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Three Lovers.
There wore throe maidens who. lpyed a King;
They sat together belifle the Sea; ‘ 6
Ono cried, “I love him, and I wontd die
If but for a day he might love me.”
Tho second whispered, “And 1 would|die
To gladden his heart or make him grejt.”
The third ono spoke not, hut gazed afar
With dreamy eyes that were" sad as fate.
The King he loved the first for a day;
Tho second his life with fond lovo blessed,
And yet the woman who never spoke
Was the one of the throe wholoved.hioiJiest.
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The Mysterious Hand.
_
Do not think for a moment that I
could ever have seen anything super
human in the occurrence. 1 del not
bolievo in any but normal causes. If,
however, instead of using the word
“supernatural” to express what we do
not understand, we should use''-sirftply
the word “inexplicable,” it would
much more exact. In the affair I am
about to relate, it was, above all, the
preceding and attending 'circumstances
that impressed mo. I will give you
tho facts.
I was examining magistrate at the
time at Ajicco, a little white city ly
ing on the edge of a beautiful
which is surrounded on all sides by
high mountains. The cases with
which I had chiefly to do were those
of vendetta- I had some fierce, heroic
instances, tho most superbly dramatic
possible. Among those people were
found the most glorious causes for re
venge that tnen could dream of—sc'cu
lar hatreds, appeased for a moment,
but never extinguished, traitorous
ruses, assassinations developed Into j
massacres, and almost glorious in their ;
horror. For two years I had heard of
nothing but the price of blood, that j
terrible Corsican prejudice which
binds a man to avenge, every injury on j
the person who wrought it, his de- 1
scendants and kinsmen. I had
old men and children murdered, and
my head was full of such stories.
I learned one day that an English
man had just leased for a number of j
years a little villa at the foot of tiie j
bay. Ho had brought with him a
French body-servant, engaged at Mar
seilles as he passed. J^Mmdy %v4s
soon busy with this strange person¬
age, who lived alone, and left his dwel¬
ling only hunt fish. He - Spoke to
to or
nobody, never came to the city, and (
every morning practiced shooting for i
an hour or two with his pistol or rifle, i
There were many stories about him.
One man held that he was of princely ;
rank, and had fled his country for po- j
iitical reasons; another affirmed that
ho was lying in concealment after hav
iug committed a fearful crime, and
oven related particulars of an especial
lv horrible nature.
1 wished, ia my capacity of exahtin
ing magistrate, ”, to obtain some definite
. . .. . , ,
1 ’lorina on m r.,gar o us man, m
">ui cut a no, ling. “ S av .® 13
• uine osSir . o in owe • °° S< *
u. twn in w a enng um ” e,ir a
md but no one could point out to
aiy ung icily suspicions a nm mi.
bmee, however, the rumors concern
mg him continued, increased, and be
caino more general, I resolved to make
0
a .yr!l ’ ' ' >> . t0 gau T to nlfZuHrlvTn Inin g •«
.
the neighborhood of his estate.
1 waited long for an opportunity,
it came finally in the shape ui par¬
tridge which L shot and killed in the
Englishman’s face. My dog brought
it to me, but taking the game in my
baud, I went to oxcuse my lack of
good manners and beg Sir John Row¬
ell to accept tho bird.
He was a large man, with red hjiir
and beard, very tall and. very robust, a
sort of placid ami-pol tehed
Ho had nothing of the so-called Brit
iHh stiffness, and he thanked me cor
dially, speaking with a strong English
accent, for my scrupulousness. At
the end of a month we had talked five
or six times together.
One evening as I was passing his
floor I saw him in his garden smok¬
ing his pipe, astride of a chair. I sa¬
luted him, and he invited me in. I
did not wait to tie asked twice.
Ho received me with scrupulous
English courtesy, eulogized France
and Corsica, and declared that he was
warmly attached to that country and
to that particular portion of the coast.
