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Thoughts.
ABSENCE.
'TIh not absence, though afar,
If hearts love-nnited are ;
And, when love in 'ncalb a blight,
'Tin not presence, though In Bight.
cocnAoK.
Who grandly boasts when thoro's no danger
Oft to truo courago is a stranger.
SINCERITY.
Rather silence than speech
Whore1 deceit forms a part ;
Italhor heart without word 8
Than tho words without heart.
TRUE MOBILITY.
All noble minds may meet in mind,
And noble Bonis a-e kin and kind
They are by time nor space confined ;
The past is present, distance noars
They meet across tho gulf of years,
POOR RIOHEH.
A man may be rich t yot, if truth were but told,
Be poor as ourselves, iu the midst of his gold j
Who noods what he lacks, be it word, thought
or act,
Though a prince in his wealth, is a beggar '.in
fact.
SUBMISSION.
Neither pride nor ambition
Help us hoavonward, bnt submission.
KNDURINU FAME.
B1(hh(1 haii bcon his days
Wli ho name descends on children's lips in
praise,
By loving mothers taught
To emulato his life lu duod and thought ;
Whoo fame, lrom tongne to tongue,
Goes down the years, iu story told and sung.
REALITY.
Antioipntions but enhance ;
lteality oft disenchants.
SUSPICION.
VUtitu's best ceiiulei felts no worse can do
Than cause a foul suspicion 'gainst the true.
CONFIDENCE.
However high, there is a chance to fall ;
However low, a way to rise o'er all,
ALTAR AND TOMB.
We deck the weddiug-feast with flowers :
The? wither in a few short hours.
With immortelle's we drupe the tomb,
Forevermore to live and bloom.
ioiie Journal.
Who Knows?
The birds made such a rocket in the
honeysuckle vine outside my windo
that I couldn't H.eep. The moon was
still in the sky, but u veiled yet lumin
ous splendor in the east told that the
day was breaking the day of June that
began my twenty-seventh year. When
I say that I 'nan a woman, and add that
I was unmarried, and, worst of all, that
I had lost for gogd the requisite energy
that held forth any promise in that
direction, it will naturally be thought
that I shall make bat a sorry heroine;
and it is just because of these discourag
ing foots that I want to jot down this
little experience of a day, as a sort of
consolation to that suffering part of my
sex who have latent hopes, long linger
ing, unfulfilled, at times at the last gasp,
then nickering up again with a sickly
tenacity most painful to contemplate.
But who knows what a day may bring
forth ? Who knows ?
I went about on tiptoe, not to awaken
mamma; and I took it as a piece of in
gratitude that when she came down to
breakfast, and began to enjoy the toast
I had so nicely browned for her, and to
sniff tho fragrance of a bunch of honey
suckles that I had scrambled for at the
risk of a sprained ankle and the cost of a
shower of morning dew upon my clean
calico I thought it mean of mamma to
begin about that church festival before
the day hnd fairly begun.
I'm so glad it's flue weather, Jane,"
said mamma, with great urbanity of
tone and manner. " I thought I'd get
up early, so that you could reach the
church iu good season; and I wouldn't
waste any flowers in the house, dear
I'd keep them all for your table."
"You know very well, mamma," I re
plied, "that I'm not going to have a
table. I've served my apprenticeship
at tables. Long ago, when I was young
and fair, I wore white, with my hair
curling about my shoulders, and had
the flower table, and enjoyed it. Later
on, I put my hair up, and had a fancy
table, and endured it with great resigna
tion. Last year I hod recourse to a
switch to eke out my scanty locks, and
was compelled reluctantly to take the
post-office. This year I sha'n't have
anything; in fact, mamma, I'm not going
to the festival."
Mamma put down her bit of toast, and
turned absolutely pale.
" Not going to the festival I'1 she
echoed, mournfully
" No, mamma," I said, beginning al
ready to plead my case. " Can't I have
one birthday to myself ? I'm twenty
seven years old to-day."
