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; WITHIN AND WITHOUT.
Tha tide Howl tip, (lie tiJ flows down;
The water lirlms tlio creok,and falls;
A cottage, woather-stnined and brown,
Lifts nt tho brink its time-worn walls.
Beneath tlio lowly window-sill
A little bnnk of blossoms (jay
The wandering aim with fragrance fill,
8 wanton tlio night and charm tha day.
The tldo flows up, the tide (lows down;
From the low window's humble square
A woman in a faded gown,
With care-dimnipd eyos and tangled hair,
Looks out across tho smiling space
Where golilon stars and suns unfold;
Hhie larkspur, the pied pansy's face,
Nasturtium liolls of scni-lot bold
Fhe bpos them not, nor cares, nor knows.
A man's rough tlgure, noon nnd night
And morning, o'or the threshold gooa
No seno has ho for thoir doliglit.
The tide (lows up, the tldo flows down,
In that dull hoiiHo a little maid
Lives lonely, under Fortune's frown,
A Ufa uuehildlike and afraid.
To her that tiny garden plot
Means heaven. Rhe comes at eve to stand
'Mid mallow nnd forget-me-not
And marigolds on either hand.
They look nther with brilliant eyes,
Their wont Is greeting and caress;
They spread their rich and glowing dyca
Her saddened soul to cheer and bless. '
The tido flows up, tho tide flows down;
Within, how base the life, nnd poor!
Without, what wealth nnd beauty crown
The humble flowers besido tho door!
CWi'a Thaxter, in Atlantic Monthly.
TRAINING A HUSBAND.
So you want to know how I came to
hev i niel), whim I knew jest how ho used
Nancy, his first wife. Wall, I'll tell you
all about it.
You know Dan'l left mo pretty poorly.
I had two little children, nnd what ter
dew I didn't know. Tho mortgage was
ter run out in about a year and a half
after he died. I'd sent tho children
down to brother John's to get ter school.
Urother John wanted mo ter give them
ter him an' he'd do well by 'em, an' I wus
meditating on it, orful loth to dew it.
But what else could I dew with 'cm
when the old farm was took away from
me?
One day when tho time was near cout,
I was hooin' tho beans ono side of tho
fence jinin' Caleb's cornOcld. I tell yer,
Hannah, I never felt bluer in nil my days.
I'd allers lived an' worked a farm, an'
couldn't do no other kind of work; so
what was to como of mo I didn't know.
Turty good houn' for a green hand,"
sez somebody over tho fence.
"Yes," sez I. "I've done enough of it
since I was loft alone. Practice mnkes
perfect," wo used to wrilo in our copy
book when we were children, an' I
couldn't help heavin' a sigh.
"Wall, Emmcrliiie," says ho, "your'n
I seem to be in tho samo fix. You need
a man to do your hoeing un' I need a
woman ter see ter my house, an' if your
greed we'll hitch horses and work in
'"iiuble harness. I can't find no hired
aelp that'll do ns Nancy did." (Thinks
myseli. an' you'll never find another that
will, cither.) "So, what d'yo say, Eoi
merline?" -
P'raps I didn't think o' nothin' for the
next few miuuits. It nil flashed. over me
in a second, what an uufeelin' mun he'd
allers ben. Poor Nancy had ter dew all
the housework, nn' a good deai belong
ing ter him ter dew, an' ho was stingier
than an old miser, tew.
I knew he was a smart man to work,
was forehanded on' was able to live in
good deal better shape than ho did, an'
70U know, Hannah, that poor Dan'l was
just the opposite. Ho was a norful clever
man, was Dan'l, but kind o' shiftless an'
easy, an' it allers worried rae ter have
things going so slack. Sez I to myself,
a body can't have everything; there's
allers somo douts, an' a poor man's bet
ter'n nono. So I speaks right up an' I
sez:
"Caleb, we've been nubors for many a
year. I know your failins' an' sposo you
know mine; an' so, if you say so, all
right; p'raps we both might do wuss."
Wall, ter make a long story short, we
agreed to tho business right off. Caleb
said that it was stylish to go on a wed
din' tower nowadays, nnd as he wanted
ter go dcown ter Bangor to see about
selling his wool, an' as Sarah Jane Cur
tis (who used to work for him) lived
about half way, an' we cou'.d stop there
both ways and not cost us anything, he
thought we'd better go. His niece,
Rebecca Oilman, yer know, lives there,
and we could make her a visit at the
same time. Brother John lives there
tew, you know, an' Pd made up my mind
that I'd bring home the children.
