, . liittb eiliel JSfc wl ef Mem. I! B. F. SOHWEIER, THE COISTITUTIOI TEE TJ5I0I AID THE EBTOBOHfEFT OF THE LAVE. Editor and Proprietor. 1 II 'I -.III I. .,,, " VOL. XXXIX. " LITTLI5 HANDS. l'-ar little Lau Is, I loved n.em sol An, now thej are lying un,lar the .uow l n.ler the suow, socol.l and white. I .amu-t tueiu or toIu:U them lo-ohjut. 1 !.. v are quiet and still at lt; ah mel o lmy and Testis they usiu to W Zyw?n,,,!V,!rWUh "P ""1. I. ar lit le ban 'is, I iovtl tUem 1 'rar little Lands. I iiss theto K! -A through the Jay. uhorever I Ko AH thrnut , the mtrht, how lonely it rurno lKH. banus wake me out oTmy u reams, -I u.iss them all through the weary hours I wu. tucw a, others uii usUnTand lowers; Iay-Utue, or niKht-.iaie, wherever I Co 1-ear !m,e Lauds, I u.i thota so! 8 I Krar Httle hands, they have gone from me Never aea!n will they rest on my brow Never ajjaiu smooth my sorrowiul face. Never clasp me agaiu inachildish embrace "care1"7 forclieaJ rows wriuklcd with Tbiiikius if little han.ls one, resting there, "f'.'r,," 7 happier, venlie7clime! lar little hands, 1 W.U clasp ,ou Hear little hands, wheu tie Master shall 1 11 'ill0 th '"UU,0IU that coiues to us W Leu my feet touch the waters so dark aud o cold. Aud I catch my first glimpse of the Cltj of Gold. If I keep my eyes fixed on the Heavenly tare. Over tue u.le where the white-robed ones wait, Shall I know you, I wonder, among the bright bauds. Will you beckon me over, ohl dear little bauds. f LiTO AT FAULT. CHAPTER U "I quite agree with you. Lord Sauds, that love is a myth, while marriage is a delusion, and ouly friendship can give any lasting pleasure or comfort." And Lydia Frith clenched her pretty hands and her clear gray eyes flashed defiantly, as though challenging a reply. for some minutes none was forth coming ; then her companion answered gravely "You have taken my words too liter ally, 1 fear, and I was speaking beyond my knowledge. What doss a mere looker-on know of the divine passion 1 It comes before one's eyes in so many phases that one is dazzled by the fre quent changes, and puzzled beyond ex pression to tind the key to this ever-recurring enigma. But as to marriage well, that is a social necessity." "Yes, yes, I know," assented the young girl, 'and that is what makes me so bitter against it alL The age of idol atrous fanaticism is past, and 1 have no desire to throw myself down before this matrimonial car of Juggernaut. Why should I be the victim of this terrible Moloch of society ? It is too, too bad!" she added indignantly. "At least we shall be companions in uibtrortune," he returned, smiling. "i too am marked fof destruction, 1 sup pose, being tbe unfortunate possessor of the traditional ten thousand a year, au estate in Suffolk, a house in London, and a shootiug-box in Scotland." Lydia laughed merrily. I have worse, far worse than even all that I have six sisters in the school room, aud ths two eldest are dying to come out. l'eople may try to coax you to marry, but you are your own mas ter ; as for me, it is my destiny. What else can I do ' I cannot work, and to beg I am ashamed.' " She stopped short with quivering lip and troubled eyes. 'Lord Sands, you must think me very, very foolish to speak like this to you." -I think you are very at least,never mind what I think but, Lydia Frith, 1 wish you would let me be your friend. As far as any man can help any woman, let me help you. You do not know what an interest I take in your welfare let me be your friend." He broke off hurriedly, asd moved nearer to her, holding out his hand with questioning gesture ; but she made no rei.lv her eyes were gazing vacantly at the dark gray sky with its myriads of bright stars, and the moon shone dowu and her beams lingered caressingly on her upturned face and waving wealth of ligut brown hair. "So you will not be friends?" he wills pcrtnl "Friends I Of course we are friends," she answered quickly, arousing herself from the thoughts that bad absorbed her. arid laying her cool hand in his for one moment. "And now let us go in ; they are playing my favorite waltz, aud 1 am to dance It with Jack. Ah, here he comes I" , , A toll fair youth, with small clear cut features and a slight tawny mous tache, joined them as she spoke. "Well, my little sister, and how goes it with vou r" he cried gaily, laying his hand affectionately on her shoulder. "Fancy deserting one's first ball to gaze at a moon and river that in all probabil ity will be here to-morrow, next week, and throughout the term of your nat ural life !"' . "So vou count my juvenile dissipa tes as nothing ?" she returned ro guishly. "But do you know, if my for mer partners were smaller, ' am not at all sure that thev weie not more amus ing 1 And I would rather dance with you, Jack, than any one in the world "Go and hide your diminished head, Sands vou have evidently not put forth vour full powers of attraction ; while, 'as for you, my senseless sister, come and let me gratify your absurdly bad taste;" and, placing his arm around hex waist, he drew her in w un him, and the next moment they were moving round the room to the well marked time of Strauss's famous bawl. but Lord Sands did not follow them. He stood for some time after they had left lost in thought, and when he went, it was not through the ball-room, but, without apol.gy or farewell, he strode across the park with a quick step and a strange expression iu his dark hazel t3Lydia Frith was the eldest daughter of au Essex Baronet of good old family, who possessed two fine entailed estates, which, while giving him much power and prestige in the county, yet added very little to bis real personal comfort, they being unfortunately mortgaged to a very considerable extent; and, as lie had very little ready money ou which w keep up his positiou, it may be judged with what dismay he saw his seven daughters growiug up around mm clamoring to be fed, clothed, and edu. "If one could ouly marry them all off-hand in the good old foreign fash ion I" he would say sometimes, wim a merry twinkle in his eye. But his wile would answer stiffly "You need not be afraid of my daugh ters not marrying, or not marry in wen. will not disgrace me " ' a TS dan'tS g2 home." tUrued out r th old But Lady Frith would purse her lir SSfc'S1'" """BE tS& undeS L , fn''' aadutlt what she ui meitook to manage she would carry out. Aud now Lydia was eigliteenlind f ,r it . takeu UP scheming wl a,dvanLt in life; noth ng agaut that could iu the smallest decree heighten her daughter's beauty "She ought to marry a duke " she Mid one day to her husband. ' "Nonsense, Letty 1 I,et the girl marry a true honest man ,hat she can letort! 