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Lord of two elements, with bounding heart, And tingling blood, and mighty strength of 11ml., Stroke nfter stroke, ho swiftly cleaves apnrt The lambent emornld waters bearing htm. Or diving through tho vast, dim under world, He seeks the fnhled mormniils hidden there, Rising to shake his looks all spray-om-pearlod, And draw a lone breath of the summer air. Again he idly floats a lit tle space, Lotting the lucent weight of each cool wave, Caressing as a kiss, his happy face And all his outatrotched length of body lave. Thon from a height, with free, exultant spring Ho dives ngnin, and feels himself a king. Julia Iitlo Yountj, in the Current. AT THE STAKE. A STOUT OF THE MIDDI.K AOES. "To thestako with her! Away with the sorceress! God's curse bo on licr lot her evil doings?" shouted iho mob. It was cnrly morning, yet even at that houi tho judgment hall of tho littlo town of Rourtlonnis was thronged with the populace. Men, women and children, old and young, tho noblo and tho burgher, priests, soldiers find common people, crowded tho spacious hall and cried madly for her blond. Tho evening before a icmnle, closely veiled and attended by two servants, whoso dnrk countenances bespoke tho sons of Ethiopia, had arrived at Hour donnis and put up nt ono of tho princi pal hostelrics of tho place. Strange rumors soon arose respecting heft Her garb, her mien. ,hcr language and her complexion were s:iid to bo thoso of a Saracen, against which accused race tho chivalry of Kuropo and tho church itself warred in vain. These ru mors gained additional strength when the landlord of the inn where sho had (topped wns heard to say that ho had scon her practising sorcery, a charge easily credited in that nge, and ono which few, especially in a case like this, had the hardihood to disbelieve. In less than an hour the whole population of tho town was about, surrounding the hostelry, and crying out for vengeance against tho sorceress. Such commotious were both frequent and sanguinary in that superstitious ago. Tho soldiery, however, interfered by arresting tho unsuspecting victim of these rumors, and at an cnrly hour tho Sirisoner had becu brought into the udgmcnt hull to await the mockery of trial. "Answer me, daughter of Belial!" said the judge, as soon as tho murmurs of tho mob allowed him to be heard. "Will you confess your crime? Speak, or you diel Know you that tho rack, aye I fire itself awaits you if your ob stinacy continues?" Tho prisoner wns a slight girlish crea ture, sitting with her face buried in her j bands, directly opposite, to the judge, (she was apparently young and her ligurc, I so far as could be seen through tho ! thick veil which shrouded her form, was ; light and agile as that of a sylph. To the judge's question she made no answer, i Sho only shook her head despondingly, and thoso nigh her fancied they heard her sob. At theso fearful words, repeated now for tho second time, and growled forth with an ominous fierceness, appalling even to the hearer, the prisoner wns ob served to tremble, whether with fear or otherwise, wo know not, and lifting her veil up with a sudden ctlort, she roso to her feet, turned hastily uround to tho 'mob, and disclosed a countenance of such surpassing loveliness to their gaze, that even those who had cried out most unrelentingly for her blood now shrank abashed into silence, whilo others who had been less eager for her condemnation audibly murmured in her favor. "What would yo havo of mo?" Bho said, addressing tho judge, and for the first time, standing unveiled beforo him. "As there is a God in whom wo both believe, I have told you only tho truth. 1 am a stranger, a foreigner, a defenceless woman, but not tho less tho allinnccd bride of one of your proudest noblemen, "the count do Garonno." The tone in which sho spoke was low, but oh! how touchingly sweet; and her words wero uttered in broken French, with a perceptible Oriental accent. Loud murmurs rose in her favor as she ceased speaking. The tido was turning. But the judge now spoke. "Out on thee for a base slanderer of a noblo of France and a ho'y crusader! Thou the betrothed bride of Garonne! As soon would the ciigle mate with the vulture. I tell thee, woman, that thy story of having been shipwrecked in coming to France, and ot all thy train having been lost except thy two Ethio pian myrmidons, is a foul lie, and I am almost minded to wring tho truth from thee on the rack." 