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Irish Song.
On Inntsf alien's fairy isle,
Amid the blooming bushes,
We leant upon the lovers' stile,
And lintened to the thrushes ;
When Brut I niched to nee her smile,
And phi Hod to nee hor bhiNbei.
Ilor hair was bright as beaten gold,
Aud oft a spider's spinning,
llrr cheuk oit-bloomod the apple old
That lot onr parents tinning,
And In hor eyes yon might bohold
My Joys and griofii beginning.
In Innlsfallon'i fairy grove,
I hushed my happy wooing,
, To listen to the brooding dove
Amid the branches cooing ;
Bat oh I how nbort those hours of love,
How long their bitter meing t
Toor cunhat ! thy complaining breant
With woe like mine is heaving.
With thee I mo irn a fruitless quest
For ah ! with ait deceiving
The ouckoo-bird has robbed my nect
And left n,e wildly grieving.
The 8iclit:
A Terrible Mistake.
Dora QuilJ was the daughter of an
Indian Ooneral who died covered with
fame, and left her alone and literally
friendless in Bombay, where he breathed
bin last.
His dying words were : " G, home,
my poor girl, to your Aunt ArJingfcrd,
at Elmsley, near London, and stay with
her until jou are married to Walter."
For Gen. Ouild nud Col. Gary had
been friend together and comrades in
many a battle, and had long ago affianced
their motherless children to one another,
the wedding to take place as Boon as
the joung man had attained bin ma
jority. So here was the orphan girl nearing
the end of her journey, and gazing
wistfully at the strange and unfamiliar
land of her b'rlh.
There was one clause in her dead
father's will which had recurred to Do
ra's mind with ever present pain, ever
s n hj she had first heard it ; and that
was, should die, upon making the ac
quaintance of Walter Gary, refuse to
marry mm, the bulk of her fortune
should be passed over to her cousin,
Penelope Arlingford.
That her dear father should think it
neoocFary to coerce her into compliant
had rung from her muny a tear. Wholh
unversed in the strong-minded ways oi
some English maidens, she ha I nevei
dreamed of disobeying him, or of choos
ing h mate for berrelf.
" The journey was over at last.
Miss lluihi. found herself in a quiet
country house, surrounded by the most
fervent assurances of welcome from hei
sole surviving relatives, who, of course,
knew all about her affairs, and treated
her witli the most delicate consideration.
Mr. Arlingford was n bluff and hearty
gentleman farmer; Mrs. Arlingford a
reserved lady, who, however, seemed
kindness itself, while Penelope, the only
daughter, and 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 course 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's companion to bo not
only young and handsome, but also a
lover.
His hand held hers, and his stately
head was ofttn 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 Penelope I
Dismay, consternation, fell upon the
heart of the orphan. There could be no
mistake every look, every actiou of the
two betrayed it.
She was affianced to a man who loved
another.
The cold touch of his hand on hers,
the distant salutation, as if she were the
merest stranger, proclaimed that he was
resolved to ignore the contract whioh
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. WaUer Cary was tolling 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'
epooh than those of our day. He gt
possession of her journal, and impreg
nated its 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 eyes 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 sententionsly.
The lovers were gazing at each other,
and there was a half smile on the feat
ures of each.
Soon after this, Dora, being consid
ered weary after her railway journey,
was conducted to her bedchamber by
a mute, clinginnr fashion. hoied she
f would re-t welL and left her.
Not one word had been said about her
betrothal to the young man in the par
ior. uer claims nau Deen whollv ig
nored. Her cousin wan likely not only
to rob her of her inheritance, but of her
nustmnd also.
ine young gin retired to bed with a
feeling of desolation at her heart which
may be easily imagined, Bnd fell asleep
weeping bitterly for her old, happy In
dian life, when she was the idol of her
father and a darling of her ayab.
She woke or rather she struggled
back to consciousness with these words
running through her mind " the result
being a mysterious death, whica no one
could account for."
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 tnus
lin robe over the thick carpet, which
covered the floor, and a cautions rust
ling of paper; the one sound following
the other with the slow and regular
monotony oi a macmne.
The night was at its darkest, and the
head of the bed was in an alcove, so that
a view of the room could not be had;
but Dora divined with a choking of
the breath, the meaning of the strange
sounds.
Tenelope Arlingford was in the room !