I then, with great caution and under
the guise of a very lively personal in¬
terest, ventured a few questions re¬
garding his life. He replied without
embarrassment, telling me that he ba 1
travelled extensively in Africa, India,
and America, and that he had had
many adventures.
I then turned to the subject of the
fbase, and he gave me many of the
most curious details in regard to bunt¬
ing the hippopotamus, the tiger, the
elephant, and even the gorilla.
I remarked that all these animals
were formidable.
He smiled.
“Oh, is the most terrible. „
no; man
He laughed outright, with a
contented English laugh, as he
ther informed me ;
J§L. *T uSi» r r * '\ rv if v*1| .<“•’*•
J.; v
i he Couinaton Star.
,„,‘f il g "* t U “»
kinds th. ZiTr^uTrunh’ #Wtf ame#ent
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black black T2Z2 silk embroidered T with hU , n , g gold, With
Large yellow flowers, rioting over the
explained Zit C aZTi that it ’ was Sh0ne a Japanese T ke fire - fab- 110
Z , . ,, middle ...
I pane1 ’ a stran S e ob J ect drew my eye.
° Q a T?re of red velvet a black ob
j < C ' vas rown into relief. It was a
WD _r8 _ l * llliia and Xot skeleton
’ a
, 1 . .
, f™. "ifli ’ " * an ' C e,ln “-h ’ bu£ a dr * ed and
R< ' iatu ’. " yellow
o ~ -- j. C * ° C ! ’ f °°' '' T ’ bclX £bo bones
’ ’
" ere °- ut Hborto11 as it with . the blow
otan f ax, about mid way. up the fore
arm. An enormous iron chain, rivet
id at the wr.st, .soldered to this un
sightly member, attached it to the wall
by a ring strong enough to hold an
elephant in leash.
“Wbat is that?” I asked.
“That is my worst enemy,” replied
LhoEnglishman, calmly. “He came
from America. It w as cut oil with a
8a fi er , skinned and dried in the sun
£or a week. It was a pretty good
P^ce of work for me.”
I touched that human fragment,
which must have belonged to a giant.
long,
woje a*t*ehed by enormous tendons,
to * wrhi «® shrAls of skin still clung,
S cor chod as it was, it was a frightful
''hing to behold, suggesting irresistibly
s0,ne * lva f° revehge........ |
“He must have been a very strong
man ’ 3aid L
>
“ 0!l > said the Englishman,
ffcntly. [ was stronger than he.
£ hqd that chain pnt on to hold him.”
tthougnt he was jesting, and said:
“The chain is wholly useless now;
£bp hand will not run away.”
*’ l,£ be gravely replied :
“I lie chain was necessary. It was
always trying to getaway.”
With a rapid glance 1 questioned his
countenance, asaing mysm. : ...... '
“Is lie a lunatic or an ugly jester?
But his face remained impenetrable,
calm, and benevolent. I talked of other,
thin ^ anJ a,lmir, ‘ 1 ’ his - ,ma ' 1 no ‘
««*! that three loaded revolvers lay on
the tables, as if this man lived in con -
st ant fear of an attack.
I visited him several times and then
went there no more. People had be
come accustomed to his presence and
grown indifferent.
A whole year passed. Then one
morning, toward the end of Novem
her, my servant awoke me with the
announcement that Sir John Rowell
bad been Msasslna^xl in the night.
Half an hour later, with the central
coln|1 ,j ssir y and a captain of the sol
diery, I entered the Englishman’s
Ills servant, bewildered and
d airin „, wa8 weeping before the
j 8USpecte d him at first, but he
innocent. The guiltv ' man never
| fo|md
As . I „ entered . Sir John’s 7 sitting-room
, X at the first glance his body
■ I saw _
stretched out 1 on -- 1 its *-*.....1- back i- in the middle
, 0 [ the floor. His llii waistcoat waistcoat was was torn, torn,
torn sleeve of ...........*■ his coat was '-----
one
I ing; all told that a terrible struggle
• had taken place.
