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,8I WAS NOT MUCH IN LOVE.
. were straying by the seashore,
I the twilight's purple glow;
J.itening to the pftr, sweat muslo
Of old ocean's ebb and flow.
aI m thinking, love." be whispered.
"Of a cottage by the sNa
,nyn sea and sky about us.
What a happy life 'twould be.
"It you're ever nr n' me. darling,
I an care for nothIng: since
y,,u are all the world unto me
I'm as lhany as a priunel"
Then she answered, hesitating.
In their conversation's lull:
·"Yues, my dear, it might be Dleasant
But 1 tear it would be dnrl."
CABUL.
The 'City of Afghanistan in Which Major
Oavagnari and the British Embassy
Were Massacred.
Cabul is a most bustling and populous city
f sixty thousand souls, and such is the noise
$I the streets during the busy hours of the
day and night that it is difficult to be hoard
by a companion with.whom you are con
versing.
The great Bazar, or "Chouchut," is an ele
at arcado in perfect Oriental architecture.
'The arcado is 000 feet long and 30 broad; it is
divided into four equal parts. The plan is ju
didious and convenient, but it has beeoon left
nfinlahed, as also the fountains and cisterns.
Il it were completed no, bazar in the East
could compare with it. One cannot help ad
qiring and wondering at the rich display of
Silks,cloths and goods which are here arranged
for sale. In the evening the city presents a
very interesting sight. Each shop is lighted up
by a lamp suspended In front, which gives
the city an appearance of being illuminated.
Cabul and its neighborhood are particularly
celebrated for their fruits, which are exported
in great abundance to India. Its vines are so
plentiful, the grapes areat times given to the
cattle for food. The production of wine from
this grape has somewhat the flavor of Madei
ra, and it cannot be doubted that a very supo
ior description of wine could he produced in
this country with only a little care. The
grepe is used by the people in a variety of
ways; its juice is used on roasted meats, and
during meals they use dried grape powdered.
It looks like Cayenne pepper, without being
e number of shops for the sale of dried
flts is remarkable, and their arrangement
teful. Fruit is more plentiful and more
ed than bread and is considered one of
the necessaries of human life. In the
month of May we may pureness the fruits of
a bygone season. Poultry and game are
much esteemed, and there are numerous
Sbops where snipe, ducks, partridges and
clover, with other varieties of wild and tame
fowls, can be bought. The prices are moder
Ate, but not if you yield quickly to what is
asked, for it is not unusual to purchase game
at less than half of what is first demanded.
;his habit of dealing for all kinds of com
'modittes consumes much time in wrangling
sad cheaping goods. There are shops of
hardware, shoemakers, and of every branch
of buslness to be round in this remarkable
ity, all arranged with singular neatness.
The month of May is the season of the
S'alodeb," which is a white jelly strained
from wheat. It Is drank with sherbert and
snow, and is deliciously lntoxicating. The
people are passiornaly fond of this rirink, and
the venders of this nectar are te pt actively
employed in supplying the demand. A pillar
of snow stands on one side of the shop, and a
fountan plays near it, which gives these
places a delightful atmosphere. The crowd
of eager customers congregate here to
enjoy the drink and the pleasant air
that circulates around them, resulting
from the fountain and the snow pyra
<ki. Cabul is celehbratd for its baked
meats. The bread is baked in ovens,
the paste plastered upon the hot sides of the
Loven, and dotes not offer a tempting appear
Mace. "ihuwash" is considered a great
dainty. It is merely blanched rhubarb, which
grows spontaneously, protcted from the sulln,
trder the hiflls In the neilghborhtcxl. "Sha
bash Rlauwash 4" is the cry in the streets of
the itinerant venders.
In most of the crowded streets are story
tellers amLusing the idle with their yarns, or
dervishes proclaialming the glories and deeds
of the prophets. If a baker ma kes his appear
itee before these worthies they demand a
cake in the name of the prophet., and to judge
of the number who follow this occupation it
must be a profitable one. There are no
wheeled carriages in Cabul; the streets are
very narrow, and well kept in dry weather,
although during rains it is the dlrtiest place
knows for mud and slush. The streets are
intersec ed by small covered aqueducts of
clean water, which is of considerable conve
nience to the people. The inhabitants are
novel and interesting In appearance. They
saunter about dressed in sneepskiu cloaks,
and seem huge from the quantity of clothes
they wear. The children have ruddy cheeks,
With the bright bloom of youth and healthful
less, but this brilliancy of color is lost as they
g row up to maturity. The city is compact,
Sbut the exterior or the dwellings have no pro
tensions to elegance, and are constructed of
Sun-burnt bricks and few of them more than
two stories high. The Cabul river passes
through the centre of the city, and tradition
says that the city has been washed away
three times by inundatloo, although no one
living over remembered the river to be other
than a placid, sluggish stream.
A storm in Switzerland.
