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By BEN. S. GILMORE. , £** £* ' f STEPHENS CITY, FREDERICK CO., vA., SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1883. VOL. II—NO. 44,
Trie punctual tide draws up the bay;
Witb rijiple ol wave and hiss of spray,
And the great red flower
Of tl.e li.hthou.ie tower
Blooms on the headland lar away.
Petal by retains fiery rose
Out of the darkness buds and grows;
A dxzzling shape
On iliii dim, tar cape,
A beokoning shupe as it comes and goes.
A moment ol bloom, and then it dies
On the windy cape 'twixl the sea and skies.
The fog low
To i-ei* it go,
And the white waves walcli it with cruel eyes.
Then suddenly out of tho mist oloud dun,
A;* touched und wooi'd by unseen sun,
Again into sight
Bui-is the rose of light,
And opens its petals one by one.
Ah, thr storm may be wild and the sea be
stroiiL-,
And man is weak and darkness long;
But "hile lilosioms tbe flower
On ihe lighthouse tower,
There is sull place for a suiilo anda song.
My Feast in Tokio.
HOW AN AMERICAN PARTOOK OF A
JAPANESE DELICACY.
"Would you like to join me in a
feast of boiled eels ?" asked my Japan
ese friend. "It is said that this month
the unagi is a fit morsel for the gods."
"Unagi?" I replied, with a some
what dubious shake of the head; "1
never was very fond of those marine
snakes."
"Probably you have never tasted
them prepared by my countrymen," he
slyly returned, "I remember once eat
ing some at Delmonico's (shuddering).
They were soft, flavorless morsels, in.
closed in a quivering jelly. Come
along with me and partake of a dish
the taste of which will be pleasantly
remembered long after you return to
America You, who are half a Japan
ese, ought not any longer to remain
ipnorant of one of our chief deli
cacies."
Summoning a jin - riki - sha, we.
squeezed into it in the economical
fashion, and after a brief ride turned
into the Okiyo-koye machi (stieet) and
alighted at the etitrnnco to Maroki's
establishment—a two-storied building,
the lower apartment of which was
furnished with grated, prison-like win
dows. In the entrance were the pro
prietor and his wife, who, as we paid
our jin-riki-sha man, prostrated them
selves, bowed their heads'on the boards
and murmured: "Thousand welcomes
to our humble place;" then, rising,
awaited our pleasure.
We slipped off our clogs and fol
lowed our hostess up a broad ladder to
the floor above, which was divided by
sliding screens of paper into a number
of apartments. Here we were greeted
by a score of chubby-faced, cherry
lipped, neatly-dressed attendants, who
knelt and welcomed us with profound
bows. AYe entered a neat little matted
room, about ten feet by twelve, the
sole adornment of which were two
banging pictures representing Ebisu
and Dai-koku—gods of luck. Placing
cushions on the floor, she invited us to
6eat ourselves upon them, prostrated
herself, bowed gravely and retired. In
a few moments a black-eyed waitress
with her hair polished like ebony, and
decorated with a single gold pin, en
tered with a box containing live char
coal for the pipe, and after depositing
tie apparatus on the floor between us,
knelt, bowed, sat upon her heels,
glanced modestly downward and await.
Ed our order. My friend, who was
what we term rather "airy," being a
small official in the foreign office,'
glanced patronizingly at the girl and
said: "Bring us some trifles with which
to amuse ourselves; then serve the
broiled eels as fast as we require them.
Mind, we don't want fish that have
been cooked an hour. My guest is a
gentleman who appreciates hot food.
What wine have you on tap ?"
The waitress, in spite of her droop
ing lashes and humble pose, was slyly
watching me out of the corners of her
eyes and laughing to herself at his af
fectation of importance. She knelt
near us, and, filling two tiny cups with
the wine, proffered them to us, mur
muring, "Tbe wine is served." As I
sipped the liquor I glanced at the pret
ty waitress, who was sitting on her
beels, holding the bottle in her hand
ready to replenish our cups. When
we had emptied them the waitress re
moved them, and quickly ■ returned
witb some trays containing square,
black lacquered boxes, bearing the
signs of the house and a number*
Placing one before each of us, she re
moved the tightly-fitting lids and re
vealed the contents, which were sec
tions of nicely browned, broiled, split
•els, skewered together, that gave out
a most appetii.ng odor.
