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^ .Constancy. I will be true. Mad stars forsake their courses. And, led by reckles meteor?, turn away From paths appointed by the Eternal Forccs; But my fixed heart shall never go astray. Like those calm words, whose sun-directed j& motion p* Is undisiurbed by strife of wind cr sea. So sbali my swcrveless and serene devotion . Sweep on forever, loyal unto thee. I will be true. The fickle tide divided ?r<M unrocf tn v n ouvivc1^ ?? u***vw? |&> May, to and fro, shift, always undecided. Not so the tide of passion in my breast: BHv- Like the grand surge of some resistless river That hurries on, past mountain, vale and | Tin to the main its waters to deliver. So my full heart keeps cli its wealth for thee I will be true. Light barks may. be belated Or turned aside by every breeze at play, "While sturdy ships, -well mannered and richly freighted, Witn broad sai.'s flying, anchor safe in bay. Like pome firm rock, that, steadfast and un. shaken. k. Stands all unmoved, when ebbing billows flee. So would my heart stand, faithful, if forsaken, I will bo true, though thou art false to me. ?Ella Wheeler. v T ONLY A GARDENER. V Au evening in early spring, grey and clouded, a low-ceiied, plainly-furnished apartment in an out-of-the-way old house, and though the other rooms are the perfection of neatness, this one n - -J:??A IS XU &1X tiiU CUdiillibJr Ui-LKL .j.LLiu\;ii n.1,11 y cf art. Two young; girl-students are resting V aftor their day's work?resting, each after hcis wn manner. To one, Gertrude Tre lyan, the word implied utter repos*>; she, therefore, leaned back her regal-looking' head in a comfortable old chair, as with half-closed, eyes, the words dropped listlessly from her coral lips. But to Esther Forbes, rest was merely something less laborious, and seated on the hearth-rug, by the fitful glimmer of fire-light, she * glanced over a daily paper, "to glean," as she said, "a little news for grandfather at supper-time." "Oh, Gertie!" she cried, "listen to this: 'The Art Decorative Company is offering thre- prizes?first, second, and | third class?for the best design for screen decorations. It is to be a yearly competition.' How I should like to compete for one of the prizes!" And should not I? Let us commence to-morrow." And so saying, Gertrude sat upright in her chair, and L opened wide her great dark eyes. * * "How delightfal 'twould be," said she, "to awake some morning and find , oneself famous?to read in. a paragraph, 'Miss Gertrude Trevelyan has obtained . the first prize and a gold j medal for the most original design.7"" "I shall be content with tho second," ^ replied Esthei; "for that fifty pounds ! is just what I shall want nest'sum-. ^ mer." "And what do you want so much money for, child?" "Ah, Gertie? were I as rich as you, I, too, might work for fame; but you remember how my dear old grandfather suffered from last summer's heat, and i b yet refused to take from our little ingj come the sum requisite for a two months' sojourn by the sea. If I ' could-put this into his hand, and say, Let us go, dear grandpa, like >vo BL^ haTjpj^giigrims and enjoy Old Ocean's B^W^^breezes,' oh, how proud I should be!" W* The girls were not relatives, but only neighbors, and the home of each was in that pleasant art-suburb of Lonk don that has grown up of recent years . about that Cockney's paradise, HampI stead Heath. But as Mrs. Trevelyair disliked the litter and untidiness of an artist's room, Gertrude frequently came and "worked," as she called it, in her friend's studio. Esther did not name her aspirations to her grandfather, but she lay awake moriTT ?j Irtnir lim-r t.ttinbincr nut th.it proposed design. " ' The next morning, she found a note from her friend?she would be absent . for a few days, as her* mother had * L made some engagements for them both?and very glad was Esther to be alone with her unrealized thoughts. In the visions of the ni<rht. a sister ?rt, Poesy, had come to her aid. and the subject, chosen was from Hood's idyllic poem, '*The Plea ol the Midsummer Fairies, " whete the little elve9 are entreating the nitv of remorseless It lime. She designed it rapidly, and ere long the picture told its own story. The old Mower could not be introduced?he would have demanded too mrtoh snare?hr.t one hand, nortionsof his grey, colorless raiment, and his scvtne, to which clun<r fresh grass, were visible. And as Hood describes it: "A shady and sequestered scene. Like those famed gardens ot Boccaccio?" So the fairies were in hali-shadow and in various attitudes?some kneeling imploringly, some bowed down with grief, others?"the loyal fays"? surrounding their queen, as though to protect her, while a few had, in despair, cast themselves upon the ground among the flowers. One, that seomed to have stepped out from thi? bosky leafage to plead with "tv_<rdre'ad King of years," pointed t<y? group of lilies in the picture's t' n-nnrt foil ? r<ttr nf moonlight?as, with their stems folded in their large green leaves, those pale, k pure lilies sf>od serene amid that desolation?and symbolic of the lines Esther had selected as her motto: ' "And she that purifies the light. The virgin Lily, faithful to her -white, "Whereon Eve vrept in Eden for her shame." "But I must have some real lilies!" exclaimed Esther. "'Tis the most important part of the picture." And away she went to a liqrist's, the most extensive in the entire* neighborhood, and where she was well kiiown. But he had not even one, and declared, at that season, they could not iJC* ^iUVUiCU. "You might see some at Mr. Montcalm's of Oakleigh House, Miss Forbes," said Mrs. Jour dam, the florintih isi?s wiie:~4i/or they have a Sue conW servateiyrand^a first-class gardener attendsto it. _ Ya^J& fiucMiim quite a ?entkin&n,~ah<?:Iie ~*ull ajow you to f^Sm'seytht&^vpn hiie.'' Esther further learned that Mr. and Mrs. Montcalm Sad lately returned from the South of JPrance, and that the ladv was so fond.of plants and flowers -thathe spared no expense to gratify her taste. - The next morning, armed with her sketch-book -and - portable- color-box, she'set^rtK but could' only ride a portion of-tEeTd&tance, for the way lay through lanes and roads leading to various residences. But at length Oakleigh House was reached, and there the great gates so appalled poor Esther that, but for the hope of gaining that prize, she would have retreated in