[Edward King in Boston Journal.i
A storm here is mightily impressive. I was
Seated the other evening on the summit of
the "Schaenzil," a round-topped hill crowned
with a summer hotel and theatre, and was
dininug listlessly, looking out now and then
t the vast line of snow-clad peaks in the
erad miles away, when there came a
st of terrific thunder and then a succes
of lightning flashes. The servant came
lyng to remove the cloth, and pointed
pologetlcally to a black cloud which was
g with extraordinary swiftness along
sky. Far off in the valleys I could see
t sheets of rain falling; and a beautiful
arin of white clouds rose slowly up before
white Alps, shutting them entirely from
w. There came more thunder and
tning, and then-by that time I was
sly housed beneath an awning-- it
eed to me that the surrounding world
disappeared. Thick darkn as reigned.
sky was filled with torrents of rain, that
tdown with crushing force among the
o-tormented trees; the heavens fairly bel
ed, and from moment to moment there
e reaounding cracks that really made
s heart beat faster than usual. Berne and
ceathedral, the long line of wooden houses
the river, with their gabled roofs and hun
windows--the poplar trees, the bridge
the noble hills beyond it were gone!
reigned in theirstead. An hour of this
monotonous, and just 8as I was
restless the rain ceased, and
na;lI farewell grand organ peal from
celestial choir-vaults came ringing down
h the clouds, which began to rise. The
dre.tly opposite me now btgan to ap
. The mists stole away, discalosing first
wood, then a house, then a street, then
gardens, and by and by the
ve wallsU by the stream. Warm I
came to replace the cold:
which seemed to have come down from t
glaciers; the trees near me rocked no
, but presently the sun came bravely
and touched them, turving every rain- I
Upon them into a pearl Now glory flo~od
he hills and the valley, and I ventured to
toward the "Oberland" again. The cur
Was swept away as by a supernatural
and as if it had been done expressly
I might be overcome with admiration.
they were!--thelr exquisite, eternal.
summits touched with tints of rose!
7, such divine spectacle Is not often
SI felt as if I had not lived in vain. The
I The Alpsi the snow-crowned, the ma
the mysterious Alpe! I understood i
Byron had been inspired to writeK
Manfred. I gdb a clear glimpse of the in
spiration which uplifts the soul In those noble
regions.
EUItOPEAN ABRIES.
Military Strength of Various Continental
Countrios.
[Vienna Oor, of the London Standard.]
The recent newspaper war between Ger
many and Russia having given rise to many
speculations concerning the offensive and de
fensive power ofseveral European States,
some particulars respecting various armies
which have been furnished to me on good au
thority may be read with interest at this mo
,ent. To begin with Germany, the re-organ
isztion of that army was fully earned out in
1866, since which time the annual recruiting
has produced 1,300,000 men. After making
r due deductions for dead, sick, etc., the
strength of the German army maymay now
he fairly put at 1,250,000 men of the
line, andt the reserves and the
First Landwehr. all of whom are thor
oughly drilled and ready to enter the field at
any moment. These men areof various ages,
from twenty to thirty-two years. Besldes
there the German government can call out the
Second Landwehr and the Landsturm, which
include all the drilled soldiers from thirty-two
to fifty years of age. These would. after
making due deduction, number 1,300,000 men.
All these 2,650,000 soldiers can be marched in
twenty-four hours after their belng called
out, as all the quartermaster's arrangements
are made in time of peaceo to enable this to be
done. From this total must be deducted
200,000 for the fortresses, 150,000 for the coasts
and against Denmark, and 100,000 for depots;
so that 2,100,00 men are available for reil
warfare, and the last of whom would only re
quire a fortnight at the most to be on the
frontiers. The border fortifications on the
French side are completely finished and are
fully armed. They are furnlshed with large
stores of provisions, and communicate with
the interior of the country by means of rail
ways. France has, of couxer, good fortresses
also on the German frontier, and these are
strengthened by smaller barricading forts.
but, in addition to the fact that they will not
he completed and in thorough working order
before 1881, Germany has the advantage of
a convex frontier which would facilitate con
centric attacks, such as are regarded by mili
tary authorities as the most successful. The
strength of the French army Is, on paper,
3,600,000 men, but Sir Garnet Wolseley, as well
as other authorities, calculates it is only
about 1,800,000, among whom are more than
I 600,000 undrilled men. Besides this, the state
) of the territorlal army and the Garde Mobile
r is so doubtful that France is coisldered to
have ready for the beginnnlg of a war not
more than 1,000,000, of whom 400,000 must l.h
deducted for garrisons, etc., leaving 600,000
really available for action. Russia's force,
although given on paper at 1,800,000 men,
cannot, as was explained at the beginning of
the recent dispute, exceed 400,000 men on the
German frontier.
Aierlcan Muptrstltlen.
iNew York Timoe.]
The following superstitions, handed down
by tradition, are yet fervently belleved in
many parts of America: White specks on the
nails are luck. Whoever reads epitaphs loves
his memory. To rock the cradle when empty
is injurious to the child. To eat while a htll
is tolling for a funeral caunoes toothache. The
crowing of a hen indicates some approaching
disaster. When a mouse gnaws a gown
some misfortune may be apprehended. He
who has teeth wide asunder must seek his
fortune in some distant land. Whoever inds
a four-leaf trefoil-shurmrock--should wear
it for good luck. Beggar's bread should be
I given to children who are slow in learning
to speak. If a child less thnu twelve
months old be brought into a cellar he he'
comes fearful. When children play soldiere
on the road-ilde it forebodes the Ap
proach of war. A child grows proud if
suff.rel to look into a mirror while
less than twelve months old. He who pro
poses moving into a new house must send in
beforehand brawl and a new broom. Who
ever sneezes at an early hour either hears
some news or recelves some presents the
same day. The first tooth east by a child
should be swallowed by the mother, to incur.,
a new growth of teeth. Buttoning the coat
awry, or drawing on a stocking inside out,
causes matters to go wrong during the day.
