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Mr, Depew calls Now York "tho lypicol State." Four of tho six Populist Senators in Washington aro university mon or graduates of colleges. General Miles is heartily in favor of tho bioyolo for arruy uso, anl declares that it can bo used in noarly every e mutry ami iu most all seasons of tho year. Tho safost ol modern yoirs of rail way travel was in 1385, Tho propor tion rotnrned as killoil ami injured from causes boyonil thoir own oontrol to tho number ourriod was: killed, 1 in 110,202,171 i and injured, 1 in 1, 609,112. Napoleon III. onoo remarked to Mr. Washbnmo, tho Amerjoan Ministor to Paris, that Spain could not hold Cuba, and that tho result would be thot Bho would sacrifice all her soldiers and rpeud all her money and thon lose the islam! in the end. The Melbourne (Australia) Argus railed attention some years ago to the r jmarkablo fact that three young men destined to high distinction in difler cut spheres Lord Salisbury, the statesman, Sir John Millais, the paint er, and Thomas Woolner, the soulp tor wore simultaneously in Victoria at the hoight of tho gold fover in the early fifties. This bioyolo business is assuming tremendous proportions, and oven the imagination gets tired thinking about it, observes the New York Herald. Ten years ago it was a fad, a craze, and a few cranks, so culled, wcro seen on the streets trying to got thoir neoxe broken. Now all the world ridos the wheel ; policemen rido them, soldi or! ride them, gentloraen and laJios of all ages tako a spin. To supply tho de mand there aro something like four hundred firms, making money hand over fist, and it is ostimatod that in the various plants more than $25,000, 000 is invested. Why, tho wholo thing has oomo upon us like a tor cado. China is sending out a now dotaoh mcnt of her youth to bo educated in our schools, showing on enlightened and progressive spirit in no way di minished by her reoont military re verses. If sho continues in this excel lent custom, equipping her chosen young men with the science and cul ture of the modern period, and at the same timo admits, as she is now doing, progressive idoas in her administra tion, Bhe will not bo so easily whipped tho next timo, the Now York Tribune obsorves, and will take the plaoe in civilation which properly belongs to her, as her sister Nation Japan has already done, to tho wonderment and admiration of mankind, including that of tho humbled pigtails themselves, who may, after all, gather ont of the nettle of defeat a choicer flower than the roso of triumph. If she is not quite so grandioso in her general atti tudes as Bhe was boforo she was whipped, she knows more, a foot vari ously evinood, but in no partioular more showingly than in again Bonding her youth hither to bo instructed in onr schools. Chief Fernow, of the Forestry Division at Washington, D. C, makes some valuable suggestions in his eleventh bulletin. The bulletin states that the Sonth can mako the cultivation of the cork oak very prof itable in time. We pay about 82, 000,000 a year for imported cork, and prioes are steadily rising. The Gov ernment distributed cork oak aoorns in the South as far back as 1858, and there are now standing several cork trees in the Southern States, one of them as far north as middle Georgia. A large one is now standing in Mis sissippi City, Miss., and thero aro probably twenty'in California. The faot that the tree will flourish in the South has been demonstrated. Tho wattle tree, a native of Australia, is also recommended for cultivation. It belongs to the aoaeia family, and contains more tannio acid than the oak. It is propagated from seeds, which are soaked until soft in boiling water before planting. This tree will do well in warm climates. This euca lyptus is recommended on aoeount of . its rapid growth, the value of the wood and the oil contained iu the foli age. Some claim that it is an antidote for malaria. Tho bamboo deserves a trial, maintains the Atlanta Conshtu tution. It is not a treo but a giant grass, allied to our cano. One variety grows in Florida, whero it has been known to grow a foot a day in height, and reach twenty-two feet in a single season. It is in demand for many UHoful and ornameutal purposes. Wo have been wasting