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Symptoms.
i:r joiin g. sa.xi:.
li lie is sure possessed, madam. "
Tti-elfth Myht.
If, when you hear a certain lady's name,
You feel j our puLscs give a suddc-a start,
Dr hlufch, a.- if some secret sense of shame
Had stirred, just then, the currents of your
heart;
And if that naiiif to put it rather strong
In euphony seems rery much above
All other names I think I can't be wrong
To venture the opinion, you're m love!
If, when, at last, by some suspicious chance.
You meet the lady at a ball or play,
You shrink abashed beforo her modest glance,
And quite forget, the words you meant to say;
And if, moreover, gn.ing at her hand.
You wish upon that ha ml you wore a glove,
It isn't very hard to understand
(See ' Komeo ami .Juliet ") , you're in love!
If with two ladies, on a summer's day,
You sit alone, at luncheon or at tea,
And think, if one of them were but away
(A mile or so) , how happy you would be;
Yet find your wits in such a giddy whirl.
Yon scarcely speak to her you're thinking of,
15ut prattle gayly with the other girl
There's reason for supposing you're in love!
If, all at once, your amatory pen
(Which ne'er before attempted lyric lines,
vita tuns bane of gods and men !)
To fervid song and madrigal inclines,
A'herein you rashly rhymo of "youth" and
"truth,"
And call your subject " darling," " duck," or
" dove;"
Or s.ully beg some cruel lady's ruth
The symptom is unfailing you're in love!
If of her sex no other you can find
One half so bright or beautiful as she ;
If to her failings you are wholly blind
(The faults, 1 mean, that other people see) ;
If in her " pug" you see a " Grecian nose,"
Anil never doubt the angel bands above
Are silent when she sings you may suppose.
IJeyond the slightest question, you're in love!
Sriitcm'icr Cnbuvy .
THE GAMESTER'S STAKE.
The Marquis Angelo Foscarini had
been traveling throughout Em-ope for
several vears, sanitary measure-; induc
ifilT him ! visit Paris. To the gav me
tropolis he was sumnioiieil by his daugh
ior, lite beautiful Olympia, .-he being
the only issue of three nio.-t unhappy
marriage
The disappointment of Fosearini's
life had been in not having had an heir,
lie would have gh en hi-, fortune, almost
his life, lor a son one who could per
petuate the noble name of Foscarini.
His life was passed in orgies and every
sort of dissipation. He loved Olympia,
not a a father should have loved his
daughter, but rather because .-h" was
beautiful and one of the m-t precious
of Ills possession.-.. He kept her always
with him, and had relu.-ed her hand in
marriage to some of the mo- distin
guished nobleman in Austria and Italy.
' ' Kemain with me,' he said : ' ' you
will have plenty of time to marry when
f am dead."'
After a night of exeitemeut and dissi
pation it vva.- his habit to take a bath in
the Seine, in order to revive his wasted
energies.
One day, while, bathing, he was .seized
with cramp, and had not some one
rushed to his rescue he would have been
drowned. In his preserver he : recog
nized an officer of the Trabans, one
whom he had first met at, Piedmont,
and afterward at Vienna, and whose
assiduities to Olympia had given him
some uneasiness.
The young ofiicer, on discovering
that the man whose life he had saved
Was no other than the Marquis'' Fosear
ini, a( once requested permission to call
upon himself and daughter.
To this request the Marquis most,
coldly acquiesced , it being impossible,
under Hie eireu instances, to venture a
, refusal.
Stephen LeRoy at once embraced the
;v 'vantage afforded by the position, and
within a month after the accident the
Marquis and Leltoy were inseparable.
Le Roy was deeply in love with Olym
pia, but now wisely and cautiously re
pressed any manifestation of his feelings
moreover, had expressed himself to
the Marquis as being entirely cured of
his very extravagant passion.
He addressed Olympia without any
apparent trembling or embarrassment ,
paying her only the ordinary compli
ments permitted by society. The Mar
quis teeiing entirely reinsured, and hav
ing perfect confidence, made Le Roy
his friend and confidant. While the
old nobleman was misled, the young
people, nevertheless, had understood
each other, and in all respects Olympia
assisted her lover in his scheme.