By bondlng the head to the hollow of the arm
the initial letter of the name of one's future
spousen 1is reprsertW. WoUmen who sow flax
seedl shouldt during the process, tell some
confounded fle., otherwise the yarn will never
bleech white. When women are stauflRig beds
the men should not remain In the Douse,
otherwise the feathers will come through the
ticks. When a stranger enters a room he
should be obllged to seat himself, if ondy for
a moment, as he otherwise takes away the
children's sle.p with him. The following are
omens of death: A dog's scratching on the
floor or howling in a particular manner and
owls hooting in the neighborhood of the
house. Domestic harmony must be pre
served when washing-day comes, in order to
insure fine weather, which is indi3pensable,
as that ceremony is generally performed out
of doors.
lbse South African Boer.
In point of physique the Boer is a fine fel
low-tall and muscular and lithesome. though
slouching in his gait. Azough, sunburnt tace,
the very plctur, of health, appears from un
derneath his broad-brimmed hat. He is pro
vetrblally healthy, leading, as he doesa, a pas
toral existence, seldom touching intoxicating
liquors except on an occasional visit to a (ls
taut town. He marries young, and is, as a
rule, blessed with a large family. In his muode
of life he is simple in the extreme, with an en
tire indifference to cleanliness or comfort.
The Boer is a sloven; his house is a piggery.
The homestead is but an unpretending build
ing, having, in all probability, been built by
the farmer and his sons. The furniture of the
dwelling room consists of a large table, the
"Vrau'b" chair, a few other hard chairs, a
family chest or wardrobe, and a settee, the
seat of wh'ch is made out of strips of oxnide,
st' etched and crossed in the form of network.
On the table lies the Bible, which constitutes
the family library, other books or newspapers
being rarely seen. Indeed the Boers might
fairly be termed a "Biblical race." Those who
can speak English frequently express them
selves in language resembling that of the Old
Testament, and if engaged iu dlscussion their
arguments will be supported by exam ples and
quotations from Holy Writ.
SubdunlI and Aveldlng Fever and Alae.
Of all chronic diseases, fever and ague is per
haps the least conquerable by the ordinary re
sources of medicine. There is. however, a
remedy which completely roots it out of the
system in any and all of its various phases.
This celebrated anti-periodlo is vegetable in
composition, and is not only officacious, but
p' rfectly safe, a thing -kat cannot be predimted
with truth of quinine. Hostetter's Stomach
Bltters I-, besides, a most efficident means of de
fense a.ainst malaria, as it endows the phy
slque with an amount of stamina which enabies
it to encounter miasmatic Influences w:tho,ut
prejudice to health. Persons about to visit, or
Iiving in foreign countries, or portions of our
own, where intermittent or remittent fevers
prevail, should not omit to lay in a sufficient
supply of the great Preventive, both to avert
such diseases and disorders of the stomahe
bowels and liver common to such localities.
Brain Workers.
Clergymen. lawIers, physicians, orators and
all classes of brain workers will find the use of
Dr. Price's Floral I:enhes Cologne gratefully re
freshing. The handkerchief wetted in it and
applied to the face occasionally, will please the
sense of smell, prove a stimulus to the circula
tion, inducing to vigorous action.
L L. Lyons, New Orleans, has these fine
goods.
A hee flew out in the sanny air
By a moy so blithe and yoang,
Who laughed and screamed without a care.
And would not hold his tongue.
The scene it changed: with sob and shriek
The vau't of heaven rung;
And homeward flew the bee so week.
While the small boy held his stung.
Barnes & Miller, No. 1s Natchez street, do the
best work In plumbing and gas fitting at lowest
market rates.
FASHIONS.
The Evolution of Fashion.
How We Have Improved In Our
Styles--New Ideas for Winter.
When such an authority as Ruskin says:
"Always dress yourselves beautifully; now
mindl, you always dress Icharmingly," what
should women do but obey? The art of dress
becomes ennobled by such august admoni
tion, and it becomes a duty as well as a
pleasure to study and practice it. Most
women who dress well, those in whom natural
taste and culture combine to produce artistic
results, are apt to enjoy their own achieve
ment with a reservation. There is an un
spoken question In their minds: "Have I a
right to this splendor; is it not balanoed away
off somewhere in the dark places of the earth
by squalor and rags?" Perhaps It is, but not
because of your luxury.
Dress is properly one of the serious con
oerns of life. As the world grows older, and
wiser, and better, and more beautiful, year
by year, it admits this fact more openly, and
justifies it more intelligently. In the simple,
good old times, when our pioneer grand
fathers clave their way with huge broad
axes through forests "measureless to man,"
our grandmothers were quite content with
homospun gowns and did not care what I
"they" wore in Paris. And within our own
memory, when grim sentinel ships guarded I
Southern ports and brazen-throatod guns 4
rudely forbade the importation of merchau
dise, we have seen our women robe them
selves in homespun, and look as pretty as
pinks besides. The charm of the costume was
in its adaptation to the time and situation.
But in this day civilization has reached a
pouit which demands advance in all things
"There is no great and no small." Evolution
despises nothing in great nature or little art.
And so, in obedience to a grand law, ships
grow up from arks, palaces from patriarchal
tonts, breech-loaders from slings and stones,
St. Peter's Churon from an altar in the wil
derness and princess' trains from fig leaves.
We do not wish either to moralize or philoso
phlrz or fustianize, but onq can scarcely
think on these things at all and not be im
pressed with the wonderful harmony and self
executing power of all the laws of life.
