nau is aA vo Ga Laguna ki lt A Se Ss Rs i RAR rage i & oh Lai a © on tn eg a1 SU———_s rt qo WHEN SHE GOES BY. she goe by With head erect, blossom fair ard sweet. How heads sre turned along the street, + Or how I try to catch her aye ~ . And win a smilc when shi: goes by. When she goes by with wind {nssed curls And cheeks where winter roses blow, ' She quite eclipses all the gir It’s been my happiness to khow, © Oh, how those fairy feet do fly, No loitering, when she goes by. When she goes by, gay, deboralr, With graceful swaying figure, thungh- To follow her I do not dire, My heart is taken into tow And I can only long and tigh © And rail at fate when she goes hy. "e oo =Detroiv Free Proms, IRISH MUD CAZINS. . How the Dingy Dwelling Places Are Con- © + structed and Furnished. The mud cabin in Frefand consists of | _ twa rooms and possibly i small semide- tached onthouse which is nsed as a store: room for perishable articles. ‘There is] not a chink in the walls or thatch eave a | narzow chimney, which seldom if ever answers its purpose. Ths doorwiny, fares | ! M. Mason and a Kentueloy gentleman the east and emits the sinoke.” What lit- tle light penetrates ins de throogh the : | formality, ag the matter haji beer: settled | tiny window disclosed the deep choco- late stain from the eternal turf reek which pervades the aticcsphere of the interior, and hteraliy puints walls, roof and furniture a ponifonn calor he {av niture is rough and ads stools atoning for il plete absence of chairs C Tho mud oor is wot from the patter of bare feet or from the : have {rove access to the house AMAT Or OT f €there is a goodly company within the "eight quadrupeds besices the poultry. | Pigs, cattle, dogs, eats, and probably a! horse or donkey, have their bed space re- | spectively, and jealously resent any en- : | morning air, none the worse in appear- i * - walls of this spacious riansion. In the inside room there are tao or three box beds ar berths, where the children sleep, : . according to their age and fex. Frou 9 to 12 is pot an untommon number | in a family. In the sate berth in the ealliogh, or recess at the side of the hearth, the father and mother repose nn- | screened from the live stock of the farm and breathe the same atmosphere as some: eroachment by a bedfelow. Astonishing as it may appeir, there are hardly any disagrecibla odors. The | overpowering smell of the peat smoke | evidently acts as a complete disinfectant, | HALE A CENTURY AGO. | = Philadelphia Gentlemen Drank Ins Way to Astonish Their Descimdants. “Among Americans up to 1855 the use | and abuse of strong drink were almost universal, but it certainly nffectod their | health less injuriously thar at the pres- ent time. The worry and strain of mod- | ern business and eocial [life shatter nerves now and lead to drm drinking! i | to repair them. On the ootrary, meet | { of the excesses in the old | times carne { after a solid dinner, and {bree or fonr | | hours were spent in rest anf convivial | | ity, but the amouat drank wis oni | i mons. When the exchange wis com- | | pleted, in 1832, a dinner wis given, and | | there was some apprehension that the wine would rin ont, and a well known broker on the comunittes pxprocssd his surprise, as the company lad not aver. | aged more than three bittles apiece | This wonld be thought a yery large al. lowance of strong Madeira in these times, : | i In 1853 the final andit of the scconnts of the United States bank was complet. od, and on behalf of the govirmment James A. Bayard of Delawars, John named Dukes appenred. It was 0 mer ten years before, John Ydung. acted as slprke. The party met in (he nerthvrest ahanibor of the bank bnilding—niow the custom hopge—at 11 o'clofk. A bottle of brandy and six of Maileira wore on the table, and after a sheet ing j | of papers the wine wis opined, an 1 o'clock was drank. The dav warm, and a bowl of bishpp was onder | of, and’ this was made by the servant with the brandy and a flask of Coraroa, | This was drank, and the three com. mitteemen went to dinew|th Charles JL | Ingersoll about 5 o'clock. They returned, bringing a friend. A dqzen Madeira were at band, and smoking, drinking! and whist were in order nntil 14, when the last bottle svas dravk, acd then | Promser, the cook, brought in cold ducks | and a mighty lobster salad. A gallon bowl of brandy punch was mada as con 4 daeive to digestion. A tumbler of this’ finished the clerk, who went to sleep and was aronsed at daybreak to drink a cup of coffee, and then all went down the steps and walked away in the fresh | ance from the night's potations. 