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NEAR. TO NATURES HEART.
Out of the depths of nature
Sweet thoughts at times will start
Tlml rise, like n frnprant incenso,
Cheering the downcast heart.
Tho chirp of the bird or the cricket,
The fluttering leaves of the trees,
The odor of woodland fioweis,
Wooed by a southern breeze
The warmth of the summer sunshine,
The lowing of kine on the hill,
The silvery sky bung crescent,
Or the cry of the whip-poor-will.
Bi burs back to the heart that is brood-lug
Home happy dream that is pakwu,
To gladden and cheer, for the moment,
. Though the joy is too sweet to last.
As a child to it mother turning
Finds ever a quick reliof,
So onro unmon mother, Nature,
Give solace for every grief.
James Clarence Harvtg.
A SKATE FOR LIFE.
Rubo Wexford ought to have been a
happy fellow. He was certainly con
tillered one on the day when Kate
"Wilde- became his bride. lie was the
envy of every young man in the rude
western hamlet where the ceremony
took place, and many were the good
wishes showered on tho heads of the
newly-welded pair for their future
happiness and prosperity. Still there
were those who not only insinuated
but boasted that the helpmate of her
choice was unworthy the woman lie
had won. Kate's father and mother
were particularly opposed to the
match, and did all in their power to
prevent it, but the girl, beside her un
wavering love, possessed a determined
will which, when onco aroused, car
ried much before it. Bubo Wexford
was never accounted a strictly tcm
perato man. Indepd, there had b;en
times before marriage when he was
for days under the inlluence of liquor,
and lato had seen him in this state,
and therefore knew fully the extent of
his weakness. l?ut tho woman loved
tho man, and within herself resolved
that his reclamation should by her
duty. That success must crown her
efforts she little doubted.
Autumn drifted away, the crops had
been gathered in, and "all the indica
tions pointed to an early and severe
winter. Bube's sprees continued. No
wind was too cold, no snow too deep
to keep him from Washburn's, a not
distant tavern. One evening in the
latter part of December ho took down
his leggings and gun from the peg
where they hung and was preparing to
go out Kate went to him and said :
. Kube. you must not 1,'ave mo to
night, (.'iva in tome this time and
stay at home."
"I am onlv going for a jaunt," he
replied, "I'll" be back soon."
"No, you are going to Washburn's.
To-night you will, you must gratify
me, 1 am afraid to remain here alone."
"Afraid?" he answered. Such a
thing as frar was almost unknown to
Kate Wilde.
She clas;xd her arms around his
neck, whisper. d into his ear, her
cheeks flushing brightly, then sat down
in tho rockery and ri 4 as if her heart
would break. Kube stood the gun in
a corner, threw aside the leggings, and
cried too.
The next morning when the winter
sun beamed upon tho cabin the little
log shelter held three souls instead of
two. A wee htrangor had come in the
night, a bright-eyed baby girl, l.'er
weak ( ry seemed to move nil the better
parts of the husband's nature, and his
wife looked on with a new-born con
fidence in her face. Alter a week,
when Kate was able to sit up, Kube
went to relate the happy event to the
grandparents. It was the first time he
had visited them for some months.
Very early in the morning he started,
and when the atternoon shadows began
to lengthen Kate looked up eagerly
for his return. It was toward day
break when ho appeared, bis hands
and feet almost frozen, and his senses
stupefied by liquor. The wife's new
hopes were destined to be short-lived.
Freshly male promises markel the
morrow, but days went by only to see
them unfulfilled. Now there was a
new torture. Rude had forsaken
"Washburn's and made his visits to
1'ineville instead, where Kate's father
and mother lived. It was almost
more than the woman's nature cuuld
bear to know that her parents were the
frequent witnesses of her husband's
disgrace. This was a sort of thing
whic h she could not and would not
long brook.
Little Kate, the baby, was a month
old to a day when Kube made pre
parations one morning for a trip to
I'ineville. Kate looked on silently for
a few moments, and then said :
" Where are you going Y
"Onlv to 1'iueville."