As the laborers increase upon the face of
the earth, and "the cry of the children" is
heard unto the ends of the world, luxury and
reflnement, knowledge and power, furnish the
bread for the myriad mouths and shelter for
countless heads. Leaving the rosthetic side I
quite out of the question the importance of
dress as a lover in trade and a propellor to in
dustry cannot be exaagcrated.
O, you lovely, happy girls, do you know
that you are all sovereigns, and that the
whoic universe is tolling for your sakes? The
little sllh worm spins its precious cocoon in
unt oincious homage and passes it on un
grudgingly to thte stuginl loom and silent
weaver, and when the st',tlints of a disb-·ted
sunbeam have been caught by art and m-n
prisonuel in the weft, it ia still thought scarce
ly worthy of your grace. J)o you ever re
mumber hat the silk which ehimmenrs and
rustles in "marble halls" owes its depth
and richness to labor's hard hand, and gave t
back for beauty necessity's corn and wine?
or that the lace which shales and caresses t
your fair young necks bas already doon1c
nobler service in nilnstoering to the hard r
needs of the humble work-girl who wrought I
it in darkness, perhaps in weariness ? Loet
this kuowl'idgo her 'alter answer your ques
tion, aid belleve that you are not tie less
bcnefrctresres Iecause your right hand knuew I
not what your Iost hand was doing.
TRAIINS.
Just now both hands are busy fashioning
garmJnte, trimming bonnets and elrlecting
fall fashions. We hope that in choosing
models you will not overlook the Cecelia
demi-train. which is one of the prettiest de
signs we have seen. The tabiler front is
shirred in "hour-glass" style, with curtain
draperiers at the sidtee, over which paniers are
lightly looped. The back is formed of drap
ery in leaf form, simply but stylishly ar
ranged, and the whole forms a very distin
guishtbd tollt. The balsque usually worn with
it and perthaps most in harmony with its idea,
is dra'ped slightly on the hips and in the back.
"the front is cut away in the Directoire style
and is finuished by a broad belt of folds fas
tened in the side-forms, and confined in front
by a buckle. T'he vest, belt, collar and cuffs
snoulid be of some material that contrasts
well with that of the basque itself.
In walking costumes, one of the newest is
a perfectly plain skirt In frappl velvet, a vel
vet fl1ure on a satin ground, over wtich an
overshirt is worn, closely shirred in the centre
of the front, drooping toward the sides and
falling in points at the back. The front of
the basque is shirred, and a similar trim
ming is placed on the sleeve above the cuff.
The belt, collar and cuffs are of velvet, like
theskirt. The collar may be either standing
or folding, as both styles are worn.
BONNETS.
In bonnets we see the Dlrectoire trimmed
chiefly in flowers on the sides and toward the
bahk, with ribbon strings tied under the chin.
Theempire oapote is also seen, generally in
rich, heavy materials, and trimmed in feath
ers and ribbon. Poke bonmnet have also ap
peared, and do not at all couflirm the impres
sion which the name begets, as they are
especially elegant, and In no manner "poky."
There is no trimming inside, and when roses
are worn on the outside no foliage is used with
them. Somebody who must have had an eye
to our brunette beauties hasintroduooed a very
faint shade of old gold into the foundation
and trimming of some bonnets, and this tint,
shaded with lace and combined with pale yel
low roses, makes the daintiest garniture im
aginable. We hope that the'hurning yellows
and reds that are claiming notice will be used
homeopathioally. The return to small bon
nets and hats, which are shown in quaint,
picturesque shapes, will necessitate modera
tion li trimming and restrict a display of
color.
Nothing can be richer or more elegant than
the black and gold trimmings that are now
offered. Gold cord, black and gold feathers
in velvet hats and bonnets, and marabout
feathers, tipped with gold, in satin bonnets
are extremely stylish. In some instances
black bonnets, in both velvet and satin, have
the, effect of the trimming heightened and de
fined by an aigrette formed of loops of ribbon
with a white ground, on which high colors
are richly brocaded. But this experiment is
not always safe except in skillful hands. For
afternoon entertainments toques in all showy
materials are still worn.
In hats, the Devonshire is still seen, and as
it is strikingly becoming to some faces will
be retained among the later styles; but it is
so expansive ana prononce that the days of
its popularity are probably numbered. A
more symmetrical shape is one that has on
one side a broad brim turned up and caught
against the crown, while the other is narrow
and rolled down. This brim is lined with
plaited or sbirred silk or satin and piped on
the edges. The English walklng hat keeps
its place, and will probably never be absent
for any length of time from the list of hats
worn. One of the new shapes resembles very
much a lady's riding hat, but is bent on the 1
rim in front, and the severity of the style
much softened by ornamental trimming.
TRIxMInas.
Trimmings of changeable and serge silks,
as well as imported serge ribbons, are much
esteemed. The chief novelty in ribbons is
Ottoman groe grain with picot edge. It is a1
reproduction of a by-gone style, and will 1
please elderly ladies with a revival of youth
ful associations. Ribbons are conspiceously .
wide, but where the width is still insufficient, i
silks are used. Serge is often doubled to the _
width of eight Inches for bonnet strings, and i
a favorite finonih Is a plaiting of point d'eeprit
lace. Cashmere ribbons are need freely in
trimming as they correspond with the new
cashmere materials in dreas, and the Pekin
striped ribbons are also retained in favor. Jet
and spangles and Iridescent beads enter
largely lto trimmings, but we hope good
taste will set its lace like a flint against such
tawdry ornamente.
