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Poet ry.
SiOT LOST.
BY MARY BBOTHEBTOX.
mp rooted like trees in one place.
Our brain foliage toss'd
Like the leaves of the trees that are caught
15y the fonr win Id of heaven-some thought
lllowg out of the world into space.
And seems lost.
IL
We fret, the mind labors, heart bleeds;
We believe and we fear.
We believe and we hope, in a Lie,
r a Truth; or we doubt till we die,
I'urbUndlr examining creeds
With a sneer.
IIL
To Life we apply an inch rule.
And to its lien tower;
Each to self an infallible priest.
Each struts to the top of the leant.
And savs to his brother, "Thou fool !
Jo down lower."
IV.
l'.ut fall'n like trees from our place.
Hid. imbedded, enmoss'd;
Our dead leaves are raked np for mold.
And some that were sun-ripe and
Blown out of the world into space.
Are not lost.
Kf-ottish Anecdote.
In a very entertaining work, entitled
"Reminiscences of Scottish Life and
Character," from the pen of Dean Ram
say, we find the following humorous
illustrations):
"Some years ago, when it was not an
uncommon thing, even in Scotland, for
challenges to be given and accepted for
insults, or supposed insults, an Eng
lish gentleman was entertaining a party
at Inverness with an account of the
wonders he had seen and the deeds he
had performed in India, from whence
he had lately arrived. He enlarged
particularly upon the size of the tigers
he had met with at different times in
his travels, and by way of corroborat
ing his statements, assured the com
pany that he had shot one himself con
siderably above forty feet long. A
Scottish gentleman present, who
thonght these narratives rather ex
ceeded a traveler's allowed privileges,
coolly 6aid that no doubt those were
very remarkable tigers, but that he
could assure the gentleman there were
in that northern part of the country
some wonderful animals, and as an ex
ample he cited the existence of a skate-
fish captured off Thurso, exceeding
half-an-acre in extent. Ihe Ji.ngiish
man saw this was intended as a sar
casm agains'i his own story; so he left
the room in indignation, and sent his
friend to demand satisfaction or au
apology from the gentleman who had,
he thought, insulted him. The nar
rator of the skate coolly replies, 'Weel,
sir, gin yer freend will tak a few feet
aff the length o' his tiger, we'll see
what can be done about the breadth o'
the skate.' "
"The parishioners of a clergyman in
Scotland, iu expressing to him their
aversion to the nse of manuscript ser
mons, urged: 'What gars ye tak np
your bit papers to the pu'pit?' He
replied that it was best, for really he
could not remember ms sermon, ana
must have his paper. Veel, weel
minister, then dinna expect that we
can remember them.' "
"A late Duke of Athole had invited
a well-known character, a writer of
Perth, to come np and meet him at
Dunkeld for the transaction of some
business. The Duke mentioned the
day and hour when he should receive
the man of law, who accordingly
came punctually at the appointed time
and place. But the Duke had forgotten
the appointment, and gone to the hill,
from which he could not return for
some hours. A Highlander present
described the Perth writer's indigna
tion, and his mode of showing it by a
most elaborate course of swearing.
But whom did he swear at?' was the
inquiry made of the narrator, who re
plied, "'Oh, he didna sweer at ony thing
particular, but juist stude in ta middle
of ta road and ewoor at lairge.' "
Cheap Ice.
When the first artificial ice was
produced, in Trance, it cost 8110 a
ton, or 5 cents a pound. In 1850,
Prof. Twining of Ohio patented a pro
cess in Europe, and succeeded in mak
ing, with a ten-horse engine, 1,000
pounds of ice a day, at a cost of a half
cent per pound, or $10 per ton. Bnt
the Columbus (Ga.)Sun says that the
Columbus iron works have perfected
machines by which they can make a su
perior quality of ice in quantities only
limited by the capacity of the apparatus,
at a cost ranging from seventy-five
cents to two dollars per ton, the latter
being the maximum, or one-tenth of
a cent per pound. "The Columbus
process" claims superiority in the cheap
ness and durability of its apparatus, and
in the cheapness, cVity simplicity
with which icu et ee manufactured.
Distilled water is tsi, and the ice is
therefore purer rhUhat cat from stan
ding pond. These machines are being
built now with a capacity of from 1000
to 20,000 pounds a day, and ranging in
prices from SiWO to $20,000. They can
te naed in the water at less expense
than the cost of cutting and storing the
ice made by nature, and are as good
for northern as southern latitudes.
Length ofLife of farmer.
In Massachusetts there is a State
Board of Health, which has been pay
ing attention to the sanitary condition
of farmers. Its fourth annual report is
publiehed, and an article on the above
subject, based upon the reports of
country physicians, appears. This tes
timony, including evidence collected
the past 28 years, shows that the aver
age life of the Massachusetts farmer is
to 1-4 years a greater longevity than
that of any other class. Yet it is
claimed that farmers might live much
longer if they were better and more
caref ully fed, lived upon more nutri
tious and wholesome diet, ate wiih
greater deliberation, and were careful
wt to engage in active exercise too
oon after eating. They should eat
more fruit end vegetables, less of pork,
pies,cakes, saleratus biscmt,take pains
to protect themselves better from sud
den changes of temperature, deodorize
cess pools, sinks, out-houses, and keep
clean back yards; change clothing and
bathe more frequently. Such statistics
and suggestions are valuable, and de-
serve me aisii"" .
In the last six months the value of
telegraphic wires, etc, exported from
England was 1.579,754; in the same
period in the corresponding year, 7Ua,-410.
TI1E IRISH BRIGADE.
The story of the Irish Brigade is one
of the most interesting episodes in the
history of the Irish people. Their
ardent military spirit, which lias one of
the results of their Celtic origin, had
been wasted through many centuries,
in savage feuds among themselves, or in
fruitless resistance to their invaders
and when at length it had become dis
ciplined, under Sarsfield and St Ruth,
and acquired a force whicn might have
yielded England the greatest service in
her ensuing wars, it was lost to her
through the intolerance which pro
scribed the religion of a nation.