8'm11 8ilUsaed" was his And Lydia with flushed cheeks would declare that she did not wish to marry any one. to leave home and Jack, and would strive to avoid wearing the hand some dresses that she felt were utterly unsuitaU to her age and position. "I am not a princess," she said once iiiiher petulantly ; but Lady Frith ouly shooi her head wisely, thinking that even this might be quite "on the cards." - ince Ler lirst ball Lydia had had sev eral admirers, who had haunted the places where she was to be seen, and who had bored her inhnitely with their absurd flattery and exaggerated com pliments. From these she would turn with relief to Lord Sands, who never wearied her in this fashion, but strove to interest her by discussions on art and poetry and all that is sweet and won derful to the miud of a very young girl. "You are almost as nice as Jack," she would say frankly "you always know what 1 wantaud when I want it." "I am your Ti iend,' was the invaria ble reply, "and friendship has its pleas ant duties. You know I have never had a sister, and you come in the place of what I have missed in that respect." But at last there came a crisis. One of her unwelcome admirers declared his intentions, and offered himself and his very splendid income for the accept ance of the object of his affections t and there was a very stormy scene, when Lydia jositively refused to see him again, or to give him tbe least hope. For several days I.ady Frith would ueither speak voluntarily, nor answer her daughter when addressed, and at last Lvdia sought her friend in despair. "What am I to do, Lord Sands?" she cried apiealiugly, as, having told him of the whole affair, she turned away, and bent over a bowl of dowers that stood ou her work-table. He laid his band for a moment caress ingly ou her hair. "Poor little child, I scarcely know what to say; but y.iu were qnite right be assured of that." 'Yes. I know, but in the meantime 1 u:n very unhappy, and mamma's being vexed aud niirieiaute makes it worse and all about that one stupid man I" "Do not trouble, it will all come right in time ; these things will happen, and the poor fellow could not help loving you. I wonder how it is that women always despise a mau who loves them, w ilhout having awakened a correspond ing feeling ?" "A man ought to know when he is not liked, aud ought to take a refusal quietly," answered Lydia severely. "I have a plau," he said a few min utes later, after there had been silence between them for a little while ; "but I will write aud tell you what Ithought, and you must decide for yourself whether it be practicable or not. Only take care ; there is such a thing as es caping Scylla aud being engulfed In Chary bd is.'' And then Sir John came in, and stood talking to them, and soon afterwards Ijrd Sauds took his leave. But the same evening a giooui came up with a letter from him for Lydia. She quietly put it into her pocket.and m:ule no comment thereon; but at about twelve o'clock that night, the door of the smoking-room, where Jack was sitting alone, discussing the Field mid a very long pil, was pushed a lit tle open, and a cautiously lowered voice legged for admittance. ' Come in, little one," cried Jack cheerily, and Lydia entered, holdmg the letter m her hand, and looking very dis- "May I come and talk to you a little, Jack V' she asked doubtrully. "Wbv, of course you may ; it Is like old times, your coming to have a chat. You are getting proud,! suppose. Your head is turned with your numerous con gests aud a quiet confab with one's brother is tome work after all that sort f -Sense, dear; I am always so tired" she answered apologetically, sirkiiig dowu into the comfortable chair that Jack had drawn forward for her "But I want your advice now. Please read this, and tell me what you think of it ;" aud she held out the let ter to him. . This is what it contained "My dear Lydia, I am going to make a very strange proposition ; and LrfSw making it, I wish you to promise that, whether you accept it or not, our friendship shall remain intact. Do you remember our conversation at your tat ball when we both agreed that mar riage was a necessity, and that love was surpassed by his elder and more so- bwtlter-frie. ashipT My opinion "unaltered, aud this is my 1 Will vou take my name and be my wife .n ttoS-ot the world, but in rea it, mv very dear sister-my friend? If I were older. 1 would adopt you. as that VZA be less binding to you , but of mmrse as it is, i"1 a H"'"- : u. esrionT If you decide tocome to me. vou S teu no unwelcome tenderness jou new , .i h im iin more on i mv uart. ana you u , society uiau f- 7 ... answer. 