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TIONESTA, PA., APEIL 2, 1879.
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Time's ranorama.
It needa no maglo glass or mystlo mutterings,
To read tha prophecy of coming years;
Ko sage Interpreter, to Mite the utteringf
Of Father Time, the patrlaroh of eeers.
' ' all the world'! a stage, tod life a drama, .
" hone aoton oome and go, bat oome no
wore,
I is the future but a panorama
Of ivi'-uos to be, bnt aeen in thought before.
Tiftt the bright play flash on, bnt do not linger
In contemplation of iti changing hues;
t instead where Time'i prophstio finger
relate, and behold the piotnre that he views,
deoade henoa nay, two', it doe not matter
VTora are the self-game atage, the aame old
New actors ooanterfeit the hollow clatter
' Worn out long alnoe by aotora paiaed away.
Hurt Vloe looks mockingly on Virtue slain;
There Tooth and Boauty plight their troth
together;
Here Borrow aita and there brood, cruel Pain;
There, ahadow chilli the friendship of fair
weather.
Binoerity still sows the toed of hate.
Candor and Truth go cautiously in maak;
Honesty plods; Corrnptlon ridea in itate;
- Labor etiy bends, complaining, to hia task.
" Stay 1" you exolalm, in accents discontented,
" If not your c dialogue complete at last ? '
ThH future, so minutely represented,
. la but the present, tempered with the past "
Aye, ao it is 1 Youth dreams of bright fuooeesea;
Manhood begins to doubt, perhaps to fear;
While Ago bin weakness faltering confesses j
And bo the world rolls on, year after year.
Year after rtr beholds the same endeavor
Of pnuy mou for wealth or fame, and seei
. How history repeats itself forever,
And fortune still from her pursuer fieea.
One life there is worth living, and it beauty
Transcends all charms that hopes foltlled
ran bring;
He who doe trustfully his honest duty,
Alone is happy, le he serf or king.
THE BABY'S PICTURE
Miss Arethnsa Peppard was out c i
temper. She said she was "mad.''
Bat it must iisve been a mild kind of
madneaa, for b5f pleasant voioe had onlj
a daub, of sharpness, and no tire floaheit
from her so't blown jes. Bat she wan
out of temper; no doubt about that, am.
"TfrJRS wonder, She bad left her mite of a
0ka8e early that April morning, am
, gOTie over, to New York to bhop, and
- the verv first tore she entered a stort
crowded with people buying seeds and
bulbs ami i bmtx 1 er pockit book, eon
' taining her half-monthly allowance, had
been stolen, and sne had been obliged
. to return to tSammertown without tin
young lettuces and cabbares and onion
sets and parsley aad radish seeds that
tyhe had intended the very next day to
" plant mi her mite of a caruen. And
aUrr day lost in a garden in early
spriugas everjdy knows, or ought to
knowi is a loss indeed, and there's
nothing in the world so exasperating to
an amateur gardener, as everj body also
knows, or ought to know, than to hear
from a neighboring Mnatenr gardener
''Ooodrmoruing, Mi Peppard. How
backward you are wiis year I Your
radishes are just showing, and we've had
at least"- dozen a day for three days
past. And our parsley's up, and our
onions doing nicely. And you nsed to
'be so forward I
So Miss Peppard, Who was . a dear
little sweet-faocd, wonderfully bright
Qld lady, living in the neateet and most
comfortable manner on a small income,
with a faithful colored Bervant-woman a
ew years younger than herself, a roly
poly dog, a tortoise-shell cat, ana three
' birds, had two reasons for being sorely
vexed : the loss of her money and the
loss of the days which she had expected
would start the green things a-growing.
"All the money I had." she said to
Pe'teona called Ona for short as she
rocked nervously back and forth in her
rocking chair, her eyes sparkling and
ner cheeks flushed. "I. only wishl
could tatch ttie thief. I'd send him to
jail as sure as grass is green."
"Dtlt's sho' euuf, Miss Peppar'"
Peteona alwas dropped the "d" "an' it
'& earve 'em zackly right, w'en dey war
ketohed, to be drug to de lockup by de
neela." Then after a slight pause,
which was Una s way, she added an
afterthought: "Dono, dough; s'pose dey
might as well take de pore wretch by de
head."
