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Tho Priceless Things.
Those are vulgar thing we pay for, be they
stones for crowns of king;
While the precious and tho poerl-rs are m
priood symbolic things.
Common dobts are scored and cancolod,
wolghod and measured cmt for gold;
Hut the debts from men to ages, thoir account
is never told.
Always see. the noblest nations keep thoir high-
oat prize unknown;
Cha-ronea's nmrblo lion frowned above unlot-
torod stone.
Balaklava Marathon andwho shall mete the
worth of these ?
Shall wo huckster with our lifeboats that defy
the leaping seas ?
Ah. tho Oreoks knew I Gamo their viotors
. honorod from tho sacred games,
Cndor archos red with roses, Unshod to hear
thoir shoutod naroos;
Bee their native cities tako them, breach the
wall to make ft gate I
What snprorae reward is thoirs who bring such
honors to thoir State ?
In the forum stand they proudly, take thoir
prizos from tho priest;
Little wreaths of pine and parsley on their
. naked temples pressed I
We in late days are lower? Ay I ft manful
stroke is made,
And we raie a pur so to pay It making manli
ness ft trado
Sacrifice itself grows venal surely Midas will
subscribe;
And the'ehallow souls are satisfied when worth
- accepts the bribe I
But o'n here, amid the markets, thore are
things Uipy dare prize;
Dollars hide their sordid laces when they moet
anointed eyes.
Lovers do not seek with jewels; flowers alouo
can plead for them;
And one fragrant memory cherished is fa
dearer than gum.
Klatesmen stoer the nat.on safely; artists paes
the burning tet,"
And their country pays them proudly with a
' ribbon at the breast.
When tho soldier saves the battle, wraps the
flag around his heart,
Who shall desecrate his honor with the values
of the mart ?
From his' guns of bronze we hew piece, and
carve it as cross;
For the gain he gave was priceless, as unpriced
would be the loss.
When the poet sings the love song, and the
song of life and doatn,
Slaking millions cease thoir weary toil and
wait with wondering breath;
When ho gilds tho mill and mine, inspires the
slave to rise and dare;
Lights w ith love the hcpolees garret, tells tho
tyrant to boware;
Wberu ho steals tho pang from poverty, with
meanings now and clear,
Reconciling pain and peace, and bringing
blessed visions near;
His reward? Nor cross nor ribbon, but all
others high above,
They may wear their splendid symbols he has
earned tho people's lovo I
John Boyle ffReUly.
Mrs, Symington's Bargain.
All women we are told have their
weaknesses, and Mrs. Stanhope Sym
ington was a cbina maniac, as are most
people to some degree in this aesthetic
nineteenth century of the world, lint
Mrs. Symington excelled in the matter.
She would prowl in second-hand stores,
penetrate into the cavernosa recesses of
tenement-houses, drive long distances
into the country to old homesteads
where the had heard vague rumors con
ceming "flaring blue, "old green
glaze," "buttorfly yellow" and "genuine
old India wares." She would remorse
lessly turn the choicest pieces of mod
era bric-a-brao from her tables to make
way for spoutless tea-pots, cracked
bowls and noseless jugs. She crowded
her drawing-room with brackets, shelves
and cabinets for tho accommodation of
ancient plates, which she called
'plaques," and pitcheis, which the re-
christened "vases."
Mr. Symington, a meek little man
with limp yellow-white hair, a flat nose
and colorless eyes line dun glass mar
bles, began to liud it no slight task to
make his way through his own house
without breakage or misfortune.
"I wish there was not such a thing as
old china in the world," he lamented
upon one particular occasion, after he
hud knocked a tiandleless cup from a
trinod draped in olive velvet.
" Stanhope," reproved his wife, not
without severity, "would you retard
the progress of modern civilization?
This cup, fragile as it may seem, repre
sents an era in decorative history."
Well, it won't represent it much
longer," observed Mr. Symington, as
he gathered up the fragments with
something very like vindictiveness in
his faded eves.
'But. Stanhopo." cried his wife,
' what are you going to do with those
pieces? '
"Ihrow 'em into the ash barrel, 10
course," said Mr. Stanhope, spiritlessly,
But Mrs. Symington rescued them
from his grasp with a ehiiek of appre
hension.
