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THE COMING MAN.
The Coming Mn I slug: tho Coming Mnn
Evolved In nature since the world began
By Energy Divine: the Man forotold
Forevermore, whom Hoiioand Faith behold.
AH voices shall he hear, all Volume read:
Trobe to the heart of every code and crcod;
Cut uncut page of Croajion's book ;
In life itself for life'a deep secrets look;
Intent hta heart and vigilant his brain
The seventh essence of truth to gain.
He shall be humble, yet supremely bold
The scroll of Time's t xperience to unfold;
Where Scionco lifts her daring flambeau high
He greets the glowing torch with fearless eye;
Where, past the known, Hollgion wings her
fight
His solemn gaze pursues her starry light
Not knowledge only enters in the plan
And consitmmition of tho Coming Man,
And not belief nlono, however true;
The brst is not to rest, it is to do;
The Coming Man shall bo a man of deeds
Employing sulmtaneo and supplying needs.
Ills wisest word shall lenr a titting act,
And all his speculation bloom to fact;
The goodness of his ethics he shall prove.
By logical results of active love.
IK II. Vennble, in tht Current.
A CLOSET'S SECRET.
Mr. lloraco Melton was a promising
young lawyer, who hud the enviable
reputation of being "one or the best
catches in town." Consequently there
was great rejoicing among the family
and friends of Miss Matilda 1'nlfrcy when
it was understood that he had requested
her to bo his wife.
Mr. Melton's own family was not so
much pleased. Matilda herself wag good
enough; but her mother and old Mrs.
Melton and her daughter shook, their
heads and hoped that poor, dear Horace
wouldn't find his niothcr-in-law too much
for him.
Sho was known as a woman of deter
mined mind, who had ruled her husband
and children, and was inclined to help
manage tho affairs of her acquaintances
In general; and it was not probable that
sho would make an exception in favor of
her son-in-law.
And lloraco was so easy and good
natured, his mother said, with a si"h,
that there was little hope of his opposing
"that woman's'' influeuce in his own
household.
Despite these warnings, Horace, like
a true lover, resolved to take his Matilda
for better or for worse, and at once com
menced preparations for his marriugc.
Tho young couple were to live" in a
house recently left him by an uncle a
pleasant, roomy mausion.set a littlo back
from the main street, in the niids: of an
ornamental garden.
Tho "furniture and effects" had been
bequeathed to Horace's mother and sis
ters, and had already been removed ull
save ono article, the presence of which
caused.the young man some embarrassed
consideration. -
The late Mr. Melton.had been, accord
ing to the estimation of the neighbors, a
rather eccentric old irentleman, who had
Interested himself iii" literary and scien
tific pursuits, and in inventing and man
ufacturing various mechanical contriv
ances, more ingenious than useful.
Among these was an artificial human
skeleton wrought in wood, everv bone
being a perfect imitation, and the"joints
Ingeniously set on springs, so that when
worked by invisible wires, the ghastly
object would go through a few convul
sive motions.
This grim work of art, upon which the
old gentleman had greatly prided him
self, ho had bequeathed to his voua"
friend, Marrowby, a medical student, to
be claimed by him so soon as he should
have won his diploma, and had an ottico
ia which to establish it.
And meanwhile, by his own special
direction to his nephew, it remained
upon its pedestal in a small closet be
longing to the old gcutleiuun'e work
room, where its presence, when tho
nephew came to prepare the house for
his bride, caused him some embarrassed
consideration. It would certainly, he
thought, not prove a pleasing subject for
the contemplation of his Matilda; nei
ther was he suro but that (die might feel
nervous and annoyed at tho knowledge
of such a ghastly object in the house.
So ho finally concluded to say nothing
abont it, but to lock the closet; and. as
an additional security against discovery,
to put a nail or two in the door.
For the first week or two of their mar
riage the young couple were of course
very happy, desiring nothing beyond
their own home am each other's society.
Matilda, w ho had been all her life rule'd
by her mother, was delighted with hav
ing her own way in her own home, which
it was her chief enjoyment to make at
tractive for her husband. Such delicious
littlo suppers as sho prepared for him;
such blissful evenings as they two had
spent together with books aud music,
and pleasant chat; and above all, the
delightful feeling of indenendence in
their own house and homo.
