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A Broken Win?.
I walked in the woodland meadow,
Whoro aweot tho thrnshes sing,
And I found on a bed ot mosses
A hird with a broken wing."
I hoalod tho wound and each morn , ,
It nrg its old sweet itrainj
Hut the bird with a broken pinion
i Novorsomg as hfgbnain.
I lound a youth's life broken
By fin's seductive ait,
And, touohed with ClirisMike pity,
I took him to my heart.
He lived with a noble purpose,
And strufinloil not in vain;
But the onl with a broken pinion
Never sours as liijjh again.
But. the bird with a broken pinion
. Kept another lrom tho stiBre,
' S And Dm lite thst sin bad stricken
Raised another from doepair.
Each loss bus its compeiiFiution,
Thorp nro hculiniis lor f auh palnj
But a bird wiih a broken pinion
Never soars as high again. ,
EDWARD MEYRICK'S FRIEND.
Mr. Thoma Springer had lived
several years in New York city, and yet
C3UIn nr. nv ttma h. i
without causing any anxiety or leading
'"jui c iu ifn lEoro man a moments
uunopuy. nor to ray responsibility.
jo begin with, bin name was not in
i imy curatory. He never was any-
.n't, ...... I, .1 . . . . J
vui-ir wuen me ennvssser tor tne flirec
t ry was on bis rounds. lie invariably
1 'ft the house whrro he roomed just be
fore the annual visitation both of tho
directory man and the assessor of taxes
aod whilethese detectives were out, w:i9
either traveling or lodging as a transkr.,
ia some hotel. He took a lodging and
paid Ids rent, monthly in advance, but he
t jund his table at some one or other of
th numberless hotels and restaurants,
wherever ho happened to be when his
'sour for dining came round. He had
t ) place of business, lor he had no busi
es, lie had money, enough end more
' ;n Minuet) for his needs, which was
w invested in government bonds.
p 1 1. niu-t rot be supposed that Mr.
piiDger because he bad so slighta Lola
upon th uoiuimmity was a mere vi
brant. Having rotbiug to do. he fell ii to
ye roost methodical habits of doing it
Me wa the moht punctual of men and
'.'ifmovvorderly. He kept all personal
!!t?c In a single trunk, and he bar
;'plirie(Mio so perfectly that it nevei
" quired more than half an hour for him
get, together in his room all that h
psstd and pack it neatly In his om
cnk.
iim time had come round for one oi
U period io removals on a Saturday,
nd his trunk wns packed, ready for tli
.trriagc; he had taken leaveof his lsnd
ady with his usual formula: "I nr
grateful to vou for your care of me. J
m going ff on a journey to-day and am
uncertain how long I mav be gone, so I
will not ask you tn reserve the room for
.ue,"nnd she said, as his landladies n 1
whvs did :
" Oh, I hope you will come back again,
if, and if anybody asks for you, whr re
' ball T BV vnn nrP"
" I should really like to come back,"
he replied. " You have taken excellent
care of me, but I won't promise; good
bye, good-bye." Then this landlady
jike all the reit cherished for months a
vain hope that the quiet gentleman who
paid iii advance and never made any
trouble would come back. 'For some rea
son the carriage did not come, and Mr.
Springer, getting impatient, went out to
(all another. He stood in the doorway
looking up and down the street, but
tuero was no vehicle in sight. There
was no man or woman either, but
presently a HU'dy young fellow came
slowly along the sidewalk. He may
have seen Mr. Springer's anxious face;
at any rate he stepped briskly to his
Bid- and asked if he could doany .hing.
"Da you want your trunk carriedP"
Le uekid. wiih a little hesitation and a
slight blush. "Iam errors enough to
can y it some wy. I'd lice to earn a
little something." Mr. Springer looked
a second tuce at the young man, who
was rot, however, much younger than
himself, but more robust and self-possessed.
The young man had asked a
fivor, but Mr. Springer, who was
always rather helpless in an emergency,
se'zed upor. him as a deliverer.
