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Irish Song.
On Innihfalleu'a fairy Me,
Amid the blooming bushes,
We leant upon the lovers' utile,
And lintenod to tho thrushes ;
Wbcn arot I sighed to nee ber smile,
And pmilod to see bor blindies.
Iter hair wan bright M beaten gold,
Aud soft an spider's spinning,
Her clioek out-bloomod the apple old
That sot our parenta ainning,
And In ber eyes yon might bobold
My Joys and griofa beginning.
In Inulufallon'a fairy grove,
I unshed my happy wooing,
, To listen to the brooding dove
Amid the branchea cooing ;
Hat oh ! how abort thoac hours of love,
How long their bitter racing !
Poor ciiHhat ! thy complaining breant
With woe like mine is heaving.
With theo I mo lrn a fruitless queat ;
For ah ! with art deceiving
The cuckoo-bird liaa robbed my nect
And left n.e wildly grieving.
The tfiiectfitor.
- A Terrible Mistake.
Dora QuiKl wbh the daughter of an
Indinn General who died covered with
famo, and left her alone and literally
friendless in Bombay, where he breathed
Lin last.
Ilis dying words were: "0.home,
my poor girl, to jour Aunt Arling'crd,
at Elmidey, near Loudon, aud stay with
her until joti are married to Walter."
For (Jon. Guild and Col. Gary had
been friends together and comrades in
many a battle, aud had long ago affianced
their motherless children to one another,
the wedding to take place as Boon as
the joung man had attained his ma
jority. 80 here was the orphan girl nearing
the end of hr journey, and gazing
wiirtfully at tie strange and unfamiliar
land of her brth.
There was one clause in her dead
father's will which had recurred to Do
ra's mind with ever present pain, ever
. i n Hi she had first heard it ; and that
was, hhould hhe, upon making the ac
quaintance of Walter Gary, refuse to
marry him, the bulk of'her fortune
should bo passed over to her cousin,
Penelope Arlingford.
That her dear father should think it
neoe; ( ary to coerce her into compliant
had rung from her many a tear. Whollj
unversed in tho strong-minded ways ol
some English maidens, she ha I nevei
dreamed of disobeying him, or of choos
ing a mate for herrelf.
The journey was over at last.
Miss Guild. fouud herself in a quiet
oountry houte, surrounded by the most
' fervent assurances of welcome from hei
ole surviving relatives, who, of course,
knew all about her affairs, and treated
her with tho most del icate consideration
Mr. Arlingford was a bluff and hearty
gentleman farmer; Mrs. Arlingford a
reserved lady, who, however, seemed
kindness itself, while Penelopo, the only
daughter, aud Dora's possible rival for
the fortune, was a gontle-fao. d chestnut
haired girl of twenty, who greeted Dora
by winding her arms around her and
laying her cheek to hers without a word.
- In the oonrxe of the evening of Miss
Guild's arrival, while she was giving her
aunt some account of her voyage from
India," she observed her cousin Penelope
standing out on the lawn, talking earn
estly with a gentleman.
It was a brilliant night in midsummer;
the moon, white and searching as a great
time-light, shone on the pair, and showed
Miss Arlingford'a companion to bo not
only young aud handsome, but also a
lover.
Ilia hand held hers, and his idately
head was often bent in unmistakable
adoration close to her tresses, while she
leaned toward him in all the loving con
fidence of a returned affection.
Very soon they entered the parlor,
and Walter Cary was directly presented
to Miss Guild.
And the lover of Peuelope I
Dismay, consternation, fell upon the
heart of the orphan. There could be no
mistake every look, every action of the
two betrayed it.
She was affianced to a man who loved
another.
The cold touch of his baud on hers,
the distant salutation, as if she were the
merest stranger, proclaimed that he was
resolvod to ignore the contract which
was between them.
Dora shrank into the darkest corner
of the room, and bitter disappointment
filled her soul.
Very soon, however, the conversation
going on around the table arrested her
attention. Wa'ter Gary was telling Mr.
