The Coming of Numinef.
1 wooili are astir with ft fluttat ol wings,
Each thicket mound with the not of a
song,
The maples' green banners unfurl to the
Arvl hlthxr the dryad mm tripping sling.
f hose chanting has startled the squirrel that
springs
From bough unto bough of the whisper
Ing trnm,
Th iiplnniKwlin.c pastures of emerald line
Laugh low nt the frolics ot Inmlikln lit
play.
An) waiting expectant Inr soraii oue to
iHimi'i
Trl. ki-tl oi.t In their Imlliloy unary, gay
With lii iprcups yellow anil hareliolls of Miie,
Th.it tlnkln anl chime wl"U we think
they sr" ilinnli.
Th" drunk I nglnd with hilarious gie,
A;nl gini'mls nnil leap n It run to the
lake.
Hhi' cn-nlng! she's cumin.!" It shout
1" thn llflili
'Th"iTuii" have nome lm 'k mil the wo-nl-'lnii"k
f awake!"
Like any young madcap from ilnr.u t
fr.
Ami slnifth for Joy till In lips shall lm
u'nli'il.
Tli li'!d n Iht children run Into her arm,
Impatient to tell the good tlilliigti tli-i MM.
Tnkin etch to lnr heart, miI there rooks
It tO Mlcpp;
And while on hi-r havlncr lull lmx.ni 'tis
nurst,
Bh.- or. ii nit it -uift lillluliy, milking the churns
')i mminiiir, high anilval oomltigt ' kwp.
Wil l u vl T. Jamkh, In Friml; l.-n'ii'ii.
NELLY'S LOVER
. JI AMY RANlmt.Plt.
" I wish I !iuil go to thy seashore,"
aid Nolly Green. Huftly.
Shi' sat like a littlo pale shadow in
th moving gleams of tho Madeira vitna
vhieh Minimi had twined hack ninl
forth over the tcncmetit-hoiiHo w indow,
li'T eyes fixed on tin; utio liit of blue
ky which was vinilde between faotory
Mills nml clustering chimneypot.
" To tho seashore !" said Ait tit Pen
elope, grimly. "Marian, them vesta
ain't pressed yet, ami they're to bo
called for nt noon, yon know."
" Hut tho seashore!" went on Nell,
as if hIid hail not hrnnl the crabbed
oM woman's woi'iIh. " Tho great, fool
waves, full of green ami violet light;
the wot crinkly sand; tho sweet wind
an 1 tho fringes of white foam! Oh,
Marian, I know I Hhonlil lm better if
I could go to tho BOB."
Nolly Green hail boon tho Honor t.f
all tho fntnily tho beauty, tho young
est, tin- pet. But when Nolly foil sick
anil was obliged to givo up school
when hIio continued to droop, ilay by
day, Aunt IViH'loio liogan to question
lllH justice; of Providl'llCO.
Marian hml listened wistfully to hor
sister's piteous words. Sho looked nt
Aunt Penelope.
"Aunt I'on," aiiiil Hho, " there's that
nionoy 1 lmvo boon Miving for a Imtton
hole mai'hino ; it noul.l jimt take ua
all to tho HoiiHlioro for a wook."
" Anil what'" to liocoino of the button
hole liiiioliiiio? " Hiiiil Aunt IVn. work
ing hor jiiwa in liniiou with the motion
of tho HciHHora w ith whioli alio van cut
ting out several layer of white Mar
Jeilloa, " Wo miiHt ilo without it," euiil Mar
inn. " No, dear, no! " anid Nelly, looking
tip with a faint umilo, I nin not yet
eltih onongh to ullow such a aaeritleo
mb that. Yon have been saving up for
tho button-hole maehino a wholo year
you could work a deal faster with
it." . -
Marian kiaaod her siater and anid
aothing.' But tho next evening when
he camo in from dolivering hor lateat
batch of work at tho veat factory, nho
bold np three nlia of paper.
