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THE MARCH OF THE CHILDREN
List to tho sound of tho drumming 1
(Jayly the children fire coming 1
Rweet ns tho smile, of n fairy ;
Fresh as tho blosnoms thoy carry;
Fritlnof tho pn rents who love them;
Pure as thia.uro nlmve them;
Free rh the winds thnt caress them;
Bright as tha Minbenms that bless them.
List to tho voice-echoes ringing!
Hweoter than birds they aro singing:
Thoughts that to virtue invito them
Wed unto nirs that delight them;
Truths that tlioir future will cherish,
Konl-planti-d, nevor to perish I
Only to senses completer
Heaven's choicest music wore swootor.
Virtue uncou.'.eious, and pretty,
Walks through tho street! of the city,
Boo thogiiy bannerets (lying I
.Mottoes and titles undying;
Truths, dearly hallowel and olden,
Braided in strands that aro golden;
Words for tho spirit's desiring;
Sentences sweetly inspiring.
When, in a voice of earrossing,
Christ gave the children His blessing,
'Twas not for one generation,
But for each epoch and nation.
So through tho present it lingers,
Shod from His bountiful lingers;
Ho unto these it is given
Typos of tho angels in hnavon.
Will Carlton, in Ilatar.
IX THE TUNNEL.
The railroad station known as Glen
Cove is ono of tho dreariest this side of
flint final abode said to bo extremely
sultry, where nil presidents, directors,
and other railroad ollicials, more espe
cially ticket agents, fetch up aud finish
their labors. Were it not so hard on
Mugby Junction, I should say Glcu
Cove was the Mugby .Junction of Ameri
ca. Indigestion is kept there, like field
ammunition in tho quartermaster's de
partment, to servo out ut a moment's
notice to hungry nnd insane passengers,
and it is safe, for tho trains curry away
the sufferers to die in other localities.
One hot, sunny day iu midsummer I
found myself anticipating the punish
ments due for sins and shortcomings in
this world by waiting for au eastern
bound train long overdue, as if tho
trains, like passengers, disliked ap
proaching tho depot at which I suf
fered. A surly telegrapher, also ticket agent,
who shot insults and tickets through a
holo at people, told mo after au hour's
cross examination that was very cross,
that my train had brought up ina corn
field, and 1 could not possibly got away
by rail beforo 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 relievo the dull monotony
of that awful time.
I wandered listlessly about tho dirty
frame nnd platform. Both were hot
enough to roast potatoes in tho shado. I
gazed on nay, 1 studied all tho colored
bills, giving pieturesciuo views of vari
ous towns, und telling in assorted type
the advantages each had over tho other
tho only bit of umusemcnt I had, and
it wus very inild. 1 found in guessing
at tho missing levters of a bill which
rend "Hough lino to Chicago," some
scamp had cut out tho initial th" when
tho bill had originally read "Through
line to Chicago."
Whilo upon the platform gazing at an
accommodation train just in, thut was
awaiting its conductor lcisurly getting
orders from tho telegrapher, I was at
tracted by a noisy crowd of men and
boys, gathered about a young fellow
whose faco indicated tho idiotic condi
tion that originated their entetainment.
He was a tall, broad shouldered, well
formed youth, and well dressed for one
in his condition. But ho had his clothes
half buttoned, in the loose, reckless
manner of ono of his class, while his
face, without its intellectual outlook,
was regular iu feature, and one could
bee, had thero been a brain back of it,
would havo been eminently handsome.
As anxiety and care had ceased writing
its record of ago upon his face, it was
difficult to tell his nge. Ho had tho
form of a man and tho face of a child.
"It's the opinion of this crowd, Lcn,"
said tho blacksmith to tho idiot, "that
you can beat that 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 have disarmed any other
crowd than the one engaged ,in charting
him. Ho gazed wistfully at tho huge
locomotive thnt stood hissing in the hot
sun as if wrathful at tho delay, and then
ho turned to tho cruel crowd ns if the
suggestion was slowly working its way
through his poor crippled brain.