He had died of strangulation ! His
terribie countenance, black and swol
len, seejned to express Um abominable
>4ear phehoA someth ing •between' his
I set teeth, and his neck, pierced in a
i | hundred spots, as if w.th iron points,
was covered with blood.
A physician joined us. lie examined
j * and cldBe lv .the n,a.*s of lingers
iQ ho (lesh of tho dead m in’s throat,
k(j thesa gtrange wards:,
“One would say that ho had boon
strangled by a skeleton.
A shudder cropt over my back, and
I raised my eyes t°,tho w^i. to the
place where I had rforjiK'# seen the
horrible, shriveled hand, It was no
longer there. The chain hung broken.
Then 1 leaned over the A dad man,
and found in his distorted motith one
of the fingers of that missing hand,
out, or rather sawed, off by his teeth
close to the second joint.
They proceeded to make investiga
tions,- but discovered nothing. No
door or window had been forced, no
article of furniture moved. The two
watchdogs had not been awakened.
The testimony of the servant could
be summed up in a few words.
His muster had seemed agitated for
month past. Ho. had received and
a Often seizing a
burned many letters.
horsewhip, with fury that resembled
madness, he had lashed that dried
chained to the wall, which had been
removed, no one knew how, at the
very hour of the crime.
It was his habit to retire early
night and to lock himself in with care.
i lie always had weapons within
loud .
rpac b lie often talked very
j ht » s i£ quarrelling with
n e
body.
COVINGTON.‘GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1885.
n* night It chanifthat
Slr ”Tl" Johtl stl,al, assassinated. " e ™* He " M suspected «*•*
nobody.
1 rep0rted t0 the magistrates and
public officers all I knew aboutkhe
death, and a minute inquiry was pros
<>cuted over the wh ° le “ Noth
, ing was discovered.
l Oae night, about three months ,nf
the crime, I had a fearful ni»ht
mare. I seemed to sec that hand
running like a scorpion or a spider
over my curtains and walls, Three
times 1 awoke, and three times on go
big to sleep again I saw the hideous
member running about my room,
moving its fingers like feet,
i The next day it was brought tome,
i It had been found in the cemetery on
j the grave of Sir John Itowell. The
; forefinger was gone,
This is my story, and l know noth
| ing more about it.
Had I an explanation to suggest it
would but overthrow' your wild imag¬
inings, and would not be likely to find
i,cce P tanc e with you. My belief is sim
^ dy £ba ^ £be blw£ld owner of the hand
was bvia & andbad come in search of
it with the one that remained to him.
Hlit 1 have not been abie to picture to
rn >' sa Lsfact on the manner of his re
vfin « e - -Frow the French.
An Oriental Hospital for Animals.
The Jains, like other Buddhists,
have a strong respect for all animal
life, not only that which is beautiful,
but that which is weak, helpless, and
even hideous. Tho hospital is but one
evidence of this. The visitor describes
the scene as both ludicrous and pa
thetic. “The monkey part of the hos
pitalwas the moat entertaining. A
big ape supported itself on crutches;
another sick inmate was lying stretch
ed full length bn tho floor, gazing
must piteously into tho keeper’s face.