"What forr"
"To see about some powder and
staff."
' That is untrue. You are going to
spend the day with worthless com
panions and you will comeback stupid
with liquor. Kube, l sten to me. I
have ttood all which it is possible for
me to endure. I have prayed and en
treated you to abandon a habit which
has disgrace I us both. My pleadings
have brought nothing. I cannot and
I w ill not have our child grow up to
know a father who is a drunkard. If
you rif use to stay at brine 1 lave said
my last say. Go to Tineville If you
Insist on doing so, but if you are not
hero sober by sunset I shall go with
the baby to father's, and in this house
I will never set foot again."
" That'! all talk," Kube answered in
a rough, joking itnd half-serious
fashion. " Why, it's fifteen miles to
I'ineville."
"No matter," was the rejoinder, "'I
will make the start if the child and I
freeze to death by the way."
Look out for wolves," Kube laughed
again. " There have been half a dozen
seen here lately. It has been a hard
winter for them, and they're almost
starved."
"Wolves or no wolves," muttered
Kate, " I'll go."
Kube hung about tho house uneasily
for an hour or so, then silently rigged
himself out, legging, buffalo coat, gun
and all. Kate w orked away and said
never a word. lie opened the door, and
without looking back, remarked:
"111 be lark by sunset."
"See that yrju are," was the reply.
" If you come here late the house will
be empty."
Tho wife watched his form across
the clearing and saw it disappear in the
heavy timber which circled the cabin.
She turned to her household duties, but
ha 1 no heart for them. AVell she knew
that Kube Wexford would break his
bust promise, as he had broken others
before it. If so he must abide by the
result. She was determined.
Tho day went by at a snail's pace,
and the afternoon seemed never end
ing. Kate fondled the baby, listened
to her erow and cry, and led her a
dozen times. Then she prepared sup
per, and sunset came w hen it was com
pleted. Hut it brought no Kube. An
other hour and still he was absent. So
tho moments pa sd until the clock
struck ten. The baby was fast aslenp.
Kate rose from a chair at the cradle's
side, a look of firm determin ition on
her face, and, opening the cabin door,
peeyed across the clearing. Not a soul
was visible. She closed the door,
went to the chest, and took
from it a pair of old-fashioned
skates, whese steel runners
gleamed in the firelight. She laid
them ready for use and proceeded to
wra; herself as warmly as possible.
Then she bundled the baby in the same
manner, lifted her tenderly in her
arms, and with the skates Blung over
her shoulder, started across the clear
ing. Alter reaching the timber she
left tho beaten path and made for the
river. It was coated heavily with ice
and the strong winds ha I blown it al
most entirely free from snow, leaving
a nearly naked surface. Kate laid the
baby down for a few moments while
she fastened on her skates. Then she
lilted her baby once more and started
for I'ineville, fifteen miles away. The
moon shone brightly, .she was a won
derfully rapid skater and she knew no
slightest suspicion of fear.
Kube Wexford sat near the warm
fire w hich was surrounded by a dozen
men beside himself. He hal been
there for hours listening to anecdotes
of hunter's lives, even adding to the
general fund with some of his own ex
periences, but though his companions
coaxed and persuaded, they could not
prevail upon him to taste liquor. Thi3
was something so entirely new that
many a laugh and jest was had at his
expense, lie answered all persuasions
to iiubibe in the same way, Baying
only, "Not to-day, boys, not to-day."
When sunset came he wa3 still in his
scat. He wanted to go home, wanted
to keep his promise, but he thought he
would wait awhile and start later, so
that it would not look to Kate too
much as if he were giving in. So think
ing, he went to a quiet corner by him
self, and had not been there long be
fore he fell asleep. It was 11 o'clock
when he awoke with a start, and said
hurriedly:
"What is it, Kate?"
A loud roar of laughter brought him
to his senses, and a rough voice crkd:
"Kube, guess you have been dream
ing!" 'Yes," he replied, foolishly; "I
thought my wife was calling me."
lie glanced at thi clock and said;
" Hoys, I must go."