"Are you mad, my dear?" she eiacu
lated. ' I can mend them with a littlo
cement and a great deal of time; and
even then I wouldn t take twenty dol
!aro for this exquisite cup. And I have
been thiuKinp, Majihorc -"
" Well, mv dear." said thn Inoklem
eonoolast, looking dolefully at his
finger which had been cut with one of
the pieces of broken crockery, " what
have yon been thinking?"
" That I should like to go np into
Maine next week," said the lady, in
sinuatingly.
"Into Maine? In midwinter?"
echoed her amazed spouso, openiug the
dim yes very wide indeed.
To see Aunt Grizzel," explained
Mrs. Symington "my Annt Grizzel
urumpton, you know, at Wild Mver."
Humph 1" remarked Mr. Syming
ton, bandaging his flngor with his
pocket handkerchief. I didn't know
that yon cared bo very particularly
about yonr Annt Grizzeh"
"My dear," said Mrs. Symington.
merging her speech into a mysterious
Whisper, I've just remembered, all of
a sudden as it were, that she has a set
of very old flaring bluo china. .She
must have. It belonged to her mother
before her; and how I've forgotten ?'t all
these years I'm sure I can't imagine.
Even now I shouldn't have recalled it
to my memory, I suppose, if I hadn't
chanced to see, at Mrs. Hepburn's
afternoon tea yesterday, the darlingist
little egg-shell cups, with bridges and
pagodas and willow trees all over 'em,
exactly puch as Aunt Grizzel's mother
used to have. Then it came to me like
a flash of lightning Annt Grizzel's
ohina 1"
"Probably it's all broken by this
time," gloomily suggested her hus
band.
Nonsense I" said Mrs. Symington.
briskly. "Annfr Grizzy never broke
anything in her life. She is careful
ness itself; and up there in Maine, you
Know, tney don shave clumsy waitresses
to fling things about. No, no ; you
may depend that fche has it all safe and
sound in one of those odd little three
cornered cupboards of hers. A treasure,
Stanhopo, a perfect treasure. Money
wouldn't buy such a set as that; a
hundred years old, if it's a day. So, if
you won t mind, my dear, X II just run
up to Maine, and see about it."
"Do as yon please. Arabella." said
Mr. Svmineton. resiffnftdlv. TTa Irnaur
that Mrs. Svmineton generally did as
she pleased, and he saw no especial ad
vantage in debating tne question. .
"Thanks, dear; so kind of you!"
uttered Mrs. Symington. "And of
course I can't go to the polar regions
entirely unprotected, bo I'll order
one of those comfortable seal dol
mans that everybody is wearing now,
and a new plush hat with a cluster of
ostrich tips. One must go dressed like
other people ; and if you can give me
twenty-five or thirty'dollars 1 dare Bay
Aunt urizzy will let me have the set
for that (she don't know the value of
old china, poor thing I) and the jour
ney won't be more than thirty dollars
both ways, if I go by sea, including a
stateroom.!'
"It appears to me," said Mr. Syming
ton, disconragiagly, "that this is n,
good deal of a wild goose chase, going
dancing up to the northern boundaries
of Maine at this time of year for an old
set ci trumpery china which probably
aidn t cost ten dollars to start with."
' Oh, Stanhope, it did 1" cried the
lady, indignantly. It was real India
ware, imported, without paying a dollar
of duty, by an old sea captain in the
India trade, expressly for nay grand
mother Urumpton. And besides you
are bo groveling and prosaio in your
ideas. As if tho original cost of a thing
of this nature signifies I it s the costhetio
value that wo look at, don t you see?"
Ah 1" said Mr. Symington. Well.
if you must go, you must go, I suppose:
and of course I shall have to give you a
check for what money you are likely to
want."
And Mr. Symington sighed deeply
and went upstairs to get a piece of
court-plaster for his cut hnger.
Mrs. bymington went to Wild River.
in the northern boundaries of Maine.
where the pine forests were thatched
with snow, and the icicles tinkled in
the woods of a moonlight night like so
many castanets gone mad. She made
the greater part of the voyage bv sea,
and was consequently very seasick, for
the water was rough and the gale tem-
pestous.
