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The Everlasting Memorial.
Up dud away like the clow of tho morning,
That soars from the earth to iu homo in tho
Hun,
So lot mo steal away, gently and lovingly,
Only remembered by whnt I have done.
My namo, nnd my pliioo, and my tomb nil for
gotten, '
Tho brief race of timo woll nnd patiently run,
So lot mo puss nwny, peacefully, silently,
Ortiy remembered by what I hnve done.
Gladly nwny irom this toll would I hnftton,
Up to tho crown thnt for ine has beon won;
Unt bought of by man in rewards or in praises,
Only romomhorod by whnt I have done.
Up and nwny, like tho odors ol sunset,
That swooton the twilight as evening comes
on;
So be my life -a thing . felt but not noticed
And I but remembered by what I have done
Tes, like the fragrance that wanders in fresh
ness Whon tho flowers that it came from are
closed up and gone,
So would I be to this world's weary dwellers
Only romomhorod by what I have done.
I uond not be missed, if my liio has beon bearing
(As its summer and autumn movojsilentlyon)
Tho bloom, and tho lruit, and the seed ol its
season ;
I shall still bo remembered by what I have
dyne.
Needs there tho prauo of tho love-written re
cord, The name, nnd tho epitaph graved on the
Btouo ?
Tho things wo have lived lor lot thoui be our
story
Wo ourselves but remembered by what we
lmyo done.
1 need not be missed if another succeed mo
To rt-iip down the llolda which in spring I
have sown,
Ho who plowed and who sowed is not missed
by the reaper,
1I is only remembered by wlmt ho has done!
Not myself, but tho truth that iu lile I have
spoken',
Hot myself, but tho seed that in life I hnve
sown,
Shall pass on to tigns all about me forgotten
Save the truth 1 havo.spoken, tb things I
hare done.
So lot my living bo so bo my dying;
So let my immo lie, unhlaxoned, unknown.
Uiipmisnd r.nd unniissed, I hnll still be re
membered; Tes, but remembered by what I have done.
Horatio Bonar.
. . .-j
THE POULTRY SHOW.
They were two forlorn chicken that
landed at the foot of the garden, where the
river ran, f.iHt wedged in a cake of ice, with
hardly any feathers, and with both feet
frozen. Marcia took them in and wrapped
their poor claws in oil and wool, and fed
them in a basket, nd gave them the air on
fine days by walking abroad with the basket
on her arm, till, as she went by, the neigh
bors were wont to speak of her as the poul
try show.
But Marcia was sublimely indifferent to
neighbors, considering that they existed
only for the purpose of " borrowing," and
being much more fond of dumb animals
than of humanity, going about half the
time followed by her pets a bird in her
hair, a parrot on her finger, cats purring
round her feet and dogs bounding in her
path. She heartily agreed with somebody
who says a dog is a perpetual baby in the
house, never growing up, never telling tales.
Of course her brothers and her superior
elder sisters, nnd all her cousins and their
confidential friends, thought Marcia's last
fancy was the worst of all. " Those ridicu
lous chickens !" was becoming; a family
watchword. Cut their condition on that
cake of ice, as they floated farther and
farther away from the barnyard that was
home, had rather touched poor Marcia's
heart, and she would have given them her
own breukfuHt, and have .gone without
every day herself, rather than not have fed
them. Although the means at home were
limited, still they were not so much so
that the chickens needed to go unfed J but
the fact of Marcia's temper getting fired
early in the affair, although she said noth
ing, determined her to make tlioBe chickens
. pay for what they had ; and when, one day,
she brought in a dozen great pearly eggs
I and laid them in triumph on her mother's
lap, she foVt that she had said a great deal.
But, those eggs bestowed, she a' lowed her
mother no more. Great ideas had entered
her head. She came home one day from a
long walk with a black Spanish hen in her
arms, for which she had contracted a debt
to be paid in her Houdin eggs. When,
some six weeks afterward, a dozen curious
little gallinaceous specimens were running
about the yard; Marcia watched them with
intense curiosity, and for weeks, if not
mffiulhH, to come, seemed to be holding her
breath. Not an egg of her Houdin hens,
however, did she allow to be taken for pud
ding or cake ; one basketful of them went
to buying a pair of young brown Leghorns,
another basketful whs found to have pur
chasing power equal to securing a pair of
white bantams, and then the Houdin hen,
whose inclinations had been seriously tam
pered with, insisted upon raising a family
of her own. But Marcia felt very well
equipped, and she added only some patience
. to her stock in trade just then. At four
months old her brown Leghorn pullet laid
an egg, and on that same day she brought
one of her twelve chickens into the house in
a rapture it was a black chicken with a
huge white top-knot.