Arlingford and Penelope an account of a
strange murder which had lately oc
curred. "The man," said he, "was rather a
clever chemist, and accomplished his
purpose in a manner Favoring more of
the exploits of the 'Arabian Nights'
epoch than those of our day. lie gt
possession of her journal, and impreg
nated ita leaves with a sort of volatile
poison, which she of course inhaled the
first time she made a record in the book,
the result being a mysterious death
which no one could account for."
The eyea of Penelope Arlingford were
fixed upon the narrator with a pulsating
eagerness which arrested the attention
of the orphan.
"What could it have been?" she al
most whispered.
"Don't believe it," remarked Mr.
Arlingford sententiously.
The lovers were gazing at each other,
and there was a half smile on the feat
ures of each.
Boon after this, Dora, being consid
ered weary after Ler railway journey,
was conducted to her bedohamber by
her cousin, who again embracing her in
a mute, clinging fash: on, hoped she
would re -t well, and left her.
Not one word had been said about her
betrothal to the young man in the par
lor. Her claims had been whollv ig
nored. Her cousin waa likely not only
to rob her of her inheritance, but of her
husband also.
The young girl retired to bed with a
reeling or desolation at her heart which
may be easily imagined, and foil asleep
weeping bitterly for her old. happy In-
dian life, when she was the idol of her
father and a darling of ber ayab.
She woke or rather she struggled
back to consciousness with theBe words
running through her mind " the result
being a mysterious death, whicn no one
coma account lor. '
It was a disagreeable remark to occur
to one in the middle of the night, and it
roused her to a preternatural wakeful
ness.
She began to ponder over the events
of the past evening, when suddenly
something struck her ear which sent all
the blood tingling to her heart.
It was like the trailing of a long tans
liu robe over the thick carpet, which
covered the uoor, and a cautions rust
ling of paper; the one sound following
the other with the slow and regular
monoiony 01 a machine.
The nicrht was at its darkest, and the
head of the bed was in an alcove, so that
a view of the room could not bo had;
but Dora divined with a choking of
me nreatu, tne meaning or the strange
sounds.
Penelope Arlingford was in tho room !
Before she retired Dora had read
a chapter from a large BiWe which lay
on her table.-
She perfectly recollected placing it on
the end of the sofa near the window
when she had finished reading it.
She felt that her rival was on her
knees before that book, impregnating
its leaves with the "volatile poisoa"
w hich Walter Cary had spoken of, and
that as she finished each leaf, and turned
it Mowly over, her long muslin sleeve
swept the edge of the book, making the
stealthy sounds which had aroused her
intended victim.
Dora lay bound hand and foot by a
feeling which almost stopped the beat
in ft of her heart.
Remember, she had crown no amid
scenes of passion and violence; she had
o en among tne helpless ones at Cawn
p re, when the Sepoys massacred the'r
vi tims in cold blood; and death was not
so strange a weapon in the hands of a
young girl, to her, as it would be to us;
nay, it seemea the one weanon bv
which Penelope Arlingford would most
likely strike for love and wealth. '
Motionless, her eyes distended, the
cold dew of agony dripping from every
limb, tho orphan girl lay and listened to
this evidence of treachery.
All at once, a board at the side of the
bed creaked, as though a wary foot was
passing over it, and the long swish of
the garments followed.
Tliea tho door softly burst open as if
without hand, a flow of air from the
pannage rushed across the girl's rigid
lace, and she heard amid the suffocatinc
throbbings in her ears, the first crow of
some neighboring chanticleer.
Her terror ended in a swoon.
When she came to herself it was broad
daylight.
I he golden sunshine was Ivinar across
her pillow, and the perfumes of the red
uoneysuc&ie came in inrougn uie open
window and filled the pretty chamber.
All seemed innocence and peace
around her, but the bouI of the orphan
girl was filled with astonishment.
She could scarcely arrange her
thoughts at first, so terrible was the
ordeal through which she had passed ;
Dut at length sue saw that she must
leave the house immediately ; that she
must relinquish both her affianced and
her fortune, if she would feel her life
safe.
'Oh. papa! my papal" went woor
Dora, ".you have niade a terrible mis
take 1"
When she joined the family, in answer
to the breakfast bell, she was in her
traveling dress, and her trunks were all
repacked.
" Why, cousin Dora, what is the mat
ter ? Are you ill, dear ?" exclaimed
Penelope, in a soft, cooing voice, which
seemed habitual to her.
