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Love Better than Fame.
I] win n name,’ the warrior cried,
rj’o crown the maiden of my heart!
L py e3 will flash with loyal pride
then forth upon my quest X start.”
L lady watched, with undimmed eye
[lie L soldier ride upon tender his way, sigh
sobbing moan nor
Enticed his stay.
[d h'wns yet she pined from hour to hour,
love, not fame, 1 craved,” she said.
tnd [e little knows love's mystic power.”
lower slid she drooped her head.
8 duys and months sped swiftly past;
[lie warrior’s brow was wreathed with fame.
|d homo lie rode. “’Tis mine at last—
An honored name.”
met her in her father's hull,
knd knelt to kiss her slender hand.
lo! at thy foot I lay them all—
Love, honor, fame!” She bade him stand,
hv love was all I craved,” she said.
(With that my heart was all content!”
kl on his bieust she laid her head,
Her sorrow spent.
— Klhp.l Alay.
BERTHINE’S RUSE.
[There was scarcely a sound in
lest as the snow fell upon tho trees,
Sue snow that made their branches
iear as if covered with an icy moss.
[lore the door of a house , a young °
man was chopping , . wood. , She was
|1, and, though slender, was
ki was a child of the forest.
[ U ', °' U j . . „
{Berthine L replied, she split ... ,, block ,
[ as 1 a
|ve wood , with ... a powerful „ , stroke, , . “I , ,
[m finished, mother. lam coming,
coming It is still light.” _
mien she carried in the wood, went
Lshcd i again to fnsten the oaken doors of
EbiKti, and ana again tg.i.n entered enurea the tne house bouse,
gtening tho large bolts of the door.
Her mother, an old woman whom
e'firo e had rendered timorous * ’ sat near *
spinning
“1 like ifnot,” she said, “when the
[her is a wav Herp wc urp ' two do
aceless women.”
l“Ah!” replied her daughter, as she
a need toward a large revolver sus
faded over the fireplaco, “I can easily
11 a wolf or a Prussian—it is all the
i me. ”
Berthino's husband had joined the
my at the beginning of the Prussian
vasion, and sue lived with her moth
and father, the old forester, Nicho¬
ls Piehon, who had obstinately refused
j quit his woodland dwelling for tiio
wn.
The nearest town was Bethel, an an
Bnt stronghold perched upon a rock.
ae lnnabitauts wero patriots and had
r ed to r03i3t th0 invaders - Thp y
Id prorured cannons and muskets
equipped a militia The soldiers
ire drilled daily by M. Lavigne, the
berdasher, who was an ex-officer of
pgoons.
[Tims they awaited the arrival of the
(ussians, but tho Prussians did not
bear. They were not far off, how¬
ler, for twice already their scouts
d pushed through the wood as far
th" house of Nicholas Piehon,which
»s the outpost in the forest of Ave
Twice each week Piehon
town for provisions and informed
!c citizens of whatever had occurred
I his neighborhood. He had gone to
RVIl this very morning to announce
iat two days before a small det.ach
but of German infantry had halted
his place for about two hours and
en departed. The officer who com
arnk'd them spoke French.
That evening, when Berthine was
to put tho pot on the tiro to
uke the sou)), two violent knocks
ere heard at the door. As the
omen made no reply a loud, guttural
hue s id, “Open the door!” Then.
ter a brief silence, the same voice
Tkitf ;: „ PelUhe <100r ° r We Will
Berthine took down tho revolver
above the fireplace and slipped it
to her pocket. Then she said, “Who
e you ?”
The same voice replied, “The detach*
l ‘iit of soldiers who were here the
her day.”
"What do you want?” said the
ung woman.
"he Lave been lost in the wood
,n l,r ning. Open, the door or we
break it in!”
»rthine hail no choice. She quick
drew tite large bolts, and opening
door saw heforo her six men—
Prussian soldiers, the same who
stopped there two days before.
lTt at ,hlS :
she sauUn l™' a resolute 1 tone.
e ret ognizedyour hTusa^We'have ^
i nothing to eat since morning.”
They entered the house. Thev were
1 " h “ n " <• ■»
y exhausted.
The young woman pointed to the
ics at either side of the
!i »(e. say ng. “Sit down. I will
lake soud tor vou.”
®lic Couinoton Star.