An' so I did; but Caleb ho was orful
sot ngin it, but scd, "of courso they can
come and make a visit;" an' I let him
think so, 'cuuso I wasn't quite ready to
have words with him yet.
We stayed about a week an' got homo
along in the afternoon all debt. Tho
next morning' I woke purty early, an' I
sez to myself: "Courage, Emmerline.
now or never." I kept still, for Caleb
was still a snorin', but bime by ho
fetched up an unuirthly snore that wak't
himself up, an' when he sees as it was
gettin, daylight he nudged me, an' sez
he:
"Wake up, Einmerline, Eminerliue,
its broad daylight; come, come, get up,
we shan't have any breakfast ter day."
I was orful hard ter walte, but after a
while I managed ter, an' while I was a
nibbin' my eyes I sez, "Got a lire, ain't
ye, Caleb?''
"Fire!" sez he, "No, I never build
any fires. Nancy allers built the fires."
"Did she?" sez I, cool as a cucumber.
"So did Dan'l."
I turned over and went to sleep again
or at least I thought I did.
Wall, he wicgled, and turned nnd
twisted, an' ho didn't move ter get up
for about an hour, nnd when tho sun
roso an' shone inter the bedroom winder,
ho got up an' built tho fire. An' there
wasn't no kindlings nor a stick of
wood, an he had to skirmish in a lively
way and get some.
Artcr tho fire got to crackliu' in good
shapo I got up. I didn't hurry none, let
mo tell you. I most died lyin' abed so
long, but, sez I to myself, "cf I make
the fire now, I'll prob'ly hcv to do it in
cold weather, an' I won't do it for any
man."
Ho was prclty sullen all day, but I
didn't take no notice of him, an' ho got
over it. Tho next day he was ter begin
liny in' an' ho had six men to help him. 1
hud ter do all tho work, an' tako care ol
the milk nn' churnin', an' it was no fool
of a job. Come timo to got dinner, an'
there wasn't a sliver of wood cut. I sent
Johnnie (ho was then about seven year?
old) out in tho field to tell Caleb I
wanted him.
Ho camo in looking savage, and
wanted to know what it was 1 wanted.
Sez I
"I want somo wood ter burn."
"Wall," ho sez, "there's a whole
woodpilo out there. Help ycrscf."
"An' not a stick split," sez I. "You
will hev ter get a bigger stove to burn
that."
"Wal, it ain't such a hard job to split
it." sez ho. "Nancy used tew, often,
when I was bi.zy."
"Did she?" sez I. "So did Dan'l."
lie got the wood, an' said, as he was
going out, that he didn't want to be
called in out of tho mowing field again
unless 'twas for victuals.
"All right," sez I.
The next dnv 'twas tho pamo thine;
not a stick split. Thinks I, "Old fel
low, you ain't got Nancy here. I'll lam
ye n litilo something that p'raps ye don't
know," So when it was dinner timo I
blowed the horn, au' in comes all seven
of these men an' sets down at the
table. Sich 'stonished lookin' faces a;
they viewed the grub. The biscuit and
the pertatcrs, an' meat, an' vegetables,
nud everything was washed clean and
put on raw. Not a thing was cooked.
Caleb looked blackcr'n a thunder
cloud.
' "What does this mean?" sez ho.
"Means what it means," sez I. "You
said yest'day that you didn't want tei
be called in from the mowin' field unless
it was for victuals, and bore they are."
"Nice shape, tew," sez ho.
"Wall, 1 can't colc 'thout wood," sez
I, dryly like.
With that all seven of 'cm started fot
the door, and tliey never left that pilo
until it was ready for tho stove. I
uovcr was bothered for wood again.
A few weeks after I wanted some
money purty bad. I wanted to send
Johnnie and Nellie back to school, an' I
was bound that they should have some
clothes fit to wear. I asked Caleb a
uuuibcr of times to let me hev some, but
he mado all kinds of excuses.
I didn't tell him what I wanted
of it, mind ye. So one day along comes
a peddler buy in' buttcr'n eggs. I had
considjrablc on hand that Caleb was in
tending to carry into the city when he
had time. So I sold every pound of but
tcr'n eggs I hiiJ in tho house. I got
nigh on to twenty-five dollars for 'em.
When Cnleb come home I told him 1
had sold tho buttcr'n eggs.