"Oh, hush, Jane," said my poor
mother. " You scream so, tho Hunters
next door will hoar you, and blurt it all
over the place. I'm not deaf. If you
choose to give up all chance of of so
ciety, and neglect your duties, and re
fuse to help the church along, why, of
course, I have nothing to say, only I
must in that case go myself."
" You I" I cried. " You'll be sick for
a month afterward; you haven't been
able to do anything of that kind for
years."
" I know it, Jane; but if you refuse to
do these things, I must. I know I shall
be prostrated with the heat, and my
nerves will be shattered, and you are
young and Btrong, and still attractive
enough to compete with any young lady
in the place, and might, I verily believe,
if you were not so obstinate and head
strong, be surrounded and admired as
you used to be, and you might, for my
sake, Jane, at least attend those little
entertainments."
Mamma put her handkerchief to her
eycR, and I yielded; I groaned in flesh
and in spirit, but I yielded. After I
had tidied up the work, and settled
mamma in the cool shady sitting-room,
upon her favorite lounge, with a nice
book in her hand, and a palm-leaf close
by-ffor the day was growing hot I
twisted up my hair before the glass,
with many a sour mocking grimace at
the dark, thin, discontented face there
in, put on an ugly brown linen dress, a
calabash of a hat, and went off to the
church.
My mother looked after me with such
misery in her face that I called back to
her that I would wear something nice in
the evening.
"Will you wear your rose-colored
crape ?" pleaded mamma.
"Will I wear spangles, and jump
through a hoop ?"I Baid. " No, mamma;
I'll wear my black silk."
" And curl your hair ?" she coaxed.
"There's a whole switch already
curled for me up in my bnreou drawer, '
I replied. " It s nice this hot weather
to have very little hair of one's own I"
" Don't scream so 1" said poor mother,
looking toward the Hunters' side win
dows. As if the Hunters didn't know all
about my failing charms, and no doubt
took an inventory of them half yearly to
send abroad to the eldest son", who had
been awny in China these five years and
more, and would likely never come back
again. At least he had written to me to
that effect when he went away. I had
the old letter yet in a secret recess of
that same old bureau where lay the con
venient switch of hair.
Time was when-1 needed no curls
shorn from maidens across the seas or
manufactured from home material. I
had plenty of my own. Jack Hunter
cut one of them off with his penknife
that night when wo parted.
" I don't know," said he, savagely,
whether I most hate you or love you;
but I'll keep this to remember the girl
lio flirted and fooled away the truest
iffeetion a man ever had for a woman."
He hacked the curl from my head
with his penknife, and looked at me as
if he was half tempted to do me further
butchery; and God knows I didn't care
then if he had, drawn the knife across
flv throat; I should not have resisted
him.
" Don't go, Jack I" I cried out at last,
holding the edge of his coat. " Don't
sronyway, so far as China; if yon do,
I shall commence to dig a hole when
yon get there. They sny that China is
right under us, and I'll begin with a
tittle pick and shovel as soon as we get
news of your arrival. Then you can
begin on your side, and we'll meet each
other half-way."
He flung me from him with something
like an oath. "You wonld joke and
laugh over my grave," he said, and
went away, not to come back again.
Who would have believed it possible ?
That the years would come and go, the.
sweet summers bloom and fade, the
hetirt of the roses lose strength and fail
and fall away, to come again as sweet,
as Btrong, as fresh as ever, and Jack,
my Jack, never come back to me ? Yet
he was not dead nor wed. That was
one good thing. And he was out there
among those women with narrow eyes
and stinted feet, and he didn't as yet
know a word of tho language. He was
growing fat, he-wrote home to his peo
ple next door, and bald, which didn't
matter on the top of his head so long as
he could keep enough to cultivate a pig
tail. This was necessary, as he meant
to set up for a Chinese mandarin, and
was already embroidering a gown for
the purpose on spare nights. And JI
felt, when they read me the letter, that
it was Jack's turn now to make merry,
when other hearts were sick and sad.
If he had only sent me one little line I
He showered gifts upon other people
chests of tea and parcels of silk, lovely
bits of decorated china, big soft beauti
ful shawls of crape. He sent gewgaws
and gold to so many others; if he had
only given me one little word !
