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1
Never 7,Ihnl What "They" Say.
Don't worry and frot,
Aliout what people think
Of your ways or your moans
Of your food or your drink. '
If you know you are doing
Your bent ovcry day,
With tli right on your side,
Never mind what "they " say.
Layout in tiio morning
Your plans for caeh hour,
And novor forgot
That old time is a power.
This also remember
'Mong truths old and new
The world in too busy
To think much of you.
Then garner the minutes
That make up tho hours,
And pluck in your pilgrimage
Honor's bright flowers.
Uhould grumblers assure you
Your course will not pay,
Wih coiiMoience at rest,
Never mind what " they " say.
Too many have loitorod,
Until tho ebb tido,
While seeking opinions
From those at their sido,
Too many good swimmers
Have chosen to sink,
Because thoy are martyrs
To "what pooplo think."
Then let us, forgetting
Tho insensate throng,
That joistlos us daily
While marching along,
TresH onward and upward,
And make no delay
And though people talk,
Never mind what " they " say.
t! - J L. 1
Aunt Kecloy's Money.
It was no great pleasure to any
of the Goldsburys when Aunt Keeley
wrote from her home in a distant State
that she was coming to pay them a brief
visit.
She was only the half-sister of their
grandpapa, and had never manifested
any interest in or affection for her
relatives. Her husband had made
money, and they had thereupon lived in
a, superior style, in their distant home,
ftppaTTMJv. quite indifferent to their
leW proTiFoirtrrehitjveB. Indeed, bo
little communication niuv eiieiea oe
tween them that, as Mrs. John Golds-
bury observ ed, ' " they would never have
known that Uncle lveeley was sun
living, but for hearing of his death
Long, however, before this latter event,
all the Goldsburys had been aware that
Mr. Samuel Keeley had made a will,
whereby he left the whole of his
nronertv in his wife, to be beaueathed
by her, at her death, to his nephew and
namesake, bamuel Keeley, Jr.
This had been cause sufficient to
deprive them of all interest in the
Keeleys. Wherefore, it was not strange
that the prospect of a visit from the
widow shortly after her husband death,
should have inspired them with no
great degree of ple-sure.
The two Goidsbury brothers, Mr,
John and Mr. Ilenry, left the matter to
their wives, and those ladies, after a
mutual consultation, agreed that the
promised visit would be a bore, and that
Aunt Keeley must, by all means, be put
off.
So Mrs. John, who was beginning to
aspire to fashionable society, wrote that
she was about taking her family to the
seashore, and perhaps Aunt Keeley
would prefer to come to them in Lie
cember, well knowing, from the old
liy's hint of rheumatism, that Bhe
iS3id scarcely venture upon so long a
journey at that season.
Mis. Henry, on her part, informed
hor husband's grand-aunt that they
were thinking of repairing and adding
to their house they had a kitchen
dresser and coal-bin in contemplation
and Aunt Keeley would be so dreadfully
annoyed by the noise and confusion
that no doubt she would prefer to post
pone her visit until she could be made
more comfortable.
No answer was received from the old
lady, and the two sisters-in-law con
gratulated themselves on having so
easily gotten rid of her.
But, one day, when Mr. Henry Golds
I bury camo home to dinner, he was met
( by his wife with a startling piece of in-
telligence.
I Mr. bamuel Keeley, Jr., was dead!
v lie liad actually died a very short
time after the decease of his uncle, and
the Goldsburys had never known of it.
Mrs. Ilenry had this information from
an acquaintance who had been in Aunt
Keeley's neighborhood at the time of
the young man's death.
"Well," said Mr.. Goidsbury, coolly,
" I don't see why yon should be so ex
cited over it, Emma. We shan't be
called dpon to go into mourning for
him."
" How stupid of you, Henry ! Don't
f ou see that now he is dead the old
ady can leave her money to whom she
pleases, no other heir having been men
tioned in her husband's will ?"
" Ah," said Mr. Goidsbury, in sudden
enlightenment, " so she can r
" And," pursued Emma, eagerly, "
haven't the least doubt but that her pro
posed visit must have been for the pur
pose of choosing an hoir from amongst
us ; for, though distant, we are yet her
nearest relations.
