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HY KI.IZAT1KTH AKKtlS.
If somu Vind power, when our youth iH ended,
And lifu's first fieHlincns lest in languid
noon,
Should stay awhile the doom by Fate intended,
And graiit ns generously one proclous boon
Haying, "With thwarting, bitterness and
trial,
Yonr toilsomo days thus far have been op
pressed i
Cbooee now some blessing, fearing ro denial,
To light, andehnrm, and bohntify the rest"'
Wbak should wo ask? the prize of young
ambition ?
Fame, powor, wealth, mid gifts of priceless
COHt?
Ah, no our souls would utter the petition :
"Uivo us oh, only, give us baek our lost !"
No vls'.onod bliss, no pleasure new and splen
did, No lofty Joy by longing never crossed,
No new delight undreamed of, heaven
riescendud, Only our own the tresHures we have lost !
For, wearied out with strife, and glare and
clamor,
Orown wisor with our years, and clearer
eyed, No more beguiled by dreams, nor charmed by
glamor,
VVo dread the now, and prize the known, the
tried.
Ah, what a ovowd of Joys would gather round
118,
Could we but have our vanished back agaia !
The heart ui.spoiled, 1 the strength and hope
which crowned us,
The bounteous life, the ignorauoe f pain
The innocence, the ready faith in others
. The sveet spontaneous earnestness and
truth,
The trust of friends, the tender eye of
mothers,
And all the rich inheritance of youth
The plans f r noble lives, that earth thereafter
Might be uxire pure ; the touch of love's
warm lip
Ami sav ng hnnd ; the sound of ohildieh
' . laughter, "
The peuoeof Lome, tl Joy of comrdiHhip--
We had them all ; and now that they have It ft
We oouiit them carefully, and see their worth,
A id feel that t me and fortune have bereft lis
Of all the bint aud dearest things on earth.
Ah, yes! wheu on our heats the years are
pressing';
A id nIi our iljrtor-plals are touohed wiih
frost, .
Wd ask iio more some now untasted blessing
liat only sigh, " Oh, give us back our lost ."
Moro Than Her Match.
LoAsha'tsof moonlight were
ing down through what seemed an
re shoot-
nn almost
i upH'iwtrable wo )i au 1 quivering on
tuo green mosQt. A faint wind dallied
with the foliage. Wild flivvers flecked
the ground.
Ilore, in this sylvan retreat cut Mis
Barron, an I she was very mneh out of
humor, for every now and theu she drove
the pniut of her parasol into the uu
offending mouses. She looked and was
downright disgusted with everything
and everybody. ' The belle of throe
seasons, during which she had escaped
heart-whole, alio was now " caught"
and all becauso of a three weeks' sojourn
at a country villa.
Madge had never been off her guard
before. Hitherto she had visited
fashionable wateriug places; but this
year she had come to a quieter place, and
had met Lindhurst Carringtoifv She
did not yet know, howeVi",'he was in
thralldoni.
S!ie only knew she was cross and
lonesotre; and so she sat punching the
little blossoms and pouting. She thought
Harrington exceedingly companionable,
and that tho other four gonlleinen stop
ping at the villa were little better thau
wooden meu. As for downright, earnest
love, why her intentions for three years
had been never to venture her heart at
sea, but only to glide about the shore,
flirting, safe to disembark any time.
Yet she was now thinking of Lindhurst
lUrriugtou in a way many would have
terinsd love. But she would not admit
this to herself. He was a delightful
summer friend, that was all, she said.
She likftd summer, and flowers, and
birds, and hazy atmospheres, und a
quiet flirtation; but when these went,
the comiug season brought new enjoy
ments and fresh flirtations, and Harring
ton could go with tliem. Were there not
others, pray, who could read Tennyson
and sing tenor? But now, just this
moment,' it was rather lonesome. If he
only would come !
He had gone to town the morning
previous, promising to return in the
evening. She had walked with him
through this wood-path, on his way to
the station. He had lingered a moment
at the stile beyond, to tell her how beau
tiful she looked how the fresh morning
air had brightened the color on her
cheeks.
' Come this evening as far as here to
meet me," he had said, " won't you ?
The path will be a horrid labyrinth with
out you."
