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Communications.
THE MAHCH OF THE CHILDREN
Lint to tho sound of Iho drumming!
Uayly the children are comingl
Nweet ns tho smllo of a fairy;
Fresh as tho blossoms they carry;
Prldoof tlia parents who love them;
Pure n tho nzuro bIiovo them;
Free as the winds thittcaress thorn;
Prfght as tin sunbeams thai bless them.
List to tho voieo-echoos ringing!
Kweeter tlmn birds they aro singing:
Thoughts Mint to virtue invite them
Wed unto nirs that delight them;
Truths that their fuluru will cherish,
Kmil-jilantcd, never to porishl
Only to Reuses completer
Heaven's choicest music wore Bwootar.
Virluo unconscious, and pretty,
Walks through tho street of the city,
Hee lliegny bannerets (lying!
.Mottoes and titles undying;
Truths, dourly hallowed and olden,
Braid'sl in strands that nro golden;
Words for tho spirit's desiring;
(Sentences sweetly Inspiring.
When, In a voiooof carrossing,
Christ gave the children His blessing,
'Twos not for one generation,
Hut for each epoch and nation.
Ho through tho present it lingers,
Ntod from His bountiful fingers;
Ko unto tliuso it is given
Types of tho angels in li 'avon.
Will Carlton, in Uatar.
IX THE TUNNEL
The railroad station known ns Glen
Covo is ono of the dreariest this side of
flint final abode said to bo extremely
sultry, whero nil presidents, directors,
nnd oilier railroad officials, more espe
cially ticket ngents, fetch up ntid finish
their labors. Were it not so hard on
Mugby Junction, I should say Glen
Cove was the Mugby Junction of Ameri
ca. Indigestion is kept there, like Held
ammunit ion in the quartermaster's de
partment, to .servo out at a moment's
notice to hungry nnd insane, passengers,
nnd it is safe, for tho trains carry away
tho sufferers to die in other localities.
One hot, sunny day lu midsummer I
found myself anticipating the punish
ments duo for sins and shortcomings in
this world by waiting for an eastern
bound train long overdue, as if the
trains, like passengers, disliked np-
Jiroaching tho depot at which I suf
orcd. A surly telegrapher, also picket agent,
who shot insults nnd tk-kcts through a
hole at people, told mo after an hour's
cross examination that was very cross,
that my train had brought up in a corn
field, nnd I could not vossibly gut away
by rail before midnight.
Now, what to do with myself from
the noon of this information to tho noon
of night was a question that sorely per
plexed me. I had no books, no papers,
no anything to relieve the dull monotony
of that awl u! time.
I wandered listlessly about tho dirty
frame and platform. Both Merc hot
enough to roust potatoes in tho shudo. I
gazed on nay, 1 studied all tho colored
bills, giving picturesque views of vari
ous towns, und telling in assorted type
the advantages each had over tho other
the only bit of amusement I had, and
it was very mild. 1 found in guessing
at the missing levters of a bill which
rend "Hough lino to Chicago," some
scamp had cut out the initial "th" when
tho bill had originally read "Through
line to Chicago."
While upon the platform ga.ing at an
accommodation train jut in, that was
uwaiting its conductor leisurly getting
orders from tho telegrapher, I was at
tracted by a noisy crowd of men and
boys, gathered about a young fellow
whose face indicated tho idiotic condi
tion that originated their eutetainment.
Ho was a tall, broad shouldered, well
formed youth, and well dressed for one
in his condition. But ho had his clothes
half buttoned, in tho loose, reckless
wanner of ono of his class, while his
face, without its intellectual outlook,
was regular in feature, and ono could
bee, had there been a brain back of it,
would have been eminently handsome.
As anxiety and care had ceased writing
its record of age upon his face, it was
difficult to tell his nge. Ho had tho
form of a man and tho faco of a child.
