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r Ono " "
At the Gale.
I'liu goltluu liuhh of the morning lies
O'ur smiling river and bending skips;
While o'er the meadow the wot winds sigh,
And bronths of fragrance blow fur and nigh,
Anil the tide flows by.
A boy BUnds under the oak tree tall,
At the old ((ray gnlo by tho orchard wall;
lie looks i.ir uwuy where the blue sea smiles,
Wondering where lie the Fortunate Isles,
And the tide (lows by.
A youth mid a mniden pause and wait
In the sunset light at '.ho old gray Kn-to ;
They silently guze in ouch other's eyos
And droain of the rapture of Paradise,
And t!ie tide flows by.
ISonido the into stands a careworn mun,
'Nouth a wintry moonlight, faint and wan;
lie looks fur uwuy toward the cold, gray sea,
With u nigh for the days that were once to be,
And the tide flows by.
An oi l man stands by the moss-grown gate,
Sorrowing, weary and desolate;
The stui light glcnms o'er a distant grave,
And o'ver il soltly the yew trees wave,
And the tide flows by.
Through the old gray gute, toward the shining
west,
They Iihvb borno tho weary one to his rest;
The new day breaks and tho shadows flee,
Tho tide of tho river flows fust and free
1'ur out to sea!
Susinc JV. Moullon.
POLLY.
C II Al'TI.K I.
"Dick! you are t ho most provoking
boy in the world! You've got no re
spect fur your Bisters or anything on this
earth. (live mo. my letter this instant,
sir! I would not have such work man
aging you, my young man, if mam ma
had only left your hair long enough to
pull." .
Dick, rejoicing in a very elose crop,
dodges under her arm as Tolly makes a
grab at hi bristly In ad.
With a "Don't you wish you couli
get it?" and a delighted cackle at her
grasping a handful of empty air instead
of his auhurn locks, ho makes his os
eape, lodging the letter with a skillful
twitch oil a high bracket which holds a
bust of Dickens.
Tho boys in the byons lanitly had
como mostly girls; in (act. Dirk repre
sented tho single male off-shoot, and,
like the had little boy of the newspapers,
he wouldn't for any money have risked
being born again for fear of coming a
girl next time. j.
Tj,f .... M'itli I'nti I (ttf vi i i . n r nn r
" J""' i.w. ... ........ ...
bid rubbish!" is Tolly's purling salute,
and she proceeds to fish out from behind
the plastor-of.. Paris coat-sleeve of Mr.
Dickens the apple of discord. And her
colorwhieh hud risen unbecomingly dur
ing the scullle with Dick, tones down
as sho reads it.
Supposing .lob had received a kind
letter of invitation from one of li is moth
er's kind friends for the first time, too
don't you think it would have riled
even him, for a brown, smudgy paw,
sticky willi molasses, to have seized it,
jerking it out of his hands, when ho was
in tho midst of opening it, without so
much as "'by your leave," and toss it up
to I he coiling?
The subject of this visit h:ul been
broached before; now eomes tho letter
bringing matters to a focus.
"Not only putting in the peg, but
driving it home," says Kitty.
" Actually names the time for you to
1 1.., 1... 1 !
I'uuie, i ciurii iv i mw.y , mm liihi. is nun t
tlii most oily folks do. They will
come and spend weeks with their coun
try friends in July, and then tell one to
be sure t wall when one goes to the city.
Think of how Mrs. Aytoun treated the
Dodson's. Kitty."
" And you've nothing to do but pack
ui) your trunk anil start,' Polly," says
Mrs. Lyons, innocently.
"Mercy on us, mamma! But pack
my trunk and start! Unless I get in
myself I don't see what there'll be lo
pack it with. If I depend on my alpaca
and blue poplin, I'll be leaning on a
broken reed, I am sure; and I can toss
nay few things in, and then there'll be
room enough in the trunk for Tootems
and Dot t play hide-and-seek.
" Come, now, Tolly, I am sure you look
'nicely in your things. Ever so much
nicer than tho Dodsou girls, who spend
bo much."