'I have snid it," said tho prisoner, in a firm voice, for 6hc felt that her life de pended on her firmness, "and if you will give but one week, one littlo week, and I will prove it before man us well as God. I came from Syria in the tamo fleet with my lord, but undercharge of his mother's confessor now a saint in heaven! but being separated by a (storm, in which our galley was shipwrecked, I was thrown unprotected on your shores. I am a strauger here. My servants even have deserted ine. I do uoouc harm, 1 plot no treason. All I ask is to pass ou my way. Oh!" sho continued in a burst of emotion, "if you havo a daughter, think what would be your feelings if she was thu3 to bo set upon iu a strange land," and she burst into ten is. Agaiu the crowd murmured iu her favor. "Woman!" sternly interposed the judge, unmoved by her emotion, "look at tho Yictim of your sorcery, and seek no longer to deceive us by your' lies. Send forth Philip tho Deformed I" At the words of tho judge, an official bearing a white wand stepped into a sido room, and in a moment reappearctl with a cripple hideously deformod, whum the populace recognized as tho land.lord of tho hostelry. When confronted with tho prisoner ho glared at her with a look of demoniacal hatrod. "Know you this woman?" asked the judge. "Ay, to my cost," answered the crip plo. "It is through her incantation that I am the being I am. It was but yester dny she camo to my inn, attended by two heathenish Ethiopians, whom I have heard palmers from tho Holy La'nd say are kept by the l'anims God's ban bo theirs! I no sooner beheld her than I recognized her to bo tho sorceress who, three years ago, brought on mo the dis ease by which I am crippled. I could tell her among a thousand. The curse of God light on her for a chi'id of tho evil one," and tho witness gTound his teeth together nnd glanced fiercely at the prisoner. A low murmur of approval, at first faint and whispered, but gradually swelling into a confused shout, rose on the nir as ho ceased. "Ho is a perjured wretch," exclaimed tho prisoner Avith energy, "whom my scrvauts detected in an attempt to rob my poor cdects; hence his malice nnd this chnrco." "Silence, woman," sternly interposed tho judge, "or. clso confess. Will you, n child of Belial, malign a Christian man.'" The testimony for the publican had worked a completo change iu the flue tunting feelings of the mob toward tho prisoner, and tho words of tho jtidgo wero answered back by a shout of ap proval. The prisoner was seen to turn deathly pole. Sho did not reply, how ever, to tho question, but shook her head despondingly, as if conscious that all hope was over. "Lead her away." hoarsely crowded tho mob, while tho denso mass of peoplo swayed to and fro in tho excitement, as if they would have rushed on the de fenceless victim. "Again I ask thee, woman, wilt thou confess!" Sho shook her head despondingly, buried her face in her hands and mur mured something; perhaps it was a prayer. The mob burst once more into commotion. "Whero aro tho servants of this woman? let them be put on tho rack," said tho judgo. "They have escaped," answerod an oflicial. "Vengeanco for tho sufferers by her incantations!" hoarsely growled a voice from tho mob. Tho judgo no longer hesitated, but yielding to tho popular current as well as his own prejudices, sentenced her to be burned at high noon of that very day. A wild shout of exultation rose from tho frenzied mob as tho scntenco was pro nounced, but over tho din swelled tho fearful cry. "To tho stake with her away with tho sorceress." It was a few hours earlier in tho same day when a noble knight satin a hostlery of the little seaport town of . He was of singularly imposing cast of coun tenance. His features were of the true Norman outline, with a lofty intellectual brow, bhaded by locks of tho richest chestnut hue. Hischcek was embrowned by a Syrian sun until it was of tho dark est olive color, but tho clear white of his forehead, which had been protected from exposure by his helmet, betrayed tho original purity of his complexion. His form was tall and commanding. Ho sat apparently absorbed in thought, but was aroused from his rovcrio by the en trance of a retainer. "Are tho horses ready?" "Yes, my lord," said the man. "We will mount into the saddle at once then; how far did they say it was to Bourdonnis?" "Six leagues."' "Wo shall reach it beforo nightfall; lead on." Tho party which set forth from the inn was a gallant sight to behold. Knights, j squires, mcn-at arms ami otner retainers j swelled the escort of the young count to tho number of nearly four score, while I tho pennous waving in tho air, and