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"ow lightly floats yon thistle down, By wand'ring braeies Mown; 'ity, careless rovsni of the air, With source and goal unknown; ; ut in their silv'ry filaments, Deep moral we may read Vpon each airy, rockless flight, Is borue a living need. Kmm Catirlon, in the Current. THE G1TSY QUEEN. 'It's easy enough to be a queen," said longreve Harrison. "All you have to do is to inherit your rights, and make the most of Ihem when they come to you. Now, 1 nm a hereditary prince, and ought to bo President of the United . States to-day. My grandfather was. it my rights don't come to me. This vrrnment multiplies hereditary princes ' it giving any of them a chance, vour tribes are particular to let oir enjoy his title to tho utmost. m," replied tho fat gypsy woman. , young gentleman, there is much that you ought to know of your ' future. You are rich and generous. rut silver in my hand again, and you v-ill be fully repaid by what I tell you." Oh, "said the young man, with lazy fcalisfaction, balancing himself luxurious ly upen the stump, "1 love to think that the contest is not yet decided between the fair young lady and the dark one. If you showed which was to be crowned nd blessed with me, I should feel as if I must revrrso your prophecy from sheer fntrariness." Tim woman cast n shrewd and black- look at him, half enjoying his im nce, but not tho less determined on ' fees. 0 encampment of tents, wagons, .. children, men, women, and horses ' lied quite into tho woods. Smoke f a number of tires, and several dirty iy-cloths were spread in the long ; spective. Around these the children !led' with those wolfish dogs which ' F"Py makes his brethren. It was Tin summer Bunset.and the mosquitoes abroad, twanging their instruments Mire, while on that very earthen !he fortune-teller had forsaken for "ject, flies greedily covered the k, or risked their lives in wait cups of coffee. A ruddy, swart ig man, xtry sparkling in eyes and jith, when he opened his "lips or idely separated his eyelids, lounged nt ! is length on the wagon tongue, and l icked at two dogs whenever they at iimpted to deliver the beefsteak fiom the flies. He wus too youthful to be tho woman's husband, and too old to be her son, for she had several small, dirty children knocking their heels among tho tea-cups. Yet he staid by, as if the kettle on the crooked iron was his own, he table-cloth his individual board, and lie space about the woman his sKy nofed dwelling. Young Harrison enjoyed his surround ings. He had passed u season among the Assiniboin Indians; was a good hun ter and canoeist ; ho hid run on snow shoes, and jogged in the Assiniboin cutts; he had si en the barbarian of the tropics, clothed only in flowers; he thought he knew life, and he felt an honest love for everything that dwelt close to the tu-ound. Thechildrcn of the road were like grimy and ishmaelitish brethren to him. lie had a liner life, lived quite over their heads, but he rial tered him self Cougrevc Harrison could get down to deep sea level with the monsters, and enjoy the rude delights of simple exist ence. Especially was such fellowship a delight when it let him look at the tent-and-wagon-dwclling type of a beautiful woman. 'And she's the queen," he repeated, scarcely taking his eyes off tho distant figure. "By all that's handsome, she ought to be! What's the extent of her kingdom?" The fortune teller cuffed a dog which was j list in the act of gulping one piece from her beef p after. She then looked at young Harrison, and used the samo hand to point eastward. "We have farms over there," said she. "Do you see that house on tho hill? And we have other land in Ohio. And wo have land in the South." "You let it out to tenants, and live on the road yourselves?" "Yes," with a nod which made her heavy ear-rings swing. "But I mean over how largo a tribe of people docs your Queen Emeretta rule?" "Are you making a book?" said the sw art young man from the waon tongue. "There was a man made a book about us," explained the fortune-teller, her recollections kindling. "I never see it. You have much to do with studying, 'ou are a gentleman that meditates." "I am only making a book of my own experience," replied Harrison, to the . young man on the wagon tongue. "How f large did you tell me your tribe is ?" he asked tho woman. A stolid look covered her face. She fanned away a fly with one ring-laden haud, and said, with tho air of a duchess preserving court secrets ; "There are manv families. There are fami lies in England, and families