"Heow much did you git?" sez he.
I told him.
"Where's the money!" sez he.
"I've got it," sez I.
"Wall." sez he, "Nancy allers gives
mo all the money that she took for het
butter and eggs."
"Did she?'' sez I. "And so did
Dan'l."
He got tired of holding Nancy up
aforo my eyes, for I would offset her
with Dan'l every time. He found that 1
was powerful sot in my way. an' he
thought he might as well let me have my
own way, and so he sez:
"I don't mean to bo ugly, but I won't
be trod on by nobody."
AVhcn he wouldn't let me hav what
money 1 wanted, I'd sell somethin' every
time. I sold two tons of hay one time,
when I knew ho only had enough to
winter his critters. So, on the whole,
he found that I wasn't afraid of him, and
he behaved quite decent. 1 told him
not long ago that ho was growin' clever.
"Clever I' sez he. "1 rather you'd
call nie a dog-goncd fulc than clover."
But I notice ho has improved, an' lay
it ter his trainin'.
How Bruin Hngged a Busy Saw.
"Talking about funny things." said a
big, bronzed, bearded man in the reading-room
of an uptown hotel, "the fun
niest thing I ever heard of happened in
my saw-mill out in Michigan. We used
a heavy upright siw for sawing heavy
timber. One day not long ago the men
had all gone to dinner, leaving the saw.
which ran by water power, going at full
speed. While we were away a big black
bear came into the mill and went nosing
arountl. The saw caught his fur and
twitched him a little. Bruin didn't like
this for a cent, so he turned around and
fetched the saw a lick with his ptiw.
Besult: a badly cut paw. A blow with
tho other paw followed, and it was also
cut. The bear was by this time aroused
to perfect fury, and, rushing at the saw,
caught it in his grasp and gave a tremen
dous hug. It was his last hug, and we
lived on bear steak for a week. When
we came up from dinuer there was a half
a bear on each side of tho saw, which
was going ahead ns nicely as though it
hnd never sceu a bear. This is a fact, so
help me, Bob," and the big lumberman
bit oil a fresh chew of to'jacco. Neto
York Tribune.
Some natures are so sour and ungrate
ful that they are never to bo obliged.---L'Ettrangt,
i
i V
THE TRADE JN LEECHES.
& PECULIAR INDUSTRY WHICH
STILL XXOUBISHES.
(silliorlnsr I.eecliea for tti l,ndon
jilnrkct How liter nre Caught
mid Kept Applying: l.rerliee.
Of the two firms in London and there
arc only two to whom tho foreign
lcochcs are consigned from Hamburg,
one practices as a dental surgeon and the
other sells pipes, tobacco, rtnd other tri
fles. Both are of sufficient standing to
recall the great times of indiscriminate
blood-letting, when, whether the patient
suffered from a black eye, a headache, a
liver or a heart, he lost a couple of
ounces of blood and was declared to bo
better. Now scarcely one is used where
a century ago a hundred flourished, and
tho sixpenny leech of even so recent a
date ns 18C0 has fallen to something less
than a half-penny at wholesale price. No
completer proof of the popularity of the
leech with tho early practitioner can bo
ailorded than by the fact that the verb
"to leech" means to treat with medicine
nnd to bleed, while the doctor himself,
even so late as tho days of Shakespeare,
borrowed the namo of his favorite in
strument of healing. Tho slcnder.meagre,
hungry leech comes fiom Turkey, within
a radius of fifty miles of Constantino
ple, and from Buda-Pesth, whero the
country people bring them in. liko water
cress, by thousands from the ditches,
and sell them to tho dealers. They are
found there in all ditches and ponds,
and wherever there is pure running water,
weeds for shelter and muddy banks and
bottoms. They aro, as a rule netted in
nets prepared with bait, though we are
also informed that it is not rare for the
hardy peasant to walk bare-legged
through tho water and strip them oil ns
fast as they can adhere to the calf.
However they are caught by plain,
honest fishing or by human artifice from
Buda-Pcsth, without distinction of age
or size, they travel to Hamburg, where
they Ho in vast pools or reservoirs until
the time for their selection arrives. In
theso reservoirs they lie generally for a
year, and during all that time, if they
aro properly cared for, they should re
ceive no food, or rather no more than
they can find for themselves in the water.