" 1 will come back by land," she said
to herself, as she sat in the little hotel
at Portland, and viewed her green and
yellow complexion with a Bhudder,
" Money wouldu t induce me to risk my
life again in that horrid steamer, where
one is bufleted and seesawed abont on
waves that are as high as a house. The
palace-car fare will be something of an
extra expense, and I shall lose my ro
turn ticket by steamer, but I'm sure Mr.
Symington won t grudge it to me when
he hears how I've been pitched and
tumbled about on the ocean in peril of
my me.
Andshe"put on her black brocaded
silk, her new plumed hat, and the seal
dolman, and took the northward-bound
train, resolved to present an imposing
appearance to Aunt Urizzy urump
ton when she should reach Wild River
station.
It was very cold a dull, bitter .leaden
cold with the ground frozen like a
rock, the streams bound in ioe, the
sky gray and bitter, with an ineffable
gloom. Aunt Grizzel Grumpton lived
in a little one-storied house on the top
of an uncompromising hill, here a
solitary cedar tree was twisted around
like a corkscrew with the force of the
east wind, and the few lean sheep
huddled behind the rocks in shivering
groups, picturesque, but far from com
fortable. And even after they had
come in sight of the old building whose
one coat of red paint had long ago been
worn away by the suns and rains of
well-nigh a century, Mrs. Symington
had serious doubts whether the one
horse sleigh in which she was jerked
and jolted up the incline would not be
blown sheer away by the rush of the
tompest before they could reach their
destination.
However, it waen't. And once in
Aunt Grizzy's cottage things were very
comfortable. There was no wide
throated chimney, filled with moss
fringed logs, such as the fancy of city
dwellers is apt to depict in the solitary
farmhouse. Feople in Maine know
better than that. But there was an im
mense cook stove, which heated the
room to an atmosphere of eighty odd
degrees; the craoks in the window
sashes were pasted over with brown
paper, and sand bags were laid on the
top ledges, while a double rag carpet
covered the floor, and a wood-box,
heaped to the very top, stood in the
angle of the chimney piece. Aunt
urizzy s dress was of blue homespun
flannel, and she wore a worsted hood
pulled over her ears, and a little plaid
shawl folded over her breast, and she
was addicted to the use of snuff, and
said "Hey?" whenever any one ad
dressed her.
My cheeny?" said Aunt Grizzy.
Well, I'm free to own that I think a
deal of that cheeny. But I don't know,
Niece Arabella, how you came to hear of
it." .
' It ia an heirloom in our family.
Aunt GrizzeL" said Mrs. Symington,
exerting herself to speak loudly.
" Hey ?" said Aunt Grizzy, with her
hand placed sounding-board fashion
behind her ear.
" Every one must have heard of it."
said Mrs. Symington, at the risk of
breaking a blood-vessel in her throat.
Aunt Grizzy's wrinkled face fairly
beamed. Well, I calculate it ain't
absolutely ugly," said she. " But still,
if you ve really net your heart on it,
Niece Arabella But it ain't unpacked. I
always put it away this time o year when
mere ain t no tea parties given.
" Oh, never mind that." said Mrs.
Symington, her heart leaping within her
at this easy conquest of the fort. " It
will be all the more convenient for me
to carry it. People always keep such
treasures put away in secret places."
" Iley said Aunt urizzy, and Mrs.
Symington repeated her words.
" Oh, there ain t no secret about it I
said Aunt Grizzy, as she turned the hiss
ing sausages in the pan. "Onlylhaint
had time to overhaul it since you've
been here."
"Naturally?" interrupted Mrs. Svm
ington. "But I suppose it is all in
good condition ?" '
"Sartinly, eartinly," said Aunt
Grizzy. You can look at it yourself
if yon like, Niece Arabella."
Oh, that is not at all necessary,"
said Mrs Symington. " But now as to
the price, Aunt Grizzy ?"
"I ain't one to haggle with my rela
tions," said Aunt Grizzy, giving the fry
ing pnn a shako over the blazing sticks.
"Set your own price, Arabella, and if I
don't like it I'll make bold to say so."
Do you think. Aunt Grizzy,"' hesi
tated the city lady, "that twenty-five
dollars would be a reasonable compen
sation for it ?"