dismay. In a few days Gertrude again visited the stadio, but this time to watch her friend's progress only, having abandoned her own attempt. "It is exquisite: ' said sue, after a careful surrey. "But you have not related your interview, further than the m || ! door of the conservatory was opened? i then von broke olf to show mo the : picture." I "I had to wait so long, and feared ] the gardener would never come, so I | ; found my way to the lilies alone. But, i | Gertie, I have fallen in love with that j j gardener! And as I don't know his j name, I mentally call him 'Claude j j Melnotte.'" "In love with a gardener, child? I j hope not! But pray sketch for me in words this paragon of Adam's calling." "He is probably between twenty-five and thirty. Not exactly handsome, j but a.good face, expressive of great in- j telligence; a pleasant?indeed, meio- j dious voice; and he lias certainly some j artistic taste, for when apparently wondering at my lily-craze, I described the design, he then made a few valuable suggestions. And he gave me such a oasketful of ferns and i llowers and greenery?sending it here tome?that I hope he won't get into i trouble with Mr. Montcalm for sd I doing!" "If vox; looked as you do now, Esth- j er, with your v/aves of golden hair and j 1 rapt, brown eyes, like some peri that | has lost her way, t&en I should not bo : surprised if ho -feliPin love also. But j only- a gardener! Ah, well! Of course, j you will <ro no more to Oaklei?:h House?" "No, indeed, Gertie; but he asked ! permission to call and sec my picture j before I sent it away." . And one day hy did como, bringing a magnificent bouquet, and this time ! j -"tc his name, which was Bernard. j jusicr Forbes' picture was consider- j ed very beautiful and highly poetic; i but?ah, when does not a but, or an if, i or some otfcer stumDiing-DiocK exist r? it did not gain the first prize. She was,, however, awarded the : second, and that, with the sale of later j artistic work, amply sufficed for tho ! accomplishment of her project?a trip j to tho Isle of Wight with her grand- ! father, Captain Forbes, who, having j been a sailor nearly all his life, was, in j that truly maritime little spot just as j happy as the summer- days were long, j But before their departure, Bernard j was unfortunately the cause of a sepa- j ration between the two girls. He had come again and again to the j little out-of-the-way house in Hamp- ! stead, had avowed his love, had asked j Esther Forbes to be - his wile, and j nor? <v?inr>rl ht>r oraridfather's ' I ... J ?? ?"* o~ j. consent to their marriage. - "Mr. Bernard is not a common J gardener." urged Esther to her friend, j "He might have employment on the ..estate of some great nobleman; but I believe the Montcalms like him greatly, _and he does not wish to leave Oak"Ifris not the money, but the position, j that I think of," answered Miss j Trevelyan, with a fine look of scorn | upon her proud, handsome features. "But I am not ambitious. Neither | can I look very high. You know that | my grandfather has little besides his pension." f "Yet, an officer in the navy always holds a certain rank. However, have your own way, and blame no one but I yourself, if some of your friends are less cordial than formerly." "I consider Henry Bernard a most honorable matf. He is kind-hearted, he is highly intelligent, and he loves I me, and Jfwpuld not give him up for 'every friend that I have. Therefore, Miss Trevelyan, you are at liberty to ! set the others an example." They did not meet 'again until one day during the following winter, and that chance meeting was in the wondrous city of Rome, -?here so many, whether bent on pleasure, novelty, or study, and some from a yet higher motive, find their way.. Gertrude Trevelyan with a party of friends in one of the art galleries, when a lady whose face appeared familiar passed by. Sho was richly dressed, and accompanied by a gentleman. "If that is the Esther Forbes of olden days," she soliloquized, "then success to gardening!" She went toward her, saying, as she held out a daintily-gloved little hand: "WilLvou allow me io congratulate you, Mrsl " * - "I anr rejoiced to meet you, Gertie," , interrupted Esther, "and to present you to my husband, Mr. Montcalm, i Hgnry, this is Miss Trevelyan of whom j you have frequently heard me speak." | -"I will leave you for awhijc to talk .over old times," said he, sifter expressing his pleasure at the introduction. "My breath is taken away!" gasped .Gertrude, when they were alone together. "Did the moonlight fairies bring about this romance?" "1 think they did," replied Esther, laughing?"through the agoncy of the lilies, and I will relate the story in Mr. Montcalm's own words. " 'On that eventful morning a [ message was brought to me that a | young lady requested to see the hot- j DOU5U, UI1U Wlib, SilU MViU, pciiuitivu iv use the name of Jourdain, the florist. Oar gardener liad gone to a sale of shrubs, but as his return was delayed, I went to explain matters, while collecting a few early violets from their . frames. You'?for this was addressed to me?'evidently mistook my identity, and "appearing rather embarrassed, I thought it better to leave you uninformed. Then. the shyness wore of? melted away by the; enthusiasm with which you described your proposed sketch." "I must omit all the sweet nonsense, ' Gertie, but Henry always says that 'I 1 arried away his heart that morning. "I believe he once had a theory, through some Youthful disaonointment. ' that ail womankind was self-interested, , and here was an opportunity to test the j sincerity of "one, whom he alleges to have singled out from the rest of . the world." "And this revelation took place be- ! fore your marriage?" "Yes?for that he had always intend- \ ed?and it was uttered to me and to tho ] waves during one lovely twilight hour, . when, he had rushed down for a brief , visit to our little sea-girt home." \ "And Captain Forbes?what did he ( say?" "It was some time before he could j j grasp the entire facts, being so much 3 less poetic than practical" . "But oh, Esther!?now about the ! other Mrs. Montcalm?" j "She is Henry's mother, and the j, very kindest and dearest old lady. She | < also has had her little romance;" for as ! j Miss Bernard (my husband's second j 3 name'i she ?-a./e ud the lover of her ! < youth to comply with her father's de- ] sire, and though a good and loyal 1 wife, was never a very happy one, and henceforth resolved net to control the choice of her son." 