]t seemed to be an object of deep in
terest to all the other monkeys who
clustered around it. The native doc
tor shook his head solemnly, and if it
had been a human being lie could sKe not
nave sum more teno-ny ffiat was
dying. In these compartments were
collected, as it almost seemed, every
known quadruped and biped on the
facft of the & loba ’ 0ld eIe P hants ’ dl '
heated buffaloes deplumed ravens,
vultures, and buzzards l.obnobbled to
gether with gray-bearded goats and
most foolish-looking rams; rats, mice,
rabbits, hobs, herons, lame ducks, for
lorn old cocks, and sparrows, jackals,
old owls, ami goese, live here in har
mony side by side. 1 have been shown
through palaces which interested me
less. We waited to see this curious
medley of inmates dine. When the
food which suited each class was being
conveyed by a band of . attendant .... bovs boys
to their various troughs, pens, etc.,
the noise and confusion were deafen
ing. Tho monkeys in particular, with
; the peacocks— birds the most sacred to
the Hindus and .Jaina—raised such a
howl an l were so importunate to be
i served first that we were glad to es
cape. „„„„ Slluh is tUe extreme to which
‘ Oriental charity is carried. But, after
| ' ~n all, a...,, there is i. o.,marhinnr something •infirmary’ mrr very nuhtn noble for and and the
i touching abogt this j
1 *'-■ brute --------Everyone creation. who finds
j any animal auiiiorized wounded, to sick, bring aged, it here; or
| dying, is
and here it is really well cared for un
j til death, comes to relieve it from all
suffering. Who can estimate the
‘power of an institution that is contin
j ually caring for dumb mutes of the
I animal kingdom, who bear not only
man’s burdens, but liis harshness and
neglect, with the patience of almost
sanctified beings.”
, n *!..
The , ' mltiga J, g cir mmstance
one ,
about increasedpurchasing h ardt,m«:mdlow^^h«
The been Boston figuring on the subjec^and comes ^
to the conclusion that w
much " of the necessaries of life to-day
Its 35 in 187 ri *1.33 in 1855, 91
in 1845. and ?1.!6 in 1825. In
other words,'the purchasing power of
dollar is 1 9 per cent, greater than it
a
was in 1825. and 32 per cent, greater
than it was in 1855. A dollar will
buy more to-day than in m<jft pro¬
vious periods in tho fi¬ of the
liation.— Lowell, Mass., Courier.
j Signs of Affection.
j a sign of affection, kissing was
unknown to the Australians, the New
Zealanders, the Papuans, the Exqui
maux and other races. Tiie Polyne
sians and the Malays always
sit down when speaking to a superior.
ssrsr considered
curious people a coffin is
^person neat and appropriate P Lpe r present \f for
“ c,ally the age
g health,
person i# in had x
IIEWN H OUT OF SOLID ROCK
India's Wonderful Temple
Cave of Karli.
A Mavelons Structure that One would Take
for a Superb O^aral.
The temple-cave of Ivarll, says a
letter to the New York Independent,
is an illustration of the fearful lapse
of the ethnic ■ faiths of Pagan India.
, The monks of Albania and other rogi
ons betvveen the ./Striatic and the
/Egean Sea, dug out’many a cell in
the early days, and honey-combed vast
regions, where they spent their lives,
and were laid away when the long
monotony was over.V;
The Karli cave-temple is very differ¬
ent in construction! It is by far the
finest in India. To reach it, you take
the train from Bombay, and go nearly
a hundred miles eastward, on tho
general line to .; Calcutta. From
Khandala to tho Karli cave-temple wo
had a ride of five miles on horseback,
It was not long before we were com
pelled to leave the carriage road, and
take a path through the fields, toward
the range of mountains on our left,
and by the time we were getting
accustomed to the path, we had to
leave^our horses, andjhegin climbing
in downright earnest. Now, a climb
in India, even to see its finest temple
cave, is not a little thing. My white
pith-hat, with turban of light cloth J
folded about it, amt then a double j
umbrella, of gray cloth, white within, j
seemed to help but little in keeping off |
the pressure of the heat on a late day j
of the Indian November. When we i
reached the cool and shaded vestibule !
and threw ourselves down on the first
broken stones we saw and looked up
into the face of the colossal stone god
dess who sat on an elephant of stone, j
we were glad enough to rest. !
