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Miscellaneous Selections. A,
BESIE AND I.
IN TWO PARTS. l
1.
ENJOT'D your dinner, have you, my boy 1
Well come, that's olly, you know (1
Though I wish that Besie had been here, too
she's longing to see you so.
Here, brin your chair to the fire, old man, and
A ,t be afraid o' the wine; jN
And we'll have a quiet weed, if'ou like, and a
haton d anga syne."
So 'tic seven years since you went away, and I
have been married five;
Whati you thought I "hadn't the cheek" to
propose to a girl? Why, man alive,
'Ti met strangest, most delightful thing that ever
hapll'ned, you No:
1 didn't"pop the uestion" at all. 'Twas Besasle
proposed to me !
Here, Elldie and Sid, you may run off now, and
have a game o' play;
Come, you know what mamma was to bring you I
ome, if you be good children to-day; Al
Your uncle and I have a lot o' things that we At
want to talk about; Ac
And you shall tdme in agais, my dears, when I
we've had our gossip out. k'
Ti
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Ai
And now for my tale, though I hardly know
what ikssaie would say if she knew
By Jove, how she'll open her eyes when she Al
colnes to be introduced to you!
As I toll you, she's sslwnding the day with a BI
friendl-her cousin, by the hye-
Who's just lean o,,wyang the oil command, to Al
increase andi mualtilll.
Well, you know what our proslwets were, old
man-our imother's andI Kate's, and
mine-
When %y'u ,hae us good-blve to go to sea in the
narvy doctoring line: A
With the nother's jenslan and jointure, you
know, she was pretty well off. and then TI
We thought I wai ure. to make my mark, what
with the bar and the Iwn. Ti
I remember how you laughed at my rhymes, you
untllieving ,Jew,
And used to rout me out from my books togoand
idle with you; VA
But the inother and Kate' llieved in me, as our
foolish wotamn folks will, M
And Bessie dubb'd me her laureate, and knight
ot the gray goose quill. I
You know what Bessie was as a child, in thedear
old bygone dys, TI
With her big brown eyes and golden head and her
pretty willful ways; To
How she ilague, and charm'd, and queen'd it
o'er us youngsters oft and oft, Ti
Yet what a dear little heart it was, bow clinging
andi tender and soft!
Iher brother Willie sad I were '*old particulars,"'
bear in mind, ,,
And the good old rector and his wife were always
hearty and kind;
So that hardly a lay would pass away but I
tound myself, you see,
In the quaint old garden with Bessie and Will,
and whoso happy e we?
Ileigbol they were peasant times, old man
resh, and ses aid ttree,.
Ere the foot of Time had trampled and soil'd the
sheen of life'snloraing dew!
When I think of those gardea walks and pranks, TI
what tender memories rise,
With Besale the center igure of all, with her 71
merry, mischievous eyes! A
Well, I went to HeIdelberg, as you know, to
fnish my school career,
In that quaintla old home of spectacled lore,
meerschaums and lager beer;
And when I came back my child playmate had If
vansab'd, and In her paace
Was a fair girl-woman, shy and sweet, with a -
gentle, winsome face.
And I loved her, loved her-God knows how
well--afm her first shy, welcoming
glance
With a passo as strong, sad tender sad pure,
as the love of old Romance;
And she ?-she was always pleasant sad kind
with the friend of her childhood gay,
But whether my darling loved me or no was more
than I could say. A
Willie sad Kate were engaged you know, and
they'd look so conscious adshby,
That we used to tease sad banater them both, his
sister Besale sad 1;
And when they'd begin to whisper sad sigh, I
eouldn't do less, you'll own,
Than draw sweet essi away with me, ad leave
the lovers alone.
how well I remember it slill t
And somehow we two hIad winhterd away from
love.lrase atie d wi
Till we eas in the dek to the lons black msre,
where the aspen besehee wave,
And h oosa'd me to tell bhr ts legend grim of
a love beyond thearvwe.
- Then I ook'd down irate her st brown eyms,
with theIr wlteang ,and lustrous
And I I've
When we heard a rr shoe fm babehd, end
and vig ord died out on my lips, and I
hew mny story wait.
but she seem'd fum that very time to growmare
shy and ditiawt, ye see;
I never caulded hr n a as l, her to
wnlkwih m. ...e. .
And when I s to draw he r asid nd whper
y or' rend ub , aSd ur away, lke a
I w shes hnad a, rd sd to myelf, with
a.,. pro end oulorl thro.,
pio oftelin mae . ;t
b the doe't asia o hear
rl u me hes o d stled
To m drery the
Nut i vin, in vain r w y ayes wurabt
And you know the endl--how a mist would clog 71
S my bloodtshot waking eyes;
Ande irclesquiver about the lights in dazzling N
rainbow dyes;
Then a strange, dim blur of letters and lines, and N
then-all darkness there!
And a poor blind man upon his knees, in an TI
agony of prayer.
Oh, Jack, dear brother! 'twas hard-'twas hard! TI
soyoung in sorrow and strife,
To be left asightless burden, old man, for all my El
A useles life!
Never to see the sun or the lowers, nor the starry W
a heavens above,
Nor look in the dear home faces again, so ftill otf
pity and love!
I know that Kate wrote to you, lad; but she Hi
0 couldn't tell, dear heart,
of her southing words and patient help, and A
tender and sisterly part;
Nor how the dear old mother would say, while N
Is her pitying tears would fall,
"Poor boy, hi home must be always here, Ti
there's more than enough for all!"