THE OROWNIVO FR.TURI OF M-BtLIN.llY
Is the introduction of birds of such astounding
size that the result is simply marvelous.
Some of them are ten or twelve ibohes high.
and are so placed on the bonnets as to expose
two dangling feet. Of course, the beaks are
large and coarse in proportion, and the plum
age, which is usually the natural color, is
sometimes dazzlingly b ight. We do not sup
pose for a moment that the chaste and refined
taste of women of this age will tolerate upon
their personse objects which would more prop
erly decerate the wails of their houses. But
we will see. Fashion and taste, we regret to
say, are not synonymous terms and with
some women the talismanic word "fashion
able" will transform any absurdity into "a
thing of beauty." Let us hope this mon
strosity will meet its proper fate.
MEXICAN LOVE.
How A Mexican Girl Revenges Herself
When She Is Jilted.
When a young Mexican woman falls In love
there is no nonsense about it, no thought of
the consequences, no mercenary object in
view. The world beoo'nes to her a scene of
enchantment, and the idol of her affections a
seraphic being especially created for her wor
ship. Her absortlon into its existence is com
plete. She revels In the atmosphere of pla
tonic love, as a lady-bird of Paradise revels in
the tropical ether, and as innocent, guileless
and hap py. To her life is a delicious dream.
and only one adored object existing in all that
beautiful dreamland. She is Eve in the Gar
den of Eden, and woe to the serpent (a wo
man) who dares to intrude within the sacred
realms of that garden. How subdued and
salnt-like is the expression of her face; bow
dove-like the cooing and the wooing Of this
happy, happy creature.
Who would think that beneath all this the
tigress lurks, and is only waiting to spring
upon some hated rival? Let her appear and
then the enchantment is ruthlessly broken,
the saintess no longer exists. All is changed.
There is a marvelous transformation Into the
machetera, who, maddened with jealousy,
seeks vengeance upon her who has desecrated
Eden and robbed it of Its glory by looking on
the idol with longing eyes. The machetera
has no murder in her heart, no love of shed
ding human blood, but with the finer woman
instinct she knows that if she can only mar
the beauty of her rival she has more thor
oughly murdered her than if she were dead.
To have her victim carry exposed scars
through life is the penalty that alone must be
paid. Watching her opportunity, the mache
tera springs upon her victim, and, with
uplifted weapon, strikes her upon the
cheeks or delicate, aristocratic-looklng hands
with the skill of a surgeon who knows how
far to go without undangering the life of his
patient. This accomplished, the macheters,
having satistled her terrible jealousy, goes
quietiy horneo while the wounded woman is
the o,ject of the most tender and devoted care
on the part of her friends. The affair is not
considered dlagraceful, because the pure, un
se.llish love which eansed it sanctitles the act
of the one and the injuries of the other. Wo
men in the higher circles of life never indulge
In such warf.tre, prefeging to suffer in si
Ince, while thoos in the lower strata have
such surroundings as banish both love and
j',lousy, except in the vulgarsense. The ma
cheteras are of the middle classes, modest,
refined and lndustrious girls, and tihir worst
fault is they love not wisely but too well,
Gireenland Courtalip.
When the Danish missionaries had secured
the conience of the Greenlanders marriage
? was made a religious ceremony. Formerly
s the man married the woman as the Romans
r, did. the Sabiue women-by force. One of the
i misalonari's, writing to his journal, describes
t the style of present courtship as follows:
L The suitor, coming to the missionary, said:
- "I '.hould Ilike t' have a wife."
"Whom ?" asks the missionary. The man
names the woman.
"Hist thou spoken to her ?"
Somnlthnl the ,aan w11 rtlgwer: "Yes. She
is not willing, but thou knowes.t womankind."
More frequ-ntly the unswer is; "No."
"Why not ?"
"It is difficult. Girls are prudish. Thou
must speak to her."
The miationary summons the girl, and,
after a little conversation, says:
"I think it time to have thee married."
"I won't marry."
"What a pity! I had a suitor for thee."
"Whom?"
The missifnary names the man who has
sought his aid.
"He is good for nothing. I won't have
him."
"But," replies the mroislonary, "he Is. good
provider; he throws his Larpoon with skill,
an d he loves thee,."
Though listening to his praise with evident
pleasure, the girl answers:
"I won't marry; I won't have him."
"Well, I won't foroe thee. I shall soon find
a wife for suo.h a clever fellow."
The missionary reruains silent, as though
he understood her "no" to have ended the
matter.
At last, with a sfih, she whispers: "Just as
thou wilt, missionary."
"No," replied the clergyman, "as thou wilt;
I'll not persuade thee."
Then, with a deep groan, comes "yes," and
the matter Is settled.
The Pellot Worth.
[Chicago T!mes Paris Litter ]
J Worth Is now suing one of his noble clients,
the Princess Murat, loran unpaid bill of $1200,
which, it appears, has been owing for years.
It is a pitty that she cannot induce him to
wait for his money by the same means as
those employed by a fair and frisky dame of
the second empire, when that empire was at
its height. She, too, ran up a prodigious bill
with the great dressmaker, which she was un
able to pay. Worth, whose expenses are very
large, naturally wanted his money. So in
this emergency the lady sent for him. "I can
not let you have your money just now, M.