our forests long enough. Why not turn over a new leaf aud try the trees reoomincndod by the Forestry Division, f FOR HER BAKE. All day long, with sigh or song, Toll I forhor snkoj Bho ts where the rosos throng I whoro thunders brentc Prom the rostloes oity's tnnrt Hut a rainbow's round my heart! For I sing: "The day will dlo Toil will soon bo past, And the stars in Love's own sky Load me home at last! Homo! beneath the tranquil skies, Where she waits with wistful eyes. "Homo! where love Is kindest best, Where the heart h Is bright; Ilome! whoro sweetly on my broost Fall her curls of light! Home! from nil the world bogullod Ily tho kisses of a child!" F. L. Btanton. - AUNT SUSAN'S QUILT, V Jimmy and his bride ain't pleased with buf T Ann't t'V fr- Sv TJ WWW V know what would please 'em," said fkvaVUJ littleMrs- DoAe ilim'iS with arms akim bo and head twisted to one side, as she stepped back and gazed with ad miration at the object spread out on the bed. It was a carefully pieced quilt, of a somewhat intricate (pat tern. "Jimmy's bride can't help being tiokled with that," said Mrs. Doko, as sho smoothed out a fold; "and if she knows anything about nioe quilting, she'll see that wa'n't quilted in a day. Well, I gucBS not! I quilted ev'ry last stitch of it myself, and there's a good half day's work in somo of thorn blocks with the feather and herrin' bone patterns and the shell border all 'round tho aidge. I had that quilt in the frames five weoks and three days, and I put all the time I could got on it, and there ain't no slack work, tired as I did get of Beeing it 'round." Sho smoothed out another creaso. "Lemme see," she went on. "Thero's 2147 pieocs in tho quilt, and a good many of 'om are pieces of Jim my's baby dresses. That'll please his wife, I jest know. Here's a block made of calico like a little pink dress ho had when his ma first pnt him into short drosses. I remember it was made with a low neck and short sleeves, tike thoy made baby dresses in them days, and his little shoulders and arms were almost as pink as tho dress. "And here's piecos like a little doa ble gown ho had 'fore he wont into short dresses. And this piece of blue chambry is like a little sunbonnet he had, all lined with fine white jaoonet. And hero is a pioco of fine muslin with a little pink sprig in it like the first short dress Jimmy ever had. He did look so ounnin' in it, with tho sleeves looped back, and a tumblo-curl on the top of his head I "I'll show his wifo-to-be all these pieces, and if she ain't tioklod with tho quilt, she'll be a queer one." Then Mrs. Drake went over to an old-fashioned mahogany bureau with brass knobs, and took from the upper drawer a large, square cream-tinted envelope, ont of which Bhe carefully drew the "invite" to Jimmy's wed ding. "Mr. and Mrs. William II. Hoi brook invite you to be present at the marriage of their daughter Helen and James Barolay Larkin, Wednesday evening, September 14th." Thon followed the addross of the bride's parents, in a oity four hundred miles from Mrs. Dake's homo. "But I'm goin'l" she said, gleo fully, as she slipped the invitation back into its envelope. "I'd go if it was twioe as far. I ain't Been Jimmy for near on to five years, and he al ways Boomed like my own boy to me 'cause I never had none o' my own, and I helped to bring him np after his own ma died, when he wa'n't bnt just iu his first little trousies. "I ain't boon so far from Lome in many a long year, and I reckoned my travelin' days was done, but I've got to go and see Jimmy married. I must soe Elviry Hodge "right away about turning and making over my black silk, and I must see Bumaotha liose about a new cap. I guess I'll have to havo somothing smart for a oity wed diu', where they'll all be finished np so. I don't want Jimmy to be ashamed of his old aunty; but lawsy met Jimmy wouldn't bo ashamed of me if I went in my plain oalioo house dress. He wa'n't raised to sot clothes above his relations, and he ain't got nothirg to be ashamed of in any of his folks." Then Jimmy's aunt, her faoe aglow with loving thoughts of seeing Jimmy again, folded up tho quilt carefully in an old sheet, and laid it away in a lower drawer of the bureau, saying: "I s'pose they'll have lots of nioe presents, but I'll warrant you they won't have one that represents as much lovin' labor as that quilt. I had to cry a little when I quilted them blocks with the pieces of his baby drosaoH in 'em. His wife ought to think the world and all of the quilt. 