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TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1883.
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OOOD-N1QHT AND GOOD-MORROW.
Tb fires are all burned out, the lamps are
low,
The guests art gone, the cups are drained
and dry.
Here, then, was somewhat once of revelry;
But now do more at all the fires shall
glow,
Nor sonf be heard, nor laughter, nor wino
flow.
Chill is the air ; gray gleams the wintrj
sky ;
Through lifeless boughs drear winds begin
to sigh.
Tis time, my heart, for us to rise and go
Up the steep stair, till tliat dark room w
gain
Where Bloop awaits us, brooding by that
led
On which who lies forgets all joy and pnin,
lior weeps in dreams for some sweet thing
long fled.
Tis cold and lonely now ; set wide the door ;
Good-morrow, heart, and rest thee evermore.
Philip Jiourke Marston, in Harper.
HIE BABY'S -MISSION.
The Mulaneys commenced with a
battered-up old grandfather who pos
sessed a disastrous talent for gutting
into trouble and staying there, and
ended in a crumb of a baby, whose
name had been twisted by some Incon
ceivable process from John Patrick
Michael into Tim. lie was such a
skimpy baby that nature must have
patched him up out of the cuttings and
scrapings of luckier patterns, and, fat
ing short of sight, had made it up to
him in gloriously big slate-gray eyes
that "opened wide but could not see."
There was a widow and some dds
and ends of children wedged in be
tween the two, and all lived together
In a study liitlo house that was as like
as peas to the mob of other stuffy
houses that disgraced both sides of the
street only it wasn't a street, after
nil, but an alley, i hoked up with want
and (lavorel with babies; with a red
lamp swung out at one corner where
the beer-shop stood, and a dismal ittlo
Indian upholding with it- one foot
(the other might have been in its
grave for all Slum Alley knew or both
ered) the cigar-store interests at the
other.
(grandfather Mulaney owned a cow
that came as near his ideal as any cow
could that gave milk instead of whisky,
and ho divide! his t me impartially
betwemit and those patriotic meet
ings the Al'eyites devoted to poor Ire
land and worse poteen. Then there
was a pig two pigs-tucked und r
the woodshed, that squealed and scuf
fled and grunted, and a straddling roos
ter that cackle I, regardless of sex, and
a cat that mewed, and a dog that
whined and then, by way of rivalry,
the odds and ends of Mulaneys, who
squealed and shuille t and cackled and
whined worse than them all put to
gether. ' Mother Mulaney was one of those
misery-ridden widows the world knows
by heart a Woman wholaundri.nl her
life away with all the odds and en Is
tugging at her gathers all save Kitty,
who even resented the figurative apron
strings now that she had asserted her
superiority to them by standing in a
store uptown.
I'retty Kitty! Her eye were Irish
blue, her hair was Irish black, her
heart but all Slum Al ey stoutly de
nied that Kitty Mulaney had on&. She
was tall and straight as a poplar sap
ling, was Kitty, and she had a trick of
lifting her eyebrows at her neighbors,
which was rather superb, but pretty
conclusive evidence that the diagnosis
of Slum Alley was correct.
How she had managid to grow up
under such cramped circumstances, or
how the beauty her mother had left
behind her in the peat bogs of Ireland
along with her youth had found such
a glorious resurrection in her face,
never puzzled the brain of Mis Kitty
Mulaney she was tall, and there were
the Irish eyes and the clouds of black
hair tantalizing her from the cracked
bit of mirror i ay after day, till her
vanity bled at tho idea of wasting so
much sweetm ss on two old people and
a gang of noisy cubs for there was
enough of Grandfather Mulaney's
blood rioting through her veins "to
warrant that young person in calling
a spade a spade.
