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Small Beginnings.
A tmveler through a dusty road strewed
noorns on tlie Ira;
And .na took root and sproulod up, and grew
into ft ti ro.
In-o sought its shade, at evening time, to
Uroatho its inrly vows;
And ao was plons-cd, In heats ot noon, to
banlc beneath it? boughs;
The c'loniioute loved its dangling twigs, the
birds sweet iihibIc boro;
It, stood a glory in its place, a blessing ever
more. A little sprig bad lost its way amid the grass
and loin,
itpfting frtrnnger snooped a well, where
weary men might turn;
IIo walled it in, aud hung with care a ladle at
the brink;
IIo thought not ot the deed ho did, but judged
thut toil miht drink. "
IIo parsed ngnln, and !o! the well by summers
never dried,
Had cooled ten thousand parching tongues,
and saved a lile beside.
"t, A dreamer dropped a random thought; 'twas
olJ, and yot 'twos new;
A frimpln liincy cf tho brain, but strong in
being true,
It thouo upon a gonial mind, and lo! its light
bocimin
A lamp ot lile. a beacon ray, a. monitory
flume.
Tho thought was small; its issuo grout; a
watebflro on tho hill;
It sheds its ladia ie lar adown, and cheers
the valley still!
A imuielos man, amid a crowd that thronged
thd iliiily mart,
Let lull a word ot hope and love, unstudied,
tioin tho heart; "
A whi per ou tho tumult thrown a transitory
bit at li
lt mined m brother Irotn tho dust; it saved a
soul Iroin death.
Oh genu! OU tount! Oh woid of love! Oh
thought at random cast!
Ye were hut a ltl'le at the flist, but lliighty hi
the lust.
' Charht Magkuy.
LOVfl AND JEALOUS! .
i Grace Thornley had been married t.
' year when tho civil war begun, and
lived in a pleasant cottage with hc
husbtind, who was a line-looking
tawny-whiskered young lellow oi
twenty live, as fond as a man could b
of fr" iff, and as well liked by every
br. 'lie was wholesouled and .ov-abler'-'
'
Grace was nineteen a pretty, blue
eyed, yellow-haired little creature,
whose only Jault was a growing ten
dency to be inordinately jealous of her
husband, if he so much as glanced at a
lady who, to the charms of youth,
added the captivating spell of beauty.
She loved Will Thomley dearly, but
at the same time Will's smiles must all
Ve for her and nobody else, and he must
think her just perfection in everything,
whether she really was so or not, and
never must he by any possible chance
hint that any woman living was ever
half so lovely, food, or wise, as her
own exacting, impulsive little self.
Will, being a young husband and very
lunch in love with his wife, was quite
willing to admit, and for a time sin
cerely believe, that Grace was an angel,
and they were as happy as two turtle
doves, or a pair of newly-mated swans,
until Rose Woodward came to pay them
a visit.
Before Grace's marriage. Rose hnd
been her most intimate friend, and she
naturally looked forward to her com
ing with no little pleasure, quite for
getful that her old schoolmate had been
thought very attractive when they
were girls together at Madam Dela
oourt's seminary.
A very great oversight on the part of
Grace ; for Miss Woodward had large.
laughing eyes, glossy dark hair and
wine-red lips, which will, of course.
could not help seeing, and, having
seen, could not help admiring.
It is unreasonable for one to insist
that a man must be both blind and
dumb simply because he happens to be
married.
And then, too. Rose was so tall and
elegant, while (Jrace was tuch a little
childish, baby-faced thing.
It was not Will who made this dis
contented comparison. It was Grace
herself. She was sure Will thought
her silly and insignificant, for she hud
heard him say that he thought Miss
Woodward a remarkably handsome
woman.
To be sure, she had asked him the
question point blank, one day, when
they were walking alone In trio garden,
and he could not have answered other
wise and spoken truthfully.
And Rose was so clever and sensible,
besides being handsome. Grace felt
keenly her own inferiority, and wished
ironi the bottom oi tier foolish young
beart that she wasnot such a blue-eyed,
amber-haired little stupid.
It was a very undignified thing to do,
but, almost before she knew it, Grace
found herself watching mistrustfully
both friend and husband, and suspect
ing deceit where there was none.
