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Time's ranorama,
' '"MhU no rosglo glass or mystlo mattering,
To road the prophecy of oomlng years;
i f:e interpreter, to solve the uttering
Hi lather Time, the patrlaroh of seer.
'! tl. world' a stage, and life a drama,
.-re aotori oome and go. pat oome no
snore,
" s f stare but a panorama
to be, bat seen in thought before.
" -1 : !' btiplit play flash on, bnt do not linger
" n tempi atlon of its changing hne)
'imtead where Tune'i prophtio finger
if, and behold (he cloture that he view,
.-,: henoe nay, two' It does not matter
a are tbe self -same stage, the aame old
n aolor oonnterfelt tbe hollow clatter
Worn oat long linoe by aotori passed away.
linre Vioe looks mockingly on Virtue slain t
There Youth and Boaaty plight tbelr troth
together; .
Here Borrow sits and there brood ernel Pain;
There, shadow chills the friendship of fair
weather.
Binoerlty still aowi the toed of hatek' '
Candor and Truth go eautionrty in mask;
Honesty plods; Corruption ride in itate;
Labor (till bends, oomplaining,.to his task.
" Stay 1" you exolaim, in aooenta discontented,
" I not your oalogue complete at last ? '
Hit fature, o minutely represented,
I bat the pristmt, temper 1 with tbe past 1"
Aye, so It is I Youth dreams of bright successes;
Manhood begins to doubt, perhaps to fear;
While Age bis weakness faltering oonfei.es;
And so the world rolls on, year after year,
Year after yer beholds the same endeavor
Of puny men for wealth or fame, and seei
How biutory repeats itself forever,
And Fortune still from her pursuer flees.
Oue life there Is worth living, and Its beauty
Transcends all charms that hopes fulfilled
ran bring; , . .
He ho does trustfully hi honest duty,
'Alone 1 happy, to he serf or king.
THE BA&Y'S PICTURE
Miss Arethnea Peppard was cut c l
temper. Bhe raid she was "mad.'
But it ffinht have been a mild kind of
madness, for bar pleasant toico had nh
a dash of sharpness, and tta fire flosheit
from her sott blown -eves. Bat she ua
out of temper; no doubt about that, am
no wonder, tine bad left her mite vl
oottaga early that April morning, an
gone over to New York to bliop, and hi
tbe very first store she entered a stort
crowded with people buying act da and
bulbs and lunw I er pocketbook, oon
taininK her half-monthly allowance, had
been stoleD, and sue had .been obliged
to return to Sammertown without the
voung lettuces and cabbages and onion
sets and parsley and radish seeds that
the had intended the' very next day to
plant in her mite of a garden. And
' everr day lost in a garden - in early
spring, as everybody knows, or ought to
know, is a iosb- indeed, ana there
nothing in the world so exasperating to
an amateur gardener, as everybody also
knows, or ought to know, than to hear
from a neighboring amateur gardener
"Goodrxnnrrifng, Miss Peppard. How
backward you ara this year I Tour
radishes are just showing, and we've had
at leasfe-a dozen a day for three days
past. And our parsley's up, au4 our
onions doing nicely. And you nsed to
be so forward I
So Miss Peppard, who was . a dear
little sweet-faocd, wonderfully bright
old lady, living in the neatest and most
comfortable manner on a small income,
with a faithful colored servant-woman a
few years younger than herself, a roly
poly dog, a tortoise-shell oat, and three
biros, had two reasons for being sorely
vexed: the loss of her money and the
loss bf the days which she had expected
would start the green things a-growing,
"All the money I had," she said to
Poteona called Ona for short as she
rocked nervously back and forth in her
rocking chair, her eyes sparkling and
her cheeks flushed. '1. only wish-1
could catch the thief. I'd send him to
jail as sure as grass is green."
"Dat's sho' enuf. Miss Peppar'"
Peteona alwas dropped the "d'' "an' it
'd sarve 'em zackly right, w'en dey war
ketohed, to be drug to de lockup by de
neels. Then after a slight pause,
whioh was Unas way, she added an.
afterthought: "Dono, dough; s'pose dey
might aa well take de pore wretch by de
head." ' ,
i'All the money I hadl" repeated
Miss Peppard; "live-and-twenty dollars;
and X can t get any more for two weeks,
for borrow 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 and cabbage plants
to-morrow morning, and she II be aend
ing them here with her compliments
her compliments, indeed I before ours
t,ave begun to bead.