"Oh, ii you would," he said, gratefully,
" I was looking lor a carriage, but 1
ddfc't see unj. It is not very far, only
to the Grand C-ntral depot." He said
this last in a low tone us if wishing not
to be over hi ard by his landlady who
was standing nepr. " I will pay you
liberally. I will pay you what I should
have to pay the backtnan, and very
willingly."
"Cooie along," said the young fellow,
shouldering the truuk and inarching off,
followed by Mr. Springer. It was not
along walk, and as the, porter was a
vigorous one Mr. Springer found it
easier to drop behind and follow his
trunk. At the depot the trunk was
chefked duly for Oakdale, a village in
the interior, for which Mr. Springer had
beugbt his ticket. , There was "a half
hour yet before the train was to start,
'Hiidhuneed not have been so worried.
Now ttmt he had nothing to do, he re;
covered his equanimity and. taking out
his pocketbook gve his extemporized
porter a dollar.
" It's ruore than a hackman's fare,
Wt HP" asKcd the man, Btill looking at
It wistfully.
No, u 6 not more than I might have
been charged," said Mr. Springer.
"You've noilea,"ho added, tandidly,
" how they will tnke advantage of you if
you only seem to be in a hurry."
" Wcli, I'm as much obliged as any
hacknitm could be," said the man,
roikeuntr the dollar. "It's the tirs,
money I've earned in two days, and I
wassfiei iilatirg a littleabout my dinner,
when I saw ;ou."
Itoir me," said Mr. Springer. "I'm
very sorry. Are yo'i a a porter by pro-
Tessipnr" ihe nun laughed. The
iruin was ne nan so much an air of good
breeding that Mr. Springer beginning
his sentence to a workman felt disposed
to end it to a gentleman.
. " No, my profession'" but the man
Hesitated a moment. "No matter about
auy profession," he added, "if I can only
get something to do."
"What can yon doP" Mr. Springer
asked. " I haven't many friends," he
went on, hastily, " but I may be able to
givo you some advice. You anpear to
be a stranger. Are vnn nnt. Rn irish
man P"
JYc,?- . 1 suppose I enn't conceal that.
vveu, ipiay the organ."
" Play the organ ! Dear me. Whv.
saw an advertisement in the paper this
morning for an organist wanted. He
isvraatea in Uafeda e. In rot t Df a
the reason I'm going to Oakdale."
wnau are you an organist P"
" Oh, no."
"Then vou were looking nut. fnr
friend? Pardon me."
"Oh, no, not at all." said Mr. Snrinnr.
er, stumbling over his words. I mn't
make it clear all in a mnmpnt. T
wanted to go out of town to snrriri few
days, and I remembered having heard
the clergyman of Oakdale preach and so
I thought I'd go there for Sundav at, anv
rate. You 6ce there'd sure to be a
church." The young man looked again
at this nervous gentleman, but suddenly
bethought himself.
" Will you, my dear sir, do mo a great
favor, a very great favor, and mention
my name to tne clergyman P" He
scribbled his address hastily on a piece
of paper. His name was Edward Mey
rick, and the address he gave was that
of a reputable music firm.
" But I don't know the clergyman," I
uvgpu uii. opriDRtr; men ne said, loos
ing at his watch, "There will be an
other train to-night. Will you allow
me, as a friend, to to put you in the
way of going to OakdaleP" He said it
a? delicately as he could, but it was a
bol l thing for him to do. Mr. Springer
usea anerwara to say that it was the
turning polr t of his life.
" Why, I'll go now." sa'd Mevrick
heartily. "There's nothing to prevent
mo. l mans: vou cordiallv. In furt. T
should have esked you if you had not
got t he start of me. What is the fareP
VV ill my dollar pay it?"
"No, I think not," and Mr. Sptinzer.
who had grown uneasy again, looked
nervously at his watch. " It is almost
time for the train to start."
"Well, here, come along to the book
ing office." and before Mr. SDrinorr
could bring himself well together.
