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tionf41 Xotltc "VOLUME I» BROOKIIAVLN, MISSISSII I L THLRSOAI* MARCH 22^ 1HHA# DUMBER J uidcs. otherwise agreed upon .TO
TEE FARMERS WIFE.
There ts an hour that la to me
The sweetest of iho day.
Although itc mi a when winds are eh II
And skies are dull and grav;
’Tis wh n tho day s hard work Is done.
And br ght the tire doth glow.
And my bust and to h'shum' le home
Comes trudging through the snow.
Why do 1 hold this hftur the b. st
Of all the twenty-four?
Because he's all the world to mo.
My good man at the door;
And whether rain or hall may fall.
Or winds o? winter blow.
Yet I tun sure my husband will
Come trudg.ng ttir iu<a tho snow.
The room la tidy, fresh and clean,
The baby's face is bright:
What matter If outside there be
T he dm 1c and stormy night?
The kettle simmers on the a:ove, .
And well my heart doth know
Mr husband soon will to b t b imo
Come trudg.ng through the snow.
A good ten years ago ho led
Me hither as his bride.
And over since, i hrooga Joy and woe,
We’ve struggled aide by sine.
However hard the A y may l>e,
To me things br ghter grow
When cornea the hour th t brings him borne,
A-trudg ng through the snow.
-N. r. Lalgrr.
THE WHISTLER.
•• O whistle snd I'll come to you, my lad;
O whistle iind I'll cometo you, my lnd,
Tho'father and uiither und a’ sh >ul'l ga»
mad;
O whistle anil I’ll come to you, my lad."
Some years ago at a Boston theater,
during one of the tedious waits when
the orchestra has finished its selection
and everybody bad expressed a criticism
on the play, there came one of those
dead lulls during which five minutes
seems an age, and just at that moment
some one in the second gallery began
to whittle *• Home, Sweet Home.” The
low, clear notes were a- musical as the
strains of a flute, and they pierced the
air with their homesick melody and
touched ever heart. All heads turned
to look up. but it was imposible to dis
tinguish the whistler of the sweet
strains among the very ordinary look
ing people there, until a policeman ap
peared and churlishly silenced him,
and then it was seen to I e a sickly
iooking, poorly-dressed man who had
entranced every ear with his plaintive,
tender melody and left a memory in
every heart Nowadays whistling is
almost one of the lost arts. "For good
ness sake stop that dreadful whistling,"
says some distracted mother to Tier
noisy offspring. She does not consider
that whistling is a safety-vali e to the
boy’s feelings, a relief to the pent-up
Utica of his powers, an I one of the few
accomplishments natural to the genus
boy.
"The school-boy with his SHchel in his hand
Whistling aloud to keep his eo rage up.”
It is a fact that there are boys who
can not whistle. They nil! go through
the motions but only succeed in making
a frightful face, and no no se, while
ethers can cut the air with a sharp,
shrill, long-di awn inspiration, that will
startle a s eepy dog half a dozen blocks
in the d'stancc, and bring all the other
bovs out li e rats to meet at one given
point. Send a I oy on an errand and
ten to one lie will whistle all the way
there, and a 1 tho way back, giving
every conceivable note that the human
whistle is capa le of. Ordina if , peo
ple do not notice this infection in the
air in the shape of tree concerts, but
stop a lew moments some da. on a ‘ usy
co ner and listen to the whistling 1 oy.
Yon don’t he e any whistling—you are
disappointed; but wait when it comes.
"There's a land th it i- fairer than day.”
You can’t describe awh’stle ant'more
than you can a kiss; both arc lab al per
formances ihat lose much in descrip
tion. But look at the boy that is whist
ling that sweet and saintly tune; he has
a boot-black’s kit, has a face as shrewd
as a ferret’s, and is testing a lead nickel
and speculating as to the best way he
can run it out again. He is followe I in
a little while by a tired looking mes
senger who is giving Peek-a-boo for all
it is worth; and then you are almost set
to dancing as St. Patrick’s Day in the
Morning conies rollicking down the
street, with snatches of ope a, Baby
Mine, The Wearing of the (Ireen and
more fashionable snatches from the
latest operas. The sweetest wh'stler in
Detroit is a colored boy who is insepar
able from a wheelbarrow of clothes
which he is taking home to his mother
to wash. There was ne er anything
set to music that he ean not produce in
perfect time aud with every note clear
and distinct. One day lie Whistles ne
gro melodies: another it is all chureh
music. Then he gives me lleys and
there is a singularly plaintive, almost
pain ul sweetness in his tones. It is
said that bad hoys do not whistle; they
are secretive and quiet.
There is a story of a woman who was
left alone in a temporary home on the
prairie with her little family while her
husband went to a distant town after
provisions She describes in heroic
verse her fear of the red man and ho w
she sat late at night by her window and
was terrified by the approach of foot
steps.
•• Then I knelt until lat^ in the evening,
Anil scarcely an inch tmd*i stirred,
When su dculv iar in the distance
A snund as of wb -ti.ng 1 he ird.
1 started updrea liiillv frlgh ened
For fear twns an In inn's o*ill.
