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i shortening in the tail, which is a
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gat over picket fences in a hurry.
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Match e,,ent ^ l hing in making
Why Must It Be 7
A dream—as trail as sweet
A sad iarowell—
A laded rose—oast under lc
IjOvo'b dying knell j
A promise nover kvpt,
Made in spring-bloom—
Then when tho winds ol autumn swept,
Rest—in the tomb.
Can God's love bo so great
That tiny things
Fall not nnsoon—yot leave to lato
Life’s hiddon springs ?
Must tondor, loving hoarts
Fade 'noath tho breath
Ol wicked wilos, insensate arts
That ond in death?
Must love, whoso home is heaven,
Wrock life lor age ?
And she, whose sins hor soul has shriven,
Bo cast away ?
Nay, question not—He knows!
I.ot that suffice.
Through ’wildorlng roads a salat olt goes
To Paradise.
—Lilia wV. Cushman.
A WOMAN, AFTER ALL.
“ Take off that hideous bonnet, Doro
thy. I want to see your sweet little
fnce without it.”
“ Thou shouldst not speak so Charles.
It is very wrong.”
"Why, little DorothyP Tell
why.”
"Thou knowest favor is deceitful and
beauty vain. We ought to bear testi
mony against the vanity of personal
looks.”
"Ought wcP Then tell mo why it
pleased Providence to make you so
beautiful, my small cousin."
“Hush, Charles, I will not permit
thee to speak to me in this manner.”
And little Dorothy Hioks, the Quaker
ess, put on the gravest nir and strug
gled valiantly to turn tho corners of her
mouth down when they wanted to turn
up.
"Don’t look so serious, little girl
You positively alarm me,” And Charles
Maynard burst into a hearty laugli that
echoed though the poplar trees in the
old garden. “ Now tell mo, Dorothy—
i insist upon knowing, ns a member of
your family, I consider that I have the
l ight to bo informed—are you going to
marry BroadbrimP"
“Friend Ephraim is an estimable
man, Charles; thou must not speak ol
him thus.”
" Look Dorothy. There he Is. I wil
quote no proverbs, but the rim of his
ii vt just turned the corner ns I spoke
Now don’t look as if you intended to go
back to the house, for you are not going,
i’ll tell you a secret. When I was down
to tho river this morning I found a boat
with a tempting pair of oars lying in it,
ind I made up my mind that Dorothy
Hicks and her wicked, worldly cousin
Irom the populous city of New York,
were going for a row in that very boat
this evening. It is neighbor Han
cock’s boat."
" Y-e-s. But, Charles, I fear it is my
duty—"
"No, it isn’t. You know you don’t
want to spend this lovely evening in the
house ontertaining Broadbrim, and you
want to go with me and watch the sun
set on the river."
Dorothy Iookb doubtfully toward the
iiouso and wistfully toward the river.
"Femme qui hesiteestperdue," Doro
thy, whioh means “if wo don’t hurry,
Graycoat will come out and catch us.”
Charles takes Dorothy’s hand in his,and
in a moment they are on their way to
the shoro.
“ But, Chafles, see that cloud in the
south. If there were to be a 3tormP”
“ But there will not; come, jump in.”
The oars were lifted into the row-locks,
Dorothy takes the management of the
ru,dder in her hands, and soon they are
gliding over the smooth surface of the
water, leaving a track of silvery bub
bles behind them. It is a lovely even
ing. The misty shadows of twilight are
gathering in the dost and the west; the
clouds, blood-red and purp’e, are cast
ing a rosy light all over the broad river;
a fresh breeze is blowing round their
faces, and waves splash against the
sides of their boat, like low, monotonous
music. Cliarles is talking about his
home, telling Dorothy about his aunts
and cousinB he has not seen for a long
time, and amusing her with stories of
his college days, and his efforts to make
his way in his profession, which were
so unsuccessful at first. Neither of
them notices that the breeze grows
fresher, and that the dark cloud in the
south has spread over the horizon, and
is covering it with darkness.
Presently a low, muttering growl of
thunder startles them from the dream
into which they had fallen.
