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A LAST T.LK. qni
(:Caoe out in the ardeu and walk with me, I C1
Whl the dancers whirl to that dreamy. tlune, Iha
Hes! the moonlight silvers the slelpinag sea, r
And the world is fair as a uight in June.
Let me hold your hand an I nte.t to, do; la
Ti- in tri 1:,t. last time, you kiww a10
Fp.r t..-lorl.' w wa wo.wr em ltI tao w* W1
A'l t. wil -It, tlb . h I I v*e y.u a).
alt
YTou are pale--r In it the monalight'e gleam
That gives' to s.mlr face that orrYowful I.ok!
We nullnt wake at la-t froll Ioulr ilme,ar dreanl, wh
We have come to the cmlnd of ,ar trender tank.
Love, the i|wrt, ha written well;
He haa won our hearts by hin poem weet; me
Alid now, at the enld, we UIIst may farewell- - a
Ah, but *he lummelar was fair and deet. the
1) vo re".nlll,lar the laiht we mett? an
I., ,,n re a r. 4r ti ,lur yellow hair, out
(';.tlg my ePrC, I ran ae yolln ipt,
Just as )aon ntaaal aa the tlllnlo t stair,
A flutter of white frm head to feet,
A cluster of bud ont your breast. Ah me!
ltut the vision was never half so nweet
As i iis tonight in may memory.
llear the viols cry; and the deep l,a laann
imn rthhlaa lag l ut inl its 1111d1. rImm.
t*re ,,rrowfnl menumory. Ther t wnlle me
Is thle addet one I have evr kn"wll. the
ftr is It teca'n we nmust leir ta-nlaht to 1
That the miulse eestmn s ? ad? Alh me!
Y.a are weepiulg Love, avnd yalur ilpa arI white; eV(
The ways of life are a mystery. ls
I Iove you, Lve, with a Ive on true Cer
That in colmil yearrs I rhall not farget of
Trhe laeuti]fl ft , a. liie dleaanl I al.w, f
Alnd meoenary alwayV ai'l biall regret.
I shell stand lhy the .ae as we wetaud t.-mala,' swi
Alnd think of tler wt"uncr wlher Ilansnnu. did for
When the frosts ofat fate fall chill and a htte a
Onl the fairtest fl)wer of the Nummer-tidle.
ins
They are calling you. Must I let you go fi
Must I say gol-ye, and go an my way ?
If we munt lert, it Is better ao- pel
kaadl.byae's s"h a amrrowful word to ea! !
(ire ue, auy darling, one last, sweet kipa,-
iHo we ktan our dear anlO, and aee them die; 001
Bnt death hotlds ni, parting sao sad as this: : o
(lid blena you, and eel i you-a-ui o---ood-biye. th
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A British Sportsman. nim
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His Feats oef Arms. im
A testimonial has been given of late, ble
though not of much material value, to ter
Captain Roes, the veteran rifle-shot, by ha
the Wimbledon volunteers, upon his
retirement from public shooting. As a of
sportsman, his career has probably been ma
unrivaled. His walking, when he had in
been training for a month or two, aver- Th
aged five miles an hour. Indeed, he not
once secomphlshed, "fair toe and heel," I a
six miles ill fifty-sie minutes on the road for
between Melton and Leicester. How- $2,
ever, his greatest feat on feet was per- se,
formed not as principal, but as umpire, me
which shows us that there were other pt
giants of pedestrianism in those days, I the
think the date was 1837, as well as he. sel
A large party of spottamen were em- the
bled at Black Hall, in Kincardineshire, abi
Scotland, about the beginning of An- Ch
gust. All of thlem had been shooting str
snipe and "flapper" ducks in a large o
morass on the estate, and wading among fes
bulrnshes for seven or eight hours since Ilde
which they had had a capital dinner. see
It was not a moment to propose walking in
anywhere, yet at nine o'clock, when the on
ladies had gone to the drawing-room,
and Boss had dropped asleep in s his
chair, he was awoke by Sir Andrew
Hay with these unseasonable words :
* Ross, old fellow, I want you to jump bu
up and go as my umpire with Lord sta
Kennedy to Inverness. I have made a ant
bet of £2,500 a side that I get there on ref
foot before him." Over the irampian
range the straightest path that could be c,
taken from Black Hall was about one ,
hundred miles, certainly over ninety.
Ross's answer was short, but to the
point: "All right; I am redy." They
started at once, in their thin shoes and
silk stockings, but their servants rode e
after them with better foot-gear, and
overtook them after they had gne
about seven miles. "My idiot, bow
ever,"to use Boes'sownwords, "brought
-me certainly worsted stocin t n-t
stead of shoes a pair of tight Welling- T
ton boots. His exemas was that my No
shooting shoes were da mnp hf adm g
in the morals in the daytime, so that I
had to make the best of it in the Wel- m
lingtona. The soleof one boot vanished
twenty-five miles from Inverness, and I
had to finish the walk barefoot Thy he
walked all night, next day, and all next
night-it rained torrents all the way- i
and got to Inverness at 6 A. ri. fir
Andrew Ha had gone by th ooac-h.
rod, i good one, but thirty-sex milesh, i
further wand, and arrived at 10 A. x. fm
However, in his umpire's, Boe_ s
nedy," a good ded beaten, thd e
leaned on the arm of his attendnt i N
igup and own hill. 'The qeiam,
Captain Bacsy, the then greet anthor
ity on walking, but was ultimatelydrp- of
ped, lackily for his lordship, sires
afterward Barlay said he Ihould have
given it against him. _ ..