But 1 must be a burden on them, I knew, as I 8
u bitterly felt at times,
And by and by I took again to weaving stories Bi
re and rhymes;
And Katie would write them out for me, and AV
somehow they aeem'd to "take "
For I lid my best, Heaven knows, for her and I',
the mother's sake.
alnd quiet and peace at last came down, in gra- Li
tcous answer to prayer;
The chastening HIand that had dealt the blow IT
helped the mourner to bear;
And I came to think, with a heart reeign'd ot A
even the brief lure-dreain
That had brighten'd and blighted my by-gone 1s
life with its fickle and fleeting gleam.
I seldom saw her--lessic, I mean-for the wound N
would rankle still,
But I'd hear of her almost every day from either T
Katie or Will;
Anl when they talked of a legacy that had left It
her rich, you know,
M .y broken prayers went up to Gdel for her hallri- TI
nesd below.
Itut it chanced, as I sat and brooldel alone, one
S ummer afternoon
By the" pleasant warmth andt the scent o' the II
flowers I knew it was " leafy June"
Kate came and coax'd me to take her arm, and A
walk oat with her to call
At the rectory house, orour friends would think F
I'd quite forgotten them all.
ie And Bessie was there! I coull not see her
winsome, welcome face,
a But the very sense of her resence seemed to A
glorify the place;
to And I trembled and flush'd in the foolish way T
that lovers understand,
At the gentle sound of her ,itling voice, an,
id the touch of her dainty land.
We sat in the qtaint old parlor-ah, how well I
/ I knew it of oldt- S
And the good old rector prosed away, about his
w church and his fold-, b
The parish schools, and the state of the roads,
at and the probable Irice of hay. E
Till Iessie at last jump d up from her chair, in
her old imlpulsive way.
)t
"Ctome, who's for my summer-hose'?" she
de said; "tor it is sohot in here! I
What! noneof you speak? Then Charlie here
ur shall be my cavalier. A
Mamma, dear, where is that magazine': 0, here
ht it is, I see: II
I want to read him the poem, you know,%at so
delighted me!" T
ar
Then she took my arm and led ce out, with a
er tender, sisterly care, A
To the dlear old gasden, so dark to me, to her so
bit Ioomintag a.d tfair,
Till we came to the arbor, the sene of some of
ig my haplest hours o' life. I
Ere I'd put from my heart its a -owning hope of
calling ner my wife. A
'Twas Teqnyson's very last oiem she read, and
it may have been very fne,
SBut somehow her sweet voice trembled so muech
I could hardly follow a line; A
And at last she gave it up with a sigh, and laid
the book away. A
" I think it must be the beat," she said, but I
cannot read to-day" A
he Then there carme a pause-a dreamy palse-when
in fancy I could see
a, The fair flushed Ihee of the gentle friend so full of
pity for me;
er Then she laid her dainty hand on mine-her hand
that trembled sot
And the tears were in her tender voice as she
to whispered soft and low:
", "Charlie, we two are such old, old friends, that
you mustn't think me bold S
cd If I ask you to tell me a secret that else would
ever be untold:
a -What was it you wanted to say to me that
evening bythe mere:
Come, I'm sure yo'll tell me, won't you now ?
w for should llke to hear!
ng
Whati you dare not tell me, you say!-ah, well,
S I think I can guess-I
And, Charlie, dear, I'm sure you know my
adanswer would have been 'Yest'
You know I loved you, without the need of either
re promise or vow;
And yet-how cruel, how cruel!-you thought I
ad should turn away from you now!
his Now, when your poor dark life has need of a
tender and trusty guide,
I Now, when I'm prouder of your love than of
iaght in the world betside;
e And di yo think that this was the time I should
ehoe to coldly part?
Ah, 'tislalie imded ya me can know of the
depths of a woma's heartL
Charlie, don't think me unwomanly, dear--n
womasly ad weaek
Because ie give voice to the love I know you
S would never spek I
Tisetterso than that oth our lives should be
forlorn and lone;
And so-if you care to have me, dear-you may
take me for yar owan!"
What need to tell of m answer, Jack-of my
heart's ecaatatie bli,
And my lips sought hers, sad we ealed our toe
With a r warm, pbSSionte kiss;
While my si tl tMa want up toGod on the
Jaob's I dedder o payer
The God who had h te'd my life with a joy
that seem'd to gt Oo beart
In.
And so we were married-Be-se and I-and
I'd eaeto bls the happy day that brouht me
my darlin rilfe:
S . Sch . ad adepet sn, p.et,t
sadra eedy, and kin,
She almost me d think at times 'twas ablase
Ing to belnd!
to be bi4! little a i ys V!
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Si
oeý. mu· . rla ..a.h Mi, mwet wraU I t .wh LeadiI set A _ we* l*lg-e, briht.,
m ir ý. ' -, .wi wwq
Mwd kmswin wI, dr ah
M bmhLr waift bw I
ý wb r 7M ssm
NY~~~ 6" Mv dV,
AM Iifra wwMas kui 1 a-g.. egd. wbV4
bar rues say M;
,TW Ir eI 12" i e`b reere
hr w~-·bL. wwwtrrý
That I never in all the years to come her gentle At
face should see,
Ne'er look in her lauo;hing baby eyes as I danced Fo
heron my knee;
Nor inarked, as thel happy years roll'd on, each All
vari ing. c'hanging Ilae--w
The baby lranks, and the childish grace, and the Umi
blush ot maidenhood.
