T7777 ohese Awful Telegrams.
#‘What is it, Mamie?'’
“It’s a boy, mum, with a telegrafs. **
*“A telegram? Oh, ask him if James
is killed!” ~~
“He says he dover’ t sriow, mum.’
“Ask him what he does know about
it ’
“He says all he knows about it is!
that its marked ‘collect,’ and he id
money.’
“Qh, dear! Oh, dear! What ‘shall pl
do? Here, Mamie, here'{ the purse. Pay
him. Pay him whatever: he asks. Oh,
my peor James! I just kneiv something
would happen to him before he went
| A ——
away this morning! Will they bring
him home in an amhaiince, Mamie? |
““1 8’ pose 80, mum.
ter read the telegrafe.’ ;
“Ican't! Iean’'t! Oh, it serves me |
Maybe you'd het- |
right for not kissing him three times |
whan he left. And we've been moaryied
such a short sme too!’
“Why dom’t you open the telegraft,
mum?’
“Well, 1 suppose I must;
can’t tell you how I dread it!”
Reads telegram : ~
Will bring friend home to dinner.
“The heartless beast!
Journal
Fares
"New York
A Bibesal Fduacatt
The late Professor Huxley held this
opinion as to what constitutes a liberal
education :
The man has a liberal education who
has been so trained in youth that his
body is the ready servant of his will
and ‘does with ease and pleasure all the
its th t, AS & mechanism, it is ca-
pable hose intellect is a clear, cold
logical ote with all its parts of equal
strength and in smooth working order,
ready, like the steam engine, to be turn-
ed to any kind of work and spin the
gossamers as well as forge the anchors
of the mind ; whose mind is stored with
a knowledge of the great and funda-
merftal truths of nature and of the laws
of her operations; one who, no stunted
ascetic, is full of life and fire, but whose
passions are frained to come to halt by
a vigorons will, the servemt of a tender
oomscience; who has learned to love all
benuty, whether of natare or of art, to
hate all vileness and to respect others
as himself. Such a one, and no other,
has had a liberal education.
| programtse.’
i dou tue it om the progr. nme,’ » hos
| gmamme, didn't. 17
bus, oh, I
Opium Eating In the Orient.
Opium esting, according to the Ma- |
haraja Bahadur of Durbhanga, is large- |
ly practiced in Rajputana on festive oc- |
easions as a token of welcome to gmests |
and friends. When two enemies wish to]
end a long standing fend, they ggneral- |
ly go through the following ceremony :
They each drink a small quantity of |
the preparation ef opinm called ‘‘amul- |
pani’’ from the hands df the other, and.
this is ed as making the ties of |
friendship inviolable. In certaim locali-
ties opinm is consumed at fullerals, mar-
rages, betrothals and other ceremonies.
Among the Kathis of Kathiwar it weuld |
be considered an offense if the guest re-
fused to take opium om oecasious like |
_ these. In the Punjab a large proportion |
_ of the adult male population take opiam |
in small doses a stimulant without |
auch or any apparent harm. It is lock- |
ed upon as a digestivo and a very bene:
ficial tonic for a man who has redched |
- middle ago. —Londen News. |
Unequal Distrivation.
“I've been, reading a strunge story im |
the paper,’’ raid Miss Sereleaf to hor
friend, Mrs. Suags.
“What is 17
.. “It's about a mon who came hoe |
after an absenco of 12 years and found |
his wife mmrred to anol
“What's
heard of suck things. "
“Both men claim the woman.
“Well?” .
“Well, 1 think that iz very unfair. i
Some women wait year afier year for al
husband who never comes, and othe:
ve $wo men claiming her at ene tiue.
I thénk matters are arranged Very un
. equally in this world.’
- And Miss Sercleaf sat down and]
wrung her hatds. s=Pitssborg | Chronicle-
Telegraph. |
Afghan Wars.