“Turn back, Charles, turn back!”
screamed Dorothy, “ the storm is upon
us!” They had been rowing with the
tide. The river is very wide, and the
increasing force of the waves and the
wind together is so strong that when
they attempt to turn about the water
uslies into the tiny boat. Both faces
grow pale in the murky light- as they
see the danger.
“ It is impossible; you can’t do it!
"Tell me, Dorothy, what is that dark
object just ahead P”
»it is a ledge of rocks, but when the
tide comes in from the sea it will be
covered,” and with a low moan Dorothy
sank from her seat and covered her face
with her hands.
"We will try and land there. The
ide will not turn fur an hour."
Th* effort was §ueee*sful. The ledge
s reached, and Charles carries Doro h y
to the very highest rock and lays her
gently down.”
"My love, my little love,” he cried
kissing her helpless hands, "I have killed
youP”
"Stop!” she exclaimed. "Listen
There is a boat! It is coming this way.’
Dorothy is upon her knees, and a wild
cry of thanksgiving comes from her
lips.
Ephriam Ford had followed them
the heavy boat with its single occu
pant is strong enough to resist the
waves, and as ho nears them, they go
down to meet him.
“BackI” ho cries, "I will not take
but one of you; it is not safi.”
The grim Quaker, with his stern
emotionless face, wrenches away the
slender hands that oling to Charles, and
clasping Dorothy tightly in his arms
lays her at his own feet in the bottom of
the boat. Not a word is spoken until
they reach tho opposite shore. Then he
takes her up again and carries her to the
nearest fisher’s hut up the beach.
As thet stand within the shelter of the
little cabin, Dorothy looks at him with
wild eyes, and a cry of torture issues
from hor white lips.
'Go back, go buck I You will go
back for him P”
“ Go back for your elegant city lover,
whose ignorant carelessness would have
cost you your life but for meP”
Dorothy falls on her knees and
grasps his cold hands in agony of en
treaty.
" Go back, go back!"
" Promise mo first that you will not
marry him. Swear it as the world’s
people do.”
He takes her hand and holds it up to
l' n f ven, nnd waits for the oath.
L n-othy’s lips movo, but no sound
come from them. Dorot h y had fainted
The fisherman’s wile takes the uncon
scious girl and layB her on her own bed,
and Ephraim Ford goes upon his errand
of mercy with murder in his heart.
The storm has lulled for a moment.
It comes on so gradually, stopping every
now nnd then, as if to make the earth
believe that it were doubtful of its power,
nnd can nfford to wait.
Ephraim looks at the sky. It ii still
red in tho west; the waves aro ris’ng
steadily, but his stout built boat, di
rected by his powerful strength, can
yet make its way through f'om. There
is plenty of time; the tide will not turn
for half an hour.
Ephraim fights his battle with temp
tation and wins the victory; for,
twenty minutes later the sturdy boat
plows its way back to the Bhore, and
two silent mon struggled against the
wind up the beach to the fisherman’s
hut. Dorothy Is waiting for them. Her
outstretched arms would wind them
selves about both, but tho stern, fixed
look in Ephraim’s eyes restrained her.
nnd Charles turns from her and fixes
Ills eyes upon tho ground.
It is atorrible moment for Dorothy.
She knows they both love her, and
ilie shivers at the suffering in both
faces.
Then she remembers the oatli she did
not speak, and a wild sort of terror
takes possession of her soul. She speaks
at last, nnd tries to thank Ephraim for
tho service he had done them.
“Spare mo Lliy gratitude, D jrotliy,”
he commands, in n slow, solemn tone,
peculiar to his people. "I know I have
done thee a service. I would not hear
ot it again. I tried to make thee swear
an oath. Dorothy, I am glad it was
not spoken. Tell me now, though, dost
thou love this young manP Wilt thou
forswear thy religion, forsake the faith
of thy forefathers’s and become one of
the world’s people P”
Dorothy’s eyes looked toward Charles
with a mute appeal.
He has saved both our lives, dear,’
answers ttie young man, iu reply to her
glance, " and he’s worthy of your love.”
Then his eyes seek the floor again. He
has received his life from this man’s
hands, and now he will speak no word
to rob him of his treasure.
Speak, Dorothy,” Ephraim repeats.
" It is for you to choose.”