She was halt ashamed of herself and
whollv unhappy for so doing, but ieal
ousy is ever a self-mortifying and
misery-breeding tyrant, which, once
having gotten a foothold in one's
thoughts, hangs on like grim death, and
is rt to make a ruin of the tenderest
and truest love.
It was not long before Rose guessed
what was passing in Mrs. Ihorn
ley's mind,- and shaped her conduct ac
cordingly. It was a trine embarrass
ing, certainly, but she was a woman of
admirable tact, and managed to adopt a
safe middle cov rse, privately vowing,
however, to muke her visit aa short as
possible, and take good care not to re
peat it until 6iich time as Mrs. Will
Thornlev had learned to temper her
wifely aiT'clion with some small share
of common sense.
But the prudent middle course had lis
drawback, for Will fancied his wile's
guest treated him with marked cold
ness, and as was very natural, wanted
to know the meaning ol it.
lie did not understand it at all, and
chancing to meet Rose alone one morn
ing in the drawing-room, he said :
" I fear I have in some way offended
vou. Miss Woodward: vouseem so bent
upon keeping me at a distance."
"Not at all," she smiled. "Tray don't
think me so ungracious. It would ill
become mo to treat the husband t)f my
friend and hostess with indifference;
and if my manner so impressed you, it
was unintentionally done on my part, I
assure you."
"A man married is not a man ban
ished forevermore from the good graces
of all womankind, is her" laughed
Will. "If so. I take it as being very
hard lines fallen in the hardest sort oi
places."
"And would treasonably wish your
self a bachelor again," rejoined Rose.
" Yes and no," he replied, still latigh-
ing, with something of a serious look in
his dark gray eyes.
Neither saw urace standing paie and
still, in tho doorway. She 1 ad only
heard Rose say, in her lowest and musi
cal tones, "wish yourself a bachelor
again ! ' and his evasive reply, yes and
no !" but it was enough.
Grace was quite s tisiiod now that she
wa3 an unloved wife. Will should be
free. Roe was better suited to him.
It were folly lor her to suppose that he
ever really loved her. Men were so
tickle and lalse hearted I blie had seen
how it would be from tho first, and all
that was left her to do was to die as
soon as sho could, and find rest and for-
getfulness in the grave.
Having come to this wise conclusion,
Grace went up to her room, locked her
self in, and criod comfortably for a whole
hour.
Will came whistling upstairs.and was
surprised to find the door locked. Still
more was he surprised when urace, in a
smothered voice, denied him admittance,
saying she had a headache and did not
i. . i j . i ,
wihii to ic uisuiroeu.
Puzzled and somewhat angry withal.
as lie had reason to be. Will went away
to his oihoe, feeling as if the angel was
fast disappearing, and his wife, auerall.
vas but. a pretty, perverse, provoking
c iild, whom time and experience alone
sou d ever te;icli to he a woman.
An hour alter her husband's depart
ure, Grace, in a plain gray traveling
dress, and with a. thick veil tie 1 closely
over her tear-stained-1, stealthily left
the ouse; and befote Rose, who, from
her window, saw her hurrying n'ong
the road to the railway station, could
clearly divine her purpose, she was
one.
This was a nite nrcdicament for one
to ie placed in, truly! M ss Wood
ward's indienation, for the moment, got
the better of her pity, and she could have
shaken Grace weil for her senseless ab
surdity. There was but one ihing for her to do
and that was to pack her trunks with
all possible dispatch and leave on the
next train, which she did, to the infinite
amazement of B ddy, who did not know
what in the world to make of her sudden
departure, not dreaming that her mis
tress had ako taken flight, and was al
ready many miles fromliome
When Will came home to dinner at
six o'clock, and learned the true state
of things, he grew as pale as death and
staggeied to a chair as quickly as if a
shot had stiuck him in the heart.
Grace had left a note on the bureau in
her room, in which she stated, in a
kind of hysterical Enoch Arden-like
manner, that she was goi ng back to her
mother, and he might be assured that
neither himself nor Rose would ever be
troubled by seeing or even hearing from
her again. It was her earnest wish to
die, and over her early grive, perhaps,
some gentle thought of her might stir
his cold, forgetful heart into a passing
throb of tenderness.