"Well, yes," said Aunt Grizzy. "It
never cost me that, because "
"No, of course not," hurriedly inter
posed Mrs. Symington, and she pro
duced the twenty-five dollars, all in
gold half eagles, with the exultant feel
ing of one who has picked a precious
diamond out of the dust. But I
should wish you to feel that I had dealt
fairly with vou in a matter like this.
"Well, I hain't no reason to com
plain," said Aunt Grizzy. " Some folks
fancies cheeny. I don't. A plate's a
plate to me, and a cup's a cup, and
you're kindly welcome to my 'set if
you've took a notion to it."
Mrs. Symington went homo the next
day, through a whirlwind of snow, hav
ing been fed upon pork and sausages.
sausages and pork, at every meal since
her arrival, and retaining a very vivid
recollection of the Maine winds and
tempests.
"I don't think I'd go back there
again, even for a Bet of old china." said
Mrs. Symington, as she seated herself
on the velvet cushions of the palace-car
and shrank Bhiveringly inside of her
seal dolman and fleeoe-lined fur gloves
' Aunt Grizzel will never die a natural
death; she'll be blown away, like
Mother Hubbard."
But all these petty tribulations were
forgotten as a thing out of mind on the
brilliant January morning on which, in
iroat ot the sea-coal fire in her own
cozy drawing-room, she unpacked the
coarse wooden box wherein were con
cealed the priceless treasures of Aunt
Urizzy Urumpton a china.
"Don't touch them, Stanhope," said
she, with a small shriek of dismay.
Men are so dreadful careless. Oh,
here they are on tho top, all wrapped
in separate pieces of paper."
" Eh Y' said Mr. Symington, stand
ing by with a hammer and screw-driver
brandished in either hand. Are these
antiques 7"
"Good gracious me!" gasped Mrs.
Symington. ' What can this possibly
mean r
For the china which she unwrapped
from its coverings of coarse brown pa
per was a cheap and common style,
such as is associated in the mind with
tea chromos, gaudy lithographs and
salesmen of the Hebraic persm1 lion
white, with a band of imitation gold
around each piece, and a coarse flower
sprawling below, as if it had been laid
on with a miniature whitewash brush.
This is never my Grandmother
Orurnpton's old china," said Mrs.
Symington, burbting into tears, and
pushing the hideous atrocities away
ill- 1. 1. til 1 . tf
wuu a jorce wnicn cracsea two places.
"I'll write to Aunt Grizzr at once, and
this misunderstanding shall be cleared
up."
In the course of time an answer came
from Wild Eiver, EtifHy written in rale
ink, and conveying in its tout ensemble
the general impression that Aunt Grizzy
had wrestled with it as if it had been a
fit of the Asiatio cholera.
"Dear Nejck" fit said). With
Love and duty I take up my Pen to in
form You that the China is all right
Bo't from Snefly & Pipkin, in Boston,
last November, at Eight (88) the Set,
to be transported at my own Dammage.
As for my Mother's old Set, witch
Captain Babcock bro't from Calcutta in
the Year 1796, I Gave it to his Neice
Helen Hosmer two Yeres ago for a Pare
of Gold Spectackles and a Fur Muff,
being so Cracked and Old-fashioned
that it wasn't worth no more. Bnt I am
told that she puts it on Ebbony Shelves
in her Best Parlor. But Helen never
was more than Half-Witted, and your
Set witch you took home with you is
worth a Deal tho most Monney. 8o
you have the Best Bargain. With love,
I remain, Your Aunt to Command,
OnizzEii Gbtjmpton.
"Ah!" said Mr. Symington, who had
been listening intently to the contents
of this much blotted and besmeared
piece of manuscript, sealed with Aunt
Urizzy s thimble top, and still retaining
a subtle odor of fried sausages and grid
dle cakes. "A seal dolman at three
hundred dollars, a thirteen-dollar hat,
a pair of fifteen-dollar fur gloves, a
fifty-dollar journey and a twenty-five-dollar
investment, all for a set of china
which you can buy anywhere on the
Bowery or Grand street for ten dollaisl
now does that look, my dear, as viewed
in the light of political economy?"
And Mrs. Symington answered only
by her toars.