The girl smiled as she watched my
looks, and replenishing my saucer with
shoyu placed it near me, murmuring,
"1 think you will find the unagi very
pleasing to your taste." I took my
•fcoMMs iM m _J__ ___ JMKMI
the points in the fish, broke off a mor
sel and ate. Ye gods! It was de'i
cious! rich, tender, delicately flavored
and boneless! I drew my box toward
me, nodded approvingly at the attend
lant, and enjoyed the delectable food.
The smiling girl brought in box af
box, the contents of each being
:er than the last, "How do you
rtrive to render the skins of the fish
tender?" I asked the girl. "I do
I know," she answered, glancing
lidly at the mats. "The cooks never
•mit us to learn their secrets. If
juii would like to visit the kitchen,
they will no doubt explain everything
to you."
"Now for the bill," said my compan
ion, refilling his pipe. "Altogether,
you have given us a very tolerable
meal." In a few moments she came
back, carrying a small, scoop-like tray,
in which was placed a slip of paper
containing the reckoning. This she
pushed along the mat toward him;
then she bowed and remained with her
face close to the floor, while he minute
ly scrutinized the document. Taking
his purse from his sleeve, he dropped
some paper money into the tray, and
remarked in a low tone: "You may
keep the change" (ten cents).
His munificence almost overpowered
the waitress, who bowed repeatedly'
and gratefully murmured, "Your gen
erosity resembles that of a foreigner.
Any one can see" that you have trav
eled." After we had smoked awhile
we rose, quitted the room, and, de
scending the ladder-like stairway, the
steps of which were polished as smooth
as glass, slipped on our foot-coverings
and entered the kitchen. On the hard
earthen floor were rows of little char
coal furnaces, provided with iron rods
that served as rests for the skewered
eels.
Maroki, whose only failing was a
weakness for bowing and politely
Iking in his breath between his
eches, led the way, and was exceed,
ly attentive. Pointing to a range
of tubs containing fine specimens bf
anguilla tenuirostrii, .he remarked:
"These were caught this morning;
they were the most expensive fish in
in the Nippon Bashi market. Are
they not worth looking at ?"
"How do you contrive to so com
pletely extract their bones?" I de.
manded. "Our cooks cannot accom
plish the feat." Motioning a lightly
clad servant ta approach him he said:
"Some customers have just come in.
Prepare an eel in the presence of these
gentlemen."
The man, who evidently took great
pride in his work, selected a vigorously
squirming fish, struck its head smartly
on a wooden block placed upon the
floor, and, kneeling by it grasped the
creature's neck, inserted a knife in the
left side »f tho vertebra; and dexter,
ously (an it down to the tail; .then rap
idly applied bis instrument to the otti.
er side 6? the backbone, and repeated
the process, leaving the eel split open.
Holding up the head, to which was at
tached the vertebrae and lateral hones
inclosing the intestines, he bowecr and
said, "There is not a splinter left in the
fish."
"That is so,", proudly remarked the
proprietor; "I only employ the most
skillful men and cooks." Tho opera
tor washed down the block, chopped
the flattened eel into three-inch
lengths, and shouted to a cook who ad.
vanced and removed it on a dish.
The next process was- a mysterious
one, and was performed behind a
screen, from whence the platter of eels
was presently handed out to one of the
broilers. My opinion is that the fish
had simply been plunged into boiling
water to make the skin tender. We
advanced to a range and saw a cook
skewering the pieces of eel on long
bamboo spjnts. Then he placed them
on the rods over the glowing coals, and
when one side was browned, dexter
ously picked them up with a pair of
iron chopsticks and turned them. Af
ter they were thoroughly cooked he
seized the fish with the same instru
ment and plunged it into a vessel con
taining old shoyu, which was as thick
Birk molasses. The steaming unagi
then drained, placed,in a lacquer
and sent upstairs to the custom
er.
"We never prepaae our eels until
they are ordered," remarked the pro
prietor. No matter how busy we may
be, I will not have the fish killed be
forehand."
"What do you do with the bones?"
I asked.
"We boil them down into a delicious
jelly, such as that with which you are
served. Nothing is wasted in this es
tablishment. We think of the seven
virtues."