1 hope to tho land she won't go to using it oommon." Mrs. Duke, who was a widow and childless, lived in a small, remote country town, in which her nephew, James Larkin, had Ijoeu born, and from whioh he had gona to become a successful young lawyer in the city. He had not been back to the home of his ohildhood for live years. As his Auut busau said, ho "wu'n't no hand to write letters," but he often sout brief notes aud little gifts to his aunt to assure her of his aduotion and grati tude. He had not announcod his engage ment to her, aud tho invitation to his wedding was one of the greatest sur prises of Mrs. Drake' uneventful life. "He jest wantod to give his old aunty a big s'priso," she said to Elvira llotlgo, tho vulago seamstress, whon sho came to "fix over" Aunt Susan's black silk. "I couldn't bclievo my own eyes at first. It don't seem no longer than yesterday that Jimmy was run nin' 'round hero in pinafores ; and to thiuk of him bcin' married I declare I can't git over it I "Hut I'll give him a s'priso, too. I don't intend to give him a hint that I'm comin' to his woddin', and if he won't bo took back when ho sees me marchin' iu on him, my name ain't Susan Elizabeth Daket Don t you reckon his wifo'll be tiokled with that quilt, Elviry?" "They'd ought to bo, that's sure," said .Elvira. "I think it's a kind af special Trovi denco that I put in tho frames when I did. I didn't cul'lato on quiltin' it until next wintor, but I had a kind of foelin' that I'd better do it when I did, and now it's turned out that there was a good reason why I should quilt then. There was quite a compouy of Aunt Sasan's friends at the little station to sco hor oil on the morning sho started There was unusual color in her checks and unwonted sparkle in her eyes, She bade each of her friends good bye two or three times, and promised to take good care of herself. Somo of thorn she promised a crumb of Jimmy's wedding oakc, and a full aoeount of the wedding festivities. "An' if you could git me a sorap of tne undo s wecluin areas an ox anv of hor other dresses for my silk quilt. Susan, I'd be so pleased with 'em I" said old Mrs. Gray. "I will if I can, Nancy," said Aunt Susan. "There's the train comin' I I'm so glad I conld get my trunk checked olean through 1 I'd bo in a nice fix if that trunk should get lost with Jimmy's quilt and my black silk in it I Where's my lunch baBkot? Oh, you're goin' to carry it away on the train for me, are yon, Hiram Drew? I'm 'bleeged to you, bnt mind you git off the train 'fore it si arts. Good-bye, Nancy; good-bye alll" In a moment the train was on its way, Aunt Susan's handkerchief flut tered from one of tho car windows as long as the train was within sight of the little station. All the people in tho car notiood the happy old lady in her queer, 'old fashioned garb. Some had not seon for many years a shawl like the one she wore, with its fringe a foot long and silk embroidery in the earners; but nothing was coarse or amiss in her dress, and there was a quaintness and charm about her that attracted the sympathy of all the passengers. She had not gone twenty-five miles before she was telling some of them nearest her all about Jimmy and Jim my's quilt, and the wedding to take place on the ooming Wednesday. She was dolighted to find that a middle-aged, kindly-looking woman who was one of the passengers lived in tho oity in whioh young Mr. Lark in lived, and oould easily show hor his boarding house. "I'm so much obleoged to youl" said Aunt Susan. "I've been so dread ful norvous 'bout trying to find the house myself, I hated to write to him to meet me 'cause it'd take off the best part of the s'priso.