AU the money I hadl" repeated
Miss Peppard; "five-and-twenty dollars;
and I can t get any more for two weeks,
for bUrrow I never did and never will.
And there's, the garden all laid out and
ready for planting, and Mrs. Brown
sets out her lettuces aad cabbage plants
to-morrow morning, and sue 11 be send'
ing them here with her compliments
hat oompliments, indeed I before ours
have begun to head.
'If she do, I'll frow 'em ober de
fenoe," said Ona. "Better eat them.
dough, I gu&ss. Her complimen's can't
hurt em. '
"And, oh! my conscience!" Miss
Peppard went on (she could invoke her
"conscience" thus lightly, dear old
lady, because she had nothing on it),
" baby's pioture was in that pocketbook.
And I can't get another. Polly said it
was the last, and the photographer don't
oome that way but oube a year.
"Well, well, you are a pore soul.
sympathized Peteona, " to go an' lose
dat ar pioter dat lubly thing jus' like a
loomed angel. . An' yer sister's onliast
chile 'oept five. Wish I had dat rob
ber yere dis minnit; I'd box his ears so
he oouldn t set down fur a week.
" He wouldn't be here long," said bet
mistress. " Of all things in the wide
world, I hate a thief. I'd have him pat
where he d steal nothing for a Tear or
two at least."
" Might be a she: dar's she robbers.
suggested Ona; ' an' dey's all wusa den
caterpillars. Caterpillars takes yo'
things right 'fore yo' ejes don't sneak
in yo pookit. Take a enp of tea, Miss
Peppar. Dar'a no nse of frettin' no
An de oat a ben a-settin on yer
skirt for half aa honr. wantin' yon to
notiee her, pore thing. Bhe ins came
in off de po oh a minnit ago.
Miss Peppard took the tea, and spoke
to the cat; but she couldn't help fret
ting, and she slept but little that night,
and awoke the next morning almost as
vexed as ever, and denounced the thief
at intervals'of about half an hour from
breakfast until dinner, although Peteona
emphatically remarked : " Dar's no nse
cursin' an swear in', Miss Peppar': can't
do no good. Wish I had dat robber
here, dongh."
But after dinner, for which Ona
served a soothing little stew and a cool
ing cream custard, the old lady became
a little calmer, and retired to her own
room to write a letter to her sister
Polly, wlu lived away off in Miohigan;
and she had just written: "And I can't
make a strawberry bed this summer, as
I intended, and 1 11 have to wear my
old bonnet, and dear I dear t how I shall
miss baby's picture I" Peteona opened
the door $ana ceremonie, as she always
did, and walked in with a mysterious
air. "Pusson want to see you. Miss
Peppar' man pusson. 'Bout a boy's
age, I guess, v
" What does be look like, and where
did you leave him ?" asked the old lady,
laying down her pen, and looking a lit
tle alarmed.
"Out on de po'ob. I lock de do'.
An' he's a dirty, ragged feller dat looks
jus' like a dirty, ragged feller. Shall I
broom him off, Miss Peppar' ? Looks as
dough he ort to be broomed off or gib
sumfln to cat pore, bony, dirty soul."
1 11 come right down, said Miss
Peppard: and down she went. And
there on the porch stood a dirty,
ragged, forlorn-looking - boy of about
twelve years of age, looking exceedingly-!
" bony and half starved, sure enough.
He pulled off his apology for a cap
when Miss Peppard opened the door.
tmt said never A word until the old lady
asked him, in a mild voice she nevt r
spoke unkindly to dirt and rags: " Well,
my boy, what do you want ?
"Then you loBt your pocketbook
yesterday ? " he blurted out.
les, said she eagerly, "inaiis,
it was stolen from me : for I felt it in
my pocket a moment before I missed it.
Do yen know the tbiel I
" 1 m him, was the answer ; ana ce
raised a pair of dark eyes, that looked
like the eyes of a haunted animal, to
her face.
" My conscience I ".exclaimed the old
lady, and fell into a chair that stood
near, while JL'eteona darted out and
seized him. shouting : " Golly t got yo'
wish mighty soon dis time, Miss Pep
par', Run for de constable. 1 11 hold
him. Gould hold a dozen like him or
two or free."
" Let him alone, Ona," said her mis
tress, while the boy stood without mak
ing the slightest resistance.