Another Japanese fashion of cook
ing the eel is to take it alive and put
It, writhing, on a red-hot gridiron.
When the eel is dead, or in other
words, roasted alive, the skin, which, !
after tbe roasting, contains all the oil, I,
Is stripped off, leaving the white flesh j I
HERE SHALL THE PREBS THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNA WED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN.
tender and dry. But it is barbarous
cookery*— Edward Qreey.
A Cannoneer's Ride.
Captain H. T. Owen, an ex-Confed
erate, writes: The most conspicuous
act of reckless courage I ever saw dis
played on any battle-fielS during oui
great civil war occurred at the second
battle of Manassas, August 30, 1862.
It was performed by a Federal artiller
ist in the presence of both armies, and
was witnessed by at least a thousand
men, many of whom are still living
and can readily recall the incident when
reminded of the circumstances. Just
|as Hood's men charged down the hill
near the Henry house upon the first
Federal line, and it became evident
that he would capture the battery sta
tioned there, a Federal artilleryman
determined to save one of the cannon,
if possible, and to do so he had to take
it up the ditch in front of the Confed
erates for half a mile. The ditch was
four feet wide and as many deep, and
could not be crossed with the cannon.
How he got his horses hitched, or
whether they had really ever been
taken from the piece, I never have
tiown, but the first I saw of him he
as coming up our front in a sweep
g gallop from the cloud of smoke,
id Hood's men were firing at him.
As soon as he escaped from that vol
ley he came in front of our brigade
and Under range of our muskets on
the left, and as he swept by a file
fire was opened upon him. Our line
Broaching the ditch rapidly at a
uick, and the line between us
ditch was getting narrower
each second, but the artilleryman
seemed determined to save his gun
from capture, and he flew along his
course at a tremendous rate of speed.
He had four large gray or white horses
to the cannon, and they came up the
valley in splendid style. The man sat
erect and kept his team well in hand
while his whip seemed to play upon
the flanks of the leaders, and all four
horses appeared to leap together in
regular time. The ground was very
dry, and a cloud of dust rolled out
from under the horses' feet and from
the wheels of the cannon us they came
P thundering along,
hree regiments of our brigade had
Jdy fired at him as he rushed
g their front, and as he approach
ed the left of another I ran down the
rear rank shouMng-to the men:
"Shoot at the horses 1 Let the man
alone and shoot at the horses ! You
are firing too high 1"
At this I saw a noted marksman in
Company F drop on one knee and
sight along the barrel of his musket
and fire; but on came the man, and
the gallop of his team was unbroken.
Ramming in another cartridge the
marksman was ready again in a min
ute, and just. as the cannoneer swept
across he front, within a hundred
yards, he kneeled down, and taking de-1
liberate aim at the foremost horse
fired again ; but on went the team un
harmed as before. Thus he passed
along the whole front of our regi
ment and then along on our right, and
escaped around the head of the ditch
and across the field and up the hill be
yond. As far off as we could see him
his team was still going at a gallop;
but when out of range on the hill be
yond the ditch he turned in his saddle
and, taking off his hat, waved it
over his head several times, and some
of the Confederates cheered him.
At least five hundred men fired at
that Yankee gunner, and 1 have often
wondered if he escaped death in the
subsequent battles of the war, and
lives to tell of the fearful gauntlet he
run along the front of a whole brigade
of Confederates firing at him.
An Unalterable Face.
There is said to be a man in Belle
vue hospital, New York, with a face !
that never alters its expression in the
slightest degree. Something is the
matter with the nerves and mus-1
cles so that they do not' work at all. I
Not the faintest smile nor the sugges
tion of a frown ever varies the stolid
monotony of his countenance. The
features are regular and rather hand-
Ke, there being no distortion, or any
yard evidence of the affection other
i the strange immobility. His
c is Henry Stube, but he is called
"Masky," because his face is like a
Ik, behind which he laughs and
ps unseen. He has worn this mask j
is for two years. He acquired it I
r a neuralgic cold. He is being I
ted with electricity chiefly, and the
sicians think he will recover. In I
the meantime he parts his lips with his
hand for the introduction of food and
water, and when he sleeps his eyelids
are held shut by a slight bandage.
