MhiIi'IkM of I.oto. If ovory rose has Its tliorii, I woniliT where Is tlilimi If till heart's lovo i'oiiM n ml It, Til 1 nt tit It, ili'nr, n mlini Ami In my heart winr It To relievo jrmi nf tin aln, Anil wish ymi'il never ak It lin k from in" again. If ovi'ryMnr tlmt shines, dear, In ; .!' fnlr, purpling skies, Would ii I I It Hlorlout Willy To llii! hitr of thin oym, To mo yon'il not lx fairer, O, tirst lovo of my heart i Ah. thou nrt not of onrth, d'nr, Hut of heaven Itself n mrt. If every lilnl tlmt rIiik. dear, With inlnn In Its iwast, Would ninK his song for you, dear. Au.l drought nnti) you rest, id with Ihelr tenderest riuti Woulil whhNr unto the i, That 1 loved you nml only you, Vr nil I't'Tiilly. ' Thuiia II. Dawsom, In IMrott 1'rco Press. ULRICA. "Ulrica! Ulrica I ain't it timo to pit tho keltlo on?" Old Mm. Hopwood, in her wheeled chair liy tho window, was watching the chirk, with now nnd then a glance nt tho yellow line of sunshine Unit crept along tho floor, while her knit ting lay idly in her hip. Ulrica pnid no attention to her words, bit walked straight to tho lit tlo looking-glass tlmt lump; nliovo the cherry table, and stnred intently into its depths. "Granny," hIio burst out, "why nm I different from other girls?" "Cliiid, wlmt on enrth do yon mean?" , Ulrica shook the tawny looks from her sun-burned forehead, nud flashed the grnt inquiring eyes into her grnudmotbrr's face. "I don't know," imid bIic, "Imt when I go into tho village every ono looks nt inc. Kuto Linlcy calls mo 'tint wild gipsy, ' nnd jtint now, whou I was pioU ng dandelion greens along tho road, I chanced to look tip, nnd there w;ib tlmt artist fra Philadel phia coolly tikctcliing ito. 'Please utmil still for junt Htiother minute,' huid lie, exactly as if I was a stick or a Ktouo. " "And wlmt did you gay?" "Just nothing nt nil. I camo flying into the houso, and left him landing by tho gate." "It's because we'ro poor, child," cai I Mrs. Hopwood, sorrowfully. . Onco moro tho long, bluo-gray eyes flushed. "In it a crimo to bo poor?" "Well no j but don't yon see, Ul rica, that you can't dress like Miss Linley, or go to boarding-Bchool like Dr. Mhsod's daughter?" "Hut why?" persisted Ulrica, pac ing ii nnd down tho room liko a young lioness. "Why aro wo poor?" "Well, your grandfather wasn't no manager," crooned tho old damo. "Ho was always londin' money to help other pooplo, and ho never seomed to get it back ag'in, nnd your fnther hadn't no faculty. Tho Hopwoods al ways was nnlncky, aud when ho hurt his baud in Milo Stevens. stonoyard and couldn't work no more, every thing went to rack and ruin. Why, child, what be yon a-cryin' for?" "I--don't know I" sobbed poor Ulrioa. "I wish I was like othor folks. I'm tired of wearing old faded gowns and shoes all burist out at the sido. I'm tired of people calling mo 'that graveyard girl 1 " And she glanocd vindictively out at the white gravestones and gray mar tilo shafts on the hillside opposite the window. "Don't folk so foolishly, child," said Mrs. Hopwood, picking tip tho dropped stitches in hor knitting work. "We get our rent that way, looking fter the cemetery gates and keeping the grass out. And it's a very nice little house. You allays used to like to play in the graveyard." "That was when I was a littlo girl," aid Ulrica, "I didn't know any bet ter then." "Run and shut the gate," said Mrs. Hopwood. "There'a Mr. Smith's red ow oomin down the road. Them cows is always so greedy arter the high, thick grass. And there's the tulip bulbs Widow Oraw wanted plant ed in her lot 1" "Let her plant them herself," said Ulrioa, straightening hor slim' figure and going diligently to work to get the old woman's dinuer, Mrs. Hopwood looked wistfully at her as she knitted on. Yes, it was quite true. She only wondered she Jiad not noticed it before. Ulrioa was unlike the other girls of Willowfield. '8be was like a disguised prinoPBS, or one of the royal red roses thnt grew ao rankly in the cemetery beyond. But in spite of her rebellious words, Ulrioa did pluut the Widow Draw's tulip bulbs. It would not do to ott'und lhe trustees of the cemetery. Oranuy Hopwood was old, and they had uo other homo. Ono of these days, pel Imps