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The Leap or HoiiNlinn Beg.
IIV HENRY W. LOXOFKMlW.
Mounted on Kyrat strong and fleet,
Tils chestnut steed with four whit feot,
llouahan Eeg, called Kurroglou,
Hon of the roal and bandit chief,
Boohing refuge and relief,
Up the mountain pathway flew.
Such waa Kyrat's matchless speed
Never yet could any steed
Itoaoh the daat-cloud In his course ;
More than maiden, more than wife,
More than gold and next to life,
liouaban the Robber loved his horn.
In the land that lies beyond
trizoom and Trebizond
(lardou-girt hia fortress atood j
Plundered khan, or caravan
Journeying north from Koordistaii
lave him wealth and wine and food.
Foven hundred and fourscore
Men at-arms hia livery wore,
lid hia bidding night and day ;
Now through regloua all unknown
He waa wandering, lout, alone,
Booking without guide hia way.
Suddenly the pathway euda,
Show the preciploe doacenda,
Loud the torront roars unseen ;
Thirty feet from aide to aide
Yawna the chasm ; on air mual ride
He who croscos this ravine.
Following close iu hia purauit,
At the precipice's foot
Reylian the Arab of Oifah
Halted with hia hundred men,
Shouting upwarj from the g'en,
"Uil AUuh! Allah-la!"
Clently Koushan lieg caressed
Kyrat's forehead, neck, and breast :
Kissed him upon both Lia fyos j
Sang to him iu hia wild way
Aa upon the topmost spray
Sings a bird boforo it Hies.
"Ooj Kyrat, O my steed,
ltouud and alouder aa a reed,
Carry me this danger through !
Batin housings shall be thine,
Shoes of gold, O Kyrat mine 1
O tbou soul of Kurroglou 1
Soft thy akin as silken skein,
Soft as woman's hair thy mane,
Tender are thine eyes and true ;
AH thy hoofs like ivory shine,'
r.ilHiodbiigh'. O life of mine,
Leap, and rescue Kurroglou !"
Kyrat, then, the btrong and fleet,
Drew together bia four white feet,
Paused a moment on the verge,
Measured with bis eye the apace,
And iutotho air's embrace
Leaped as leaps the ocean's surge.
A a the surge o'er silt and Band
Bears a swimmer safe to load,
Kyrat safe hia rider bore ;
Itattling down the doep abyss,
Fragments of the precipice
Itollod like pebbles ona shore.
Itoushan's tassel led cap of red
Trembled not upon bis head ;
Careless sat We and upright ;
Neither hand nor bridle shook,
Nor his bead he turned to look,
As he galloped out of sight.
Flash of harness in the air,
Seen a moment like the glare
Of a sword drawn from its sheath '.
Thus the phantom horseman passed ;
And the shadow that he cast
Leaped the cataract underneath.
Iteyhau the Arab held bis breath,
While tide vision of life and death
Passed above him. " Allah-hu !"
Cried he ; ''in all K cordis tan
Breathes there norao brave a man
As this robter Kurroglou !"
Atlantic Monthly.
THE FALL.
" Are those the rnins ?" asked Maude J
Chalmers, pointing with her riding whip.
I can see the glimpse of gray walls
now and then through the trees."
" Yes," auswered Paul Trevor ; " and
we shall have to dismount here and walk
the rest of the distance, for the avenue
Ip the house is now so overgrown with
inderbrush as to be almost impassable."
They alighted, and arm-in-arm forced
their way with some difficulty toward
the house.
Jt was a gloomy-looking building of
stone, erected upon a ledge of rocks,
which rose about twenty feet above the
sea. Long deserted, it had fallen into
gradual decay ; the walls were greeu
with moss ; long, dark weeds filled the
paths, and the crumbling fountains and
broken statues were covered with mould.
Far from all human habitations, sur
rouudod by a dense wood upon the one
side, and upon the other by the sea, it
stood in solitary desolation.
Maud shuddered at the gloomy aspect
before her as she and Paul halted before
the crumbling Bteps.
"Oh, what a dismal place! Don't
enter, Paul. I am not superstitious, but
somehow a thrill of fear and dread creeps
over me."