But alas, for human happiness! Scarce
threo weeks had they enjoyed this bliss
ful sunshine, wheu a cloud suddenly
overshadowed it.
This cloud came in tho shape of a hack,
which ono evening deposited at their
door a plethoric trunk, covered with
canvas, and a thin lady done up in furs.
The latter, without permitting the
servant to announce her, walked into
the parlor, wheie Horace and Matilda,
his arm around her waist and her head
ou his shoulder, were lookiup7 over the
new magazines, and enjoying the funny
political caricatures.
"Mamma!" exclaimed Matilda, start
ing up und coining forward wilb a by no
ini03 rapturous expression of surprise.
"Yes, my dear, it is ; und I hope you
are not sorry to see me."
"Delighted, lam sura," said Mr. Wal
ton, with a great effort to look what he
prof cased r
Mrs. Palfrey seated herself in her son-in-law's
own special arm chair, and said,
amiably:
"Bcally, I missed you so much, Matil
da, and was so anxious, lloraco, to see
how you two were getting along, that I
just tossed a few things together and
rim down to spend a day or two with'
you. You certainly do look very com
fortable." with a criticising glance
around the tasteful little sitting-room.
Then she ran on and talked for nn
hour, until something was said about
tea, when sho remarked that she h&d
lately taken a' fancy to chocolate and
Kussian caviare at that meal.
Jane was accordingly dispatched to
procure these delicacies; and meanwhile.
Mrs. Palfrey favored her daughter and
son-in law with suggestions lor a more
"harmonious" arrangement of the sitting
room furniture, together with criticisms
on tho pattern of tho carpet and wall
paper. "Never mind, dear," said Mr. Melton,
soothingly, when at last his mother-in-law
had been persuaded to retire for a
good night's rest after her rido. "Let
us humor her for the day or twothatshe
will remain, and then we can have our
own way again."
Hut Mrs. Palfrey gave no indication
of an intention of speedily ending her
visit. On the contrary, she made arrange
ments for being comfortable in her own
room, and then set about investigating
into the household and domestic affairs,
snd reforming and regulating things ac
cording to her own notions.
This involved a system of cookery
comprising her own favorite dishes,
while Mr. Melton's were condemned as
cither unwholesome or extravagant; and
also a constant shifting about of furni
ture ; so that, as her son-in law observed,
when he came home of an evening, he
never knew where to look for anything.
To add to his uneasiness, Mrs. Palfrey
began to give hints of letting her own
houso, and in future dividing her time
between her two dear, married daugh
ters, to whoso inexperience and helpless
ness sho could bo of so much use, and
such a comfort in case of sickness they
having no family to look after them.
If the old lady should choose to carry
out this plan what could they dot Air.
Melton and Matilda asked each other.
Uf course mamma could not be turned
out of their house; and yet and Mrs.
Melton turned away to hide her tears,
whilst her husband walked up and down
the floor, striving, for his wife's sake, to
repress his vexation.
Had it depended upon himself he
would have had small scruples; but how
could he hurt Matilda's feelings by being
what she would consider rude or unkind
to hor mother i
Mrs. Palfrey had not been three days
in the house when she made an explor
ing tour throughout every nook and
corner, and among other things remarked
the locked closet. j
"What have you stored away there?'
she inquired of her daughter.
"I don.t know. Some old lumber, I
suppose. Horace merely said he prefer
red it to remain locked, as we had no
special use for it."
"But where is the key! Of course you
have looked into it?"
"No ; I have not cared about it. I be
lieve Horace has the key."
"You don't mean to say, Matilda, that
you allow your husband to lock up apart
ments in your house and keep the keys
himself, without ever letting you know
what he has shut up in them? Why,
Bluebeard himself couldn't do a moro
outrageous thing!"
"It is only a iii tie closet, mamma, and
if there had been anything particular in
it, he would havo told me."
"Humph! littlo you know about hus
bands and their ways! Now, I will
wager that Horace has his uncle's choice
o'd wines and spirits stored in that
closet, to which he helps himself on tho
sly."
But when, that evening, Mrs. Palfrey
hinted an inquiry to her son-in-law in
regard to the late Mr. Melton's stock of
wines, he assured her that his uncle had
left none. He had never stored wines,
but bought them as they were needed.
This only added to Mrs. Palfrey's
curiosity, and a day or two after she
assailed him again.