When the soup was prepared the
Prussians ate voraciously. As they
were thirsty, Berthine descended into
the cellar to draw cider for them. She
remained there a long time. The cel¬
lar was a little vaulted cave, which, it
was said, had served during the revo
lution both as a prison and a hiding
place. It was reached by a narrow
winding stairway, to which access was
gained through a trap in the centre of
the kitchen.
When Berthine reappeared she wore
a cunning smile. She gave the jug of
cider to the Prussians.
When the soldiers had finished eat¬
ing they lay down to sJoep about the
table. They stretched themselves on
the floor with their feet toward the
fire, their heads supported by their
cloaks rolled up lor pillows, and soon
they were snoring in six different tones.
They had slept some time, when
suddenly firing was heard without,and
so plainly that it seemed to be directed
against the walls of the house. The
i soldiers rose at once. Two more re
ports were heard, followed presently
by three others.
Berthine appeared. She was appa
rently frightened. Her feet were bare, ’
she . wore a short , . skirt , • t and , carried . a
| caadle ia her hand
“The French are coming!” she ex
i claimed. “There are at least two hnn
cellar quickly and make no noise. If
you make a sound we are lost.
rr I , ho officer, „ thoroughly .. ....... frightened,
”
™ ... , j* , 1L
I ’ »» *
j n °» sl,a11 w « ■»
’ “P™" 1
„ tli e <“1'*>“ and the Six men
geared, one after another, down tho
uttle winding stair.
,. . , of , tho last he, , 10t ,
P oln "
. had , a disappeared Berthine lowered the
j heavy oaken plank, thick as a wall and
Jjard by hlngRS «s steel and which a lock> was and held tl,rnin in pta*e S the
’
1 ke T in *' ke * ock ’ f je g an to laugh. It was
a low ’ hysterieil1 laugh ' Then she
sud,lenly evinced an irresistible desire
! daacj over the head3 o£ hor P nson ~
ers.
Soon, however, she heard murmur
lugs uudei' her feet. The prisoners
had divined the ruse, and
the officer mounted the little stair and
began to pound the trap door with his
fist. Again he cried, “Open the door!”
I “What do you want?” she asked.
“Open the door.”
“I will not.”
j The man became angry> ‘ and ex .
, claimK .. 0 tho door or d will
Then The »»
: began to laugh,
i <<Break ^ ood man . break it> -.
| : ftnd he b to knock with the butt j
, end q£ h}s musket inst the door 0 f
j oak dosed above his head> but it re . j
j sisted the force of his blows.
The young woman went to the outer
door of the house, and, opening it, :
looked out into the night and listened.
A distant sound fell upon her ear.
Then she cried with all her might;— I
j father!” i i
I “Ho “Ho'
Berthine!” a voico replied.
Presently the large shadow o ' a man
i appeared where the moonlight fell be
tween "“I two trees ’
have the Prussians in the cellar,”
said the young woman.
“Prussians in the cellar? What
Prussians? How did they come there?” i
1
Berthine said, laughing:—“They are
those who were here the other day.
They were lost in the forest, and I am |
keeping them cool in tho cellar.”
j Then she related the adventure, how
she had frightened them with the re¬ 1
port of the revolver, and had fastened
J them in the cellar. !
“Well, what would you have me do i
, at this hour?” asked the old man.
“Go and fetch M. Lavigne and his I
troops, lie will make them prisoners, 1
i ‘‘“f^hTvfTbTg'lad,” said Father |
Piehon, with a smile, as he departed.
For 8 l0D * T* T remained
clock' From time tr«me VT-rus! j
, . . .
sians were le.ir. oa ,.m .iw.ty <
the tr»p door m n'ir muo e s.
length, t in ing '■ > '
^qpsten ana J" SoTn . shT saw shadows .
TadowsTf Thev were the !
^ M. Lavignes nmn. There
' eo 200 of them, and each carried 200 i
"
^Smne f i arranged his troops so
ll8 os „ m the house. Then he
entere<1 th ° dw0lling and mf0r ™h l
him self of the force and position . of the j
eU n> stamped on tho trap j
door! M Lavigne
calling to the
lapse of twenty minutes he summoned I
the lives I
he spared and that i “V should receive
good treatment. There was no sign
of capitulation. Then the coin man I
ant arranged his plan of at^acK.
COVINGTON, GEORGIA, JULY 8, 1885.
“Let Planchut and iiis men come
here,” he said. Planchut, who was a
zinc worker, and two ofjiis assistants
approached.