" Oh, you are only depressed with
the melancholy aspect of decay, and the
solitary loneliness of the place. Shake
off your nervousness and we will explore
the interior. Nothing worse to be found
than owls and bats. I'll warrant."
And the better to reassure her Paul
put his arm around her waist and im
printed a kiss upon her lips.
Gathering up her ridiDg habit Maud
tcok the proffered arm of her lover, and
they descended the broken steps. The
great hall door swung open with a diurnal
creak, and their footsteps echoed through
the dismantled hall. They wandered
through dusty corridors and deserted
rooms. Here Biid there patches of de
cayed drapery or a forgotten picture,
ntaiiidl nnrt lilnckoned. ClUllg lo lue
mouldy wnll, aud now nud then a broken J
bust or statue showed ghastly in the
uncertain light. Owls ami bats, dis-
tnrbed in their nooks aud corners, flew
abont uneasily ; rats aud mice, surprised
in their foraging expeditions, scampered
hastily to their holes ; and huge spiders, !
suddenly deprived of their cobweb-
homes, crawled in all directions. ;
Maud looked with nervous lear inio i
the dim, dusty corners, and started and ,
shivered at every sudden noise.
One flicrht more." said Paul, as they
paused at the foot of the last staircase,
" ami we shall nave a spieuaui view oi
the sea to repay us for the ghostly sights
and sounds w have had to endure.
Why, darling, how pale yon look 1 If
1 '11 - x- 1 1 . u I,
you really wish, we will go no
No, Paul, I won't give w
luniiei i
way to my I
foolishness : but the house seems to me
like an immense tomb, and the moan of
the sea like wailing lament.
' My poor, little impressible tlarling.
I did not think you were so easily af
fected. But come up to the room above,
and you will get a view from the window
that will brighten your eyes and bring
the color back to yonr cheek. "
They ascended the stairs, passed
through a narrow passage, and entered
a room? It contained but one window,
which reached the floor, opening to a
balcony which overhung the rocks below.
Tho window was closed, and begrimed
with long-accumulated dust, aud fes
tooned with the webs of busy spiders.
Determined to have an unobstructed
view, Paul tugged at the closed sash.
For a time it resisted, but at last it
opened, with a loud crash. A strong
wind was blowing from the sea. It
swept in at the qpen window with a
great gust, and the door of the room
slammed to with a resonant clang.
Maud gave a little scream of affright.
" Oh, Paul, what if the door would
not 'open agaiu !"
"Why, how nervous you are, Maud!"
laughed Paul. ' You'll see how quickly
it will open."
And, advancing to tho door, he clasped
the knob, and gave it a vigorous tug.
The lock was old and rusty, and the
knob came off iu his hand, leaving the
door, which was heavy and well pre
served, still firm in its casing.
""Never mind, my dear," said he, as
he saw Maud's face blanch. "If the
door won't open we can find another
egress. See, this balcony runs all the
length of the house. We can walk uion
t, and enter some open door or wiudow.
Stay here for a moment."
" Oh, Paul, don't leave me 1"
He turned, and taking her iu hia arms,
kissed her pale cheek.
Why, Maud, darling, why this ex
cessive fear V"
I cannot tell, Paul ; but an unac
countable oppression stole ver me at
the sight of this gloomy old building,
and every moment I have spent in it
has increased ray agitation. It is a
prescience of coming danger to one r
both of us. "
" Tshaw, dearest ; you are morbidly
affected by this dismal place. I did
wrong to bring you here. We will
hurry away from its gloomy influences."
He stepped out upon the balcony as
he spoke, and with a cheery word turned
to reconnoitre, when immediately there
was a loud crash the balcony, rotten
with age, had given way beneath his
feet, and he was hurled to the rocks
Welow.
It was a strange sensation, the gradual
awakening to consciousness, and Paul
Trevor opened his eyes languidly, and
dreamilv wondered at his eonditiou. He
j was ryiiig in an humble cottage ; and
, through the half-open door he could
' hor a murmur of vgices. At first the
effort to remember bewildered him; but
1 gradually his mind became clear, aud
1 uh, yes! he recollected his fall, the
i rocks, the sea. and with a feeling of
acute paiu it
flashed across
a prisoner iu
him
that
Maud was left
that
fatal
house.