' Have something before you leave,"
was the general cry.
" No, no; not to-night."
Then he was gone. His conscience
smote him as be trudged through the
snow. It would bo after 2 o'clock
when he reached home. One thing
consoled him somewhat; he was sober.
But would Kate be in the cabin when
he returned? Of course, she must be.
Nothing short of madness could tempt
her to keep the rash vow she made in
the morning. So thought Kube. This
was because he was incapable of es
timating the great suffering which he
bad caused his wife. On, on he went,
until through the stillness of
the night was borne to his ears the
sound of falling waters. It proceeded
from a spot which marked the half way
between I'ineville and his own home,
and was caused by the river tumbling
down a steep descent of fifteen or
twenty feet of rugged rocks. His road
at this point lay close to the river bank,
and soon ho was in full view of the
cascade. As he passed it he noticed.
with a sort of shudder, how cold and
dark the water looked as it tumbled
down, For thirty feet above the falls
there was no ice. It broke off abruptly,
and the current rushed from beneath
w ith terrible velocity. Beyond, in the
moonlight, glistened an unbroken sur
face of clear ice for fully half a mil
before there was a bend in the river'i
bank. The sight w as an old one tc
Kube, and he paid little heed to it, bu1
stalked on silently, still thinking ot
Kate and wondering if the cabin would
be tenantless. Suddenly he stooi
stock still and listened. Many an eai
would have heard nothing but th
sound of rushing waters. Kube'l
acute and practiced hearing detected
something more, and he felt instinct
ively for his ammunition and looked tc
tho priming of his rille. Then from a
distance the sound came again a pe.
culiar cry, followed by another and an
other, until they ended in a chorus o
unearthly yells. . Kube muttered tc I
himself one ' word wolves and
strained his eyes in the direction of j
the curve to the river's eclga !
The cry proceeded from that direction I
and grew louder every instant. Be
fore he could de ide on a plan of action
there shot out from a bend in the rivet
what looked to him like a woman car
ryinga bundle and skating for deai
life. She strained every nerve, but
never once cried out. Next came a
wolf, followed rapidly by others,
which swelled the pack to a dozen, all
ravenous, yelping, snarling and gain
ing closely on their prey. Kube raised
his rille, lired, and began to load as In
had never loaded before. The cries,
came nearer and nearer. Great God j
the wolves were upon the woman 1 II
seemed as if no earthly hope could
save her, when, quick as an arrow from
a bow, she swerved to one side, the
maddened brutes slid forward on theii
hind legs, and she ha I gained a few
steps. Again she flew onward, and
again she tried the ruse of swerving
aside, tho man on tho bank in tha
meantime firing rapidly, and picking
off wolf by wolf. " A fresh danger
arose. The woman evidently did not
see the abrupt break in tho ice above
the falls, and tho dark, swift current
which lay beyond. Perhaps she was
too frightened to hear the rushing
waters. On she went, making straight
for the falls, the wolves almost on her
heels, and the man's voice crying in
terril'.ed accents, as he dropped on his
knees in the snow :
" Kate ! Kate I My God, save her I"
The woman was on the brink of the
ice, when she made a sudden sweep tf.
one side. Nearly the entire pack, un
able to check their mad flight, plunged
into the water, which carried therri
swiftly over the rocks, and Kate Wex
ford was flying toward the river bank,
where she fell helpless in the snow,
her baby in her arms, while Kube'l
rille frightened the remainder of hei
pursuers. It was some time befori
she could answer her husband's voice
When strength enabled her to do si
she arose feebly in the snow, her reso
lution to go to her father as strong at
ever. Kube took her hand, knell
down and said:
" Kate, bear with me for the last
time. As God is my judge, I shall
never again ta-te liquor. This nighl
has taught me a lesson which I cannot
forget."
Kate believed him and accepted hii
promise. Then they started for Pine
ville, Kube carrying the baby and mon
than half carrying his wife. Whee
they arrive 1 there Kate told her par
ents she had been dying to show then
the baby, and, taking advantage of tin
moonlight night, had made the journej
on skates.
