the full extent of her powers,
and John fell nn easy victim to her prac
ticed wiles, lie was bewitched. What
if her hair were blondined, and her skin
were whitened and reddened, and her
eyebrows blackened? John was as in
nocent as a babe about these matters.
To him Maud was radiant in all the
fresh beauty of young womanhood.
Tilly? Sho faded in his thought by con
trast into such a mere dull little country
girl.
Still bewitched, he became engaged
to. Maud. She reasoned that she mif.ht
do worse. -S lie had weathered a good
many Washington campaigns now,
young as sho looked. Still bewitched,
ho would have married her had not fate
intervened. Had he done so, he would
infallibly have rudely awakened from
liis golden dream; but he would doubt
less nave survived his disillusion, just as
other men and women have done hefore
him. He might have found comfort in
the reflection that he was. no more
wretched than other men who like him
had married for love.
He was still madly infatuated, how
ever, when his regiment was ordered
into battle iv battle wliieb ended in a
victory for his side, but which left him
in a condition hovering between life mid
.f.,.L i. Il -rlesneratelv wounded!
ill-mil. ivJ " , . i ,
and poor fellow! when they first told
hiro-rtliat the amputation ol jus nglit
MiA ws. unavoidable, it seemea to jnm
that ho would rather die outright. A
cripple! maimed! He thought of Maud
and her strong, bright' beauty with a
sickening sensation of unfitness. '
He lay at death's, door for weeks.
Part of the time hC was too i 11,'to rceog
hi.o any ono. Only the tenderest nurs
ing, the most assiduous care, saved him.
And when ho finally opened his eyes to
consciousness; Upon what assiduous and
tender nurse -do -you suppose they
rested? '- ' '-; '
It was incredible. Upon whom' but
gentle, rare-worn, gazelle-eyed ' littlo
Tilly! -" How on earth '" began John,
then dropped off to sleep again. ' ' '
It had been almost a year now since no
had seen this dewy woodland' rose, lie
had only written her one letter mean
while, but that letter had been her
heart's sustenance ever since. Sho had
laid it away among certain other mem
ories of hers memories which retained
their sweetness liko withered sprigs of
lavender. As the months sped by she
made up lief mind that she would never
see John again that he had forgotten
her. ' This was her presentiment. But
she did not blame John because he had
r.ot' proved all that she once hoped he
would ; that had been her mistake, but
a mistake, whi'.h had . Iteen also her one:
joy and romance. She called him her good
augcl. In the dciu- Hebrew phrase, lie
had come to litir as in truth every good
friend comes to US' as an angel of God.
During this weary while her mother
died. Tilly found herself without a tie
in life. Sho might come and go as she
pleased. , There was a distinct desiro in
lier loving heart to do the one work for
nn unemployed woman just then. But
it was somo little time before she
gathered courage to carry out her wish
to become a hospital nurse. The alarm
ing first step once taken, sho went. on
easily enough. And she found nn im
mense pleasure in thus being of use as
she proved and of oom fort to many suf
fering souls. ..
Tho Providence which directs small
matters as well as great, appointed her
duties in a certain ward in a certain hos
pital, where sho eanio upon John Leon
ard's white face one day, as ho lay
stretched on his cot of pain, and She
l-ealized, with a sudden tumultuous'
rush of feeling, that it was for her, hu
manly speaking, to tend him back to life.
She felt as though this satisfaction more
than compensated for all that she had
suffered loneliness, neglect, disappoint
ment in the past.
There was little romance about Maud
Galo. She made some excuso for break
ing her engagement as soon asshe learned
of John's misfortune. She had little
faith in a one-armed man's being able lo
light the battles of life successfully. And
success meant to her more than affection :
one might fall in love many times over.
John fortunately found that the cure
for his disappointment lay in the nature
of tho disappointment itself. " So weak
a thing! so weak a tiling!"
So we como to the end. Tilly, con
tinuing her round of blessed duties, was
greatly surprised .when John told her,
not. many months after that, that she
was the one need or irS life. ' She hud
buckled down' to work. When love
came to her suddenly, its voice was as a
voice in a dream. But she believed it
oh, how gladly ! It is so easy for youth
to be happy, to forget!
