LOVBTB REASON. Lore doth a tenant of the spring become* Ofeummer hours when skies of brilliant blue Tempt bees and katydids to gardens new; When the woodpecker with his distant drum Is heard, and w hen the cricket's restful thrum Mukes autumn musical; when Winter's few Df lights of Nature blossom into view; Love makes the year, complete, Its constant home. Whnte'er the days or months for 11s unfold Love lias one season in its rounded rhyme, Love's sun turns dui kest skies to brightest gold, And mukes of time a period sublime; From cradle-Qyrau to bells at Life's night tolled Whore Love dwells it is summer all thetime > —[Dexter Smith, in Boston Transcript, j A Moccasin Amona the HoMys. BY BICIIARD M. JOHNSTON. I vary well remember Little Joe Hobby, who, when I was a child, was one of my fatbor's near neighbors and friends. He was not so very, very little, 'l'hey called him so in distinction from a big cousin of the same name. Every body liked him. Even Muggy Tiller over and over again said that she thought a groat deal of Joe. Yet she gavo her hand in preference to the big cousin, and so Little Joe, sorrowful as it all was,had • to bear it as well as ho could. Maggy, i noticing at her very last refusal how hardly he took it, offered the consolation, which at such a time, if a girl would only reflect for a moment, is the very poorest to be thought of. .She told him to novor mind, for that it wouldn't bo so very long before he would find n girl to suit him to a t, and then he would bo just running over with joy that ho hadn't married Maggy Tiller. Indeed, Muggy wus very sorry for his distress, so she must say something, and sho didn't know of anything hotter. Then he rose, and, after shaking good-by, said: "No, Muggy, I can't got you; but I'll never marry anybody else." Ho went to the wedding, and with the sther guests extended congratulations, Hid partook with leasouahlo zest of the good things. Afterwards lie was as good a neighbor as boforo, and a good cousin to both. My father said, hut of course only in the family, that if lie had been In Maggy Tiller's place he would have taken Little Joe, and lot Big Joe go somewhere else; for in his opinion Little Joe was more of a man; and so, he sus pected, thought Maggy's mother. How ever, lie added, nobody can over foresee Whut girls will do in such cuses. Joe—Little Joe, I moan—tried to go along about as ho had been doing boforo his bad luck, as he oalled it; for he never denied a single thing. But ho was as healthy in mind as in body, and ho felt that if Maggy and the other Joe could do well, so far as he was con cerned, thoy were welcome to do so. In deed, he was a better friend to them than Jim Hobby, Big Joe's older brother, whom Maggy had cast usido also, and who in a pot went off and married Mandy Brake, who wasn't ns pretty as Maggy and lind rather poor health besides. And they did do well, —that is moder ately well. If Big Joe's industry, man agement and prudence had corresponded witli his physical proportions, thoy would have done splendidly. As it was, out of the good pieco of ground which they owned, thoy mado quite enough to live 011, and perlmps a trifle over; but not nigli what Little Joe, who continued to live with his mother, contrived to put aside yearly for rainy days. Tho two families lived only a mile opart, and visiting continued to bo kept up tho same ns if nothing had happonod. In decent timo after tho birth of their baby, Little Joo went over thero and handed around his congratulations again. When the baby was named Joj ho had to congratulate again; and he did so, like tho man ho was. It may liavo soemod to him somewhat monotonous whenever he was tliore that tho father was ever lastingly saying that in some points, in deed in almost every single blessed point, he lind not n doubt that that buby was ahead of anything of its ago that could be found in tho whole State, let alone the county. "Why, Joe," he said, more times than his houror could recall, "Muggv'll tell you herself that somotimcs i have to ,oose my mule from tho plough half an hour before tho dinner-horn blows, I want to see him so bad.—Look'eo here, Joe," he said nigh as many times to the baby, "you know who that is sitting in that chuir? You don't? Why, that's your cousin Joe, same name as vou. Not named after him exactly, but all the same. Ask Cousin Joe if he don't wish ho had a Joo like you." At such times Maggy smilod a little scold; but it did no good, lie would go on about it, and keep at it, not even stopping at thedinner-table, occasionally getting up and making Little Joe get up, repair to-the bed or tho cradle whereon #iat baby was lying, and note how, when ho was not crowing, he would bo trying, just for tho fun of it, to fun his fists or the coverlet into his ever-open mouth. And flion sometimes he would crown all by crying to tho youngster about thus: "Going to bo a big man some day, aren't you?