With the note crumpled convulsively
in his hand, Will Thomley seized his
hat and rushed from the house. It
mattered not where he went, or what
he did now, and ere the next day's sun
had set. he made ono of the many thou
sands of soldiers marching bravely to
the front, to fall, maybe in tho battle,
with face turned unflinchingly toward
the foe, or die miserably in some prison,
like a cased beast, his heart broken, and
death a welcome release from pain, and
grief, and hopeless wretchedness.
The setting sun was rapidly sinking
to his crimsoned-curtained couch in the
west, when Grace walked up the grassy
path to the little white gate, where she
and Will had oiten stood in the old.
happy days of their courting, and
watched the fading light steal duskily
down among the soltly-whispering
leaves ot the maples.
"A letter 'or you, Mrs. Thoinley,'
said Mr. Park hurst, a near neighbor,
" I happened to be passing this way, and
I thought you might iifce to nave it."
" Oh, yes, thank you !" she replied, in
a trembling voice. "You are very
kind."
Mr. Parkhurst gave her the letter, and
went on.
Grace recognized the handwriting in
a moment, and with a glad "Oh, it's
from Will, and he has forgiven me!"
she tore open the envelope, and hastily
ran her eyes ovrr its contents. The
smile faded: the glad look left her eyes,
and with a low, piteous cry, she fell on
her knees aye, to the very earth, and
sobbed out the bitter, remorseful an
guish of her stricken soul :
"Gone-Will goneP Oh, no, no I It
cannot be! And yet this cruel, cruel!
letter only four little lines!"
" You have chosen your way and I
have chosen mine. All I desire in this
world is a speedy and brave death, and
I go to meet it as joyously as ev"er
bridegroom went to meet his bride."
That was all. No name, no date, but
she knew only too well its meaning.
She pressed it to her lips, her heart.
She covered it with tears, all the while
uttering the poor, pitiful cry s
"Oh. Will, Will, forgive mo! You
must forgive me you must come back
to me, or let.me go to you"!''
But alas, her repentance camo too
late! Will was hundreds of miles
away, and between him and Grp.ce's
peaceful home cannon were thundering
their dread alarm, and war's heroic
victims were falling by the tens of thou
sands. They found her lying unconscious
and apparently lifeless under the maplec,
with nor still, white face all wet witli
tho night-dews, and her poor cold hands
clasping close to her heart Will's short,
last letter.
Private Thornley soon won for him
self the reputation of being the most
desperately-daring man in the army.
If anything particularly dangerous was
to be attempted. Thornley was always
sure to offer his services.
He never seemed to sleep, and was
forever putting himself in the most
perilous places; but do what he would,
and tempt fate as he might, nothing
harmed him.
Three years of bloodshed, turmoil,
anxiety and alternate hope and fear
passed away years that had been to
Grace one agony of sorrowful regrets
and wearisome waiting; for she did
wait, and heaven only knows how pa
tiently and prayerfully, some sign from
Will that he still cared for her, or at
least remembered that she had once
been his wife.
She knew that Colonel Thornley was
somewhere in Tennessee, but for the
rest knew no more than the merei-t
stranger who read his name and an ac
count of his brilliant deeds in the daily
papers.
The fabled Lethe is a stream never
found this side of tho grave, search long
and far as one may, and those three
stirring years, active as was his life
and hazardous lm march to famo, had
bv no means brought torgetfulness to
Will Thorn ley's troubled heart.
Grace was so young and impulsive!
IIo should have been more patient,
more forb"arint, more forgiving. He
felt remorseful and self-condemned;
but how make the matter up nowP
Some sucli thoughts as these were
passing gloomily through his mind,
one evening, as he sat alone in hi J tent,
pondering over the subject. What a
sad, sad ruin the madness of an hour
had made of his life!
True, he had now no small share of
fame, and it was not altogether egotism,
perhaps, to say it was fairly earned;
but happiness he had lost, and wife and
home, though the old love still re
mained, and to-night, somehow, seemed
very near.
" A lady to see you, colonel," said a
tall Irish orderly, entering the tent, and
salutin.
" I can't seo anybody to-night, ser
geant. Some begging refugee, J sup
pose. Refer her to Major Ciinton,"
testily replied the colonel.
Bui she's not a refugee, or anything
of that sort, and says she must see you.
Sue's kinder weakly-looking, and as
pale as a ghost, wiii the travelin' and
trouble she's had ; and, beggin' your
pardon, colonel, I'd rather go to the
gu.vrd-hcuse for a week than take your
message to her," stoutly urged the hon
est orderly.