The temple walls, and every part of j
their adorning sculpture, are hewn
out of the stone mountain. Were J
there no statuary of pagan deities, no i
reminders flf an early worship, and
Other than In -
'
8tri ictare for a sinierb cathedral. Not |
^ gerions change8 woul d need to
* |
^ jo order t0 c0 nvert int0 an
minster _ The cave is 124 ;
feet long, forty-five foot broad, and j
forty-six feot from floor to ceiling. !
There are aisles on either side of the |
temple, separated from the nave by 1
octagonal pillars. The capital of each \
pillar is crowned with two kneeling 1
elephants, on whose backs are seated j |
two figures, representing the divinities
to whom the temple is dedicated.
These are of beautiful features, as,
indeed arc ail the repres mtations of I
deities’ in the Karli cave-temple.
There is nothing of that repulsive
sculpture which one sees at Funa and
in other modern Hindu pagodas. I
saw no figures which were in part
human and in part beast-like. Each
was true to its class, from vestibule i
back to altar. The altar, and the
duce where it stands, keep up the re
semblanoe to a Christian church. Be- j
hind it there ____________ are seven pillars, which
ge . );lr . de ^ froln w ] ia ^ j n a church,
correspond .................... with the choir.
There are a ' t0 g e ther thirty-eight col
umns j n temple. The grandest is
the lar „ c Iiorl p ju ar in front, which
ha8 sixteen side 8 , and is surmounted
^ ^ lr jipns.
All ttfUolid this great recess has been cut
]fr()m rock, which seems to be
noth j’ n „ go fter than porphyry itself,
The s t a tuary is in massive relief, and
congi3t8 c 'f figures als cleft from the
j ike iffim waltlsen’s lion, in Lii
ceme qj ie great pillars are chastely
nroportioned columns, both base and
capital proving that they hive no"
been introduced, but, like all other
^ t he temple, J ’ h .vc,been
S' JI'U^ain s3 of the
p^fSiel consists. They are
part* £ of floor and ceiling.
^ | or vesti
bule,;l. a feet w de and fifteen
feet dS£ and on the heavy molding
above there are figures of a man a
woman and a dearf. All this, to 0,
like the whole spacious temple itself,
has been patiently cut from firm rock.
The only thing which is not of na¬
tive rock is a wooden covering or ceil
ing. This has been the puzzle of all
! the toilers in Indian archaeology, and
they seem to-day to be no nearer a
solution of the difficulty than when
t | iey began, The entire immediate
coverin g of the temple is teak, ft
native WO od, almost the only one
wb jch resists the white ant and every
j nd j an in sect.
" ’
, ... .
-i* - -
mistake.
“Why, yes, to be sure. How stupid
I am! I w» thinking this is Wednes
‘ pay evening Tork Sun.
Homo Life of the Anamese.
The Anam ese are not shining exam
pies of the domestic virtue, says a Globe
Democratic Correspondent: Neither
have they in their intercourse with
one another that bland and self-deny
u»g politeness which characterizes the
social relations of the Japanese in
such an eminent degree. Both men
and women will discount a London fish¬
wife in the matter of objurgation. I
have seen two women leaning out of
respective doorways on opposite sides
of the narrow streets of Hanoi, making
the welkin ring with vile reproaches
and insults, while the listening neigh,
borhood smiled and applauded.