He strove to rise, but the sharp pain
caused by the sudden movement pressed
a groan' of agonv from his lips. He
sank back upon his pillow. The meutal
shock, together with the physical, so
prostrated him that he was powerless ;
but his brain seemed on live. Terrible
visions of Maud alone and helpless in
that solitary chamber floated vividly
before his meutal sight.
He pictured to himself her terror as
she beheld his mad plunge into the sea,
her agony when the terrors of her situa
tion flashed acrosB her, her frantic at
tempts to open the door, her wild, ap
nealinc craze out at the moaning sea, her
! despair as the daylight crept slowly but
surely out of the shadowy room, me
darkness gathering like a presence ; the
deathly stillness unbroken save oy the
dash of the sea or the ghostly sounds
of the house. And a more terrible
thought still crept in upon hia harrowed
mind, chilling his very heart's blood.
He rose from the bed and gazed frantic
ally around. How long had he been
lying senseless and inanimate here
how long? and Maud, his beautiful be
trothed, was starving lying in that
awful house !
The thought brought back strength to
his brnisod limbs his blood coursed
like five through his veins. He would
ifo to her ! Dead or alive he would bear
I ' .1 . 1 1 A.?
lbertrom that latui nouse oi iiuunuug
- I shadows and fearful sounds. He rushed
from the house and fled to the woods ;
h sunlight crept through the trees and
ell with broad bars of Jgolden light on
he jrreenswsrd ; the rabbits nprang
across his track, alarmed at his hasty
tread; the birds twittered merrily in the
leafy brauches. All was life and joy,
and seemed to jeer sud n ook his woe.
Heedless of the cramping paiu iu his
limbs and upheld by the feverish
strength born of intense excitement, he
strode rapidly out; but when the dilapi- '
dated rnins loomed still and sonibre in
Me gaze lie checked ur a moment ins
mad speed. A cold chill crept tlirougn
his veins and his trembling limbs re
mseti to oney ins win. jsui juauu i Am
His darling Maud !
" I'm coming ; Maud, I'm coming 1"
he Bhouted, rushing frantically up the
crumuung steps,
The wiud so warm without, met him,
chill and cold, as he pushed open the
great door, and the yellow sunlight paled
as it struggled in the semi-darkness.
The dash of the sea as it broke against
the cold gray rocks smote his ear with a
mournful sound; his own footfall echoed
like a knell. An incubus of dread and
fear seemed to settle upon his heart; he
felt stifled, aud unable to advance. But,
ah ! anything rather than this terrible
suspense, lie rushed hurriedly up the
stairs to the door of the fatal room. It
was still closed aud all was deathly
silent within ; with a desperate effort he
pushed it Jopeu, and gave a horrified,
fearful gaze within. Yes ; there there,
upon the floor, with staring eyes and
pinched, pallid features, lay his beloved
a corpse ! For a moment he gazed
horrified ; then, with a groan sank un
conscious to the floor. .
"Paul Paul!" murmured a sweet
voice, and a lingering kiss was imprinted
upon his lips. " Do you know me at
last, Paul?"
Drowsily opening his eyes, he saw the
dear face of Maud above his own, fair
and fresh as he had last seen it before
that fearful fall upon the rocks.
" Where am I ? What does it mean ?
Are yon indeed, my own sweet Maud, or
only her glorified spirit?"
Maud laughed a happy little laugh,
although tears shone like pearls iu her
bine eyes."
" It is only the horrid phantom of de
Ierium that still vexes you, Paul. I am
no spirit, but a living, breathing reality."
Aud then she told him how Borne
fishermen, sailing by in their little boat,
had heard her terrified Bcream when he
was precipitated to the rocks ; how they
had come to their aid and carried them
both to a little cottage near by ; how he,
braised and bleeding, yet not dead, hud
passpd from unconsciousness to the
maddening tortures of brain fever
Though subjected to a long aud painful
illness, Taul could not fail to recover
his wonted health under Maud's minis
trations. Yet he was permanently lame.
However, if tho evidWit devotion of a
bride can confer happiness on a bride
groom, Paul, leaning upon a staff while
returning with Maud from the hymenial
altar, was the happiest of Benedicts.
The Unman Face a Mask.
So inscrutable may the human face
become, that frequently it" is but a
mask which conceals the real character.