the occasional sound of a trumpet cavo a I liveliness to tho escort which attracted tho attention of the passers-by of every rank and sex, and drew many a sigh of envy from them. But who might pre tend to be the equal of tho renowned Count Garonne, a crusader of untar nished fame, a gallant still in the flower of his youth nnd the lord of half a score of castles scattered over the wide do main of France. At the head of tho proud array rode the count himself, conversing gaily with a knight at his side, whom he familiarly called cousin. "Aj', by St. Dennis!" said the count, sho is a divinity such as even our sunny provence doth not olTori. Such eyes, such hair, and then, by my faith, such a voice! It pained my heart to part from my sweet Zilah but sho would have it so nnd so she comes in company with Father Ambrose and a score of my best knights. Her maidenly modesty dic tated this, and 1 was forced to submit. Wo were separated, . however, by that heathenish storm, and I suppote her galley put into Genoa." "I long to sco your princess, nor do I wonder at your love, since she freed you from a Moslem prison. I am all impa tience to behold her but look at the knave coining over yonder hill. He rides like the fiend himself." "Ay! and by (St. Dcnuis ho is a black amoor; a scarcer thing here than in Syria." Even whilo they spoke the horseman rapidly approached, and before many minutes drew in tho rein of his foaming steed at the side of the count, whom he appeared to know. The recognition was mutual. The man instantly spoke in a strange tongue, and with violent ges tures, while, with an agitated voice, the count appeared to question him. But a few minutes had elapsed, however, be fore the count turned around to his cousin, and exclaimed, in a voice trem bling with emotion, but with an attempt at composure: ; '""Zilah has been wrecked, and only she and two of her train, with a few common sailors, havo escaped. Her strange companions, her foreign tongue, but, more than all, tho accursed perju ries of a thieving innkeeper, have brought on her the chargo of sorcery, a tumult has been raised, sho has been arrested, and God of my fathers! may even now bo suffering on the rack or at the slake. Oh! why did I ever leave her? But, if a hair of her head is harmed, I will hang every knave of Bourdonnis." "Let us on at once, then; we may yet arrive In time." "Pass tho word down the lino," ex claimed tho count. "On. knights and gentlemen; we must not draw rein un til we reach Bourdonnis." After a few minutes of hurried con sultation with the servant, who stated that he and his fellow had escaped in tho night of tho tumult, and each, by different roads, sought the port where they supposed the count to be, tho gal lant array sot forward at a rapid pace, nnd in a few moments nothing but a cloud of dust in the valley and on the hillside was left to tell of their lute presence. It was already high noon in Bourdon nis. A littlo out of town, in a gentle valley, was tho place chosen for tho in fliction of the horrid sentence. For more than an hour indeed ever since tho condemnation of the accused the populace bad been pouring thither in crowds, until now a vast multitude, comprising nearly the wholo population of the town, surrounded tho place of execution and covered the encircling hills like spectators in an amphitheatre. At length tho procession came in sight. First marched a body of soldiers; thon followed tho magistrates of the town; directly after appeared several monks; and then, clad in white, with her hands tightly pressed together came tho victim. She made no answers, it was observed, to tho words of tho monks on cither hand, but ever and anon sho would kiss a crucifix which she carried, and raised her swimming eyes to heaven. In that hour of bitter agony, whut must have been her emotions ! She, tho daughter of an emir end tho affianced bride of one of tho proudest nobles of France, to be hissed at by a mob, und end her life in unheard of tor ments at tho stake! Oh! if her lover, she thought, only knew her peril ! But olas! he was away. Well might sho raise her streaming eyes to heaven as to her only hope, nnd well -might sho turn away from the ministers of religion who sanctioned her sacrifice and trust only iu that cross which was her lover's gilft, and tho emblem of the sufferings of one whom that lover had taught her was the only true God. At length they reached tho fatal stake. But if Zilah shuddered at its sight tho feeling was checked before it could be seen by the populace. Calm and col lected, though pale