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If some Und power, when our youth in ended, And lifo'a first fieshncHs lent iu languid 1 noon, Should stay awhile tlo doom by Fate intended, And grant tw generously one precious boon Baling, ".With thwarting, bitterness and trial N Your tollHome days thua fir have ben op pressed ; Choose now aome blessing, fearing to denial. To light, and charm, andboantlfytharcsl" Whak should wo ask ? the prize of young ambition? Fame, power, wealth, and gifta of priceless COHt? Ah, no-r soul would utter the petition : "Give us oh, only. give us back our lost !" No Ykiloned bliss, no pleasure new and splen did, No lofty Joy by longing never crossed, No " now delight undreamed of, heaven- descended, Only onr ownthe treasures we have loat I For, wearied out with strife, and glare and clamor, Orowu wiser with our yearn, and clearer eyed, v No more beguiled by dreams, nor charmed by glamor, Wo dread the new, ud prize the known, the iriuu. Ah, what a c:o wd of joya would gather round . ua, Could we but have our vanished back avail The heart utspoiled,' the strength and hope . which crowned ua, . The bounteous life, the ignorance c.f pain The iunoconoe, the ready faith in othtrs . The e.reet spontaneous earnestness and truth, The trust of friends, the tender eyea of s mouiora, . . And all the rich inheritance of youth . The plana f r noble Uvea, that earth thereafter Might be mure pure ; the touch of lore's warm lij) Aud savng hand; Uie sound of ohildinh . ' , laughter, .The pence of Lome, tl Joy of comradeship--, We had them all j and now that they have It ft ni, . i : . j We wunt thorn carefully, and aee their worth, A .id feel that t ine and fortune have bereft tin Of all the bint and dearest thlnge on earth. Ah, tcb! when on our 'heaits Uie year are pressing; : ' A id all uur flower-plats are touched wiib front, . Wa aU no more aome new unlaated blessing Uat only sigh, " Oh, give os back our lost Moro Than Her Match. Loft shafts of moonlight were shoot ing down through what seemed an almost i unn'iHtrabla wo4 and quivering ou tile green tnosort. A faint wind dallied with the foliage. Wild fl )veva flecked the ground. Hare, iu thia sylvan, retreat pat Mis Barron, au.l she was very ranch out of humor, for every now e.nd theu she drove the point "of her parasol into the uu offen.yng mosses. She looked and was . downright disgusted with everything and everybody. The belle of three aoasous, during whioh she had escaped heart-whole, she was now " caught" and all because of a three weeks' sojourn at a country villa. Madge had never been off her guard before. Hitherto he had visited fashiouable wateriug places; but this vear she had oome to a quieter place, and had met Lindhurst BarringtorTjs She did not yet know, howef f,-aiie was in thralldom. ( S!ie only knew she was cross and .lonesome; and so she sat punching the little blossoms aud pontiug. She thought Barriugton exooediugly companionable, and that the other four gentlemen stop ping at the villa were little better thau wooden men. A for downright, earnest love, why her intentions for tiiree years had been never to venture her heart at sea, but only to glide about the shore, flirting, pufe to dinembark any time. Yet she was now thinking of Lindhurst Barringtou in a way many would have termed love. But she would not admit this to herself. ,IIe was a delightful summer friend, that was all, she said. She liked summer, and flowers, and birds, and hazy atmospheres, and a quiet flirtation; but when these went, the cornjug season brought new enjoy ments aud fresh flirtations, and Barring ton could go with them. 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 I lie 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. lie had lingered a moment at the stile beyond, to tell her how beau- Ll - i i i a iiiui sne loojtea now me iresn morntng i l 1 iu. l i 1W cheeks. " Oome 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 noogooiin wnen i go DacK alone." "Iteturn, indeed I I shall think 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 eaniht her hand in a ouick 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 the stile, with a tinge of regret in hor face. At a turn where she would soon be hid froii sight he had dared to wave her a kiss. Madge was now waiting according to appointment, and she had taken care to oonooct a most ravishing toilet. But all her little preparations were wasted. Lvndhurst Barringtou did not come, Still she waited. It seemed so unreasonable, so cruel, to disappoint her. Terhaps he was only trying to tease her, uad got out nnseen. and would surprise her directly by his ap pearance. A doleful sough of wind, coming from the dark recesses of the wood, a sudden shutting-down 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. Barring ton ? 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, end that she tossed them pettishly out into the darkness from her window ? " I detest him and his violets," she cried. "lie may Btop in town till dooms day, for aught I care." Miss Barron did not Bleep well acd 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 he did it on purpose,'.' she said. " Perhaps he didn't, but lost tho train. But he had no business to Ioph 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 comeB. " '. . 