They must have told him I had been
sorely punished; that my mischievous
gayety he had whiffed out like the flame
of a candle; that even the beauty of
which he had been so proud and fond
was gone every bit of it gone. Sleepless
nights and useless repinings.long, weari
some days, endless years filled with wild
yearning for that which seemed forever
hopeless, had robbed me of all. The
old bloom of the heart took with it the
crimson cheek, the laughing eye, and
the light, elastic step. Even my hair
fell out. Alas I poor me, the flesh fell
from my bones. As I hinted before, it
was not a very alluring object that
greeted me in the glass on the morning
of my twenty-seventh birthday.
"Aroint thee, witch I" I cried, and
wiped away with the hand-towel some
salt tears that fell upon the dimity bu
reau cover, and upon the grave of sad,
Bwcet memories. Then I put on my
ugly brown dress, and the hideous bon
net to match, and went off to the church,
pausing at the portal to look longingly
over at the cool, quiet graves of our old
neighbors. A soft wind stirred the long
grass there; a few birds hopped lightly
and fearlessly about.
ITow o&lmly, calmly smile the dead
Who do not therefore grieve !"
"The Yea of heaven is Yea," I said,
and went on into the church where the
ladies were errouned around the straw
berriea that Jiad just arrived, I took
possession of a whole crate of those,
sending the young and pretty maidens
home to recruit for the evening.
There were a few faint, polite remon
strances when I declined to take any ac
tive part in the evening's entertainment.
"We must leave that part to the young
and attractive," I said, and there was a
general buzz of acquiescence. I had
the consolation of hearing several re
marks upon my extraordinary good
sense and practical capability.
I was graciously allowed, after I had
hulled a whole crate of strawberries, to
hold a step-ladder and some nails for
Mrs. Smith, the apothecary's wife, while
she hung some gorgeous drapery, and
otnerwise deiormed the cool gray walls
of our little chapel, so that I was pretty
well tired when I went home at night
fall. Mamma met me at the gate, and
looked at me so dolefully that I burst
out laughing.
"Never mind, mamma," said I; "I
won't look so cadaverous after I'm rested
and dressed for the evening."
But I'm afraid I was rather a painful
object for the gaze of a doting and once
ambitious mother when I had donned my
black silk, and was ready for the evening.
My hair was neither crimped nor curled.
You see, I had depended upon the switch,
which was bought for purposes of that
kind, and failed me ignominiously at the
last moment My head ached, and I
could not bear many hair-pins thrust
into my scalp; in no other way would
the obstinate thing be induced to stay on.
Mamma was heart-broken, and I was
perverse at times, I thought perhaps
the switch was grieving over a beloved
and lost head of which it was once part
and parcel, and I forgave it, and left it
to its perverseness from that time on
ward. When I reached the church I was im
mediately seized upon for something
they called "the grocery counter" an
innovation brought about by the advent
of a well-to-do grocer in our midst, a
widower, a stock-raiser and a man afflict
ed with many maladies, of which he
loved to talk. He had generously sent
down from the city, in pound packages
and tin cans, samples of his available
goods, and proposed this " grocery
counter" to the young ladies, which they
despised and would have none of. The
grocer himself found favor in their sight.
They flitted about him, filled his button
holes with bouquets, his pockets with
bon-bons; they looked up in his face,
and tried to talk to him, poor childrenl as
beet they could. But they appealed to me
to take the ugly counter, with its sordid
pound packages for home necessity, and
I took it with an ill-concealed avidity.
The truth was, a kind of heart-sickness
seized me when I thought that tho eve
ning must be passed in making myself
generally agreeable, and I felt that to
wander about this place, distorted out of
its sweet savor of godliness and quiet
rest so dear to a weary soul to wander
about among the flags and wreaths and
teuts and arbors, with a smile for one, a
nod for another was like the protracted
and agonizing pilgrimage of a lost soul
beyond the boarders of the Styx.
So I speedily put myself behind the
counter, which comfortably hid more
than half my tall, gaunt figure, and was
so glad of the shelter that I fouud my
self becoming interested in these de
spised articles piled up before me. I
determined, if I could, to make my
mission a success, so that I and other
poor weary women might have this
refuge to fly to in these gala seaeons of
misery.