Before she retired Dora had read
a chapter from a large BiWe which lay
oh 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
kneos before that book, impregnating
its leaves with the "volatile poison,"
w hich WaUer Cary had spoken of, and
that as she finished each leaf, and turned
it hlowly 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 whioh almost stopped the beat
in sr of her heart
Remember, she had grown up amid
scenes of passion and violence; she had
D en among the helpless ones at Cawn
p re, when the Sepoys massacred the'r
vi tims in oold 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 seemed the- one weapon 4y
which Penelope Arlingford would most
likely strike for love and wealth.
Motionless, her eves distended, the
cold dew of agony dripping from every
limb, the 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.
Then the door softly burst open as if
without hand, a flow of air from the
pannage rushed across the girl's rigid
face, and she heard amid the suffocating
thi obbings 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.
The golden sunshine was lying across
her pillow, and the perfumes of the red
honeysuckle came in through the open
window and filled the pretty chamber.
All seemed innocence and peace
around her, but the soul 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 ;
but at length she 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 papa!" went ooor
Dora, ".you have niade a terrible mis
take !"
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
visitor, 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 bo urgent and
tender about it as Penelope.
"Just try us, dear cousin Pshe en
treated. ' Of course you will be lonely
at first everything is bo different but
who will make you happier than we can ?
Has anybody offended you, dear Dora ?''
"No," answered Dora, shuddering ;
" but I Bhall prefer living alone."
" You are so young, bo ignorant of the
ways of our towns," said quiet Mrs. Ar
lingford, here chiming in anxiously, "it
is a mad thing for yon to think of,
child."
" I must go,' responded the orphan,
averting her pallid face that the dark
misery of it might not be seen.
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, Pen
sie. King and order Sam to bring the
carriage round."
Dora swallowed a cup of tea, and
choked down a morsel of bread, and
then she went back to her room to put
on her hat.
Locking the trunk took but a few moments.
She flung herself upon a chair, and
wept silently, feeling herself to be the
most desolate and friendless being on
the face of the 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 1 it was, indeed, terrible mistake,
that clause in the will. ,
But 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 paper, just as it aroused her last night
Dora gazed upon her like one bereft
of reason.
The large old Bible lay quiet enough
and closed exactly where she had placed
it no living thing was in the room but
herself.
And then she saw the whole mystery.
The window was partly opened, and a
slight pnff of wind had blown out the
crisp white curtains in the room ; then
receding had sucked them outward
through the aperture, while the impris
oned air, running np 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 D-Ainc At. th nrinrlniv hor
face, in its astounding thankfulness, a
study for an artist.
At this moment Penelope came in.
She had been weeping.
"The carriage is ready, dear cousin,"
sighed she tremulously.
Dora passed her hand over her fore
head, then facinc her rival, naked, in a
hurried tone, " Were you up last night
any time, Miss Arlingford ?"
A. vu, TI V-J . HHHl'Up 1 IX Dili"
prise, "about four o'clock I rose and
-I 1 mi
cioseti my window. xne wind was
rising."
" Did vou hear a cock crow ah von
did so ?"
"Yes I did. Whv do von arIt. danr?
Stay ! I know why ! You were frighten
ed Dy nearing a Droad ereak beside your
bed : I should have told you about that
Donm ; now stupid oi me.v
"I heard a board crenlr " Bdi.l IVyfa
scarcely believing her own ears. '
"les, nought to be fastened down.
It runs the whole breadth of the house,
and when I tread nn tnn And nl it in m-w
room the other end creaks in this. Lis
ten r
She ran across the naasaffe. nhnttintr
the door after her. and in a moment thA
veritable creaking commenced, accom-
11 m . . - .
paniea Dy tne clicking or the latch or
the door, which hod bo rvptriflod Tlnrn
When the young lady returned the ex
pression of her cousin's features was so
mightily altered that she exclaimed :
" Whv. mv darlinc cirl. T do think unn
-J' o c f ,
wasted to leave us because you thought
uie nouse was haunted.
"Per perhaps yes," faltered Dora,
wistfully gazing at her.
" You poor little darling," murmured
Penelorte. in a vninn of rlAnn nnmnta.
A I - 1 '
sioi), and she took Dora's unresisting'
hand in hers. " Why would you not
tell me ? Don't you know, Dora," and
a Bmile 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 Carys ?" ejao
ulated Dora.