And then very soon 1 remembered
The rod man ne'er whistles at all.”
It was a neighbor’s boy coining to
protect her who had whistled to let her
know of his approach, and she concludes
by saying:
“Ho now, my dear friend, do you wonder,
Hinee such a goo 1 reas >n I've given.
Why I say i shan't care for tho musio
Unless there is whistling in Heaven?
Yes, oft.-n I've sal I so in earnest.
And now what I've said I rcoeat.
That unless the o'g a tioy them a-whlstllng
The music will not be complete."
Boys sent out after dark are said to
whistle to keep their courage up. They
also whistle as a signal to other boys,
and now a popular genius has developed
the use of it as a pro ession.
For heaven’s sake dry up that
whistling,” said the grocery man to
the had hoy. “There is no sense in such
whistling. What do you whistle for
anyway:”
“I am practicing my profession,”
said the t«d boy. “i have always been
a good whistler, and i have decided to
turn my talent to account 1 am going
to hire an otlice an I put out a sign:
•Boys Furnished to W’histlc for Lost
Dogs.’ You see there are dogs lost ev
ery day, and any man would give half a
dollar to a boy to find his dog. I can
hire out to whistle for dogs, and can go
around whistling and enjoying myself
and make money. Don’t you think it is
a good scheme?” asked the boy of tho
grdoerymsn. 4
A lady who snspeeted her servant of
drinking the cider when she sent him
into the cellar, commanded h;m to whis
tle the time he was absent.
Sailors whistle for a fair wind. Tho
sportsman whistles to his hounds.
He east off his friend* as a huntsman his park
For he knew when he pleas jd he could whistle
them back.
It is not considered in good taste for
girls to whistle, and there are very few
who can doit even tolerably well, per
haps because they are under the spell
of that prediction in doggerel which
some secular St. Paul promulgated for
the sex:
Whistling girls and crewing hens
Always eoino to some bad end.
A girl is usually too volatile to
whistle; she puckers her rosy mouth,
shuts both eyes, screws up her face, and
just as she gets ready to whistle goes
off into a lit of laughter, and spoils it
all. Put once in a while some demure
little maiden will whistle, and it is posi
tively a much more frequent phenomena
in nature than a hen that crows.
•• But ob, the whistlinggiil .'vo met.
As bltthe is sue ns any hint:
And from her lips morn, noon and eve,
Tho merriest of trills are beard.
“ From task to a*k with lightsome step
She bastei s whist! ng a* she goe*:
And her dolt hand* charm win* they touch
And older from disordi r grows.”
There is somelhing pathetic in a
whistled tune; the business-man sitting
up at n'ght trying to make his ledgers
balance, hears some late pedestrian, boy
or man, whistle the “Last Rose of Sum
mer” or “Bonnie Doon,” and straight
wav the pen drops from his tired hand
anil the bewildering figures disappear,
and in their place he sees heme and the
motherwho lived there, and ho catches
the songof the robins in the old orchard
and the scent of the sweet briar that
grew by the door. I
“Away, away, tonnentinar cares.
Of rartta and folly born.”
He is at home again, aud as the un
known whistler passes on and the ten
der, wandering air dies away, the eyes
of the listener are dim with tears,
“And his hea tis tilled with u longing pain
To be a whistling boy again.”
—Detroit Dost and Tribune.
The Gila Monster.
What is commonly known as the Gila
lizard, found ohieily in Sonora and Ari
zona, has for some years been regarded
as a i uriosity by naturalists, ow.ng to
the fact that it is the only one of the
, lizard family reputed to have a poison
ous bite. It grows to a length of three
feet, and among the Mexicans is com
monly regarded as more poisonous than
any seroent. On the other hand, it is
of a sluggish nature, and so many in
stances have occurred in which children
have made p ts of small specimen s
without coming to any harm that m eh
incredulity has been expressed as to its
dangerous nature. A paper recently
presented before the Philadelphia Col
lege of Physicians stated in response to
in iiiiries two letters had been received
from Arizona, one of which described
the lizard as “more peaceful and harm
less than a young missionary,-’ whilo
the other declared it to be “worse than
a whole apothecary shop ” Re ent ex
periments n ade with ca tive specimens
of the Gila monster, however, seem to
demonstrate satisfactorily its poisonous
nature. Small animals and birds were
killed bv its I itc. It has numerous
small teeth, and when it bites a quantity
of saliva is discharged. This saliva or
lluid is found to be an active poison of
very pecuPar nature. It causes no
local in ury. but seems to act di
rectly upou* the heart, arresting its ac
tion in diastole. Its effect is entirely dif
ferent from that of the ven m of serpents,
which causes local hemorrhage. As is
true in the case of serpents, however,
the degree of danger result ng from a
bite would depend entirely upon the
amount of the poison injected nto the
blood. A bite from a large 1 attlesnake
is morn dangerous than from a small
one. and a bite in which the two fangs
penetrate the skin is twice as serious as
where only one fang is ipserted, simply
because the amount of venom injected
is greater. The teeth of the lizard are
small, easily broken, and frequently
nearly all missing. The experiments
made seem to indieato that while its
bite may be easily fatal to 6mall ani
mals, it would but rarely happen that it
could kill a man. .Should a large li ard
with all its teeth bite upon the bare skin
and cling fast long enough to permit
considerable absorbtkm of the salva, it
would probably prove fatal. Should
any article of clothing intervene to be
biiten through, or should the reptile be
quickly shaken off, nothing more serious
than a very painful swelliug would
probably result Dr. Shufe dt was bit
ten bv one which had been sent to the
Smithson'an institution. It seized his
thumb, sinkng the teeth to the bone,
but relaxed its hold immediately. Great
pain was felt immediately, though the
poison was sucked from the wound as
far as possible. The pain extended up
the arm to the shoulder and down the
side, continuing through the night in
sufficient force to prevent sleep, but
subsiding next day. The woundhealed
readily in a few days.—N. Y. Star.