Tis Lord Kennedy wa• spomnvn
wonder in his way, and jealousof Boes'si
resf ntation in the samue line. He could
not ride so well as "the captain," but
he thought he knew a man that could, t
one Captain Dounglat and backed him
for a very heavy sum to wina a certain
steeple-ehe against the former. The
night before the race his lordship sent
for his adversary, and said that an so
large a sum was pending on the race it
wold, well that there should be o
opmi' for a squibble, sad that thee
fore t jostling and crossing which in
validates a fit raee should be permitted.
"Ah, you mean that we may ride
over Is kill each other, ift we can,
*. "Jast so," was the other's eandid
on Cliker, am Douglas, on tl
thetrqe, a that under
sandng, first juap was a fve
baredtt ad Bess wh. m rai fity -
yrds it, ssw tha e hat -am to
ess eoevaai1 , hi d a d w IU i
- ded, in, d when ts other, *
eosts the gas trSed round in font a
sp hee nnd and a
remarks Bess in the let
kp~ deeribes this little elream- e
stn~e,1i4 dilling a that way woald j
be breght in wiltfl mnrder, ht it was g
iets r nnf180.' Thiasra hridig
a Indeed, hut, except Ostmidsteme " te v
I ageesthe eesnrky. a
*eSu ~Y~ these who under' o
.e.. - emass wi ap s ee*iae It t
whim we li - he .me sht i n d
e e swelass*4ase de with a a
a A very t
quarrel with really "good shots," and
Captain lIoss, it is interesting to know, T
has stated it as his opinion that people Fre
are now much more guarded in :heir
language than when swaggering and mor
ffering to fight went a long way toward KIs
whitewashing a scoundrel, and therefore bob
excited him to pick a quarrel. Of his
skill in that particular line of shooting '
which has just gained this veteran his but
parting cheer at Wimbledon, we may sio
mention that in his time the gallant his
captain has won all the three great cups
there-the Association, the Wimbledon, a n
and the duk. of Cambridge's-while no tho
one else has won more than one.
Chinese Theatricals in California. inb
The Chinese theater on Taokson street oves
has lost none of its prestige by the he 1
opening of numerous rival establish- the
ments of a similar character, and among bsho
the Celestials, especially with reference yell
to the aristocracy, is more popular tha:n the
ever. The management of the th nter neis
has always been characterized by dis- he'l
cretion in the selection and production othe
of plays and due recanrd for the tastes bors
of the people, togethe.r nitih an un- stor
swerving adherence to popular prices him
for admission, thus encouraging the ach,
patrons of the drama to become reg, ar way
in att ndenee and whetting. the app..- hol
tite of the younger heathen. The pro. and
perties of the theater have attained a doe
great value, the stock company has be- ords
come one of the best of its kind in the and
world, and the orchestra has reached Eve
that stage of perfection, accordinding to tons
an eminent Chinese critic, which harmo- hees
nizes agreeably with the motto of the canI
theater, signifying that improvement is wel
impossible and depreciation improba- and
ble. The business manager of the thea- ovel
o ter, on urbane fellow of 30 summers, con
y has just displayed rare tact and enter- call
5 prise by bringing out from China a star and
a of the first magnitude, who assumes fe- " 81
n male characters with startling fidelity, croi
d and has withal fine social qualities, thei
r- This engagement is one of the greatest doe
te successes the theater has ever known. was
During the last three nights the per- thin
d formances have netted in the aggregate of t
- 2,000. The play smacks strongly of cove
r- sensation, and is utterly devoid of the lanj
moral-lessons which should be incnl- the
r ated on the heathen, but is free from thre
I the taint of indecency. The musical and
selections embrace gems culled from ang
r the Chinese national airs. The drama "wo
, abounds in domestic scene3 among the chel
a- Chinese, which are rendered the more
g striking by the musical accompaniments,
r and possesses many novel and ingenious
g features. The practice of allowing
a dealers in refreshments to monopolize pho
r. seates with their stock is reprehensible
g in the extreme, and should cease at
a once sad forever, even if by takine
5. prompt action in this regard the retail itae
is ealers in fruits, rice, sweetmeats, filial Bt
w porridge, sugareane, eta, are sorely __
displeased and endeavor to injure the
P business of the homue by slanderous and
d statemnts. We realise thit a hint will
Ssuffice to achieve an abatement of this ma
a refreshment naiuumoe, and are therefore hav
a content to leave the disposition of the ass
e complaint with the management-&S a ti
e FI0ani500o Bsdle#a cu
r. e Beon
SThe Oa te of fPashion. m
"If Oleopatra's nose had been short- seta
er, the face of the earth would have been use
different." If the Empeor Napoleon mar
had not gone to war with Prussia, Paris core
would still be tee empress of the fash- bee
ions, and he himself, the grim man with strr
the iron hand in the velvet glove, might The
still be stroking his moustache in the of
Tuilleries. But he did, and he isn't. is te
Now, the question is where do the we- to i
men get their ftshioas from ? There rel
- mst be a falshisble head-centre some- To
d where, for evybody knows that wo- nee
man is eeastitatonally unable to rely on er
herself. Two women, with their arms she
about ease other's waists, may face a aro
sheep in the field; one woman, seeing woi
it, woueald sy : "O, my gracious!" and wi
Sfly. It folows, therefore, that in the bot
matter of dress no woman will dare to the
think for herself. In reference to the it i
fasshioe she has not a mind of her own. via
She anru follow somebody's lead, and alt.
the great probability is that that some- in
n bodis aman. Whois he? Whereishe? rei
Not in Paris, ertainly, for Paris esanot no
recover her prestige for years. Not in fas
Lonsdon, ifor London is too smoky, too
drk, too material to be the birthplace
of all the ttle hfllsl of lashion which p
on women s4ert. The air of the birthplace
Sof fashion must be pure as anow, and
more delicate than an Etrnan Mvase. tio
So London would never do. He is not
d in Berlin or Vients, for those eonrts
h ave long sine given in their adhesion
to fashionable edt from abroad, whlile
the stolid Germas are indifferent, as a
Ln rule, towhat their wives wear. Not in
ha St. Petersburg, eertainly, for there the
e smins preserve a crious sameness all
Sthe yearound, and the far is as in
evitable as the dromAy and the black
Smlig of the polie. Not in Bome,
surely for the sti-a would exeom- 1
mubiate him. Then he must be in
New York or Brooklyn! Here is a
ebsoee for the police, for the reporters,
for Gen'l Jourdan, for Mary andley,
for Lueetste Meyers, for Patrick Camp
d bell, for the deteetives, and for every
eitizen of an energetic turn of mind.
