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KISS ME niIET IEB OK HO. ■T ALICB CAST. Now tell me all my fate, Jenny— Why need I plainer apeak ? for you see my foolish heart haa bled It’s secret in my cheek! You must not leave me thus, Jenny— You will not when you know It is my life you're treading on At every 6tep yon go. Ah, should you smile as now, Jenny, When th’ wintry weather blows, The daisy, waking out of sleep, Woula come up through the snows. Shall our house be on the hi 11, Jenny, Where the sumac hedges grow? You must kiss me, darling, if it’s yes, And kiss me if it’s no I It shall be v.ery fine—the door With bean-vines overrun, And th* window toward the harvest field Where first our love begun. What marvel that I could t ot mow When you came to rake the hay, For I cannot speak your name, Jenny, Ii I’ve nothing else to sar. Nor is it strange that when I saw Your sweet face in a frown, I hung my scythe in the apple-tree, Ana thought the sun was down. For when you sung the tuna that end With such a golden ring, The lark was made ashamed, and sat With her head beneath her wing. You need not try to speak. Jenny, You blush and tremble so, But kiss me, darling, if it’s yes, And kiss me miffs no! FOR THU YOUNG FOLKS. Jimmy’s Cruise. —Little did desperate Jimmy guess what ship he would really sail in, nor what a prosperous voyage he was about to take, for help was coming that very minute, as it generally does, sooner or later to generous people whe are very much in earnest. First a shrill whistle was heard, at the sound of which he looked up quickly; then a rosy-faced girl of about his own age came skipping down the street, swinging her hat by one string; and, as Jimmy watched her approach, a smile began to soften the grim look he wore, for Willy Bryant was his best friend and neighbor, being full of cour age, fun and kindliness. He nodded and made room for her on the step, the place they usualy occupied at; spare moment when they got lessons and recounted their scrapes to one another. But to-night Willy seemed possessed of some unually good piece of news which she chose to tell in her own lively fashion, for, instead of sitting down, she began to dance a sailor’s hoanpipe, sing ing gayly: “ I’m little Buttercup, sweet littlv Buttercup,” till her breath gave out. “ What makes you so jolly, Willy?” asked Jimmy as she dropped down be side him and fanned herself with the ill-used hat. “Such fun—you’ll never guess—just what we wanted—if your mother only will! You’ll dance, too, when you know,” panted the girl, smiling like a substantial sort of fairy come to bring good luck. “Fire away, then. It will have to be extra nice to set me off. I don’t feel a bit like jigs now,” answered Jimmy, as the gloom obscured liis face again, like a cloud over the sun. “You known ‘Pinafore’?’’began Will, and, getting a quick nod for an oyster, she poured forth the following tale with great rapidity: “Weil, some folks are going to get it up with children to do it, and they want any boys and girls that can sing to go and be looked at to-mor row, and the good ones will be picked out, and dressed up, and taught how to act, and have the nicest time that ever was. Some of our girls are going, and so am I, and you sing and must come, too, and have some fun. Won’t it be jolly?” “I guess it would; but I can’t. Mother needs me every minute out of school,” began Jimmy with a shake of the head, having made up his mind some time ago that lie must learn to do with out fun. “But, we shall be paid for it,” cried Will, clapping her hands with the double delight of telling the best part of her story, and" seeing Jimmy’s sober face clear suddenly as if the sun had burst forth with great brilliancy. “Really? How much? Can I sing well enough?” and he clutched her arm ex citedly, for this unexpected ray of Jkope dazzled him. He was so excited he could not sleep, and beguiled the long hours by hum ming under his breath all the airs he knew belonging to the already popular opera. Next morning he flew about his work as if for a wager, and when Will came for him there was not a happier heart in all the city than the hopeful one that thumped under Jimmy’s threadbare ia feuch a crowd of girls and boys as they found at the hall where they were told to apply for inspection! Such a chirp ing and piping went on there, it sounded like a big cage full of larks and linnets! And by and by, when the trail was over, such a smiling troop of children as was left to be drilled by the energetic gentlemen who had the matter