But this is a rule that is not always ob
served as it should be, for there are many
merchants who give them blood, and
somo liver, and some, so that all tastes
may be satisfied, tho cntiro body of a
horse thrown among them, with the re
sult that on arrival in this country their
appetites aro fatigued, and they ore
found to need certain stimulants to per
formance. From Hamburg, when taeir
time of probation is over, they are im-
Eortcd here direct iu bags and
oxes, and at the back of the surgery in
Pcntonville, or among the pipes and to
bacco of lloundsditch they lie in shallow
earthen vessels tightly covered with
gauze or linen, the halting stage on the
way to tho wholesale druggist nnd the
hospital. With the importer they rarely
tarry for more than four or five days,
but are sent out almost as fast 11s they
come in in small wooden boxes similar
to those used by fruiterers for honey
comb. From the wholesale druggist
they pass again to the chemist and apothe
cary, and when the perils of travel and
the variations of climate they go through
are considered, the intending purchaser
must not be surprised if he finds himself
asked a sixpence for an animal that cost
the first dealer a shilling for a couple of
hundred. Many die ou tho voyage, and
many in the short time they remain with
tho importer, and thmigh in theory the
selected leech will stand an extreme of
heat or cold, many of the fivennd-twen-ties
and fifties ordered by the chemist,
carefully treated as they aro, do not live
to fulfill what seems to be the sole reason
of their existance that of drawing blood.
The leech should never properly be ap
plied more than once, ana can be applied
anywhere. It fills in about a quarter of
an hour, and will absorb altogether from
forty to eighty-fivo grains of blood, or
in all about half an ounce. There is nn
ingenious instrument known as the
artificial leech, one occasionally
used, but now scarcely ever met
with. It consists of a small, sharp steel
cylinder worked by a spring, with which
a circular incision is made, and with an
interior glass cylinder capable ot being
exhausted by u pisten worked by a
screw. It is not a good instrument, and
is, as we say, not used now. There is a
specimen to be sceu in the museum of
the college of surgeons among the "sur
gical instrument series." In England
there is a less-powerful species common
ly found, though now never used. It is
known as the horse leech, from its hab
its of attacking the membranes lining
the mouth and nostrils of animals drink
ing at the pools it haunts. It is in its
way venomous, and, when applied to
tho human subject, inflammation, leading
to erysipelas, hns been known to follow
its bite. There must bo something in
our waters unfavorable to the growth
and culture ot tho parasite, for not only
is tho indigenous leech useless, and in
deed harmful, but the foreign specimens
which efforts have been made to accli
matize have never como to any good.
Thirty years ago 11 prominent English
firm projected and founded a farm at
Norwood for the breeding and cultiva
tion of the Turkish and Hungarian leech,
but, either from ignorance of treatment
or changefulness of climate, they all
sickened and died, and the scheme col
lapsed. CornhiU.
"Smith, why don't you get your dia
monds insured?" said Jones. "Where
can I do that?" innocently asked Smith.
At tho United States Plato Glass In
surance Company, of course," and a cool
ness has grown up between them. J'itts
burg Telegraph.
A camel someti tries lives to the age o
100 years. No wonder he has a hump
upon fill back. -Jiotttn Budget,
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
A recent invention for tho use of elec
tricians is square wire, which is claimed
to be not only mechanically but clectri
cally.bctter than round wire.
Dr. J. Milncr Fothcrgill predicts a
great future for malt as a food. Among
other things, he commends lemonado
made with malt instead of cano sugar.
The forests of tho United States com
prise 412 species of trees belonging to
138 genera. Of these forty-eight genera
and sixty species are peculiar to Florida.
A vegetable leather, said to bo fully
.equal to the animal product, is made in
Paris from gutta percha, sulphur, raw
cotton, zinc white, kolkothar, and
oxide of antimony. The first two ingre
dients are necessary, whilo the other
parts may be replaced by chemicals of
similar character. Tho proportions are
varied with the purposes.
Horsehairs immersed in water do not
turn into snakes. Tho presence of what
is called tho hair wojm (gordius) in pools
of stagnant water by the roadside has
led to this belief. This worm is a para
site inhabiting beetles, grasshoppers, etc.
When full grown it leaves tho insect and
deposits its eggs in long chains in moist
earth and water. AVhcn seen in the water
its appearance is exactly that of an ani
mated horsehair six or eight inches long.
In Sardinia, Sicily, and the region
around Naples, large cork plantations
nre being destroyed in the improvident
haste of their owners to realize profit
from the superior quality of tanning af
forded by the bark, and from the wood.