The men and women most famous for
heartless cruelty huve often been
celebrated for their handsome faces ;
wrifeis otj fiction have not beeu ufi
miudfnl of the fact, aud Faust is repre
sented as being a handsome man ; while
the German fishermen sing of the sirens
who drag men's souls down to perdi
tion with their fatal dower of beauty.
Some faces are unreadable, and tell
nothing of the owner's character. The
merriest men now and then have solemn
faces, and the most serious frequently
have cheerful ones. Frequently the
most heartless coquette has all the shy
graces of a girl of sixteen, while the
heart of some woman who looks you
through with cold, steady eyes, may be
filled with love and tenderness that yon
are too blind to discover. So we all go
on, wearing guises of different device,
never quite concealing, never reveuliug,
the life withiu.
A UirlN Horrible Death.
The Pittsburg (Penu.) Commccial
says : An accident occurred on Saturday
at'the Valley Paper Mill, at Verona, on
the Allegheny Valley railroad. A
young woman named Mary Ann Collins,
who had been employed iu the mill
thre or four years, had been assigned
to a new position iu the second story, in
which there iB a large trap-door im
mediately over a vat on the ground floor.
Miss Collins had been called from
another part of the room to assist in
dumping a box of rags. She started to
answer the call, and walked into the
hatchway, which was obscured by steam
arising from the vat of boiling water and
vitro). She was precipitated directly
into the vat, aud must have died very
speedily. Iu three minutes alter she
fell her body was taken out scalded
w hite, She was sixteen years of age.
Stalking a Tiger.
Au exceedingly clever stalk of a tiger
was made some time back by a native
hunter of India. The shikari saw the
beast asleep under the shade of a large
tree on the side of a tank, and found no
prospect of getting a shot from the land
side. So he had recourse to the follow
ing expedient : He waded from the op
posite bank, gun iu hand above the
water, which was breast high, with a
long cord fastened to his waist, the other
end of which remained iu the hands of a
confederate on the bank confronting the
tiger. When he had got uoiselebsly
within twenty paces ol the sleeping
beast, he delivered his shot, aud wusim
mediately jerked violently back under
water bv his partner. It turned out
that there was no need of this excessive
caution, for one bullet had done the
business.
VALLEY FORGE.
low llir Amrrlena Arinv Kiidnred ike Win
irr or 1 777-8 A l ump or llnl nt Vallrv
Vnritr HiHIerlnB I'nim l.ni-k nf Food unit
ClolllillK.
Hardly any name. is more familiar to
the student, young or old, of American
history than that of Valley Forge One
still reads with pain of the sufferings
undergone there by the sturdy Contin
ental soldiers, and with pride of the
Spartan firmness with which those
dreary vicissitudes were encountered.
Of all the anniversaries which have so
numerously distinguished these centen
nial yoursnone is more worthy of at
least a quiet commemoration than that
of the establishment of Washington's
forlorn winter quarters in 1777. None
of the early years of the young Republic,
struggling for life against the greatest
odds, were darker than this. The slight
est glance at the situation will show that
it was indeed deplorable.
.The battle of Brandywiue had beeu
fought gallautly, and it had beeu lost.
Congress had fled from Philadelphia to
Lancaster. A series of reverses had
opened away to that city for Sir William
Howe, aud Washington was too weak to
risk a battle which might have saved it,
nor, with more than 11 thousand of his
men barefoot, could he undertake those
rapid and masterly operations which had
been so brilliantly executed at Trenton
and at Princeton. Meanwhile all efforts
of an impotent Congress and of rash
generals to clamor and importune him
into military imprudence were Yain.
Washington, that he might restrict
the enemy within the narrowest possible
limits, established his winter quarters, on
the 19th of December, at Valley Forge,
fllinnt twentv miles from Philadelphia.
on the south side of the Schuylkill. Here
lie would be able to keep a vigilant eye
on the city and also protect a large ex
tent of country. He had 11,000 troops,
but they were in a very wretched con
dition. Provisions were scant, clothing
worn out,- aud such was the want of
shoes, that all the late marches had been
tracked iu blood. There was a like want
of blankets, so that many of the soldiers
were forced to sit up all night by the
camp fires. Washington offered a pre
mium for the best pattern of shoes made
of hides nutanued. Oue-qnarter of the
troops were unfit for duty. The com
missariat was miserably managed, for at
this very time (says Gordon) "hogs
heads of shoes, stockings aud clothing
were lying at different places on the
roada aud iu the woods, perishing for
want of teams or of money to pay the
teamsters." Washington had deter
mined to hut the troops, and he took
particular pains to make the dwellings
as comfortable as possible. Among other
expedients, he offered a reward of 12 to
the party in 'aeh which finished its hut
iu the most workmaulike and quickest
manner. The little town, with its regu
lar streets aud avenues, was soon built.
