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V
i lOYornor Matthews recommended
i hia last message that a compulsory
'uoation law
d in Indiana.
i
In the dominions
ninions of
the British
individuals
loaving any
mpire alono
o &f0
fitBout
iniHh every year w
'V-.'y two milcrf steam railroad
;o built in New England during
i"t year,' and these wore equally di
vided between Maine and Vermont.
Twenty acres of good laud- in many
; 'r of California, says the California
-:i:t Grower, il tv suffloi'ont area to
provide a goofing for an average
American family of refined tastes and
industrious habits.
A.U 1793 Benjamin Frauklin left
$5000 to bo loaned to needy appren
tices at live per cent. The accumulated
principal and interest now amount to
. $3(50,000. . Poor 4nhard himself
- coul J bardly have managed it more
thriftily.
It is proposed that a -college for
, firemen be entablished in New York
City. In snob an institution men conld
receive a courso of instruction in
scientilio fire fighting by tho most ap
proved methods. Tho project is being
ndvooatod by a number of prominent
business men.
Professor Henri Moissan, the dis
tinguished ohotuiat, who came to this
country to lecture at tho Prinoeton
celebration, says the thing that struck
him most, apart from the superb
equipment for teaching, wis the feel
ing of affection between the students
and the professors.
I a hiu recently issued annual report
to tho President, Secretary of the
Interior David R, Francis called the
attention of Congress to the neoessity
of legislation looking to the reclama
tion ot arid landj. lie asserts that of
the 500,003,000 oores'of arid lands
100,000,003 acres might be rcolaimed
by the conservative use of water. , .M
Tho eighty-nine Senators, compos-
! Uio upper house in the first sea
i i cif the Fifty-fonrth Congress were
1 . .'lhI as follows: Lawyers, 08; bnsi-"-'j
men, including bankers, miners,
'i'p o'rners and stock raisers, 13:
preachers, 1 ; farmers, 2 j journalists,
2 ;. surgeons, 1 ; and office holders, so
'Milled in the absence of a better olass
ilioation, 3.
According to the London Figaro the
Prince of Wales is the greatest spend
thrift in the world. The statement is
made that he has spent $50,000,000 in
the last thirty-three years. From the
English nation be has received $25,
000,000, and $3,000,000 more for
traVeling expenses and speoial allow-
anoes. Je has, besidos, private debts
amounting to $20,000,000.
The New York papers are soanding
a note of warning to the effect that if
the port chargos be not reduced that
port will shortly take a baok seat to
Norfolk, Baltimore, Newport News
A Philadelphia. They carefully ab
ain from any referenoe to New
rlcans, which has lately been cutting
it big swath in the matter of grain ex
I ovta, notes the Picayune. - -
At a prqof of what has been done by
forty years of careful breeding.tbe re
sult of last year's shearing of the Boo
Lorowie fioek of pure Merino sheep,
South Australia, is givon as follows :
15,705 grown sheep averaged 9 pound8
15 ounces of wool per hoad; 12,509
Iambs averaged 3 pounds 1 1 ounces per
bead, being a general average of 17,214
sheep shorn, including lambs, of 8
pounds 8 ounces per head.
Frojescor Krafft-Ebiug, who holds
the chair on mental disease) at the
.University of Vieuua, Austria, intro
duced a startling novelty into one of
bis instructions a fortnight ago by
permitting a madman tb lecture in his
place. . The man is afllieted by periodio
attacks of mania, during whioh be is
. inuchlhore clever and witty than when
sane. Ilia lecture on "The- Mental
Condition of the Maniacs in Periodical
Attacks of Madness" was a brilliant
suooesA At the ' close of it he was
again placed in confinement.