To Preach, or Die.
Among the hills of Northern Con
necticut arc many quaint characters,
solemn in mien, sturdy and honest in
their dealings, but with a vein of under
lying humor that crops out daily in
their conversation- Among them was
one J-— S-, or Uncle James, as he
was familiary cabled. F arly in life he
studie I hard to tit himself for the min
istry, aud when he thought himseh per
fected he called on old Father P-, a
noted Baptist minister of that day in
S-. and told him he must either
preach the < ospel or die. and stated
his wish t o be examined. A1 ter a rijjid
examination Father P-leaned F:s
head upon his hands and remained
silent for a few minutes; then suddenly
looking up, he said: “Mr. S——I’m
nail;/ afraid you'll have to die.”—Edi
tor's Drawer, in Harper's Magazine.
—A post-mortem examination upon
the body of a Philadelphia woman who
had died suddenly and from unknown
causes, showed that she had been
choked to death by a “plate” of false
teeth, which she had accidentally swal
lowed.
“Jack.”
A year or more ago, as the foreman
of one of the iron works of this city was
rro-slng the yard one day he espie I a
little skip of a hoy, seem ngly not over
eleven years old, seated on a big fly
wheel and (hewing the end of bitter ra
il ection.
“ Who are you?”
•• I’m Jack.”
••What are you doing here?”
Resting.”
“ What do you want?”
“ A job.”
Thos'1 were the inquiries and answers.
The boy was pale-faced and ragged, but
in his steel-blue eyes the foreman saw
frame. And, too, the idea of a waif
ike him setting out to battle the world
touched a tender chord in the heart of
the man who had boys of his own, and
he set Jack at work in the yard.
No one thought the boy would stay a
week, ami so no one cared to ask where
he came from or who he was But hs
s uck. 11c wa» hard-working and faith
ful, and as the week went by he gained
friends. One dav he walked up to the
foreman and said:
‘•I want to learn the trade.”
“You? Ha! ha' ha' Why. Jack,
you are not big enou.h to handle a cold
chisel.”
“ lean whip any ’prentice boy in this
shop!” was the ea nest declaration.
‘•Just hear him! YVhy, any of the
lot co .Id turn you wrong side out!
When you get big enough to whip the
sma'lest one you come to me for a ob.”
At noon that day Jack walked ut> to
the biggest apprent'ce boy in the shop
aud said:
“ ( ome out doors.”
“What do you want?”
“ I’m goipg to lick you!”
“What for?”
“ Pec .use I want a chance to learn
the trade.”
The two went out, and in sight of
twenty witnesses little Jack won a vic
tor.. At one o'clock he touched his
cap to the foreman and said:
“I've licked your b ggest ’prentice
and want to go to work!”
Ten minutes later he had beco re a
machinist's ap rentice, and if you go in
there to day you will lind him with
greasy hands, o ly ace and a head full
of business ideas. Jack carries the
keys to the drawers where the steam
gauges, sa'ety-valvcs and other trim
mings are kept, and he knows the use
of every tool, the workings of every
piece of machinery, and there is a con
stant call for Jack here and Jack there.
He ore he is twenty he will be a tin
ished machinist, and ; efore he is twen
ty-live he will be foreman of some great
shop, lie is <|ui t, earnest respect
ful and obser ing. What he does is
well done. What he is told he never
forgets.
And here in Detroit are hundreds of
boys who complain that there is no
chance for them, even when backed by
money and in luence. They wait and
wait ami whine and complain, and
leave it to waifs like little Jack to ca'l
up the game in their souls aud walk
boldly into a great manufacturing works
and sa :
“I’m here—I want a job!”—Detroit
Free Fresr.