1 suau - , 1 1 ve loved anyone, it would have rbeiffriena-be the one to ruin Moinlto'S as he Unished, rowing uw w hK-rately and laying it ou the table be- v'uat ought I to say?" asked Lydia iuffi .f he were your giaad father," said Jack. Ol luj iiv vour brotner auu ji uaveyoui u iTjte your own MIFFLINTOWN. "But he Is not," demurred Lydia. "Or Saint Kevin himself," her brother added dubiously. "If you are not going to talk sense, I may as well go." "No, stop a minute. Are you in love with him. or with any one else?" aked Jack gravely "I love you better than any one in the world, and I would rather live on nothing a year with you than have mil lions with any one else." "But, my dear, I am a penniless sub altera, living oa very little more than my Pay, so that is impossible ; and I know the governor has had hard work to make both ends meet. Sands has pleasant shooting." "1 don't shoot," remarked Lydia dryly. "No, mure's the pity ; for then of course you would not hesitate. To tell you the truth, 1 don't quite like this queer arrangement it sounds unnat ural ; I would rather you married the other fellow, although Lord Sauds is the best of the two in everything. But I am afraid to advise you that's the truth. Think it all over for a day or two, don't hurry .yourself, aud don't marry any one if you don't like. I will speak to the governor, aud see that you are not bullied." Lydia stood up, aud kissed him. "You are a dear boy," she said gently : "but you don't understand. You don't know whatjmamma is, and you don't know how strongly i feel on these sub jects ; it is very, very wrong to marry any one that you cannot love it is do ing him a life-long injury. But Lord Sands asks for no love, and 1 have a great esteem and sincere liking for him; besides, why should there not be friend ship between man ami woman '(" "I don't know why not; but there never is. Flato is a humbug; deu't you listen to his sophistries 1" "Good night," said Lydia shortly, and swept away more vexed with her brother than she had ever been before." A week afterwards the papers were all full of au approaching marriage iu high life, aud dilated rapturously on the beauty of the bride and the wealth of the intending bridegroom. Lady Frith was charmed, aud in her element, while ordering the trousseau and making the arrangements for the wedding. The eventful day came at last, and everything weut off splendidly, the "happy pair" going off for a protracted tour on the Continent during the win ter mouths. When the liist strangeness wore off, their relations were of the friendliest, and Lydia was wild with delight at the many strange scenes and new sights that met her eyes at every turn. ' Oil, how kind aud good you are, Lord Sauds I" she cried one day, iu her enthusiasm. "My dear little wife, it is very selfish goodness." "But your sister is very grateful uot withstaudlug," she returned quietly. He bowed gravely, and accepted the rebuke. CHAPTER II. Nothing bright was in the room not a gleam of gold or silver, nor even the cold glitter of a looking-glass; every thing was rich and warm. It was the winter drawing-room of I-tdy Sands, aud ou a low lounge, drawn close to the fire, sat Lydia, a dttle paler perhaps than she used to be, while at times there was a sadder expression iir her deep icray eyes. A shadow had already fallen on her life ; between herself and Lord Sands had arisen a coolness for which neither couid account, and for which neither was responsible. The first freedom of intercourse had ceased, aud now both seemed best pleased when the house was full of visitors, and the probability of being left alone was pro portionately lessened. ' Since she had grown accustomed to and half wearied of the new grandeur ui.d luviirtua tlmr. surrounded her.I.vdia had chafed bitterly against this strange coluness. Having uau so uiucu love u;i her life, the absence of it had begun to tell on her spirits and usually sweet temper, so that olten she was sad aud sometimes almost irritable. KiiauMi leninirliack and lauffhinir at the doleful face of her companion, who I 1 1 - 1 1 . I . : 1 .. L. n.A.m.l Was nolUlUg lier wooia nunc bud vtuuuu th. m. and was m desmir at the tangled skein he held. "Captain Dalfrey,you are not a mau; you are an angel I" she cried merrily. "1 wish people would only believe it," he returned, with mock seriousness. lT RiinrvwA vnn are too rich to be an angel though," she resumed. The only- gold they have is on tneir neaus is it not so?" "Indeed I do not know my experi ence has been so limited. Shall we leave this now and go on to another skein ?" "Ye-s if you like, but you must cut this into lengths afterwards. Tut it and it will not (ret into worse entanglement. There so." He was sitting on a iootstooi at ner foot ATiel-nt. his head she leaned down and was throwing it round his neck wheu the door opeusa, anu .Loru Sands entered with a young girl one of Lydia 's sisters. "We have had such a glorious ride, rl,ul U'hv vera vnn iiot with USr" she cried eagerly, running to the fire and holding out her hands to the blaze. "Why, you lazy people, you nave ueen u-inHiuir u'niili ever sin.-x we left, and have nothing to show for it after alL" "It was too cold, May, ana we nave kun tuiklnir " said Lvdia laniruidlv. noting the displeasure on her husband's face. "Your con feiralsou must have been interesting." ' It was inueetl," assented uupiuin Dalfrey. Lord Sands did not speak. He took in a nauer. and weut to the fire at the other end of the room. "May, you have brought iu such a rush of cold wind with you that I'm trozeu," exclaimed L.ydia, suivermg. 'There 1 am tired, and can wind no more." "And I must go," said Captain Dal frev. rising ; "we will finish them some other day." lie made hisadieux,sayiugsoraethiug in l.ior vmm tn T.vdia as Iih held her hand . aud May left the room at the same moment to -change her haoit. I p.ii, iiul ilaim her wnrlc nM fhA rinnr c'.o behind them,' and crossed over to where Ixrd &auds was sitting. "Are you vexed ?" she asked gently, laving her hand ou his arm. He started up, shriukiug away from 1...- t..Mll "Vexed I No, I am uot vexed, or, if I am, uol wiiu you; u is myseu i blame uiost bitterly." "What do you mean ?" ' "I vili I was mad a vear a20 when I proposed that you should link your Ufa with mine." . JUNIATA COUNTY. "Keith I" she cried, with a strange harsh riug in her voice. It was the first time she had called him bvhis name, but he did not heed it. I was blind then, but now my eyes are opened. Lydia, my poor child, can you forgive me?" "I do not understand," she returned coldly. "I might have known I might have known." he continued wearily, passing his hand across his forehead, as though in pain ; "but it is too late now for re lientance or tor regret. 