Thus Le Roy wis enabled to pass ev
ery evening at the hotel of the Marquis
and, in order to humor the nobleman,
became a devoted gambler. In one
month he had lost two months' pa- and
till he could borrow.
Olympia had advised him to play in
order to ingratiate him with her father.
She lent him gold which he lost, and
the jUore he lost the more fond the old
Marquis became, for he knew of no
emotion save in play, no happiness except-
that which he derived from gain .
At length the luck turned in favor of
Le Roy night after night he won. The
Marquis was devoted to houillotte ; this
game he had taught Stephen, who, al
though indifferent to its merits, never
theless expressed admiration for the
ame.
One evening Le Roy came half an
hour earlier to the hotel than was his
custom. On this occasion he brought
with him the sum of fifty louls. It was
the only money Olympia had still in her
possession. Le Roy was without
means, and was obliged to yield to cir
cumstances, as failure to play would
have- called forth the ill-will of the Mar
quis and deprived them of the meeting.
"This Is all that remains, " said
Olympia sadly.
"Should I lose it, this lift; of decep
tion must end,'1 responded Le Roy.
"I will then go to the Marquis and re
quest your hand in marriage.11
"And if refused?"' replied the young
girl.
"Then I will blow out my brains,'1
was the quiet rejoinder.
Olympia shuddered at the words, for
she well knew that LeRoy would keep
his vow faithfully.
"There is happiness in life," she
murmured.
"Yes, there is happiness in life if that
life be shared by you," he responded.
' 'Rut deprived of that hope; I refuse to
live."
"And death! Have you no fear of
death?"
' 'No, Olympia," he replied, thought
fully. "I do not fear. I believe in
a great power. We of this world are
forced into life, not of our own free
will, but through the will of others.
This existence, with its suffering, its
hopes and fears, is our punishment ; its
disappointments our curse. This is the
life of the flesh, that which is corrup
tion: beyond lies the life of the soul."
"Rut what may the sotd not suffer in
the hereafter? What may it not en
dure?" "Nothing except it be happiness,"
responded Le Roy. "Our misery is
here, our peace is beyond the grave."
"And the grave?"' inquired the girl
with a shudder: "the grave?1
"Is what we mortals most dread, be
cause it possesses horror. The here
after is an unknown land, but let us
forget this for the present. Whether I
lo.se or win, this night 1 am determined
to speak. We have too long yielded to
deception. Let the. issue be what it'
will, I am reolved to solve it : if happi
ness is to be ours, we. will thank heaven
for the boon; if not, we will say fare
well." At this instant the Marquis Foscarini
entered the room, and Le Roy accom
panied him to the table, where they
seated themselves to play, others being
assembled. At the gaming-table there
was a Paris banker, a captain of an
English veM', and two planters from
Havana, all absorbed in the chances of
the game. Le Roy commenced by
throwing down ten louis, then ten more,
and so on until he lost all. As he
pushed the money aside he shivered,
and his head sank upon his breast.
Foscarini laid his hand upon his arm.
"Why, what is the matter, Le Roy?"
he said , in surprise.
"Nothing," responded the young
ofiicer, as he once more placed ten louis
upon the board. This lime he gained
one. hundred: gradually the sum in
creased and doubled. The banker won
i:i(.),O0i) francs, the captain :0,UO(), and
the planters l:O,(00. It was the Mar
quis Foscarini who had lost all this
money. Much excited the gamesters
drank together, and then promised to
meet again in a few hours.
At the .solicitation of Olympia, LeRoy
postponed speaking t her father,
whoso loss had been very great .
The meeting of the party again took
place, as arranged, and Foscarini lost
all he possessed in the world his
palaces in Florence, and Naples, his
villas at the foot of Vesuvius and in the
neighborhood of Rome there remained
not a vestige of his large fortune. He
was ruined . Through the closed shut
ters and crimson curtain the day was
piercing, and made the dying candle
look still more pale. Of these .six
gamblers, four resembled statues. The
immense losses of their host amazed
them , although accustomed as they were
to loss a.s a result of gaming.
Two men alone among them seemed
to retain their sclf-pofwssiou, and they
were IeRoy and Foscarini. The latter,
was earching his pockets in the vain
hope of rinding .something to stake, but
not even his watch remained. His
countenance was terrible to behold.
"Gentlemen," he at length said,
"all I once had is now yours, and you
can with authority bid me quit this
house, which is no longer mine.1
"Marquis!" exclaimed LeRo-.