"It's the opinion of this crowd, Lcn,"
said tho blacksmith to tho idiot, "that
you can beat thut locomotive in a race
from here to tho tunnel, and we have bet
$10,000 on it."
The poor fellow's dead face lit up
with an expression of delight, so pitiable
that it would havo disarmed any other
crowd tlmn the one engaged ,hx chaffing
him. Ho gazed wistfully at tho hugs
locomotivo thnt stood hissing in the hot
sun as if wrathful at tho deluy, and then
lie turned to tho cruel crowd as if tho
suggestion was slowly working its way
through his poor crippled brain.
"Go in, Lcn," cried ono of the crowd,
"wo'vo got our money on you, and you're
bound to win." " .
"We'll give you fifty yards the start.
You keep on the track," cried tho black
smith, "and the thing can't pass you."
I could scarcely believe these scoun
drels wero in earnest, when the surly
engiucer gave tho last bang to his
noisy bell, exploded n short snort from
tho locomotive in tho way of warning,
and to my astonishment 1 saw tho idiot
throwing oil his coat, start down tho j
track ahead of the train. Fortuuately j
: i . . i.a ,1. .
uio engineer cuugni, tugui, oi me poor
fellow, aud checking the speed of the
locomotive, began nuging him off the
track. This was responded to by tho
idiot bawling out with greut glee:
"Come on with your old tea kettle," nud
the brutal crowd cheered, uud roared
with laughter.
Tho crowd, keepiug along wiih the
jtraio, cheered lustily, aud the lunatic J
"spurted" ns they say in a boat race
that is, shot ahead nnd exhibited con
siderable power as a racer by the speed
with which ho got over tho ground. Tho
engineer, Infuriated at the delny, put on
speed and rattled after. Hut ho was
upon a down grade, and fearful of over
taking the unfortunate, he almost imme
diately put on the brakes and chocked
up again.
By this time heads wero thrust out of
windows and tho platforms crowded by
passengers whoso excitement became
noisy and intense ns they discovered that
it was a human being instead of a cow
that impeded their progress. As for Uio
idiot, ho paused only loqg enough to in
dulge in a jeering laugh nnd a gesture
thnt was moro irritating than decent.
Tho crowd of brutal loafers thnt ex
hibited more industry in nccompanyinr
the race on this occasion than they hnd
probably manifested in making an hon
est living for a year previous, went tear
ing along each sido of tho locomotive,
laughing, shouting, choering on tho
idiot, while hurling nil sorts of exasper
ating epithets at tho engineer, who by
this timo, was nearly blind with rage.
At this moment tho conductor made
his appearance, nnd crawling out upon
tho tender, began throwing lumps of
coal at tho boy, ns the engineer, putting
on steam, drew near the poor fellow.
Fortunately the conductor's aims wero
not well taken, for had the young man
been knocked down the locomotive would
havo undoubtedly run over him.
From this tho rough autocrat of tho
train desisted, for the idiot's backers,
with nn American sense of fair play that
animates even the roughest of our brutes,
began pelting the conductor with stones,
ench pebble sent with the accuracy of
rillo shot. Ho retreated hurriedly to
tho cngino house, where he rubbed his
person in a comical way with ono hand
while with the other he assuaged his
wrath by n furious ringing of the bell.
Tho engineer seconded his efforts by let
ting oil short shrieks and keeping the
locomotive frightfully close upon tho
heels of tho wretched youth.
Having begun life with a strange dis
position to take upon myself tho ills of
others, nnd finding such uractice ex
tremely unpleasant nnd useless, I havo
gradually trained myself into the other
extreme, nnd generally bear the mis
fortunes of my friends with a philoso
phical indifference that is very compos
ing. On this occasion, however, I forgot
my cynicism und found myself running
under thnt broiling sun, shaking my fist,
with my heart in my mouth, at the con
ductor, and demanding in the most
authoritative manner that ho stop the
train.
