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He muat taka to hia winfe and fly.
“ 80 “ddle me up my old war-horea,
And lead him round to tha door;
Ho muat taka tooight such a leap parfcxa
Aa never man took before.”
They saddled him up in warhka afcine;
The knight stood in tha door,
And he took such a pull at tha rad a*i ulna
As never man took before.
He led the horse up the steps high and w!A%
.And spurred him over the wall
Out into the storm, out into the night,
Three hundred feet of fall!
They found him next morning in tffa glea^
And not a bone in him whole;
And may God have mercy far more qub
On such a brave rider’s souL
CHARLOTTE CUSHMAN’S
PRAIRIE RIDE.
While en route to the White mount
ains last summer, -we made a short stay
in Boston. Among the various objects
of interest visited was Mount Auburn,
the famous burial-place of that city and
the oldest garden cemetery in the United
States.
As we were slowly riding through one
of the beautiful avenues of this grand
necropolis we came upon the grave of
Charlotte Cushman, who in her day was
one of the greatest of living actresses.
She was a pure, noble woman, -distin
guished alike for her intellectual great
ness and goodness of heart.
At the time of our visit to Mount Au
burn no monument had been placed in
the Cushman lot. The last resting
place of this queen of tragedy was sim
ply covered with long, dark, shining
sprays of myrtle. But there is soon to
be erected over her grave an obelisk of
Hallowell granite, an exact representa
tion of Cleopatra’s Needle, as it stood at
Heliopolis.
One of our party was the Superintend
ent of a Western railroad, who, before
his promotion to that responsible office,
had been a locomotive engineer. Hi
was greatly interested in visiting. Char
lotte Cushman’s grave; and, after we
had returned to our hotel in the city,
he gave us the following personal rem
iniscence of this remarkable woman:
“When I was running a locomotive
on the Chicago and Great Eastern rail
road, I received an order one day to
have my engine, the * Hercules,’ ready
to take a Special train of two caifs, con
mining Cir.irlotCe Cushman, her iuggagt
and attendants,- from Logansport to
Chicago.
“The great tragedienne had lost a
connection, and was very anxious to go
in the shortest possible time by a special
train. It was a cold, rough afternoon, a
bad day for railroading on the prairiea
in any event, hut particularly so for a
‘special’that had to ‘make time,’ with
the fierce winds beating and howling
over them, as I believe they never do
anywhere else where railroad tracks are
laid, except off Lake Michigan. But I
had my imperative orders to put the
train through with this our fastest en
gine, so that Miss Cushman might be in
season to fill her engagement that night
in Chicago.
“ The train had arrived at Logansport
ten minutes behind time, and we started
out with the least delay possible. I had
carefully inspected my engine, and for
my fireman I selected the i ery best man
to ‘ make steam’ that could be found in
the railroad corps at that city. But, in
spite of these precautions, about 4 o’clock
in the gray November afternoon we came;
to a dead halt out on the open prairie. I
jumped down from my cab, with oil-can
in hand, but the mighty gusts of wind
that swept against me made me glad to
crawl back into the shelter of my cab.
“ Presently one of the brakemen, with
his - cap tied -on his- head with a stout
scarf, came forward t 6 tell the'that Miss
Cushman desired to seek-the engineer in
the passenger car. I sent back word
(hat I could not leave my engine—that
I would do the best I could with our
train, and that nothing could be said or
suggested, even by the distinguished
passenger, which would make the least
gain in our headway.
“ The brakeman took himself off, and
1 was not at all pie*-*" 1 T must confess,
when Jake, my fireman, who was at the
moment looking out of the cab window,
down the track in our rear, shouted,
above the gale:
“‘There is the lady herself coming
now to the engine. With her skirts and
things, she’D be surely blown across the
prairie ! ’
"Sure enough, there she was, look
ing as if she were the spirit of the wind.
At first she walked resolutely and ma
jest:cally forward, the wind-storm seem
ing to make no impression on her stout,
erect figure. Soon, however, the queen
ly form succumbed to the sweeping
wind, and she began to cling to the
sides of the cars.
“After we had dragged her up into
the cab and she was sheltered from the
gusts, she stormed about the delay
enough, it appeared to me, to subdue
any or all of the elements. She tried
high tragedy on me and my good en
gine, ‘ Hercules,’ until she saw it hadn’t
the iejp t effect.
“ ‘ Rest assured, madam,’ I said to
!n-r. entirely unmoved by her excited
and lather-vehement manner, ‘that I
shall do everything that can be done to
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get this “ special ” into Chicago at the
-equired time. After “Hercules’’ has
had time to breathe a little, I think he
will pull ns along in good shape ; but I
imagine he will find working ahead of
old Boreas, in his present temper, to
be a harder matter than any of the im
mortal labors his great namesake under
took.’