Dprothy’s voice is ohoked with tears
and her breast shaken with sobs, as she
answers:
“It is very, very wicked of me, Eph
raim, but I love him so!”
Then she stretched out her helpless
hands, and the Bweet lips whisper,
Charles."
Only a single word, but it decides her
life. In a moment Bhe is in her lover’s
arms, and for the second time that night
unconscious.
The nobler man of the two goes un
heeded out in the storm to conquer his
henrtache alone.
CURRENT NOTES.
Mr. Fambro, of Sandenville, Ky.,has
1 large rattlesnake, about five feet long,
whioh he captured last October, and
which he haa kept in a bob with a wire
net front ever since that time. Though
he has had it ten months, the snake has
never eaten anything at all since it was
captured. It "lives on air," and if it
could be converted into the genus homo,
retaining its natural habits, it would
make a splendid newspaper man.
A Frenchman, who resides on a farm
noar Paris,and has n fancy for picking up
old animals, has a mule aged seventy-
three, n goose aged thirty-soven, a cow
aged thirty-six, a hog aged twenty-
seven, a bullfinch aged twenty-eight,
and a sparrow aged thirty-one. This
last acoounts for the millions of spar
rows in the world. A couple of healthy
sparrows, produoing twenty or thirty
young a year for thirty years, is some
thing sad to contemplate.
State elections will occur this year ns
follows: Alabama, first Monday in
August; Arkansas, first Monday in
September; Vermont, first Tuesday in
September; Maine, second Tuesday in
September; Colorado, first Tuesday in
October; Indiana, Ohio and West Vir
ginia second Tuesday in October; Call,
fornia Connecticut, Delaware, Florida,
Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana,
Maryland, Massachusetts Michigan,
Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Ne
braska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New
Jersey, New York, North Carolina,
Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Ten
nessee, Texas and Virginia, November
9; Georgia, November 3.
The Detroit Free Frets remarks that
when 900 people are killed or wounded
in a railroad disaster, the community
shudders. If ten such should liappon
during a twolve.month in any one State,
the world would be ehooked and hor
rified at the slaughter. The difference,
however, between calamities whioh
come " os single spies,” and those which
come " in battalions ” is illustrated by
the fact that on the Pennsylvania rail
roads 9,000 persons were killod or
wounded during the year 1870, and, ex
cept outside of the families and friends
thus bereaved or aflHctcd, not a pang or
emotion ot any sort is felt from one end
ot tho continent to the other.
Turkish offioers do not enjoy tho con
sideration at home enjoyed by their pro
fession elsowhero in Europe. A Turkish
captain is regarded by his senior offi
cers with but little more respeot than a
private, and is sometimes struck by
colonel or general in u moment of
anger. Even a major is barely secure
from such treatment. Tho pay of an
officer under the rank of general is very
inadequate anil irregularly received.
The families of offioers in garrisoned
towns are generally with them, and the
latter are often sorely pushed to feed
their charges. They may be seen dally
with baskets returning from market-
seedy and partially buttonless.
John Dye,tho export in counterfeiting,
says that a close study of good notes is
ticcessnry for those who would readily
detect bad ones. Some of tho latter ore
fully as fine as tho former in workman
ship, and it is only by tho variations that
they can be distinguished. Ho repre
sents counterfeiting as having greatly
increased of late, and the operators as
backed by plenty of capital. In the
case of base coinage, he says that some
of their product costs more than half its
apparent value to make. He showed a
oin that had exactly the weight, size
and touch of a genuine five-dollar gold
piece; but a cut into the edges showed
that it was a shell of gold with a plati
num filling. The actual value of the
metal in it was two dollars and a half,
and ithe making must have cost half a
dollar more.
We give below the population of the
twenty-four leading cities of the United
States in 1880, and of the same cities in
1870:
1880.
1870.
Now York
.. 847,000
975,292
Philadelphia
674,022
Brooklyn
395,099
Chicago
.. 378,000
298,977
St. Louis
310 664
Boston
250,525
Baltimore
267,354
Cincinnati
216,239
San Franoisoo
. 227,000
149,473
Now Orleans
191,418
Washington
109,199
Cleveland
.. 158,000
92,827
Pittsburg
86,079
Buffalo
117,714
Newark
... 137,000
105,059
Louisville
.. 126,000
100,763
Jersoy City..