nnd a strange, soft light sparkled into tho girl's eyes one of these days I The sunset wns reddening the old gravestones ns sho planted tho Inst bulb. Hush I Was not thnt tho sound of footsteps on tho path below? Kho drew bank into tho shadow of Deacon Holt's old vault wliero sho had been used to piny with hur dolls as a child. It was Willis Hnrroti's volco, nnd it was Ijetitin Wynne thnt wns nt his side. Letitia, tho very spoiled beauty tlmt had onco culled her 'that grave ynrd girl I" "1 would not linvo her seo mo planting flowers here for tho world I" said Ulrica to herself, tho rich pome granito hue dyeing her cheeks. And with a sudden inspiration, sho lifted the runty old latch of tint dis colored iron gate nnd took refuge in tho ancient vault. Almost the next miniito Mr. llarron and Let it in enme down the terrace to the very spot. From Ulrica's hiding place among til" dead, sho could look out into the world of sunset crimson and seo tho two slim young figures. She could seo tho wind blowing Letitia Wynno's fluffy brown curls nbout and tho very glow of tho red rm nations in Willis Hurron's coat. "Homebody has been planting flowers on old Thomas draw's gravy 1" cried Letitia. "It's the widow, I de clare 1 How ridiculous I w hen nil tho world knows that sho is junt going to bo married ngnin to Captain Htilwcll I Hut everything is In shocking disorder. Where's tlmt girl that takes care of tho graves? Wlmt a horrid business it must be I Hut they say she is only half civilized." In her plnco of concealment, Ulrica felt tho hot blood glow through her veins. Hiio would havo given tho world to spring out nnd confront her slanderer, but she ilnred not. Willis Hnrron turned chort nround nnd faced his fnir compnnioii. At tho same timo ho faced tho vault door also, nnd to Ulrica, shrinking buck against tho stone shelves, it seemed as if ho actually looked into her eyes. "Are you speaking of MiHs Hop wood?" said ho, coldly. "Perhaps, Letitia, I ought to tell you that Ul rica Hopwood is tho girl of nil girls whom I most admire in tho world." "Yon!'' giis;icd Miss Wynne, so pale that even tho red sunset could not light up tho chulky whiteness of her face. "Ana not only thnt," slowly went on Mr. Hnrron, "but I intend this very day to ask her to bo my wife." "Willis, you aro not in earnest? That strange, eccentric girl?" "That is tho very reason," ho said. "I lovo her bee uisj sho is so uuliko the other women tho shallow, soltlsli favorites of society whom I meet. Aud I assure you, Lutty, I novor was moro iu carnost in my life?" And now it was that Ulrica Hop wood was amply avenged for all tho slights and taunts sho had suffered at tho haughty beauty's hands. Miss Wynno burst into a shower of tears. "Willis," sho criod, "I thought I fancied ob, I don't know what I thought ! lama littlo hysterical, I think, walking here among those dis mal graves or, perhaps, ovortirod. And all this is so sudden!" In an instant, as it wcro, tho sun dropped behind tho horizon; tb landscape, which but now had blushod tho most colostial carmine, was dull and gray again. The two pedestrians wero gone, and Ulrica leaned hor choek against the stone ledge of Deacon Iloll's last resting placo, in a sort of delirium of happiness. She looked around on tho rows of graves, the solemn, arched vaults. Was it possible that pooplo could die and leavo this happy, sunshiny world? Ob, what a gust of pity overwhelm ed hor heart as sho thought of all those, dead and buried, to whom lifo and love were but a forgotten dream I Her pulses whirled joyously ; hor eyes shone ; a sort of rapturo pervaded hor whole being. It would almost seem as if her young vitality must in spire the dust of all those dead-and-gone people with it new life. Old Mrs. Hopwood looked up as Ulrica came into tho kitchen, where .the gray remnant of daylight yet lin gered eawo in with both her hands full of sweet wild roses, whose color hor own cheeks rivalled. "Ulrica," said she, "I've been thinking. It is a lonesome lifo here by the graveyard. Perhaps we'll give it up and go to live with Botsy Duoy, north of the factory." Ulrica stoopod and kiss id the with ered forehead. "Granny," said he, "I dull never bo unhappy