in hand! Among this happy band stood our Jimmy, chosen for his good voice, and Will, because of her bright face and lively self-possessed manner. When the grand day came at last, and the clew of jolly young tars stood ready to burst forth with opening chorus, “We sail the ocean blue, Our sauev ship's a beauty, t We’re gallant men and true, And bound to do our duty!” Jimmy hardly knew whether he stood on his head or his heels at first, for, in spite of many rehearsals, every thing seemed changed. Instead of day light, gas shone everywhere, the empty scats were full, tint orchestra played splendidly, and wh .:t the curtain rose, a sea of friendly faces welcomed them, and the pleasant sound of applause made the hearts under the blue jackets dance gayly. How those boys did sing! how their eves shone, and their feet kept time to the familiar strain*! irixh what a relish they hitched up their trousers and lurched about, or saluted and cheered as the play demanded! With what interest they watched the microscopic midship mite, listened to Ralph as his sweet voice melodiously told the story of his hapless love, and smiled on pretty Josephine who was a regular bluebird without the scream. That was the beginning of many busy, happy weeks for both the children; weeks which they long remembered with great pleasure, as did older and wiser people, for that merry, innocent little opera proved that theaters can be made the scenes of harmless amusement and opened to a certain class of young people a new and profitable field for their talents. So popular did this small com pany become that the piece went on to the summer vacation, and was played in the morning as well as afternoon, to satisfy the crowds who wished to see and hear it. • But long before that time, Able Sea man James Nelson had sent his family out into the country; mother begging Will to take good care of her dear boy till he could join them, and his sister Kitty throwing back kisses as she smiled good-bye with cheeks already rosier for all the comforts brother” had earned for her. Jimmy would not desert his ship while she floated, but managed to to spend his Sundays outof town, of ten taking Will with him as first mate, and, thanks to her lively tongue, friends were soon made for the new-comers. When the last day came, he was in such spirits that he was found doing double shuffles in corners, hugging themidshipmite, who was a little chap of about Kitty’s age, and treating his messmates to peanuts with a lavish hand. Will had her horn pipe, also, when the curtain was down, kissed every one of the other “ sisters, cousins and aunts” and joined lustily in rousing farewell cheers given by the crew. A few hours later, a cheerful-looking boy might have been seen trudging to ward one of the railway stations. A new hat, brave in blue streamers, was on his head, a red balloon struggled to es cape from one hand, a shabby carpet bag, stuffed full, was in the otlier, and a pair of shiny shoes creaked briskly as if the feet inside were going on a very pleasant errand. About this young traveler, who walked with a sailor-like roll and lurch, revolved a little girl chattering like a magpie, and occasionally breaking into song as if she couldn’t help it. “ Be sure you come next Saturday; it wont be anything like such fun if you don’t go halves,” said the boy, beaming at his lively companion as he hauled down the balloon which seemed inclined to break from its moorings. “ Yes I know Thatis so!” hummed the girl with a skip to star board that she might bear a hand with the bag. “ Keep some cherries for me, and don’t forget to give Kit the doll I dressed for her.” “ I shouldn’t have been going myself if it hadn’t been for you, Will. I never shall forget that,” said Jimmy, whom intense satisfaction rendered rather more sedate than his friend.. “ Running away to sea is great fun, 1 With a tar that plows the water I’ ” sung Will in spite of herself. “ ‘And a gallant captain’s daughter,’ ” echoed Jimmy, smiling across the carpet-; bag. Then both joined in an irrepres sible chorus of “ Dash it! Dash it!” as a big man nearly upset them, and a dog barked madly at the balloon. Being safely landed in the train, Jimmy hung out of the window till the last minute discussing his new prospects with Will, who stood on tiptoe outside bub bling over with fun. “ I’ll teach you to make butter and cheese and you shall be my dairy woman, for I mean to be a farmer,” he said, just as the bell rang. “All right, I’d like that ever so much,” and then the irrepressible mad cap burst out to the great amusement of the pasengers: “ ‘For you might have been a Roosian. A Frenchman, Turk or Proosian, Or an Ital-i-an.’ ” At this Jimmy could not resist shout ing back as the train began to ( move: Then he subsided, to think over the happy holiday before him and the rich cargo of comfort, independence and pleasure he had brought home from his successful cruise in the “ Pinafore,” — “ ‘But in spite of all temptations To belong to other nations, I’m an Amer-i-can.’ ” Sympathy of the Nerves. [Ridge on Health and Disease.] When the nerves from long habit have been accustomed to transmit their messages from distinct parts, and are suddenly cut off from them, they still retain along their tracts the sympathetic actions. Thus a man who has had a leg amputated will feel distinctly, along the course of the trunk of the nerve, sensa tions which no longer exist. The mind also is influenced by this; and frequently this peculiar direct nervous action can only be allayed by that which is negative and reflex. A curious incident occurred within my own experience: An old Bailor suffered much from this; he re- I tained his diseased foot too long, but at j last consented to amputation. When he had his nervous pains, he always ! called for hot water, into which he put his wooden stump. If told of his folly in supposing that such a proceeding could do any good, he would become enraged, and his paroxysm of pain would increase; but if gratified he took things easy, and the process actually appeared to do him good, though all must know there could be no real benefit. Still here is the effect of mind over matter. A lady sends her laundress a washing list among which is the following: —One frilled white petticoat (no starch.) On Saturday the washing comes home, and with it the bill, among the items in which are the following: One frilled petticoat, twenty cents; no starch, ten cents. Between Heaven and Earth. jD*>nw>r Tribune.] Charles May and his brother Robert, in the spring of 1870, offered to pass rail road ties down the Arkansas from the mountain source. Hesays: “Ourofler was accepted, when we started into the upper entrance of the canyon with a large skiff* provided with six days pro visions and 200 feet of rope with which, by taking a running turn around some firmly planted object, we could lower our boat 100 feet at a time. In this way, at the end of three days, having set adrift many hundred ties, we reached the entrance of Royal George. Here we dis covered that an attempt to descend the first waterfall with two in the boat was certain destruction, and to return was impossible. Accordingly, I determined to lower my brother down the fall in the boat. At a distance of 200 feet I gave him the rope and let him take the chance of the canyon (life seemed more certain in that direction), while I could risk my physical ability to climb the canyon wall, which was about 2,000 feet high. “ About ten o’clock in the morning I shook hands with my brother, lowered him in the boat safely to the foot of the fall; gave him the rope and saw him no more. Then throwing aside my coat, hat and boots, tnd stripping the socks from my feet, I commenced my climbing way, often reaching the height of 100 or 200 feet only to be compelled to return to try some other way. At length, about 5 o’clock in the afternoon, I reached a height on the smooth canyon of about a thousand feet. Here my further progress was arrested by a shelv ing ledge of rock that jutted out from the canyon side a foot or more. To ad vance was without hope; to return, cer tain death. Reaching upward and out ward, I grasped the ledge with one hand, and then with the other; my feet slipped from the smooth side of the canyon, and my body hung suspended in the air 1,000 feet above the roaring waters of the Arkansas. *> “At that moment I looked downward to measure the distance I would fall when the strength of my arms gave out. A stinging sensation crept through my hair as my eye caught the strong root of a cedar bush that projected over the edge just beyond my reach. My grasp of the-ledge was fast yielding to the weight of my person. Then I deter mined to make my best effort to raise my body and throw it side ways towards the the root, so as to bring it within my grasp. At the moment of beginning the eftort I saw my mother’s face as she leaned out over the ledge,, reaching down her hand and caught me by the hair. Stranger, my mother died while yet a young woman, when I and my young brother were small boys. I remember her face. I was suc cessful in making the side leap of my arms, when J drew myself upon the ledge and rested for a time. From here up ward my way climbing was laborious. I reached the top just as the sun was sinking down behind the snowy range, and hastened to our camp at the mouth of the canyon, where I found my brother all safe. ‘ Charley,’ said he, ‘ have you had your head in a flour sack?’ It was then that I discovered that my hair was as whit® as vou see it now.” In the German Courts. Some curious prosecutions are re ported from the Courts in various parts of Germany. A wealthy and respected shoemaker of Lautenburg, in West Prussia, suspecting a servant girl of stealing $25, and finding that she would not admit it, hit upon the curious de vice of putting a steaming hot egg un der each of her arm-pits and tying her arms down over them until the torture made her confess the theft. Then he had her arrested.. In prison the girl begged for something to relieve the pain of the burns, and in that way the method by which her confession had been ex torted from her was revealed. The shoe maker was prosecuted and sentenced to two years’ imprisonment. He appealed, and the Appellate Court made his sen tence three years. Jn Sinzig there was a case analagous to that of Caleb Cush ing, who, in Washington, applied to the court? for relief against the barking of a dog Jiat in the night disturbed hia studies. In this case it was a young heifer that bellowed at night when hun gry, and seems to have been hungry very often. A gentleman in the neighbor hood made complaint, and the court ad judged the owner of the animal in fault, and sentenced him to pay a fine and stop the bellowing. He denies, however that this is correct German law, and has, appealed. In Berlin a medical univer sity graduate was arraigned for putting up a sign as a practitioner without hav ing passed the supplementary examina tion'prescribed by the State. many this is made a criminal offense, quacks not being allowed tq impose upon the public there. The offender was convicted, notwithstanding an in genious defense. In Pesth, Hungary, Chief Rabbi Stern, in 18/3, divorced a Jewish married couple according to the Mosaic Law, but the sanction of the civil authorities was not obtained. The parties having remarried, they were prosecuted for bigamy, and the rabbi was arraigned with them, at first as an accessory, but afterward only on a charge of abusing the powers of his rabbinical office. After various vicissitudes, con victions, appeals and reversals the court of last resort has adjudged the charge of bigamy not proved, but fined all the de fendants for violating the statutes. This case awakened much interest, and provoked a controversy that has not yet •*ubsided. _ Profanity is a very bad thing in any body, but a good woman will never hesi tate to darn her own stockings.—Ex change. Her daughter will, however, and. that reminds us that the reason so many girls dislike this work is because it sounds profane. Laughter. Let us make life one broad smile, al ways having a little of the cheerfulness in our countenances to brighten the weary way of the fortunate and cheer and lighten the burdened heart of the afflicted and sorrowing. There is a time to be sad, and a time to be wise; a time in which to love, and a time to despise; a time for laughing as well as for crying, (the latter is not gen erally practiced at parlor entertain ments) ; a time for living as well as for dying; a time for mirth, as well as sedateness; a time for nonsense, as well as for greatness. Amiability is shown in the counte nance, a beauty of the highest order is acquired by having the countenance habitually under the influence of amiable feelings, and in the frequency or infre quency of these indulgences greatly depends the forming of a pleasant or un pleasant countenance, the indelible frown or the cheerful smile. An amir able soul always wears a beaming smile, which is ever ready to broadeil into joy*> ful laughter, and often bursts out, filling the room with the stimulating and price less medicine of each innation. The fol lowing illustration will show what, if laughter were put to the test, it could do for a person. It is stated of a certain prominent man in Scotland, who, lyin at the point of death with an internal tumor, seeing his man-nurse asleep in the chair, and not being able to call him, raised a pillow and struck the somnolent watcher in the face with it, causing him to wake suddenly and with great fright upset himself with the chair, making