Dora turned her back on her midnight
yisitor, and striving to speak calmly,
said to Mr. Arlingford : "I wish to go
to London to day, sir. Please allow
some one to drive me to the station."
There was a pause of consternation,
then they all with one accord began to
plead with her to change her mind, and
noneof the three were so urgent and
tender about it as Penelope.
"Just try us, dear cousin !' she en
treated. " Of course you will be lonely
at first everything is so different but
who will make you happier than we can ?
Has anybody offended you, dear Dora ?''
"No," answered Dora, shuddering;
" but I shall prefer living alone."
" You are so young, so ignorant of the
ways of our towns," said quiet Mrs. Ar
lingford, here chiming in anxiously, "it
is a mad thing for you to think of,
child."
" I must go,1' responded the orphan,
averting her pallid face that the dark
misery of it might not be Been.
So, when the persuasions of himself,'
and the pleadings and tears of his wo
men availed not, Mr. Arlingford got
offended, "Let her please herself, Peu
sie. King and order Sam to bring the
carriage round."
Dora swallowed a enp of tea, and
choked down a morsel of bread, aud
then she went back to her room to put
on her hat.
Locking the trunk took but a few moments.
She flnnc hernnlf iinnn a nl,,;. an1
0 - - mjivu M MMM.M. I MUM
wept silently, feeling herself to be the
mum uesoinie ana menaiess being on
me iace ot tne earth.
What should she do in London ?
Go to her father's lawyer, and tell him
she did not wish to marry Walter Gary,
then live alone in such lodgings as the
remnant of her fortune could afford her.
Ah ! it was, indeed, a terrible mistake,
that clause in the will.
Bnt into the midst of her musings
stole a sound which thrilled her once
more with awe.
The swish of a garment, the rustle of
a patter, iust as it aroused her lnatnitrtif.
Dora gazed upon her like one bereft
111 JtniBuu.
.The large old Bible lay quiet enough
Bnd cloned ATlint.ly vliAra aha liol nlawu?
J ' ' . . . 1 WUU
it no living thing wob in the room but
1 i
uerseii.
And then she saw the whole mvst.erv
The window was partly opened, and a
slight puff of wind had blown out the
crisp white curtains in the room ; then
receding had sucked them outward
through the operture, while the impris
oned air, running up the blind, had
caused the tissue-paper hanging at the
top to rustle.
There came another puff--the trail of
the curtain over the carpet, the rustle of
the paper hanging.
Dora sat OSVTAtmt nf Mia winrlrmr !ia-
- o o " " , -
face, in its astounding thankfulness, a
niuuy ior an artist.
At this moment Pene.lone nnmn in
She had been weeping.
"The carriage is ready, dear cousin,"
sighed she tremulously.
Dora Tiassed her hnml rvr hr (nra-
head, then facing her rival, asked, in a
hurried tone, " Were you up last night
any time, Miss Arlingford ?"
prise, " about four o'clock I rose and
closed my window. The wind was
rising."
"Did you hear a cock crow as you
did so?"
"Yes I did. Whv do vnn ftRfc dnr9
Stav ! T knnv vrhv I Vrai vrara fi-itiVifun.
ed by hearing a broad creak beside your
oeu : 1 snouia nave tola you aDout that
board ; how stupid of me."
'I heard a board crenlr " onil llnra
scarcely believing her own ears. '
"Yes, it ought to be fastened down.
It runs the whole breadth of the bonnn
and when I tread on dne end of it in my
room the other end creaks in this. Lis
ten !"
She ran anrona the rsAtuuitra ahnttintr
. I "D
the door after her, and in a moment the
veritaoie creaking commenced, accom
panied by the clicking of the latch of
the door, which hud n rtriflp1 Tlnm
When the young lady returned the ex
pression 01 ner cousin s features was so
mightily altered that she exclaimed :
4 Whv mv AavMner irirl T An f kinlr
wasted to leave us because you thought
the house was haunted."
"Per Terhat8 ves " falter Ad Tlnm
wistfully gazing at her.