—a heap bigger than Cousin Joe." Such things he did often, not from any thought of malice towards liis cousin, but out of mere exuberance of tho conscious ness of his superiority to him. Littlo Joo ondured it all, und did what ho could in simple ways to help them along. Once, when the baby was thoughtto be danger ously sick, he went thero at nights, and, while tho father slept, watched with tho mother during the silont hours. Before Big Joe was uwuke next morning he rould be gone to his work. During that time Jim Hobby nover once caino thero. Bis wife did, and wanted to help; but Maggy, knowing that she was not strong inough to do any good, thanked her and sent her home. One would think that such as that ought always to como to an ond. Some times it docs, us in this case itdid. Early in August, when the baby was only a few weeks old, Big Joe got sick himself. IVoplo said it was from having had too much Fourth of July. Whatever was the cause, no sort of medicine, old Women's nor doctors', could cure him; snd so he died, leaving Maggy a poor, lonesome widow. With her baby she moved back to her mother's, and it was not 80 very long before she began to look as bright as ever, and perhaps some prettier. I could not undertake to say exactly how Li?tie Joe felt 011 the occasion of his cousin's death; but he suid and 110 did what wus becoming,—no more, no less. He helped to put him away docently, and then helped Maggy to do what was to be done before 8110 could get back to her nutivo place. As for the baby, while he did not —because lie could not—show tho pride which his father in ! dulged, yet he was even more considerate of its wants. It was only a few minutes' walk to the Tillers', and he went there | almost every day. The devotion shown by him to that baby was not without its I return, as it was not long before the lat ter showed himself to be as well pleased with his cousiu's society as ever he had been with that of his father. Even Jim began to take an interest which he had not shown in his brother's lifetime. During the summer days of the follow ing year, when Maggy's work took her out of tho house she put tho baby in his cradle, which she had removed to a nice spot in the shade of a large Mogul plum tree that stood not far from tho dairy. Occasionally she went by to see if any wood-insect had invaded his couch, or, if he was awake, to have a little chat by way of reassuring him against any sense of abandonment or too profound solitude. For ho was not one of those exact ing babies who are everlastingly wanting to ho waited on, and shaken up, and sung to, claiming all tho attention thoy can get, and inoro be sides, not only in the day, but in tho very night. What that baby wanted, after his many meals and his as many sleeps, was the consciousness that con genial society was in convenient call. His health was as perfect as tho very morning, and whenever ho cried you might feel sure either that a pin was sticking somewhere, or that something else was the matter which no grown-up person could be expected to endure with out complaint At such time, when Lit tle Joe was thero, ho hovered around that cradle as if the most precious of his treasures lay therein. Such devotion, in all the circumstances, must have touched any heart, unless it were of stone. Yet when, towards the beginning of the fall, Little Joe began to plead as onco before he had done so all in vain, Maggy cried and bogged him to stop it. lie did as ho was hidden, but with an inward resolve not to stop for good as long as things stood as they were. For she showed ns plainly as day, even to tho humble Little Joe, that she didn't want him to quit coming to tho house, particularly now that Mrs. Jim I lobby had died, and so another gloom I had been thrown over tho family. Little Joe would have been ashamed j to ho calloil a hero if he had known what that meant. Yet in tho action which I am now going to tell, my father used to say that there was as heroic behavior as much of that one reads of in the careers of those who subdue Nations and bring homo spoils with in finite Manslaughter. Among venomous reptiles in the South ern States, next to the rattle-snake the one most dreaded is the moccasin. Its bite, except upon very young persons, is seldom fatal; but very often its victim has to lose some portion of the limb which has been struck. The most prompt treatment is necessary to prevent much suffering and other serious consequences. I shall let Little Joo speak for himself about an encounter which ho had with one of those reptiles. One morning, having come over to our house on some little matter about the line-fence, as he was ascending the 'steps of the piazza my father said: "Good-morning, Joo. Why, hello! what's tho matter with your thumb, that you've got it wrapped in that cloth?" 