" What !" cried Penelope, her coun
tenance slowly crimsoning as the situa
tion burst upon her; " did you ima
gine" She never completed the sentence,
but snatching np the poor, tired little
orphan to her bosom, strained her
there, and kissed her tearful, smiling
face with kisses which were fully re
turned. . But Dora never revealed the whole of
her terrible mistake. '
Ur Royal Female Gambler.
Priucess Souwaroff, during a recent
Etay at Saxon 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, and she finally accepted,
borrowing 8'2,000. The money was punc
tually repaid, and the lender, M. Dela
grange, was delighted to find that the
princces 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, aud when
she again asked him for an advance of
$2,400 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, vexed at the apparent
slight put trpon 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
eiru'hd. He believes in sitting on the
fence.
The oldest living man in the world is
near Bogota, South America, and he
claims to be 160 years of age.
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Atedlral Hint.
Refreshing: Drinks iv Fuvn-nn Tt1
one and a half ounces of tamarinds with
two Ounces Stoned raisina mil Hirro
ounces cranberries, all in three pints of
ut i. i . .
uum two pints remain, btrnin,
and add a small piece of fresh lemon
peel, which should be removed in thirty
uiuiuies.
Oatmeal Mush. Thin simple dish is
ciiremeiy paiataDie ior breaklast, eaten
with cream and wyll salted. It is very
easv of dirrARt.inn And ia rcmar1roVlw
Q " " ..w.mwij UU-
tntions. It is also considered the best
possible food for dyspeptics and young
children, making but slight demands
upon me aigesuve organs.
To Keep thr Feet Wabm. Previous
to retiring at night, and before undress
ing, remove the ntorltinca anil mh fha
feet and ankles briskly with the bands.
During the day wear two pairs of stock
ings composed of different fabrics, one
pair Of Silk or cotton, the nt.hp.r
and the natural heat of the feet will be
preserved, if the feet are kept clean and
the friction of tho same is not omitted at
night.
Fob the Teeth. The following is an
excellent wash for the teeth : Dissolve
two ounces of borax in three pounds of
boi liner water, and. before it in nnlrl
F j - -
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
brnshf will preserve the teeth, extirpate
all tarttarous adhesion, arrest decay and
make the teeth pearly white.
Meat fob Ihyalids. The following
method of rendering raw meat palatable
to invalids is given in the Industrie
Bloetter: 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 n' or tar 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
yolk of an egg may be added to it
From this pulp, or directly from the
above substances, an emulsion may be
prepared which will be rendered still
more nutritious by adding milk.
Ilauaehold Hint.
Raisins. Raisins are rendered quite
digestible if boiled or steamed before
using them in cakes or pies.
An Idea fob 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. v
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-
tionc. Hard crust in bottles may be
cleaned off by rinsing with water and
small shot
Cleansing Fluid. For washing al
pasa, 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. Oat the
soap fine, 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 Bide
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.
Od1 for PoaltD t
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
np fine and mix with the meal, wetting
it with Bour 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 Bhould
lose many of my early chickens, just as
they did, if I followed their example, in
giving twenty-two chickens to one hen
the drat of April. There would be a
half dozen or more little chicks on the
outside of the hen that her feathers
could nt cover, in a cold frosty morn
ing. Three feeding a week 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 reenlts iu feeding onionr.
Fashion Notes.
Lawn ties are embroidered profusely
with variegated silk.
" Mother Goose " is the new style of
oniiarcn s bonnets.
Silk sun shades bearing the owner's
monogram are a novelty.
Queen Anne and Japanese styles of
iuiniiure predominate.
Fashion's demand for let ntill
tinues, and it will be worn more than
. ? . i
ciaire ue inne.
Swiss neckties, with the end braii'ed
in colored silk, will be worn with sum
mer dresses.
Burlap mats are made with successive
square bands of colored merino, cat-
stitcned down with colored floss silk.
For watering-places are dressv cos
tumes of damask silk of light quality
uouiiiiueu wuu piuui si ik oiieu oi con
trasting color.
Unique Bcarf 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 dresses, oome or the new gren
adines are trimmed entirely with black
satin.
The new colored embroideries are
used for trimming children's white
dreaBes. 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-
raen or grown rolks.
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 socques 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 trills embroidered in high colors,
especially in red or blue with black.
The Scotch and Madras gingham
dresses are charmingly cool and fresh
looking. Tne 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 tour nu re.