The fire ou domestic hearthstones
can not be expected to burn brightly
under dripping roofs of thatch and
drafty walls of palm or bamboo mat
, ting. It is hard to tell whether the
husband or wife rules the roost,
though doubtless, as in civilized conn,
tres, it is sometimes the one and
sometimes the other, I have seen a
husband chastise his erring w’ife w r ith
his fist in the streets of Haiphong,
while in Hanoi, where the native pop
illation is expected to retire early, I
have seen a husband w r ho stayed out
till half-past eight o’clock squatted at
the door of his home, humbly begging
to be admitted, with every prospect uf
having to spend the night in that hu
miliating attitude. At Sontay 1 have
also seen an aged crone pursue hor in
dolent and servile lord into a crowded
thoroughfare and lead him back and
compel him to resume some household
drudgery which he had shamefully
endeavored to evade. Between hus* I
band and wife, therefore, so far as tiie
subjection of either is concerned, the
honors may be considered easy. Mar
riage is a sort of social compact, man
aged on the part of the young woman
by her mother. It is more than any
tiling else among the common class a
matter of bargain and sale. With
foreigners the marriage de conven
ance prevails as in China, the mother
selling the daughter to the stranger
for a stipulated sum per month. There
are no occupations in which young
taking care of the superfluous child
ren of tho family, except sometimes to
assist at the hereditary labor or trade,
or to learn the minstrel business,
thrum the guitar and sing in tho fash
ion of the country—a fashion, as in
Japan, adopted from the Chinese
many years ago.
The Tenacious Turtle.
A recent letter to tho New Y'ork
Sun says: The account published in
the Sun of a fight between two tar
ties in Big Walker I ond, near Shoho- ,
la > Penn * and lho relatu ™ of tbe 8ln '
" u!ar tcnaclty <)£ Ilfe s howi1 by the !
head of one of tho turtles , even aftor
decapitation, brings a gentleman from
1£ll Suenot, N. Y., to the front with a
stor y of an even more wonderful case.
L> this instance the gentleman and his
brother had been 3 P earlu 8 fish at
ia a river near their home.
When returning they saw in the water
a largo turtle of the snapping variety. |
ln an ' ns,an t_ the spear went down, j
and between the prongs, when it came j
up, was the neck of the turtle. The j
lifted out the ... bank, . and ,
n -P tile was on
the spear pressed down in the soil.
The head was then cut off and left
last t( > tiie spear, which remained
sticking in tiie ground until morning,
the turtle being taken home. Next
i mornin g tl,e 8 P ear wa3 wanted, and
one of the youngsters about the farm
brought it in, bearing it aloft with the
iead o£ tbe turtl ° sti11 remaining
-between the prongs. It was set down
in tbe door - yard » and ren)ilined there
untd nearly noon. About that time
a » inquisitive chicken began picking
nt the head ot the turtle. Suddenly
; the mouth opened and again collapsed,
and between the jaws was the head of
‘he inquiring chicken. It was even
ing before the strength had left the
jaws of the turtle sufficiently to allow
the chicken’s release. The chicken’s
head had been crushed, and tiie poor
little fellow was dead. This is believ¬
ed to be tiie most remarkable case on
record, where gangliao motion has
been retained for nearly twenty-four
hours.
A Rood Reason.
“No gentlemen,” exclaimed a mid
dleJ . man> who wa8 talking to a
crowd on Austin avenue, “nothing in
the world cou i d i ndllc0 me to allow
^ of children t0 enter a school
room for the reason that-”
“You hire a teacher to come to the
bouse,” interrupted one of the crowd.’
“No, it’s not that. It’s because -”
“They are too sieklv to go to school,”
: s *" 10
j ..v No. gentlemen gen men. the reason is be
j cause I’ve net got any children.”—
Sifting*.
VOL. XI, NO 43.
CHILDREN'S COLUMN.
Five LUtle White Heads.
Five litllo white heads peeped out of the mold,
When the dew was dump and the night tv it
cold i
And they crowded their way through the so 1
with pride.
“Hurrah! We nre going to be mushrooms!
they cried.
But the sun oamenp, and the sun shown down,
And the little white heads wore shriveled and
brown;
hong wore their faces, their pride bad a fall—
'i.iey were nothing hut toad-stools, alter all.
— Walter Lerned, in St. J\icholas.
Teilily’s Trout.
Once Teddy went fishing,
Teddy’s father went too, and his
mother and Uncle Butler and Aunt
Butler and Miss Wilkfhs.
Uncle Duller and Teddy’s father
rowed along, and Teddy stood in the
stern of the boat, and trailed his line.