His Imperfect talking is done without
moving his lips, and when he speaks
or listens.the impassiveness of his face
looßs singular, indeed. There is some
thing uncanny about it, and, after the
idea has once got into your mind, you
can hardly regard this face as any
thing «&> tfaaa a iv***,
Re llnvM Printline Pre". ">"' If" to
Hun It, With IHiastrous lte-mlti.
Spoopendyke came home one night
bringing a email bundle in his arms.
"It's a printing press, on whi ,h I ex
pect to do all my own printing here
after," he said.
"Oh, but isn't that lovely!" fluttered
j Mrs. Spoopendyke, dropping the stork
and rushing to her husband's side, "and
can't wo do the loveliest things with it!
I It is the kind that tho Herald and Sun
and idl those papers are printed with.
"Oh, yes, Mrs. Spoopendyke,"
growled her husband, "you'vehit it ex
actly. This is the very J-iud. I got Mr.
Bennett to kindly try it on, so as to get
it the same size as the Hi raid is print
ed on "
"And will you print papers with
yours like Mr. Bennett imd the other
editors ?" continued Mrs. Spoopendyke
i "Oh, but won't I, though?" yelled
I her husband. "It needed a dod gasted
female idiot to think of 'that, you've
struck the proper plan. Think you
! can print 50x60 show bills with a 3x4
! press? Well, I tell ye that ye can't.
Can ye get it into your measly head
that this is a card press, and can only
print a card three inches by four
"Well," said Mm. Spoopendyke, "1
suppose you can print visiting cards on
"Yes, Mrs. Spoopendyke, I can," said
her husband, in a softer tone, and he
grew in a much better humor as he
proceeded to show his wife the press
and exhibit his dexterity in the use of
the type and the press.
At last he got his worthy helpmeet's
name set up in type, and proceeded to
put the chase on the press with a grand
flourish. But in an evil hour ho had
forgotten to key it up, and at a touch
the whole business went to pi, and at
the next fell in a confused mass all
over the carpet.
"Why, what makes it do that," said
Mrs. Spoopendyke, laughing.
"What makes it do what, Mrs. S. ?"
sneered her husband as he hit his head
i.on a corner of s» labia j n a mad dive
■ after the type. "Wiiuu Wye" s'pose
makes it do it! What makes anything
Ido anything? If I had your talent for
asking idiotic questions I'd get a glass
of beer and a three-inch paper collar,
and live out as a prosecuting attorney.''
By this time the worthy gentleman
had got the name set up and securely
fastened, and was printing with great i
gusto; but he had, unfortunately, set
the types in wrong order, and the first
eight perfumed visiting cards came
out like the following:
.ekydnepoopS .srM
When Mrs. Spoopendyke saw it she
set up a little scream, "Oh, isn't that
funny, though ? What makes it wrong
j "Funny!" howled her husband, with
I horrid derision as he grasped the situ
| ation. "It's a perfect thunWbolt of
j fan. It's the most delicious humorous
I thing of the century. All you need is
an advertisement of liver pills on the
cover, and a joke about a goat on the
first page, to be a comic almanac.
With your appreciation of humor, all
you need is a broad grin and $3000
worth of stolen diamonds, to be the
leading comedienne of the American
boards. Can't you see the measly
type's turned wrong ? They have only
got to be turned round- the other way/
After half an hour of diligent labor
the types were again in position, se
curely keyed up, and put on the press.
When the final arrangements were
•completed, Mr. Spoopendyke turned
round to wink at the baby and incau
tiously left his thumb over the edge of
tho press. As luck would have it,
Mrs. Spoopendyke, in her anxiety to
show her husband how well she under
stood aud appreciated the press,brought
the lever down and the press closed on
that gentleman's thun:b, making him
jump four feet high, ard utter an ex
clamation that would have made the
second lieutenant of a company of
pirates blush. "Dod gast the measly
printing press," he bhrieked, as he
smashed the base burner witb it, and
then he threw it in the alley. "Haven't
ye got any sense scarcely ? Why didn't
you go on with the entertainment ?
The measly thing only got as far as
the bone. Why don't ye finish the
chapter?" and Mr. Spoopendyke
danced up stairs, five at* * , t*:.% with a
parting injunction to hit wife to hire
out for a slaughter-house.