82,546
Milwaukee
71,440
Detroit
79,577
Providence
.. 104,000
68,904
Albany
76,216
Rooliester
87,000
62,386
Allegheny Oily
... 75,000
53,189
Indianapolis
48,244
Ireland’* Eviction Lawi.
The laws by which evictions for non
payment of rent are authorized have
been on the statute books in Ireland
only thirty years. It was not until 1850
that quarter sessions were empowered
to decree evictions for non-payment of
rent, and it was not until 1800 that the
same power was given to other courts.
Tho attorney-general for Ireland in a
recent debate laid stress on the fact that
by the Roman civil law, and even the
law of Scotland, if, through some super
vening calamity, such as extreme in
clemency of weather, a tenant’s crops
does not repay his labor nnd his seed, he
is not liable for the rent. In one case,
where the tenant’s crop had been de
stroyed by a tremendous fall of hail, the
Scotch courts held that he had sufficient
cause for not paying his rent. The
London Echo contends that the English
law of distress, as it applies to the land,
is an unjust law. It gives the landlord
a right accorded to no other creditor, for
it permits him, by means cf a short,
easy and summary process, to obtain his
rents without the expense and delay of
legal proceedings. But it is generosity
itself compared with that under which
the Irish tenant lives. Such a thing as
ejectment for the non-payment of rent
is unknown to the law of England. By
the terms of the contract between land
lord and tenant it is stipulated to observe
the covenant; but, unless there is a
covenant that he shall be ejected for
non-payment of rent, he cannot be
turned out, except after the usual notice,
whereas in Ireland, provided he is a
year’s rent in arrears, or four months
behind the time when his rent is ordin
arily paid, he cun b* aummarily evicted.
CATCHING COD.
An Interesting Description ot tile tVsy
In which Cod are Caught.
The able cralt Juliette, Captain Ed
ward Fitoh, is one of the favorite
smaoka for health eaters, and taking our
traps on board we sail out of the q tiet
harbor through the fleet of fishing
craft on a sunny Monday morning for a
cod cruise on Nantuoket shoals. The
vessel has just returned from the sale of
her last load of fish, and now, with
fresh stores and her oapacious ice houses
filled, her crew refreshed by a Sunday at
home, enter upon the perils of another
voyage with light spirits. By Tuesday
night we have "iocd down” enough
menhaden bait irom the fish traps at
wild, romantic and isolated Martha’s
Vineyard for our trip, and on the fol
lowing morning the " tide in” over Nan
tuoket bar to wait for a goodly supply
of sea olaims, whioh aro a favorite bait
for deep sea cod. Tho crew enjoy
night maphap in the giddy ballroom
of some wonderful rattletrap ot a hall
n this dilapidated old town, and Thurs
day morning leave regretfully for the
pleasures and discomforts of the fishing
ground.
At sundown wo anobor within sound
of the steam whistle on the South Shore
lightboat, nnd on the following day
fishing commences. Mayhap the fog
dears up for a fow hours, but steam is
always kept up at this time oi the year
on the able and storm-defying light-
boat, so some of tho keepers inform us
is they board us in search of reading
matter. Cod fishing is carried on at this
season of the year by moans of hand
lines, each man tending two, tho vessel
being suffered to drive or drift with
tho tide. The sawings of our lines have
alrendy gashed the rails, yet we bavo
not taken ns much ns a cunncr, tor bo it
known, Gunners are just ns much of a
nuisnuco here ns they are under tho old
wharf at homo. By-nnd-bye we striko
a school of dog-fish, half reptile, and
after half an hour’s combat with these
creatures, Captain Ed. gives up iu dis
gust, the lielin is put up and we square
away and run a mile or so off and
then heave to again. By-and-bye
the captain feels a strong 'pull and
speedily begins to sway in on his line.
All he says is, “I’ve got ’im,” and
presently he flops a magnificent speci
men of a speckled steak cod on deck, a
genuine thirty pound white-bellied and
grey-backed school fish. None of your
Montauk Point giblets about this one.
Soon another is caught, and at length
we take the school with us, and each
man is busy baiting gear and unhook
ing fish. The olean lee side of tho ves
sel speedily takes on n fishy appearance,
and by-and-bye the hatches are thrown
off and the fish thrown into the hold
to provent them from rolling overboard
off the pile wo have alroady taken.