Each hut was fourteen feet by sixteen,
with walls of logs Oiled in with clay, ami
a chimney of clay or wood rising a foot
or two above the roof, which vas a single
sharp slope, constructed to shed easily
the coming snow. To each lint was
assigued twelve nou - commissioned
officers aud men. Each general officer
lu.d a hut to himself, with two windows.
The huts of the soldiery fronted on the
streets. Troops from the same State
were lodge.d in the same street or quar
ter. Iu shape, the whole was like a tri
angle, with Valley creek forming its
base, aud the Schuylkill for its left side.
It had abbatis, redoubts, aud pickets at
differeut points. Washington's quarters
were in the house of a uuaker, Isaac
Potts, which is still standing.
But with all the sufteriugs of alley
Forge, there was some social comfort
there. Liafayette wrote home that the
general officers were sending for their
wives: "and I envy them," he said,
naively not their wives, but the hap
piness of being where they can see
them." Mrs. Washington was with her
husband to cheer aud encourage him.
There was no dancing, lor the quarters
were too narrow ; cards were prohibited
because they led to gambliug; but there !
were tea parties and conee parties, con- ;
versatiou and music. There were gallant
gentlemen, too Morris and Heed,
mi.l
Charles Carroll, when the Congress dele-
gntiou came down and Hami'tou and
Laurens.
The ensuing May found Washington
Still iu his cantmmeuts, with an effective
force of about twelve thousand men. It
was impossible by auy reinforcements to
carry this number beyond twenty thou
sand. But rumors came of the evacuation
of Philadelphia, since the Delaware
would be in danger of being blocked up
by a French fleet. Washington busied
himself in the formation of a new system
for the army, and had asked Congress to
send a committee of arrangements, five
iu number, to the camp. They remained
with him three months, and the recom
mendations resolved upon were generally
adopted. On the 18th of June, the pre
parations for the evacuation of Philadel
phia having been completed, the British
army took up its line of march through
the Jerseys. As soon as he had informa
tion of this, Washington broke camp
with his whole army, marching in pur
suit. And so ended the memorable sea
son at Valley Forge. There was still to
be a short period of defeat and disap
pointment, but brighter days were close
at hand. Xto York Trtbune.
It cannot be too often repeated that
luxuries, not necessities, bring ruin.
We are ruined, not by what we really
want, but what we think we want ; there
fore, never go abreast in search of your
wants if they be real ones', they will
come home iu search of you ; for he who
does not want, will soon want what he
cannot buy.
TALL ASI SHORT HEX.
Rl and l.llilr Mm Hn4 Waiurn-A Jniinn
rue Pirn rf-The Avrraar llrlht ol lnn.
At one of the public halls in this city,
says the New Yik Times, are now on
exhibition a couple of the tallest human j
being iu the civilized world. At another j
public hall, not far from the Inst men-
tioned one, am two remarkably little j
human beiugs, who are believed to be
the smallest couple ever exhibited in any
country. Martin Van Buren Bates, who
was born in Kentucky, in thirty-two j
years of age, weighs nearly 500 pounds,
and is eight feet ono inch in height. His
wife was born in Nova Scotia, is twenty
eight years of age, weighs 413 pounds,
and is eight feet two inches in height.
When but six years old, she was as tall
as her mother, who was five feet high,
ner father was only five feet four inches
in height. This loving couple may be
said to represent "liuked sweetness,
lona- drawn out." Gen. Mite is turned
thirteen
mti.la
iu heigh
those of any known living baby. Miss
Minnie Obom, who stands beside him on
the platform, is iu her thirtieth year,
and is but twenty-three inches in height.
