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Tho Chase eslato in England Is reputed
to bo worth f 300,000,000, and there arc
bout 800 persons in tbis country who
claim to bo heirs to It. England will
have to mortgago Home of her furniture
If eho pays nil tlicso demands in cash.
Will somo ono write a history ol
China? President Angoll considers this
n fair field for tho future historian. He
will havo to t,trugglo with the lists of the
Han, tho llow-Chow, and tho Tae-Tsing
dynasty, but that is nothing to an enthu
siastic spirit such us is needed to con
struct any living picturo of tho past.
A prize of if.1), 000 was offered somo
time ago by Mr. Lotlllard, of New York,
for tho discovery of tho key of the an
cient Maya alphabet. Tho offer is still
standing. Mr. I.e Plongeon, who has
recently returned from a twelve years,
study of tho ruins and monuments in
Yucatan, is thus far tho strongest com
petitor for tho award.
According to the New York Commer
cial Knqiiirer, a company of fruit grow
ers has been formed in California, with
a capital of f 239,000, to carry on tho
business of shipping lruit to tho eastern
markets. They expect to run fruit trains
daily from Sacramonto, mado up of cars
for tho principal points of distribution
In tho Eastorn and .Middle States, and
by putting them through on passenger
train timo to supply at tho motropolis in
good condition and at reasonable prices
tho vast quantity of fruit that now goes
to waste in California for lack of some
such system for utilization.
A traveler cnterod a town in south
western Kontucky ou "court day," whon
tho streets were full of people from tho
country ' and the stores wero crowded
with customers. There wus quito a bri
gado of horso traders on hand, and from
the well-to do farmer, with his prancing
roan, down to tho dilapidated darkey,
with his rickety old mule, that looked
like a relic from Noah's ark, all had their
say and their trado, and imagined that
they had tho best of it. That is ono of
the mysteries of tho business. One hun
. drcd men cau make fifty trades, and
every man of them mako inonoy by it. It
reminds mo of a group of boys I onco
knew who boasted that they could moot
together every Sunday and mako two or
three dollars apiece trading jackets."
Crater lako is thus describod in a po
titiou I lint is being numerously signed in
Oregon to make a national reservation
of the wonder. Tho surface of the lako
is 0,300 feet above sea level, and it is
about eight miles long and six miles
wide. It contains a circular island COO
feet high, on which is found an extinct
crater which is ninety feet deep and 475
feet in diameter. Iu another portion of
tho lako is fouud a conical shaped rock
which is perpendicular, and rises to an
altitude of 2,2'JO feet above the water's
surface. Other rocks of remarkable
form and elevation tower high above tho
lake. The lako walls are nearly perpen
dicular, and vary in altitude from 1,000
to 2,000 feet.
The microphone an electric stretho
scopo whose sensitiveness to the faintest
sounds as making "tho walk of a ily
seem liko the tramp of an elephant" is
likely to become of great use in medical
diagnosis. In the Atlanta Medical and
Surgical Journal, Dr. Eve describes an
interesting series of experiments mado
by him with the instrument. Ho was
ab'o to detect tho nature of obscuro
fractures by the character of tho sounds
conducted through tho instrument, and
could dillerentiato aneurisms from tu
mors by the sound of pulsation. Intra
cranial and muscular sounds were made
out with great clearness, and in diagno
tis for stone the instrument worked with
mathematical accuracy. The doctor
suggests that an audiphono constructed
on the principle of tho microphone
would prove inestimable to pcoplo of
impaired hearing.
Many cases of heroism occurred in tho
city of- Saragossa, Spain, during the re
cent cholera epidemic. Every citizen
gave money, food or labor to tho suffer
ing. A poor washerwoman, bringing
homo clothes to a ludy whom she found
in a state of collapse, in which it was
impossiblo to warn her, threw oft her
dress, jumped, into bed, took the dying
woman iuto her arms, and chafed the
clammy limbs until circulation was re
stored. When tho disease had spent it
self tho Spanish government offered re
wards to tho principal officials, who
promptly refused them. It then be
stowed the grand cross of the Order of
Beneficence on the entire city. This
cross is given ouly to a few individuals,
who have risked their lives for the help
of others; there is no order more highly
vuVfieti in Spain. Never before has it
Len conferred on an entire town.
