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I NOT
TO-DAY.
Not to-day the golden fruition
Of the hopes that lieckon on.
For the joy of attainM ambition
Flashed not from the eyes of dawn.
Not to-day the vessel riding
In the port of Happy Isl.-s,
Where rapture is ever abiding
And illusion no more l>eguiles.
Not to-day theliloom of the lotus
To gladden seasick eyes,
And a glory like that of ("auopus
On the evening's tropic skies.
All of these for evasive to-morrow.
But to-day desire'* unrest.
The toil of endeavor and sorrow
For the slow, uncertain ijuest.
?Mary /.. Ciixulrirh.
v\m\ nvn> Tiir sr\
I liv/l V ! I > II 111IJ ru.u
"Sandwich Inlands I"
The Avoids, uttered in a chorus of high,
childish treble. rang out clearly through
?* the open transom above the stout, oakEp
grained door.
' Am I to hear nothing hut the Sandwich
Islands this morning!" >lie exclaimed
p > half aloud. In r impatience breaking
&/ through the guarded reserve >lie usually
E*. maintained even with herself. "That is
the third time the baleful place has been
f thrust upon me since I awoke, and to day,
too, of all the days of the year."'
Whatever fault was to be found with
the day must have lain entirely in .Miss
Martha's own mind, for certainly its outward
seeming was as perfect as could
- well be expected in a world we are accustomed
to find so full o! imperfection,
: and this she was forced to confess to herself
as she sank into a fortuitous chair before
the great hall window. The sun shone
|?.. with brilliant but tempered ray. and the
pr> cool, fresh wind that b'cw in her face
jfjr- made full confession o: wect dalliance
among the lilacs. Immediately beneath
the window lay the well-ordered
<rjirdon. its white, curvinir walks out
lined with ranks of gorgeous tulips;
beyond, the straight village street, wide,
unpaved and lined with elms in their first
splendor of tender green, opened a vista
of furrowed field and purple hills, intersected
by the lustrous gray band of the
full-banked river, that was well calculated
to call up those vague, nameless
emotions made up of heartache and hope,
of regretful memorie* and longing anticipation,
to which the sensitive spirit is so
subject in the spring.
For Miss Martha the heartache and the
regretful memories were in the ascendant;
for it was licr thirty-ninth anniversary,
and at at thirty-nine hope and anticipation
arc no longer very vivid.
These regretful memories of course, included,
and indeed centered upon, a
masculine figure; a lithe, slender figure,
a pale student-like face, with earnest,
dark eyes that always seem to demand
something of her.
As she glanced down the elm-lined
street this .May morning, the apparition
of a slim,dark-coated figure, surmounted
by a straw hat, almost brought back the
girlish fiutter at her heart which something
such an apparition had aroused
there twenty years ago. But.no; howmany
years was it now that she had been
accustomed to dwell upon that air-drawn
picture made up of sparkling sea and
gleaming sand, a group of feathery
palms in the foreground, in the distance
three mountain peaks, calmly exhaling
clouds of gray smoke upon the still air;
to see standing beneath the palms, sur- j
rounded by a group of half-clad, yellowskinned
natives, the lithe, slim figure,
the earnest eyes, lit by a tire like that
which shone in the faces of the first |
( apostles?
How many years? She could hardly
tell; for at that time something in Miss
Martha's heart had seemed to run down,
as the striking portion of a clock's apparatus
sometimes does, while the rest of
the machinery ticks uninterruptedly on.
"Thirty-nine, thirty-nine,'' her musings
ran. "My life more than half
spent, and yet I have not lived."'
Then she hid her face in her hands,
and a gust of teat less sobs shook her,
like one of those sudden little dashes ol
wind that sometimes swoop down upon
the late September roses. Poor Miss
Martha!
Anrl x-nt Vinr frinnds wmild llilVfi thoilffht
strange to hear her say she had not lived.
Outwardly few women appeared to live
more intensely or more actively.
The little episode between her and the
young professor of mathematics who had
inducted her into the mysteries of algebra
and geometry in the same school, had
been so skillfully managed by her parents
that few outside of her immediate family
had known anything of it: and her sudden
resolution to leave home and accept
the position cf primary teacher in the
school in which she had been educated,
in reality an act of indignant though
useless rebellion again t their treachery,
- was regarded as a mere eccentric whim, 1
which her aristocratic family permitted j
her to indulge. Later, when the war
had swept away the family fortune and
the two sons who might have rein?
stated it, the eccentricity assumed the
guise of a providential leading. For the
school in the sheltered Ohio Valley went
on undisturbed, and it was to Miss Martha
that the frightened and helpless
mother and sisters had fled when the an?j"'
cestral home on the James was laid in
ashes.
Mother and father were dead now, and
' s the two sisters parried, but Miss Martha
still went on in the old school, rising
grade by grade, until now she reigned
augustly as principal.
It was perhaps a sudden sense of the
narrowness of the bounds that hedged
her in, as contrasted with the wide ocean
'and the long years that intervened be
1 \C 1 1 4*.
iween uerseu ituu uijn tiuum n^uit- iiuu
event of her life, which had called forth
the exclamation recorded above. She,
resolved to remember, had chosen to remain
where everything should remind
her of him; he. as if equally resolved to
forget, had tied away across the ocean,
that wide, wide ocean, whose multitudinous
waves seemed adequate for the
washing out of any rcscmblence, however
deeply stamped.
No matter how carefully or wisely we
order our lives, it is probable there will
still be moments when the things we
might have had will seem of far more
value than those we have; but it was
something new for the busy principal of
the Seminary to sit idly before
a window of a morning, indulging in
melancholy reverie. On one's birthday,
however, some indulgence may be allowed,
and Miss Martha, screened from
observation by a huge, easel-mounted
black board, did not stir until the sound
of a large bell swung by a willing hand,
and the simultaneous opening of many
doors, announced that 12 o'clock and recess
had arrived.
Peeping past the blackboard, she saw
> the class of little short-skirted geographers
file decorously out of their recitation
room, each turning at the door to courtesy
after the old-fashioned manner tradi- j
tional in the school, and which Miss
Martha insisted should be punctiliously
observed, then bounding away with
k monv on imnrnnintn twirl nnrl
.... , , ?
A "Dear little hearts," murmured Miss
Martha, rising and taking up again the
book and pencil she had dropped, '-for
them the Sandwich Islands do not exist."
Miss Martha stood upon the platform
before the assembled school?sweet Miss
Martha, adored by every irirlish heart in
the room. Tall and slender v as slio, clad
in 8 soft gray gown of some spring-like
fabric, the full bandeaus <>f waving auburn
hairparting in an enchanting double
curve over her smooth, white forehead,
starry hazel eyes, with long, rav-like
lashes, a dainty, clear-cut, oval face, red,
mobile mouth, and a faint sea-shell tint
in the cheeks; not at all like the ideal
schoolma'am.
"I have a note here," she said in that
clear, vibrant voice that never could be
tamed to the'conventional monotone, '"inviting
you all to the sociable at the [Methodist
churdh t>night. .Mr. Howell informs
me that an old classmate of his
will be present, and will probably be induced
to tell the company something of j
the mission schools in the Sandwich Islands.''
Miss Martha, looking at the
note as if not quite sure, hesitated a little
before pronouncing the last word,
then tore the sheet of paper to atoms.
"You may find it interesting to go,"
" she added, with a nod to her assistant to
indicate that she had finished.
The assistant struck the bell, and the
room was tilled with the rustle of a wellordered
rising. Another stroke, and the
girls began to move slowly in single file ;
toward the door, while .Miss .Martha,
seated in her armchair, gravely received j
their parting salutations.
At the gate a gentleman, who seemed
about to enter, stepped aside, and, lean- j
"irig an arm upon the fence, watched with
a benevolent smile the outgoing tide of :
youthful loveliness.
The gentleman, tnc girls decide, j
was of very striking appearance, by j
reason of the gray hair that framed
a face still youthful in contour j
and coloring, and, from his clerical coat ,
and tic, they at once deduced the Sandwich
Island missionary of the evening.
They passed on in groups and pairs, jostling
each other and exchanging whispered
comments, accompanied by many
covert backward glances. Waiting until
the last pair was well clear of the gate*,
the stranger carried out his original intention
of entering.
.Miss Martha, still seated in her armchair,
her face tinned toward the door, i
and the fragments of the note held loosely
in her hand, heard the slow step upon
the cemented walk, but supposing it to
. .1 . < ,*.1, 1
DC mat Ol ?? JlSUlllJitUII, lilt miuim j.H.itor,
she did not stir.
"Miss Dabney!"
She looked up.
"Oh!" she exclaimed, rising with a
startled look, while the hits of paper
fluttered unheeded to the door. "Why
?it is?a-Mr. Heid!"
"Yes." he said, drawing a step nearer,
hut still hesitating, as if not ipiite certain
of his welcome.