"Go in, I.en," cried one of the crowd,
"we've 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 the black
smith, "and the thing can't puss you."
I could scarcely believe these scoun
drels wcro in earnest, when the surly
engineer gave tho last bang to his
noisy bell, exploded it short snort from
tho locomotive in tho way of warning,
and to my astonishment 1 saw tho idiot
throwing off his coat, start down the
track ahead of the train. Fortunately
the engineer caught sight of the poor
fellow, aud checking the speed of the
locomotive, began ringing him oil the
track. This was responded to by the
idiot bawling out with great glee:
"Come on with your old tea-kettle," nud
the brutal crowd cheered, und roared
w ith laughter.
Tho crowd, kecpiug along with the
jtrain, cheered lustily, aud the lunatio
"spurted" as they say in a boat race
that is, shot ahead and exhibited con
siderable power as a racer by tho speed
with which he got over tho ground. Tho
engineer, infuriated at the delay, 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 checked
up again.
By this time heads wcro thrust out of
windows and tho platforms crowded by
passengers whoso excitement became
noisy nud intense as they discovered that
it wus a human being instead of a cow
that impeded their progress. As for tho
idiot, he paused only long enough to in
dulse in a jeering laugh nnd a gesture
thnt was more irritating than decent.
The crowd of brutal loafers that ex
hibited more industry in nccompanying
the race on this occasion than they had
probably manifested in making an hon
est living for a year previous, went tear
ing along each sido of tho locomotive,
laughing, shouting, chocring on tho
idiot, whilo hurling all sorts of exasper
ating epithets at tho engineer, who by
this time, wus nearly blind with rage.
At this moment tho conductor made
his appearance, nnd crawling out upon
tho tender, began throwing lumps of
coal at the boy, ns the engineer, putting
on steam, drew near the poor follow.
Fortunately the conductor's aims were
not well taken, for had tho young man
been knocked down the locomotive would
havo undoubtedly run over him.
From this the rough autocrat of tho
train desisted, for the idiot's backers,
with an American senso of fair play that
animates even tho roughest of our brutes,
began pelting the conductor with stones.
each pcbblo sent with tho accuracy of
rilio shot. He retreated hurriedly to
tho engino house, where he rubbed his
person in a comical way with ono hand
whilo with tho other he assuaged his
wrath by a furious ringinj; of tho bell.
Tho engineer seconded his efforts by let
ting off short shrieks and keeping tho
locomotive frightfully close upon tho
heels of tho wretched vouth.
Having begun life with a strango dis
position to take upon mvself tho ills of
others, and finding such practice ex
tremely unpleasant and usefes. I havo
gradually trained myself into tho other
extreme, and generally bear tho mis
fortunes of my friends with a philoso
phical indifference that is very compos
ing. On this occasion, however, I forgot
my cynicism and found myself running
under that broiling sun, shaking my fist.
with my heart in my mouth, at the con
ductor, and demanding in tho 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 and on tho platforms, took as
lively an interest in the affair as the en
tiro population of Glen Covo that ac
companied tho train and backed tho
idiot. It was a godsend to the passen
gers, und they expressed their satisfac
tion by tho liveliest betting and cheers,
first for the locomotive and then for its
strango competitor.
It was neck and neck between life and
tho locomotive. A false st-'p, a stumble,
and tho huge mass of roaring, throbbing
iron would have gone crushing over the
frail body of the man, whoso strangely
impeded its progress. And such result
was imminent; for tho poor follow, ex
hausted by excitement nnd over exer
tion, staggered at times, and at times
reeled as if about to fall, in a way to
make mo shudder.