Miss Gale might have married a dis
tinguished man, after all. Dr. Leonard
graduated in his profession immediately
before his marriage to Tilly, and bis
name by this timo is one that is well
known among physicians. Harper's
Uaxar.
The Honors or famine. '
The following are extvarts from a letter
from the Rev. J. B. Gineburg, mission
ary to tho Hebrews ;at Mogadore,
Morocco: ''We have psived a season of
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ndescribablc difficultios.'.Anisery, sick'
ness and trial ever since" returned to
my station. Hundreds, I may well say
thousands, pressed to the gates for relief
skeletons emaciated by hunger,- almost
naked, bearing traces of every possible
disease and sufferiug who, for a loaf of
bread, would be trodden down by the
crush, bruised and not unfrequ'ently
seriously, injured ; sometimes a leg or
arm broken in their eagerness to be the
first to receive relief. When out of town
on my- daily walks, I hardly ever re
turned" without picking up a dying man,
woman; or child, sometimes two or
three at a time; brought back to town,
a plate oEoup and cover were suffi
cient to bring life to the dying. More
than once have I met a young man or
woman coming from the country with
no strength to finish the last quarter of
a mile; with bruised head and broken
teeth from falls in the effort to get up
from the ground. Tho starvation was
not confined to men; cattle, camels,
horses, nsses, sheep and poultry have all,
or nearly all, perished ; but the dogs
have survived, and in their insatiable
hunger, finding no food in towns nnd
finaiHtonea by nieir masters, who either
died or left their villages in search of
food, fed on human flesh. Roaming over
the country in bands of twenty, thirty or
Y. T"" " . "r. "Y:.1:..:-! '"H-Ht
,. c " . , longuuuu oi me poi menun oi uiese iiiretj
him.. Some twenty women and men pianVts will bring them somewhat near
were eaten up within one mile of tho .iU.h other. Jupiter will he in perihelion,
town. One day I was busv bv the river t ..i .too. o.. '..,:n i. sJ
111(111(111 I JUI llli L1HV 11117 L llllll UtTVUIllt'll 1 1 .- 1 fi.l. 1
side, with the help of my servant, giving
assistance to a dying young woman,
when our attention was drawn to an
Arab who was being eaten by dogs. Ho
was dead before we reached him, and
we had only tho painful duty of burying
the remains decently in the sand. I
must apologize for writing about such
hideous misery to you. But, dreadful
to read, what is it to witness? There
are cases which have come before mo
that I really cannot put on paper. More
than 13,000 have in this town perished
from hunger. There were dead or dying
lying in every street in and out of town.
The dead were buried not more than
one span deep, nnd the dogs soon un
covered the earth. There is hardly a
house where there is not ono sick person.
In tho Mullah, or Jewish quarter, every
house has been turned into an hospital'
"Angelina!" cried Theodore, melo
dramatically, "may I call you mine,
wholly mine? Oh, say that I may,
dearest." " Well, let me see," answered
the saucy fair one with provoking de
liberation; "I am hardly prepared to
capitulate unconditionally, to sign a de
finite .treaty surrendering my autonomy
in perpetuam ; but I think 1 should not
object to entering into amicable, rela
tions, according you - all -privileges
possessed by the most favored fellows."
The poor fellow thought she was mk
lug-fun" of Miim tnd looked hurt, t But
'slit! -soon-tobk "mentis' to" reassnre'liim,
and a treaty offensive and defensive was
imiuvditvtely enJered into.- And scaled?
"Vell,Tather. BoHon Transcript,
: ' TIMELY TOPICS. ' ' :
The shark' Voracity' is something
wonderful. " When theBritish bark Lut
terworth was becalmed in tho tropics, a
largo shark' I was observed swimming
around the ship. A i largo hook with a
chain attached was baited with a four
pound piece of pork. ' The shark mado
for it, bolted it, but in hauling hint up
the chain 'parted,. and ho coolly swal
lowed the hook, chain and pork, An-,
other hook-was thfln baitctl, which he
instantly seized, biting a three-inch rope
in twain, nnd. also . swallowed it with
another. , four-pound .piece,', of pork.