It was no trime, surely, to rebel
against the fate that had cat her
among thorn like a Jewel in a dust
heap, but if it had been rankest trea
son Mi.is Mulaney wou!d havegone on
rebeLing all the same. Slum Alley
was good enough, perhaps, for her
moldy old grandfather and those
knucklebones of children, but fate
Should have remembered that she was
Kitty Mulaney, and cut her cloth ac
cordingly. She loved her mother, of
course, but deep down in her heart
(for she really had one, though it was
so tramped and stifled under its heaps
of vanity and ruinous pride that Slum
Alley migot well be forg. ven itsdoubts )
Bhe knew she was ashamed of the toil
Btained face and naked brogue, and
she never meant to lorgive 1 er father
for dying as poor as lie did.
Those other girls at the shop could
have "theiv eviuings to themselvtB,
with a trip now an I then to the thea
tre, and friends they were not ashamed
to own, while she she mu t trudge
home to bare Iloors and sud stained
walls, to coarse fare heaped on cloudy
dishe , with the o Ids and ends squeal
ing and scu iling about her while Bhe
ate it, and Baby Tim actually a uirm
Jng up Jn her lap from under the $abK'
to coil his wizen little arms around her j
dainty waist.
She was tired, of course, and there
was little exhilaration in kissing a
scrap of a fare that was black with
dirt and generally blue with 1 raises
so Miss Mulaney never did it and tho
( hill, whose love for his eldest sister,
like the brilliant red flower of the cac
tus, was tho one passion of his thorny
little life, would accept his defeat with
something shining in his sightless eyes
that ought to have brought tears to
her own, and go scuttling about tho
floor squealing worse than ever. It
counted for little that the sudrfltains
meant so iiui-h of her mother's
strength; she only knew that she was
spending her youth with neither pleas
ure nor profit, that Tim's aloration
was the torment of her life, and that
Grandfather Mulaneys playing fast
and loose with the proprietor of tho
red lamp at one corner of the alley and
tho savage at the other, getting his
drinks and smoke free and welcome in
change for the hopes, so lavishly given
in pay. was nearly driving her frantic,
as if she would ever, ever
"Ay coorso not, jewel," chuckled
the dissipated old villain; "sure, it's
choosin' twixt tho byes would spile me
game intoirely."
That ended everything. For year
she had been plotting and planning to
get rid of it all, the poverty and dirt
and disgrace of Slum Alley, and now
her grandfather had opened a way
with a wide gate and an easy road, and
so Kitty stalked off dead-white with
rage and engaged board with her
friend, the Lace Counter, a big, showy
girl with black eyes and yellow hair,
whoso mother let lodgings in a shabby
genteel house uptown.
"Of course I didn't want to leave
you, mother," Kitty managed to ex
plain, and she had the grace to lower
her eyes as she did it, "but madam
complains so of the distance."
It was a comforting falsehood, for
the faded blue in the poor creature's
eyes leaped into sudden, smiling life.
"Vis, darlint. an' it's wrong ye are
intoirely. Sez 1 to yez granfather the
mornin', Kitty Mulaney's niver the
gurrel to forsake the mother that
horned her, sez I, an sure it's h me
the child will be afther comin' the
Saturday noights to keep the babby
from fnttin', Mr. Mulaney; moind
that, sez I."
" Yes, certainly but indeed, mother,
you should not let Tim goon so," with
an impatient sliove that freed her
ruffles from his baby clasp. "I can't
come in the house' but what he sticks
to me like a burr selfish little ruf
fian!" Tim accepted his usual rebuke with
solemn eyes and quivering 1 ps till
Mis3 Mulaney had given her mother a
gingerly kiss and eacli of the odds and
ends its sparse duplicate; then sidling
up to her departing skirts, clutched
them re:klessly and sa;d, with a
wheedling ring in his baby voice:
" Kitty, does yez want Tim's 'it tie
I'ig?"
Heavens, no! Miss Mulaney had
seen quite enough of pigs to last her a
lifotime; so shaking the dust of Slum
Alley from her dainty feet she went
away to commence a new life in a
cuddy under the eaves of a house that
boasted of a barn, of a parlor strung
around with cheap art in tarni-hed
frames, cheap carpets, cheap chairs and
a time-blurred glass over the mantel
cheap, yes, but it meant Oriental ele
gance to the pleasure-cheated girl, and
so for a month or more she sold gloves
and matched ribbons with a self-approving
smile.