"It may be so!" said her husband,
thoughtfully, stroking his whiskers,
" I know it must be so ! Or, if she
has no such intention at present, you
know she may havo wheu she gets
among us. 1
- --"- - i lm (tj- ml '.
"Why, of course, I shall write at
onco and invito her ; and I think, Harry,
that at present wo had not better say
anything at present to your brother and
Lucy about young Keeley a death, iney
inignt think that wo wero acting from
interested motives ; and, besides, Lucy
might bo beforehand with me. Sho is
so grasping."
"Grasping? I never before heard
that of John's wife."
" Oh, most people are, you know
when tho temptation offers."
Mr. Goidsbury shrugged his shoulders.
" Well, do as you please ; and if the
old lady chooses to leave us hor money,
why it won't do her or ourselves tiny
harm"
So tho letter was written, and in due
time Aunt Keeley arrived.
She was a tall, stiff, precise old lady
with a stately manner and a hard, pene
trating look. She dressed in old-fash
ioned black silks and velvets, and talked
much about her family, with allusions to
her stylo of living before the death of
hor husband her carriage and servants.
Of course I 'do not keep up the
same style since saniuei s death, sue
said. "When one gets old and feeble,
ne cares little for society or show of
any kind, though I confess that I still
like to have things about me handsome
and well appointed."
Mrs. Henry Goidsbury felt a uttie
anxious, Though able to live in com
fort and even in some degree of luxury,
hor husband's income was barely sufli
cient to support them thus, and it
would cost so much to make Aunt
Keeley comfortable, according to the
old lady's own ideas of comfort.
But it would not do to begrudge the
. v 1 1 .Y
expense: lor Jjucv, wno had discovered
tho death of Aunt Keeley s appointed
heir, was already beginning to maneuver
to eret her to her house, which was
handsomer and more luxuriously fur
nished than Emma's, though the income
of tho brother s. was about the same
So a new suit of furniture was bought
for Aunt Keeley. the table kept supplied
with unwonted luxuries, and everything
done to make her comfortable and con
tented where she was.
She was very reserved and reticent in
regard to her own aflairs and property,
Indeed, when once or twice Mr. Golds
bnrvwas imprudent enough to approach
the subject Aunt Keeley raised her eyes
h om her knitting and faxed them upon
him so sharply and suspiciously that his
wife was on thorns.
Sometimes, however, when left to
herself, she would make incidental al
lnsious to "plate," "lands" or "bonds,"
which caused Jimma to exchange signi
ficant glances with her husband, and
an expression oi satisiaction to over
spread tho hitter's placid visage.
There were other things, however,
which were not so agreeable to the
Goldsburys. Aunt Keeley had very de
cided opinions of her own, and ex
pressed them freely. She was liberal
with advice, and not overpleased when
this was not taken.
She disapproved of a great many
things in tho household, and was per
sistent in her efforts at a reform. The
children should not be allowed to wear
tight dresses and high-heeled shoes
The windows should be left open at
the top, and fires be kept burning dur
in or the night, for sake of ventilation
Emma should not drink coffee, which
would make her bilious; and Mr. Golds-
bury ought to learn to take his tea
without sugar and milk, which ingredi
ents changed the nature of the bevorage
into tannin. But above all things did
Aunt Keeley loathe and despise tobacco
in all its shapes; and Mr. Goidsbury,
who could not give up his cigar, was at
length reduced to having a closet fatted
up as a smoking-room for the exclusive
use of himself and friends.
Goidsbury grew discontented and
morose.
" I suppose she will restrict me to a
vegetable diet next," he grumbled.
" And there are the children, forbidden
to eat any but rico pudding, and sent
out of the parlor in the evenings be
cause she don't like their noise. I tell
you, Emma, you and Aunt Keeley are
going too far."
" It's for the children's good, Harry,
as you must know. Wo ought to be
willing to submit to a little unpleasant
ness for their sake."
" I don't see the necessity of sacrific
ing their and our present happiness for
sake of future benefit. If Aunt Keeley
chooses to leave us her money, like a
rational being, well and good; but she
has no right to expect ns to make slaves
of ourselves to her caprices.