It is one of Mrs. Lyon's firm articles of
belief that her girls look " nicer" than
all other girls at all times'. Ii. fact, that
as far as her girls are concerned, there is
nothing for heart to desire.
". And actually," cries Tolly, " if I had
my hands stuffed with money at this
moment I wouldn't know what to get or
how to make it. That eomes of living
in tho country on. the road to nowhere.
If I were papa I'd move to-morrow and
not hide my talents under a napkin."
"Tut, tut. Tolly! Don't quote Scrip
ture in a fret," says Dick. "Always
keep your temper, my child."
"Mamma, will you please to make
Dick behave!" seeing that he dodged all
her efforts to box his ears.
" Richard. my son!" ,
"Oh, you'll scrape through," says
Kitty, taking up the thread of discourse
where it was broken by tho skirmish
with Dick. " We'll all help you out."
" Dot, who was number four, and
always dressed in the others' old clothes,
gave up on the spot all right and title
to any and everything new that sho
might, could, would or should have that
winter.
The family conclave was not broken
up till far into the night. Certain trips
to the neighboring town were planned
and- taken, amd many demands made
upon the family purse.
Hut at last Tolly's trunk was packed
actually packed with "good clothes,"
and ther was nothing more to be done.
It nr.. . ! mil ti. u rrllurii n or ut a ta rif IT. i nrl
that Folly bundles herself up in a big
shnwl for a farewell walk the evening
preceding tlie eventiul day.
Being December, there were no flowers
to assist sentiment; no nothing much,
except bare brown hills and leafless,
gaunt trees.
" Tho sheen were in the fold ; tho cows
gone home;" even the birds gone to
roost. But she would not be balked.
"Til try my fortune," she said; and,
looking around to see that no one is
nera, she stops before a large tree. As
ono of France's gifted writers had done
oetore ner, sue takes a heavy stone and
draws very near.
" If I hit the tree," she says, " it shall
be a sign that before the month is out I
find a true love. If not then not."
Like tho French philosopher, Rous
seau, sue plumps tne tree, and expen
ences the same feeling of relief and ex
ultation.
CHAPTER II.
" Just to think! I'm really starting!"
cries Tolly, ecstatically, bobbins ud and
down before the squatty mirror to get a
good look at her belongings. "Look
out, Kitty, and see if the carriage is at
the door."
"Merciful heavens! what is the
matter P" they cry, as a shriek from their
nioiner reaches uiem, anu a contused
sound of trampling feet.
They rush down, and find poor Dick
lying, white and still, on his mother's
bed.
" I knew it." gronned Mrs. Lyons.
"I've always said he'd be killed by
horses or guns, or be drowned! And
now he'll believe his poor mother."
Dick, who had insisted upon driving
tho ponies, had gotten himself tangled
up with tho reins under tlie horses1
heels, as a boy best knows how to do it.
"Here is a broken arm." says John
Gary, the doctor, " and lie is a good
deal bruised ; but we'll get him around,
I hope. Who will help mo with this
arm? I want a steady hand no flinch
ing." Mrs. Lyons was so weak she could
barely stand, Tatsy trembling, and
Kitty had cried till she could scarcely
see.
" Here, Dot. take these things up
stairs;" and Tolly tosses off the spruce
hat and gloves with an irrepressible
sigh.
Poor Dick stood the operation like a
man. That dreadful stretching and
pulling, and grating together of the
roken bones.
Tolly, like a woman, exactly, held the
juivering limb firmly and gently, helped
ill the last bandage, saw the color coni
ng back to Dick's freckled face, and then
nvca little sigh herself, and didn't know
iow she got up stairs to her room.
There slio was bidden to lie down, com
xise herself, even take a nap. You Know
ome people pin their faith to "taking
laps." and would advise one to "take a
'inn" even though the house had just
burned down.
When they were all out, Polly takes off
lier "good clothes," her new button
oots, the new traveling-dress and all:
jiutting on her old alapaca) for tears
irtke ugly spots), slio cries all sorts oT
ears tears of sorrow for Dick, of vexa
inii with him; but most of all tears of
Usappointment nnd pity for herself.
