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I WONDER
It I this night, at set of sun,
Should find my raeo was nearly run
would I havo earned the glad "Well tftVmo?"
I wonder.
Would I look back at dear onos hore?
Would I go onward without fear?
Would there bo time for any tear?
I wonder.
Would it then bo so strangely sweet
Whore loved onos wait their own to greet,
'lhat are would pass with winged feotl
I wonder.
Would all the countless trials sore
Perplex tno never, never morel
Would hoartut lies, failures, all be o'er?
t wonder.
He says, "TJntr-Uie weary rest,"
Unto the frinp-dlras home so blost;
And so to b'm I leave the rest ,
No wonder.
Boston Tramcript.
TWO DOZEN BUTTONS.
Betty jdulicd. Now, why she should
have, vfchod at this particular moment
no Too on earth could tell. And it was
lv. tho moro exasperating because. John
nad just generously put into her little
shapely hand a brand new ten-dollar bill.
Ana hore began tho trouble.
"What'6 the matter?" he said, hisfneq
falling at tho faint sound and his mouth
clapping together in what those who
knew him foiit Httlo called an obstinate
pucker. Ny what is it?" .
Betty, wfc;f had just begun tgf chango
the sigh into a, merry little laugh rip
pling all owr tho corners of .tho red liDS
stopped suddenly, tossed hjr head, and,
with u small jerk no way conciliatory
sent out the words: r. '
. 'You needn't ipsinuate, John, that I
'am ulwavs troublesome."
"I dida't insinuate who's talkingof
insinuating?" cried ho, thoroughly in
censed at the very idea, and backing
away a few steps, he glared down from
a tremendous height, in extreme irrita
.itioB. "It's yourself who is forever in
;; . inflating and all that, and then for you
' to put it on mo it's really abominable."
. rhe voice was harsh, and the eyes that
foc-keit down into hers was not pleasant
to behold.
, "And if you think, John Fcabody,
that I'll stand and bavo such things said
to mo; you niiss your guess that's all !"
cried Hetty', with two big red spots com
ing in hot cheeks, as she tried to draw
lior littlccrcct figuro to its utmost di-
mensions. "Forever insinuating! I
J guess you wouldn't have said that before
1 married you. Oh, now you can, of
; course!'"
' "B-idn't you say it first, I'd like to
rfcnow?" cried John, in great excitement,
(drawing nearer tho small creature he
palled "wife," who was gazing at him
jwith blazing eyes of indignation; "I
f can't endure everything 1"
I ''And if you bear more thun I do,"
cried Betty, wholly beyond control now,
l"whv. then. I'll rivc un." and she trave
a bitter little laugh and tossed her head
I again.
i'
And hore thov were in the midst of a
' quarrel. These two who, but a year be
fore, had promised to love and protect
, and help each other through life.
"Now," said John, and he brought
' his hand down with such a bang on the
' table before him him that Betty nearly
: skipped out of her little shoe only she
i controlled the start, for she would have
liod before she had let John see it, "we
fcvill have no more of this nonsense 1"
f His face was very palo and the lines
ground the mouth so drawn that it would
save gone to any one's heart to have
.Seen their expression.
"1 don't know how you will chango
or help it," sid Botty lightly, to hide
er dismay at the turn affairs had taken,
m sure! and she pushed back the light,
aviug hair from her forehead with a
ncyV indifferent gesture.
That hair that John always smoothed
when he petted her, tired or disheart
ened, and called her "child." Her ges
turo struck to hii heart as ho glanced at
' her sunny locks, :iad tho cool, indifler
, ', tat face underneath, and before he knew
'it he was saying:
"There is no help for it now, I sup
I .. pose."
i V "Oh, yes, there is," said Betty, still
in that cool, calm way that ought nof'to
havo deceived him. But men know so
little of women's hearts, although they
may live with them for years in closest
. friendship. "You need not try to en
- dure it, John Peabody, if you don't
wan: to. I'm sure I don't cave!"
"What do yon menn?"
Her husband grasped her arms and
compelled the merry brown eyes to look
up to him.
, "I can go back to mother's," said
Betty, piovokingly. "She wants me
any day, and then you can live quietly
and to suit yourself, and it will be bet
ter all around."