"Tickets for Long Branch!" said
he, " Got ready, Nell and Aunt Tone
lopo 1 We are to go on Thursday for
week ! "
' Goodness gracious me ! "cjcaulated
Aunt Pen. "And me without a dri'Ks
cap and not a yard of ruffling done
ap!" . ...
',Tou can mako up the dresn-eap to
night," said Marino, " and as for tho
ruffling, wo muttt do without it, for
noe."
"But the button-hole machine," said
Nell, drawing her sitter's face down
close to hers. ' Oh, Mariuu Marian
what have you done? "
- "Ending," wlispered Marian, "I
would make bntton-holes by hand all
Diy life, to sea the oolor back in your
cheeks."
And Marian felt that she was indeed
rewardod whon Nelly's chocks reddened
and something like the old light came
back to her eyes as the Long Branch
boat steamed past the Narrows and the
eool salt breeze fluttered her veil and
lifted the little fringes of golden Lair
from hor forehead. Marian and Aunt
Pen. in her well-worn black alpaca,
ant beside her ; and Miss Cynthia Cul
pepper, who boarded in the same
bouse, and was a "saleslady" ont for
-fear two weeks' vacation, was opposite
ina drcMhat, Imitation gold tirncoletn
and pea-green kid gloren.
Presently a tall, hanilaoine young
man, who ant on the other aide of tho
boat, rone and approached the party.
"I beg your pardon," said ho crtttr
teoiiHly, to Marian, "but I see that
the young lady is an invalid. Would
aim not prefer a neat on the shady side?
Minn is quite nt her disposal."
" Thank you," said Marian, grate
fully. "It would be pleaaauter."
And then begun a plenmwt little
travelling acquaintance, which wns
further cemented by tho haiiclHotne
atrnnger oarrying their bag to the
train for them.
" Which hotel arc you for? " he
imkoil, when at length the train came
to a Htaud-Htill in the depot.
"Oh. no hotel," said frank Nelly.
" We have engaged board at a private
limine. A boy will meet ua. We are
very much obliged for nil your kiml
Mem. "
" What a fool you are, Nelly
Green ("cried Minn Cynthia Culpepper.
" lon't you hoc he's bound for the
Went Kntl? You could easily have
pi i ti iuli il yon were going to oue of
tho hotel, too."
" Hut it wouldn't have beeu true."
"True?" echoed Mias Cynthia.
" I've no patience with you? You'll
never see him again? And him with
diamond Html in bin linen nml a real
I'ii rmtn ii hut! Who known what would
have come of it?"
" Please to give me the chenpeat
b:ithing-iuit you have," said Nolly,
tho next iimming, when the three girls
wont down to take their Mea-lmtlm.
" There you are again 1" grumbled
Mis Cynthia. " Must you ml vet tine
the fact of your poverty all through
Long llrniieh? I'd never have come
with you if "
Hho stopped here, startled by Nelly's
little cry of pleased surprise. For
there, looking out of the window where
the bathing-units were piled up for
hire, was the tall st ranger in tho dia
uion I stints and the Panama hat.
"Oh." cried Nell, instinctively,
" how glad I am to see you! But who
would have expected to meet you
hero!"
" Uniting out bathing-suits nt fifty
ntnt twenty-live cents an hour," snid
the young in m, with u mischievous
Hput'kle in his dark eyes. " Which
.-drill I have the pleasure of selecting
for you, iim'inn?" to Miss Cynthia Cul
pepper. That young lady drew herself up.
"The nicest you have," wiiil she.
" Marian," she udded, afterward,
"those ilininotiils are California ut:il
nothing else, And the hat is in t
likely borrowed. And you really
oii'-tlit to tench that silly little sister i f
yours some of the ways of the
world? She's making us much of that
young man as if he was a gentleman I"
And Miss Culpepper gave tho dark
eyed offender the cut direct, when she
met him strolling on tho beach, when
bath hours were over, aud tho sunset
breeze came freshest.