The, Afghans have a noble maxim,
worthy of any stoie: ‘‘If thou host, eat;
if thon hast’ not, die.’” Unfortunately
they donot live up to that, and in prac-
tice it becomes: ‘‘If shou hast, eat; if
thon hast not, take.’’ The ideal of a
man is to live on his neighbors. The
Afridis of the Khaiber pass lived for
centuries upon the plunder of caravans
till the British government enljsted
Giese Reraditary robbers as regular gen-
id compromised for their righe
by a regular annuity. When
a 2 ps is born, his mother bores a hole
. through the mud wall of the hut and
makes it pass through, saying, ‘‘Ghal
zai'’ (Be A good robber, my child). —Se-
lected Essays of James Darmesteter.
strange aloo that? 1'vej
1 Makes a Difference at 2 A, M.
“No, gentlemen, I never have any
trouble going home late. If my wife's
sitting up for me, I stoop down and
_ kiss her—forehead, not mouth, of course
.—and say, ‘Why, little desr, you
“shonldn’t have sas up so ltng for me.’
And then I get off that old one about
sitting” up with a’’
““That’s all very well or you,'’ said
the little fellow who had been fidgeting
sbout for an hoar, “But my wife is a
giantess in a musee¢, and’'—
“Scott! You ought to have gone
home !"’—New York Recorder.
© At the Photographer's,
. Herr Flizinger (a skinflint)—W hat
shall I have to pay for the likenesses?
- Artist—1’d rather tell you that later
on. I want you now to look pleasant. —
Kauowitzer Zeitdng.
Arkansas, the name of the state, is
officially pronounced as sptlled, but the
official prenunciation of the river is Ar-
‘kansaw, although spelled in the same
: way as the state.
The earliest mention of oats in China
isin A. D. 818.
- 7 a— a “—
| places,
| pent some Veg einls
| the top of which isa figure of old Time,
| with his"sysbe erect in Lis right hand,
| was used washaghur: hin which Arch-
{ bishop Land’ oui sted, in 1623. And
Gonidant Fe the Joke.
One evening last week there sat ina!
North Side beer garden two stout old
‘Germans emjogling their pipes and Inger
beer and placidly listening to the strains |
of an orchestra. In moving his chair!
one of shee mppped on a parlor match,
which exploded ‘with a bang. -
“Dot vas ne on de programme, ’’. he
said, turning to his companion.
“Vat was not?’ :
“Vy, dot match. ”’
“Vat masch?’
“De mabsh 1 valked on.’
“Vell, | dulm’t sco mo match. Vat |
abound it?’
“Yy, I walked on a match, and it
went bang, nd I said it vas not on do |
The cahe? peeked up his programme
nd reed] 7 meh very carefaolly. 1
piel.
“Vell, I sid it vas not on the pro- |
“Vell, vat bas It wo it iodo it the
prOCYan ma, in re?
A weary gk come over the faco of
the first man abd il: Yon tam fool!
You can't fee me civ’ | anyvay. Zwei
beer, waster. M--Chic 0 Chroniéle.
The ola Fashio ~d Flowers.
“What do I care for orchids and
| American Beauties avd all those other |
expensive ow coder glass? How |
much if please mo to have two |
great bigfuget heds of gladiols and
foliage planfs ia the front yards, one on |
each side ha steps? No; what I want
is a bed of paetmlaca, and some cypress
vines ranning wp strings to the top of a |
pole. As soom go I get poor enough to af-
ford it. 1 am geiug to have a lot of phlox. |
and Lomdan gide and bachelor’s but- |
tons qt thers fa the back yard, and the |
girls can sum Weir clothes somewhere |
else. »
“It's hard se keep flowers in a city,”
said Jane,
“1 know # is,’ said Mrs. Bates. “At |
our old home we kad such a nice little |
rosebush in the front yard I hated =o to |
leave it behind—ene of those little vel-
low brier rosea No; it wasn't yellow:
It was just pmide?, and it always scratch-
ed my poke wham I tried to smell it.
But, oh, child,” wistfully, ‘if I could |
only smell it new I""—*‘ With the Procés- |
sion,” H B. Pullea
A Foumdation Sacrifice.