Win ii she had wept out all her "little
weeps," sho went down. John Cary
was gone, saying he would return in the
evening.
JJe was a well-looking, well-to-do.
bashful man of thirty, or thereabouts,
and esteemed quite a "catch" in the
neighborhood. Indeed, it was tin talk
of tho neighborhood how those bold
Dodson girls had thrown, themselves at
his head.
Tatsy and Kitty acknowledged in sor
ow their unsuccessful efforts to attract
more than a passing glance, and began
nd vising Tolly, as soon as she came
down, to "try her hand and air her new
finery for his benefit."
As Doctor Cary had left Dick feeling
quite ennrortable, tlie Lyons family
seemed in -lined to celebrate this uncom
mon event of having an invalid in the
houp with considerable energy. '
1 ho younger members of the house
hold, Tootems and Dot, crawled around
the bed in a fever of curiosity to see
" how Dick s arm was mended;" Kitty
and Tatsy, having recovered from their
fright, wanted to amuse the patient, and
see him laugh, and Mrs. Lyons was mak
ing some jelly and cake for "the poor
dear."
Only Tolly was as glum as an oyster.
She knew well that a small imp was at
work within her, but could not make up
her mind to drive him out; so she sat
with red eves and sulky face, gloomily
knitting. She didn't laugh a bit over the
girls jokes, and Uick didn t see any point
to them either.
" Oh, Dick, you just ought to have
been looking when Tolly fainted. Doc
tor John didn't even stop to look at her.
Why, if it hadn't been for Tatsy and me,
she'd have tumbled on the floor. He
only said, ' Sprinkle her face,' and went
on punching you about tho ribs."
" He s a slow old coach, ' chimed in
Tatsy. "Tolly hasn't made much of a
start yet: I shouldn't wonder if a Dod
son gets him yet. They are so persever-
in tr
."ft
"Oh, I'm dying of love for him," says
Tolly, sarcastically; "and, of course, I
shall cry my eyes out for him."
Dick was dozing, but these words of
Tolly's caught his ear, and he kept re
peating them to himself. He could see
her eyes were very red, and that she
seemed very sad.
Doctor Cary shook his. head when he
found the family party assembled round
Dick s bed and the boy with a high
fever.
"Too many nurses entirely. Who
will take the responsibility of keeping
him quiet? Miss Tolly, will you attend
to the prescriptions?"
Of course Tolly would, and she did
her duty so well that Dick rapidly im
proved. He could soon enjoy reading
aloud, and delighted in having Doctor
Cary sit with him and tell him the gal
lant exploits of the Homeric heroes.
He brought him Tennyson's " Idylls of
the King," and read aloud to him many a
quiet evening, while Tolly sat near, so
berly working and listening.
"Geraint" was one ol his favorites,
who thrashed robbers! in armor bv the
half dozen, as a boy would a walnut
tree; and brave "Sir Launeelot," who
tumbled knights over like so many ten
pins. They had been reading "Elaine," the
sad tale of the "Lily-maid of Astolat,"
who loved so well and loved in vain.
It is often these rattling, rollicking
boys who have the tenderest feelings,
and at the conclusion Dick was quietly
snuffling and bowling the tears out of
his eyes with his knuckles. Tolly had
slipped out to hide her own.
"Doctor," says Dick, brokenly, "would
you let a girl die because she was loving
you soP"
"Never, Dick, never! But I am not
the slashing kind of fellow girls die
over," says Doctor Cary, laughing rather
sadly.
" Doctor," said Dick, in a hoarse whis
per, " one of 'em's doing it. She cries,
and droops over her work just like the
' Lily Maid ' did ; and she's loving you. I
heard her say so."
"Oh, no, Dick, you are mistaken!"
cries the doctor, blushing furiously.
"Not a bit. I'll tell you who she is.