All of a sudden there came a scream
from Teddy, then a splash; and Ted¬
dy was in the water.
“TeddyI O Teddy!” screamed his
mother.
“O-o-h!” screamed Aunt Ilutler and
Miss Wilkins. “Save him!”
In a twinkling Teddy’s father had
Teddy in the boat again, all safe,
| though very wet.
“Rut there’s my pole going off,”
cried Teddy,
“Oh dear! oh dear!”
“Well, there might as well be an¬
other wet one,” said Uncle Butler;
and he pulled of his cost and vest, and
jumped in after Teddy's fishing-rod.
lie caught it; and swam back to the
boat; and there ho pulled in a fish,
which was fast to tho hook—a nice,
very large trout,
“Its mine,” cried Teddy; “I caught
it!”
Rut Teddy's father wants to know
whether Teddy caught the fish, or the
fish caught Teddy. —Youth's Compan
ion. |
|
C«eHerat Custer’s Pets.
Mrs. Custer, in “Boots and Saddles,”
says: “ As the the soldiers and citi¬
zens knew tiie General s love of pets,
them I would have gladly declined,
but, notwithstanding, a badger, porcu¬
pine, raccoon, prairie-dog, and wild
turkey all served their brief time as
members of our family. They were
comparatively-harmless, and I had
only the Inconvenience to encounter.
When a ferocious wild-cat was
brought in, with a triumphant air, by
tiie donor, and promoted with a great
ilourish, I was inclined to mutiny. My
husband made allowance for rny dread
0 f ^e untamed creature, and decided
to send him into the .States as a present
to ono of the zoological gardens, for in
its way it was a treasure. While it
remained with us it was kept in the
cellar . Mary used to make many re¬
trpatHi tumbling up the stairs, when
tho cat flew at her the length of its
chain She was startled so often
that at last she joined with me in re
q Ues ti n g its removal as soon as con¬
venient< The General regretted giv
ing it np , but Kervan was
called to chloroform and box it for the
j ourne y Colonel Tom printed some
facetious words on the slats of the
cover _something like; ‘I)o not fon
dle , They were somewhat superflu
ous, for no one could approach the
boX) atter t jj e effects of tiie chloro
j orm had pas8ed aW ay, without en
coun teri n g the fiery-red eyes, and such
gcra t c jji ng s and spittings and mad
p i un g es as suggested the propriety of
keeping one’s distance. Some deten
tion kept the freight train at a station
over Sunday; the box with the wild
cat wi)3 put j n the baggage-room.
violence of the animal as it leaped
ftnd tore at the cover looseno d the
gl . lts> aild it esca ped into the room,
Th froi ^Ltori ht agent spent a wretched
^ wi» .gain resorted
to U and it wa , deemed a good riddance
W the annima. was sent off. When
we receive<1 a letter of thanks iron,
the Scientific Board for so splendid a
specimen, 1 was relieved to know that
the wild cat was at last where it
could no longer create a reign of terorr.
At one time the General tamed a
tiny field-mouse, and kept it in a
large empty inkstand on his desk. It
grew very fond of him, and ran overt
>'is head and shoulders, and even
through his hair. Women are no
responsible for their fear of mice;
they are born so. Iliad, fortunately,
only to keep away from the desk when
£ he little creature w as free, for it was
contented to consider that its domain.
The General, thinking at last that it
was cruel to detain the little thing in.
dcwrs "hen it belonged by nature tc
“ ep> * "°‘ ,m “” d cap, *‘
ity to freedom.
El Mahdi has thirteen wives. Hi
married the first when he was 16year
old.
Homesick.
The blue sky stretches far and wid%
No cloud presages gloom,
The piebald prairie in its pride
With herbage is abloom.
Ah, me ! Ah, me ! a rock, a rill,
A sky which mountains bar,
A tumbling stream, a rugged hi)
Were fairer vision far.