Hut by this time she had recovered her
self, ami was once more the self possessed |
person she usually appeared. Stepping j
down from her platform she advanced to !
meet him with outstretched hand, and a !
manner that struck just the proper bal- j
ance between pleasure at meeting a long- :
absent friend and the reserve naturally !
incident to long separation.
*l a::: very glad to see you. 1 didn't j
know you were in town. When did you j
arrive?"
"This morning. I only meant to stop !
over one train, but Howell caught me j
and?"
Whether courage or inclination failed
he broke oil", leaving the conjunction to |
hang like a broken link upon the end of
his unfinished speech.
"lie wouldn't let you go, of course,"
said Miss Martha with ready tact. "He
wrote me a note this morning, inviting
the school to hear you speak to-night,
j but he neglected to mention your name.
He is exceedingly absent-minded."
"You are very little changed," he said,
abruptly. "I should have known you
anywhere. It seems strange that we
should stand together again in this
room."
"It does, indeed, especially when we
think how widely separated we have
been for so many years.
"Has the distance seemed great?
Have the years seemed long?"
"Won't you sit down?" she asked turning
with suddenly awakened hospitality
toward a group of chairs. "It is
plcasanter here than in the parlor.
I hate the parlor. It is always haunted
bv the ccho of patronizing voices ex:
< ? ?r
plaining tltc peculiar sensitiveness ui
Marv Ann and the wonderful aptitude of
Maria Jane." She threw bapk her head
with that bright little laugh that had always
been hers.
"It is wonderful how little changed
you are," he said again, "lam an old
man and you are still a girl."
"To be sure." she answered, merrily,
marshaling, with a woman's delight in
appearing young to the man she loves, all
the resources of gayety the years had left
her. "Growing old is supreme folly.
People turn their heads gray with solemn
study, and fancy they arc growing wise.
To keep a light heart is the only wisdom."
"I wish I had it," he said, with the old
wistful look in hiscyes. "Hut it is hard
to keep a lonely heart light "
"Iiut the way is not to have a lonely
heart," she replied, rising to draw a tlappinsr
shade beyond the reach of the wind.
What could he mean? I Fad he really
not forgotten, then? ller own heart and
head grew light to giddiness; still she 1
must take nothing for granted.
"And the Sandwich Islands," she said,
resuming her seat, and bravely attacking '
the name that had so haunted her all day. 1
"Tell me about the Sandwich Inlands. !
Life must be very interesting out there."
"Very."
"So free from conventionalities and
stupid formalities. I don't suppose you
have church sociables and set tea-drinkings
out there now, or that you feel it
necessary t<? know the very latest utter- 1
ances of the great leaders of modern
thought ? 1 dare say that in the absence t
of adequate leaders of late date, one i
might venture to do a little thinking for
one's self, eh?" 1
She rested her elbow on the arm of her <
chair, and laid her pointed chin in her
pink palm with a distractingly attentive i
air
"Yes," lie said, feebly, his eyes glued >
to her face, but no appearance of understanding
in his own. <
Vnfl tWn the sea all around vou.
Well, I don't know cither that I am '
very fond of the sea. The sea is alien c
and inimical; full of treacherous things; J
no, decidedly, I don't like your sea." 1
' Ah! but you would learn to like it,"
he exclaimed with anxious warmth. "It '
is really beautiful; mysterious and awful 1
at times, it is true, but at other times
joyous beyond anything you can imagine
on land. To see it sparkling under the I
morning sun, rocking and swaying and
clapping its hands a* if it had some secret
and unfathomable reason for bein<: j
glad!" t
"Only a surlf.ee gladness," interrupted t
Miss Martha. "At heart I am sure it is
profoundly sad." c
"Ah! don't say you will not like it," J
he said, leaning forward, and seeming to ?
make a personal matter of it. i
She shook her head obdurately. "I a
owe it an undying grudge. Beside, it
must be very lonely." c
"For one, yes; but if there were two?" }
He leaned nearer; she drew back, half
rising; but he caught her hand. l
"Martha, dear, you didn't marry the \
man your father promised you to. Tell
me. was it your love of me?"
"Well," she said, looking at him with
a tantalizing smile, "what do you think
about it?" i
"And you are right sure you never for- r
got me for a single instant:" v
"Quite sure. And you will go with
me, dear?" * c
"To the sociable this evening? Why. j
certainly." 1
"Ah! you know I don't mean there, j
He took her face fondly between his
hands, looking down into the starry eyes.
"Well," with a sigh of deep content,
"I suppose?if nothing else will satisfy .
you?I must even go to the Sandwich ;
Isl.Mllds
c
A Foolhardy Exploit. s
When in Garibaldi's IJritisli legion at c
the bombardment of Capua, a soldier, 1
who afterward became Hrigadier General ?
Maclver, was challenged for a basket of ]
wine to show himself over the breast- *
works "for one short minute." The next c
minute he sprang on the parapet. Zip? ^
zip?zip ? zip ? whistled the bullets '
around him, and there lie stood as calm- N
h' as if on parade, tiring and reloading,
tiring and reloading, and still without s
ct sat ion the zip?zip?zip of the leaden t
messengers of death sighing around him
and even striking near him, like a iierce *
storm of hail. Ere long his cap was
shot olT his head, his loose red (Jaribal- f
dian shirt was perforated, and his body
actually grazed in many places, and yet ]
he kept his stand. Each instant his com- '
rades expected to sec him full back dead
or mortally wounded, but he never '
flinched nor stirred even except to load 1
or discharge his rille. Most of the ofli- 1
eers were almost paralyzed at his temerity.
but at length one of them called 1
out: ''Forheaven's sake, Maclver. cotnc
down! You have tempted Providence 1
too long.'' Thus adjured, the young 1
Highlander tired a parting shot from his
rifle, and then coolly lighted a cigar with
his face still to the enemy. Then lie
turned deliberately round and jumped
among his astonished companions, having
been five minutes on the parapet.
The Utility of Pain.
The utility of pain is seen in the membrane
which sweeps the surface of the
eye, for instance, in several animals,
whenever any irritant particle is brought
into contact with these delicate structures.
The pain caused by the foreign
body sets us rellcxly a muscular contraction
in this membrane, and thus it is
brought across the eye, sweeping the surface,
and so the offending matter is removed.
AY hen the foreign body is too
fixed to be so removed, disorganization
[ of the eye follows, and amid a general
destruction of the organ the irritant matter
is got rid of. Destruction of the eye
in these animals would be a common occurrence
if it were not for this muscular
arrangement, and pain is the excitant;
it is, as it were, the linger which pulls
the trigger, and so the machinery already i
provided and prepared is set in action
-thereby. In man the suffering caused by
a foreign body in the eve calls the .attention
to the part and leads to its removal.
If it were not for the pain so produced ,
irrcmedible mischief would often be permitted
to go on unchecked, because unnoticed.
Not only does pain so defend |
the eye from the injurious effects of for- '
eign bodies, it often serves to protect the
delicate organ from overwork; and where
pain is so produced rest is given to the
part, and recovery is instituted.
Do they ever bury a dead calm ?? j
Derrick. i
FIVE MINUTES OF FUN.
HTTKOBOUS STOBIES THAT WILL
RAISE A SMILE.
Too Thin?Koiv lie Wanted lo be*
slmvi'il?Kluckiiii; I lie Yellow Fever
?Toucher Tliun I?ic-C'ru?l.
"It is astonishing," remarked Sam
Colly at the breakfast table, "how extremes
meet in this world."
"To what extremes do you refer, Mr.
Colly?" asked the widow Flapjack, who
was pouring out the colTee.
"Well, you, for instance, arc very stout,
and the colTee is so very thin," and he
stirred up the mixture, and smiled in a
sickly sort of a way.
"It's not as thin as your cxcuses for
not iiuvin<r vour board reirularlv."
Sam has not sai<l "colTee" since.?-Sij'ting*.
How lie Wanted to Be shaved.
The following incident lias been reluted
before, but the Boston G'loin thinks
it will be enjoyed at this time: The late .
Charles OX'onor, soon after he took up ,
his residence at Nantucket, had occu- |
sion to visit one of the barber-shops in
the town. The tonsorial artist, elated at I
the honor he enjoyed in the patronage I
of so distinguished a citizen, greeted |
Mr. O'Oonor in the following garulous
manner:
"(Jood morning, Mr. OX'onor. Fine
morning, sir.''
No answer.
"Think the weather will continue line,
Mr. O'Conor."
No answer.
"We've had a good deal of rain,
sir."
No answer. The great iawyer sat in
the chair.
"Iiow would you like to be shaved?"
inquired the barber, placing a towel
about his new customer's chin.
"I;; silence, sir!" was the stern and
solitary reply.
Blacking the Yellow Fever.