"Now, Henry, I call that foolish and
ungrateful. Aunt Keeley doesnt ex
pect or wish to make slaves of us. W'hat
we do is done ox our own choice, to
please and gratify her. How can we
expect her to leave us ner weaim wune
Between the hitherto friendly fami
lies of the Goldsburys there now arose
a sharp rivalship for the favor of Aunt
Keeley. Their pleasant and familiar
intercourse was in a great measure
broken off, and each kept a keen watch
upon the other, suspicious of being out
witted and outdone.
Mrs. John Goidsbury had the pleas-
antest chamber in her house furnished
esoressly for Aunt Keeley s oomfort
and convenience a first floor chamber,
which would obviate the necessity of
going up and downstairs. Thereupon,
Mra. Ilenry, while the old lady was at
her brother-in-law's, had a room built
exclusively for her, wi.h a convenient
little dressing-room attached, and went
i a hired carriage to bring hor " home."
This carriage, indued, Mas now very
u called for to tukoAunt Keeley out
Emma's indignation upon learning that
Lucy had purchased a pony and a basket-carriage
in order to afford Aunt
Keeley the luxury of a daily airing.
And so the rivalry and the jealousy
went on, its effects extending even to
the children of the two families, until,
as Ilenry Goidsbury observed, his home
and his relatives scarcely appeared the
same to him; and the pleasure of his
life was nearly destroyed. To make it
worse he had been obliged more than
once to drttw upon the little capital
which he had succeeded m investing,
and bills for luxuries, hitherto unknown
in the family, now began to present a
formidable aspect.
If Aunt Keeley had been grateful and
pleasant the matter would not have
been so bad. But she took everything
as though it were her right; lectured
her grown nephews and nieces and
snubbed the children. Her will ruled
both families, as she happened to be an
nmate of either house. It was impos
sible to discover to which she was the
most partial, since she divided her time
pretty equally between each; when any
thing displeased her in one family,
straightway going over to the other.
" Emma," said Mr. Henry Uoldsbury,
desperately, I've had enough of Aunt
Keeley. You ve kept her now over a
year. Why not let her go nome, and
we enjoy . some peace and ireedom
again?"
"Whv. Harry, vou surprise me! I
thought it was a settled thing that this
was to be auntie s home unless J-iucy
succeeds in inveigling her into her own
family. And if she does that, or if
Aunt Keeley leaves us at all, to live
anvwhere else, we shall never get a
penny of her fortune, trust me lor mat,
, I .
There will be plenty to hang round and
wheedle it all out of her. People are
so greedy and mercenary
But the expense
Now not a word, Harry, upon that
subject. What is the paltry expense
compared with all that we shall get in
return for it V And auntie is old, you
know. I am sure I am the very last
person on earth to look forward to any
one's death for sake of their money; but
vou know that in the natural course of
things auntie can't live forever, neither
very lone, at her present age; and our
duty is to make life pleasant for her if
we want her to to enjoy nersen, con
cluded Emma, hastily.
" But how do we know that she will
leave her fortune, or any of it, indeed,
to us ? "
" Because I heard her say, only this
morning, that she didn't intend that any
of her possessions should go out of the
family." retorted Emma, triumphantly,
" ' I've been all day watching for an op
portunity of telling you of it.
Well, in that case, i suppose we
must try and put up with her a little
longer. But I should like to know
exactly what property she has got,
' "We know that Uncle Keeley was a
rich man when he died, his wife re
plied : " and I warn you, Harry, to be
ware how you touch upon that subject
airain in aunt s -presence, bhe is sus
picious."
About this time Aunt Keeley began
to hint that she had been accustomed
to spend her summers in the country
and then to remark that Emma and the
poor children were looking very badly
Emma, alarmed at this, and anxious
to gratify the old lady, proposed that
her husband should look out for a nice
rdace where they could board for the
summer ; but he assured her that it was
impossible that country board this
season was unusually high, and that, in
fact, there was no money for it. Ho
was sorry, but the family would have to
stay at home this summer, unless Aunt
go
somewhere at her
ol
iar diil'.t!i &a4 .M'lhlli..fo'ild t r.yd
Keeley chose to
own expense.