as tho driven snow, she stood proudly up whilo tho fatal chain was affixed around her blender waist, and with eyes upraised to heaven, appeared to be only an indiffcicnt spec tator, instead of the chief person in tho fatal tragedy. Not a repining word broke from her lips. Tho first agony of death had passed away, and she steeled her heart to her fate. At length all was prepared. Over tho vast assembly gazing on her, hung the silence of the dead. Men's breath came quick, and their hearts fluttered when they felt that in another minuto tho aw ful tragedy would bo begun. Every eye was bent intently on the fatal stako as tho executioner approached with the fiery brand. For tho last time Ziluli opened hereyes to tako a final look on that earth to which sho was soon to bill farewell forever. But what sent that sudden flush to her cheek? Why that cry of thrilling joy, the first audi ble sound which hud left her hps i.ince her seuttnee? Sho sees a troop of liery horsemen, covered with dust and foam, thundering over the brow of tho hill in front of her, and in the very van of tho array sho recognizes tho pennon of the count ot Garonue waving in tho noonday sun. Onward camo tho rescuers. IIore on horse, knight after knight, retainer fol lowing retainer, they swept like a whirl wind down the hill, shouting their war cry, "Garonne a St. Denis and Ga ronne!" tho panic struck crowd opening to the right and to tho left before them. Iu vain tho soldiery who guarded the victim attempted to resist the rush of the assailants. They might as well havo withstood tho ocean surges in their might. The shock of tho horsemen was irresistible. Foremost among them, cleaving his way like a giant, rode the count himself, his tall figure and power ful charger rendering him conspicuous over all. Nothing could resist him. He seemed like an avenging spirit come to tho aid of the suffering victim, nor were thoso wanting who saw in the sud den appearance of tho rescuers, and their indomitable courage, proofs of supernatural agency. A universal panic seized on the crowd. Soldiers ns well as populace broke and fled. In a few minutes the count had gained the stake, when, springing from his steed ho rushes forward, and with one blow of his huge sword, had severed the chain which bound the victim to the stake. "Oh! Henri!" hysterically said the rescued girl, as she sprang forward and fell fainting into her lover's arms. "Zilnh! God be praised that you are eafet Curses on the villains. She faints. Ho, there, water, you knaves, or I cleave you to the chin." But the maiden had only fainted from excessive joy, and when restoratives were applied, she speedily recovered. Our story is done. The terror of the populace, the humble apologies of tho magistracy, tho merited punishment of the perjured publican; and tho speedy union of tho count and tho converted princess aro they not all written in the chronicles cf tho noblo house of Garonne. Graham'1 1 Magazine. SELECT 8IFTINGS. Pilgrims were formerly called palmers, " from the staff or bough of palm they were wont to carry. There are three lunatic asylums in the United States which havo brass bauds composed of patients. The increase of suicide is scientifically ascribed to the fastness of modem life, to forced education, and to the increas ing difficulty of existence. The franking privilege was abolished in Great Britain in 1840, nnd in the Uni ted States in 1873. The discontinuance of the privilege saved to the government of this country $2,220,000 annually. Six ounces of gum Arabic is said to be sufficient for a day's rations when no other food is eaten a diet common to the Moors of Morocco during the season when the gum of tho acacia tree is run ning freely. A remarkable specimen larely exhibited to the London Zoological society was a Brazilian snake which had partly swal lowed a livo lizard. Tho lizard had nearly succeeded in eating its way out, through tho body of tho snukc, when death overtook both creatures. "Tho sorrowful tree," flourishing only at night, is a singular vegetable of the island of Goa, near Bombay. Half au hour after sunset the tree is full of sweet smelling flowers, although none arc to be seen during tho day, as they close up or drop off with the appearance of tho sun. Coal is an almost unknown luxury to the Chincso of San Francisco. Their mode of cooking is to have an empty oil can serve ns a stove, upon which they place their tea kettle or a cooking pan. They start a lire with two or three small sticks of wood, which they add to as they burn, and in this way they manago