in this country." "Yes. , In short, the whole haman race is one compact and prodigious family," said Harrison, laughing. His laugh shaded off through smiles to interest, to seriousness and liually to an enthusiastic narrowing of the eyes, for tho young queen was coming down toward this table-cloth at his feet. Her own feet were in low shoes and scarlet stockings. He did not remember ever seeing such another pair of little in nocent, unaggressive feet. Her dress was black. She had a scarlet silk hand kerchief around her neck, and a scarlet and blue oue crossed on her head. Her huir was a mighty fleece of shining black rings, frizzling to minute tendrils around her ears and temples. The high cheek bones of the gypsy were perceptible only because at these points the glow of her color was richest.. She was all black, gold and scarlet, fa flesh tints, hair, glance and dress, the clear whites of her eyes being emphasized by their warm hued lids and dark lashes. This little queen was probably seventeen years old. She carried her shoulders and head as if she felt the crown and robe which her people of the road have never given to any of their sovereigns. She was slim and perfectly shaped rather than tall. And just noticing the stranger by an in different turn of her eye, she said some thing to tho fortune-teller about tho chivvy and kekavi. Harrison detected the words by which the gypsy always tries his Philistine intruders. He took off his cap and bowed, stand ing up from the stum) against which his gun leaned. Ho was large nd hand some in his hunting clothes, as even the swart fellow on the wagon tongue must have seen. "Oh. I can rakker a little Romany," he put forth. "I learned of your folks over in New Jersey. They were Coles, camped near Camden." The fortune-teller relaxed, tho fellow on the wagon tongue relaxed a little, but something liko a ripple passed through the teeth of their sovereign. She flashed out her teeth in a laugh, and covered them instantly with decorous, beautiful lips. "Come, now, we will take you in, Rye," said the swart young man, rising, a jocular light breaking over his face. "You've a good gray tied to that tree Let's look at him." "He isu't mine," said Harrison, glanc- , ing toward his horse and resolving to keep an eye thereabouts. "I borrowed : him to hunt to-day. You see 1 can't 1 trade." I "Maybe you'll buy," continued the gypsy- "Tute wants to pookcr mandy," said the young man, at whom the brown fel low laughed with a shout. "Romany chals never cheat," he de clared." "And Romany dyes tell true fortunes. Don't they?" he appealed to the queen. "Always true," she replied, with the sincerity of a child. "We kuow the future by the lines in the hand." "I wish you'd look in my hand," said Harrison, ardently. Queen Emeretta put her own arms be hind her. "I never yet read a man's palm. Mother Joel knows all the secrets. Show it to her." "She's already looked at it, and pro nounced her or tele. She gave me a good fortune, but kept something back. I want the queen to read my flnul fate. I think I can tear whatever she gives me," said Harrison, foolishly. The brown fellow uttered a grunt and sauntered behind tho wagon. Quecen Emeretta and the fortune teller exchanged a quick look, and ambushed by Harrison's back, the elder woman made some signs with her hands. Returning thereupon to her neglected supper, she cut the gravied steak and gave portions to her children and dogs, and placing a huge piece upon some bread, leaned against it stump to chew it. Her eyes followed the stranger and the queen with complacent amuse ment. Once or twice she drew the buck of her hand across her mouth, perhaps to wipe away grease, and perhaps to smooth its twitching corners. "We must go to one side by our selves," said Quceu Emeretta, with child ish respect of the ancient rite of fortunc- telnng. "Of course," said Harrison, enraptured to have her lead him by the hand. She did influence him strangely, demure and curt though her manners were. They were both young, however different their races might be, both h tndsome and both conscious of a peculiar freemasonry be tween their temperaments. Queen Emeretta took him up to the camp rather than aside, but no dogs or children rolled quite to their feet, and Harrison turned his shoulders squarely against the gaze of several turbaned witches. Queen Emeretta opened her lips and breathed half audibly before beginning his fortune. Without releasing his right hand from her he felt in 11 special pocket with his left, and got a piece of gold to press against