"There, there, Bella, don't fret," said
her husband, kindly. " Let the thing
go for what it is worth. Forget it."
" Bat I can't help f-f fretting," sobbed
Mrs. Symington. One thing is quite
certain, however I never will be such
a fool egain. I will n t spend another
cent for ceramics until I have econo
mized enough to pay for this outrageous
swindle."
" Gently, my dear, gently," said her
husband. " Now you are going too far.
Aunt Grizzel was honest enough. You
said you wanted her china, and she sold
you her china at your own terms "
But I didn't mean this china," said
Mrs. Symington.
"How was she to know what you
meant?" said Mr. Symington. "China
is china, and to me one piece is as good
as another."
And Mrs. Symington was too broken
down and spiritless even to argue the
point with him. 11 'mar.
Cloves.
Cloves grow on trees from twenty to
thirty feet high, having a handsome
pyramidal shape, with leaves that are
largo, glessy and evergreen. It is a
Dative of Malacca, but is now grown in
nearly all the spice islands of the In
dian ocean, the larger part of the crop
coming from Ainboyna, in the island of
Ternato. Many years ago the Dutch
undertook to control the pioluction of
this spice and to confine its growth to
this island; they, therefore, destroyed
the clove treesin the other spice islands,
but the high prices which they de
manded gradually led to its cultivation
in territory outside of their jurisdiction,
and they afterward abandoned that
policy. Still, most of the cloves now
produced are grown in Dutch territory,
and the high prices which, have pre
vailed during the lost year cr two have
been attributed partly to a failure in
the crop at Ternate and partly to the
Aoheen war, which has considerably
interfered with the Bupply usually
derived from Sumatra. The cloves
of commerce are not, as many suppose,
the fruit of tho clove tree, but are the
flower buds. The ripe fruit in shape
resembles a small olive; it is of a dark
red color, with one or two cells contain
ing as many seeds, and it is also aro
matic to a certain extent, and some
times appears in commerce in a dried
state under the curious name of
" mother of olives." It is not nearly
so pungent, however, as the flower
stems. Indeed, the whole treo leaves,
bark and wood seems to be impregna
ted in some degree with the strong, dis
tinctive clove flavor; but the flower
buds are the principal commercial prod
uct of the tree. When first gathered
they are of a reddish color, but in the
drying process, which is generally
partly done by wood fires and partly in
tho sun, they turn a deep brown color,
as they are when they reach us in
America. Although the tree grows
wild to some extent, it is regularly cul
tivated in plantations, tho plants being
some ten or fifteen feet apart and care
fully pruned and cared for.
The Game of Rights and Lefts.
John Debois took a great deal of
trouble to get a good pair of boots in
St. Louis for nothing, but he aohioved
sucoess. He was a traveler staying at
the Grand Central hotel. He went to
a store and ordered the finest pair that
oonld be made. He was exact in his
stipulations as to the material and style,
and wished them sent to his room at a
certain time. Then he gave the same
order in another store, except that the
delivery was to be made half an hour
later. The boy who brought the first
pair was sent back to have the left boot
stretched, and the boy who carried the
seoond pair was sent back with the
right one. Dubois then put on the rem
nants,, for which he had not paid, and
caught ,the net out-bound train.
Shops and Shopping In Mexico.
Shops and shopping, of the uppor
sort, in Mexico follow French or Eu
ropean traditions more than American.
Fanciful titles over the doorway are
adopted instead of a firm name. A
drv goods store is The Surprise,"
"The Springtime," "The Explosion;"
a jeweler's the "Pearl" or "Emerald;"
a shoe Btore, ' The Azure Boot," Bnd
The Foot of Venus." The windows
are tastefully draped and a largo forco
of clerks is seen shoulder to shoulder
within. These clerks are more demo
cratic in their manners than Americans
would venture to be. They shake
hands with their patrons if they have
enjoyed a slight previous acquaintance
and inquire after the health of Miss
Lolita and Miss Soledad. There are
those of superior social position among
them, however some who are met
with at the balls of the Guatemala
minister, for instance. The explana
tion may perhaps be found in the limit
edchoico of occupations open, which
leaves to many who desire to work no
more important places.