"Ain f be to be drug to the lookup r
asked Ona, with a toss of her turbaned
head.
" Wait till we hear what he has to
say." said Miss Peppard. Then turn
ing to the boy, Bhe askedas mildly as
ever : " OI course you havp t brought
raeback"
"Yes, I have," interrupted he.
Here 'tis, money and. all, 'cept what I.
had to take to fetch me out here. 1
found your name in it on a card, and
where you lived,
" But, bless you ? " exclaimed the Old
lady, more and more surprised, "what
made you take it if you were going to
bring it, back? Oome into the kitchen
and tell me all about it. Ona, give him
a drink of milk.fv
I aha'nt do iv'Spect robbers gits
thirsty s well as odder folks, dough.
And she handed him the milk, which he
drank eagerly.
Now go on, said Miss reppard.
"Whvdidvon steal mv Docketbook ?
and why, having stolen it, did you bring
it back ? Are you a thief 7"
" S'pose I am." he stammered
" but I don't want to be no more. I
wouldn't 'a took it a year ago, when my
mother was alive ; but she died, and
father he went to prison soon after for
beatin' another -man ; and I hadn't no
friends ; and it's hard gittin' along when
your mother's dead and you hain't no
friends, and your father's in prison."
" 'Tain't soft, dat'B de fac'," said Pe-.
teona. gravely.
"Bo I fell in with a gang of bad fel
lers, but I never stole nothin' but things
to eat till yisterday. I oome out of the
house of refuge two weeks ago "
M House of refuse I exolaimed Pe
teona, holding up her bands. "An
a-settin' in my clean kitchen, on my
clean oilclofl Wot nex r
I was there for breakin' a winder
and saasin' aaoop," said the boy, with a
show of indignation, " and nothin else,
though they did try to make me out a
reg'lar bad nn." And then he went on,
under the influenoe of Miss Peppard's
steady gaze: "And the fellers said I
was a eofty not to have the game as well
as the name, and so I went into that
store 'cause I Been a lot of folks there,
and I stole your pocketbook. And "
dropping his eyes and voioe" there
was a pioter of a little baby in it.
" My sister Polly s child I" cried Miss
Peppard, her wrinkled cheeks beginning
to glow.
"Heronliest child 'oept five." said
Peteona.
"And it looks like," continued the
boy, bursting into tears " it looks
like my little sister."
"Yonr little sister?" repeated Miss
Feppard, her own eyes filling with tears.
Is she with her mother?
" 'S to be hoped she be," said Ona,
with a sniff, " or some odder place whar
she 11 be washed, ller brudder s dirty
nnff for a hull fam'ly."
" She's in a place ten miles or more
from here," said the boy, " with a wo-
man who nsed to know mother. Mother
give her fifty dollars just afore she died
She managed to save it and hide it from
father somehow, to keep Dolly till my
aunt in California could Bend for her;
but my aunt's dead, too, and I'm 'fraid
Dolly 11 have to go in the orphan asylum
after all. Father don't care ' nothin'
'bout her. But if Bhe does, if I'm a
food boy, I can go to see her; but if
'm a thief And when I saw that
pioture I said I will be good. It seemed
as though the baby was a -lookin' at me
and wantin me to kiss her. Nobody
ever kissed me but her and my mother.
Here s your pocketbook.
Miss feppard took it from his baud,
opened it, found its contents as he had
described them, and then eat for full
five minutes in deep thought.
" xou want to be a good, honest
boy," she said at last,' so as to be a
credit instead of a shame to your baby
sister ?" :
" Yes," answered the boy.
"It's mostly 'yes. ma'am,' in dose
parts," corrected Ona.
" Well. I'll try you," said Miss Jfep.
pard.
" xou I starting from his chair.
" Yes, I. I want some plants and
seeds from the store where you sto
took the pocketbook, and I am going to
trust you to get them for me. But be
fore you go there, do you know any
place where you. can buy a suit of
clothes, from shoes to hat, for a very
little money ?"
" Yes, ma am, answered the boy, in
a voioe that already had a gleam of hope
in it "Second-hand Bobby's ?"
" Well, go to seoond-hand Robert's.
buy the clothes By-the-bye, what is
your name ?"
vick Jt'opiar.