"If she do, I'll frow 'em ober de
fonoe," said Ona. "Better eat them,
dough, I guess. Her complimen's can't
hurt em."
" And, oh 1 my conscience I" Miss
Peppard went on (she could invoke her
"conscience" thus lightly, dear old
lady, because she had nothing on it),
" baby's picture was in that pocket book.
And I can't get aiother. Polly said it
was the last, and the photographer don't
oome that way but once a year.
"Well, well, -you are a pore soul.
sympathized Peteona. "to go an' lose
dat ar pioter dat lubly thing jus" like a
borned angel. . An' yer sister's onliaat
chile 'cept five. Wish I had dat rob
ber yere dis minnit; I'd box his ears so
he oooldu t set down fur a week.
"He wouldn't be here long, "said hex
mistress. " Of all things in the wide
world, I hate a thief. I'd have him put
where he'd steal nothing for a year or
two at least."
" Might be a she: dar's she robbers,"
suggested Ona; " an' dey's all wuss den
caterpillars. Caterpillars takes yo'
things right fore yo eyes don t sneak
in yo' pookit Take a cup of tea, Miss
Feppar . Uar no use of frettm no
An' de cat'i ben a-settin' on yer
skirt for half ax hour, wantin' you to
notioe her, pore thing. Bhe jus came
in off de po'oh a minnit ago."
Miss reppard took the tea, and spoke
to the oat; 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 use
cursin' an swearin', Miss Peppar'; can't
do no good . Wish 1 bad dat robber
here, dough."
But after dinner, for whioh 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, who-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 I how I shall
miss baby'a picture I". Peteona opened
the door tang 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 guesp.
" What does be look like, and where
did you leave him 7" asked the old lady,
laving down her pen. and looking a lit
tle alarmed.
" Out on de po'eb. I lock de do.
An' he's a dirty, ragged feller dat looks
ius' like a dirtr. ratrged feller. Shall I
broom him off, liss Peppar 7 Looks as
dough he ort to be broomed off or gib
eumdn to cat pore, bony, dirty soul."
" I'll come right down," said Miss
Peppard: and down she went. And
there on the porcn stood a dim,
ragged, forlorn-looking boy of about
twelve yean of age, looking exceedingly
" bony " and half starved, sure enougn,
He pulled off his apology for a cap
when Miss Peppard opened the door.
imt 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 7 '
"Then you lost your pooketbook
yesterday 7 " he blurted out
Tna"a&iM h Aimrlv. "That
it was stolen from me : for I felt it in
my pocket a moment before I missed it,
Do jcu know the tblei I
"I'm him." was the answer; and be
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 reteona darted out arid
seised him. shouting : " Golly I got yo'
wish mighty soon dis time, Miss Pep
par . Bun for de constable. 1 11 hold
him. Could hold a' dozen like him or
two or free."
" Let him alone. Ona," said her mis
tress, while the boy stood witbSt mak
inor the slichtest resist anoe.T.
" AinT be to be drug to the lookup 7
asked Ona, with a toss of her turbaned
head.
"Wait till we Lear what he has to
sar." said Miss Peppard. Then turn
ing to the boy, she asked, as mildly as
ever : "Of course you haven't brought
me back - .
"Yes. I have." interrupted he.
Here 'tis, money and alL 'cept what L
had to take to fetch me out here.
found your name in it on a card, and
where you lived."
" But, bless you f " exclaimed the 6ld
lady, more and more surprised, "whit
made you take it u you were going tc
bring ilback 7 Oome into the kitchen
and tell me all about it. Ona, give him
a drink of milk."
" I sha'nt do it &Dect robbers Brits
thirsty s well as odder folks, dough."
And she handed him the milk, whioh he
drank eagerly.
..t , 1 mr: t. 3
"now go on, eaia xuiaa jrepparu.
"Why did von steal tav Docketbook 7
and why, having stolen it, did you bring
it back 7 Are vou a thiei 7
" 81)086 I am." he stammered :
" but I don't wont to be no more. I
wouldn't 'a took it a year ago, when my
mother was alive J but she died, ana
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 a dead and you hain't no
friends, and your father's in prison."
" 'Tain't soft, dat a de fao ," said fe-i
toon a, gravely.