4 It is apparent that in a life like this | it was the survival of the fittest. The steady ones carried off the honors, but | and fortunatelgjt is innoxions to the in- | gout, gravel and dropsy played hiivoe | “habitants of the hovel. Equally nstonish- | ing is the fact that the whole comma-| pity is in comparative barmcny, and ~ sven the babies rarely ory. There is) plenty of occupation for all the family | who are able and willing to work, the mother doing little else but nurse the youngest infant. —Cornaill Magazine. Met by Chance. An amusing story is told of Robert Franz, the famous German song writer, snd another equally celsbrated compos- er. The incident occvrred soon after the publication of Franz's famous | “Open Letter to Edward Hanslick,”’ in | which he made ssvery criticism upon | some musical work of the composer, | . Johannes Brahmas. : i take a five or six hours’ trip by rail In the compartment with him wis a little man with whom he fell into conversa- | tion. The fellow travelers found each | _ other delightfnl and whiled the hours away in agreeable talk, which did not turn cpon music. | When the train reached Frunz's des- tination, he took ont hi card case, say- ing to his companion: “You have made me pass a most de- | Tightfel afternoon. Allow mo to give, you my card.”’ aa i The stranger seemed highly gratified | .offered Franz his card in return. | "Each looked at the bit of pasteboard he | | Detroit Free Press. ~ the Delaware Indians the Welikhanne, % ¥ ‘fair water.” Several other names were had received in amazérent. “The stran- ‘ger’s eyes opened wide at reading the name of his merciless critie, “Dr. Rob- ert Franz,” while Franz himself was equally astounded at reading on the card ‘in his hand, *' Johannes Brahmas." here was no time fcr raataal expla pations, bat each of thy maesicians had discovered that, however their ideas might differ from a musical standpoint, they were at least admirable traveling companions and had foand much to en- - joy in each other. —Youth’s Companion. . Maz O'Rsll as & Singer.” Max O'Rell tells’ miny staries about | other people. Here is one that in Mont- real he told about himself. When loo | turing in an Australian bnsh town, he waxed eloquent on the athletic fits of | ii. 4 Britons ‘‘After each assertion came a | deep tomed ‘It's a lie’ from a drunken | anditor. The interruptions became un- | « i 3" i ¥ f 2 To 5 : i i. bearable. {(¥ive me a Hop of five min | are BO many sharp turns fu utes,’ said Max to bis audience. Off) went his coat, down jumped the lectur- | er, and in a moment he had collared the | interrupter and bundled him sut. ‘II them. in Ty Pope's Favorite. E Pope deemed the *‘Eisay or. Man'’ his most polished production, but was so ‘fond of revising his poetry that the printed copy contained almoet one mir- note for every lina. If his wishes had ‘been fully carried out, the d edition wonld have had so many ho as to be practically a now work. Poets and Poems. “I begin to feel like my poems,” : ed the poet to the cruel lady who had said nay to his gentle appeal “In what respect, pray?’ «I have been rejected so often.’'— The Alleghany rigje was called by given to this stream by ths early ex- plovers.... _. soy The coasts of the wcrld ary protected nothing but the head remains i with the others, and theses coraplaints | were charged to port snd Madeira by the | doctors, and so the habit of drinking | claret and light wines cams into fashion. | Gambling was almost nzniversal, and | many fortunes of old Philudelphians dis- appeared in this way.-~Philndelphia Times. Financial Affairs of France. : . The financial speech of the ex-Prime | Minister M. Loubat, in thie sent te, ig ts be posted, by order of that honve al over France, There are sqme stisten: ond in it worthy of consideration. Thus, oo national debt is set down nr £1,200,000, 000. It also appears thay Le difienity of making both ends mest fos groatly in creased since M. Meline jecorved the tr i { i i i i § $ ; yo umph of hissystean. The eontt of audits | Franz had occasion at that time to, has discovered 211 irrcgdaritics in the last budgetary account ff monay paid, By irregalaritics it mops erniburi le ments, set down wider the head of *'vire- ments.’ Among them figures the £830 spent | on behalf of a minister for “ends,” and. £649 a month fr little “'de- jeaners’” at Voisin's, where a min | ister of justice entertained his friends. | The * virenients” &t the home offies are | set down at £650, those of the war of fice at £1,330, those of the ealonial office | at £2,090, those of the public works of- | fice at £2.8375. When M. de Freycinet was war minister, the yvirements’’ of his department amounted to about £6,- 000 a year. He, as minister of public | works and war, swelled the maticnall debt more than any one else in power] gince Thiers’ retirement, The rede: able loans were an expedient of Al Freycinet to give employment to t public works department. —Laud:: News a Some Points Abowt Wills. Do you know that you cannot. | away your body; that a clause in yar | will giving your body after death to nos | 1 person or institution is not legally ¥ ing? Your executors cannot be fo carry ont your wishes, thoogh the: | do so through deferenie to your pregeed preferences. IS djs also ini to femember that thre wilties needed in devising real (state int two, as in boquenihing pers Ted v “When a woman will] pend on't,’” gays the provert curves in the course of the lw ha thongh a woman wills th will what 4 i will, how she will in nine ciges oy | ten she cannot make her will 4 tha had known yon meant to do that,’ said | A the manager, ‘I'd have charjed double | prices.’ ”’ Amd he coull easily have got | wills what she will as she wills to vi ~—New York Pros : Ants as Biter. Ants are terrible fighters. They hie very powerful jaws, conjidering the s of their bodies, and therefore their | method is by biting, They will bite ane another and hold on with a 'senderfal grip of the jaws, even after all their legs have been bitten off by (ther nnta. Sometimes six or eight ants will be slinging with a death hold to ene on sther, making a peculiar speeticle. ov with a leg gone and sorne with half w body gone. One singular fact is that the gripof an ant's jaw iy retained » “ after the body has been bitten off ; change. Hops were nssd as a medicine ard os a basis for an intoxicating beverage in Egypt as early ss 2000 B. C. The plant is represented on the Egyptian 1moon ments of that date. : : : Montenegro has fits name from the |: color of its mountains. The word means ‘black mountain.” TEA, VIG! At the left 1s At with old yose {sill the center vhise and the broead: 3 10: x | JAMES .J. HILL. ] James J: Hill, president of the Great Northern, who recently seenred control of the Northern Pacifie, is called the “Jay Goold of the Northwest.’ He waa compeiled to borrow ear fare when he left his Canadian home for St. Panl, but be is pow worth many millions and controls two of the world's greatest rail rosds: : VALKYR'E III. TO BATTLE FOR THE AMERICA'S CUP. : Very nearly alike in their general Lines are the two rival yachts that will Wattle for the America’s Cap the coming summer, Valkyrie HI and the Defender are both keel yachts and have no centerhoands, The konls are so peculiarly shaped, however, that both boats are practically the old ¥ skimming dishes with fixed ceuterbosrda. HY << BATHING ATTIRE FOR SEASHORE PELLES. At the lett is a bathing suit of black silk warp hennetta v ansly of sear! t sille prettily draped. The vest is of cream colored sordy Azo axtoiie mont mea white serge suit with blue braiding. Two other siyiish bathing comtumss ure io shown. | ing stepped on balf a dozen times “‘Ev- 1 erybody gets on to my feat. ''— Boston ‘A GUEER OLD ENGLICHMAN. Thomas Laugher and His Curious Experts ences, Physical snd Otherwise. ; . Thomas Laugher, who is said to have | died at the age of 112, has an amusing i record that connects him with Holborn. He was a well educated man, for he had studied at Christchurch, Oxford, for 12 | years. In early life he had been a wine merchant in Tower street and failed, swing to the failure of a very lirge ionse in the same trade, Neele, Fordyce Lk Co. It se affected Longher thut he be- pame blind and speoclilens, and the skin peeled off from thc whale ol his by. Thoegh a wine hunt, he never drank any ferment! liquor for the first 50 years of his life. The old man’s | memory was prod gions le well re- | membered, in 1745 going to the Hos 1 pillion behind the Lord Chuncellor, amd ho talked abdut the death of Wiiliun IIL = He had| been a well made man, | rather above the middle height. At 80 he had a severe fit of illness, and then rg Ques Anps [ pecs, sented ol a fresh head of hair came, and pew polls | om the fingers and toes. A contratticn that took places in the fingers of each | { gaid to the vonng man that he thoaght hand at this infant remained olways after. Nothing i= ] vaid about new (eld woming in Liz oe and he mast sxm ic and speech, hich nesd deg i i | rived bln tk 20} A COMEDY, = They gation with siseped hands And kisses and Luming tears They met in a foreizn lund After some twenly yesrs— Mit as uoquaintancss meet, Smiling, trangail eyed, Not evey the least little bent © Of the heart upon cither side, Tory chatted of this and that, The nothings that make up life, | She in a Gainsborongh hat And he in black for his wife. AY, what s comedy this! | Neither was ha, 1 apoears, Yet omié she had