Instead of bringing out ft violent pro-
s. testation of fond affection and remorse,
which sl o fully expected, John drew
himself up, looked at her fixedly for a
long, long minute, then dropped her
arm, and with white lips said tilowly :
"Yes, it may be better as you say, bet
ter all around. You know best!" and
was gone from the room before she
could recover from her astonishment
enough to utter a sound.
With a wild cry Betty rushed across
tho room, first tossing the ten dollar
bill savagely as far as she could throw
it, and flinging herself on the comforta
ble old sofa, broke into a flood of bitter
tears the first she had bhed during
i her married life.
I "llow could he have done it! Oh
r what have 1 said i Oh, John, John 1"
The bird twittered iu his litUe cage
" iveriuthrt window among the plants.
Betty iviuerryeied liko s Mash how John
aud bhe bdjlii!eu the seed-cup that very
i
morning; how he had laughed when she
tried to put it in between the bars, and
wheri she couldn't rrach without getting
upon a chair he took her in his great
arms and held Iter up, just like a child,
that nho might fix it to suit herself.
And tho "bits" he had said in his
tender way, they had gone down to the
depths of her foolish little heart, sending
her about her work singing for very
gladness of spirit. And now 1
Betty stuffed her fingers hard into her
rose cars to sliut out the bird's chirping.
"If he only knew why I sighed," she
moaned. "Oh, my husband I Birth
days nothing will make anv difference
fvnow. Ob. why can't I die?"
How long she stayed there, crouched
tlown on the old sofa, sho never knew.
Over and over tho dreadful scene sho
went. realizing its worst features each
time in despair, until a voice out in the
kitchen said : "Betty!" and heavy foot
balls proclaimed that sorao one was on
the point of breaking in upon her unin
vited.
.ietty sprang up, chokins back her
solii, and tried with all her miirht to
couiiiose herself and remove nil traces of
her trouble.
ThV visitor was the worst possible one
she coLld have under the circumstance.
Crowding herself on terms of tho closest
intimaiy with the pretty bride, who wit h
her husfyand, had moved into tho village
a twelve-month previous, Miss Elvira
Simmons had made the very most of her
opportunities, and by dint of making
great parade over helping her in some
domestic work such as house-cleaning,
dress making iind the like, the maiden
lady had managed to ply her other voca
tion, that of news-gatherer at one and
the same time, pretty effectually.
She always called her by the first name,
though Betty resented it: and Bhe made
a great handle of her friendship on every
occasion, making John rage violently
and vow a thousand times the "old
maid" should walk.
But bhe never had and now, scenting
dimly, like a carion afterUs own prey,
that troublo might come to tho pretty
little white house, tho muke-mischicf
had corao to do her work; if devastation
had not already commenced.
"Been crying!" she said, more plainly
than politely, sinking down into the
pretty chintz-covered rocking-chair with
an energy that showed that she meant to
stay, and made tho chair creak fearfully.
"Only folks do say that you and your
husband don't live happy but la 1 1
wouldn't mind I know tain't your
fault."
Butty's heart stood still. Had it come
to this? John and she not live, happy!
To bo sure they didn t, as she remem
bered with a pang the dreadful scene of
words and hot tempers; but had it got
ten around so soon a story in every
body's mouth?
With all her distress of mind she was
saved from opening her mouth. So Miss
Simmons, failing in that was forced to
go on.
" An' I tell folks so," she said, rock
ing herself back and forth to witness the
effect of her words, "when they git to
talkin'; so you can't blame mo if things
don't go eusv for you, I'm sure!"
"You tell folks?" repeated Betty,
vacruely, and standing quite still.
"What? I don't understand."
"Why, that the blamo is all his'n,"
cried the old maid, exasperated at her
strango mood and her dullness. "I say
says J, why thero couldn t no one live
with him, let ulone that pretty wife he's
got. That's what I say, Betty. And
then I tell 'cm what a queer man he is,
how cross, an "
"And you dare to tell people such
things of my husband?" cried Betty,
drawing herself up to her cxtremest
height, and towering so over the old
woman in tho chair that she jumped in
confusion at the storm she had
raised, and stared blindly into
tho blazing eyes and face rosy with
righteous indignation her only thought
was how to get away from the storm she
had raised but could not stop. But she
was forced to stay, f6r Betty stood just
in front of the chair and blocked up the
way, so who slunk bask into the smallest
corner of it and took it as best she could.