After tho first dozen pulls on tiiese gusty
fish the hands begin to objsct.
"Finger stalls” go on, but despite
these yurn coverings, long bofore we
leave the sohool the skin of our fingers is
worn through in places and we wish the
nibblcrs would go, but it is such fun to
pull them tha': we wouldn’t dcsisi fa
worlds. By-and-byo the fish stop biting
all at onoe. " Halibut,” says Captain
Ed., meaning that a halibut has been
attracted to our hooks and the cod are
frigl.toned away by him. It is so, and
the monster flat fish strikes our line.
He gives just one yank, nnd although
we attempt to hold him it is useless, for
as soon ns he feels tho hook he turns,
plucks and darts off. “ Snub him oasy!”
yells the captain, os we attempt to
check the progress of the fish through
fear of losing our line, “ Snub him
easy, or you’ll make him tear out!”
The fish finally stops nnd we gather in
line slowly, When half way up he
darts down again only to be once more
drawn almost to the surlace of the
water, when the captain takes our line,
loth to trust the capture of a $35 fish in
the hands of a greeny. We look over
the rail and see the monster, which,
through the clear green water,
seems almost as broad ns our
vessel, nnd quite ns long. Two
of the crew stand on cither side of the
captain with gaft hooks, and the instant
the fish’s head is drawn up to a level
with tho top of the water the cruel hooks
seize its head, and the three men, after a
severe struggle, land it upon the deck,
where its brain is " muddled,” its throat
cut, and it is speedily packed away in
ice. a coveted prize.
The codfish again thicken and tho
slaughter continues till dark when,
after casting anchor, we discuss a rare
supper of coffee and delicious fried cod
fish tongue, sucli as one can never en
joy away from Nantucket shoals, and
then repairing to the deck the catch of
the day is headed, gutted and washed,
and the iee being broken out of the
house, is packed away in its cooling
arms. Perhaps by midnight the labor is
completed, and wet and tired and dis
gusted with fog, we crawl into our
berths and sleep soundly till four o’clock
next morning, when the day’s labor is
repeated, doubtless with poorer luck.—
Detroit Free Press.
Words ot Wisdom.
A gilded frame makes a good picture
in the eyes of nearly all the world.
The soul of liberty is the Jove of law.
The only disadvantage of an honest
heart is credulity.
Advice is like snow, the softer it falls
the longer it dwells upon and the deeper
it sinks into the mind.
The sun which ripens the corn and
fills the succulent herb with nutriment,
also pencils with beauty the violet and
the rose.
Good temper, like a sunny day, sheds
a brightness over everything, ft is the
sweetner of toil and the soother of dis
quietude.
Concerning Members of Congress.
Five thousand a year sounds like a
little fortune itself to many a man in the
South whose hard earnings annually
fall to $500 or less. But as a rule
Southern men coming to Congress since
the war have come with depleted purseq
or involved in debt. To such men lfjp
in Washington is a continual struggle
between motives of economy and‘a
laudable desire to creditably represent
their people in social and official ‘ life.
Many of them striko a fortunate middle,
ground between the prevalent extrava
gance of the capital nnd that plainness
which in a Senator or Representative is
put down as meanness. Some live in
high style, have a glorious time for a
fow years, nnd unless they strike a lucky
speculation in stocks or accumulate by
fortuitous ways, peculiar to certain
classes of legislation, go home deeply in
debt, and have to borrow money for
their next canvass. There are mem
bers who take cheap quarters, spend
little or no moaoy on receptions, thea
ters, carriages, etc., take thirty-cent
menls at restaurants, walk a mile or
two to and from the Capitol, or on rainy
days Indulgo In tho luxury of aflve-cent
ride In tho street oars. Men like these
save a considerable part of their sal
aries, and at the cod of their terms are
rioher ns well os wiser men. In the
meantime their wives nnd children
have been living In some country town,
deprived of a share of enjoyment of tho
honors the old man gains, and of the
plcasuro of a fow years’ residence In the
onpitol city. In most Instances they
had really better be in tho country
though they probably don't think so.