"You will surely return?" she had
asked. "If you don't, I shall find
every tree a hobgoblin when I go back
alone."
"ltetnrn, indeed I I shall thiuk of
nothing else. I shall da nothing all day
but pull out my watch to see if it is time
for the train."
Then he caught her hand in a quick
way, thought a moment, bounded over
the stile, and hastened down tho path,
turning often to look back at the pretty
picture she made, listlessly leaning on !
tho stile, with a tinge of re gret m her
face. At a turn where she would soon
be hid from sight ho had dared to wave
her a kiss.
Madge was now waiting according to
appointment, and she had taken care to
oonooct a (host ravishing toilet.
But all her little preparations were
wasted. Lyndhurst Barrington did not
come, Still she wfl:' l. It seemed so
unreasonable, so ', to disappoint
her. PerhapB he only trying to
tease her, had got ut unseen, nud
would surprise her directly by his ap
pearance. A doleful Bough of wind, coming from
the dark rocesses of the wood, a sudden
shutting-dowu of night, made Miss Bar
ron feel something like fear: and she
started nervously to return. As it grew
darker her dread became terror; she
fancied strange noises were about; her
feet scarcely touched the ground; she
skimmed on, fluttering at heart like
some low-flying bird belated from its
nest,
What wonder that she vowed that
night, as she brushed out her hair, never
to forgive Mr. Barrington ? What won
der that a harmless little bunch of violets
which he had gathered for her the day
previous and which she had treasured in
a vase on her dressing-case, she now
found faded, disagreeable and odorless,
and that she tossed them pettishly out
into the darkness from her window ?
"I detest him and his violets," she
cried. "He may stop in town till dooms
day, for aught I care."
Miss Barron did not sleep well and
rose in the morning with a little dull
weight on her feelings, " Perhaps," she
thought, "he will not come even to
day." As she dressed for breakfast he was
constantly in her mind.
" Perhaps ho did it on purpose," she
said. " Perhaps he didn't, but lost tho
train. But he had no business to lope
the train," she added crossly. " Per
haps he was ill ; perhaps some women
had asked him to remain. Well, if so, I
don't care," she said. "He Bhall sec I
am happy enough, and not even piqued,
when he comes."
Still, as the day wore on, Madge found
the ladies of the company provoking and
the gentlemen more uninteresting than
ever. Mechanically, towards evening,
she donned the same toilet as on tho
night previous, and took a circuitous
route 'through the garden, that none
might be cognizant of her movements.
Emerging out of sight, she struck straight
for the wood-path ; and here we-find her
again listening for the roar of the train,
notwithstanding all her angry vows of the
night before.
Beautiful, cross, unreasonable girl !
" I will not go to the stile;" she wan
saying to herself, " and that will be n
disappointment to him."
She was somewhat unsettled, however,
for fear she might be in just the same
predicament as on the previous evening,
and have to return through the gl&nny
wood alone. She had seven-eighths of "a
mind to go straight back, even yet. Bnt
she rcmainded after all. so perverse is
woman.
At last, with a sudden screech, the
engine came steaming along. Miss
Barron began to trace figures on the
ground with her parasol, and put on u
most nnexpectont air, her features sink
ing into a repose and unconcern benign
enough to befit a saint.
She saw Lyudhnrst Barrington de
scend from the train aud come striding
on joyously till he came in sight of the
stile; for, though hidden herself, she
could observe all his movements.
He came on eagerly, looking to the
right and left for her, and almost stum?
bled over Miss Barron.
" Oh, Madge !" he cried, as he threw
himself at her feet, "you did forgive me,
and have come to meet me 1"
"Forgive you, Mr. Barrington?'
Nothing could be more icy cold. "Pray,
what has been your fault ?" She looked,
as she spoke, straight before her, bnt
with an air of surprise which was ex
ceedingly well counterfeited.
He looked up eagerly into her face us
he answered, " Why, i was buttonholed j
to death in town yesterday. It seemed j
as if a conspiracy had been entered into,
and that every fellow I knew had left
his summer haunt to go up to town to
detain me. I transacted bnt half of my
business, and put off Jack Longley with
only a nod on my way to the station. I
suppose he'll never speak to me again.