"My fortune's made!" said Marcia.
"There are no fowl like these in all this
Fart of the country. It's a black Poland
read about them in the library book."
" I declare, Marcia," moaned her mother,
" I believe you're insane about these miser
able birds. You have no time or thought
for anything else. And here is all your
music gone to waste."
"How mony years have I been taking
lessons, mamma V
" How many years? Ever since you were
born. I was going to say.''
"And I can't play a pRge without my
notes, nor then so that the composer wouldn't
run away if he heard me. So what is the
use? Now I have found just what I'm fit
for. If I only had some sort of carpenter's
skill" v
" Well, I should like to know what you
want that for in taking care of hens," said
Bessie.
" I should think it would be of about as
much use as embroidery," said Emily.
" Marcia always was so impracticable!"
sighed her mother. ,
"What is it you want to do, Marcia?"
atf$t Philip Tom's classmate, who spent
half his lime at the place.
"Just to make boxes and roosts and
hutches for my hens, so a to keep them
wholesome and happy, you know.
" Wholesome and happy 1" aid her
mother.
"Why, yes, mamma," said Bessie. "I
should think there was really sense in that,
if there is any sense in having Hie things at
all. If their water is clean, they'll drink
more, and if everything is to their hen
mind, of course they'll lay more."
"Marcia, I am ashamed of you," said
her mother. "I must beg to hear no more
such conversation."
"Now, Mrs. Thurston," said Phil, " I'm
sure I saw you laughing. And as for me,
I'm going to make those boxes with March.
I'm just as good a carpenter as Noah."
And so Phil went down the garden with
Marcia, and there were days upon days of
hammering and sawing and fitting: and
Tom was going about full of mischief, and
Emily had her sewing under the apple
trees near by, and Bessie came down to
bring a freshly-baked tart or some hot gin
gerbread. 'And I'm sure it's just like picnicking,"
said Marcia. " You ought to be obliged to
me for making such a pleasant occasion.
And I am awfully soiry that we're almost
through." And as she uttered the last
sentence, Philip happening to glance down
at her in that moment from the ladder
where he was standing, her face suddenly
flamed up as if a torch had been held before
it, and she turned and hid its color over a
box of old nails fhat she and Tom an age
ago that seemed now had taken at school
in exchange for pins, meaning to sell them
to the junk-man, but diverted from their
purpose by one of Mrs. Thurston's methods
of persuasion.
" Mamma was always the enemy of enter
prise," said Tom, when they found the box.
" I suppose it's the oil of birch that has kepi
these nails from getting rusty."
But as soon ns Marcia could slip away
from all that merry racket she flew down
to the foot of the orchard, and cast herself
into the deep grass there in the shadow,
and cried to break her heart. That one
glanee in Philip's face, that swift instant,
had served to turn the whole earth on a
pivot to another issue of life. It had, in
deed, held up a torch before her, it had
showed her that of which she was uncon
scious before, and now she knew that she
loved Philip Masters, and she knew that he
loved Bessie, and the world was one dead
blank.
The hens were not fed that night, and
nobody carried the eggs in ; it was only
when the moon set that, her skirts dripping
with dew, Marcia stole in herself, with her
dogs, and crept away to bed.
It was a long fight that Marcia had with
her heart on that September night. She
rose early in the morning, and gave the
hens into Bridget's charge, looked into her
mother's room, and told her she was going
to see Aunt Brown; and ns that good lady,
now that 8he could no longer whip her
children, generally allowed them their way,
no objection was made; and Marcia found
herself, after a couple'of hours, in the arms
ot her old counselor and friend, to whom,
albeit, she never breathed a word of her
trouble. A day of Aunt Brown, Marcia
used to say, set her up in virture for half a
year, and now she took seven of them.
" Seven days' counsel with an old angel
ought to make an angel of me. But nothing
will ever do that."