- I jest want to walk right in on him." That was just what sho had the pleasure of doing the noxt after noon. James Larkin was just taking hie wedding suit from the box iu whioh it had been sent home, when there came a knock at the door of his room. Aunt Susan was trembling with ex oitement when her nephew opened the door. "Why, Aunt Susan 1" ho cried ; and then he took her in his arms and kissed on both cheeks. There was no lack of tenderness in hor nophew's greeting, yet the changes iu him were painful to her. He was a beardless, boyish-looking young man when she had seen him lust. Now he was a tall, broad-shouldered, full bearded man with a way that made it hard for her to call him "Jimmy." He did not say bo, but sho felt that he would rather havo her call him "James," and that sounded so cold and formal to her. He now had the grace) of a city bred young man. She found it bard to accommodate herself to them, and to the usages of the fashionable board house in whioh her prosperous young nephew lived. Ho might, perhaps, have wished that Elvira Hodge had mado his aunt's gar ments more stylish, when he took her down to diuuer, but he was in no sense ashomed of her. When thoy wore going downstairs with her hand timidly resting on his arm, he mado her very happy by looking down into hor faoe and saying tenderly and heartily, "1 am so glad you came, Aunt Susan." "I thought you would be," she said, patting his arm affeotionatoly. "ITou know you're the only boy I ever had." "And you were always tho best of mothers to me." But when she was alone in her room she wondered if it had been wise for her to come after all. She did not doubt now that James was genuinely happy to see her, but she bad discov ered that his betrothod was the daugh ter of a rich man, and thut tho wed ding was to be an elegant affair. Aunt Susan learned sho would be out of plaoo that she might in her iuuocenco do or say somothiug to give James aud his brido cause to be ashamod of her. Tho wedding was to take plaoo tho next evening, and there would bo no opportunity for her to meet the bride or her family until theu. All was so new and straugo to her ! She had expootod to tako right hold and help Mrs. Holbrook with the wed ding dinner, even if sho did keep a girl. There was a big, now kitohon uprou in hor trunk, brought with Aunt Susan to be worn while she was "making horsclf useful in Mrs. Hol brook's ki tchon. " It disappointed hor to bo told by her nephew that her ser vices wouid not bo required, and that a caterer would provide tho supper. Sho did not know what a caterer was, and felt confuted and unoasy, and wont to sleep halt wishing herself home. Whon the next cvoning sho found hcrpolf iu the beautiful homo of Mr. Holbrook, surrounded by flnely drcsscd ladies and gentlomon, who looked curiously at tho odd-looking, little old woman in the queerly-made and old-fashioned black silk, she heartily wished that she had not eomo. Mr. and Mrs. Holbrook ware as at tentive to her as they could be with a houso full of guests ; but Aunt Susan Boon found it convenient to slip off into a corner, where she hid like the little country mouse sho was. But she was glad after all that sho had come when James, looking so tall and happy and handsome, came into the great parlor with bis brido on his arm, in her.Jrailing, white satin dress and long veil. Aunt Susan wai so completely overawed by this magnifi oouoe that, instead of going forward with the others to offer hor congratu lations, she slipped off npatairs to the room in which she had taken off her bonnet and shawl. In it was her wed ding gift to Jimmy the quilt that had but yesterday seemed to her as beauti ful aud appropriate a gift that she could bestow upon him. Across the hall was the open door of a room almost filled with shining silver and glittering glasi, with pic tures and rare ornaments and beauti ful books, gifts to James and his bride. Aunt Susan folt that her own offer ing, although it was the gift of hor own labor and love, would be out of place. It might offend her nephew and his bride to see it there. Some one might laugh and jeer at it, and she could not bear to think of that. It seemed so poor and trifling now; she could not think of allowing Jimmy and his wife to know that she had brought them such a gift. She turned back a corner of the quilt, and looked at a piece of the pink and white muslin of which one of Jimmy's first garments had been made. A flood of tender memories filled her heart, and she buried her face in hei gift and cried as she had not cried for years. There she sat for a long time, pay ing no heed to the noise and merri ment downstairs. Presently Bhe heard a rustle