Tim Yc
"tioaa
Tho. Young Men's Christian Associa-
rooently celebrated its thir-
riniversnry. Its membership is
263,298.. Thirty years ago there
as not a singlo building owred by
;e associations. Now there are 315,
ttted at 810,759,890. Last year the
,onditurcs for carrying on their
suik auiouutcd to $2,290,441. They
have 19.5 gymnasiums, 799 reading
looms, 355 educational classes, with
2j,88G students, and 701 Bible-training
classes. Among tk3 Indians
ikero nvi) 41 associations, 61 among
colore I people, 103 for railroad men
i-uJ 1U0 for college tluUeula.
WASHINOTON'3 DIFU'HDAY,
Thrilling bngle, throbbing drum-beat,
banners waving In llieair,
Tomp nn I paytennt and rejoicing, joy of
people every r' ere,
In the waning of llio winter, lift of chorus,
flash of wing.
And the keeping of a birthday, la the fore-
cait of tbe spring,
All our berirt new kult tospHhor as the can
non's ihundon pout'
Jtibilnnt salnllnga over river, fortress, hill,
and shore.
While our thought g.iej baok to kindle at the
cradle where there lies
Just simple new-born baby, dear In moth
er's loving eyes,
Harper"? Bazar.
Washina;tori as a Lover.
MONO the auto
graphic papers
.of George Wash
I i n g t o n, pur
chnsod of hia
descendants by
the Government
of the United
States, and nre-
ftprvpil in
library of the Department ot State,
are four poems written in his youth ;
probably in his seventeenth year. Two
of them are undoubtedly original.
The other two aro manifestly copied
from some newspaper or magazine,
perhaps from a book, without credit
or reference to their authorship. But
the boy who wrote the other two could
not possibly have written these, as
will be seen by the slightest com
parison. One of the original poems has re
cently been discovered to be an aoros
tic, which was a fashionable trick of
love making in those days, and the
initial letters of the lines form the
name "Frances Alexa" the last word
evidoutly being intended for "Alex
ander." But the poem is unfinished,
the remainder of the page on which
it is written being blank. The muse
of the youthful poet and lover prob
ably became weary. It reads as fol
lows: From your bright sparkling eyes I was
undone;
Itiiys, you linvn more transparent than the
suu.
Amidst its (tlory in tho rising Day,
None can you equal in your bright array;
Constant In your calm and unspotted mind;
Equal to all, but will to none Prove kind,
Bo knowing, seldom One so Young, you'll
Find, ,
Ah! wo's me, th.it 1 should love and eouceal
Long have 1 wished, bet never dare reveal
Evenlbougll severely Love's l'alus I foci;
Xerxes that great was n't free from Cupid's
Dart.
And nil the greatest Heroes, felttbe smart."
The traditions of the family indi
cate that the object of this effusion was
Miss Fanny Alexander, a daughter of
Captain Philip Alexander, a descend
ant of tbe Earl of Stirling, from whom
the city of Alexandria, Va. , was
named. The Captain owned and lived
upon the estate adjoining Mount
Vernon on the north. The young
lady was two years older than Wash
ington, and was probably his first
love. Nothing is known of their
courtship further than the evidence
furnished by this.poem.
"A Journal of My Journey over the
Mountains," which was kept by Wash
ington between the 11th of March and
the 13th of April, 1748, when he was a
little more than sixteen years old,
contains a copy, or, perhaps, the
original draft of a friendly, and rather
confidential lotter to "Dear Friend
Robin," who was undoubtedly a youth
ful schoolfellow, although he has
never been identified. The original
of this journal is in the library of the
Department of State, having been
discovered by Mr. Sparks, the his
torian, in 1827, when overhauling a
chest of o'.d letters and documents a
Mount Vernon in search of historical
material. In 1834, with a quantity
of other papers, it was purchased by
Congress, and in 1892 was printed
literally with copious and valuable
. ..Y '-V f K
MAHTUA WASHINGTON.