Worth," she said frankly, "but I'll tell you
what I will do; if you will consent to give me
time to pay it in, I'll take you to the opera
to-morrow night in my own box." The bar
gain was concluded, and the next evening the
great lady and leader of fashion and the cele
brated dressmaker appeared at the opera side
by side in the box of the former. Tremendous
was the social excitement created by this es
capads on the part of the fashionable Mtme.
Mille-Etolles, but Worth got his opera, and
the lady got time wherAIn to settle her ac
count, and so all parties were satisfied.
Unfrlendly.
Pressed by a pitiless creditor Into whose
hands a note for 2000 francs has fallen, a hap
lees debtor goes to a friend to borrow the
sum.
"What is this creditor's name?" says the
friend.
"I don't know him from Adam except by
his dress-he's some stranger who has bought
my note."
"And you would, to fill the pockets of a
bloated and total stranger, rob a friend you
have known since your boyhood! Ah, Pierre,
I never thought that you would stoop to such
a thing."
A Bay's Query.
[Hackensack Bepublican.]
" Will the angels come down for me with a
chariot and horses when I die ?" asked a little
boy of his Sunday school teacher. "I guess
so, if you are a real good boy," said the
teacher. The little fellow's eyes sparkled
with anticipation as he eagerly exclaimed:
"And, oh! do you think they'll let me set on
the front seat and drive ?"
EnglHsh Amunseents,
Forney's Progress tells this tale of the way
in which EngiLsh society people when hard
pressed for amusement, during the dreary
weather they have recently had in their
country, contrived to make time fly: While
it looked as if it would never stop rainint,
the great English country houses were dl
mal beoym words, and the guests all but
it died of enutf. The expedl~eat fo par l.g
a the tuie were novel and ingenlous. They
a got u Dencls, but, of course, could not go
a out of oors, so some one of the large rooms
it was chosen forthe grounds. Sometime a pie
ýr ture gallery was selected; sometimes the
d game-akeeper's cotte; sometimes the dairy:
h but the most popular place was the kitchen.
aere everybody would come with all the
regalia of the picnic; and they tried very
hard to imagine they were in the
open air. At one house they gave all
the servants a holiday, and the ladies
and gentlemen undertook the work. This
8 ruse was rated the jolliest fun imaginable.
e The gentlemen acting as gamekeepts and
grooms, and the ladles were the cooks and
chambermaids. A countess achieved an im
mense triumph with an ornelette, and the most
complete failure was that of a duke of a
gardener, who stopping to answer a question
turned his watering-hose full in the face of a
county magnate. A member of Parliament
was also the cause of some confusion by going
to take an afternoon nap when it was supposed
ho was in the stable feeding the horses. At a
mansion in Cheshire they gave what was
termed a "hortleultural fancy ball." Every
one came as a flower, a fruit or a vegetable.
This entertainment was a great hit. Some of
the costumes were beautiful; many were
quaint and showed much originality. The
r.e, the violet, the cyclamon were among
the former, and the onion, the cauliflower and
the cucumber were among the latter.
CHLARMED BY A SNAKLE.
t An Ohio Girl Who Was Strangely Fascinated
by a Snake.
[Cincinnati Commercial.]
L A very rare psychological phenomena was
n related to us by Mr. Campbell, about a
5 .snake's influence over a young lady living
I. east of M,'unt Vernon, by the name of Bertha
SMiller. For some weeks the parents had
r- notled that their daughter was showing
r marks of failling health, evinced by n ir
1 creasing paleness and emaciation and accom
i panted by a melancholy mood. So marked
N was the change becoming that they began
s feeling great solicitude concerning her and
consulted a physician of this city about the
e matter. The physician visited the girl, but
was unable to explain the cause of her de
cline or to render her aid. It also fell under
i. the observation of her mother that each after
. noon, about 3 o'clock, the girl would leave
the house and remain away from one to two
hours. This fact being communicated to
i the other parent, it was decided to watch
n the young lady and discover if posible
a the reason for such habitual absence.
I- Accordingly on the day following when
n the hour had about arrived the father left the
,r house and watched for the going of his
daughter. In a few minutes the young girl
was on her way through a wood and up a
s ravine leading from the house to a small
e stone quarry, some half-mile distant, reach.
r lug which she took a seat on a flat stone, un
h der a small clump of trees, and remained
0 there quietly for several minutes, her head
5 held in one position, and eyes evidently fixed
v on one spot. The father had gotten up so
s near by this time that he could observe all
Sthat would happeo. In a few moments, to
5 his amazement, there proceeded from the
e direction in which the girl was looking a
e snake about four feet in length and known to
him as the common black snake or racer. So
astonished was he at the peculiar manner of
t his daughter and the appearance of the rep
tile that he remained quiet In his conceal
t uent to observe what would happen. The
snake crept slowly along toward the
e girl until it halted at her feet. After
d remaining there motionless for a min
ute or more and gazing fixedly into the
face of the girl it slowly and steathily
t began creeping toward her, and in a
moment lay coiled in her lap. The girl re
mained perfectly motionless, apparently not
the least alarmed at the presence of her vis
Itor, but gazing iLtently at it. After lying in
that position for a short while it slowly un
coiled, crept down to the ground and hack to
its hiding place in the rocks. The girl re
mained sitting motionless for a considerable
0 time, and then got up and retraced her st#
to the house. On the next day .;. rath~ r
the appointed time, trw' - "
ag to the .n " al gun and proceed
in.o.h.., Klled the reptile. Ti.e gu i,
startled at tile report of the gun, sprangrto
t", reet, but Immediately recognizing her
father, proceeded without further ado back
home with him. She, when interrogated,
could give no intelligible reason for visiting
the spot, except that at a certain hour she felt
strongly inclined to go and sit there. She has
rapidly recovered her health and appears in
no wise affected in her mind. Experts can
offer no solution to this strange proceeding
the most intelligible being that the animal
r,oeseused a powerful mesmeric influence, and
had so wrought upon the mind of the girl
that she went automatically to the place.