Tho French have planted this valuable
oak largely in Algiers, .where there is
now over a half million acres iu good
condition. The number of trees in Spain
is also increasing. It continues to grow
for 150 years, and reaches tho height of
some fifty feet.' The wood is not valua
ble except for fuel. It is thought that
the tree would thrive in California.
The dental processes familiar to us aro
not so new as may be supposed. In tho
museum of Corneto,on the coast of Italy,
are two curious specimens of artificial
teeth found in Etruscan tombs, probably
dating 400 or 500 years before our era.
The teeth were evidently taken from tha
mouth of somo animal, and hnd been
carefully cut and fastened to neighbor
ing natural teeth of two young girls by
means of small gold rings. The den
tist's art was also applied to treating
natural teeth iu various ways, but tho
fact has hitherto escaped notice on ac
count of the rarity of Etruscan skeletons.
The remarkable arrangement lor
breathing which insects possess is thus
lucidly described : If we take any mod
erately large insect, say a wasp or a hor
net, we can sec, even with tho naked eye,
that a series of small, spot like marks
runs along cither side of the body.
These apparent spots, which are general
ly eighteen or twenty in number, are,
in fact, the apertures through which air
is admitted into the system, and are gen
erally formed in such a manner that no
extraneous matter can by any possibility
find entrance. Sometimes they are fur
nished with a pair of horny lips, which
can be opened nnd closed at the will of
the insect; in other cases they are dense
ly fringed with still interlacing bristles,
farming a filter, which allows air, and
air alone, to pass. But the apparatus, of
whatever character it may bo, is always
so wonderfully perfect in its action that
it has been found impossible to inject
tho body of a dead insect with even so
subtle a medium as spirits of wine, nl
though the subject was first immersed in
the fluid nnd then placed beneath the re
ceiver of an air pump.
Car Wheels.
An official of tho Pennsylvania rail
road stated to a Pittsburg Dispatch re
porter that there aro fully ten million
iron car-wheels in use on American rail
roads. That figure does not include tho
wheels on palace coaches and the better
class of passenger coaches.
"How much iron does it take to make
a wheel?" he was asked.
"About 52.5 pounds of pig-iron," he
replied, "and about 1,250,000 wheels aro
worn out every year. But do not con
clude from that that the iron men aro
called upon to supply the 812,000 tons
of materials required to make the new
wheels, because the worn-out wheels
themselves supply about 200,000 tons."
"How long will a good car-wheel
last?"
"Formerly it would last eight years.
But now the reduction of railroads to a
standard guuge and the improvement in
leading nnd unloading facilities keep the
length of service down. This is because
the uniformity in guago keeps the cars in
more continuous use, and the improve
ment in loading and unloading facilities
enables the cars to be put to more active
service. The wheels on palace coaches
and on first-class passenger coaches arc
known as paper wheels. They are made
with a steel rim or flange, and iron hub,
but the web is composed of sheets of
paper cemented together. They coin
bine lightness with strength."
Weighing ft Hair.
"To number the hairs of your head is
not a very difficult task," the refiner ol
the assay ollice said. "A very close ap
proximation can be made by weighing
a single hair. The weight of the former
divided by (bat of tho latter will, of
course, give the desired number. If you
will pluck out a hair from your beard 1
can show you."
A long and straggly one was accord
ingly detached, the refiner putting it on
a scale, which was enclosed in a glass
case, and graduated with extreme ac
curacy. With little weights of alumin
ium he piled up one arm, until an equi
poise whs reached. The hair weighed
three milligrammes. "If you reduce this
to figures, " he said, "it would require
8,000 hairt to weigh an ounce, and sup
possing you have six ounces, you have
43,000 hairs." J'u York Sun.
HIE BLIND.
SUBSTITUTE FOB EYES I IT THE CASE
Or SIGHTLESS PEOPLE.
How They Are Taught to Head,
Write it nil I'lar nn IfualrM n
trumenla An Interesting Mitdv,
In a general way it is known that, a
blind man may bo taught a few of the
rudiments of learning, and to care for
himself under certain limited circum
stances and after a fashion. And it wns
not until tho last five yours that the edu
cation of the blind much exceeded those
limits. During that time, however,
progress has been made which puts tho
sightless nearly on a plane with those
whoso sight is perfect. Tho educated
blind man of the period not only reads
and writes, but he does so with unerring
accuracy fluently and well. He studies
geography, with maps; astronomy, with
sidereal charts and apparatus; and
ranges at will through all tho hitherto
forbidden fields of natural science. Let
a seeing man, if he can, read to him a
sheet of music; ho will transcribe it
faster than it is read, and, taking it to a
piano, will compel that instrument to
give up a faultless interpretation of the
notes. It is no uncommon sight in tho
neighborhood of a blind school to see a
group of the pupils at a popular lecture
taking notes which they will afterward
transcribe at length in their rooms.