The laws of the period, which forbade
Catholics to bear arms nnder the Eng
lish crown, blindly renounced all the
advantages to be derived from their de
votion, and compelled the army of
James IL, when disbanded at the Peace
of Limerick, to pass over to the Con
tinent, and enroll nnder its various
monarchs. Almost every throne of Eu
rope profited by the bold hearts and
stalwart frames of the buoyaut sons of
the Emerald Isle, except only the one
that still nominally claimed their alle
giance while repudiating their services.
It was in France, however, that James's
army was fonnd principally to reassem
bleowing, probably, to the greater
sympathy of the Hibernian and the
Celtic temperaments and there formed
themselves into a body, which soon be
came distinguished under its title of
the "Irish Brigade."
These gallant emigrants, who left be
hind them all their social and domestic
ties, carried abroad, with their untar
nished honor and their indomitable
courage, all their unconquerable gayety
and their undying love for their native
country. Almost as deep, however,
perhaps was their love for their native
music So strong was it. indeed, that
they refused to march to the French
tunes, and on all military occasians in
sisted on the use of their national airs
a gratification that was conceded to
them, though the same favor was denied
to the Swiss. For this, however, there
was a reason. The mnsic of the "Kanz
des Yacb.cs" awoke in the breast of the
latter such a passionate longing for
home, that it often led to desertion ;
while in the poor Irishman, whose home
was lost to him, no such danger was to
be feared.
During the course of almost a century
the Brigade was enrolled in the French
army, aud had an honorable share in
all the latter's brightest achievements
in Flanders, Spain, and Italy. Many
instances of its stanch fidelity and its
daring, decisive courage might be
quoted from the military records of
those days ; but one especially may be
selected, which, in its singular combina
tion of the heroic and the grotesque,
must be regarded as very national :
Cremona, besieged by Prinoe Eugene,
and defended by the French, was sur
prised one morning before dawn, and
would inevitably have been lost but for
the promptitude of the Irislu While
the punctilious and ornate Frenchmen
were deliberately buttoning up their
regimentals, the former, at the sound
of their trumpets, jumped out of bed,
and, simply staying to buckle on their
cross-belts and cartonch bozes, seized
their guns and hurried to the square,
where, on forming in fighting order,
their commander's words, "Halt !
dress !" were, at least in one respect,
superfluous. Their indifference to ap
pearances on this occasion wan all the
greater that the period was midwinter,
and the city was near the Alp. In this
condition they were charged by the
Austrian cuirassiers. It was steel-coats
against night shirts ; but the linen
trade of Ireland proved the more for
midable of the two. The Austrians
were driven back, and the French had
time to form and recover possession of
the town. For this brilliant service the
Brigade was honored with the emphatic
thanks of Louis XIV., and also had
their pay increased.
But these fearless fellows, as may be
supposed, carried aboard to their new
service not only their courage and
fidelity, but all their exuberance as
Irishmen. Their rollicking spirit and
love of fnn were quite as great as their
love of fighting, and at times were so
opposed to propriety and discipline,
that the martinets of the French ranks
had to make formal complaints on the
matter. It was on one such occasion
that a great compliment was paid them
by the brave Duke of Berwick, who,
however, had good reason to love them
for their devotion to his father.
"Marshal," said the king to him,
"this Irish Brigade gives me more
trouble than all my army put together."
"Please your majesty ," replied the
duke, "your enemies make just the same
complaint of them 1"
The idol of the Brigade was the cele
brated Marshal Saxe, whose great
bravery, in union with his jovial, mirth
ful temierameut, gave him a character
that was so engrviug and so kindred to
their own. It wa in reference to him
originated one of the blunders of poor
Pat that has so often been repeated and
localized everywhere, The marshal
was wounded in some engagement, and,
moreover, it was reported in his back.
None of the Brigade, however, would
believe it.
"When did he ever show bis back to
them ?" was the general exclamation.
"Wasn't it his face they knew the most
of and wasn't it their backs that he knew
best?"
At last a solution of the mystery was
hit unon : .
"He was purshuing 'em, yon see, and
just to make the villius think thst, on
the conthrary, he was Tetratjng, he
buttoned his coat behind him !"
Of the anecdotes and jokes told of the
Brigade during their extended foreign
.Urciiv nmnfH of a humor and light-
heartedness which exile even could not
subdue the number is, indeed, legion.
Gallic vanity forced them often into the
attitude of censors, and several of their
repartees are excellent, and as full of
senseas they were of pleasantry. Among
the mass of these is one inas u
often referred to their sources when a
Frenchman, claiming for his country
41. invent if in Cff all the elegances,
named, among other things, ruine ,
and Pat answerd :
"We improved on it we put to it a
shirt" . . . , ,
Tn thA same stunt bnt less known,
was his retort upon a shopkeeper in
some potty town where ne was qnaneiru.
Tii. .,io haA rather a pretentions gate,
and the grocer, dilating on its grandeur
and asking what the Irish would say if
they possessed it
"Faith, they'd say," ws his reply
.-ii krvo tha bir eat shut, or the
dirty littletown will be after rumng
out of it" ,
The sarcasm, however, was deeper
and more essentially Hibernian when,
on his going somewhere to dine, after
hearing great praises of French cookery,
he saw a pot of soup brought in with a
bit of meat floating on the top of it
upon which he pulled on nis coas, aou,
"Sure I am going to have a swim for
that little bit of mate there."
