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A Merry Christ inns!
' A morry Christmas to yon all! "
In panning now from mouth to mouth,
From cant to went, from north to south,
From lowly oot and Hlately hall.
" A merry Christmas to oh all !"
In shouted by the cheerful host ;
The window burred agaiiiHt the front,
We toast the Hoason, great and small.
A merry Christmas ! HiihIi no breath
Of revelry must pierce the gloom
Of yon ler chamber from that room
The spirit ban passed out with Death.
Tlio widow clanpa her child, a kIhh
I jresl upon ltn rosy face
A choking nih a clone embrace
" A morry Christmas V" What in thin ?
"A Chriatmas partylet us go !''
A wand'rer hopeless drops to die ;
Ilia brothers heedless pars him by.
Half frozen in the freezing snow.
A morry ChriHtm&a ! What a few
ltomalu of those it welcomed last ;
Another year has o'er Mg pass'd
And left us, wife, the only two.
The childish laugh wo held no dear,
The toys that made us ouoe more young,
The infant armi (hat round na clung, .
Have vauish'd with tho passing year. 1 -
But Christmas merry is and those ''
Who strive to make It so do well ;
For who oau ov,r fitly U-U '' ,
What ooiufort from this season flows y -
'' A merry Christinas !" lot ua bless , '
The season when our LirJ was bora ;
uj d nbly blest the Christmas mora
That gave us " Chi id our Highteousiiess."
" A merry Christ aias to you all !"
Let it rosotind from mouth to mouth,
From ua.t and west to north and south,
To h mble oot to stately halL
The Story Writer.
AN EDITOR S CHRISTMAS REMIXISGKJfCE,
I am au editor ; and .one bitter .cold
m miing, a few days before Christmas,
i i the year 18--, I sat as usual at my
dusk. Among the Leap of manuscripts
I was daily compelled to examine
many, of them desultory, untidy, ; and
unstitched, defiant of spelling, subver
sive, of grammar, and with neither be
ginning, middle or - end was one, writ
ten on the softest cream-laid French
white paper, in a childish lady's hand,
on lines which had been carefully erased
afterwards. It was a little story of no
great literary merit, bnt there was an
aroma of youth mid of sweetness in every
line. There was a promise in it. It
was like the light in tho sky before the
sun had risen on a tine day an omen, a
portent of sunshine and warmth, but no
more. I put it down as if I had touch
ed the potal of a ros ' T!icre was a tiny
scented note beside it of course full of
italics :
"Dear Mr. Editor: I send you a
little story. I niu only sixteen, and papa
and niamma do not know anything
about it, but ploaso tell me if it be
worth' anything. I want it to be print
ed ; I wan t to be paid for it. It is not
for mypelf, though, but I want the
money to give my dear little brother a
nice little birthday present. I am,
dear Mr. Editor, vonrs, etc.,
Emily- ."
Then came the adJress and signature.
The writing of the note was lss neat
und regular than the manuscript. Hut
there was the same fragrance of duiuty
youth about it.
I held it a long time in my hand. I
am an old man ; at all events middle
aged, perhaps something more ; but lay
heart is younger than ray appearance.
Little distillations came, or Seemed to
come, from the paper I held. It was
with no common feeliug of interest that
I sat down and wrote my answer to the
note. I returned the manuscript, bnt
I wrote gently and tenderly. I gave it
as my hope and my opinion that, with a
little more cave and study, the youthful
writer would achieve a success. I even
promised to print that identical manu
script if it were a little revised or cor
rected, and I pointed out how it might
be made available. I opened the window
of my den after I hud written my note.
The weeds piercing through the flags
below had a less dreary look than they
had ever had before ; a gleam of snu
Bliine shone on them, and their frosty
verdure borrowed something of Pieoiola
brightness from it. I posted my letter
and the manuscript to the address
named, and went home, wondering if
ever I should boar (roni the writer again.
With that, however, all thoughts of the
manuscript passed away. The author
was too timid to reply.
On Christmas Ere I was asked os
usual to dine with an old friend of mine
at frit. John's Wood. He was a married
man, with a pleasant comely wife, and
several small children, male and female.
"The children are not coming down
to dinner," said my hof-tess, "for they
- r a e' 1
wards."