Meyrick had him at the little window,
bad asked the price of a ticket Bnd
almost helped him out with his pocket
book. Only when they were aboard
Mie train and were steaming out
ot the city did Mr. Snrineer
ally recover his self-possession,
le looked furtively at his companion,
;nd found him a ruddv. well-con
ditioned young Englishman, with de
cision and trnnkness in his face. His
ess was scrupulously neat and exceot
lor the story he had told of his novert v
and the confirmation which that ob
tained from his sudden porterage, Mr.
Springer never would have taken him
for a man in need, but would have
thought him an English gentleman on
his travels, livery once in a while Ed
ward Meyrick broke into a low laugh,
which he tried to suppress. The laueli
somehow gave Mr. Springer more con
fidence than anything else.
"You seem amused," ho said at
length.
"Do I? Oh, I beg y-ur pardon, to
be sure, but every time I think of my
self shouldering that trunk I imagine
myself in Pall Mall," and Mr. MeyricK
laughed agaid.
" Then you've not been long in this
country P"
"Oh, come now, if you'll excuse me,
I won't try to give an account of myself.
Just take me for granted, will youP I'm
strictly honest and respectable, I do as
sure you, though appearances may be
against me. I'm desperately hard up,
to bo sure, but if I can suit your friend
the clergyman "
"Let me remind you," said Mr.
Springer, gently, "that he is not my
friend."
"Oh, never mind. If he wants an
organist, I am pretty sure I shall give
satisfaction." Then Mr. Meyrick
plunged into talk headlong and amused
Mr. bpringei with a lively account of
his passage. Mr Springer thought
he had never met a more agreeable
fellow, and the consciousness of having,
as it were, Bet him on his legs again,
gave him a little flutter of pleasure.
Besides the young man was an English
man, just landed, and Mr. Sorineer
fraternized with him a he was not
wont to do with his countrymen.
They were very slight reasons which
had determined our hero to go to Oak
dale, in fact, the reasons were just two
In the course of his patient reading of
the newspapers he had fallen upon a bit
of letter writing which referred inci
dentally to the neat country tavern
there, and once at Trinity he had heard
a clergyman preach who was said
by some people passing him in the
aisle to be the rector of tho parish in
Oakdale. It did not take many reasons
to decide Mr. Springer. Two were quite
enough in this case. The country
tavern was attractive looking and Mr.
Springer for a moment felt a little jpndo
at having brought this Englishman to a
hcuso which would give so agreeable an
impression of American country lite ; it
was Meyrick's first excursion out of
New York. Tho host ottered them the
roister, and Meyrick who was making
haste to Americanize himself wrote hia
name boldly, but Mr. Springer was in
tent upon the county map which hung
in the hall.
"Will you registtr your name, sir?'
said the host to him.
' It's of no consequence," said Mr.
Spr'nger, firmly. Meyrick looked a
trifle surprised. The host looked dis
please!
You must excuse me," said he, " I
am very particular about my house. I
would rather lose a guest than than "
"Oh, I'll answer lor him," said Mey
rick with alacrity. "Here, I'll put
him down as my friend," and he seized
me pen and added after Edward Mey
rick, New York, " and friend." " You
can give us a couple of rooms, land
lord P" The man hesitated sti 11.
"What is your charge till Monday
noonP" asked Mr. Springer, and draw
ing out his pocketbook he insisted on
Saying in advance. The host shouldered
Ir. Springer's trunk and took his bag
in his hand. Tho two rooms adjoined,
and setting down the trunk in one room
he was carrying the bag into the other.
" You can nut thoste both in here "
said Mr. Spriuger.
"But where's your baggage, thenP"
The land lord turned to Meyrick.
" Oh, I'm light-weighted," said that
gentleman. Tho landlord looked per
plexed. "I'll answer' for him," said Mr.
Springer, suddenly.
" Well, I never," grumbled the land
lord io nimseit, as ne went away
xney re a precious pair, jawara Mev-
rick and friend. The friend seems to pay
an uie money ana nave all the baggage
and Edward Meyrick has the name."
llut the landlord l ad occcptcd the
money and he tried hard to pocket his
suspicions also. There was nothing
more in tne conduct ot the two to excite
his suspicions. Tliev took tVir suoner
quietly and went out to walk afterward,
first inquiring the way to the clergy
man's. Nothing could be more decorous
than that, nevertheless the landlord
made up his mind that the unknown
was a detective who had come down to
ferret out some forgotten crime. The
clergyman's house wasnot far away, but
wnen tney came in sight ot it Mr,
Springer turned aside.