ngnin. Oh, I have been so wrong, so wicked but I know bet ter now !" "I don't understand ' you," said thu old woman, looking with wonder ing eyes nt her. At tho same moment, however, a knock camo to tho door. It was Wil lis Hnrron himself. "Whnt's he hero for?" faltered tho poor old woman. "Is it tho Interest? Hut, Mr. Hnrron, tell your father it ain't duo until next month. Homo thing mny turn up between this and next month." "It isn't nbout tho interest," said Willis, quietly. "The intercut doesn't matter, Mrs. Hopwood. I camo to sco Ulrica." Hy this timo tho girl hud lighted tho lamp in the other room, and stood there, flushed and beautiful, with a certain air of expectancy. And all ol n sudden, Mrs. Hopwood comprehend ed it all. "I know it! I know it!" sho said to herself. "My pretty lassie ! Tho wild roses in the graveyard everybody that goes leans over to gather ono nnd now my rose is to be gnthorod. And Mr. Hnrron is a fine ninu, and ho will giva her a grand homo my littlo Ulrica." Ho that sho wns not so much aston ished ns ono would havo supposed when, later in tho evening, Ulrica camo blissfully to tell her secret to tho only mother sho had ever known. "And isn't it stratign," said the girl, burying her laco on granny's shoulder, "thnt ho should have loved me ho causo I nm so different from other girls?" Saturday Night. Jnckkiilr, as Diet. The Lnncet takes occasion to eiti various cases of cxttaordinnry gor mandizing. "Thero are," it says, "recorded instances of men who have devoured tho whole of a sheep or of a sucking pig raw ; and thero is ono nt least of a man, an nttcndnnt at tho Jnrdiu des l'lnutcs in Paris, who nto tho whole of a dend lion. Another Parisian, by imino Tarrnrc, who mado a livelihood by swallowing corks, pub Ids, apples and such unconsidered trifles, would occasionally, to satisfy a bestial craving, cat a live cat, nnd ap pears finally t havo taken to canni balism. Francis Battalia, who nto half a peck of small stones with his beer every day, served fs a soldier in the seventeenth century nnd refused other rations. Tho feats o.' John Cunimings, nil American snilor, nt tho beginning of thin century, nrons won derful ns any, and oro generally ro ceived as authentic. It appears un doubted thnt this mnn swallowed thirty-flvo clasp knives and thnt, al though in tho end ho died in great agony in Guy's Hospital, ho lived ten years w ith a considerable, though un certain, number of clasp knives in his stomach." A llorsn Well NiiiiihI. It is said that tho wif J of a ritizon oi Bostou was struck with the stylo oi a horse attached to an express wngon thnt called at her residence, aud beg ged hor hnsbnnd to purchase tho ani mal for her coupe. Tho indulgent husband consented, and in duo timo tho horse well-groom-od and handsomely harnessed to Ma dam's elegant coupe, was drivou up to tho door by tho Hibernian ooachmau. Madam descended tho steps of her mansion, aud, looking admiringly at her new acquisition, said to the coach man, erect on tho box: "I am going to call tho new horso Rex, Michael dou't you think it is a good name?" Michael, looking critically nt tho beast, who had spent a good part of his lifo hitched to a wagon aud hammering tho pavement, replied : "Wrecks, is it, Mum? Faith, judg ing from the fore logs nv urn, I think ho's well named. Bostou Bulletin. An Allejeil Xcvr Metal, Tho low price of silver iu Paris has stimulated the inventive genius of a manufacturer, who has consequently made a now metal by means of an al loy of copper aud silver, usiug the successful portions of tho two. He has really obtained an entirely new metal, cno of a most extraordinary de gree of strength, aud most valuable for resisting sudden or long-sustained strains. There seems littlo doubt that the oost of production will not be so great as to prevent its Urge use in the future, even should silver greatly in crease in value. To the low prioo of silver will be oreditod tho idea of us ing it as an amalgam for a spoeially high class of metal. Loudon Court Journal. Indiana's Laziest Man, It is said that Jamos Hole is so lazy thnt when registering or writing ' his name he simply writos J. aud then punohes a hole in tho paper. Vevojr