Mental confusion is a phenomenon to
which every one is liable who can be
badly scared, and it takes but very little
of it to turn a tragedy into a farce. Some
' " ipe ?im \vlw>n the terrible "Yellow
Jack'' was in Savannah, Judge B , I
of the supreme court of the Mate, was I
holding session in the upper county, hut I
within twenty-four hours' run, by mail,
of the infected city. Quite suddenly,
late one afternoon, he was seized with a
head-ache, pain in his back, limbs, etc.
Having heard that these were the salutations
which Yellow Jack extends to his
victims when approaching them, the
judge, in great consternation, applied to
a friend, who was "posted," for advice.
A hot mustard bath was ordered at once,
and the judge was soon laving himself
in the irritating iluid.
Presently he felt better, and finding a
cake of soap in the bath tub, ho began
to apply it quite freely upon his person.
After some pleasant exercise in this way,
he looked down for the first time on his
body and limbs, and to his horror discovered
that he was turning black! His
friend was hurriedly sent for, came in,
and declared that the symptoms were intensely
expressive of yellow fever.
"But," said the judge, "I feel no pain;
[ feel well.*'
"So much the worse: the absence of
pain is a marked symptom"
"Oh," groaned the judge, "what shall
I dot"
"The only hope is ill mustard; rub
iway," was all the advice his friend
could give.
Ami he did rub with a will. On examination,
lie was as black as a crow, and
the "soap," which a careless servant had
Iropped into the tub, was discovered to
l)e somebody's patent paste blacking.
The judge survived.
Tmifrluir 'I'llJill
"That horrid Mrs. Sawyer!" said Mrs. |
Jones, the other day. '" I wish she j
ivould move out of the neighborhood."
"Well, what do you run there all the
:ime for? 1 told you how it would be,"
etorted Mr. Jones.
This was not the kind of sympathy
Mrs. Jones expected, and she became
nninouslv silent.
" What has she said about you now?"
inquired Mr. Jones.
"Oh, it's nothing about me," said :
\Irs. Jones.
" Who is it about?" asked Jones, with 1
evident anxiety. 1
"It's about you," resumed Mrs. J. 1
' She says you're no m-irc fit to run for j !
)fticc than a brindle cat, and that if Saw- '
,-er votes for you she'd never sneak to 1
lim again. She says"?
" Never mind," said Jones loftily. ]
4 I'm not the least interested in what a '
ceble-ininded woman says."
But the flat iron had struck home, and
Tones left the table with a look on his
ace that boded no good. 1
It was baking day at the Sawyers'.
If there was anything Mrs. Sawyer 1
jrided herself upon it was the tender, I
laky quality of her paste. Jones knew (
his. 1
Mrs. Sawyer was just rolling that ten- '
ler pie-paste into great sheets of trans- ]
>arcnt dough, when there came a knock 1
it the door. Mrs. Sawyer answered it, ]
olling-piu in hand. It was Willie Jones 1
vho bad knocked. 1
"Please. Mrs. Sawyer," said the inno- j '
;ent child, "pa would like a piece of
our pie-crust." !
"Certainly, Willie," said Mrs. Jones,
nuch flattered, "but it isn't baked '
?f ? | ]
"He doesn't want it baked." 1
'But lie can't eat raw pic-crust.'' *
"He isn't tfoing to cat it." 1
"Then what is he going to do with
t ?" J
"He said he wanted to mend the har- ]
less, and make hinges for the barn door '
vith it, and"
The rolling-pin hung fire, and the boy ,
scaped, but" the barrier between the
louses of Jones and Sawyer can never be ]
roken. It is tougher than pie-crust.? |
'Jetroit Free J'raa.
lircakini; up a Refrigerator ITInn. (
"Fifty dollars to the man who can
>rove tliat any two things put into this j
ce-chcst will taste of the other."
lie had a refrigerator run out to the
curbstone, hung the above sign over each (
ide, and retired in-doors to await the
ixpected run of customers. People
jasscd up and down the street, jostled ^
iach other in their hurry, glanced at the
ce-box and its sign, and?went on. Afer
some hours of disappointed hones and
ixpcctations the dealer saw a pedestrian
lalt, calmly peruse the wonderful anlouncement,
and rather hcsitatinglv ad- '
? tlw. ,1?nP 1
'Do you mean it?" he inquired in nil ]
inxious tone, pointing over his shoulder j
o tlie sign.
"Yes sir-ec," emphatically responded '
lie dealer. (
' Put your money up," insinuated the
>t ranger.
"No, sir," replied the dealer in a ,
pompous style; "my word is as good as !
lie cash." I
"All right, I'll take you." responded
the stranger, as he departed. Some time
ifter he returned with a box under each
irm.
"Stick to your agreement?" he queried.
"Of course I will," answered the
dealer, wondering what in the name of
Christopher Columbus the man had in
view.
Tne stranger set his boxes down on the
sidewalk, and a crowd began to collect.
He told the dealer that he was afraid
that he (the dealer) would back out of
the bargain, but the latter asserted his
readiness to put up the stamps if necessary.
The stranger opened a box,
lifted a cat out and placed her in the refrigerator;
then lie opened the other box
and took therefrom a wire cage containing
a large rat.
"Now, mister," said he. "you just
shut that door in a hurry when 1 Hop the
rat inside, and I'll go you another tifty
that one will taste of the other in less'n
five minutes."
The crowd yelled, and the dealer
slammed the refrigerator door and slid
into the store, with a remark about fools
r??#i ..I We Iff* ?till refuses to recoir
ni/.e the stranger's claim to the $.'50?but
has taken his signs in.?Denrcr UepubliCHI).
One of the Largest Families.
Near this place there lives one of the
largest families in the United States.
Mr. Joel Vaughn has heen married four
times. His lust three wives were all
widows, all of whom had children by
previous husbands, respectively, eight,
seven and four, a total of nineteen.
These four wives bore Mr. Vaughn twenty-seven
children, which, added to the
nineteen step children, gave Mr. Vaughn
control of forty-six children. The old
man is now eighty years of age, and his
youngest child is but an infant. ? Cincinnati
Inquirer.
Mary Allen, of Decatur, Iowa, has
captured fifteen young wolves. There is
nothing sheepish about this young
women.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
Compressed paper pulp is stated to 1>c
one of the least inflammable of substances
and to make an excellent material
for lire-proof doors.
Silk, which is carelessly treated in dyeing
with some artificial colors, loses
much of its luster, as the workmen say,
it is no longer silk, ''it is changed
into cotton/'This can be avoided by the
addition of soap to the dye bath.? Tartile
ItcconUr.
M. de Fonvicllc has suggested the following
method of detecting infernal machines:
All luggage to be placed 011
wooden tables supported by iron feet, but
not nailed to them. A microphone to be
placed on each of the tables, when any
ticking or ether noise proceeding from
the luggage would at once become audible.
Mr. J. K. Cowell, of UufTalo, points
out the remarkable freedom of the but
ternuts from the insect attacks. The
oak is preyed on by some 230 kinds of insects,
the elm by -IT. the nine by 110,the
willow hy till, the maple?the most l'rce
generally of all trees, by :i8: but the
butternut receives the attention of only
about 20.
(Jlass is now given the appearance of
marble by applying a mixture of varnish
and oil to the surface of a basin of
water, and blowing or spraying it with
dry-colored powders to represent the
mottled or veined aspect of marble. The
glass after being coated on one surface
with varnish is placed face downward on
the water-film, which immediately adheres
to the plate and is fixed by the varnish.
In Italy an extensive business is carried
on in drying tomatoes to use during
those portions of the year when the ripe
fruit cannot be obtained. Tomatoes arc
raised for the most part between rows of
grape vines: so that the land for their
culture costs nothing. Sometimes the
tomato vines arc trained on the lower
OarS 01 U xrcilis 10 WHICH KrujJi;:> uiu iiutached.
The tomatoes are allowed to remain
on the branches till they are quite
ripe, when they arc picked and pressed
in bags made of coarse cloth, which allows
the pulp to pass through, but which
retains the seed and skins. The pulp
is then thinly spread out on cloths,
boards, or in shallow dishes, and exposed
to the sun to dry. When it has become
quite dry it is broken up fine or ground
and put into bags or boxes and sent to
the market. A large part of it is used
for making soups, but considerable of it
is employed as we do tomatoes that are
preserved in tin or glass cans. It is
soaked for a few hours in warm
water and then cooked in the ordinary
manner. Large quantities arc used for
home consumption, and considerable is
exported.
A (iiiTs Horrible Fate.