explanatory notes by Dr. J. M. Toner,
the aocomplifhed oracle of Washing
tonia. The letter reads as follows :
My place of Residence is at present at His
Lordships (Lord Fairfax) where I might, was
iny heart disengaged, pass my time very
plensautly, as theres a very agreeable Young
Lady Lives In the same bouse (Col. Oeorge
Fairfax's Wife's r ir.tur) but as that's ouly
adding Fuel to Q6 it makes me more uneasy
for by often and unavoidably beiog In com
pany wilh her revives my former passion for
your LowlHud lleauty, whereas was I to live
more retired from voting women 1 might in
some measure eliviateiuy sorrows by bury
ing that ebn.-t anil troublesome Passion in the
grave of oblivion or entaruitll forgettuluoss
fur us I am very well at tired Unit s the ouly
antidote or remedy that 1 ever shall be re
loived by or only recess that eau administer
any cure or help to me as I am well eouvluced
wasl everto attempt anything 1 should only
get a denial which would be ouly adding
grief to uueusinese.
The sister of Mrs. Fairfax, who re
vived "a former passion" in this youth
of cixteeu, was Miss Mary Gary, the
daughter of Colonel Wilson Cary, for
thirty-four years colleotor of customs
at Hampton, Va., and for the lower
James lliver. He was a man of large
wealth and aristocrutio connections,
bis eldest daughter having married
l'ie cousin ot Lord Fairfax and the
manager of his American estates, which
4i!5t
amounted to more than 3,000,000
acres.
Bishop Meade, in his "Old Churcho3
and Families of Virginia," says that
Washington was an ardent admirer of
Miss Mary Cnry and at one time asked
Colonel Cary's permission to pay his
addresses to her, but was refused. The
young lady afterward married Mr. Ed
ward Ambler, who was a great swell
among the colonial aristocracy, being
a graduate of Cambridge and the
owner of a lare estate near James
town. ITe died in 17GB, at the age of
thirty-five, and his widow, who sur
vived until 1781, was a frequent guest
at Mount Vernon after Washington's
marriage, as his diary shows.
About this tirni Washington wrote
another tender letter in which he al
lndcB again to Miss Cary, This was
addressed to "Dear Sally," whose other
name is unknown, and it reads:
This comes to Fredericksburg fair In hopes
of meeting with a sjieedy Passage to you If
your not there which hope you'l get shortly
all ho I am almost tliscotirngo 1 from writing
to you as this is my fourth to you since I re
ceiv'd any from yourself I hope you'l not
make the Old Proverb good out of sight out
of Mind as its one of the greatest Pleasures 1
can vet foresee of having in Fairfax in often
bearing from you hope you'l not deny it to
me.
I Pass the time of mush more agreeabler
than what I Imagined I should as there's a
very ngreeable Young Lady lives in the same
house whore I reside (Col, George Fairfax's
Wife's Hister)that in a great Measure cheats
my sorrow and dejoctedness tho not so as to
draw my thoughts altogether from your
Paris I could wish to bo with you down thero
with all my heart but as it is a thing almost
Impraolakable shall rest myself where I am
with hopes of shortly having some Minutes
of your transactions In your parts which will
oe vory weiaomeiy received Dy Hour
A MEETING OF GEORGE WASHINGTOS AND MARTHA CURTIS.
The "Lowland Beauty," to whom
Washington so tenderly refers in his
letter to "My Dear Robin," is eup-
posed to have been Miss Luoy Urymes
of Westmoreland County, who in 1753
married Henry Lee, Esq., of Strat
ford Hall, and became the mother of
the famous "Light Horse Harry"
the Custer of the Revolution. Very
little is known of Miss Gryinea or of
Washington's attention to her. Other
writors assume that the Lowland
Beauty was Miss Betsy, daughter of
William Fauntleroy of Fredericks
burg, who also refused Washington's
attentions.