From tho depot to tho tunnel was
about a mile; to accomplish this distance
tho train aud idiot occupied somo twenty
minutes. Tho passengers, crowded at
windows nnd on tho platforms, took as
lively nn interest in the affair as the en
tire population of Glen Covo that ac
companied the train and backed the
idiot. It was a godsend to the passen
gers, and they expressed their satisfac
tion by tho liveliest betting and cheers,
first for the locomotive nnd then for its
strange competitor.
It was ueck and neck between life and
tho locomotive. A false step, a stumble,
nud tho huge mass of roaring, throbbing
iron would havo gone crushing over tho
frail body of the man, who so strangely
impeded its progress. Aud such result
was imminent; for tho poor fellow, ex
hausted by excitement aud over exer
tion, staggered at times, nnd at times
reeled as if about to fall, in a way to
make mo shudder.
That such would probably havo been
tho result became painfully apparent,
when au abrupt aud somewhat unex
pected termination was put to the cruel
sport. The man stationed at the mouth
of the tunnel and employed to keep its
murky depths clear of obstructions, sud
denly seized the youth, nt the risk of
his own life, nnd threw him with some
violence to one side. Such was tho ef
fort that both rolled over, and the huge
locomotive, giving a shill scream of tri
umph, dived into the tunnel, followed by
tho long train, that disappeared as if
the earth had opened nnd swallowed it.
I sat down nt the mouth of tho subter
ranean excavation quite exhausted as the
crowd dispersed, and from the mouth of
the dark entranco'was pleased to find a
cool damp air that came out in puffs, ns
if a dragon were coi'od up within and
panted out its cold, - clammy breath. 1
asked the old watchman a scries of idle
questions, of a statistical sort, such as a
man under the circumstances always in
dulges in. lie grunted out the exact
length of tho tunnel, the time required
to construct it, the accidents thut oc
curred within his remembrance, and al
together, in response to my leading
questions, exhibited a good deal of in
formation on tunnels. For a man to
know ono thing well is a power. It is
better, however, to believe you know
some one thing nnd impart tho informa
tion to your friends. It is a bore at best
nnd just as well when it takes the shape
of a tunnel.
Having exhausted the holo in the
ground and really come to think of it,
thero was nothing in it I spoko of the
late race.
"Crazy jackass!" quoth tho sententi
ous guardiun of tho excavation ; he'll git
killed yet, aud sooner tho better for all
consarned."
"Why, do they often put him up to
that?" "
"No, not frequent. They do it on
that train sometimes, for they hate the
conductor. Once, long 'ago, it wasn't
needed. He used to run uhead of every
train, clear through tho tunnel, a warn
in' people oil'. They switched that out
uv him. Now the ornary cusses puts
him up to it."
"Queer sort of insanity."
"Jsu't it(" und he was onct a bright
feller a rale sehollard."
"Inded"
"Yes, was onct, but left his senses in
this tunnel."
"Why, how was that?"
"Well, you sec, ho's tho son of old
Judge Conrad, of these parts only
child, at thnt and was sent to college,
and no end of trouble taken and money
spent to finish and furnish up his intel
lects. When ho come homo to study
law, what docs he do but take after a
little girl nnmcd Mary Grubbs, du'ter
of tho cooper, on' she was poor ns a
)ig an' purty as a painted wngon. Well;
guess sho was about the handsomest
critter in this part of the vineyard. Lcn
Conrad was struck, I tell you, after Polly,
ns we cnllcd her, an' I don't wonder; for
her hair was as soft nnd light ns silk on
early corn, an' alio hnd the handsomest
teeth, an' the biggest, wonder
fullest dark eyes, an' an angcli
ferous skin. But neither sho not
her old cooperin' dart had a cent, so tho
Conrads, bein' toploftical mahogany
high parties, just shut down on her."
"The old, old story."
"I don't know cf its so old. Pcr'aps
you've hcerd it afore, an' I can save my
wind."