1 will do all I can for you perhaps I ought to go away for a time." "Go away?" echoed Lydia, looking half stunned, aud pressing her hands tightly together. He did not see the pained look in her eyes, nor the pallor that was creeping slowly over her face even to her lips. He resumed. "Yes, it is belter I should go, and you might visit your mother for a time, until until " "Yes, yes, let me go home I Oh, mother, mother I" Aud Lydia burst into a wild lit of weeping, swaying to and fro in an agony of grief. Lord Sands walked up and down un easily, watching her furtively. 'Poor child I Poor child !" he mur mured tenderly, with a world of pity in his voice ; but he did not go to her nor attempt to comfort her. ' I did not think you had suffered so much, Lydia." But she did not answer, exceit to im plore him to leave her ; and, when at lu-t he was gone, she sunk down on a pile of soft velvet cushions, and sobbed bitterly in the angui.ih of conflicting emotions. Perhaps he loved some one else, and regretted the boud that held him to her ; or perhaps she, in her anx iety not to overstep the barrier between them, had been too cold, and less than friendly. "It Is my fault," she murmured with a pang of self-reproach. "Perhaps 1 can make things right even now." She dried her eyes, and sat dreaming aud planning ou the hearth-rug by the bre,untd the dressing-bell rang. Then she ran up-stairs, eii'g.ng to herself in the light-heartedness of renewed hoi. Lord Sands, pacing restlessly from one e:id of his study to the other, heard her. "Perhaps I have thought too much ol it," lie said to himselt. "After all, she is ouly a child, knowing nothing of love or grief." But Lydia drove her maid nearly mad that night with her caprices. Not a dress that was brought out would suit her. One was too bright, another too dark, another was unbecoming, aud all were unsuitable. "I want the piettiest dress I have," she cried impatiently, and presently she was suited. 'Milady, what a pity there is no one to see you I" said the admiring maid. "It is superb I ' Lydia laughed delightedly. "It is nice," she said, slrokiug her self dowu Suftly, aud then she went down-stairs. As she entered the drawing-room. ueither Lord S.c.ils nor her sister could resist an excl.ttn.i Jou. "Lydia how lovely I" cried May. "Do you like my dress, Keith ?" she asked, going towards him, aud looking up at him with a half smile. He took her hands in bis for the space of one second, and then dropped them hastily. "lou are perfection." he answered gtavelv. "Hut my dress" anxiously, "Is very beautiful but a little too much iierhaps for just ourselves." He did not mean to hurt her; but his ejes were so full of her wondrous sweet ness that he dared not trust himself to speak in praise of her. She blushed hotly, thinking he had read her motive, aud turned away to seak to May, whose simple dress of w lute silk and black velvet seemed to make her own apiear gaudy, and al most theatrical bv contrast After din ner Lydia sat by the piano, with her fingers straying idly over the keys in snatches of melody, while May settled herself at the farther end of the room to write letters undisturbed. Presently Lord Sauds joined them ; and. after wandering aimlessly about the room for some time, at last sat down beside Lydia. "Sing to me," he whispered softlv ; and she complied, choosing in her haste the passionate complaint of Guinevere. He moved his chair back with a sharp jerk, as these words rang out in her clear young voice with almost uncon scious fervor ; and she stopped singing and turned round. "What is it. Lord Sands ? Do you not like my song ?" she asked in sur prise. "It was a strange song for you to sing on my last evening with you," he an swered in a strange harsh voice "Keith, must you go ?" "Let us forget all that has been said to-day ; be once more as you were my dear f rleud, my brother. Do not leave me." She had half risen from her seat ; her hands were clasped tightly together and her face was raised pleadingly to his. Had he read the story iu her eyes his auswtv would probably have been dif ferent ; but his head was turned away and his lids were fixed and stern as he answered her. "It is imiossibIe impossible I You do not cannot know P She rose with flashing eyes. "I do kuow, aud understand at last. Pray make no apologies. Lord Sands ;" and she swept away from him angrily. Iu the morning she came dowu pale aud composed, aud her woman's pride gave her strenlh to say good-bye with a smiling face, when Lord Sauds left that day for London eu route for Italy. A tew days l i er she went back with May to her old home, aud soon It seemed to her as though she had never left it. as days and weeks passed by, and her husband did not return. She was very patient and uncomplaining ; and it was only her own family who no ticed that her face was thinner, her step more languid '.ban ol old. and that she looked for her letters with a fever ish anxiety. Captain Dalfrey was still In the neigh borhood, and visited them very often. Very soon his motive was discovered, for he proposed for May and was ac cepted. His regiment was ordered abroad, so their engagement was a very short one. Lydia had written to Lord Sands to tell him the news, but had received no answer. The wed'.iug-day came and still she had not heard from blm. so that it was w ith an aching heart that she dresed herself for ehurch and thought of her own marriage more than a rear before "Heaven grant you may be happy, PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY IS, 1SS5. dear." she said very gravely, as May came in to show herself in all her wed ding finery, but the brid only blushed. having evidently no doubt upon the subject. Iu the evening there was a grand ball, and the house was nieny with music and brilliant with many lights, while Lydia, being the youngest bride present, was besieged by admirers and would tie partners. But, though her feet