" And. Dick." continued the old lady.
' do you know any place where you can
take a bath ?"
"8 to be hoped he do," said Peteona.
"Yes, ma'am."
' " Take a bath, put on the new clothes.
throw ' with a slight motion of disgust
" the old ones away '
" o to be hoped he will, eaid
Peteona.
Then go to the seedstore and give
them the note I will write for you. And
here are two nve-doiiar bills.
" An' dar money is soon parted I" ex
claimed Peteona. "No matter 'bout
de fust word."
But the boy fell on his knees before
Miss Peppard and sobbed outright.
at.
An he 11 nebber come back any
mo , sang Una, at the top of her voice,
as she went about her work that after
noon after Dick's departure no, he'll
nebber come back any rao .
But he did. Just as the sun was sink
ing in the west, a nice-looking, dark-
eyed, dark-haired boy. dressed in a suit
of gray clothes a little too large for bim,
and carrying a package in his arms,
came up the garden path to the door of
the mite of a cottage. It was Dick, bo
changed Peteona scarcely knew him.
and the package contained the seeds and
onion-sets and young lettuces and cab
bages, and before dark he had planted
them 411, under the superintendence of
Miss PeDDard. in the mito of a garden.
and Mrs. Brown had no chance of send
ing her "oompliments " that season.
And now ma am, said Dick, after
supper, "1 11 go. I thank you ever so
mnoh, and I wish my mother had known
you.
"P'r'haps she knows her now.
said Ona.
'And I will be a good bos I will,
indeed.
" With the help of Uod " said Miss
Peppard, solemnly.
With the help of Uod," repeated
the boy, in a low voice.
" But I guess you d better stay here
tonight," continued Miss Peppard.
You can sleep in the woodhouse. Pe
teona will make you a oom for table bed
there."
" Shan't do no suoh thing 1 " said Pe
teona, defiantly.
" Ona I reproved her mistresa
" Till my dishes is washed, I mean.
Miss Peppar , said Ona,
" And then to-morrow morning you
can start for that baby, I've always
wanted a baby. Cats and dogs and
birds are well enough in their way, but
a baby is worth them all.
"Uollyl now yonr e talkvn . Miss
Peppar' I " shouted Ona. "l's always
wanted a oaoy a wite baby too.
"And if you choose to stay in Sum
mer town," said Miss Peppard, "you
may have a home here until you can
better yourself. There's plenty of work
for you ; and the youth upon whom we
have depended for errands and garden
help, etc, is
" A drefiful smart, nice, perlite boy I"
chimed in 'Ona ; " as lazy and sassy as
he can lib. An 1 11 call you in de morn
in' w'en de birds arise, an' we'll hab dat
ar angel here in a jiffy; an' won't de oat
an' dog an' birds look pale w'en dar
noses is outer j'int. But dar noses '11
be as straight as ebber.
The verv next night a sweet babv arirl
with great blue eyes and fair ourls sat
upon Miss Pappard's lap, looking won
denngiy about, as she ate her snpper
of bread and milk, at Peteona and the
dog and oat and the birds, whose noses,
by-the bj e, were a traight as ever,
Aod before long ck Poplar became
the most pop'lar C dial, I know, but
couldn't help it boy in that neigh
borhood, he was so olever. so obliging.
and not a bit "sassy."
"De Lor' works in funny ways, sho'
enuf," said Peteona, one April Jay
about a year after the return of Miss
Peppard's pocketbook. "Who'd b'lieve
me and Miss Peppar ebber wanted
Dick drug to the .lockup by de heels?
An' all the time he was a-bringin' me
an' Miss Peppar' de lubliest chunk of
sugar, the sweetest honey-bug of a chile
dat ebber coaxed ole Peteona for ginger
snaps. he shall hab more, de Lor
bress and sabe herl" pouring them
from the cake box into the little uplifted
apron. "Peteona 11 bake dem de hull
liblong day, for ebber an ebber, for de
blue-eyed darlin' wid a little time lef
out for her odder work." JIarper't
Weekly.
Words or Wisdom,
He who is starving does not look to
see if the proffered loaf be fresh or stale.
Those who have made mistakes and
suffered for them are the ones to help
others ; to show that any error can be
atoned for.