An impatient frown darkened the
colonel's brow, for he had grown stern
and irritable during the past three
years, and was no more the. Will Thorn
ley he had formerly been than the
merry-hearted schoolboy is like a grim,
iron-handed old field-marshal.
" show the lady in, then, and be
quick about it." he said, shortly.
The orderly promptly obeyed, and
soon reappeared, conducting a lady,
who trembled visibly, and seemed half
afraid to enter, though she had but a
moment before begged tho orderly or
her knees to procure the interview for
her.
Tire sergeant instantly retired; and
with a sharp interrogative, "Well,
madam P" Colonel Thornley turned to
know the pleasure of his strange visitor.
The light from the single tallow cau
dle, burning on the table, was so dim as
to barely admit of readily distinguish
ing tho features of o .e in the corner
where the small, shrinking figure stood,
as white and nerveless as a statue.
" Well, madam," and this time
Colonel Thornley's tones were not quite
so sharp, "what is your business with
meP"
The woman took a step forward, and
in a second down at his feet fell the
slight, shivering form a sob, an im
ploring out-reaching of two thin, tremb
ling hands, and then from the pale lips
came the wild, asronized cry :
"Oh, Will, Will! pity me, iorgive
me, and let me die here at your feet!
It is all. all I ask!"
"Grace! my wife, my darling! my
poor, sad, lonely child, is it indeed
youP" He caught her to his heart, and
covered her cold, death-white face with
kisses. ' Forgive you, Grace? Alas.it
is I who should crave your forgive
ness! LDok up, my own dear one. Do
not tremble so. You are safe with me,
and the past shall be both forgiven and
forgotten. It was a hasty ait hasty on
your part and on mine; but we are
wiser now, and shall know better in the
future how to guard against anger and
jealousy the two besetting sins of poor,
weak, human nature."
"Mine was the greater fault," she
sobbed; "and tho love that is without
jealousy, let them say what hey will,
is the only true, believing, lasting love.
I know it now; but, oh. Will! the learn
ing of tho lesson was bitter, bitter, in
deed! And I must see you must tell
you-"
" Not that you have suffered, for I can
see that plainly enough much too
plainly. And Miss Woodward is"
"Married!" Grace turned away her
face that he migh t not see the sudden
blush that crimsoned it like a rose.
"I I went to see her. I did, really,
and she forgave me. Said I was a lit
tle goose, and and advised me to go
and see you whether you liked it or not.
So I came, and now I am here; you
don't mind, do youf And we will be
gin all over again, and be as happens
we were at first."
" Yes; as happy as we were at first,
and as I ever hope to bo hereafter."
' And you don't care to be a bichelor
again, even if I am silly P'
"Yes and no," he answered, smiling.
She laid her head contentedly on his
breast, and smiled, too, though a little
sadly, for she had learned, through bit
ter experience, that
"Into each life some rain must fall,
Some days must be dark and dreary!"
Salt and Its Value.
All our readers know the value of
that familiar and useful substance, salt,
which enters so largely into our daily
wants, and is so essential to our exist
ence. Formerly prisoners in Holland
were kept from the use of salt; but this
deprivation produced such terrible dis
eases that this practice was abolished.
The Mexicans, in old times, in cases of
rebellion, deprived entire provinces of
this indispensable commodity, and thus
left innocent and guilty alike to rot to
death.
This mineral is frequently mentioned
in the Bible. The sacrifices of the Jews
were all seasoned with salt, and we read
of acovenantof salt. Salt was procured
by the Hebrews from the hills of salt
which lie about the southern extremity
of tht Dead sea, which overflow the
banks yearly and leave a deposit of salt
both abundant and good.
Among ancient nations salt was a
symbol of friendship and fidelity, as it is
at present among the Arabs and other
Oriental people. In some eastern coun
tries, if a guest has tasted salt with his
host, he is safe from all enemies, even
although the person receiving the salt
may have committed an injury against
his entertainer himself.