moved lightly in the dauce, her heart was very heavy, and very soon she stole away into the library to be at rest for a little time. Even here, however, she could not be alone, for scarcely had she entered the room before a footman followed her. "My lord is here, and is asking to see your ladyship," he said apologetically, as she turned to confront him, vexed at being disturbed ; and. almost liefore he bad finished speaking, Lord Sauds pushed past him aud closed the door be hind him. "Lyd.a, what does this mean ?" he asked impatiently. She stood motion less, leaning a little forward, aud her eyes seemed fastened on the face which they had hungered to see for so many days. "Oh. why did you not write t" su cried with a sob of joy at having him at last. "I did not get your letter for some time." he answered hastily. "I was away, trying to forget the past year of my life, which has been the sweetest and yet the most bitter that I have ever knowu. Then your lettercame Idared not write to ask you why Captain D;d frey was marrying your sister when he loved you, and so I started for home at once. Do you thinK l aid not see the exchanged glances, the smiles aud whis pers, the way he haunted your footsteps and how he never seemed content apart from you. And, then, for yourself, do you think I did not note your change to me, your coldness, and the sorrowful look in the eyes that I had sworn to keep clear from all shade of grief ?" She bad been standing silently before him with bowed head aud lowered lashes ; but, as the last words fell on her ear, she raised her face and stretched out her arms to him with a low, glad cry. "Keith, my love, my love 1 ' And in auother moment she was strained to her husband's breast, as thouzh he could never release his newly-found treasure. "Lydia, little Lydia, do you really love me V he whispered at last ; and, though she did not answer in words.the tender light in her eye'1, and the dreamy smile on her parted lips told him all that he would taiu know. "And so Iulfrey was iu love with May?" he said, laughing, a few min utes later, "lou see, to me there was only one woman in the world, and I don't think 1 realized that any one could see charms elsewhere. And you loved me ouly, Lydia, and were grieved at my coldness ?' "I think I loved you always; Keith ; but 1 had heard so much of marriage as a busim-ss affair tbat I did not think it might also be a matter of affection." "So much for friendship between the sexes!" cried Jack, chuckling to him self, when he saw how things had turned out. "Oh, Plato, Plato, with thy di vine platitudes thou hast done more mischief than all the philosophers in Christendom 1" Tbe Khine Wine Supplr. It is perfectly ridiculous for wine merchants to assert that the flower of the produce of the vineyards of the Duke of Nassau and of Prince Metter nich gets into the handsof "the trade." The best is almost invariably retained for certain imperial and royal cellars and for a few favored customers. The "Schloss" vineyard at Johannisberg extends to only forty acres, while that of the Duke of Nassau, near the Abbey of Eberbach, Is only 60 acres. You may, therefore form some inadequacy of the supply as compared with the de mand. The fact is that the wine usually sold at Johanuisherger does not come from Prince Metternlch's famous vineyard. The lst is grown on the adjoining estate of Count Schon born, while most of that which is sold In England is the produce of the vine yards around the village of Johannis b rg, which, although not bad, is very far inferior to second-rate growths of fludesheimer, Marcobrunner and Rau thenthaler. Berg-Steiuberger Cabinet, in the same way, come, as a rule, from vineyards in the district behind Hat tenheim. Tbe prices at which the sup posed Joliannisberger and Steinberger are sold show at once that they cannot possibly be what ignorant people sup pose them to be. You can get "Rudes hiemer" at Kudeshiem for three shil lings a bottle, but for really first-rate Kudesheimer you will pay nearly three times that price. People who like Rhine wiue of a high class (and there is no finer tipple) must be prepared to pay a very liberal price for it, and the present rates are likely to increase. The "crack" vineyardsof the Rhinegau are incapable of producing a twentieth part of the wines which are sold as coming from them. Anotber Use for Pnper. One of the most remarkable uses to which paper has been put of late years is the manufacture of zylonite, a sub stance which, at the will of the man ufacturer, may be made in imitation of horn, rubber, tortoise shell, amber, and even glass. The uses te which zylonite is adaptable are almost infinite, but perhaps the most extraordinary is the manufacture of cathedral windows. The discovery was made by an English man named Spills about fifteen years ago, but it was only about five years ago that a company was formed iu London for its manufacture. Tbe basis of zylonite is a plaiu white tissue paper, made from cotton, or cot ton and linen rags. The paper, being treated first with a bath of sulphuric and other acids, undergoes a chemical change. The acid is then carefully washed out, and the paper treated with aaother preparation of alcohol and camphor. After this it assumes an ap pearance very much like parchment, it is then capable of being worked up into plates of any thickness, rendered almost perfectly transparent, or given any of the brilliant colors that silk will take. It Is much more flexible than either born or ivory, and much less brittle. Combs or other articles made of it, in imitation of tortoise shell, are said to be so perfect In appearance as to deceive the eye of the most practical workman In that substance. Beware of dreamsl Beware of the Qlnsiona oX fancy 1 Beware of the solemn deceiving of thy vast desires Tbe Future Kins aud Kuivror. Tweuty-oue years ago, ou a Sunday afternoon, a lady of exalted rank, very young, very beautiful, worshipped by all, not ouly for her high positiou, but for her