History Repeats Itself
It is true that the country has depart
ed somewhat from the primitive sim
plicity of its earlier days; that wc lead
in s me respects a faster life; that our
otticials are more beset with tempta
tions; aud that in our great centers of
population there ;s more poverty and
more vice than there was a hundred
years ago. These results were insep
arable from our rapid growth and the
almost overwhelming tides of immigra
tion that have i owed into the land; but
the various evils, the frivolities and ex
travagances of our time are by no means
peculiar either to the country or to the
aje in which we live. Turning to an
old tile of the Pennsylvania Packet, we
find in its issue of Kebrc ary 1, 1786, an
editorial on “The I uxury of the Pres
ent Time,” from which we make the
follow ng extract: “In the history
of France, wri ten in the life of
Henry the Third, are the follow
ing words: ‘The most universal
cause of all disorders was luxury; the
high ta es of th s reign had engendered
this proud and delicate monster. The
many | eople in civil offices, all those
through whose hands the public money
passed, wallowed in wealth. The
largest sums sometimes cost them no
more than the dash of a pen; it was but
falsifying an account, and they tille 1
their pockets; and as it came so easily
it made them la' n h into all kinds of
super uities; but the worst of it W'as
the bad examples Infected others.’ etc.
When we consider (comments the
Packet) the destruct on which luxury
has caused in all those nations where it
has been introduced, we should tremb e
to think to what a height it has risen
within a few years in ihis Nation. We
are sens ble that for some years past our
commerce has been declining, our man
ufactures g ing to decay, and great
muni ers of the industrious part of the
people vianting employment. This is a
truth that every great trader has seen
and fe’t, and yet this proud and deli
cate monster stalks abo it, and spreads
its conquests in proportion sis the pub
lic property inc eases.”
how o tun is the substance of that
editorial re[ eated now! I ut let us make
an extract from the Massachusetts I'cnti
net of tie same year: “It is out of
character for the merchant to complain
tha: business is dead ’ * * who
keeps a chariot and stud, who gives an
entertainment once a week and a cird
party twice. • * • it is out of < har
aoter 'or a tradesman who once prided
h tn-olf on the appellation of aspeckled
shirt man to complain that he can not,
money being so scarce, pay his rent or
his taxes, when he wears nothing but
the finest web of the loom, etc. It is
out of character for the farmer to com
plain that he can not pay his rates, nor
debt-i. nor anything else, whose three
daughters are at a town boarding
school, under the disc'pline of a
dancing-master, when they should be at
the spirning wheel—an-*' who, whilo
they snould be dressed in decent home
spun, as were their frugal grand
mothers, now carry half their father's
crops on their backs.”—AT. O. Pica
yune.
—Cattle should not be allowed to
prone the orchard. The farmer can do
it better
Hint* to Conductors.
To succeed in any industry, a man
should be solemn nnd d sagrecaMe.
Ksjiecially does this rule apply to those
whose aspirations tor sudden wealth
hare carr e I them into the pro.ession
of conducting railroad trains. The
genial man never succeeds in anything,
and the genial conductor is doomed to
a life of disappoin ment and penury.
The coud ictor should first assume
that the road is run for his sole behoof.
I nder no circumstances should he ever
permit a passenger to glean the idea
that the fare-pa\ ing traveler is entitled
to the slightest respect. If a man wants
to know anything, and he is square
across the jaw am I huge of muscle, the
conditions are altered and it might be
well to answer his questions in full, but
if a little man or woman becomes im
portunate, t tie screws should be put on
without delay. If the conductor gives
way to either of them, he niust give way
to all, and perhat s lose all his fun in
the baggage car, besides forfeiting the
respect of those who are inclined to
take advantage of a man's good nature.
When a timid passenger or an elderly
woman asks a question, the snub is tiie
only proper an-wer Have no parley
ing. .Snub from the start, for if the
questioner finds that the conductor
hes tates he's gone. Hesitating con
ductors have been asked as many as
ten questions between New York and
Chicago, while the man who puts the
passenger down from the start, has been
known to make six round trips without
being interfered with.
On a local train the conductor should
devote his attcution to the school girls.
As a general rule, this class of traveler
can t find anybodv w lling to flirt with
them, and. therefore, they are more or
less dependent on the conductor. To a
certain extent the roads depend on the
school-girl custom for subsistence, and,
therefore, it is to the interest of the
road to have men who will see that the
line is made attractive to this impor
tant branch of the community.
The proper pla e for the conductor is
in the baggage car, for there he can
smoke and sleep unmolested by inquir
ing minds who want to know, you
know. From that vantage ground, also,
he can see the engineer ump, in the
event of an ac idcnt, and understand
what it is best to do in order that he
may get out speedily and assure the
press that nothing has occurred, and
that the people in the burningcais didn’t
travel on that train, 'l he killing of a
conductor puts a road in a hole. The
impulse is to advertise the line by giv
ing him a send-ofl'. b t that is an ad
mission that there was an accident,
and, therefore, the conductor should
take care of himself, rather than sub
ject his employers to any such incon
venience.
It is well for the conductor to have
favorites among his regular passengers.
These should he selected with discrimi
nation from among the smok ng and
flask-carrying traveler. Familiarity
with them pays, for they will applaud
anything the conductor docs, and feed
him from their store whenever he has
added to their importance by cutting
down some man who has only the merit
of regarding a functionary as a public
servant.
Along the line of every road are conn
try girls who properly think tlfat to
know the conductor is to approach the
kingdom of bliss The i onducior should
make it a point to hand them on the
train with some familiarity that shall
establish his relations with them -from
the start, and then should sit beside
them, with an arm carelessly thrown
across the back of the seat, and giggle
and laugh with them until they have at
tracted the attention of the whole car.