'Have you had time to conclude 1 your chat?" asked Mr. Montcalm, on 1 returning to them. Not quite," was his wife's reply. 1 4'But Miss Trevelyan will pass the re- : mairider of the day with us." "No, Esther," said Gertrude; ''you have generously overlooked my once unkind comments. but cannot have for- | given them." "They arc both forgiven and forgot- i ten, dear. Ami now, Gertrude," she I whispered, U-nry's cousin, Jack ; Ellery, is to dine with us. He admires j brunettes utovy all others, and I can j find some scarlet blossoms to wreathe.] in your dark hair. And as Jack, like I yourself, is an amateur artist, scorning j lucre but craving fame, you can enter. I into a partnership to design something i* ior next cuaipeuuoa, suu uiuu?wuu | knows? for strange happenings sur round us unexpectedly." And :is Gertrude was whirling along I in her friend's carriage, away out 10 j their Roman villa, within her own j mind she pariiaih- repeated her friend's i words: "Truly, strange, very strange hap- j penings do come to us?sometimes!" ? ? The Coroner's Verdict. The Memphis Avuianckc says Tcnnesseeans are in the habi: of coming to their death by the fallowing causes, according.to the written verdicts of Tennessee coroners' juries: "She come to her death by strangla- j tion in testimony we have sit our jhandes and seal the day above wroten." j "Paul Burns came to his death by a j mule runninir away with a wagon and j being thrown therefrom." "By taking with his oun hands an j overdose of morphine." "From causes itnkuown to the jury i and having no medical attendance." i "Said infant child camo to his death from premature birth." "Came to his death from national causes." "Said child aged 1 day old came to j her death from spasms, said child having been found by the witness e in a trunk under suspioious circumstances." "The joueres on thare ouatho do say that he comes to his death by old age, as tha could not see enny else the matter." "Come to his death from the following causes, to wit: from somo suddent cause to the jurors unknoun." "The said deceased being an orphan, father and mother both being dead." "From an overdose of gin adminis- ! tered by his own hand." "Being run over by two coal cars , whUe detached from the engine." . , "Come to his death by tender of No. 7 jumping the track on which he was . riding, either jumping or falling, off and engine running over him, wliic' ' was an accident and no fault of the ( engineer of said engine." "She come to her death by lighten striken her.""From heart deseize." "Came to his death in the following 1 manner, to wit: He was born dead. ' "From the hands of some unknown 1 person, or persons, tc the jury un- . known, and afterwards placed on the , track and got run over by the income- 1 ing train." ! "Congestion of the brain and appli- ! cote fitze." . "The body was so mangle and mu- . tilate that tua could not tell firmytkig ( about it but tha think it was put in the sisterne by some unkown person." ( "Calded on hir left side by kittley of hot water burning over on hir left ; side and causing hir death." "From the effect of injuries receive by her close accidental taking fire." "From exposier." Carios ia "Westminster Abbey.. , In Westminster abbey there is a cer- * tain well-worn stone, which, without a doubt, was used for the coronation of the Kings of Scotland, and has been during centuries taken but once from \ the abbey. This solitary occasion was the installation of Cromwell at West- ; minster hall. The Scots have made ] many efforts to. recover their relic, to ] which they attach very great impor- * ance. The coronation chair, as it is called, is also the subject of a curious legend. It is said to bo the actual stone on ] which Jacob laid his head at Bethel. ( and from Palestine it is reputed to have been removed to Egypt, thence to ' Spain, and. finally to the hill of Tara, ' in Ireland, where it was used for the J coronation of the Irish Kings. From Ireland it was carried to Scotland, by Fergus, the Irish King, who subdued ( the northern country. All these matters, historical and legendary, were at* . one. time only set forth in the Latin 1 label but in the year 1851, for the con- 1 venience of visitors to the great exhibition, the head guide rendered in the common tongue a sort of sub-edited inscription wnicn gave the authentic i history as regards Scotland, and con- i eluded with the legend as to Ireland, 1 but omitted all references to Jacob's 1 pillow as being profane. > ' i For thirty years and more the stone, i on this authority, passed as "the coro- < nation chair of the Kings of Scotland j and Ireland," but the other day, notic- 1 LUl^ tiiilL IUV UtUeXT MUC U1 LU.KJ >Y v dirty and grimy, the same guide turn- 1 ed it over and wrote on the other side 1 the fact that the stone had been used 1 at the crowning of the Kings of Scot- 1 land, but judiciously left out the legend 1 conceiving Ireland, for the verger < since 1851 has acquired considerable ( antiquarian knowledge, and can no i longer subscribe to the belief he once : held. Indeed, the stone never was in ( Palestine, and Professor Ramsey, who c bas examined it as a geolo^is^ pro- t uounces that none of its kind is found \ there, and that the chair is of true i Scotch limestone.?London Cor. Pkilaietphia Press. The Desire to Tan. The Emperor of Germany, so the * story goes, was in his very youthful 1 days much exercised as to the means ? by which to tan his fresh pink face, the 1 pride of his mother and lady friends. c Eis remedy was to rub his countenance c with bacon rind, and thus anointed to 1 lay on the sunny lawn. Whether his ? TT-rtrn ??n AArtcrfnl ^ AO C ? ? record, but American ladies might as * well try this remedy for a tender skin rather than the more violent one of taking long rides or drives in the full ylare of the sun without either trimmed hat, veil, or sunshade. They, too, tike the Ernp'eror, want the face to tan, aot to give-it a more mannerly appearmce, but as a preventative for freckles, is a tanned skin is said not to "freckle," as does the delicate pink andsvhite complexion. Of The two evils j Ajnerican belles choose the least; but [or all that the reign of the parasol is not likelf to be at an end. Most ladies shrink equally from both tan and freckles, and for them the sunshade is ;he only hope.?Pall