Among the adventures recorded of
the Brigade, one of the most amusing
was an occurrence, in the time of the
Regent Orleans, in honor of whose
birthday a grand masquerade was given
in Paris. It was a high-class affair ;
tickets were a donble louis d'och are ;
all the rank and beauty of Paris were
assembled round the regent, and a
costly and luxurious supper crowned
the attractions of the night While the
entertainment was proceeding, one ef
the prince's suite approached and
whispered to him :
"It is worth your royal highness's
while to step into the supper-rooms ;
there is a yellow domino there, who is
the most extraordinary cormorant ever
witnessed ; he is a prodigy, your high
ness he never stops eating and drink
ing ; and the attendants say, moreover,
that he has not done so for some hours."
His royal highness went accordingly;
and sure enough there was the yellow
domino, laying about him as described,
and swallowing every thing as raven
ously as if he had only just begun.
Raised pies fell before him like garden
palings before a field piece ; pheasants
and quails seemed to fly down his throat
in a little covey ; the wine he drank
threatened a scarcity, whatever might
be the next vintage.
After watching him for some time,
the dnke acknowledged he was a
wonder, and laughingly left the room ;
but shortly afterward, on passing
through another, he saw the yellow
domino again, and as actively at work
as ever, devastating the dishes every
where, and emtying the champagne
bottles as rapidly as they were brought
to him. Perfectly amazed, the duke at
last could not restrain his curiosity.
"Who," he asked, "is that insatiate
ogre that threatens such annihilation
to all the labors of our cooks ?"
Accordingly, one of the suite was dis
patched to him.
"His royal highness the Duke of
Orleans desires the yellow domino to
unmask."
But the domino begged to be excused,
pleading the privilege of masquerade.
"There is a higher law" replied the
officer ; "the royal order must be
obeyed."
"Well, then," answered the incognito,
"if it must be so, it must ;" and, un
masking, exhibited the ruddy visage of
an Irish trooper.
"Why, in the name of Polyphemus 1"
exclaimed the regent, as he advanced
to him ; "who and what are you ? I
have seen you eat and drink enough for
a dozen men at least, and yet you seem
as empty as ever."
"Well, then," said the trooper, "since
the saycret must come out, plase, your
royal highness, 1 am one of Clares's
Horse that's the guard-of-honor to
night and when our men was ordered
out, we clubbed our money to buy a
ticket, and agreed to take our turn at
the supper-table, turn and turn about."
"What !" exclaimed the duke, "the
whole troop coming to supper ?"
"Oh, it's asy, plase your highness ;
sure one domino would do for all of as
if ache tuk it in turn. I'm only the
eighteenth man, and there's twelve more
of us to come."
The loud laughter of the jovial duke,
probably the heartiest he had had for a
long time, was the response to this ex
planation, followed by a lonis d'or to
the dragoon, and a promise to keep his
"saycret" till the entire troop had
supped.
The career of the Irish Brigade closed
with the approach of the French Revolu
tion and fortunately for them, no
doubt ; since, had they remained in
Fiance, there is little question they
wolud have maintained their loyalty,
and been massacred like the Swiss.
"Life of Samuel Lover" (London, 1874).
The Gentle Life.
This is the beautiful heritage of the
well-born man and the gentle woman.
They may be poor or rich to-day, they
may be living a life of leisure or toil
ing for their bread all the same they
carry with them the grace, the care.the
gentleness, the consideration, the know
ledge which we call intuition or in
stinct, which comes from generations
of culture and a thousand qualities of
mind aud heart which win social recog
nition and bring happiness to the pos
sessor. The accumulation of more money as
an inheritance for children is often
worse than nothing in their hands; it
deprives them of all inoentive to per
sonal effort and nnfrequently proves
the means by which they ride fast to
destruction. Money is worse than
nothing if the lives of the past and as
sociations of the present have not
taught us how to put it to its noblest
uses.
But the order, the training, the ex
perience of a life are invaluable. They
form witn eaucauon, a aey inai un
locks the recesses of the world, and be
comes a power that no loss in stocks or
bonds or houses or lands can deprive
the unfortunate possessor of. They
make him the equal of the best, and
therefore at ease with all men. De
prived of leisure and of resources which
we would know how to appreciate, he
still finds within himself more than
others find outside of themselves. Out
wardly, his life is isolated; inwardly,
he holds communion with all that is
best and finest in art and society and
literature. His gracious and kindly
manners, which he retains in spite of
poverty or wealth, show that he con
sorts only with the noblest, whether
his dwelling here be a hut or a palace.
Bachelors ana Patrimony.
rtno unn whw there are so many
bachelors is that young men in moder-
ate circumstances cannot anoru w
marry. The extravagance of the outfit
..l tf utiwiiiu nf the bridal tour
frighten many a timid young man
whose oanx account is iiui cuuiuieu
inrAtA with hiii love. An example in
point is the case of a Leavenworth
couple wno, owing vo pareuuu op
tions, could not be married within the
boundaries of their native State. So
the groom, securing funds to the
amount of nine dollars, started with
his intended, her mother and a mutual
friend for the friendly soil of Missouri.
The twain were made one. The fee to
(1 sm and the railway fare
Braced the exchequer to one solitary
dollar. A banquet t.ai an ice-cream sa
loon) still further diminished their
r.nr,lv nf ash and the las', two nickels
1 1 j - ,
were used in the purcuase of soda
water. ow, nere was au eipouunuxu
of nine dollars, and all for a wedding.
If any young man is willing to begin
his wedded life on the capital men
tioned by Ingomar, "Two souls with
knt iit1a ttnpht two hearts that
beat as one," let him start it; otherwise
be had better suci to iu mwroaiwuu
and buy a poodle. Inter- Ocea n.
The ball that is kept rolling The
croquet ball.
A Jealinw Marshal.
The stories told of the celebrated
Russian Marshal Snwaroff, display bet
ter tan whole pages of description the
wjnderful way in which he contrived
to adapt himself to the rnde spirits
with whom he had to deal, without
losing one jot of his authority.