"I have been assisting Matilda in ar
ranging the store room more conven
iently. I think that ground-floor rather
damp, and that it needs a good airing
and some quick-lime. 1 noticed a closet
in one corner which omits a musty and
unwholesomo smell. It ought to be
opened and thoroughly ventilated.
There is nothing so dangerous in a
house as dump.'"
"So my uucle thought," replied Mr.
Melton, composedly, "aud ho was.there
forc, particular in the building and fin
ishing of the ground floor and cellars.
Tho closet is perfectly dry perhaps, in
deed, the dryest spot in the house.
There is no necessity for airing it, I as
suro you."
Thenceforth, Mrs. Palfrey daily pon
dered upon tho locked closet door.
Why should it be kept fastened, and
tho key in Mr. Melton's possession, un
less it contained something which he
particularly desired to keep secret?
"Perhaps it is family papers," sho
thought. "I always fancied there must
bo some mystery about the Meltons
some of them have been so queer. May
be there's insanity in tho family; or they
got their money in some odd way which
they wouldn't iike to have known. For
Matilda's sake I ought to look over those
papers."
So with this wish strong in her miud,
Mrs. Palfrey one day, wheu her daughter
was out, collected all the keys of the
house, and repairing to the ground floor
tried them ou the lock of the mysterious
closet.
liy good fortune one of them fitted.
She heard tho bolt shoot back, and then,
attempting to open the door, she dis
covered Hhnt it was secured, by a couple
of nails.
Here was a heightening of the mystery.
Not satisfied with locking the, closet, ho
had actually nailed it up! There must
bo something there of more importance
than old letters and papers something
which her son-in-law was particularly
anxious to conceal, and which he bad
never hinted of even to his wife.
Who knew but that something dread
ful had been done in that houso by that
strange old man, who had lived alone
and led such a secluded sort of a lifo ?
And Mrs. Pulfrey firmly made up her
mind to discover tho whole mystery be
fore she was many days older. There
should be no secrets in her daughter's
house kept from her knowledge; and as
it was, the whole thing was a wrong and
nn insult to Matilda and herself.
So on Sunday evening Mrs. Palfrey
complained of a "dreadful headache, '
which would prevent her accompanying
Mr. and Mrs. Melton to evening service.
She would bo better for being left
alone an hour or two.
And when they were gone, sho gave
Jane permission to go out if sho liked,
as sho herself intended to remain at
home. And having secretly watched her
off in company with a nice-looking
young man, Mrs. Palfrey took a lamp
and a hummer, and therewith repaired
to the store-room on the ground floor.
With some difficulty she extracted tho
nails, and then inserting the key, again
heard the bolt shoot back.
The sound sent a triumphant thrill
through her veins.
She was about to seo for herself what
was tho mystery which her son-in-law
had been so careful to hide from herself
and his wife!
Holding the lamp abovo her head,
Mrs. Palfrey slowly opened the door.
Merciful heavens! What was that
grim aud ghastly figure which, grin
ning in her face, slowly stretched forth
its skeleton fingers to embrace her?
With ono fearful shriek she started
back, letting the lamp fall from her
hand, and the next moment was lying
senseless upon the floor in profound
darkness.
"I suppose she has gone to bed," said
Matilda, when, returning from church,
they found the parlor deserted and tho
gas turned down. "I will go up and
seo how she is feeling."
In a few moments sho returned.
"Mamma is nowhere up stairs, and
neither sho nor Jane are in the kitchen.
Where can they have gone to?''
At this moment a strange, sepulchral
sound was heard to issue from beneath
the floor a sort of weak but shrill
scream.
"Good gracious! What can that be?"
exclaimed .Matilda, turning pale.
Mr. Melton's eyes suddenly lighted.
An expression, half-amused and half
alarmed, crossed hiu face.
"I think your mother must have gone
to tho storo room for something, and
perhaps soino littlo accident occurred
No ! stay here, dear, while I go and
see."
She followed him to the head of tho
stairs, but obeyed his request to come
no further.
In a moment or two ho emerged, sup
porting the limp form of his mother-in-iaw,
wifu white face and wild eyes, to
whom, after placing her on a sola, they
proceeded to administer restoratives.