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 bight, 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 1 " I will not go to the stile";" she wan saying to herself, " aud 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&niy wood alone. She had seven-eighths of a mind to go straight back, even yet. Bnt she remaiuded after all, so perverse is woman. At last, with a sudden screech, the engine came steaming along. Jhihs Barron began to trace figures on the ground with her parasol, and put on a most nnexpectont air, her features siuk iug into a repose and nuconcern beuiga enough to befit a saint. She saw Lyndhurst Barringtou de scend from the train and come striding on joyously till he came iu eight of tho 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. " Oli; Madge !" he cried, as he threw himself at her feet, "you did forgive me, and have come to meet me 1" "Forgive you, Mr.. Barringtou ?' Nothing could be more icy cold. 'Pray, what has been youi fault ?" She looked, as she spoke, straight before her, but with an air of surprise which was ex ceedingly well counterfeited. He looked up eagerly into her face uh he answered, " Why, 1 was buttonholed to death in town yesterday. It seemed 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 but half of my business, and j?ut off .ok Longley with only a nod on my wa m the station. I suppose he'll never speak to me ogam. 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 iu din pair, thinking you would oome to meet me." " I did walk down last evening, but I can hardly say, sir, that I came to meet you. I did not expect you. I thought, if business or illness kept you, you might be gone a week. I never thought of you as hobnobbing with your male friends and sauntering to the station. " . " Madge 1" 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 whioh you loft 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 J Proposed to 1 It came bke a sweet surprise, neverthelebs. But it was contrary to Miss Barron's tactics. Were weeks of delightful flirt ing to bo cut off in a moment in this fashion ? How could he have believed her in earnest ? It was ridiculous. She had meant to play the injured mistress for several days, and make him abject in his efforts to reinstate himself with her. She did not want a climax reached with 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. Barringtou' she said, " you must be hungry or over-tired, to make such a statement. A well-spread table, steaming viands, " comfort and a wife, must have shot through your brain. I can assure you a delightful supper now awaits yon" ..- . . s "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 stopped to question your actions. It seemed an 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," she said,." let it be so; no vows, no commencement. You see I agree with you perfectly." "No, I will not have it so, he cried, trying to take her hand. " 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 said, stepping in front of her and barring the way, "I want a Bimple answer to a simple question plain 'yes' or no.' Do you love me, Madge?" " If I caunot say yes,' perhaps I can not say 4 no.' I think friendship does not justify an abrupt ' no.' I " "I don't wantequivocation," he broke iu. " 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, neverthelens, " Then, no,' since yon force me to be unladylike." "I do not ask yon to be unladylike. I do not say you are.t . I asked you for your love. It was a straightforward question, I wanted a straightforward answer. My arm, Miss Barron." . , And tints walkiug, assisting her over every trifling inequality of ground, they went ou to the villa. Miss Barron was exceedingly gay that evening. Lyndhurst 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 oonld he notf 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 bo just so much gained. Her life was not to be altered au iota. She did not profess to love the man. Ho must not, hewever, scatter his atteu- j tions. He must concentrate all his ad- j miration on her. ' I . . ... . . i ; lint toward the cioso of the evenm g, when Madge found he hud note sought her once, a shadow of a thought paFsed through her mind that perhaps he was not a poodle-dog, after all, to be led about in this way by a Btrlng. ' ! She had sung, thinking to bring him to her side, but he had lounged away thinff he had cover ' done . before- wheu she was at" the piano: She" hadl taken a garden stroll with a rival, Mr. Oakley, aud Lyndhurst liad careless ly drawn 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 fclecided, fairly ill treated her. a lady.nud 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 chance to visit her anger on him. He never joined her. " He was always civil and well bred, but that was all. She was down right perplexed. She scarcely ever met him, even at table, much less of an. evening. , ne went flshiug by sunrise, rode ou horse back 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 on the old footing. J ust 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 you 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 answered 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." She 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 what is due to a lady, and take no' for ' no ' without getting sullen. Good night, Mr. Burmifton: and good-by. If you ever consent to be less boorish, persistent, I shall be pleased to Bee 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 oue, 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. Jttst 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 lace. 