Kube kept his vow, the roses bloomec
on Kate's cheeks, and to-day a
happy family of boys and girls feel nc
touch of shame as they look up witt
pride to their father.
Female Iron Workers In England.
The Wolverhampton (England)
Evening Star, in referring to som
observations recently made by Mr
Samuel S. Baldwin, relative to femah
iron workers in British iron districts
says: " We may state that representa
tives of this journal have recently
made diligent inquiries, have visited
the 'homes' of the people and con
versed with them about their work and
their earnings, and have recorded
their experiences, which are practically
the same as those of Mr. Baldwin
We rather think, indeed, that that
gentleman has overstated the gross
earnings of a family of nail or chain
makers. Instead of 14.50 clear weekly
income, $3.50 would be nearer the
mark, and the prospect for the future
points to a still further reduction
Our Black Country female slaves are
engaged in a hopeless struggle with
machinery, the price of hand-made
chain and nail3 naturally sinking as
machinery improves. Yet, with the
prejudice that is born of an hereditary
connection with the trades, they cling
to the forge and appear to "regard
hovels as their natural homes, black
smiths' work as a perfectly regular
female employment and starvation
wages as a fair remuneration."
Diana in the Schoolroom.
Miss Fuller is a schoolteacher in '
Grand Marais, Northern Michigan. ;
She is also an admirable shot with the
ride, and, after school hours, goes hunt- j
ing in tha neighboring woods. The
family with whom she boards are kept
well supplied with came, large and
small. he is the admiration of the j
county, and all the young men are in I
love with her. j
A true Bostonian never cries "fire 1"
He a'arms the neighborhood by shout- j
ing, "An impending conflagration."
llvahetttr i
HEALTH niXTS.
Don't sit or sleep in a draught.
Don't go to be 1 with cold feet.
Don't stand over hot-air registers.
Don't lie on the left side too mnch.
Don't inhale hot air or fumes of any
acids.
Don't lie on the back to keep from
snoring.
Don't eat what you don't want, just
to save it.
Don't bathe in less than two hours
after eating.
Don't eat in less than two hours
after bathing.
Don't sleep in a room that is not
well ventilated.
Don't eat the smallest morsel unless
hungry, if well.
Don't eat anything but well-cooked
and nutritious food.
Don't start to a day's work without
eating a good breakfast.
Don't take long walks when the
stomach is entirely empty.
Don't forget to take a good drink of
pure water before breakfast.
Don't jump out of bed immediately
on awakening in the morning.
Don't wear thin hose or light-soled
shoes in cold or wet weather.
Don't strain your eyes by realing on
an empty stoma .'h or when ill.
Don't sing or holloa when your
throat is sore, or you are hoarse.
Don't eat between meals, nor enough
to cause uneasiness at meal time.
Don't forget to cheer and gently
amuse invalids when visiting them.
Don't sleep in the same undergar
ments that are worn during the day.
Don't take some other person's medi
cine because you are similarly afflicted.
Don't forget to rub your.-e'.f will al
over with crash towel or hands before
dressing.
Don't try to get along with less than
seven or eight hours' flee;i out of
twenty-four.
Don't try to keep up on coffee or
alcoholic stimulants when nature is
calling you to sleep.
Di n't call so frequently on your sick
friend as to make your company and
conversat'on a bore.
Don't make a practice of relating
scandal or stories calculated to depress
he spirits of the sick.
Don't drink ice water when you are
very w arm, and never a glassf t 1 at a
time, but simply s p ,t slowly.
Don't ruin your eyes by rea ling or
sewing &t dusk by a dim light or flick
ering can He, nor when very tired.
Don't fill the gash with soot, sugar,
or anything else to arrest the hem
orrhage when you cut yourself, hut
bring the parts together with strips of
adlusive plaster.
Don't call on your sick friend and
advise him to take some other medi
cine, get another doctor, eat more, eat
les-, sit up longer, go out more fre
quently; stay a week and talk him to
death before you think of leaving.