"My husband!" cried Betty, dwelling
with pride on the pronoun at least, if
they were to part, she would sav it over
lovingly as much as she could till the
last moment ; and then, when the time
did come, why, people should know that
it was John's fault "the best, the kind
est, the noblest husband that ever was
given to a woman. I've made him more
troublo than you can guess; my hot
temper has vexed him I've been cros,
and impatient and "
"Hold!" cried a voice, "you're talking
against my wife!" and in a moment big
John Peabody rushed through the door,
grasped the little woman in his arms and
folded her to his heart, right before old
maid and all.
"Oh !" said Miss Simmons, sitting up
straight and setting her spectacles more
firmly.
"And now that you've learned all that
you can." said John, turning around to
her, still holding Betty, "why you may
go."
The chair was vacant. A dissolving
view through the door was all that was
to kc seen of tho gossip, who started up
the road hurriedly, leaving peace behind.
"lletty," said John, some half hour
afterward, "what was the sigh for? I
don't care now, but I did think, dear,
and it cut me to the heart, how you might
have married richer. I longed to put
ten times ten into your hand, Betty, and
it galled me because I couldn't."
Betty smiled and twisted away from
his gritsp. Bunning into the bedroom
she presently returned, still smiling, w ith
a bundle rolled up in a clean towel. This
she put on Aicr husband's knee, who
stared Ht hen wonderingly.
"I didn't tnean," she said, uppinning
the bundltJ "to et it out now, but I
shall hav? to. Why, John, day altei
to -morrow is your birthday.-.-
"So 'tis," said John. "Gracious! has
it coma around so soon?"
"And you, dear boy," said Betty,
shaking out before his eye a prettT,
brown affair, nil edged with silk of the
bluest shade, that presently assumed the
proportions of a dressing gown; "this is
to be your present. But you must he
dreadfully surprised. John, when you
get it. for oh, I didn't want you to know
it!"
John made an answer ho thought best.
When he spoke again he said, perplexed,
whilo a small pucker of bewilderment
settled between his eyes:
"But I don't see, Betty, what this
thing," laying one finger on the gown,
"had to do with the sigh."
"That," said Betty, and then she
broke into a merry laugh, ttat got so
mixed up with the dimples and the dan
cing brown eyes that for a moment she
couldn't finish. "Oh, John, I was wor
rying bo over those buttons. They
wern't good, but they were the best I
could do then. And I'd only bought 'era
yesterday. Two whole dozen. And
you put that $10 bill in my hand, I
didn't hardly know it, but I suppose I
did give one little bit of a sigh, for I
was so provoked that I had not waited
buying thein until to-day."
John caught up tho little woman,
dressing (town and nil. I don't think
they have ever quarreled since at least
I have never heard of it.
The "Tree ruzzle."
The "tree puzzle" that follows is one
of the most ingenious trifles of the kind
now current:
1. What's the social tree,
2. And tho dancing tree,
3. And the tree that is nearest the sea
4. The dandiest tree,
6. And the kissable tree,
0. Aud the tree where ships may be?
7. What's the tell-tale tree,
8. And the traitor's tree,
0. And the tree that's the warmest clad?
10. The languishing tree,
11. The chronologist's tree,
13. And the tree that makes one sad?
13. What's the emulous tree,
14. The industrious tree,
15. And the tree that nover will stand still?
lli. The nnhealtliiest tree,
17. The Kgyptinn-plugue tree,
18. And the tree neither up nor down hill?
19. The contemptible tree,
SO. The must yielding tree,
21. And the tree that bears a curse?
2-i. The reddish brown tree,
'J3. Tho reddish blue tree,
24. And the treelike an Irish nurse?
23. What is the tree.
That makes each townsman fie?
2G. And what round itself doth entwine?
27. What's the housewife's tree,
2. And the fisherman's tree;
23. What by cockneys is turned Into wine?
80. What's the tree thnt got up,
81. And the tree that was lazy,
3 And the treu that guides ships to go forth!
:t:i. The tree that's immortal,
ill. Tiw trees that are not,
Sj. And the tree whose wood faces the north?