" iou poor ntue darling, murmured
Penelope, in a voice of deeD comnas-
sion, and she took Dora s unresisting
A I I
naua in ners. "Why would you not
tell me ? Don't you knov, Dora," and
a smile played on her lips, "that we
ought to love each other very dearly ?
We are both going to marry a Walter
Cary, and be the closest sort of cousins."
" Are there two Walter Cnrvs 9" eiac
ulated Dora.
"What I" cried Penelope, her coun
tenance slowly crimsoning as the situa
tion burst upon her; "did you ima
gine"
She never completed the sentence,
but snatchinc np the noor. tired little
nmhfin in lier hnnnm atraino.l ln
there, and kissed her tearful, smiling
iaco witu muses wnicu were ruuy re
turned. But Dora never revealed the wholA nf
her terrible mistake.
Ar Royal Female Gambler.
Priucess Souwaroff, during a recent
Btay at Suxon les Baines, happened one
evening to have an extraordinary run of
bad luck while gambling. Her neigh
bor, a retired tradesman, sympathized
with her, and begged to be permitted to
place his purse at her diaposal. She
refused at first, but the desire to continue
play was strong enough to overcome all
her scruples, aud she finally aocepted,
borrowing $2,000. The money was punc
tually repaid, and the lender, M. Dela
grange, was delighted to find that the
princcFS had condescended to make use
of him, and that she invariably spoke to
him when he met her in the Casino.
He thought he bad acquired the privi
lege of being considered among the inti
mate friends of the princess, and when
she again asked him for an advance of
92,400 he complied with alacrity. This
sum remained unpaid, and an arrange
ment was made by which the lender was
to call on his fair debtor in Paris at a
stated time. The princeus, on her re
turn, refused to receive as one ef the
habitues of her receptions the retired
tradesman, who, exed at the apparent
slight put irpon him, began to clamor
for his money. He wrote to the Princess
Basilewsky at St. Petersburg, to com
plain of the treatment he had received
from her daughter, and receiving no
reply, began an actton against Princess
Souwaroff, who has been ordered to pay
at once under pain of seizure.
There is no doubt that walking is a
healthy exercise no doubt, except in
the mind of the boy who is sent on an
eira'nd. lie believes in sitting on the
fence.
The oldest living man in the world is
near Bogota, South America, aud he
claims to be 180 years of age.
FARM, GARDEN ASD HOUSEHOLD.
Afedlral Hint.
REFRESHING) DeTNKSTV Vvvv-aa Ttr.il
one and a half ounces of tamarinds with
two ounces stoned raisins and three
ouuees cranberries, all in three pints of
water until two ninta
and add a small piece of fresh lemon
peei, wnicn snouia be removed in thirty
minutes.
Oatmeat, Muhh. This simple dish is
extremely palatable for breakfast.
with cream and w.'ll salted. It is very
easy of digestion and is remarkably nu
tritious. It is also considered the best
possible food for dyspeptics and young
children, making but slight demands
upon tne aigestive organs.
To Keep the Feet Wabm. Previous
to retiring at night, and before undress
ing, remove the stockings and rub the
feet and ankles briskly with the hands.
During the day wear two pairs of stock
ings composed of different fabrics, one
pair of silk or cotton, the other of wool,
and the natural heat of the feet will be
preserved, if the feet are kept clean and
the friction of the same is not omitted at
night.
For the Teeth. The following is an
excellent wash for the teeth : Dissolve
two ounces of borax m three pounds of
boiling water, and, before it is cold,
add one tablespoonful of spirits of cam
phor and bottle for use. A tablespoon
ful of this, mixed with an equal quantity
of water and applied daily with a soft
brush, will preserve the teeth, extirpate
all tarttarous adhesion, arrest decay and
make the teeth pearly white.
Meat for Invalids. The following
method of rendering raw meat palatable
to invalids is given in the Industrie
Blaetter : To 8.7 ounces of raw meat
from the loin add 2. 6 ounces of shelled
sweet almonds, .17 ounce of shelled bit
ter almonds and 2,8 ounces of white
sugar these to be beaten together
in a marble irortar to a uniform
pulp, and the fibres separated by a
strainer. The pulp, which has a rosy
hue and very agreeable taste, does not
at all remind one of meat, and may be
kept fresh for a considerable time, even
in summer, in a dry, cool place. The
yoiK or an egg may be added to it.