That 6uch would probably have been
tho result became painfully apparent,
when au abrupt aud somewhat unex
pected termination was put to tho cruel
sport. The man stationed at the mouth
of the tunnel and employed to keep its
murky depths clour of obstructions, sud
denly seized the youth, nt tho risk of
his own life, nnd throw 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 at the mouth of the 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. I
asked the old watchman a series of idle
questions, of a statistical sort, such as a
man under the circumstances always in
dulges in. Ho grunted out the exact
length of tho tunnel, tho time required
to construct it, the accidents that oc
curred within his remembrance, and al
together, in response to mv leading
questions, exhibited a good deal of in
formation on tunnels. Fur a man to
know ono thing well is a power. It is
better, however, to beliove you know
somo one thing nnd impart tho' informa
tion to your friends. It is a bore at best
and 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 the sententi
ous guardian of tho excavation ; he'll git
killed yet, and sooner tho better for all
consamed."
"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 ahead of every
train, clear through tho tunnel, a warn
in' people oil. They switched that out
uv hi ill. Now the ornary cusses puts
him up to it."
"(inter sort of insanity."
"lsu't itf" und lie was onct a bright
feller a rale schollurd."
"Indeed I"
"Yes, was onct, but left his senses in
this tunnel."
"Why, how was that?"
"Well, you see, he's tho son of old
Judge Conrad, of these parts only
child, at that and was sent to college,
and no end of trouble taken and money
spent to finish and furnish up his intel
lects. When he como homo to study
law, what docs he do but take after a
little girl named Mary Grubbs, da'tcr
of the cooper, an' she was poor ns a
pig an' purty as a painted wagon. Well;
1 guess she was about the handsomest
critter in this part of the vineyard. Lcn
Conrad was struck, I tell you, after Polly,
ns we called her, an I don't wonder: for
her hair was as soft nnd light ns silk on
early corn, an' she had tho handsomest
teeth, an1 the biggest, wonder
fullest dark eyes, an' an angcli
ferous skin. Hut neither she nor
her old coopcrin'dad had a cent, so tho
Conrads, bcin' toploftical mahogany
high parties, just shut down on her."
"Tho old, old story."
"I don't know cf its so old. Pcr'aps
you've heerd it afore, an' I can save my
wind."
"I mean that 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 ho-.v Len
Conrad left his senses in the tunnel."
"That's what I was a comin' to when
you put in your chin music. When Len
found tho family was forninst tho court
in' ho took to meetin' her unbe
knownst. That was found out, and
then it wns decreed that Lcn ehould be
sent to Yourope. The evenin' upon Lcn'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 house through the tunnel.
I saw tho 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 l"
"That's a little joke o' mine, mister. I
mean he looked like a canned funeral.
I warned 'em not to try tho 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 oncasy I took my
lantern an' run nrter 'cm. Jes' as I
como in sight tho thing came roarin'
Fast Glen Cove it don't stop there an1
heard tho whistle as the death on
wheels plungedinto the tunnel. I jammed
tho wall, I tell yez. 1 could see Len push
his girl agin the same, so tho train
might pass and no touch, an' like a flash
1 saw her tear away. Now, whether she
was scart and didn't know what she was
about, or wanted to kill herself can't he
known, 1 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
against the wall, an' then -with a roar
like thunder, an' tho whole thing seemed
wiped out ns if a sponge had sorter
sponged us out. I heard the train's
thunder sort of speck as it left the tun
nel, ns if sou nd in' the murder
over the land, an' I stood thero
in a sort ov a duzc lisuin'
to that roar die out in the distance.
When 1 come round, which I did in a
minit, I ran on. I stumbled over poor
Len, lyin' ns if dead, an' then I run up
und down nt least twice before I saw a
heap that looked like a bundle of rags
soaked in blood, an' will you believe,
the bundle moved. It was only a quiver,
au' all was still. Sho didn't make a
lovely corpse when we got it together.
Some people sidtencd an' fainted when
they saw it."
"And Len?"
"Wc carted him homo. Tho doctors
could not find any 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 wns 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
jedgc has softenin, uv the brain, but I
don't believe ho had any to soften."
Bonn 1'iatt.
"When Sho Will She Will."
"I thought only a few men were up to
the winter bathing mark," observed the
reporter. Tho 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's edge, but the minute it touched
their toes, raco back and get into their
clothes again. jot so with women.