"Bo I fell in with a iraneof bad fel
lers, but I never stole nothin' but dings
to eat till yisterday. I oome out of the
bouse ol refuge two weeks ago
w nouse of refuse 1" exclaimed Pe
teona, holding up her bands. "An
a-settin' in my clean kitchen, on my
clean oilclof I Wot nex'7"
"I was there for breakin' a winder
and sassin' opp," said the boy, with a
show of indignation, " and nothin' else,
though they did try to make me out a
reg'lar bad un." And then he went on,
under the influence of Miss Peppard's
steady gate: "And the fellers said I
was a softy not to have the game as well
as the name, and so I went into that
store 'cause I seen a lot of folks there,
and I stole your pocketbook. And "
dropping his eyes and voice there
was a pioter of a little baby in it."
" My sister Polly's child I" cried Miss
Peppard, her wrinkled cheeks beginning
to Rlow.
"Heronliest child 'cept five," said
Peteona.
"Aad it looks like," continued the
boy, bursting into tears "it. looks
like my little sister."
"Your little sister?" repeated Miss
Peppard, her own eyes filling with tears.
" is she with her mother 7
" '3 to be hoped she be," said Ona,
with a sniff, " or some odder place wbar
she II be washed. Her brudder a dirty
nuff for a hull famly."
" 8he's in a place ten miles or more
from here," said the boy, " with a wo
man wbo used to know motber. 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 send 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 she does, if I'm a
good boy, I can go to see her; but if
I'm a thief And when I saw that
picture 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 reppard took it from bis band.
opened it, found its contents as he had
described them, and then sat lor lull
five minutes in deep thought.
" i on want to be a good, honest
boy," she said at last,' so as to be a
credit instead of a shame to your baby
Bister ?" : ' .
" Yes," answered the boy.
"It's mostly 'yes, ma'am,' in dese
parts," corrected Ona,
"Weil, in try you," said Misa pep
pard. , '
" ion r starting from his chair.
" Yes, I. I want some plants and
seeds from 1 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 7
" Yes, ma'am," answered the boy, in
a voice that already had a gleam of hope
in it "Second-hand Bobby's 7"
" Well, go to second-hand Robert's,
buy the clothes By-the-bye, what is
your name 7"
" Dick Poplar." .
" And, Dick," continued the old lady,
" do you know any place where you can
take a bath 7"
" 'S to be hoped he do," said Peteona.
"Yes, ma'am."
' " Take a bath, tmtonthe new clothes.
throw ''with a slight motion of disguBt
-" the old ones away
" '3 . to be hoped he will." said
Peteona. ,
"Then go to the eeedstore and give
them the note I will write for yon. And
here are two nve-dollar 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
"An hell nebber come back any
mo , ' sang una, at the top of her .voice,
as she went about her work that alter
noon after Dick's departure "no, he'll
nebber come back any mo ,
But he did. J ust as the sun was sink
ing in the west, a nice-looking, dark-
eyed, dark-haired boy, dressed in a snit
ol 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, so
changed Peteona scarcely knew bim.
and the package contained the seeds and
onion-sets and young lettuces and cab
bages, and before dark be had planted
them all, under the superintendence of
Mibs Peppard, in the mite cf a garden,
and Mrs. Brown had no chance of send
ing her "oompliments " that season.
"And now ma'am," said Dick, after
supper, " I'll go. I thank you ever so
much, and I wish my mother had known
you.
"PVhaps she knows . her now,
?aid ma.
And I will be a good bey I will.
indeed.
With the help of uod." said Miss
Peppard, solemnly.
"With the help of Uod," repeated
tne boy, in a low voice.
" But l guess you d better stay here
tonight," oontinued Miss Peppard.
You can sleep in the woodhouse. Pe
teona will make you a oomfortable bed
there."
" Shan't do no such thing t " said Pe
teono, defiantly.
" Ona I " reproved her mistress.
" nil my disnes is wasned, i mean.
Miss reppar ," said una.
" And then to-morrow morning you
can start lor tnac uaoy, i ve always
wanted a baby. Cats and dogs and
birds are well enough in their way, but
a baby is worth them ail."
' (Jolly I now yonr e talkin . Miss
Peppar' I " shouted Ona, " l's always
wanted a baby a wile baby too,
"And if you choose to stay in Ham
mertown, said Miss reppard, "you
may nave 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 drefful smart, nice, perlite boy I"
chimed in 'Ona ; " as lasy and sassy as
he oan 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 i'mt. But dar noses '11
be as straight as ebber."