After all, I was one minute too late. I
saw the train sweeping out of the sta
tion just as I reached it I was in dirt
pair, thinking you would ooine to meet
me."
" I did walk down last evening, but I
can hardly say, sir, that I came to meet
yon. I did not expect you. I thought.
if business or illness kept you, you
might be gone a week, x never thought
of you as hobnobbing with your male
friends and sauntering to the station. " .
" Madge I" and a serious look came
into his face. "Let us drop bickering,
and begin where we left off yesterday."
"Very well," she replied. "I be
lieve the point at which you left off was
whistling, and I was doing nothing in
particular, bo if you will strike off a
stave of anything, I will demurely, but
admiringly, walk by your side."
" Madge !" he exclaimed excitedly.
" I did no such thing." Do men gaze at
statuary or paintings and whistle?
Faith, my last remembrance is of a pret
tier picture than an art-room ever held.
I saw a beautiful woman, looking regret
at my leaving a woman I want for my
wife."
Here was a poser I Proposed to ! It
came like a sweet surprise, nevertheless.
But it was contrary to Miss Barron's
tactics. Were weeks of delightful flirt
ing fc be cut off in a moment in this
fashion? How could he have believed
her in earnest ? It was ridiculous. She
had meant to play tho injured mistress
for several days, and make him abject in
his efforts to reinstate himself with her.
She did not want a climax reached wit))
this man. Her heart had told her that
it would leave a regret which she had
never known before. To avoid this now,
she would begin with raillery.
" Really, Mr. Barrington,'' she Buid,
"you must be hungry or over-tired, to
mako such a statement. A well-spread
table, steaming viands, comfort and a
wife, must have shot through your brain.
I can assure vou a delightful supper now
awaits you '
"Miss Barron," he began, frowning,
without apparent notice of her words,
and rising to his feet, " three weeks ago
I did not know you; but in that time all
my life now seems to have become
crowded. I never slopped to question
your actions. It seemed as if there was
no need of asking for vows, they would
denote a commencement of love. I
wanted it to be as if we had loved for
ever." " Very well," Bhe said, " let it Vie so;
no vows, no commencement. You see
I agree with you perfectly."
" No, I will not have it bo, he cried,
trying to take her baud.
" As you please," she laughed, shrug
ging her shoulders. "I can pick my
way through this bog without help."
"I hope I am not wanting in gentle
behavior, but before I or you stir a step
further," he paid, stepping in front of
her and barring the way, "I want a
simple answer to a simple question
plain 'yes' or 'no.' Do you love me,
Madge?"
" If I cannot say ' yes,' perhaps I can
not say no. ' I "think friendship does
not justify an abrupt no.' I "
"I don't want equivocation," he broke
in. " If you loved, eyes, lips, voice,
acts, all would blend into 'yes.' It
must be ' yes ' or no, ' I say. "
Madge had never met any man so mas
terful. But she answered, nevertheless.
"Then, 'no,' since yon force me to be
unladylike."
"I do not ask yon to be unladylike.
I do not say you are. I asked you for
your love. It was a straightforward
question, I wanted, a straightforward
answer. My arm, Miss Barron."
And thus walkiug, assisting her over
every trifling inequality of grouud, they
went on to the villa.
Miss Barron was exceedingly gay that
evening. Lyndnurst loved her I Of
course, she was not going into any prosy
engagement. She could not hedge her
self in by marriage. But they could
live the delightful life they had lived
this last three weeks always. He had
nothing in particular to do. Why could
he not( when they should return to Lon
don, visit her every day ? She could, she
thought, flirt all the same, when he was
not by ; and his attentions, therefore,
would be just bo much gained. Her
life TvaB not to be altered au iota. She
did not profess to love the man. Ho
must not, hewever, scatter his atten
tions. He must concentrate all his ad
miration on her.
But toward the close of the evening,
when Madge found he hud iiot sought
her once, a shadow of a thought parsed
through her mind that perhaps he was
not a poodle-dog, after all, to be led
about in this way by a string. '
She had Bung, thinking to bring hinv
to her side, but he had lounged away
a thing he had never done befoie
when she was at ' the piano. She' had ,
taken a garden stroll with a rival, Mr.