From this pulp, or directly from the
above substances, an emulsion may be
preparea wnicn wiu oe rendered still
more nutritious by adding milk.
Household Hint..
TtATSTNR. TtaisinM am rnndArArl nm'to
digestible if boiled or Bteamed before
using them in cakes or pies.
An Idea for Mothers. Baste a
piece of needlework on the bottom of
children's cloaks; this takes the place of
a white dress in the street, and, is far
more easy to do up.
To Destroy Cockroaches Where
borax and insect-powder have failed to
exterminate cockroaches, sprinkle the
floor with powdered white hellebore;
they will eat it and be poisoned by it.
To Clean Bottles. Cut a new po
tato into small pieces and put them in
the bottle, along with a tablespoonful
of salt and two tablespoonfuls of water.
Shake all well together in the bottle till
every mark is removed, and rinse with
clean water. This will remove green
marks of vegetation and other discolora
tion?. Hard crust in bottles may be
cleaned off by rinsing with water and
small shot.
Cleansing Fluid. For washing al
paca, camel's hair, and other woolen
goods, and for removing marks on furni
ture, carpets, rugs, etc: Fpur ounces
ammonia, four ounces white Castile
soap, two ounces alcohol, two ounces
glycerine, two ounces ether. Cut the
soap flue, dissolve in one quart of water
over the tire, and add four quarts water.
When nearly cold, add the other ingre
dients. This will make nearly eight
quarts, and will cost about seventy-five
cents. It must be put in a bottle and
stoppered tight. It will keep good any
length of time. To wash dress-goods,
take a pail of lukewarm water, and put
in a teacupful of the fluid, shake around
well in this, and then rinse in plenty of
clean water, and iron on wrong side
while damp. For washing grease from
coat-collars, etc, take. a little of the
fluid in a cup of water, apply a clean
rag, and wipe well with a second rag.
It will make everything woolen look
bright and fresh,
OnioBn for Poultry
A writer whose poultry were infested
with vermin thus details the successful
use of onions as a remedy : I began at
once by chopping the onions line, and
mixing with corn meal and hot water.
After standing a short time it was fed to
the poultry, and in less than three weeks
the little pests had entirely disappeared.
I used to take onion tops and cut them
up fine and mix with the meal, wetting
it with sour milk, or clabber (when I
had it), to feed to the chickens one or
two days in a week, until they were
large enough to eat grain or small corn.
I never lost a chicken with the gapes
during the five years I was there. My
neighbors would say that because I was
in a new place was why I had such good
luck in raising chickens. I told them
about feeding the onions, and they found
them very good. I told them I should
lose many of my early chickens, just as
they did, if I followed their example, in
giving twenty-two chickens to one hen
the first of April. There would be a
half dozen or more little chicks on the
outside f the hen that her feathers
could nt cover, in a cold frosty morn
ing. Three feeding a wek in the
spring and a part of the summer is suffi
cient. I seldom feed the onions in the
fall or winter. My neighbors have the
same good reuulta iu feeding onionc.
Fashion Notes.
Lawn ties are embroidered profusely
wiin vanegateu biik.
" Mother Goose " is the new style of
Silk sun shades bearing the owner's
monogram are a novelty.
Queen Anne and Japanese styles of
iuiniture predominate.
Fashion's demand for jet still con
tinues, and it will be worn more than
claire de lune.
Swiss neckties, with the end braii'ed
in colored silk, will be worn with sum
mer dresses.
Burlap mats are made with successive
Bquare bands of colored merino, cat
stitched down with colored floss silk.
For watering-places are dressy cos
tumes of damask silk of light quality
combined with plain silk often of con
trasting color.
Unique scarf pins in Japanese designs
are shown ; one composed of two small
canes with fan of cloisonne enamel at
tached.
Satin will be much used for trimming
summer drosses. Some of the new gren-
aaines are trimmed entirely with black
satin.
The new colored embroideries are
used for trimming children's white
dreases. Those with scallops of blue or
cardinal red are prettiest.
The little Marseilles ' coats are made
with carrick capes and the. cloth coats
finished with little vests like the gar
men of grown folks.