The very next night a sweet baby girl
with great bine eyes and fair ourla sat
upon Miss Peppard's lap, looking won
aenngiy about, as sue ate her supper
of bread and milk, et Peteona and the
dog and oat and the ' irds, whose noses,
by-the bj e, were a
And before 1oe(?
the most pop'lar
traight as ever.
k Poplar became
Iful, 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 VI ay
about a year after the return of Miss
Peppard's pocketbook. "Who'd blieve
me and Miss Peppar ebber wanted
Dick drug to the '.lookup by de heels
An' all the time he was a-bringin' me
an' Miss reppar' de lubliest chunk of
susrar. the sweetest honev-bner of a chile
dat Aber coaxed ole Peteona for ginger-
snaps, one snail nab more, de Lor
bress and sabe her!" pouring them
from the cake box into the little uplifted
apron. "Peteona 11 bake dem de hull
liblocg day. for ebber an' ebber. for de
blue-eyed darlin wid a little time lef
out for her odder work." Harver't
Weekly.
Words of 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 mrad a rent in a damaged
reputation so that it may not show, but
you oan never make the reputation quite
wuoie 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.
te love our friends all the time-
when we are bo 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! A little moon-
atiiTIA mnaiAal wafAvlvrtrta thA
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 tne thoughts oz those we love, seems
in a certain ense like being annihilated.
Ihe profoundest calm always seems
to come lUBt after the most terrific
storm. The exaltation of spiritual rap
ture follows fast after a far desoent 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 historv.
He is described 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
woman. Lord Essex interfered and
saved the scoundrel's life. In return
for (his, Derrick, in 1601, with much
oomplacency.cut 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
hiadreadful trade : lived to a bad old
age, and died infamously rich, just in
time to lose the intense satisfaction ef
presiding over the judioial murder of
ivirg utiaries l. Ale is alluded to-as
still living in 1647 and as being dead in
1650. During his later years Gregory
Brandon was his assistant, and Gregory
succeeded him, only, however, to die
within a year, leaving his offloe to ttich
ard Brandon, his aon. This estimable
creature was twice sentenced to death
for bigamy. He began his career as
headsman by decapitating the earl of
Stafford, and in all probability ho was the
masked executioner who beheaded King
Uharies. The rnaob t o now called
derrick takes its nameli-oin its pleasing
resembhnoe to the horrible tree so long
kept in fun bearing by the English
hangman.
The Dog as an Article of Food.
By most people the dog is valued only
uuring uis uie; me bkiu la not particu
larly valuable, and his flesh is little es
teemed. 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
sel they can set before a stranger. Sir
Leopold MoClintock relates that in the
Sandwich islands he had the most pro
fuse apologies offered to him because
there was no puppy 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 captain 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 The Greeks and Romans also
nsed the dog as an article of diet, and
many ancient writers, such as Galen and
Uippoorates, represent dog-meat aa
highly desirable dish. Cincinnati En
quirer.
II flftm. vim at nrtijl 'I..M 4k. .aIsaa!
master, you don't know how mqoh two
and five make. Now listen. In one
pocket I have two dollars, and in the
other five dollars. Now, how many dol
bus have I got?" " Let me see them,
and I will tell you." School was dis
missed.
A fashionable belt for the feminine
waist, says the Wheeling Ledger, is
called the uuss band.
TIMELY TOPICS.
The largest bill ever introduced into
legislative as Rem hi v wan th na wla
submitted to the Ohio senate. It con
tained 8,200 nages,and, as it was insisted
that it should be read in full, the senate
sat ud till midnicbt to h par it khmnerh
even at that, hundreds of pages vere
Mr. Eiward King, who has been
writing some interesting letters from
the South to the Boston Journal, makes
the broad assertion that the nrettient
women in the world live in New Or
leans. He says: "At the grand ball
given by the Mystick Crewe of Comns,'
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
naaim) lava In mtihii tha Avil TTaa
after the gathering of bark will be re-
1 l - 3 A A ,
eirioiau vo cenain seasons, ana in no
case will the cuttinc down of trees b
permitted. This is a matter in which
the whole world is interested, because
oinnhnma and nninin ora vamoliai rt
suoh importance that the source of sup-
i i . . a - . ,
piy ougut not in any way to do endan
gered. T. S. Tnoker and
rado miners, have reached New Orleans,
after soendinor flv mnnthn unrtinv
their way down the Arkansas and Missis-
m
sippi rivers, iney naa no money to
pay their way, and, building a fiat at
Canyon City, they . started down the
Arkansas river about the middle of Sep
tember, floating by day and tying up at
niffht. Thev hod to nnah tliAir nrafi
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 reerard to
the French working olasses is that nearly
all are possessed of money. However
littln they earn they save something.