When they are in bathing trim it means
bathing and nothing short of a tidal
wave will stop them. Here comes the
daisy bather of tho lot. I've seen that
girl here when it was so cold that to even
look at the water used to give mo 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, exercise, 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 ccoucrh, but when sho
came here first she was as fat as a butter
ball. I wish nil the fut ladies in the city
would have her courage, and our winter
business would be worth something."
San Francisco Alt a.
All the government officials of Jupan
were privately instructed somo time ugo
to weur European costume during ol'ice
hours; but us some uro still usiog Japa
nese dress, the authority's are suid to have
resolved on making the measure compulsory.
SOMETHING ABOUT SWEETS-
PROGRESS OF THEIR MANUFAC
TURE IV THIS COUNTRY.
Dcltcarlea tliat Hello-lit ilia I'aliUce
of loiilli Vra-nlablo Color 'lak-liig-tlie
IMaceol loiaoitou linen.
The last thing a child inquires about
is how tho sugar-plum it snaps up with
some avidity is made. Yet the manu
facture of these delicacies I had almost
said neccsjaries of the nursery is a thing
worth witnessing. Formerly all tho
higher class camo from France nnd 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 nre now mndo on tho
largest scalo in this country, nnd nre
vastly cheapened 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 woll ns
the palate, even in the cheapest items.
Think of tho one-cent sweets done
up in a ruby-colored gelatine packet.
There was color, it is true, in somo
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 somo 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 or copper.
One can quite understand the bad namo
sweets acquired when thus made up.
There was vermilion in the reds, of
course, and gamboge and chromate of
lead in the yellows. No doubt many
young children were absolutely killed by
plentifully partaking of these artistically
poisoned comfits. The analysis of that
medical paper has delivered us from this
cause of infantile trouble. Nothing but
harmless vegetable colors are now used,
which, if not so brilliant as metallic
ones, are quite safe.
A large New York establishment,
which ordinnrily employs some ninety
persons, about the commencement of
December requires the services of almost
double that number, the majority of
whom are engaged in making bonbons
by the million until the turn of ithe new
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 engagod
in plunging particular fruits into
large caldrons filic.d 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 armor smithy in
stead of a sweetmeat factory, among
workmen making bonbons for women
and children to crunch. On all sides
ore 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,
pistachio nuts and filberts being emptied
into machines which bruise their husks,
flay them aud blanch them all ready to
receive their saccharine coating.
Most bonbons are made by hand ; only
tnoso which aro Hat on tho bottom are
cast in molds. Iu tho hand inado bon
bons the sugar paste is rolled into shape
by tho 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 tho
desired form by a rapid stroke of the
hand. For bonbons of a particular
form, such as those iu imitation of fruits,
etc., models arc carved in wood. A cer
tain number of these, say from fifty to
sixty, are fixed on a narrow strip of
wood, and tho confectioner takes
molds of them in starch, con
tained in a scries of large, shal
low drawers. As soon as the molds
become dry they are filled with liquid
sugar, already colored und flavored, after
which the drawer is put on one side for
twenty-four hours, when tho bonbons
are ready for sale. The delicate sweets,
containing some essences, such us 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 puz.ling
matters, it is very easily explained. The
flavoring essence is mixed with the liquid
sugar, and when pouted into the mold
the latter crystolizcs immediately over
tho former. These essences, so nice to
the taste, are the most remarkable ex
amples of tho power of chemistry to
transform very repugnant materials into
delicacies. Fusel oil is the base of tho
pear essence, and pineapple essence is ob
tained by diluting ether with alcohol.
The chemist in his laboratory, with great
cunning, manufactures scores of these
essences, which aro supposed to be the
veritable product of delicate fruits. Some
of the pretty forms that are mado to
take the fancy of the little ones arc simply
punched out of fiat films of sugar rolled ;
some are cast, some are pressed into
shape when soft between engraved roll
ers. Tho drops and sweets that are quite
clear are boiled so long that the wuter
has evaporated out of them. Such
sweets must be immediately bottled up,
or preserved from the air, otherwise they
absorb wuter und become semi liquid.
Bailey sugar is an example in point.