" I will take a walk while vou go in.'
sam ne. -1 am not necessary to the
business. What did the landlord say
was ine name oi tne clergyman?"
"Johnson. The Rev. Mr. Johnson."
" No."
" Why, do you know himP"
" That was not the name of the one
whom I heard preach," said Mr. Sprin
ger, faintly.
"Well,, he's only been here a few
weeks, the landlord said. Come in,
Mr. Mr. . By Jove, I declare I don't
know your name."
"No matter, no matter," said Mr.
Springer, hastily; "and you needn't
mention me. You know I don't know
anything about you."
"That's a fact," said the English
man. laugnmg. "ve do look: like a
nair of conspirators. Going P Well,
I'll see you at the inn," and as Mr.
Springer walked auicklv awav. he him
self kept on and rang at the door of the
rectory, it was late m the evening be
fore he returned, and knocked at Mr.
Springer's door. That gentleman was
sitting by the light of a kerosene lamp,
reading.
"All right," said Mr. Meyrick. "The
thing's done, thanks to you."
" But you didn't mention me?"
" It would have been rather different
to do that. No, I made my errand
known, and found luckily that Mr.
Johnson had engaged no one."
" What does he look likeP" asked Mr
Soringer, whose hand was shading his
eyes.
" Tall, sandy-haired, blue-eved. hieh
cheek bones, long chin" so he told off
his points. "Do you think it is the
clergyman you heard P"
"No," said Mr. Springer, faintly, "it
is not. cut go en."
Well, it seems that his sister has
been playing the organ since his last
organist left, but she is needed in the
choir. He took a lantern, we went over
to the church and stayed an hour there.
with his small boy blowing while I
played. The short of it is, he engaged
me on the spot, and I enter on my duties
to-morrow."
" Did Miss Johnson go with you ?"
" Yes. It was her opinion I expect
that decided the rector. I don't think
he knew mucti about music, but she
did. She evidently knew her own
mind." Mr. Meyrick was ready to stay
and chat, but Mr. Springer confessed
himself very tired and thev bade each
other good-night.
When church time came the next
morning Mr. Meyrick's friend unex
pectedly declined to go with Mr. Mey
rick. No. He would keep his room
tha'. day, and as he bad given already
various indications of oddity, the youag
Englishman simply accepted this as a
new but nowise strange sign of insanity.
To be sure he had come to Oakdale ap
parently for the express purpose of go
ing to church, yet he did not stir out of
the house, and scarcely left his room till
night-fall. Then he strolled out with
Mr. Meyrick and heard this young
man's account of his day. It had been
very interesting. The service was good,
the sermon was go::d, and the sister of
the rector sang in a way to inspire any
organist.
"So you will Btay and play tho
organ P" asked Mr. Springer.
" Most certainly. I am better off here
that I should be in New York. To
morrow I will repay you. The ractor
has promised to pay my first quarter's
salary in advance."
"Oh.no, not at all, not at all," protested
Mr. Springer. " I consider the money
most excellently laid out, most excel
lently laid out, most excellently. It was
a service to Mr. Johnson and to his sis
ter." The Englishman looked at him.
"By Jove, so it is," he taid. "I'd
not thought of it before in that light.
They owe you thanks."
"Oh, no. And don't mention me
You won't mention me, Mr. Mr. Mey
rick." "I'll try not to, Mr. Meyrick's friend.
It's a rum go. though," and he laughed
again to himself.
Mr. Springer continued to spend his
visit to Oakdale in extreme seclusion,
lie bade his friend good-bye the next
day alter breakfast. He would return
to New York by the first train.
"Now, really, I say." said Mr. Mey
rick, as he walked along the platform
with him, holding hu arm, tor Mr.