her palm. It seemed a sac riligious thing to do. She stood like a divine young oracle, her presence fra grant with the scent of fern, in spite of all the camp's ill odor. Her palm received the money, and she dropped it into her pocket as if that were part of the process, not with tho greedy and satisfied scrutiny the fat woman had given his silver. And then she bent her head, turning her inner hand toward the light. "You were born to be lucky," mur: mured the young queen. "I believe it," said Harrison, regard ing the fleece of biack ringlets not far from his own face. " So far you hava lived a happy life with very little care. You had plenty of money, but all your care was to have money to have a good time with." " True as gospel." "Your life-line shows that you will live long, and enjoy great happiness Here are some crosses." "Yes, I've had my crosses," con fessed the young man, with a sigh of which he knew not the source. "They were caused by a young lady." "1 hope it'll never happen again," said Harrison. "Be quiet, and listen while I read your fate," said the sedate queen. "Do you or do you not believe my words?" "1 believe you, certainly." "You are about to have a great piece of good fortune. There are two young ladies who love you. One is fair and one is dark. "Yes, that's what the other one told me. I "You have not yet decided which you will give your heart to." I "Oh, yes, I have," said Harrison, im pressively. He felt borne along in spite of himself, and ready to commit any ab surdity, "You have enemies who wish you ill. but they will not be able to work you much harm if you mind what I say. You were born to be lucky, and will never die in debt or in poverty. To keep out of the clutches of enemies you must be careful what you say. Within three years you will be married to the young lady you love." Harrison smiled down at his supple palm. Under her low monotone ho was carrying on a separate train of thought without losing a word. He broke through the fortune-telling" to say at this point. "It's pleasant to live in wagons in the open air, isn't it?" Queen Emeretta threw her glance up at his face, and replied, as a matter of course, "Yes." "White I mean outsidcis have some times married among your people, haven't they?" "Oh, yes. There was an Irishman," she said, "married one of the Jeffreys. But ho turned out a bad traveler." "I heard of another such marriage in New Jersey," said Harrison, hardly knowing what impelled him to talk so, "audit was very happy. Seems to me it ought to be the ideal life, living close to nature, and so on, with a beau tilul face always before one. Don't you feel the changes in the weather very much?" "We go south in winter," replied the queen, dropping his hand. "And return north with the birds." If he was about to utter a lengthy po etic sentiment, the sight of a dog ab sorbed to the shoulders in a dinner pot sealed his mouth. He wondered if the the gypsies did cat pigs found dead, and in the same thought-sheath ho wondered if there was a lovelier creature on earth than this queen. "But was that all?" exclaimed Harri son, offering his hand to be held again. "Have you told me my whole fortune?" "No," the gypsy queen replied, with out taking his haiid. "Now, fold your arras across your breast, and wish. Whatever you wish will be gi anted. Have you wished?" "Yes," said the young man. "Then vour wish shall be granted. And that is all." "What I wish for more than anything else in the world is a kiss from you. Remember, you eaid it would be grant ed." While he was speaking the last words Harrison knew the tawny young man had risen up from the fence corner, and Queen Emeretta had receded from him in a backward slope of her body from feet to head. Still, he knew he would have said it if it involved him with the whole camp, and if she flashed lightning at him. He knew he was going at a tremendous pace upon a foolish track, but he was already underway, and could not rcstran himself. And she bewitched him even more by her recoil than by her touch against his hands. This young man, quite a favorite among his social equals, and considered not bad, was for the instant ready to wade among gypsy clubs and dogs and all the artillery of the camp to realize his sincerely express ed wish. It surprised him when the tawny young man came near without distinct indi cations of intending to try to thrash him. The queen did not disappear with a dramatic bound, or utter any exclama tion to spur on the tawny young man. As he approached she walked away from Harrison, and stopped at