' 'Nay, listen to me," exclaimed Fos
carini , addressing LeRoy. 1 ' You once
loved my daughter, ami I refused you
her hand.1
"You did."
"Do you love her still?"
"Yes, fervently.'1
"Again, 1 repeat, are you sure that
you love her a.s you once professed?"
"I do."
"What say you, then, to play f oi
lier?" At these, terrible words all the game
sters arose, but were incapable of speak
ing, so great was their excitement. In
gesture they implored Le Roy to refuse.
' ' Did you hear me?" implored Fosca
rini ; ' ' Will you play for the. possession
of my daughter?"
"Will you not accept me as your son-in-law,
Monsieur le Marquis? If so, J
beg to restore to you all that chance has
nven, and that you have lost through
me."
"1 refuse most positively," respond
ed the Marquis.
"Then 1 accept your proposition,"
replied Le Roy, coldly; "now listen to
mine."
All present expressed horror at such
an arrangement. Foscarini returned
their gaze with one of sovereign con
tempt and indifference. Then turning
to Le Roy, he said :
' ' Re it as you wish ."
"I play for your daughter," replied
the young ofiicer, "against all I possess
in the world my name, my person and
my honor."
"It is well," responded the Marquis,
as he speedily threw three cards on the
table. They were three aces. Le Roy
also threw three cards; they were three
tens, lie drew a fourth card, it was a
ten. He had won.
All arose, desiring to depart. As
they saluted the Marquis they saw that
he was weeping. The loss of his child
and his millions has reduced him to
a state of wretchedness beyond even the
misery of mendicity.
Le Roy approached the Marquis.
For an instant he paused.
"Monsieur le Marquis," he said, at
length, "this has been a horrible
dream; you have lost nothing and
gained nothing."
"What do you mean?'1 inquired Fos
carini. ' ' You say L have lost nothing.
Ask those who leave this house laden
with my gold if I have lost nothing.
Oh, no, my tears and emotions are
naught to mi."
Thus speaking he passed from the
room, ami no one attempted to prevent
his so doing, and .soon Lc Roy found
himself alone in the apartment.
The officer "was about to depart when
Foscarini suddenly re-entered the apart
ment, accompanied by Olympia.
"Monsieur," he said, addressing Le
Roy, "1 am aware of my position, but
even now I tell vou that you cannot be
mv son-in-law.
Whv
demanded Le Rov
1
have now not only the right of her pref
erence and my own, but the right of
honor a debt of honor on your part."
"And yet I say it cannot be. You,
althoughan ofiicer in the army, are of
humble birth you are not noble.
Olympia cannot be your wife, at least,
not while I live. Your wife she cannot
be, your mistress she shall not become.
Nevertheless, as you say, in point of
honor he belongs to you, yet while 1
hold my claim 1 still have .something to
gamble for and we have not done with
each other."
These horrid words chilled his listen
er to the soul. Having spoken, the
Marquis locked the door and placed the
key in his pocket .
"And now for my revenge,1 he con
tinued, drawing two pistols from his
pocket. "You see they arc both alike,
and both unloaded. I will load one of
them. Olympia shall, while our backs
are turned, place them both on the
table. You shall then choose, and we
will fire at. the same, moment. Should I
kill you my daughter returns with me
to Italy. If you, on the contrary, kill
me, Olympia is at liberty to give you
her hand. She will care but little that
you will have been the assassin of her
father."
Le Roy would have spoken or left the
house, but reading his design, the Mar
quis anticipated him.
" If you take the step," he exclaim
ed, ' 'or utter one word, 1 will tire upon
you, and then upon Olympia."
At these words the young girl uttered
a wild cry and fell fainting at his feet.
"Have vou no mercy?" inquired Le
Roy.
"None,1 responded Foscarini.
"Since I must act J will do so.1.1 Heat
once mingled the pistols, his back be
ing turned from Le Roy. The young
ofiicer, obedient to the order of the
Marquis, selected a pistol. Attaching
them to the corner of a handkerchief
they fired at the same instant.
Le Roy had won; but Olympia Fosca
rini lay dead beside her father. From
the French .
Tiiky don't ask a woman in Wiscon
sin to teach school for any 62 per week.