Either of these inuBitesimal members
of the human race is supposed by most
persons who have seen them to be the
smallest human being living. This,
however, is not true, if we may believe
the Tokio (Japan) Times, which Bays
that a dwarf, said to be fifty-one years
old and only one foot three inches high,
named Sato lnkichi, is about to be ex
hibited in that city. This is a depth of
diminntiveuess truly wonderful. It
would hardly le more surprising to read
the announcement oi a giant oue aim u
quarter years old and fifty-one feet high.
The irregularity of proportion for which
Mr. Ynkichi is conspicuous is not less
remarkable than his condensed com
pactness. His head is seven inches
and a half long, while all the rest of his
body measures only seven inches.
Tne height of men, according to
Villerme, varies from four feet nine
and a nuarter inches to five feet ten
inches, and thus gives an average of
five feet three and three-eighth inches.
Taking the extremes of individuals
known, being seventeen inches for a
dwarf spoken of by Burch and Bnffon,
and nine feet three inches tor a Fin
lander mentioned by Sapply, the
medium would be five feet four iuches.
But those cases may be rtgarded as quite
abnormal. The Esquimaux were long
considered the smallest race of meu on
the face of the globe. Harn de Paw has
asserted that the men do not exceed four
feet three inches, and the women four
feet two inches. Subsequent investiga
tion bv Drs. Bellebou and Gnerault
has, however, proved that those figures
are too low, that the average of the
lowest tribes is five feet two and a half
iuches, and that some others attaiu to
five feet six and three-quarter inches.
The smallest family of known man is
the Boschmaus of South Africa, whose
medium height is given at lour feeti
seven inches. Some ether tribes of that
cont inent rival them, but not quite so
short. Henry M. Stanley, tho explorer,
mentions in one of his letters having
come across a race of dwarfs of most
minute stature, but the details have not
reached us. As for the tallest races,
they are the Norwegians iu Europe,
the' Kaffirs iu South Africa, some of our
North America Iudiaus.the Polynesians,
and, finally, the l'atagoniaus, whose
average height is given by numerous
travelers worthy of credit nt five iet ten
inches. Taking these last as the high
est and the Boschnians as the lowest,
we obtain an average of five feet two
aud a half inches. But the savants who
have studied this subject, considering
the small proportion of very short races,
have decided on fixing the medium
height of the human race at five feet
four and three-quarter inches. The
average of the four jiernous now on ex
hibition iu this city is prolmbly five
le''t-
Words of Wisdom.
There is a department which suits the
i figure aud talents of each person. It is
j always lost when we quit it to assume
j that of another.
, He who ha not known adversity is
. iint i1Hif Hcminintd with others or him-
t Beif (joustaut snecess shows us but
' on 0t the world.
We all dread a bodily paralysis and
make use of every eoutrivauoe to avoid
it, but none of us are troubled about a
paralysis of the foul.
There is a gift that is almost a blow,
aud there is a kind word that is muni
ficence ; so much is there in the way of
doing things.
A heart-memory is better that a mere i
head-memory. It is better to carry '
awav a little of the life of God iu our
souls than to be able to repeat every
word of every sermon we have heard
He that waits for repentance waits for
that which cannot be had as long as it is
waited for. It is absurd for a man to
wait for that which he himself has to do.
Preserve your conscience always soft
aud sensitive. If but one Bin force itself
into that tender part of the soul and
dwell there, the road is paved for a
thousand iniquities.
Do not be discouraged under auy
cirrumstauces. Go steadily forward ;
rather consult your owu conscience than
the opinions of men, though the last are
not to be disregarded. Be industrious,
be frugal, be honest ; deal in perfect
kindness with all whoooree in your way.
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exercising a neighborly auu oongiug
spirit in jour owu interoouic.
Items of Interest.
Puucakes should neither be, bloud
nor brunette, but medium.
Strictly religious people should be
carefnlto select only upright pianos for
their houses.
A Hartford, Conn., newspaper pro
poses a bachelor show, the prizes to !
awarded by ladies,
The losses of the Scutch farmers this
year through Hoods and bad weather are
"estimated at $ W, 000, 000.
This is the season when a man wh'
! wants to remember the poor can sit
dowu aud think of himself the whole tiny
long.
Thirty Texas papers have died withiu
the last twelve months, and sixty new
ones sprang into existence during the
same time.