" Are you strong enough to walk up
as far as yonder stranded sloop?" said
he to Nell. " I think you would enjoy
tho sight. And with my arm "
" I should like it so much," said
! v-
Nelly.
But Miss Cynthia could not endure
this.
"Young man," said she, loftily, "I
don't think your employer would
like this."
" My employer I"
"Tho gentleiuuu that owus the
bathing-suits."
" But I have nothing to do with tho
hiithing-suits nor thoir owner," said
tho stranger with an amused look.
"Indeed!" said Miss Culpepper,
with scorn. " Then may I ask what
you were doing there this morning?"
"Oh, certainly I" answered tho
stranger. " I found, when I got down
to tho bathing grounds, that I had left
the key of my room in the door; bo
1 just stepped in for a moment whilo the
nun ran up to the hotel to got it for
ine. "
Miss Cynthia Culpepper opened her
mildly blue eyes very wide. All of a
sudden tho diamonds assumed their
original glittor ; the mien of the sus
pected vendor of bathing suits became
aristocratic and Lord-Byronish again.
How, thon, in the names of Guy Living
stone, Hir Charles Grandison and all
the other heroes of modern and au
cieut romance, had she made such a
mistake? But if he wasn't the hotel
employe, who was he?
Tho week at Long Branoh glidod
away, and whou they were seated iu
the steamer, on thoir homeward way,
Nell whispered to Marian, with gleam
ing oyos und cheeks all rosy i
"Dear Marian, is it wrong to ba en
0aged to him after only a week's ac
quaintance?" Wrong? No. dear." Marian an-
'weredj "lot 1 tutnK he lovoa yon
dearly." , .
"Who do yon think ho is-" de
manded Cynthia Culpepper, bounclug
into the room where tho three sat at
their vest-making "Mr. Newton, I
mean !"
"Ho is Mr. Newton," said Nelly.
'Ho is the new partner In our firm !''
gssped Cynthia. , ' "I saw him looking
over the cashier's books this morning."
"Marian," said Nelly, turning to
her sister, 'the first present I make
you aft t I am married shall be a button-hole
machine ; for all this happi
ness ha come of your sweet, geuerous
self-detiinl. The Ledger.'
Ifnw Kkr-ItiK'krts ft re Marie,
The first process in rocket-making is
the m itiiifiietnre of the tube, w hich, for
nil the ordinary kinds, is of pasteboard,
rolled h int and glued, layer over layer,
until it is nearly as tough ns sheet
iron. The tube is placed inn copper
mold, from the bottom of which a long,
pointed spitid'e projects up to the tube.
Tho fuse, a sort of wick impregnated
with slow-burning powder, is inserted
well up into the tube, and the firing
charge, also n slow-burning powder, is
rammed around tho fuse nud down
around the spindle so that when tho
tube is withdrawn from tho mold a
deep cavity is loft ill the bottom of the
rocket, which grently facilitates com
bustion. The gas formed by slow pow
der rushing out at the vent and imping
ing upon the nir semis the rocket up
ward, t'pon the firing charge, which
will last long enough to carry the rock
et to the required altitude, is placed
the bursting, or exploding charge, a
small quantity of nuc-grained gunpow
.dor, somewhat similar to that used in
squibs, whoso power is Htilllciont to
Mow out the display. On this explod
ing chargi) (ignited by the firing chargo
when it has burned up to that point,
which should bo coincident, of course,
with the extreme limit of the rocket's
Might) is put whatever display the
rockets are to in ike. Tho workman
just iu front of us has mixed together
a quantity of bright steel filings, taken
from nu nir-tight vessel (for if the fil
ings rust they nre worthless), with a
trifle of mealed powder und glue water.
This, iu the consistency of still' clay,
he presses into the tube, nud upon it
he pours more steel-ti lings, dry aud
loose. Upon this, again, ho places a
l it of clay, or ti mpcrod briek-ilust J
ami, witn a dub of glue,tlxos n conical
cap, in shape much like the tops of the
mrrets you see iu old Gnscoii chnteaus.