30. Tho tree in a bottle,
37. The tree in a fog,
33. And what each must become ere he's old?
3'.. The tree of the people,
40. The traveler's tree,
41. And the sad tree when schoolmasters
hold
13. What's the treo that has passed through
the tiery heat,
43. That half-given to doctors when 111?
41. The tree that we offer to friends when we
meet,
45. And the tree we may use as a quill?
4(5. What's the tree that in death will benight
you,
, 47. And the tree that your wants will sup-
nlvil
4S.
And the tree that to travel Invites you,
4'.. And tho tree that forbids you to die?
ANSWERS.
Pear.
) Tea.
Hop.
Heoch.
Spruce.
t Tulip.
I Yew.
25. Citron.
20. Woodbine.
27. rlroom.
28. Basswood.
2!t. Vine.
30. Rose.
31. 1 Satinwood.
Kay.
Peach.
Judas.
Fir.
Pine.
Pate.
Weeping-willow.
Ivy.
Spindle-tree.
Caper.
Hyiamore.
Locust.
Plane.
Medlar.
t India-rubber.
Sago palm.
.1 '
I Damson.
Chestnut.
Lilac.
Honeysuckle.
I Aloe.
S3. (H)olin.
33. Arbor-vitse.
34. Dyewoods.
35. Southernwood.
30. Cork.
37. I Kinoke-tree.
) Hazel.
SS. Elder.
!. Poplar.
40. Wavfaring-tree.
41. Birch.
42. Ash.
4:1. Coffee.
44. Palm.
45. Aspen.
40. Ueadly night
shade. 47. Breadfruit.
48. Orange,
4'J. Olive.
Great Suit Lake and tho Dead Sea.
Great Salt Lake is a shallow body of
water, its average depth being a little
more than three feet, while in many parts
it is much less. The water is transparent,
but excessively salt; it contains about
twenty-two per cent, ot common salt,
slightly mixed with other salts, aud form
ing one of the purest aud most concen
trated brines in the world. Its specific
gravity is 1.17. The water so buoyant
that a man may float in it at full length
upon his back, having his head and
neck, his legs to the knees, und both
arms to the elbow, entirely out of-water.
If he assumes a sitting posture, with his
arms extended, his shoulders will rise
above the water. Swimming, however,
is difficult, as the lower limbs tend to
rise above the surface, and the briuo is
so strong that to swallow even a very
little of it will cause strangulation. The
waters of the Dead Sea, on the other
huud, are nearly black, and contain much
sulphur aud bitumen, as well as salt. It
is also very deep, vsry'.ug from thirteen
feet near the. uouth end of the lake to
more then p,300 feet in the northern
part. Its btuovancy is quite equal to
that of the (jiieat Salt Lake, for travelers
say that a uihn cau float prone upon the
surface for hours without danger of sink
int.'. aud ioJ a sitting position is b'ld
bieani-hijjh ' above the water. Inter-
HEM EDI KS FOR INSOMNIA.
B.DVICB
FROM
SLEEFLEaSSESS.
Hair rillon to be) Frrfrrd to
lonilivrn. Vnrlou .TIctltod f
Cooling the Hrain.
When I was a student, says a writer in
the New York Sun, I suffered much from
sleeplessness, and, after trying many
remedies, I hit upon this one: I dis
carded my feather pillow for one of hair.
Tho effect was wonderful. 1 slept soundly
the whole of the first night, and have
never since, except when feverish, been
so wakeful as I usually was before. Al
I hough feathers are excellent for prevent
ing the dispersion of the heat of the
body, so much fault has been found with
feather beds thnt they have quite gener
ally gone out of use, and it is strange
that feather pillows have not been sent
after them. Feathers in pillows are open
to the same objections as feathers in beds,
and even their chief virtue, that of keep
ing up a high temperature, is a defect
in a pillow; certainly when
one half of the head is kept at
blood heat by being buried
in feathers and the other half is exposed
to the air, both halves cannot be at the
most favorable temperature. A hair pil
low docs not get warmed up to an un
comfortable degree, because it rapidly
conducts away the heat imparted to it by
the head. Since hair pillows are not yet
in common use, it might be supposed
that a person accustomed to the use of
one would either have to take it with
him every time he was to be away from
home for a few nights, or suffer consid
erable inconvenience. But fortunately
hair bosters are more common, and if the
pillow is thrown-aside tho bolster will
raise the head probably as high as is
good for the sleeper. If a hair bolster
is lacking, the end of the mattress may
be raised high enough to make a com
fort ablo head rest by putting the pillow
under it.