Among the common people all over
Scotland, a new house, or one which a
new tenant was about to enter, was al
ways sprinkled with salt, by way of in
ducing "good luck." Another custom
of a curious nature once prevailed in
England and other countries in reference
to salt. Men of rank formerly dined at
the same table with their dependents
and servants. The master of the house
and his relations sat at the upper end,
where the floor was a little raised. The
person of greatest consequence sat next,
and all along down the sides, toward
the bottom of the table; the servants
were placed according to their situa
tions. At a certain pari ot the table
was placed a large salt vat, which di
vided the superior from the inferior
classes. Sitting above the salt was the
mark of a gentleman or man of good
connections, while to sit beneath it
showed a hum'ne station in society.
Salt is found in greater or less quanti
ties in almost every substance on earth,
but the waters of the sea appear to have
been its first great magazine. It is found
there dissolved in certa'n proportions,
and two purposes are thus served,
namely, the preservation of that vast
body of waters, which otherwise, from
the innumerable objects of animal and
vegetable lifu within it, would become
an insupportable mass of corruption,
and tho supplying of a large proportion
of the salt we require in bur food, and
for other purposes. The quantity of salt
contained in the 6ea (according to the
best authorities) amounts to lour hun
dred thousand billion tubio feet, which, ,
if piled up, would form a mass one hun
dred and forty miles Jong, as many ,
broad, and as many high, or otherwise
disposed, would cover tho whole of
Europe, islands, seat and all, to tho
height of the summit of Mount Blanc,
which is about sixteen thousand feet
in height.
If salt, however, were only to be ob
tained from the sea, the people who live
on immense continents would have
great difficulty in supplying themselves
with it. Nature has provided that the
sea, on leaving those continents, all of
which were once overspread with it,
should deposit vast quantities of salt,
sufficient to provide for the necessities
of the inhabitants of those parts. In
some places the salt is exposed on the
surface of the ground in a glittering
crust several inches thick; in others,
thicker layers have been covered over
with other substances, so that salt now
requires to be dug for like coal or any
other mineral. Salt is found in this
last shape in almost every part of the
world; though in the vast empire of
China it is so scarce that it is smuggled
into that country in large quantities.
Wwn of Wisdom.
Death makes a beautiful appeal to
charity. When we look upon the dead
form, so composed and still, the kind
ness and the love that are in us all will
come forth.
Good men have the fewest fears. He
ha3 but one who fears to do wrong. He
has a thousand who has overcome that
one.
It is a secret known to but few, yet of
no small use in the conduct of life, that
when you fall into a man's conversa
tion, the first thing you should consider
is, whether he has a greater inclination
to hear you, or that you should hear
him. .
Friendship has a noble effect upon all
states and conditions. It relieves our
cares, raises our hopes, and abates our
fears. A friend who relates his success
talks himself into anew pleasure; and
by opening his misfortunes leaves part
of them behind him.
Vicious habits are so great a stain
upon human nature, and so odious in
themselves, that eyery person actuated
by right reason would avoid them,
though he was sure they would be
always concealed both from God and
man, and had no future punishment en
tailed upon them.
Truth is the foundation of all knowl
edge, and the cement of all society.
Many a man thinks that he is great,
but he ii always willing for his wif to
be the grator when there is horse-radish
in the family. Ifiddlttown Trantoript.
. FOB THE FAIR SEX.
Finest Met of Pearls In the World.
Countess Henkel. one of the richest
women in Europe, is now the owner of
tho famous pearl necklace formerly
possessed by tho Empress Eustcnie. It
was sold for $72,000. The countess had
some of the pearls less beautiful than
tho others removed and added two
other rows one which came from the
jewels sold by the Queen of Naples, the
other from Ihe necklace or the virgin ol
Atocha, sold by a great Spanish person
age. At present the suite of pearls be
longing to the countess, earrings and
brooch, included, is worth about $ 180,-
000 and is said by connoisseurs to be the
finest set of pearls in the world.
The Fashion In lretns; the flair.
A New York paper says: It is -ex
ceedingly difficult to keep in fashion in
respect of the style of dressing one's hair.