Another book was then baited. Witli a
similar piece of pork, and witli this the
shark was caught ana lanuea on tne
main deck. WTion at last lie was killed
and cut open, tho large hooks, chain and
rope,, together with eight pounds, of
pork, were found in his stomach. ...
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'. A recent examination of French black
silks in New York city showed that they
were heavily adulterated. , The weight
of dyo in American silks is about seven
teen per cent., but the French silks show
ed a weight of from thirty-three to fifty
per cent. The principal article used in
weighting is iron.' The silk is repeatedly
inserted in a solution of nitrate of iron.
It then receives a blue tint from prussiate.
of potash, followed by several baths in
gambier, and a treatment with acetate of
iron. It is then mado bright by logwood
and soan. To make the silk soft, a little
oil and soda are added, while to make it
stiff and rustling an acid is used. The
" wearing shiny " is caused by the action
of the soap and alkali, which develop,
under friction, a sort of grease. The
cracking of silk is owing to its inability
to carry the great load of material used
in the dying. , T ........
A careful estimate respecting the cir
culation of the Bible during the past cen
tury places the total at the enormous
number of nearly 150,000,000 copies.
The British and Foreign Society is in ad
vance of any other institution of the kind
as regards the number Of copies issued.
It was founded in 1801, and has circulated
upward ol 82,000,000 copies. Tho Amer
ican Society, founded thirteen years later,
lias caused a circulation of 35,000,000.
These two organizations are far in ad
vance of all others. Next in respect of
copies circulated are the German Socie
ties, which together have issued 8,500,
000. Then comes the National society of
Scotland with nearly 4,708,000, then the
Hibernian with 4,189,000, the Swiss with
nearly 2,000,000 and tho French with
1,000,000. The National Society of Scot
land has circulated its 4,708,000 copies
since 1801, the year in which it was
founded.
Speaking of the at tempt of a lunatic to
assassinate Edwin Booth in a Chicago
theater, a New York paper suggests that
there are probably many more such
dangerous persons uncontined through
out the country. " many of them
through tho connivance and conceal
ment of their families and friends, who
think that it would be inhuman toVend
them to tin asylum, whereas the inhu
manity is in permitting them to remain
at liberty. This is the mischief of much
that has been carelessly said of the
management of lunatic hospitals, and
which may bo referred still further back
to the mismanagement of some of them.
One ill-regulated establishment may
bring a great many well-regulated re
treats of the kind into disrepute. Mr.
Edwin Booth no doubt has strong opin
ions upon the subject, and so would
every reader of this have after escaping
from a similar peril."
Mr. L. Dolnionico, the celebrated New
York restaurateur, has been telling the
public tho best way of cooking fish.
Boiling seems to him tho " most legiti
mate,'" as well as quickest nnd most con
venient. His direction is to " put them in
cold spring water the less the quantity
of water that the fish can be boiled in the
better with a handful of salt. Rub a
littlo vinegar on the skin of the fish, to
prevent it from cracking, nnd to make
the tlesh solid. Ten minutes to the
pound should bo allowed for a salmon,
nnd threo or four minutes for almost any
other kind : but a good general rule is
that the fish js done when the fins pul J
out easily." -Mr. Dclmonieo aiso savs
that broiled fish should bo "carefully
split in two from head to tail, dried,
seasoned with salt and pepper, greased
with a little oil (which is preferable to
butter), and broiled to a nice brown
color, .the gridiron having been pre
viously well greased, too;" and that
small lish may be " deliciouslv fried in
oil, after dipping in milk and then flour,
or in very hot grease, after being breaded
Despite some one's dismal prophecy
that on account of certain changes in the
heavenly bodies during 1881, the earth
will ho overwhelmed by pestilence,
famine and other disasters too numerous
to mention; an astronomical writer says :
"There will be no -catastrophe in 1881.