It's my favorite one of 'em. It's Tolly,
that's who it is ; and she can skate as
well as a boy, and make good traps, and
such taffy ! Doctor, would it hurt me to
eat taffy now P"
As I nave said, the doctor took in new
ideas slowly, but when thoy once made
an entrance into his head, they came to
stay.
h or the first time in his recollection
sleep tailed to visit him at his usual hour.
He lay tossing and tumbling, thinking.
Tolly's pale lace an I wistful eyes haunt
ed him, and Dick's tearful words: " One
of 'em's doing it, she loves you so."
It may have been that he loved Polly a
long time unconsciously. At any rate, it
seemed to him now that he had loved her
a very long time.
1 Ie could stand it no longer. The beau
tiful girl pining away for him. He
sprang up and wrote her an offer of
marriage in the dead of night. He handed i
this letter to Tolly himself as he bade her
" Good-bye " after his next visit, pre
tendedly to Dick.
Tolly took it quietly without opening
it, thinking it to be a new prescription
for Dick, who, with his arm in a sling,
now roamed at large.
She sauntered into the sitting-room
where they all were.
"Does Doctor John always direct
theino you, Polly?" asked Kitty, open
ing it. The next moment she screamed
outright, "Patsy, come here! Dick,
what do you think P Doctor John wants
to marry our Polly. Did you ever in
your born days?"
The exdtementwas intense.
"So there's to be a wedding in the
Lyons lamuy at lastr " cries 1'atsy.
"Mercy! the Dodsons will turn green
with base envy. What luck! Tell us
how you managed it. Tolly do. Oh.
you clever Tolly !"
And Mrs. Lyons came hurrying in, and
smiled so blandly, and crowed so trium
phantly over those "scheming Dodson
jirls, that roily was nerlectly confused.
She did not eet a chance to read her
letter till it had been handed around the
room. Even Dick tried to spell it out
before she could lay hands on it. He
considered he had more right to it than
any one else, and chuckled quietly to
himself at the unwonted success of his
nianoeuver.
" Why. Polly will scarcely have to sret
any wedding clothes," cries one of the
girls ; " the finery up stairs will come in
exactly."
There could certainly be no objection
to the match, as Polly was eighteen, and
Doctor John was -plenty old enough to
take care of her. Polly preferred wait
ing 'herself, but "the girls" would not
hear of such a thing. So when Polly
made another start to the city, it was on
a little bridal tour, instead of beau-catch
ing.
CHAPTER III.
What boy could ever hold his tongue
when lie ought to, or keep a secretP
"Tolly. I must tell you." savs Dick.
after she had her bonnet on, ready to
start. " Come off here it is a secret. I
caught the doctor for you, miss; I told
him how you were crying your eyes out
about him, and how you were dying
after him. I heard you say so. Oh, I
managed this matter nicely. Now,
thank me for it, miss."
Tolly was stunned. If she did not care
particularly about John Cary herself, she
at least imagined him to be greatly in
love with her. It was too cruel to destroy
the pleasant illusion.
And Uick stood hopping nrst on one
leg, then on the other, waiting to be
thanked. She could have boxed iiim.
A moment more and the farewells
were over, and Tolly and her husband
were rolling side by side to the station.
" Tolly, dear," says her husband.
"we've been in such a stir and bustle.
and and even our courtship in such
confusion, that I'm glad we'll have a
chance to get acquainted with each
other. You 11 call me John, won't you.
dear?"
"Oh, yes." she answers, coldly. "Any
thing will do."
" And you 11 kiss me, now, won t vou.
Tolly? Do you know you have never
kissed me a single time yet?"
"Some people are coming, and they
will laugh to see us such geese," says
Tolly, hurriedly, pulling her veil over
her face.
"You scarcely feel that you know me.
do you, Tolly?"
Sue was crying so she could not an
swer, and Doctor John sighed rather
sadly to himself.
" I don't know much about women's
ways, I am araid."
"Not this year, nor the next one.
either." Dick s words seemed prophetic.
Tolly did not even get half way to the
city. Doctor John had gone to the cooler
to bring her a cup of water, and when
next Tolly opened her eyes, she was lying
on her own bed in her own room, dark
ened, feeling very sore and weak and
stiff.