(I have never been iu Gnscuiiy myself,
or Franco either, for that matter; but
it sounds well to write about these
things as if you were wearily familiar
v.ith them all.) Next he takes his tube,
iiow complete, nml dexterously wires
two sticks of pine or spruce to it olio
on either Hide, These sticks will guide
the rocket iu its flight, which other
wise would bo erratic. This is a"six
pouiidnr," and will mount four hun
dred foot and close its career in a
shower of brilliant sparks. Demurest.
Return of the Hedan Chair.
Tho mania for reviving bygone
fashions would seem to have reached
its height when s 'dan chairs nre to be
reinstated. Already a London street
carriage builder has received orders
from several ladies, and ere long no
doubt to ride in a sodnu chair will be
considered tho smart thing to do.
The modem chairs are built upon au
improved principle. They are more
roomy than their predessors, and open
at tho side like a brougham, instead of
front. One specimen in progress of
completion has panels painted green
aud picked out with gold, while the
interior is upholstered in green silk.
The framework being entirely of steel,
aud the woodwork excessively thin, the
weight is reduced as much as possible.
Tho very uamo " sedan chair " carries
with it a vision of powder, patches,
court beauties and the like, which fact
alone will commend this mode of loco
motion to the notice of fashion's
votaries. Chicago Herald.
A Pie for the Queen.
Consenting to the revival by the
Mayor of Gloucester of an ancient cus
tom, Queen Victoria is to receive,
through the Lord High Steward of
Gloucester (the Duke of Beaufort),
the royal lamprey pie, which from an
eurly period prior to 1830 was annually
sent by the City of Gloucester to the
reigning sovereign. The royal pie will
be accompanied by skewers or spoons,
specially prepared, bearing the arms
of the City of Glouoestor and the
name of' the present Mayor. Detroit
Free Press.
During the cholera plague of 1865
the greatest mortality at Bom and
Madrid was on Sundays; at London
aud Berlin on Wednesdays ; at ' Paris
01 Saturday,
WOODED ISLAND.
THB ONLY qiTIKT rVPOT Off TUB
WORLD'S FAIR ORODNDS.
A Dream of OM JapanThe Tjrpl
' eal Home of the Hunter
and Haunt of the
IVIIcan.
HE golden crown
of the Administra
tion Building had
Jnst eanght the
shimmering rays of
the morning sun,
which was not yet
above the horizon.
There was a faint
boo boo I hoo-hoo !
awny to the north.
Then all was quiet.
The sound came
from a little owl
which had built
his nest in a se
cluded spot on the
wooded island. It
was his Inst boot
for the night, and
ns he nestled into
his snug retreat a
sleepy guard went
over tho bridge
lending from the
south. He had
often henrd the
owl during his
lonely walks nt
night, but conld
never see him, nnd so this morning he
ngnin looked for the only disturber of
the wooded island, but with no better
success. He cast sleepy blinks at the
trees and thon crossed over the bridge
THIS TYPICAL
leading to the west and to his own re
treat aud cot for the day.
His coming to quarters was the sig
nal that the new dny had come, and
the even trend of the day guards soon
sounded along the smooth paths, as
column after column marched to the
day stations.
Tho busy scones of the day have be
gun. Tho click of the turnstiles be
comes morn rapid. The park is now
a blazo of light and excitement; the
ever-moving mnss of human color sub
dues the dazzling white of the many
buildings.
The wooded inland is the only quiet
spot on the grounds. Even the great
search lights are placed in a position
so high that they cannot come within
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THE JAPANE.1B DOORWAY.
THE JAPANESE GATE.
the range of this littlo spot of neutral
color, and only the tops of the trees
sometimes catch the reflected light
from the illuminated dome of the Ad
ministration Building at night. At
the north end of the island stands the
little Japanese settlement with its
quaint buildings, every view ot which
forms an interesting picture. The
queer gate and high gate-posts have
bronze tops and red bronze hinges and
fastenings.