What Napoleon was to the French
Snwaroff was to the Russian army now
jesting with a soldier, and now rebuk
ing a general; one day sharing a ration
of black bread beside a bivouac fire,
and the next speaking as an equal to
princes and potentates. In fact the
two great sponsors of Russian wit form
a most picturesque contrast Balk
aireff was very much the character of a
spaniel in a lion's cage admiring even
while mocking his formidable patron,
behaving toward him with a half wag
gish, half affectionate familiarity, per
petually forgiven. Snwaroff comes be
fore us as an uncrowned king, one
whose authority needed no outward
symbol; an autocrat of nature's mak
ing, full of rough, hearty familiarity
that was in no danger of breeding eon
tempt, and surrounded by men who
enjoyed the bonhomie, while they
dreaded the displeasure of the little
pug-nosed, grimy man, who was in their
eyes the incarnation of earthly power
and grandeur.
It must be owned, however, that in
his own peculiar vein of pleasantry the
old marshal more than once met with
his match. One of his favorite jokes
was to confuse a man by asking him un
expectedly "How many stars are there in the
sky?"
On one occasion he put this question
to one of his sentries on a bitter Janu
ary, such as only Russia can produoe.
The soldier, not a whit disturbed, an
swered coolly
"Wait a little and IU tell yon;" and
he deliberately began to count, "One,
two, three," etc
In this way he went gravely on to' a
huudred.at which point Snwaroff, who
was already half frozen, thonght it
high time to ride off, not however,
without inquiring the name of the
ready reckoner.
The next day the latter found him
self promoted, and the story (which
Snwaroff told with great glee to his
staff), speedily made its way through
the army.
Ou another occasion one of his gen
erals of a division sent him a sergeant
with dispatches, at the same time re
commending the bearer to SuwarofTs
notice. The marshal as usual, pro
ceeded to test him by a series of whim
sical questions; but the catechumen
was equal to the occasion.
"How far is it to the moon ?' asked
Suwaroff.
"Two of your excellency's forced
marches," answered the sergeant
"Supposing you were blockaded, and
had no provisions left, how would you
supply yourself?"
"From the enemy."
"How many fish are there in the
sea?"
"As many as have not been caught."
And so the examination went on, till
Suwaroff, finding his new acquaintance
armed at all points, at length asked
him, as a final poser
"What is the difference between your
colonel and myself ?"
"The difference is this," replied the
soldier,coolly;"my colonel cannot,make
me a captain, but yonr excellency has
only to say the word."
Suwaroff, struck by his shrewdness,
kept his eyes upon the man, and in no
long time after actually gave him the
specified promotion.
The anecdotes of the marshal's ec
centricities his habits of wandering
about the camp in disguise, his whim
of giving the signal for assault by
crowing like a cock, his astounding en
durance of heat and cold, his savage
disregard of personal comfort and neat
ness are beyond calculation; but per
haps the most characteristic of all was
his appearance in 1799 at the Austrian
court, then one of the most brillian t in
Enrooe.
On being shown to the room pre
pared for him (a splendid apartment,
filled with costly mirror and rich furni
ture) this modern Diogenes said,
simply
"Turn out the rubbish, and snaKe
me down some straw."
An Austrian grandee who came to
visit him was startled at these prepara
tions,and still more so at the first sight
of the marshal's "baggage," which con
sisted of two coarse shirts and a tat
tered cloak tied np in a bundle.
"Is that enough for winter ? asked
the astonished visitor.
"The winter's the father of as Rus
sians," answered Snwaroff, with a grin;
"besides, you don t feel the cold when
you're riding full gallop."
"lint when you rs tired oi riding
what do you do ?"
"Walk.
"But when you're tired of walking ?"
"Run."
"And do you never sleep, then ?"
asked the petrified questioner.
"Sometimes, when I've nothing bet
ter to do," replied Suvoroff, carelessly;
and when 1 want to have a very luxu
rious nap, I take off one of my spurs."
The thunderstruck Austrian bowed
and retired, doubtless considerably en
lightened in his ideas of a Russian
General.
Eccentricity at" Genius.
Alexander Dumas the elder persisted
in going into the kitchen to take a
hand at the spit, and Ingres was un
happy nuless he could play on the vio
lin. But these occupations were not
pursued to the neglect of those call
ings to which they were bom. If
Dumas made those ragouts for which
lie was famous, he at the same time
did much literary work. If Ingres
played a good deal on the violin, he at
the same time made pictures that will
not easily le forgotten. "The spider
in the ceiling" of Edmond About is
worse than either of these. It is poli
ties. For a nuniler of years he was on
the brink, or paddling about in the
shallow waters, of the political stream;
and this terminated three or four year
m-n in the fatal plunire. The idea of
having a political part in the history of
his country has pursued him with un
rest, and caused him, if he were not too
Sroud to admit it, a good deal of pain,
ournalisni was thought to offer the
best ladder to political prefernieiit,and
he embraced it. Here he was at a dis
advantage for half a dozen journalists
in Paris can write as good if not better
leaders than he, although there is not a
man in France capable of writing such
words as he has written. It was
thought when he and i rancisque Nir
ppv Tiecame editors of the "XIX.
Siecle," that with two such men the
success of the journal would be equal
tn anv of its contemporaries, which
turns out not to be the case. That
About' s articles are able, and often
brilliant, few deny: but they fail to in
fluence any large class of people even
in his own party. .The Galaxy.
The churlishness of the undertaker
in demanding pay in advance delayed
the funeral fonr days.
The Bay who Took m Boarder.
Once upon a time, long before any
of you children were born nlmnt two
hundred and fifty years ago, in fact a
little loy stood, one morning, at the
door of a palace in Florence ,and looked
about him.
Why he was standing there, I do not
know. Perhaps he was watching for
the butcher or the milkman, for he was
a kitchen-boy in the household of a
rich and mighty cardinal. He was
twelve years old, and his name was
Thomas.