Doctor John, looking much older and
anxious and wan, had his fingers on her
wrist, counting her pulse.
A railway accident, of course,
had a terrible time of il getting
but she found out what a kind, good, de
voted husband she had in those weary,
trying weeks of pain.
When at lastj there came a day when
she could again be daintily dressed in
becoming ribbons, and when once more
crimps and curls were a part of life, it
was a great day for them.
" We were married last year, Polly,"
says John, looking at her admiringly.
"Here it is the middle of anew Janu
ary. We've been man and wife five
long weeks. Quite an old couple, aren't
weP"
Polly put her hand In his.
"You have never kissed me yet,
Polly." J
"I'll do it now." And she put her
arms around his neck.
"He! he! what fun!" ame giggling
from the half-open door, and Dick
dashed off down stairs.
Patsy and Kitty came rushing up to
see what could the matter be, and as
Kitty reported, " Pollj just up and kissed
her husband as bold as a lion before tbera
all," though her face was as pink as the
rose on her breast, and John Cary was
blushing like a girl.
And though when Polly got well and
strong enough Bhe gave Dick a good
shaking, she thanked him all the same in
the bottom of her heart, and they both
petted and made much of the boy, till
Patsy and Kitty declared he was on the
high road to ruin.
But John proving a good husband,
Polly was right. Marrying a man is
like eating mushrooms. If you die they
were toadotools, if you live they were
mushrooms. If a man Jieats you he is a
toadstool; if not, be sure he is some
kind of a mushroom, for which be
thankful.
The First Sewiifg Machine In India.,
In the days when the sewing machine
was in its earliest infancy, a lady resid
ing in inuia lmportea one, ana lor a long
jvrjiu iLo liijaLciiuuB worKing ii m
from the ken of her native tailor. This
functionary was the very slowest of his
end ot time drawling over hem and stitch
One day his mistress came to him arm-
laden with yards upon yards of some
dress fabric. " Dirzie," says she, " how
long will it take you to run those
breadths together P" " Tree day, missis,"
replies Dirzie. " Missis, please, plenty
too much work." "Three days! Non
sense! Ihree hours, you mean. You
are a very lazy man and I'll cut vour
pay. Give me the stuff; I'll do.it my
self." Then the lady retires to her
boudoir, from the inmost penetralia of
which a sharp ana continuous click and
whirr reach the tailor's ears. He can't
make out what the sound is, and
he is much too lazv to speculate
on it. iie continnes to "chew
betel," and yawniugly to ply needle
I .. - ....
ana tnreaa. Alter an hour or
two "Missis" comes back, and throw
ing at Mr. Dirzie's feet the raw material
now fashioned into a completed skirt
says: "There! See! You wanted three
days, you sleepy fellow, to finish this,
and I have done it already." Astonished
Dirzie turns over the drapery, examines
tne seams, scrutinizes the stitch, and
satisfies himself that all is prper and ac
cording to tailors' rule. He is confound
ed. It passes his understanding. There
lies the work done and no mistake. But
how? He springs up from the mat on
which he has been squatting; he kicks
over the little brass vessel which holds
his drinking water; he scatters risht and
left thread, needles, thimble; he stops not
to put on his sandals or to adjust loosen
ed turban and waistcloth. Scared and
bewildered, he runs for very life into the
bazaar, shouting as he goes along:
"Shitan! shitan! (The evil one! the
evil one !) xle do tailor business at item's
house. I listen! I hear! He cry 4 Clock,
cleek, cleek!' Two hour time he neber
stop cry. Den! Plenty too much true
dis word I tell. Ebery bit true. All
work done finish! I not go back dat
bungalow." And he never did. Cham
bers' Journal.
A Carious Family Dispute.