They oiler her 61.25, and if she refuses
thev nail the door up and hang out a
sign of "noa skule hear."
The Cultivation of Silk in This Country.
Silk-growing in the Tinted States has
been sporadic in its character, yet tine
specimens of silk have been produced
by almost every one who has experi
mented with silkworms. In time, there
is no reason to doubt, this industry will
become a prominent one, though here
tofore silk-weavers have imported the
raw silk from .Japan or other places
where the cost of labor has been at the
minimum. Nearly one hundred and
thirty years ago, or in 1717, the Gov
ernor of Connecticut won: the first coat
and stockings made of silk raised in that
province; and three years later his
(laughter wore the tir.st silk dress of
home manufacture. In 17.V, Mrs.
Pinckney took to England enough silk,
raised by herself, to make three silk
dresses. One of these was presented to
the. princess dowager of Wales; another
was given to the famous Lord Chester
field; and the third, now in the posses
sion of Mrs. Horrv, the daughter of
Mrs. 1'inckney, is remarkable for its
beauty, firmness and .strength, accord
ing to Dr. Ram.sey in his History of
South Carolina. This Mrs. I Muck ney,
the mother of Charles Cotesworth
1'inckney, was Eliza Lucas, the daugh
ter of the Governor of Antigua. At
eighteen she had charge of a cotton
plantation in South Carolina; he also
experimented successfully with the cul
ture of indigo.
In 17oS, Mr. Styles, the President of
Yale College, began experiments in
silk-culture, and was one of the most
earnest advocates of this industry for the
colonies. His manuscript journal re
lating his experience is still preserved in
the library of Yale College. In 1 7t?.s 5
at the commencement ceremonies, he
wore a gown made of Connecticut .silk.
Mr. William Mollineau of Roston was
another promoter of this industry, and
in 1770 was given a lease, free of rent
for seven years, of the public silk
factory to aid in employing the poor in
spinning, dyeing and weaving silk.
Susannah Wright of Lancaster County,
Pennsylvania, was another. In the
same year she received a premium for a
piece of " mantua " sixty yards in
length, made from silk of her own rais
ing. A court tires-; for the Queen of
England was made from it, and samples
are still preserved in a manuscript copy
of Watson's Annate of Pennsylvania and
Piiladeliiia , which is in the collection
of the Philadelphia Library Company.
Si jili )ubi r JJjijiinroll's .
A New Instrument of Destruction.
A terribly destructive shell is one of
the inventions described at great length
in the foreign scientific journals, in
brief, it is a hollow cast-iron cylinder,
having a small receptacle turned in its
base for half a grain of rille lire-grain
powder as a bursting charge, contained
in a shallow bag. A thin di.sk of iron
screws into the cylinder and covers the
bursting charge, having an aperture in
its center, through which trains of
quick-match are laid, forming instanta
neous communication between the
charge chamber and the flame from the
fuse, upon the ignition of the composi
tion of the latter. The half of the
shell nearest the base is considerably
stouter in its subtauce than the. upper
half, and ju.st admits of six magnesium
starlights being placed upright within
it, upon the disk covering the powder
chamber, so as to leave a small space
in the center of the circle formed by
them, exactly over the hole in the disk.
The lights are composed of nitrate of
banta, chlorate of potash, magnesium
powder, and boiled oil, and are con
tained in paper cylinders having a small
quantity of damp powder at either end:
to insure ignition they are surrounded
with bands of quick-match. They are
calculated to burn for fourteen seconds.
The upper half of the shell has seven
signal starlights within it, placed up
right on those below; their ingredients
are niter, sulphur, orpiment , and mag
nesium powder slightly coated with
paraffin.
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Hi: was such a nice looking young
man, and, it being Sunday evening,
too, the waiter girls at the hotel decid
ed among themselves that he would not
touch the dish of raw onions placed at
his left hand. He did hesitate, but
only for a moment. Piece afterpiece
was lifted to his mouth and disposed of,
and he lifted the last one, shook the
vinegar oil", carefully wrapped it in his
silk handkerchief, and they heard him
soliloquize: "I believe that Gertrude
loves me. She acts as if she did, and
actions speak louder than words. To
night I shall test her love. If I am the
cherished of her heart she will not re
fuse to taste of this onion, so that my
breath shall not be perceivable. If she
is cold and fickle 1 will rush from her
father's mansion and neer love again!"