Then our boy wa. born, and my lirfe stood still, Nec
with a sudhden horrorr and fright!
o Jack, old man, shall I ever forget that trying, Th
awesome night,
When I Ipaed this room here through
throutgh, with a grElint, helpless dread,
While my darling's preciols tife up-stairs was
hanging on a thread!
But.G(dl heard my prayers-tlhe blind man'
prayers-and lspared her to lmke, my sweet,
Ant our home grew merry with cradle aongsan
the Iatter of little feet'
With the patter of little thay feet, that woul,
toddle up to my chair,
To lay a little soft heCtd on miy knee, that love"
to nestle there.
So tile years passed on, and even life now oRe
seem'd hard to niee;
lut when I sat in the eventide, with my littleon
on vmy knee,
While' tessie would sing us some quaint old son
of love orof doughtly deed,
I'd think how good and pleasant it was to the Ii
1 had thought to lead.
Let's see, 'tis a twelvemonths ago )ince first
noticed, with strange sulrprise,
That the darkness es-em'ld to grow lighter-like
tllen's to 1my Ipoor blind evyes,
And a yearning, pssionate, trembling hope crel
into lily heart and brain;
IBut never a word I said to the wife, lest m
thoughts should heI false and vain:
Never a word I said to my love, lest her heart We
shouli beo tecreast,
To know I had eherish'd a hope like this to find I An
it a nmyth at last;
Ilst I quittly toll miv story to Will, as we saun- :A.
ter'd up and downe
The ga:rden, and we two thought of a plan for litt
getting Ine Iupl to town.
Then I s-ake to the' wife of a I ink I'd lnnle, I l
that I fan'ciedl wouldl answer well,
Ilut I wanted eesome talk with a lirml in town to see AI
if they thoulght 't wouldlt sell
And Willie had ironlied to go with me and ace At
me through it, I said,
For I knew that she. ctloulln't leave the bairns, or1 At
I'd like her to go instead.
She tried to I.rsutade ite fromt it at first, and It
dolefilllv Ilrolhesied
All sorts of ee,'Idel'nts anld mishaps, and then she
iplea~tl and triedt
To get me to take her with us, tea,; but at last we
se'ttlel It right, A
And Willie was pledgedltl again anslt again not to
trust me outt oel his .lght.
So we went to town for a week or so, aned you'll
tasily under.stand W
My flutte'ring holes, and doubts, and fears, now
te te t was near at hand : At
Enough, that Mne wondrous daty, Saul-like, the
Secah. drolp'd off fieom ny sight, W
And I tfin;tet in Willie's brotherliy arns in it
sutdden hIurst o' light!
I wasthatzed and gildly-like for a while, but I W
seon got round again;
And 0i, the grateful, pIassionate joy that throbh'd AI
in ley everv ve-in!
thear t(,e,' what a hlaply world it was-how win- Ti
somlle ant fair to see'!
The very stones of the London streets seem'd
weeeutiful to me!" I
And deep, delel down in my heart of hearts there At
nestleel this crowning bliss:
"O, what will Ohe lireI, my iBessie, my love, when AI
she conmes to hear of this ?
O th ttears of joy, tI the clasping arms, el the Ai
Ionnie head on my breast,
When I conme to tell her the glorious news, my
bealttiful, my best!"
We sat far into that halppy night, I and lear old w
Will
Ah, the rose-like spell of those rich deep hours Ai
is a fragrant memory still!-
And we talk'd of the ,lear one's down at home, pe
and the story we had to tell,
And the wondrous love of the Master above, who
"doeth all things well "
We' spoke of Bessie again and again, and always Ne
with moistvn'd eyes,
Andl we felt 'twonld Ib. est to spare my love too .i
sutldden a glad surprise;
o I was to keep on my old blune "spec" hey way y
of a loving
Anti to patiently tt -the fitting ttme tor gently
breaking the news.
You can easily guess what my feelings were i
when I got back home at last;
And how, as I trod on the threshold here, my if
heart beat thick and Iast;
And how I bad nearly told her all, in a burst o' K
passionate bliss,
As my darling few to welcome me bome with a
loving clasp and kis.s
Dear heart 'twas the same sweet bonnie face. N
nay, bonaler than before
With the old soft charm in the lustrous eyes that i
had won my heart of yorel
Sweet eyes, that were moist with tender tears that
went to my heart to see;
God knows that I never knew till then the depths
of her love for me!
She put my hat and my stick away, and W1
tender an a wifely care
Led me, who seem'd so helpless and dark, to my
old accustom'd chair;
And there she left me a minute or so, with a kiss
and a gentle word,
While she ran to bring the children down; and i
my heart was kindly stirr'd
As I looked about at the pleasant room, and out
S on the garden view,
That all seem'd so familiarly strange, so old, and
yet so new,
H Anddrop'd back into my chair once more,
with a longing akin topain,
As I heard the childre! come skulryhng down to
welcome me home agaln.
O Jack, there are times and feelings, old man,
that Isguage can nsver paint;
And words, whenal pa of that rownigscene.
S seem ak, and feeble and fint,-
Feeble innee to show one tithe of my boromes
passionate swell;
But I dare y you can picture it all far better
thau words could tell.
SI could sarcely ae them at irst fr the teara that
dimm'd my yearna 1ng
As t m t oyra t siee eager joy, my
voungliat b brige hbrtit;.