"Well," said Mrs. Spoopendyke, as
she picked up the baby, and put a
pitcher of water where her husband
would be sure to fall over it when he
went down-stairs in the morning,"if we
have so much trouble in printing one
word, I wonder how Mr. Bennett gets
along with a whole newspaper to print."
—Stanley Huntley.
There are fifty-three cigarette facto
ries in Havana, which collectively pro-
THE I A WILY DIHTJR.
To pisven'i hair from falling out, try
first wetting the head at night with
salt and water, Mild suge tea is also
excellent, if these remedies do not
effect h speedy cure, try this: Get a
little bottle of brandy, and put in all
the salt that it will absorb; wet the
bead with this two or three times a
day.
If the arnica with whicli bruised
limbs arc bathed is heated, its good ef
fects are perceptible much Earlier than
if it is applied while cold. If arnica is
to be taken as a remedy, as so many
physicians recommend, in cases of se-
Ivero ipralna, it should bo prepared
i water* m this proportion: a tea
nful of arnica in a goblet two-
Is full of water, and of. this a tea
nf ul is to be taken once an hour or
in two hours, as the severity of
•ase determines,
new remedy for headache has been
d by Dr. Haley, an Australian phy.
n, who says that for some years
he has found minimum doses of
c of potassium of great service in
;al headache; that is, a heavy, dull
ache, situated over the brow, and
npanied by languor, chilliness and
ling of general discomfort, with
3te for food, whicli sometimes ap
■hes to nausea, can be completely
removed by a two-grain dose dissolved
!lf a wineglass of water, and this
ly sipped, the whole quantity
; taken in about ten minutes. In
' cases, he adds, tho effect of these
I doses has been simply wonderful
for instance, a person who a
ier of an hour before was feeling
miserable, and refused all food,
ing only for quietness, would now
a good meal and resume his wont
tieerfulness. If this cure of Dr.
fa is in reality a practical one, he
merit for the discovery the grati
of suffering millions.
9 " r ""*
The Jews-Harp.
c origin of the Jew's-harp is lost
ie long lapse of time, and hat
hardly ever attracted suflieient notice
as a musical instrument to be worth
the inquiries of musical antiquaries, j
In Germany it is called "Maul Har-
Rca;" in Denmark, "Mund harpe;"
weden "Mungiga;" in France,
ibarde;" in Italy, "Tromba," and
in the Highlands, "Tromp." The
Greeks o* Smyrna call it, in imitation
I sound, "Biambo." In the jSTeth
1s and Tyrol it has for a long
been the delight of the peasants,
tborers, and their families, and at
it it seems to be in exception
al favor in America, where an
shman has in Troy established a
ry of these vibrating instruments;
o brisk has the business been that ,
ier factory has been started re- I
f where the common-plac* Jew's- '
i are turned out in hundreds of
sands,
c first noted performance on this
simple instrument is mentioned in the
memoirs of Mme. de Genlis, in which
is described the astonishing power on -
R Jew's-harp of a poor German
x named Kock, in the service of
;rick the Great,
wever, it was reserved for a Ger-
I'dsman and laborer of the name
nstein to acquire an almost
in reputation as a player on
s-harp. After ten years' close
ion and study, he surmounted
if difficulties, and attained a
nastery over this intractable
ent.
ulenstein appeared with great
:ss at concerts, first in Paris, in
, 1826, and later on in London,
1826, where he executed with
nd expression the most charm
an, French, and German airs
;reat admiration of amateurs
f€ssionals'alike." He used at
:erts to play duets with Mr
jsen on the pedal harp, the
icompanying him pianissimo,
:hing the chords lightly, so that
Mr. Eulenstein's part in the duets
could be perfectly heard.— lfurte
and Drama. .
Mot So Green as He Looked.
A green-looking granger, travelling
with a wagon, took in a number of boys
in an eastern town very neatly recent
ly. He would allow a rope to be tied
around each wrist, and holding an ap
ple in each hand, bet that while two
bystanders pulled the rope in opposite i
directions he could bite first one apple
and then the other. He won every
bet with apparent ease, much to the
surprise of those who did not under
stand a very simple principle in dyna
mics. He was naturally stout, but the
trick lay in the fact that the man pull
ing on his right of course assisted him
materially in pulling against tbe man
on the left, and vice versa. It was
two against one every time; but the
mountaineer was always one of tbe
TERY ANCIENT.