This adds to the importance of the girl,
and makes every other woman sigh as
she contemplates the young lady's hap
piness.
If a man lose his ticket, bounce hint.
No matter that he saw it a moment be
fore. No matter if you sec it lying un
der the seat, bounce him. There is never
atime when an oflic al looks so dignified
as when he is employing force to sus
tain his dignity. If by any chance the
man tind his ticket before he is bounced,
bounce him anyway. He has no right
to waste the valuable time of a conduct
or by making him think that he is going
to have the Tun of a bounce, and then
go back on him.
If you find by the ticket that a pas
senger is on the wrong road, tell him so,
andt hen pass on without any further
explanation, it will put him in a frame
of mind until he can hunt you up and
find out the particulars. Keep him in
suspense until the train that would car
ry him back has passed.an I then charge
him what you like, for the company
won’t know that he was on your train
at all, and you get an opportunity to
put in a little thrift.
There are a few rules, in relation to
waking a man up with a wrench, and
making him hand you hs check in his
hat band refusing to let a sick woman
have a double seat, when there are two
other passengers in the car occupying
the seat near ihc stove, and lettiug the
woman with a babv shiver in the cor
ner, and the like, but these are gener
ally so well observed without express
direction that it is a work of superero- j
gation to go into them.
Follow oat the others carefully, and
if you don’t get rich by following some
not here alluded to. you will grow up
with the road a wise and respected con
ductor.—Drake's Travelers' Magazine. ■
_^ m m
Play lour Hand for A11 It's Worth.
There is no greater barrier to a man's
success in life than his willingness to
fall into line with thestu, id fellows who
play se ond tiddle; the Jac<]ue £tro s
to the Robert Macaires. They should
learn that the world laughs at a clown
and they des ise the assumed gravity
of the serious imitator. Then again
this class should learn that the fools J
whom you would deceive can be of no
service to you, and the wise men who
would serve an honest intention, or a
candid presentation, can see through
your stupid efforts to wear gracefully
the solemn dignity of the owl, or the
gaudy trap ings of the pea-fow1, and if
you put on the shaggy mane of the
king of beasts, but open your mouth
and your bray scon dispels the delusion,
and the idiot of fal-e pretense stands
out in all his Comical deformities; a
laughing stock to halt the world, a sub-,
ject of pity to the rest.
Too many of the genus homo are but
cUtqnrr* who howl from society’s pit
when their chief s goals for the sup
posed good points upon the stage.
They are but illy paid, and rarely reach
distinction; yowling like derv shea
to ini rc-s society with your piety;
compil ng other men’s ideas to assert
your hojM d- or position on the plane of
journalism; baying like a “jailer” dog
at the man in the moon, to show your
sympathies when modesty would sit
mo; c becoming on the strongest of us;
nil these a'c hut the outcroppings of
imbecility that writes brass upon its
frontlets, and prints ape uj on its
phylacteries. To such grotesque char
acters we will say, the strongest card
you can play is the one nature provided
you with, that is. your own natural
force. If yon fail with this hand, even
if y ou play it alone, you can retire with
dignitv, but nine times in ten you will
succeed, whereas, the assumption of a
character as mimic or harlo inin, will
result in a most miserable failure, mak
ing you a laughing s'oek for the world
to jeer at. If you are born to be a
wood choppe", hew to the line, let the
chips fall where they will, don't im
agine you ran play lilackstone on the
one hand or Calen on the other. Don’t
imagine if nature cut you out for a
hewer of wood and drawer of water,
that had you the chance of other men
you would have een an Astor or a
Vanderbilt; not a bit of it Nature has
kindly put you exactly where you be
long, ind there is no u-e kicking in the
traces. If you take the “studs” you will
1i id society ready to cudgel you into
lin“. If you show your heels like the
artless miile the world Will tie your lugs
and mercilessly sit down upon you.
“There is no use kicking against the
pricks,” is biblical, old and trite. Con
form to the places where you may find
yourself, in the work-shop, at the bar,
or behind the counter. Hay your hand
for all it is really worth. if you hold
tiumps so much the better, but re
member, that no wise card-player at
tempts to catch the right bower with
the left. That is a good lesson for the
moralist. Let mankind profit by it and
we will be wiser if not richer. We can
not transform ourselves into the condi
tion of others, and if we could we ques
tion if we could play t o role of the
stranger as well as the one nature has
planne I out for us: no logic or sophistry
can change the decrees of fate. A man
at thirty is e ther a fool or his own phy
sician. and the same rule will apply all
through the varied phases of life. Don’t
imagine you will gain knowledge with
age. You are not wine, although many
of our readers may be full of—just as
you please, the juice of the grape or the
idea. What a man doesn't know at
thirty he will never learn. If at that
age you are a shoemaker, stick to your
last. If an attorney, even should your
coat be out at the eitows, or if a kind
providence had p aced you in one of its
highest niches, say mo1 nted you booted
and spurred ou the editorial tripod ride
your nag until his tail drops oil' rather
than think you can dismount and scul'e
in the gutter for place among the not so
blesseu.-—'1 horouylibred Stuck JouriMi
Fashion Items.