And lastly, when about to leave, doa't
say '"Well, I guess it's about time I
was going," and then hang around half
an hour before you know how to get
away. Say "Good -night," and go and
done with it.
Not Such a Fool.
A rather superstitious young man of
this city, who is fond of quoting fag
ends of wisdom in old sayings and
maxims, was recently sitting by the
girl of his choice trying in vain t )
summon up courage to pop the ques
tion. Every time he plunged in and
said somethingapproaching thi subject
he would by seized with a spell of
badif illness and w ould contort h sface
as if about to have a fit. One day h
bad proceeded as far as "Supposing
a young man should ask you to"
Then he wrinkled his nose, and be
came silent.
' Whit is the matter with your
nose V" asked the young lady solicit
ously. "Tickles ; I must be going to kiss a
fool as the saying is."
The girl smiled into his face with
sweet innocence,
Mother says I look like a fool
sometimes," she said archly.
He had sensd enough left to improve
the opportunity, and now be says that
actions speak louder than words, and
are better, too. Detroit I'ost.
The Paiier Future.
A LouWanian writes: Tho time
will soon come when, in our damp
climate, the floors of all the stores in
New Orleans and in other cities in the
Mate will be built of t-trong, water
proof and inde.-tructible paper tiles.
The dampness permeating our dwell
ings will be counterai ted by paper ma
terial of a suitable character. All our
city cars will be built of paper. The
wheels of these will bo made of paper.
The rails of our street cars and even
the crossties. so liable to decay, will all
be removed in the course of time and
b ' replaced by paper material, suitably
treated to remedy existing evils. Near
ly yll the furniture of our dwellings,
so liable to swell or shrink in our
damp climate, will be manufactured!:)
an elegant and artistic style by means
of paper st. k capable of resisting ef
!; ually tltts suaden changes of our
temperature
THE RAVAGES OF CHOLERA.
A DOCTORS RECOLLECTION
EPIDEMIC.
OF AS
file Experience With (lie Trend In K-la
ftrnphra.ltT De-rrll rd.. Preenntion iba
Pr;ile of Amerli a 8 muld Take.
Dr. C. II. Van Klein, of Hamilton,'
Ohio, is perhaps the only physician in
the United States who went through I
the terrible cholera epidemic in Kussia !
in 1878-9. Dr. Yon Klein was a sur
geon in the Kussian army in the war
between Kussia and Turkey, and was
the only American physician in tho
Kussian service proper. The unfor
tunate Dr. Lamson was appointed by
the English Ked ' Cross and was as
signed to the Armenian troops, where
he served with distinction, and was
afterward decorated by the Princess of
Armenia. Dr. Von Klein has a very
vivid recollection of the dreadful
scenes. When he was mustered out
of the service at the close of the war
the cholera was faging at Astrakhan
and other smaller tow ns on the line of
Siberia. People were dying by the
hundreds, and a semi-panic had taken
possession of the inhabitants. They
were fleeing from town to town and
finding relief nowhere. Astrakhan is
a city of about 16,000 inhabitants, and
adjacent to it were a dozen villages of
from 3,000 to 0,000 each. In all of
these cholera had been prevailing for
some months.
Dr. Von Klein was one of a staff of
army physicians wlio were requested
by the government to go into the in
fected region and break up tha
epidemic, if possible. When they ar
rived at Astrakhan the mortality was
great and all kinds of business was
practically suspended. The local phy- j
sicians were all dea I or powerless to !
neip tne people, liunais were maae ;
in the night-time and the dead w ere j
hurried out of sight, sometimes three
or four in one grave. Every measure !
was taken to stop the spread of the I
disease, but to no purpose. The towns
were put in as good sanitary order as j
the means at hand would admit. Tar,
sulphur and juniper trees were burned i
in the streets, the burning of tha
juniper giving tho most satisfactory
results. The diseasa had taken such i
complete hold of the towns that noth- j
ing could be done, and, after a consul- i
tation with the government, it was de
cided to burn the infected villages that
were past hope. Astrakhan was !
spared, but five other towns of conse- j
quence were obliterated by fire. The 1
inhabitants were removed to the j
country, the afflicted taken to hospitals '
and then the torch was applied. The ,
towns were lired at several piaces, and
one by one were sp?edily blotted out,
In this way the scourge was checked
after eight months. It was heroi
treatment, but Dr. Yon Klein thought
it was the only thing to do, seeing that
the whole country was threatened.