Henry Carson and his daughter Kitty
lived in the wilds of Wautauga county,
X. C., half a dozen miles from any human
habitation. Old man Carson raised
tobacco and cotton sufficient to support
his household with the necessaries of
life, and ull his spare time he spent in
hunting bears and other game. Miss
Kitty was a pretty girl and smart, considering
the disadvantages under which
she had always labored, and was a general
favorite among the backwoods
swains, half a dozen of whom were always
at her foet. One day recently Miss
Kitty disappeared, and these were ugly
rumors in the air to the effect that she
had eloped with a young man fmm Murphy,
who had been frequently seen in
those parts and against whom it was
known old man Carson had a "grudge *'
of some kind. When her father was
asked what had become of the young
girl he simply remarked that he supposed
"she had skipped." Carson was tramping
through one of the great nameless
swamps of the county one day, following
some bear tracks, when a sight met his
eyes that transfiAd him with horror. In
a depression of the swamp from which
the water had recently receded were the
remains of a human body, the entire upper
part of which above the waist had
been eaten away by wild animals. From
the remains of clothing Carson recognized
all that was left of his daughter.
Crazed with grief, he carried the news
to the nearest settlement, and a party of
neighbors assisted him to bring the
mangled remains home. It is supposed
that Miss Kitty became entangled in the
mire and was unable to extricate herself,
inrl that while in this utterly helpless
position bears or other animals had killed
iier and eaten as much of the body as
then remained above the water. Evidences
of a severe struggle were present
in the trampled down bushes and torn
ind bloody clothes.
The Zodiacal Light.
The cause of the luminous phenomenon
known as the zodiacal light has
long been the subject of speculation, and
numerous hypothesis have been suggested
to account for it. A corrcspondLiut
Cotww ilea Months regards the entire
phenomenon as one of the reflection of
light. What \vc observe is nothing but
reflection of that part of the earth which
is illuminated shortly before the sun
rises and after it sets. In order to
understand this wc must assume that
[he earth is surrounded for a certain
distance by a comparatively dense envelope
of gas, beyond which the latter
exists in a state of great attenuation.
\Ve therefore have two media of different
ilensity which influence the rays of light
in the well-known way, refracting them
up to a certain limiting angle of incidence,
beyond which total reflection
takes place.
If we imagine the sun a little below the
iiorizon. a part of the earth directly in
Iront of us will reflect the rays of the
>un at a very obtuse angle; these rays
meeting the boundary of the media at a
very obtuse angle, will be totally reflected.
and it is these totally reflected
rays which wc see.
This explains the appearance of the
light in the shape of a cone whose line
is always inclined in the direction of the
ecliptic, and whose base is toward the
sun; it also accounts for the fact that the
changes observed in its appearance follow
a reverse order in the evening from
hat in the morning. The reason why the
:one is longer in the evening than in
li/i mni-ninir ic tlif. lnVVT nf tTlO. floilSn
itmosphcre is expanded by reason o( its
exposure to the sun's radiation through
;hc entire day, whereas in the morning
t he reverse is the case.
The (.reeks of 01<1.
The physical superiority of the antcMexandrian
Greeks to the hardest and
most robust nations of modern times, is
perhaps best illustrated by the military
statistics of Xenophon. According to
the author of the A/kiIhuiLi, the complete
accoutrements of a Spartan soldier in
what we would call heavy marching
>rdcr, weighed seventy-live pounds, exclusive
of the camp, mining, and bridgeImilding
tools, and the rations of bread
ind dried fruit, which were issued in
weekly installments, and increased the
burden of the infantry soldier to ninety,
ninety-live, or even to a full hundred
pounds. This loud was often carried at
the rate of four Knglish miles an hour
for twelve hours per diem, day after day;
und only in the burning deserts of Southern
Syria, the commander of the Grecian
auxiliaries thought it prudent to shorten
the usual length of a day's march by onefourth.
Ti e gymnastic tests applied by
the systanchus, or recruiting olKcer of a
picked corps, would appear more preposterous
to the uniformed exquisite of a
modern "crack regiment." Kvcn tall,
well-shaped men of the soundest constitution,
could not pass the preliminary
examination unless they were able to
jump their own height vertically and
thrice their own length horizontally, and
two-thirds of those instances in full
sirmor; pitch a weight cijiuil to one-third
of their own, to a distance of twenty
yards, and throw a javelin with such
dexterity that they would not miss a
mark the size of a man's head more than
four out of ten times at a distance of
fifty yards, lieside other tests referring
to their expertness in the use of the how
and the broadsword.?Pojittlur Science
Monthly.
An Instructive Table.
Dr. Lauder Hruntoa speaks very forcibly
on the subject of intemperance and
points out the evil effects of stimulants
upon the health of the persons who cannot
be called intemperate, yet who are
in constant habit of taking very small
quantities of wines, beer or spirit at all
hours throughout the day. The following
table of comparative mortality is instructive:
An intemperate jhtsoii's A temperate ix-i-son's
chance of living is: chance of living is:
At 20?15.0 years. At 20?44.2 years.
At HO?1H.K years. At HO?.'Jti.5 years.
4 ^ 4<i 11 i* Af 1/1 ?)WC
/ax -iii?li.u y urn's. nt -tm?jiui
At 50?10.8 years. At 50?21.25 years.
At 50?8.y years. At t>0?14.285years.
An exchange says that the famous
monkey of the Jardin des Plantes has
"joined the great majority of Monkeys."
Become a "dude," we presume.?New
York Graphic.
MANY TEARS Iff A CAVE.
CABEJ2B OF A PENNSYLVANIA HERMIT.
1
Story off a Sirnujro MIc?llwtcncd a
From SlnrvuliiMi Only to Ucdim \
lo tliv Old llniuilN. I
A recent Milford (Penn.) letter to the \
Philadelphia Timet, says: Six or seven \
iniles uj> in the mountains back of Rris- f
coe's hotel, near Dingraan's, Pike county, t
lives a hermit, long known as the "Leh- i
nvm " Anstin Sheldon, the sub- i
ject of this skcteh, and no doubt a nuin
that has furnished more news articles for
the press than any ten men in I ennsylvania,
came to Mil ford about forty-live
years ago. Where he came from was a
mystery to all, us he was a most quiet
and reserved nihil, seldom or never mingling
with the residents of that (piaint old
town, and never on any occasion speaking
of himself. He soon purchased a
small farm in the vicinity of Rlooming
Grove and worked the same alone, living
a most retired life and having no intercourse
with the outside world, lie
rarely cani3 to Milford and when occasion
demanded his presence at this place
he transacted his business and immediately
left for his little farm. He was
never visited by relatives or friends, and
held no intercourse with passers-by.
That he was an educated man, any one
coining in contact with him could tell,
as lie used the best of language whenever
compelled to speak.
lie soon tired of this farm life, and disposing
of his property took up his residence
in a rude cave on the side of the
mountains. Here he lived on what he
could get by fishing and hunting. The
mountains in these parts are wild and
rocky and have long been the haunts of
huntsmen. Many mountain streams also
abound, and Sheldon has been seen by
hunters in the pursuit of game. One
dreary winter he was found by a party of
hunters in his miserable abode nearly
starved and suflering from a low fever. J
He was conveyed down the mountain 1
side, where he received the kindly atten- 1
tions of the Dingman's people.
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his abode among the hills in the old cave I
where lie had passed so many dreary 1
years. He never could be induced to 1
speak of his family or friends, even by j
those who had restored him to life, and
when the subject was broached in any
manner, that moment was a signal for his
departure. Hut a few years ago, comparatively,
his friends got traces of him,
and, after arriving at his miserable hovel,
they used every inducement anu every
argument to get him to again return to i
his native home, take up his residence ,
among them and again be welcomed back !
to the life that was better suited to him. :
He flatly refused to do anything of the
sort and the relatives had to return to
their Eastern home without him, after j
amply providing for his wants. When ,
in this village the relatives disclosed a (
few facts that cleared up, in a measure, ,
the .strange man's life. The relatives .
stated that Sheldon was an educated j
man, of Connecticut. When pressed as .
to what part of Connecticut he belonged,
they said that they preferred not to men- ]
tion the town. In speaking of him they ,
told the following story of his early life: ,
Sheldon, when a young man, had (
married a most beautiful young girl, and ,
before the honeymoon was fairly past the j
young man,who idolized his young wife, ]
was suddenly bereft of reason by her sad (
death. lie was from home one day a ,
few weeks after the marriage when a (
terrific thunder shower came up. Great .
streams of lightning darted across the ,
heavens and the thunder and lightning ,
were terrible. The young wife, alone in <
her home, was prostrated with fear and ]
shortly after her reason became de- (
throned. All that medical skill and ,
loving attention from husband and friends
could do availed nothing, and ,
the poor wife died a raving maniac a j
few weeks after in a mad house. ,
From this time forth Sheldon was a ]
changed man. He never spoke lo any .
one and was barely civil to his family. ,
He disposed of his business and prop- ]
erty in Connecticut, and, with a team of
horses and an old wagon, sought a home
in the wilderness. lie found the retreat
he so eagerly sought in the Pike county
hills, where lie has lived and made his
second home for forty-live years. Having
no one to communicate with, his !
mind now becoming unsettled, he took
to studying the Riole. So expert has he j
become that he can recite whole chapters
of the Sacred Hook without the dis- '
placement of a word. Selections quoted
from the liiblc will be located instantly, J
as soon as spoken. His whole talk was '
on religion and religious topics, and he
would talk on no other subject.