The person who shall find the arbiter of
the ahioas will achieve a reputation
er- moretiPathat of Stealey and
am moe into the bergain.
£ Am earSoai Lmta.--rom LiFl a
a eesselena t write as follows of am
, eeemdt se minda-ll : "As the houses t
a t oftenlt eovered with ceilings, on
ide asomatof e.arthoakes, thehigh rooms re
ae fiished tpo rafters, punted in d(
ea r eaetly like the interior of our
o remP; and often the roofs of the ls
t- best houses ae only smooth boards, Ig
- ewered with a little adobe plastering. m
id MaY of the houses have a sfe flower
a gardea on the top, the plants of course
ia set ot is boes; ad ·searly every one a
tbe who keeps owl, parrots, and other s
a birds, keeps them up on the roofs, tc
o the shrubbery. BSac a cackling a
le of hmed asreaming of prrots when a
Sit the r -dops upset their domsias and w
In du ed m with ib s fuH I Suc s a
ea riin of women ad child G a
ry they ran frm one room toanother rain- a
Ire- ly seeking shelter! Shuch a lively ti
in munshgmong sholeief and clerks u
ml authers ed with iedeite ailkrlae hI ,
hi si ibon.. sei me shelf or
Se I
Briggs's Blessing.
Thomas Briggs, asserts the l)etrit
Free Press, has a boy-baby albout ten pr
months old, who is ahdmnitted at the be- "
ginning of this article to look j,'st like o,
his father, ani to be the smartest boy- wi
baby of his age in Detroit. The otter
morning the child was sittine on the m:
floor, playing with five or six big coat th
buttens on a string, and taking an oca to
sional nibble at an apple to bring out ev
his first crop of teeth. Mrs. Briggs and in
a neighbor were talking away as only en
women can gossip, when the hbVy hid th
the buttons under a mat and started to si(
finish the apple. A bit of the skin ot is
in his throat and he gave a cough and a ex
whoop and pawed the air anti rolled W
over on his head. "0 them buttons! ce
he has swallowed them buttons !" crie.l tfi
the mother, as she yanked him up and an
shook him. "Pound him on the back!" fit
yelled the other woman, trying to hold 'ga
the baby's legs still. "Run for the th
neighbors !" cried Mrs. Briggs. " 0 ar
he'll die! he'll die!" screamed the ch
other, as she ran out. And the neigh- In
bors came in and made him lie on his E"
stomach and cough, and then turned or
him on his back and rubbed his stomu- fri
ach, and joggled him about all sorts of uti
ways, until he got mad and he went to e,
howling. Then a boy ran for Briggs, by
and Briggs ran for a doctor, and the nr
doctor came and choked the baby, and TI
ordered sweet oil and a mustard plaster, in
and told them to hold him on his back. he
Everylbody knew that those six big but- di
tons were lodged in the baby's throat, pr
because he was red in the face, and bte- me
cause he strangled as he hon led and th
wept. They poured down sweet oil, e"
and put mustard across him and wept in
over him, and the mother said shi" never L.
could forgive herself. Boys drove by, m,
calling out: "Slab wood for sale !" th
and the seissors man went by shouting, we
"Sharp ! sharp !" but that distressed ta'
crowd held the baby down and shed th
their tears over his whole length. The ca
doctor was looking serious an Briggs of
was thinking that he hadn't done sty- ne
thing to deserve such a blow, when one be
of the women pushed the mat and dis- of
covered the buttons. Then everylwby san
laughed and danced, and they kicked co
the sweet oil bottle under the bed, so
threw the mustard plaster at the doctor, th
and Mrs. Briggs hugged the howling tri
angel to her hosom and called him hter dr
" wopsy topsy hopsy dropsy popiy little pr
cherub." fn
Corsets Defended. wl
We know perfectly well that ~nme in
persona lace theniselves too tight, al- :b
though it is not at present fashionable ,j
to do so. We know, too, that many at
women have a riously injured their w
health, while some have sacrificed life oe,
itself on the shrine of a slender waist.
But the wearing of the corset does not
necessarily, and, in fact, does not com
monly, end in tight laring; whilelacing,
and that, too, of a vWry hurtful sort. Is
may be, and frequently is, soaomplished, pm
without the use of a corse t all. We ca
have seen men's clothe@ worn as tightly flu
as any corset ever was. The condemns- at
tion of tight lacing is perfectly just, of thi
course, as everybody having the small- fa
est knowledg of anatomy knows. But bi
many women who never lace wear cor- or
sets and derive great benefit from their al
use" It is certainly very absurd to de- ax
Smand that these people shall forego a T1
comfort-giving article of apparel merely ca
because they could turn it into an in- th1
strument of torture if they wtre fools. g
They find that to put the entire weight as
of their clothing upon their shoulders cc
is to give themselves pain, and in order bi
to divide it they let part of their appa- aI
rel depend upon the hips for support. ai
To do this without a corset it would be as
necessay to wear the garments altogeth- is
er tighter about the waist than they gi
should be worn, and to bind them as
around a single narrow zone, which ye
r would be both uncomfortable and un
Iwise. The corset, however, distributes st
both the weight and the pressure over a
the strong muscles of the hips, and -
B it is less yielding than the flesh, it ob- n
viates the necessity of tight waistbands h
1 altogether. Tee corset, p'operly used, in
in other words, furnishes the very best i
remedy for tight lacing, particularly, d
Snow that taper waists have gone outof 1l
Sfsahion.-Hearfh and Home. t
I.abradr.
h IParuil Lava. te * s thbe aIre..t I lem.