Eight thousand persons died during
this epidemic in a very small area.
In the event of the disease reaching !
our shores the doctor recommends that '
every family should take great precau
tion against it, and it would be better
li tnis were done rigm away, teuars
should be kept clean and dry, and yards
and alleys put in the best condition i
possible. Tar should be burned about
the house and inside of it. The wood ;
of the juniper tree, or juniper berries,
he regarded as even better than tat ;
for this purpose. Either or all of these ,
could be burned in the house. As to '
food, oatmeal, cracked wheat and
sweet milk are good. Eat sparingly ;
of meats. Fowl and game are less
hurtful than beef. Vegetables increase
the temperature of the body, and
should be avoided as a rule. Cincin- j
nati Enquirer. !
The Oldest Bank Notes.
The oldest bank notes are the " flying
money," or " convenient money," first
issued in China, 20t7 B. C. Origimdly :
these notes were issued by the treasury,
but experience dictated a change to
the system of banks under government
inspection and control. A writer says
that the early Chinese "gnenhacks"
were in all essentials similar to the !
modern bank notes, bearing the name
of the bank, the date of issue, the
number of the note, the signature of
the ollicial issuing it, indications of its
value in figures, in words and in the i
pictorial repns-'ntation of coins or
heaps of coins equal in amount to its
face value, and a notice of the piuns
and penalties of counterfeiting. Over
andabve all w as a laconic exhorta
tion to industry and tin if t " Produce
all you can ; spend with economy."
The notes were printed in blue ink on
paper made from the fiber of the mul
berry tree. One issued in Bjil'J B. C.
is preserved in the Asiatic museum at
St. Petersburg.
Among the precautions against
cholera, say3 London Truth, it is sug
gested that, as workers in copper in
: Hungary, and those engag.-d in th
! manufacture of bras! and copper
artieles t Ise where, never seem to catch
j it, a thin ilis'v of pure copper, about
; two and a half inches in diameter,
i should be worn next to the skin, over
' the pit of the stoma h, and suspended
from the neck by a cord.
An Italian chemist has perfected a
process by which wine can be con
densed and baidened, and a chemist at
Marjt-illes has succe st'ul y done tha
same with brandy.
AN ANSWER,
It all the years were summer-time,
And all the aim of life
Wan just to live on like a rhyme,
Then I would be yonr wife.
If all the days were August days,
And crowned with goden weather,
How happy, then, through green-clad waj
We two could stray together.
If all the nights were moonlight nights,
And we had nnnght to do
But just to pit and plan delight;,
Then I would wed with you.
If lifo was all a summer fete,
Its sobered place the " glide,"
Then I would choose you for my mate,
And keep yoa at my sida.
But winter makes full half the year,
And labor half of life ;
And all the labor nnd good cheer
Give place to wear and strife.
Days will grow cold and moons wax old ; .
And then a heart that's true
Is better far than grace or gold,
Ard bo, my love, adieu I
I cannot wed with you.
Ella Wheeler.
HUMOR OF THE DAT.
llard-soled The barefoot boy. . "
Woman's sphere A bait of yarn.
Adam was not a polygamist, al
though in his day be married all the
women in the world. Boston Bulletin.
'Tis now the sons cf Ilaly
Do kerosene their erni?.
And tors the public i a a ly
With tl.e.r hurdy-gurd.eV yanks.
Sew l ork Journal
Decatur county, Tex., has a family
of bobtail i ats. A bobtail cat . is
easily acquired, but has anybody seen'
a cat with a bobbed off howl? Hart-.
ford Po4.'
"Please'to give me something, sir?"
said an old woman. " I had a blind
child; he was my only means of sub
sistence, and the poor boy has recov
ered his sight."