Suddenly he felt a tap on his shoul
der, which made him turn around, and
he said, with great astonishment:
"What! Is that you, Peter! What
has brought you to Florence f and how
are all the people in Cartona T"
"They're all well," answered Peter,
who likewise was a lioy of twelve.
"Hut I've left them for good. I'm
tired of biking care of sheep stupid
things! I want to lie a paiuter. I've
come to Florence to learn how. They
say there's a school here where they
tearh people."
"But have you got any money V
asked Thomas.
"Not a penny."
"Then you can't le a painter. You
ltad much better take service in the
kitchen with me, here in the palace.
Yon will le sure of not starving to
death, at least," said the sage Thomas.
"Do you get enough to eat !" asked
the other bov. reflectively.
"Plenty. More than enough."
"I dou t wan't to take service, lie
cause I want to be a painter," said
Peter "But I'll tell you what we'll
do. As you have more than you need
to eat, you shall take me to board on
trust at first, and when I'm a grown-up
painter, I'll settle the bill."
"Agreed," said Thomas, after a mo
ment's thought "I can manage it.
Come up stairs to the garret where I
sleep, and I'll bring you some dinner,
by aud by."
So the two Imys went np to the little
room among the chimney-pots where
Thomas slept It was very, very small,
and all the furniture in it was au old
straw ln-d and two rickety chairs. But
the walls were beautifully white
washed. The food was good and plentiful, for
when Thomas went down into the
kitchen and foraged among the broken
meats, he fonnd the half of a fine mut
ton pie, which the cook had carelessly
thrown out. The cardinal's household
was conducted upon very extravagant
principles.
That did not trouble Peter, however,
anil he enioyed the nintton-pie hugely,
and told Thomas that he felt as if he
could rly to the moon.
"So far, so good," said he; "lint,
Thomas, I can't be a painter without
pnjier and pencils and brushes and col
ors. Havn't you any money t"
,Xo," said Thomas, despairingly,
"and I don't know how to get any, for
I shall receive no wages for three
years."
"Then I can't le a painter, after all,"
said Peter, mournfully.
"I'll tell you what," suggested Thom
as. "I'll get some charcoal dowu in
the kitchen, and you can draw pictures
on the wall."
So Peter set resolutely to work, and
drew so many figures ol men and wo
men and birds and trees amllieasts and
tlowers.that liefore long the walls were
all covered with pictures.
At last, one happy day, Thomas came
into possession of a small piece of sil
ver money. I'pou my word I don't
know where he got it. But he was
much too honest a boy to take money
that did not liclong to him, aud so, I
Cresnme, he derived it from the sale of
is "perauisites."
You may lie snre there was joy In the
little boarding-house up among the
chininey-MiU, for now Peter could
have pencils and paper and India-rubber,
and a few other things that artists
need. Then he changed his way ot life
a little. He went out early every morn
ing and wandered about "Florence, and
drew everything he could find to draw,
whether the pictures in the churches.
or the fronts nf the old palaces, or
the statues m the pulilic squares, or
the outlines of the hills bevond the
Arno, just as it hapened. Then, when
it became too dark to work any longer,
I'eter would go home to his lioarding
house, and find his dinner all nicely
tucked away under the old straw lieu,
where landlord Thomas had put it, not
so much to hide it as to keep it warm.
Thiura went on in this way for about
two years. None of the servants knew
that Thomas kept a boarder, or if they
did know it, they good-naturedly shut
their eyes. The cook used to remark
sometimes,that Thomas ate a good deal
for a lad of his size, and it was surpris
ing he didn't grow more.
One day, the cardinal took it into his
head to altei and repair his palace. He
went all over the house in company
with an architect,and poked into places
that he had never in all his life thought
of before. At lost he reached the gar
ret, anil, as luck would have it, stum
bled right into Thomas's boarding
hoiise. "Why. how a this T" cried the great
cardinal, vastly astonished at seeing
the mean little room so beautifully
decorated iu charcoal. Have we an
artist among us T Who occupies this
room T"
"The kitchen-lioy.Thomas.your Lin
inence." "A kitchen-boy ! But so great a
genius must not be neglected. Call the
kitchen-boy, Thomas. '
Thomas came up in fear and trem
bling. He had never been in the
mighty cardinal's presence before. He
looked at the charcoal drawings on the
wall, then into the prelate's face, aud
his heart sank within him.
"Thomas, yon are no longer a kitchen-boy,"
said the cardinal, kindly.
Poor Thomas thought he was dis
missed from service and then what
would liecouie of Peter t
"Don't send me away!" lie cried, im
ploringly, falling on his knees. "I have
nowhere to go, and Peter will starve
and he want's to be a painter so
much !"
"Who is Peter V asked the cardinal.
"He is a Iniy from Cortona, who
boards with me, and he drew those
Eictures on the wall, and he will die if
e cannot be a painter."
"Where is he now t" demanded the
cardinal.
"He is out, wandering aliout the
streets to find something to draw. lie
goes out every day and conies bivt at
night.'
"When he returns to-night, Thomas,
bring him to me," said the cardinal.
"Such a genius ss that should not be
allowed to live in a garret"
But strange to say, that night Teter
did not come back" to his boarding
house. One week, two weeks went by,
aud still nothing was heard of him.
At the end of that time, the cardiual
caused a search for him to be insti
tuted, and at last they found him in a
convent It seems he had fallen deeply
in love with one of Raphael's pictures
which was exhibited there. He had
asked permission of the monks to copy
it, and they, charmed with his youth
and great talent,had readily consented,
and hail lodged and nourished him all
the time. . .
Thanks to the interest the cardinal
took in him, Peter was admitted to the
best school for painting in Florence.
As for Thomas, he was given a post
near the cardinal s person, and had
masters to instruct hint in all the learn
ing of the day.