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 honr 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 a 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 piauo." " 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 Bay it." Suddenly can you comprehend it? she walked straight into the parlor and stole up behiud him, put her arms about his neck aud pressed her cheeks against his. Not a word was said for some mo menta; 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, 't want to say yes' to you." "I am 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's moods. You've played the high hand long enough, and I insist on saying yes' iu my own way. There, now, if you don't want to speak agaiu iu an hour I will rest my face here and dream. " "I don't think 'you will find me a tyrant," he said, kissing her. "But coma out, Madge, and let's compare our mu tual miseries during the past week." He led her through the open win dow, holding back the swaying viues for her to pass. There, arm and arm, under the stars, let ns leave them. Buffalo Bulls Protecting a Calf. The buffalo cow seems to have little maternal instinct, differing iu this re spect greatly from the domestic cow. When frightened, a buffalo cow will abandon her calf, and running away, leave it to bo protected by the bulla, who, to thfir honor, seldom forsake their charge. Au army 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 tight buffaloes. Approaching them he saw yiat they were all bulls. They stood in a close circle with their head downward. At some twelve or fifteen paces distant sat, in an eccentric circle, a dozen large gray wolves, licking their chops, as if impatiently waiting for supper. In a few minutes the circle of bulls broke up, but keeping in 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, newly-born, aud hardly able to walk. After going a hun dred paces, the calf lay down, and the bulls agaiu formed a protecting circle about it The wolves, who had followed on each side, sat 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 oousul at Loandu (Augo lia) gives an account, iu his report this year, of the maxilla carriers of that city, or "the cabmen." as he calls them, de siring, probably, to cherish any recol 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 in 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 tha only means of con veyance about the town. The tariff ought to be Batisfactory 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 uo squabbliugs. CRAS1IINW THROUGH 1 BlllDUK. A Kallraixt. Trnla In t'onncrtlrnt, HrtnUloa ThrHMl a HrUae-.Many Hlilra aad Waandrd. The reefnt railroad accident near Hartford, Conn., by which over thirteen ei sous were killed and fifty wonuded, is described as follows : The special which left Hartford at nine o'clock p. m., lvad two heavy engines and eleven cars, containing about six htmdred pass engers. It pasaed through TariflVille at ten o'clock, and two minutes later a terrific crash was heard iu the direction of the Farmiugton river. But one ex planatiou was probable the train had gone through the bridge. White-faced men, hurrying back into the-town a few minutes later, announced the catastro phe aud aroused the citizens to hasten to the rescue. "Both engines and four cars filled 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 trains aud surgical aid, and the people hastily dressed aud hurried in the piercingly 1 com wmu to the bridge. The entire western span was a wreck, together with four passenger cars, the other seven remaining safe upon the other span. The leading engine was up side dowu 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 had nearly filled with water. Next to it was the first passenger car, also sunk 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, strikiug against these, had kept upon the track. The passengers in the second and third cars had been tossed rudely together in the lower ends," and, bruised and jammed by their fellows, were struggliug to gaiu 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, sulking 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 bruised or cut. From the torn front of the first passenger car. aud throuarh the broken roof of the baggage-car, one after another was taken out, many of them wet through aud suffering in tense ly in the wind, the thermometer being far below the freezing poiut These nufortunates were wrapped in overcoats stripped from the shoulders of their rescuers and carried to the uninjured ears. The wounded, numbering thirty or more, were taken to the same com fortable quarters, drawn npou rude sleighs devised for the occasion. Two hours of hard work sufficed for the saving of all who were living. Then search was begun for the dead, report ed in the excitement of the moment to be fifty or more, for it did not seem j possible that many of the occupants of j the baggage and first pwseugor cars could have escaped. Yet these iqfu-e- j hensions, happily, were ill-founded, i The corpses found were placed in a car, and the trail, was thon pushed into the j village, cur by our, by the men at the work. Medioul attendance was obtained, 1 uie peopie oi xaritrTme threw open their houses to the sT&'erera, and soon afterwards relief traius arrived from Hartford and Wiusted with physicians and men to help the villagers. After the badly wounded had received atten tion, Uie excursionists resumed their homeward journey via Hartford, Plain ville and the Cauul road to its junction with the Connecticut Western line, beyiid the broken bridge. About Bells. The origin of bells is probably to ba dated from the time when the sonorous property of metals was first noticed. "Bells of gold" are mentioned in the writings of Moses as beiug 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 alwo 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 Tubal Cain, the sixth in descent from Adam, "and instructor of