Yet when she went home there was some
thing different in Marcia's face from any
thing that had ever been there before; and
if nobody paid enough heed to observe it,
nevertheless the fact that the hoyden girl
had vanished, and a grave and active wo
man had taken her place a woman who
never allowed herself to be still long enough
to think. She asked for no more dresses;
she never put a ribbon near her; she brush
ed the kink out of her tyair as well as she
could, and said to herself that it was of no
use for her to try and look any thing but a
fright, with one eye hunting up the other
the way hers was an allusion to a slight
cast in her eye that was not all unbecoming
on the whole; of course nobody would think
of fulling in love with a Cyclops, and of
course nobody could help loving such a
rose and lily piece of beauty as Bess. She
was sure, she thought, she was glad that
Bess was happy ; but, for all that, she cried
sadly about it. Yet after any of these secret
crying spells she fought her battle with her
self all the more furiously ; and although it
wrung her heart, she would insist upon
talking about Philip, and Buffer Bessie to
sing his praises on every occasion that of
fered, iu fear and trembling all the while
lest voice or face surrendered, and took all
his small kindnesses as a matter of course.
The winter wore away at last, and Marcia
might have felt her trouble in their behalf,
her self-denial, and the money, or rather
the eggs, that she had spent, all repaid in
the glossy look of her hens, with their red
combs and their nesU full of eggs. Those
who are in search of anything can always
find it, and she had secured, in one way and
another, eggs of many of the choicest breeds,
the hatchings had all turned out well, and
the result was a great flock of some of the
finest-looking birds in the country, among
which a troop of black Polanders went
about shaking their full white crests, and
hardly able to see out of their eyes. " I'm
sure they're tine,'1 said Marcia. " And as
I'm never going to marry, and shall have to
earn my living in some way, I'll earn it
this way." And she then announced that
she was going to contribute to the poultry
show In the city, and waited for some oppo
sition. But they had done with opposing Marcia,
in the matter of hens, in that house. " They
treat me with the silent contempt I de
serve," she said, lightly. But she bribed
Tom to h lp her manufacture a set of coops,
bribed him with a promise that Bessie
should make him a box of cookies to take
away with him ; for he had begun his study
of medicine, while Phil, who thought the
learnod professions already full? was look
ing in vain for something to do in which to
start himself in life. " Poor fellow !"' thought
Marcia over and over again, "if he only
could get something to do, then the engage
ment could, be announced, and by-and-bye
they could be married." It seemed as
though she herself would be easier when it
was all over. But there was no prospect of
it, and Phil's outlook was dark enough at
iresent. ne meant to ask him, at some
avorable time, whv he didn't co nut to
Colorado, and, after he had made u home
there, send for Bessie. She fancied that,
after all, the best thing for her would be not
to be obliged to witness their happiness at
last.
But when Mircia had emptied the better
part of her hennery into the great poultry
show, she felt it necessary to go and look
after her interests there, and she sold enough
of the common stock at home to pay the ex
penses of herself and Bessie in the city. Her
mother burst into tears with the thought
of the vulgar pursuits of her daughters ;
and they left Emily wiping her mother's
eyes.
It was a fine thing, that show, as Marcia
said, trusting Bessie could make out what
she said ih the riot of the chanticleers, each
rivalling his unseen opponent. "Just bear
the rumpus those roosters keep up !" she
cried. And what with the cackling of the
geese, the quacking of the ducks, the gob
bling of the" turkeys, the clatter of the
guinea-fowl, the cooing of the pigeons, and
the screams of the peacocks, the rumpus
was that of Pandemonium itself. But, ex
cept for the unsightly coops, it was rather a
beautiful Pandemonium the huge Brah
maa with their fluff of snowy feathers like
so many arctic owls, the jet and shining
Creve-coeurs, the silver-spangled Hamburgs
fine as silk-clad court ladies, the Cochins
with the gloss of dark green enamel on the
blackness of their plumes, the superb red
Game, the crested, ruffed and bearded Sul
tans and the little Bantams more important
than the whole. Marcia felt all the glory
of a connoisseur and the wealth of a pro
ducer, as she moved through the place, and
recognized har own, and listened to the
clarion calls about her.
She found a seat for Bessie at last, and
then went to see the secretary. " Phil will
be sure to be here," she said to herself, " so
long as he knew Bess was coming. He'll
find her, and keep her from being lonely."
As Bhe came back with a radiant face alter
a half hour's interview, she saw that her
prophecy was fulfilled Phil was there sit
ting by Bessie, their heads close together,
their backs toward her. Meaning to be as
merry as she could, she started to put her
faee close down between theirs in order to
tell her news, and so it came about that she
heard Phil saying: "Ah, if I only had some
sort of business, so that I could speak with
out disgracing myself !"