Until of late it has not been eti
quette for ladies of standing to shop
except from their carriages a consid
erable part of the shopping, as for furni
ture and other household goods, is still
conducted by the men of the family
just as it was not etiquette for ladies to
be seen walking in the streets. The
change in both these respects ia as
cribed to the horse-cars. The point of
ceremony, it appears, was founded
somewhat upon the difficulty of getting
about. The American touch appears in
the streets with increasing frequency,
in signs of dealers in arms, sewing ma
chines, and other of our useful inven
tions, and of the insurance companies,
a novel idea, to which the Mexicans
seam to take with much readiness. The
principal shopping hours are from 4
to G o'clock in the afternoon. From
1 till 3, or even 4, little is
done. There is a general stoppage of
affairs for dinner. It is b-1 a short
time since that interesting person, the
commercial traveler, has been known in
the country. The profits of favoraWy
situated houses, in the absence of keen
competition, have been very large, and
methods of doing business in some in
stances correspondingly loose. The
Mexican merchant does not necessarily
go into a fine calculation of the pro
portionate value of each detail of a for
eign invoice, but "lumps" the profit
he thinks he ought to receive on the
whole. Some articles, in consequenoe,
can be bought at less than their real
value, while others, in compensation,
are exorbitantly advanced.
It is the smaller trade, however, and
that most removed from metropolitan
influences, that is the gayest and most
entertaining as a spectacle. How many
picturesque market scenes does one
linger in ! Each population has its
own market-day, not to interfere with
any other. The stone flags of the plaza
or the market-houses, which are plenti -f
ul and well built, are hidden under a
complication of fruits, grains, cocoa
sacks and mats, striped blankets and
rebozos, sprawling brown limbs, em
broidered bodices and kirtles, as if
with an excessively thick, richly col
ored rug. A grade above this is the
Parian, as at Puebla, a bazar of small
shops, in which goods, sales-people and
customers are all to be put upon the can
vas with the most vivid hues. The
leading merceria (dry goods shop) of
the same important city of Puebla,
called "The City of Mexico," bui a
facade entirely in glazed tiles upon an
un glazed ground of red, with allegor
ical figures larger than life between the
pilasters as part of the pattern. llar
per'n Magazine.
Graves In China.
In every direction, as far as the eye
can reach, little hillocks of earth, from
three to six feet high, are scattered
promiscuously over the country. These
being covered with grass, now dried by
the autumn and scattered as they are
over the cultivated fields, makes one
think of haycocks after a harvest of
timothy or red-top in America. They
are the tombs or graves of past genera
tions of Chinese. And, as the leading
religion or superstition of the country
is ancestral worship, these mounds are
never disturbed or plowed over, but
stand for indefinite ages. It would
seem to a Etranger that this sentiment
over the resting place of the dead must,
to a material extent, reduce the pro
ductiveness of the land. For there seems
to be no system of cemeteries as in
other conntries, but the owner of the
field at death is buried, as have been
his ancebturs before him, in his own
soil at some spot at a respectful dis
tance frorc the graves of his predecei
Eor. And thus these tumuli go on in
creasing in number and closeness of
proximity till it would seem to be only
a question of time when the dead will
possess all the soil and starve out the
entire nation. Letter from China.
A gentleman of this village has a fam
ily of three or four little girls. Not
long since the children were talking
about a pair of twins. One of them, an
elder one, turned to her father and
said: " Papa, what do they call it when
three babies come at once ?" A little
one, who was much interested in the
conversation, and who had heard talk
about the smallpox, at once interrupted
and suid, with much animation: "I
know, papa." "Well, what do they
call it?" said the father. "An epi
demic," said the little one, proudly dis
playing her knowledge, Port Jervit
Union,
The KignMTind.
Once, when the night-wind clapped its wings,
And shok the window-bare and roof,
J. heard the souls of battle-kings
Drive by in clashing proof I
Sometimes a runic strife it kept,
Of winter nights, in sleoted trees;
Or UDderneath the cavos it crept
A swann of mnrmnring bees.
Or, now, wild huntsmon of tho air
In hollow eh ae their bngles blew,
While swift o'er wood and hilltop bare ;
Tho shrill-voicod qnarry flew.
Sometimes I heard of lovers flown,
Safe, undor ward of storm and night,
To where, in sylvan lodge, there shone '
A taper kind and bright.