I bowed and was delighted, both at
the anticipation of pleasure to come, and
of 'privation for the first time of consid
erable present annoyance. I need not
say I was then a bachelor. When we
went upstairs after dinner, we found the
fidililiar-ilittru U'Lioli .liui.l.l fit fl'OIlt
from tho back room closed.
They were opened alter a while.
The Christinas hymn whs sung, and a
tree of the uo,t "brilliant splendor was
....... .,!. 1 . . i . i I
(cioiv.-i. uu n uruncins wem living
gifts worked and embroidered by the
children for their parents. Tho three
little girls and their governess hod done
it all.
While my friend and his wife were
embracing and thanking the children, I
had time to notice the governess, She
Was very young, almost h child herself.
A mass of bright hair was gathered up
in great waves at each sid 5 of her head,
and fastened in a loose thick loop be
hind. The bright curls were so arranged
lis to reveal the ear. The ear and cheek
were, I should rather say they are like
those painted by Leighton in his
" Painter's Honeymoon. Need I say
more of their ravishing loveliness ? Hut
the pretty blue eyes looked as if they
had cried a great deal, and there hod
been recent tears, for the eyelids were
somewhat swollen. . She was not sad,
however for she played on the piano for
the children and for me, their old god
father, to dance to, and she joined with
us in a game of blind man's buff. When
the children retired, she retired also.
" What a charming person," I said.
"Hue is most excellent," said, my
friend. -
" Although she is bo young, Miss
is the bread provider of her family. Her
father and mother have, according to
the cant phrase, seen better days ; in
fact, they are people of, good birth, and
once had A good fortune. They have'a
son and daughter ; the son is a fine fel
low also Both the son and daughter
give the greater, part of their earnings
to their parents ; , but the son has not
been very, fortunate. My little gover
ness, she ia only seventeen, (my chil
dren are so young they do not require
a prim regular governess,) does' more
with her salary, mediocre as it is, than
her brother can do with his hard work.
He is a clerk in a bank." ,
"And she helps him also, I suppose?"
" I dare say she does, but I have nev
er inquired, for she is full of reticence
and reserve en these point, I only know
she would , set up all night, and work
like a horse all day, to help both her
parent and her brother. She is going
home to-morrow ; and he, I fear, cannot
afford the expense of the journey. The
parents live now in Scotland."
" Could we not help him ?" I said,
bashfully. . . v
My friend emiUd. ' Bolh brother and
sister spent Christmas at home.
My good fortune threw me a good
deal after this with my friends' gover
ness. Must I say from that Christmas
Eve I was never heart whole ?
The following Easter we were en
gaged, and before the Christmas Eve
which followed we were married. ; What
iu aim and a hope my life has now ac
quired I .
We have a littlo suburban home, and
leave my wife every morning to pursue
my editorial , labors, and return every
evening, forgetting my work and my
worries, knowing that the sweetest heart
and the fairest 'face I have ever known
await me in ray modest but happy home.
I never heard again from the author of
the manuscript which had so much in
terested me ; and, truth to tell, had
never thought of her since that Christ
mas Eve. Two or three years have
passed since then, and we .have two
babies.
Their mother is always playing with
them. She often puts her delicate,
slender white hands nnder my baby
girl's foot, and the baby makes believe
to stand on it. What a picture it is ; it
is like a rosa-bud laid on A white
camelia. -
As I walked up and down the room
reading a scratchy, scrawly mauuscriit,
and fumbling over it in desperation, for
the tiresome person who had sent it had
by some ingeuious carelessness mulcted
it of its List page, my thoughts flew far
and' wide, and, by some association I
cannot attempt to explain, the pretty
manuscript from tho youthful writer
who had sent me no more was recalled
to me
Unconsciously the manuscript I held
faded from my mind, and the other was
present with me. 1 wondered what had !
become of her had she written any
more ? where and how was she ?
Every moment I became. more and
more possessed with the memory. 1
was so happy myself that I felt for all
who seemed to have care and struggle
iu their lives, I looked out the address to
which I hod written before, and wrote
to the unkuown a few lines. I said that
time had passed, that the youthful in
experience which had prevented the
paper she had sent from being accepted
must now be corrected, and that I should
be glad and willing to see anything else
she had written, if she had written any
thing since then.