According to most, but not all, medi
cal writers, wakefulness and mental ac
tivity depend on the circulation of a
large quantity of blood through the
brain, and the flow of blood must be
lessened before sleep can come on. I
have obtained special benefit from
drawing the blood to the muscles by
means of a brisk walk or a quarter to
half an hour's vigorous performance
of light gymnastics just before going to
bed. The majority of cases of f'-ep-lessness
occur among persons who use
their muscles but little, and for very
many taking more exercise is tho best
remedy, bleep can sometimes be
brought on by simply warming the body,
especially the feet; the drowsiness
caused by sitting in a warm room is an
instance. The blood may be drawn to the
skin by a cold shower or sponge bath,
followed by rubbing with a coarse towel.
Getting out of bed for a feiv minutes
when the air is cool will often bring re
lief. I have lain awake half the night
and then, after being up long enough to
mix and drink a lemonade, have fallen
asleep at onco on going back to bed.
Perhaps tho lemonade should have part
of the credit. On hot summer nights a
cold bath will reduce the bodily temper
ature so as to admit of sleep. If the
skin is not wiped quite dry, tho evapor
ating moisture will incrsase the cooling
effect. A light lunch just before going
to bed relieves the brain by drawing the
blood to tho stomach, and, tho inclina
tion to dose after a meal is explainable
in this way. Diminishing tho cerebral
circulation by compression of the carotid
arteries is advised by sorao physicians.
Lying on the back with a doubled pillow
placed against the back of the neck so as
to tip the head forward will effect this,
and Dr. J. L. Corning has invented an
instrument in the form of a collar for the
same purpose.
In view of what has been saiu aoout
circulation of the blood, coldness of the
feet is a natural accompaniment of
sleeplessness, and one means of cure may
be made to serve both ends. Bathing
the feet in hot water is such a means,
but after a few hours a reaction is liable
to set in, which will send the blood from
the feet to the bead and cause the
sleeper to awake. It is better to take
advantage of the reaction which follows
a coid foot-bath with vigorous rubbing
of the feet, both in the water and with
the towel. The stimulus thus given to
the circulation in the feet will lie more
Ccrmaneut. I have found walking just
cfore bedtime beneficial, and when I
do not wish to go outdoors 1 raise my
self sharply on my toes to the full stretch
fifty or more times. A paragraph has
recently been in circulation to the effect
that a continuous low noise favors sleep;
the sound of water dropping on a brass
pau has been prescribed by a physician
with good effect. The explanation
seems to be that a simple monotonous
impression quiets the brain by
occupying it to the exclusion of mote
varied and interesting, and therefore
stimulating, impressions. On the same
principle are the devices of counting
forward or backward, imagining sheep
jumping one by one through a gap, etc. ;
but they are open to the objection of
causing one portion of the brain to be
exerted in order to control the rest of it.
If tho hygienic measures which have
been described fail to induce sleej),
probably some form of disease stands in
the way, and a physician should be em
ploved to discover and remove it. So
porific drugs should bo regarded as a
last resort, for, unless skilfully used,
they produce a stupor rather than a re
freshing sleep. I )o not take a narcotic
or nostrum at random localise somebody
says it is good to make you slep; one
narcotic is injurious where another is
beneficial, and the chances are that you
will choose one which will do you more
harm than good.
Uutl rijik floors are padded rinks will
dot be popular with fat men.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
A Georgia inventor has invented a
fireproof cotton bagglDg, the use of
which will very much reduce the insur
ance rates on cotton. It is called "anti
plilogan," and is said to be cheaper than
the jute or gunny-bagging now used.
To test the purity of water there has
been found no better or simpler way than
to fill a clean pint bottle three-fourths
full of tho water to be tested, and dis
solve in the water half a teaspoon
ful of the purest sugar loaf or granu
lated will answer cork the bottle, and
place it in a warm place for two days. If
in twenty-four to forty-eight hours the
wntcr becomes cloudy or milky it is un
fit for domestic use.