.Jetted and lack-luster galoons are
much used for trimmings in “light”
mourning dress.
Newmarket-jackets and medium length
pelisses will be the leading wraps for
spring.
Pelerines and shoulder capes of varied
lengths and styles are to be in greater
favor than ever.
ltedingoies nnd French polonaises in
a score ot ditl'erent forms continue in
favor.
braid work on paniers, tabliers, plas
trons and panels is a trimming seen
U| on imported dresses of cashmere, la
dies’ c’oth, vigogne and tlannel.
Corsage Howers for the street, either
real or artificial, are but little seen, be
ing replaced by knots of handsome rib
bon, eilherof Ottoman silk, plush, ribbed
velvet, or plaided surah, in brilliaut
hues contrast ng with that of the d ess.
For dressy walking costumes, 1 reneh
designers are send ng to America the
very fashionable terra-cotta and copper
shades. The French terra-cotta is a
very delicate color, matching exactly
the veritable hue of terra cotta ware,
and is quite unlike the deep strawberry
r d shade so long in vogue.
A certain professional beauty—a lady
also celebrated tor her artistic taste in
dress—has been photographed in a hun
dred different costumes and in as many
d.fferent altitudes. It has been said
of this fact that the only person who
can excel her lor variety of attitude is a
bov commanded to sit still on acba'r.
Pinp-green and doe colored plaids
and cheeks in tine woolen fabrics are
among spring novelties. Except for
children, these plaids will form the
skirt and tunic alone, the jacket being
of dark-green velvet, with no trim
mings except medium-sized buttons of
green enamel and gold. Cream-color
and garnet are another popular co . bi
nation in shepherd and other plaids.
A vagary of fashon—a revival—is to
twist an immensely long scarf of silk
muslin or tulle high up and very close
round and round the throat, and to
fasten it with a large ant que brooch, or
with a bice piD set with sparkling gems.
Thus muffled n , the wearer, while be
ing in the height of ttyle as to neck
dressing, will also delude ignorant peo
ple into the belief that she is a sufferer
irom goitre.
In some of the newest models for
house jackets of cashmere or vigogne,
the edges are cut into squares and a
dainty bit of embroidery is worked in
ea h block. In binding or lining these
squares a lit!le space is ma le betwe. n
each, which is tilled in with a fan plait
ing of white lace. A similar trimming
finishes the crenelated edges of the el
bow sleeves and the neck, and is some
times carried down the front from the
throat to the hem of ties jacket.
Bibbed plush in two or more shades
is being much used in the composition
of visiting and reception toilets. This
plush is used for the skirt, and the up
per dress is of brocaded Ottoman silk
velvet or moire. For walking costumes
the ribbed plush skirt has the overdress
of eaohemire. ladies' cloth, or vigogne.
Brown and od-go!d plush, with red
ingote or tun c and ja ket of plain
brown cloth, peacock blue with ribs of
electric blue, and overdress of plan
peacock blue eaohemire. trimmed with
the plush, are among the stylish spring
dresses of this description. —K. VJive th
ing Fost.
PERSONAL AND LITERART.
—It is said that Sarah Bernhardt w:11
play Ho alind in English in tbe United
States next year.
—Rev. Ira. C. Tyson, of London
derry, N. H., is wri ing a h-story of
Preibyterianism in New England, and
h find ng ample material for a very in
teresting volume.
—“I will now ask mv esteemed
friend, Air. William E. Dodge, to pre
8 de,’' said Dr. /actios, at the Cooper
Institute the other n ght. orgetting
Mr. Dodge’s rec nt decease.—Af. f.
Sun.
- The afTection of the brothers, Gen
eral and Senator Gherman, is said to be
very strong for each other, and if is re
marked that neither has a thought that
is not coiiusvicd with the other.—Ut
troil *
—The fr-d Vi>1 >me<of a complete edi
tion o Martin Luther s works will be
brought o t n Germany next .Novem
ber. in time to celebrate the 40 »th anni
versary of the Reformer’s birth. 'J hree
volumes will be published every ye ir
tberea ter until the edition is completed
- Late adv ccs from Nice mention ap
provingly the fir t appearance in con
cert, under the stage name of Gianu ni
Snvini, of a young American singer,
pupil of Signor Mu/.io. from whom muoh
is hoped. She is a Californian named
Sawyer. It is reported that Verdi is to
superintend her debut in “Aida'’ next
month, and that he says the voting la
dy’s io ce is of marvelous quality.
—Mr. B. P. Shillaber, better known
as “Mrs. Partington.” is called on to
mo rn the loss of his wife. She was the
daughter of Maximilian .John de ! oehe
inont, one of a Huguenot family of that
name who sett'c I several generations
ago near Port-mouth, N. H. Her father
taught several European languages in
New Hampshire before go ng to Louis
iana to take charge of a newspaper. In
the political troub’es incident to the
transfer of the I onisiana territory to
the United States, he w is murdered on
account of his published opinions. —AT.