For evening dresses garlands are made
in all styles, and, as the combinations
are such that a diversity is allowable,
all tastes are easily satisfied.
The prettiest sacques with carrick
capes, omit the middle seam in the
back, and none of these English gar
ments have long seams from the shoul
ders.
For costumes to be worn in the morn
ing very thick linen that is at the same
time light and fine is used, and trimmed
with frills embroidered in hiprh colors.
especially in red or blue with black.
The Scotch and Madras gingham
dresses are charmingly cool and fresh
looking. The bars and stripes are of
two or three colors on a white ground.
and the new combination of colors are
adopted.
Large collars and cuffs of white lace
are sewed on the dark silk dresses that
will be used for summer, and the neck
and wrists of the dress are finished with
a row of loops of narrow ribbon the
color of the dress.
Very few dressy wraps are made in
sacque shape. There are, however,
some of heavily repped silks or of
Sicilienne make in the simplest French
sacque shape, single-breasted, medium
long, and smooth over the tournure.
. A Jeweler's Joke.
Mr. Smiley, the undertaker, got it
into his head the other day, that his eye
sight was not what it used to be, and
that a pair of spectacles would be bene
ficial to him as well as to make him lock
more venerable. So he proceeded to
Mr. Karat's jewelry store, in the next
block, to purchase the desired article.
The obliging Mr. K displayed his
whole stock of spectacles for his cus
tomer's inspection. Mr. Smiley would
try on a pair, elevate his head, then
lower it, then look over the tops of them,
meanwhile holding a newspaper before
him.
One pair was for younger eyes (so he
said); another pair was for older eyes,
and bo on until he had tried on all of
Mr. Karat's spectacles. Not one pair
could he find that was suited to his
sight
Now the patient Mr. Karat was at
times fond of a joke, and informed Mr.
Smiley that he had a pair that he used
himself sometimes, and he might try
them on, and perhaps they would suit
him. Mr. Karat took from the drawer
a pair minus the glasses, and after
carefully wiping them inside and out,
adjusted them over Mr. Smiley's pro
boscis. After going through the usual per
formance with his head, Mr. Smiley
said : .
" Why, they eeoni better. I can see
as well with them as I could without I
them twenty years ago. I'll tike these.
They just suit my eyes. "
A New Railroad Pass.
A new style of railroad pass has just
been patented by a railroad man which
is somethiug of a novelty. The idea is
to provide a pass which can be used by
none save the person to whom it is
issued, and the pass seems to meet the
requirement. Around the pass proper
is a margin, with a description which,
by the use of a punch, may bo made to
fit anybody. After the word " nge "
appear a series of figures out of which
the person issuing the pass punches tho
figures corresponding with the age of
the one to whom the pas is issned.
Then after the head " shape " follow the
words "slim," "medium," "stout,"
"corpulent." After "color of hair'
come the designations " black,
"brown," "gray," "light," "auburn."
Af ter ." color ol eyeB," come "black,"
" brown," "gray,"' "blue," "hazel;" and
after "beard" the terms " none," "full,"
" side," " chin," " moustache." Thus,
supposing the man to whom the pass is
issued be a dark, slim man, with black
eyea and beard a la Napoleon, the issuer
of the pass would punch the word
" slim " under " shape," " black " under
" eyes " and " hair," " moustacho " and
"chin" i nder "beard." The pass
could then be transferred only to a man
chancing to answer just the above de
scription. This idea is certainly a novel
one.
Items of Interest.
"A want of the age" Hair.
Matters of interest Coupon?.
"Beautiful He of the Sea" wha'e-oil.
"Tirao out of mini" is the olrfett
lunatic on record.
A fashion writer says : Patched trou
sers will be muchworu this season.
There is no necessary connection be
tween a serial tale and a monkey's tail,
simply because both are continued.
Cats can't live at a greater elevation
than 13,000 feet above the level of the
sea; but they thrive splendidly on a
ridge-pole.
The New Orleans Picayune sayt:
" Love cannot live on bon-bons."
"No," says the Boston savant, "but
love can live on beans. "
The entire alphabet is found in these
four lines:
God giveB tho grazing ox his meal,
He quickly hear the sheep's low cry;
Dut man who tactes his thiest wheat,
Shoald joy to lift Lis prajRes high.