A noble instanco of courage and pres
ence of mind is recorded in a New Zeal
and paper. A child, which was on the
track of a down-grado train, was rescued
when tho engine was within two yards
of it, by the engineer leaping down and
seizing it. He was himself thrown off
without severo injury by tho cowcatcher.
An English paper frankly says: "Hail
tho BfTair taken placo in England, where
engines are not provided with cowcatch
ers, tho driver would have paid the pen
alty for his bravery with his lifo."
Tho Boston Record gives tho following
good illustration of tho confusion which
the blending of old and new fashions iu
some of our inodorn hrusos produces in
the minds of plain people. "A visitor
at a fashionable "West End mansion, tho
other day, was from the country, and
had not bcon in lioslon for several years.
During this period his host had built a
spick an spnn now house on tho site of
his bid one. After going over the gayly
decorated establishment, surveying tho
sumptuous drawing rooms and the es
thetic attics, the guest came down to the
lower floor, whero the rooms, instead of
having large plato glass windows like
those above, had exceedingly small
panes, in imitation of tho fashions of a
century or more ago. The innocent
rural visitor naturally supposed that here
was a veritable vestige of tho past.
"Well, John,' said ho, 'I'm real glad
you've kept part of the old house, though
it's an awful small part.'"
The wild beast pest but slowly disap
pears in British India. There is, how
ever, a slight decrease in tho loss of life
from the bites of wild aiimata and ven
omous snakei. The numbers are 23,003
for 1883 and 52,423 for 1881. Tho num
bers representing those due titmko
bites are 20,007 and 19,020 in tho two
years respectively. The reported loss of
cattle amounted to 41), 072, against 47,778
in the previous year. Of these, 47,044
are said to have been caused by wild
animals and 1,728 by snakes. Tigers
and leopards are shown to havo been
about equally destructive, having killed
19,680 and 10,609 head of cattle respec
tively. . In the number of wild animals
destroyed there was a satisfactory in
crease from 19,800 in tho previous year
to 22,775. Tho destruction of poisonous
snakes is enormous, but the numbers
have declined from 412,782 to 380,081.
Wherever tho system of rewards havo
been pursued the figures havo shown n
satisfactory increase, although it natur
ally happens that here and thero a too
adventurous snake killer pays for his
daring with his life.
Noses anil Ears.
With the astrologers a large noso was
always a sign of much character of some
kind, but tbat was determined by other
characteristic marks. A Human nose
was a sign of a courageous temper and a
disposition to faco and overcome diffi
culties, while a more strongly aquiline
noso was an indication of rapacity; the
idea being evidently borrowed from the
similarity of this description of beak to
that of the eagle, tho most rapacious of
birds. The snub nose showed little
character but much temper, while the
Greek nose, even, straight and regular,
was a sign of the temperament of tho
owner. Largo nostrils indicated good
lung's, health and long life, while swell
ing nostrils showed a warlike spirit and
fire. A very sharp nose was considered
an indication of a busybody, while a
bluntnessat the end of this member was
an outward sign of the possessor's men
tal lack of acutcness. Large ears wero
always bad, tho similarity between their
owner and the donkey being supposed
to extend further than the cars, while
small cars were always good. Tho lobo
of tho car passing insensibly into tho
cheek was a sure sign of a th ef and liar,
while an exceedingly sharp division be
tween the two indicated honesty and
candor. Thick ears meant thick brains,
while thin, delicate curs declared their
possessor to be a man of rotined intelli
gence. Two Storle or Grant.
After General Grant had appointed
Judge Taft secretary of war, he invited
a number of leading Republican Senators
to dine with him at the White House,
that they might becomo personally ac
quainted, lie forgot, however, to invite
Judge Taft, who consequently was not
present so those invited to meet him
did not have the pleasure of seeing
him.
On another occasion, when Congress
was investigating tho Washington real
estate pool, Geueral Grant sent one of
his sous to the Capitol to invite infor
mally a dozen Republican Senators to dino
at the White House for a conference.