II.
Tiie mountains rise, their mist aglow ;
j The streamlets sing and leap;
Tiie vinos blow purple row on row.
Rock-slielterod violets peep.
Ah, lonely soar the upland,pines*
The valley smiles in chains:
While up the hills climb weary
'Tis home upon the plains.
ITT.
Salt tears ofionging and regret
Sink deep within the loam
Of foreign soil where feet nre sot
When hearts nre left at home.
A kindlier fate is that which lets
Tho hen von -winged sprit free.
Than, held in space ^rhere distance frots,
An exiled soul to be.
—Alary Barker Dodge in Current.
j HUMOROUS.
! “Sound business”—piano-tuning.
The teller is a man who sometimes
does not tell—but silently steals away.
Numismatists declare that a silver
dollar having eight feathers in tho
ea>?le . 8 talls if} worth 100 ceuts .
The Sultan at Constantinople is
named Osman Bey. His twenty wives
make him sign his name 0. Bey.
A celebrated physician boasting at
dinner that he cured his own hams, a
guest observed: “Doctor, I am glad
to hear that you have cured some¬
thing.”
“Man is more apt to be kind to ani¬
mals that love him than to the woman
who does the same thing,” said George
Eliot. There is but one explanation:
Rack talk.
Nothing bothers a modest but
hungry old hen so much as when she
has made a hearty breakfast off an
old shoe-lace and finds the unfortunate
shoe at the end of it.
Employer to clerk—“I don’t object
to yonr going tq q fy.uqr.at q pen in 3
mo home a fish or two.” Sun blush on
the end of the clerk’s nose extends rap¬
idly to his ears.
“Well, Johnny,” asked Mrs. Dump
Bey, “did you and papa goto church
this morning?” “Yes,” replied John¬
ny dolefully, “but somebody else was
in our pew, and we had to go and sit
up in the garret.”
The male codfish always takes care
of the eggs and young. Tiie only
peace In life which male codfish enjoys
Is when he gets salted down and
stored away in a grocery, the porpri
etor of.which doesn’t advertise.
Tho Homo of the Ulovolands.
Holland Patent is a picturesque
country village of about six hundred
inhabitants, situated 011 the Utica and
Black River roads, twelve miles north
of Utica. The Cleveland homestead
is a rambling wooden structure, two
and-a-half-stories high, with wings at¬
tached, erected when timber was more
plentiful than at present The grounds
surrounding are set with evergreens,
ornamental shrubs and bods of flowers.
A long row of majestic elms on tho
east side overshadow the homestead
and grounds, and maples on the south
add to the shade. Miss Cleveland at¬
tends the Presbyterian Church on the
village green. It was the pastorate of
this church that her father was called
to in 1853, and It was from here that
his funeral was held a few months
later. Id this church Miss Cleveland,
her mother, brothers and sisters regu
lariy attended divine services for over
twenty years. Then the family scat
tered, but their p,w on the south side
of the church, near the front, is still
■ preserved for the children whenever
they are present.-^ (N. r.)
^_______
Tired Only One Way.
“Mother, did you say I can’t go to
the rink to-night?”
“Yes, Mamie, I did.”
“Why, mother?”
“Because you have been there every
day three times for the last three days,
and so much exertion will ruin your
constitution.”
“Why,I’m not a bit tired, mother.”
“Well, if you are not, ^come and
help me wash these dishes.
“O, pshaw. I’m that kind of tired,
but not the skating-rink kind.
She helped wash the dishes all th*
same.
A Fain »us Jewel-Box.
jj ar0 n Adolph Rothschild has re<
cent ] y purchased at an almost fatal-*
i ous price, the famous jewel-box whid*
- -- -*“• ’•* ,,, ° go,d "
hair.” It is of enamelled gold and
richly ornamented, and is altogether
one of the most pefect gems of mediae^
val art in Europe.— London truth, •