Springer's hat was so drawn down over
Lis eyes as almost to blind them, "it's
too bad to let you go and not be able to
get sight of vou again. Do give me an
address to which I can write in cae
well, in case I should get into difficulty
again."
" To be sure I had not thought of
Miai., sam ait springer.
" Or in caso Mr. Johnson or his sister
Bnouia need your help," he added,
jui-ustjy. ir. springer laid ms hand
solemnly on his arm and looked up from
under his hat rim.
" Mr. Meyrick," he said " promise me
in such an event that you will write to
me."
" Well, what is your nameP"
"Write to me well, write to Mr,
r.ieyrick'8 Friend, New York." The
train bell rang, and Mr. S
juuiueu uu iue piauorm.
. n A, i i 1 o
oy wove, eaio. air. MeyricK, gazing
aner mm, tuero goes a precious lunatic
xjul ue uia me a gooa turn when he
Drougut me here."
'I 'SaV. Tom." Called one nnatnfftna
clerk to another within the innlosnrp.
about six months after our story began,
"here's Mr. Meyrick's Friend at last.
Shall we put him in M or FP"
"Oh, give him to me, Jack. Hc'b
M M is for mad, as mad as a March
hare."
" Well, I'm glad he's happy at last.
It must be a vf ry good half year that
I've been naked every Monday morning
if there was a letter lor Mr. Meyrick's
friend. I'll give you the letter because
I want to see the poor gaby twice more.
He'll come Monday morning next to my
window for Friend, and I shall cruelly
disappoint him and then run round to
your window to see his smile of joy."
The next morning brought Mr.
Springer with his customary punctu
ality. He asked at the S window for
letters for Mr. Springer; he then ap
plied at the F window and mad6 his
final call at the M window. Two clerks
peered at him as one handed him a let
ter.
'He looked a shade more Roared.
Tom," said one.
Yes. I thought it made him a little
nervous, Jack."
lhe letter which Mr. Springer read
in the privacy of the Battery was as
follows:
" My dear Meyrick's Friend : I have
not written to you before partly because
I had great doubts whether my letter
would reach you, and partly because 1
had no favor to ask of you. You know
I was to write if you could do me a
favor, or Mr. Johnson or Mr. John
son's sister. But I have reallv
needed nothing until now, when I have
a favor to ask which I hope you will
grant. I am to be married, yes, be ready
tor a surprise. I am to marry Miss
Inphenia Johnson, Mr. Johnson's sis
ter. I owe it to vou. mv dear fellow.
for if it had not been for your kindness
in a critical moment. 1 never should
have had the opportunity of beine
organist here, and never therefore should
have known the best and mostcharminar
of women. I wish you had seen her
when you were here ; then you would
have understood better my great good
luck ; Ur once to have seen her would
have been to admire her. 1 had already
fallen ia lovo with her before vou lets
uasaaie. Ana now I will tell vou
frankly what I have already told the
Johnsons and made good to them. My
name, as you will learn when you get to
the end of this sheet, is not end never
was Edward Meyrick. I am the Bon of
an English nobleman and ran away from
home with an assumed name and no
money to escape marrying a ladv to
whom I was betrothed, who did not
love me, and whom I did tot love. The
marriage was one of " convenancc " or
rather there was a question of monev
involved: 1 won't go into the whole
story, especially as this letter may never
reach you, but only say that the only
way 1 could act honorably was to ap
pear to act dishonorably, and run away,
which I did with excellent effect. Cir
cumstances since that, especially the
lady's marriage, havo made me free
again. 1 return to my name, I marry
the most lovely American girl and take
her back to England after our marriage
" There is a somewhat grotesoue at
tachment to this adventure of mine.
Miss Johnson when quite vountr was en
gaged to a Thomas Starkey; they were
to have been married, when at the very
last moment, almost at the church door.
Mr. Starkey fled, and never has been
heard of since. The only exnlanation
which appears to have been made i
that he was seized with a panic at the
prospect of marriage, and actually ran
away, l owe Mr. btarkey no grudgn
on the contrary ne proves unwittingly
to have been my friend, but his per
formance neverthelesi was a dastardly
one. I should like at least to pull his
nose.