De.crlptlon of a Bnrled Mitp.
In 1823 there was exhibit! d in Lon
don an ancient vessel which had been
dug up at Malham, a short distance
j from the present navigable river of
the Bother, at the west end of tne Isle
of Oxney, and about two miles from
Rolverden and New Enden, the site of
the ancient city of Anderida. The
spot where this old vessel was found
was an old branch of the Bother, Kent
county, the channel of which was di
verted by high winds in the reign of
Edward I, and therefore it is thought
this vessel was buried at tho time of
that disaster. Others have supposed
her to have one of the fleet abandoned
by the Danes after their defeat by Al-
I fred the Great.
The vessel was sixty-three feet eight
inches long and fifteen feet broad, and
when discovered her upper part was
buried ten feet, to which add nine feet,
her hight from bottom to top, and
you have an accumulation of nineteen
feet of sand and mud upon the river
■ince she was stranded. She was single
masted, round-sterned, flat-floored and
without a keel. There were two cabins
in her stern, tbe after one decked over,
with a hatchway for entrance; tho
other, adjoining it, was covered with
a caboose, which fell in on being ex
posed and the sand taken from under
it. There was also a short deck for
ward with an inclosure beneath it, but
the midship part was entirely open.
Her bulwarks and washboards mani
fested she had been a sea vessel. Her
beams, which were much stronger than
would be required for a vessel for in
land navigation, prove that our fore
fathers knew how to apportion a due
strength to the stress upon timber, her
timbers being three times as deep as
broad. Her timbers and plank were
remarkably sound and hard, and in
many parts quite black. She was
calked with moss. The method of
steering her was quite singular. She
had rubber bands which yoked the
rudder, and by an alternate motion of
the ropes, which were fastened to the
back of the rudder, it was made to re
-i u\ , c on tue pinions as a center ot mo
tion, the breadth of the rudder being
the leverage.
Tbe rudder was broad, and hence
the vessel easier fo steer. By this it
would seem that in her time the tiller
had not been invented. There was a
curious windlass on the after-deck,
which showed they had not much idea
of getting rid of friction, and at her
forepart there had evidently been an
other fixed from side to side., Her
planks were very broad and of a close,
hard texture, and thought by some to
be oak, by others chestrftit. The wreck
of a small boat was discovered near the
[ stern of the vessel, but her iron fasten- !
i ings being in a very corroded state, she
could only be removed piecemeal; be
tween the edges of plank were layers
of hair.
In the vessel were found a large
flint and steel, which, though very I
much worn, still elicited sparks ; part |
of the blade of a sword, with a hollow I
ball or hilt of yellow metal attached to
it; four vases ; several bricks of a red
and yellow color; the corroded remains
of two locks, etc. In the cabin, or
I cook-room, was found a leathern ink
j bottle, curiously ma rked, but similar
in shape to those still used by school
boys ; part of a brass cock ; a sounding
lead; several shoes and sandals of cu
rious shape; several bricks and frag
ments of tiles bound together with
iron ; a. small glass bottle ; a small
whetstone; several hooks; an oak board,
eighteen inches long and twelve broad, I
with curious lines cut in it; and a cir
cular wooden board, of oak, perforated
with about twenty-eight holes, which
was most pnibably a calendar by
which the progress of the lunar month j
I was marked. Of mdrtal remains there
I were a man's skull, the hip-bones. I
ribs, and other parts of the I
skeleton of an adult, part of
the skeleton of a child, parts of the I
skeleton of a dog, supposed to be a
, greyhound, parts of two skulls, with L
the horns of sheep or goats, the breast- F
I bone of a goose, and several bones of |
1 larger animals.— Rear-Admiral George j
I H. Preble.
Cute Work.
A detective employed by the United
States express company to trace the
robbery of a package at Comerstown, I
0., saw the mark of teeth upon the I
pasteboard box. "The man is a one- I
j armed man," said he. "He held the I
, box in his teeth while he untied the I
stftng." He made the acquaintance
tof Charles Bassett, the one-armed man
!of the town, employed him as a de- |
I tective, traveled with him, talked
■boat the difference in people's teeth,
pot him to make an indentation of his I
■ own in wax, had a plaster cast made
, which fitted the marks of tbe teeth in
i the package and arrested Bassett "It ]
Jciloiife
They stood upon tho wide vcrandi, and
Buloro i c left, Iter sMo I saw liiui turn
md take for h<;r, from OW tho vine-huntf urn,
A crimson ro-e, and with n dolcront hand
He paced it lo 'he s »tt bail's silky strand.
l'h«*n in my auul did a fierot longing burn.