I knew one Senator, a brilliant man,
but indolent in habit nnd shabby-
genteel in dress, who drew from bank
at tho end of his six years’ term tbo
comforablesum of twenty odd thousand
dollars, accumulations of savings from
his salary. Ho lived plainly ant! re
mote from the Capitol, and would walk
more than two mile3 to the Capitol
when tho thermomoter stood in tho
nineties. He said lie walked for his
health. Ouoo I hunted up a cor tain
member of this Congress for special
reasons. He occupies a second-story
room on a street that might almost be
called No Thoroughfare. The entrance
is through a narrow brown door adjoin
ing the shop in the first story, and at
the top of the dark stairway, whioh
brings you to his chamber, you grope
your way to the first door—tho one with
a largo square holo in it, noar tho top,
is his. There are no gis fixtures in tho
room. At night tho long many-jointed
fixture in the hall is drawn through the
hole in the door, nnd being doubled baok
sons not to interfere with the movement
of tho door, is lighted. Long strips o*
ancient papering hang down from the
walls in some plaoes, and the furniture
consists of a very plain bod, a few
chairs, a square wooden washstand with
holo in the- top almost losing the
china bowl and the pitoher, and a small
painted table,oovered with congressional
bills and documents sprinkled with
crumbs of smoking tobacco, stands on
uncertain legs noar the centor of the
chamber. Tho occupant of tills room
receives a salary of $5,000 a year. He
will not resign on acoount of peouninry
dlstross.
Members of Congress have many un ■
reasonable demands upon their purse3,
merely beenuso they happen to be in
(lie publio service. Day after day they
are importuned. Often an unknown
man asks for money to get back to
Augusta, or Raleigh, or Cincinnati, or
to some other place. Another wants
his check indorsed, another wants a loan
to go into business, another pleads his
war record and poverty to extraot a
loan. The forms of demands for money
are as varied as they are numerous, and
scarcely a cent is ever refunded.—
Charleston News and Courier.
0- All communications intended for this
paper mast be accompanied with the tall
name ot the writer, not necessarily for publi
cation, bat as a guarantee of good faith.
We are in no way responsible lor the views
cr opinions of correspondents.
A Strange Scene In the House of Commons.
The London Telegraph describes the
scene in the houie of commons when
Mr. Brad laugh “ affirmed ” as follows:
Fora little while Mr. Bradlaugh stand
ing quite alone, uncheered by a smile
or sound of welcome, seemed in doubt
as to what next it would be right for
him to do. Presently he came slowly,
very slowly up the floor, looking neither
to right nor to left, halted near to the
crown of the mace at the corner of the
table on the ministerial side, and stood
looking constrained and anxious for at
least a minute. Then Sir Erskine May
rose from the opposite end of tho table,
and holding the printed form of afflr ma-
tion in his right hand, went up to whtit
Mr. Bradlaugh stood, aud repented the
prescribed form of words to him, but in
a voice inaudible to a majority of those
present. Bowing somewhat stiffly to
the clerk of the house, the no-longor-
disputed junior member for Northamp
ton, with much deliberation, signed the
rolljof parliament; whereupon Sir Ers
kine May preceded him a few steps to
the speaker’s chair, saying: "Mr.
Bradlaugh, member for Northampton.”
The speaker, as in duty bound, held out
his hand; Mr. Bradlaugh touched it
formally, and still with the downcast
look upon his face, passed out behind
the chair, amid the same unbroken
silence which had reigned during the
very few minutes occupied by the pro
ceeding. Allowing'.himsolf but sufficient
time to traverse tho corridor, whioh
runs parallel with the house, Mr. Brad
laugh came boldly into the chamber,
ooking now well pleased, hurriedly
mounted to the end of tho bench on the
third row from the floor on the liberal
side bolow the gangway, and, without
a friendly hand held out to welcome
him, realized his triumph over parlia
ment, and took his seat for North
ampton.
Ths Grocer Boy.
Miko Miller was a grocer’s boy,
Well up in enrfant nonsense;
But wlion his wrath was raisin’ high
He Was devoid ol conscience.
Ha went to ter a girl named Sal-
Let soap ho Jo vc A hor trne;
For, oh, she was tho sweetest flour
That over Miller knew.