It has been proved beyond all doubt
that waters which circulate or stand in
lcaien pipes or vessels not only take up
particles of lead through mechanical
action due to friction, but attacks the
metal because of the affinity of several of
their constituents, the result being gen
erally lead carbonate. Minute quantities
ot lead introduced into the system must
rank among the factors of anaemia and
defective nutrition in large towns.
The electric light is being used to light
bakers' ovens. A great difficulty has al
ways existed among bakers to get a light
into their dark ovens, so that the progress
of baking might be observed. 1 wo in'
candescent lamps, driven by a Victoria
Brush machine, are placed inside an oven
where the temperature ranges from 400
to 500 degrees Fahrenheit. Tho oven
door contains a sheet of plate glass,
through which the whole of tho oven is
distinctly visible. The bafc er now never
need burn his bread or pastry.
Considering its extent. America is
better supplied by the clouds than Europe
and Africa. In the tropics of the old
world the annual rainfall is about seventy
seven inches, whilo in tropical South
America it is 155 inches. In the eastern
United States it is forty to fifty inches;
but west of the one hundredth meridian
to Sierra Nevada it is mostly twclveto six
teen inches. The annual average of Great
Britain is thirty-five inches ; that of France
twenty to twenty-one inches; but about
the Alps it is mostly thirty-five to fifty
inches. Farther from the coast, in
central Germany and Russia, it is only
fifteen to twenty inches. Tho moistest
climate known is in India, at Cherrapon-
gec, where over a small area the yearly
fall of rain is more than 610 inches, or
ubout fifty-one feet.
The process of swallowing food in
serpents is painfully slow and somewhat
peculiar. For how is an animal without
limbs or molars to swallow its prey,
which is often much larger than its own
body? Thus the boa-constrictor seizes
the head of its victim with its sharp, re
curving teeth, and crushes the body with
its overlapping coils, then slightly un
coiling and covering the carcass w ith a
slimy mucus, it thrusts the head into its
mouth by main force, the mouth stretch
ing raarvelously, the skull being loosely
put together. One jaw is then unfixed
and the teeth withdrawn, by bem
pushed forward, when they are again
fastened farther back on the animal. The
other jaw is then protruded, and then re
fastened, and thus, by successive move
ments, the prey is slowly and spirally
drawn into the gullet.
Fighting in the Desert.
The manoeuvres of the British in the
desert preparing for the enemy, are thus
described by Cameron :
"Continually does the column halt,
.dismount and prepare to meet the enemy,
and 'on these occasions there is always a
race between tho mounted infantry and
guard regiments as to who shall bo first
in square. The formation finally adopted
is this:
Square.
Camels kneel
ing ami
tied by the
legs.
(Square.
"Thus an enemy charging cannot get
in among tho camels without being en
filaded by one or other face of the
squares."
Proud to Call Hiiuselfa United States
Farmer.
Senator Williams, of Kentucky, is
proud to call himaelf a farmer, and he
thinks there is no higher, honorable call
ing. He is a stanch friend of the agri
culturists, and during his term lias
done vigorous battle for every measure
that has come before tho Senate for their
benefit or relief. He says: "After nil,
give me the country raised boy. The
boy who runs barefooted and stubs tho
nails off his toes and gets stone bruises
on his heels grows up in the simple, un
affected ways of life which make him
tho better man." Wtmhingtun Mar.
In married life there should be svin
pathy companionship. Tho husband
aud wite mould ue true irienus ami
comrades, without a thought of gftting
the better of each other. They should
join hands at tho altar with the idea of
being made one. There can be no true
love where the thought of mystery enters
the mind.
You may find ecstatic joy in the dizain
i if hope, but it take money to go to
market, Chicago Ltdyer.
DISAPPOINTMENT.
My tree of life In springtime promised well,
The buds of faith and hope were full and
fair;
The blossoms with rich fragrance filled the
air,
Making my pathway sweeter whero they
fell
The fruit appeared; I watched its growth
with care;
Dark clouds of doubt and fear hung o'er
my tree;
"Your fruit's In danger," oft was said to
me;
That it might live to ripen was my prayer.
In autumn time, my fruitage gathered in,
Perfect it seemed, and to myself I said;
"How poor the fruit when faith and hope
are dead!