to establish a good degree of heat with little expense. In tho father's house the Roman father had absolute authority over the son ; ho could chastise, rjrt in chains, exile or sell him as a slave; he had power of life or death over him. The Bon's property became the father's, he could assign a wife to him, divorce him when married or transfer him to another family by "adoption." The son only escaped nnd wns "emancipated" by a salo of his per son three times repeated by his father. WISE AVOKDS- There is not a single moment in life that wo can afford to lose. Troubles spring from idleness, and grievous toils from needless ease. Adversity is tho trial of principle; without it a man can hardly know whether he is honest or not. Ho that studies books alone will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men will know how things arc. Sympathy is a Icllow feeling with any ono in trouble; it can only bo fully developed where like experience ex ists. Base all your actions upon a principle, of right; preserve your integrity of char acter, und in doing this never reckon on the cost. Good is slow; it climbs. Evil is swift; it descends. Why should we marvel that it makes great progress in a short time. Thoughtlessness is never an cxcip-o for wrong doing; our hasty notions dis close, ns nothing else does, our habitual feelings. Let an independent thinker show a fearless fidelity to his convictions, and the shafts of bigotry and envy fall help less and harmless at his feet. The tiu in Crop. This is a great gum year in Maine, especially on the Penobscot. Tho logs, knees nnd bark nro not tho only valuable parts of tho great timber tree, for tho gum is worth considerable even in its rough state, just as it is hacked from tho crotches of too old trees. There are two or three firms in Maino which buy large quantities of it from lumbermen and gum hunters for the purpose of refining it, as they say. Hut as a general thing the refining consists in adulteration with resin. They throw it into a big kettle, bark mid all, and boil it into about the consistency of thick molasses, skimming the impurities oil as they riso to the surface. Then, if the purposo be to adulterate, some lurd or grease and a lot of resin is added, and in some cases a little sugar. The mix ture then beccmcs thicker, nnd nfter more stirring is poured out on a slab, where, while it is yet hot it is rolled out in a sheet about a quarter cf an inch thick, nnd then chopped with a steel dio into pieces half an inch wide, and three-quarters of an inch long. Theso pieces are wrapped in tissue paper and packed in wooden boxes. Thcro are liOO pieces in a box. Some gum is treated in th's way with out adulteration. The best gum comes from no particular locality, but always from tho biggest trees. The loggers, in their many idle hours by tho camp tire, whittle out miniature barrels from blocks of cedar or white pine, hollow them out and fill them with the choicest gum tho woods afford for gifts to their sweet hearts, children or friends wlicn they "come down" in the spring. 1'ortUml Me.) ltets. THE MULTICAULIS MANIA. BISB AcTD FAT,!, OF THE OB EAT SILK-CULTURE CSAZ8. A Year when mulberry Trees Were 1'la.nted In I : very Mate nursling of th Rubble. The year 1820 marked the origin of the Moms multicaulis mania, which raged as a fever from 1830 until it culminated and collapsed in 1839. Congress had re ferred an inquiry pn silk culture, in 1825, to the committee on ngriculture, which, in 1820, ;reported in favor of its promotion, etating in the report that the imports of silk goods in 1825 were nearly double tho exports of breadstuff's a fact scarcelv credible now. Tho samo year Gideon B. Smith, of Baltimcre, planted there what is claimed to have been the first .Morus multicaulis trco in. America. The secretary of the treasury, Richard Rush, was directed to provide, a manual on silk culture, nnd the famous "Rush Letter" was accordingly issued in 1828, together with several other treati ses, and circulated broadcast. In 1H30 an article by a Dr. Pascalis, on tho Morus multicaulis, in tho American Journal of Science, directly started tho mulberry fever. The Massachusetts legislature, ia 1831, provided for a manual of silk culture, which was mado by a manufac turer of Dedham, Mr. Cobb, and most of tho States began to offer bounties and premiums on trees, cocoons and. reeled silk commonly ten cents a ponnd on cocoons and fifty on silk. A Teport to Congress in 1830 proposed a grant of $40,000 to ono M. D'llomorguo for tho establishment of a normal school of