There are actually thousands of persons
in Illinois, who never saw the light of
day, carrying on an untrammeled corre
spondence in characters which nro
neither English, nor Hebrew, nor C'h:il
daic, nor cuneiform nor anything clso
than the "blind alphabet." Blind men
teach their seeing friends to do this in
order that they may correspond as other
people do.
Theso splendid results have been
achieved by means so simple that the
wonder is that they were not known
long bofore. Until recently the blind
pupil received all instruction orally.
Everything was read to him for tho ample
reason that he could not himself rend, ex
cepting in the old-faBhioned "raised-letter"
literature, of which there was compa
ratively little in existence, and which, as
is generally known, was traced with
great labor by the ends of the blindman's
fingers. This ho could read, but, neces
sarily, he could not write. It was to
overcome this defect that the existing
"point systems" were invented. Theso
are two in number, tho "New York
point" and tho "Braille point," between
which there is only a technical difference.
Taking the "Braille" by way of illustra
tion, the blind man's writing outfit con
sists of paper, a "slate," and a "point."
A "slate" is best described as two nar
row strips of brass, folding together
something liko a pocket rule. In tho
upper arm are punctured two or more
oblong holes liko this:
Upon the other arm, under ca3h of
these holes, and conforming to its di
mensions, are six dots indented upon
tho brass, thus:
The pupil inserts a sheet of paper be
tween the two arms and begins his work
with his "point," which is simply a di
minutive awl. By inserting this awl at
any one of theso points tho paper is in
dented, but not punctured through, with
a corresponding point. Thus an impres
sion is made ou the lower side of tho
paper which is appreciable to the touch.
It will be seen that this system of six
points admits of a practically unlimited
numbei of combinations. Upon these
combinations are based tho alphabet, tho
Arabic numerals, musical notes, or any
other character in common use in any
literature. Thus . : expresses one letter,
: another, and so on. As his characters
are written in tho reverse, the blind
writer begins at tho right and works
backward, as in Hebrew.
By theso means the blind writer at
tains a very creditable speed, varying,
of course, according to his individual
talents. For purposes of ordinary cor
respondence he uses common note-paper
and makes an impression that suffices for
ono or two readings before it is obliter
ated by contact with the fingers. For
more enduring matter a special, heavy
paper is employed.
From writing to type setting was but
a step, nnd there nre now very few blind
institutions not provided with a composing-room
and complete outfits of
types, cases and other paraphernalia,
which aro brought into requisition to
print anything required. Blind printers,
pressmen und binders do all the work.
Maps for the blind, geometric figures
and all similar devices are easily inado
INSTRUCTING
by raising the boundary lines and indk "" "V"
eating cities, points, etc., by brass puf "A $?. 1,1
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i lie cul;ci iicaa wim wiiicu luc I'Ufiy
3
seize upon these means of supplying thl
great defect, their great desire to learn?
snd their grateful appreciation of what
has been done for them compensates in
a great measure for thoir lack of Bight.
Instructors of the blind delight to dwell
ipou the facile disposition ai d talents
f their pupils, and exhibit evidences of
their work which teach tho lesson clearly
(hat intelligent philanthropy has done
much to take away the sting of ono ol
the greatest of physical bereavements.
Chicago 'Tribune.
Nothing makes a man prouder than to
find when hu has got his irurden nicely
laid out and the seeds all iu, that ever)
hcu within a mile of him seems deter
mined to have a claw iu the job, and to
show him how she would have arranged
matters if he bad consulted her. Full
llicer Advance
tVlien ships ei a buried in the sea,
And men greet death unflinchingly
When, as in battle's bloody shock,
Death finds his prey firm as a rock,
Or when, between sob-echoing walla,
Wo's hardest blow on life's joy falls
Death seems unmeet, heroic, or sublisn
The mourners give a fitting pall;
Fame crowns tho.se who in conflict fall;
And waves tbnnt dirges on the shore
For those who sail the deep no more;
These live in stone, or brass, or thought
Half welcome death to lives thus wrought
With fame complote, they merit deathlesa
rhymo.