It was recently ascertained that
mikes from Prutefract, had sof
some damage doring the winter g
The foundatknm were carefully exam
ined, when i¥ was foungd that under the
west ride of he fenvea only about a foot |
| deep from the swrface, the bodr of a
| man_ had beam placed in a sort of bed in|
the solid rock, and the west wall wars |
actually restmg mpon his skanll. The:
i gentle vihragom of thie tower had opened
the sutures in he skull and cansed a!
crack of abows 21; inches Yomg. The,
grave must have been prepared and the |
wall placed wifh deliberate intention!
upon the head of the person buried, and |
this was dome with such care and art’
that all réinliined @s placed far at least
600 years—till, im fact, the storm of De: |
cember last he out the weak place. |
The spot Sea ay ba seen, being protect-
‘ed bya Fran ¢ of bricks. --Yaok-
i tower of Parrigton church, aboat for
©)
al
| shire Herald
Baa’ o's Staff
Bnrble is &wenipeariny frome saeeed
bus kas staff, which was his
chicfest pwide, mpauains and is carefuliv
preserved in fe wa strios of many Lon.
don churcikes. Tee glory of the staf
was its know. Scaoe of these knobs pre-
rata pecs Tens of i
| silver carving, fr, iu addition to the
ordinary plain peur 0
¥ PE
Liaped Enchs
were stall tag wepreconting
| grosses, crooena, Inodallions,
i and vagious other chijee
staves have a historical
beadle's ste of #. Giles in the Fields,
St. Giles, Gcigyrle gate,
which was prescated to the parish
1698. —New York Herald.
possesses one
Basha [— In an Ex.
Edward Hojlagd ft Elizabeth town- |
ship, near Gama, Ills, wemt to his
barnyard’ the ofher evening to collect
eggs for miarketific. On one nest he
found a turkey™hen, evidently very much
perturbed, and on a second glance he
found the fowl was held charmed by a
gnake which Jag cciled in the grass be
fore her. Han ¥Med the snake and drove |
the turkey fram the nest. Then he dis- |
covered that the egg that had just been
laid was without a shell, and the rem
- i
brane was drawrfcut at (go end in per. |
fect simjli tude to the bo and Ls el fi
‘the snake. Soperfect was the iinpro:
that the eyes snd mouth were
discernible. —Exe hange.
Weight ahd Height.
"Fhe weight arf beight of the “per
fect man,’ aceording to a stand wd
adopted by the leading life insmraw
companies ius follows: |
Pounds. |
fee nehes 160
5 feet 1inch...... ot e ches. ; 193
b feet 2 inchex.”..... 15 5 5% inches. 18
5 feet 8 inches. 3, inches 198%;
b feet 4 inches.,..,. 135
b feet 5 inches. ..... 140
6 fet 8 inches... . «143
§ feet 7 iuchesy.. .... 145 8.
B feet 8 inches 8 55% J loches, Ji
feet 9 inchee.s..... 155 6 feet 4 inches.
Burgers’ Booty.
Burglars are said to seldom receive
more than "20 per cent of the value of |
their booty frém the buyers to whom!
they dispose of it, if it happens to be in!
any other form than coin. — Chicago!
News.
An authority on jewelry estimates
that there are at least £200,000,000 in- |
vested in. thas country in various kinds]
of gold and si iver ornaments.
- x
When yon ¥oow What a IAN'S idea
“|. of fun is, you can form a pretty correct :
estimate of his eharacter.—Chicago In- i
ter Ocean.
i his two feat.
| gmoke, and then ignited |
! dry grass, which canght a spar 3
| something like one of Grant's
The convention, however, acknow kedged
| the master spirit, and historians affirm
{ could be united upon, the
{ ‘would have been rejected by the people:
: almost without a parallel, =
{ difficulty was in finding men of deeds
. rather than words. When asked how he
| maintained his influence over Lis su-
' his speeches and’
Ss I makes ma think of a
{ white cats,
| wee, has two bine eyes—I never saw or
{ heard of the like before. Cats usnally
: only bought it last spring.’
' Chroniels- Teleg graph.
* man a little while ago.