In the meantime something had
happened.
It is not often that Fate drives to
the door of impoverished beauty be
hind two cloud-gray horses with long
drab tails; but romantic thing do
happen sometimes, even outside of
story-books, and so, when Dr. Jones
stepped out of his polished gig one
evening, stepped in the shabby-genteel
house to feel a sick lodger's pulse, and
t-tepping out again stepped right into
tho brilliant locus of two Irish blue
eys shining in the doorway. Fate
stepped in herself and managed the
rest after the most approved of modern
fashions that begins with the orthodox
introduction and winds up with a
ring.
Then remorseful memory startled
the girl's conscience, and nerved her
to a dutiful visit home, and tho way
ha I never seemed so long nor the place
so shameless as on that summer even
ing, after reveling in the respectability
of a Ufa up-own.
Grandfather Mulaney was suffering
from tho effects of an understanding
1 etween the two comers; the children
were laid up or down, rather, on
flabby pallets with the mumps, and
in tho middle of it all the miserable
poverty and dirt there sat Mother
Mulaney, with Baby Tim stretched like
a burning coal across her tire I lap.
" Shpake low, mavourneen,'- whis
pered the poor creature, wiping tho
tears from her face with a forlornness
that went to Kitty's heart and staid
there. "Oh, but it's the faver that's
seorchin' his weo arruins ! Do ye look
at thim an' he always as fat as a
mole; sure it's cr in he's been afther
yez; that bad, thedocthor said I'd best
t-ind yer a message, but I uminde 1 yez
promised to come, an' yez dead b oke
me heart along wid yer own wor 1
there, hist now, Tim, darlint; do yez
1 e slapin, not to know she's home at
last to stay "
Don't wake him, mother," she
cried, hastily and remorsefully a3 well;
"and it will be quite impossible foi
me to stay to night; indee I I "she
could not plead so trilling an excuse
as an expected visit from the hero her
mother had never heard of; so, empty
ing quite half of the silver coins from
her purse into her hand, went on, hur
riedly: Hut I will come to-morrow,
indeed; and here, mother, you will
need this for tho doctor."
'Sliure, it's the comfort yez are
when yez do come, mavourneen; but
the docthor, St. Patrick's blessin' be
wid him, he won't take a red cintfrom
the likes of me, a poor widdy woman
with her arrums full o' throuble, but
I'll kape it for the mixthur the childer
do be takin' all around; wirra, to look
at thim, with bumps as big as petaties;
an' how daft the baby will be when he
linos you've been and left him."
"But I will come to-morrow, in
deed,"sho insisted, as sherose from her
knees beside the unconscious child,
"and see, I'll put this bright new
penny in his hand to keep him com
pany until I come; and, mother "
She tried to fashion some plea for
deserting them all, but it stuck cross
wise in her throat; so, kissing her
mother's quivering lips, and allowing
the odds and ends to worship her to
their hea ts' content for live delightful
minutes, went home quietly at hist,
carrying a sore conscience with her to
her cuddy under the eaves. Yes, it
was cruel to leave her mother in her
hour of need; it was worse than cruel
to stay away from baby Tim; but what
if she should catch that dn adful fever,
and it should feed upon her beauty like
a worm that ' eats up the blush of a
rosel
No, Miss Mulaney could not afford
to bankrupt her future, even for baby
Tim'
If only she could keep him out of
her mind! She hated ugly children,
and Tim's small, wan face, capped with
whitish hair, was not lovable to think
of; but there it laid, between her and
the trees, between her and the shop
windows, between her and the glass,
while she dressed for the evening
even between her lover and herselt, as
they chatted in the twilight of the
dingy parlor she had chosen to make
her home.
She had never been so fond of the
child, she told herself, as she sat there
but what would ho think of them
all, from Grandfather Mulaney down'
he with his pride and grand man
ners all the weakness in the girl's
heart rebelled at tho confession of her
part and pared in Slum Alley and the
old life. She could not tell him, and
she would not.