" Speak any way, Phil," answered Bessie,
putting Marcia in mind of Priscilla and
John Alden, in spite of herself.
The little hen-woman drew back nnd
waited half a minute before she touched
them on the shoulders.
" Come with me, Phil," she snid ; and she
led him down the lower corner of the hall,
where, the peacocks having rested from their
screaming, it was a trifle less noisy than any
where else. " I heard what you said, Phil,"
she contrived to say directly, " and I have a
proposition to make to you. See here " as
he turned to her with a stare of utter amaze
ment inhis handsome eyes. " Look at this
list of premiums I've taken twenty. And
every one of my birds is sold, some at
ten and some at fifteen dollars a pair,
just as the secretary choe. What do
you think of that for wealth?" she cried,
gayly. " My receipts and my orders from
this poultry show will be only a little
less than one thousand dollars. Now, Phil
you're listening? if you don't feel
ashamed of it (and I'm sure you won't, if
you really want o marry dear Bessie), I
propose to sell out my hen business to you.
You can double it ; you're a man, and can
do twice as well as I could; and you can
have, anyway, in spite of accidents, a good
income of fifteen hundred or two thousand
dollars a year, with everybody buying your
rare breeds and coming after your choice
egg, you know. And you can pay me in
the course of your life, and you can marry
Bess to-morrow."
Then there was silence a moment, while
she looked at the gorgeous illumination of
the azure on the peacock's breast, and feared
that Phil would hear her heart beating.
" Marcia," said he, presently, getting hold
of her hand somehow, " you are certainly
the most ineffable little goose in this hall.
What in the world do you suppose I want
to marry Bess for? It s you I am in love
with 1" Harper's Bazar.
Words of Wisdom.
What cannot be required is not to be
regretted.
Attention .to small things is the econ
omy of virtue.
Truth is often wounded, but never
slain outright.
The scales of justice are for the weight
of tho transgressor.
Men may bend to virtue, but virtue
cannot bend to men.
Witticisms are never agreeable which
are injurious to others.
Flattery is like your shadow; it makes
you neither larger nor smaller.
A needy man, who gives costly dinners,
pays large sums to he laughed at.
From the ordinary manner of spending
the time we may judge of any manis
genius.
Strngth of mind depends upon so
briety, for this keeps reason unclouded
by passion.
There is no less grandeur in supporting
great evils than in performing great
deeds. Livy,
Lobsters.
Of all the crustaceans, lobsters are the
most important and the most in demand.
When alive, their general color is a
bluish-black, beautifully variegated with
paler spots and clouds. Without any
warmth in their bodies, and even with
out red blood circulating through their
veins, they are wonderfully voracious.
They even devour each other, and may
be said to eat thomselves; for changing
their shell and stomach every year, these
remains are generally the first morsel to
glut their new system. They are always
in harness, heavily armed to the teeth;
Seven-jointed is the cunningly forged
mail of their back. Beneath this protect
ing roof move eight sprawling feet, four
on each side, pushing forward the un
wieldy war engine, like the Roman legion
under the shelter of the battering-ram.
The two great claws of the lobster form
its instruments of provision and weapons
of defense, and by opening like a pair of
scissors they have great strength, and
take a firm hold. Between the two
claws lies the animal's head, very small,
with two eyes like two black, horny
specks on each side, which are projectile
or retractile at will. The mouth, like
that of insects, opens lengthwise of the
body, not crosswise, as with men and the
higher raco of animals. It has two teeth
for the mastication of its food, but three
more in the stomach. Before the point
ed nose the long, wire-like feeders or
horns are stretched out. that seem to aid
the dimness of its sight. The tai 1, a six
jointed instrument, is the great locomo
tive by which it is raised and propelled
through the water. Beneath this we see
lodged the spawn in great abundance.
When the young lobster leaves its parent
it seeks refuge in small clefts of the rocks
or crevices at the bottom of the sea,
where it passes the earliest days of its
existence in a vagabond state, for a period
of from thirty to forty days. During this
time it undergoes four different changes
of the shell, but on the fourth it loses its
matntory organs, and is, therefore, no
longer able to swim on the surface of the
water, but falls to the bottom, lying tor
pid and motionless, where it remains for
the future; according, however, to its
increase in size it gains courage to ap
proach the shore, which it had left at its
birth. The number of enemies which
assail the young embryos in the deep sea
is enormous. Thousands of all kinds of
fish, mollusks and Crustacea are pursuing
it continually to destroy it. The very
changing of the shell causes great rav
ages at these periods, as the young lob
sters have to undergo a crisis which ap
pears to be a necessary condition to their
rapid growth. In fact, every young lob
ster loses and remakes Its crusty shell
from eight to tea times the first year, five
to seven the second, three to four the
third and from two to three tho fourth
year. After the fifth year the change is
only annual. For some days before the
change the animal losses its usual
strength and vigor, lying torpid and
motionless; and just before casting its
shell, striking its claws against each
other, every limb seems to tremble.