+ p—— — 4
One of the Kaffirs had two sticks for
did it. Ome of the sticks was abont 15 !
|
|
§
inches long and about half an inch in |
diameter. The other was flatter and |
had already in it several shallow ronnd |
holes méde by setting fire on foruer oe-
casions. He took the latter piece, and |
| having ent a smaller, irregniar shaped
hole im it he squatted on the gremod
holding it firmly down at each evil
‘
piecé of stick and held it npricht
tween his two palms, with the 14
| the lower end resting in the hole he bot
just made in the horizontal stick
COLORADO'S CLIMATE.
vorable to Health.
The easterner, bred and born at sea
- ba e—
Maploson's Ruse. °
* When ‘Mapleson wason a tour in Dub-
making fire, and he showed us how he ' 4 Region of . Outdoor Life Decidedly Po- lin, Miles. Salla and Anna de Beloces !
level, has a very vague idea of that part |
of his country which is at a clond!
| height, and he has scarcely any con ep- |
tion of the governing climate of soch a |
section. The purely picturesque app>als
| to the fours, and he gives hardly a
| thought, surely not a serious one, to the |
high altitude section through whieh he |
t passes,
He then tock the fr:
The Adircéndacks have aosomplished
| wonderful temporary healings and per-
| manent cures for certain
He twirled the upright stick rapid v |
| between his hands, and in less than a
| minate it had bored a round hole in tha |
other, and the dust so pa hop 12110
companis m bromght a hand of fine;
this, and which he held half
| the palms of his hands, gergl
on it tiil it flamed up. Is perfectly
We tind: 3 A i
a Mountain belt,
$
s Yer rnics
pulmorary
troubles, vat their beneficial results dog
pot compara ju extent with those of tit
gectron a h lies at an altitn@@ vary
: ng fe 3.306 to S.G) fant al ve the |
i v | tnrned the botel kéeger.
| vee them?
fea, known as the high «
whose heart ix Colorado.
ve weith-
From a statistical comparati
14 er burean weport little idea could be |
| equally 2
were in the eompany. On arriving at
the hotel both ladies chose the best suit | {
'f rooms in it, each saying, ‘‘These |
will do for me.” ‘I shall have them." !
aid Salia “I am prima donna.”
“There are two prima donnas;,’’ retorn- |
ed Belocea, ““inyself and Patti.’’ This |
began a farions quarrel. Mapleson went
to the hotel keeper and ascertained that
thers were soe other rooms nearly as | _
i good. He enjoined the man to declare |
that they were for Lady Spencer, wife |
| of the viceroy, ard stand to the state- |
ment.
loudly:
He then called him ng and said
‘Both these. ladies must have |
rv rooms. Where are the oth- |
i Ara?! “The only others dg large are re-!
: formes of thisclimate, for in these com- |
. - oe " i
Eorvelons how Little the natives mind |
bing burned by a fire. They will Stand
over one while the flames are licking up |
goveral seconds. —National Review.
The Conquests of Silence,
i their bare legs and never move, and |
| will keeps their hands and feet in redhot |
_ ashes with the utmost indifference for! a
i rain falls in torpents for an ho
| Augpst, the sun always
- i
Washington never made a speech. In
the zenithr of his fame he once attempt-
ed it; failed and gave it up, confused
“and abashed. In framing the constitn-
tion of the United States the labor was
{ almost wholly performed in committee
of the whole, of which George Washing-
ton was, day after day. chairman, and
he made but two speeches during the
convention, of a very few words each,
8 speeches.
that - had it not been for his personal
popularity and the 30 words of his first
speech, pronouncing it the best that
sonstitution
Thomas Jefferson never made a speech.
He couldn't do it.
Napoleon, whose exerniive ability is |
periors 1a age and experience when com-
mander in chief of an army in Ialy, Bs
said, ‘‘By reserve.” The greatness of a
man ws not measured by the et of
their naumber. —Chi-
cago Times-Herald,
: What He Liked.