4 'Moruin', squire. Tlion you hadn't heard about my snako-fight?" "No, indeed. I've been away from home for a ouuple of weeks, getting back only last night. It seems you got tho worst of it." "I did for a while; but I como up with him boforo it was all over." "My goodness, man! llut I'm very glad it was no worse." "So am I—thankful to boot. What time it lasted.it was a right serious busi ness, countin' in my skear, and Maggy's too." "Ay, was Maggy in it also?" "Not in tho tight, she wasn't, but in the skear she were, worse ofF than me; fact is, sho couldn't help it, bein' of her own baby." "My! my! Tell mo about it." Smoothing tenderly the cloth around his thumb, ho began: " It was on Thursday three weeks ago. I walked over to Missis Tiller's, I reckon j the sun were about a hour or a hour and a half high. Maggy were a-sweepin' the I front yard about the gate. Her ina wore gone over to Missis Keenum's, and the baby wore lay in' in the cradlo asleep under the big pluin-troe, you know, squiro, thoro by tho dairy." " Very well. Finest Mogul plum-tree in the neighborhood." " Jes' so. Well, soon as I got in the yard, and shook hands with Maggy, I went on silent to see the baby, who him and 1110 are first-rate friends, wo are." "So I heard. Go ahead." " When 1 got there, lo and behold, there were a groat big full-grown high land moccasin quiled up on the baby 's breast, all exception of his head and his neck, which stood high up, and his eyes a-viewin' of the child, like he wore studyin' where he'd begin 011 him. 1 holloed out, I did,and Maggy she cynic 11- runnin' up; but I pushed her back and told her to stay back and keep silent. She done it. She put 0110 hand 011 her broast and lifted the other towards the sky. At that minute Jim come in the gate, and he run up to see what were the matter. Then ho told mo to stay there and watch the snake till he could run in the garden und cut a forked stick and prong him with it. So Jim ho left, and the tight begun. Soon as the thing saw me, he whirled his head away from tho baby for a strike at mo. Ana, squire, it were the Herlest, bcautifullest thing you over laid your eyes on. He were certain, well us I were, that it wore a life-and-d ath case; because thero wasn't any chance for him to get away I into the woods, and I 110 doubt ho saw tight was in me. Hut I didn't huve one blessed thing except my hands, und if I'd had a stick the question would been what to do with it, him a-layin' there on the baby. To make things worse, he woke, the baby did, and he begun a smilin' at me, und 1 were skeered nigh out of my senses, thinkin' he might kick or throw up his hands, so the snake would turn on him again. Then I got mad. sure enough, and I suid to myself, No, sir, not that baby. If its got to he anybody, it shall be 1110.' Every time I made a grab at its neck, 110 dodged and struck ut ine. Well, sir, it's wonderful how supple the thing were. 1 thought 1 had him once or twice, but he slipped from my fingers like a piece of ice, and mighty nigh as bold, and several times with his strike he were in the width of a hair of gettin' me. All of a sud den I thought of my hat, and thinks I to myself, Blast you, I'll try to hive you!' And 1 done it, after a few wipes at him; but as I was pressin' him down he put his tooth in the hall of my left hand thumb. But 1 grabbed him by tho tail, give him a whirl or two like a whip thong, then, fetchin' a jerk, slung his head off. You know that's tho quickest way in tho world to kill 'em. Then Maggy come up, she did, and she snatched up her baby, who was kickin his level best at the fun; but I told hei to lay him down for a minute, take a twine string out of my coat pockot, and tie it tight around my thumb where I were holdin' it. For don't you know, squire, it come to my mind that very minute of .Jay Roberts losin' his whoU thumb three year ago that a moccasin bit, and that under tho water? Yes, sir, that it did. Maggy screamed, but she done us I told her. Then I told her to go and make a pot of red-pepper tea, boilin' hot, not thinkin' thero was a drop of sperits in tho house. Soon aB she got away, I hauled out my knife. I give it a wipe or two on the bottom of my shoe, and then Well, squire, whoever thinks there's fun in cuttin' off their own thumb at the j'int, they're welcome to it. Rut I grinned and got through with tho job, and by that time Maggy's ma got back. She told Maggy to fling that pepper tea away, and then she got out a level tumblerful of whiskey and come out and made mo drink every drop of