And then tey er smbr'depLou my knees, with
-And ok'dathed t slrte lm1 Inmy1fenm y
il.- e..ete *..e"
Ad wha d~lI at ? A Wee re-lmM, hrald,
ana RM, aMi ..r
W'.llerea lirn. bad aMae Ot, and
AM w . 1 ab.h7-bsy wilk =ann
SWhat oIst a t, my. derua ?" I sad "a
S-lw h asL
bo good kt Iew, d yem ., e 'l '
And all the Isolle they loved her so, this fairy in
the woot,
For she never was cross and Lproudl, my dears,
but kind, and gentle, ant ges.l;
Andl she always was haplitest when she'dl madt
sonme neighbor happy and bright
Unlike some little chillren I know, who tease,
and quarrel and light!
Not you, my dear? Why, of course not, child!
did you fancy I should auppose
That Edle ads ever sue naughty
fri
ha
lit'
lio
eVe
ha
the
ha
of
of
Of
ha
kit
la,
We t inn
was qu toea saidt,
And couitl o, O my, such wonderfill things when e
he took it into his head;
And when his fairy sister was out on an erranel Sel
of goodi one dlay, II
IHe went alone t the blmind man'shut, and gently kil
lIed him away.
Ie led him away to a secret cave, where a mighty or
genii dwels no,
And with curious bottles, and dtrugs, and Inwks,
A works wondtertil cure's and tspells;
Anl he touched the man with his magic wand on in
his Isar, dark, sightless eyes,
4 And he saw-oh, the j!-he saw again the beau- to
tihui ields and skites!
lie was curet, nmy delars-he was blindl no tet
more; antd he' thought, with a happy smnile. .
'I won't let hler know it all at once, but keep it P
secret awhile;"
For the darest thought of his heart was this, tis
Siow gladl the fairy will te, CO
And what lif I shall have with the chilren now
when they Cmin to rplay with nlee. to
Well, he found the fairy waiting at home, and Bal
she started uit froit her chair,
With her face all hflush'd and eager-like, as 1i
Umamma's is over there; f,
Anil she tnriss'd her handes, as mammt does now, fi(
t tiher throbbleing h brow, juest here-
ihy, isie, mt darling, what is it now ? how of
you trighten a ltillw, dear! tel
For, nh. she had read my story right, and was
sobbleing on ty breast, ea
With her aruhs aleiut the children ate me, mey c
fairy ounne and bleslt,
And I clas tel her to ley heart f liearts, while h o
mny trimming eyes o'erran- br
The truest helpmeet, the sweetest wife otlt ever y ti
uave to ean !
I toed her alls ap she lay on my breast, handt
lovingly elasp'd in hand, tat
And then the dearchildtren had to e kiss'l, andt
male to undterstanl;
And I hadt to tell who Elie was like, with her li!
mother's eyes, dear heart, fig
Antd whether little Syedle was not my very in
counterpart! ad
And of course I had to be taken out aroundl our
little demesne, it
Where all its mleauties were Isintesl out, and aed- kI
mired again and again;
And then, in the midst of a merry laugh or at
lightly utter'd jet, , eC
Poor essie would qulite break down again, and as
be weeping on my breast! ti
Talking of the-hem! why there she is!-that's
her kaueck, as sure as a gun! T
Nowv you take your cue from me, old man, and
I'llt show you a little fun: (
SBessie, my ilear, this gentleman here is a very Ki
old friend ofmi-- fe
Mr. Smith, Mrs. C.; Mrs. C., Mr. Smith--in the
Ita, ha! why, where is your memory, dear? As
the singers say,'Try tback.'
ave you quite forgotten our old playmate, the I)
illustrious It. Jack?
I Hullo! what now? Well upon my wordl, this iZ
really isa snrprise -- Bi
Kissing another fellow, by Jove, under my very
eyes!
Only look at her now, old man--there's a picture 
for you, eh?
Why she's getting younger, and rosier, and 11
handsomer every ay!
Come, get n somse tea there's a dear, good girl,
and don't stand laughing there, T
And we'll make it ajolly meeting to-night, with dl
tDr. Jack in the chair!"
*--Belgra ria. h'
Soettiysh Ae ecuotes I
Y Trant are some capital Scottish anec
dotes In Et S ard y, among temon
of a dying Highland chieftain, who asked $
I his spiritual adviser "If there was any
whisky in Heaven," and then half-apolo- o
getialy said, ' 1e ken, sir it's no that Ip
Scare for it, but it looks wee on the table."
d Here is another: Dr. Robert Knox, the .
gret teacher of anatomy, began one of o
e his letters in thisway: "Gentlemen, there f
are no text-books I can recommend. I j
wroteoe myself,butit is poor stuff. I t
can't recommead it. The man who knows h
, most sbout a subject writes worst upon it.
If youa want a good textbook on any sub
j.ect, recommend me to the man who
's knows nothing earthly bwot the subject
f book on anatomy-. We will have one moon,
however; Professor Monro Is going to I
Swrite onie This Professor Monro was so
lazy that he was in the habit of using his I
y grandfother's lectures, written more than I
ta hundred years before his day. and stu- '
dents were electried by haring him (In
my 18and 18) drawl out, "Whn I was in
Padn In 160." This was the signal for I
ina, and showers of peas descended on
aMoo's head, who could mnever under
stand wha It was all about. There is also
a story of a Scotch mervant, who, when
asked how "his hip" (,. hismaster)
was, lanswered, "I ho 's weel." He
was, in fact, dead, but the old merviter was
too cautions to commit blmself, in his
oplanlon,as tohbis condition. Among other I
drinking anedotes and amyings is that of
an old worthy,who h sed to say, "ws 'o
a bad thi ," and' then, as if to qu
such a dageo sentiment, ad "e
pecially bd whisky."
