Modesty. And what Is modesty? It Is holding back, while Hal and Jack Their roady bands reaoh out and seize the pie, The longed-for cake, the very last meringue, And leave an empty plate. It Is to stand In ears propelled by steam, or equine drawn, Doth hands and feot light braood, and tugging (trap, While others sit at ease; nor never ask, Kind sir or madam, please will you move np In space sufficient for your body's need, And loave the rest for me? It is to stand By window where the erowd.tho choeky crowd, Tress eager on in calm, relentless surge, And seatings choose yourself had fixod upon. It is to be doomed ever to back seat, The cold, unfeeling wall, aye, to pressed. To take without complaint all others' mud, Their dirt and dust. This, this is modesty. A Con's Complaints. A sympathetic lady writes to a daily journal tin der the bovine name of 'Sukey' a plea for the gentle creatures which supply onr milk and cream. She thus makes the cow exclaim : 'I am only a c w, but cows have their feelings as well as other folks ; and a good deal more than some. The fact is, we are especially affectionate creatures, as any one who'takes the trouble to observe oar ways will notice. Haven t you seen us stand close together in the pasture, lying down side by side, and licking c'neh other by tho half-hour ? Why, I know a cow in our neighborhood that had an intimate friend, end when that friend was sold aivay from her, she pined, her milk failed, and she nearly died of grief. Aud just so it is with our calves. I dou't say that, when wo lose them young, v,e remember them bo very long, but the pain is strong while 'it lasts, and what I say is, that our masters ought to make our trouble as light as they conveniently can. Now I name no names, but I do say it ie pretty hard for a mother to be started oil when her calf is just one week old, and to see the poor little feeble thing driven twelve to fifteen miles, and when from exhaustion it lies right down in the road, to see it goaded up and made to'travel on with its weak leg3 all shak ing, and all tho while the mother's milk dropping down on the ground from her almost-bursting udder, and the poor baby's nose and mouth bound up so that it can't get a drop, only sucks up tho dust from the road. I was treated so niysoli once, and when we reached the yards iry calf was nearly dead, and I was nearly wild. And then that strange practice of murdering our calves by bleeding. I have seen that done too, to a child of my own. Three times they bled that small creature before it died ; each time when it had bled till it sank swooning on the straw, they let it lie until strength enough came back for it to get up, and then they bled it again. And all to make the meat white enough to suit a fastidious public. To bo sure I don't know much, being only a cow j but one thing I do know, It's no use for ladies to erf 'How brutal tlitse butclmif. are I' and next time they go to market say to the butcher, 'Oh, I won't bay such red-looking veal as that, I must have white veal 1' It is you, gentlemen, who are brutal; it is you, ladies, who are cruel, and not tho mau who is forced to please you or lose his daily bread.' 'o Homes in a Great City. A New York paper commenting on the annual May moving so general iu cities, where neonlo cannot afford to own a house, admits that city life is not the best lifo for children and young people. Under the conditions of society as it is now constituted in a great city, homo in practically abolished. There is an end of the privacy and sweat domesticity of the family. 'One cf the very first requi sites of a home which shall exert a last ing and wholesome influence upou the unfolding minds of children is perma nence. To those of our readers who have been so fortunate as to have been boin in a real 'Lome,' tho meaning of that delightful word has a deeper signifi cance than the children of nomadic par ents cau posbibly comprehend. Most of tho iseu who occupy tl.e leading places in the multifarious activities of life in this city are country-bred. Their home memories aro Used, and as distinct as a picture hung before the eyes. What tort cf a home for a child is that whoso rem iniscences iu after-years will bo a con fused panorama of 'moving tfay,' with its sordid miseries, of innumerable houses dwelt iu for a year or two, of apartments in one huge caravansary which were so much like the apartments in another human hive that the memory id puzsled to distinguish them, and of household gods