Lane! 60 his kee, And ones be had known ber tears. ; ~ Tus Datied Aldrich, A BUSINESS OMANCE. - it Is the True Story of the Rise of 8 Hum al ble Young Han. A young pion who wis working as elerk tn an importing house had occas sion freonently in the course of business vo. eall 5t a certain large manufacturing establistunent. The head of the concern took a fanet to hinn One day he asked ‘the young man what salary he was get- ting, what his chances of promotion He was told and then were and so on ther wie a Botter opportunity for him | in his office than in the house where he was then employed The young man replisd that he should tof conse like to better himself, but 1 son, Who died at the gn of | # - .- ‘ \ # | Wim to leave for some thme {0 ome ma he niwavs This boy of four » tis & BI Am a eV were , peep ! the futher—=in fact, With so arent difficulty and distress did he Ho #0 that he attracted the attention of» gen- tleman, wis went up to old Langher to expostulaté with him en his want of filial duty in not aiding more kis rener- ible father The old man told kim of his mistake, bat the stranger refnsed to iva the least credit to lis assertion un. pil somehindy passing ut the time, who knew the Langhers well, certified to the perfect truth of (he story. All four tamed langhers thea; at | their separation all Holborn beamed | | with smiles, and grew guite radiant for Lamomént, but the next second it relapsed | into ita bustling bat somewhat 1ae lan | chely quotidian business—cash huating: One feels mmased at this fussy moralist, ! who showed such prevailing anxiety | and officibnsness to direct others in the { path of virtue, smiting, as the mote, un- | conscious of the beam. —Notes and Que- [ries HOW TO REMEMBER. Advice to Those Wishing to Commit Songs i or Music to Memory. | commit to memory the songs I want to | ging,” said an amateur musician to a | friend. *'I have never been ablp to com- | mit my music to memory——at least have | never dono so=-and I think it woald be | of use to me if I could.” ’ “The process is not a difficult one,” | was the reply. ‘I have always foand it | | easy to remember songs and poems by a | certain rule cr method that I adopted a | long time ago. Take any popular song, “The Last Rose of Summer,’ for exam. | pla. It isa good plan to read it over and | get the sentiment of the verse, which | comprehends the idea of lonelines, the | fading away of beautiful things and the | | lack of sympathy in sadness. Thee is | blooming alone. Its companiots are | faded and gone. No flower or kindred is nigh to share its pleaseres or answer to its sighs. This is the groundwork-— the skeleton, so to speak—of the verse Impress this firmly on the mind snd! familiarize the thought with the semti- | ment. Imagine the garden with the ane | rose and faded leaves all around - Onee | this is fixed in the memory it ix com- | paratively casy to fill in the remainder ; of the wards. This is one of the siinplest | and surest way of committing the words of a song to memory. “With most people memoriging the | afr of the song is much easier, and this | | is dono by humming again and again, | referring to the music whenever there is | | any question. It is important to learn | i i an air correctly at first, for when 3 mis- | take is made at the cutsct one is dlmost | | certain to blunder at the same place ever | afterward. '—Now York Ledger. The Horseshoe Superstition. The other dav as wedding guests were | leaviog the old South church. a mntor | | maa left his car to pick ap a horseshoe. | For lock? Not as all, but because it lay | | dirsetly on the rail abedd, and in the in| | terest of passengers and possibly rolling | stock he gathered. it not aver tenderly | sy i and gave it a fling so that 1t fell almost | at the feet of three lndies, one of whom wis chong to pick it vp, when a piracty | eal swe cberof the frio said: © D n't sail ! your gloves, and never mind i therare | three nails in it. It was oot via who | | found it, tat the motorman, and 1e has | | flung it away, good lnck and all” The | | gitizen passed the spot three minutes | | later, and no trace of the horseshoe was | 'fonnd. Why? Because a Beacon street girl's escort captured it and carried it | ' off on his cane. — Boston Post. The Woman's Bible. We have read some of the passage of | | the commentary prepared for the wom: | | an's Bible’ by that very accomplished | { American woman and Biblical stadent, | | Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton. They are | | a great deal more satisfactory than | many of the comments upon the samo | taxta that we have read in other mind | more pretentious commentaries. Mrs. Stanton's interpretative