"Dear mamma!" said Matilda, anx
iously, "what has happened? What has
frightened or hurt youf"
"The the horrid skeleton I" gasped
Mrs. Palfrey, hysterically, and turning a
look of concentrated indignation upon
her son-in-law.
"Skeleton!" repeated Matilda. "Oh,
Horace, she must be out of her mind !"
"Out of my mind !" snorted Mrs. Pal
frey, trembling with angor and nervous
ness. "How dare you say that, Matilda?
If I were not possessed of more than or
dinary sense, I should havo been
frightened to death at sight of that
that dreadful object!"
And hero sho commenced to gasp and
tap her heels convulsively ou tho sofa.
"I am very sorry," Mr. Melton said,
with difficulty repressing the smile that
quivered about the corners of his mouth.
"The skeleton ahem! is only an in
genious aud harmless contrivance of my
late uncle's, with which he amused his
leisure hours. There is not tho slightest
cause for being frightened."
Then he added, in a 'whisper, to his
wife:
"It is not a real skeleton, dear; only
an imitation in wood ; a sort of scientific
work of art, which it would amuso you
to see. But you may us well not explain
this to your mother, just now."
Next day. Mrs. Palfrey, havingentire
ly recovered from her unwonted nervous
attack, uppeared in a mood of intense,
suppressed indignation against her son-in-law.
As regarded her own part, she ex
plained that, fancying her headache
to have been caused by tho mephitic air
of the locked closet penetrating through
tho floor of the room, sho had gone clown
to open tho closet and let it out. never
dreaming of such an outrageous thing as
the skeleton of n dead man being kept
in a respectable family dwelling-house.
And if that disgusting and ghastly ob
ject was still to remain there, sho would
no longer stay beneath that roof ;and she
strongly advised Matilda to leave also.
No man had a right to keep unburicd
dead people in the house with his fam
ily. Mr. Melfon explained that he had
promised his undo to allow the skeleton
to remain us he hud left it until Doctor
Marrowby should claim aud take it
away.
In consequence of which information
his mother-in-law at ouce packed up her
trunk, and thut eveuiug departed, warn
ing tLieiu of her firm determination never
to remain another night beneath the
same roof with a dead man's unburied
bones.
And when she had gout, Mr. Melton
and his wife (who had no objection to a
wooden skeleton in tho house) had a
smiling talk to themselves; and though
Matilda said, "Poor mnmmat it was too
bad that she should have had such a
fright," she -looked very happy as she
set about rearranging her houso to suit
herself.
Somehow, Doctor Marrowby has never
called for his skeleton, and such being
the case, Mrs. .Palfrey only pays an occa
sional day's visit to her daughter and
son-in-law, making her headquarters at
a boarding-house in the town, kept by
one of her friends. Sutan Archtr Weiss.
Tho Perfumery Business.
A writer in an exchange says that
there are many laboratories in the
United States which produce excellent
perfumery, but the business is relatively
new in this country when compared
with the establishments of the sort on
the Kiviera, where tho inhabitants for
tho most part live upon the products
which that blessod climate afford them
in sweet smelling flowers and shrubs.
I was reading only tho other day some
thing about the perfumery manufac
tories of Nice and Cannes, and a friend,
who has a happy faculty of collecting
useful knowledge, has since given me
tho latest statistics of one great estab
lishment in tho latter city which are
worth relating, if only to show the
enormous scale on which operations are
conducted. In this factory are annually
used only think of it! no fewer than
154,000 pounds of orangejblossoms, 132,
000 pounds of acacia blossoms, 154,000
pounds of rose leaves, 35,200 pounds of
lassamine blossoms, 82,900 pounds of
violets, 8,800 pounds of tube roses and a
relatively large amount of Spanish lilacs,
rosemary, mint, lime and lemon blos
soms, thyme and number of other plants
and leaves and flowers, Nice and
Cannes together raise yearly 00,000
Eounds of violets, which thrive there
etter, perhaps, than in other parts of
the world, to say nothing of. 440,000
of orange blossoms which Nice alone
produces, and which are moro than
doubled in quantity by tho neighboring
villages. Acacia blossoms are the spe
cialty of Cannes whero 38,500 pounds
are obtained yearly, and where jasmine,
tuberoses and roses also flourish. The
totol annual production of perfumery
in the Kiviera towns is said to bo 313,
000 pounds of pomades and sweet
scented oils.