Speaking of ‘A Milk White Flag”
nother of Hoyt's
plays, “A Taxes Steer,” which brings
Tim Murphy to my rriud, so that I am
reminded of a story a newspaper man
tells of Tim Murphy 'sfather. Thenews-
paper man—I have really no reason for
concealing his name; it was Winfield 8
larper—met old Murphy one day, and
the ¢ld gentleman volunteered to drive
kim to the capitol. Now the Morphy
“horse is one of those animals in which
you have instinctively implicit com-.
fidence. He jogged off down the avenue,
88 the remit of constant and emphatic
urging on the part of Mr. Murphy. and |.
tarned in ite Academy of Music
Here Mr. Murphy stopped, and a.Jditide
boy dash oe out to offér his services
“Hold yoor horse, mister?’ he asked.
“MN replied Mr. Murphy
No, me boy,’
as he climbed dewn from the buggy and |
Inoked aff tio nately at the horse. ‘He'll:
*
stand. He'll like ir.
Ard tha horse stond —Washingten
Post. :
A White Cat's —
On Columbus avenue a white
keeps the mice out of the store of (ts
f
There is nothing
OWHer: in
*Look at that cat's eyes,’ he said
yesterday. ‘Ever see anything like
them? Why, «don't you see anything re-
mwarkable? Don't know much about
then. Now, that cat, you
have gray eyes, but whiwe cats, as arule,
have only one gray ére—the other is
bine. Every white cat that I ever saw
‘but this cne had ome blue evesand one
gray eye. Both the eyes of my cat are
blue. It is a worderful freak of nature,
I think. Go to any man who knows
‘ much about cass—white cats especially
~—and soe if he doesn’t tell you that 1
am right. ""—New York World.
A Question of Age,
‘““Yon wheelmen will have to parva
¢ity tax on your bicycles now,'" said
i one Pittsbarger to another.
“Indeed?”
‘‘Yes, the new ordinance says that all
| owners of bicycles and tricycles over |
{ the age of 14 years using the public |
. highways. shall pay 50
machine, ''
**That doesn’t include me. :
“What's the reason it doesn’ t. I'd like
to know?’
“*My bicycle isn’t 14 years old I
+s
A Good. Imitation.
Dick—1 played a gre: i a blin i
on know they |
sav that in ba for one’s loss
of v.sion the remaining senses are ab
4 normally acute?
Bob—Ro I've always heard.
Dick— Well, I handed him an artic
and . after fee hing :
said that his
repmrkable in:
a white cat per se, but the owner of thas |
: particular animal declares that it is a]
feline curiosity—a freak, in fact
wonts for each |
3
—Pittsbarg |
parative statements the dry and rarified
condition of the air is not fully ap
cidted. The dominu
3
“high altitude is light
$
atmosphere, with its abopudant sunshine |
apd clear weather. 1 is true of ail!
seasons at the 8 000 for leval, or while
a
Ar nearly
every day during May, Jone, July and-!
the rest
niinutes after the
shines
of Che day, and tem
rain has cedeed the x
and Bw alr does. not retain mo isture.
falls on the eclimdlrss sky, and snow-
storms are few and hight
‘degrees below zero during winter nights
and rises to 80 degrees in the shade the |
dy rads aradry
i
i Pacific ocean.
i
i
i
‘of the Cahnenga range and has an ele-
served for the Cenntese Spencer,’’ re- |
“But weconld
exclaimed. both singers at |
onee. “40b, Ten,’
3
"said the man, leading |
the way. Beioeca instantly flew np stairs |
vast him into the sait, and locking the |
door in their faces shonted through the
cevhole that Lady Spencer must get on |
wingratulate himself on the effect of his |
strategem.
_ America’s Frostiess Belt,
What is supposed to be the only frost-
iess helt in the United States lies be-
tween the city of Los Angeles and the |
It traverses the foothills |
vation of between 200 and 400 feet. In |
{ hreadth it is serhaps three miles The |
After those months riot a-drop of water breadth it is perhaps three miles. The |
i waters of the Pacific are visible from ir,
{ ard the proximity of the ocean has of |
following morning, while in sammer, |
although a Plante is always a nightly |
necessity, the thermometer often yogis-
ters 90 degrees during the day and the
heat of the sun is always intense. These
extremes are much less keenly felt than
they would be at sea level, owning to the
dryness of the air.
It is a regicn of out of door lifa,
where regaining of health is a business.