Mall Gazette. a i ^ J A town in Connecticut Las a lot ^ containing five graves, one in the j center and the others near by at t the four points of the compass. The s center grave bears the brief in- c scription, "Oar husband," L wife," s "My II. wife," "My IIL wife," "My IV. wife." I Messages of tiove tjr Hate. "Do-I know anything of the language of postage stamps?" said a well known stationery dealer yesterday. "I don't know of any book on the subject, if that is-what you mean, but I have heard the signification of some of the ways of placing them on envelopas. For instance, if the writer is a gentleman who wishes to express love for a fair damsel he inclines the label toward the left, which method is repeated by tho lady if she is favorable to his suit. If, on the contrary, she wishes to give iiim the cold shoulder she inclines her label to the right. . A stamp in a perpendicular posture signifies simple admiration; wiien the bust stands on its head it means thai the only sentiment evoked by the suppliant, is ridicule. If the stamp lies on its face it indicates that the writer is dying for love; it it is lying on its back then the writer has got over his attack of heart disease. A label may be placed wrong way up with an inclination to the left that tells a story of. hopeless attachment, while should it be leaning towards the right hand corner it is a sign that the affection is unrequited." t*A va onrr ofV*or ci/ryicP" "Yes, such as sticking the label in odd places on the envelope, , in; wrong corners, using two or even three stamps, making kisses . around them, near them or in propinquity to them. These have various meanings and mayall bo included in the" language, of postage stamps." "Did you ever know of any one using this mode,of communication?" "If you promise not to give me awayI will tell you of a postage stamp correspondence in which I myself once was a principal participant" "My honor as a gentleman." "That's good enough. Well, it's about ten years ago. I hope you won't be -shocked to hear that this correspondence'grew out of my being a regular attendant at church?" "Not at all. That makes it all the more'interesting." "I suppose it does, so many similar correspondences have arisen from a like cause. I have for years been a member of St. Peter's Episcopal church, at Third and Pine streets. ; One Sunday, ten years ago, I was des perately struck with tie appearance of a young lady who sat in a pew on the opposite side of the aisle to me. Never mind the details?after some in- ! tjuiries I found out who she was but could not obtain an introduction." "What did you do?" "I got from a friend of mine some information about the postage stamp language and the language of flowers. Every Sunday morning I managed to ret to church in time to place a small bouquet of flowers in her pew, together with an empty envelope with the stamp affixed in a certain way. After awhile she discovered who her unknown admirer was. What is more she learned i the stamp language and in return she would leave an envelope* stamped in i the pew for me. This silent courtahip-^ continued for nearly eight months, ] when, one lucky day, I found an ao quaintonce who knew the family. I < need not tell you that I soon became i acquainted, too. To make along story short, the lady is now my wife." ] 'Indeed! That is certainly a happy and fitting ending to so romantic a jourtship." * .1 "There are one or two other things, j jrou might say about the sticking on of stamps if you are going to publish : this/ . 'Such as " "Well, I fancy some of the stampers 'i it the postoffice would feel obliged to pou if you would recommend foolish foung people who are anxious to ap- : pear eccentric, not to put their stamps in any corner but the upper right-hand dug. It will lift a weight of sin off the stamper's shoulders." "But how about the language?" "Easily arranged. If a square place 5 penciled off on the right-hand tipper. ;orner of the envelope the stamp can bo ifELxed in- an}' manner that may be ;hosen. By the by, there is one curious sign in the stamp language you might mention." "What is that?" "Pasting the stamp on with the mnjilage upward." i "What on earth does that mean?" i .. "That the sticker on is a confounded j diot, and most probably drunk. Good ; norning."?Philadelphia Times. < Something Yet to be Invented. ' A scientific gentleman in this city, \ speaking recently to a Graphic repre- ^ sentative, said: "I believe that before Long an instrument will be invented jvhich will do away with the stenographers in our courts and offices. They ivers badly scared when Edison invent- , 2d his phonograph, which would faithcully record the sounds of the human j roice as well us those of musical in- j struments. That idea only needs to 1 Sft to nrodrmn a manhinA ;hat will answer* all the purposes of iie modern short-hand writer, and in ? "act be a more faithful recorder of all . ;hat takes place within its range, ( sounds such as laughs, sighs, moans , 5tc., that a stenographer cannot write* , t; being alike susceptible to. Another ; idvance in this line would be a mashine which would automatically write rat these recorded sounds', as on a ; ype-writer, and thus every man could ( )e his own amanuensis. Inventors are ' iow looking into this matter.?New York Graphic. Admiral Hewitt in Atoyssirvia. The special correspondent of the < London Daily News, who accompanied < Admiral Hewitt on his mission Abys- < iinia, writing from Adowa, gives an nteresting account of the experiences >f the mission so far. He says: "The >ther day we witnessed a wedding, and ve had followed the wedding party iome distance, having resolved to pre- j tent the husband with, a present of dol- ' ars. He received them with much ( jlcasure, but when thanking us, a ( nounted soldier rode up, -snatched j hem from his hand, and threw the'm ' it the head of our interpreter. This 1 vas one of many insults we had re- 5 :eived from the troops of the governor. Since the day of our arrival he and his )fiicials have been moat discourteous. 3e pointedly delayed calling; on the Admiral, and when he condescended ,o do so was so drunk and stupid that 10 had to bo supported by his interpreter on his road home. He forbade he people in the district and towns to iring us supplies. InA..wa there are 10 shops or hostelries of any descripion, the people getting their goods rom a market held once a week, ["edge and beer are brewed, corn con? J -erted into flour, and all coooking pre- < >ared in each household. Unless, i herefore, these people are allowed to j ell or give hospitality, the travelers' i :hance of escape from starvation is a t mall one. t It was xennyson wno mTentea me j. leadline "Sweet Girl Graduate." IXXNTDON'S GREAT TAJLOB. fs-'. - .