The area of the land devoted to the
growth of trees and plants in question
may be imagined when it is considered
that to obtain one ton of blossoms it is
necessary to strip 30,01)0 jasmine plants,
500 rose bushes, 100 orange trees. 800
geranium and 70,000 tube roses of their
wealth of bloom. Violets need most
space, and next orange trees, roses und
jasmine require one-third less space than
the orange trees, and tube roses one-fifth
less. From these various perfumes in
combination are made pomade, salve,
hair oil, toilet water, sachet powder, in
cense, balsam, and essences.
The name of the perfumes which nre
offered for sale is legion, although the
best known and most agreeable of them
all is cau de cologne. Its preparation is
naturally a secret, pieservcd with the
greatest strictness. Tho name Farina,
connected with this perfume, is known
throughout the entire civilized world,
and if one wishes to get an idea of the
real benefit which an article is supposed
to derive from a single name, it is only
necessary, as many of my readers know,
to visit the "holy" city of Cologne,
wander about in tho city of the Tulichs
Platz, and study the firm names on the
signs. All the Farinas in the world
seem to be here assembled, and every
one of them manufactures cau de cologne.
A New Fashion Among Birds,
That birds are imitative creatures has
long been known. Many species will
simulate the notes and calls of others
with such accuracy as to defy detection,
while somo will imitate tho noiso mado
by animals, or even the human voice.
Hitherto, however, tho imitations havo
been supposed to bo purely vocal, each
species retaining its own manners, flight
and walk, regardless of thoso of its fel
lows. Many of these are distinctive and
peculiar enough, none more so than tho
flights of the tumbler pigeon. No natu
ralist has, so far as wo are aware, hith
erto ventured to grapple with the prob
lem of why this kiud of pigeon should
have taken to throw somersets in tho air.
Other varieties of pigeons lAive appar
ently equally failed in understanding
the matter. They may often bo ob
served watching the performance with
an attention aud gravity savoring of
reprobation, but they are never seen to
attempt an imitation of it. It appears,
however, that other birds are taking the
matter in hand, aud there is a prospect,
if the fashion spreads, that tumbling
may in time become generally populur
among tho winged race, and that even
the sparrow, us he descends from the
house-top to tho road, may deem it
necessary to throw himself head over
heels half a dozen times. The jackdaw
has been tho first bird to follow tho fash
ion set by tho tumblers. A correspond
ent of tho Field has seen a pair of these
birds near Shcrborno following some
tumbler pigeons and imitatiug their
flight so accurately that at a short distance
they might be mistaken for them. The
news will be most welcome to the fair
sex, who have hitherto been supposed to
stand alone in creation in their willing
ness to make themselves uncomfortable
or ridiculous scmply because others set
tho fashion. Ijjiidon Standard,
The value of tho horses and mules of
the United States is placed at if 1,014, -(lill.OUO,
mules being worth 101,4114,000
of the aggregate amount.
Four millions of false teeth are manu
factured ia this country every year.
STRICKEN BY CATALEPSY.
THE STRAIT OS DISEASE THAT
NEARLY RESEMBLES DEATH.
Hi ( aiiei, It fOffrct find Its Treat
ment According- to I. meet l;jpe.
rlcnco iitereKtlng- Oetnilft.
The following is taken from a pnper
by Dr. J. Martin Kershaw:
By catalepsy we mean a condition in
which there Is more or less completo loss
oT consciousness and voluntary motion
and a rigid state of tho muscles of the
body, which latter is preserved for a
greater or less length of time, in exactly
tho position assumed at tho onset of the
altaek. If the subject w in the midst of
a speech, and his right arm raised to give
force to arguments, it will remain in the
upraised position for a length of time
and then slowly and almost impercepti
bly fall to his side. During this time
the patient is quite unconscious and the
body tirmly rigid. An old professor oc
casionally had cataleptic seizures, during
which he would suddenly cease talking,
retain the position held at tho time ol
the attack, and after a few moments go
on with his lecture, totally unaware of
thil (fact that a slip of his conscious life
had been snatched from him. His lec
ture was always resumed at exactly the
point at which he had left off.