the first camp tire to talk with the old women who had watched her fortune-telling. Two or three sticks only were burning under their kettle hook, making scarcely a gleam of flame, but considerable smoke, which kept the mosquitoes at bay. Within this film of blue dimness which nothing but smoldering wood produces Harrison saw his last glimpse of Queen Emeretta. For afterward, if she did not ascend to some leaf-curtained couch at the top of the trees, where the night air cauld fan her and tho dew impearl her perfect cheeks, she must have crept into one of tho squatty, dirt-stained tents; and the bare thought made him shudder. Tho young gypsy man again began to urge horse-trading, aud so relieved was Harrison to escape quarreling with these tawny Capulets that he plunged head long into the subject. He went after his horse and his gun, the young man still beside him, and brought them into the midst of the camp. A dozen dark-eyed fellows with shining teeth gathered around him, aud others just returned from town or country foraging, with two or three horses led by one halter, or bags in which suspicious chicken squawks seemed soffocated, added themselves to the examining committee, which seized upon his horse. They felt its limbs, looked in its mouth, pulled out bits of its hair, made it prance, and sprung upon it, one after another, to try its mettle by a dash iuto the woods. Dusk had given place to evening. In the gypsy camp, as in the best regulated dwelling, children will utter vesper' wails. And odors not rank by day were ! dampened and rendered utmost palpable I by the humid night air. j Harrison wanted to getaway. Through j all the wrangle aud jargon of horse talk j he had kept a watchful eye upon every quarter of the camp, and" Queen Euier- I etta appeared uofihere. He had a flittiug I wish to see her seated above the herd I playing upon a guitar. She had im- pressed him us a sincere creature, free : from the gypsy's cunning reservations j with every man, woman, or child of alien blood. At the same time he never j meant to confess to living ears the ex-j tent of his folly regarding her. He staid ' more than an hour in the hope of seeing i a whisk jf her ringlets at some tent flap, i The fighting dogs swarmed around his legs, the gypsies continued cantering his horse; he was tired of parrying their offers nnd keeping his head above tho successive waves of nags which thev poured in one exhaust less tide against his resolution not to sell. When he finally mounted his gray and started toward the road nt a foot 'pace, three men accompanied him, still pictur ing the merits of their own animals and his remorse when it would be too late, and he repeated to each separate man what he had already told the entire camp many times, that the horse was not his, and it was therefore impossible for him to sell or trade. The last one to leave him wns the swarthy young man who had lain on the wagon tongue. He patted Harrison's steed, and admitted there was not a gray like Unit in the whole camp. Ho rested his arms across the back of the saddle as if to fondle the gentleman who wished to kiss his queen. But he was got rid of. Harrison bal anced his gun, and took the last look at the floating village. There was no tell ing whether morning would iind it in the same place. He did hope to see it again. The horse went slowly home, but it was just the sort of a dark, dewy even ing to hum along between fences where elders spread their ghostly parasols and made themselves sweetly odorous. He had a few birds in his game-bag, shot in violation of the game laws, and he now and then hummed a bar from Der Frei schultz, and perhaps thought of his many follies. It was ten o'clock by the stars when he led his borrowed horse directly across the lawn to his cousin's stable, noticing that the Btable door was open and a light was moving among the stalls. James met him with the lantern. "What's tho matter, James?" inquired Harrison. "I was just taking a last look at things for the night," said James, "because there's a tribe of gypsies camped two or three miles below here. Them gypsies likes a good horse, Mr. Harrison." "Well, here's one they wanted." said Congreve. giving up the bridle. "I stopped af. their' camp, but they're not very formidable. What's the matter with the horse, old fellow? he exclaimed, as the lantern searched from head-strap to crupper, from hoof to saddle. "I walked him all the way home. He hasn't laid a hair." "No, sir," responded James solemnly ; "and he'll never lay a hair again till some of the gray paint is scratched off'n him. This ain't the bea9t you rode away from here. What's that?" inquired James, lifting his lantern above the young gentleman's suddenly stern face, "stick ing to the back of your coat?