And then a woman's shabby outline
darkened the dDi rway a woman with
sobs in her voice and a naked brogue
on her tongue and the woman was
Mother Mulaney I
" Docthor ! It's me little bye that's
dyin' an' me a thraipsin to yer oilice
when the gurrel av yez sint me here,
l'raise the howly Patrick, I've found
yez !"
At the first word the girl crouched
behind the avalanche of soiled lace
that tumbled over the window, and
remained there till both voices were
lost in the sounds of the night. Dying,
and she had let her mother go without
a word ! The twilight blackened, and
Kitty Mulaney, crouched behind the
curtain, fought as hard a battle as he
lights who wins a fortune for his
pains. Every unkind word she had
ever given the child cut and stung her
as only remorse knows how to cut and
sting, and now he might be dying even.
The fear of that carried her out of
the house, down the streets, through
courts and over crossings, till it
brought l.er, panting, at last to Slum
Alley and the home that, God helping
her, she never again would leave.
And when she saw it lying there, a
tiny white thing, with a bright, n w
penny between the fingers that lay like
white Moss mis on its heart, perhaps
Baby Mulaney, looking down upon her
from an unknown somewhere, called
upon his" Master to witness that he
had not died in vain.
And the d ctor? "Why, what could
he do but forgive her weakness in the
name of Baby Mulaney ! Leslie's Il
lustrated. A Tub for a Habitation.
It is a fashion among persons of
means when they build residences for
their own occupancy co a iopt a style
and arrangement different in si me way
from every other residence they have
ever seen, but it has been left to A. D.
Tufts, of Portland, Oregon, t t con
struct a habitation unapproa ha'de in
originality of design. He lives in a
tub. The tub is ol'long, being about
ten feet long, six feet wide and eight
feet high. Batters six inches high are
laid on top, upon which there is a
tongued and groo od roof covered with
tin. The roof overhangs the tub
several inches, and tho space between
the to p of the staves and the ceiling
serves alike for. venti'ation and light.
A door ot t he usual size is the means
of entrance. The inner walls are
painted white, as is the ceiling, and an
ingrain carpet of neat design covers
the iloor. The furniture consists of a
wash-stand, two chairs, an open stove,
connecting through a thimble with a
pipe outside, a narrow bed swung
hammock fashion, several cheap en
gravings, and swinging shelves con
taining b oks. A woman's supervision
cou.d not make t'io dwelling neater.
Mr. Tufts is a bachelor, and "dines
out."
According to a recent census the
population of Kgypt is 0,7'JS,20O,
THROW UP YOUR IIANDS."
ROW A KENTUCKY DESPERADO DE
TIED THE WHOLE STATE.
And How He W nn at I. ait niomiht Within
the l.aw'x It each IJ a lleierminrd Olliccr
-Ills Conviction ..nd I'ardon.
Grove Kennedy kept the State of
Kentucky at bay for nearly a year, de
populate 1 a watering pla e, scared the
governor t ut of his boots, laughe 1 at
life and bullied all the courts of the
commonwealth for two years. We
saw him in Lancaster, a fine-looking
fellow of perhaps thirty-eight, with
dark hair and beard and line bright
eyes, with a genuine humorous sparkle
in them. He is a typical dangerous
man. lie comes of a family that kill.
They die generally booted and armed.
They came to Kentucky with Daniel
Boone and owned 20.U0U acres of gar
den land in this Eden of Kentucky.
They began by killing Indians and have
never got over it. old Kb Kennedy
was (i rove's uncle and foster father.
In 1877 they quarreled and had a law
suit. After old Eb had given his tes
timony in court he insulted Grove and
walked out. Grove calmly went out,
on the balcony and as his uncle walked
down the sidewalk drew ahead on the
old man with a shotgun and sent the
whole case to a higher court The
whole charge went in behind tho ear
and generously came out all over the
old man's countenance.