"I mean thnt tho course of true love
never does run smooth."
"Oh! that's it, is it?"
"No offense, old man. But proceed
with your yarn and tell mo how Len
Conrad left his senses in the tunnel."
"That's what I was a comin' to when
you put in your chin music. AVhea Len
found tho family was'forninst the court
in' he took to meetin' her unbe
knownst. That was found out, nnd
then it was decreed that Lcn should be
sent to Yourope. The evenin' upon Len's
departure ho meets his girl, av course,
an' they meandered naterly a little too
late, an' undertook to make a short cut
to the cooper houso through the tunnel.
I saw the doves go in. She was a leanin'
on his shoulder a weepin' an' he looked
as if he'd lost his mother-in-law."
"Mother-in-law 1"
"That's a little joke o' mine, mister. I
mean he looked like a canned funeral.
I warned 'em not to try the tunnel, for
it was close on to the timo for the light
ning express. But they didn't heed or
hear me jes' kept on in. After they
had left I got that onensy I took my
lantern an' run inter 'cm. Jes' as I
come in sight tho thing came roarin'
Fast Glen Cove it don't stop there an'
heard tho whistle ns the death on
wheels plungcd.into the tunnel. I jammed
the wall, I tell ycz. 1 could see Len push
his girl agin the same, so tho train
might pass and no touch, an' like a flash
I saw her tear away. Now, whether sho
was scart and didn't know what she was
about, or wanted to kill herself can't be
known, ' but sho shot right in front ov
that train. I saw the 'headlight shine
like a flash ov lightning on a white,
frightened face as I crowded 'back
ngainst the wall, an' then with a roar
like thunder, an' tho whole thing seemed
wiped out as if a sponge had sorter
sponged us out. I iieard the train's
thunder sort, of speck ns it left the tun
nel, ns if souudin' the murder
over the land, an' I stood thero
in a sort ov a daze lisaiu'
to that roar die out in the distance.
When I come round, which I did in a
minit, I ran on. I stumbled over poor
Len, lyin' as if dead, an' then I run up
und down at least twice before I saw a
heap that looked like a bundle of rags
soaked in blood, un' will you believe,
the bundle moved. It was only a quiver,
an nil was still. She didn't make a
lovely corpse when we got it together.
Some people sickened an' faiuted when
they saw it."
"And Len?"
"We carted him homo. Tho doctors
could not lind uny bones broken, cuts,
or hurt inside or out, but he lay sorter
stoopid six weeks and then got up an'
has been looncy ever since."
"Poor fellow."
"Should think eo. Queerest thing
about the poor chap was that he took to
runnin' ahead uv trains, goin' through
the tunnel a-warnin' people off. He
sorter got that hammered out uv him."
"The old folks learned a lesson, eh?"
"Not much; can't teach sich old
stoopids much. They do say tho old
jedge has softenin, uv the brain, but I
don't believe ho had any to soften."
Bonn Piatt.
"When Sho Will Sho Will."
"I thought only a few men were up to
the winter bathing mark," observed the
reporter. The bath man laughed scorn
fully. "When a lady makes up her
mind to bathe every day in the year,'" ho
said, "nothing can stand her off. I've
seen men who would come here on cold
mornings, undress and walk to the
water" edge, but the minute it touched
their toes, race back nnd get into their
clothes agaiu. Not so with women.
When they nre in bathing trim it means
bathing and nothing short of a tidal
wave will stoo them. Hero comes the
daisy bather of tho lot. I've seen that I
girl here when it was so cold that to even
look at the water used to give me the
shakes. Now, what do you think first
induced that lady to bathe all the time)
For the pure love of it? No, sir. She
was getting too fat. She tried every
thing dieting, exorcise, and medicine,
but nothing would take her down. At
last she dropped on sea bathing, and it
fetched her. She is nice and slim now,
though plump enough, but when sho
came here first she was as fat ns a butter
ball. I wish nil the fat ladies in the city
would have her courage, and our winter
business would be worth something."