The appearance of a subject of cata
lepsy is almost precisely like that of
death. The skin is very pale, and gen
erally of a waxen hue; the surface of the
body is cold, generally from two to four
degrees below the normal temperature of
the body; the heart's sounds are scarcely
audiolc, while tho fact that the patient
breathes can only be discovered by the
closest observation. In cases of true
hysteria and ecstasy the breathing is very
perceptible. If a leg bo placed up
abovo tho body it will remain there an
indefinite length of time; if an arm be
extended at right angles from the body
it will retain its position for several mo
ments, and perhaps for an hour or two.
This particular condition is peculiar to
catalepsy.
An old-timo physician relates an in
stance where the patient became cata
leptic just as sho was putting a cup of
tea to her mouth. It is not reported
that any mishap occurred, and sho fin
ished tho beverage at the conclusion of
the attack. A subject of the complaint
in Bellevuo hospital, New York, re
mained upon his back for a considerable
time (the limbs were placed in position
by attendants), with both arms and one
leg raised high in tho air. He was un
conscious during tho entire time.
I had a young married lady under my
professional care somo time ago, whoso
caso at the beginning opened up in a
comical way. She hud been run down
and was nervous for some time, and one
dark, stormy night, about bedtime, her
whole body suddenly became fixed and
rigid. Her husband, in his fright, raised
her right arm directly in front of her
body in such a way that the fixod arm
and fingers pointed directly at him. The
white, ghostly face and upraised ami of
justice were too much for him. In a few
seconds of time he recalled tho sins of
his youth, and with one terrified look he
fled from the house and oppeared at my
office with his eyes as large as young
sugar bowls and his hair standing up all
over his head like a new feather duster.
Under appropriate treatment the lady
recovered.
One of the principal causes of this
difficulty is an inherited nervous tem
perament, which predisposes oue to
nervous disease. Most subjects havo
relatives that are afflicted with hysteria,
epilepsy or insanity. . Most of the cases
met with are women. Fright, anger and
grief are ofteu exciting causes. AY hen
Co vent Garden theatre last burned down
a young girl in St. Mary's hospital awak-.
ened suddenly, and saw tho fire. Sho
was greatly excited all night, and tho
next morning she had a cataleptic fit.
In olden time it Is altogether probablo
that subjects of catalepsy were but too
frequently buried alive. A mistake of
that kind could scarcely happen now;
but the application of tho mirror to the
mouth for tho purpose of detecting
moisture, the placing of the hot iron to
the flesh to determine whether tho circu
lation continues these are means which
should always be employed in doubtful
cases. I could point you to a lady now
in our midst who was carried to tho
cemetery while under the influence of
thisdiscaso,and only recovered conscious
ness as sho was being lowered into tho
grave. The lust test mentioned would
certainly have determined her truo con
dition. In the Lutheran cathedral at
Madgeburg there is a monument erected
to the memory of the Frau von Asseburg.
Sho is represented as a maturo woman,
kneeling in front of a block of stone,
and by her side is her husband. Stretch
ing outward from her side is a goodly line
of daughters, and from tho sido of
her husband an equal lino of sons. The
inscription relates how this noblo lady
was, after her marriage, taken sick, and,
under the supposition that sho was dead
tho body was pluced in tho family vault.
Fortunately tho vault was left unlocked,
and regaining consciousness in tho
night she returned homo to her husband,
and in time bore all this fair family after
her strange experience in the tomb.
There is still a custom kept up in somo
parts of Germany of placing a bell above
the public receptacles for the dead, and
fasteuing tho "hand of the corpse to tho
robe, so that it may be rung by the
chanco victim of burial before death.
Tho disease is undoubtedly feigned,
too, at times, but can be detected. If a
weight be attached to the upraised leg
of a truo cataleptic, tho limbs will
gradually be drawn down to the level of
the body. A case suspected of feiguiug
had a weight l ttached to tho leg and
thinking ho must hold it up, ho ex tried
nil his strength to keep the leg from be
ing pulled down. The tesi was ex
plained to him, when he confessed the
SONG.
It Is the longest day;
By the summer bay,
In sweet air and light,
We linger until night,
Which but sleeps a little while
'Twixt the sunset and dawn's smile.
Yet now 'tis sad to think and see
Every day must shorter be,
Every month an hour less bright
Until midwintor white.
But in the dark nights lengthening drear,
Christmas waits us with good cheer,
And ploasant book In fireside nook,
And faces round us dear. .