Last autumn the old gentieman had
another bad sickness, and alone and in '
his miserable hovel, without even the 1
necessaries of life, he must have starved ;
had he not been found by a party of '
sportsmen and again conveyed to Ding- '
man's, where the good people received
him. and communicated with his sister
in a Connecticut town. The lady was J
prompt in coming on, and nursed him (
with a sister's devotion. He was very
feeble nnd emaciated after the fever left ^
him, and the sister, with no little persuasion,
backcd by gentle force, sue- j
ceeded in getting the poor fellow to (
accompany her to her Eastern home. ^
Here he again met with the kindest care ,
and,attention, and although he was now (
past seventy-live years of age, the change j
in air, surroundings and diet worked
1~ r?_ 0 ???. mnn 1
inarvuis iui imii, uuu uu ??<?o c% uuh uu*u j
once more. No sooner had he regained
his health than the longing for the old
life back in the mountains, in the dreary (
cave, seized tipon him. He was constantly
annoying his relatives to bring j
him back, so that he might end his days ,
in the adopted home among the hills.
Every one he came in contact with had
to hear the old story over and over
again. At last, worn out by his entreaties
and supplications, the sister
was won over and promised to !
bring him back to Pennsylvania.
A few days ago, dressed in a new 1
suit of clothes, cleanly shaven and 1
accompanied by the faithful sister, he '
arrived back in Milford, on his way to '
Dingman's Ferry, there to return to the 1
wild, savage life that seemed to suit him 1
so well. His eyes fairly danced with '
delight as he beheld the familiar out- '
lines of the Pike county hills and trod 1
the heath so welcome to his weary feet. 1
So anxious was he to take up his abode (
in the old hut that lie could not eat the '
bountiful repast spread for himself and \
relatives at the Saw Kill house, in this
borough. He paced restlessly up and 1
down the streets, eagerly awaiting the 1
stage to carry him on his journey "home- 1
ward," as he expressed it. He grasped
the hands of some of the old settlers of \
this quaint old town and nodded to many
more whom he recognized.
Soon the grent lumbering: stage for {
Dingman's arrived in siffht and the old
man was the first to board it. ^ lie now J
chatted to his sister and the other occupants
in a lively vein until Dingman's
was reached, when he v/as let down and j
again found his way to the old spot.
Arriving here, lie fell on his knees and '
thanked his Maker that He had spared
him to again enjoy the old haunts, and
with a solemn vow never to leave the
place until convcvcd away dead, he
took an affectionate leave of his beloved
sister. The parting, as described by '
witnesses, was a most affecting one, and (
drew tears from all present, it is safe to '
say that if he has his choice be will '
never again return to civilization, but '
will die as he has lived for forty-five ]
years, a hermit among the wilds of the 1
I'ike county mountains.
The Schoolmaster's Promise.
"Boys," said an old schoolmaster, .
smiling, one day, "I am about to bargain |
with you for good conduct, I desire that j
you will behave yourselves with decorum |
for one week, and 1 will promise to show j
you a curiosity?what no man ever saw, ^
and, having shown it to you, what no (
man will ever see again. An anxious ^
week followed?a week of curiosity, bewiklermcnl,
hope, and pleasure in em- (
bryo. Out of school it was all the talk? j
"What could it he?" Another and another
day, until the last Saturday dawned j
upon our gladdened young hearts. Nine
o'clock came; every urchin was at his j
post; books and slates all in readiness; ^
every task committed to memory. Altogether
a charming state of alTairs. 1'Tinkle,
tinkle!" sounded the bell?that bell
had a voice as well as a tongue. .Mr.
Birchen entered, seated himself, then
raised the lid of his desk, and drew the '
wonderful thinir forth?adjusted his oin- r
inous-looking spectacles astraddle his
nasal protection, and proceeded to the
solemn ceremony, saying, "The hour has
at length arrived. Behold in my upraised a
linger a single filbert. In this lilbert is a 1
kernel," ceremoniously breaking the r
shell, and exposing the tiny thing to view, n
he continued: "This no man ever saw;"
then opening his capacious jaws he thrust
in the mysterious kernel, crushed and '
swallowed it. "Jioys!" exclaimed lie, with r
great emphasis, "boys, you will never?I
shall never?no mau ever will see that
kernel again! To your lessons, you ras- '
cals, every one of you." 1
Yellowstone Park.
This park?wonderland as it is called
-large as a European principality, has
>een but partially explored; and new dis:overies
arc sure to be made. I have the
.ssurancc from competent and trustvorthy
men, that, since shooting at game is
irohibited, the lakes will soon be alive
vitli wild geese, ducks, swans, and other
vatcr-fowl, and the meadows and plains
nil of Buffalo, deer, antelope, elk, and
he wild big-horn sheep, with bears also,
mlcss they arc excepted from the order
)rcventing the killing of game.
The present roads arc to a lnrge extent
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Icfcctivc, and tho constniction atro:ious;
but the government has lately put
he roads under the charge of Lieutenant
vingman, who is said to be a very com>eteut
engineer. We met him in the
>ark. He is a young man of agreeable
nanners, intelligence, and energy, and
nuch may be expected from his NewEngland
industry and ambition of suc:ess.
There can be no doubt that increasing
lumbers will visit this interesting region
is the facilities of transit and hotel ac:ommodations
increase; and it is to be
loped that scientific men will be able be'ore
long to satisfy themselves and the
,vorld as to whether the geysers and boilng
pools come of the chemical action of
ivatcr upon lime and other minerals, or
"rom internal fires kept burning in the
:arth.
As you drive through the park you
A'ill see miles upon miles of thick, tall
forest, covering an area of more than a
hundred thousand acres, in which every
:ree is dead, not a living branch or leaf
ippearing. The trees stand thick and
lpright, their limbs firm, and the fine
bushy spray nearly pcrfccl even to the
;nds of their branches; their color is ashy
white, and in the moonlight they seem
ike forest corpses standing erect where
the blast of death had struck them ?11 at
)ncc. On many hillsides you will see
Forests longer dead, prostrate by the
winds, covering the ground thickly as
ivheat-straws on a cradled field.
You need not travel to Yellowstone
lake to catch trout in a cold stream, and
boil them in a pool, without changing
your tracks: you can do it on the
banks of the Gardner river, within
two miles of the Mammoth Hotel.?
1 'Fifth Avenue to Alaakft."
The R080 Farms of India.
"Genuine attar of roses," remarked a
New York chemist, -'which is made in
India and Australia, cost one hundred
ilollars an ounce at the places of distillation.
It takes oO, 000 rose blooms to yield
in ounce of attar. They are the common
roses, and grow in great profusion in California,
where the distillation of attar
:ould be made a very profitable industry.
1 have seen hedge rows near Samona, in
that State, so dense with these roses that
the odor from them on a warm, sultry
lay caused a feeling of peculiar faintness
md oppression in the passer by. This is
the effect of the attar that is distilled by
the heat aud moist air, and is held suspended,
as it were, in the atmosphere.
"There is money in that causc of faintness
and indolence, but in this country
not only the sweetness, but the great
value of the flowers, is wasted on the
lesert air. In Northern India the roses
ire regularly cultivated. They arc planted
in rows in lields, and require no particular
care. When they begin to bloom they
ire picked before mid-dav. The work is
i . -i ?i.: i A 0??m
_ione i)y women jiin.* uuiiuibM, uuw
to regard it more its a plcasujc than a
pursuit of labor. The rose leaves are disrilled
in twice their weight of water,
ivhicli is drawn off into open vessels.
These :ire allowed to stand over night,
being covered up with cloths to keep out
lirt and insects. In the morning the
ivater is coated with a thin oily film.
This is the rare attar of roses. It is
skimmed oil with a fine feather and
dropped into vials. The process continues
daily until the bushes cease to
l)loom. So it may well be imagined that
my cssence of oil that requires the distilling
of 0,000 roses to fill an ounce vial
1:1s a right to have a good price set upon
it."?Ncio York Sun.
Diet for Athletes.
In Doctor Sargent's recent lecture on
''What Shall We Eat to Get Strong?" he
said in the course of his remarks: "It
lias been customary to train athletes
in lean beef and mutton, but he thought
this a mistake, as tissuc-makipg food
should be used in combination with
these, and the diet should be so changed
is to meet the requirements of the organism
of the person using it, for to
establish one diet for all persons was
ridiculous. Beef alone is not superior
to meal, beans, or other farinaceous food,
ind the size of the muscles of a man
is not indicative of his strength.
Farinaceous food tones a man down,
ind will tend to give him more eiulurince.