The successful grocer, who had hot
been very well pleased with the open in
gratitude for his bequest, took heart and
brightened up when he saw me giving
an air of smartness to his goods. He
extricated himself from a bevy of young
and fair ones, and came generously over
to help me. In Bheer gratitude I began
to praise nis young colt that was pastur
ing in a field adjoining our garden, and
he remained with me. Shortly after,
when he found that a queer feeling in
nis noaa agreed with the same discom
fort in my poor cranium, he brought a
cnair ueuiuu tue counter, ana in a low,
tender voice he detailed to me tho inter
esting diagnosis of his pet malady.
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son, who was home from college, and suf
fering from that period of egotism which
comes to young men of his kind, re
mained during the entire evening, to
show his contempt for the young, the
fair, the frivolous. A few old married
friends, whose wives were sick or away,
hovered about the grocery counter, so
that it really did happen that I was sur
rounded by men. The evening was
passing pleasantly enough. My dark
corner was well patronized, and every
woman who hrs to do with church en
tertainments will understand my grati
fication and relief when I found it was
nearly ten o'clock and all was well. At
this time a letter was put into my hand
by one of the post-oflice messengers
we always made a feature of ,he post
office at our festivals, where pink and
parti-colorod missives, with doves and
other doting designs upon the envelopes,
were distributed at extravagant rates of
postage. I had just been favored with
a liberal offer from a customer, and,
elatod with my bargain, proceeded to
Eut up my bundles, not giving much
eed to the love-letter from the neigh
boring booth. Truth to say, I felt a
ltttle tingling of the blood at the idea of
the mockery that might be concealed
therein by one of those witty village
youths, and the letter lay there for a full
half hour, when somebody suid, in the
most commonplace way.
"So Jack Hunter is back from
Chiua."
In a moment every thing was black
before me. I dropped my hands and
my eyet to the counter, and when this
sudden dizziness was gone, I saw upon
the little tawdry envelope Jack's scrawl
ing handwriting. Here was the little
line I had coveted all these years, and
this is what my half-blinded eyes made
out:
"I came home because I was mad to
see you because all these years, and
your old perfidy couldn't kill my love
for you. I find yon just as I expected
to, in a space small enough to be filled
outside and inside with men. You are
as beautiful and fascinating as ever, and
as fond of admiration. I hear that you
are about to be married to the grocer at
your elbow, who so engrosses your atten
tion that you do not care to look at the
passers-by. God help him, and God
bless you I I have had my lesson. Now
I shall, perhaps, be satisfied. Good-by."
Five minutes after that I was running
home, without my hat, and with his note
crumpled up in my hand. The people
at the festival no doubt thought that
mamma was taken suddenly ill. They
could not have fancied I was running
after Jack, because he had been there at
the church for an hour, and I had been
totallv unconscious of his presence.
Dear heaven ! how could it be that I
didn't know, that something didn't tell
me, that I didn't feel he was near mo ?
But I didn't. I went on talking to
the grocer about a remarkable operation
for an ulcer that he had undergone,
when Jack must have been only a few
rods away! I ran down the road, my
heart in my throat. Fortunately the
village street was deserted. Every man,
woman, and child were at the festival,
except those who could not be out at all;
so I ran on unchecked, a dim fear gain
ing weight with me that Jack had not
unpacked his trunk, and was off to
China again within the hour. But when
I reached his house, which was next
door to my own, I saw him sitting out
on the balcony smoking a cigar, with his
feet perched upon the railing. But his
face grew very pale in the moonlight,
and his feet clattered quickly down
upon the porch when he saw me run in
at the gate. Thecigar fell from his lips,
the ashes tumbling over his broad white
waistcoat.
" Why, thank God," he said, "this
must be my own dear little girl. Now,
see here, Jenny," he began, scolding,
a minute after; but he kept tight hold
of me, and trembled fully as much with
happiness as 1 did.