The weary sight-seer who rests on
the bench just outside this queer gate
can easily imagine himself in Japan,
and axpeot at any moment to see Jan-
ansae giants, ogres, dragons and many
fairies come from tu wild rtoe grow
ing on the other side of the slender
bamboo fence. Then, too, he will see
the brave dog, Hhippeitaro, known at
Okuchishinjin, the large-month god,
who is famous the world over for hav
ing killed tnsny trsgon cats In th
forcsta of Japan and to have saved'tht
live ot many beautiful Japanese
maidens.
Jnst south of this gate stands the
Japnneso temple, and it is a model of
refined nnd thorongh workmanship. It
is entirclv characteristic of the Japan
ese nnd their careful and patient work
in the natural wood in which the out
side of the building is fluished. In
such places where the cut ends are ex
posed to the weather artistic brass
coverings are used. No glass is to be
seen. Light it hsd from fine tissue
paper slides, the dividing sections be
ing highly lacquered in black. Only
peep is ns yet to be obtained of the in
terior, hut thin discloses many won
derful things. Finemattings are used
in tho finish, and many bronzes and
delicnto carvings, highly colored, are
shown about the rooms.
From the temple runs a winding
path, which first leads close to the
water ; nnd here, among the reeds and
low willows, is heard thn errant nnlionn
I as he catches his dinner of fish with
his long bill and pouch. Then the
.. 1 - . -i ,
(iuiu wmiiu uiu niuoiig trees, gameretr
from all parts of the world.
A gentle, white-haired lady, who has
strayed away from her yonnger com
pnnions, is mnking a study of the new
varieties of flowers. She carefully
watches the gardener as ho ties up the
tender stalks to their supports and
then passes on and takes it upon her
self to arrange and replace some of the
plants that have been blown astray.
HONTFH'S CABIW.
The path now passes the flower nurs
ery, with its thousands of bulbs set out
to be translated about the grounds.
It then leads into a dense and .almost
wild wood. And just ahead, a short
distance from the trail, is an old, de
serted bark hut used by the hunter in
the north.
Just across from this is n typical
hunter's camp used iu the Northwest.
The old canvas-covered wagon is just
outside, and tho horf.es may lie graz
ing somewhere among the trees. In
side are nil the comforts of a homo to
the hunter. Here beside a log fire in
the large open fireplace is tho guardian
of the camp, Mr. E. Hoper. He is
hero from tho northern hunting
grounds to toko care of the camp for
the Boone and Crockett Club, the
builders.
"Come in and warm," is his first
greeting. "Yes, this is jnst the way
we live on a hunting trip. Here is
everything wo need all of our sad
dles, guns, furs and cots. I sleep here
just as I do nt camp, nnd when the
door is closed I can imagine myself in
tho wilds of the North. Now and
thon yon hear the honk of a Canadian
wild goose just outside on the lagoon,
and some have built thoir nests right
back of .this camp near the water.
Then there are the gulls and different
wild duck. These all add to the de
ception, and I almost expect any mo
ment to see a big bear rub his nose np
against the window over there.
"At night comes the hoot of a little
owl which built its nest right out of
that door a bit. Yes, I have seen its
nest, but I ain't told any one of it.
"There are some mighty hunters in
the Moono Club. There are among
them Charles Deering, Albert Bier
stadt, 8. W. Buchannon.John U. Bux
ton, of England ; James K. Morton,
I John J. Pierropoint and many others.
I This is a beautiful spot, and I see
many ot my friends among the wild
birds right around here, though some
are strange to me and I do not nndtr-
stand thoir notes. Chicago Boooird
The topaz took its name from a
Greek word meaning guess, sinoe the
anoients could only guess at the local
ity where tlm beautiful stone was ob
tained. Tho first artists of the Venetian
school were the brother Gentile and
Giovanni Bellini.