A man who can strike a blow
uqual to four hundred pounds would be
called a strong man, but this strength
cannot be kept up for any length of
time on animal food, as it comes from
the base of the brain, and endurance
must be sought for in other kinds of
food. To reduce the weight of a man in
training lean meats may do, but when
lie is down in weight he must go back
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ham and sausages, which should always
be eaten cold. Three years ago
this would have been considered ridiculous
by trainers, but for a diet for running,
walking and rowing it has been
found that saccharine food, with beef or
mutton is the best; tea, coffee and aljohol.
as well as condiments, are objectionable;
indeed, it is not the quantity
af food a person eats that strengthens
tiiin, but the amount assimilated and
worked into the organism.?Harvard
Ucruld.
Galls' Eggs as ft Food Dainty.
Judge Sawyer has dccidcd that the
ejectment by United States Marshal
Poole of the egg-gatherers from the
South Farallon Island was right. Gathering
of gull eggs is now confined to the
two smaller Farallones, the gatherers not
being allowed upon the larger, where
the eggs arc the most numerous. This
makes the supply here much less than
the demand. The season for gull eggs
Jid not this year come in before the first
sf June. The value of gull egirs in this
market is about thirty and thirty-live
icnts per dozen, or the same as chicken
?ggs. From ten to twelve hundred
dozen a week arc gathered in the season.
These are sold not altogether to hotels
ind restaurants, as is supposed, but are
extensively used by individuals. They !
ire a very strong food, and therefore
niluablc in cooking, though many have
tastes too sensitive to successfully cope
with the gull in an egg state, even when
t J...i ii
sUrOUUCU 111 IUU misiiiicn ui it
jiistird or a German pancake,
"There arc many ])ioneers who lived
an gull eggs in the early days," said a
['lay street dealer, "and they look for
the egg season to open with the same impatience
as a young girl awaits a new
jonnet. These eggs are their mcdicant
ind they would have boils and spring
fever if they coulil not get them."'?Sun
Francisco Past.
A Mexican Pyramid.
Fresh proofs are reported to have been
liscovercd of the existence of an ancient
civilization in Mexico. In Sonora, about
sixty miles southeast of the town of
Madeline, some explorers have found in
be heart of a virgin forest a pyramid,
tvliich is feet around the base and
MO feet high?that is to say, nearly
lonblc the size of the great pyramid of
Jlieops. From the base to (he summit
here is a roadway 011 which vehicles can
ravel round the vast erection in a spiral.
The outside walls are built of granite
docks carefully tooled and bedded. A
ittle further olT is a hillock, with
liindreds of caverns or chambers cut in
t, from live to fifteen feet wide and ten
0 fifteen feet long. They have no winlows,
and arc entered by the roof. The
vail are covered with hieroglyphics and
unions pictures with the feet and hands
if men. Stone utensils have also been
ound there. Who the builders of these
mcient monuments are is still unsettled,
>ut according to El Liberal, thev probibly
belong ti> Mayos. who formerly inhibited
Sonora, and were a different race
havirtf blue eves, a
vhite skin and blonde hair.
A Regiment.
"J'a," said a little Kentucky hoy,
'what is the title of a man who comnands
a regiment?"
"Colonel, my son.
"Do you command a regiment?''
"Yes, somewhat. 1 don't command {
. regiment of soldiers," the colonel ex- J
daincd. "We are having times of peace
low, you know. I only command your
namma."
"Is my mamma a regiment?"
"Yes, indeed," lie replied with a sigh; !
'your mamma is a regiment?a whole j
egiment."?J'/ii/whl/ihi<i Ktinimj ('nil.
II is noted as an interesting fact that I
iie wages of sin have not been cut down I
o any perceptible extent. I
THE SIGN.
"When you are dead, ray darling,
When over you has grown
The grass to liide your face away
Beneath a grave's white stone?
When, where your dear feet often trod
You may not tread again,
And you are in the world of (JoI
And I the world of men;
Oh, then, if by your grave. doai-r
I speak some loving word,
I pray you, givo some sign to me
To tell me that you heard."
"Dear, if you kneel beside mo
And whisjx?r, thro' the mold
Alwve me any tender words
I loved to hear of old?
If 111 the grasses growing
Above my place of rest
Some little flower should blossom,
Some flower you loved the liest,
The while you kneel lieside me
And sjwak your loving word,
Oh, you will see it, darling,
And you will know I heard!"
?Eben E. Harford.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
l -M-1 J.
Miorc meatcr?a uisnonesi wnuiui. i
Men who hutc long sentences?Criminals.
Straw hats show which way the wind
blows.
Batter is so cheap that the poorest
people can make a spread with it.?Picayune.
The hand that rocks a cradle is the
hand that can't stone a hen with any success.?Nctc
York Journal.
C'urlylesays: "Laughter means sympathy."
This will bring comfort to the
man who has inadvertently trodden on a
banana peel.?Boston Pont.
"Trust men and they will trust you,"
said Ralph Waldo Emerson. "Trust
men and they will bust you," says an ordinary,
every-day business man.?Saturday
Night.
"The female giraffe," says the Bismarck
Tribune, "has a tongue seventeen
inches long, but she can't talk." Now
we know why a giraffe wears such a sad
and subdued expression.
how oleo is made.
"My name is oleomargarine,
I'm mighty nice to handle;
And when they want to make mo
They milk a tallow candle."
?Merchant-Traveler.
Queen Victoria is said to have nineteen
granddaughters. When the old lady and
her erranddauirhters get on a street car a
good many loyal Britons have to hang on
to the straps ?Courier-Journal.
A Vermont woman, who was thrown
out of a runaway team, was found in an
apple tree uninjured. This is the first
time a woman was ever known to climb
a tree under the influence of fright.?
Burlington Free Frew.
THE APPLES GREEN*. \
The small boy looks with longing eyes
Uj)on the apples green,
Ho will not touch them if he's wise,
For lurking at the core there lies
Colics and cramps unseen.
?Chicago Sun.
"Arc you having much practice now?'
asked an old judge of a young lawyer.
" Yes, sir, a good deal, thank you." "Ah,
I'm glad to hear it. In what line i9 your
practice particularly?" ' Well, sir, particularly
in economy."
"Did the lion and the lamb ever lie
down together?" asked a young hopeful
who had just returned from Sundayschool.
"Ye, my son," answered the
father; "but the lamb was out of si^ht."
The boy was satisfied.?Peck's Sun.
ABOUT THE SIZE OF IT.
There's a street in New York known as Wall,
c e rrn 11
rur iiiiinjuA iwi r>uiutuiuiv? b>ui.
Where men who go in
Intending to win
Come out with just nothing at all.
?Louisville Courier-Journal.
"Ah!" exclaimcd an old miner who
went up in the air on the wing of a
prematurely discharged blast, "this makes
me feel homesick." "Howao!" gasped
his companion, who involuntarily accompanied
him. "Because it's the biggest
blowing-up I've had since I left my
wife in the States."?New York Journal.
It is said that just before a Hindoo
woman dies u cow is brought in that she
may take hold of its tail as her life passes
away. Anybody who has been yanked
over a two-acre lot of newly-plowed
Jiind, deathlessly gripping the tail of an
impulsive cow, can understand how the
heathen rite is supposed to typify the
longing of a person to die.?llockland
I Courier.
\ 'Milk, in the manufactured ice-cream,
j is first boiled and afterward partially
I congealed. In the boiling a lacteal acid
j of baterhu is set free that, uniting with
i a hvpo-sulphide of buteric oxide, again
solidities iis a bi-sulphide of stumakake
in the congealing. This, when taken
into the system, produces cramps, frequently
ending fatally. (Show this to
your girl.)
Forks.
Some of our readers may be surprised
to learn that the use of forks at the table
was not introduced into England earlier
than the reign of James I., and that this
piece of refinement was derived from the
Italians. The fact appears from the following
curious extract from a book entitled,
"Coryat's Crudities, hastily gobbled
up in five moneths-travells in France,
Savoy, Italy. Khsetia, Helvetia, (Switzerland),
some parts of High Germany,
and the Netherlands." The book was
first published in 1011. "Here I will
mention," says the traveler, "a thing that
might have been spoken of before in discourse
of the first Italian towne. I observed
a custom in all those Italian cities
and townes through which I passed, that
is not used in any other country that I
saw in my travels; neither do I think
that any other nation of christendome
doth use but only Italy. The Italian
and also most strangers that are comraorant
in Italy, do alwaies at their
mcales use a little forke when they cut
their meatc. For while with their
knife, which they hold in one hand
they cut the meatc out of the dish, they
fasten their forke, which they hold in
their other hand, upon the same dish.