Nothing can persuade him that I am
not a desperate flirt, as beautiful as an
angel, and irresistibly fascinating. I
have not the least doubt' that half the
village ore laughing at Jack's ridiculous
devotion and jealousy; but the well-
meant endeavors of his friends and fam
ily to convince him that I am a piain,
faded, unattractive, and neglected old
maid he laughs to scorn as a conspiracy
of envy or jealousy. And how can I
wonder at his delusion? Mamma says
Jack has terribly nged during these
years of loneliness and exile, and looks
older and not so comely as our neighbor
the grocer; but to me he is still the
handsome, alluring, in everyway adora
ble Jack. He is walking up and down
the little balcony next door at this pres
ent moment, ana hidden by our odorous
honeysuckle vine, I am listening to him
trill out the last words of his favorite
ballad:
" So girls be true while your lover's away,
For a oloudr morning, for a cloudy m o orn
ing Oft proves a pleasant day."
Harper's Weekly.
A Steam Balloon.
Another invention, which is occupy
ing the scientific world of Paris, is the
Guglielmini steam balloon. If the ex
periments answer the inventor'B hopes
this balloon will be one of the wonders
of this age of wonders. The invention
is based on eight points: 1. Ascension
power. 2. Translative horizontal and
dingonal power. 3. Safety against
accidents. 4. Direotion from one point
to another given point. 5. The material
employed in the construction of serial
steamboats. 6. Perfectly serial archi
tecture. 7. The disposition of the ns-
coutive power. 8. The manoeuvres on
board and the degree of temperature of
lerostat. The gas employed is hydrogen.
disposed in twelve globes instead of one.
Once m the air, the boat, which is
oblong like a ship, is moved on by two
steam engines placed underneath the
heeL Thus is cuts the air like other
boats cut the sea. With an engine of
fifteen horBe-power thirty metres are
made in a second. The acting manoeu
vres consist in passing the excess of
hydrogen in the globes into others re
served expressly for the guidance of the
boat, and then repassing them into their
first globes, according to the descent or
ascent which may be required .
Rosewood.
It has puzzled many to decide why the
dark wood so highly valued for pianos,
aud iu those times bo cleverly imitated,
should be called rosewood. Its color,
certainly, does not look like that of a
rose, but when the tree is first cut, the
fresh wood possesses a strong, rose-like
fragrance; hence the name. There ore
half a dozen or more kinds of rosewood
trees found in South America and in the
East Indies and neighboring islands.
Sometimes the trees grow so large that
planks four feet broad and ten feet in
length can be out from them. These
broad planks are principally used to
make tops for piano fortes. When grow
ing, the rosewood tree is remarkable for
its beauty ; but such is its value in manu
factures as an ornamental wood, that
some of the forests where it once grew
abundantly, now have scarcely a single
specimen, in Madras tue government
has prudently had great plantations of
this tree set out in order to keep up tl
supply,
TIMELY TOPICS.
In Paris, year by year, there is a uni
form increase in the prevalence of diph
theria, due, it is alleged, in a great
measure to a neglect to isolate cases of
this disease.
It is only a few years since New Zen
land was associated in our minds with
the idea of cannibal savages. Now we
find that there are no less than 924 miles
of government railroads in operation.
Of twenty-eight railroads that made
returns for the first three months of this
year, seven show a decrease on last
year's business $347,331. The other
twenty-one roads show an increase of
$2,619,900.
It is stated that there are 8,000,000
pupils enrolled in the public schools of
the United States. The average daily
attendance is 4,500,000. The estimated
population between six and sixteen years
of age is 10,500,000.
The canning of meats, fruits and vege
tables has become an immense business.
In Maine over 5,000,000 cans of corn
are packed annually, the sales of which
amount to $1,150,000, giving employ
ment to 10,000 people during the pack
ing season.
The number of teeth at maturity is,
thirty-two or sixteen to each jaw. The
eight front ones are called cutting teeth,
and the two next on each side are called
dog or eye teeth. The two next are two
pointed teeth. and the three next on each
side are called rnolares, or grinders. The
two last are called wisdom teeth, as they
are cut last.