“Tear down tho gutters and the
waterspout irom the roof.”
In a quarter of an hour fully fifty
feet of these wooden gutters were
brought. Then he had a little hole
made at the edge of the trap door and
formed a conduit from tho pump to
this opening.
“Now we will give these Prussians
something to drink,” he said.
Then he ordered a number of men to
tho pump, w T ho relieved each other
every five minutes. A stream of
water glided through the conduit and
loll into the cellar. The work of
pumping was continued for three
hours, the commandant in the mean¬
time marching up and down the kitch¬
en, wondering why’ the men did not
capitulate. About eight o’clock in
the morning a voice was heard at the
little grated aperture which served to
ventilate the cellar, saying;—
“I want to speak with the French
officer.”
Lavigne replied from the window,
advancing his head only a little:—
“Will you surrender?”
The Prussian officer answered that
ho would,
“Then pass your muskots out,” add
~—« p—
through the aperture and fell upon
the snow, then another and another,
until all had been passed r , out. Then
tam voice said:
“IVe have no more. Make haste
ami let to out, for we are nearly
ar0WBrt .”
The commandant opened the trap
door aoor ’ Fourdrinnirm iourdn PP In g heads heads appeared mne-ired
-four heads with pale faces and long
yellow hair. Then, one by one, the six
Prussians emerged, wet, shivering and
frightened. They wero seized and
bound. The commandant at once led
away his prisoners, with whom he en
tered Bethel in M.
was decorated for having captured a
Prussian advance guard.-From the
French.
j flow SAv/iffe* Con nr.
It is very amusing to see the people
of Kamtschatka attempt to reckon
above len > ^ or ' having reckoned the
; td b °th hands, they clasp them
i * in o era
| together, which signifies ten; they
then begin at their toes and count to
twenty, after which they are quite con
founded, and cry “Matcha,” that is,
“Where shall I take more?”
A Moravian missionary relates of
the Greenlanders that they in counting
proceed beyond twenty with great re
b > 0 tance, and generally apply to all
numbers above twenty a name which
means “innumerable.”
Parry, the great Arctic explorer
sa vs of ROme tribes of Esquimaux that
-
the > r require to use their fingers to
< ’ 0,lnt as high as tbree > and generally
,nal<e 301110 rnistake before the y rea<;h
seven -
Many South , American tribes are
said to bave no more 1,ian f° ur lbst ' nct;
numeral3; and tho eonse, l ueut difficub
in understanding high numbers is
well illustrated by a statement of Hum
boldk that 1,0 nover met an ,ndian
who would not, if asked his age, say,
indifferently, sixteen or sixty, not con
scions that there was much difference
between the two.
The following anecdote of a South
American traveller confirms the state
aicnt. This traveller, when out with
a party of ten or a dozen Indians,
asked one of them. “Are we many?”
“Yes, wo are many.” “Are we innu
merable?” “Yes, wc are innmnera
ble.” “That tribe,” he says, “when
they wished to tell how many captives
thev had taken were unable to state
the number, but would mark out a
space of ground and say there were as
ma ^' The as ....... inhabitants 0O “ Id of some JJf- West Indi
j,lands are said to exclaim whenev
^ „ ls ten> .. As maav „
hairs of my head,” °r “As the sand of
the sea.
qq, e Yancos, a tribe dwelling near
the Amazon, have no name for any
number beyond three, “and lucky it is
for those who have to d ° with
says the traveller who records the fact,
“ f «r their name for three is ‘Po-ct-tar
ra-ro-rm-co-a-ro-ac, a word of ten
syllables. Who can wonder that arfth
metic has not flourished in the se lands?
Ys„perflTous Boy.
William Trotter has been paying his
to Mia!J Uo9a IIedsteer , 0 f
His visits have not been very
Mr. Iro ter.
« "..k- — k~ »
to have you go away. You
never to miss an evening.”
They m d Trotter for the i< t of
evening .—Tanas Siftings. !
I ROPICAL SEA WONDERS,
Marine Life in the Waters
Off Lower California.
Boautifal Sponges, Oysters with Lamps,
Ocoan Butterflies, Wonderful Shells,
-
Fannie B. Ward says in a letter
from Mulege, Lower California, to the
New York Sun; The sea seems to be
doing its best hereabouts to make up
for the barrenness of the land. It is
stored with an incredible number and
variety of fish, including all those to be
found in southern waters, and common
as well as pearl-producing oysters.