of silk and satin in the hall, and a low murmur of voices. In a moment a pair of soft arms were around her neck, and a girlish voioe was Baying : "I am so glad we have found you at last! We have been looking every where for you I" When Aunt Susan looked np she found the brido kneeling by her side, while James was bending low over her. "You haven't been np hore all this time, have you?" he said. "Wo have wondered where you wore. Helon was so anxious to see you." "Of course I was," said tho brido. "There is no one I am so glad to see. James has told me all about you, and it was bo good of you to come so far to see us married. You must kiss us and wish us joy, won't you?" "If you'll let me," safd Susan, with the tears still in her eyes. "Let you 1" said James. "We should think it very strange if you didn't. What have you here? It looks like one of the quilts you nsod to make. It is a quilt, isn't it'" Aunt Snsan tried to conoeal the quilt, but James took it from her and unfolded it. Suddenly he said : "Why, Aunt Susan, didn't you bring this for a wedding present ? "Well, I I did thiuk I'd give it to your wife, James," said Aund Su san, foborly. "I thought that well well, you sco, I made it ev'ry stitch myself and and there's lots of pieoes in it from the first clothos ynu ever had, and I thought maybe she'd like it because I did it ev'y stitoh my self and" "Like it?" cried Helen. "I shall value it above any gift I have had 1 It is beautiful I never saw such exquis ite needlework I What weeks of labor it must have cost you. I am so proud of it I" "She said them very words," said Aunt Susan to half a dozen of her do lighted friends who came to Bee her the day she reached home. She was so ticklod over the quilt. She fairly cried when I showed her tho blocVs made out of piooosof Jimmy's things. "She Baid she'd think the world und all of it. She and Jimuiy had to go off on thoir weddin' tower in about au hour, and I expected to oomo home that night; but Mr. and Mrs, Hol brook wouldn't hear to it. "They made me stay thero a whole week, and they treated me as if I was one of the greatest ladies iu the land. They took me to ride ev'ry day, and they never seemed to mind a bit about tcy old-fashionod ways aud clothos. "I had a beautiful time, aud the best part of it is Jimmy aud his wife are ooming to make me a visit on their way home from their tower next week. You never soe such a splendid young womuu as sho is I" Ths Downington Archive. 01J Sermons In Demand. The wife of a minister down in Cin cinnati traded a barrel of his old ser mons not long ago for a now bread pau. The next spring tho rag iuuu came arouud u.uiu and asked if sho hud any more sermons to sell. "Why do you want sermons?'1 "Because I did s i well with those 1 got here a year ago. I got sick in the summer aud a preacher iu tho country boarded me aud my horse thres mouths for that barrel of sermons, aud he has since got a great reputation as a prouobor up there. I will givo you live cents a pound for ull you have got." Chicago Kecord. THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE. STORIES THAT ARB TOLD BY THE FUNNY MEN OP THE PRES3. The Perils of Versatility A Case tn Point A Valuation Not tho Right Word, Etc., Ktc. He sent a squib ho thought it was lino To "Fun for Funny Folks," Cut thoy returned it with this llniS "We publish onlyjokos." Ho sent a sonnet, which ho thourrbt Quite full of mastor-strokes, To "Poesy." The next mail brought! "Wo never publish jokes." Charles Uattell Loomis. LOVE AT 6IQHT. Fanglo "Americaus ard noted for thoir record-breaking ships." Anglo "Yes; particularly in thoir courtships." Truth. . Nervous Passonger (on steamship that has run aground) "What on eorth is the matter with this ship?" Captain (sorrowfully) "That's just it 1" Puck. A CASE IU POIKT. Wado ."Do yon believe, wilh theso scientitio fellows, that disease can bo communicated by handshaking?" ! Butoher "I dunno. . There's tho grip." Puck. j ' ' A valuation. ' I "My daughter has been accustomed to every luxury." i "Well," replied tho duke, "don't I come high enough to rank as n lux ury?" Truth. EASILY DISILLUSIONED. Clara "Mies Darling thinks you aro quito a clever follow." Dannie "By J ove, I guess I'll call 1" Clara "No; you had better stay away." Wrinkle. kot