Fifty years later, two old men lived
together in one of the most beautif ul
houses in Florence. One of them was
called Peter of Cortona. and people
said of him, "He is the greatest painter
ot our time. ' 1 he other was called
Thomas, and all they said of him was,
"Happy is the man who has him for a
friend !"
And he was the boy who took a
boarder. St. Nicholas.
Old Custom In Ihe Xorth ol
England.
At Hartlepool, time of Henry VI IT.,
the fine for "lystening about anie man's
wyndowes" was twelve pence. About
the same date, at Preston, women were
fined for "gossiping at the town wells
on Sunday mornings."
At Richmond, in 1274, the Corpora
tion ordered that "no one winnow any
corn in the street unless they carry
away the chaff," and enacted that swine
tronghs shouhj not be set in the streets,
and that "no man suffer any swyne to
come into the market-place on fairdays,
or any other market-days, upon payne
of a fine of vid." At Hartlepool, in
1599, the Council ordered that "whoso
ever he bee, of this towne yt keepeth
anie mastyve dogg within this towne
not mussled in the day, and in the
house upon the nighte, shall pay for
every such default iijsiiijd; "also" yt is
ordeyned yt noe inhabitante of this
towne shall keep anie geese or swyne
within the precynctes of this towne, ex
cept upon their back-yard, upon paine
to pay, for everye swyne which shall be
taken abroad, xijd., and for every goose
vjd." At Newcastle there was an offi
cial named "the hougher," whose duty
it was to chase any pigs he saw in the
streets, and sever the sinews of their
hind legs, as a punishment to their
owners for letting them stray!
The Coroner of Darlington, in the
North of England, was formerly elected
by the Bishop, and was sometimes Bai
liff and steward of Darlington also.
There is a tale of efo-de-8KA connected
with the Coronership, early in the
present century. One Webster, a dis
appointed lover, cast himself into the
River Skerne, and was drowned. At
the inquest, the jury were about to re
turn a verdict of felo-de-se, when one
solid yeomen, astonished at the deplora
ble ignorance of his compeers, ex
claimed: "Nay, lads! nay! that wad
niwer dee; iwerbody knows that he
therw hissel intit Skerne; folks wad
think us all fules!"
Goldsmith on hU Travels.
Goldsmith, as Boswell said to John
son years afterward, "disputed his pas
sage through Europe." Through Flan
ders and France to Paris, thence to Ge
neva, and over the Alps into Northern
and Central Italy, as far as Florence,
he wended his way, most often on foot,
working his passage by playing his
flute, and making himself popular with
the natives of many countries with jo
cose antics and humorous stories.
Many adventures had he, which he re
lated on his return with much gusto.
He partook of the free hospitalities of
the monasteries, slept on straw in hum
ble barns, and when he reached a village
would pull out his flute and strike np
a lively air, to which the rustics would
respond with dances, and in recompense
for which he would obtain a modest
lodging and something to eat When
he came to extremities he did not dis
dain to beg; and in Italy, where the
surfeit of musie rendered his flute pow
erless, he used to earn his keeping by
engaging in the competitive discussions
at the universities, the champion of
which wonld claim a free dinner and
bed. "In this manner," he says, "I
fought my way toward England, walk
ing along from city to city, and, if I
may so express it, saw both sides of
the picture." At Paris he was delighted,
and observed things which induced him
to predict the revolution which broke
out nearly forty years after; and at Ge
neva he visited Voltaire, at whose house
he saw DiJerot and Fontenelle, and
heard Voltaire make a magnificent de
fense of England. He ate "savory
dinners" on the summits of Alpine
passes, "flushed" woodcocks on Mount
Jura' and meditated themes which af
terward took poetic shape in his immor
tal poem of Tlie Traveler. So wander
ing, he returned in time to England,
having made the grand tour almost pen
niless, and enriched his mind with a
stock of minute observations which
was to serve him in preoious stead in
the future.
Cash Instead or Credit.
People who buy for cash always buy
cheaper than those who buy on credit
They buy also more closely, and select
more carefully. Purchases which are
paid for when they are made are limited
more exactly to the Purchaser's wants.
There is nothing like having to count
the money ont when the article is
bought, to make people economical.
The amount of indebtedness incurred is
not much considered when the pay-day
is far off. Persons who do all their
business on a cash basis know just
where they stand and what they can
afford; consequently they find after
occasions for regretting, in a turn oi
times, that they have indulged m this
luxury or that, which they would have
forgone had they seen what was coming.
Real wants are few and can be gratified
for cash; at all events they should be
limited to what can be paid for in cash.
How much of anxiety, how many sleep
less hours, how many heart burnings,
disappointments, and regrets would be
avoided if this rule were always strictly
adhered to.
A Child's Plaything 4,000 Years
Of even greater interest are the
household articles, implements of trade.
food, Ac, which, like the spoils of
Pompeii, restore for us the domestic
life of the people. Here, for instance,
are stools, cane-bottomed chairs and
work-boxes, 4,000 years old, yet no
more dilapidated than if they came out
of a garret of the last century ; nets,
knives, needles and toilet ornaments ;
glass bottles and drinking cups, as clear
as if just blown ; earthenware, glazed
in bine and yellow patterns, the very
counterpart of old Majolica; seeds,
eggs and bread ; straw baskets and a
child's ball for playing; paint-boxes
with colors and brushes, and boards
for games of draughts in short, a col
lection almost as varied and complete
as the ashes of Vesuvius preserved for
us of the One co-Roman life of the year
79 of our era. But these Egyptian
relics date from 1.000 to 3,000 years
before our era began. Bayard Taylor.
There was lately sold in Paris the
library of the eccentric Lncien de
Roeny. The buildings, as wel1 as the
volumes, were unique, ' There were
books in it bound in the skin of eats,
crocodiles, moles, seals, the Canadian
black wolf, the royal iSengaJ tiger, tne
white bear and the rattlesnake. The
book we hear so mnch of as bound in
human skin was alone absent In fact
it is doubtful if such a book exists,
although several libraries boast of a
work claimed to meet the requirement.