Grove was arrestel without resist
ance and afterward escaped. For six
months lie was at large. The governor
offered a large reward for the outlaw's
capture. The reward was large enough
to invite the approval of George V.
Hunter, of Bardstown, popularly
known as "Marshal" Hunter, Ilun
t r is the coolest and most determined
man in Kentucky, a small, square
jawed man, with quick, gray eyes and
little hands that have a grip of iion.
I asked Hunter once what was the
secret of his sueeei-s.
" Wei'," he said," you always get the
drop on a m m, and if he don't do what
you want shoot."
Hunter d sappeared from Bardstown
after the reward had been offered for
Kennedy. This was published and
Kennedy at once disappeared from
Grab Orchard. Then it was that all
Kentucky awoke to the thrill of a man
hunt. The pursued and the pursuer
left not a trace behind them. It was a
mat: h of courage and skill against
courage and desperation, and the iState
waited for the re ult. Days and weeks
rolled by and nothing was heard. One
day in October, however, the rumor
came that Grove Ktnnedy had been
captured alive. Next day the State
was atlame with the news. Hunter
had gone to Grove Kennedy's house
and pati-ntly waited for him to turn
up. Secreted in the wo ids with some
trusty followers, prepared to fight
Kennedy and his crowd, he never
wearied.
Ono morning at daylight Hunter,
sheltered behind the stable, saw the
outlaw coming for his horse. They
had never met. As Grove walked up,
Hunter covered with a revolver, and,
stepping out from behind the corner of
the stable, quietly said:
"Throw up your hands!"
"What for?" asked the outlaw, as
lie paused and considered the prudence
of reaching lor his pistol.
" For your life I" answered Hunter,
point blank.
"You are Marshal Hunter?" in
quired Kennedy, as coolly and calmly
as the other.
" Ves."
"Then I surrender 1"
The ou law then devoted his energies
to amusing himself with the law. Ho
had half a dozen trials and convictions
and kept the court of appeals busy
reversing decisions and ordering new
tria s. Tho military had t j be ordered
out to protect the court. One day ho
called up a newspaper correspondent
ia court and quietly calling his atten
tion to an error in the report said :
"If that ain't corrected and fair
leports sent out I'll kill you as soon as
1 get out of here," lie was llnally
convicted in 18i-0 and had been in the
penitentiary for about three years
when pardoned. When he was first
sent up he was very disobedient and
troublesome, but that soon disappeared
and lie won his pardon for good
behavior. He was sentenced for
twenty-one years.
" Whisky was the cause of all my
enssedness," said the released outlaw.
My uncle brought me up to fight any
man that insulted me ami to go armed.
T.iat was what caused his death. But
I have quit drinking liquor now, and
if 1 get a chance I'm going to behave
myself. I'm g ing We.t to settle,
either in Kansas or Missouri." Ccr
risjioiulttwe l'liiladtlpltii Tinus.
"You have very sweet lips," said a
traveler to the fair damsel at a tive
ndnut 'S for-refreshment lailroad res
taurant, as he laid down a sandwich
on which he could make no impression,
but 1 must say 1 can't go your
t mguo !" Fortunately the train
started when it did, or the traveler
would have got mora tongue than he
bargained for. atatc&man.
The high school girl explained tc
her particular friend yesterday that
"Ileki ked the buc'it" was slang,
and that the po'ite expression was:
" He propellod his pedal extremities
w ith violent againot a familiar uten
a.l used for jlie transj oi uti. n of
water." '
FASHION X0TES.
7ouave jackets are among the new
stylos.
Seal brown suits, tailor finished, are
very fashionable.
Sleeves have a decided tendency to
fullness at the top.
The knotted .'ilk handkerchief is as
much used as ever.
Gay and severe styles of dress are
equally fashionable.
Flounces pinked out on the edges
are again fashionable.
Largo collars and lace fichus are do
rigueur for full dress.
Velvet, plush and chenille are the
leading dress trimmings.
English jackets and jockey-cap bon
nets will bq much worn.
Pointed or tapering crowns for bon
nets are no longer fashionable.