ins marrr woiid. "You carved your own way to suc cess, didn't you, Paddingtou?" "No; I didn't have mnch of any thing to carvo until after I achieved success. " Chicago Kecord. PBOGRESS. "How is your daughter getting on with tho piuno, Numson?" "First rate. She can play with both hands. Says she will bo ablo to play with her ear in six months," Houso hold Words. rmiAS NATURE. Visitor "Why do you have 'Keep Off the Grass' signs all over this park? You don't soem to onfore the rule." Sparrow "We do it so that peoplo will moro thorougb.lv enjoy being on tho grass." Truth. AN ECONOMIST. Gladys "Mr. Pennypackcr told me ho took you to tho church fair lat night and spent a most cuioyablo even ing." Mabel (with a sigh) "Yes; but that was about all. " Puck. VOIOES FHOM THE BASKET. First Egg "Think of going to tho theatre?" Second Egg "Probably, if I fell Btrong enough. I'm willing to go broke on a good, loud tragedian any timo." Cincinnati Inquirer. HOPEFUL. At tho Restaurant: Diner "Whon I saw you a yoar ago you had just left college You were then about to make your fortune, you said." Attendant "Yes; and now I am waiting for it." Bostou Transcript. THE ItEASON. Crummor "Why don't thoy mako tho ladies tako off their hats in tho thoatres?" Vokes "Because they have no sporo rooms about tho theatre largo enough to stow tho ample headgear in." Truth. rnoanEssivE expenses. Mother (looking over her son's col lege expenses) "I don't sco why William's expenses should bo so much more this year than last." Father (a former collegian) "Well, you see, tho police linos are higher after the first offence." Puck. THE VOUNa IDEA. Dcotor (to pa','0 boy) "Who was the gentleman who called just now?" Pugo Boy ".Smith, sir." Doctor "What's that? You should say Mr. Smith." Pago Boy "Pleaso, sir, I didn't know ho was married," Judy. he AanEEu wnn nnn. Mrs. Hcraplcigh "Buh I I've mado a different man of you siuco I married you." Mr. Scrapleitjh "I believe you havo. Very different, indeed I So different thut now I can't sco what in tho world ever possessed uio to niurry you." can na TAKE a mvT? Wiggles "That was rather a shrewd thing that tho people in tho Fifth Street Church did with their pastor." Waggles "What was that?" Wiggbs "Oh, they guvo him twenty volumes of tho collected ser mons of successful preachers." Soiu crvillo Journal. A CAUTIOUS INVESTOR. Mrs. Brown "But I must have a new hat I" Brown "Don't buy on this mar ket. I've wutchod millinery prices for years, and anything that had sueU a boom is euro to have a slump. Murk my words, you ouu't pick out a single hut that wou't bo lower witbiu nix wont " -Puck. SCIENTIFIC AM) INDUSTRIAL. Dishes aro washed by electricity. In the now edition of tho British rharmacoproia, tho metric system of woights and measures will bo adopted. Crookes tubes, for uso in taking X roy photographs, havo already np poarod on tho bargain counter of a Chicago department etoro. Thoy cost 80.95 eaoh. Dr. W. n. Hanker, Superintendent of the Dclawaro Insano Hospital, is going to try the effcots of tho X rays on the brains of a number of tho in sane peoplo under bia charge. Tho experiment of electrical trac tion in the Baltimore Tuuuol has now been triod about a year, with results Bo far to the advantage of tho electric motors over those propelled by steam. By a spooial permit, and in mailing packages approved by tho Postoflico Department, baoteria or disease tissues may now be sent through the mails to United States or municipal laboratories. The entomological collection of M. Jules Fallon, which includes twenty five thousand moths and butterflies, has been presented to tho unison m of tho Jardin des Plantos, at Paris, by his grandsons. Herr Wilckens, of Vienna, has found that two full-blooded English horses transmitted tho color of thoir coats to thoir offspring iu 580 casos out of 1000. Where tho parents were of different colors, he found tho hair of the foals, in most csbos, took tho color of that of tho mother. A carboy of alcohol burst in tho basement of a Chicago drug store, and, taking firo, a tremendous blaze, which threatened a disastrous fire, followod. A olork turnod tho valve of the eoda water cylinder on tho flames, and tho carbonio acid extiu' guished tho flames beforo tho Fire Do partmont oould