Mine has escaped the withering blight of
sin."
At length the fruit I tasted, and I found,
Forgetting works, I now must bear tho
pain;
That I had watched and waitod long in
vain;
What looked so fair was bitter and unsound
If I could live again my past life o'er,
It should be one of earnest work and love;
And He who plants the tree then from
above
Would bless the fruit; I should need nothing
more. '
II. Cnayden.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
The sack is an appropriate coat for a
rejected lover. Hatchet.
No matter whether bonnets have little
birds on them or not, the amount of bill
is always the same.
"Papa's pants will soon fit brother,"
is tho first line of a new song, and yet it
is said there is iio iiierai y-' or musica.N
genius in this couutry. HJiemiun.
"Pickled walnuts are introduce! at
dinner now," says an exchange. When
ever you are introduced to a pickled
walnut its not etiquette to shake hands,
I believe. Brooklyn Time.
Among the Esquimaux you can buy a
seal-skin sack for two iron hoops and a
ten-penny nail; but then it takes a seal
skin sack to buy a ten-penny nail and
two iron hoops. New York Keict.
A young man gazed at his mother-in-law's
two trunks in the hall, and sadly ,
remarked: "She has brought her clothes
to a visit, would that she had brought
her visit to a close." Drake' Magazine.
" Use your fork, Johnnie! Have you
forgotten so soon what I told you about
using your fingers?" "AVell, mamma,
fingers were made before forks." " Yes,
they were; but not your fingers, my son."
We believe in giving every man a
chance in this world, but a man in tho
act of sucking an egg which nu old hen
set on four weeks last summer, should
be speedily told of his rashness. Thru
States.
"'"io one asks: "Is it dangerous to
eat l.w going to sleep?" SVe think
not. We have heard frequently ot per
sons doing that. But if you are afraid
to risk it perhaps you had better cat af
ter you go to sleep. Pittshtr'j )emorat.
"Are you going to the party this even
ing, Maud?" "No, I guess not; I'm
afraid that horrid Smith girl will bo
there." "Oh, no, she won't; sho said
sho wasn't going." "Why not?" "Be
cause she was afraid you would be thero."
Boston Post.
Josh Billings was asked: "How fast
does sound travel?" His idea is that it
depends a good deal upon the noise you
are talking about. "The sound of a
dinner horn, for instance, travels half a
mile in a second; while an invitation
tew get up in the morning I have known
to be three-quarters of un hour goin' up
two pair of stairs, and then not hev
strength enull left to bo heard."
f omen have a happy faculty of utter
ing pleasant things of each other. "Why,
dear," said ono to a friend, "do you
know that young Smith and Laura Jone
have quarreled, and now a great gulf
separates them?" "Yes," replied tho
other. "They lire in the same position
as her ears. A great gulf separates them,
too." The worst that it is that Laura's
mouth is not so large after ull. Boston
Gazette.
" A pound of jumps!" and I looked in sur
prise At little black Itoso with her shining eyes.
"A pound of jumps! my mother said
A pound of jumps, and she nodded her head.
" But my dear, we've flour, und sugar in
lumps, t
And peanuts, but never a pound of juinis.
" With wulnuts and chestnuts and corn thai
pops "
"Oh, oh! I forgot! it's a pound of hops! "
Wide Awake.
The Bone Industry.
The bone industry of the country is an
important one. The four feet of an or
dinary ox will make a pint of neutsfoot
oil. Not a bone of any animal is thrown
sway. Many cattle shin bones are ship-
fied to Europe for the making of knife
uindles, where they bring if-l'l per ton.
The thigh bones aie tho most valuablo,
being worth $S0 per ton for culling into
tooth brush handles. The foreleg bones
are worth $30 per tou, aud are made into
collar buttons, parasol haudlcs and jew
elry, though sheep's les are tho btaple
foi parasol 'handles. Tho water in which
the bones are boiled is reduced to glue,
the dust which comes from sawing the
bones is fed to cattle and poultry, and
all boues that cannot be used as noted,
or for bone black, used in refining the
sugar we eat, are turned into fertilizers
and made to help enrich tho soil. As
regards waste, it is the story of the pig.
Nothing is lost except the iwrue&l.
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