Sm Francisco Alta.
All tho government officials of Japan
were privately instructed somo timo ago
to wear European costume during office
hours; but as some arc Hill using Japa
nese dress, the authority's are said to have
resolved on making, the measure compulsory.
SOMETHING AEOUT SWEETS.
PROGRESS OF THEIR MANUT AC
TUBE I THIS COUNTRY.
Dcltcnrlea tliat Delight Palates)
of Voufli Vegetable Color 'lak.
Ingtlio Place oi I'olsoneun Ones.
The last thing a child inquires about
is how the augur-plum it snaps up with
some avidity is made. Yet the manu
facture of these delicacies I had almost
said necessaries of the nursery is a thing
worth witnessing. Formerly all tho
higher class camo from France and Ger
many, where for ages they have been fa
mous for their delicacies. But sinco the
introduction of steam into their fabrica
tion these articles are now made on tho
largest scalo in this country, nnd nre
vnstly cheupencd since the days when we
used to spend our last penny in taffy.
The rude style of old is also gone. The
eye must now be satisfied ns well ns
tho palate, even in the cheapest items.
Think of tho one-cent sweets done
up in a ruby-colored eclatine packet.
There was color, it is true, in some
of the more showy sweets of old, but it
was metallic color, containing the most
virulent poison. An analysis of this paint
ed confectionary, published in a medical
journal some years ago, exposed tho vil
lainous manner in which this vividly
colored sweetmeat was made attractive
to the children by poisonous paint. Tho
brighter the hue tho more deadly the
sweet. The brilliant green, for instance,
with which tho toy confectionary was
adorned, contained arsenic of copper.
One can quite understand the bad name
sweets acquired when thus made up.
There was vermilion in the reds, of
course, and gamboge and chromate of
lend in the yellows. No doubt many
young children were absolutely killed by
plentifully partaking of these artistically
poisoned epihfits. The analysis of that
medical paper has delivered us from this
cause of infantile trouble. Nothing but
harmless vegetable colors arc now used,
which, if not so brilliant as metallic
ones, are quite safe.
A large New York establishment,
which ordinarily employs some ninety
persons, about the commencement of
December requires the services of almost
doublo that number, the majority of
whom are engaged in making bonbons
by the million until the turn oftthe now
year. The entire) underground1 portion
of the premises is devoted to the manu
facture of sweetmeats. - On descending
the stone staircase one finds one's self in
a stifling atmosphere, too heavily laden
with the aroma of vanilla and other es
sences. Around are scores of workmen,
their faces lighted up by the red glare of
numerous furnaces, busily engaged
in plunging particular fruits into
large caldrons filled, with boiling syrups.
More in the shade are other stalwart
looking men, their countenance made
pallid by the intensely heated atmo
sphere, piling up almonds, etc., on huge
copper vessels, and so constant is tho
sound of metal that the visitor might
imagine himself in an nruior smithy in
stead of a sweetmeat factory, among
workmen making bonbons for women
and children to crunch. On all sides
are piles of sugar barrels, gallons of
liquors, syrups and essences kirsch,
wine, aniseed, maraschino, curacao, pine
apple, apricot, strawberry, cherry, van
illa, chocolate, coffee and tea with sacks
of almonds and baskets of chestnuts,
fu'stachio nuts and filberts being emptied
nto machines which bruise their husks,
Hay them and blanch them all ready to
receive their saccharine coating.