This, In connection with an accumulated in
herited disposition to be beguiled by serpent
transmitted from our first mother, Eve-offers
the only rational explanation.
Fascluatitn Crwcrs-rlders.
It seems to be the fashion just at present in
Europe for titled and wealtny men to marry
circus-riders. Forney's Progress says:
Everybody--that is evrybody iu swelldom
in Europe continues to talk of the marriage
of Prince Reuse with Mile. Clotilde Roux,
e,'tter known as L,,isset, under which name
she has been the pride of the circus in the
Champs Elysees, Paris, where she rode bare
back horses, and was herself much in the
same condition. But Loisset is a very good
girl, and told the Prince to marry her or go
his ways. The marriage took place at Vienna,
and the lady has retired from the arena of the
circus and public life. This is the second time
nobility has allied itself with her family.
Her aunt, who still lives, and was also a
circus rider, married Count Botasy, son of
Henrietta Sontag. The Prince, who never had
a kingdom or even a fortune, is thrown off by
his family, and has been for years in charge
of a legal guardian, whose duty it was to keep
him out of scrapes. His associates called
him Jump (ragamuffin), and he was compelled
to resign his commission as lenutenant of the
Fifth R-giment of Prussian Hussars on ac
count of his debts. Just previous to this
marriage he had aspired to the hand of an
English lady, whose parents, however, de
clined the empty honor of an alliance with
him. His bride is the daughter of a Paris
confectioner, who married a Miss Loisset,
sister of a once famous circus rider. There
were three stars at the Champs Elysee Circus
last summer, Oceanas, Leonard and Loisset,
and all have made long steps in advance.
Loisset's story has been told, and though
there is only title and no money, she and her
husband will, without doubt, be well taken
care of. Oceans to some way made a fortune,
and Leonard married Mr. Worms, a banker.
Still another chapter. A younger sister of
Lolsset-like her, a circus rider-is to marry
Count Hatzfeld, a sportsman well known on
the turf at Hoppeyarter. This fortunate lady
displayed her powers at the Clrque Sala
monskl, Berlin.
eosurern Clad Ia White.
[Deposit (N. Y.) Courier.]
At a large nublic funeral of a prominent
citizen of Delhi, a week ago last Sunday, the
mourners were dressed in white, instead of
the customary black. This was done in ap
proval of the wishes of the deceased, who,
while living, strongly opposed the inevitable
heavy and expenmive "mourning," and re
quested them to dress in simple white at his
funeral, especially if they believed hilm to
have entered a happier world.
Hadn't Thought of 'rhatc
(Newark CalL1
A belated husband, hunting in the dark for
a match with which to light the gas, and
audibly expressing his disappointment, was
rendered insane in an instant by his wife sug
gesting in a sieepy voice, that he had better
light one and look for them, and not go
stumbling around in the dark breaking
things.
Old Th ..e slaurry.
The art of being gallant is quite lost. The
defunct Marquis d'Entragues was the man
for making compliments. One day he was
playing bilitards with the Princess de Foil.
"It mnt be that I am ver, awkward," sid
she, "Ican't touch a ball. "Princes, aI
the Mairquis, "that is beeanse a b d ba
is not a bears,!"
i .lashroLn'a asso ikrt > f se F
S1c)T YET.
N]otet.O friend i not tet;
!or balmy noon
GIlows not upon the flu er-tipped s!oin e fi e .g
Wherein mtrre cukoo chants ie plaintive
Among the lesflats of the Pileet 're
ton falry footIteve soon 'twill wan her b
Ah, then's the time to ask me out to beet-
Not yet, 0 friend I not yet I
No.t et. O love ! not yet!
Your fragrant mouth,
Sreet as a virgin lily dipped i'n wine,
And warmer than a warm wind from the
touth-
temove It not. chaste damrzl. from mine.
8oft on the lIkelet glows the summer moonr
I hear no tinkle of paternalihoon-
Not yet. 0 lovel nojt 1lI
"A fraud In silks 1" is the startling hea.
line in an exchange. Ah? Went back on yol6,
did she?-[-ltookland Courier.
No wonder a fellow teels cut up wh6~ ~1
surgeons pounce upon him after
Everything becomes autopsy-turVy.--l
York Telegram.
Three hundred SwIsa lace and silk weaveU ".
are coming to this country. The women d40. t
the outdoor work, which would roughen thp :
delicate hands of the men for weaving.
Scene in a re$tatirant. Two ladles seatedat
a table. First lady to waiter-"Bring me a
icecream, please.' Second lady--"'ll h.ac
an Ic", too." Walter brings lcecream amg
stewed oysters.
Mrs. Smith, of New York, according to the
Terald, stole a wash-tub to keep her ehIldre.
from starving. A family that can dine sati.
factorily off a wash-tub must be reduced to
the very lowest extremity.-4[Buffalo Exprel,..
--------*** ------
As a point of etlquette to the deceased lht
becomes any man to settle the funeral ex
pnense conrnecteg with the departure of his
first wife befortfbuying any tokens of atso.
tion for a second one,-[ MGregor News.
