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)L. I. x:i it the Stage Entrance. (•comes ft bunch of artificial beau Irdressed and overjewelled the [their lips, eyes and faces,togeth |lie gauzy veil of* affectation, can eal the true coarseness of their they are waited for by cavaliers, {young, who smoke in their pies jfiout even the show of an apolo ithey drift away. md there you will also see a Iressed form shrinking from the i stare of privileged rudeness, and fjiivay through winding alleys to uard of a poor mother's arms, or ty, it may be, of a poor sick sis-' he ,et*' t®re the light and shade of tia 8m,variouswe.lrthe Broughams arc waiting. gg)l i l8Boms f* id again you may find an act"-, em who has learned his busi he only seems, in such a crowd, ectre of the past that lias lost its ing for the kindred spirit ot his i actresses as a rule, are like a 1 and would Sy be endoweu levity,'' phi1 the lawyer, sternly. wr, did you ever see the pris ner 'my drink wit ot: I), -What? Wasn't as a friend 4l-\, glittering like their owners |D! young men come out and make If we'd thought at our last meeting clubs—they are the his-! of procat dniu. "U* *monuc and will reach, in i Would that word we spoke PO lightly ^jjealthy full bloom, while some Have been uttered by us hen*' ||%icds, CiiOking up the flowers and Would that in our silent sorrow 2» to be plucked up and thrown I hev are well enough in modern blank verse won't fit in with khrul-saucer chatter: so that when across Shakspcare they either .im into a Charles Mathews kind or intone him as if they had ight up to the hurch, the cleri if execution being the most pap w.th a «»"•'.of jca-faiij, standing here, yu have M-er. :as and cabs iht away with their burdens. Now look at that i^s, and read the history of an lere, croucl ithe dim light ot that lamp. This i the daylight she shuns it, bu, no matter how rough, or where- ne she may wander, her limping No, but one of those mock often thrust before the public, ^understand a few lines of jingle, beautiful, but with only brain to know when they ate well and hate children. She had her aice, the brightest of its kind, a •room fitted up especially for her ivdg of unwholesome parasites about her. Now look at her scarecrow rags, foul as they are |hl!y to desert her. Her eyes are, and her face a'i piemature wnn liemathers her tattered garments i»:r shivering form. What a sight! ft* her memory must ache as the wronged wives and children in her ear, and the vision ot .M.onns rise reproachfully before it ends it.—Tinshifs Mag. The Guileless Witness feu know the prisoner well ask Mtoiney. Knew lum tick," replied the tile v (piestioR, s r! y ''V long have ynr, ki led the •we. the '"t U[. feet Court make the--'' I'oy tv. o !eet long and a nvui !'.w Honor—" faC li'dgn the witness. 1 in :n 1 l! iWV( i frose, placed both -n fr-'nt ot him, -pre •eurird his body over the his nan:' SHid Inan Itin Mv ins ive, jedge," said the witness, ie lawyer "I have answered ^)T ^'u: I knowed the prisoner when you summoned here sir 1 was summoned here as a Presbyterian. Nary one of us "Was ever friends lie's an old-line Baptist, without a drop of Quaker in him." "Stand down!'' yelled the lawyer, disgust. ••Hey?" '•Stand down.'' "Can't do it. 1' up." "Sheriti, remove thai man from the box." c* v 'eogagc essary tOkCi'l, •ount 11, was You wanted to gjiow what iibout this Case—his nam i' is Id id Honor, howled the atterhev, ''"•s lear.l out by the root.-, this answer!"' ?5i'd the judge, "you must •'estions put to you." 'Oshon, jedye, hain't I lin *he, llamed cuss live awav, "1 tlie lawyer, "don't beat •h any more. You and this been friends'j" '".nptly r.'spo^ded the Wit )r,. in or stand Witness retires, muttering, uWeli, if ain't the thick-headestcuss I ever laid eves im."' IF WE THOUGHT. tlie friend we love 80 dear We could call it back again! If we'd thought that soon a parting Would us sever far and wide, That some of the gladsome faces Would be soon across the tide, Would the hasty word and action, Uould the satire sharp and keen, From our lips have ever fallen Or the action e'er been seen EXTRAORDINARY DREAMS. SOME DISCOVERIES MMJKTii UOUOII Til KM. A writer in Temple liar has the fol lowing about dreams: A certain lawyer was seriously perplexed with a compli- eated law case, in the night his wife "im w -f? ». tab,c compose an elaborate "opinion," place it in ,hawcr,' and return to bed. Next