-' Harrison groped behind himself, and seized a paper. "They've played their games on you, sir, 'I said the old servant, grimacing anxiously at the painted horse, and try ing the dry coat with his nail. "And now they'll be gone like the bird that flies. We wouldn't took a thousand like this crow-bait for that gray of our'n." "I wish you'd quit your buzzing and give me that lantern," said Harrison, ex tending an impatient hand. "Don't mind what I say, James. This is meanei than hazing. But it serves me right, too." "It don't do to meddle with them gyp sies, sir." Harrison sat against the edge of a manger, and held tho lantern to what was written in pencil on a piece of note paper : "Mr. , I told yurc Fortune because you knew Romany. But you did uol Treet me Wright. My husband the King says he has fixed you "in a Horse Traid for it. He will give you this. We are. not Different from other because we live on the road. I am just a Y'oung Girl, and it Hurt me. Emeretta, "Queen of the the Joels, Stanleys and Jeffreys." JJarier'n Bazar. Larsre Investments In Horse Flesh. "Caspar," in oue of his New York letters to the Detroit Free Fret, says: Mr. Bonner's investments in horse flesh have been pretty large. His tirst was $3,000 for a team that ho wanted for ex ercise. He had no thought then of be coming an owner of famous horses, but the passion gradually grew upon him. He paid $10,000 for joe Elliot, $10,000 for Edwin Forrest, $ir,000 for Lady Stuart, $20,000 for Edward Everett anil the same for Startle; $3.3,000 for Poca hontas, and the same sum, I think, for Dexter; $30,000 for Rams and $40,000 for Maud S. Had any man talked of paying $40,000 for a trotter when Bon ner made his first purchase, he would probably have been set down as a luna tic. Game In The A relic Zone. From Lieutenant Greely's leport of mo monthly killing of game in the Arctic regions, the follow ing summary of what was killed during the whole stay at La dy Franklin's bay is made up: Seven wolves, seven foxes, eight er mines, eight lemmings, 103 musk oxen, nineteen seals, fifty-seven hares, forty four king ducks, fifty-three long-tailed ducks, thirty cider ducks, sixty dove kins, one diver, six burgomaster gulls, one sabiue gull, twenty-one Arctic terns, 178 sknas, eighty-four brentgeese, one raven, seventy-nine ptarmigans, 101) turn stones, one sandpiper, one sandling, twenty-seven knots, "two ringed plovers! eighteen owls, two philaropes and one walrus. Iu opium joints and hasheesh houses tea or water acidulated itii aconite is used to heighten the rll'cet of the drug upon the nerve aud bruiu. This is aU most the same exc itant that was used by the New England witches, according to Professor Scheie de Vere. THE SOUTHERN EXPOSITION SHOW WHICH IS INTENDED TO ECLIPSE THAT OF 1876. How the i:nterprie in Marled mid What lia been Hone 'I lie (jiroiiiida and ItuHdiiifrm. The Southern Exposition, which is to be opened at New Orleans on December 1, is the outgrowth of an idea that origi nated iu 18?!), when tiic Mississippi Cot ton Planters' association was organized with a view to meet the desperate state of things then threatening the planting interest by the proposed exodus of the colored population and the apparent ne cessity for replacing the old methods of raising cotton by new methods and labor saving machinery. The New Orleans exposition is a sort of centennial celebration of the beginning of the cotton industry in this country, as the tirst cotton was exported in 1784. This was the beginning of the great ex port trade that has made American cot ton an important factor in the industry of the world. The year 1884 also marks the hundredth anniversary of the peace that closed the revolutionary war, and it was thought fitting that the occasion should be made memorable by the expo sition of the arts of peace. It was also considered that the South had been the arena of the most remarkable Industrial progress of this decadej and was, there fore", the proper center for such a cele bration. The eoming exposition is called the World's Industrial and Cotton Centen nial exposition, and it is to be held under the auspices of the United States and the National Cotton Planters' association. On April 24, 1883, the executive com mittee selected New Orleans as the site for the exposition. Congress approved the charter constituting a board of