So that whatsoever he be that sitting
in the company of any others at meale,
should unadvisedly touch the dish of
meatc with his lingers from which all
doe cut, he will give occasion of offense
unto the company, as having transgressed
the laws of good manners; insomuch
that for his error he shall be
at least brow-beaten, if not reprehended
in words. This forme of feeding, I understand,
is generally used in all places
in Italy, their forkes being for the
most part made of yron or Steele, and
some of silver; but those arc used only
by gentlemen. The reason of this their
curiosity is, because the Italian cannot
1... '.0..0 Siirlnrn fr> Imvn his dish
touched with finyers, seeing all men's j
lingers are not alike cleane. Hereupon
I myself thought good to initiate the
Italian fashion by this forlcl cutting of
mcate, not only while i wns in Italy, but
I also in Germany, and oftentimes in England
since I came home; being onci*
I quipped for that frequent using of my
I forke by a certain le:irned gentleman, a
familiar friend of mine, one master Laurence
Whitaker, who in his merry humor
doubted not at table to call me Purcifer,*
only for using a fork, at feeding, but for
no other cause."
The use of forks w;<s much ridiculed j
in England, as an HTeminate piece of j
linery; in one of Heaumont and Fletch- j
er's plays, ''your fork carving traveler" 1
is spoken of with much contempt; and i
Hen Jonson has joined in the laugh
against them in his ''Devil's an Ass."
Meereraft says to (iilthcad and Sledge,
"Have t deserved this from yon two for all
My pains at court to get you such a patent?
(tiitlieail?For what.'
Meereraft?U|xjii my project of the forkes.
Sledge?Forks.' What be they.'
Meereraft?The laudable list- of forks.
lirouglit into custom here as they are in
Italy.
To the sparing o' napkins."
'"I'lireifer literally meant a slave, who for
pMillSnmOllG <>I M'llll' I.lllll, na-Mimm- ii.iau;
(i fork or gallows upon his neck through the
city, with his hnnils tied to it, hence it came
to signify generally n rogue; a villain.?
L'hictiijo Eye.
Chinese Nomenclature.
'The names one sees scattered over town
projecting on shingles from the Chinese
laundries," says a writer in the Philadelphia
Tim?*, "arc not the names of the
proprietors, as many suppose, but of the
laundries. They try to get a high-sounding
title, just as people in this country I
do with a new hotel or other enterprise, j
'Sam Wall' means the three harmonics,
which is the leading idea of Huddhism?
heaven, earth and man. 'Sam Hop'
means the threefold union. 'Sam Lc'
means the threefold profit. 'Van I,c or
Li' (they vary in the spelling according
to the district they come from) means
profit a thousandfold. '1 pun van li'
means '1 capital, 10,000 for profit.* 'Hop i
Li'means harmony and profit. Few, if J
any, of the Chinamen in the Kastern i
cities have any name. They are of the I
vagrant class, the lowest of the low. I
THE 8TAGE-DEITEB'S STORY.
How General ficotfa Life wu Hared and
How Hla Driver Twice Eacapcd Death.
The traveler of the pnsentday, as he is hurried
along by the lightning express, in itB buffet
cars and palace sleepers, seldom reverts in
thought to the time when the stage coach and
packet were the only means of communication
between distant points. It is rare that one of
the real old time stago-drivers is met with nowa-rlnvH.
and when the writer recently^ ran
across layette Haskell, of Lockport, N. Y., he
felt like a bibliographer over the discovery of
some rare volume of "forgotten lore.'" Mr.
Haskell, although one of the pioneers in stage
driving (he formerly ran from Lewistonto
Niagara Falls and Buffalo), is hale and hearty
and bids fair to live for many years. The strange
stories of his early adventurea would fill a volume.
At one time when going down a mountain,
near Lewiston, with no less a personage
than General Scott as a passenger, the brakes
gave way and the coach camo on the heels of
the wheel horses. The only remedy was to
whip the lenders to a gallop. Gaining additional
momentum with each revolution of the
wheels the coach swayed and pitched down
the mountain side and into the streets of Lewiston.
Straight ahead at the foot of the steep
hill flowed the Niagara river, toward which
the four horses dashed, apparently to
certain death. Yet the firm naud never
relaxed its hold nor the clear brain
its conception of what must be done in
the emergency. On dashed the horses until
the narrow dock was reached on the river
bank, when by a masterly exhibition of nerve
and daring, the coach was turned in scarce its
own length, and the horses brought to a stand
still before the pale lookers-on could realize
what had occurred. A purse was raised by
General Scott and presented to Mr. Haskell
with high compliments for his skill and braNotwithstanding
all his strength and his
robust constitution, the strain of continuous
work and exposure proved too much for Mr.
Haskell's constitution. The constant jolting
of the coach and the necessarily cramped position
in which he was obliged to sit, contributed
to this end, and at times he was
obliged to abandon driving altogether.
Speaking of this period ne saia:
"I found it almost impossible to sleep at
night; my appetite left me entirely,andIhad
a tired feeling which I never knew before,
and could not account for."
"Did you give up driving entirely?"
"No. I tried to keep up, but it was only
with the greatest effort This state of things
continued for nearly twenty years until last
October, when I went all to pieces."
"In what way?"
"Oh, I doubled all up; could not walk without
a cane and was incapable of any effort or
exertion. I had a constant desire to urinate
I both day and night and although I felt like
passing a gallon every ten minutes only a few
drops could escape and they thick with sediment.
Finally it ceased to flow entirely and I
thought death was very near."
"What did you do then f
"What I should have done long before : listen
to my wife. Under her advice I began a
new treatment."
"And with what result I"
"Wonderful. It unstopped the closed passages,
and what was still more wonderful regulated
the flow. The sediment vanished; my
appetite returned and I am now weu ana
good for twenty more years wholly through
the aid of Warners' Safe Cure that has done
wonders for me as well aa for so many
others."
Mr. Haskell's experience Is repeated every
day in the lives of thousands of American men
and women. An unknown evil is undermining
the existence of an innumerable number
who do not realize the danger they are in until
health has entirely departed and death perhaps
stares them in the face. To neglect
such important matters is like drifting
in the current of Niagara above the
Falls.
In a letter to the Brituh Medical, Journal,
Dr. Armitage refers to the occupations
of blind persons as being, in many
cases, of an extraordinary character.
Among these specified are six painters
(artists), two dentists, one photographer,
twenty-nine coachmen, one hostler, one
fisherman, one sculptor and two loaders
of wagons. He knows a blind man who
buys poultry on commission, and knew
one, now dead, who was a dealer in
horses on a large scale.
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with great results; had Heart Disease for nine
years, so bad could not lay down.?John
McGuff, Pike Station, 0." Tne Heart Regulator
cures all forms of Heart Disease, nervousness
and sleeplessness.
A secret society of French, Irish and
Arabs meet daily at Cairo:
Many ladies who for years had scarcely
ever enjoyed the luxury of feeling well have
been renovated by the use of Lydia Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound.
The conductors of horse-cars in Valparaiso,
Chili, are women.
Dr. Graves' Heart Regulator cures all forms
of Heart Disease, nervousness, sleeplessness.
The Boers have made Cetewayo's son king
of Zululand.
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No medicine has ever been known so ef
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from an impure condition of the blood as
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scrofula, white swellings, rheumatism, pimSles,
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iseases, consumption, goitre, boils, cancers,
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a disagreeable discharge from my nostrils:
am free frompain in my eyes and head.
?John W. Lane, Hardware Merchant, Newton,
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I have been a sufferer for years with Catarrh,
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Children,slow in development.puuy,scrawny
and delicate, use " Wells' Health Renewer."
See Here. Young Men.
that girl of mine is twice as handsome since
she commenced using Carboline, the deodorized
extract of Petroleum, and I would not be
without it for a fortune.
Piso's Cure for Consumption does not dry
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Rheumatism.?"Wilson's Wonder" cures
in 8 hours, or money returned. Sent on receipt
of IS. Medicine depot, 99 Park street, N. Y.
Night .Sweats.
Headache/fever, chills, malaria, dyspepsia,
j cured by "Wells'JHealth Renewer." #1.
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also as a preventive against fever and ague and
other intermittent fevers, the.uFerro-Phosphorated
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I Glass floors are l>eing laid in the stores of
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Hot Weather
Is now here, with all its depressing and debilitating
effects, If your blood has not be?n purified and your
system strengthened by the use of Hood's Sarsaparilla,
tike this reliable medicine before it is too lato. It wilI
correct biliousness, cure dyspepsia and drire scrofula
from the blood.
"Tired All the Time"
"I had no appetito or strength and folt tired all tho
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Hut an soon as I had taken half a bottle of Hood's Sarsaparilla
my appetite was restored and my stomach felt
better. I have now taken nearly three bottles and I
never wan so well in my lifo. I would not be without
Hood's Sarsaparilla for twice its oost."?Mrs. Jessie
V. DoldeaRK, Pascoag, R. I.
"1 am having a good sale of Hood's Sarsaparilla this
spring. In fact, it ix ss staple as sugar and tea."?R.
S. MEACBAM, Fittsford, Vt.
Hood's Sarsaparilla
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at.t. REMEDY, the BtAttmni?i
aohend Bow?jl?
~ " epeedlly regain their
?y etrength, end the
TKJ! blood U purified. P
BDnmi It 1* pronounced by
t.i v in hundred* of the beet
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OT^ZrY wn^ol Kidney Dto.