morning he remembered nothing of his dream, and could not be leive it till his wife gave him ocular de monstration of the fat by pointing out the drawer where the "opinion" lay com- p-ispeut life, over there, crouching i:he dim light ot that lamp, lhis students and poets are often indebted ranee has a weird power over to t()r thJir |)ri ment ,htest mHrvcjous uKubIa ()CeUr to every r,.ador. sure to t»nn«- her here. he 11 ta.Iien. asleei in his chair while ono one, i n simply watches Why? She was one ot the 538 there—a beauty flame, with of moths circling around her. id ami composition of the frag- K!lau by Coleridge, will He says he had fallen asleep in his chair while reading in ''Purchas's Pilgrimage" of a palace bu:lt by Khan Kubla, and remained asleej) ab«ut three hours, during which time he could not have composed less than two or three hundred lines. The images rose before him as things, and with them the corresponding expressions, without any sensation or consciousness of effort. When he awoke, he instantly sat down to commit his composition to paper, but was called away by a person on business, and when he returned to resume the poem it had utterly vanished from his memory. Language long forgotten, or apparently but impeifectly known in waking life, have been known to recur in dreams and delirium. Abercrombic relates several authenticated instances of this sort and tho writer knew an able clergyman who. when a boy, preached over in his sleep the sermon he had last heard, seemingly w rd for word, and it was no nrie«mmon occurrence for his friends to gather round his bedside to hear his discourse. But he was endowed with marvellous memory in his waking hours aud on one occasion, it is said, he learned three books on his way home from school. Missing documents and forgotten places are sometimes recovered in dreams, gir Walter Scott, in his notes to the uAn- ti'iuarv," speaks of a gentleman sorelj troubled n his mind because he was pressed for the payment of some tithe money winch he believed w.is unjustlv chargeit, and which he had a confused rcroikction of as having been bought out by his deceased father many years ago. hi dreams he thought the shade ot h'.s father appeared to itu and in(]tnreu t|i c.mi-o' ot his grief. Not at nb startled he gravely stated the The shade told him that he must see k out an old lawyer who who had ri. tired from proicsMomdbuM vas now living at luveresn. lie name and remarked relating to the ues ari'i ." ^liVC that wyer s papers i the tithes were in Ins hau ls hat the transaction h..d oc iiy years ago, and thi tic hands ptirc' a-e id .his I Vlil 4,.1,1,,! currc iij inly o? v the 'which the lawyer was ever hisai-count, it would be ucc •fi it to ins io-oih-1 tion Vty tin when I went to pay his ac .. vis a dilliciiltv in getting 'U"' P'' -»lt to dunu.' o: reach. .: \-leti :j)Oii ti.• .awyer, niiiin'-'er the transaction ui of the Portugal coin when it all recurred at .i ta'.c: gentlcwi couid :. the ineide mcntione-. memory. over to hi prove -v The documents were to lH,r fellow uptown fairly danced •v4Cwi™V BIG STONE CITY, GRANT COUNTY, DAKOTA, SATURDAY. MAY 29, 1880. Punisliiu^ a Husband. A writer in the San Francisco Post, who has been a captive among the Apache Indians, tells this good story of how a wife taught her husband to respect her: There was an Apache brave who had a number ot wives, and was in the habit of whipping them, both lrom an evil tem per and also as an amusement. Now it happened that he had just taken another wife, who was not only young and hand some, but very strong. When I say strong as applied to one ot their women, it re quires some explanation. The girls, like the boys among them are brought up the best way they know how, to make them vigorous and capable of bearing any amount of fatigue and enduring any hardships. They are made to tear the limbs and bought' rom trees, and break sticks for the purpose of making the arms strong. Some of the boughs of trees they !.:eak oil it would seem to a white man wouk. almost require the strength of a grizziy bear to break. The young wife I speak ot had never been beaten until one day when the In dian, her husband being in an ill-humor, struck her several blows, She seemed somewhat surprised, but turned to him perfectly cool, and said: "Ah! you are joking. You don't mean that in earnest, of coursef" "Yes, I do,'' said the Indian. "What!'1 said she: "do you say you