If it is not hermetically sealed
down in tins, it deliquesces, md lose
all its crispuess. It is as well to know
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ing absolutely dunned sugar, and thero- j
I 1UL LU1H IH lilt u rni II II HH T1 'III'-
foro tho most wholesome for children.
On the other hand, peppermint drops ar
the most open to sophistication. They
should be made of crushed white sugar,
mixed into a paste with gum. But the
tcmpation to adulterate is too gieat foi
tho dishonest dealer to resist; conse
quently, in order to supply the markel
one-half plaster paris is mixed with in
ferior sugar. One can quite understand
the sickness that overtakes children
sometimes after sucking those cemtits.
The wonder is that such a mass of plas
ter does not interfere more signally with
their digestion. Jujubes, those flexible
lozenges which stick so in tho v, teeth,
contain a largo portion of gum. They
aro 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 aVraond
drop, is made in a very interesting mnn
ner. A number of almonds, after being
coated with a little gum to catch the
white sugar, are thrown into a deep pan
surrounded with steam. This pan re
volves sideways at an anglo of forty-five
degrees. As it revolves,tho almonds, of
course, tumble over one another, nnd
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 and most regular manner.
Girls aro largely employed in the sugar
plum trade. They are quick and stick
well to their work, but they have a sweet
tooth and help themselves to the lozcn
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 tho 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 n nut to find your
mouth full of these small sugar seeds,
whether you expect the surprise or not.
In one part of the establishment I camo
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 bo very carefully done, but, how
ever, poor they may be as works of art,
they are not unwholesome, which was fat
from being tho case a few years ago, be
fore the board of health interfered In
New York for tho good of our little
ones. Brooklyn Eagle.
Northern Limit or CornGroirtU.
On the northeast shores of Asia corn
cannot be cultivated at fifty degrees
north latitude, although in the interior
it matures as far north as Eixty-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 fur ns sixty-five degrees. The
fact that it thrives farther north in the
interior of continents than on the shores
is thought by M. Buysman to bo duo not
alone to the cooling influences of ice ac
cumulations on tho 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 decrees, tho climate
beiug not only warmed by proximity to
the Gulf stream, but tho skies being
very clear as well. Even in the most
northern regions, where tho shade tem
perature is very low, vegetation may
gfow in sheltered spots exposed to tho
sun, nnd luxuriant scurvy grass has been
found on Waldcn Island, beyond eighty
degrees north latitude. Loudon A'etci.
Employment and Education.
"A good education, says Dr. McCosh,
"qualities n man to do a dozen different
things, where uu ignorant man could do
only one. Education also enables a man
to rise in any sphere ol labor in which he
is employed." The truth of this is espe
cially valuable in these days of change in
vocations. Science is specializing every
employment; mechanism is taking tho
place of inanuual labor, and in this
approaching readjustment of vocations,
will prove the only individual safeguard.
AVhut industrial future is there for tho
man who can use his hands only when a
machine is invented that takes tho place
of a thousand pair of hands? Obviously.
lho practical need of intellectual qualili-
cation is far greater in this aire, and will
continue to increase with the progress of
humanity. It is tho tendency of every
trade to become an art, and of every arti
san to become an artist in his specialty.
And iu this lies the truo secret of tho
great need of industrial education.
Lilian Whiting.
The Laugliln; Plant.
It is called tho lunching plant, bccatif-e
its seeds produce effects like those pro
duced by laughing gas. The (lowers arc
of a bright yellow, and the seed pods are
soft and wooly, whilo the seeds resemble
small black beans, aud only two or three
grow in u pod. The natives dry aud pul
verize thcui, and the powder, if taken iu
small doses, makes I lie soberest peisou
behave like a circus clown or u mudmaii,
for he w ill dance, sing and laiifh most
hoi.steiou-.ly. and cut the most fantastic
capers, and be in uu uproariously ridicu
lous condition for about an hour. When
the I'M iiemcut rews the exhausted ( x
hibitor of these unties fulls asleep, and
when he awakes be has not the slightest
. ......1 . I 1 ! i
reiuemoiance oi ins inKy tloinys.