These things the night-wind nsed to toll,
And'etill would tell, if I might hear;
But sorrow sleeps too sound and well
To lend a dreamful ear. '
Edilh M. Thomas, in the Century. 1
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
A good prophet One hundred per
cent.
"The simple utteranoe of joy is poe
try," says Oscar Wilde. That settles it.
We shall allow no joy in our family. It
will be tossed into the waste-basket.- i
New Haven Register,
A fashion writer Bays "raised figures"
produce excellent effect. Well, that
depends ; if they are on a check theyv
sometimes produce tho effect of feend-"
ing the raiser to State prison.
" The difference between a marriage
and hanging," said an old bachelor, "is
that in the former a man's troubles
commence,' while with the latter they
end." Philadelphia Chronicle.
It is said that the only obstacle iniho
way of transporting live hogn from this
country to England is the difficulty of
feeding them on the passage. Why not
feed them from the trough of the sea?
Somen i lie Journal.
Said Mrs. Ragbag : "At table, while
the servants are present, Mr. Ragbag
nnd , myself always talk of the large
amount everything costs us. It gives
the neighbors such an' excellent impres
sion of our liberality." Boston Post.
HEALTH MATS.
To remove freckles take lemon juice,
one ounce; quarter of a dram of pow
dered borax and one dram of sugar.
Mix them and let them stand till ready
for use, then rub it on the face occa
sionally. Never stand still in coll weather,
especially after having taken a slight
degree of exercise; and always avoid
standing upon the ice or snow or whore
the person is exposed to a cold wind.
Dr. Foote's Ucalth Monthly.
The curative qualities of common salt
are not as freely impressed upon the
pnblio mind as is expedient. Inflam
mation can be rapidly reduced by a
solution of Bait, and for a weak or dis
eased membrane local applications of
salt rnd water act as magic In case
of sore throat, sore eyes or catarrhal
affections, simple salt and water as a
ga'gle or douche, is a most efllcaciou3
application. The chief virtue of min
eral waters is salt, which forms a con
stituent either in large or small propor
tions in all springs recommended for
healing. The unmistakable benefits
derived from sea bathing and sea air
proceed from that great strengthening
medium common salt. A goblet of
well iced salt and water is not a dis
agreeable beverage before breakfast,
and is highly beneficial as an aperient.
If ' salt should lose its Bavor " a most
important lever of the pharmacopoeia
would be destroyed.
Concerning the treatment for diph
theria, the Food and Health says :
I To us it appears that fresh air is the
. i i -. -1 1 1 .n .1.- i.
nrst necoHBiiy ; we tuuuiu anuw a u:pu
therial patient to be near an open win
dow. Next, we should use hot malt
vinegar for flannel wraps round the
throat, gargles of the same diluted
with water, and the most tonic diet pos
sible. Neither quinino nor mineral
tonics, but hot, strong wines, yolks of
eggs beaten np in Btrong beef toa ;
warm baths made of chamomile flowers;
feet placed in mustard and water, aud
flannel wraps soaked in hot vinegar
around the stomach. The juioe pressed
irom raw beef, heated in a farina boiler
and given constantly, but, above all,
hot red wine. Inhalations of the fumes
of vinegar with open month and peneil
ings of the same within the mouth. The
use of lemons is also to be recommend
od. Diphtheria is apreventuble disease,
and when we know more of the condi
tions under which the health of human
life can exist and are inclined to listen
to it and act accordingly to it, we
shall have fewer epidemics such an
those of diphtheria.
Well, my son," said a father to his
eight-year-old boy the other day, "what
have you done that may be set down
as a good deed?" Gave a poor boy
five cents," replied the hopeful. Oh,
oh! that was charity, and charity is
always right. He was an orphan, was
he?" "I didn't stop to ask," replied
the boy. " I gave him the money for
licking a boy Lwho .upset my dinner
basket"
An iron chess-board provided with
miifrntttia nhaMHmf.n in a. Berlin DOVt)lty,
The small magnet concealed in the
figures cause them to adhere to the
iroa board and retain their plaoe in
spite of considerable sbockt, such for
instance as received pn chipboard or
pn railway trains.