fila ture at Philadelphia, where sixty young men might have gratuitous instruction for two years, and for traveling about tho country to teach silk-growing to far mers; and this "silk bill," though de feated in 1832, and reported against ns unconstitutional in',1835, would not down till 1837, when still another committee reported as a substitute a scheme to lenso public lands without rent for cultivation of tho mulberry-tree or tho sugar-beet. The wholo country now went wild. Tho fever seemed only to get fresh fuel of excitement from the pa nic of 1837. Or chards of the multicaulis were planted in every State; farmers .everywhere set their wives end children to feeding worms; multitudinous books, public doc uments, periodicals on silkcultnrc, consti tuted the bulk of tho reading of the day ; stock companies for' raising and manu facturing silk sprang up like puff balls: silk conventions were held, and a United States silk society was organ ized. A thrifty nurseryman on Long Island gave help to tho excitement by a canny plan. After selling a considerable sup ply of trees to New England dealers, he started off ono night by tho Providence boat, and with great pretense of eager ness mado tho rounds of all his custom ers, excitedly ofl'ering fifty cents apiece for trees. Of course he didn't get them, but he presently was ablo to sell all he had for a dollar instead of fifty cents apiece. In Burlington, New Jersey, over 300, 000 trees were raised; in December, 1838, offerings at one dollar per tree or per twig were refused at Boston sales, and five dollars was sometimes got for trees one season old. It was satisfactorily proved again on paper that an aero of trees was good for $1,000 worth of silk, but the price of trees had no re lation to figures, even tho most rose colored. One farmer sold $6,000 worth of trees from three-quarters of an acre. In a single week in Pennsylvania $300, OOo worth were sold. In 1839 tho bubble burst, and the bi ters were bitten. Among them was the speculative Long Islander. He had caught the disease by whicli he had profited, and had sent an agent to France with $80,000 to buy a million more trees. When they came, they were worth a part of a cent apicco for pea-brush. Somo speculators endeavored to get even with fate by shipping a cargo from tho East to Indiana by way of Now Orleans in an unseaworthy ahip heavily insured, but the goods unfortunately reached their destination. Multitudes of meu were ruined by tho crash. But Americans havo a faculty of falling on their feet, and some of tho unhappy mulberry-growers of the thirtios became the successful manufacturers of later days. Jlurjer'e Magazine. Photographing tho Dead. Familiarity with corpses seems to harden people, from doctors to undertakers: and even photographers after death, get to be as brutal in their treatment cf the dead as do tho others. A friend of mine saw a photographer arranging a women to be taken after death, lie was trying to make some drapery about her hang to suit him, but it kept slipping off; so ho took a big pin out of the cud of his waistcoat and pinned the drapery to tho flesh. Ho did not seem to think that he had done anything out of tho way, and when ho was spoken to, said : "Why, what nonsense; sho can't feel anything." Still I should always have my impression about that photographer, and doubt if he would not do t ho same io a live person if he wero not afraid of ihe consequences. J'hiladiljihiiu liecord. The Dudo of Long1 Ago. John Bath McMaster, tho historian, thus describes the American dude of 1800: "Tho pantaloons of a beau went up to his armpits ; to get into them was a morning's work, and when in to sit down was impossible. His hat was too small to contain his handkerchief and was not expected to stay ou his head. His hair was brushed from the crown of his head toward his forehead and looked, as a satirist of that day truly said, as if ho had been fighting an old fashioned hurri cane backward. About his neck was a spotted linen neckerchief; tho skirts of his green coat were cut away to a mathe matical point behind." LI PE S DAV. Into the field of life we pass At early morn. The jeweled grass With sunbeam? kissed'spreads nt our feet; And youth, like morn, all pure nnd sweet And bright is filled with rosy dreams; While in the purple heavons gleams The star of fortune and of fame, Anil in its light we read a name Oh, dream, most swoet, it is our own: More glorious still, it shines alone! The sun speeds on; the star no more Is seen. Illusive dreams are o'er. Fortune and fame so coy and