A curious case, says a Paris paper, has
just been decided at Fontainbieau, where
a M.and Mme.Missiessy appeared in court
to plead against each other for two of
their daughters. It appears that this
married couple have seven children
five daughters and two sons and that
the father had insisted on the three eld
est daughters becoming nuns. The
mother offered no resistance: but when
it came to depriving her of her two re
maining daughters, who were also dis
patched to a convent in spite of her en
treaties and delicate health, she appealed
to tlie secular arm. The court endeav
ored to shake the determination ot the
husband, but he remained inflexible, de
claring that a voice from above had
called upon him to submit, and that his
daughters should remain where they
are. The court of Fontainbieau took a
middle course, and decided that the two
young ladies in question should bo re
leased from the cloistered convent in
which they have been imprisoned, and
sent to the celebrated Convent of tho
Oiseaux in Paris, which is not cloistered,
and where they will be able to receive
the visits of their parents.
A Vegetable Cariosity.
A remarkable freak of vegetation has
appeared in the grounds of K. B. Tat
man. at Worcester, in the shape of a
potato vine which bears tomatoes. It
appears to be a mixture of the two vege
tables, and is accounted for by the fact
that a strong tomato vine from chance
sown seed grew in the same hill with
tho potatoes, and the pollen of the two
plants became mixed. I' lfortunately
the vines were pulled up before the pe
culiarity of the growth was noticed.
Some of our agriculturists may derive a
valuable suggestion from this. As both
the potato and the tomato are of the
Eolanacjo family, it is not impossible that
ono should be fertilized by the other,
and a remarkable economy of labor
might Vie effected if careful and scientific
cultivation should produce a plant which
should bear good potatoes at the roots
and good tomatoes on the tops. tyring
Jfcld(MiM.) Union.
TIMELY TOPICS.
An international convention under
the ausniepH of Mia 1-inrmriiiUinn. ..a
the honorary presidency of the court of
ri.unicis is to assemoio in isrusseis this
year to discuss the latest advances in the
knowledge of American ethnology, phil
osonhv. historv. p-eoloirv nnl In f,,. f
everything appertaining to America that
is oi inieresi 10 mankind, jncw light is
exnected tn he th
covery of the North American continent
and unnn itR nrimiti InhohUnniG
I here are in Europe many students of
American nisiory ana science, and this
win be their third congress.
The far-famed Alhambra is in dnnn-er
The hill above Grenada, on which stands
the palace of the ancient Moorish lti mm
of Spain, has recently given Bigns of
mtuiug uwuy, bo umi uiis spienaia monu
ment of a memorable epoch in the history
of E urope is in danger of complete ruin
and downfall. It is also said that, tlio
Alcabaya, a spacious and splendid struc
ture at the base of the hill, which was
formerly the residence of the Moorish
nobility, is in danger of destruction from
the same cause. The wall of this great
Moorish palace is more than a mile in
circuit, incloses thirty-five acres and is
flanked by thirteen square towers. An
effort to restore the palace was made hv
Queen Isabella in 18C2, but the sums of
money devoted to it were not sufficient
to complete the work satisfactorily.
What will be the largest ferrvboat in
the world is now lieing constructed at
San Francisco bv the Central Pacific Bail-
road Company to ply between Martinez
and Benicia. It is to be longer than the
great Pacific steamship- City of Peking
even, and has a greater breadth of benm
than any vessel afloat. Its length is
424 feet, width 116 feet and wheels 30 feet
in diameter, and it will bo propelled by
sictini gciieraieu in eigni sieei Doners,
each twenty-eight feet long. The boat is
a double-ender and is steered by four
rudders nt each end. The hold is di
vided into eleven water-tight compart
ments, which will make it impossible to
sink her. iour tracks will be placed
upon her decks, which will accommo
date forty-eight freight cars or twenty-
lour passenger coacnes.