Most bonbons are made by hand; only
those which are fiat on tho bottom arc
cast in molds. In tho hand made bon
bons the sugar paste is rolled into shape
by the aid of an instrument formed of a
stout piece of wire, one end of which is
twisted and the other fixed into a wood
en handle. With this the paste is taken
out of the caldron and worked into the
desired form by a rapid stroke of the
hand. For bonbons of a particular
form, such as those in imitation of fruits,
etc., models are carved in wood. A cer
tain number of these, say from fifty to
sixty, aro fixed on a narrow strip of
wood, and tho confectioner takes
molds of them in starch, con
tained in a series of large, shal
low drawers. As soon as the molds
become dry they nre filled with liquid
sugar, already colored und flavored, after
which the drawer is put on one side for
twenty-four hours, when tho bonbons
ore ready for sale. Tho delicate sweets,
containing some essences, such as pine
apple, etc., are always cast in starch
molds. It puzzles older heads than those
of children to know how this drop of
delicious liquid gets into the center of
the sweet. Like many other puzzling
matters, it is very easily explained. The
flavoring essence is mixed with the liquid
sugar, and when pouted into the mold
the latter crystnli.es immediately over
the former. These essences, so nice to
the taste, arc the most remarkable ex
amples of tho power of chemistry to
transform very repugnant materials into
delicacies. Fusel oil is the base of the
pear essence, and pineappleessenco is ob
tained by diluting ether with alcohol.
The chemist in his laboratory, with great
cunning, manufactures scores of these
essences, which are supposed to bo tho
veritable product of delicate fruits. Some
of the pretty forms that are made to
take tho fancy of the little ones are simply
punched out of flat tains of sugar rolled;
some are cust, sonic are pressed into
shape when soft between engraved roll
ers. Tho drops und sweets that are quite
clear are boiled so long that the water
has evaporated out of them. Such
sweets must Ik; immediately bottled up,
or preserved from the air, otherwise they
absorb water and become semi liquid.
Barley sugar is an example in point.
If it is not hermetically sealed
dowu in tins, it deliquesces, tud loses
all its crispuess. It is as well to know
that this is the purest of ull sweets be
ing absolutely clarified sugar, and thcru-
foro the most wholesome for children,
On tho other hand, peppermint drops are
the most open to sophistication. They
should be made of crushed white sugar,
mixed into a paste with gum. But the
tempation to adulterate is too gteat foi
tho dishonest dealer to resist; conse
quently, in order to supply the market
one-half plaster paris is mixed with in
ferior sugar. One can quite understand
the sickness that overtakes children
sometimes after sucking those cemfits.
The wonder is that such a mass of plas
ter does not intcrfero more signally with
their digestion. Jujubes, those flexible
lozenges which stick so in the V teeth,
contain a large portion of gum. They
are poured into tins to cool, standing Toi
several hours, sliced into sheets, and
then cut by scissors into the, well-known
diamond shapes.
Tho veritable sugar-plum, or almond
drop, is made in a very interesting man
ner. A number of almonds, after being
coated with a little gum to catch the
white sugar, aro thrown into a deep pan
surrounded viith steam. This pan re
volves sideways at an angle of forty-five
degrees. As it revolves,tho almonds, of
course, tumble over one another, and
while they aro doing so tho workman
pours over them from time to
timo liquid white sugar al
lowing a sufficient time to elapse
between each supply for the sugar to
harden upon the comfit. In this way it
grows by the imposition of layer upon
layer until it is the proper size. By this
simple motion the sugar is deposited in
the smoothest und most regular manner.
Girls are largely employed in the sugar
plum trade. They nre quick and stick
well to their work, but they have a sweet
tooth and help themselves to the lozen
gers pretty liberally. As is it is impossi
ble to stop petty pilfering they are given
liberty to eat as much ns they like.
The manufacture of the surprise nuts
is done with the utmost speed by those
little workwomen. Tho nut is first
opened by means of a rose cutter; the
kernel is then cleared out with a pen
knife, the hollow is filled with seed
sweets, and tho hole by which they havo
been introduced, is sealed with choco
late. It is great fun, of course, when
you have cracked a nut to find youi
mouth full of these small sugar seeds,
whether you expect the surprise or not.