The Fauntleroy family had a fine
plantation at Nay lor 's Hold, on the
Rappahannock, about fifteen miles
from Wakefield, tho birthplaoe of
Washington. In 1752, when he was
twenty years old, the latter addressed
a letter to Mr. Fauntleroy, which has
been preserved, asking permission to
make proposal of marriage to his
daughter, "in the hope," ho soys, "of
a revocation of a former oruul sen
tence, and see if I cannot find an al
teration in my favor."
This letter was written immediately
after the return from the voyage he
made to Barbadoes wita his brother
Lawrence, who was in feeble health at
tbe time, and died soon after. So the
"cruel sentence" must have been pro
nounced before they sailed in Septem
ber, 1751. The father'6 reply has not
been preserved, but evidently was un
favorable. This was the most serious love affair
Washington ever had, except the later
one which ended in his marriage.
The young woman who jilted him,
afterward became the wife of Thomas
Adams of Williamsburg. It is .a tra
dition of the town that she married
for money instead of love, and re
jected Washington because he had less
wealth than her other suitor. It is
said, too, that after he had become
famous and visited the town of Will
iamsburg as the guest of the people,
she watcbed from a wiudow the tri
umphal pageant as he passed on horse
back through the streets and fainted.
The home of tho Fauntleroys was a
magnificent mansion, whioh stood
within a beautiful park overlooking
the river, and remained until a few
years since, when it was pulled down.
To Betsy Fauntleroy was addressed
the other original poem, which reads:
Oh ye God. why should my Poor Ileslstlees
Heurt
Wand to oppose thy might aud Tower
At last sui render to Cupid'4 leathered Dart
Aud now lays bleeding every Hour
For tier tkat's PltyloM of my grief and woes
And will not on me Pity take
1'le sleep amongst my most Invelerntn Foes
And with gladness never wish to wnku
In doluding Bloopings let my eyelids close
That in an enraptured dream I may
In a soft lulling sleop aid gentle repose
Possess those joys denle I by day.
Wilh the volume in which this poem
appears was another, found at the
same time and also purchased by the
Government. It boars the title,
"Forms of Writing," and cojtains
models of dojds, bonds, contracts, re
ceipts, recipes, bills of sale, manifes
toes, and other commercial and legal
papers, togother with two poems. "On
Christmas Day," and "True Happi
ness. " "These follow a form of a
"Subprona for Evidences to Prove a
Will," and immediately after thorn ap
pears a recipe "To Keep Ink from
Freezing or Moulding."
The latter part of the volume con
tains the famous "Utiles of Civility,"
by which Washington governed his
:onduct.
Four years after his affair with
Betsy Fauntleroy, Washington be
camo enamored of fliss Mary Fhillipse,
tbe daughter of a prominent and
wealthy Englishman, Frederick P.
Phillipse, who lived in a superb man
sion on the bank of the Hudson, near
West Point. While on a journey to
Boston in 1750 be mot this young
lady at tho house of her brother-in-law,
Colonel Beverly Robinson, who
lived in the same locality. After a
few weeks' acquaintance ho proposed
to her, and was frankly informed that
she was engaged to marry another.
The sucoesslul suitor was Captain
Roger Morris, a companion in arms,
TOCBShj. ST-.-r s" J III I III' I I
9JWJlli,i
who, like Washington, was an aid to
General Braddook in the fatal Indian
oampaign.
Miss Phillipse was two years older
than Washington, having been born
at Yonkers, July 3, 1730. Her hus
band fought on the British side during
the Revolution, and her family were
all royalista. In 1778 Mrs. Morris
and her sister, Mrs. Robinson, were
aeoused of acting as spies for the
British, were arrested and imprisoned,
and their property was confiscated.
It was in tbe Phillipse house that
Benedict Arnold was residing when he
letrayedhis country, aud from their
grounds he took the boat which car
ried him into the British liues when
his treachery was discovered. Mine.
Jumel, the French woman who married
Aaron Burr, afterward purchased the
estate and lived npon it.
Two years after Washington was
jilted by Miss Phillipse, and when he
bad just returned from Fort du
Queene, he went to Williamsburg in
military dress attended by an orderly.