Within a few days I had an answer.
The writing was in a feigned hand, quite
unlike the round, hesitating, girlish
hand I remembered. The words were,
however, as sweet and innocent as the
tirst had been. The note ran as follows :
"It is so good of you to remember
me, but I do not write any more. I am
so-happy. I have a dear, good, noble
husband. Oh, these womanly exaggera
tions, I thought, as I sat in my editorial
chair. And such darling babies ! I
wrote, for I wanted to help my dear
ones, but they have been better helped
by others than I could ever have hoped
to help them. God has given them a
better friend than 1 could be. If yoa
seek to know me, you shall do so. If
when you go home you see a woman
with a rose iu her hand, hold out yours.
You will know me."
I smiled at'the romantic fervor cf this
reply, and a faint desire arose that my
wile and t)he writer of the letter should
know each other, and then I went ou
with mv btupifviitff avocations.
Ah I went home. I confess I looked
iilvout for a woman with a rose in her
hand, but, us might uutuvally oe sup
posed, neither in cabs nor omnibuses
did such an apparition manifest itself.
As I entered my own door I gave an
impatient shrug at the idea of having
been thersnbjeot of a foolish jest. Bnt
whom did I see standing within the
tbrrshold of my home? My darling,
with her fair, child-like face aud bright
hair ; love, and joy, and youth crowning
her with n triple crown, and iu her hand
was a rose !
' Dear husband," she said, as I kissed
her, "I think I loved you from the mo
ment I had your kind, indulgent,
thoughtful note. I had written that
absurd little story for I sadly wanted a
little money to pay for Gerald's return
home at Christmas, to be with papa And
mamma, and I had a foolish notion I
could write."
"And you were disappointed, my
pet. What a savage I must have
seemed !"
"No; I felt how foolish I had been,
ane I cried heartily, but I thought vou
good and kind all the same. And Ger
ald got home, too. and we had a happy"
Christmas after all."
I kissed her.
" But are yon never going to write a
story for my magazine again ?"
"I do not know," she said, archly.
" Meanwhile, you can write ours, if you
like."
Fashion iu Fans. .
Fans are of all kinds, from the rich
white satin fan for bridal occasions,
with its covering of Alencou or old
point, to the sober, dark-colored pocket
fan with Russian leather sticks. The
newest fans for evenings are mostly
white, wilh introductions of color in the
shape of very small flower blossoms,
such as lilies of the valley with faint
yellow . stems and forget-me-nots, or
pompon rosebuds ; these are nestled in
the mtyabout tojs and so arranged as
to form a bunch of flowers when the fan
is shut. The black fans of this kind
are equally dressy, the flowers intro
duced being of the brightest tints of
scarlet or yellow, and very Spanish in
effect. Other fans have tiny flecks of
oolor introduced in harlequin shades,
aud very pretty when in motion. The
sticks of these fans are iu ivory, ebony
or bone. Fans with cherry wood sticks
are a novelty, tipped with silver ; Vienna
wood fans are finished iu the same way,
aud are as pretty when folded as unfold
ed ; the tops have prettily-painted de
signs in the Watteau style, sometimes
painted very carefully, according to the
price of the fan ; or the top of sat;n is
embroidered Iu flosses ; or net is
stretched oi them thickly embroidered
with glittering beads. Dark green is a
favorite color in fans this year, the mara
bout top and the satin being often of
tho tone of color of the principal fall
goods. ' " - 1 -
Chatelaines worn with colored fans pra
of silver or oxidize J silver, A favorite
design for the clasp is the Japanese fan
or a half-opened fan ; the Japanese fan
is a marked feature in the decoration of
many other articles now worn as acces
sories. Evening fans for ball dresses
are attached by ribbons matching the
dress orj trimmings, by chatelaines of
fine flowers or by chains of gold or
some other jewelled design which adds
richness to the dress.