Felt and velvet bonnets will ba
worn to the exclusion of plush.
Pattern dresses, in dark blues, reds
and biowns, will be popular thi3 win
ter. Turbans, composed entirely of
feathers, have gone entirely out of
Btyle.
Spanish lace scarfs are not worn,
except with black silk dresses. Then
they are relieved by having white lace
peeping from beneath their somber
folds.
All the esthetic and fancy writing
paper is going out of style, being re-pla-ed
by that which is thick, j lain
and unruled, with a big square enve
lope to match.
Among new fall goods are woven
tapestry patterns with borders of an
tique de.-dgns and in blocks, bars,
checks and plaids, the fabric rough but
io.t came.'s-liair.
A great many lace dresses are worn.
They aie generally maie in tho
princess style, or in long redingotes,
and are worn over satins of a bright
color. Black Flemish binche and
Spanish blonde are the favorites.
Young lad es are wearing a great
deal f black at receptions, dinners
and balls, but very little in the street.
The bla k dress always heighten the
fairness of the skin by gaslight, and
tins is doubtless the reason why it is
so popular.
Bla k stockings are a'most univers
ally the choice for g rls of nil ages,
and for boys in dresses or short
trousers. The fa hion is expensive,
as bla :k hosiery is E.pt to be inferior in
quality tj white or colored, therefore
requiring more frequent renewal of
supply.
Jersey Jackets for cool days are made
somewhat heavier t ;an the summer
zephyr jer.-eys, and are supplied with
self colored fans of satin or surah set
i i below the waist at the back. here
tho jacket is part of the costume, a
wide surah is put around the hem and
tied in a great bow at the back.
The thickly corded Antwerp silks
are again in favor for both dre ses and
cloaks, as they come in single and
double widths for dresses and for cir
culars; these have none of the lustre
of satin, to begin with, ami as they are
not adulterated, they do not take on a
suspicious and unwelcome gloss after
being worn.
Fichus of black Spanish lace are
worn twisted about the neck, especi
ally with the jerseys, which are popu
lar this fall. Jerseys in dark blue and
black a:e the only kind permitted by
fashion for street wear. They are
worn over bla: k silk or dark blue silk
skirts, and have a sash back, and often
Bash drapery down the front.
Hough and ready wrap-, for girls
and small boys, are made in semi-ulster
form, of all wool plaid cloth. They
are plaited the ent.re length in front,
like a blouse, but an added plain
breadth gathered on to the waist at
the back gives fullness to the skirt.
Larger girls have tight fitting coats,
jackets with dolman backs and raglans
to choose from.
Do the Best You Can.
A story is told of a king who went
into his garden one morning and found
everything withering and dying. He
aked an oak that stood near the gate
what the trouble was. He found that
it was .-ick of life and determined to
die because it was not tall and beauti
ful like the pine. The pine was out of
heart because it could not hear grapes
lik the ine. The vine was going to
throw its life away because it could
not stand erect and have as lino fruit
as the pomegranate: and so through
out the garden. Coming to a heart s
ease, ho found its bright face uplifted,
as full of cheerfulness as ever. Said
the king: "Will, heartv-easo, I am
glad to bnd one brave little flower in
this general discouragement and dying,
You don't seem ono bit disheartened."
"No, your n. a csty. I know I am of
small a 'count, but 1 concluded you
wanted a In art s-ease when you planted
me. If you had waute 1 an oak or a
pine, ( r a vino or pomegranate, you
would have set onu out. So I am
bound to be tho best hcarl's-ease that
ever 1 can." try wise, truly, was
the heart's-easo We had better fol
low its example.
The fig is said to be a sure croo In
most of tho Southern States. Tho cost
of cultivation is trilling.
English Methodists
year to home inissio'.s,
j'vefl.OUO.OUOa
TIT FOR TAT.
a duel from the " merry suchcsb.
Brabazox.
Do you remomlier, ih, my love,
Our pleasaut walks together
The little trips to Hampton court,
All in the pleasant weather!
Rowena.