It is a wonder of the day -and yet a fact o'er
true,
That heavy banks are washed away by too
much " falling due."
Hume TimkA beinc? asked bv tieorge
tell a king from a knave.
" That's what I call a monkey wrotch,"
The witty showman said.
When the big gorilla grabbed bis hair
And twisted back bia head.
The Philadelphia baby show broke up .
in a haud-to-hand fight by the mothers
over the prizes. The police cleared the
hall of exhibits and spectators.
Among the attractions at the Paris
exhibition will be performances .by the
Imperial Orchestra from Vienna, in the
month of July. The Viennese artists
will give several concerts during their
fo rtnight's stay in Paris.
A gentleman who is a sculptor in a .
teeble way, waa calling on a lady the
other evening. "How do you manage to
get the right facial expression?" she
asked, referring to his statuettes. " Very
simple," he said. "I read a poem ex
pressing the passion I desire to portray;
then, as my face expresses rage or love, (
I plunge head foremost into a mass of
putty 1 have at hand. This retains the
impression, and there you are."
The old gentleman went into the par
lor the other night, at the witching hour
of 11:45, aud found the room unlighted
aud his daughter and a dear friend oc
cupying a tete-a-tete in the corner by a
window. "Evangeline," the old man
said sternly, "this is scandalous." "Yes,
papa," she auswered sweetly, "it is
candleless because times are so hard and
lights costs so much that Ferdinaud and
I said we should try and get along with
the starlight. " Aud papa turned about
in speechless amazement, and tried to
walk out of the room through a panel
in the wall.
Power of the Hand.
It may be going too far to say that man
may judge the character of his fellow
man by the manner in which he " shakes
hands." But there is certainly a signifi
cance iu those buh.y members of the body
which "he who runs may read." The
creator of Uriah Heep has taught us not
to trust the owners of limp, moist handf
which close cordially on nothing save
their own possessions. Says a coinmen
tator on this subject: "It is the touch
of a hand at a greeting which warms or
chills my heart, and makes ine know to a
certainty how much or how little I shall
like the person before me. If the lingers
close about my own with a short, quick,
convulsive grasp, I know that ho will
snap, snarl, and finally quarrel, and tbt
the leant that 1 have, to do with te
owner of thooe wily digits, the better oft
I shall be. If a nervous, cold hand
glides into my own, and seems disposed
tilie there, without life, I know that my
happiness would be nothing in that
awful palm. But if the hand grasps
yours and holds it firmly, in strong,
warm fingers, you are sale in cultivating
the friendship of the owner. These
human hands ! From the begiuning of
lite they play an impirtaut part."
All t he greatness of earth has laid in
the hollow of the hand. The Itooks, the
miiHie, tho pictures, the wonders of
architecture, the intricacies of mechan
ism, the mysteries of science and the
government of the countries, with all
their godlike beauties of color, sound,
symmetry, usefulness, progression aud
wisdom, have lain within a human hand.
The highest aspirations and realizations
of the brain are brought to light through
the hand, aud the tenderest love and
charity of the heart make the hand their
dispeusator. They can be tender minis
ters of comfort and peace, yet as cruel
aud full of venom as the bite of uu axp.
Aud with all their power, with all
their charities, their tender touches,
their miscliief-they are folded at hist,
aud those who speak of us tell of the
closing of the eye aud the folding of
hands as a part of our goiug away.
North American.
Briliaiu'x Amelia.
Ttiifliniu Young's favorite wife.
, Amelia, has been dethroned since the
I prophet's deuth, and report says that she
has gone back to reoria, ill., wuu ine
intention of remaining. It appears that
Amelia waa never a Mormon at all ; that
her connection with Brighaui was based
upon a contract which included a hand
somely furnished home, carriages and
horses, aud full liberty to provide such
fnrtu an 'lic might desire.
j This wife absolutely ruled Brighaui, and
i waa the only wife whose unauthorized
orders on storekeepers were luuy
honored. She was very fond of expen
sive attire, was entirely independent us
to the wishes or desires of the eaintt
and led a gay, worldly Vife. It is a'
stated that when Bhe met Brighai
was already affianced to a your"-'
elmut of Peoria, but suirendeie i !
tho rich Moling-.
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