The young Grant mistook that stanch
Democrat, Senator Eli Stulsbury, for
Senator Morrill, of Vermont, and so in
vited the Dclawarian. His presence
acted like an extinguisher ou all politi
cal talk, and he, after having wondered
all through the dinner why he was in
vited, hurriedly took hia leave wheu the
cigars were introduced. Ben : l'trley
Poore.
Liquid fuel is exciting much attention
in England. With a view to its use the
Russian Black JSea Navigation company
is building a large fleet of tank steamers
to import petroleum in bulk.
OS E AT A TIME.
One step at a time and that well placed,
We roach the grandest height;
One stroke at a time, earth's hidden stores
Will slowly come to light;
One aoed at a time, and the forest grows;
One drop nt a time, and the river flows
Into thowboundless sea.
One word at a timo, and tho greatest book
Is written and is read;
One stona at a timo and a palace rears
Aloft its stately head;
One blow at a timo, and the tree's cleft
through
And a city will stand where the forest grew
A few thort years before.
Ono foo at a time, and he subdued,
And the conflict will be won;
One grain at a time, and the sand of life
Will slowly all bo run;
Ono minute, another, tho hours fly;
Ono day at a time, and our lives speed by
Into eternity I
ain of
stored,
Another and more on them,
And as time rolls on your mind will shine
With many a garnered gem
.Of thought and wisdom. And time will toll,
"One thing at a time, and that done well,"
Is wisdom's proven rule.
Golden Days.
AN OLD CLOCK.
It was a bright, breezy June day, and
in the big kitchen of a comfortable-looking
house on tho outskirts of the little
town of Springvale a young girl in a
purple calico dress, with her round arms
bared to her shoulders, was churning.
She was tall, and rather slender, with
a quiet, thoughtful face and earnest dark
eyes; but there wns nothing melancholy
in cither her appearance or manner; and,
as sho raised and let fall the dasher, she
hummed the air of a hymn she and John
Henderson had sung together in church
tho ovening before. She was engaged
to John, and he took her to prayer
meeting every Thursday evening, as a
matter of course. It was only what was
expectad of every young man in Spring
vale under tho some circumstances.
John and Pruden:e had been "keeping
company," as tho Springvale people
termed it, for five years, and still thern
seemed no prospect of their marriage;
for John's farm was old and overworked ;
he had no money to spend in enriching
tho soil, and he had his sister Thirza to
support. But Prudence Dcnnison, being
of a gentle, pationt disposition, did not
grumble or tret over tho delay. She
loved John with all her heart, and
thought him well worth any number of
years ol waiting.
Her mother did not agree with her iu
this. Sho was anything but patient
ana amiauio about the matter. She
thought Prudence could do better than
marry John Henderson, and feltt sure
that there were many other young men
in Springvale who would come forward
as suitors if John would only take hun
self out of the way. She treatad her
daughter's lover very coldly in conse
quence, and mado no secret of her dis
like to him. .
She was sitting by the kitchen table,
paring apples for pies whilo Prudence
churned. She was an old woman with
rusty gray hair, sharp blue eyes, and a
thin,' stooping figure. Prudence did not
bear the slightest resemblance to her.
She was "her father over again," the
country people said.
Neither Prudeuce nor her mother ever
talked much, and this morning the si
lence of the kitchen was unbroken for a
long time, save by the loud ticking of
the old clock in the hall, and tho occa
sional snatches of a hymu which Pru
dence hummed softly to herself. -
Mrs. Dennison was the first to speak.
"I expect John Henderson's told you
bout that girl Miss Peck's took to
board?" sho said, as she" rose and went
into the pantry for some pie-pans.
"No," answered Prudence, pausing in
her churning; "he didn't nieution her.
Who is she?"
"Dear knows!" said Mrs. Dennison.
"Miss Peck's so close-mouth, nobody
kin pet a word out'n her. 'Pears to
nie Pi ask John 'bout her if I was you.
Miss Barker was tcilin' mo yestidday
(hat he'd been up to see her 'most every
day since she come. They say, she's
awful pretty, an' puts ou lots of stylo.