While crossing Williams's Ftrry over
the Pamunky lliver, a branch ot the
York, he wai accosted by a venerable
gentleman named Chambcrlnyu, who
had learned his identity, nud iuvited
to rest for a while at his house in the
neighborhood. Washington at first
declined, as his busiuusswith tho Gov
ernor at Williamsburg' was urgent, but
finally consented to stop for dinner.
Having arrived at tbe hospitable man
sion, be was introduced to the family
and a number of guests, among them
a charming and beautiful widow who
lived near by. There was a mutual
attraction, and instead of departing
immediately after dinner Washington
remained through the afternoon, aud
finally consented to pass the night.
In the morning ho proceeded upou his
way, and having transacted his busi
ness at Williamsburg, returned to Mr.
Chamberlayu's and spent severul
days.
The beautiful widow was Martha
Daudridge C'ustis, the daughter of
John Daudridgo,wliObQ husbaud, Dau
iel Parke Cubtis, died a year or so
previous, leaving her two children
and a large fortune iu lands aud
monoy. She was born in New Kent
County in 1732, was married at seven
teen, and when Washington first met
her was tweuty-six years old, aud in
the richest bloom ot womauhood. She
had a fine residence at Williamsburg
"the six chimney house" it was
called and a plantation near the oity,
with $100,000 of bonds aud mortgages
in her strong box. It is said thut the
day after she accepted Washington
Rho planted a yew tree iu the garden
behind "the six chimney house," a
symbol of devotion and consistency.
THE TOUNd WAMHTNGTOy.
The marrisire took tilace at the resi
dence of the bride on January 17,
1749 about six months after tho firrt
mentino and thA rtnremonv wad fol
lowed by a reception. Washington
was attending a session ot the House
of Burgesses at Williamsburg, then
the capital of Virginia, and at its close,
removed with his wife and her two lit
tle children to Mount Vernon.
In the following September he wrote
bis cr.usin Richard, declining an in
vitation lo visit England :
I am now, I belfcve, fixed nt this seal,
with an agreeable consort for life. And
hope to find move happiness in retirement
than I ever experienced amidst a wild, bus
tling world.
The unsatisfied yearning to huvo
children of his own was frequently
disclosed in his diary and in letters to
friends, but Washington was do
voted to his stepchildren, and loved to
have little "Patsy" and Nellie Custis
at his side.
WASHINGTON AT VALLEY FORME.
Ills Steadfastness In the Face of In
trigue and Privation.
Washington and his army were
starving the while at Valley Forge, in
dosporato straits to get something to
cat or anything to cover them in that
bitter season not because there were
no supplies, but because Congress had
disorganized the commissary depart
ment and the supplios seldom reached
the camp. The country bad not been
too heavily stricken by tho war.
Abundant crops were everywhere
sown and peacefully reaped, and there
were men enough to do tbe work of
sued time and harvest. It was only
the army that was suffering for laok of
food.and lack of men. The naked faot
was that tbe confederacy was falling
opart for laok of government. Local
Bullishness had overmastered National
feeling, and ouly a few men like Wash
ington hold the breaking structure
together. Washington's steadfastness
was never shaken ; and Mrs. Washing
ton, stanch lady that she was, joined
him even at Valley Forgo. The in
trigue against him he watcbed in stern
silence till it was ripe and evident,
when ho crushed it with tudden ex
posure, and turned away iu oontompt,
Washington's iieadquahtehh at vallev
I'OHGB.
hardly so much as mentioning it in
his letters to his friends. "Their own
artless zeal to advivuce their views has
destroyed them, he said. His soldiers
he succored and supplied as he could,
himself sharing their privations, and
eurning their love as ho served them,
"Naked and tdsrviug na they arc," ho
wrote, "tvo cannot bullioiontly admire
tbe incomparable patience aud fidelity
of the soldiers." Harper's Magazine.