The most beautiful sponges abound in
tho Gulf, no less than a dozen differ
ent species out of the fifty into which
naturalists have classed them. Most
numerous is the sponge lomentom,
briglit orange-colored, and full of gela
tinous flesh. When dry it tarns snow
white, and when broken Tesembles
bread. If rubbed on the hand it will
raise blisters, and when dried in an
oven its stinging properties are in _
creased. A common variety here is
the oculatn, which grows to an extra
ordinary height. Its delicate branch
es are furnished with rows of small
projecting cells along the edges, and
its intricate galleries rival the Laby
rinth of Crete. Here is also the tiny
coronet sponge, its single, pale yellow
tube wearing a crown of spinis topped
with shining rays; the lemon-hued
grape sponge, its hollow branches re
sembliug the fruit of the vine, the
openings at the top being evidently
mouths through which the animals im¬
bibe moisture. Then there are literal
oceans of coxcomb sponge, and the
'common coarse Va ;; . et , V ... " , gr0T ' 1
o pffinffu ly in . the Mediterranee... f j
It is the latter species which is best j
known to commerce for its absorbing
capacity the same for which the no
ble matrons of Rome gave largo
of money to have saturated with
myrrhed wine and held to the lips of ^ I
fixiomtosubduetheirintolerablethirst.
oung a out the salty sands in pur
suit of information, Bet^ ;md I fnd
entertaining study even in these most
insignificant . . of created beings. While
the young oyster and his migrating
cousm, the my Ulus, are sowing their
wild ... oats , and . roving . b here , and there,
the sedate grandparents /. anchor ,
selves , snugly , at home, by means of „
“
small ,, cords, ...... which they weave around ,
the ... stones. And . , what , . do . you think ,
ot the oyster which lights ° up * x. the dark- , ,
of ... his solitary ... dwelling , ... by liv
ness a
ing lamp? .. Examine .. .
any common
oyster, , and , . ,, tlie centre . of , most of .
.f in
the shells , „ you will find a bluish , spot, ,
resembling ,. a star. Apply . , x to this • a
powerful . . microscope, . „’ and you will dis
cover that this ,. bit x of phosphorous , con
s j s t a 0 f three different sorts of animal
cu i e s. The largest of these has forty
eight legs attached to its slender body,
a black spot on the head which is evi
dentl .V its onl y e y e . and a back exactly
resembling an eel’s; the second insect
has also one eye, numerous feet, a dog’s
nose, and a body composed* of several
rings; while the third has a speckled
body and a colt’s head, topped with a
t,,ft of hair - Each of theS0 features
is beautifully luminous, and together
they resemble a bluish star, which,
perhaps, like tlie enchanted lamp of
Armida, serves to lure wanderers to
destruction in supplying the oyster’s
larder.
Not least interesting among the bi
valve family are the scallops, Tiie
kind called butterflies of the ocean "are
frequently seen Hitting about over the
clear waters, rivalling the papiloaace
0 us tribes in beauty of coloring,
Though enclosed in a citadel of consid
erable thickness, the animal can not
only float upon the waves, but can
move a considerable distance on land.
Sometimes an adventurous scallop finds
himself deserted by the tide and left
high arid dry above his native element.
^ by spreading his va Jves as wide
as possible and shutting them with a
jerk, he propels himself about five
inches, and continual repetition of the
operation gradually tumbles him for
ward into the sea. In fair weather
they congregate together and mount
the billows, forming little-fleets, with
half their shells erected to catch the
breeze, and the other half, which hoM»
the animal, remaining immersed be
i ow . When any foe appears, or a sud
den squall darkens the surface, of the
shuts i^shop, P 1 and* his pigmy vessel
disappears. Doubtless it was this
curious hab jt 0 f the shellfish which
suggested the poet.c fable of sea gods
taking their airings in scallop chariots
drawn by tritons, like Neptune’s car,
as portrayed on the medal of Claudius.
Here are abo found numbers of the
oyster jaeohaea, like th i worn by pil¬
grims. who “fixed the scallop iu their
hat before,” b* prove they had cros-el
the se i on their way to the Holy Laud.
But to us the mo t curious of all io
the Hucctnum purpura and its rela.