-J Recollections of the Man Who Pot Disraeli on the Road to Fame. . *1 remember Henry Poole very well," said a gentleman to a Philadelphia Times reporter. "He was a fine, tall, handsome man* over six feet in height, with bnshy blonde whiskers. He measured forty-two inches around the chest / There was jd$> mistaking the man when yon Saw him; he walked the sLreots as if London were his own; private property. Henry* Poole. was the second son of the old tailor of/that name. He was educated at Cambridge and graduated with * : bachelor of . arts degree. He might never;-have taken to the tailoring business, but-Ms brother died and then Henry thought he saw his way to make a bfe thing, of it. Xou seo^V large cohneetaon lie baS'among his college friends helped him. He was ajn&an who always dressed with great taste, and not only expected but insisted on all his employes dressing well, too. When Henry Poole took the business in hand first there were not more than a hundred men employed; In ten years there were nearer a thousand." "Is there any truth in the story of *o u) ~ "Oh, yes. Disraeli was in very poor circumstances when, ho firs't obtained the clerkship in the home office. Poole, who'fras always in and ont of every | place "where young men congregated, saw! him, took a fancy to him, and believed there was something great in him He took Disraeli out with lym one- evening to dinner and proposed that he should supply him with clothes suitable to the position in society that Disraeli -ought to hold- The future prime minister jumped at the offer, and there is little doubt that-he.also received, pecuniary assistance from the shrewd and gqnerous tailor." '4Di^ he he not assist the late Emperor of the French in the same way?" "Yes; but there was a reason for that, .you know." "Oh; yes. You refer to the story of Pnrvl?Tc wife " *- VVfW ^ ? **V. . I No, no; there is not a word of. truth -in that It was Miss Howard. She was a cousin of Poole's. Her mother kept a very fashionable little hotel pm Dover street, Piccadilly, just behind the White Horse cellars. She was created Duchess de Beauverne by Napoleon on his marriage t? the present Empress, on condition that she left France. He also settled a very good income on her. Poole did not marry until late in life. His wife was a lady with whom he had fallen in love while quite a young man at college." He was very strict, was he not, in business?" I should think he was, indeed. He never allowed anything to go out of his sl*>p that had not been tried on and fitted over and over again. He would employ a man and keep him in his employ for the simple reason that he was of tie same and. -LaiM-os?a I have known a man to- eifc for a couple of hours on a saddleblock, only having the crease in a pair af riding breeches rectified. He reduced tailoring to a science." "Did he do any cutting or measuring himself?" "No, sir! There is a story told of Lord Hardcastle meeting Poole on the chain pier at Brighton. He stopped him and said: 'Look here, Poole, 1 got this coat of you and see how badly it fits.' Poole took a bit of chalk out of his.'waistcoat pocket and'marked his Lordship's coat all over and said: 'Take that coat to my cutter, my lord, and he will make the necessary alterations.'" "He was very extravagant in his habits, was he not?" "Very. He had a house at Brighton, another in Burlington street, near his store, which was a'perfiect mine of art, and on the Thames, at Hammersmith, he had a regular palace. His champaign luncheons cost him a fortune. He nad one of the finest hunting studs in Great Britain. He never cared what he paid for a horse, and although he was such a big man lie was a magnificent 'cross country rider." ' He did not die rich, did he?" "No, he was worth about ?25,000 when he died, and the result of the sale of his houses and horses barely settled. the claims of his creditors. He was generous to a fault. He could never pass a beggar, and many a half-soversign.he's given away to people who, perhaps, didn't deserve his charity. &e was the bes.t of employers . and he kept men with him for years, but there svas never the least mistake about who tvas master on his premises." Thought the Minister was Joking. "My boy, what are you doing with that cigar in'your mouth? Throw the filthy thing away," said a clerical-lookins: man to a bootblack who stood near the Globe hotel puffing a cigar. The urchin looked up :it the man with an injured air, then shaking his head said: "Nawyer don't Fm onto that trick.That's what the kids tells me when I'm lush and smokin' a two-fer, so they :an pick it up. But when a lad can't take a smoke without an old chap like pou wantin' him to throw it away, then there's a case for pity." Beaching into his pocket, the benevoient boy brought forth three cents, saying, as "he held them out to the abashed yentleman: : "Here, take them coppers and buy Mie for yerself, but don't ask me igain." The dozen or more' men and boys cvho had collectcd around the pair shouted derisively as the minister turned and walked away .?Syracuse, Her Mottoes For the Frieze. - | A newly-married modern Athenian has taken a suite of rooms in a Back Bay apartment hotel, and his bride, being in the sewingless condition incilent to having a complete trousseau,iesired to embroider a frieze with a motto to go about the reception-room. She accordingly asked a bachelor xiend for a quotation from Shakspeare, ind thought him mighty witty when he proposed "Suites to the sweet" The sentence was brief, however, to go all ihe way round, so the professor was isked to lengthen it. Unluckily, he lad in the meantime opened a note :ontaining a bill for rent for a flat he lad vainly tried to sublet, and he somevhat disconcerted the fair questioner jy growling out: "Oh, put the rest of ne way round'Jbiats to tno nai: ? Boston Advertiser. There is a club of pretty girls in Boston who have sworn never to wear sye-glasses or spectacles before they ire married. It appears that the ayerige Boston girl reads and studies sa nueh that very many of the deasgafl ures are near-sighted. Glassy? herefore, been greatly in voffljffl rirl with glasses therefore the / M He Meant Well, But Pulled the Wrong Strap. . The man was almond-eyed, his cot- : ton tunic was of a spotless white and his long pigtail was carefully coiled np under his wide straw hat as he got into an Eighth avenue horse car at Fourteenth street, New York, and sat down in the further corner with a big basket of clean clothes between his feet Then; as ho thought of how much nearer the profits on that particular "wash" would oring him to the time when he could go back to China and- buy a palmm ftn thn Ho n Ire nf tha Vfl.n(T.