Twico-a-Week, 1 Jit Jill. IIOUSEUIF.". TO f'l.KAN BATRP.!. French sateens will clenn beautifully by putting them into a lather of luke warm Boap-suds iu which Ciero has been a cupful of salt dissolved I rinso iu water also having salt I n it dip in very thin starch nml roll np In a clean sheet ( in two hours iron on tho wrong side. New York Jour nal, KITCHP.S I1IMT.1. Tim kitchen ought to In tho most interesting room in tho house and bo tho best furnished in proportion, of course, and yet It Is too often thu ease thnt it is tho most dismal hotn Imag inable. Many hoiisn builders pay no attention to tho location of the kitchen nt nil. They put it off in a lower dark rorner.oiio that is too gloomy for any other purpose, and there tho woman who does her own work has to spend two-thirds of her waking hours. Tho kitchen should be for health's sako, if for no other tho brightest room iu the liousn excepting only tho nursery and tho room whero tho children sleep. It should havo nvery conven ience for saving labor and steps and bo well ventilated. It need not bo a very Inrgu room if everything is com pactly arranged iu it, nnd it should havo tlie walls liuod with cupboard, built in tho house. Tho sinks should not bo inclosed, for if they nro a bit dump they will got smelling hz- in a very short time nud nothing will ever overcome it. You will find on inquiry that in yld houses whero tho kitchen is pokoit off under thu back sloop und has but onowindow,facitigou a wiilhid up area, or north, tho pooplo of tlmt house had always soma member of the family sick. Microbes and infection lovo dark kitchens. Washington Ktar. ItH'K I n.ACB OF rOTATORS. All eastern woman, Muio. Hiinnn Korany, of Hyria, who has been iu this country n yenr, thinks it absurd to ent potatnes every day. "In American homes," sho said to a Now York writer, "it is potatoes for breakfast, luncheon and dinuer nl wnys nnd evcrywhero potatoes'. Why do not thoso intelligent American housekeepers who mnnago aud manage well, much besides their homes, nud who nro ou tho alert for every now philosophy and doctrine that enn help them to better living, why do they not lonrii tho vnluo of rico, rioo conked ns tl'o restricted eastern woman can cook it, as a .substitute of tho cvorlasting potato?" And then sho tells how rico is cooked iu Hid orient. First, cautions tho Hyrinn cook, rio must bu wnshed thoroughly in four, ilvo or six waters, until tlio final wator is clear ; then in a dry vessel put n pieco of butter tho size, perhaps, of a small egg to a cup of rico and boat until, ns she says, "it is purified," but which may bo taken as meaning until it is well mcltod und bubbling; then add tho rice and mix it well with tho butter. Then silted wator is generously added, and tho rico is cooked slowly and without stirring until all the wrter is absorbed and it is tender. Atlantic Constitution. nECII'ES. Parsnip Fritters. To half a dozon boiled mashed parsnips of medium sizo ndd two tublespooufiils of flour, two eggs nnd a littlo pepper and salt. Form into small cakes and fry to a brown iu a littlo hot suet or in butter. Nutmeg Cookies. Mix together a cup of whito sugar, three-oighths of a cup of butter, a third of a cup of sour yilk, one egg, a quarter of a tea spoonful of sodi, plenty of grated nutmeg aud enough flour to roll thin. Bake in a quick oven. Pineapple Cuko. Three cups sugar, one cup butter, five eggs, throe and one-half cups of flour, ono-hilf cup of cold wator and two toaspoonfuls baking powder. Hake in layers, spread each layer with icing, then cover with grated or finely-chopped pineapple. A Simple Salad Dressing Put the yolk of a raw egg in a soup pinto with a quarter of a teaspoon fill of mustard. Turn tho oil in at first, drop by drop, then in a thin stroam, stirring all the time with a fork. If it gets too thick pour in a few drops of viuogar to thin it, Tho yolk of ono egg will use up half a piut of oil. Breakfast Mufllns without Eggs : Two cups flour, two tablespoonfuls sugar, two tespooufuls baking pow der, one teaspoonful salt, one and one half cups milk, one tablospoonful but ter molted ; mix the dry ingredients, add the milk gradually and lastly the butter ; beat vigorously