The conjunction of the four great planets
at perihelion is not going to take place
is an
idle.
it l
rue that the
conjunction near that time, nnd Neptune
will not be near enough to help' any mis
chief that may be feared: while the po
sition of the planet Uranus in the
heavens in 1881 will be about 148 degrees
right ascension. Every one hundred
years we have five conjunctions of Jupi
ter and Saturn, and always have hatl
without the least damage thus far. I'c
ing in conjunction so near to Jupiter's
Derihelion may possibly produce higher
tides than usual, as Jupiter's position
:il i. .. i. sii ;i
will oe iwciny-uuee million nun's nearer
the sun nnd the earth than he is at his
mean distance. Let us not delude our
selves, nor bo frightened by chimeras.
Jests from Riggs' Recorder."
Out of print The letter B.
Now doth the golden butterfly over
the rural gutter fly.
' The flower of tlio family needs careful
looking after at this season.
Tho davs have arrived when women
who do not own and cannot borrow a seal
skin sacque feel that they are just as good
as those who are able either to own or
borrow."
His name was Wrath,1 and when he
asked her to be his, she curtly replied,
I'm more than half a mind to be
Wrathy, too." And they two concluded
to become one. That is how he won
her. ' . "' ' ' - - - .'-.-
.' (Oae little boy said to another that it
w'iis nice to see the swallows back again ;
whereupon the nther said lwcot-ildn';!; gep
llieil U!U'K lUey new ou iimi.
Gi.n rn ir la
1'OR THE FAIR SEX.
RoveUlei In Millinery. . .
Very small cottago-slmped bonnets and
tho picturesque large shapes have both
been adopted, as milliners predicted they
Would bo. Some of tho drossiest bon
nets to bo worn with various costumes
are small close shapes of Tuscan straw,
or else ecru chip, trimmed with loops of
cream-colored satin ribbon and a wido
Breton lace barbe that forms; a bow on
tho crown and also strings ; inside tho
brim is shirred satin, and the flowers on
tap are cither chrysanthemums or roses.
This is a charming bonnet to wear with'
elaborate costumes of black grenadine,
silk and satin. Tho beaded lace bonnets
to wear with various dresses nre.either
close shades, or else they have Marie
Antoinette flaring fronts; these are also
most often trimmed witli white chrysan
themums, lily buds, roses and a barbe of
Breton lace. Simpler bonnets of black
chip are edged witli beaded lace, or else
they are daintily trimmed with ajabot of
Indian muslin and lace on the right side,
some saucy perked-up loops of black
satin ribbon on the left, a bunch of white
lilacs or of chrysanthemums on top, and
four narrow strings, two of which arc
white satin ribbon and two black. In
side the brim is shirred black satin, on
which rests a row of white Breton lace.
To make this still lighter, the brim may
be faced witff shirred white, muslin.
Other black chip bonnets have an Al
sacian bow and strings made of a white
Breton lace barbe ; this is quite far back
on the crown, while in front of it is a
cluster of black ostrich tips; the brim
is edged with large jet beads, and a cre
scent of jet is in the center of the lace
bow.
For light mourning are very dressy
bonnets of black chip, trimmed with
black China crape edged with black
Breton lace. The crape is twined around
the crown, and held by jet stars, A
wing is stuck in . the back quite .ow
down.
The large Mario Antoinette bonnets
are pointed in the middle of the front,
undone of the flaring sides is filled in
quite low down with flowers. This is a
fanciful shape.that should be worn only
by very young fresh fact's, and will prob
ably be more worn in Saratoga and New
port than the close cottage shapes now
so much liked for city streets.
One of the freshest novelties for tho
watering-places is an imported " poke "
of Tuscan straw trimmed with white
dotted muslin. The sides and crown of
tho Ixtnet are close to the head, while
the brim pokes far up over the forehead,
and is lined with a full gathered puff of
soft twilled foulard silk. Polka-dotted
Swiss muslin covers part of the poke
brim plainly,and is gathered back to form
a puffed Alsacian bow on the crown.
This bow is held in place by an inch
wide band of pink satin ribbon that
passes around the crown ami is tied in a
pert bow on the larger muslin bow. A
bunch of red cherries with natural-looking
pale green leaves and woody stems
is on the leftside. A tiny bow made of
the luscan braid is below the crown on
the back. Price 30.