which were set up one day to be huddled away cn tho next ? "What the Xorristov.u Mau Thinks. A Gsrnian scientist has been investi gating the matter statistically and finds that ia the majority of cases I he long livers have indulged in late hours. Ex. Why a person wuo is blessed with a long liver should permit it to keep late hours, is a problem in physiology that wo can't understand. Aud besides Low does ho know whether his liver is long or short? Anyhow, long or short, it ia a bad habit tor a liver to be meandering out at night, keeping lata hours, and its owner should not encourage it iu 6ucu doings. He should lock it out some night and let it snooze on the front stoop until morning. Tnis would each it a wholesome lesson. The Bight of a "man wheeling a baby carriage in the street is a sign not that baby is weak, but that the man's wife is strong. And yet, if wa were to judge from the amiable grin with which tho fond father, under t'aose circumstances, salutes evory passing ncquiantanco, wo might erroneously suppose that Le was really doing it just for the fan of tho tiling. For tho Ladles. White beads are much used for em broidery. White muslin neck-tios for ladies are fashionable Borne feminine hats are trimmed with the old changeable silks. Trotty batiste ties, in palo pink aud blue, are broided on the ends. Parisienncs are wearing cashmere shawls as scarfs, with brooches. Violets and yellow crocuses make a pretty combination on a bonnot. Natural flowers havo entirely super seded artificial ones for dressing tho hair. Cream white bunting will "be used for simple evening dresses to bo worn at watering places and for morning wrap pers. Garden hats of Italian straw are not trimmed at all, but worked around tho crown with wreaths iu Berlin wool or crewel. The high direotoire coat collar forms an especial feature of many of the now spring costumes. It is generally lined with satin, and has a rolling collar bo neath and a wide flap front. The newest laca introduced into the more cxpensivo tics is English point, which was worn by the Princess of Wales at the Dnko of Comianght's wed ding, and which Euglish ladies make for their own amusement. Tho Tyroloso designs for stockings are exceedingly pretty and coquettit-k as well as new. Tkeupper port is of the brightest crirasoo ; tho lower part black, with A broad dash of crimson on either 6ido, interlaced across with a simulated narrow ribbon. In strong contrast to this style, the upper part of the stock ing is black and the lower part crimson, and ou other stylc.3 tho simulated inter lacing is on the instep. The fashion of open corsages without sleeves will become general in the sum mer. These corsages will bo completed by white chemisettes with sleeves to match. For dressy toilettes these chem isettes wili be made of silk grenadino'of a shade to match that of tho dress, while for ordinary and serviceable dresses the chemisette and sleeves will bo of foulard of solid color to match the dress. Harper's Bazar, describing a number ol new designs for dresses, says a hand some walking costume for the street is composed of gendarme blue mousseline de laine, trimmed with silk and satin stripes of tha same shade. Tue round kirt has a border flounce of the wool. The overskirt is cut out iu squares bound with satin. A regular panier puff is set on tho back, whilo the breadths below it aro draped by a' loose plait. The paletot has square corners to the long front, and is sloped short behind to let the panier puff escape. Large collar and cuffs of tho striped satin. Straw hat of natural color, with gendarme sutin and long plume for trim ming. Reasoning Among Animals. A Binull Eugllsli Icriior belonging to a friend has boen taught to ring for tho servant. To test if the dog knew why it rang the bell, it was told to do so while tho giri was in tho room. The little fellow looked up m tue most intel ligent manner at the person giving the order (bis master or mistreas, I forget which), then at the servant, and refused to obey, although the order was repeat ed more th:a ouoo. Tho servant left tho room, and a few minutes afterward the dog rnrg the bell immediately ou being told to do so. I give tho follow ing as told by my wife, now dead, who personally witnessed the transaction on various occasions. At her sister's house in Kent a donkey, which, when not em ployed by the children, grazed in a field with some cows, was in the regular habit of acting as follows : At the usual hour for tho cows to come