■ tive, the stationary Murex, tho samo
. little creatures which furnished the
royal purple of imperial Tyro. Betsy
| and I have been dabbling in the samo
branch of business, and in the courso
of our experiments have converted all
I our available paraphernalia into purple
varying shades. The story goes
Hiata favorite dog of the Tyrian Iler
cules, while prowling about the sea¬
shore, accidentally broke a buccinum
shell which stained his month such a
gorgeous color that Tyrus, Hercules’s
sweetheart, vowed never to see her
* over again until he should firing her
:l robe of the same hue. Thus con
strained, Hercules gathered a great
quantity of the shells, and persevere!
j till tho nymph was gratified and the
art given to the world, A white vein,
! growing transversely in a little hol
low near tlle head «* tho fish, holds the
i P reciou3 ty 0 - Each tiuy creature
' y ields but oao drop, and hence the
rea l Tyrian purple vied in value with
gold itself. If cne wishes to try the
j experiment of Hercules, let him pro
I ceod ' n This wise; After sufficient
,if l u ' d has been extracted, drop by
■ dro P> front tho throat of the fishes, wet
tlie w ° o1 or cot -ton in it and spread it
in the sun. At first it appears pale
8 reen > tllea the color of tho sea, and in
| a few niinutes sky blue; then it deep
ens to pnrplish red, and in an hour or
more turns to gorgeous purple. By
washing the linen at once it changes
a brilliant crimson; but when tho
color 13 once 30t nothing can fade or
turn it.
The Handsome Aeapolilans.
They are a handsome race tltcso
Neapolitans, and someday in the far
future, when they learn andprac- 4
^ the elementary of the et>
thdr g00(1 looks wiU show forth with
additioaal lustra Such splendid, great
fla3hi black eveS( sucb stately fl g Ures ,
sueh nch biack locks, unkempt and
ruattllh th be _ are geldom to b(J
seen even iQ the olhor ts o{ ltal
: The icturc i a zarono> wiUl h
,
! red9ash) bare legs> and general
, f or melody and maearoni, has entirely
vani , h , :tl . D «t though hto picturesque 1
i ness has , dtsappered, . Ins , . laziness , . and ,
dirt remain . lt is now twentv . flvo
years sinC0 Victor Emanuel and Gari
, baldt ... rode , side ., . by side ., into . , a rescued
Naples. ... But in this quarter of a cen
tury no wave from . ., tho incoming . tide
of . freedom „ , has . swept . over this city. J
Thero is a new Homo and a new
Genoa. ,, T Divine ,. . Providence can alouo
ell when there will , be a new .. Naples, ,
! No , T wonder , that ,» , the , cholera came hero
i aud , reigned . , triumphant , . , , tor „ so manv
j month .. ot late. King Pest, never had
a kingdom . . . rnoro thoroughlv ,, unswept, '
more abominably . ... garnished. One
much , needed , , reform , at . least , will
shortly be accomplished. Naples is
entirely destitute of drinking water
that is even moderately palatable and
tolerably wholesome, Her general
supply is drawn from wells, in many.
instances occupying the same cxcava
tion as the cesspool of the house nnd
only separated from it by a wall of a
single brick in thickness. No wonder
that severe illnesses arise from drink
| ing tho liquid thus contaminated. A
grand new aqueduct which lias been in
process of construction for some
years past is to be formally inaugura
ted on the 30th of this month. King
Humbert and Queen Margherita are
coming, from Rome to preside at the
ceremony, and thereafter for the first
time in her history tho city will enjoy
the benefits of pure drinking water.—
Lucy Hooper in Philadelphia Tele•
gram .,
‘ General Sheridan’s Three Girls.
Children of officials often give a re¬
freshing side to social life at the capi¬
tal that makes it not all superficial and
| frivolous. It has been said of General
Sheridan that he is not a success as a
“society man” because he is too much
in love with his pretty wife. The “hero
of Winchester” is even more devoted
to his children, three girls and “little
Phil,” Jr., a boy of 5 years. The twin
girls, Mary and Louise, look up to
their older sister. Irens, who is but a
year older than themselves, with a
faith In her superiority that is some
times amusing.
“So three little girls are sisters, .,
you
said a lady the other -lay, meeting tho
trio out for a walk.
“Oh, no; wc are twins. Irene is our
sister.” replied one of the pair with so
rions simplicity.