In ono part of the establishment I came
upon the little a'rtists coloring the small
articles cast in sugar. It was all vege
table color, of course, and quite harm
less. There is no great artistic talent re
quired in tho coloring operations they
have to perform and it is too cheaply
paid to be very carefully done, but, how
ever, poor they may be as works of art,
they arc not unwholesome, which was fai
from being tho case a few years ago, be
fore the board of health interfered Id
New York for tho good of our little
ones. Brooklyn Eagle.
Northern Limit of Corn Growth.
On the northeast shores of Asia corn
cannot be cultivated at fifty degrees
north latitude, although in the interior
it matuies asfar north as sixty-two de
grees. On the eastern shores of America
the northern limit of its growth is fifty
degrees, and on tho western shores it
reaches about fifty-seven degrees, while
in the intermediate country it is known
to grow- ns far (is sixty-fivo degrees. The
fact that it thrives farther north in the
interior of continents than on the shores
is thought by M. Buysmnn to be due not
alono to the cooling influences of ice ac
cumulations on the coasts, but to de
pend largely on tho greater amount of
sunlight received in the dry regions far
from the oceans. In Norway corn grows
in latitude seventy degrees, tho climate
beiug not only warmed by proximity to
tho Gulf stream, but the skies being
very clear as well. Even in the most
northern regions, where tho shade tem
perature is very low, vegetation may
grow in sheltered spots exposed to tho
sun, and luxuriant scurvy grass has been
lound on alucn Island, beyond eighty
degrees north latitude. London Neut.
Employment and Education.
"A good education, says Dr. McCosh,
"qualities a man to do a dozen different
things, whero uu ignorant man could do
only one. Education also enables a man
to rise in uny sphere of labor in which ho
is employed." 1 lie truth of this is espe
cially valuable in these days of change in
vocations. Science is specializing every
employment; mechanism is taking the
place of mammal labor, and in this
approaching readjustment of vocations,
will prove tho only individual safeguard.
What industrial future is there for tho
man who can use his hands only when a
machine is invented that tnkes the place
of a thousand pair of hands? Obviously,
the practical need of intellectual qualifi
cation is far greater in this ago, nnd will
continue to increase with the progress of
humanity. It is tho tendency of every
trado to become an art, and of every nrti
sau to become au artist in his specialty.
And in this lies the true secret of tho
great need of industrial education.
Lilian Whiting.
The Laughing Plant.
It is called the laughing plant, because
its seids produco effects like those pro
duced by laughing gas. The flowers arc
of a bright yellow, and the seed pods aro
soft and wooly, while the seeds resemble
small black beans, and only two or three
grow in a pod. The natives dry and pul
verie them, und ihe powder, if taken in
small doses, makes iko soberest pel sou
behave like a circus clown or u mudmuii,
for he w ill dance, sing and laugh most
boisterously, und cut the most fantastic
cupcr, and be in uu uproariously ridicu
lous condition lor about an hour. When
the cm iiemcnt ceccs the exhausted x
liibitor of these unties falls asleep, and j
when In: awakes he has not the slightest
remembrance of his frisky doiuys.
MuWiui Cakstid Empire,
WORKINO DAYS.
A-wooing you came with your dulcet voice,
Your manner so knightly and debonair;
Who would not proudly havo been your
choice.
When you wovo her garland so rich and
rare ?
It was well enough in the courting timo
When your tongue spoko only in tuneful
prnise,
With love-words sot to a silvern rhyme;
It is other now In the working days.
Could ever she dream, that gentle girl,
When you pledged her the tenderest care
for life,
That you brow would knit, and your lip
would curl,
When she, poor child, was your wedded
wife?
Would the pretty maid have beon swift to
yield, .
Caught in the toils of your winning ways,
Had a rift in tho future's veil revealed
The gloom that should shadow the work
ing dnysf
'Tis easy to carry the hardest load
When two who share it in mind aro one;
'Tis pleasant to clamber the roughest road
With a friend who is cheery from sun t
sun,
But crushes the burden with aching weight
If only tho weaker that burden raise,
And bleak the path In the frost of fate
When jars the musio of working days.