+ao. av/v vu miv v* Kiang, his yellow face wag wreathed with placid smiles. At Twenty-third- street a lady entered the car whose.handsome costame and more than handsome face at once attracted the attention of he* fellow passengers.. 3?>peeiall;fdi<ftlt? dian'ortlie'clotnes basket gaze at her with undisguised admiration, and he kept on gazing until, at Forty-second street, she half rose from her seat and tried to catch the eye of the conductor. But tjie conductor was calculating how many fares he could manage 'to avoid registering that afternoon, and was, therefore, more than usually blind to all around him. But her admirer in . the further end was equal to the occasion. Springing to his feet,, he seized the strap which communicated with the clock-like fare register above his head. "Me stopla car fol you, ladee!" cried he, and straightway he began to pull the strap so fast that it sent the registering hand around the face of the dial at the rate of ten revolutions a minute. Before the conductor could catch his breath and look into the car seventeen extra fares had been registered. > The driver made no sign of slowing up, so the laundryman put on more steam and pulled the strap as if he were ringing a tire bell, while he smiled and waved his hand encouragingly at the lady, who stared at him for a moment and then sinking back into her seat burst into laughter. The conductor also stared at him, but only for one brief instant Then, as he saw the hand in. the register going around the dial as if a Corliss engine was running it, he gave an inarticulate howl and dashed into the car. "Yc son of a rat-atein' hathen," he yelled, as he grasped the Chinaman by the bacK hair, "I'll tache ye to ring up twintv-sivin fares that I'll hev ter oav i for out of me own pocket!" A confused combination of white tunic, pigtail, wicker basket and conductor swept toward the back platform like a small cyclone. Then the Chinaman found himself sitting on a dust heap in the street with the basket jammed down over his head, the clean clothes strewn arcrtmd him on the dirty cobblestones and the conductor dancing a war dance on the^ rear platform as he shook his fist at him over the back rail. The crowd which gathered around the fallen one extricated his head from the basket,, but he sat on the dust heap, "gaZQTL :it-ine~~wrec? aTouua wept. "Clean clo no <*lood?alle same, bad t ii i . i i ? a.: as Deno wasneer ne saia, as ne xranucally tore his pigtail and refused to be comforted. Just then the lady who had hastened to get out of the car came back to him, and after helping him to gather up" his soiled and rumpled linen into the broken basket, put a two-dollar bill and a card into his hand. "If you will come to that address-tomorrow I will give you all my laundry as long as I am in the city," she said, and left him with an angelic smile. The card bore the name of a leading lady at a theater not far from Union Square.?N. Y. Herald. Fatigue of the Eye. Persons speak of their eyes being fatigued, he said, meaning thereby that the seeing portion of the brain is fatigued, but in that they are mistaken. oo men. say xneir Drains are urea. Brains seldom become tired. The retina of the eye, which is a part of the brain, and an offshoot from it, hardly ever is tired. -The fatigue is in the inn"!* and outer muscles attached to the e} \d in the muscle of accomodation. The eye ball, resting in a bed of fat, has attached to it six muscles for turning it in any desired direction, and the musclc' attached to the side nearest the nose and one at the outer angle of the eye should, in every normal eye, be balanced. They arc used in converging the eye on the objcct to be viewed, and the inner muscles are used the more when the object is the nearer. The muscle of accommodation is one which surrounds the lens of the eye. When it is wanted to gaze at objects near at hand this muscle relaxes and allows tbe lens to tmc^en, increasing i its refractive power at the same time [ that.the muscles on the inner or nasal side of the eye contract and direct the eyes to the point gazed at. It .is in these muscles that the fatigue is felt, and one finds relief in closing the eyes or in gazing at objects at a distance. The chief source of fatigue is in the lack of balance in the two sets of inner and outer muscles of accommodation. It may be set'down that there is something wrong when the eye becomes fatigued. The defective eye, as it gives out sooner, is really safer from severe strains. The usual indication of strain is a redness of the rim of the eyelid, betokening a congested state of the inner surface, accompanied with some pain. When it is shown that the eye is not equal to the work required of it, the proper remedy is not rest, for that is fatal to its strength, but the use of glasses of sufficient power to render unnecessary so much effort in accom-' modatincr the eve to vision. It is not i good sense to waste time resting the eye, and that practice dees not strengthen it Eyes begin to age at about the tenth or twelfth year of life, when they have reached their full development. At the age of 45 or 50 years the lenses cease to thicken, when the pressure is removed, and their presbaoepia, or old si^ht, begins. When a child is compelled to use or require the use of glasses there is .little reason to hope that it will outgrow the need, but the person will use these glasses as a basis, adding other glasses as he reaches the age when old sight begins, or using the i thicker glasses. Mr. Seely, however, j mentioned one case he had observed | where a child had outgrown .the need i of glasses, but in the meantime ho had [ grown from a small and puny child to ' a large and well-developed man. Second sight, or the apparent rccov- j ery of strength of vision, which is ! sometimes