such a noise as to cause the doctors, who were holding a consultation in an adjoin ing room, to rush in a body to see what was the matter. The scene appeared so ludicrous to the dying man that he laughed so heartily as to break the tumor, thereby saving his life. Give us mirthfulness and laughter—not a vialful, not a glassful—but a big, hearty soulful; it is good for spleen, for dyspep sia, for hysteria, fallen fortunes and melancholy, for tens of thousands of aches, pains, and irritations of humanitj I recommend the never-failing remedy of cachinnation, and any harmless humor ous or witty remark that would ensure the luxury is not to be despised; even small talk, if it be pleasant, timely and to the point, has its place in the highway of life. There is a time when it is folly to exhibit wisdom when a little nonsense and droll saying is very palatable and when sedateness and gravity ought to be kicked out of doors. A physician would cut a poor figure in a ball-room unless he left his professional language at home, but we have seen men who are above all this who were too wise and lofty for humorous talk; they were all sapience an gravity. “With ruirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. Why should a man whose blood is warm within Sit like a grandsire cut in alabaster?” Faithful and Tireless Watching. • [St. Louis Republican.] Dogs, like human beings, sometimes take queer fancies and act strangely, showing that they are creatures of im pulse, like the rest of us. There is a dog of the female persuasion at Yarneli’s pickle-factory, under the bridge, which has conducted itself in a very remarka ble maimer for the past year or so. Last fall, as one of the clerks was about to open the front door at the establishment at the usual hour in the morning, a young puppy presented itself and whined to get in. It seemed to have mistaken the place for its home, and as soon as the door was open, it rushed in and upstairs to the third story, where it ran about as seeking someone it could not find. When it became satisfied that the per son was not there, it jumped up into one of the window-sills and began to look up and down the street, as if watching for someone. The attention of the em ployes was attracted by the strange be havior of the puppy and they let it re main. It soon made friends with all of them, but it was evident that its first affections were fixed on someone else; on someone who did not arrive, but was always expected. It spent nearly all of its time on the window-sill, and still does so, although more than a year has elap sed since it first began its tireless vigifs. From the first day that it took up its abode in the third story of the pickle factory until the present time, it has never once left the story. No coaxing can get it up into the next story or down into one of the lower ones. It will come from its watch-tower for a few minutes to be fondled or to catch a rat, but the moment it is at leisure, it is back again watching for the arrival of some one that never comes. It lias grown to be a considerable dog now and pos sesses more intelligence than beauty, but it is a great pet in the establishment, and is highly prized for its good quali ties. For fidelity to ‘an idea this dog is hard to match. Counterfeit Eggs. Several most staid and dignified Brit> ish journals have recently been most richly sold by a ridiculous story # in the San Francisco Post last winter about the manufacture of artificial eggs in Califor nia for transportation. The pleasant squib was much enjoyed by newspaper exchange editors on this side of the water, but produced a very different effect on the other side, forming the text of grave and even indignant articles in the Pall Mall Gazette, the Mark Lane Express, the Meiboms Australian, and even in the leading Prussian paper, the Kreutzzeitung. The latter, indeed, reviews the article in great length and concludes that the importers should be wary in the matter of American products, be cause a chemical study of the new egg, based upon the Post description, shows it to be rank poison. “ The wooden hams and nutmegs sent from New Eng land,” says the angry Kretuzzeitung, “are still fresh in memory, and now the Americans boldly impose upon the world ft counterfeit egg.” FANCIES FOR THE FAIR. Queen Victoria used to be fond of etching. W edding rings are flat bands of even thickness. Long-fleeced fur hats are becoming to everybody. Anew clipped fur is called Grecian chinchilla. 