But of this his wile wouidn t near.
Aunt Keeley must not be lost sight of,
let whatever would happen.
"Just like men," Aunt Keeley re
marked, on hearing of her nephew's de
cision. "I never knew a man yet un
less it was poor, dear Samuel who was
ever willing to let his iamiiy go away
and enjoy themselves without him."
And listening to her tarn, ji,mma
benran to feel herself an ill-used wife.
rrobably, in consequence oi mis state
of things, Mr. Goidsbury wasn't sorry
when, just about this time, business
called him away from home.
"I suspected something of the soii
all the time," Aunt Keeley observed,
significantly.
And Emma felt herself more ill-used
than ever.
Once away from the now depressing
atmosphere of his own home Mr.
Goidsbury experienced a sense of relief
and exhilaration.
Meeting with some old friends he was
prevailed upon to accompany them
"down the country" for some duck
shooting, and thence to the Fair Oak
races.
Here, carried away by the excitement
of the occasion, he oilered to bet on a
friend's horse, won, and generously gave
his friends an oyster supper.
The report of those doings reached
home before he himself did.
" It is just as I thought," remarked
Aunt Keeley, calmly. "And if 1 were
you, Emma, I would have more spirit
than to submit to it."
In consequence Emma drew out of
bank a little investment of her own
which tihe had been saving up for the
children ; and, when Mr. Goidsbury at
last returned home, feeling a little
ashamed and a good deal remorseful, he
found the house shut up, and the family,
inoludiug Aunt Keeley, " gone to the
country."
"Without a word to me!" he ex
claimed to hii brotht-r John, in the just
,,,,,!, (f .:. i ,, l i- n.d 1m 1
of the family. " But it is all the do
ings of that pestiferous old grand-aunt
ours. But for her Emma would
never have dared to take such a step.
Mr. John repeated these words to his
wife, and on the day following they
reached Aunt Keeley herself in an allec-
tionate letter from Lucy.
" And now, dear auntie," proceeded
Mrs. John, ' the best thing that you
can do is to join us at Highland Glen,
the sweetest, healthiest country place
in the world, for which we shall to-day
take our departure, and wait till Henry
gets into a better humor. With us you
shall always be welcome, and never be
misjudged or unappreciated."
Aunt Keeley needed no further per
suasion; even lemmas tears nad no
effect upon her, and in her indignation
she rode twenty miles on a damp day to
join her ".rvephew jonn s iamiiy
more than hinting that she would never
return to Henry Goldsoury s rooi.
Emma returned home more than ever
irritated against her husband; and the
meeting between the two was unlike
any that had ever before taken place
full of mutual reproach and recrimina
tion.
" You've ruined your children's pros
pects," Emma said, bitterly; " disgraced
yourself and driven Aunt Keeley away
from vour roof 1
And 1 hope she 11 stay away, he
retorted, sullenly. "If she left us
every penny of her fortune it could
not compensate for the mischief she has
cvused. Not that the fault has been
altogether her own," he added, more
eloomilv: " for if we had not allowed
mercenary motives to influence us, and
descended to mean fortune-hunting
Speak for yourself ! I am sure if poor
Aunt Keelev hadnt a cent in the
world"
' Emmal" said Mrs. Goidsbury,
holdinor up his hands "Emma, bo a
fortune-hunter be anything, in short,
except a hypocrite I
" A hypocrite I Ufa, uarry, this irom
you to to me ?"
- . . . . -11,. i
And then there was sod Ding and
t n . A 1 1
remorse, ana nnaiiy a mutual niamng
up and reconciliation; and despite the
knowledge of Aunt lieeiey s anger, Doth
the husband and wife felt happier than
for many a day past.
Only, 1 do hope," Mr. uoidsDury
concluded, as they went down with all
the children to tea" I do hope that
Aunt Keeley won t come back again to
bring discord into the house, like an
evil fairy."
And sfae never aid, poor oia lady i
The wet ride, and perhaps her own high
indignation, had their effect upon her,
and, before any one imagined that she
was in danger even, Aunt Keeley was
dead.