" And now. my dear sir. for the favor.
I want you to come to my wedding next
month, and ba my best man. I have no
other friend in America on whom I
could so gladly call. Let me shake your
hand once more, and thank you for all
you have done for me, and introduce
you to the best, most charming of
women.
" Faithfully yours.
" Edward St. George."
Mr. Thomas Springer read the letter
through and smiled grimly. He went
back to the othce ot tue Hurglar-Proof
Safe Deposit and Trust Company, and
calling (or pen and paper, wrote as fol
lows :
" Mr. Edward St. George :
" Dear Sir I do not wish to give you
the pain of pulling Edward Meyrick's
friend's nose, nor the pleasure of pull
ing Thomas Starkey's, and must, there
fore, decline your kind invitation.
" Yours truly,
" Thomas Springer "
Mr. St. George read the letter with
amazement and then showed it to Mr.
Johnson.
" He is a lunatic, after "11, H h? not?"
Mr. Johnson burst out laughing. " It
is his handwriting. That is Starkey. He
has been hiding all this while under the
name of Springer. How wretched be
must have been I Yu will not see him,
EiwArd, hut I think I can faintly
imaifi u? his relief when you and I'henie
aie both out of the country. Oood Com
party .
FOR THE FAIR SEX.
Fashion 9Iattcrs
m .
mere is no radical change n the
manner of making costumes, but they
Yiwicu jtuuoruing 10 individual
;au- 'sis are generally terminated
in one or two aeep points in front, and
continued to the overs irt drapury at
me uu. .mey are, except tor ex
treme full dress, cut open, sometimes as
uir as me waist, to display the chemi
sette. When closed at the throat they
uumucu wnu wiue collars, a deep
box plaiting in front, and sometimes the
small hood at the back. Edges of
rjasques are nnished with a cord.
oiueves are cut to suit individual tastes,
a iew puned at the shoulder and the
icg'Ot-muUon sleeves nra nn an; to r.t
ioreign design. Drinires. pfwwmpntprioo
r - wu nuivo vr
and beaded ornaments of the richest de
scriptions trim the skirts. Sunflowers
embroidered in bullion and silk em
broideries on tulle in natural mlm-d
flowers are beautiful anrl
trimmings. They are made in sets ot
collar, cuff and pocket trimmings, and
are also sold bv the vard. Th whit
Spanish laces, beaded and fringed with
wax and crystal beads, are annronriato
trimmings for wedding dresses. The
ends of all tabs and similar trimmings
are gathered and finished with a tassel
or other ornament. This idea is nan-ier!
even to millinery, where the ends of rib-
Don3 and bonnet strinas are either irnth-
ered at the end or shirred a few inches
above and the ends fringed, producing
the same effect. The colore d nltuhinira
of la -1 season are replaced on the edges
of the newest importations of walking
drosses by bands of colored plush.
Shirred trimmings are still used, but not
so extensively as last season. Knife plait
ings share the favor they have held so
long with box plaitings this season. The
whole front of a dress is sometimes laid
in line knife plaits. This is seen only on
plain silk and satin. Dress nattema
with embroidered trimmings are nnn of
me novelties. A new material for in
fants' cloakings is of snow white cloth,
with raised figures. Black lace is sel
dom seen this season never in millinery-rand
only the richest Spanish lace
is used on black silk costumes. A large
shawl is the most effective trimming for
one of these serviceable toilets, draped
to form the oversfcirt. The smaller
shawls are used as a fichu or iie, for
either house or street. Several kinds of
white lace are used for trimming white
fichus. The centers are of mouselaine
de soie or silk muslin and edged with
Breton, Duchess, Valenciennes, Maltese,
Aiencon ana me new vermicelli lace.
Three fichus are caught at the left side
of the bejt and fastened by a large bow
with short ends of satin sash ribbon
called the Watsonian bow. Ties of
seven, eight and nine inches in width
are of India mull with lace or embroid
ered insertions and edged with lace.