To bear a storm of lies and sneers,
And die for right bereft ot tears;
In haunts of dire disease to walk,
Life pawned, death, visible, to balk;
To do and die, unheeding fame
Tho' man may not, God marks your name
Oh, grand and sweet these fates I They
conquer time.
T. O. La Moille, in tha Current
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
It is the man with the most property
that has the greatest will power. Low
til Courier.
When a man is just about to sneezo
you couldn't buy him off with a con
sulate. Boston Post.
"Nothing is impossible to him who
wills," says a philosopher. No, nor to
tho lawyer who conducts tho case.
Boston Post.
A grain of sand may bo the germ of a
new world, but a button in tho right
place docs more good in the rushing
present. Carl FoctzeVe Weekly.
A writer asks, "Why docs the modern
woman tire so easily?" One reason is
thnt tho modern woman usually has a
modern husband to look after. Graphic.
Her pa and ma were safe in bod
They'd gone to sleep with the birds;
The girl hung on to the garden gate,
Her beau hung on to her words.
Merchant-Traveler.
Bell, the telephone man, has an article
in the current issue of Srience, tellinjj
how to avoid icebergs. We haven't read
it, but one good way is to travel only by
railroad. A'orrittown Uerald.
Profcsjor Huxley calls a primroso " a
corollifioral dicotyledonous exogen," but
he wouldn't do it if tho primrose was
able to hit back. Somo men are terri
bly overbearing toward the weak. Bot
ton Post.
" Have you," asked tho judge of a re
cently con victcd man, " anything to offer
tho court before sentence is passed?"
" No, your Houor," replied the prisoner,
"my lawyer took my last cent." Scran
ton Truth.
It is claimed that tho highest faculty
of language is to conceal thought. It
may be, but when a man falls over a
wheelbarrow in the dark, it seoms to
lose its grip somewhat in that particular.
Chicago Ledger.
A Vermont paper, speaking of the
fashion of making gold badges to repre
sent kitchen utensils, asked how a gold
gridiron would striko us. Very much
like an iron one, perhaps, if we didn't
dodge it. Binqhamton Jiepublican.
At a recent social gathering an Osb
kosh woman demonstrated that she could
hold her breath two minutes. Within
three days afterward she got nineteen
proposals of marriage and an oftor'from
a dime museum. Chicago Ledger.
Attorney - General Garland decide
that an Indian cannot hold a postoffice.
Not bavins a very loud voice in the
matter, this paper will not criticise tho
Attorney-General's decision, but it does
seem that a man who can hold a buck
jumping pony can hold almost anything.
Arkaiuato Traveller.
A NKW CONUNDRUM.
"Pray tell me the difference, dear,"
tSaiil Edward to his loss,
"There is between a store cashier
And the teacher of a class!"
The damsel, smiling, said, "I will,
This difference you will find:
The store rasuiiT he minds tlio till,
Tue teacher tills the mind."
hoston Courier.
A Re mark able Class of Thieves.
Tho police of St. Petersburg have been
for pome time puzzled by the conduct of
a remarkable class ot thieves, who com
mitted robbery not only iu the open dav,
but, moreover, with ostentation. They
were Finns, but wero all young men.
When arrested, they calmly pleaded
guilty, and wero sentenced to imprison
incut for terms varying from one to three
months. At the expiration of the sen
tence, they promptly disappeared. It
turned out that they had returned to
their own country, and had there re
sumed their sevcrul avocations without
loss of social position. The law of Fin
land forbids tho enrollment in the army
of any per.-ons who have undergone im-
ju-isntnnrnt for civil offenses,, so these
s had deliberately
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i? to ..option. London J ruth.
A Iloyal Kateatchf r.
I once met a chimney-sweep who
prided himself on being a royal rainonour
on the strength of having tho contract to
sweep the chimneys of St. James palace.
But 1 was not aware uutil last week ths'
there is a proud individual whocaii''' 1
tho title of "Koyal Hatcalche- '
1 say "liatcatcher i"0''
lias been vjj.
rats have sf!
deemed adfr'e;
for tho p.V,
reives pay v"
.11
-aiclier
..ai now re
.1 i'S per Huuum,
.0 other lovul servants.
though whet'.
a special livery has been devisod for hu
11-.U depoutut knowetU not. IviJon
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