A gentleman who aruived direct from a
Labradlor gives the following fnforma
tion about the effects of the recent
storm on that coast. At Indian Tickle
six personn were killed uy a falling Ii
building. There were six square rig- F
e god vessels in and off this has br, all of
vhieh were lost with their crews. The
fishermen lost all their cod liver oil, of
which they had aeeumnlated a large and
rich quantity. Of all lossea except
thatof life .nonewill be feltmorethan
this. The los of life on land as far as I
acould be asaertained, was 28 women and
S14men i admany ehildren. The num
nber of lives lost in skift and boats near
a shore, could not be calculated. Die -
e nso'late women were 'rushing in all I
directions on the morning afterthe -ale, I
Sseeking news of their fathers, hut .. d 1
and brothers. Their cries were hearsl 1
Srending and nearly all of them were
Sleft without food, shelter or a change of I
elothing. The fewhntsin low grounnd I
which had outlived the storm were aet
nally packed with meq women and
eaildrm seking shelter from the cold I
ma aed pelting mrain which prevailed on the 1
moralng ser the gale. The inhabi
e tafnts lost most of their provisions, and
a shoald vessels which will ho sent to the
as relief of these unfortunante ceaturee be
mn delayed through stress of weather or
ir other aeeidents, a terrible famine mnst
he bethe next afsiiction to befall she now
s, greviously salicted fishermen and wo
g. men of that ruin stricken ropion.
n*
ne -A Yonkers (N. Y.) negro brought
o I suit for $500 ander the civil rights law
er against the keeper of an ic -resm s
Is, loom for refusing to serve him, but the
ag  was dismissed on the ground that
/ an eie-cream saleon in no way eame
adlwithin the ascope of the bill, being
a a neitheru a vehicle of common arrniage,
as a Uimued thater or publio place of
in- amuement, a common school or aisti
'ly tutios of learning, a place forthe inter
-s meut of dead bodies, or a hotel or
54, tavern."
w,,8 · a
Living ComfortaLly in Prisons.
A visitor at the' Sin Sing in(N. Y.) W
prison gives a description of life in the the
"goodl conduct cells" thich brings out give
sole facts not generally known. He pose
writes : yet I
' I) cNselling a flight of steps to the mfosi
male prisom, and traversing a e(Cri'lo-, man
the main priae containing CO) cells, in with
tiers of lt~O each, is reached. Here nagt
everything is scrnpnlohsly clean, and No (
in the first tier of cells, which are cc- whei
enpied by the b st-behlav.d e mviets, and
the effect of the system of mlorael sll- ting
sion, inangnratteti bv Warden Hubbell, nose
is apparent. Bemides other privileges lung
extended to well behaved convicts, the (des
Warden permits them to furnish their used
cells with any articles of luxury or re- up-a
flnement supplied them by their friends, and
and the result is a long range of cells then
fitted up with neatness and every ele- to a
gance, according to the various tastes of the 1
the occupants. Te fltoors of nearly all crac
are either carpeted or covered with oil atle
cloth, and in more than one instance a the 1
lnxurimus little mat stands at the door. he
Each cell is supplied with a lamp, in Was
order to enable the occupant to read, bed
from the tune of retiring at six o'clock, mig
until nine, when all go to bed. In most off;
eases the prison lamp is supplemented arom
by an ordinary household lamp, and not JTai
infrequently supplied with a shade. mon
The sinrle shelf in the cll is covered her
in some instances with gaily-bound out
books or fancy article : in others only to a
displaying a single volume, a Bible or Mar
prayer-book, sent by an affectionate to p
mother. Those whose friends supply the
them with the materials decorate their with
cells with cheap pictures, and the walls, gett
in several instances, are papered neatly. dog
Lookijng-glasses are also allowed, and in I
many of the cells are furnished with Wet
those useful articles, although one hadi
would fancy the owners ought not to of ti
take much pleasure in enntemplatirg ing
their altered countenances. Butthe beds Ed
cap the climax of convict luxury. Many snee
of them are perfect models of clean- hot
ness and taste, the unsightly prison cot dow
being entirely hidden beneath the folds .aa
of drapery. Nothing can surpass the
snowy whiteness of pillow and beel
covering, which are neatly trimmed and men
so smooth as to suggest the idea that the
the convict is too fond of having his ex- aeve
tras present a decent appearance to nex
dream of using them, and in order to DO
prevent th m from getting soiled care- don,
fullv removes them before retiring. In nuis
eachl cell a large card bearing some Tim
wholesome Scriptural precept isplaceld,
by direction of the warden, ant these the
in many cases, are prettily ornamented Dr.