Oh, holiday suitor, so brave nnd trim,
So gay of mien and so soft of speech,
Pray what is your ring but a fetter grim
To the wife who is learning what tyrants
teach?
Would it cost you much her home to bless
With the love you promisod, the love that
stays
A strength and a sweetness through all the
stress
And all the strain of life's working days?
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
Susoendcd animation Two ho althy
cats dangling from a clothes-line.
Tho woman question: "Now, isn't
this a pretty time of night for you to get
home?"
"There isn't much family likeness in
our family," said Johnny Dumpscy, "and
what there is is mostly for pie." Bur
tingtoa Frte Preis,
The bnnr.ler is certain that life is a sham,
And holds less of pleasure than pair,
When he puts on his glasses to look for the
clnm
That the chowder's supposed to contain.
Boston Courier.
Bartholdi modeled his statue after his
mother. He mado her the size she used
to seem to him in his boyhood days when
he was caught going in swimming with
out permission. Graphic.
"Now, then, John," said the restau
rant keeper to his boy, "bring out those
sandwiches wo put up last winter.
Here's a big order como in to supply the
Sunday-school picnic." Uostm Courier.
It is said that much suffering is caused
an animal by defective shoeing. This
will bo readily understood by noticing
a woman shoo a hen. Tho poor bird does
not know which way to go. Boston Post.
You might as well undertake to var
nish a rainbow or try to stampede hun
ger with a dime with a holo in it, ns ex
pect to prevail on a man to own up to
his wifo'that he has been in the wrong.
Cli iai'o Letltjer.
An exchango says: "If your spoons
nre stained from eggs, rub them with a
little common salt." If the spoons re
ferred to nre those that come and gush
round our sister Kit several times a week,
salt won't hurt them at any time, whether
they've been eating eggs or not. St.
Pa ul llei all.
Now the hammock swingetb,
Swinetli in the breeze,
Likn a filmy cob-web,
"fwix the trees.
Ha! tho thing eollnpseth,
Collapseth with a snap,
And the one within it
Takes a drap.
Merchant-Trareler.
"Have you nn extra umbrella I could
borrow?" asked a man in a friend's office.
"I have an umbrella," replied the friend,
pointing to a weather beaten, rock
ribbed piece of rusty calico in tho corner,
"but I don't think you will find it any
thing extra." lie spoko the truth, but
the umbrella never camo back all the
same. Merchant- Tratelt r.
"Yes," said Mrs. Cntchem, "thoso aro
my daughters over there on the sofa;
they have half a million between them."
It was licit until alter they wero married
to those daughters, that tho two young
men men who overheard the above re
mark found out that Mrs. Cntchem re
ferred to the rich old codger who sat on
the sofa between tho girls. Mrs. t'atchem
couldn't tell a fib. but sho knew how to
speak the truth advantageously. Boston
Transcript.
Tno Astonishing Bobberies.
Ono of tho most singular, most amus
ing, nnd nt tho same time, for tho vic
tims, most annoying robberies, occurred
in our city Saturday. Two elderly ladies
on Michigan street were looking ut the
circus pioeession pass by. So intent
were they in gazing upon the dazzling
pageant that not only their eyes but their
mouths were wido open, ami while in
this awe-stnick condition they were each
btartlcd by the slap of a rough hand over
their mouths. ( If courso they were mad,
nnd looked around wilh greut indigna
tion to see who co;!u be guilty of such
a rudo act, and it was ii"i until they at
tempted to speak, in onler to properly
express their v. r.itli, that, thev discovered
their fill. -a- lei th was g.iiie. '1 he t liieves
had looki-d into thi'ii' w iae open inouihs,
aud saw that tint plates containing Um
leeth were of old, uud they wanted
tLem. k'o'-dh But-l (InJ.) Tribune,