You may mnd a rent in a damaged
reputation so that it may not show, but
you can never make the reputation quite
whole again.
Beauty may attract love at first, but
it alone cannot retain affection. It is
the sterling qualities of the heart and
mind that win in the long run.
e love our friends all the time-
when we are so absorbed in working for
them that we seldom think of them, as
well as when telling them of our regards.
We do not, in our own minds, have a
secret contempt for the work of the
great man we do not know intimately,
but we have for the work of the one we
do know.
How beautiful is youth I A little moon
shine, a few musical water-diops, the
strain of a song, and the. young heart
experiences poetry as it never could be
entrusted to paper.
It is a dreary sensation to find one's
self wholly forgotten by mere acquaint
ances; but to find that we have no place
in the thoughts of those we love, seems
in a certain sense like being annihilated.
Iho profoundest calm always seems
to come just after the most terriflo
storm. The exaltation of spiritual rap
ture follows fast after a far descent into
the gloomy Hades of the soul. Life is
a series of alternations at best ; and he
who mounts highest to-day sinks deep
est to-morrow.
Derrick, the Hangman.
Derrick was the most famous or in
famous hangman in English hiBtory.
lie is desoribed by contemporary pens
as a "prime villain," and succeeded Bull,
the earliest recorded English hangman,
somewhere about the year 1593. The
earl of Essex took Derrick with him to
Cadiz, where, after hanging twenty
three prisoners, he was sentenced to be
hanged himself for an assault on a
woman. Lord Essex interfered and
saved the scoundrel's life. In return
for this, Derrick, in 1601, with much
complacency, cat off his preserver's head
at the command of Elizabeth. Sir Wal
ter Scott enlarges upon Derrick: in the
" Fortunes of Nigel."- He throve on
hia( dreadful trade ; lived to a bad old
age, and died infamously rich, just in
time to lose the intense satisfaction ef
presiding over the judicial murder of
King Charles I. He is alluded to as
still living in 1647 and as being dead in
1650. During his later years Gregory
Brandon was his assistant, and Oregory
suoceeded him, only, however, to die
within a year, leaving his office to Rich
ard Brandon, his son. Ihis estimable
creature was twice sentenced to death
for bigamy. He began his career as a
headsman by decapitating the earl of
Stafford, and in all probability ho was the
masked executioner who beheaded King
Charles. The maoLt r.tw called a
derrick takes its naino Koia its pleasing
resemblance to the horrible tree so long
kept in full bearing by the English
hangman.
The Dag as an Article of Food.
By moBt people the do; is valued only
during his life; his skin is not particu
larly valuable, and his flesh is little es
teemeJ. This is by no means, however.
the case everywhere. It is well-known
that the Chinese use the dog as a regu
lar article of food. Many of the North
American tribes look upon an entree of
dog as the greatest possible sweet mor
Bel they can set before a stranger. Sir
Leopold McCintock relates that in the
Sandwich islands he had the most pro
fuse apologies offered to him because
there was no pnppy to be had for a feast
to which he was invited. The Esqui
maux, too, look upon a dish of young
dog as a great treat, and it is related
that a Danish oaptain provided his
friends with a feast of this kind, and
when they praised his mutton, sent for
the skin of the beast and exhibited it to
themt Tha Greeks and Romans also
used the dog as an article of diet, and
many ancient writers, such as Galen and
Hippocrates, represent dog-meat as a
highly desirable dish. Cincinnati En
quirer.
" Come, now, stupid," said the school
master, you don't know how much two
and five make. Now listen. In one
pocket I have two dollars, and in the
other five dollars. Now, how many dol
lars have I got?" " Let me see them,
and I will tell yon." School was dis
missed. A fashionable belt for the feminine
waist, says the Wheeling Ledger, is
called the uuss band.
TIMELY TOPICS.
The larfffiflt hill svpt nfrrulnnol infn
a legislative assembly was the new code
Submitted to the Ohio BAnnta Tt Ann.
tained 3,200 pagen,and, as it was insisted
inai it snouia be read in full, the senate
sat up till midnight to hear it through;
even at that, hundreds of nacen wer
slyly skipped.