Yontlis Column.
A Gem.
Fntifnl tim they that wear
Ttir htftit of pi.ifcuit apint there.
It nimtter little if Oark or fair.
ltautiful tuttiiU are tiiey that do.
Th work ol the noble, gont ana trn.
lltuy fr th-m the wUole day thfouU.
lfe-aitif ul feet are they that tfo
Swiftly :o Utfhlen another' '(.
Thnnt;h autumer'a heat and winter's snow.
Beautnul i-hililrrn.i nt'h tr pr.
Who walk the pathways aweet aaui pare
That lead to the mansion strong and sure.
The Growth of a Feather. In the
skin of a bird, where a new feather is to
grow, there is a little pit, and at the
bottom of this an elevation or pyramid ;
extending up on one side of this pyra
mid is a groove or furrow, deepest at
the base, and gradually shallower until
it disappears at the top ; from each
side of this furrow a great many smaller
grooves extend around to the other
side of the pyramid, and these also de
crease in depth, and at last disappear
just as they are about to meet on the
side opposite the large furrow.
The whole pyramid is covered with
skin, and the surface is made of the
same scales or flattened cells that are
found over the rest of the surface of the
body ; but instead of falling off when '
tney are pnsneu by tne new ones below
them, they become united or wedded to
each other, so as to form a horny coat
over the surface of the pyramid, with
ridges on its lower or inner surface
corresponding to the groves on the
pyramid ; and, as the new cells grow at
the base, this coat or cast of the surface
is pushed upward till it breaks at its
thinnest parts which is, of coarse, the
smooth part without ridges opposite
the large farrow ; and then, as it is
pushed onward and flattened, it assumes
the form of a feather, the ridge formed
in the main furrow being the shaft,
while the casts of the side grooves form
the separate barbs of the vane. When
all of the same has been formed and
pushed forward, the pyramid loses its
grooves and becomes smooth, and the
wall now formed on its surface, being
of the same thickness in all parts, does
not break, bnt remains tubular, and
forms the quill, which is attached to
what is left of the pyramid. A finger
nail or hair is formed from the same
kind of scales in the same way, the
process differing only in ti;oso features
which give to each organ its special
character. Feathers, scales, hair, claws
and nails are all made alike from the
dead, flattened cells crowded to the
surface by the process of growth.
The Five Sthooxer. narold is a
dear little blue-eyed, golden-haired
English ooy. He lives close to the
great ocean ; bnt, until last summer,
he had never been on the water.
He once told his mamma he longed
to be a few hours on a steamer. But
his mamma was timid, and not willing
to trust her little boy with any one but
his own papa. Now, his papa is a doc
tor, and too bnsy, attending to other
people's little boys and girls, to have
mnch time of his own.
Before Harold was born, his papa
used to go to sea as navy doctor ; and j young iaJie8 not to attempt to follow
he has told his little boy so i may stones the elanipie get by Miss Richards with
about the sea, that Harold has imade up out the approval of their families and
his mind that he will be a sailor hen ) medical advisers. Girls are very imita
he he is a man. He is very fond of : tive, and there is reason to fear that
oai i.u Bu.s, sua is always wiping
of the time when he shall have a ship
ol his own, and eighty men to com
mand. One day last sumner a friend of his
papa's begged to be allowed to take
Harold in a boat Mamma knew the
gentleman wonld be very carefnl, so
she gave her consent ; and nowhere
could there have been found a happier
little boy than Harold, when he started
off with his own little sail boat under
his arm.
They rowed all around the harbor,
and Harold let his sail boat boat after
them, whilst he held it securely by a
string.
Presently a large steamer came puff
ing and blowing into the harbor. "Ah,
ah !" exclaimed Harold. "They think
'hey can run down my boat. But I tell
you, Mr. Brown, there isn't a finer
sohooner on the ocean than mine."
Harold was never tired of talking of
his "journey on the ocean," and of how
nnely his "schooner sailed.
A BEAmrn. Sexttiiext. Shortly
before his departure for India the
lamented Heber preached a sermon,
which contained this beautiful senti
ment :
"Life hears us on like the stream of a
mighty river. Our boat glides down
the narrow channel through the play
ful murmuring of the little brook, and
the winding of its grassy borders. The
trees shed their blossoms over our
young heads, the flowers on the brink
seem to offer themselves to our young
hands ; we are happy in hope, and
grasp eagerly at the beauties around us
but the stream hurries on. and still
our hands are empty. Our course in
youth and manhood is along a wilder
flood, amid objects more striking and
magnificent We are animated at the
moving pictures of enjoyment and in
dustry passing ns. we are excited at
some short-lived disappointment The
stream bears ns on, aud onr joys and
griefs are alike left behind us. We
may be shipwrecked, we cannot be
delayed ; whether rough or smooth, the
river hastens to its home, till the roar
of the ocean is in onr ears, and the
tossing of the waves is beneath our feet
and the land lessens from our eyes, and
the floods are lifted around us, and we
take our leave of earth and its inhab
itants, until of our further voyage there
is no witness, save the Infinite and
Eternal"
Bad Wages. "I have left my place,
mother," said a poor boy one day when
he returned from his work.
"Why have yon left?" said his
mother ; "was your master unkind to
you ?"
"No, mother, he was kind enough,"
said the boy.
"Don't you like the work?" asked
the mother.
"It was the wages I didn't like," said
the boy solemnly. "My master wanted
me to sin, and the wages of sin is death.
His master bad expected him to lie
about the goods, and deceive and cheat
the customers ; but the boy said : "No,
sir, I can't do such things ; I will leave
your service first." And he did leave
it, and he was right about it too. Such
boys will make mother's hearts glad,
and will find that the Lord takes care
of those who put their trust in him and
will not work for Satan, nor earn the
wages of sin. Such trials do the faith
ful good. It may seem hard to suffer,
because we do not sin ; but the rough
sea make the best sailors ; the not
furnace makes the pure gold ; the
strongest faith comes from the hardest
trials, and they who suffer for Christ
and for conscience sake, shall be blessed
here, and crowned with joy hereafter.