Oakley, aud Lyndhurst had careless
ly druwn up his outstretched legs, as he
sat lazily ou the veranda steps, to let
them pass down, without other notice of
their presence. He had, she decided,
fairly ill treated her. u lady.aud she would
not tolerate rudeness. She would
teach him what was due to her.
But days passed. A week wore on.
She found no possible chunce to visit
her anger ou him. Ho never joined
her. He was always civil aud well
bred, but that was all. She whs down- ,
right perplexed.
She scarcely ever met Lim, even at
table, much less of an evening. He
went flshiug by sunrise, rode on horse
buck half the day, and at night asked
the gentlemen up to his chamber ; the
ladies, sitting lonely in the parlor, heard
through the open windows, laughter
ring out and gay songs being sung. It
was getting maddening.
One evening Madge curled herself up
on a sofa and looked at the matter
seriously. She must outgeneral him.
But how? She had tried hauteur, and
it had signally failed. Now she would
try a dash of " giving in," even though
it hurt her bo to do. She would plant
herself ou the old footing.
Just then Lyndhurst stepped into the
room, cautiously at first, as if fearing
her presence. She immediately rose to
meet him. He did not start, but looked
her over from head to foot without a
word. She gayly said :
" Don't yon think your highness is
overdoing things a trifle?" Then she
lost control of herself, and showed her
vexation. "Sing to me," she cried,
" walk with me, talk to me, do anything
to obliterate this doeful week."
" Well, Miss Barron," he auswered
coolly, " suppose we talk and walk. I'll
say, under the stars, what I said under
the oaks ; and you shall give me a true
answer."
Sho looked at him a moment, then
fairly blazed. I never saw such per
sistence. Thank Heaven I I go home
to-morrow, where gentlemen know whut
is due to a lady, and take no' for no '
without getting sullen. Good night, Mr.
Barrington: and good-by. If you ever
consent to be less boorish, persistant, I
shall be pleased to see you in town."
He watched her out of the room and
then Fat down to the piano.
Miss Barron's first impulse was to seek
out the party on the lawn ; but, some
how, every face on earth, but one, seem
ed tame. Then she resolved to go into
the library and read; but books were
so wearying.
" I would play," she said pettishly,
"if that pig-headed masculine was not
monopolizing the piano.
Just at this point she burst into tears.
Crying, usually, to Miss Barren, con
sisted of a couple of tears mopped up by
a bit of laco. She had never before
thrown herself down, in such limp shape
and got into such a thorough tempest of
weeping, as now. She was an hour at
it. Gradually she got calmer ; she sat
up, and began to consider what was next
best to do.
She tried to think of going home ait a
pleasure soon at hand. Home I What
had she there ? Only an old aunt, who
dozed in a lace cap, with a cup of choco
late at her elbow half the time. The
memory of the pleasant days spent here
would drive her wild, in that gloomy
house. Then she acknowledged that it
would be terrible anywhere without
without
She jumped to her feet.
" Ho will drive me wild," she said,
"banging in that way on the piano."
" She passed into the hall and looked
into the drawiug-room.where he sat plac
idly playing.
"Poor fellow!" she thought, "how
can I call it obstinacy ; it looks like
misery written all over his features.
And isn't he superb-looking? Why, no
one else has ever approached him; and
he will be mine if I say it."
Suddenlv can vou conmreheud it?
she walked straight into the parlor and
stole up bemud him, put her arms about
his neck and pressed her cheeks against
his.
Not a word was said for some mo
ments; but his fingers fell from the
keys, his arms dropped listlessly at his
sides, his head sunk lower and lower on
his breast, and Madge felt a mist gath
ering in her eyes, a mist of happy tears.
"Come out under the stars," she
whispered. " I want to say 'yes' to
you."
"lam answered, Madge," he said,
drawing one of her hands over his
shoulder and talking with it against his
lips. " Let us not mar this moment of
surprise and joy by a single word."
" Lyndhurst, you are provoking as
ever. "When I would not, I must; now
I will, I shall not. I shall have to prac
tice humility, I see, and study my lord'B
moods. You've played the high hand
long enough, and I insist on saying 'yes'
in my own way. There, now, if you
don't want to speak again in Rn hour I
will rest my face here and dream. "
"I don't think ' you will find me a
tyrant," he said, kissing her. "But com fl
out, Madge, and let's compare our mu
tual miseries during the past week."