it. And then, while Maggy was fixin' to tie up what was left of my thumb, she, a knowin' I couldn't curry all that load of whiskey, she mado me go to bod, and,tell you the truth, squire,l never remembered another thing till nextmornin' daybreak, when I woke up, callin' for water." "Rut where was Jim all this time? " "They told me after it was all over that Jiin came buck with his forked stiok, a-sayin' it took longor than he thought to get one to suit. Missis Tiller said she thanked him, and told him that he better put it away keerful, as it might come in handy next ti me." "That's Jim; that's exactly Jim," said my father. "But, Joe Hobby, don't toll mo you came away from that house with out getting Maggy's word, after what I told you of the importance of being brisker in soino of your ways, especially since Jim lias become a widower, j "Oh, 110, sir. I thought it were a good ; chance to follow up your advice, and I put in for her as well as 1 could; and she , said that, in all the circumstances, she I wasn't suro but what it wais her duty." I "That's good! that's first-rate! " "But, law, squire! she declare she must put off tho weddin' for at least oue whole year." "Nonsense! You tell Muggy, from me, that, after all you've done for her uud I that baby, I say that I think it very hard 1 to be putting it off so long, and that if ! any accident was to happen to you in all that lonesome while sho'd nover forgive herself." He carried tho words, and iu a few days afterwards reported that they had compromised on Easter.—[Lippincott. Earthquakes in Japan. Earthquakes are of so frequent occur rence in Japan that they are looked upon us a matter of course, and unless they are accompanied with a serious loss of ■ life and destruction of property, tho out . side world hears little of them. Some of ' the earliest Japaneso traditions are of j extremely destructive earthquakes, and ! many fanciful tales are told of those which happened provious to the times of trustworthy historical records. Hut there are many authentic records of earth quakes which destroyed whole cities. Tho most serious of tlicso disturbances in recent times was that of 1855, when, in Yedo, which was tho centre of tho quake, 14,241 dwelling-houses and 1G49 firc-proof storehouses were overturned. ; In the last days of the past October there j was a very serious earthquake übout Gifu and Nagoya, and there was great J loss of lifo and property. There were slight earthquakes on Sunday, Octobor j 25th, and these continued with increas j ing severity until tho morning of the fol ! lowing Friday. During the last two ! days of tho ouake, 3GB distinct shocks ' wore felt and recorded. At Gifu tho : houses tumblod down and caught fire, | and thoses pooplo not caught in tho ruins j fled to tho country and tho hills; but in i nearly every house it is reported that one or more unfortunate victim was caught. Enough is known to place tho loss of life at several thousands. When the first shock was felt at Gifu tho up and down trains on the Takaido Railway were just meeting. Tho shock was ac companied by a rumbling sound, and tho people on the train thought that there | had been a collision. On looking out of I the windows, however, they saw tho sta tion in ruins, and tho water in a neigh boring pond dashing violently from sido to sido. As tho shocks continued, cracks in tho earth wero observed two or throe feet wido, opening and closing. The shipping in the various harbors was very much injured, and ono ship which re cently arrived at San Francisco reported that when seventy miles at sea a violent shock was folt, the sou was lashed into a foam, tho waves broke over tho decks, and the maintop mast and cross-trees wero lost. These disturbances at se( have beon very common in previons earthquakes, and several times groat ships in Japaneso ports have had great difficulty in weathering such unaccus tomed conditions.—[Harper's Weekly. An Aristocratic Market Gardener. Pretty nearly half England's nobility has gone into trade of some sort. Tho | Duke of Fife is turning his laud into j bank stock. Lord Randolph Churchill is a special correspondent—and the name is legion of those noble dames who sell everything from butter to bonnets—and not always by proxy. Tho so famous Lady Brooks runs a show in connection with her Eastern charity work, where you can buy-nearly everything a woman can put on from tho crown of her head to tho sole of her foot. Her bettors in birth and breeding help thomselves in j lowlier ways. One, tho sister of tho wife of the Duke of Wellington and daugh ; ter of a Marquis whose blood is of tho best, lives just out of London in a ram bling old house that has half an acre of garden behind it. Small as is the bit of j earth, she gets from it a good share of i her maintenance. She points out her as : paragus bod, crowded with tendor shoots, I and says: "Is it not tempting?