seen in tho aged, the lec- j turer explained as a change, an elon- I gauwt in nzo snopu ox?cxrc?uj osobj u j which the person became near-sighted, accompanied by a change in the lens ; caused by the appearance of a cataract, j Dr. W. W. Seely. j ^^^fact that persons ^^norc susceptible Bfc^o all kinds Akeomatism. ' French and English. Detectives. . ' ^ 1 Xzi England we have a curious but very erroneous idea that if a policeman wears a suit of plain clothes instead of his regular uniform, he is fnlly able to find out all about any crime that has ever been committed.' A greater' mistake was never made. Not only to the "dangerous classes," but to almost everj^.Londoner. who is anything of an observer regarding his fellow men, ,4plain clothes" officers, as our detectives are | | called, are"aettially as well known as ! ' if th<*y wore the helmet and bine tunic, and black leather waist teit of the regular policeman. .It is qnite otherwise in France. A French^ detective has nothing whatever to do with serving summonses or warrants. He never arrests a criminal,' but he points out to -She-^egular police where criminals can be found. -. It is only on very rare occasions that he appears as a witness against a prisoner, and when he does so he assumes for the future a dress and general appearance quite unlike what he has hiiberto borne. A French detective who cannot disguise himself in such a manner that his oldest friend would not be able to recognize him is not deemed wort!' his salary. He takes the greatest professional pride in this art. In a word the French detectives are the spies sent out by the army of law and order to tind out all about the enemy that is constantly waging war against life and property. In England we have no similar set of men, and what are the consequcnccs? Who, that unless a murderer, burglar, or other offender, is either taken red-handed, or leaves behind him some very plain marks as to who he is. or where he may be found, crime with us is, as a rule, undetected. Sooner or later, notwithstanding our national.prejudice.against all that is secret and underhand, we must adont a svstem for- the detection of crime on the plan that is found to work so well in France, and the sooner wc do so the better, unless we want to make England, and London in particular, more than even it is now the happy hunting ground of all the scoundrels in Europe. All Frenchmen who have visited our country s'av that our ordinary police are the best in the world; that the manner in which they preserve order in the streets is' above praise; and they are right. Nor can a word be-said against the character, the integrity or the intentions of our detectives. But the system on which they are trained is essentially bad. They are the wrong men in the wrong place?the square pegs in the round holes.?Chamber's Journal. "What is an Insect? The authors are divided as to what constitutes an insect, but, with few exceptions, it is now agreed that an insect is a living creature having six legs, generally having wings, three distinct parts of the body, the head, the thorax and the abdomen, breathing il... ? ftprnl nnni"1 * ' wt < hn gtdpg?* the body, and having four different stages of existence?the egg, the larvae, the pupa and the imago or perfect insect Generally insects in one stage of their existence live on very different food from that which supports them in another, and this fact shows a very wonderful instinct or intelligence in the parent insect in knowing where the eggs are to be deposited- A mistake is never made. The eggs sometimes hatch in a few hours, sometimes in a few days or weeKs ana occasionally not for years, but they are always deposited under conditions favorable to their development, no matter when this may be. It is also' to be observed that the eggs of insects which are not to hatch tal next spring are never fastened to the leaves or other perishable parts of trees, but to the bark, and usually secured by a sort of glue that will commonly resist rain and moisture. The larvje is so called from a Latin word meaning mask, sineo in this state the insect is so unlike its perfect form that it may be said to-bemasked. The larvsS of the insects are seldom distinguished from other worms, but after passing a certain time in this stage the grub spins a* cocoon for itself of silk and enters its third condition, the pupa, from -a Latin word meaning an infant roiled in bandages after the manner of the Romans or also called chrysalis from the Greek word for gold, as some of them have gold-like mafkings. Insects are classed in seven orders. The first is the hymenoptcra,. comprising the wasps, ants and others which manifest a high order of intelligence. The coleoptcra comprise those insects which have a shield on their wings, and also many of the most injurious insects known, such as boers. The lepidoptera number all the butterflies and moths in their . list, while the bemiptera or halfwinged. include such as the chinchbug, the bed-bug and a number of others equally objectionable. The diptcra have but two wings, such as the house fly; the orlhopterahave straight wings, as locusts, crickets, and the Neuroatcra, or nerve-winged, arc whose wings are so interwoven with strong fibers as to present the appearance of bony interlacing.?St. Louis Globe-Democrat. She Removed the Pieces. ' The ixalted marquis av Smith," says Miss Bridget Magee, "who is sojournin' in this mathropolis in blissful ignorance that he is heir to a toitle an'. vast istatcs, was tillin' me av an advinture av the koind. Sed he: 'Oh, Miss Magee,. I wint uptown on "Wednesday in the car, an' it was full, an11 had to sthand up fur about fourteen blocks. Thin somebody got out, an' jist as I was preparin' to take the vacant place, which was besoide a lady, what d'yez think she did? Why, she deliberately picked up her parasol an' put it acrost the sate. What d'yez think I did?' Why poloitely raquisted her to ramove it, I "suppose?' I obsarved. 'Will, there's where yez make ycrmishtake,' he replied. 