He led her through the opeu win
dow, holding back the swaying viues
for her to pass. There, arm and arm, I
under the stars, let us leave them. 1
Buffalo Dull Protecting a Calf. !
The buffalo cow seems to have little J
maternal instinct, differing in this re-1
spect greatly Irora the domestic cow.
When frightened, a buffalo cow will
abandon her calf, and running away,
leave it to bo protected by the bulls, who,
to their honor, seldom forsake their
charge. Au ttriuy surgeon once saw au
admirable illustration of this maternal
care.
One evening, as he was returning
from a- day's hunt, his attention was at
tracted by the curious behavior of six or
eight buffaloes. Approaching them he
aattr tl.uf i 1 1 tl IT W1A fill linllo I1! .
stood in a close circle with their head I
downward. At some twelve or fifteen
paces distant sat, in an ecceutrio circle,
a dozen large gray wolves, licking their
chops, as if impatiently waiting for
supper.
In a few minutes the circle of Lulln
broke up, but keeping iu a compact
body, walked off toward the main herd
half a mile off. To his amazement, the
doctor saw in the centre ol the guardian
bulls a little feeble calf, ne wly-bom, aud
hardly able to walk. After going a hun
dred paces, the calf lay down, and the
bulls again formed a protecting circle
about it. The wolves, who had followed
on each side, Bat down and licked their
chops.
The doctor did not wait to see the
end, it being late and the fort distant;
but he had no doubt the bulls brought
the calf, abandoned by its mother, safely
to the herd.
An African Conveyance,
The British consul at Loanda (Augo
iu) gives un account, iu his report this
year, of the maxilla carriers of that city,
or "the cabmen." as he colls tliem, de
siring, probably, to cherish any reool
lection of home. They differ from the
cabmen, however, in being at no expense
for horses. The maxilla is a sort of
cane-bottomed sofa without legs, is sus
pended from a bamboo pole, has a gayly
painted waterproof top, and is covered
m with curtains of faucy print to keep
out dust and ward off the buu'b rays.
Two men carry the pole on their shoul
ders, and this is ths only means of con
veyance about the town. The tariff
ought to be satisfactory to the hirer.
If engaged by the hour each carrier has
a sum not quite equal to three pence.
Residents generally engage the carriers
by the month at nine shillings, with
three penoe a day ration money. The
fare is established by law, and there are
no squabbling.
CRASHING THROUGH A nitlDtJK.
A KallroMii. Trnln la t'nnnretlrm, llrrnkla
Thrown n Hi itUr-.Wxny Killed ud
Wounded.
'Hie recent railroad accident near
Hartford, Conn., by which over thirteen
persons were killed and fit'ty wouuded,
is described as follows : The special
which left Hartford at nine o'clock p. M.,
li,ad two heavy engines and eleven cars,
containing about six hundred pass
engers. It passed through Tarifl'ville at
ten o'clock, and two minutes luter a
terrific crash was heard in the direction
of the Fariniugtou river. But one ex
planation was probable the train had
gone through the bridge. White-faced
men, hurrying back into the iown a few
minntes later, announced the catastro
phe and aroused the citizens to hasten
to the rescue. "Both engines and four
cars tilled with passengers are in the
river," they cried, "and strong and
willing arms are wanted." The news
was telegraphed to Hartford and Win
sted, with calls for wrecking trainB aud
surgical aid, and the people hastily
dressed and hurried in the piercingly
cold wind to the bridge.
The entire western span was a wreck,
together with fouv passenger cars, the
other seven remaining safe upou the
other span. The leading engine was up
Bide down upon the river bank ; its
companion upon its side, half buried in
shattered beams and twisted iron work.