The coiflure must be suited to the gen
eral c haracter of the face and form of
the head, and whatever the style may be,
there are always many persons who can
not adopt it. The fashion at present is
to have the hair flat over the temples
and taken back to form torsades, which
are fastened so that they are quite flat
and small and do not show from the
front. For this way of dressing the
hair to be becoming the face should be
oval, or at least the head should be small
and round. This stvle must not be adopt
ed if the forehead is either too high or too
low. For balls and evening dress but
few flowers are used, fancy ornaments
are preferred such as eold pins, daggers,
stars and arrows. These articles are
made in eold or imitation. Birds and
insects made of precious stones aje also
used for the same purpose Young la
dies wear mostly ornaments ol gold, su
ver. or filigree work, or pins. For dress
ing hair, large ninB in light shell or real
jet. maicninic uie couiua, are punjuu m
different parts ot the nair. a very sim
Die wav of arranging tho hair is to crimp
it slightly in front, taking it back " a
l'antiquc," with a golden band to divide
it. On one side of the back hair is dressed
with a "cache-peigne " of flowers. A
short curl hangs over the shoulder.
Fashion Facts.
Woolen handkerchief gowns are pub
ctituted for the gingham ugliness of last
m " . .i l
year. Alley are maao up in rauier suu
dued sty! s, but nothing can make them
Drettv.
Linens with bright figures are cooler
than calicoes or anv cotton goods, and
although more costly are far more desir
aKle. They are made up in combination
with Dlain linen.
Many of tho French dressmakers use
find nlaitinar lor the center forms in the
back of basques and gather them into
hne shimngs at the waist. J his style
is becoming to thin women.
Ten rows of elastics are placed in some
new lisle thread gloves, and in conse
quence the wearers' hands will look as
if threatened with apoplexy, and their
anus look liko zebra skins.
White pique comes up again this year,
but it i3 usually plaided by small bars.
It serves for princess dresses, or for
coats to be worn over costumes of thin
ner goods. Pique braids are also used
for trimming.
Mantles with sleeves are worn with
half trained skirts this season. The
sleeve is. formed by a lengthening of the
side form, and is lightly caught together
at the wrist. The trimming is profuse,
as it is on all the mantles.
Favorite materials for summer dresses
are batiste, which comes in dress
lengths, with party-colored embroidery
for trimmings, and Canton and Japan
ese pongees to be worn over skirts of
velvet or silk. French buntings will
also be much worn, made up in com
bination with challies out in bric-a-brac
designs. French foulards are another
popular material for associating with
plain goods. Lace, embroidered and
plain grenadines will all be much worn,
Mantles and shoulder-capes In black
and in colors, trimmed with passemen
teries and fringe, divide favor with the
walking-coats and redingotes ns wraps.
In millinery rich yellow Leghorn and
Tuscan straws prevail, but not to the
exclusion of black and white chips,
which are furnished for all who require
them. The fancy for gold lace, gold
shades in ribbons and satins and gilt
ornaments has not in the least abated.
The bonnets exhibited during Easter
week just past expressed the growing
tendency to yellow and straw shades
and the new heliotrope blue in flowers
and other trimmings.
Made-up suits for little people show
a liberal employment of cotton momie
cloths, which are reasonable in price
and easily laundered. These and other
colored slips are designed to be worn
over an underskirt, finished with a
white embroidered flounce.
Wash dresses of gay-colored cotton
goods are 6ome of them very pictur
esque, as for instance a kilt round skirt
of solid colored calico with an over
dress ot figured cotton momie cloth, the
waist ol which may be a double-breasted
basque. Scotch ginghams in pretty
shades are also made up with plaid or
striped ginghams. The plain color
forms the round skirt, which is trimmed
with draperies of the figured goods.
Seersucker ginghams trimmed with
open patterns of white Hamburg em
broidery and polka-dotted cambrics
finished with gathered ruflles edged
with Russian Torchon or other lace, are
counted among popular wash dresses.
One very hot day a case was being
tried in a court of law in one of the Wes
tern States. The counsel for tho plain
tiff had been, speaking at great length,
and. r- ferring to numerous authorities,
was about to produce another imposing
volume, when the judge inquired what
was the amount in dispute. On being
infirmed that it was two dollars,
" Well," said he, "the weather is very
hot, I am very old, and also feeble I'll
pay the amount mysell."
A crltio says that the more brutal a
crime is the greater is the interest taken
in the criminal. .
Good-Night Wishes.
A blessing on my babes to-night,
A blocsing on thoir mother;
A blessing on my kinsmen light,
Koch loving friend and brother.
A blessing on the toiler's rest;
The over-worn and weary ;
Tho desolate and oomlortloss,
To whom the esHh is dreary.