A romnntio incident of every-day life
occurred iu Brooklyn the other day,
when a pretty girl of twenty chased a
man who had stolen her pocketbook,
and, having overtaken him, learned that
it was his first offense, went home with
him, gave him money, and then sued
for his pardon at the police court. Tho
man was at heart honest, but was driven
to the theft by the sight of his starving
family.
We learn from an exchange that the
Napanee Paper Manufacturing Com
pany, Canada, manufacture "table
cloths" from rolls of white paper, sixty
throe inob.es wide and of any desired
length. Since paper is used for bed
quilts, shirt fronts, collars, floor cover
ing, and so on, we don't see why it can
not vo made to do duty for covering
dinner and supper tables, especially for
large gatherings, where quantity of
covers is of more importance than quali
ty. A singular affair recently happened
near Lynchburg, Ya. While Colonel A.
H. Fulkerson was riding over his farm
he was attacked by about one hundred
swallows, who assailed him with groat
chattering and pecked nway lustily at
his faee and clothing. He was at first
amused at the puny assaults, but the
wounds which they soon inflicted upon
his face and neck convinced him that he
had nothing to laugh at, and he barely
escaped with his life.
John D. McCabe is prosecuting at
torney for the eighth district of Arkan
sas, a leading lawyer of the State, and
has been a candidate for the United
States senate. He lately eloped with
his sister-in-law. after wntiner as follows
to his wife: "God knows I deplore the
anguish this letter will cause. The world
may well denounce me for the step I am
about to take, ns I am leaving Kiy wife,
lamiiy, Home, all. To refer to the past
would be an insult, but in the future I
can only look to God to protect yon."
Mrs. McCabe fell in a fainting fit, and
has since been a maniac
A fashionablv-dresfled man went into
Punt fe Iloskcil's large jewelry store in
Bond street, London, selected articles
worth $1,000, and teudered a thousand
pound note in payment. Mr. Roskell
ascertained that the note was a forgery.
Just as he was about to summon assist
ance, a cab was drawn rapidly up and
two men iu police uniform hurriedly en
tered, saying that the man was an old
offender of whom they were in Bearch.
Directing a porter to place the jewelry
in the cab and to come along with them
as a witness, tho men in uniform said
that they would intorm the firm when
tuoir attendance wonld be required to
press the charge. Then they drove off
with their prisoner, leaving the jewelers
loud in their praises of the proficioncy
of the police. Next day, however, their
porter, brutally beaten, returned with
the information that the two supposed
police officers were thieves in disguise.
A Tokio correspondent gives the par
ticulars of the recent assassination of
Mr. Oknbo, minister of the interior for
the Japanese Empire. The day named
had been set apart for a'snoeial meeting
of the Emperor's cabinet at the Dai-Jo
Kwan, near the palace, and about eight
o'clock in the morning Mr. Okubo left
his residence in a carriage to attend the
council. Just before reaching the palace
gate, at an open space near one of the
city moats, his carriage was suddenly
stopped by a band of armed assassins,
six in number, who were ljing iu wait
for him. The assassins were each armed
with swords; they first killed one of the
horses and the coachman; they then fell
upon tho minister, who was entirely un
armed and helpless, and hacked him al
most to pieces. The murderers then
gave themselves up to the police. Mr.
Okubo was the Emperor's favorite min
ister and a man of great energy of ehar
ucter.
Items of Interest.
Why ia a ship tho politest thing in
the world ? Because she always advances
with a bow.
Intelligent girls should marry farm
ers, because thoy are men of 'culture
agriculture.
Agriculture and mechanism build up
the country, while commerce and manu
factures build the cities.
Of a barber's shop that was formerly
a law office the paper says that people
get shaved there just the same
Four things are grievously empty A
head without brains, a wit without judg
ment, a .heart without honesty, a purse
without money.
"Suppose I should work myself up
to the interrogation point ?" said a beau
to his sweetheart. "I should respond -with
an exclamation I" was the prompt
reply.
Mago, a Carthagenian, wrote twenty
eight large volumes on farming, and the
Roman Senate ordered it translated
into Latin for the use of the Roman
people.