And a new madness, swift, and keen, and
stem,
Arose and held me in its strong command.
And thou—Oh, blessed then! —I paw her take
A white rose from the white breast where it
slept,
And, with a j-roii'l but timid courage, life
Ii to her lip*. For Joy 1 could have wept—
For joy hath tours. Iho white rose waa mv
ilt! —CarLtli Petry.
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PCXGENT r.VUUIt M'llS.
Should oarsmen wear scull caps?
To preserve cherries—Keep the small
boys off.
Stare-way—The entrance around a
church door after services.
The Moss Pointers (Miss.) place
eggs instead of dimes in tho eontribu
tion box. They are entered in the
church books as lay offerings.
This bit of conversation, which we
find in an exchange, is both timely and
expressive: "I think this ice-cream
tasts a little cowy," said he. "Mine
tastes bully," said she.
"How is it," asked the landlady,
"that you never complain of anything
but the butter, Mr. Jones?'' Mr.
Jones: "Well, that is a big enough
contract for one man!"
A nic ittle mniden named I'lummer,
Fell in love with a grocery (hummer,
And ihe tiifly lie giivo
She concluded to save,
So she canned it. (It lasted all summer.)
A religious exchange tells a story of
a cornet player employed by a Baptist
church, who lost his position by play,
ing the well-known melody, "Pull for
the shore," at the baptism of a number
of converts.
It is said that when one is drowning
all that he ever said, thought, felt, or
did, passes before him Li a swift pano
rama; and that the bad memories
crowd the good into the background.
One need lot drown in order to have
t.tio AYTi&f l__a *~*""y hopnnie a candi
date for office.
Doing a heavy business—Tho stone
yard. Doing a light business—The gas
works. Doing a safe business—The
bank vaults. Doing a grave business
—The cemetery company. Doing a
medium business—The spiritualists.
Doing a rattling business—The tin
shop. Doing a fine business — The
judges. Doing a funny business—The
humorists.
Capt. Burton tells us how the Arabs
dislike to hear a person whistle, called
by them "el sifr." Some maintain
that the whistler's mouth is not to be
purified for forty days, while, accord
ing to the explanation of others.
Satan touching a man's body causes
him to produce what they consider an
offensive sound. The natives of the
I Tonga islands, Polynesia, hold it to be
wrong to whistle, as this act is thought
to be disrespectful to God. In Iceland
the villagers have the same objection
to whistling, and so far do they carry
their superstitious dreadof it that "if
one swings about him a stick, whip,
wand, or aught that makes a whistling
sound, he scares from him the Holy
Ghost," while other Icelanders who
consider themselves free from supersti
tions, cautiously give the advice: "Do
it not; for who knoweth what is in the
air ?" In some districts of Xorth Ger
many the villagers say that if one
whistles iv the evening it makes the
angels weep. Speaking, however, of '
ladies in connection with whistling,
it is a widespread superstition that it
is at all times unlucky for them to
whistle, which, according to one legend,
originated in the circumstance that,
while the nails for our Lord's cross
were being forged, a woman stood by
and whistled. Curiously enough,
however, one very seldom hears any of
the fair sex indulging iv this recrea
tion, although there is no reason, as it
•bas often been pointed out, why they
should not whistle with as much facili
ty as the opposite sex. One cause, per
haps, of the absence of this custom
among women may be, in a measure,
due to the distortion to the features
which it occasions. Thus we know
how Minerva cast away, with an im
precation, the pipe, which afterwjrfd
proved so fatal to Marsyas, when she
beheld in tho water the disfigurement
of her face caused by ber musical per
formance. There aro numerous in
stances on record, nevertheless, of
ladies whistling at public entertain
ments, and charming their audience
with the graceful ease with which tbey
performed such airs as "The Blue Bells
of Scotland" or "The Mocking Bird."
Indeed, not many years ago, at a grand
provincial concert, two sisters excited
much admiration by the clever and ar
tistic way in which they whistled a