Y. Post.
—Twenty-five Governors have occu
pied the fhair of State in New York in
the 106 years’ of the State's existence.
There are now eight survivors of this
number—Hamilton Fish, whose first
term began in 1849; Horatio Seymour,
whose first tt-rm began in 1853; Myron
H. Clark, 1 55; Reuben E. Fenton, 186'>;
John T. Hoffman, 1869; Samuel J. Til
den, 1875; Lucius Robinson, 1-S77; and
Alonzo B. Cornell, Is80. Ten of the
twenty-five were elected for two terms,
and these were The two Clintons,
John Jay, Tompkins,''Marcy. Seward,
Morgan, Seymour Hoffman and Fenton
—the last three still being in the land
of the living. — Syracuse Journal.
HUMOROUS.
—“Mamma, do you know how I get
into bed so quick?” “So, my daring;
how do you?” “Why, I pu one foot
on the be I and then holler ‘rats!’ and
scare mvsclf right in.”— '. )’. Ne ts.
— “What do we give up,” asks a
clergyman, “in abandoning liquor?”
We should say he gave up the liquor,
for one thing, and perhaps a great many
consequent howling headaches.—Nor
ristown Derail.
— “Yes,” avs Mrs. Pa'-venu.Vvh' se
husband used to shovel gravel in Cali
fornia—“yes. our house is furnished in
the very latest Aunt Teck style from top
to bottom. You know my husband
keeps up with t.ie times, if it takes a
leg.—Cnicnjo News.
—A man, on being told byagenerou<
farmer that he would give him a barrel
of cider, asked the farmer if he would
bring it to his house. “Certainly,” re
pl ed the farmer, “with pleasure.”
“Well,” sad Lite g ateful man. "what
will you pay or the barrel when the
cider is gone . ”
—A bright litt!e three-year-old likes
very much to go to church, and espe
cially enjoys t lie singing. One d iy the
choir sang “ Ro k of ges, Cle t for
Me,” and, a1 ter she got home, the little
one was heard singing, very seriously,
“Ro.-k the babies, kept for me."
Nur-eri/ Ta '< s.
“Yes,” said one Portland lady to an
other, lecently, “my husband sold out
h s store some time ago.” “Then he’s
out of business now? ’ “Oh. no! He's
in some kind of bus ness; manufactur
ing, 1 guess. 1 heard him sav he was
putting up margins for | ork, the other
day."—N. ). I.eilgcr.
—Women will neve- be allowed to vote
until they are able to bridle their
tongues.—Drummer. Saddle le the
day and full of wheel and whoa when
there are no wagon tongues. — Whietntl
Times. Sirs, single ladies might take
exceptions to your racy puns_Fort
Fain He/ sti r. Yes, it may st rrup a
row and a trace o anarchy may rein.
Whitehal Time*.
—A negro who had sawed some wood
for a dentist found a difficulty iu col
lecting his two dollars but one day a
bright thought stiuc; him. Pepairing
to the dentist’s olliee, he asked what the
charge was lor extracting teeth. “A
dollar each,” said the dent st. “Then
pull two out for me.” But after exam
ining his mouth, the dentist told him
that all his teeth were sound “ Never
mind—go ahead;” and after having a
cotip'e pulled, the darky exclaimed:
“Now we are stra’ght in our uocouuts,
and I guess we 11 stop so.”—Chicago
Times.
•—Colonel Percy Yerger was suddenly
seized in the mid-t of h s family with a
very violent attack o the cramps. “For
Heaven’s sa e gimme a swallow of
brandy,” he said to his wi e. as he
twisted h;m elf in agony on the sofa.
“ I haven t got any in the house.” re
pl ed h s wife with appalling indifler
'jnce. “You must get some, and keep
it in the house so as to prevent these at
tacks," howled Yerger. kic ing like a
mule. “If I were to keep it in the
house, old man, you would be having
these attacks all day long. The proper
way to cure you of the e bad spells is
not to keep any liquor of any kind in
the hou e.’’—Texas Siftings.
—A Philadelphia tenor took a place
n a church choir under his own name,
lad in a negro minstrel company at the
same time under an assumed one. But
the double salary did not last long, for
persons from the church recognized
him through the burnt cork at the show,
and he was excluded from the choir
gallery.—TMlaUeipJiia Press,
Temperance.
Interesting Fact* Presented by Joseph
Cook. #
In the prelude to a recent lecture
Jo seph Cook presented-ome intere.-ting
facts in regard to Temperance. He ob
served that for nearly half a century
life assurance societies n England have
insured moderate dr nkers and total ab
stainers in separate sections, and that a
bonus has been pa d to the sections made
np of total abstainers of seven, thirteen,
seventeen and some ca-es of twenty
tlirce per cent over that paid to the sec
tion of moderate 'rfhken. Said MrX'ook:
•• II.!re are a few c >mmcrcial facts of
the 1 rgest philanthropic significance.