Even the life of a paragrapher has its
bright spots. Pittsburrh Dispatch.
And well it is for him, when they do
not concentrate upon his nose. Detroit
Free Press.
The horse will eat ten hours out of
every twelve ; and the hog never knows
what it is not to be hungry. The crew
flies six miles, and the wild pigeon sixty
au hour, but the humming bird beats
all things on the wing. The wild turkey
can run faster than he can fly, and any
man who is a good walker can tire a deer
out in twenty-four hours. The fox is
the hardest animal to catch in a trap.
and a muskrat the easiest, and the
meadow lark is the shyest of all the
birds in the air. The spider is the only
creature that catches its food in a trap,
and a sheep will live without water
longer than any other domestic animal.
We have in Hart County. Kv.. a man !
by the name of William Bowman, who
was thrown away in the Appalachee
Mountains, North Carolina, when an
infant, and was found by an old bear and
adopted as a cub. At the age of about
ten years he was captured, tied hand to
foot, and then his captors found that he
could not talk, nor could he be persuaded -
to take any rood but milk, which he
sucked from a bottle.howing that he
had lived solely by the nursing of the
bear. Bowman is now a farmer near
Omega, and any one doubting the truth
of this statement can have it verified by
seeing him. Hart County Three
Springs.
house-cleaning.
The houiekeeper giveth a oheerful hop,
na wo near tne iuuaioai nippertynop
Of the mois'y, misty, maddening mop.
And lo, the maddening horrors runh
Athwart our goals at the soapy guxh
Of the slippery, slimy soruuhiog-hrush.
From ear'y morn till evening gloom
We hear the scratching in hall and room
Of the boisterous, huuily bobbing broom.
And now there eometh a woesome wail
That angurs a gon'rally gusty gale
From a man with his leg in the scrubbing-pall.
Curious Habits of a Curious Bird. (
A naturalist CM. Velainl accompany
ing the French expedition to the islands
of St. Paul and Amsterdam, in 1874, for
tho purpose of observing the transit of
Venus, has lately published an account
of the fauna and flora of these islands.
In the description of the birds that were
met with, the penguin has a large space
by reason of its very curious and always
entertaining' habits. The penguins be
gin to liy in the month of September,
and countleFS numbers annually assem
ble upon the islands of St. Paul and
Amsterdam at the time of breeding. M.
Velaiu observed the birds at their nest
ing stations with the deepest interest,
and came to the conclusion that, instead
of being the stupid animal they are pop
ularly considered, they are really gifted
with uncommon powers. A synopsis of
31. Velam s account, which is given in
Nature, says:
"At the time or the arrival or the ex
pedition (October), the birds were pre
paring to hatch. Each pair kept en
tirely to themselves. Each nest ha I
two eggs largo, nearly round, of u
dirty white color, but marked here ami
there with a few russet spots, lio! :
birds partook of the cares attendant c.
the incubation and took turn about c
the nest. The bird off duty would ur
once make for the sea, faithfully return
ing at the appointed time, and never
failing to waddle direct to its own nest,
though no human being could see a
difference between the thousands that
were strewn about. Sometimes the
whole camp of birds would have to bo
traversed ere the nest sought for would
be gained, and a bird trying to make a
short cut would be sure to be attacked
by those whom it disturbed, for they
are not at all tolerant of one another;
and in this they also prove that tbfcr are
not Btupid, for surely neither suipia
people nor stupid birds ever quarrel.
On M. Velain arriving in their midst,
they would one and all set up an im
mense and beyond-all-measure stunning
cry, soon they would calm down and
seem not to mind' his presence. Tlf
incubation lasted for five weeks. Tht
little ones made their appearance cov
ered all over with a fine, close down,
and looked like balls of line, gray-col
ored wool. They soon got tired of th
comforts of their nests, and began to as
semble, together with their little broth
era and bibters of the sme colony, ks
large infant schools, which are preskl. i
over by some of the sedate old biril -.
Many times a day, at stated intervj'
they are fed; tho other portions t!
spend in sleepiug and talking and h
tie fighting. Space will not jx i i
to refer to many curious detail
their swimming lessons. "-'Jribune.