Cherry bonnets are also novelties.
These are close cottage shapes of white
Indian muslin, shirred, or clso of tulle,
with the smooth brond crown trimmed
with many parallel rows " round and
round "of red iridescent beads. The
brim is nearly concealed by the green
leaves of the cherry, while on its edges
and around the entire bonnet is a fringe
of drooning small cherries shaded from
red to black. The strings are a barbe of
white Breton lace. Similar- bonnets
are mado of white crepe lisse witli the
cherry beads, etc., and also entirely of
jet beads. -
Old gold braid, ono or two incites
wide, faces the brims of black chip
round hats and bonnets. There are also
jet galloons showing nothing but the
heads used for facing the brims of black
satin or jet bonnets. Still other black
chin bonnets have ajabot of black thread
lace trimming the right side, loops of
black satin ribbon witli old gold on the
wrong side are arranged in a ladder on
tho lett, nnd yellow chrysanthemums are
clustered on top. Inside tho brim is
shirred old gold satin, on which is laid
plainly a row of black lace. Harper's
liazar.
News and Notes for Women.
Ill Greenland tho women paint their
faces blue and yellow.
It is proposed to hold an exhibition in
London for the display of every kind of
art work done by women.
Several women in the city have been
arrested recently for treating their hus
bands brutally! New York Tribune.
A girl in an Iowa seminary cut all the
hair from the head of her sleeping room
mate in revenge for a slight, and ha
byen expelled by the faculty.
Miss Julia Hole-in-the-day, daughter
of the distinguished Indian chief, Was
recently married at White Earth Agency
to John tairoanks, a white man.
Rev. Antoinette Brown Blackwell.hav
ing reared all her children, is about to
re-enter the ministry. She was tho first
woman ever ordained to preach in this
country.
Miss Ahbie Colby, formerly head
nurse at the New England hospital for
women and children, lias left for Onalas
ka, Japan, where she is to labor as a
missionary.
Madame Bestaieod. a regular author
ized llussian doctor, courageously visited
professionally 2,000 women v at- Pheir
homes in the plague-infected district of
Wctlianka. ,
Mrs. Mary L. Carpenter, school super
intendent of t Winnebago College. 111..
has asked and obtained permission to in
clude an educational exhibit in the dis
play at the next county fair.
Miss AVordsworth, daughter of the
Bishop of Lincoln, and grand-niece of
ll. A A- 1. 1-J , 1 1. . 1
me pool, is io oe may principal oi tne
college for young ladies proposed to be
established shortly at Oxford, England.
The wages of male and female teachers
come nearer to being equal in Colorado
than in any other State of the Union.
Men average $49.90 per month pay,
woman $46.95 less than $3 difference.
In England thousands of women are
employed in hardware manufacturing
establishments, especially in the finish of
fine steel instruments, making car
tridges, percussion caps, files, steel
pens and the like. ., ..
The third day of the third month is
kept as a special holiday for girls in
Japan, and every toy-shop is decorated
with large numbers of dolls or hinas,
representing the Emperor and Empress,
warriors, nobles, the spirits of Sumivoshi
and Takasago,' bands of musicians and
like, parsonages, and with all kinds of
furniture, games and, prnaments .to suit
the size ol the dolls.
1 ' " Rnfnl Scenery. ' . .
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Tlio wild bee o'er tho prnirio , . ...
Snnglit honoy for her hive,
The stream enmo leaping from the rock
As tliongh it were olivo, ' ' '
While tho solemn monntnin frowning
Huhold its devious way, '1
And like ft montor, old and stern,
ltoproved. the thoughtless play.
. The crimson oriole flaunted
Like lover through the glndo, ' '
And pnld gny homnge to tho flowers
' tn beauty's garb army 'd;
But lightly thero before him
The humming-bird would rove,
While bird nnd hell witli rnpturo thrilled
To meet his kiss of love.
Tho beetle and tho butterfly
Met on their glittering track,
The snail moved onward, slow and Bute,
His house upon his back ; '
And life to all was beautiful,
As, like the jowelod ray,
: They gleamed in nature's joynnce sweet
On that bright summer's day.