reach the spot. M. Meslaus bos examinod tho rota tion between tho penetrability by tho rays from Crookes tubes of various substances and thoir chemical nature. He finds that carbon and its combina tions with hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen are peculiarly transparent to the rays, whilo the prose noo of other elements, chlorine, sulphur, phos phorus and, above, all iodino with metals increases the opaqueness. Oil burners on a syBtom invented by an engineer named Cuniberti havo been put into all the now Italian war ships and have also been adopted by the German Government. Tho fuel used is- not crude potroloum, but potroleum residuum, which is moro economical and has the advautago of not producing smoke whon burnt. The British Admiralty is about to ex periment with liquid fuol on tho now fast cruiser Gladiator. What wo call light is a wave motion in tho ether, and is a transverse move ment, too. Molecules havo nothiug to do with it excopt to produco it. Tho wavos of ether whioh alloot tho eye range from about four hundred millions of millions per eecoud to eight hundred millions of millions per second, tho longest waves being what wo call rod waves, while tho shortest is callod violet, though it is well known that wavos much shorter than those in tho oommon spectrum can bo seen by some eyes. Ills Writing Reversed, Drs. Richards and Gordon, of Quincy, hold a consultation Thursday over the case of Postmaster Charles F. Wilde, of Wollaston, which hat been puzzling the publio duriug tho past week. After a eareful diagnosis of the case the physicians decided that he was sndoring from congostion of the base of the brain aud thut tho disease had boon developing during quite a long period. Ono peculiarity of his mental condition has been a change in bis method of writing. In stead of writing from loft to right, as ho has previously been accustomed to do, he has, during his sioknoss, whon attempting to writo, reversed tho style and has written backhanded, or from right to loft. Thursday he wr'oto his name in his ordinary manner, how ever, whioh was considered a striking sign of improvement in his oonditiou by his physioians and friends. Bostou Herald. The Evacuation or Fort Ontario. On July 15 next will occur the ono hundredth anniversary of tho British evacuation of Fort Ontario at Oswego, which was tho last place over which the 11 a of Grout Britain waved in the United Stutes. When that Hug was hauled down tho American flag too't its place, aud ever since has waved there. A publio meeting of citizens of Oswego, callod by thd Mayor, has beon hold, at whioh it was determined to celebruto this oeuteuuiul, with a ciyil day, a military duy, aud a so ciety duy, with a shuiu buttle and rep etition of tho fort's capture iu 1812. Tho Knights of Pythias aro organiz ing for society day. It is proposed to regarrison the old fort, aud to ut tempt to interest the Federal aud State au thorities in the celebration of the oeu teuuiul, which has a National signifi cance. Syracuse Journal. First Cork iu i'liis ttiuntry. What is said to bo tho first cork ever grown in tho United States of a size tmitublo for commercial purposes was recently stripped lrom a true iu Au gusta, Ga. Tho tree was one of a number eet out under Government mpervisiou some thirty-live yeurs uu'o. Tho burlc obtuiued was two au I a h ilf inches thick uud of u solid un I c!u;o texturo. Philadelphia Record. Ristauruiils Iu TurKcy. I.l Constantinople tho rcutuuranU ere now expected to provide kuiv. i uud forks fur their customers. Iu Persia, however, the diner is given u fork, uud iu place of it uses u l".t of uulcuveued bread. LOVE'3 ALLIANCE Whlto flags of parley tho pain snowdrop) raise And every herald note of spring is fain To sound a ten lor truce to thy disdain. Oh, then no morn in loneliness ol days Dolny the duo alliance that love prays. But lot us, yielding to hU goldlng gyves, Ono sweet surrender mnko of our two lives. Wo'll seal mt treaty by tho blossoming May And In tho woodland bind bright coronals Of summer; aud beside tho (pilot hearth Foster tho cheerful glow wiiea autumn fails. Thon may tho old leaves tremble down to earth Content upon her kiudly brea't to lie; Upon her breast, who gave them life, to dlo. rnll 51 ill tlaz;tte. HUMOR