Sebsal Xa'ms Abread.
ScaoolrxAsnTa and school ma'am are
to be abroad this summer. They will in
vade Europe In detachments, varying
from one handred and sixty strong to
eight or ten, but upon arriving on the
other side they will unite in heavy hat
talloos and advance in fae on the schools
and universities. Their march will ex
tend fom Cambridge to Munich, and It
is whispered that some will vgo frther
east to question the Sphynx, and others to
drop in on the vocal Ime o at Thebes.
Ull winter they hae been engaged, ac
odi to r mr, in ig up a slats t ofl
hard qetions with which to "atump"
the S an nd Teuto mind. This may
be only an Idle report, ventured n the
sappoalkt that a ch peat-up oran
hs, eg eansmtbe kpt hidden dringatour
Ia.S[the limits springs of lbs Old
-C re sad os f ~bb iad their
aroni salars enmato bOw belbre the
s A reym d I U Normal
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MISCELLANEOUI' PARAGRAPHS . out
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SWr.T o11051-A bee hive.
Ivt a man is coflin it dIces not follow that '*Q
his is agrave case.
IT is proposedY to introduce i\ilr serv'ice ''
reform among the uncivil street-ear con- hru
ductors.
PARts, in abolishing glove(t deetrees `
hemn to be the cranimpe invenlions ott a .
frivolous mind. il
Mas. Jonxs says her husband is a three- ta
handed man-right hand, left hand, and a till
little behind hand.
l)srs RASAYC estimated that four mil
lion sermons are delivered in Eingland
every year. And still the people are not wl
happy. art
QtEEN VICTORIA has just presented to
the Historical Muse'um in Derby an or
I nal letter from Prince Charles Stuart,
ted in 1715.
ISlIAELITEs throughout the country slhe
have in contemplation the establishment hlt
of a metropolitan synagogne in the city eel
of Washington. its
TuH girl students at Buchtel College. mt
Ohio, have formed a base ball club. They dot
have more matches on hand than they co;
know what to do with. :1iI
THE children of St. Ann's Sah:hath wI
School in Brooklyn, contri)butel $1,0i32 of
last year towards educating and support- `i11
ing a Chinese missionary in China. cet
Tri name of John F. Wilson. the pres- *`
uent postmaster of Lynchburg, Va.. is in
scribed on a monument erected at Peoria. As
Ill., to the memory of soldiers who were tin
killed during the war. rot
Anel'asi.ior MANxNIXt has issued an an
order to the clergy under his jurisdiction ul
not to celebrate a marriage when the sanme twt
parties have been, or intend to be, married tl
in a Protestant church. at
CAPTAIN WILLIAMS, of the Atlantic, is gu
to be suspended for two years. Many an
persons will think this too severe a sen- nt
fence. They would be satistied with sus- an
lwnd:ng him fifteen minutes. ph
IT is said that Iisraeli pronounces hii; :111
name in the Italian fashion, which the -1
common people of England sound so as ye
to make the last syllables rhyme with At
Bailey. It was originally Israels. n"
TenRa are three American denti-ts in th
Madrid. and they have made hanelsouime
fortunes by the practice of their pretis- Ii
sion. They enjoy the exclusive patronage r:
of all the nobility. Yankee tooth carl-li- th
tern stand (and c~harge) high in Europe..
Ms think God is destroying them lhe- Pl
catuse le is tuning them. The violinist in
screws iup the` key till the tense clrd ex
sounds the coicert pitch ; lut he is not to n1
break it, but use it tunefully, that he the
stretches the string upon the musical the
rack.
llERR ZCKKRTORT (in English sugar- an
tart) is the wonder of the chess world in ex
London at present, on account of his bril
r liant play, as well as for his extraordinary
feats of what Is called "blindfold" play
ing, in which Morphy was so great an
adept.
MARK TWAIN, a few months after his of
first baby was born, was holding it on his chi
knee. rHis wife said, "Now confess, an
Samuel, that you love the child!" "1I re
can't do that," replied the humorist, "but as
I am willing to admit I respect the little lie
thing for its father's sake.' etc
a No doubt some women are Immortal. pr
There is Madame Anna Bishop, who sang
i (and not in her prime either) for our great P°
y grandmothers, is to begin anothkgrng fir
fessional tour rol d ._  i' n , Ja- ac'
pan. India, and Australia. She is the
Methusaleh of lyric artists. tie
SoM: prominent men of Washington, the
I D. C., have conceived the design of organ- du
is izing a Church without Christ and the otl
Bible. They recognize God and the Im- tic
y mortality of the soul. and are willing to pr
patronize the Sacred Word as long as they ne
e shall judge it conforms to the truth.
They judge that at least one or two mil- aR
d lions will unite in this movement. pe
, ORNGs Cr.LTIVATION IN Lo A.- IP
There is a steady increase in M Ec
district of Louisiana, of this of
husbandry. In P*lalqueflne
2,000 acres are ocuied by ogange-groves.
Usually, there are one indred trees to
the acre, and a healthy tree will bear M
500 to 2,000 oranges, 1$ being a fair
e average field. They bring, on an average,
, $10 per thousand.
