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.