were in earnest, really?'' "Yes," said he, "&ad I'm going to show you I am."'' He just lifted hi arm to strike her. wh*n quicker than I can tell it. she sei/ed '.lim by both ears and tha hair, threw him on the ground as one would a child, and with her hands raising his head, beat it upon the ground until he almost sense less, begged her for his lite. She at length relented, but that Indian never beat a wife again, and his other wives were rejoiced in heart at his pun ishment. Why He Broke His Engagement. Gambetta is a bachelor: but he has not lived so long without at least contem plating marriage. The story ot his en gagement to an heiress in western France, and its sudden break! v us a fresh glimpse of his rVltf&ter. From the time of his leaving his humble home in Cahors, till his rise to the highest iauk of public personages, (Jambetta lived with a faithful, loving and devoted aunt, who had followed him to Paris, and who made, everywhere he went, u pleasant home for him. She was at once his manl of-all-work and his congenial compan ion and he was as deeply attached to her as she was to him. His engagement to a handsome and accomplished girl, with a 'tot of seven millions, was a shock to the good aunt but she yielded grace fully to the inevitable. When the ar rangements for the marriage were being discussed, however, the young lady took it into her head to make it a condition of their union, that the old aunt should be excluded from the new establishment. She was scarcely elegant enough to adorn ailded salons. '(Jamk'tTv. explained how much his aunt had been to him the rich beauty was all the more obdurate. Gam betta took up his hat, acid with a pro found bow, said: "Adieu! We wcie not made to understand each other." So the marriage was put off forever.—Good Company- Travelling Stones. Some oi our readcrsjmay have j„cari of the famous travelling stone* vf A istraiia. Similar curiosities »:av« recently lu-cn found in Nevada, which are described s:* almost perlectly rourd. tlu: w.ajonty of them large a walnut, find ot an irony nature. When distributed about upon the floor, tabic, or ot! lev 1 surface, within two or tr.rec feet ear! other, they immediately The cause of th" •nice the who till was to his handed urr'.' lold"?.? tut the doctor scert ,r Hir st's "What *f.l Ik i k n w e e a i e n -SUealOTJ* »»l therewa- ?rave!hug to wards a common centre, and there iie huddled like a lot of crgs in a nest. A single stone, removed to a distance of three md a h'.iffeet, UjMm being released, at om u started oil with wonderful and somewhat comical ce.'-i'ty to joiii it-, fel lows taken away four or i:ve feet it re mains motionless. Thcv are found in a region that is comparew.-iy level, and is nothing but thii barren region a tew feet a rod in the bottom of tt stone.-, art fount!, ot a pea to -ttered over r- I' asin-, front e !m''t-r: and it is 'imt the roiling i' are from the si^e inches in diameter. «tones rolling together doubtles- be found in th" materia of uInch they are composed, which ap pears to be loadstone or magnetic iron (in A Dairy Farm in Holland. Vil Amcra au lately visited one of the leading stock and dairy farms in Holland, a n i v e s e o o w i n s i s e a .ount of what he saw Thev u-ed the very sam-j-bt'.bte ,v„ too {-rm that they di I in the fourteenth cen tury. They had little rhgs in th e«i». 1 I V rs ?how with coras passine through them, by1which the cows" tail:- were held up to rui from gettir.i- dirfv. The Ma pie w.t- rp.-ied •... plant-: ami tirWCT .. The Vtabl. -v..- of small bricks. At the back of the stalls was a trough ot masonry about eight inch es wide and nine inches deep, with a ditch or reservoir at one end. As soon as the trench was dirtied, they turned in water, and all the manure, etc., was ear ied out to a covered vat, whence it could be removed to the lields, or wherever they wanted it moved to. The cows are as clean it not cleaner than your horses. All the tying they have is a little cord around their necks, and they are so gen tle aud quiet that they don't require uny lnng stronger. They use brass pails instead of wood or tin ones. We saw the way they make the round cheeses that are sent to Am erica. They have wooden mouids in the shape ot two hemispheres or halt balls. These are hollow, and fit together. A HERO'S REST. Hang not rich textures round about i. Leave him with only rest, for he was poor Fold not his hands in praying, for