Mr. El ward King, who has been
writing some interesting letters from
the South to the Boston Journal, makes
the broad assertion that the prettiest
women in the world live in New Or
leans. He Bays: "At the grand ball
given by the Mystick Crewe of Comus,'
in the Varieties theater, several years
ago, I saw twenty-five hundred ladies
gathered together. It would not have
been an exaggeration of the truth to
say of any one of them that she was
beautiful."
The Peruvian government, having be
come somewhat alarmed at the rapid
destruction of the cinchona trees in
gathering the bark for exportation, has
passed laws to repress the evil. Here
after the gathering of bark will be re
stricted to certain seasons, and in no
case will the cutting down of trees be
permitted. This is a matter in which
the whole world is interested, because
oinchonia and quinia are remedies of
such importance that the souroe of sup
ply ought not in any way to be endan
gered. T. S. Tuoker and Louis Bedan, Colo
rado miners, have reached New Orleans,
after 'spending five months working
their way down the Arkansas and Missis
sippi rivers. They had no money to
pay their way, and, building a flat at
Canyon City, they started down the
Arkansas river about the middle of Sep
tember, floating by day and tying up at
niffht. Thev haA tn nnnh iViAi'r nraft
over shoals, dodge hostile Indians, andl
were irozen up ior seventeen days, but
finally swapped their awkward flat for a
skiff, and reached New Orleans in safety.
The most striking fact with regard to
the French working classes is that nearly
all are possessed of money. However
little they earn they save something.
Thrift is their great characteristic: in
fact, it is said of the French -operatives
that they spend less in proportion to
their means than any in the world. Many
keep their accumulations in an old stock
ing secreted in their houses; others a
daily-increasing number invest in va
rious securities, the most popular invest
ment being the pnrobase of land. Every
frenchman, when he can, becomes the
owner of the house in which he uvea,
Of course he is greatly aided in this
way by the French land laws and laws
of inheritance, which cut the whole
country up into small holdings. Sav
ings banks with government security.
building clubs, sick clubs and friendly
societies are also in favor; but no money
. i i
is lieu up in iraue unions.
A striking example of the sanitary
effects on body and mind of work as
compared with idleness, is given from
the records of the New Jersey State
prison. . In 1871, when all the convicts
were employed, there were only three
deaths. May 81, 1875, when they were
still at work, only twenty-one out of
664 were idle because of illness, and
only five were insane. December 81,
1875, after six months of idleness, fifty
out or 717 were unfit for work, eighteen
were insane, and there were thirteen
deaths in the year. In 1876 only a few
were busy, and there were twenty
deaths. In 1877, when 500 out of 835
were at work, there were only eight
deaths; and on December 31 there were
thirty-eight unfit for work. In 1878.
with only 270 busy, there were nineteen
deaths. In January, 1879, with the
same number busy, there were 107 in
the hands of the doctor.
A True Hero.
The city of Marseilles in France was
once afflicted with the plague. So ter
rible wal it that it caused parents to
desert children, and children to forget
the obligations to their own parents,
The city became as a desert, and funerals
were constantly passing through its
streete. Everybody was sad, for nobody
could stop the ravages of the plague.
The physicians could do nothing, and as
they met one day to talk over the mat
ter and see if something could not be
done to prevent this great destruction
of life, it was decided that nothing
could be effected without opening i
corpse in order to find out the mysteri
ous character of the disease. All agreed
upon the plan, but who should be the
victim? it being certain -that he would
die soon after. There was a dead pause.
Suddenly one of the moct celebfated
physicians, a man in the prime of life,
rose from his seat and said:
"Beit so; I devote myself to the safe
ty of my country. Before this numerous
assembly I swear, in the .name of hu
manity and religion, that to-morrow at
the break of day I will dissect a oorpse,
and write down as I proceed what I ob
serve."
He immediately left the room, and as
he was rich he made a will, and spent
the night in religious exercises. During
the day a man uied in his house of the
plague, and at daybreak the following
morning the physician, whose name was
Uuyon, entered the room and critically
made the examination, ne then left the
rdbm, threw the papers into a vase of vin
egar that they might not oonvey the dis
ease to another, and retired to a con
venient place where he died in twelve
hours.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
A hen with a clipped wing has a de
fective flew.
There are but two cotton factories in
the whole of Mexico.
A lady need not be an athlete though
she jumps at an offer.
When you have a family jar you can't
always preserve the peaoe.