. Stanley and His Kofe Book,
Says Stauley iu a letter describing his
African explorations : A terrible crime
in the eyes of rifany natives Wlow the
confluence of the Kwango and the Congo
was taking notes. Six or seven tribes
confederated together one day to destroy
us, because I was "bad, very bad." I
had been een making medicine on
paper writing. Such a thing had
never been heard of by the oldest in
habitant. It, therefore, must be witch
craft, and witchcraft must be punished
with death. The white chief must in
stantly deliver his notebook (his medi
cine) to be burned, or there would be war
on the instant.
My notebook was too valuable : it
had cost too many lives and sacrifices to
be consumed at the caprice of savaeres.
What wus to bo done? Iliad a small
volume of Shakespeare, Chandos edi
tion. It had been read and reread a
dozen times, it had crossed Africa, it
had been my solace many a tedious
hour, but it must be sacrillced. It was
delivered, exposed to the view of the
savage warriors, i' Is it this you want? 1
" l'es." " Is this the medicine that yon
are afraid of?" "Yes; burn it, burn it.
It is batl, very bad; burn it."
"Oh, my Shakespeare," I said, "fare
well !" and poor Shakespeare was burnt.
What a change took place in the faces
of those angry, sullen natives 1 Ir a
x; ..1. i i'i - mi
lime ii was nae auomer juDiiee. me
eountry was saved; their women iftid
little ones would not be visited by cal
amity. Ah 1 the white chief w as bo
good, the embodiment of goodness, the
best of all men."
Meteoric Stones.
Within the last eighteen years twelve
falls of meteoric stones have occurred in
the United States, of which specimens
have been collected. Eight of these
falls took place in the prairie region of
the West, extending from Ohio to Kan
sas, and from Kentucky to Wisconsin,
inclusive. Prof. J. L. Smith, of Louis
ville, gives a map of this region in the
American Journal of Science and Arts,
showing the locality of each fall, ond he
states that the aggregate estimated
weight of the eight was 1,000 l ilo
grammes, equal to more than 2,300
pounds. Going back further, and tak
ing a period of sixty years, Prof. Smith
fluds that there have beeu twenty well
noted fulls in the United Stated, t-n of
which wire iu the same regiou, and those
ten weighed twenty times as much as
the ten which otvuired oiiteitle its
liuiitx.
What and How Wild Animals Eat.
Here is the bill of fare of the menag
erie of the Botanical Garden of Paris.
The guests are numerous, varying gen
erally from 1,100 to 1,200. Their tastes
ore naturally different, according to the
divisions and orders to which they be
long. In the first place, come the flesh
eaters, the lions, tigers and bears. These
each consume about cighfeau pounds of
meat in twenty-four hours. The hyena,
although a much smaller animal, receives
because of its greater voracity eleven
pounds. Only eight pounds are allowed
to the panther.
The great eater of tho house is the
elephant, which consumes 1C5 pounds
oi bread, carrots, grass, straw and bran.
After such a repast he may well be
thirsty, And from eight to ten barrels of
water are ready to satisfy his herd.
ThehippopotamnBis inferior in height
to the elephant.'bnt not in appetite.
His rations are like those of his neigh
bor of the proboscis, only the bran is
replaced by a coarser quality, which is
cooked.
The bears would accommodate them
selves to this regimen, but they have
meats, which are less dear.
The rhinoceros absorbs daily about 110
Eounds of nearly the same nourishment;
e has also rice.
The other quadrupeds, such as the
giraffe and the bison, notwithstanding
their great height, require much smaller
quantities of food, of which barley, hay
and bran form the principal parts. The
deer, antelopes, sheep And goats receive
hay and glass.
The annual expense of fooi for the
museum is $7,812, which iS about $22
perddr.
Tno bill of fare of the Zoological Gar
den of London differs little from that of
Paris. Fish, however, are .used iu
greater quantities iu the former. They
are designed for the birds and marine
animals that live upon them in a state of
freedom. All the fish brought for food
are carefully examined, as a sea-dog
came near strangling himself one day
with a fish which had several hooks in
its mouth.
The sea-dog eals gluttonously
otter, on the contrary, eats slowly
; the
and
chews carelully before swallowing,
The
most creedv lovers of lish are
the
pelicans. The keeper throws the fbh
into a pond ; then opens the gate and
leaves the passage free t6 : the pelicans,
who rush iu aud the fish are devoured
iu an instant.- Dainties are generally
reserved for the monkeys. Turnips,
cooked potatoes, apples, oriiuges, nuts
are given them, and all divided into small
bits."