" Cyclones are after circuses," says
the New Orleans Picayune It must
be mighty poor picking for the cy
clone where the circus has gone be
fore.-1- Boston 'lranseript.
The reason that a woman never
puts on the gloves in the ring is prob
ably that it would take her too long.
She would always demand a size
smaller than she could wear. Boston
Budget.
Mrs. Homespun, who has a terrible
time every morning to get her young
brood out of their beds, says she can
not understand why the children are
called the rising generation. Boston
Trahscript.
The quantity of beer produced in
the Unite I States 1. s' year averag d
more than fourteen gallons for every
inhabitant of the country. Somebody
has played a wretched mea 1 trick on
us, then. BuvUnjton Fne l'ref.-
When the weary granger sits d. wn
in the field to rest him, and sud lea y
jumps up as though an e.'e. trie cur
rent had t: a erseii his system, it is not
always a shock of wheat, which he ex-
: periences. Sometimes it is a hornet.
isurunuton rre; rress.
A news item says that the brain of
a circus employe, found dying near
Middletown, " weighed fifty-.-ix ounces,
the same size as that of the first Na
poleon and of Daniel Webster." Cf
course, he was the man who wrote th;
circus advertisement-'. Norrifoicn
Herul I.
The whistle of a I comotive is hear I
3,300 yards, the noise of a train -J.SOtJ
yards, the report of a mwsk-1 and tha
bark o a dog 1,800 yards, the roll of a
drum 1,010 yards, the croak of a froj
100 yards and a cricket's ch'rp HJ'
yards. The cry of the next door neigh
bor's baby can b.- heard more'n a mile.
Troy 2'inus.
A DILEMMA.
To write, or not to wri e th it is the quo'ion
H I etliei' it is uooler ri the in n 1 to suff.-r
Th- r; putuiiou ot b in usUeu by
A youi e i.i.lj to wr.te n her autograp
HI. UII ,
Anl havi-iK kep'. ti e boo'i two years, mo I
or Us.
And then in t written in it
Or to t.ie M.e pen u;,'iun;t a ho t of d iubt
cud fears,
And by once w itii g. end them ? To start:
to v rae :
To write ! perch' n 'e, to n.a'.ea b o Ay,
there's the rub ;
For in that car. some blot w! a' fv-tl ng ar
Bnuwn lortt. n rvouMitss dUtruntof t-e f,
An t in: ny other-! Not an
U lien one in writing to I i gi I, for then
If herhoa d n nke a blot, lie dnsvs a due
'tunnel :t. and B iyt
Itwa intent n il. nnd mea it to r. a k
A pi. ice wlieie he did kis . And e
Miees th i.r.i, a .d 1 is.-es it, and thinks
TLat the is hapi y.
Iloslon GUtbt.
The following are the totals for the
population of the gnat cities of Eu
rope : London, :l, 2,410 inhabitants;
Pa is, VJ-5,V10 : Berlin, 1,'J2 J.50O ;
Vienna, 1,10:1.110; M. Petersburg,
870,570; Moscow, 011(70 ; Constan
tinople, t:00,(00 : (ilagow, 55',J10j
Liverpool, 5:.,,:.'J0 ; Naples, 4'J 1,110;
Hamburg, 410,12); Birmingha n, -100.-70H
: Lvons,:i72.s'.M ; Madrid. ;!07,'JS0;
Vuda-Pcs'.h, 1:00,5-0 ; Mar.cill. 8, 357,
2) ; Manchester, 41,510; Warsaw,
:.f:!'.',:;i0 ; Milan, o21,S10; AimlUr
dam, ol7,0l0 ; Dublin, :I14,0 i0 ; Leeds,
bU'PIO ; Home, oOO,470 ; Sheilield,
12-4,410; Breslau,
25i-oU
:,010 ; Turin,
A Florida grower has raised a grana
dillavine, which bears an East Indian
fruit, oval in shape, of a light yellow
color. It is eaten by scooping out tha
inside w ith a sjxxm.