home to be milked the donkey lifted the latch of the field gate, opened and held back the gate (which would otherwise have swung close again), till all the cows passed out, then allowed the gate to (-hut, and went homo with the cows. Of courso no ouo taught the donkey to do this, but the quadruped gave the biped a practical l'-sson, from which I am not aware that they drew the abstract Vcrbr.lly formu lated conclusion that reason may bo ex ercised without rhetoric Nature. Alexander II. Stevens in the House. Mr. Alexander H. Stevens, of Georgia, is one of the moss iuterestiag figures on the floor of the House. He sits in a wheeled-chair ia the area, right in front of tho speaker, a shadowy semblance of a man, with hia legs crossed, and his hat on his head. When he desires to move one of his limbs for rttt, it requires tho aid of both hands to do it. Ou his right a little writing desk is attached to his chair, and on this he holds his papers. Ha watches closely all of the proceed ings of the House, and during the extra fcessiou is said to bo nearly always pres ent, which was net usually the case at former sessions. rtjceutly Mr. Stevens reported a bill and mado a short speech ou tho subject. His voice at first was feeble and somewhat grating, but as he warmed up it assumed its old clearness and penetrating quality, and could be distinctly heard all over the House. As Mr. Stevens spoke he wheeled his chair, first facing the speaker, and then toward the members by a slight effort of one of his hands, and with the other he made some attempt at gesticulation. He re mained seated throughout his remarks. He removed his hat while speaking, aud showed a good suit of hair, quite long and gray. II is bauds were gloved. As a father was starting on horseback for a trip across the plaiu his boy sang out, 'Gjod-bye, papa ; I love you thirty miles long.' When the litllo sinter, not to be outdone iu affection, called out, 'Good-bye, papa; you, will never bo able to ride to tho end of my love.' Confusion at the Breakfast Table. Housewives in the far West don't know as much about the native majesty of the oyster as we do, and this ignor ance gave rise to the following occur rence related by the Burlington llawk cyfs man: It was rather late yesterday morning when Mr. Willaby got up, and he was vaguely consoious of a confused recol lection of things, but he didn't say much and tried to appear as cheerful as he knew how. Presently breakfast was announced, and the family took their places at the table, but Mr. Willaby was amazed, as he sat staring at six little round wooden boxes of axle grease ranged solemnly in iront of his plate. 'Whore under the sun,' he said, with a pnzzled intonation, 'what in the thnn dor where did all this axle grease come front, and what is it for?' Oil, is it axle grease?' asked his wife, with charming similicity and innocence, jnst a triflo overdne. 'Yon said last night when you brought these cans home that they weie oysters and would bo nice for breakhst I thought that you had better eat them right away, ns they didn't smell as though they would keep very much longer.' Aud then Mrs. tViilaby removed the cans, and her huslmud sat and looked at tho teapot and thmght so long that his coffee was cold as a rich relation when he thought to driik it. A Singular' l!ird. &(. Nicholas tills the children of a strange bird whiih lives in China, call ed the fork-tailed paruB, which is quite au acrobat, nd is about as big as a robin, aud he has a red beak, orange colored throat, preen back, yellow legs, biack tail and red-and-yellow wings. Nearly all the cdors are iu his dress, you soe, and he is a gay fellow. But thin bird has a t'ick known by no other birds that ever heard of. He turns somersaults 1 Sot only does he do this in his free life ai the trees, but also af ter he is caugh; and put into a cage. He just throws his head far back, and over he goes, bucking the bars of the cage, and aligning upon his feet on tho floor or on the perch. Ho will do it over and over a nimber of times without stopping, as tloogh he thought it great fun. All his f imily have the same trick, and they are oiled tumblers. The peo ple of China ae fond of keeping them in cages and siting them tumble. Trav elers often ha1 tried to bring them to our country, hit a sea voyage is not good for them, aud;hey are almost euro to die on the way. John Knox's Daughter. Au Englisl journal gives this anec dote about Ms. Welsh, the daughter of Tobn Knox, tho great Scottish