Thousands of beings, whose frishines
wonld be measured by weeks if t
trned to the dampness of sea Jove!
here are well and active. It is troe that
some cases of pela trouble are not
benefited at the
3
far that the invalid could not live more :
than a few weeks In any climate, orl
is. affected with some hedrt tromibie
Cazes of the latter sort migrate ty an!
extension Fe this dry belt, which de-
scendr into Nea Meoxiea, along the Pe-
Lew ro.
3 i AD eonrse somethin
The mercury occasionally drops to 20 ih ang
_Ressing
,000 foot elevation,
bus either the Ye has advanced 30 |
{ found the prisoner's hat,
ecs and Rio Grande valleys, where the |
elevation is from 3,000 to 4,000 feet,
fied, and the pitieat is nucre benefited |
than in the hig cer porticns of the Kock
jes. — New Science Review.
TURNING THE TABLES.
The Rt nfortunate Lawyer and His C ient,
the Nurse,
I ray (0 Y
f : : | and forw: ol. a8 was his hah
There the action of the heart is modi | ;
to de with banishing!
rosts. During the winter season this |
tract prodinees tomatoes, peas, beans and
other tender vegetables, and here tha |
leman flourishes, a free that is peculiar-
Iy cusesptible to cold. Tropical trees
may also be cultivited with succass, |
and in connection with this faet it ie in- |
teresting to know that a part of the fa-
vorite territory has been acquired by Los |
Angeles for park purposes, and it is
2
i
only a question of time when the city;
r inadequate to the excention of infricate
will have the nunique distinction of pos-
United States Strange to say, only the
midway region of the Cahuenga range
18 fre a from frost, the lower part of the
valley being occasionally visited. —New
-
York st.
O'Comnell’s a Wt.
mee defended
on £annor on
murder in Cork, and the Iz
ness for the crown was i
£ vhich he loft
behind bim in his igh
of his gail
t from thea geene
After traveling.
examination, from the all impertant
question 0s
ad AN U3 iI adh a
that the hat in my }
i fonnd—-in every
{ Withess—'*] da.’
3 ? \
inside the hat was wyitrenth
i
The extent to which lawyers can ex- |
ercise their imagination when pleading
in behalf of their clients is almost be |
yond belief, but sometimes the tables |
_ are turned in a very unexpected fas;
On one occasion Mr. S——— was en
gaged in presenting the case of a vom
an who ps ithoned the econrt ta ir
her a jn paration
band, a erin gman, and. urged th
S06 WIR in extreme poverty
from her
was niteriy dosti
trem to Le
means to ponrehade
Wher
'
the jn gn
unimiy ved
turned ta the
her a few que
i
+ IT 3
Fave yoq then
4 » . - i» v
Xi X, IBY Kil;
thio incantirms rep)
“And where are von emanl
“I am at Mr. S—u'g
Yor pout 3 }
tingly rejoined, pointing to her
RF Ie] i
It was with the greafest
that the judge refrained fon
the shont of langhter warh 1c
admission ‘was hatled. —Bostan 7
¥
Hr.
In the Nature of a Warning.
Elderly Relative (with means r—Al
fred, this young func
want to marry—what kind
she? :
Young Man (wiith expectations
ingent on elderly relative’
and testament —-Aunt
the best girl alive! ;
beautifully, she can pater or
speak French like 4 native and—
“Plays tennis, I sappose?”’
*Oh, yes; she’s a capital tennis play-
er.’’ Tr
Rides a bicycle?’
**To perfection.”
“H'm! Wears
* Ere—sometinees.
(Grimly) —* You had better find
: she o am cook. Ph {hd Iphia T anes,
A Marvel of Art.
The i that Nasrulla Khan di :
sented to the g ram hus father, the
> Pres oy $ 3 i tog » >
3. 12 Hien ALalad A L4% AEN
wneer - Af Shan!
i
Art. It
high. It isecutfrom a blick of lapis laz-
1
i uli, and is facrasiod with large -dia-
" ¥ Sar & 3 RETR I
. monds, rabies and emeralds.
it aver for 10 or 15 |
minutes he had to give it ‘sp. He
saw. — Boston Transcript.