Chemisettes of Duchess lace are finished
at the neck with crepe lisse ruchings.
J abots are made with cascades of these
laces and range in price from $200 up to
any price, according to the hneused.
Breakfast caps are worn universally by
married ladies as well as matrons. 1'hey
are made generally of satin ribbon and
Breton lace, and occasionally a hand
keichief, with delicately-printed b-rdsr,
is effectively used in their manufacture.
Irish tatting and crochet laces are very
fashionable. Tha newest lace of tue
.season is the real Irish point or Carriek
macross, trom two to five inches wide
and from $5 to $15 a yard. An imita
tion of this, on baitiste, is called Hop.i
ton, or Irish point embroidery, and is
from eighty cents to $3 a yatd. New
Yoric Herald.
Wei tknd Notes for fVoiucu.
The French minister of public in
struction has appropriated $20,000
for the establishment of a normal schoo
for yourg women.
Mr. Moody has built a girl's seminary
at Northlield. Mass.. in which board
and tuition are furnished for $100 a year.
A hundred pupils are ready to enter tho
institution at the opening this fall.
A young lady in Newport. Conn., lias
this season gathered with her own
hands from the fourteen-acre nond near
by over 800 pond lilies (American
lotus) and torwarded them to the
Flower Mission in New York.
Some good women of Paris have
formed a society called the Association
oc-s Femnies de Mode, which takes under
itijsheitering wing women who belong to
tue liberal professions and are, by mis-
iortune or tne loss ot their natural pro
tectors, left without resources.
A social philosopher takes note that
where ajiady is very pretty one never
looks.at her dress, and where the toilet is
very striking, one lorgets to look at the
we irer. Jn the first cas the dress is an
adjunct to tho woman, in the latter the
woman is an accessory of the dress.
The Irish university bill provides
that the honors and degrees of the n .w
Irish university shall be open to women
as weil us to men. A society has been
formed to procure tho endowment of
scholarships and other means of aid for
the higher education of women in
Ireland.
This may be a warning to the ladies
who paint and powder their faces until
they look like the wax-faced figures
intended to exhibit goods on. A lady
in New York went up to a dummy to
put a shawl upon it to see how it looked,
but when the dummy turned upon her
with anger and indignation, tho lady
saw that it wasn't a wire figure, but a
would-be blooming lass of forty or
more.
When Secretary Chase organized the
national banking system he organized
the bureau with two ladies aud
one gentleman. One of these ladies,
then a young girl, but now a
widow, is still employed by the govern
'iient in its national banking business.
The most used sets of sheets, figures
and report made in the office of the
comptroller of the currency are those
prepared by the two ladies.
A Pike county (Penn.) womnn jioked
up from the door ot m'r I edrooru what
he landed was her belt. It waa a blaek
Mik". She put ii down again.
The Pariahs of Taris.
Bight in the very heart of Paris, in the
Rue des Lyonnais and next door to the
church of Gaint Medard, the visitor who
has courage enough to see such a sight
may find a lodging-house and testaurant
frequented and patronized by the pa
riahs of Parts. The somber building,
covered with smoke, and begrimed
without and within, has no flaming
Elacard. Its owner has not christened
is house with any high-sounding name
to qualify the word " hotel," and the
lantern which hanirs out at the first
floor alone indicates that lodging may
be had within. The windows of the
ground floor are closed, and the panes
have been carefully whitewashed to save
curtains. Now and then a man comes
touching down the street, pushes with
nis shoulder against the greasy door, and
enters.
The hesitating wanderer, who casts
his eye up at the lantern and shudders
when he reaches the door as if all hope
were abandoned, has perhf.ps seen bet
ter days. His demeanor contrasts
strangely with that of the next comer,
who has his hands in his pockets, jing
ling the few coppers which will enable
him to eat and drink, as well as obtain
a bed. All sorts and conditions of men
find their way to the Rue des Lyonnais.