by the busy occupants. Where the con- t,
viets are unable to procure wall-paper, tl
an atte.'!pt is made to fresco the walls ape
with crayons or decorate them with i
colored wuod-cut." The
Whom the Gods Love. was
pap
There was once n young and lovely Thi
boy, remarks Punch, whose mother trat
parted his hair down the middle, and oo- the
casionally hit him in the back with a cho
flat-iron. There was also a bad, wicked, tem
and depraved boy, about whom I, at a kE
the moment, do not recolleet any bell
further particulars. These two were wo:
brought up together, and simultane- con'
onsly received a present of a sovereign mac
apiece. O how that bad, wicael, hlni
and depraved boy kicked up his heels, liar
The good boy smiled the while seraphi- erei
cally and slobbered. The bad boy riso
then went straightaway anti laid out his it,
good money in all manner and kinds of bet,
nasty, indigestible messes-hard-bake, par
Scocoa-nuts (he bought fourteen ofthese), occl
bull's eyes, stick liccorice, tamarinds, tior
and Australian beef. The boy fell to, dit
and gor ed hideously upon tise things, mal
and so exhausted his little capital, com- den
ing to the good boy when it was all who
r gone with a long and pitiful face. "A !" whi
I said the goona boy, " had you not spent wad
your sovereign thus foolishly you would trai
have had it now, as I have mine. In- I a
a stead of buying hard-bake--a thing I and
r never touch, except when it is given me the
a -you might have bestowed five shillings sne
- upon the sodety for supplying wooden- owi
a legged infidels with worsted slippers; No
instead of buying cocsanut, you might war
t nave dropped another fivebob into the Th
donation-box of the hospital of para- pay
f lysed Shakers; and, instead of wasting it
the other ten shillings in the war you tr
have, you might have done I don't know
what that was ro and kad ind and gener
onus and noble. The bad boy, confned len
and confounded, turned away his head P'
and wept bitter tears. Then the good ad
boy went out for a stroll, feeling ever so 18
much gooder for having said what he am
had, and on his way accidentally drop- the
i pel his own sovereign .down a sewer b
Sgratiing.
d It will always be a nice and diflenult
A queeton to deceide yho are the most
ncsagreeable to live with. Our first
s thoughts, in framing an ansmwer to this w
d question, will be direted to the more po
a- ugly and venomous passiouns, such as
r hatred, envy, jealousy sad the like. It a
s- will probably be found, howevm, that i
11 those qualittes whieh come umder the d
h, head of foibles rat .er than of vices in
Is render people mest intolerable as com- .
:t pe nios andeaiojut or F xample, h
r it may be observed that those persons lon
of have a more worn, jaded and dispirie tie
id look thanany others, who have to live c
4- with people who make diicenlties on lo
id every occasion, great or small. It is a
Id astonishing to see how this practice of lai
he making diflicnlties grows into a con- in
-i- frmed habit of mind, and what dis- f
id heartenment it occasions. The savor of pF
he life ia taken out of it when you know lo
be that nothing you propose, or do, or th
or suggest, hope for, or enlte avor, will
at meet with any responma but an enumera
w tim n of the dillinlties that will lie in
o- the path you wish to travel. The diffi
culty-monger in to 1w met with not only
in domestio and soeal life, but also in p1
ht business It not unfrequently oecurs h
w in business relations that the chief will se
. never by any ST nrce receive, without or
he many objections and much bringing fr- ti
at ward of possible diflculties, anything te
ne that is brought to him byv his subordi
ng nates. They at last cease to take pains,
, knowinlg that no amont of pains will "'
of prevent their work being dalt with nm '
•. spirit of intgemonsobectivenes. At li
r. last they sy to theielve, "The better
or the - we  th'l more oppor
[talm1~developing his u
Ivmesa, and o
invenrting d~if- n
Thoughts of Great Men. A
We always think of groat men as in in
the act of performing the deeds which mein
give them renown, or else in stately re- Penn
pose, grand, gloomy, and majestic. And long
yet this is hardly fair, because even the mini
most gorg"ons anl magnificent of hi- ulmd
man hbings have to bother themselves the
with the little things of life which en- take
cage the attention of us smaller lpeople. this
No doubt Moses enuffed and got angry 'litici
when he had a severe cold in his head, Sche
and if a fly bit his leg while he was sit- fodd
ting in the desert, why should we sup- at th
os0e he did not jump and use violent give
language and rub the sore ,lace ? And the a
C(esar, isn't it tolerably certain that he 1.
used to wbecome furious when he went pice
up-stairs to get his slippers in the dark was
and found that Calphurnia had shoved ston;
them back under the b.d so that he had year
to sweep around wildl for them with 2.
the broom-handle ? And when Solomon he sl
cracked his crazy hone, is it nnrcnason- the 1
shle to suppose that he hopped around to tl
the room and looked mad and felt as if 3.
he wanted to cry? Imagine George por!
Washington sitting on the edge of the appl
bed putting on a clean shirt, and growl- 4.
ing at Martha because the buttons were neig
off; or St. Augustine with an apron coal
around his neck having his hair cut; or resoi
,Tnau of Are holding her front hair in her The
month, as women do, while she fixed up macl
her back hair; or Napoleon jumping 3i, f
out of bed in a frenzy to chase a mosqui- 5.
to around the room with a pillow; or pliOd
Martin Luther in his night-shirt trying tane
to put the baby to sleep at 2 o'clock in hills
the morning; or Alexandria the Great a g
with the hie-cunp; or Thomas Jefferson unut
getting suddenly over a fence to avoid a field
dog; or the duke of Wellington lying was
in bed with the mumps; or Daniel prey
Webster abusing his wife because she the I
hadn't tucked the covers in at the foot attet
of the bed; or Benjamin Franklin par- ever
ing his corn with a razor; or Jonathan eroa
Edwar!s at the dinner-table wanting to man
sneeze just as he gets his mouth full of 6.