The monkeys usually eat together,
which often causes very comical disputes,
much to the delight of spectators.
The birds of prey are fed with rabbits,
guinea pigs, eggs, insects and sometimes
small birds. The serpents have gener
ally but one meal in a week. Their din
der, which they take seven doys to di
gest, sometimes consists of a dozen
rabbits, twenty young guinea pigs and
as many birds, and rats and mice which
are given them alive, this being essential
to tho health and preservation of these
terrible reptiles. The venomous ser
pents are fed solely with rate and guinea
pigs. Those poor little creatures suc
cumb quickly after the reptile has bitten
them.
The great pachydermatous auimals,
such as the rhinoceros, hippopotamus,
and the elephant are fed in Londou as iu
Paris.. The last receives cabbages aud a
few crackers, a delicacy that he accepts
with much pleasure. Every evening a
new bed of straw is made for him. In
the morning his cell is thoroughly
cleansed, aud the straw must be re
newed. A visitor one day observed to
the keeper, " Here is a very clean
beast, and very careful of her lodging ;
she would make an excellent house
keeper." " Oh, no," answered the keeper, " she
eats her inattrass every morning."
Frightening the Monkey.
The inhabitants of Kabylia, Northern
Africa, are much troubled by the dep
redations of monkeys, who in countless
numbers infest the hilly forests. The
unfortunate farmers or market garden
ers who live ou the mountain slopes
wage a continual war against these
marauders, which is foredoomed, how
ever, to endless failure ; for the inhabi
tants were Darwinites long before Mr.
Darwin was heard of; and they dare not
for their life kill oue of the creatures
regarded by them as their ancestors. So
the monkeys increase aud multiply
without the chance of becoming thinned
off by any fatal battue. The only thing
that can be done to guard against their
attacks is to frighten them away, und
this is effected by some very cunning
aud curious devices. It is found that
i occasionally, after a successful raid
upon some garden, a few oi the less
hardened offenders ore overcome by the
pleutetmsness of their feast, lhe potent
juice of the grapes or of the figs gets
the better of their reason or of their
bodily Activity, And they remaiu stretched
ou the ground, to be capturei by the
furious proprietor, when a mild but iu
siduous puuibhment is inflicted upon
the prisoners. Their necks are hung
with siua'l bells or rattles, and they
are turned loose at the forest edge,
when the panic created by their appear
ance is such as to frighten all their kiue
folk aud acquaintances away into the
depths of the wood. It bells cannot be
! procured another process lias been iu
i vented that of clothing the captured
! ape iu a stout waistcoat of red stuff and
then letting him run. The effect is
1 magical, aud long after the ostrucinod
l aiiicial has died or got free from bin
hhivihli badge the depredators hold alool
fioin the dangerous district.
Eff YORK'S BABY SHOW.
Infantile Winders n Exhibition Campet
In Hnble and thrlr SnrruniHn.
The recent opening of the baby show
in New York is thus described in the
columns of the World of that city :
The baby show opened in Midget's Hall,
in Fifth avenue, at 9:5)0 yesterday mora
ing. It was a gathering to be remarked
in several of its features, but most re
markable was its suggestion of wisdom.