3latelasse cloths remain in favor for heavy cloaks. Fringes cost any sum from fifty cents to S3O a yard. Fashionable note-paper is without ornament. Vermont boasts of a wife and mother aged twelve who has eloped. Painted tassel caps are shown among new dress trimmings. Changeable effects are seen in some of the neckerchiefs. Before marriage, affection and per fection ; after, reflection and defection. Celine Chaumont is the last French actress concerning whom Paris raves. Otter is superseding sealskin. It is richer and more beautiful. AMONG the novelties in hrench but tons are some that are as large as a half dollar. The buttons used on garments with cashmere trimmings are ostensibly Japanese. A serpent with a diamond dropping from his mouth, is among the new de signs in bracelets. Fringes of hair are now brought down on the temple rather than on th® center of the forehead. Long gilded points, like umbrella tips, are used for finishing the ends of rib bon bows on some gowns. Sealskin caps, the most unhealthy head covering ever worn, will not M fashionable this season, it is said. Any girl has a right to look at a mil liner’s window, and wish she had a rich husband. An Albany N. Y. man advertises for “a girl to work in hair.” He is evi dently a bachelor. As is the golden tress of hair to butter, bo are unkind words from the ripe lips of a beautiful woman. The sacques worn with street dresses have about as many different names as there are sacques. Dark red gloves have been imported for the use of ladies who have walking suits for the popular garnet shades. Lambs-wool cloth, a white fleecy stuffy is used to make handsome coats for the opera, and for ceremonious calls. The New York Commercial says that the new Queen of Spain will wear cloth of silver for her wedding dress. Hanging is capital punishment— especially when you're hanging on som® good-looking fellow’s arm—isn’t it girls? Worth has invented what he calls ft Turkish stuff; it is made of silk, and haa red designs on a changeable bint ground. The latest dictate of fashion says: “ Habits should be cut square.” That's so. The squarer you cut bad habits, young man, the better. Women would never do for assessors. One couldn’t be induced to rate her neighbor s new grand piano as worth over two dollars. suitable conclusion for a French love-story: “ The loss of her husband worked on her constitution, and she died 29 years afterwards, aged 97, though not until she had been twice married.” Mrs. Emma D. E. N. Southworth, the novelist, says that she * has written constantly ever since she was 15 years old. She is now at work upon her six tieth novel. In 1619 ninety young women were im ported from England and sold in th® colony of Virginia as wives, at 100 pounds of each! This was the origin of many of the F. F. V’s. Women owe a great deal to the press. We mean now, particularly, the printing press. If it was not for it where in creation would they get their bustles and circulars? “I suffer Kate” remarked the small man when Katherine, his three hundred pound sweet-heart, sat down in his lap, put her arm around his neck and almost smothered him. Two girls have been scalped lately by their hair catching in machinery. Thus does modern invention not only diminish the opportunities of labor, but actually begins to rob the poor Indian of his birthright. It is said that a girl who can shed three or four tears at a critical moment, and follow them up with a quivering sigh, can marry all around a good look ing blonde who does nothing but try to* blush. . “AH, Louise, my heart is very des pondent. Ever since I have gazed into the depths of those lovely eyes, I ” “Hush, John! put an air-brake on that train of .thought. Pa has introduced me to his new partner, and I am his for $2,000,000. That settles it.” The present styles of wide belts worn by ladies is to be made still more orna mental and expensive by having flowers and landscapes painted thereon, it is said. A lady “just stepped out of a pic ture” will no longer be a merely figura tive expression. “ I wish it would rain, if it’s going to,” said a Vallejo wife to her husband. “And why, dear?” he affectionately re plied. “ Oh,” said she, gazing vacantly at a pin on the floor, “I don’t see any use wearing monogram stockings this kind of weather.” — Vallejo Chronicle, A new bracelet is mad® of a narrow band of gold, clasped with a small golden owl which has emerald eyes. The en graving of the owl’s plumage is very fine and the design quite novel. A ring is made of a serpent coiled around four times and with a turquoise set in his up , lifted Lead.