hot eef ; or Noah standing at his win mini
dow at night throwing bricks at a cat.- him,
.Max Adeler. July
his
- One of the London Times's achieve- the
ments was an account of the entry of at le
the Prussians into Paris, some six or thot
sevon columns long, which it published Al
next morning, although there was then buol
no telegraph between Paris and Lou- nine
don. I say although. I might say be- co
cause, for it really seemed as if the con
Times managed this because it had to at i'
be done in the old way, and fell in with els'i
the traditions and customs of the paper. ;me
Dr. Russell, with one or two colleagues, busl
witnessed the entry, left Paris by special elet
train in the evening to Calais, thence by the
special steamer to Dover, from which hil i
again a special train brought them to ! ~tal
London about three in the morning. thn
They wrote en route, and their story hor
was easily put in type for the morning's earn
paper, which goes to press at 5 o'clock. two
This performance was also a good illus- ing
tration of the kind of influence which hay,
the Times can bring to bear when it he
chooses. Other London papers at- the
tempted the same thing, and there was tem
a keen rivalry about it because it was ran
believed that the entry of the Prussia:s the
r would not be made without a serious ears
conflict, or at least a disturbance; so T
much faith did people still put in French belc
bluster. The eireumstaa ees were peen
liar; for Paris, thonugh it had snrrend- 1, to
ered, was still held by its French gar-I u
r rison, the Prussian lines still surrounded s p
it, and the country which the railway as d
between Paris and Calais traverses was
partly in French and partly in Prusian
occupation. The confusion of jurilie
tions, the disorganization of traffic, the
difficulty with which a traveler could i
make his way with the strongest cre
dentials, were incredible to anbotdy
I who had not tried it. The Telegraph,
which had been used to having its own ten
t way it Paris, did its best to get a special wo
I train. It offere. any price, but ths was bus
- a case in which money was powerless, fo
I and it failed. The Times, after trying
e through the usual chabnels without *
a sueess, went to Baron Rothschild, who act]
- owns a large part of the stock in the tha
; Northern railway, and told him they wes
it wanted the train and must have it. a
e They got it, and there was not another
- paperin Europe which could have got o
g it in that way, or in amy way.-&a
Slky/'s London le ter.
-A wonderfuni tradm is that of petro
d leum. Twelve yein ago the first ex
d port asle embraced 110 brels.rand the f
a sale was heralded s a "large" one. In
S1861 the export of the whole country
e smounted to 1,500,000 gallons. In 1872 Va
the export amounted to 150,000,000 gal- I le
Slon, and daring the seven months of the ig
present year more than 145,00,001 gal- bum
lons have been exported. The nutiliza- I am
tuon of petroleum in the interests of ror
commeroe has been remarkable, bat not p
t more remarkable than has been the
Sgrowthof the businea, The ups and un
Sdowns of the trade haa een numerous, wh
Smaking may perss wi althy but more the
Spoorer. Capitalists have combined to cn
control the trade and prices, but where on
I they have succeeded once they have thu
failed half dosen times. The greatest et
e disaster that ever befell the spenuators
es in petroleum bhas been the wonderful in
orease of the quantity produoeed, c3,000 sn
e, barrels daily from all the districts. The bi
a low rates of the arteicle at the prtesent dr
4 time are ruinous to holders and export- n
' era, the shipments netting, it is said, al1
an loss of from '1,000 to $.,I()0 ot, every tl
is eadrgol shipped to Europe previous to the fo
of late discovermie andml snubsequent decline th
n- in prices. The exports of petroleum w
Sfrom New York and other ports since s
f Febmuar 1 smounnt to 143,53,:',3t0 gal-. th
Slon agausat 909,21,6W1 gallons during ye
r the same time in 1872. At the present bi
ll time there are 13i vessels loading with mi
- petroleum at New York, 79 at Philadel- b
in ,his, and quite a number at Baltimore. w
---------- - ha
ly -People may talk and write as they ev
in please against the habit of early rising, I th
rsbut in the bracing atmosphere of this so
ill season, we know of nothing more tuvig-re
mt orating than getting up at 4 o'clock in si
sr. the morning, and going forth with lan* cic
ng tern in hand to meet the rising ann. s
i --A. man from Placeville, Cal., when
i asked by a Saratoga waiter what he
n would have for breLakfast, replied':
At "Well, I rather guess I'll just flop my
er lip over a chicken.
or- -" If George had not blowedintothe at
his muzmle of his gun," sighed a rural wid. ol
nad ow at the funeral of her lhusband, "bhe
lif- might Lave got plenty of squirrels, it
as eb a ood day for them."
A Successful Failure with Corn.
in in a pialr read before the experi
rh menutal farm lubnh of Chester county,
e- Penn., Winf.II. Mhelmire detailed at th
red lienth how lhe failed to take the pre- th
be minum offered for the best acre of corn,
ni- nid yet raised 791 bushels. In view of
es the amount of the crop, and of the mis- de
n- takes made in its culture, wehave called de
le. this a successful failure, though, in ad
rv 'lition to not getting the premium, Mr. W
ai, Schelmire figures out that the corn and ly
it- fodder cost mo;e than they sere worth
p- at the price in his neighlbo hood. We an
nt give the substance of his pe wr, and of ,
oil the alleged reasons for his failure.
he 1. He chose comparatively a poor i
ut piece of land for the experiment. It
rk was on the top of a hill; soil thin and
sd stony; had been in crass for several p
ad years. and in wheat in 1871.
th 2. He manured in the spring, when re
on he should have done it in the fall to tet
,n- the best results; applied nineteen loads st
rtd to the acre-best yard manure.
if 3. He applied Pacific guano, 300 1"
ge pounds, broadcast, when he should have sa
he applied it in the hill.