—but I j cunnot afford to eat it. Every stalk is I engaged to Covent Garden Market,where I it fetches enough money to clothe mo | and my girls."—[New York Sun. The Oldest Medical Work. A translation into German of the Egyptian medical manuscript acquired about twenty years ago by George Ebers, tho eminent Egyptologist and novelist, has just been completed. Dr. Heinrich Joachim, tho translator, believes that the work was written not later than 1550 R. C., and that parts of it ure of still old er date. It consists mainly of recipes, interspersed here and there with prov erbs, but gives some advice upon the ex amination of patients, and states the diseases indicated by certain symptoms. The original papyrus is a unique and important document, being the oldest medical work in tho world. —[Trenton (N. J.) American. THE JOKER'S BUDGET. JESTS A.NI) YARNS BY FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS. Same Thing—He Couldn't, Afford To On One Condition—Two Opin ions—-And That's a Fact, Etc., Etc. SAME THING. "I 800," he began, as ho entered tho offico of a plumber, "that souio one has invented a cut-off or valve or syphon by which a water pipo is prevented from freezing, no matter how much cxposod." "Yes," softly replied the plumber. "Good thing." "Very likely." "Come into general use?" "Yes." "When it does you plumbers will have to take a back scat, en?" "No. Takes two pounds of solder just tho same, and we get in three hours' rxtra work."—[Detroit Free Press. HE COULDN'T AFFORD TO. Mr. Suburb—Well, I was never more surprised in my life. I had a long and serious talk with a stranger whom 1 met on the truiu, and who do you think he was? Editor Weekly Fun—Give it up. "Ho w*as Mr Button-buster, one of your chief humorists." "What about him?" "Why, he didn't crack a joke all the time we were together." "His jokes are worth $5 apiece."— [Now York Weekly. ON ONE CONDITION. Tramp to lady of tho house)—l'm starving to death! Can I die out in the barnyard? Lady of the House (graciously)— Yes; if you won't crawl under tho burn. TWO OPINIONS. "Yes," said the viilngo oracle, as he looked around the grocery store and fixed tho power of his eye on the only man present, "it's my belief that the world is growing worse, and that even in this \il lago there's a deal of ovil—that every man in it would thieve if he got a chance ■ —present company excepted, of course." "Well, now," responded his auditor, "my belief's just tho opposite. I don't think there's a man in the village would thieve if he got the best chance in the world—present company excepted, of course." Thoro was no more to be said.—[Now York Press. AND THAT'S A FACT. Although it causes ono to sneeze Much more than ono is pleased at, The grip is plainly a disease That isn't to be sneezed at. —[New York Press. UNSELFISH. "Your husband borrows a groat deal of trouble, it seems to mo, Mrs. Blue." "Yes, but ho is unselfish with it. He always shares it with me." IIIS ACTIONS BELIED HIS REPUTATION. "I've always hoard that you were of a generous disposition, John," said the maiden, us her lover almost hugged the breath out of her; "but 1 can hardly be lieve it." "Why can't you ? " "Because I find you always near and grasping."—[New York Press. THE PARTING. It was 5 o'clock p. m., and Georgo Montgomery hud been spending the after noon with sweet Lilian Luruy. "Good-by, darling," he said, fondly, as tlioy stood in tho darkened vestibule. "Good-by, Georgo," sho murmured, nestling her head in tho time-honored place. "Good-by." "Good-by." "In every parting, dearest, there is tho imago of death," lie whispered, hold ing lior close and kissing lior passionately, "and we may liovor meet again." "Oh,Georcro,darling," sho said,clinging to him most fiercely. "Who knows, my own what may hap pen between this hour and when wo meet uguin ? " "Mizpali," she breathed, and throw her arms about him convulsively. "Yes, darling," he spoke tremulously, "lot us keep that word as our shield and armor." "And you will coino back to mo; to your own little loving Lilian, George; tho sumo beautiful and bravo George you havo always been?" "Trust me, Lilian, darling; trust your George." "Gh, darling," she said, strong in tho faith of women, "I do trust you. How could I love you HO if I did not?" and she kissed hiin fondly. " Then I shall coino again, Lilian, my own." "Hut when, George? When?" she asked anxiously. "At 8 this evening, darling." "Oh, George," she wailed, "will it bo so long as that? So long, so long?" Ho took hor in his stroug arms, tenderly. "Darling," ho whispered, "make it 7.30!" And it came to pass as ho had spoken. —[Detroit Froo Press. DESPERADOES EXCHANGE REMINISCENCES. "Yes, I was a great desperado in my day," said the reformed train robber, shaking his head sadly and with much humility. "I once held up u whole train load of passengers single-handed und alone." "That was quito a feat," said the re tired auctioneer, with a dreamy,far-away look in his eye, "but I once knocked down a whole railroad."