I have in iny possession an original
letter of one of the foremost societies
for ti c assurame in London, and the
statement is ontained in it that for tif
teen years the society has been accus
tomed to pav every five years lion uses
to its (wo sections—that is, to the total
abstainer - on the one hand, and to the
moderate drinkers, on (he other—and
that the result has been daring the past
sixteen years there have been issued
9.345 policies on the lives of moderate
drinkers that is, o' those who are not
strictly abstinent in the use of alcoholic
liquors—and ::..,96 on the lives of total
abstainers. Of (ho former 524 have
died, but 91 only o tl e latter, or less
than half the proportionate numter,
wh ch, of course, would be ICO. lycss
than one half the abstainers ha- e died,
compared with the number that died
among non-abstainers who were strict
ly temperate, and this in an experience
of sixteen years! 1 bold in my hand the
circulars of a very celebrated life assur
ance society, which 1 shall not name,
for fear you will say I wish to adver
tise it, although it is not an American
society, and I read in this official
do-ument that in 1872, 1875 and 1878
the bonus on the Temperance section
was f< urteen per cent, higher than in
(he general department, while the bonus
lor 1881 in the Temperance section is
twenty-three per cent, higher. I will
name a single one ot the great nre as
surance companies in England because
its repu'at'on is well established, and I
can not bo suspected of having any im
proper motive for giving its career pub
licity. I refer to the l nited Kingdom
Temperance and General Provident In
st tution. In Eng’and its experience is
often cited to show the superior value
of teetotal lives, as compared with those
of moderate drinkers. The institution
insures members of two sections, one
in which all the mem ers are total ab
sta:ners; in the other, moderate drink
ers: all intemperate persons being, of
course, excluded. The sections are ex
actly al ke in every other respect, about
20,00.) lives being in ured in the Gen
eral section, and 10,000 in the Temper
ance section. Returns of the expected
and actual claims in both se tions for
tiltecn years, from 1861 till 1875, show
that in the General section 3,450 deaths
were expected, and that 3,441 took
place: whereas in the Temperance sec
tion the expected deaths were 2,002 and
the actual deaths only 1,433. During
the year 187!) the expected cla'ms in the
Temperance section were 1 5 for £40. -
814; the actual claims were 114 for
£28.690. In the General section 305
were expected for £61.343. the actnal
having been 324 for £74.'»60 The quin
quennial bonuses in the Temperance
section have been seventeen and one
half per cent, greater than those in the
General section.”
Farther on in his preliminary dis
course Mr. Cook said:
** I do not know how it is that on this
sea-board we sometimes do not now
seem to feel the throb of the mighty
luture of the Republic as our fathers
d d, and as people do yet on the Miss'g
sippi. l’oes the breadth of the West
inspire great ideas? We, too, have
broad outlooks. We have a great river
runn ng past our wharves. We call i£
the Atlantic Ocean. We ought to be
able to look across it and see that our
Temperance example is do ng good or
evil to the ends of the earth, nut the
i pper half of the Miss ssippi Valley ap
pears to have a more intense care for
t lie future of its po pul at'on than we have
for that of ours. It listens to the tt amp
of the coming generations. The sound
of centuries yet to be is in the ears of
Iowa and Kansas. There is a mightv
rustle on the pra ries in fa' or of anti
dotes for one of the hugest evils of our
civili'ation. The two young States
wh:ch possess the fattest portions of our
continent are mak’ng up their minds
tiiat they will not allow the cancers of
the whisky rings to eat into their vitals.
Jv'o temporary defeat will tame the re
formatory spirit of these common
wealths. They are leading our Nation
and the world in Temperance legisla
t on. For one, 1 believe that if a score
of the American States succeed in put
ting Constitutional Prohibition on a tirm
bas’s, it will ultimately become a Na
tional policy.”
Temperance Items.
Fortifying the stomach with liq
uor is like pointing the guns inward and
emptying them upon the garrison.
F.ve thousand dead bo die' are sent
to the New York morgue each year,
and four thousand live hundred of them
are the victims of intemperance.
There are over twenty “tee
total” Mayors in England; while
Scotland, with a population one-seventh
that of England, has eighteen Provosts
(Mayors) who are total abstainers.
One H ndrkd Thousand.— -
One hundred thousand mon
Gay youth and silvered he id—
On every hill, in every glen.
In pal ce, cot an t U athsowe den,
Eaih year; from rum. lie dead!
O e hundred thousand sons of toil
Yearly hud graves in freedom-* s dl;
From rum, good friends, from nun.
Dr. Munkoe made the following
statement at a public meet ng in Exeter
Hall: “ It is a great sorrow to me now
to th'nk that lor twenty years I havo
recommended the drnfc. It makes my
heart ache, even now, to see the niis
chief 1 have made in years gone by —
in schief never to be remedied by any
act of mine.4’
The C.ty Council oe Dalton, Ga.,
has unanimously refused to grant license
to fell uto.xicating liquor in that city.
It is not to be so d in dc.ig-stores under
the name of bitters, nor from any olher
p at e, nor in any quantity. Out at a
voting population of 400, 385 signed
the petition asking the Council not to
grant licenses.