She had made the doctor, who habitu
ally attended her, produce her last will
and testament from her trunk, and had
it carefully witnessed and sealed before
she died.
According to her request it was
opened and read immediately upon her
decease.
In this remarkable document Aunt
Keeley had disposed of all her posses
sions in the manner following to wit:
Her silver consisting of a dozen
family spoons, a snuffbox, sugar tongs,
candle-snuffer and six thimbles was to
be melted down into a plate and handles
for her coflin.
Her jewels to wit: a gold wedding
ring, diamond engagement ring, and
gold locket, set with pearls, containing
her husband's portrait were to be
buried with her.
The portrait of her grandfather a
hero of the Revolution she bequeathed
to the State historical society. The
other family portraits those of her
father and brother she desired should
be burnt, because she would not have
them go out of the family, and she did
tint, dosire that they should be degraded
bv beinK displayed on the parlor walls
of any of the present generation of
Goldsburys.
And, finally, her money some six
hundred dollars in the bank at M was
to be expended in a monument to be
erected over her grave.
And she constituted Dr. Wall exec
utor of the will.
At first the Goldsburys wouidn t be
lieve it. Aunt Keeley must have been
out of her mind when she wrote that
absurd paper.
But inquiries speedily established the
startling fact that Mr. Samuel Keeley,
in consequence of extensive and reckless
speculations, all of which had failed,
had died insolvent after that will inhis
nephew's favor had been made; and
Aunt Keeley had thereupon come to
live upon her relatives without ever say
ing a word about it.
"I suppose she fancied she would be
unwelcome if we knew ol her poverty,"
Mrs. John Goidsbury suggested.
" Or, ratlier, she wanted to live in
luxury, so allowed us to believe her
still wealthy," said his .wife.
"Selfish, deceitful, ungrateful old
woman!" was Mr. Goldsbury's reflec
tion. For he could not quite forgive her
for having influenced his wife against
him.
While Emma, after the first shock of
surprise and disappointment, observed
to her husband:
" After all it is some comfort to think
that Lucy, with all her arts and maneuv
ering, has only suoceeded in obtaining
the privilege of paying the funeral ex
penses." "No; I'll go halves with John in
that," her hubband said. "We'll give
the old lady as good a funeral as we can
aU'ord, since she seemed to think so
much of such things, even though she
didn't consider us worthy to posst-ss her
f l's pi'.'turu."
This generosity quite touched Air.
and Mrs. John. And now that Aunt
Keeley and her fortune had vanished
like a dream, all the rivalry and jeal
ousy and ill-feeling between the two
families vanished with them; and, taught
by a lesson which they never forgot, the
former allection and happiness were renewed.
And not one of the four but confessed,
in his and her secret heart, that they de
served all that had been brought upon
them by their mercenary hankering after
Aunt Keeley s fancied lortune.
IIEALTHHrSTS.
Two Journeys.
" I go on a journey far away,"
lie said and he stooped and kiHsed me then-
Over the ocean for many a day
Good-hya," and ho kissed mo once again.
But onlv a few short months had fled
When again I answered my husband 8 ltis;
I could not tarry away," he said;
" There ia never a land as fair as this. .
Again I stood by my husband's side.
" I go on a journey, sweet, to-uay ;
Over tho river the boatmen glide-
Good-bye; I shall linger long away.
' Ah, ho will come back soon, I know,"
I said, as he stoopod for the parting kiss:
Ho cannot tarry, he told me so;
There is never a land so fair as this.
But many a month and many a year
Have flown since my darling went away.
Will he never come back to meet me here?
Has ho found the region of perfect day?
Over the ocean he went and camo;
Over tho river, and lingers there!
Oh, pallid boatman! call my name-
Show me the region so wondrous ruur.
The Argot v.
HU3I0U OF THE DAY.
Paikless Cihe for Warts. Drop a
little vinegar on tho wart and cover it
immediately with cooking soda or saie-
ratus ; put on as much soda as you can
pile on, and let it remain ten minutes,
Kepeat several times a aay, ana in
thrpft days tho wart will be gone. A
cood remedy for corns also.