The baggage car (which had been occu
pied by passengers) was a dismantled
wreck, and having broken through the
ice hud nearly filled with water. Next
to it was the first passenger car, also
Bunk and shattered to pieces, while the
second and third rested their forward
ends against it with bodies tilted to a
sharp angle and the rear ends resting
against the center pier. The remaining
cars, striking against these, had kept
upon the track. The passengers in the
Kecond and third cars had been tossed
rudely together in the lower ends, and,
bruised and jammed by their fellows,
were struggling to gain the open air,
fearing the firing of the cars from lamps
and stoves. Another and a greater
danger presented itself to the occupants
of the first passenger and baggage cars,
which, sinking to the bottom of the
river gradually, let in a flood of icy
water waist deep. Assistance arrived
none too soon. The passengers were
rescued, many uninjured, more badly
braised or cut. From the torn front of
the first passenger car, aud through the
broken roof of the baggnge-car, one
after another whs taken out, many of
them wet through aud suffering intense
ly in the wind, the thermometer being
far below the freezing poiut These
nufoi tunates were wrapped in overcoats
stripped from the shoulders of their
rescuers and carried to the uninjured
cars. The wounded, numbering thirty
or more, were taken to the same com
fortable quarters, drawn upon rude
sleighs devised for the occasion.
Two hours of hard work sufficed for
the saving of all who were living. Theu
search was begun for the dead, report
ed in the. excitement of the moment to
be fifty or more, for it did not seem
possible that many of the ocenpauta of
tne baggage aud hist poi-seugor cars
could have escaped. Yet these upre- j
hensions, happily, were ill-founded, i
The corpses found were placed in a car, )
and the train was thou pushed into the '
village, car by car, by the men at the '
work. Medical attendance was obtained, '
me people or TaritYjiile threw open
their houses to the srnierers, and soon
afterwards relief traius arrived from
Hartford and Winsted with physicians
aud men to help the villagers. After
the badly wounded had received atten
tion, the excursionists resumed their
homeward journey via Hartford, Plain
ville and tiie Cnuul road to its junction
with the Connecticut Western line,
beywnd the broken bridge.
About Bells.
The origin of bells is probably to be
dated from the time when the sonorous
property of metals was first noticed.
"Bells of gold" are meutioned in the
writings of Moses as being attached to
Aarou's robe, in order that " his sound
shall be heard when ho goeth in unto
the holy place before the Lord." Bells
are also mentioned iu Zech. xiv. '20 :
" In that day shall there be upou the
bells of the horses Holiness unto the
Lord ;" and it has been suggested that
even Tubul Cain, the sixth in descent
from Adam, "and instructor of every
artitlcer in brass aud iron," might have
known somethiug of the art of making
them. The Greek warriors are said to
have had small bells concealed within
the hollow of their shields, and when
the captains went their rounds of the
camp at night each soldier was required
to ring his bell in order to show that
he was awake and watchful at his post.
The period when large bells were
first introduced in churches is uncer
tain, but by the seventh century they
were in pretty general use, since the
venerable Bede at that time mentions
them as being' in English churches.
Authorities differ as to who was the
first to thus iutroduce them some
claiming it to have been Paulinus,
Bishop of Nola, in Campania, Italy,
A. D. 400; others, Pope Sabinianus,
A. D. 604. Bells were first known iu
France about the year 550, and pretty
generally introduced in churches in
103(1 The same authority claims that
the first stt of bells (chime) was placed
in Groyland Abbey, Lincolnshire, dur
ing the refgn of Edmund the First,
A. D. 945. It is not definitely known
when bells were first manufactured in
America ; but it is believed tbat a
founder by the name of Hanks was the
pioneer iu this branch of industry, his
fouudiy being located in Conuecticnt.
Items of Interest.
"I'm gettiug fat," as fhe thief
said
when heyas stealing lard.
The oonutry population of. California
is only equal to tho population of San
Francisco.
The mayor of Jackson, Miss., gives
tramps situations on the chain gang
cleaning the streets.
'Twas ever thus from chi'dbood's hour
We've seen our fondent hopes decoy
The fire went out, the batter s aonr
We can't have buckwheat cakes to-day.
The figure of Liberty was first intro
duced on dimes and half dimes in 1836,
but the circle of stars did not appear till
18J18.
. A man in Ohio is having a house hewn
out of solid rock, the material being cut
away so as to leave tho walls, roof and
I fbinr all nt tliA nnn
Captain James B. Eades is the most
successful dentist in the business. He
has received half a million dollars for
clearing the mouth of the Mississippi,
Last year a Chicago dealer failed,
among his assets being 8600 worth of
ice. The marshal kept watch over the
estate till it melted away and then
brought in a bill for $674 fordoing so.