Oh, frail and winged creatures I
That perish in an hour,
Mothinks ye are our teachers, . , ,
Mid all our pomp and power.
Mid all our vaunt of learning, ,
Mid all our pride of sway,,
Bo pitiful, and teach us
Bcioro ye pass away;
How to bo simply happy
Amid a world so fair,
And in tho confidence of trust
Accept our Father's care.
Jilts. L. H. Sigourmy.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
An inn-specter A hotel ghost.
Hailstones do a smashing business.'
Never make light of a lantern-jawed
man. ,
Miss-Construction Whalebone, paint,
powder, and so forth.
When the lungs arc in nny way nilected
the pulse beats more rapidly.
The man who stuck to his colors was
the painter who sat down in one of his
paint pots.
A statue of Sir James Young Simpson
the inventor of chloroform, is about to
be placed in Westminster Abbey.
It is estimated that tho production of
iron in the United States in 1879 will
equal the exceptionally productive years
of ibri and 1.873.
There is a walking club in New York,
the members of which take long walks
through the country around tho me
tropolis every Sunday.
Tl.e reign of lawlessness is said to bo
completely over in Deadwood, Black
Dills. There is a flourishing temperance
society, and only one gambling-room is
left.
A meteor, a foot in diameter, with a
blazing train, fell at Worthington,
Minn.., exploding just hefore reaching
tho earth with u noise that shook the
buildings.
A writer in London Truth says: "I
believe it is an undoubted fact that fully
one-half of the beef sold as English,
Scotch and Irish in England is in reality
American."
A bald Cincinnati woman does not
cover the bare top of her head witli false
hair, or by combing her own hair over
it, but appears to bo proud of tho dis
tinction that it gives her in public as
semblages, for she always removes her
bonnet. The effect is striking.
In AVindfall, Ind., recently, a man nnd
his wife got to that point of disagree
ment so graphically described in " Betsy
and I Are Out." They decided to sep
arate, and tho assets of the partnership
were divided up until only the baby was
left, when the father said, "If you will
leave the baby with me I will give you a
good ' cow." Tlio mother considered a
moment, and decided that a good cow
was worth twenty-five dollars, and tho
baby well, pretty poor property. So
she took the cow.
A hardy sailor Valentine Roper is
the only survivor of the crew of the
schooner Golden. Ciate, which sailed from
San Francisco northward three weeks
ago. The craft was waterlogged in a
gale, and six sailors were immediately
drowned, while seven lashed themselves
to tho rigging. The former were luckiest, .
for the others all died of starvation, one
by one, except Roper. They had nothing
to eat, save a few raw potatoes that
floated up from the vessel s stores, and
several fish caught by hand. A cabin
boy held out longest of those who
died. Roper was 'eleven days without
food, and, when picked up, was a raving
maniac.
THEN AND NOW.
TulkinT of the prevailing depression of the
agricultural interest, I wuh reading a doggerel
tho other day descriptive of what used to be
considered a proper distribution of business on
a farm, and how the tunning class now do
their work:
Man, to the plowj
Wifo, to the cow ;
Girl, to tho sow;
Boy, to thp mow;
And your rents will be netted.
Man, tally-ho!
Miss, piano;
Wife, silk and satin;
Hoy, Greek and Latin ;
And you'll be gazetted.
London Truth.
Lukens' " Pith and Point."
A man who sells alum may not bo an
alumnus of any college.
Winking at others' faults soon makes
us indifferent to our own.
Frudence and economy come in small
packages, like compressed herbs.
Merit is a claim ignored by our ene
mies and sneered at by our friends.
Poverty is one of thoso inconveniences
for whicii there appears to be no help.
More time is wasted in conjecture than
is ever willingly spent in consummation.
; The rapid growth of friendship is too
frequently precursor of its hasty over
throw. . .
There is more anxiety when a vessel
is over-due than when its owner's note
is in the same predicament.
When we have wit enough to humble
ourselves in our own opinion, we cease
worrying about the world's. f.
Fuming and fretting over probabilities
has deterred many men from attempting
I that widt h might be pogijibU buooqes.
I New YQrk News,
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