" TT 11
Take Seasonable kest. ur. na.u
T XI- 1.1
savs the best medicine in me wonu,
more efficient than ail tne potations oi
the materia medica, are warmth, rest,
cleanliness and pure air. Some persons
make it a virtue to brave disease, to
" keep up" as long as they can move a
foot or wriggle a finger, and it some
times succeeds; but in others the powers
of liffl are thereb so completely ex
hausted that the system has lost all
abilitv to reennerate. and slow and ty
phoid fever sets in and carries the
patient to a premature grave. Whenever
working or wort is an enort, a warm
bed and cool room are the very first in-
disnensables to a sure and speedy re
covery. Instinct leads all beasts and
birds to quietude and rest the very mo
ment disease or wounds assail the sys
tem.
Sleep for Children. If you would
preserve your children from wasting dis
ease, do not stint them in their sleep ;
chlorotic crirls, especially, and weakly
babies need all the restftfaey can get. sweetest oi iue jbui, x
If they are drowsy in the morning, let down cellar made, ana boiu bu
Old as the hills -The valleys between
them.
After some iocular remarks the Senate
adjourned. New Haven Register.
The editor of the Oil City JJerricic
claims to have a country Beat. It is a
stump.
Miss Annie L. got married, and now
they speak of her as an Annie-mated
young Lady.
Soldiers &re always the most adept
lovers, because they learn to present
arms and salutfl.
It is peculiar hew sound a man sleeps
when his wife crawls over him on her
way to the kitchen to mke a fire.
The maple sugar days have come, tne
nf th TOn.r : wnee bukui
them sleep : it will do them more good
than stimulants and tonio sirups. For
6chool-children in their teens, eight
hours of nuiet sleep is generally enough,
but do not restrict them to fixed hours ;
in midsummer there should be a siesta
corner in every house, a lounge or an
old mattress in the coolest noon oi the
hall, or a hammock in the shade of the
porch, where the little ones can pass
the sleep-inviting afternoons. Nor is it
necessary to send them to bed at the
very time when all nature awakens from
the torpid influence of the day-star ;
sleep in the atmosphere of a stifling
bedroom would bring no rest and no
pleasant dreams. But an hour after
sunset there will be a change ; the night
wind arises and the fainting land re
vives ; cool air is a febrifuge and na
ture's remedy for the dyspeptic influen
ces of a sultry day. Open every win
dow, and let your children share the
luxury of the last evening hour ; alter
breathing the fresh night air for a while
they will sleep in peace. Popular Sci
ence Montili,
To Relieve Hiccough. A medical
journal gives the following simple means
of relieving hiccough: Innate the lungs
as fully as possible, and thus press
firmly on the agitated diaphragm. In
a few seconds the spasmodio action pf
the muscle will cease.
The Work of Volcanoes.
Cotopaxi, in 1738, threw its fiery
conte s 3,000 feet above its crater,
while in 1724 the blazing mass, strug
gling for an outlet, roared so that its
awful voice was heard at a distance of
more than GOO miles. In 17'J7 the cra
ter of Tunguragua, one of tho great
peaks of the Andes, flung out torrents
of mud, which dammed up the rivers,
opened new lakes, and in valleys
1,000 feet wide made deposits GOO feet
deep. The stream from Vesuvius,
which in 1773 passed through Terro
del Greco, contained 33,000,000 cubic
feet of solid matter ; and in 171)3, when
Terro del Greco was destroyed a second
time, the mass of lava amounted to
45.000.000 cubic feet.
In 17G0 JEtna poured forth a flood
which covered eighty-four square miles
of surface. On this occasion the sand
and Jscoria formed the Monte Rosini,
near fcicholosa, a cone of two miles in
circumference, and 400 feet high. The
stream thrown out at iEtna in 1810 was
in motion at the rate of one yard per
day for nine months after the eruption,
and it is on record that the lava of the
same mountain, after a terrible erup
tion, was not thoroughly cool and con
solidated for ten years after the event
In tho eruption of Vesuvius, A. 1).