rl- 4. He depended for a drill on his c
re neighbors, and when l;e wanted it, t
on couldn't borrow or hire: so he had to
or resort "to our old way of checkering." to
er The moral is, he says, to own your own
rip machinery. Planted in rows, 3. feet by o
rig 3, four grains per hill. hr
"i. 5. To guard against cut-worms he ip
or plied, on the surface after planting, one
rig I adful of salt to every four or five c
in hills, and thus injured and killed quite q
at a good many plants. Cut-worms were th
Sunusually carce on the rest of the
la feld l.st season; so the salt precaution
rig was not necessary, but, in addition, the re
iel preventive, as such, was worthless, as to
he the few worms which did appear paid no
tot attention to the salt. He thinks, how
Ir- ever, that the salt had the effect to keep in
an crows away. Had to replant a good he
to many hills.
of 6. His ill luck at starting his "pre.- t
in mium sere" disgusted and discouraged at
him, and when harvest came on, or from bl
July 17 to August 22, he lost much of
his interest in the matter and neglected al
re- the corn when he should have given it I
of at least one more " hoe-harrowing," al
or though he had given it six.
ed At husking the crop measured 145 ei
en bushels of ears, good and poor. About ft
rn- nine days after he weighed it, and w
.- counted the ears. Result : Of good
he corn, 5,137; lbs.; or 72 bushels 5 tbs.,
to at 72 lbs. per bushel : nubbinsa, 5 bush- a
ith elsa'~lbs.', Number of good ears, 5,930, 01
er. mostly very large, 40 to 45 making a
es, bushel. The stalks measured from e 1
ial eleven to twelve feet in length, and o
by there were 295 bundles. Number of S
icl hills, nearly accurate, 8,556; average of t
to stalks per hill should have been about e
2g. three, but a good many were missing or r
ry tbore nothing, as the total nmber of o
gs ears were only about 6,000. With only o
two stalks per hill, but each stalk bear- n
us- ing one ear of corn, he thinks he would I
ich have had 12 bushels more of oorn.' This "
it Rhe confesses is guessing, but after all r
at- the calculation.shews the wisdom of at
ra tempting to raise corn rather than bar- fr
ras ran stalks, and let in light as to what "
1:e the product will be when two or three
ears ean be grown per stalk. o
so The financial result he figures out as
hch below :
aI- i leads manure at $3.40, but only one-half
ar- used by the crop.............................. .3t
led 31511. Pteiii gnao........................... 7. T
Si, buibhel5l unlacbd ahe..... 1.15...........1
ay I1 days' labor, ou mas, at $1.^, with hmard.. 01.75 se
6 do of 2 horas, at $1....-.._ ...... s.0 a]
S Total c.............................. ........ $70.t b
lie- a
the c'AtE OF Co. i
1114 " 7. hn I ,rl of S r t :Mi .......«................ $09.7
rl btudies of I t i1er at 6c ........».......... 17.7
re
d, Total value .. ........ ..... 7.4 t
ph, Net loss, $12.85,without counting-in- 1
iterest on valne of the land, which is d
Dial worth $1.50 per acre. Coat of eorn re
was bushel, after deducting value of the d
e' fodder, 66 cents-not altogether eneoua
ng aging, certainly.
out The rest of the field was treated ea- c
rho setly like the "remium acsre," except t
the that only 10 loads of manure per aee
hey were applied instead of 19, and no ashes
it or gano, anad with this result :
her - b
10 tode manure at 3340, tal only used b b
roa- ern ........ .......... ......... .....C. 7. C
Labor as a,v..... .... . ...................... m. d
Total ............................... ......... i9.7
ex- as or onouE.
the n bnheLh bell cdrn?! at ee...................... .0S
l,, bundle. fodder at Sc ................. ... $115.00
try T.tal.... ................. ............... 367.5
872 Value over expensme, 0.75. This, at
gal- I least, is our raslt with Mr. Sehelmire 
the figures, though he puts the value of 65
gal- bushels of corn, at 50., per bushel, as
mai- amounting to only $27 (an evident er
of ror,) and thus supposes a los of 4.75
not per acre.
the As to thea~pparent resultof high m
ad nuring in this instance he says, that
on, while it points to no puot he still thinks
more there is a gain, " becamuse this are was
I to converted by it from one of the porest
here on the farm to one of the best, d a I
mave that the benefit will be shown in sue
test eeeding crops.--(bnmlsry (/entleman.
in- -A Chinese offeial provineal trea
000 surer of Hupie has issnued an ediet for
The bidding the drowning of female chil
sent dren, which he says takes place to the 1
ort- number of eighty per cent. He regu
t, a larly argnues with bhas people, tells them
ery they can send their children to the
the foundling hospital, assures them that
,ine their daughters will find husbands
ea which must be true enough, if this de
ine strucetion goes on-and at last threatens
gal- the people with the vengeance of hea
ring ven, in the form of repeated female
sent births. Killing female babies, he r
with marks sagaciously, does not make male
idel babies come, and there is the child's
tori wraith to be thought about, which may
baunt the mother. The tesurer is
they evidently very meh in earnest, and
ing, threatens all people, prtiularly all
this I soldiers, with some monstrons alamity
vi from heaven, if they persevere, and be
k in sides with punisbment as wilful homi
lan- cide. He will have to adopt the ladisa
system at last, and make it a great
offence for a village to have fewer girls
henof igh than boys, a rule based on the
She serting d feat that girls ot killed at
-oane are never killed afterwards.
p my
-The skeleton of a mastoderi , with
othe an Indian arrow-head imbedded in one
wid. of the bones, having been discovered
"he near Stanialans, Cal., cheerful quarrels
Is, it among the members of the debatig o
ciety at that plare e atilpatald
Arcachon.
A French Watering IPm*e.