Seems strange John didn't say nothin'
bout her. Miss Barker was sayin' as
how it didn't look nono too well for
him to be ruuniu' up there so much.
It'd bo jes' like him to give you tho
go by, now he's took a new faucy. Men
aro mighty onstable. You can't place
no dependence on 'em and there's no de
nyin' you're gettiu' on. You can't
blame men for likin' what's young and
pretty;" and Mrs. Dennison drew a long
sigh as she walked slowly across the
room to the stove, and deposited a pie
in the capacious oven.
Prudeuce made no reply, ond her face
was hidden from her mother's gaze.
She was bending over the churn, adjust
ing the lid, which she had lifted a
moment before in older to see the con
dition of the butter.
Mis. Dennison did not speak again.
When the pies wero all in tho oven, sho
left Prudeuce to attend to them and
went up stairs. Prudence presently
heard her moving about in the room
overhead.
The girl continued to churn steadily,
but tho did not sing any more; and there
was a troubled look in her durk eyes
now.
A shadow fell across the kitchen floor,
and, raising her head, Prudence saw a
jauntily dressed inau standing in the
doorway, lie wore a gray tweed suit
and an enormous wutchchaiu, and the
haud with which he wus twistiug the
ends of a long, red mutt ache was adorned
with au enormou amethyst riug.
Good morning," he aaid, with a low
bow, and a smile which showed nil his
teeth. "I'm round Rafter old clocks,
and a woman living a'littlo way back of
cere told me you had one. Want to sell
it?"
"No," answered Prudence. "I would
not think for a moment of selling my
clock. It belonged to mv grand father."
Let mo see it." said tho stranircr.
"I'm interested in these old clocks. Tho
folks in tho large cities have taken a
notion to 'cm lately, an' I'm buying 'cm
up for a firm in Ilarrisburg."
'no entered tho kitchen as he snoke.
and Prudence, after a moment's heita-
tion, led tho way into the hall.
Ihe clock stood at one side of the
hall door. It was eight feet tall, with
enormous wooden ornaments on the top
resembling antlers, and a door half way
down tho case, that, when opened, dis
closed two great iron weights on chain
pulleys, and a big brass pendulum that
swung slowly back and forth with a
solemn "tick! tick I" that somo people,
alone in' the house, would have found
unbearable. But Prudence liked it. She
was at fond of the old clock as if it had
been a living thing, and had never
thought of herself as an inmate of John's
house without a meutal vision of the old
clock there, too.
"This would just suit a lady that's
been after me for one," said tho man,
looking admiringly at tho old-faBhioned
faco of tho clock, with its wreath of flow
ers encircling tho lower part, and big,
jolly-faced moon at the top. "Come,
now, you'd better sell it. I'm willing to
give you fifteen dollars for it."
Prudence shook her head.
"My grandfather left it to mo when ho
died," she said, "and I can't sell it."
The man argued the matter with her
for a little while, but finding her firm,
finally went away.
That afternoon, when dinner was over
and tho house put in order, Prudence
dressed herself in her best muslin gown
and went out to take a walk. Her
mother looked after her with some curi
osity as she closed tho gate behind her.
It was Prudence's enstom to sit down at
her sewing when tho work was done.
Sho seldom went out except to attend to
some necessary purchases, which wero
alwavs discussod openlv before she left.
Sho had never before gone out without
assigning some good reason for it.
"What I said 'bout that girl kinder
stirred her up, 1 expect," commented
Mrs. Dennison, who would have been
greatly amazed had she known that it
was for the purpose of seeing the girl in
question, and judging for herself of her
superior charms, that Prudence had gone
out.
Her walk was not in vain. As sho ap
proached Mrs. Peck's house, sho saw a
lovely vision on the front porch a tiny
creature with a quantity of golden hair
piled on top of her small head ; a deli
cate, pale face, and a graceful figure ar
rayed in somo soft, white material gath
ered in at the waist with a very broad
cardinal sash.
Prudence did not doubt for a moment
that this was Mrs. Peck's boarder, and
her heart sank like lead in her breast.