79, the scoria and ashes vomited forth,
far exceeded the entire bulk of the
mountain ; wlule in 18G0 iEtna dis
gorged more than twenty times its own
mass. Vesuvius has sent its ashes as
fur as Constantinople, Syria and Egypt ;
it hurled stones eight pounds in weight
to l'ompeii, a distance of six miles,
while similar masses were tossed up
2,000 feet above the summit. Cotopaxi
has projected a rock of 100 cubic yards
in volume nine miles ; and Sumbawa,
in 1843, during the most terrible erup
tion on record, sent its ashes as far as
Java, a distance of 300 miles of surfaco,
and, out of a population of 12,000 souls,
only twenty escaped.
On the fourth of July next we may
expect to pick up a morning paper and
read that "The snow-btorm in Wiscon
sin, Iowa and Minnesota yesterday was
the heaviest of the season." The West
has had the "heaviebt snow-storm of
tho season " every week since the first
of March. yirriatou?n IleraM.
Barren
asceiit.
mountains are not worth
dear.
Since 18GG 9.000 divorces have beetf x
granted in Italy, Milan being set down
for nd less than 3,000. Since 1870 Rome
has had GOO.
When a Canadian farmer sheathes a
lump of lard within a half-inch coating
of "creamery" he calls it galvanized but
ter. New Haven Jsegmer.
It is a noticeable fact that a hog has
to be killed before he is cured. This
is true of two-legged hogs as well as of
quadrupeds. Boston Post.
The New York Sun says that a man
with mutton-chop whiskers need have
no fears of the future. He can always
Btrike a job as coachman.
The New YovkAdvertiser believes that
men would have more luck fishing if
they bought live trout and put 'em in a
bathtub and fished with a sieve.
Tim f rit man to try to fast forty days
was a hero, the second an imitator, and
of subsequent ones the public simply re
mark : "The poor deluded fools.
No man ought to complain if the
world measures him as lie measures
others.. To measure one with his own
yard-stick may be hard, but is fair.
"There is no disgrace in being poor,"
we are told. And we're howling glad
of it, for there are enough other disad
vantages about it without that one.
Adirondack Murray has been sold out
of his last personal property by the
sheriff, and hasn't even a clothes-line
left to tie him to any neighborhood.
" The harp that once throngh Tara's halli
The soul 00 musio shed,"
Uiwm the Btroot now caterwauls,
To earn a padrone's bread.
Indianapolis Herald.
Births, marnages and deaths are re
ported by an Illinois paper under the
head of '"'Hatched, Matched, Snatched."
But it could save type and expense by
using the words "Bed, ;Wed, Dead,
instead.
Dampening! Old Triggs " Hello,
Jones, got your feet- sopping wet,
haven't you? WThy don't you weai
rubbers, as I do? I haven't wet my
feet for six months." Jones" Well, 1
should think vou'd be ashamed to say
so."
Tho New York Graphic has " about
banished the nuisance of tall hats at tho
theaters. It remarked that homely"
women looked best in high hats, and
now all the ladies are trying to show
that they are not dependent on tall hats
for their beauty.
A Rapid Exit from China.
The Chinese, said Professor Draper
to a New York reiorter, paid great at
tention to astronomy in ante-historical
times, and they have always linfced
their knowledge of astronomy with
astrology. Historical events were noted
by their writers as taking place while
the stars held certain relations to eacu
other. Speaking of astrology in China,
I am reminded of the unceremonious
way in which the late lamented Profes
sor Watson, of Ann Arbor university,
Michigan, was compelled to quit the
Chinese empire about the time of the
transit of Venus a few years ago. Pro
fessor Watson, with another well-known
astronomer, was at the Chinese capital.
The emperor of China wa taken sick
with the smallpox, and he died after a
short illnt-ns. The event was looked
upon, us all great events are in China,
as influenced by the stars, and it be
cume noisedubroud that the two distin
guished astronomers had so influenced
tho stars as to cause the emperor's
death. The viceroy, who did not sL.ire
the popular belief, quietly informed
abtrunomeis that they mi'ht lo-o 1 1
lives if they did not go sty. T'..-parto-4
ia the night.
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