own personal fascinations, went out with her attendants to watch the gay scene of skaters gliding in and out of the sheltered ponds of a royal en closure. That year the Christmas time had come with all the brilliancy of frost, the crispuess of snow, the cheeri uess of bright winter weather, now so rarely seen in Loudon, save in the de luding and apocryphal devices of Christ mas cards aud annuals. When the lovely woman had walked for a while around the shore of the mimic frozen lake, she returned to the stately pile iu which she was one of the 'fairest guests, and a little later assisted in the cere monious dinner preside! over by hei imperious mother-in-law. She retired early, with the gracious smile and gen tle words with which she was wont to part from all who surrounded her in those first days of her wedded life in a foreign land. A few hours later the silent streets of the royal borough at Windsor were startled by tbe hurrying hoofs and clamorous, anxious voices breaking upon the bushed stillness of the wintry night. Au outfitting shop was hastily oined by half-dressed assistants, a bundle of tiny articles of clothing sum marily put together and carried off by an imimtient horseman. Meanwhile doctors and nurses, roused from their miduight slumbers, rushed with fear and awe up to the steep and slippery approach to the castle, while some where in the town a woman, who was also a mother, was found willing to leave her owu young baby to take charge of the infant at the castle, who, iu the midst of regal splendor, bad come into the world with as little pre paration for its reception as the miser able waif born to starvation and misery under the arches ot a bridge or in some foul den of Seven Dials. That child was Prince Albert Victor, eldest son of the Prince of Wales, giaudsou of Queen Victoria, prospective sovereign of Great Britain and Ireland and Emper or of India. Ushered into the world under circum stances so incompatible wub the for malities of etiquette, most of them had to be omitted, and it was only on the morrow that the little Royal Highness entered into possession of the gorgeous cradle, the costly layette, and the ac cessories that had lieen waitiutr lor him at Marlborough House, and which came dowu in anexpress train with the nurses aud cabinet ministers, the court physicians aud other dignitaries who do homage at the birth of royal babies. However, the Windsor lady who had so pn uiptly offered her services ou that memorable night was retained with grateful courtesy, aud to her care the little Prince was for some time longer intrusted over and beyond his allotted attendants; aud she has ever since re tained the affection of the Princess of Wales, The majority of Prince Albert Vic tor, w hich he has attained to-day, is tele brated with vompand rejoiciug, though he enters ou the fulfillment of his mauhood with none of the untoward haste aud accomiKinying mishaps which attended his introduction into the world. He is as gracious and as pleasant mannered as his mother, who still keeps much of the youthful charm of twenty-one years ago, aud ne has :he ready tact and easy bonhomie of his father. Au education commenced at home, strengthened by life on board ship, perfected by foreign travel aud a spell at a university, has develoiwd the in heremfaculty of tactful adaptation which seems the appanage of all Individuals born on oi near the throne a faculty which stands Its possessor in lieu of higher powers, aud wins for him more popularity than the greater gifts and qualities which fit meu to be rulers. Prince Albert Victor aud Prince George, his brother, sient some months iu Switzerland, near Lausanne. It was at first given out that their visit was only for the purpo.e of acquiring con versational French, and that they would not mix iu society. This was considered by the residents as a diplomatic way of stating that what society there was was not considered good enough for them. However, after a short time it was home in upon those around the princes that the faculty of expressing them selves with ease and facility in the French language was not fostered by limiting them to English intercourse; that the contemplation of the beauties of lake aud mountain was not all-suttl-cient for active, cheerful, intelligent, gregarious youths; pernaps, also, that in the austere-looking houses in the steep streets or the picturesque villas and chateaux dotted on the hillsides dwelt families dating from the cru sades, and whose genealogical roots had struck deeper and bore wider branches than any of which British aristocracy could boast.So,for one or all thesereasons it was accidentally rumored that should parties be giveu, and should their Royal Highnesses be asked, they would accept the invitations. Thus it come to pass tliat one or two of the grave half-mediteval houses in the Rue de Bourg opened their portals and disclosed interiors that vied in elegance and comfort with the choicest apartments of the Faubourg St. Germain; that sounds of revely and music echoed in the old brocade-hung rooms; that the young princes danced and flirted a little aud enjoyed them selves immensely, and that ou the drawing room table of those houses can be seen a personally inscribed cabinet photograph of the two still boyish-looking faces. They both have that un mistakable family likeness which is common to all the scions of the house of Hauover, a mixture of frankness, good nature, and stolidity, blending English and German characterteristics with relentless fidelity. The stamp of the two races bids fair not to be lost. Even the last "ewe lamb'vif the Queen, the faithful com panion of her eternal walks; the unre pining younger daughter, who has never left her side but once (wheu nominally rheumatism, but presumably hopeless ennui, drove her to the salu brious but mild recreation of Alx le Bains), weds with one of those pnnci picule whose only mission in the order of created beings is to mate with the daughters of the royal house