A child at Dover South Mills, Me.,
eigiu years oia, was horn without eyes
He has evebrows and pvclida nf. tinlh.
ing which, indicates the presence of eye
nans, ana doctors say that he has noth-
1 .it . A
ing wnaiever in ine nature oi an eve
organism. The little fellow is an unusu
ally bright boy. He has never been heard
to utter a word of compiamt at his con
dition, and he invariably rebukes his
friends if they give expression to any
pitying woras. mat ne appreciates,
however, the misfortune that alilicts him
lssnownoy tins iaci: ins little niece
had a cataract Upon her eve. and he had
heard fears expressed lest it should de
stroy her sight. It was not long after
this that his mother heard his voice in
an adjoining room, and going quietly to
tne aoor sue was surprised to hoar
him praying to God that the little baby
might not become blind.
Paris recently celebrated the anniver
sary ol the taking of the Bastile and evpn
the staid Journal des Debats became elo
quent over the event. 44 The taking of
the i5astuo, it said, is not a mere mili
tary act, a material fact. It is an image ;
it is an emblem ; it is, so to speak, the in
carnation of a great social revolution.
So it has been regarded both by France
and the universe. In history it will al
ways signify the abolition of royal war
rants, of condemnation without a hear
ing, of personal and irresponsible govern
ment." The Bastile, literally, 44 the
building," was built by Charles the Fifth,
in 1369, as a fort at the gate of St. An
toine, Paris. Not long afterward it was
used as a place of custody for state
prisoners, and so continued until tlie
14th of July, 1789, when it wa attacked
by the populace and razed to the ground.
Its site is now marked by a lofty bronze
mounment known as the Column in
July, with reference to the month of
which the Revolutionists did their work
of destruction. At the top of the lieau
tiful column is a gilded figure of Mer
cury in flight.
What Happened in Angnst.
The month of August, although less
crowded with battle anniversaries than
Juno or July, has had an unusually large
share of the world's greatest events.
On the 3d Columbus sailed from l'alos,
in 14U2, to discover a new world. The
same day, twenty-seven years later, saw
an exploit of almost equal daring the
outset of Cortez's overland march upon
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.iifjirii. x lie -in gavt. mu nrsi diow lO
English feudalism by tho overthrow of
De Montfort's revolt against Henry III..
in 12ti5. On the 10th, the storming of
the Tuileries, in 1792, consummated-the
triumph of the French revolution. Tlie
l-ilh crushed at one blow the dear-bought
supremacy of Ixiuis XIV., by the de
feat of Blenheim, in 1704. The 16th. 18th
and 19th witnessed the great battles of
V lonvuio and liravelotte, and the com
plete surrounding of Metz, in H70. Tho
2(ith is doubly memorablo to France, as
the anniversary of the greatest defeats
and greatest victories the battle of
Crecy in 1316, and tho commencement of
.Napoleon s two days light beforo Dres
den in 1813. On the 28th of August.
1631, Gustavus Adolphus defeated the
Austrians, under Count Tilly, at Leipsie ;
and on tho 31st. Hood evacuated Atlanta
at the approach ot Gen, Sherman, in
1HM. jsut in addition to all these famous
days, this eventful month has witnessed
the execution of the Scottish patriot
William Wallace (1305); the establish
ment of the Reformed Church of Scot
land (1560); the outbreak of the Seven
Years' ar (1756), as well as three of
the greatest battles, Minden, Zorndorf
and Liegn it z (1758-00); tho birth of Sir
Walter Scott U771); the liberation of
the Christian slaves at Algiers by Lord
hxmouths bombardment ot the place
(1816) and (Jen. Wintield Scott's Mexican
victories f Cherubusco and Saa Antonio
Hope.
I lay in grief,
And Hope drew near to where I tossed alone
Without relief,
And paused a moment when sho hoard that
moan;
Then raised hor glowing eyes and met mine
own.
Never a word she said,
Vet still I gazed and still was comlorted.
Then bending low with wond'rous gra
She laid her hand upon my eyes,
Her cool hand on my burning face,
And at hor touch bright visions rise,
Fresh woods and streams and unimagiued
skies.
In softest tone
She sang the song that has no close
That deathless song which no one knows
Save she alone j
The song that leaves no memory,
Tho song of endless victory
And luture love;
And as I listened to the voice above,
I ielt as one returning from the dead.
Slowly I rose and raised my drooping head.