thir teen members, eight of whom are ap pointed by the President, and seven on the recommendation of tho association and subscribers. Under the act the commissioners of the exposition had the authority to invito foreign gevernments to participate in tho exposition. In order to make provision for the guests thus invited, an act of Congress was parsed loaning a million of dollars to the enterprise, ou the same plan that proved successful with the Cen tennial exposition at Philadelphia. Louisiana and New Orleans raised $.00, 000 by State and city appropriations and private effort, and from various sources lunds amounting to about $1,500,000 more were raised to help on the enter prise. Then the plan was enlarged a little, and the Federal government decided to ask foreigners to bring exhibits relating to the departmental workings of their governments as a contribution to the knowledge of the science of govern ment. To carry out this idea a supple mentary appropriation of $300,000 was made by Congress, and a board of olli cers was appointed by the President. When the enterprise was started, oue of the most active promoters was Seuor Diaz, now president of Mexico. Presi dent Diaz has not lost interest in the ex hibition, and promises continued co operation. Already the Mexican gov ernment has appropriated $200,000 for its share in the great show. The Latin countries of Central America will also be duly represented at the exposition. Al though, on accouut of the use of the term Southern Exposition, many have supposed that it will be solely an exhibi tion of Southern products and things having some relation to them, the fact is it will be an international exhibition on a larger scale than any heretofore at tempted anywhere. The grounds cover 250 acres. The main building is the largest ever built for such a purpose. The government building measures 884 by 56.J feet, aud is itself larger than either of the two Paris exposition buildings, aud larger than the Vienna exposition building. There will bo an immense horticultural hall, art galleries, and other buildings such as naturally cluster around a great exposition. The intention is to provide room for all exhibitors who have any thing to show that is worth seeing. The exhibits are to be catalogued iu nine groups with about 1,000 classifications. Tho primary object of the exposition is to educate the people, and this will be kept constantly iu view. The president of the exposition is Edmund Richardson, of Mississippi, the largest cotton planter in tho world. Tho director-general is Major E. A. Burke, of New Orleans. There is an office in New York, in the Stewart building.at Chambers street and Broadway, and another office in Chicago. Then there is a commissioner in every tntc with $ j,000 to spend in the inter est of the exposition. There are also fourteen meu traveliug in Europe giving information about the exposition ancl getting exhibitors. The exhibition will be opened promptly on December 4. Already a fleet of steam boats is being prepared on the Missis sippi to take visitors to the show. There are teu lines of steamers c onnecting New Orleans with New York. Then there are the Louisville and Nashville railroad, the Queen and Crescent railroad, the Il linois Central, the Louisville, New Orleans and Texas, and the new system of Mexican roads ready to carry visitors from ali directions to ihe exposition, aud the prospect is that even in the number of its visitors the Southern exposition will rival the exhibition at Philadelphia. Sew York aS'ki. Various IVajs of Stopping a Car. The Pittsburg ChronLU says that in stopping street curs a Boston woman shakes her book, a New York woman throws her parasol at the driver's head, a Brooklyn woman whistles, a Chicago woman puts her foot ou the track, a St. Louis girl winks at the conductor, a Cincinnati woman says, "huha! huha!" and a Pittsburg uiun paralyzes tho horses with a suiiic. SELF-RELIANCE. I. By thine own soul's law lenrn to Uts, , And if men thwart thee take no heed, And if men hat thee have no care; Sinn tin hi thy sonp. and do thy deed, 1Id)0 i htm thy hope, and pray thy prayer, Ami rlttim 110 crown they will not give, lior bays they grudge thee for thy hair. II- Keep thou thy soul sworn steadfastoath, And to thy heart be true thy heart; What thy soul teacher learn to know, And play out thine appointed part; And thou shalt reap as thou shalt sow; Nor helped nor hindered in thy growth, To thy full stature thou shalt grow. HI. Fix on the future's goul thy face. And let thy feet be lured to stray