Was it any wonder that John admired
this dainty creature? He would have
been less than a man if he had not. And,
oh. how different sho looked from any
girl Prudence had ever seen before !
Poor Prudence! Her life had been a
very quiet, monotonous one, and she had
never known the necessity for pretty
dresses and gay ribbons. She had al
ways bougnt only what was absolutely
necessary in tho way of personal raiment, !
and her selections had invariably been i
made with a view to durability and econ-!
omy. She had never owned a sash in ;
her life, nor a pair of slippers, and she .
had worn her chestnut hair in the same j
quiet fashion for the past ten years.
She walked past the house very slow
ly, and kept straight down the street
until she reached the open country. Then ,
she sat down under a great tree in a se- j
eluded lane, and tried to think calmly
over this now phase in her quiet life a
phase sho had never dreamed would en
ter it.
It was almost dusk when she reached
home, and she passed through tho
kitchon without speaking to her mother,
who was setting the table for supper.
As with a settled purpose, she entered
the gloomy parlor on the right of tho
hall, and threw open the shutters. Thero
was an old-fashioned mirror between
the windows, and after a moment's j
hesitation she stepped before it and
looked in. She stood motionless a long j
time, her dark eyes strangely troubled, I
her slim, brown hands clasped before j
her.
With a heavy sigh she turned away at j
last, and looked about her. Everything '
was the worse for wear, in spite of caro- i
ful usage; for the parlor hud been fur
nished when Mrs. Dennison had come
to tho house a bride, forty years before.
On the mantel wero tho little china or- i
naments Prudence had received as birth- :
day and Christinas gifts when a child. i
"I'm getting on, as mother said. I
can see that now. I never thought of
it before. But a couple of new dresses,
bright ribbons thaso things count for
a good deal with a man, 1 suppose. He
don't know it, perhaps, but he is in
fluenced by them."
Thus murmuring to herself. Prudence
advanced to the windows to closo the
shutters, but paused ns she b.iw tho
stranger with the red mustache standing
outside.
"Came back to bee if you had changed
your mind about that clock," he suid,
with a familiar smile.
1'rudence went into the hall and un
bolted tho frout door.
"Wait here a moment," she said to
the man. "I went to speak to my
mother."
She went into the kitchen, her eyes
shining with a new light, her breath
com'iig fast.
"Would you care if I sold the ol.l
clock, mother?" she asked. "There's a
man here who will give me fifteen dol
lar for it."
"It's yours. Do as you please with
it," answered Mrs. Dennison, who had
never possessed a particle of sentiment.
"But look out that he don't grve you
counterfeit money."
Prudence gave a long sigh when she
saw the old clock carried out of the hall
and put into the stranger's wagon; and
that night, she woke up half a dozen
times with a senso of seme great loss
having fallen upon her. And. oh, how
she missed tho "tick-tick" of the solemn
old pendulum!
But the next morning, as soon a3 her
household duties wero done, she went to
the best store in the town and bought
the material for a white dress, and four
yards of broad sah ribbon of a rich car
dinal hue.
When John called Monday evening he
did not recognize tho figure that came
forward to meet him, and stared at it a
moment in mute astonishment.
"Is this really you, Prue?" he asked.
"Why, child, what have you been doing
to yourself? I don't know you in this
new gown."
"But don't you liko mo iu it, John?"
asked Prudence, with trembling lips.
John (hook his head.
"It may do for somo girls that little
one up at Mrs. Peck's, for instance," he
said; "but I think little brown wrens
better than butterflies, Pruo."
Prudence had been in a morbid, mis
erable frame of mind for four long days,
and was completely unstrung. As John
ceased speaking sho burst iuto tears, and
then threw herself down on the old
lounge, where sho had sobbed herself to
sleep many a timo during her childhood.
John's nrm9 were around her at once.
Do was startled and surprised by the sud
den outburst, so unlike his quiet, gentle
Pruo. and it was a long time before ho
could win her to tell him her whole story .
But he knew it all at last. Prue con
fessed even her jealousy of Mrs. Peck's
boarder.