At the hour of its opening the babies
were fresh, wide-awake, uuvexed aud
absorbed. No laggard twin, clipped of
its vitality, had fallen into a leaden and
precarious sleep, and the noisiest boy
had not yet opened his mouth or got his
preposterous legs into the throes of
irresponsible motion. The flush of the
vigor of morning was on the faces of all,
aud the alert intellect peered out of
eveiy baby's eyes. Under the circum
stances, with every infant deeply seri
ous, silent and absorbed, there never
was such a gross display of facial wis
dom. The babies were assorted and
arranged iu the large hall on the second
floor, which was trimmed profusely with
American flags. . At the Fifth avenue
end were the twins. On the side to
wards Fourteenth street were arrayed
single babies and all babies with defects
and remarkable histories, while babies
of different merits sat on the side op
posite and were strewn casually through
the center of ftie hall. The whole num
ber of babies entered is nearly four hun
dred, and all these will be out doubtless
by to-morrow ; but yesterday the show
opened with 250. There will be several
Bete of triplets, and arrangement a have
been made and will probably come to
fruition with a phenomenal Brooklyn
father for a quartet. The management
requires the presence of babies and
their mothers from nine iu the morning
until ten at night, though wearied babies
are dismissed or put to bed ou the floor
above and their places supplied with
fresh and vital specimens. Nurses are
supplied to assist and relieve the moth
ers ; also intelligent and instructed
women to explain and interpret to visi
tor?. In the hall above a lunch is al
ways spread for mothers and nurses, and
there are cribs and baby-jumpers for
the soothiug and reiuvigoration of speci
mens. , A number of prizes are to be given,
the recipients to be determined by
popular ballot. Every visitor will find
attached to his ticket a coupon with
printed instructions as t what qualities
are to be voted for, thus: ' Hand
somest mother," "prettiest baby,"
"finest triplets," "prettiest twins,"
"greatest novelty," and the four babies
in order who are next prettiest. Each
child and mother has a printed card with
a number, which the visitor, having
made his selections, ascertains aud writes
upon his coupon, depositing the same
in a box afterwards. The handsomest
mother is to have a prize of a gold watch
and chain, and money prizes ranging from
$100 down are to go to the elected
babies. As for other qual not men
tioned on the coupon, they to be de
cided by a selected committee.
Yesterday the show was well crowded
with visitors. Elderly gentlemen came
a plenty, and chuckled over the marvels
of comeliness and fatness which they
fouud, and ladies in silks and seal-skins
pondered and consulted. The twins and
the fat, pretty babies got most notice ;
the babies with defects were studied
mostly by the reporters. In nearly
every case the mother sat with the child,
and was ready to tell everything con
cerning it. Two conspicuous mottoes
hung on the walls, oue being: "What
is home without a baby?" and the
other : " The hand that rocks the cra
dle is the hand that moves the world."
A Porcelain Fiddle.
Venice is considerably excited at
present over a very unusual sort of a
riddle, the only one of its kind, proba
bly, ever made. The manufacturer of
this porcelain fiddle was formerly a
workman iu a Saxon orcelain manufac
tory. After his return, old and feeble,
to his old heme, lie attempted to cany
ont a long cherished project for making
a fiddle, the box of which should be ( f
china. With the aid of a boy, it is stated,
he luis in fact succeeded in producing a
fiddle of this kiud, which dias a tcue of
rare purity aud astonishing richness,
combined with charming liarmony and
extraordinary power. The box part, or
resonator, is exceedingly light, and the
strings are made of. metallio wires,
while the bow, departing from the
usual form, is curved, making almost a
semi-circle. The success of this clever
Venetian, who had eujoyed the Advanta
ges of the skill acquired iu a German
porcelain factory, may be the means of
directing musicians to the advantages
of the clear, ringing, but fragile .diina
and glass, for similar uses in acoustics.
St-ientitie American.
IMMire, the highest happiness ou
earth, is seldom eujoyed with perfect
satisfaction except ia solitude, ludo
louee and indifference do uot always
afford leisure, for true leiture is fre
quently found iu that interval of relax
ation which divides a painful duty from
an agreeable relax recreation ; a toil
some business from the more agreeable
occupations of literature and philotophy.
Two Waterbury (Couu.) teamsters
w ere so mad because oue wouldn't turn
out of a narrow courtway for the other
that they sat on their wagons facing
each other all day, aud unnitohed the
horses after dark, leaving the wagons
still there. But about daylight next
morning each stole around and took his
cart out of the way.
Items of Interest.
The noble horse leads n life of whoa.
It is a wise cow that knows its own
fodder.
The language of the suspender is sup
posed to be, " Brace up !"
In the case of Sitting Bull, absence
makes the hair grow longer.
Any kind of weather suits Michigan,
so tho bureau needn't be backwards.
If Sitting Bull could have his way
about it, the American nation would
have no Indian summer.
A person wha hail been listening to a
very dull address remarked that every
tiring went oi! well especially the au
dience 'Is it proper to say, ' I see the sun
rising,' or 'I see the sun rise?'" he
osked. " Sir, the proper thing is to get
home before it rises," replied his friend.