—[Chicago Tri bune. THE SOWER AND THE REAPER. Old Moneybags, his whole life through, Worked—stormy days and sunny; And now his heir is working, too, To spend the old man's money. BAD MUSIC. May—Now, wouldn't you call Profes sor Poundcroffski's music heavenly? Frank—Possibly; it's certainly quite unoarthly. HAD A BETTER JOB. Employer (impulsively) Miss De Pinkie, Clara, will you marry me? Pretty Typewriter—What? And give up my S2O a woek salary? Not mucli.—- [New York Weekly. SEEMED CONCLUSIVE. Pobbleye—Of all tho fool boggars I ever saw that blind man is the worst. Timbertoe—What has ho done? Pebbleve—About every day I have to call him down for wearing spectacles. AFRAID OF IT. "Will you pass tho butter, Mr Wick win?" "Not if I see it in time to turn und go the other way, madam." AUSKNT-MIKDED. "You did not attend Blogster's fu neral?" "Xo," said the nbsont-mmdod man. "I was so busy. I'll p> to his next one, sure, busy or not." —[Indianapolis Journal. THE FLOWERS OF THE FAMILY. The youth was most prudent and careful In making a choice of a wife, So he married "Tlio Flower of the Fam ily" And sho is the thorn of his life, misii PUNS. Charles Lamb made some famous puns, and his mantle seems to have fallen upon his namesake, Churles Luinb Keuney. The popular journalist was dining at the house of a friend, and by chance swallowed a bit of cork with his wine, which gave him a sovere coughing fit. "Take care, my friend," said his next neighbor, with a very brilliant attempt at I witticism, "that's not tho way to Cork." ! "Xo," gasped the sufferer, "it's the way to kill Kenney. —[London Truth. MONEY EASILY EARNED. "What? Another new dro s!" said a married man to his better half, as the | parcel was opened. "Don't distress yourself," she replied. "I paid for this out of iny own pocket." "Oh, indeed! But where did you got tho money from?" "1 sedd your overcoat," was tho cool reply. MRB. SCRIML' S GARDENING. Old Friend—Did you lmvo much of a garden this year? Mr. Scrimp (of Scrimpville)— No; it I didn't amount to much. In tho spring I ' gave a grand garden digging tournament, tho young men who dug the most to have J tho pick of tho girls for tho evening, and it worked well, but it cost ino 'most two dollars for refreshments. Then I had a planting boo, and that wasn't so expen sive, only tho planting wasn't half done. Later on I tried to got up a wedding festival, but somehow the young folks sort o' lost interest, and I gave up gar dening in disgust.—[Now York Weekly. SUITABLE FOR THE OCCASION. "Chicago won't be satisfied with trac tion cars during the colobrution of '93," remarked the Snuko Editor. "Won't eh? Hadn't hoard of that," re plied the llorse Editor. "No; she will adopt tho Colum 'bus." —[Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. THE RKABOX. "Why is tho road to destruction broad, papa?" "It has to be, my son, to accommodatp the travel." THE BLIGHTED YOUTH. I paced the fioor in anguish wild, Or sat in deep dejection; I felt extremely sad and rilod, 1 had had my first rejection. I wont to bod and groaned all night, To dio my aim was steady! But I fell asleep at broad daylight, And slept till lunch was ready. KNEW THE MEN. Salesgirl—l wish to resign my place. I'm going to he married to Mr. Clipper, of the ribbi m counter. Manager—My dear child, that is no reason for stopping work. Keop your pluco. Salesgirl (a close observer) —It won't do. I'm ufraid if I don't knock off and do nothing, he will.—[Good News. WARM ENOUGH. New Boarder (shivering)—Tho house seems very cold, madam. Mrs. Slimdict —Does it? Why, I'm as hot as tire. "Hum! Pardon mo, but why doos tho end of your nose look so blue?" "Oh! that comes from my uristocrutio ancestry."