"You're n little goose," said John,
when at length her tears were driod, and
she was smiling again. "Mrs. Peck's
boarder is my Cousin Sam's wife. They
had a quarrel, and she ran away from
him and camo here to Mrs. Peck, who is
her aunt. Sam wrote me all about it,
and I've been trying to patch tho matter
up. It's been hard work, she's such a
silly little thing so unlike you, Pruo
but I got her to promise tbat she will go
back home to-morrow. And so you sold
the old clock in order to buy a new dress
and a red sash? Oh, Pruel Prue!"
"I see now how foolish I was," said
Prudence, with a sigh. "But thought
"I'll hear what you thought when I
tell you the news," interrupted John.
"It's the strangest thing! It seems that
Thirza has been corresponding for sev
eral months with a gentleman sho met at
the camp-meeting last summer, and has
decided to marry him."
"Really!" gasped Prudence.
"Yes; the wedding is to be in August,
and I want you to come when sho goes.
Will you?"
When Prudence, after her quiet wed
ding, walked into tho house which sho
and John were to share together hence
forth, the first thing she saw was her
grandfather's old clock standing in the
hall, ticking as solemnly and regularly
as if it had never been moved.
She turned to her husband, glad tears
in her eyes, and a questioning look on
her face. He put his arms around her,
and drew her to his side.
"This is my wedding gilt to you,
Prue," he said. "I hunted up that man
with the red mustache the very day after
I learned you hud sold the clock, and
bought it back."
"You couldn't have given me any
thing I would have prized more, dear
John," said Pruo.
But she never knew that the wedding
gift had been the one extravagance of
j his prudent lifo. He had paid seventy
live dollars for it, but no one ever knew
it except himself nud the man with the
red mustache. Florence B. Uallowell,
A Decorated Goblet.
An interesting home-made method of
natural decoration consists simply in
taking a glass or goblet and placing
iu the interior a little common salt
water. Iu a day or so, a slight mist
will bo seen upon tho glass hourly this
will grow until in a very short time tho
glass will present a beautiful appear
ance, it being enlarged to twice its
thicknesniid bo covered with beautiful
salt. crystals, packed upon one another
exactor like some peculiar fungus or ani
mal growth. It is uecessury to place a
dish beneath the glass, as the crystals
will run over, if the term can bo used.
The glass can bo made additionally
beautiful by placing in the salt and
water somo common red ink. This will
be absorbed, as it wero, and tho white
surface covered with a rich red coat,
which, in turn, cau be covered by blue
or any color by the introduction of inks
or tints. No inure simple method of
producing inexpensive and beautiful or
naments can bo imagined, and by using
dilfercnt shapes of vases and shades, an
endless variety of beautiful forms can be
produced, pleasing alike to young and
old. Orient ijie, A metu an.
Crimson Tipped.
Sho lias Bunny, golden hair,
She is t)x:iiibitily fair,
And her eyes of bluo are gorgeous in their
lu.tre;
While her lips are ruby bright,
And her tooth ure pearly w hite;
And, in fact, she, as a uenuly, is u bustur.
lint, di spite Iu r rk.u inn bo rul e,
( And her f.isemtitinx uir,
And In' knowledK that ut il.eiu all meu are
j talking.
I Hliu in lifo no pleasure liudij,
I 'or the rooty autumn winds
Tint her lovely noso with ml whou bhe goes
valkiu;.
Uooilall't Sun.
SLUMBER-LAND.
Oh, baby mine, the night is here,
The niht that drifts us slowly near
The realms of Slumber-land.
Gently the waters ebb and flow,
Creeping through nodding lids of snow,
That border Slumber-land.
Mother's arms are the sails and boat,
And mother's voice the winds that float
Your bark to Slumber -land.
Beautiful dreams, instead of sands,
Fleeting visions people the strands
Of far-off Slumber-land.
Sloopy sands that creep into eyes
Ever so open, ever bo wise,
Wafted from Slumber-land.
Hushl I'm sure yon are almost there,
Brenthing the drowsy, mystic air
That floats through Slumber-land.
Now a kiss on the rosy face,
Just to show we have won the race
The race to Slumber-land.
Adelaide Samson.
IUM0R OF THE DAY.