Y MIRAT IIALSBTD. editor and proprietor t,
i of the Cincinnati Cbumercial, began his 01
I practical life as a school teacher in a small ei
village near that city. lie afterwards o0
e went, without a dollar, to the metropolis p
f of Ohio; wrote blood-and-thunder stories of
e for one of the Western weeklies, and local m
I taed a position on the Caommercial. where
Vhe "stuck," and succeeded.
A ascirr lIssue of French coin, made
· from Australian gold, has been found so u
e brittle as to break easily under ordinary
Sause; it has nacordinglyh beenrecalled. The
brittlenes ispped to be due to the
p preseneofa sm a perentae ofninimo.y
and arseni both extremely dicult to
Sremove. These substances are said to
P prode alike ect~ in all metals oralloys I
Swhich are subjected to the moleeclar e
eihange s Inded by the pressure and heat I
in devetoped under tec ti ofthe d ln Ia
hr the copyi~ng-pjr. I
on . Horzntu maintails that not only
does each group of nimals possess a Ian- .
iso guage which is understood by other mem- E
en iof the ame roup, but that they a I
tr) larn to ndrstand thse languae 1 othIer
Sgroups. His dogs, r Instane perfectly
ms understood his poultry. Cocks and hens
ls have one r dn lgr sal bthe pmach
a of a bird of prey, another for t of n I
:of terrestrial animal or for a man. Whenal
' the latter was soanded the dogs wmld I
rush out and bark, while to th former
es- they pid no attention whatever. He
theiefore concludes that towls have the
power of espsngm slhtty dferent but
closely alled ider, andaos can learn to
understand these differences.
n- The Vestrileqgalt etbe Deek.
eng -
to Qthrr an exting time, says a reporter
the of the Cleveland Herald, occurred at one
at of our wharves recently.
ols The hands of one of our steamers were
ex- I a in rolling ofen ask, when, to the
SIt and consternation of the peroa
erprfoming that opertio, a voice was
Ito heard Inside the cask.
s. "Roll It easy; these plagney nails hurt,
o- I'd rather pay my passage than stand all
p" Holding up their hands, their eyes ex
may ai t the sIe of two muaacers, the two
the oreri exclaimed
ra- ' That bests the dickens!"
aor The mate comaig up at this moment
Old and uaware of th emu aneo delaJ om
Em- minced i et m forhtheir
elr nese, when withn the cask the voice came
the -rth:
mal "You'es nabody; It aus O r
- Whallsk t1" iaM the mate.
of " Why It's me," said the voice. " I
rth wa't tolgetut; I wo't stad this any
out-donl't " again said the (easkel-.4p in
dividual au the mei.n were turning it over.
'" Co'ar,"s:id the mate. " unlhead that A
ca'k nlId ta:ke out that lmani." pe
As the aize- slundered the hoops. and the ou
lheal wa collling out, tlhe voice again iIn
broke forth: tere
•" e. easy. now; is there any one about? Mal
I 'Ion't wait to e" (aught." the
tQ uite a crowd had gathered round the this
('entle of aic'tion,I when a low geutteral fact
laugh broke Iorth. which male our hair the
"tamlltl en11 , and thle cask wais found estil
tilled with la.tnn. fete
" What doe. that Imeaull' say. one. vail
" It wats nmy time," said the mate. vari
We enjoyed tlhe joke too well to tell 11
what it me:ant as we walked off arm in rei,
arm with tihet ventriloquist. it -
- . -- -tior
A Light Extlngulshed. the
Ii samns strange that a comic paper ^r`
should be publi.hhed almost under the hole
Ihadow of Mount Ararat ; but until re- pail
cently such a publication did weekly wave feoXr
its lightsome wings and twinkle with Ar
nmenian puins and orient witticisms. It eve
does not see.m credible that any writer"w ua
coald be erloically and consistently ca
:mnm-m.g wlio wrote beneath a sky alone,
which once ldarkened tihe mighty lengtl £:
of the ark. andt almost withitn sight of thie Mel
smnnui: on which it rested. But times .l
change. Nolah is not forgotten in thlose il i
Arnmenitan aleh s. But there mut 1 ecakes il
and ale, notwithstanding the old DIeluge w~'
:Iand its tradlitiolns of awe and wonder. Cmm
And the lIpople have evidently so far tri- wl(
nmplhed over the solemnity of their sur-wl
rotudingis that they tsrin to liketokes cut
an I comic pictures. The vehicle which li
supplied them witl these has, however, life
been suppr..=ised. It indii.rcn.tly rcviewedl
the A.rmmenian Archlbishop, andt poked fun
at his wig. So the ecclesiastical extin
guislher was suddenly droplpwd over it, at
and it went out like a taper. The com- 1
inunmity now have to Import their pumns Lo
and pleasantrie-, amld then get them ex
plaitwd. This i. a disastrous condition, a
and import.-what we are sorry to believe w
-that mentire freedonm of the press is not
yet gllaranteedt in the regions arounid
Ararat. We have never seen the paper.
nor do we know exactly the character of i. e
th joke leveled at the Archbishop, cas
wihether it wa, a goodl or a bad one; but po'
in the abitence of testimony, andr consid- ipa
erimtg the seudden squelching of the journal dra
following on the exploit, we conjecture B
that it must have been a bad one. It
probably bore an oriental resemblance to
one of those three-story jokes, common
in China, which one man tells, another as
explains, and a third runs round the cor- has
ner to get a diagram with which to show Lo
the point of the thing. If it was one of
tlese, we can hardly blame the Archbish- nu
op for stopping the paper, though that is i
an expe)uent to be resorted to only in
extreme cases, in Armenia or elsewhere. larx
-Graphic. rep
Hop Culture.