At the fancy dress children’- party
given at Genenu Beale’s house Irene
wore a long train. Little Johnny
Hazel, only son of Chief of Signal Ser
vice Hazen. was so much amused that
he iaughed at the little lady The twins
were iml gnant, and one of them ex
claimed:
“Just see that boy laugh at our sister,
I don’t like him a bit, rad I don’t know
his name But you know his father i 3
the man who makes tho weather.”—
IFos; ing ton Capit l. I
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.
Mons. F. Duclaux finds that the
light of the sun in its action on dis
ease germs is fifty timos as destructive
as its heat.
Tho pyrometer, nn instrument in
which heat is measured by the expan
sion of metals, will accurately measure
heat up to 7000 degrees.
A strange fish has been discovered
off the Morocco coast. It is a foot and
a half long, and of deep black color,
and has an enormous mouth with elec¬
tric membranes, resembling a pelican’s.
An interesting case of phospho¬
rescent snow has been observed by a
Philadelphia geologist, a mountain
covered with this snow shining in a
dark night as if illuminated by the
muon. ■ - *
Tho highly-prized edelweiss, sup
posed to grow only on the Swiss Alps,
and anothor Alpine llower called in
Switzerland the mannertreu, have been
found in the Tacoma range, in Wash¬
ington Territory, the former fit au
altitude 6000 feet above the sea level.
The number of plant specimens
known to botanists has been placed at
100,000, but it seems there are many
still unknown. Last summer an
English botanist made an excursion of
but fifty miles into the mountains from
Canton, China, and of tho 320 speci
mens he procured, fifteen proved
wholly new to science.
A prominent Brazilian physician,
who has been making a special study
of yellow fever, thinks that it may be
prevented as smallpox is, by vaccina¬
tion. The Emperor, Horn Pedro, ha* -
approved of ins method, and some
hundreds of persons have been vaeci
uated. Not one of them had at the
latest accounts taken the disoasa Tin
doctor and the emperor are both confi¬
dent that the new idea is au invalua
ble discovery.
A French botanist asserts that
poisonous gases are given off by both
growing and harvested fruits—such as
oranges
death by poisoning has resulted
sleeping in rooms exposed to
emanations. A similar deadly
evidently connected in some way
vegetable odors—is given off by sweet
scented (lowers and odoriferous leaves.
Mr. Wm. Davison has reported t<
the governor of Madras that there are
in India two species of woodpeckers
and two of kingfishers which breed in
the nests of ants. It is not known
whether the insects ultimately disap¬
pear as >he result of the invasion, but
they have been found still in tho nests
a considerable time after the laying of
the birds’ eggs. In one instance tho
kingfishers were seen to be inhabiting
a hornet’s nest, and appearing to bo on
good term - with tho hornets.
Homo L'fe.
When 1 was a boy says Dr. Charles
i E ob inson in t be New York Tribune,
[ US ed to declaim these stirring lines
<‘Striko for your altars and the fires;
| strike for the green graves of your
sires.” But now the altars and lircs
k holes in tho wall, and the
ar0 register
g re en graves of the sires are vaults
of stone made to look as much like
small palaces as wealth can make
them, and nobody would care to figh*
f 0 r either. I saw the other day a mot
to, “God bless our fiat;” that was all
that there was left of the home. I cL
not oppose the flat system; but I svv
anything that, breaks up the homo feel
ing aims a blow at the church and
state. When the romance and the
sacredness of home are gone, then
seems as if even decency very
departs. Bickerings arise, recrimina
lions follow, and one of the pair goei
across the State line to get permission
to break the sacred union. How csd
there be any home life among our r:cb
people, with one house ia the country
another in town and a couple of months
in Florida between? And as if this
w're not bad enough, they take their
children abroad for some vears. I hav«
lived in Pans and watched the effec
of these „ European sojourns, J and ,
know whereof I speak when I say
are bad for our sons and stiil worse fo.
our daughters. They come back d*»a
tionalizcil, having lost all idea or lov«
of home life, and happy only when
counting the days before their retu-r
to their beloved Europe.
The Honest Norwegians.
In Norway hotels, cigars, cigarettes
stationery, seltzer water, wine t od
similar articles are placed accessible t«
guests at all times, and when settlinj
time conies the landlord takes the worfl
0 f the guest as to how much of each
he lias eaten or drank, To loci
house door and remain inside is deemed
absurd. At theatres and other public
pi?. C es wraps are left outside svithou*
bei lg checked or even watched by ai
attendant, and the people are so hon
that none are ever lost or stolen
indeed. Norwegians are so honest L_a.
umbrellas even can be kept for wesk«
and often months.— Troy Times.