A good motto for a young man just
starting a mustache Down in front.
A French physician says drinking
boiled water only will prevent yellow
fever.
Paris has a municipal laboratory where
wines, beers and brandies ollercd for
sale are tested.
The debt of the city ef Paris is'now '
nearly $400,000,000, and the interest
about $20,000,000 a year.
On leaving a room make your best
salaam to persons present, and retire
without salaming the door.
The hair-spring of a watch weighs
l-15,000th of a pound troy. In a
straight line it is a foot long.
From the debris of their coal mines
Franoe makes annually 700,000 tons of
excellent fuel, and Belgium 500,000 tons.
What is the difference between an
editor and his wife ? One writes things
to set and the other sets things to rights.
" He lived above hia income," .
Was the dark reproach he bore,
Till at last it waa romembered,
That he lived above his store. '
In Copenhagen there is manufactured
from the blood of cattle a chooolate,
whioh is said to be the most nutritious
article yet known to science.
The man who married a whole family
lives in Traverse oohnty, Michigan. His
first wife died, and he married her sister.
She too died, and then he married the
mother of his two former wives.
The editor of the Cincinnati Saturday
Night discovered that his girl wore two
seta of gold mounted false-teeth, and he
sat down and wrote a poem entitled,
"Rich and rare were the gums she
wore.
To ascertain the length of the day
and night any time? of the year, double
the time of the sun's rising, which fives
the length of the night ; and double the
time of its setting, whioh gives the
length of the day.
At one of our schools recently, in
answer to the question : "What is the
difference between an island and a con
tinent, and upon which do we live ?" a
bright little shaver replied: "The dif
ference is that a continent is much.
larger than an island, and we live on
bread and meat and other things."
A Dog Story.
This comes from Charleston, Ind.
Mrs. Brandlon tells it. She says: "My
husband had a dog which he brought
from Kentucky, which seemed to mo to
have more sense than any animal 1 ever
knew. She would look up when order
ed to do anything, as intelligently as a
child, and if she understood what was
said, would give a pleasant bark, and
start off to fulfill the order. I have often
de her. shut the door after the chil
ren, and she would come in at the
kitchen door, opening the latch with her
foot, and always shut it after her. One
time she had half a dozen puppies in the
barn, which were her glory and her
E ride, but one morning when my huS'
and awakened he heard a great row at
the barn, and went out with his gun,
expecting to find, a horsethief. Ashe
opened the door Flora went by him like
an arrow, and though he called her loud
and long she kept right on toward the
village. In looking around the barn for
the tramp he expected to find, he dis
covered that everything was all right,
exoept Flora's nest. The puppies were
ail gone.
" We did not see Flora for Uutw '
v lni. .i.; ...
about three pounds of sausage, whioh
she kept ia her nest until they spoiled,
and ee died of grief that summer. One
of our neighbors saw her; while she was
missing, hanging around a butcher's
shop in Louisville. She had followed
those puppies fifteen miles and re
covered them."
A Grocer's Trick.
This happened long ago in the early
days of Minneapolis and is. related to
Bho.w that even in those days the grocer
was "up to snnil." A certain well
known individual, now a resident of St.
Cloud, was dealing in groceries in Min
neapolis then, and told the story himself
the other day, as follows :
"I happened to strike four chests of
tea, which I bought at a bargain twon-ty-flve
cents a pound. These four chests
of tea was all I had, and of course, as
my customers expected a variety of
prioes, I accommodated them. I turned
the tell-tale side of the chests toward the
wall, and marked the tea to suit cus
tomers. Deacon , still a resident
of the city, came in one day after some
tea, and wanted a good article. I gave
him a sample from eaoh of the four
chests to take home and try, stating
their respective prices as thirty-five,
fifty, seventy-five cents and a dollar a
pound. Well, after testing the samples,
he returned and rendered his decision,
as follows :
" 'That thirty-five-cent tea is a very
fair article for the prioe ; the fifty cent
tea is sauoh better; the seveuty-flve-oent
tea is excellent, and the dollar tea
is a very superior article, I cau assure
you. But 1 can't quite go that figure.
Let me have ten pounds of the seventy-flvA-oent
tea.' "
He was accommodated. How grocers
have changed since then. &'(. J'aul
IHontef frets,