Billiards must be an easy game, for it's
mostly done on cushions. Stockton Mae
erick. The average postage stamp generally
gets in place after it has been well licked.
Electric Light.
A canal horso should never be hard
up. He can always draw on the bank.
St. Paul Herald.
There is no hen so self-contained but
that sho is liable to lose her head.
Binghamlon liepublican.
"What is your idea of love, Mr- Sin
nick?" "Three meals a day, and well
cooked. Chicago ledger."
When she was younger and wore the queens'
wreath,
Sho was the finest soprano you met, oh I
But now she's grown older, with a sot of
false teeth,
I find that her voice is falsetto.
Gorkam Mountaineer.
Three editors are members of the Delta
fCal.) brass band. They were driven to
it in solf-defenso. Burlington Fret
Press.
Strange, that with the 21,000,000 but
tons manufactured in this country last
year, we still have to fasten our suspend
ers on with a shingle naiL Palmr
Journal.
A nicely sharpened lead pencil is the
only thing in creation that defies the law
of gravitation. The lighter end always
strikes the floor first. Burlington (Ff.)
Free Prttn.
A LOVEtt'S COMPLIMENT.
"A pretty thing in gloves," said she,
"1 wish to get a perfect glove,"
"The prettiest thiug iu gloves," said ho,
"Are those white hands of yous.my love."
Hoston Courier.
The king of Dahomey has 3,500 wives.
When his royal husbandness rolls home
ward about a a. it. the chances are a, 500
to ono that he will be overheard when he
tries to "sneak upstairs in his stocking
feet. Uneasy lies the head that wears a
crown. A'w York Graphic.
TWO WAYS OF LOOKING AT IT.
The snow is beautiful to see
And to the Hiet givea delight,
When over lawn aud over lea
It lies, a maiitle pure and white.
But when six inches deep, or so,
It lies at morn, beside his door
And must be shovelled oil, the snow,
The poet doomed a blasted bore.
Motion Courier.
White Gold-Seekers in China.
Siberia has always been regarded as
rich in auriferous deposits, and travelers'
tales have been heard describing the rich
results of washing tho mud of the rivers,
while the soil was mingled with golden
scales. Strange, these stories did not
seem to attract tho hordes of needy ad
venturers who flock wherever gold is,
or is supposed to be, in existence; but
recently, for somo months past, a busy
community of diggers bus been at work
in a place so inaccessible that, until last
winter, the Chinese wero unaware that
a tribe of foreign devils were gathering
up wealth ou tho borders of their own
empire. The mining camp is composed
of detachments from Australia and Cali
fornia, and a sprinkling of diamond
seekers from South Africa; and these men
havo formed a government of their own
over a republic they huvo coolly appro
priated from the Chinese empire, having
the Hussiau administration on the other
side of the river. The results of the
work are irood, upward of 2,000 pounds
weight of gold having been purchasod
last year by Russian agents, who have
paid excellent prices, ranging up to
sixty-five shillings for tho troy ounco.
This now "nation" foundod on the
banks of tho Amour rivor, is likely,
if the stories told about it are true, to
becomo tt power in tho world; for
as its only trouble is likoly to ba with
China the bold diggers have taken tho
initiative and defied tho "ten thousand"
which tho ira:e and disappointed man
darins threatened them with. This in
cident is another painful leaf in tho his
tory of China. The brother of the sun
ami moon-, the sou of heaven, to be de
fied by ft gang of outer barbarians clad
in 11 nun ei shirts, corduroys, and kuee
boots, uud speaking an unknown but
emphatic language, and toseo tho golden
treasures of his land taken away from
under his very nose, is humiliation too
great to be submitted to ; yet what can
be done? Tho "ten thousand" had bet
ter keep at home, and let well enough
alone. Japan Gaztte.
Comments on the Baby.
MOTHER.
"Ain't it a pretty little thing,
Its eyes so lirii;lit anil clearf
Whut dimpled cheeks! whut tiny toes!
iluw do you like it, dourf
I A Tit Kit.
' My love, I think this little babe
All other bulies eveels:
It has my nose, it lias your mouth,
And niorcy, how it yells!"
-Hoton CourUr.