be sure The long prayer of his life Las all been said You must not put even flowers about his Lead, For he withe .t living did endure Else for some other men there had been fewer— And now they must not mock him being dead. Only undo the shutter, let the sun Shine full upon him, for he loved the light. And need be no more severed from his friends What if he seemed to fail, where others won? He missed the world's mark with a clearer sight, Aiming beyond it diviner ends. A. B. Our Girls. A Loudon lady, in answering a rather severe article upon girls of the present day, writes: I beg to enter a protest on be half of the girls of the present day. That a knowledge of cookery is essential, to" every housekeeper, I freely admit. Bad cooking means bad digestion, bad health, indeed, half the evils that flesh is heir to but, these days of cookery instruction, surely it is the fashion to know how to took Again, no one admits more readily than I that economy, or rather thrift, like every tiling else, must go with the times. Dressmaking and millinery again. It may be a virue to go about in obviously home-made clothes, which wear out all the sooner, but I fail to see it. Better half the number made by experienced hands, which look well to the last. And last, but not least, the education of the present day, more thau any other, tits girls to become, what God intended them to be, real helpmates. Not that I con sider a husband the one end and aim of a girl's existence but as most girls mar ry —and in spite of the vynicism of the age, the larger number who marry wish to tee good wives—it is us well to tit them forjtheir position in iife and|this is better done by drawing out their intelligence which makes smooth and easy the home ly duties of housekeeper and mother, than by making them mere mechanical drudges of saucepan and needle. "There is Du^t on Your (ila^se I don't often put on glasses t. exam ine Katy's wo rk, but one morning not long since I did so upon entering a moui she had been sweeping. "Did you forget to open the windows when you swept, Katyf" 1 inquired: "this room is very dusty." "I think there i- /est on your cye-giass ma'am," .-he ."aid modestly. And. ure ea'.ugh, the were at laulf, and ri'-* Katy them off, and everything looked bright difficult ah i clean, the carpet like new, and Ka was the y"-gias&cs 1 rubbed face said, "I'm b"- glasses and not me tui-» time." This has taught me a good iesson, I said I self, pon leaving the room, shall re member through life. That evening Kity came, t" n. s o e k i e n o u e e done so and so. and had said .u When iter story was finished, "-tailing, "There is duit on your i K-ity rub tli- o i—ymi wid see i i. .u-dersjtoo'.t me, and left tie poor :i. ni'dit a my .e I 1 said :Ia.T.--. "O, dear, I feel so tireel!'' sighed Hickenlooper, as she Bank into r. "Well, I should think you won! growled Mr. Hickenlooper, as he put OH In- coat to go out "you tramped around more'n seven miles this afternoon, mak ing your silly fills. I should really not caii myseit bright if I did sm-h a thing." And then h« walk'.d d-'W street and walked nine miles .ir..e nd a -.billiard v.- NO. 41. LONDON BRIDGE. Proud and lowly, beefcar and lord, Over the bridge they eo, Hags and velvet, fetter and sword, Poverty, pomp and woe. Who will stop but to laueh and sing"' Self is calling, and self is king! Who weep* at the beggars' grave? Crusts they pray for but love they crave Kefgar and lord, Fetter and sword, Prison and palace, shadow aud suu. Velvet and rags, ^o the world wags, Wntil the river no more shall run. Sparkle, river, merrily roll! Laugh with the gay and bright Who will care for the weary sou! Under thy arch to-night? Who will uity her, who will save'. Never a tear the cold world tave! Down there in the rolling Thames- The cheese-curd is first roughly pressed into God wflT pity wVmt man condemns, shape, and then placed in the moulds: the lower half of the moulds is station ary, while the upper part is fastened to a kind of screw, working in a beam overhead the upper part is screwed down tight, and the cheese is left for u week when it is screwed down tighter and left another week. At the end of three weeks it is exposed to the air, and the curing begins. It takes three months for a cheese to be cured, and a year be-* fore it is fit for the market. Every thing as sweet and as neat as any parlor I ever saw the stables and stalls for the horses were covered with matting. You have no idea how clean everything was. Velvet and rags, bo the world wags, i'ri&uu and palace, shadow and «uii, Fettered and free, Iso shall it be, Until Die river no more shall ru- "Cause lie Wasn't a CJreat Man.