Thrift is their great characteristic: in
fact, it is said of the Frenoh-operatives
that they spend less in proportion to
their means than any in tbe world. Many
keep their accumulations in an old stock
ing secreted in their houses: others a
daily-increasing number invest in va
rious seounties, the most popular invest
ment being the purchase of land. Everv
frenchman, when he can, becomes the
owner of the house in which he lives.
Of oourse he is greatly aided in this
way by the Frenoh land laws and laws
of inheritance, which cut the whole
country up into small holdings. Sav
ings- banks with government securitv.
building clubs, sick clubs and friendlv
societies are also in favor; but no money
is ueu up iu iruuo unions.
A striking example of the sanitary
effects on. body and mind of work as
compared with idleness, is given from
tne records of the rsew jersey state
prison. . In 1874, when all the convicts
were employed, there were onlv three
deaths. May 81. 1875. when thev were
still at work, only twenty-one out of
do were iaie 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
onoe afflicted with the plague. So ter
rible was 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
street. Everybody was sad, for nobody
could stop tne ravages of tbe plague,
The physicians could do nothing, and as
tney 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
oould be effected without opening
oorpse 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 oelebfated
physicians, a man in the prime of life,
rose from bis seat and said:
"Be it 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 1 will dissect a oorpse.
and write down aa 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 religions exercises. During
the day a man uied in his house of the
plague, and at daybreak the following
morning the physioian, whose name was
Guyon, entered the room and oritioally
made the examination. He then left the
robm, threw the papers into a vase of vin
egar that they mightnot 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-
feotive flew.
There are but two cotton factories in
the whole of Mexico.
A lady need not be an athlete though
Bhe 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 Frenoh rhvsioian savs drinkinc
boiled water only will prevent yellow
fever. .
Paris has a munioipal laboratory where
wines, beers and brandies onercd tor
sale are tested.
The debt of the city ef Paris is'now '
nearly $100,000,000, 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
15,000th of a pound troy; 9n a.
straight line it is a foot long.
From the debris of their coal mines
Franco makes annually 700,000 tons of
excellent fuel, and Belgium 500,000 tons.
What is the difference between an
editor and Ms wife 7 One writes things
to set and the other sets things to rights.
He lived above his income,"
Was the dark reproach he bore,
' Till at last it was remembered, '
That he lived above his store. '
In Copenhagen there is manufactured
from the blood of cattle a chocolate,
which is said to be the most nutritious
article yet known to science.
The man who married a whole family
lives in Traverse county, Michigan. His
first wife died, and he married her sister.
She too died, and then he married the
mother of his two former wives.
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Night discovered that his girl wore two
Beta 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, whioh fives
the length of the night ; and double the
time of its setting, which 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 whioh 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 Kentaoky, which seemed to me to
have more sense than any animal I ever
knew, bhe 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
jp4e her. shut the door after the chil
dren, 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-ber 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., As he
opened the door Flora went by him like
an arrow, and though be called her loud
and long she kept right on toward the
village. In looking around the barn for
the tramp he expected to nnd, he dis
covered that everything was all right,
except Flora's nest. The puppies were
All gone.
" We did not see Flora for thi-
wilinn eKn nam a loslr Kvi'rt m" r r a of rr.i rr t .
about three pounds of sausage, which
she kept in her nest until they spoiled,
and ee died of grief that summer. Ona
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
shqw 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 ol
tea, which I bought at a bargain twenty-five
cents a pound. These four chests
of tea was all I bad, 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 each 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-flve-cent tea is a very
fair article for the prioe ; the fifty-cent
tea is tmuoh better; the seventy-flve-oent
tea is exoellent, and the dollar tea
is a very so per ior article, I can assure
you. Bat 1 can't quite go that figure.
Let me have ten pounds of the seventy-fiv-oent
tea.' "
He was sooommodated. How grocers
have changed since then. St. Faul
Pioneer IresA,