Fitnst be sure to secure a good muality Mh
of the right kind of plants. The English
cluster standt far in advance of all, or he
any other variety, both for productive- the
Snress and quality of hop. We should be
as: cautious in selecting the variety of
hops as we would be of fruit trees, seede T
etc. Tile English cluster..lae or soil Jos
profitably grown la.ffind of grain or The
that will proAe wh
poStf gards profit to the grower, I say Jush
first, at a low average of 1.500 pounds per if
acre, and at a low average pnce of forty man
cents per pound, the crop would bring shil
$6410 per acre. The expenses of eultiva- s
tion and harvesting are to be deducted n
therefrom. Mome fix the expense of pro- m
duction as high as ten cents per pound; you
others as low as five cents. The vaia
tion depends upon the number of pounds "a
produced per acre, as a light crop costs *x
nearly as much labor as a heavy yield.
My experience teaches me that an aver
age yield of hops can be grown at an ex- m
pense not exceeding seven cents per ma
pound, making an expense of $105 per at I
acre ; deduct this from the $600 and the lo0
grower is left in possession of a net profit ,
of $195 per acre. told
To start with, the plants will coat about
$22 r acre. The next year the vines m
polling which can be done at an ex
of about $50 per acre. Many far- p
mers have plenty of poles upon their own ex
Sland which will cost them nothing but ex
the time and labor of cutting and hauling o
r them. After the plants and poles are kn
s once seured, there will be no additional f
II expense in that direction for twenty years m
S or more. The first crop will, or should, Int
s pay all those expenses and leave a profit te
of $423 per acre, and a paid up invest- cr
ment for twenty years or more. Last he
Syear, 1872, good ho s old readily at the
e grower's door for fifty annd --six eOnts pa
pound many ot them atnl m In
10, to$1,000 for their ho crop. No
o I wonder they are the most Jvhad Mdhap- t
y tlotof creatures on artm.--C . Rural an
y James rBronk' Diasme* .
to -
to MDICAL science appears to have been th
a wholly at fault as to the natureof the dis- .
r ease which afflcted the Hon. James /
t Brooks. It was reported to be a malarIal 1
n affection contracted in India, but the
physicians had various opimons of their a
own about it. A eorrespondent of the ti
SWorld saysI none ol them agreed as to its B
a nature. Dr. W. Parker, a widely-knomwn
Spractitioner of New York City, spent w
some time in studying the diseas, ad ,
r suggesed that it mit probablMy be leu
Soeythaemia, whihi s an undue ppon
el derance of the white eorpusce s o te_
ba lood over the red. Not lon since spe
Smens of blood were tak enfom several p
id pts of lr. oosM ' body,aMdlntrlts w
to Dr. J. J. Woodwd, of the Army a
Medleal Museum. Dr. Woodward sub.
he mitted the specimens to a most powerll w
ez im o ex l e ruporb
that th blod wa in n nrale acud e -
ton, and that there was n unusual pro- a
orion of the white corpuaces bst not
Ina salUelent quantity to jF the desd~fk
t finally died, and then only were the med
Ieal gentlemen able to aseMrtain the cause
e hi.s llh#a It was cancer of the stom
,a. we nowlear. Probbly nothing
could have been done to ebec the mua
Sady, even if Its nslture had been known,
but the suffrurer mighbt prMaps have been
saved from some tand sannoyance.
Alter all the study that is given to suchi
Smatters, how little s really k aown bout
the economy of the human body and the
ix-lls to which it is subject.-2'oy 2~mns.
JosarPan MEDtL was aked if he would
eat plied: "''bee Isn't politicl, socIalor
1 pecuanary indaucements e lta in Chle.
lt, to hire me. I hbave sadbeo
me Lke theb l savage Danbr ca that ha.
been Uerbly arnd d wkb mb ih nad
ar a h '' d " a't want say
"I Cauoua has beome tired " M
may a dimoonds, and tabn of muat an
th "Go.. Our wuerwa Tian"-AeeomI 1
sh paa y Im puM eU of dbmeb
Vletoria's Wealth.
A wait :It in the May number of Lip
j'iedtt's believes the Queen either is, or
ought to, be a very wealthy womlll:n, and
in sm:pport of his wImlief presents ;onme in
teresting facts. All the clubs in Pall
Mall, which pay the highc-et rents in
the city. stand on crown la:, bullt
this property ulltiers much from the
fact that it cannot be sold. The whole of
the New Forest is crown land, and it is
estimnateal that if it could hbe sohl at would
fetch mni'lions, whereas it is now nearly
valueless. Of the Queen's inonme from
various sources, the writer saiys':
Her income was at the tbegimning of her
reign tixed at £J:$. WYJ a q'ear. This sima,
it was understood. would. with the excep
tion of £96,000 a year. ie divided bsetween
the lord steward, the lord chamtwrlain,
and the master of the horse,. the three
great functionaries of the royal house
hold. IOf the residue. £ts,0.040 w"re to be
paidl ovae to the Queen for her personal
expenses. and the remnalnining £3:,tIN were
for '" contingencies." It is probatle, how
ever, that tihe above arrangements have
been much modilled, as tine hita. worked
changes.