Though (rue at steel Miss Sallte was,
Like stoolsho had a temper,
''And thought whon Miller tried to teas
A grocer salt was meant her.
Then Miko his oonrnge mustard np;
He’d shout nnd storm and stutter,
And strive to ernoker on the head—
Though none he wanted butter.
Uien aha would scratch, and pull his hair
With all hor strength and vim,
The whila Bhe madly would exclaim t
" Whoe’er olnnnmon liko him?”
And thus they quarreled olt;
Their love was not all spioo,
But whon in making up they clove
Together—oh, ’twas nioe!
—JYorrittou>n Herald.
MflCELLANEOUS.
Cutting a swell—Lancing a boll.—
Borne Sentinel.
A person born this year cannot rote
in the nineteenth century.
Sixteen Waterloo officers are living.
In France there are at least 500,000
wolves, who kill about 1,000 menevery
year.
The smaller tho calibre of mind the
grentcr the bore of a perpetually open
tnou h.
A Philadelphia policeman who, in the
discharge o( his duty, shot two rowdies,
has become insane through remorse.
The census of Berlin, taken at ths
close of 1870, shows a population of
1,081,93.
One-half of tho household, says *
critic, does not know how the othjf
hnlf lives.
The number of living models employed
in Paris, by painters, sculptors and
photographers is 671.
An Ohio shorHT who lately asslstod at
a wcddingjsnappcd his fingers and called
out: "The condemned will now step
his way."
Talented individuals who have woo
golden opinions are never averse to ex
changing them for greenbacks, or even
for trado dollars.
The other night, in a Missouri town,,
a thiof, being caught in a man’s cellar,
explained that he was there to got out
of the way of n cyclone.
Tho mean diameter of the earth i
7 018 miles; that of the moon, 9,161
n: i Ifs. The density of the moon is five-
eighths that of tho earth.
King Stauley, the ruler of all the gyp-
sics in this country, lives in the midst of
a settlement of his people near Dayton,
Ohio. His daughter, who was to be
come queen at his death, has lost her
heritage by eloping with a man no ta
gypsy.
San Francisco assessors complain thot
to escape tho coll tax Chinamen of
thirty, and even forty years, claim to ba
only oighteen or twenty. When objec
tion Is made they say : "me sweatee.”
As there are 20,000 Chinamen in San
Francisco this fraud hits that city in a
tender spot—its spot.
Draining Lakes.
One of the greatest engineering under
takings of tho present century, well fit
ted, says the Scientific Press, to rank
with many attempted in Holland -not
even excepting the projected draining of
the Zuydcr Zee—is tho successful ac
complishment of works by which the
Appenine Lake Fucino has become a
thing of the past, and some thirty-five
thousand acres of the richest land re
covered for cultivation. The labor of
making the tunnel necessary for the
task, and other works, has occupied
nearly a quarter of a century, and the
vast sum of ten million dollars has al
ready been expended on the project.
Ail the water has disappeared, except
ing a small basin employed for draining
the surrounding district. The greatest
ength ot the lake was formerly some
ten miles, and its breadth about seven,
while the adjoining towns are no longer
in danger from the sudden rising of the
water in this volcanic region. The idea
of draining this district is not anew
one, and tho remains of the aqueduct
constructed during the reign of the em
peror Claudius were formerly Bhown
to the traveler; this has been mndo use
of in the present undertaking, and, after
the lapse of so many centuries, the great
project is an accomplished fact.
Curing the Bl'e of a Copperhead,
A little daughter of John Telford, of
Moon township, Pa., was bitten by a
copperhead snake. Her mother took
her to a grocery store near by, where a
salt mackerel was applied to the wound,
and a pint of whisky forced down
the child’s throat. In the meantime a
chicken was caught and ripped open
alive; the mackerel was taken off; the
wound and the poison had turned it
green; the warm entrails of the ohieken
were then applied, and another chicken
killed, and subsequently placed on the
wound; the entrails of both were turn
ed green. By this time the child was
itupefiod in consequence of the liquor
she had drank, but seemed to suffer no
pain. She was taken home, and the leg
that had been bitten was placed in salt
and water. These prompt remedies had
the desired effect, and thoehild was con-
I *idercd out of danger.