Nowither, but be swift to run, And nowhere tarry by the way. Until at last the end is won. And thou mayst look back from thy place And see thy long day's journey dona. IH'MOU OF THE DAT. Faulty grammarians should cultivate the parse-nip. (Jouverneiirllerald. The United States speech crop will be very extensive this year. Waterloo 01 tercer. A man who paints the town red gener ally looks blue himself the following morning. Fittdmrg Telegraph. The most verdant young man of the period was the one who attempted to cut grass with a bicycle. Button . Jhidqet. There is a variety of slug which has 28,000 teeth. How devoutly thankful we are that the slug is not a dog. Phila delphia Call. They have a pound for cats in Brook lyn, says an exchange. We h .ve a pound for them in Boston, and it will be ad-' ministered with anything that comes within our reach. Boston, Post. " Do cats reason?" asks a scientist. Well, our view is that they try to settle matters that way, but nine times ' out of ten the debate seems to end in an old fashioned riot. Philadelphia Press. To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis better to lose the nomination; Or to lie a presidential candidate and liav A pirate's picture passed off lor your own, All in public priutsf '' Sifting. There are said to be 20,640 stitches in a plain shirt. These figures, added to the number of half-hours annually con sumed in looking for collar buttons, would make the public open their eyes. Courier-Journal. "Man has not half the courage of woman," shouts a female orator. No, indeed ; no oue ever saw a great big, overgrown woman running from a little bit of a man with a rolling-pin in his hand. Philadelphia Call. EPITAPH OM A TRUTHFUL MAX. The world with mysteries is rife That puzzle e'en 'the wise; This mull wan truthful all his life, lie's dead, and here he lira. Sumercilte Journal. Colorado has a woman who speaks eight languages, but when her husband comes in at three in the morning with his legs hopelessly entangled she doesn't deviate very far lroiu the Colorado in terpretation of plain English. Ut. Paul Herald. "The evening shoe for little girls is tho Patti slipper," says an exchange. It is used just betore the little girl is put to bed without her supper, and the cere mony of " trying it on " is attendod with more or less effusive demonstrations on the part of the little girl's mother. Lotcell Citizen. The blatant bullfrog's soy song Comes gurgling 1 10111 eaeh clump; The chirp of sparrows all day long, Is heard beneath the trees. The screeching owls "too-whit,toowhoo," The cuckle of each barnyard goose, Which waddles 'round the pump, Now strike iiKm the breeze. But not a sound of all these crews la half as harsh as the hullabaloos Of orators on the stump. AVm york Journal. The First Meerschaum Pipe. In 1723 there lived in Pesth, the capi tal of Hungary, Kurol Kowates, a shoe makers, whoso ingenuity in cutting and carving ou wood, etc., brought him in contact with Count Andrassy, with whom ho became a favoriie. The count, on his return from a mission to Turkey, brought with him a piece of whitish cluy, which hud been presented to him as a curiosity on account of its extraor dinary light specific gravity. It struck the shoemaker that, being porous, it must be well adapted for pipes, as it would absurd the nicotine. The experi ment was tried, and Karol cut a pipe for the count aud oue for himself. But in the pursuit of his trade he could not keep his bauds clean, and many a piece of shoemaker's wax became attached to the pipe. The clay, however, instead of assuming a dirty appearance when Karol wiped it off, received wherever the wax adhered to it a clear brown polish instead of the dull white it pre viously had. Attributing this chaugo in the tint to its proper source, he waxed the whole surface, nud, polishing the pipe ugain, smoked it, and noticed how udiuirubly aud beautifully it colored, also how much more sweetly tho pipe smoked after being waxed. Other noble men, hearing of the wonderful proper tics of this siugular species of clay, im ported it iu considerable quantities for the manufacture of pipes. The uutural scarcity of this much esteemed article j and the great cost of importation in ' those days of limited facilities for trans I portatiou rendered its use exclusively ' confined to the richest Europeau noble ' men until 1830, when it became a more i general article of trade. The first meer I sc hauni pipe made by Kurol Kowates has i beeu preserved iu tho museum of Pesth,
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