It * ill Last,
The wonder st. li
LTOWS that the free ©11
: poods men can still find vi ctims despi
the exposures that thé papers are ¢ n
stantly giving of the swindle. The game
will bat continneé as long as the |
green goods appeal to the avarice of the
| green Lads. —73oston Herald.
{ couldn't tell whether it was a collar |
| just from the laundry or only a buzz- |
{ weather prevatled in
Over S00,080 persops perished from |
i famine.
¥4 wrought by the same causes in 1864 and
t river, means *
Froia the
four top corners Spring stars contaning
ii 812 YeHilants The vane of the vihole
is $33,000. The queen im resurn sent a
a 1d plate seryice aiid other presents of
equal value. —Philadeiphia Ledger.
In 1837 drought aod intense Iv hot
northwest Ladin
Similar destruction Was
1863, over 2,000,000. persons perishing
of hunger in the two ye ars. :
- Muskegon, the name of a Michigan
‘plenty ¢ of fish. '’
effect on
name’ (looking into
ng the name very si
Cena?”
O'Connell
amph to jurige
and gentlemen
nane
tha ahnnd nee of the |
ifrenhost Nowe,
Cand be waved his a
ae af ii
an read the adeert
“But the Yost
: by a com
Hall’ $'N
evasively, ‘1 suppose the
: 4.1
aver the Labia
Why We | Fas Soup First,
] wif tid fla
ih si 5p d
iat aliney
SOON enor
) resiws the hun
three minutes after
! good warm coinsonmme tl
f weariness disappears, and the
0. be greatiy rmproved
taking a glass of sherry
inner is spoken of by Sir Henry
I _: nas a ‘‘gastropomical ard
physiol gx a blunder
®
Loved His “Fellow Men.
Digos——seribulous must be
sympathetic man,
Frggs—What makes vou thin}
Diggs—He was asked to send
of his latest book to the hb spitals
he woaldn't do it. Pittsburg Pos
patch.
It has been oer at the growth
lettuce subjected to the rays of the e
tric light 1s considerably haste oh oie
unfortunately the operation of
trie light « i
on other useful plants 1s not
aniform. :
8 eee
Sun spots, now believed to have ar
meteorological phenomena,
were first observ ed in 1611.
; within its walls,
terly Review.
, soiree at Dr. K.'
the cnly tropieal park in the
i tives, to believe things ar
-} to be nntil they are a others, to
barks ard |
31 faye age 1
1 CTORsS
Bartheleiny Maurice gives the now.
ber of persons sent from the Conciergerie
to the guillotine as 2,743. Of these
844 were women, 41 were infants,’
102. were over 70 years of uge, while
one rasan, D. T. G. Dervilly, epicier,
Rue Mouffetard, was 93 years of age
Taine suggests that the numbers given
: are understated, and it is more than
probable that such records
| during the Terror, were badly kept and
-at least
unreliable. For anything like a cor-
rect record of the total number of vie-
tims of the Jac obins w © must consult
Taine, ,
The error surely consists in zaderes-
timating greatly the number of persons
destroyed, and the trudirinoe of the
Coneciergerie as to tie pumoers bateher-
i ed in the September massacres are doubt-
less untrustworthy. OF those hutchered
' no full record was kept Considesine
the Conciergerin as a sterohouse for the
guillotine and semembering how she
a tima the mass of the prisoners passed!
it may be shed, How
: ! shall we find ade 0 recorde
{ a8 best she cold, leaving Mapleson to | ¥ find adequate 9 of the.
, dry rd @ leetrical |
i
facts of the life in the prison a
Mendelssohn's Contempt For Lint. f :
“You knoav,’’ said Lisit, “that x
{ delssohn, who was the most Sec mu-
sician that ever lived, always had a dis-
like for me, and on ong cecasion, at &
, he drew a picture of
the devilon a bl oi playing his
G minor concerto with Sve hammers, mi
| lien of fingers, on each hand. The truth
of the matter is that I once phyed his
concerts in -G minor from the manu-
script, and as I found several of the
passages rather simple and: net broad
enough, if I may nse the term, [ changed
| them t3 suit my own ideas. This of
course annoyed Mendelssohn, whe, an-
like Schumann or Chopin, would never
take a hint or advices from any one
| Moreaver, Mendelssohn, who, alshough a.
refined pianist, was not a virtunen, never
conld play my compositions with any
kind of effect, his technical skill being
passages. So the only course open to
him, he thought, was to vilify me as a
musician. And of eonrse whatever Men.
delsschn did Leigsiod] d alsa. —Emde.