This is a favorite watering-place for
the French in summer, and in winter is
muceh resorted to by invalids from the
British isles. Doctors consider the res
inonus exhalations from the pines won
derfully healing in lung and bronchial
difficulties. Aresebon is the patois
word for resin. The peasant live most
ly by making turpentine; and for miles
around the village the trees are gashed,
and an earthen vessel fastened on to re
esiv-. the gum as it oozes from the wood.
There was a settlement here in very an
cient times called La Tests de Bueh.
from the head or chief of the tribe of
Boians, that at one time inhabited this
part of the country. Three times it was
overwhelmed by the sand, and afterward
rebuilt. In the time of the first Napo
leon, who, it would seem, found time to
attend to every thing, small as well as
great, an engineer called Bremontier
was sent by the emperor to plant these
sandy dunes with pine trees, in order to
keep off the inroads of the sea. o snuc
cessful was he, that we have now an ex
tensive and beautiful forest and a flour
ishing town. A monument to Bremon
tier is to be seen in the midst of the for
est, and the finest chalet ir the town is
called after him. The principal building
one sees on leaving the depot is the
huge Casino, an imitation of the Moor
is Alhambra. It struck me as rather a
caricature of it, as it is painted in such
gorgeous eolors as to look like a house
built of cards, face-side out. However,
the inhabitants view it with great pride.
It contains a fine theatre, ball-rooms,
reading-rooms and library. It is situa
ted in the forest, and is the centreof the
Winter-town, or Ville d'Hiver, as is
called the collection of pretty, romantic
looking Swiss chalets, which are dotted
in among the odorous pines. All these
houses are owned by a company in Paris,
whose agent lives in one of them, and
attends to letting them, collecting rent,
etc. In the Casino garden the flowers
bloom, and the grass is green all winter,
although snow a-d ice are not quiet un
known in the sunny sonth of France. In
fact, one has a winter of six weeks that
is sufficiently disagreeableand quite cold
enough to make one wish for New York
furnaces; but, once that is past, the
weather is quite heavenly, and Febrn
ary as balmy as May in these latitudes.
Looking down from the Casino, you see,
at the base of the bills, the Ville d'Ete,
or Summer-town. which runs for miles
along the sea. The private residences
are very elegant, and front en the basin
of Arcachon, as the inlet is called ; their
gardens opening on the main street in
the rear. Many French noblemen have
country houses here, the Baron Talley
rand for one. The rest of the village is
made up of such queer little houses, not
old and quaint, but all looking like Chi
nese pagodas, and painted pink. blue, or
yellow, as the fancy of the owner has
nsugested, and finished off with red-tiled
roofs. One owner of eccentric tastes
had spent, I was told, ten thousand
francs for three enormous gold balls that
surmounted his house. In his absence
it was rented toan English lady, a friend
of mine, who was always known in the
village as " Madame of the Oolden
Balls." English names were never at
tempted by the good people, who
thought it quite enough to call you by
the name of the house you ooeupied.
The company, in naming the chalets,
seem to have been anxious to conciliate
all nations, as we sawthere villas Hum
boldt, Franklia, Shakapease, and so on
ad liitbm. The cheapestand most sol
itary cottage on the list was appropri
ately called Villa Robinson Crusoe.
There was still, I reollect, however, one
that surpassed Robianson in cheapness.
It consisted of one room, had no win
dows at all, and was rightly named Villa
Solitaire. It was quite good enough, I
dare say, for any one socrusty utowia
to live alone. Arkmehen is famous for
its oster, bh, and game, which are ev
en hpeto Paris inla q un
lities. The asoin nected byanar
row inlet with the bay of Biscay, the
roar of whose waters is disinctly heard
from the village. The strip of land
which lies between the inletandthe tur
bulent Atlantie is called the Isle des
Oiseau, from the reat number of wild
dncks which make at their resort. T eair
lighthouse is situated aon its extremest
point. One day we wentdowi toit in
a yaeht, and then, erssming the narmow
tonge of anad,stood on the shore on
the bay of Bisay. How thewind roared !
and the great waves came tumbling in,
and thetorbr wa strewed, not with the
brgholored shells we had hoped to
n, but with eattle-fsh bones, and ugl
bits of wrek. At the see-ward end of
the village there is erected, onthe shore,
a huge iron cross. Tradition will have
it that a monk, walking on the shore in
prayerful meditation, found there asts
tue of the Virgin Mary, and erected this
Scrossm teommemorate what he conad
ered a miracle. Onee every year, on the
feast of Sit. Peter, the bay presents a
lively sene, of which this spot is the
entre. Hundreds of fsbhermen come
from farand ni.ar; the shore is lined
with boats, whouse gay pennants strems
in the wind. At a signal all kneel, and,
from the foot of the a ce, a blessing is
pronounced by the cre upon them.
their wives and childrem, their boats Mand1
their nets.-Appleoi JIouenaSl.
-Mr. Disraeli has often been laughedl
at for his statemaent that a very consid
erable number of Jews all over the
world are unable to endure peraseation,
eomeal their faith not only for years,
but for genemrations. He partinuily
thoauands of" Catbolie families still
remain Jews in heart, ceed and habit
of arranging alliances among them
selves. The keeping of sneh a seeet "
seems almost an impossibility, though
rendered easierby he great samount et
I Meeptiism latentin 8pain; but we.
Stoldl that the nnmerous convero s
Judaism in Austria, especially in I
were really revelations of this
All disabilities being remsoved,
returned to the faith of their
The Jewish Chrmmnile also
Swhen the shah was requsst~T
lin to protest thMe JeJe aM
in his suite, who mad nsr m
Sthe petitioners, informed them that
memorial should certainly rmea4,,
Sshah, for he, the questsoner, w
s e dalr Jew, though obliged to ,