It is the shortest day;
Winter's sky is gray,
The bleak winds blow,
The world is white with snow,
As by the hearth-nook warm,
We hear the wide, wild storm:
But for a spa-o each month that o'er
Us rolls shall longer grow
By an hour or so;
And it is pleasant through the frore
Weather, still to look before
To coming days, when through the hare
Lifting o'er blue sunny beys,
Spring will reach our shore.
Cassell's Family Magazint
IIUM0U OF THE DAY.
Well handled A pump.
Full of pointers Tho porcupine.
An irritable nation Vaccination.
High time That kept by a town
clock.
Cranberries will cure dyspepsia. That's
sour opinion. Si. I'aul Herald.
A country seat that always rents The
barb-wire fencj. Boston Bulletin.
Making crazy quilts is the proper
work for bedlamites. Chicago Sun.
A cyclone is like a waiter. It carries
everything before it. Carl Pretzel.
Mosquitoes arc free from ono vice at
least. They can't stand smoking.
Detroit Free Press.
If some men had to "cat their words,"
their health would bo ruined forever.
Merchant- Traveler.
Some ono says: ".Man is born to rule
the world." Yes, but he sometimes gets
married. Boston Pott.
Japanese fans sell from three cents up
lo $300. The former aro tho best for
use. It is easier to "raise the wind" at
that price. Aorristoun Herald.
Cucumbers sliced are said to remove
freckles. This is not wonderful. They
have been known to "remove" whole
families. Marathon Independent.
"I am coming, oh, my darling!" sings
a sweet Western poetess. Oh, that's all
right; only you needn't let all the other
fellows know it. Philadelphia tCall.
The fool gives pursuit with a running jump
When the wind skips away with his ttle.
But the wise man stands ou the curb and
grins
Till his own is returned with a smile.
Chicago Ledger.
"Tho large cow," says an agricultural
contemporary, "is going to be tho com
ing cow." If that is the case wo will
gracefully retire over the fence when we
see one. Hitings.
"Ho called mo an ass," exclaimed an
overdressed, excited dude. "Well, you
ain't one," soothingly replied a kindly
eop; "you are only a clothes horse."
Merchant-Traveler.
A coincidence "All alono, my dear
child. I'm afraid that husband of yours
neglects you terriMy. lie's always at
the club when I call." ' "Yes, mamma;
but he's at home at other times." Lon
don Fan.
A recent writer asserts that the sexes
re gradually, but surely, drifting apart.
This statement was made, however, be
fore the advent of the season when frozen
lacteal nourishment congeals tho sexes in
t powerful bond of sympathy and union.
Boston Timet.
A man claiming to be a scientist wants
lomo one to bore tho csrth to prevent its
nurstiug. We have a friend who wo
think would be able to do it. Up to
this time he has devoted all his boring
energies to us, and we would bo glad to
ice him try it on tho rest of the earth.
Uoston Post.
He stood outaide the garden gate
And whistled in a minor key;
She sat at her boudoir window and
I 'aught on to his melody;
A Bristol bulldog sat between,
Wagging his bullet head;
"Ah, there!" the lover whisjieitid low;
"Stay there!" the maiden said.
Boston Times.
What the Newspaper Docs.
Bev. John lihey Thompson, of New
York, says: The crowning marvel of our
modern civilization is tho print
ing press. It is impossiblo to over
jstimato its vast power. It prop
igates and diffuses information.
It trivei wings to knowledgo, so that on
i breath of morning it flies everywhere
to bless aud elevate. I stand in growing
wonder in tho presence, of tho printing
press. It lays its hands upon tho tele
jraph and speedily gathers news from
all parts of tho world, and acute editors
nd ubiquitous reporters and rapid com
positors and flying steam presses commit
lo paper a faithful photograph of what
is going on in the world. And yonder
stands tho irou horse, with breath of
flume and ribs of steel, ready to go to re
mote portious of the country, dropping
packages of the daily papers on the way.
Ye, it is a mighty engino for good and
a inightv engine, too, for evil. Like all
Ihe blessings of this trial-life of ours, it
is not uu unmixed blessing.
Afchunistaii's population is about
equal to that of the Statu of New York,
while ihe extent of its territory. 225,000
.Uai(! miles, is considerably less than
that of Texas, which contains 237,604
square tail;