- in nam
. 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 be 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 ol 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 ppectacles. 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 bis head, Mr. Smiley
said :
" Why, they eeem better. I can see
as well with them as I could without
them twenty years ago. I'll take 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 something of a novelty. The idea is
to pr ivide a pass which can be used by
none save the person to whom it is
issued, dud the pass seems to meet the
requirement Around the pass proper
is a margin, with a description whioh,
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 pars is issued.
Then after the head " shape " follow the
words "Blim," "medium," "stout,"
"corpulent." After "oolor of hair
come the designations "black,'
"brown," "gray," "light," 'faubnrn."
After ." color of eyes," come "black,"
" brown," "gray,'f "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
eyes and beard a la Napoleon, the issuer
of the pass would punch the word
"slim " under " shape," " black " under
" eves " and " hair," " moustache " and
"chin" under "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 lie of the Sea" wha'e-oil.
"Time out of mini" is the oldest
lunatic on record.
A fashion writer says : Patched trou
sers will be much worn 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
sen; but they thrive splendidly on a
ridge-pole.
The New Orleans Picayune sayt:
" Love cannot live on bon-bons."
"No," says the Boston Bavant, "but
love can live on beans."
The entire alphabet is found in these
four lines:
God ffives the grazing ox his meal,
He quickly heari the aheep'i low
But man who Uston his fineat wheat,
Should joy to lift hia praiiiea high.
Even the life of a paragrapher has its
bright BpotB.Pit(nburgh 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 crw
flies six miles, and the wild pigeon sixty
an 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 Bheep will live without water
longer than any other domestic animal.
We have in Hart County, Ky., a man
by the name of William Bowman, who
was thrown away in the Appalachee
Mountains, JNorth 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 be be persuaded -
to take any food but milk, whioh he
sucked from a bottle.howinsr that he
had lived solely by the nursing of Jhe
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 housekeeper giveth a cheerful hop,
na wo near me musical nipperiyuop
Of the moisry, misty, maddeuing mop.
And to, the maddening; horrors rush
Athwart our aouls at the soanv ciirth
Of the slippery, slimy soruubing-brush.
From early morn till evening gloom
We hear the scratching in hall and room
Of the boisterous, busily bobbing broom.
And now there eometh a woesome wail
That augurs agen'rally gusty gale
From a man with his leg in the sorubbing-pail.
Curious Habits of a Curious Bird.
A naturalist CM. Velainl aocomDanv-
ing the French expedition to the islands
of St. Paul and Amsterdam, in 1874, for
the purpose of observing the transit of
Venus, has lately published an aooount
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 alway
entertaining habits. The penguins be
gin to lay in the month of September,
and countless numbers annually Assem
ble upon the islands of St Paul anl
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, instea.;
of being the fctupid animal they are pop
ularly considered, they are really gifted
with uncommon powers. A synopsis r
M. Velain's account, which is given i
Nature, says:
"At the time of the arrival of the ex
pedition (October), the birds were pre
paring to hatch. Each pair kept e.
tirely to themselves. Each nest h.
two eggs large, nearly round, of
dirty white color, but marked here ai,
there with a few rasset spots. lu
birds partook of the cares attendant
the incubation and took turn about
the nest. The bird off duty would :
once make for the sea, faithfully retur.
ing at the appointed time, and nevt
failing to waddle direct to its own ne.
though no human being could see -difference
between the thousands thar
were strewn about. Sometimes th
whole camp of birds would have to b
traversed ere the nest sought for woul ;
be gained, and a bird trying to make .
short cut would be Bure to be attack
by those whom it disturbed, for th
aro not at all tolerant of one anotht
and in this they also prove that thtr u -not
Btupid, for surely neither luir
people nor stupid birds ever quart
On M. Velain arriving in their miiln ,
they would one and all Bet up an i
mense and beyond-all-meosure Btunnu -crv,
soon they would calm down
seem not to mind' his presence. 1 '
incubation lasted for five weeks. 'It
little ones made their appearance co v
ered all over with a fine, close dows
and looked like balls of line, gray-c
ored wool. They soon got tired of t!
comforts of their nests, and began to
semble, together with their little bn l'
ers and bitters of the same colony,
large infant schools, which are pre;,'
over by some of the sedate old i,l
Many times a day, at stated iulerv
they are fed; the other portions i
spend in sleeping and talking and
tie fighting. Space will not .
to refer to many curious det..
their swimming lessons."
'JYibune.