The BlgfMt Man In Hew York. -
I Here is a good picture of the big
I gest man In New York, John A, Sea-
Ion, the colored watchman, of the
JOB! A. RF.ATOX.
Equitable Building. Mr. Keaton is
six feet seven and ono-half inches
high, and weighs 287 pounds, bnt he
doesn't appear to Is? abnormally stout.
Ho is simply big all over.
I had a chat with him the other dny,
on which occasion he said :
"Do I care if people stnro at me?
Well, to tell tho truth, I have grown
used to it. I am a descendant of people
who enjoyed the distinction of being
slaves on George Washington's estate
at Mount Vernon. At oue time I was
a member of the Capital police force,
Washington. Later, I had an office
nnder the Government. It was part
of my duty, from time to time, to ao
company Congressional junkets on
funeral tours. I was present at the
obsequies of somo of our lwe.MJUL
days gone by. A gentleman once inado
me an offer to go with him to England
to act as his valet, but I preferred to
stay iu the United States.
"I remember on one occasion I took
a trip iu a sleeping car and got caught
in the folding bods anil nearly lost my
life. I have never tried that sort of
way of sleeping since.
"I am married and have a family of
boys and girls. The children nre
shove tho medium height, all of them,
although none sro as t ill ns I am. My
brother, now dead, was taller than I
otn. We were both in tho same trade
and attracted much nttention,
"I cannot sleep in an ordinary bed.
Ves, there are some disadvantages in
being so tall. You see, I have extra
sized beds, extra sized chairs, extra
sized furniture iu my home. I sit in a
rocking chair of oxtra size and smoke
sn extra sized pipe. I do not eat more
than aa ordinary man. I have no
favorite dishes. How do I account for
my size? Oh, it's nature, aided by tho
open nir nnd a decent, healthy life. I
grew that way."
Mr. Heaton is a modest, intelligent
and useful aid in the big building he
does so much to adorn. The ladies ap
pear to bo delighted with his heroic
proportions, nnd many are the ad
miring glances they cast at him.
New York Herald.
Did the Flo.ti In "OOii Wur.K
If the Chaldean flood tablet which
Johns Hopkins University sent to the
American Bible Society is a fair sam
ple of the books of tool) yenr.i ago a
Chaldean Library ns extensive as the
Astor Library would cover Manhattan
Island. The tablet is a complete book
iu itself. It is a plaster cast from
a modern reproduction in clay of the
eleventh book of tho so-called Izdubor
or Gilgnmesh legends. It contains
tho Chaldean account of tho flood,
written in cuneiform text more than
two thousand years before Christ.
The tablet is about ten inches Ion?
by seven wide and three-quarters of
an inch thick. It is written on both
side in three column and contain
331 linos, or about 20i)0 words.
THR TABLET.
The restoration is the work of Pro
fessor Paul Haupt, of Johns Hopkins,
one of the first scholars of his day in
the study of antiquities. Tho original
tablet wiis found during the British
excavations in tho valley of tho Eu
phrates and Tigriu, and was broken in
thirteen pieces, which are now in the
British Museum. Now York World.
Making a Fly-Trap Ont ol a Piano.
"Come inside a minute," said
Fonrfh avenue dealer in pianos. "I
have discovered the greatest fly-trap on
earth and I want to show it to you. "
He led the way to au instrument at tho
rear of the store, on which was a news
paper. On the paper had been placed
a bunch of sweet peas. At least a
thousand dead flies were lying on the
paper in the immediate vicinity or in
the bunoh of flowers. "I threw these
here by chnnoe," he continued, "and
in about ten minutes I happened to
notice that every fly that alighted on
the flowers died iu a very short time."
Even ns he spoke a number of the in
tteet which had stopped to suck the
deadly sweet hod toppled over dead.
They alightdd with thoir usual buzz,
topped momentarily, quivered in
their legs, flapped their wiugs weakly
several times aud thon gave up thn
gliuat. Courier-Journal ,
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