reformer: Jilizabctu Kiox married in 101)4, John Welsh, a Presbyterian minister, who was exiled in 1G0C for his opposition to episcopacy. Mrs. Welsh appears to have inherited much of her father's spirit. Whm her husband was in ill health and ifesired to return to Scotland, she sought n interview with King James, who atiied her whose daughter she was. Sbe leplied, 'My father was John Knox.' ICaox and 'Welsh,' said the king; 'the Aevil ne'er mado sic a match as that.' May bo,' replied Mrs. Welsh; 'for we neier speired his leave.' She then begged tint her husband mifjht bo permitted to revisit Scotland, and the king said, 'lie shah if he 6nbmit him self to the bishops;' upon which Mrs. Welsh, holding out her arron, said, 'Sooner than he should do so I would keep Lis head there. ' A Suspicious Youig Man A young man from the' country went to have a tooth plugged. The dentist advised him to have the toth out, and assured him that he would leol no taiu if he inhaled laughing-gas. 'But what is the effect of the gas' inked the youth. It simply makes yon totally in sensible, 'answered the dentiBtj'jou don't know anything that takes place.' The rustio assented ; but, j ust prev'ous to the gas being administered ho pit his hand into his pocket and pulled cut his money. 'Oh, don't trouble about that now,' taid the dentist, thinking thr.4 was going to be paid his fee. 'Not at at all,' remarked tho patient : 'I vas simply going to see bow mtfck I hod, before tho gas took effect.' Pure Milk. Ia Havana the cows are driven from street to street, the tinkling of the bells around their necks announcing their coming. As they approach, the helps emerge from the various habitations armed with bowls and cans; the cow is then stopped, and tho man, seating him self upon a four-legged wooden etool, which he carries underneath his arm, calmly proceeds to milk the animal iu the presence of the buyer, while an in terchange of 'nods, looks and wreathed smiles,' takes place, followed by a gos sip lasting during the operation of fill iug tho vessel with the creamy liquid. Goats are also driven about in this way in Barcelona, Spain. Pliancy Phree. Phairest Piilora,' wrote an amorous youth who was smitten with the phonetic craze. 'Phorever dismiss your phears and phly with one whose phervent plian cy is phixbd on you alone. Furiends, phamily, phather phorget them, and think only of the phelicity ot the pbu turel Phew phcllows are bo phastidi ous as your Pherdinand; so pheign not phondness, if you pheel it not. Phorego phrolic and answer phinally, Pklora,' 'Oh! Pherdinand, you phooll' was phair Pklora's curt reply. 'There's no smoking allowed !' Tho conductor exclaimed To a man v ho had jumped on the car ; 'I'm not biiuku;$ a'.oiKj,' He gently exyljiut'd, Tor I noiselessly puff my o:g&r.' John Bright and Ctnmbclfa Contrasted. Au English correspondent of a New York paper, contrasting John Bright of the English parliament and M. Gam betta of the French national assembly, says : Mr. Bright's face and figure must be well known to many Americans, from photographs, of which several are excel lent, aud from such descriptions as many Ecns give. Gambetta is not unlike im in figure the same ample shoulders and chest, the same robustness, ne'arly the same stature. But there the like ness ends. In manner they are wholly unlike, and each might stand for a type of his race. In many sessions of the French assembly, I never saw M. Gam betta still for two seconds together. His body is as restless as his brain; be is for ever turning to this side and that, ges ticulating, remonstrating, passing in a flash from persuasion to reennco, aow sitting, now standing on his feet, now cheering a friend, and next blazing out in wratii against a foo. Mr. Bright is a member of the Society of Friends, arid bis tranqnil demeanor seems the tiutui i.l expression of his religious faith. Ho has a marked sweetiies of mrmiirr; a composure beDeath wrick a strong and passionate nature m:kes itHelf felt with out violence and without much demon strativeuess. He tays tho most terrible things in the most placid tone; standing tho while like Tennyson's tower of s'rength, four-squaro to nil the winds that blow. Tue firo glows in kim with tho fierce still heat of metal iu the fur nace. Iu Gambetta it blitzes out like a prairio in flames. The English tribune is almost twice tho ago of tho French dictator, but I doubt whether age has much to do with tho contrast between them. Mr. Bright can never havo been