every artiucer in brass and iron," might have known soraethiug 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, Bince the venerable Bede at that time mentions them as being' in English churches. Authorities differ as to who was the first to thus introduce them some claiming it to have been Paulinus, Bishop of Nola, iu Campania, Italy, A. D. 400; others, Pope Sabinianus, A. D. 604. Bells were first known in France about the year 550, and pretty generally introduced iu churches A 1030. The same authority claims i the first stt of bells (chime) waa p in Groyland Abbey, Lincolnshire, ing the reign of Edmund the FirJ, A. D. 945. It is not definitely known when bells were first manufactured in America ; but it is believed that a founder by the name of Hanks was the pioneer in this branch of industry, his fonuJiy beiug located in Connecticut. Item of Interest. " I'm getting fat," as the thief said when hwS as stealing lard. The country population of. California is only equal to tho populotion of San Frsncisco. The mayor of Jackson, Miss., given tramps situations on the chain gnug cleaning the streets. Twan ever thus from chi'dhood'o hour We've aeen onr f indent hopes decay The fire went ont, the batter h sour Wa can't have bnokwheat 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 appr till 1888. A man in Ohio is having a house hewn out of solid rock, the material being cut awny so as to leave the walls, roof and floor all of the one piece. Captain James B. Eades is the most successful dentist in the business. He has received half a million dollars tor clearing the mouth of the Mississippi. Last year a Chicago dealer failed, among his assets being $600 worth of ice. The marshal kept watch over the estate till it melted away and then brought in a bill for $674 for doing so. There is some foundation for the varo lii re legends after all. Crooks, an Eng lish engineer, while surveying the Isth mus of Darien, had his blood sucked during sleep by a vampire bat, and died from the consequent exhaustion. In a store atMendota, HI., a town of six thousand inhabitants, there met by accident the other day six men over six feet four inches high, the average height being within a hardly 'appreciable fraction of six feet five and the average weight 235$ pounds. It is noted that probably the oldest settler in California is Peter Storm, who arrived in Uie Golden State in '33. He was the maker of the famous "bear flag" of Sonoma, when 1864, Uie citi zens of that place declared that Califor nia should be an independent State. A niau was recently convicted in southern Germany of murdering one of a family and attempting to poison four others, The judge naturally thought, that such a heinous crime should be pnnished with more than usual severity, and bo sentenced the murderer to : death and fifteen years' imprisoumeut. , in, lUBrsuau, wa uiou uinixorier vtr gold in California, still lives iu Coloma, i . . . l . i ti i . i . t ii. - i l - i t : ' nr.. i...n ii. - n.-. L l: . i . hl.ul' i 1. V-, 111 '.uv inilv ...re great discovery thirty years ago, and has vmciirt a iliaia nvo Qitwa TTa Tnoild a fortune in miniug, but has spent nearly ' all of it, and is now a comfortable culti vator of grapes. , "Ill 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 wheu the youug man came to. his senses ho was so much mortified that he went upon a cuiia nrliiiili mritli ltin iloatli ill U . few days. uroiiTtR. Laughter ! 'tis the po aaan's plauttr, . ('oveiing up each sad diitaater. lAug)iuig, lie f rga's Lis troubles. Wli ch, tnongh real, seem t ttt bubbles. . ; l.tiu Lter ! Uh a teal of nature stamped apoa the human creature. Laughter, whe her loud or mute, Tell the hnmn kind from brute. ' I-annLter 'tit Ho)) I ving voice . ' ' ' llidiUug uh to make oar choice, And to oall fr.m tiurny bowers, Leaving tb m aud taking flowers. Captain L.inginert, of the Danish vessel Lulterfeld, communicates to a ' Copenhagen paper on interesting ac count of a novel experience which oc curred ou December 10, 1876, while on u voyage to Valparaiso. Tho vessel was at this time iu the neighborhood of Terra del Fuego, about 140 miles from Magellan's straits, wheu early in the morning it narrowly escaped 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 conical rocky mass the water was hissing, and although no smoke appeared, it was fouud to be too highly heated to permit of lauding. The sinking continued slowly, until at eight o'clock fhe island was completely sub merged, and an hour later the vessel passed over the siHt where it had disap peared. This volcanic island is proba bly due to the same causes which have produced the recent severe earthquakes 'u i. v nvn wmdv va, aitia au-- InjuriouHness of High-Heeled Shoes. Dr. .Carbally says: "In descending stairs or deep declivities while wearing high-heeled shoeH, which' throws Uie weight of the body upon the front part of Uie 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 them to be dis placed. It is no wonder, then, that fashionable women waddle in a most un graceful manner when they attempt to walk. They destroy their comfort to follow a ridiculous fashion, and acquire au ambling and undignified movement. People do things to follow fashion that their good sense would cause them to be anlianiA.! rt i,n,l,.r anv other oiroum- stances. Ladies wearing such Bhoes ar Olien ODligeu ior aaieiy, y gu uuv stairs backward; and they can be h everv day descending thti steps of fashionable rasideuces iu this r making pretoxioe of taJking ' imaginary persoD-n the froi ! excuse to W:' '! "
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