remarks ium of - ten shrewd anid sensible. They ould perhaps sometimes be rendered mor ac- ceptable to the critical mind by the as- sistance of ‘a rabbi well versed in the Hebrew. —New York San. A Regular Trilby. *Blewsed if I ain't a regular Trilby,” muttered the man in the crowd aftuebe- i i : | | Transcript. that his engagement would not permit ve 4 y bupoiis § § SLANE FLEE f the honse said he thought 3 i i a | he might indnce his employer to let L him go. He accordingly wrote a nate to the senior partner of the importing honse, with whom be was on intimate terms, saving that he had formed a Hk- ing for the young 1man, that be believed there wis a better opening for him im his office and asking that he be released. The nest day the yomng man came back with a letter in which his employer, while expressing regret at losing his serviees, said that he recognized the larger opportunity offered him, and, as he didu’s want to stand in his way, re- leased him. The clerk went to work in his new position and so confirmed his “employer's good impressions that his promotion was rapid. He went from one ‘responsible positicn to another until be was naxt to the manager of the house. A short time ago the manager died, and “ane hero,” now no longer a young man. of coarss, but still in the prime of life, took his plice at a salary very neatly if not quite as large as that of tho president of the United States.— New York Recorder. Customs of Polish Women. In Poland princesses and peasants wear arcand the throat several rows of huge c'ral beads which are supposed to be luck y—the higger the beads the great- +] wish you would teach me Howto: = the luck—and the dingy looking mer- chants of the ''Zwierjeneta’’ (Jewish quarter of the town), at Cracow, realize small fortunes from the sale of these coral necklaces, for a Pole of the lower classes will almost sooner go withoat food or without her beloved *'vodki’ (brandy) than forego this cherished or- nament. The ‘grande dame? is so loath to sepat from her lucky beads that, when dm ng evening dress with its paraphern a of pearls and diamonds, suo carti hem in her pocket or in the inside Of her corsage. i a While on thesibject of Poland, T may add that the orthodox Joweosses there with whom the country literally swarms —are casily distinguished, apart from any physical mak of race, by the silken wigs which they are forced to adopt on the marrow of their wedding day. Theix religion exacts that on the wedding night the tresses should fall under the bites of a pair of silver scissors, and the massa- cre is #0 complete that, shorn close to the scalp, they conceal the skull under a hideous constivetion of coarse silken strands, highly ornamented in most cases with bands of black velvet sewed with stuall pearls and turquoises. — New York Tribune. ; Nlontrond. : Raikes asked Montrond once if it were true that Louis Philippe gave him a pension. He answered, ‘Yes, 20,000 france a year for speaking well of him in the clubs ind in England. ”’ Montrond before his death went through the form of a conversion and made his peace with the church. When the priest asked him; “You probably in old times uttered many pleasantries against religion? “No,” said he coldly, “*I have been nc cused, and justly accused, in my life- - time of many vices. I have never begn aconset of being: an imbecile: : Montrond was an inveterate gambler. One day be had a quarrel with some people he had been playing with at cards. He flew to Talleyrand in a state of great agitation. “Would you believe i%,"* said he, **they threatened to throw pio ont of the window?’ ‘I have al- wars advised von,” said Talleyrand very quietly, ‘never to play cards ex: cept au the gronnd foor.’'—San Fran- disco Argonaut. : Elevator Girlie. There are three buildings in Philadel- phia in which the elevators are excla- sively ran by girls. They are the Wom- | an’s Christian association's big building, | at Eighteeuth and Arch streets, the | (irls" High school and the Normal school. In the tirst building all the em ployees are women except the engines and fireman. : ime sn Mie A A - Snceinct Definition. “Mike,” said Plodding Pete, who had been reading from a stray scrap of pa- per, *‘ what does ‘dernier ressort’ mean?’ Meandering Mike looked at him with the supercilious comtempt of superior knowledge and replied, “Work. ''— Washington Star. The Ashley river, in South Carolina, was named in hemor of Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, afterward the famous Earl of Shaftesbury. The Indians calied the stream Kiawah, a ward of doubtful pigmfican oo . i : ; Ruffles for originally ' onlled hand roffs
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