There is Borne foundation for the vam
pire legends after all. Crooks, an Eng
lish engineer, while surveying the Isth
mus of Darien, had his blood Bucked
during sleep by a vampire bat, and died
from the consequent exhaustion.
In a store at Mendota, HI. , a town of
six thousand inhabitants, there met by
accident the other day six men over six
feet four inches high, the average height
being within a hardly 'appreciable fraction
of six feet five and the average weight
pounds.
it is noted that probably the oldest
pettier in California is Peter Storm, who
arrived in the Golden State in '33. He
was the maker of the famous "bear
flag" of Sonoma, when 1864, the citi
zens of that place declared that Califor
nia should bo an independent State.
A man was recently convicted in
southern Germany of murdering one of
a family and attempting to poison four
others. The judgo naturally thought
that such a heinous crime should be
punished with more than usual severity,
and bo sentenced the murderer to death
aud fifteen years' imprisonment.
Mr. Marshall, the first discoverer o
gold iu California, still lives in Coloma,
iu that State. In this place he made his
great discovery thirty years ago, and has
remained there ever since. He made a
fortune in niiniug, but has spent nearly
all of it, and is now a comfortable culti
vator of grapes.
"I'll bet I make him break iu a week,"
said a Troy (N. Y.) youth when a com
panion, urged by his betrothed, took the
pledge at a public temperance meeting.
The effort was successful, and when the
young man came to his senpes ho was
so much mortified that he went upon a
spree which ended with his death iu a
few days.
HKIUTtlt.
J-angbter I 'tis the po:r man's pUttr, -Covering
up each sad disaster,
I.augtiuig, lie f rge's lis troubles.
WU ch, tmiugQ real, seem I ut bullies.
I.Hiijl.ter ! tin a real of nature
Stiuu ed npaa ihe human creatu'e.
1 .might or. wbe her loud or mute,
Tel In the hnmsn kind from brute.
I.aUKLttir 'tU Hoim a I ving voice
Bidding us lo make our choice,
and to oull fr.-iii tluiny bowers,
Leaving th nis aud taking flowers.
Captain L.ingiuere, of the Danish
vessel Lnlterfeld, communicates to a'
Copenhagen paper on interesting ac
count of a novel experience which oc
curred on December 10, 176, while on
a voyage to Valparaiso. Tho vessel was
ut this time iu the neighborhood of
Terra del Fuego, about 140 miles from
Magellan's straits, when early in the
morning it narrowly eseuped collision
with an island where no trace of land
appeared on the charts. The vessel
hove to until daylight, when the cap
proceeded with a boat's crew to the new
island, which had gradually diminished
in size since the first observation.
Around the couictd rocky mass the
water was hissing, and although no
smoke appeared, it was found to bo too
highly beaked to permit of landing. The
sinking continued slowly, until at eight
o'clock fhe island was completely sub
merged, and an hour later the vessel
passed over the spot where it had disap
peared. This volcauio island is proba
bly due to the same causes which have
produced the reoeut severe earthquakes
on the west coast of Souyi America.
Injuriousness of High-Heeled Shoe.
Dr. Carbally says: "In descending
stairs Or deep declivities while wearing
high-heeled shoes, which' throws the
weight of the body upon the front part
of the foot, the extra effort made for the
purpose of retaining the body within
the centre of gravity produces a direct
strain upon these tendons, causing rup
ture or stretching of the annular liga
ment sufficient to allow thera to be dis
placed. It is no wonder, then, that
fashionable women waddle iu a most un
graceful manuer when they attempt to
walk. They destroy their comfort to
follow a ridiculous fashion, and acquire
au ambling and undignified mov aient.
People do things to follow fashion that
their good sense would cause them to be
ashamed of under any other oirmim
stanceB. Ladies weariug Btich fihoes ar
often obliged for safety, to go down
stairs backward; und they can be s
every day descending the, steps of
fashionable rssideuces in this nvv
making pretorioe of talking t
imaginary pep M.'n the front
eiouse to xh' awV .
merits."