VOL. XI, NO 04.
What Recompense!
lie mipfat have Bung a song the world shout!
hear,
Whose clarion Doles had rung bo loud and
clear
That men had listened and been made
The better for the fray,
Tho moil and care of every day;
Stronger to bear the heavy burdens 1
By lile on toilers in tho onward way;
lint fate said nay!
She might have had the right to say “My own,”
The joy of being lovod she might have known,
Had wrapped around her as a shield
From every stinging, poisoned dart
Of envy, hatred, or malicious art,
'The mantle of a love that would not yield
To any foe, but die to save her heart!
But fate said nay!
Klie wopt her vanished hopes, yet sweeter trod
Tho path of self-denial that leads up to God.
ilo did his work in tho small sphere
That God had given him, and labored well;
The future world alone can tell
What recompense should come to those who
hero
Bow meekly and work on, nor curse the knoll
That sounds fate’s nay!
HUMOROUS.
A round dozen—A dozen of oranges.
The place to live in when the next
flood comes—New-ark.
A roller skate may gather no moss,
but it barks a good many shins.
"We meet to part no more,” said the
bald-headed man to his hair brush.
Men’s heads are something like
omnibuses—the empty ones make the
most noise.
“What is a lake?” asked the teach¬
er. A bright little Iriffli boy raised
his hand. “Well, Mickey, what is it?”
“Sure, it’s a hole in the kittle, mum.”
•An exchange asks; “How shall we
prevent mice from gnawing the bark
off fruit trees?” Kill the mice of
course. A dead mouse never gnaws
bark.
A Philadelphia woman says she was
kissed by a spirit at a seance. That
sensation must be almost as gratifying
as being hugged by the ghost of a
chance.
An exchange notes that the Horse¬
shoe Fall at Niagara has receded some
300 feet from its original positiou.
Probably tin attempt to get away from
the hackmen.
First Boston Girl—“Going to vocal
practice this morning, Minerva?”
“Second Boston Girl—“No, my dear
Calliope, I have a bad cold and am quite
hoarse.” “Ah, been exposing yourself
to the weather?” “Yes, I went out
yesterday and forgot to put on my
spectacles.”
Grant and the Kentucky Ladles.
Tlie Kentucky women are as en¬
thusiastic about horses as the men.
They unhesitatingly place the horses
before themselves as the great attrac¬
tions of the state. I remember hear
ing a conversation between General
Grant and a Kentucky girl at the St
\ Louis Merchants’ Exchange in 1875,
when President Grant was visiting
the St. Louis fair. A number of
ladies were introduced to the Presi
dent, whereupon he spoke in very
high terms of St. Louis, the fair, &c.
“You are mistaken, Mr. President—
| wo are not from St. Louis,” laughing
I iy said one of the girls, “we are from
I Kentucky, a very fine state, you know,
which possesses three things all men
j of taste must appreciate.” Smilingly,
j the President She answered: asked her “We what have they the
were.
fastest horses, the prettiest women
and the finest whiskey in tlie world.”
The President replied: “Your horses
are certainly justly renowned; I have
some on my farm near here; yourself
and party prove the correctness of
j your second observation, but whiskey
is one of the things that require age,
and your men consume it so fast that
it rarely has a fair chance to become
good.” The girls thought that if
General Grant could not make a long
speech he was apt at repartee.
Changing the Subject.
“Always,” said papa, as he drank
: his coffee and enjoyed his morniDg
‘
beefsteak, “always, children, . , change
the subject when anything unpleasant
lias been said, lt is both wise and po
lite.”
That evening on his return from
business he found his carnation bed
despoiled, and the tiny imprint of slip¬
pered feet silently bearing witness to
the small thief.
“Mabel,” he said to her, “did you
pick my flowers ?”
“Papa,” said Mabel, “did you see a
monkey in town ?”
“Never mind that. Did you pick my
flowers ?”
“Papa, what did grandma send me?”
“Mabel, what do you mean? Did
you pick my flowers? Answer me yes
or no.”
“Yes, papa, 1 did; but I thought I’d
ehange the subject.”
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A pkaoticaii movement has been
started in Chicago toward the oonstruo
tion of an elevated railway city.* through the
south distriot of that