of Eng land. These "serene" consorts, wheu taking their marriage vows, not only assume the heavy burden of matrimony w ith one who by birth and law never ceases to be Princess Royal of Great Britain, but they abdicate. If not a sovereienty they never possessed, at least all liberty of wi'l and power ir acton. Some, like Prince Teck, the handsomest man of the day, sink promptly into utter Insignificance and couteuted servitage, and, after years of uncomplaining dejiendence, manage in middle age to lure their wives to the cheaper freedom of life in Continental cities. Others, like Prince Christian, after the wedding ceremony is over, are uever heard of again in any shape, form, or association. One, like the Marquis of Lome, seeks in literary puisuits and even in temporary exile a solace from the singular degradation of being his wife's subject, aud unable to rise t-jthe manlier position of husband It is uot yet certain what attitude Prince Batteuberg will take at the English court, now that he has sworn away his independence iu consenting to tack his wedded life to the Queen's apron strings, and abjured the heavenly birthright of making a home for bis bride. One would have thought that what Princess Beatrice would have sought above all in matrimony would be deliverance from the thraldom in which she has lived tor twenty-eight years; but the iron will of her mother has decreed otherw ise. It is difficult not to cherish a hope that the young bridegroom has borne in miud the fam ous "cos reserce" attributed to Jesuitic prudence, aud that he will have in perto guaranteed to hitself a saving clause that may enable him to throw off the yoke when it becomes too galling. Whatever Parliament may be pre vailed upon to vote as a subsidy tc the young couple will of course excite a scream of recrimination from the tax paying community. Vet the sum thus granted will be but a hoUie.athic dose compared with the annual expenditure in appointments, salaries, pensions, and moneys received by the families and re lations of dukes, marquises, earls, vis counts, and barons, amounting to the prodigious total of JL'lOS.GU o0, divi ded as follows: Twenty-eight families of dukes take i.''.,700,oiKJ; thirtv-three families of marquises. i.'H,J."i Uj; 2ijo families of earls, itS,lsi.-J"-'!; sixty families of viscounts, JL'll,H,i H);211 families ot 'barons, i."31,l-Jti,l"s. of these the Duke of Richmond heads the list, with il,0'X),OW, followed by the Duke of Wellington, 'l.4i,;0U;the Duke of Grafton, Jt 1,1 15, SoO, aud soon. The eloquence of these figures re quires no comments, save, perhaps, ttie uutlateeriug felicity of expression at tained by John Bright wheu he referred to "the gigantic system of outdoor re lief for the aristrocracy of Great Britain." PlituM la Be4rMiu4 The controversy as to keeping live plants in a room at night entwines to be carried ou with vigor and acrimony, although most people have probably supposed tbat it was long since set at rest. Not so many years ago the dan ger of keeping such things iu a bed room was a good deal pooh-poohed by practical persons, who regarded the stories told iu that connection as ol I womeu's tales, belonging to the same category as the myth about sleeping un der the moon, or taking a siesta under a yew tree. But then there weie pub lished terrible accouuts of fair daiuei, who, despisiuu the warning iu question and depositing boupuets or rl wvr po's in their rooms at night, had nu t w i h a fate almost as tragic as that reconh'd in the doleful ballad of "The Mistletoe Bough." Thereupon the scientific world, with the whole crew of unlearn ed folk at its heels, rushed to the oppos ite conclusion, and adopted a theory that illness and even death might result from sleeping iu an apartment which was adorned with living plants or fresh cuttiugs. Aud now it turns out that in going as far as this we have ;oue a good deal too far. At a medical con ference recently held in France it was demonstrated t the satisfaction of all the savauts there present, that plants, as long as they are plants ouly, may safely and even with advantage, be admitted to the elysium from which they have so often been ex led. These pretty ornameuts, as a learned writer now declares, "far from being hurtful, are beneficial In as much as th-y ex hale n certain amount of ozone aud va por, which maintain a healthy damp ness In the air, aud besides that ae destructive of the microbes which pro mote consumptive tendencies in human beings. It is only flowers and not the plants which bear them, that do the damage. Ferns are innocuous, roses and sunflowers are pernicious at least during the interesting period while they are in bloom." Storming me Ice Palace. A January writer from Montreal says: The visitors managed to enj y themselves In the morning at the Vic toria Skating Rink watching a skating tournament. The Governor General ahd Lady Lansdown and their children were present. The competitors were fromdnadaand fromthe United States. The contest was a close one; the local champion, Rubensteiu, winning by '282 points, against Robinson of Toronto, iW points. In the af temoon there was a steeplechase across the mountain, a Mardi Grasinasquerade and toboggan races at the Russian side. Recently the suowshoers attack on the Ice palace was as peculiar as it was fascinating. The leaders of both the attack and the defense were commanders of local mili tary regiments. The battle-ground is a large oblong square at one end of the palace. The towers and turrets ol clear ice, with the corners and angles glittering as though set with diamonds, were intensified by electric lights within and without. The snowshoe soldiers, with torches, quietly entered the square and took their alio ted posi tions. A b-mb was tired as a Bignal for the attack. And a shower of harm balls were at once hurled against the icy ramparts. Rocket after rocket was shot up, and the palace glowed witti colored lights. Each turret burned with tires of many colors, and