Wiiihiti'toii Setting- a Post.
Iu the village of Houthport, Conn.,
is preserved a piece of cedar post
which Washington helped to.sct iu the
grouud at Furriugton. Tho story as
sociated with the post is told by the
l!ev. A. N. Lewis iu a published ad
dress. lie wch out walking with his host
whan he came to a inuu who was plant
ing a hitching post in tho grouud by
tho roadside. Tho General stopped
aud said:
"My friend, I can show you how to
set your post so that it will never rot."
Tukiuar it in his hands tlioe great
hands of his ho placed it upsidu down
aud held It wliiio the imiu tilled up the
hole aud .tampo.l the earth around it.
It is a well-known fact that a post
set bottom side up in tho ground will
not adsorb water. Tiiu sap tubes will
not "draw" when the post is reversed.
Mauled to lie Lil.e tieori;e,
Willie Littleboy "I wish I h;id
beeu George Washington."
Papa "Why so, my son?"
Willie "Why, papa, ho couldn't
tell a lie, uu 1 so wbeu lie wan visiting
and was asked if he would liko another
piece of pie, iuoteud of savin;; no just
lor the sake of beiug polite, he told
the truth aud said yes."
M'lEMlFIC A SO INDUSTRIAL.
Aluminum skates gain favor.
A clever Parisian has invented a
machine that can split a human hair
lengthwise into thirty-six strips.
A dust excluder for Tehiolo hubs
consists of a cap secured to the outer
end of the hub, being easily remov
able. An electric roller for massage pur
poses is composed of platos of copper
and zino and generates its own elec
tricity. It takes thirty-seven specially con
structed and equipped steamers to
keep the . submarine tolograph cables
of the world in repair.
Steels tempered iu phenol have been
found by M. Sevat to have much
greater hardness and elasticity than
those tempered in water.
A Massachusetts woman has a pat
ented leather dressing consisting of a
compound of wax, rubber, cutta
peroha, Spanish licorioe and paralliu
oil, the proportions being secret..
A new nut lock has one corner re
cessed, in whioh a piu is placed hav
ing a sharp point to engage tho fluted
sides of tho bolt. Tho piu cau be
spung back out of the way to unscrew
tho nut.
It is reported that Dr. Gacearolli,
of Rome, has discovered tho charac
teristic germ of yellow fever and that
he hopes to utilize his discovery for
tho prevention or amelioration of the
disease.
A new car fender is nltachcd to tho
truck of a car, instead of tho oar body,
thus doing away with the oscillating
motion of the car, as tho truck always
remains solid on tbe tracks, the car
body oaly springing up and down.
The pneumatio tube system for car
rying small parcels and mail packages
is to bo laid down iu Boston. The sys
tem has boon in use in European cities
for the last fifty years, but tho major
ity of the tubes are ouly threo inches
iu diamoter. The Boston system will
have eight inch tubes.
Swallow-wort, or the great celan
dine, which Dr. Denisenko asserts is
a cure for cancer, has long been used
by country people to cure worts. The
doctor uses the juice of the plant di
lutod, both externally and internally,
in external cases injecting the fluid
hypodermically around the cancerous
growth. According to tho Lancet,
however, experiments with his iipecifio
by other observers have not confirmed
Lis results,
Gold Nugget From the Ocean.
Captain J. Dahl, master of the Nor
wegian bark Handy, when discharging
a timber cargo at Irvine, the other
day, had with him, says tho Boston
Journal, a small nugget of gold which
ho found adhering to bis sounding
lead after taking soundings oil' tho
coast of Newfoundland a few' weeks
ago. Captain Dahl, who hails from
Fredrikshald, Norway, was at tho time
on his way home to Dnlhousio, New
Brunswick, to load his cargo. Tho
load had the usual thiok coating of
tallow on the end which coraei iu con
tact with the bottom, and when hauled
in he found tho tiny bit of gold, about
tbe size of a beau, sticking to the tal
low. At Dalhousie Captain Dahl showed
it to the merchant with whom he was
transacting business, and who, ou
having it tested, found it to bo pure
gold. Captain Dahl stated that be
fore leaving he had nn offer of $3000
ou condition that he would furnish
information as to bis preoiso bearings
at the time he cast tho lead, but re
fused. Ho was iu British waters at
the time, and will first ascertain what
the Government authorities have to
say to bim on the subjeot. Ho has
reported tho find to tho Custoin-honse
at Irvine, but refuses to give up the
bit of gold.