Then the body swells in an unusual man
ner, and the shell begins to divide it
seems turned insid" out, the stomach
coming aAvay with its shell. In like man
ner the claws are disengaged, the lobster
casting them off much as a person would
kick off a boot too big for him. For
several hours it now continues enfeebled
and motionless, but in two days the new
skin becomes hardened, and wit.iin forty
eight hours the shell is perfectly formed
and hard, like the one castoff. Below in
his native element the lobster reaches the
age of twenty years, and loses a foot or
claw without feeling the loss, for lie well
knows it will grow again.
The Dignity of Bells.
With what strange and solemn mem
ories have bells yet extant been associ
ated ! The long green bell in the leaning
tower of Pisa, said to date back to the
thirteenth century, which has rung for
ages as the sad processions of criminals
have passed over the bridge to execu
tionthe very bell which, perchance,
announced to the awe-struck Pisans that
the wretched Ugolino, starved to death
at the bottom of the tower, had at
length ceased to breathe. The great
Carolus at Antwerp, which first rung in
1167, when Charles the Bold entered the
city ; the storm-boll in Strasburg cathe
dral, which still warns the traveler of
the tempest seen from afar sweeping
over the Vosges; the small bell Horrida,
the tocsin, 1316, covered with mildew,
which hangs high up in Notre Dame at
Antwerp, and is never rung, by reason
of its age and infirmities ; the gate bell
in many an old fortified town, that still
sounds at the shutting and opening of
the city portals; the curfew, which,
from time immemorial, has rung, over
the flats of Cambridge and tho fens of
Ely, and still greets the ears of the
freshmen, reminding him of the time
when the neighborhood was one waste
of perilous and poisonous marshes; the
old Tourney bells, which from their city
belfry greets -the silent, colossal five
towers of the grandest church in Bel
gium, and strike the ear of the traveler
as he hurries along the high road from
Lille, almost before the beacon-light on
the summit of the belfry salutes his eyes
and these are chance specimens that
arise in my memory at random. Good
Words.
Lukens' "Pith and Point."
Re very slow to make acquaintance
with a fast young man.
Misery creeps into the shade, but
craves for the sunshine.
A seaman never finds as many flaws
in tho wind as prejudice does in a man's
reputation.
For sail or to rent A spread oi can
vas on a vessel.
How few are those who think enough
of themselves to command the l-espect of
all that know them.
"There's a hitch in tho matter," as the
fellow remarked when lie tied his horse
to an awning post.
You don't necessarily require a breath
ing spell to determine the orthography
of such words as " bellows " or " respira
tion." Nov l'ork Arews.
NIHILISM.
Rise and Profrresn of the Powerful Itun
stan Secret Order The Object f the IV'I
hllists and the Oath They Take.
The New York Herald has printed a
valuable contribution to the literature of
Nihilism, which goes to show that this
formidable agency of revolution is not so
recent in its origin as. has been generally
supposed. On the other hand, it would
appear from the HeraliVs compilation of
facts that this enemy of the Russian gov
ernment is already half a century old,
though never so active as now.
The first secret society was formed in
1825, and was organized with the distinc
tive purpose of substituting constitution
al government for personal despotism.
It was not long before it came in collision
with the government, and on the 10th of
December of that year hundreds paid the
penalty of revolution with their blood in
the streets of St. Petersburg, while all
the members of the society who were
known were either hanged or banished
to Siberia. The fearful revenge of the
government, however, only scotched it.
It next came to the surface in London,
where an organ called tho Bell was es
tablished by the revolutionist Hertzen,
who advocated the destruction of every
member of the royal family, the titled
aristocracy, and the priests, the equal
division of landed property and popular
representation. Notwithstanding the
efforts of the government to prevent it,
his paper gained wide circulation in Rus
sia, and sympathizers with his doctrine
appeared in all ranks of society. New
organizations were formed advocating
his ideas, and two papers appeared in
Russia, the Sovremeinnik and the Bus
koic Slowo which was devoted to a more
liberal form of government. They did
not last long, however, aa their principal
writers were speedily sent to Siberia.