—[Good News. A SMART HUSBAND. Mr. Do Fashion—The paper says sealers arodisappointed at the low prices obtained for skins in Loudon this sea son. .Mrs. De Fashion—That's splendid! You know I nood a now Mr. Do Fashion—The paper says tho furs are very cheap, dirt cheap. Mrs. De Fashion I never did care much for soul-fur. It's too warm. AFTER TIIE BALL. She—Has papa askod you about your incoino? He—Yes. She—And you told him that little fib about the largo salary? Ho—Yes. She I'm so glad. He—Well, Fin sorry, lie borrowed ! SSO from ine on the spot. The Portland Vase. • Tho Portland Vuso was found in the Sixteenth century inclosed in a marblo sarcophagus, in the sepulchral chamber called Monte del Grano, on tho road from Home to Prascati. It was formerly sup posed that it was formed of a single pre cious stone; but it was afterward found I that this was not tho fact. An author ity, telling of how this wonderful work was done, says: " 'l'ho first place among these processes in which one color was super-imposed on another may be given to that by which the cameo glass was producod. In this a bubble of opuquo white glass was formed at the end of the tube used by the glassblower; this was coated with transparent blue, and that again with opaque white, and tho vessel j required was formed from this three-fold : globe. The outer coat was then remov ! Ed from that portion which was to consti tute the ground, leaving the white for the figures, foliage or other ornamenta dion; these were then sculptured by means of the gem engraver's tools. Tho famous Portland vase is tho finest exam ple of this kind of work which has come down to us, and was entire until it was broken into some hundred pioces by a drunken medical student some years ago. The pieces, however, wore joined to gether by Mr. Doubleduy with extra ordinary skill, and the beauty of design and execution may still bo appreciated ulinost as well as when it was intact. A letter written by Wedge wood in 178G to Sir William Hamilton has been pub lished in the life of tho former by Miss Meteyard, whivh contains some interest ing remarks upou this bouutiful work of urt. He concludes with tho assertion, 'I do not think £2f>,ooo for tho execution of such a vuso, supposing our best ar tists cupuble of such a work, would be at all equal to their gains from the works they are now employed in.' It is true that the gem engra\ ers of that day received very high pay for their w*k." —[Courier Journal. Present fashions appear to have been created for "fine looking"or "beautiful" women. ATCHISON GLOBULES. PEOPLE are always asking advice, and never taking it. THERE is a good deal of difference between what ought to be and what is. EXPERIENCE will teach some men one lesson what others will he years in learning. IF there were fewer tender-hearted women in the world, there would be fewer tramps. TRIFLES make up the sum of hu man life, and also the large total at the foot of a woman's bill. HE who lalKirs for the devil may never have a vacation, but he has a hell of a time in store for him. A MAN cannot live without com plaining any more than he can fall in a well without getting wet. A FRIEND is a man who points out thesiivcr lining in your clouds to avoid lending you an umbrella. A MAN don't mind acting unreason able and foolish in a quarrel, hut he liates to pay lawyer's fees. ALL men learn something every day, hut the most of them only learn what great fools they were yesterday. IF there is going to be money lost, the host friend you have in the world would a little rather see you lose it than lose it himself. THERE are too many people in the world who turn up their noses at boiled cabiiage at hotne, and enjoy It under a French name on a hotel bill of fare. A MAN regards his own faults in much the same way as a woman re gards the faults of her children, and is patient with them for the same reason. SoMEnow when we see a woman who has been married and divorced a number of times, we are reminded of the man who is always failing in business. WE all laugh at the foolish moth and the candle, but there never was a man who did not have an itching de sire to get on the wrong side of a danger sign. IF you will investigate, you will find that the reason some women are superstitious about allowing thir teen to sit down at their table is that they have only a dozen knives and forks. WHEN a man in the same business as yourself says mean things about you, you may take it sis a compli ment; you are doing better than he is. If you were not, he would not abuse you. WHEN a man reaches 40, he becomes disgusted every time he remembers that he was once 20, and believed that his friends would love him whether he had a dollar in his pocket or not. Statu Exhibits. To an American one of the most interesting features of the World's Fair of 1893, as it was also of the Centennial Exhibition of 1870, will be the exhibit made by the respective States of the Union. Every State is likely to make an appropriation to set forth its own peculiar products, and most of the States will he represented by special buildings or pavilions, each of which will, in its constructions and in its contents, bo characteristic of the State which erects it. At the Centennial Exhibition thirty-seven States were represented in one way or another, for though Colorado was admitted to the Union in 1876, and is therefore called the the Centennial State, it was not