A Curious Desert Island.
It is proposed to explore the islnud
or rock of Rockall, whioh is situated
in tho oneii Atlantic, iu fifty-seven de
grees thirty-six miuutoi north lati
tude, about 200 miles webt of the 1 lei -rides,
and no other land nearer. It is
about 230 feet in circumference at tho
base and sixty feet at tho top, and
looks at a distance liko a ship under
sail, boing whitened by the guano that
has been deposited upou it. It appears
to be tho emerged point of nu exten
sive mountainous submarine table
land, stretching from the southwest to
the northeast, and giving riso to it
number of dangerous ro:ks and reefs
iu the neighborhood, it oilers advan
tages of great promise as a meteoro
logical station, situuted as it is in' tho
zone of the most extensive area of cy
clones in the Northern Hemisphere,
but it is not easy to laud upon it when
the sea is at all rough. It is but little
visited. It bears a few plants which
have not been collected and studied,
and is the resort of numerous sea birds.
The curious peak is situated at a great
er dibtauco from any mainland thau
any other isolated rook of liko dimen
sions iu any part of tho world.
London Cliaritirs.
"Ascor" writos from London to tho
New York Mail and Express : I am
ever amazed as tbe years roll away to
note how magnificently Engluud is
honeycombed with compastiou. Lou
don is its most brilliant illustration,
through what is true of tho metropolis
holds true by the United Kingdom.
There were iu Loudon in lH'.Mi no less
than 9(10 charitublo institutions of all
sorts, hospitals, missionary societies,
nursiug institutions, orphanages,
Bible societies, uud the like. Of these
737 publish their accouuts, and I find
these 737 enjoyed la year the prince
ly income of $2H,2U7,100. Every
peuuy of this sum was voluntarily con
tributed. What an illustration in
this saddened end of the century ot
that exquisite Scripture truth : "Ami
the greatest of these is Charity."
LOVE'S MESSENGERS,
Tiie roso shall be my messenger,
Tho herald of devotion;
Kaeli ptal swoct shall bo tho seat
Of ten lerest emotion !
And In the honrt of each fair rose,
Deep hi 1 Jen in the core,
There rests my soul, my Inner self,
To love but you o'ertnore.
E.ieh rose will die, each petal fade
And wither fast away;
Utieh freighted heart that speaks my lovo
Will anguish and decay;
No so with love my soul that's bid
Within each roso's core;
That love will breathe and speak and Uva
Forever, evormore.
'Twill live for you and speak to you
When roses cease to be;
'Twill breathe the roso's frngranoo rare"
For thee, my sweet, for tbee!
Then baste, my messengers of love
Tell her my each emotion.
Oh, petals swoet, at her dear feot,
Despeak my fond dovotlon.
William Manley.
HUMOR OF TIIE DAT.
"What do yon mean by being en
gaged to three men at once?" "Noth
ing." Yale Record.
She "Doesn't he make a fine clergy
man?" He--"ile's great I I oounted
five men asleep." 1'uok,
Jones "The play is said to be an
nrtistio tuccess." Smith "Are they
losiug much money on it?" Truth.
Loudon Nativo "That is quite a
high building." Foreigner "Yes,
indeed ; that's a regular fog-scraper."
Puck.
Bobby 'Top, what does prom'oni
tiou mean?" Fond Taront "Premoni
tion, Bobby, means 'I told you so 1' "
Puck.