Charity of Speech.
Charity of speech is as divine a thing
as charity of action. To judge mo one
harshly, to mise neeive no man's mos
al they seem
temper judgment with merey—surely
thig is quite as good as to betid up
churches, establish asylums and found
Unkiznd words do as much
harm as unkind deeds Many a heart
has been we ond: wi beyond onre, MALY a
calleges)
: reputat ion has been stabbed to Deh b
“1 a few little words
Thera ig » charity
which consists in withholding words, in
Weeping hack boxed judgments, mm ab-
gtaitting from speech; if to Mmeak is to
condemn. Such charity hours the tale of
slander, but doés not repeat it; listens
in sikence, but fori aru COLON] aen
locks the nuplsassrt secret up in the
very depths of the heat Silence ¢ gan
still rusaor.. It is speech that Keeps »
story aliveand lends if vigor —=Selectod
Flouuent, Rage Co
“Elogmenes is sealing ous—ont of
sar the
anthers of © An in
ident related by iN Eoernardo, the
Ea glish om: intin nist who eaves for
friendless chidren, Haarates this char
acteristic of sloquence. i
“Lwas standing,’ he said, “ad my
in wines,
‘feauesses at Trah,
front door one
when a hap came np 1p
me and asked me for an order of wi
wt him I eactided to be
now gaxl, Mf wha
! 1m war? Have yo
friends to speak for vou?’
“Friends!” he shonted. ‘Neo, Taint
got no friends, but if these "ono sags’ —
m abint as ho spake
— won't speak for we, pothin else
will
Mixed.
Her bock lav on a rustic seat with ius
sane across it: his resiment badge had
been transferved from its place on lus
breast to a 8 pot ad near Blunche's heart
¥
as possible; the eorue: of 1 a hapidbep
*
i ; Fa :
chief peeped ont af D8 ie poked, the
diamond rng worn on his little finger
gliswened on the third finger of her lefs
hand ; her Ki ngs Duurhter’s badge
dangled fyom his watch cham; his pen-
knife was in her hound and she was
whittling a bireh (wie ber fan was in
his hand and he was (wir’ nx 6 perv
cusiy ; the lace of ne of her tiny white
shoes was. tied mun fashion Ja feather
of her bon was tlonst indo the band of
his hroad brim, —P rivaie Letter of a
Frenchwoman., A
La :
How to Adidrdss un Yotier.
A number of new.pu;
ing the impropriety of wdressing let
to Juhn Smith, Esq, iastead of to Xe.
John Smith. In Londen there is a east
iron rule to this effect. Yon are to ad
ress 4 iw tradesnan as Mr John Smith
the gentleman in your Social set 18 to Ix
addressed Pas John Smith, Eg This dis
tinction 1s invariably tol by Amer-
IS GUD asc ise-
tcans who reside in Cire Britain for
any con: ierable Ip nor! 1 fF ti me, and we
CRole thi 1b is bel g abu reed toa grow-
Img extent in this counmy. —Chicagn
- Reword,
Mistake Somewhere.
‘What a sfebi tu elowk this isl" ‘ax
elaizaied . Mrs. Gusliott: admising a new
3 ph POE Gl yee Fosdiek 's mantel
Lao; it doesn't sirke t ’ replied
CRS Owner, win ght to know.
. ;
Troe: Press,
Fish: is. gentibity’ Tanning away
from vulgarity and afruid of being over-
taken by ir tie a sign 4 ie bre sings
ander. —Hazlity :
Cu June 1, 1880, the valne of all the
lve stock or hand iu the United States
was $2,208,7687,573. ;
are not far ass
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