OF THE DAY, A fool friend ia a greater monaco than on avowed enemy. Puck. Largo bodies movo slowly ; nlso small bodies when called up to break fast. Wo wish we could go to sleep as easily as our feet do. Atcbisou Globe. Consistency is a jewel with which beauty is often content to lo un adorned. It's pretty hard for any man to un derstand why any ono doesn't liko him. Puck. Some people want to hide their light under a bushel when a pint would serve just as well. Monoy may bo tho root of evil, but from the first man to t ho hint wo all dig whero the roots grow. Truth. Tho man who works too hard will soon find himself discarded, like tho watch that ruus too fast. Truth. Most peoplo show their greatest genius in malting their religiou com fortably lit their desires. Atcbisou Globe. "The better half," says tho marriod cynic, "is so called because eho usual ly gets tho boiler of tho other half." Puck. "Better times now," said tho tramp, as au old gentleman hauded him ton five-cent pieoes; "I feel tho change " Texas Sittings. Queen Victoria owns 2,000,0)0 worth of china. How sho manages t J obtain so many careful servuut girls w a my story. Norristown Herald. Hho was tlp applo of his eye, For lier he deeply oaiou; tut with some other fellow now bho has been latuly pared. ruek. "Yes, "said tho cornfed philosopher, "it is not bo dillioult to get something for nothing, but when one gets it it is not worth tho price." Indianapolis Journal. Miss Heiress (passionately) "ilow much do yon love mo dearest?" Mr. Fortuuo Hunter "I lovo you, my darling, for all you aro worth !" De troit Freo Press. Mies Antique "ilow gray yon aro getting lately, my dear. Why, I havo not a singlo gray hair I" Miss Pussoa "So I peroeivo. Do toll mo whut yon use." Detroit Froo Press. Gruzjin Lougroaoh h one of your regular boarders, Murm, isn't he?" Boarding Houso Mistress "Ifes; but to judgo him by his appetite you'd think he was six of them." Roxbury Gazette. Feininino Logio: "Marie, what aro you doing upon that stop-ludder and why don't you havo Nor wash tho windows?" "Because, if Bno fulls and hurts herself, I'll havo to do her work." --Chicago lieoord. When a man goes into Wall stroot and comes out several millions in debt, ho is a Napoleon of iluauce. Whon ho goes in aud drops all ho owns, hi) is muroly a commonplace, evory-dav fool. Texas Sifter. "Tho natural hibtory class will now writo down tho names of twelve Arctio animals," said tho teacher iu monot onous tones. Little Johnnie dashod off tho following aud handed his slato proudly to tho teacher: ".Six seals, livo polur beurs and ouo walrus." Corps Rented rr Dissect ion. Tho terror thut tho average colored woman has of tho medical staduuU and colleges is absolutoly overpower ing. Few people relish tbo idea of be ing curved up after death, but this feeling seimi especially uccentuato.l iu tho bosom of tho Colored woman. especially if Bhe comes from the coun try. Many ol mom cannot bo hired to go by a medical collego uffer night, for they feur being captured by tho students ond dissected alive. It is hardly to bo woudered that thero is a superbtitioiii dread of tho surgeon's kuife, us so many "still's" uro required on tho mauy disseoting tables of tho Louisville medical colleges. Thero is a lurgo supply from penal and other institutions, but tho demand is great. As u result it is not uncommon for tho medical colleges to rent corpses. Tho body will pvuerully bo sentwita a uoto requesting that tho face bo not muti lated. The remaius uro then placed in tho ooiMu with tho clothing prop erly urrauged about tho uumutilutod face, uud none besides tbo.no who aro purties to tho transaction uro any tho wiser. Louisville Courier-Journal. (colore Idiot's llop. A writer iu ouo of tho English re views relates that during a conversa tion v.ith tieoro Eliot, not long be foro htr dentil, U vuso toppled ov. r i ll the mantelpiece. Tho great writer quickly mid unconsciously put out her huud to flop its fall. "i hope," mid sho, replacing it, "that the timo will eomo whin wo shall in: tinetivelv hold up the m m or u ouiau who begins t fall us naturally uud iiiu'oii urn-ly us wo arrest u lalliu piece ui f-..run tiru or uu oruument." Detroit S.o l'reta.
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