The Prince ('onsort had an allowaanlce of
£130.Ncn a year. The Queen origisldly
wishled hin to have £1iI.000i, anld Lorol
Mellmurne, thi. n Prime Minister, who had
inmnnens, inflluencee over her, hail much
dilfficulty in persutading her that this sum
was out of the question, and gaining her
con-enit to the government's proposing
£15),1100 a year to the House of (lolltlaous.
w'hich, to Her Majesty's infinite chllagrin,
cut the sum down nearly one-half.
During the happy dlays of her married
life the expwnditure of thle c,urt was very
amuch greater than it lhas been ,ince the
Prince'; death. Emperors ad! kings
were entertained with utmost splendor
at Windsor. IDuring the Emperor of
Russia's visit, fior instance, and that of
Louis Phililpe, 100 or 211 extra months
were ill one way or another firl at Her
Majesty's exlwnise. The stables, too,
were formerly tilled with horses-and very
t tine oles they were-whereas ntow the
numnber is greatly reduced, and many of
those in the royal mews are "jobbed"
i. e., hired by the week or month, as oc
casion requires. from livery stables. This
poverty of the master of the horse's de
.:partment excited much angry comment
I on the occasion of the Princess Alexan
dra's state entry into London.
But besides the previously-mentioned
£60,000 a year, and what residue may be
unspent from the rest of the "civil list,"
as the £LJ:.000 i' called, Queen Victoria
r has other sources of considerable' in
come. She is in her own right Duchess
of Lancaster. Her revenue from this
source has been steadily increasing'. Thus
in 1865 it was £26,000; in 186f. £29,000;
in 180t, £31.000; ill 1872, £40,000. The
largest of these figures does not probably
represent a fifth of the receipts of John
of Gaunt, but the duchy of lancaster,
like that of Cornwall, sulifferel for a long
time from the fraud and rapacity of those
who were supposed to be its custodians.
Managed as it now is, it will prolba
have doubled its present re"v
the close of the cents"- - -
.--..7 with a Moral.
Tint case of William W. Bailey agt.
Josephine Bailey was tried yesterday.
The petitioner was a widower of flity
when he saw the respondent. who was
just one half hlis age. lie had lost his
wife, and his daughter was about to be
married. Mr. Bailey detailed the court
ship in the following manner :
She came to our house visiting. She stayed all
night. My daughterleft its in t. room together.
Says she to me, "Is your damlghter abtoml to be
marrie?t" "Periaps so." says . ", hat'lt
you de for a houmrkeeper?" says she'; "you'll
want one, won't you?" "Where can I get one?"
says I. "I'll be your housekeeper," says she,
S'MarryyuV ' 'Yes" says she. "Wheut"
ay I. "H ight off,' says she, 'now or nevr.
"Hadyt we better watt four or ave weelk's"
rys "\o," says be, "'I always -emat to be
mridbefore my fol knew it, and if you'll
r marry me before Igo home, all right." I lioke
r at her, said Mr. Bailey. She was a ruged
looking girl; looked strong and handy like. She
estayed tat night, and tie next lmoreir she
t asked me if I had mad- up my mind. I falny
told her we would go to the mini-ter's and' get
Smarried, and accordtingly we rode tol'rsoa Wit
cox in Jewett City and got married. But my
s mind was full of forebodings all the way.
After this account of his courtship, Mr.
Bailey proceeded to detail his matrimonial
experiences. He feared his wife might
Sget too much cider, and so he cut the tap
K off the barrel. She whetted a butcher
e knife in a sanguinary manner, and he
i feared lest she thirsted for his blood. She
moved his gun from its accustomed place
Into the parlor, and he thought she in
it tended to blow his brains out. She was
cross and stubborn, and boxed his ears, as
it he said, and " wa'n't no ways to be coma
Spared to my first wife." He lived in ter
ror b day, and slept with one eye open
o But she left him when her baby was
five weeks old for a visit to her parents,
a and Mr. ililey came and got ·elts on
for a divoree as soon as se ard gone.
But as the weeks rolled onhe longed for
her presenee agtan. She lft lh in
March. The divoree pedo was broulght
e the 8th of March, but in .ay they met
i and made up and eommenced to live t-.
es gether again, and did so, toh the peti
al tion for divomrc wau s wu g*
S The connsel for the srep
ir moved to disuais the case on the pound
te that a condonatoio of the oeses of Mrs.
Its Bailey had been dro ,d that as Mr.
rn auey tdmtted athe ived with his
at wife sine the date of the action, t could
ad not be masIntalned.
- Tbhe Judg, aAfer a fhaillm t
al pendst, who bed ihi a eroe.bl, aiso
red withdre e e, ad  sits wme
ay ended for the present.
wIl what WIija akood tho; oht w..a. .
of whm wi fy wans a girl hom youns
He miatake care that his court lasts logger
tot thasaday.
1g. -Norwich (Coa.) Bmslein.
Int I
ed. Iagenlsun Ngheeerlag.
- Dcaio the constaWruction of the bridge
atKuleno , HolDd, says the (Arou
sdle I' ,kri one of the prlndpal
mr, raverses, ome 46 eet ain lenot, was
tsn peod ut one aIch too far on ie pies.
SThirs erowas rmctled in s very iageo
ich o amar. The zo of them
ort of metal was a Raly .0AIW Inches
l FaP·srLit ,l,.gre. Mtheloalty o(the
work the diftl; renop betwean the te2p
_mld night w S* Fa.l
r"~ t·~hAe sun expanded the
Send - n et the v t
. ezmrm . L\ raverse ite Its
5a I . ...I v-Nary wa m a .
b *
,r- tlll " di ~ ,