MuW.ui Mcslinl Empire.
WORKINO DAY8.
A-wooing you came with your dulcet voice,
Your manner so knightly and debonair;
Who would not proudly have been your
choice.
When you wove her garland so rich and
rare !
It was well enough iu the courting time
When your tongue spoke only in tuneful
praise,
With love-words sot to a silvern rhyme;
It is other now in the working days.
Could ever she dream, that gentle girl,
Wh"n 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 pretly 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 days?
'Tis easy to carry the hardest load
When two who share it iu mind aro one;
'Tis pleasant to clamber the roughest road
With a friend who is cheery from sua t
sun,
But crushes the burden with aching weight
If only tho weaker that burden raise,
And bleak tho path in the frost of fate
When jars tho music of working days.
Oh, holiday suitor, bo brave and trim,
So gny 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?
IIU3I0R OF THE DAT.
Susuendod animation Two ho althy
cats dangling from a clothcs-lino.
Tho woman question : "Now, isn't
this n pretty time of night for you to get
home?"
"There isn't much family likeness in
our family," said Johnny Dumpsey,"and
what there is is mostly for pie." Bur
lington Free Frets.
The boarder is certain that life is a sham,
And holds less of pleasure than pain,
When be puts on his glasses to look for the
clam
That the chowder's supposed to contain.
Boston Courier.
Bartholdi modeled his statue after his
mother. He mndo 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 tho 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." BMtM Courier.
It is said that much suffering is caused
un animal by defectivo shoeing. This
will bo rfadily understood by noticing
a woman shoo a hen. The 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 u dime with a holo iu it, ns ex
pect to prevail on a mail to own up to
his wife 'thnt he has been in tho wrong.
Cltiavjo Ledger.
An exchange says: "If your spoons
nre stained from eggs, rub them with a
little common salt." If the spoons re
ferred to are those that come und gush
round our sister Kit several times a week,
salt won't hurt them nt any time, whether
they've been eating eggs or not. St.
J'aul lleral l.
Now the hammock swingeth,
Swineth in the breeze,
I.iku a filmy cob-web,
"f wix lha tres.
Ha! the thing eollnpseth,
C'ollapseth w ith a snap.
And the one within it
Takes a drup.
Merchant- Tractler.
"Have you nn extra umbrella I could
borrow?'' asked a man in a friend's office.
"1 have an umbrella," replied the friend,
pointing to a weather beaten, rock
ribbed piece of rusty calico in the corner,
"but I don't think you will find it any
thing cxtta." He spoke the truth, but
the umbrella never camo back all the
same. Merchant- TratcLr.
"Yes," said Mrs. Catchem, "thoso aro
my daughters over there oil the sofa;
they have half a million between them."
It was not until alter they were married
to those daughters, that the two young
men neu who overheard the above re
mark found out that Mrs. Catchem re
ferred to the rich old codger who sat on
the sofa between the girls. Mrs. Catchem
couldn't tell a lib. but sho knew how to
speak the truth ndvantageously. Boston
Transcript.
Two Astonishing Jobberies.
Ono of tho most singular, most iimus
ill''. and tit the same lime tor tlin vie.
tiins, most annoying robberies, occurred
in our city Saturday. Two elderly ladies
on .Michigan street were looking at the
circus piocession pass by. So intent
were they in gazing upon "the dazzling
pageant that li lt ouiy ihek ves but their
mouths were wide, open, A whilo in
this uwe-stiuck condition theyVvcre each
startled by the slap of u rough hnV' over
their mouths. ( if course they were rhad,
and looked around willi great indigna
tion to see who cu.'.Ul be gnipy of such
a rude act, and it was ini until they at
tempted lo spi-iik, in onler to properly
express their wr.itli, that they ilUcovcred
their fal.-.e teeth was g.me. 'I he thieves
bad looked hit') their wiiiu open mouths,,
and saw thai the plates containing thai
teeth were of gold, uud they wanted
them. iouth iUnU (itf.) Tribune.