and bnko iu a hot oven in muflln pans twenty to thirty minutes. kliemifio aintrs. Tim song of tho nightingale can ba heard a milo distant. A shock of earthquake is trans mitted nt tho rato of 1(1,01)0 foot, or thrco miles a second. A lilliptitinn electric light has boon invented for tho use of nowspnper re porters. It is fastened to tho top of a pencil, Venus nnd tho moon aro exactly alikn in ono respect nt least, each re volving nn Its axes in tho snino npnoo of timo taken to complete its orbit. Tho silk of tho gront spider of Mad ngnscnr is lino, strong nnd elastic. It is used by tho natives to fasten flowers to niinshndos. A single female spider linn bnou known to spin two miles of it iu '1 years. Boino practical experiments nro being inaile in Berlin with a view to ascertaining what food is most bene flcinl for tho soldier and on what diet tho best marching performances call bo obtained. (laltou declares thnt tho patterns on thu finger tips aro not only unchange able throughout lifo, but that tho chnnce of tho finger prints of two per sons being alike is loss than oue in Ct, 000,01)0,001). Tho scintillation of stars, according to a new theory suggested by H. E. Christian, is largely due to the con stant pnssago between the earth and the stnrs of small meteoric bodies, which nro now believed to bo drifting in spneo in the iiiimetiso numbers uea essnry to produce this effect. Edwnrd Whymper, tho well known mountaineer, has offered to attempt tho climbing of Mt. Everest, tho world's loftiest peak. The great difllculty in tho way of tho trip to a height of 20,002 feet hn believes to be that of getting 825,0 )0 or f.V),m) for establishing a series of resting sta tions. Experiments aro being conducted at tho armory iu Hpringfleld, Mas"., in the uso of aluminum for tho bayonet scabbards for tho now rifle. Whilo the metal works well in bending and is about 50 per cent, lighter than tin steel scabbard, no satisfactory method has been devised for soldiering tho edges together. Tho best existing map of the moon's surface, ono devoted expressly to tho mountainous regions, shows l!)2,H5fl crater shaped projections, of which number upwards of 100,000 mny bo soeu by aid of a telescope of medium power. Tho origin of the crnters has been tho object of much discussion of late mining astronomers, it being tho opinion of many eminent authorities that they wero caused by tho lunar Biirfucu (probably nt a timo when it wns in a plastic state), being bom burded with aerolites or meteorites. A Street f-'ceno In Ilomhuj. A mnn clad only in a yollow scarf and turban opens a mouth stained with tho vivid Vermillion of betel juico to show that tho mango sood just swal lowed has already becomo a small tree with green leaves pushing toward tho light. A woman appenrs next upon tho scono bringing a crying baby in a closed hamper of bamboo. A dozon swords nro instantly thrust through tho interstices amid the oar-piereiug yells of tho supposed victim, but as soon as tud formidable blades are withdrawn tho nine-lived infant tum bles out of tho bnskot, und salaams to tho assembled uudience, holding out hur tiuy brown hand for the well-do-served "backsheesh." As tho fun waxes fast and furious sundry quarrels and recriminations between tho rival magicians attract tho intervention of tho native police, who, "dross id in a little brief author ity," symbolized by rod turban and blue tunic, soon disperse the perform ers, bag aud baggage, hastening the enforced departure with unlimited kicks and thumps submissively receiv ed. All tho Year Bound. A Useful Alarm Clock, One of the newest inventions among clockmakcrs is an electrical alarm clock, illuminated by an incandescent light. It consists of a small polished wood cose, in which is a littlo electric battery. Immediately above the dial there is a tiny incandescent light, the refloi'tur of which is set in such a po sition that tho light is thrown upon the face of tho clock. At the bottom of the box is a button, by pressiug which tho light is turned ou so that a person may be able to kuow the time at any hour of the night. New York Advertiser. Thero is a greater proportionate number of men capablo of bearing arms in tho Northern and Western than in the Southern States, (il'AINT AM) CUKIOl'H. Thorn nro 370,000 acres under ton cultivation in British India. In a well stocked hlvo thoro aro from 1,",I)00 to 20,000 working bees. Tho water lino has risen twelvo Inches nil around the Oulf of Mexico since 18.