A mob in Winnemucca, Nev., threat
ened to destroy the railroad station and
a train of cars if the company did not
remove a passenger who had the small
pox. -
The lady whom Stanley was to marry
has wedded another. What shall it
profit a man if he finds 15,000,000 hea
thens and losses his best girl ? y. Y.
Jlerald. i
A Chicago inventor recently made a
small fan-wheel, to be placed in the hat,
to keep the head cool in warm weather.
He set it going in his own hat, and the
first thing he knew his hair was wound
up in the machinery. The spring was
very Btiff, and before he could release
himself a part of his hair was pulled out
by the roots.
A contemporary tells young ladies
how to arrange their hair in a fashion
able style. "Let it all down," it says,
" and comb it out with a crosscut-saw.
Then go up on the roof of the house,
aud there stand still while the wind
plays (whatever is appropriate) with it.
Then catch up the black with a bow of
ribbon, and allow the front to stay as it
is,"
" Simplicity" is the sweet title of an
Association of ladies jm.t formed at
Leipsic, Germany. The object of this
association is to promote simplicity-in
dress, and to make war upon luxury.
Members must pledge themselves not to
have any trains or false hair not to wear
tuniqnes, pol uaises or other frivolities.
The dresses must be plain, and only a
simple embroidery or trimming at the
eni of tbe costume is permitted.
The War iu Turkey.
The campaign both in Bulgaria and
Armenia is not only very active, but at a
very critical juncture just now. Osmau
Pasha, to the vurprise of many military
critics, still holds out iu Plevna, which,
by this time, he has rendered impregna
ble to any successful capture by assuult,
but everything indicates tuat his stock
of provisions me about exhausted, and
that he cannot, therefore, maintain his
present attitude of bold defiance aud in-,
domitable resistance much louger.
Meantime the army under Snliemnu
Pasha aud Mohammed AH is at length
moving to the relief of the besieged geu
eial, aDd considerable lighting has al
ready taken plucV between them aud the
Russians to the disadvantage of the be
siegers so far as it has progrepsed, and a
great battle is inevitable within a few
days which will either lesult in the re
lease of Osmau Pasha's army, and the
defeat of the. Ruh-tians in Bulgaria, or
the defeat of tin? Turks, the capture cf
Osman and his army, and the further
advance of tbe invaders to Constantino
ple by the passes of the Balkans to com
mence the siege of Adrianople. This is
the position of the belligerents snbstan
tudly in Europe, aud a few days will be
decisive of the result of the campaign.
Oa the Asiatic side of the Bosphorus iu
Armenia the war is of lees moment. At
last acoonuts the Russians are besieging
Erzeroum, from before which one of
their assaults had beeu recently repulsed.
One f th most extraordinary phases of
the present war, like the Franco-Prussian
strife, is the comparatively insignfi
eant part played by the fleets of the be
ligerents. In fact, this whole war, like
that to which we have referred, has beeu
one of surprising and unexpected evente.
Weary Amid the (.litter.
A Washington letter hoc this : A lady
whose husband held one of tho highest
places in the government stood in her
magnificent home attired for her weekly
reception. " How gladly would I give
up all the fiuery, show and insincerity
of this public place aud go back to the
rexmis I lived iu when we were first
married. I would throw my silks nud
diamonds away and sit down to my
supper of chip'beef aud tea at sunset,
and afterwards take a long quiet walk
with Will, aud rest ou the stump iu the
moonlight, and tell my little plans for
the future, and what I had done every
hour whiU he was gone, and know that
we were alone iu the world, living only for
each other. Those days seem like days
iu heaven. I work harder now thau any
slave ; often three hundred calls to re
turn iu a single week, receptions or
parties every night ; see the tame
people, hear the same talk, eat the shiuo
things, come home disgusted, wonder
what. I am living for, w here I will go
when' I die. 4 Bettie, I uniht have
Hon. and Secretary - here to
morrow ; I must get their influence ;
you must talk music to the secretary,
and vou must ask lion. about mouo-
lith ; monolith is his hobby. Do your
bet. i ueed their help.' So it i
always. Help, influence, .power
smile in my face, intcivbt in my t
uer, living a lie; feeding mv '
busks."