anything but self-possessed, nor will another thirty summers bring much ro poso to M. Gambetta. Tho latter has been called beforo now the Mirabeau of the nineteenth century, but Mr. Bright is a unique figure in English history. He had no predecessor, and long may it bo before wo have to think who shall re place him. He is sixty-eight, but there is no sign of decay in Lis wonderful voice. The muscles of the face are firm, the uplifted finger is 6teady, tho gesture still energetic and commanding, and the dark eyes, which are almost too beauti ful for a man, are as profound sud softly full and luminous as ever. Tho white hair is no whiter than it was. Georgia's Wonder. There is a wonderful freak of nature about six miles northwest of Gainesville, Georgia, which is commonly known as the Devil's Mill Hopper. This curiosity is a largo sink in the earth, covering an area of perhaps four acres around the top, which gradually becomes smaller iu circumference as you descend being one hundred and fifty feet below the enrtn s siiriace. Having eiiectea the descent of tho steep walls of rock, a body of water is approached which is perhaps fivo hundred foet in circumfer ence, probably less in dry weather. In to this sheet of water is a continual flow of tan to twelve good-sized streams, from the crevices, of tho rock wsvll sur rounding. Around this wall is a largo growth of the various kinds of trees grown in Florida oak, ash, hickory, bay, and abo a thick undergrowth of ferns and mosses. Oil on Troubled Waters. The idea expressed in this heading, though iis commonly held to be of sa cred origin, or as merely a poetical man ner of expressing a common-place oc currence, may, nevertheless, be taken literally as well as figuratively, it be ing, as a'inatter of fact, a saying which has satisfactory ground-work in natural facts. It was recently stated in evi dence before the commissioners appoint ed to inquire into the herring fisheries of Scotland, that tho practice of pour ing a qnautity of oil from a boat on the surface of tho sea, during the heavy weather, had tho immediate effect of calming tho waters and relieving the boat from the danger of heavy, broken water. Facts About London. London is spread over about 7.C0O square miles. There is one death there every six minutes, and one birth every four. The growth of the population is at tho rate of 75,000 a year, or 205 each day. Tho total length of streets in Lou don is about 7,000 miles; there are built every year about 9,003 new houses, by which the langth of the streets is in creased by twenty-eight miles. In the jiils there is on average of 75,000 pris oners. Tho foroign-born residents of Loudon number about 1C0.0C0; but thirty-seven per cent, of the whole pop ulation were born out of tho city. Unheeded Advice. While a man was dashicg with all his might and main down the street to catch a train one day lust week, a gamin rushed after him and shouted : 'Hey, mister, havo you got a pin ?' 'I have,' responded the man, coming to a sudden halt and feeling undir the lappel of Lis vest. 'Well, then,' yelled the boy, as he jump ed out of the way, 'you had better fast en your ears together behind your head so you won't suask auy swingin' signs with 'em. The pedestrian passed on nnheedful of the advice given him. Making waistcoats at fourteen cents each, cheviot shirts at four cents apiece, heavy overalls at fifty cents per dozen, and woolen trousers at ten cents a pair are some facts gleaned by a society of ladies who are investigating the condi tion of sewing women of Cleveland, Ohio. Four young ladies of the name of Mo Encherm have fallen heiresses to 2,000 ia Scotland. This macs them feel awf a good. Com. Adv. Why didn't you make a complete pun while you vere about it, and say, 'Tins will MEach erm feel awf u' gcod V FACTS AX1 FAXCIES. Is a girl who puts on airs a wind lass? To preserve sight do not etrain the eyes, but rest them occasionally. Several thicknesses of newspaper un der a carpet helps to preserve it. As a rule, plauts with white blossoms have tho most odoriferous species. When does a man smoke a cigar too long ? When he smokes it too short. Never judge hastily. A cucumber isn't often as green as the man who con sumes it. fWhat are onr boys good for ?' We can' reply, that there ore times when they are good for 'nutting.' Dust allowed to accumulate on a dress cuts the material in every crease into which it works its way. A weak miud is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling thingr;, but can not reoeivo great olos. Tho only thing wjn'uh rm;n are nnivor Rally willing to lay up for a rainy day is other people's umbrellas. If tho best employment of a woman is to make homo happy, tho best work of a man is to make her happy. John Bright onco npoko of the Eng lish army and rinvy as a gignntio pystera of outdoor relief for the aristocracy. Time may be money, but we don't think there is half as much fun in spond ing time as there is in spending money. The object of all ambition should be to be happy at home. If wo aro not happy there we cannot be happy else where. In some of the English publications tho jokes are so dry that they wither the leaves in the book in which they are printed. If a spring chicken wasn't pretty tough, it couldn't survive all the news paper witticisms perpetrated at its ex pense, you know. t We have met many people who never knew enough to attend to their own business, but they always knew how to run a newspaper, Tho kindness of Heaven is nowhere more apparent than iu the fact that the women it puts on earth are, as a rule, so much too good for the men. An editor has one advantage over a king. When the editor goes out riding in nis open oaroucne arawn by lour milk-white steeds he is never shot at by a socialist. You have probably remarked this yourself. 'I don't think much of newspaper men, and I never take any stock in what the papers say,' he said. And then everybody knew that he bad done some thing that he was ashamed of, and the papers had published au account of it. If life has been spared him little Charlie Ross reached the ninth anniver sary of his birth on May 5th. It will be fivo years on the first day of July next since ha was carried away from his home. How doth tho little housewife now improve each shining hour 1 She trots around with broom aud mop and mind intent to s.'our. Oh, mortal man un happy soul, so hopelessly demeaned I Oh, happy man, if man there be, whose house need not be cleaned. Whilo a little boy in Koxbury, Mass., lay deathly ill of diphtheria, a pet dog sprang upon the bed and affectionately licked the boy's lips. The child began to recover from that time, and was shortly convalescent, but the dog sicken ed and died with all the symptoms of the disease. A paragraphor pokes fun at the dimin utiveness of one of the contestants in the South American war now in progress, by saying that the Bolivian army has been much embarrassed by the deten tion of its baggage train, but they've got a fire going uuder the mule now, and it is thought he will start. A German inventor mixes with a water proof glue a suitable quantity of clean quartz sand, which is spread on the thin leather sole employed as a foundation as soles for shoes. These quartz soles aro said to be flexible and utmost inde structible, while they enable the wearer to walk safely over slippery roads, Trne wit is like the brilliant stone Dug from the Indian mine, Which boasts two various powers in one, To cut as well as shine. Genius, like this, if pohehed right With the same Rift abounds : Appears at once both keen and bright, And sparkles while it wounds. It is a popular notion that fruit is gold in the morning, silver at noon and lead at night. Like many other popu lar notions it had its origin in a historio fact, if not a historio disaster. If Adam had eaten his apple in the morning the whole destiny of tho world might have been changed ; but, poor ignorant man, he eat it just after Ere, and we have all inherited the internal commotion. A young lady of Des Moines, Iowa, who was receiving attention from two young men, recently married the one she preferred, but in so quiet a style that it was not generally known. The evening after the wedding the other swain came on a visit, and seeing his rival there, seemed determined to stay him out. It was nearly midnight, when a remark was made that disclosed the changed relations. Some ingenious scoundrel in San Francisco is endeavoring to swindle peo ple on the Atlantic ooast by writing letters stating that a man has just died under his care, among whose papers the only address given ia that of the party written to. The author states that the deceased left a valuable gold watch and chain besides diamond studs and 50 in money, which last was used to bury him. If the party will foiward $30 to pay the expenses incurred during the sickness of the dead man, the writer will forward the jewelry and mementoes.
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