Between 1858 and 1870 the press had
more immunity, and the new movement
rapidly gained ground, and women en
gaged in it even more zealously than the
men, not only working as missionaries in
the cause of a more liberal government,
but demanding for themselves the same
rights as men. Wealthy women engaged
in menial work. Princesses taught peas
ants. They tauglit the schools and
studied the professions, especially that of
medicine, and on the marriage question
they took the radical ground of ignoring
it altogether and becoming wives with
out any formality of ceremony. The term
" Nihilist " was first applied to them in
1864 by a writer who taunted them with
believing in nothing. They accepted the
epithet and have retained it ever since.
The movement made its rapid growth
since 1870, and in the past nine years has
spread into the army, official circles, the
church, the school and universities, nnd
all classes of men and women, the latter
as a rule being enthusiastic to a degree
that treads on fanaticism. The young
girls in the schools are often the most
zealous missionaries in the work of Nihi
listic reform.
Speaking of the details of the organ iza
tion, the Herald states that its members
are organised into circles, and as soon as
a circle numbers sixty members it is sub
divided into ten circles of six persons
each. Each circle has an agent who col
lects regular contributions from the mem
bers, which are applied to the purchase of
arms and the spread of ideas. Member
ship is not easily obtained. A candidate
has to bring recommendations of trust
worthiness, and, after these have been
Investigated, he is voted for in full meet
ing. It only requires two votes to reject
him, and if satisfactory evidence of dis
qualification is presented, one vote will
uo the work. The oath which is taken
is one of unusual severity. The candi
date swears as follows:
" I, A. B., do solemnly, before t he altar
of my mother country, promise and
swear that I will never disclose, under
penalty of death, any of the secrets of the
' Russian National Secret Society,' before
any agent of the tyrannical Russian
government, having tho Czar at its
head, or any one whom I do not actually
know to be a member of this society ;
that I will sacrifice my life and all that
is sacred to mo in the struggle against
the bloodthirsty tyrants and oppressors
of the Russian people; that I will obey
and execute every unanimous decision
of the circle, without hesitation, being
ready to sacrifice my life, and regardless
of any personal danger I may encounter
in so doing. I know that we must be
ready to light in the name of the liberty
of tho Russian people when tho moment
of arising shall arrive and tho grand sign
be given calling all to arms. I do
Solemnly swear that I will resist, in case
of an attempt to arrest me or any mem
ber of the society by tho government
agents, with whatever weapon is at my
disposal at the moment, without fear or
regard for personal consequences ; that I
will not recommend any new member
without the knowledge that he is a true
friend of the oppressed Russian people;
that from tho moment I become a mem
ber of this ' Secret National Russian
Society' 1 regard myself as the sworn
enemy to the Russian despotical govern
ment and begin to act against it by every
means 1 can command."
Ills Specialty.
There was a feller, writes Little John
ny, with wanted to marry a ole mans
dotter, and she wanted to marry him, so
he went to ast her father mite lie hav her
for his whife. Tho ole man he sod : " I
don't never sea you doin anything; wot
is yure bisnisr"'
The feller he spoke up fore he thot and
sed he was a uockter. Then the ole
man he sed a other time : " Well, thats
a mity honorable pefession, but you
don't pear to have much practis."
The feller he sed : " No, 1 ain't got no
custom yet. thats a fack, but thats cos
I haint had a chance for to show my
strong pints. line aspeshlist, and I only
treat folks wich hits got a particular
disease; no use wastiu my time on any
thing else."
The ole man he sed wat was his speci
alty. The feller he sehratchet his lied a
wile, and then he sed : "Ole age."
At last accounts the Chilian army
had the Bolivian army down and was
itling on him. Boston W.
Earth-Weary.
Tho earth is fnir its fertile valleys lie
As glad as if boneath a Tuscan sky ;
Scarce lisp tho breezes aa they slowly pass
And kiss tho reaching boughs and springing
grass.
Tho birds sing sweetly in the sheltered shade
All nature smiles in summer's sunny glo
All things rejoice in what our God hath made
And man alone would fuller knowledge
know.
The strong ship strains iU moarings to go
forth
And breast tho billows of life's bounding sea,
That stretches out to immensity !