You cau buy wearing apparel for a
song nowadays, but, unfortunately, a
grent maDy people -can't sing." Bos
ton Budget.
Mamma "Mrs. Brown says her lit
tle boy looks very much liko ours."
Papa "Then ours must bo better
looking." Puck.
"Let's seo," remarked the youth and
the damsel ; and then they turned
dowu the gas till nobody else could see
a thing. Detroit Tribune.
Sputter "Do you suppose it's such
a very bad thing to ho sarcastic?"
Cutter "Not nearly as bad us to think .
you are and not bo so." Truth.
The young man who in auxioiH to
lay tho world at tho feet of the girl ho
adores, three months after he marries
her isu't willing even to lay tho car
pet. "Aro you ungry, Miss Spitoly?"
"I'm enraged. I'm going to make
that man's life miserable if I have
to marry him to do it." Detroit Free
Press.
"Tho good die young, you know,"
said Bilger to Sadboy, the pessimist,
"i'es," said Sadboy, "that's because
it's tho only timo people are good."
Rosbury Gazette.
The Countess "Do show me the
coronet I" Tho Earl "My dear, I'll
show you tho ticket for the coronet.
It was hypothecated to pay for tbe
engagement ring.."--Fuck.
Paterfamilias (walking tho floor
with son and heir) "Hubios, they say,
aro suoh helpless things! But what
do they think ot me? Talk about
helplessness ! Boston Transcript.
"Do you mean to say, Chutuley,
thut you spend less money siuoo you
wore married than you did bofore?"
That's what it amounts to. 1 have
much less to spend." Detroit Freo
Press.
"You think Briggs is crazy because
he stole 10? I should say that snoll J
. t ... 1 1. : : I .11.....
Hll net wotllil luaau u ciuuiuui ruiuer
than a lunatic of bim." "But he had
a chance to tako $-.00." "Oh I"
Cleveland Leader.
"George, this papor says there's a
sermon in every blade ot grass."
"That so?" Well, you dou't got mo
to goto church any morel I'l bet
ten dollars that's where I got this
blamed old bay-fever." Puck.
Mr. Cuiiiho "This is a very bad re
port to bring mo from school,
Tommy." Tommy "I know, papa;
but you said if I'd bring you a good
report you'd give mo a quarter, and
I wanted to save you money." De
troit Freo I'res.
"Well," Hnid tho sarcastic! man at
the theatre, "I'm ever so much obliged
to that girl who sits iu front of me;
tho one with tho frightfully big bat."
"I dou't sen what you're obliged to
her for." "For not raising her para
sol." Washington Stur.
Miss Do Laiuu "You seem to bo
very loud of your friend, Miss Hair.
You never tiro of kis-iug her." Mis
Do Silk "Well, 1 do not care much
for her personality ; but did you
notice what a sweet little mustache
she has?" New York Weekly.
She "Ii-u't it wou leriul to thiuk
of tho achievements of science? So
inuiiy things have been brought with
in the reach of tho mates. " Ho
"Yes, indeed! Some years ago golden
hair was tho boast of a favored few;
now, anybody can have it that wants
it." Puck.
Itat -Tiups tor uu I'ai'tliqiiitke.
Iu connection with tho lute earth
quake, a funny story is told of a well
known Conservative Member of Parlia
ment, Ho lives iu uu undent and rat
infested nmusiou, near what seems to
huvo been tho centre of the disturb
nnoe. When the earthquake disturbed
his slumbers, ho jumped out of be I,
exclaiming that ho would stand this
sort of tiling no longer. With the
resolutions of a desturuto mat', ho
then procured uu I tet two largo rat
traps, au I retired to ret, feeling that
he was prepure I lor the worst. Traps
hve been sot before now t catch
sunbeams; but this is the tir.-t time ou
record ot their being employe. I against
earthquakes. Loudou Truth.