'I deliberately sot down on it, an' it was she who impolitely raquisted mc to move to racovcr the paces.' "?N. 0. Mascot. A Mistake Rarely Made. Young Lawyer (much elated)?Mr. Coke, congratulate me. You know I told you 1 had a case. Well, sir, I've won it. Yes, sir, actually won my first case. Coke (au old lawyer)?You're exens- j liuic uiiuui iu<* v;ii^uuidLaiiv;ud9 uuo wiuu a little experience you may yet do honor to the profession. Young lawyer?Excusable under the circumstances! I don't understand j-our meaning, Mr. Coke. Coke?Don't understand? Listen: If you had beenga lawyer of experience j vou would have lost that case; then you ! would advise your client to appeal, and if skillfully managed it might have been made to last for years, or at least as long as he had any money. But you bavc won, and that's the end of it Let it be a lesson to you in the future. * ?Boston Transcript. About 40,000,000 pennies were'isoine-S in the United States last year. Colorado contributes 100,000 "?eohs tc the country's resources this year. Of the 2')l applicants for admission to Harvard, forty-nine are ladies. is said to be wortlf about $2,8QO^OO&The births in Spain during 1883 iraia-herflri 4JiS <"WYV n.nrl the deaths' 41/fcGOG: "*- ; ported to be cutting her fpurtfc"*set of Can'&daexported last yearflSOS.Si* worth of -batter and $6,451,.876 worth Sam Coilyur, the noted pugilisVis now iiviiig in the vicinity of Hampton, ^ Virginia. The worsted industry of England employs 2,225,820 spindles; in France, 2,765,000. Alexander II. Stephens'library, which cost 'him $20,000, has beeen sacrificed ^ for $800. The census of 1880 shows 6.632.000 colored people in tiie former slave states. . v It is estimated that the yield of ap- . pies in western New ' York wiil be 4,000,000 barrels. An old well in Staten Island is said - rjjjfjS to be running dry of water-and taking a turn at'oil giving. The "Osborne" flat-house in New York city, wbich is almost completed, ? is fifteen stories high. ? Rev. Dennis Osborne, a native missionary from , India, says his people have 333,000,000 gods. The Capo Cod canal dredger is the largest in the world. Ii takes out 600 cubic yards an hour. "The razor of Daniel O'Connell" is labeled for sale in a shop window near ' .."7? the Seven Dials, London. Samuel Noble, of Anniston, Ala., has given $20,000 toward founding a free high school at that place. It is estimated that upward, of 500,000,000 tons of canned goods are annually packed in this country. A Stuttgart doctor says that corpulent persons may become thin by sleeping on and wearing animal wooL Thirty vessels have been wrecked and sank off Norwalk and Bridgewater on the Connecticut shoals since 1882. Eddie Bunnell, living near Courtland, Sacramento county, CaLt aged six years and three months, weighs 107 pounds. uiiroeanng strata exist in tne neign- ? borhood oi Sibi, Southern Afghanistan, and the ?overmnent will begin boring next winter. A Walla Walla, W. T., man claims to have picked over 8,000 pounds of strawberries from less than two acres of vines this season. ?A-n- rrcrron nrjvh n "beHSVeOliat the science depends nrtrcu ,ujwa?pir?*^^ raphy esihnates that it would take ten years to photograph the heavens. A womr.a lias recently-patented a. fire escape. What wo must need in J2| this leap year of our Lord is a man escape. Will some woman patent one? General George H. Thomas' widow will make Washington her permanent home in the future, and has already b'jgun the crcction of a handsome residence there. . A hundred-ton cannon that was being fired for the first time recently at Gibraltar split or burst at the muzzle in consequence of the shot not being / * * i rammed home. An old duck shooter calculates that oroad bills liy at tnc rate ol tmrty-nve to 110 miles an hour .and other varieties from forty-live prjBfty to eighty and 100 miles" ['ur hour. There arc S30 colicges and universities in the United States, of which only twenty four have more than 2o0 stu- - a*. dents," an i only seventeen have more than twemy teachers. There are nine octogenarians in tho British house of commons; tho oldest being eighty-three. One member, Col. Nortn, who"is eighty, has a son who sits in the house of peers as ,Lord North. It has been observed that Miss Hurst the Georgia "magnetic girl," before U /\m Ainn V* e\ TA J nil w o CP AO UCL JJU f> CiO iiaUlbUUXLy her hands through her bangs. Perhaps her strength, like Samson's, lies in her hair. ;/ ' ' The study of the Irish language is becoming popular among many Irishmen in this country. In most of the large cities there are classes organized for the purpose. The Philadelphia classes, for instance, number fifty pupils. In order to prevent haystacks being destroyed by fire, farmers in the far west scatter a few handfuls of common salt between each layer. It is claimed that the salt, by absorbing the hu midity of the hay, prevents its fermentation rind consequent heating. ' .' 1', The mortality of the whole globe has been computed by a continental publication at the following figures: Sixtyseven per minute, 97,700 per diem and 35,639,835 per annum; whereas the births are 36,792,000 per annum, 100,000 per diem and 70 per minute. A mysterious and terrible creature known as the "willipus wallipus" has made its appearance near Clarksville, Tenn. A number of citizens have seen it, and they say it is bullet-proof and v;"'~ belches fire. The "moonshiners" must be doing a good business in that part of the country. Robert Shumate, of Nelson, Ky., sot -. a "gar fly1'in his ear while fishing. , , He knocked it out right away, but not until after it had deposited a lot of eggs. After suffering several days with earache, he called a doctor, who removed nine screw worms from his ear, and there are more to come. A collection of Oriental idols, numbering about 12,000, and a libraiy of 12,000 volumes, principally in Chinese ? - 5 and Japanese, have been presented to the city of Paris by M. Emile Guimet, of Lyons. The'owner it is said, had refused an offer of $600,000 for the col lection, for which the municipal council will provide a suitable building. The Alps contain two peaks above 15,000 fecr, six or seven above 14,000 feet, and in all about thirty which are called first-class peaks. The Himalayas, on the other hand, or rather the limited part of them with which we are familiar, contain peaks from 29,000 feet downward. More than 1,100 have been measured exceeding 20,000 feet, and it is computed that at least 2,000 exceed this height. Charles Reade's London publisher says that once the novelist, asthev were traveling together, pointed to a" piece . ~ of water in the distance, and said* "That's where Christie Johnston caught the herrings." He regarded this incident of his own invention as reality, so sincere was he in his work.