Ill the Ytar Hound.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
A prowed thing A ship.
The Home Sentinel says a postman is
a man of letters.
The best wire-pullers Telegraph re
pairers. New York Express.
44 I'll take the starch out of you," as the
perspiration said to the shirt collar.
Messenger.
According to an official return, seventy
seven persons died of starvation in Lon
don last year.
Selling introductions to beauties is the
last method of money-making introduced
at the English fairs.
An English paper tells of a black cat
which decoyed birds for its eating by
feeding them on bread crumbs.
All should adopt this stirring motto
during the heated term : Our temper :
it must and shall be preserved. Ka?isas
City Times.
There have been constructed in the
tanked States since the great crash in
1873, and within a periodol five years,
11,563 miles of railroad.
A child remarked, after gazing ear
nestly at a man wrho was bald, but had
heavy whiskers, 44 His head was put on
upside down, wasn't it?"
The New Haven Register sees one ad
vantage in warm weather. At no other
season of the year can you spread the
butter on the children's bread so evenly
and so thinly.
Geo. P. Rowell & Co., in the Ameri
can Newspaper Directory for July, show
that the whole number of newspapers in
the United States has increased since
January of the current year from 8,703
to 9,153. New papers abound in the Ter
ritories. Suspensions have been fewer
than in any corresponding period for
several years.
After the recent death of a Piute chief
in Nevada, an admiring Indian concluded
to kill his own souaw. so that she could
accompany the chief to the happy hunt
ing grounds; hut the woman did not
wish to be sacrificed, and so made her es
cape. 1 he Indian then seized a baby,
buried it to the neck in the ground, and
stood guard over it, intending to let it
starve to death. After three days the
child was rescued by white men.
The Transatlantic circus had a lively
day at Leesville, Ind. Some sharpers
who accompany the show, failing in their
attempt to swindle a resident with cards,
snatched his money and hid in one of the
tents. Soon afterward one of tliw women
equestrians stole a watch from a man's
pocket as she passed through the crowd.
'pi. n . A .I.-
i in iwuui-ii lui'ii iiit-ti hum uit' leius n un
their revolvers. The showmen retaliated
by seizing three villagers, dragging them
into a tent, and wrhipping them soundly
with rawhides. This incensed the crowd.
and a general fight ensued, in which four
showmen and one villager were wounded
with bullets.
A Shark in Strange Waters.
Two or three boating parties had a
good deal of fun with a shark that strayed
into me uanimoie nar nor a snon lime
ago. lie was a regular man-eater oi tne
Sout hern seas, and twice came near prov
ing it before he got through with the
boys. A picnic party saw him swimming
up with liis back fin out of water, and
now and then stopping to pick up stray
bits by the way. 1 hey threw their lunch
to him piece by piece, and watched him
devour it with evident relish. He finally
became so tame as to come nosing around
the boat, and one of tho party attempted
to harpoon him with a boat-hook. In
doing so he lost his balance and fell
overboard. Ho was soon dragged in by
his companions, and not to soon, either.
for just as his last leg was leaving the
water the shark was at the spot and his
great jaws were heard to snap at the holt.
in the water which the retreating leg
left. By this time the party had got
enough of playing with shark, and, hav
ing disposed of all their lunch, went on
to picnic on memories of the big fish and
hungry stomachs. Tho shark continued
his way up the harbor, apparently on an
exploring expedition, and another boat
ing party oi boys and girls met him.
Ouoooy was swinging his feet over the
side of the boat in the water. The fish
seized one of tho feet, snapped oft' a toe
and lacerated others. That was enough
of shark for that boating patry, and the
terrified boys rowed the screaming girls
into port without any further fishing ex
perience. The shark was afterward seen
v divers others who were swimming
on the beaches, but they did not attract
las attention, and be tried no issue with
them. The last seen of the monster, so
far out oi his latitude, lie was following
a tug down the bay, and would probably
tinil his way out to sea and hack home.
Baltimore is punzlod about how this
man-eater of the torrid latitudes hap
pened to loio himself so far in .Northern
waters.