The place has a reputation for cheapness,
and poverty gives men strange bed
fellows and companions, so that the
fastidious must put all their finer feel
ings in their pockets when they find
that their ideas are not counterbalanced
by a certain sum of money sufficient to
enable them to maintain their reputa
tion. Follow the man who has iust gone in.
who looks like a student of the Raoul
Rigault school, and who carries a bun
dle of manuscript under his arm, as if
he bad been taking copious notes at some
lecture, or had been copying some data
from the well-thuncbed folios in the
public libraries. The door, when pushed
open, leads to a passage, the tloor ot
which is caked with dirt, in trout are
the stairs, and a lantern stands on dark
days at the turn fo as to prevent the
lodgers from breaking their limbs. On
the left of tne door is the restaurant,
with its low ceiling, dirty floor and
green tables, wmie an inaiscribabie
odor of damp straw, old clothes, etc.,
pervades the place.
Honesty does not appear to De a promi
nent trait in the character of the cus
tomers of this establishment. The
pewter platters, which are used to pro
tect the food served from any contact
with the table, are attache 1 to the wood
with thin but stout chains, for the pro
prietor knows that the merest trifle his
some value in the eyes of a man whose
cravings and stomach cause him to rise
against his neighbor, take what belongs
to him, and find some customer for the
stolen property. Benches, worn and
stained with use, are the only seats pro
vided, and the luxury of knives and
forks is unknown. True, every cus
tomer carries his own knife, and knows
how to uso it on a pinch, while more
than one has been arrested by the police,
dragged from his lair, his hands: and
finger-nail bearing traces of the blood
shed he has ' aitted. Forks are quite
superfluous .ae"e fingers can be used,
and then meat is not sold in the restau
rant. Portions of vegetables fried in
some nameless tat can be had for a
penny, wtile the bouillon, or broth,
whiih has some " eyes "of grease on it
lor" the sake of appearances, is sold for
about half that sum.
Contrary to tho custom prevailing in
other establishments of this description,
neither wine, coffee or brandy is sold
here. The only beverage the customers
can obtain is what the proprietor has
been pleased to denominate "beer,"
made without hops, by the owner of the
place in some dark cellar, and sold for
two pence a quart a price which effec
tually prevents any grumbling. Bread
is generally brought into the houso by
the customer, who can buy old crusts
and leavings from the restaurants lor
three half-penco a pound.
So much for the restaurant, which
has peculiarities of its own unlike the
house in the Boulevard do la Giro,
where the customer enters, take a penny
from his pocket, and places It on a
plank, when it is swept in ry some un
seim individual, and in return a tin pan
nikin, full f tiery spirit, more than half
vitriol, called " cognac," is handed out,
while the receptacle which contains it is
chained to the counter, or like that house
in the Rue des Anglais, where men may
pay so much an hour and drink as much
as they can. London Globe.
Interesting Figures.
Nin veh was fourteen miles long,
eight miles wide and forty-six miles
round, with a wall thick enouth for
three chariots abreast. Babylon was
fifty miles within the walls, which were
seventv-five feet thick and 100 feet high,
with f 00 brazen gates. The temple of
Diana, at Ephesus, was 425 feet long,
225 feet wide, with 127 columns tdxty
feet high, each one the gift of a king
it was 100 years in building. The large
pyramid was 4SI feet in height, and
eighty-one feet on the sides. The base
covers eleven acres. The stones are
sixty feet in length, and the layers are
208. It employed 350,000 men in build
ing. The Labyrinth, in Exypt, contains
300 chambers and twelve halls. Thebes,
in Egypt, presents ruins twenty-seven
miles round, and contained 350,000 citi
zens and 400,000 slaves. The temple of
Delyhos was so rich in decorations that
it was plundered of $50,000,000, and the
Emperor Nero carried a ay from it 300
Btatues. The walls of Rome were thir
teen miles round.
A romance may sometimes be hid in a
package of coffee. In a coffee grinding
mill in Chicago a maiden of advancing
age placed in several packages ot coffee
a card saying that auy gentleman matri
monially inclined niiizht add res her.
An aged and wealthy Milwaukee
widower quarreled with his housekeeper
and while preparing his lonely breakfast "
t mnd " Aggie's "card, and now she is
Mrs. Milwaukee.