Sea, I remember; yes, I remember that,
Brabazon. .
Do you remember Richmond, love,
The Star and Garter dinner;
The little dinner and the gloves
Of which you were the winnerf
Rowbsa.
I don't remember; I don't remember 1M
Brabazos
It must have been the other gtrL
Rowena.
Do you remember Briehton, lov.
Where on the pier we'd linger,
Vnd what you said that moonlight night
You slipped this on my finger!
Shotii ing rtnflr.'
Bhabazon.
I don't remember; I don't remember that.
It must have been the other chap.
ROWEN'A.
Ah, yes; it must have been the other chaj
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
Early English Baby talk.
The cause of all taffy 'lasses.
Writing a wrong is the forger's .
work.
When a hen retires for the night, it
is qude proper to speak of her as a
rooster.
" No more reflections, please," said
the looking glass after it had tumbled
down stairs. Xew York Journal.
Dried apricots are likely to be a
prominent article of export from
California. They are not so swell as
the dried apples. Pit ayune.
A girl can (limb a fence very handily
and gracefully at least some girls can
but not if a fellow yells " snakes I"
just as .she is getting over. Boston
1'ost.
A woman applied for a place as
street car driver. " Can you manage
mules V" aske I an employer. "I should
smile," she said, "I've had two hus
bands." An Ohio dentist has devoted himself
to active - politics, probably on the
ground that his calling has fitted him
lor "taking tho stump." Pittsburg
Tclerap.'i.
Colonel Frjewalsky i3 the leader of a
proposed llussian scientific epedition.
If they go up North they had better
lasten that name on the bow of the
boat to crack icebergs with. Burling
ton Fie i Press.
It is said that English sparrows are
being palmed oif for reed-birds at
restaurants. Feople who are anxious
to have the English sparrow eAterm
inati d should always call for reed
bird. Lowell Courier.
There i3 a grocer out West who is
said to be so mean that he was seen to
catch a I'y off Ida counter, hold hiui up
by the hind legs and look in tho cracks
of Irs feet to see if ho hadn't been
stealing some sugar. Sotnenille J our
tial. When a man is sitting still, stead
fastly gazing at nothing, his wife
hasn't a word tj say to him; but a
soon as he takes up a paper or a book
to read, sho takes a long breath and
almost drowns him with an avalanche
of questions. Puck.
Lcsscps.
M. de'Lesseps, the projector and
manager of the Suez canal, Is an old
man, yet he is as healthy and vigorous
as a strong man of fifty. He attrib
utes his vitality to the way in which
his father reared him His childhood
was as free and natural as a young
savage. He wore no more clothing
than decency re p.ired, was obliged to
lake regular exercise, and was never
overfed. When he was five yeais old
he could ride a mettlesome horse.
lie has brought up bis own children
as he was reared. They are not over
dressed, nor ovtrfed, nor under
exercised. The joungest of the ten,
an infant, is clothed in a sleeveless
garment of soft cotton, which re
strains neither arms nor legs when it
wisht 8 to kick.
Nature, says M. de Lesseps, does
better for the infant, in warm and
temperate climates, than tho dress
maker's art can do. She envelopes it
in fat tissue: gi.es it, when not inter
fered with, a ir. sh and beautiful skin,
and prompts it to graceful movements.
Tho sight of a finely dressed child
grates upon tho old man's nerves, and
he compares a little g rl, dressed in
frills, a sash, and knitted leggms, to a
bantam fowl. Before his own boys
were old enough t play marbles or
dress dolls, he gae th m ponies end
taught them how to ride. Their nur
sery maids and govern, ssis have al
ways been trained by the following
rules:
"I.itte meat; less clothing; un
limited eteri-e; food to be. given in
the ban ! w In never it is asla d for, but
only twice a day at table.
"A (hild w"i;o pays while eating
merely eats to appease hunger, and
does not run into gluttony.
"A child who is only allowed to eat
at fiyed hours an I at table meals, is
sine to gorge itself and take more than
tt requires." Voat't's i'umy uiion.
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