And thus, man's soul, weighed down to sordid
earth,
Struggles and strives from fetters to be free
And heavenward reaches out eternnllyjjjp-
Luther1 ?. iuyyx.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The oddest verse in existence tho
Uni-verse.
A ticklish thing A shad-bone half
way down your gullet.
The Grecian ladies counted their age
from their marriage, not from their
birth.
' A lawyer goes into court when he
sues for the hand of a young lady.
Picayune.
Forty-four towns in Ohio and thirty
nine in Iowa are named after the Father
of the Country.
There is an anti-mourning society in
London, the members agreeing not to
wear black as a commemoration of
death.
Tobacco is largely cultivated in Rus
sia, and the seed used on the plantations
is from the United States and from Tur
key. It i3 certainly very odd that the
Chinese and Japanese both should have
such an antipathy to partaking of cows
milk as food.
" Madam," said a tramp on Cottage
Hill, "would you give me an old pair of
pants, for I'm starvin' to death. "
Norristown Herald.
The Chinese frequently condemn a
prisoner to be kept awake until he dies.
A criminal under such circumstances
lives nine or ten days!
Rattlesnakes seem to abound in South
ern Oregon. Three men recently went
to the mountains, where dens of these
snakes were known to exist in large
numbers, and in a short time killed 700
of them.
A bright boy was walking along the
street with his mother, and observing a
man with a peculiar hitch in his gait
approaching, ho drolly exclaimed:
'lx)ok there, mamma: see how that
poor man stutters with his feet!"
"A kiss," said young Charles, "is a noun, we
allow;
But tell mo, my dear, is it proper or com
mon ? "
Lovely Mary blushed deep and exclaimed:
" Why, 1 vow,
I think that a kiss is both proper and com
mon "
In Ceylon they have nn old usage
among them to recover their debts,
which is this : They will sometimes go
to tho house of their debtor with the
leaves of neunyala, a certain plant which
is rank poison, and threaten him that
they will cat that plant and destroy
themselves unless ho will pay him what
he owes. Ti.e debtor is much afraid of
this, and rather than bhe other should
poison himself, will sometimes sell a
child to pay tho debt. Not that the one
is tender of the life of the other, but out
of care for himself; for if the person dies
of the poison, the other, for whose sake
the other poisoned himself, must pay a
ransom for his own life. By this means,
also, they will sometimes threaten to re
venge themselves on those with whom
they have any contest, and do it, too.
And upon tho same intent they will also
jump down a steep place, or hang or
make away with themselves, that so they
might bring their adversary to great
danger.
How They Eat in Sweden.
An exchange gives the following ac
count of how they eat in Sweden: The
habit of lunching in the very presence of
dinner, or going to a side table and eat
ing your lill of anchovies, raw herrings,
smoked beef and cold eel pie while
dinner is on the very table, still prevails,
and is hardly conducive to health. It is
said that the habit of taking " a sup," as
the Swedes call it, arose from tho scarcity
of delicacies. It was hard to get enough
of any ono nice thing to make a meal of
so you were first delicately inuendoed oft'
to the brandy table, as it is called, and
then allowed to sit down to dinner.
Tho practice is universal in Sweden.
Private houses, hotels and boarding
houses all feed you on preliminary
scraps, and woe bo to you if you inno
cently turn away from the proU'ered
luncheon! You fare like an ascetic and
feed yourself on odors. The ordinary
routine of dining seems in Sweden to be
in wild confusion. Soup sometimes ends
instead of beginning tlie dinner. Iced
soups and cold fish are dainties to tlie
Scandinavian palate. Much of the soup
is nauseously sweet, flavored with
cherries, raspberries and gooseberries,
often with macaroon cakes and spikes of
cinnamon floating wildly about in it.
This is eaten as a sort of dessert, and is
cold and often beautifully clear. Every
thing is blue, green, yellow and black.
Strange combinations of ice cream heap
ed over delicious apple tarts or strange
dishes of berry juice, boiled down and
mixed with farina, sugar and almonds,
then cooled, molded and turned out
into basins of cream, to be eaten with
crushed sugar and wine, appear at the
end of the dinner. The Swedes share
with the Dams and Arabs a passionate
fondness for sweetmeats. Everything is
slightly sweet; even green peas are
sugared, as well as the innumerable tea
and coffee cakes, so that long before the
unhappy tourist has finished his tour he
is a hopeless dyspeptic or a raging
Swedophobe.