"See," said a sorrowing wife, "how
peaceful that cat and dog are. " " Yes, "
said the petulant husband, "but just
tie them together, und see how the fur
ill fly 1"
In London, from 1838 to 1852, the
average annual death rate from small
pox was 540 per million. In the twenty
five years of compulsory vaccination
(1853-77) it declined to 314.
The secret of war has been well de
fined by an unknown Chinese author:
" Soldier he come on, he come on, ho
come on quite nenr, we go 'way. ITow
can two men stand on one spot so ?"
Life-preserving Rules: 1 Never dis
turb a dog wheu he is eating. 2 Never
interrupt an editor when ho is reading
proof. 8 Never call upon a housewife
when Bhe is up to her elbows in a wash
tub. 'lis sweet when the rose drops to Bleep,
And swift to its nest flies the dove,
When the first star from heaven doth peep, '
And bosoms are throbbing with love,
To sit with your fair one, wbo beams
With the powerful sweetness of yore,
And glide into loveliest of dreams,
As she tickles your noso with a straw.
What our great men are doing
Thomas Ewiug has been blown up in a
Mississippi steamer. Disraeli is a tramp
at Ottawa. James Madison has been
acquitted of a charge of burglary at St.
Louis. Daniel Webster, a shoemaker,
of Washington, has been fighting in a
lawsuit about a pair of boots he made
for Johu O. Breckenridge.
It is a peaceful, refreshing sight to see
a female negligently reclining against
tho softly-cushioned seats of her fash
ionable landeau, smiling sweetly to her
friends as she passes them on the aven
ue, while her placid face is shaded by a
cardinal Bilk parasol. More peaceful far
thau to think of her crossing a five aero
lot on foot with that wild sunshade oscil
lating in the air and an inquisitive bo
vine following her in hot pursuit.
Little Johnny is visiting his grand
father. This is an extract from a letter .
to his mother: " Potato bugs is plenty,
an I enjoy 'em very much, 'cause they
makes gran'father swear, an' every time
he biles over he spills his false teeth,
an he always forgets where he spills
'em an he hires ns to roust 'em out. So
yer see huntin's good here. Ho pays us
iu pigs, an' 'fore the sesin's over I think
ile have enuf to start a swine shop. Tell
Sam Jenkins, 'cause it'll make him hop-
Ein' mad to know ime hevin such a
inanzer."
Gambling in Chicago.
A Chicago correspondent writes: I
strolled into tho Tivoli, a beer garden,
restaurant, lunch-room, and ladies' re
sort combined. A huge fountain played
in the ceutte, g'sh swam in a minia
ture lake, soun If made melody, and
from tho v&VlmKe hung some of Bier-
ftudt's choicest paintings. Over a door
I saw painted "Pool room," and journal- '
istio curiosity prompted me to enter.
Tho walls were covered with black
boards, on which were placed rows of
lifrares and cabalistic signs. In the
centre of the floor, seated on benches.
were about a hundred young men in
tently listening to a man in his shirt -Bloeves,
who, with a long waud in his
hand, was evidently delivering a scien
tific lecture, using the figures on the
blackboard as au illustration. In one
corner of the room a telegraph was at
work, and messages received by the
operator were constantly being bunded
to the " professor." The students were
each furnished with note books, and
occasionally addressed themselves to the
learned man, showing the deep interest
they took in the subject of the lecture.
Hail I made a mistake? Was this a
university established for the intellec
tual development of clerks and salesmen?
Nothing of the k'nd. The faro bunks in
tho city had at last been broken up, the
bunko rooms were closed, aud the voiceii
of the " capper " and the " Bteerer "
were heard no moro in the laud. But
inventive genius devised this scheme.
Those present were bettiug on every
thing in the sporting world. There was
a baseball match in progress in Indianap
olis, and pools were being sold on tho
eighth inning. Thore were trotting
matches at East Saginaw, a billiard
match between Slossou and Sexton in
New York, a boat race between Harvard
aud Yale, hors races in Euglaud, wrest
ling matches on the Pneitto coast, and on
all of these money was changing hands,
the steady click of. the telegraph
heard, and the professor with his wa;
was talking glibly in a jargon whi. '
the uninitiated, was as uniutelliV''
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