OEOllTB jt ii purely vegeDBOP8Y
tableland curce when
GEAVEL other medicine* fklL
EIAB1TZS It 1* prepared ?iKBIGEfT'8
preeely for theee die*
rmmiw eeeee,end hee new
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HUNTS (Kidney and Liver) REMEDY
li<ui nared from lingering disoaae and death handled*
who here boen given np by physician* to die.
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: jpfk VEGETABLE COMPOUND
ISAPOSITIVB CDEZrOE***
* Igs ,1* All thono painful Complaint*
* and Wraknemea 10 common*
* * *** to our beat
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/ FHm $1 la IlfiM, pin ?r basaft&nh
It* purport*! it tolelu for the legitimate healing of
ilUrate aiul the relief of puin. and that it doet ail
it claim4 to do, thousands of ladle* can gladly testify.
It wlLl cure entirely oil Ovarian trouble*, Inflammation
and Ulceration, Filling and Displacements, and
cmtequeni Spinal Wealfnem, and If particularly adapted
to tho CTianco of Life. ?
* It removes Falntnesx-Flatnlencr, destroys all craving
for stlmulmtj, and relieves Weakness of the Stomach.
It cures Bliatlntj, Headaches, Nervous Prostration,
General D*blllty, Bleeplewness, Depression and Indl
flexion. That feellnsrof bearln? down, causing pain,
and backnciic, in al ways permanently cured by lta use.
Send Bta-nn to T/rn% Mar*., for pamphlet Letters of
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Among Railroad Men.
Popularity nnd UnernlneM of Dr. Kennedy'
Favorite Remedy?A Thrilling Letter
from it Master Mechanic.
M a ster Mechanic's A Supebwtendent'b Omae,)
Lowell Repair Shops of the Boston A Lowell R, R., /
Lowell, Miuw- , March 25,1884. )
Dr. David Kennedy, llondout, JV. Y.:
Dear Sib: I think it la due to you tbat I should
make the following statement, and I makeitvolun.
.. J^v_ *.L _ J?L J-- rH.A loot
lamy ana willingly: un iue nuuity uiouuc, mot,
I wu taken with what was called paralysis of the
bowels. The seisnre was unexpected and terrible.
The stomach and other organs seemed to sympathize
with it and to have lost all power of action.
For a Ion? time my life was despaired of. bat at
length 1 recovered so far as to be able to ride oat
By the advice of my physician I vlalted Poland
i Springs (Vt), hoping to benefit from the waters.
But they did me no good. Neither were the best
physicians of Lowelland Boston, whom I consulted.
able to afford me more than transient relief. I
gained no strength and my case appeared almost
hopeless. In the Fall a friend advised me to try
KENNEDY'S FAVORITE REMEDY.
and although opposed to patent medicines, I made
the trial To make a long story short?FAVORITE
REMEDY, in ray opinion, saved mv life.
I consider it the best preparation in the world for
stomach difficulties, as well as of the Liver and
other organs. I am glad to say it is in general use
among the R. R. men in this vicinity.
Yours, etc., A J. GIFFORD.
Mr. Gilford is the Master Mechanic of the Lowell .
division of the Boston & Lowell Railroad, and his -t:
Illness and recovery arc known to many who can
testify to the facts in his letter.
Use this medicine for all diseases of the Blood,
Kidneys, Liver, Stomach, Bowels, and Skin. It
may save you or yours from pain and death.
Address, If desired, Dr. David Kennedy, Roan*
dout, N. Y.
I />A1IU 1
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"Kidney Wort brought me from my gr*?e, as It
were,afterlhad been given np by 13 beet doctora la
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I Are your nerves weak?
"Kidney Wort cured me from nerrooa weakneas
Ac., after I was not expected to live."?Hrs. M. K. B.
Goodwin, Ed. Christian Monitor, Cleveland, O.
Have you Bright's Disease?
"Kidney Wort cured me when my inter was just
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Frank Wilson, Peabody, Uim.
Suffering from Diabetes ?
"Kldn^y-Wort U the moat successfulremedy I bar*
1 erer used. Olree almost Immediate relief."
Dr. Phillip C. Ballon, Monkton, Vt
I Have you Liver Complaint?
"Kidney-wort cured mo of chronlo Llrer Disease*
after 1 prayed to die." ? _
Henry Ward, late CoL (9th Nat. Gucrd, N. T.
Is your Back lame and aching?
"Kidney-Wort, (1 bottle) cured mo when I waaao
lame I had to roll out of bed." .
a 1L Tallmage, Milwaukee, Wla.
Have you Kidney Disease?
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after year* of unsuccessful doctoring. Jtg worth
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Are you Constipated?
"Kidney-Wort causes easy evacuations and cured
me after It years use of other medicine*."
Kelson Falrchlld, 6t Albans, Vt
TToTra trmi Malaria1?
Bxj.ctvu jiwu mw??.? .
"Kidney-Wort baa done better than any other -
remedy I bare orer used In my practice."
Dr. It. K. Clark, Booth Haro, VL
Are you Bilious?
"Kidney-Wort baa done ma mora good than any
othor remedy I hare erer taken."
Mrs. J. T. Galloway, EUc Flat, Oregon.
Are you tormented with Piles?
"Kidney-Wort permanently cured me of bleeding
plica. Dr. w. C. Kline recommended It to me."
Geo. H. Horst, Cashier 1L Banlc, Myerstown, Pa.
Are you Rheumatism racked?
"Kidney-Wort cun-d me, after 1 waa riren np to
die by physicians and I had iufferod thirty years."
Elbridgo Malcolm, Weft Bath, Maine.
Ladies, are you suffering?
"Kidney-Wort cured me of peculiar tronblet of
several year* standing. Many friends use and pnriae
It." Mrs. EL Lomoreaui, Isle La Motte, Vt
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where it has fallen off. It does not affect the health,
which sulphur, sugar of load and nitrate of silver prepaid ?
at ions have done. It wilt change lUrht or faded hair in*
few days to a beautiful glossy brown. Ask your druggist
for it. Each bottle is warranted. 8mith, Kline 4 Co.,
Wholesale Ag'ts, Phila.,Pa., and C.N.Cnttenton,S.Y.
DR F00TE's Original METHODS
ni n CYCQ Made New without doc- OF
ULU LI CO t orx,medicine orglasses TT A If fl
RIIPTIIRF
pUIMfKI? furcd wlthontcntllnp;f|f TilfflI
rnimuoio iiew.painless.safc.surc.lilIn tli I
NFR\/ni!Q Debtutv. etc.: can^^l"*!
MLnV UUO ami jat'onal tmitmcnty **T?
CHRONIC S,1"'"" "!?*"
Address Dr. E. B. FOOTK, Box 788, TV. Y. City.
Jmportnnt Reduction In tbo price of
VASELINE
(PETROLEUM JELLY.)
One Ounce bottles reduced from 15c. to 10c.
Two Ounce bottles reduced from 25c. to 15c.
Five Ounce bottles reduced from 50c. to 25c.
The public mast not accept any bat origin*! goods
bottled by as, as the imitations aro worthless.
Chesebrough Manufacturing Co., New York.
30 DAYS' TRIAL
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(bf.fokfc.) uktlk.j
T.1I.ECTKO-VOLTAIC BELT ami other Electbio
It Al'I'l.USCRfl are sent on .'M Days' Trinl TO MEN
ONLY, YOI'NG OR OIJ), wlin are suffering from
Nfbvouk Demlity, Lost Vitality, Wasting
Weaknesses, anil all kimlreJ diseasitt. Speedy relief
an>l complete restoration to Health, VigOB and
Manhood UitahaNTKKD. Send at once for Illustrated
l'amphlet free. Address
Voltaic Belt Co., Marshall, Micb
WDY AGENTS permanent
s?~Sin 4 employment and good Milftrj
(>*5%)?selling Queen City fciklrtand ^
PS StocklnaSupportenietc. Sam- 4
PlooutlUfree. Address Oucec
^CHy Suspender Co. i ciadnaiU, o
BEAUTIFULLY CONTRASTED COLORS
On -in plain cants 10e. Send tor Samples. Agents
\\ tinted, .ION. tX'STEit, JucUson, Mich.
QlinCICC Best work iii tho U. S. for the money,
DUUUlCd ENTERPRISE CARRIAGE CO..
Cincinnati, O. Write for Catalogue No. 11. Free.
WA NTED?Lady Manager in every I o.?n. Full particulars
b> addressing S. C. t 'hase, 2* Winter St., Boston
Ui i:\TS WAMKI) to ?p1I Thirty-Three
rear* amoiifdl'K WII.I) 1MHA\?- br Geni. DODGK
nd SHERMaK. af~70.0011 fold. *K#nt? tell 10 to *
cUy. cySend for fiiira Term.s, Specimen Plate, etc.. to
A. D. WOBTH1SVTOS CO., Hartford, Conn