*' "Do odder night, in do Club library, I heard u member of do Club grievm* 'cause lie wasn't a great man," said the President of tho Limo Kiln Club, as the ball grew quiet. "It am lmteral 'niifl'dat we should ail want to get ahead. It am not unreasonable in any mail to want to bo top of do heap. Preachers, poets, editors an' lecturers all encourage us to dig 'long an' starve to carve our name on do cubalow of do temple of fume, bed An' yet what a holler mockery fame am. Darwas Shakespeare. Ho had toofaehe same as common man. He had his blue days, same as do poor white. Do rain poured down on liim same an on (Samuel Hliin—lie fell in do mud, same as Elder Tooth—his grocer wanted rash same as mine. Dar was Bryou, de iKet„ His name am as high as de steeples, and yet his corns ached, same as Way down Bcbee's—butcher carts rnu liim down, same as Trustee Pulbaek—streot-kyar drivers rang de boll on him, same as oil Squar Williams. Dar was Queen 'Liz ileth. She had a big palace, heaps o' waiters and lo's of cloze but she hud big feet, got baldheaded, and couldn't seo any more of Niagery Falls for dun my old woman did for two shilling. Greatness may bring storo cloze, but it dosen't alius bring hapiiae*. Fame nmy bring a house perviu, ,.Ith it bur glar alarm, but de higher de frame de higher de gsix bills. If greatness comes foolin' around you catch him by de coat tails. If he neber comes be oonf.ep+ed widout him. A home—wife an' children —plenty to eat—pew rent paid ami a pig in tie pen am good 'mill' for any man, and lie who seeks to climb higher am just as apt to bust his suspender buttons as fo git dar. Wid dose few reflexshuna oil do ineontestanev of earthly greatness, we will now disband ourselves to bus iness."— lh troit Fr c, l*wx*. WHEN the potato rot of 1M45 threat ened the extermination of tho potato, a neral search was made for some ediblo tuber or root that would servo as a sub stitute, ami among those proposed wax the* Chinese, yarn, which had J. ig been cultivated in China and Japan. It fwms a long, eii:h-sha}K root, two fe or more long, ami L.igest at the lower end. The vines run f.om ten to twenty feet in length, and ha\ rich, dark-green, iieart shaoetl h'avt'i in the axils of which are produced bulblets smaller than an ordi nary pea, from vhieh, or from cuttings the upper portion of tho I'm plant is propagated. The root is ably white within, rath* mu il u and vheii cooked is much esfe. many, but. lacking the dr ., -fare1 nct«T oi the potato, not likely to crally pular. It is boiled, ro fried, lie- great obstac! to its cultivation is the diflieulty of ta': T"p, the depths to which the ,, •rpendicularly downward mal oip/iug them very expensive. being largest below, rend fhe. if(|, or go the 1 oeir ers it. impossible to prill them, and their i treme britlleiiess makes it exceedingly extract them without break nig. Tho plant is perfectly hardy, and the loots remain in the ground during the. severest, winters without injury. It* cultivation is now confined to amateurs v. ho are willing to be at the tr e' «.f .. .'ging tho roots, and it is son.. :,m"s •. rown as an ornamental vine. i 1W|M) Louisiana was retroc o I which, in ISO'!, sold i' States for ?:l."i.M.),'lQD. i'j lv_ uprcht nded in this purchase m ,• ..11 the country west of fhe i\ii:-s iiioi riser not occupied by Spain, as ...r north as British territory, and com prises the wholo or part of the present "•tates of Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Lou .ana, 'nnesofa, Missouri, Nebraska, Oregon, the Indian Territory, and the Territories of Colorado, Dakota, Idaho, Moiuana, Washington, an-lWyon.in^ Thk ancient silver jiennv was ju~st silver coin struck in I'ngland, and the tailv out curreid amotig the Anglo Saxons. The penny, until the reign of Edward I., was struck with a cross so km:, ivory Lahs with a stick, at a:» i.-iur' and she thought deeply indented that it might be easily .• I ,. .j lo work at his business, parted into two for half pence, and into an. tin.', he ame honu- at n.id- four lor farthings, ami hcncc these dragged hm enfeelded nanus. Copper pennies and two-penny Sc m* women are like t: a.. i pi -e wert: i oined in 1797. V