A blessing on the gin to-night;
A blessing on the hoary;
The maidon clad in beauty bright,
Tho young man in his glory.
A blessing on my fellow-race,
Of every clime and nation ;
May they partike His saving grace
Who died lor our salvation.
It any man hath wrougbt me wrong,
Still blessings be upon him;
May I in love to him bo strong,
Till charity have won him.
Thy blessings ofl me, from of old,
My God! I cannot number;
I wrap ino up in thoir ample fold
And sink in trustful slumber.
ITEHS OF INTEREST.
Dr. Stemens.the well-known scientist,
has discovered that the electric light
has the same influence over vegetation
as sunlight.
A man who uses the floor of a railway
car as a spittoon should be put in tho
baggage car as a spitz dog. Philadel
phia Btdletin.
It now costs some of the largo Ameri- .
can grain houses and other wholesale
dealers $10,000 to $50,000 a. year for
cable messages.
The bones of a mastadon have been
found in excavating a well at Dallas,
Texas. Tho widtlof one shoulder was
over seven feet.
Fity tons of specimens of American
fish, alive and dead, were shipped to
Berlin for exhibition at the international
fishery fair held in that city.
One man asked another why his beard
was so brown and his hair so white.
"Because," he replied, "one is twenty
years younger than the other."
The Boston Post doesn't believe that
Edison's boy teased his dad to invent
some way for a lad lo crawl under a
circus tent without getting kicked.
Gold and silver mines are being de-,
veloped with startling success in the
vicinity of Ashland, Wisconsin. They
are being worked as secretly as possible,
principally by Chicago parties.
An advertisement of a tonsorlal es
tablishment, in an exchange, says:"
"Tho boss hair cuts." Well, suppose
he does, it can't be expected that he is
to have the exclusive monopoly of slic
ing up his customers physiognomy.
Loci port Union.
Some centuries ago the cost of a
Bible in England varied (according to
different accounts) from $150 to $220.
A London publisher now advertises the
New Testament with copies notes, ref
erences and introductions, three maps
and twenty-four illustrations, for one
penny.
An ik'ho.
Some years ago a very fine echo was
discovered on an Englishman's estate.
He was proud ot it, of course, and ex
cited considerable envy by its ex inhi
bition. A neighbor, who owned an
adjoining estate, felt Especially "cha
grined, but was greatly encouraged by
an Irishman who went over the lands
with the hope of finding ono elsewhere.
Ho declared himself successful in find
ing the most wonderful echo ever
heard, and he stood ready to unfold his
secret for a very large sum of money.
The nobleman listened to the echo, and,
although there wa3 something peculiar
about the echo, he paid his money. An
afternoon was set for his friends to
come and listen to the marvelous dis
covery. "Hullo!" cried in stentorian tones
the Hibernian who had promised to
lind an echo.
"Hullo!" came back from the hill
side yonder.
"How arc you?" yelled one of the
company, and an echo answered, in a
suspiciously different key.
" How are you?"
All went well, until just before retir
ing ono of the company, putting his
hands to his mouth, t ried :
" Will you have some whieky?"
Such a question would drscover the
'character of ai.y reasonable echo. It
was certainly too much for tho ono
which had been discovered on that
estate. Judge of the surprise of the
party when tho answer came back in
clear, affirmative tones: ,
"Thank you, surr, I will, if you
please."
The poor fellow who had been sta
tioned at a distance to supply tho place
of an echo, simply succumbed to too
great a temptation.
Ruccoou Ojst era.
The banks of tho rivers, creeks and
sounds which form the inside route be
tween Charleston and Savannah, and in
other southern localities are lint d with
largo ridges of small, bitter oysters,
known to the people of those sections as
raccoon oysters. They accumulate with
wonderful rapidity, and not uufrcqently
form reefs in the channels whereon the
small steamers plying in those waters
get aground. At low tide tho tops of
these ridges are out of water, and the
oysters have taken their name from tho
fact that at such timfs raccoons come
down from the woods to eat the m. They
are a wily bivalve, nd much better
than a steel trap for capturing raccoons.
In rowing from Wappoo Cut, James
island, opposite Charleston, to Ed
isto inland, a distance of-about filty
miles, tho writer has seen as many as
four raccoons upon whose claws the
oysters had forclosed, to hold firml.w
until the rising tide drowned 5 1J '
enemy.