The Brooklyn Argut characterizes
the hen as the most popular o' females
as she is engaged for every set
"Vtivieties.
A highly intelligent dog The type
setter. The tongue is the worst part of a bad
servant
Tough beef steak makes a man think
of Ch.u-cer.
A man with large feet should never
stand upon trifles.
The contented man is never poor, the
discontented never rich.
When is a literary work like smoke ?
When it come out in volumes.
Ridicule is often employed with more
power and success than severity.
As the dint and steel stricken together
produce fire, so the conflict of men's
mind's elicits truth.
The word would be more happy if
persons gave np more time to an inter
course of friendship.
Dupes, indeed, are many ; but of all
dupes, there is none so fatally situated
as he who lives in undue terror of being
duped.
A man at Andover, Mass., does not
believe in a fall in prices because he
has just sold for fifty cents a pocket
knife which he bought for that price in
ISO'., and has used steadily for sixty
four years.
A politician, wishing to compliment
a well-to-do farmer, said : "You must
have begun life early to accumulate
such an estate as this." "Yes," replied
the farmer, -'I began life when I was a
mere baby."
It is said that Miss Emily Faithfnll
is about to issue a weekly paper to be
devoted to women and women's work,
and to the entire class of females at
present employed in trades and profes
sions throughout England.
The most important lesson of life is
to know how to be happy within our
selves, when home is onr comfort, and
all in it, even the dog and cat, shares
our affection. Do not refine away hap
piness by thinking that which is good
may be better.
It is something unaccountable how
these sober and sedate old fellows, as
soon as their families have gone to the
country to spend the heated term, com
mence to wear their Sunday clothes
every day, and to argue that four hours
sleep is all that the human frame re
quires to be healthy. Detroit Free
l'resz.
The Earl of Caithness has just pat
ented a machine for washing railway
carriages, by which a long train may,
after a dirty rnn, be thoroughly
cleaned, and made to start afresh in
about half an hour, nis lordship had
also invented a gravitation compass, to
render ocean navigation more accurate,
and thus has rendered a service to both
ocean and land traveling.
The Pall Mall Gazette, having learned
that a young English lady. Miss Rich
ards, has performed the feat of walking
a thousand miles in a thousand hours,
says, with remarkable profundity and
good sense : "It may be as well for
thousands of them will now take to
walking thousand of miles in thousands
of hours without pausing to consider
the effect on their constitutions."
The best enp of coffee to be had in
Europe is in Vienna. On the principal
business streets there is a coffee house
in almost every block ; they are not
located down in a dark and dingy base
ment, bnt on the street floor. Beer is
rarely sold in them ; wine may be had.
But coffee and cigars, with a newspaper
and a little bread roll, constitute the
commodities of the place. Sitting
aronnd scores of little metallic or mar
ble tables, within the room or on the
sidewalk, may be seen groups of per
sons, of both sexes, sipping coffee, with
bread and newspaper, and, if the sipper
be of the male persuasion, a cigar is
added to the entertainment
The Saratoga Sun gives the following
as a dinner table feature adopted by
some of the hotels at that resort : "At
every plate the snow white napkins.
tastefully folded, are placed in the clear
cut-glass goblets, and carefully disposed
in every napkin is a beautiful little but
ton hole bouquet These are intended
for the guests, and are cheerfully
appropriated. The effect, both while
the boquets embellish the napkins and
after they have been transferred to the
button holes of the gentlemen's coats,
and to the bosoms of the ladies' dresses,
is very pretty and pleasing. The Sun
day bill of fare is handsomely illumi
nated, and, being so pretty, all of them
are carried away from the tables as a
sort of souvenir."
Ahmednngger, in the Madrid Presi
dency, claims "the oluest inhabitant"
In March last a venerable Mohammedan
died there at the age of 1 13 years. II
had lived a very religious life, was a
priest of his caste, was never married,
and is now naturally considered as a
saint by the Mohammedans. His
funeral was attended by hundreds of
persons of all castes, and his bier was
loaded with flowers, and the streets
were well watered by bhistees all the
way where it had no pass. Such a
funeral had never been witnessed.
People from the villages within ten
miles round attended him to his last
resting place, which is in a garden
without the city, chosen by himself.
Money was given by all castes for the
erection of a tomb for the saint.
On a certain occasion, during General
Jackson's Presidency, Mr. Buchanan,
at the request of a Miss J aton.
omy too much ratified to accompany
j her to the White House, with the view
of introducing her to "Old Hickory.'
They arrived at the presidential man
sion somewhat inopportunely (as it
wonld seem), the President being in his
library at the time, smoking his pipe,
and in a state of comparative undre-n.
Buchanan, who had the privilege of the
house, communicated to the President
the object of his visit when "the man
of iron" (as Louis Philippe designated
him) rose from his seat, laid aside his
pipe, and intimated to Buchanan that
he wonld wait upon Miss Paton at once.
Buchanan became somewhat wmpluvted
imagining that the old General meant
to receive Miss Paton in his then state
of dixhabille, and nervously insinuated
that the matter was not urgent, and
would allow the General to change his
dress, ia. Old Hickory gave Buchanan
one of his withering looks, remarking,
at the same time : "Buchanan, did
you ever hear of thai man in Kentucky
who got rich by minding hit own bun
net t" Mr. Buchanan, on relating the
circumstance afterwards, acknowledged
that he never felt so cheap in his life.
The old General, in a very brief space,
received Miss Paton in the Drawing
Room, the interview preying so agree
able to the lady that she declared, after
wards, she never encountered a more
chivalrous and agreeable man in her
life.
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