fleet But mock our weary, way-worn feet Ambition's fairest prize has flown; A name appears, but not our own. What have we thon for all our pains? For all our prayers! Are there no grains Of good to show? Has all been lost In that our cherished plans are crossed, And dissipated each fond dream As snow flakes melt within the stream? Ah, no! Bee how our souls are filled With wealth ot harvests we have tilled; With meekness, patience, love and truth; Blest springs of everlasting youth ; Bright jewels of the crown within; Ripe fruit of life's sharp discipline; On whicli there dawns the twilight gray Of day that dies not with the day. George W. Crofts, in the Current, IIUMOU OF THE DAT. A woman may bo truo as steel, but thon you know some steel is too highly tempered. Paris Btacon. Philadelphia girls aro learning to fid dle. Poor things! It's their only way to draw a bow. Binghamton litpubliean. Adam and Eve were the only people who never bewailed the successful days of their ancestors. Waterloo Observer. Alas, how easily things go wrong, A pleasant drive with a girl along. A whole month's salary gone to pot, And a wailing cry for wnat is not. Mervhant-Traveler. Most men will stand a clip on the head from a barber, nnd don't get extremely mad if ho pulls their nose. St. J'aui Herald. Said he: "I always carry somo wood with mo." Said she: "Yes, I always said you would never lose your head." Graphic. Umbrellas in 1845, according to a re ceut writer, weighed about three pounds and a half. The men who stole umbrel las in 1845 must have been quite muscu lar. Neuo York Graphic. "What is it?" shrieks a sensational divino, "that puts out the lamps of hu man joy?" Wo would timidly suggest that tight boots can come about as near doing that same as anything outside of tophet we can call to mind. Chicago Ledger. A SAD EXPERIENCE. Wly u to the picnic goes the dude And leaves behind the dusty town, And on an ant hill in the wood (,Uiite unsuspectingly sits dovn, What artist's iwiieil can portray Tho sudden start, the frienziod mien, The speed with which he hastes away, To seek some lone, sequestered scene! Boston Courier. "Are you papa's boy?" "Yes, sir." "And are yon mamma's boy?" "Yes, sir." "But how can you bo papa's boy and mamma's boy at tho same time?" (After a pause) "Can't a nice carriage have two norses?" Chicago Sun. "I aw observe that you have a fine collection of plants here," said a dude, whilo making u call upon a young lady. "So all my friends say," she said. "I'm vewy fond of plants myself," he con tinued ; "I'll venchaw to say you eannot name my favowrite plant." "I think I could," sho Baid, with an arch smilo. "Pway name it, then." "Tbo thistle. Huston Courier. A Persian philosopher being asked by what method he had acquired to much knowlcdgo, answered: "By not being prevented by shame from asking ques tions when I was iguorant." According to this notion, a five-year old boy travel ing in the cars with his mother ought to acquire enough knowledge in a journey of fifteen miles to split his head wide open. Jfurristoicn Herald. ''I wear No. 0" and she looked at her hand 'Twas the hand of a goddess even, "Ami yours, 1 suppojo" and she shot him a glance, "Aru something over seven." "No! only just over a six," he snid, As he plai'ed his hand upon hers. "Why, really," she laughed, "if that be iO, You certainly ought to take honors. ' "Oh! give thorn to mo nnd I'll take them, dtrnr." She looked demure; nnd just heavens. His mustache went rushing against her lips 'Twas a cose of sixss and sevens. Hoston Globe. Statistics of Suicides. New York City 1880, 152; 1881, 100; 1882, 199; 1883, 159; 1884, 229. IS FOURTEEN CITIES IN IS). City. Population. i'uiri'.Vj. Ort in London 3,;ii.l,.H'ji 354 i0,700 Ntv lurk l,Oo,57 .Vi mkhi ll-rMn l,l,it') 80S 8,700 l'lnllillt'lllll M6,iM) OS 12..MK) Vienna. IVli.lllS 3, '.HO lihlii w ft-H.JSg 14 lti..i,yu f.-,,--: si ii,.Kq r&lrutta 4)As.1 es T 400 Kox'uii Hi.'J.VU 4,1 fl.ll.KI Ktliimoru :;:i.I9.) H 11.' 0 l'oM'iai'n It.'iWM ID Mut tCliuburiiU S?.Mt T ((.now Havre Mil, 11,10 II 4,300 Honolulu 14,114 S,4U0 IN BIX CITIKS IN ISfvJ. Cit'K Population. ifuiVoca, Ona in l.omlon .....4,100.000 ;iw lO.so tw York i.nio.w I !SJ 8,m) Itrriin l.MO.ooO 401 li.nou iliiiiilnir 4..MMI l-S io Uruasi-U ...... 40j,ooo 11 4.000 Alouicli lo,ooO ti 4, Don In New York iu the eleven years end ing with 18S0, 1,193 men and 328 women committed suicide. These figures come from Dr. Nagle, register vital statistics. From some few of tho cities mentioned doubtless the returns are incomplete. Seat York Sim,