ad mitted in season to place it among the States which were represented at Philadelphia. At the World's Fair of 1893 at Chicago at least forty-four States will be represented; perhaps the number will he larger still. There is so much diversity among the States that no two pavilions and no two exhibits need ho alike, if each is thoroughly characteristic of the State. Though Massachusetts and Connecticut, Indiana, and Illinois, Oregon and Washington lie side by side there is in each ease a consider able difference in many respects one from the other—a sufficient dif ference to he distinctly reflected in an exhibit. In respect to products and outward features, the difference between dis tant States, as, for instance, between California and Vermont, or between Florida and Montana, is as great as the difference between England and Egypt—between Europe and Africa. It is this diversity of outward features and products, joined with an essential likeness of the people, which constitutes the peculiar strength of the American Union. We have, in a sense, the world within our borders. In such a land, and with a people undivided in their allegiance to a single flag, patriotism seems indeed a sentiment easily ac quired.—Youth's Companion. Equal*. Every incident should lie welcomed which, in a country where offended "honor" must be satisfied by ques tionable means, tends to make the practice of dueling absurd. Many a sensible man has escaped the lifelong remorse attendant on "bringing down his man" by the simple method of throwing cold water on the person's injured sensibilities in the beginning. One day, a distinguished notary, while breakfasting with a friend at a cafe in Paris, indulged in some sting ing comments on the public acts of Marshal Marmont. Suddenly, an other gentleman, dining at a neigh boring table, rose and approached them, his moustache bristling with anger. "Sir," cried he, tragically, "you shall give me satisfaction!" "Are you Marshal Marmont?" quietly asked the notary. "I have not that honor," was the reply, "but I am his chief aide-de camp." " , "Give me your card, then, sir," said the notary. "I will send you my head clerk."—Youth's Companion. DK. GATLINO says of his famous gun: "I look on it as one of the great philanthrophic works of the age. Saved no end of lives, my gun has. How? by scaring people. People carry an idea 'round with 'em that I'm a bloody-minded man. Not much. I'm for peace, every time. So's my gun." A Feasant's Appeal to His King. At Szanad, in Hungary, lives a poor peasant farmer named Pero Bati. The destruction of his crops and loss of cattle had plunged him into diffi culties. One sleepless night he con ceived a novel idea and arose early the next morning and carried it out. The idea took the form of the follow ing epistle: "To the Most Honorable and Woll-Dorn Herr King: "My cow is dead—with grout respect I submit this—ami my noble farm produce has boen struck down with hailstones. The wicked 'man in possession* plagues me sorely, though he is my. brother-in-law's godfather. There is no living soul in bzunadwho cuu lend mo a kreuzer, because no ono in Szanad has a krouzor. If ray ?£ 1(1 lend me a eouplo of guidon—for n n"u has no immediute neod—l would pay htm back with interest when ray next year s kukuruz crop (maize) is sold. I trust that good health may wait upon my eood king uud jij 9 exalted house and also his dear family. Oh. that I could kiss the pretty hands of our high-born lady queenl A.ll happiness to your king's majesty. "Truly yours. "PERO BATI." This letter was duly dispatched and a messenger was sent to ascertain the truth of Bati's statement. This proving correct the two gulden (about 3s) which the Emperor was "not in immediate need of' were place at Pero Bati's disposal.—London News. Who Inventod Thimbles* The Dutch have already claimed the credit of having invented thim bles, and by tacit consent their claim was allowed up to a few years ago, but, unfortunately for the reputation of the Holland tailors, about the middle of this century, the antiquari ans delving in the ruins of Ilercu laneum, uncovered a jeweler's shop and found half a dozen gold and silver thimbles of the most approved mod ern pattern. Since then several thimbles have been discovered in the Egyptian cat acombs, in mummy cases antedating the Christian era fifteen to eighteen centuries. So how old is the thimble, or by whom it was invented, are questions that cannot be answered. The name Is believed to bo a per version of thumbbell, as the thimble was formerly worn on the thumb. The manufacture of thimbles was first introduced into England from Holland in 1695 by a metal worker named John Softing.—Globe Demo crat. 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