-i0. It lins boon calculated that there nro at least 30,00) proverbs circulating among European nations alono, Australian provincial nfllclals keep poisoned grain in their ofllues for the benefit of farmers who wish to destroy small birds. In Oermany a merchant was ro contty flnod heavily for using a quota tion from tho Bible nt tho head of an advertisement. The highest masts of sailing vosscls nro from 100 to 1H0 feet high and spread from 00,000 to 100,000 square feet of canvass. According to a custom nf Korea nil loyal Koreans must wear a white hat for three yours nfter the death of ono of the royal family. Out of 00 Irish kings who ruled bo tweoii A. 1). 4 and 1127, no fowcr than 5'J died of violent deaths, cither iu battle or by murder. It is about ilO miles across town In Loudon, and for that etitiro ilistmieo there is said to be nn unbroken lino of residences and stores. Tho greatest fish raters in tho world aro tho Japanese. Tho eating of meat Is nearly entirely confined to tho rich, and even they uso it sparingly. Hubert M. Leos, of Duliith, Minn., boasts of having rem lined iu the hot room of a Turkish bath, nt a tempera ture 1:12 degrees, for throo hours. Tho royal library of Nebuchndnez znr, recently uiiearthc 1 nt Babylon, contains inuumernblu tax lists nud records of taxes paid unit unpaid. A lady nt Mapl ) Valley, N. Y., in raising in n cigo nn albino robin, which she found in tho grass umh.-r a tree. Every feather Is white, uu 1 its eyes are pink. Mary Ellon Wayuior ued 11 years, weighs '12 pounds. Kho lives with her parents i:i Wagner's Falls, Piko County, I'eim., and is bright and intelligent. During the cyclone at Harrison Vir,, Neb., a h r nn 1 buggy weru pinked tiji and carried 2 )0 feet through tho air. The horso was uninjured, but tho tiros of tho bugy wheels wero blown off. The oldest chicken in tho world is believed to bo at Excelsior Springs, Mo. It is 14 years of age, blind in ono eyo and very decrepit, nnd it drools constantly from the left side of its bill, which is nearly all chipped away. Who Owns t!ie Kvim ? A pleasant way for a party of young people to entertain themselves at au informal gathering is for them to try to distinguish each othor by seeing the eyes alono: Pin a shawl across the doorway about five feet from the floor. Cut two holes in a larg-) slioet of wrapping paper, or a newspaper will answer the same purpose, which will show the eyes distinctly, but will not exposo any other part of tho face. When the paper is pinned above the Bhawl, the company should be divided into two parties, one to remain in the room as spectators and guessers, the other to go "behind the Buenos" (oth erwise the shawl) as performer. It there are over half a doz in of the lat ter a lino should be formed ; the ono at the head stands behind the mask so that bis eyes are distinctly seen by those in the room, and another of th performers usics: "Who owns the eyes?" If a correct response is givea tha performers clnp their hands. Then the one who has taken his turn goes to the foot of the line and number two takes bis or her place behind tho screen. After a time the parties change places and the fun is renewed. A Veteran of 1211 Year. Our military veterans are rather commonplace beside the survivor of the Grande Arm ie who is still residing iu the town of SaratofC This old soldier, who recently oelebratad his one hundred aud twenty-sixth birth day, is a Frenchman namn.t Nicholas Savin. He servdd as a liautenaut in tha Russian campaign of 1812, and was takeu prisoner at the crosiiu? of the Boresini, Baiug imprisoned at Saratoff he never cirod to leave thu pli'.ej, but remain d as a teacher of French. Ha is said to ba remirkahly vigorous, notwithstanding his great age. Londou Globe. So varied is tha climate of Mexioo that nil the products of the polar and ilio tropictl regions can be raised there.
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