* --- ** -- .
We called at the hardware store the other
day to purchase a corkscrew, but they didn't
have one left. By the way, the camp meettql
season is the pleasantest of the year,--I Water
too Observer.
"You army chap," as the girl said to bt .
military lover.-[Phlaadelphia Sunday Itel.
"That's where you soldl[,r self," he wrotebaol
when he eloped with another girl,--[Ottws
Republican.
A recent census of Fall River shows thab
the population of that city has decreased
some sixteen hundred In the past year, whidb
seems to be the dreadful roll of embezzleht
i who have disappeared.
I The proper form for a will nnw-a-days will
read: "rTo the ruspective attornoys of _il
children I give my entire estate and worldly
1 gotods of all descriptlion. Prsonally, to th
I children and to m y beloved' wife I give all thai
I remains."
I Thackeray did not read the works of female
7 noveliste, because they "swere not strong beet
3 enough. 'isldes," he said, "I read very feel
novels; I amn a pastry cook. I bake tarts and
sell them. I don't eat them myself. I eat
> bread and butter."
. ----- so -
First Boy-" Whre 2yer bin, Billy?" Second
Boy--" Been flahin'.' First Boy-- " KettC
anythin'?" with an anxious expreselon on hb
face. Far-seeing Second Boy-"No. bunt
expect ter when I git in the house."-.Ne.
York Era.
Teacher, to a boy in a Philadelphia schoot
"Can you tell me whore the Apennines are?"
Boy.-"No; but I can tell you where the Ph
adelpbla nines are. The Ath-" "There,-thl
will do." inuterruoted the teacher, an the
youth subslded.--[Norritpown Herald.
How man-y . atumes has she? ProgreA
- ays: "A, NowYork lady, who has beefs e
SSara;t,,4 two weeks, has changed' her s c0
tns I lour time a (4sY. *"" has not yet woa
th same costume twice." Angels do lE
watch over such women. But, then, the Im
d, do, which cults the women better.--j(Qt
o Modern Argo.
r -
k In front of Fair Point, on Lake C
I, ua, stands a statue of Faith. The L_
S'imes tells of three females of the hd
t family, who paused to Inspect It: "Bee t
Spiee of statoowary," said number one,
wonder who It Is. It must be Jupiter." '
said number twr,, "it looks more like Veiz"
"Well" a lid number three, "anyway, il
one of thoso.eople in the Bible."
I StatistIce show that nearly three hundred
Gotham Chincee have white wives, and r.n-a
of the faithful spouses of the Orientals Came
to this country from Ireland, the Chin-UeA
preferring them to other natiotlnalities on a
count of their skill in washing. This lite'.
marriage of races commenced about six yeal
ago; consequently a young Cbfneee*OeU.
generation is springing up, the oldest mant
b her of which is five years old.
The wife of a banished French Comm
was overjoyed at the news of his pardon
went to the railroad station with her childa
at the proper time to ; eleome him. But he
had been very ill for years, and was so muin
altered in appearance that she did not reew
nize him. She went home in a deeponda
I moor while he hunted for her in vam in the
crowd. At last, he found her residence, but
she bad committed suicide, after writing a
despairing letter.
The foolhardy performance of Capt. James
Swan, "the man crocodile," at the Thesat
Comique, in Providence, R. I. came near rs
suiting fatally th. other evening. He wams
a large plate-glad tank of water, with an at.
Ilgator six feet long, and, after stlrringupth
reptile till It was furious, he tore open ts
jaws and placed his head between then.
Quick as a flesh they closed, and Swan'
death seemed certain. With almost supe
human exertion, he freed himself, howev,.
and sprang out of the tank, his cheeks be.g
deeply gashed by the alligator's teeth. In a
moment he returned to the water, forced the
repti e Intosubmisaiou, and went on with the
exhibition.
A common counellman of the city of LIw
don is provided with many good dinag
every year at the public expense; he hase i'
lcrsions up the river and down the river;
may, in his turn, have an Irish trip with
expense paid, and towmns doing him
he has his pockets full of public gloves,
to carry on public occasions, heavy td
transmit as heir-looms to tner .I -
born, alms-houses and orphanages f a t
poor he wishes to benefit or get rid of, ply.
salone to give away to persona he may e
esider "deserving," schools at which to edauem
at the city of London and othersachocle 3P
the children of his friends.
Last Friday as a well was being dug at the
fair grounds at Neillsvilln, Wis., the men ham
ing reached a deprth of 116 fet, a stratum od
loose white sand was struck, whlch made
curbing necessary. An upright curbin Is
sections four feet long was used. While plt
tlng in the fourth section of this thewel
caved in, burying a workman named W!ii-ll
Selves. The cumbig, in falling, formed ad
arch, leaving an oprening large enou.
Selves to sit in. A gas pipe was Imme
driven into the cavity and air pumped to f
buried workman, after wh ici the worJ
digging him out was commenced. It
forty-eight hours, during whlch lSe11es
sitting in a perfectly immovable pod o®
I suffered no permanent Injury.
According to the M.oi.. U .E f W' th
coolness w"hch has letrlhw bsaSpe O
.many and RusO lsa h be e lthlY n ea ed f1
the invasion o., umes Gote ra ra
Daetal of this nn were w'ioI1ed jfnsew
private papern latel toles from the mlitag
aittache fa th endeifa embassy a t e Paisi
the cuipriL.