Free Pass.
WIT AND WISDOM.
RiJAfTiFi'i. Stouv Rurning build
ing:, female seminary: crashing tim
bers; one child missing; a yellow-hair-ed
girl rushes from the crowd; rescues
child; excites the admiration of a Cap
tain in the French army; marries Cap
tain: yellow-haired girl Madame Me
Mahon : Captain now Marshal of France
and President of the Republic. Lovely!
"Sik," said a tierce lawyer, "do
you, on your solemn oath, swear that
this is not your handwriting?1 "I
reckon not," was the cool replv.
"Does it resemble your writing?"
"Yes, sir, I think it don't." "Do
.you swear that it don't resemble vour
writing?" "Well, I do, old heat.'
"You take your solemn oath that this
writing does not resemble yours in a
single letter?1 "Y-e-es, sir.1 "Now,
how do you know?" "'Cause I can't
write."
Ykstkkday morning a Harrison Ave
nue man who had started out to attend
the funeral of a neighbor returned to
the house and asked his wife where the
whetstone was. "Whetstone? What
in mercy's name do you want of a whet
stone at a funeral?" she exclaimed.
"Oh, I've been there before, and T
know they'll fool around and fool
around, and T might as well get a good
edge on my knife while they're wait
ing!" Detroit Fire Press.
A mixistki:, newly settled in one of
the "waste places," was walking in the
village cemetery, one day, when heaw
one of his parishioners standing by the
' ' family lot ."' ' 'Are these the graves
of your children?" he asked. "Yes,'
said the man. looking about , "Here is
Tom; there is Rill: this is Mary: that's
the baby:" and then, pointing content
edlv to a comer gav with flowers,
' 'There lays the old woman, all blowed
out!" This is a true .story. Dostoii
f Untie .
Iln was strolling around town while
the boat was taking on freight, and
coining along to where four or live men
sat under an awning, he held out his
hand to each in turn, and remarked:
"Shake, stranger. Although I've stood
where shot fell around me like raindrops
in a shower, I want reconciliation
genuine peace." "What battles were
.you in?" inquired one of the men, after
awhile. "I wasn't in any, mister,"
soberly replied the stranger, "it was in
the shot-tower at St. Louis where the
shot came so fast ." And the crowd
went over after soda-water. Yv'Usbnrij
Herald.
A Novel Diagnosis.
One of the partners of a prominent
business-linn of Chariest on, South Caro
lina, gives the following account of his
experience as a patient of the late Dr.
Gray of New York, lie had been treat
ed by the best physicians of the South
for heart disease, of which they assured
him he was liable to drop dead at any
moment. He believed this, and by
their advice had avoided all undue ex
citement for several years. He had
night-sweats, palpitation of the heart,
and other symptoms of the. disease,
when, being once at his father's house
in New York, he was persuaded to con
sult Dr. Gray, which he did with no
shadow of hope, but simply to satisfy
his father. He found the doctor very
busy with patients, and had to wait a
long time before his turn came to lw
.shown into the consultation-room.
"Well, .sir, what is the matter with
youV were the doctor's first words.
"I have disease of the heart," an
swered the gentleman, laconically, not
much liking the bluff manner of the
doctor.
Upon this he was placed standing
with his head and heels against the
wall, while the doctor applied the steth
oscope very carefully, and then vigor
ously pounded the patient's chet for
some time: and as he was released from
the wall and turned to go ne was fur
ther treated to a severe blow right be
tween the .shoulders. This was more
than the young man could well bear,
and he turned, furious with anger and
ready to return the blow.
The doctor warded him off with his
arm, saying good-naturedly, "It is all
right , my dear sir. 1 find you have no
heart disease. If you had had, that
blow would have killed you." Of
course there was nothing to do but to
take this extraordinary treatment in
good part, but the patient left with very
unpleasant feelings toward the great
homo-'pathist. From that day, how
ever, all symptoms of heart disease
vanished, and it is now the opinion of
the gentleman that his symptoms were
mostl- created by his long-dwelling up
on what he believed to be his critical
condition . September LipjrincolVs.
Thk New York Times thinks there
can be as little doubt as there is of any
thing not actually proved that the mis
creant Forrester is himself the murderer
of Nathan.