with fire balls and rockets the defenders an swered the attack. Then came a rush from outside, with a perfect storm ol fire-balls from within. Then another rush and a volley of rockets and Roman caudles, and the palace was taken. Beseiged and beseigers then aarched from the palace gates and up the mountain side. It looked from below as if a great seriieaut of fire was gliding along the mountain. The scene was the most enchantiug one since the cai uival was opened. - Sixty-four women engravers earn' their livelihood in England. j The total cost of the Tichborue litigation was over i 150,000. Mr. X. B. Clark propoej. iu tho , Journal of the Franklin Institute, to employ, as a soaroe of emergency power fur ellipe of war, f uroaoca into which petroleum i sprayed along with taper ' heated steam aud hot air NO. 8. NEWS IN BRIEF. Daltou, Ga., boasts of a calf with five legs. The eenuiue silver dollar of 1804 is worth $oOO. Stealing door plates is the latest mania In Boston. Nearly 2.000,000 ch. dren die every year In Russia. Frau Mdterna is suffering from a sprained ankle. The salary of the Viceroy of India is 125.000 a year. Berlin has 1027 physicians, or one to every 1230 inhabitants. Germans make the most delicate watch wheels of paper pulp. Frederick Douzlass Is believed to to be worth at least i loO.OOO. There are 7,102 women mission aries and preacher in England. Hereafter the New York Star will show its light but once a week. The newest craze Is to collect every kind aud shape of parlor lamps. Several Western Railroads have stopped the sale of miliage tickets. Yale is discussing the advisability of founding a co-operative society. The number of men employed ou the Panama Canal works la 19,000. The United States used 1.100.UOO tons of sugar during the year 1334. Counterfeit silver quarters. bearing date 1871, are plentiful in Brooklyn. The United States uses three times as much paint as any other country. Tbe Harvard Divinity School has seven professors and eleven students. The United States is the third siik manufacturing country in the world. The highest priced pew in Grace Church, New York, is 1,000 per year. The wagesof the British iron work ers were reduced 30 per cent, in 1884. There are 600 professional beau ties tn London who don't work at ail. It is a w ise woman that know her owu sealskin sacque from dyed beaver. Vermont school teacher's are pro hibited by law from the use of tobac co. There are 452 women editors lit England aud l,3o9 female photograph ers. There are eleven million horses iu the United States, onetoevery five per sons. Locomotives that cost 15,000 apiece a year ago cati be bought for $8,000 each. The United States is the third lar gest beer producing country in tho world. There are 115,91)5 English school teachers, nearly all of whom are spins ters. In New York and Loudon musical circles the "See-Saw" waltz is the crae. The United Stales contains three quarters of the coal fields of t'ie whole world. I u some parts of Germany paper Is now used in the manufacture ot lead pencils. It may become necessary to quar antine against thosn foreign earth quakes. A peail has been found ou the Western Australian coast valued at 20,000. A war ou bill-board displays of ob jectionable posters has oieued in New York City. As an outcome of the hard times, no shut dowu of a brewery has yet beeu reported. Foreigu students iu Paris complain of discriminations and being treated as iutruders. Wachtel, the once famous tenor, has tardily followed his voice and retired from the stage. The poor of Paris are now cryiug for bread. They may soon be clamor ing for blood. Out of Italy's tweuty-uiue milliou inhabitants only one million subscribe to newspapers. Tbe Nihilists iu Russia Continue busy euough to keep the procession to Siberia moving. Windsor's great, park costs the Queen 125.000 a year aud brings in rentals of 25,000. A twenty-six pound mountain trout, forty-seven inches long, is on ex hibition in Denver. There are sixteen locomotive works in the United States, aside from shops owned by railroads. Two Boston houses send about COO.OOO gallons of rum to the Congo district every year. The "Lights o' I,oudou" are 001 gas jets, consuming nightly 13.0U0,- 000 cubic feet of gas. A Norwich, Conn., lady has a ba nana plant on which several bananas are now ripening. Iu Loudon 140 tons of chloride of lime are daily used for the deodorizing of the sewer outlets. It is said that Miss Mackey will never permit her Italian Count to go into the peanut business. The four million and odd faims in this country are estimated at a total value of 10,la7,090,77tfc Minnesota's assessed pro(erty val uation has increased 5 ) per cent, since 1870, being now over 40,000,000. Cleopatra's needle, in Central Park, N. Y., is gradually crumbling away, ;t id said, owing to climatic influences. A newly -married couple at Bangor, Maine, were so bashful that they would not allow the event to be published in tiie pupera. Twelve thousand invitations will be sent out for the Presidential inaug uration ball. But the recipients will 1 o: all attend. Nearly 5000 new books were pub lished in England last year, one-sixth of the whole number being ou theolog ical subjects, 4iJ?J were novels. Policemen in Detroit can no lon ger receive rewards, the commissioner's being determined to make tbe health and life f uud of the deparimeut the re cipient hereafter. James J. Pemn, Treasurer of the School Board of Ltfayette. lad., has j presented the city with a library cou I taiuing over I0,uo0 Voluuiesof carefully I selected books. Floating sawmills are common ou the lower Mississippi. They pick op the drifting logs, turn them luto lum ber, and sell the product to planters aloug th shore. The next festival of the United Singers.of Brooklyn, will begin on July 5, ISSo.and continue fonr days. Twen ty societies, comprising at least 40UU Voices, will participate. ii in - i i F if i! i ) 1 i )'. I: ; t
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