“The great actress, somewhat ap
peased now, smiled graciously, doubt
less over the fact that a man of my call
ing should know anything at all of
mythology and its heroes. She now
changed her tact and demeanor. The
agreeable beamed from her countenance,
and the low, soft tones of the woman’s
voice appealed to me in their honeyed,
moving persuasiveness. I began to feel
the wonderful power of her persona]
magnetism. My fireman gazed at her in
round-eyed amazement. She had put
new life into me, and it seemed as if the
‘ Hercules ’ drew strength from my
touch, for the steam-gauge ran up to
almost blowing-off figures.
“I told my distinguished passenger
that, if she would now return to her car,
I would try to see what progress I could
make. She begged me ta permit her to
ride on the locomotive, at least a few
miles; but, as I was inexorable in my
refusal (for I had become a littl*
nervous over the state of the crown
sheet of my engine, for some reason—
beside, one of the rules on the line wai
that no woman should ride on our loco
motives), she had no other alternntivi
but to return.
“ We helped her down the steps of the
cab, and, as she refused to let us accom
pany her to the rear of the train, she
started back alone. I thought the mer
ciless wind would surely take the reso
lute woman off her feet, and drive her
past the train; but we soon saw her
grasping the step-guards of her car with
a will, and she was pulled upon the plat
form.
“We started. I clapped on all steam.
The ‘ Hercules’ nobly answered to the
opened throttle, and presently we were
making fair headway against the yet-re
morseiess gale. As my engine was now
regularly laboring along I glanced hack
to the train, aiyj saw Miss Cushman
standing at tee girward end of the car
nearest us (which was half baggage and
half smoking car), watching us intently
through the top window of the door.
“ She nodded and smited whenever I
looked that way, still remaining at her
post as we shot along with increasing
speed. Her great, speaking eyes were
agleatn with excitement ; and there was
a look of suppressed power in her face
that I never saw on any other human
countenance. I felt that she conhl, ii
she so pleased, have carried us al> ” ’n
he force of her own will.
“We reached Chicago at 7:30 p. m.
Vfter descending from her car, instead
of immediately entering her carriage
that stood waiting for her, she came,
transformed now into the gracious, ele
gant lady, to the engine, thanked me
heartily for my efforts in her behalf,
told me she should expect me to attend
the theater that night to see how she
played after her ‘ adventure,’ and, ask
ing me to give her the street and num
ber of my boarding-house (which I no
ticed she made no written note of),
shook my grimy hand as cordially as if
itJhad been dressed in immaculate kid,
and bade me good-by.
“ Half an hour afterward, while I was
hurriedly eating my supper, a messen
ger from the theater called with a note
for me, in Miss Cushman’s own hand,
containing an order that I should there
after be admitted free to any theater
where she might be playing an engage
ment.
“ You may be sure I went to hear her
that night in the crowded theater,
wheie, in one of the best seats near the
stage, I was honored by a glance and
nod of recognition from the great woman
whom the throng was loudly applaud
ing.
“I saw her at different places after
ward, and she never failed to greet me
cordially, calling me by name, and re
ferring pleasantly to that trip across the
prairie and to the brave ‘labor’ of the
old ‘Hercules.’” —Christian Register.
DICKERS DETECTED MEM.
“ I called on Dickens," says a foreign
writer, “ immediately after he had fin
ished reading ‘Adam Bede,’ and recol
lect his telling me he had no longer the
slightest doubt as to the sex of the
writer. He gave as his reasons that
there were certain passages—descrip
tive, I think, of the feelings of Hetty as
she surveyed her charms in the looking
glass—which it would have been impos
sible for any man to write without gross
violation of decency, but which might
easily have beea penned by a clever
woman. Month) later I wrote to him to
ask the same of the writer, which I was
sure he then knew. One of his daugh
ters was his amanuensis for his reply,
and at the end of the note, which treat
ed of other matters, she said : * Papa de
sires me to say that the name of the
i person you inquire about is either Brad
-1 bury or Evans ; he does not think it’s
Bradbury.’ ”
ELLIJAY, GA., A PHIL 8,1881.
i.
When first introduced tea was not an
universal favorite. It was most vehe
mently abused as an immoral, unwhole
•ome decoction, from whose use the
worst of results must be expected to fol
low. In 1633 a learned German decided
that it was nothing better than black
water with an acrid taste ; and, a few
years later, a Russian ambassador at the
court of the Mogul declined a large
present of it for the Czar, his master,
“ as it would only encumber him with a
commodity for which hla no use.”
The Dutch were wiser men. They ex
ported large quantities of dried sage,
which pleased the Chinese so much that
they gave three and forr pounds of tea
for each pound of sage, until the Dutch
were unable to provide the material in
sufficient quantities to meet the home
demand for tea. For a long time En
glishmen drank sage tea in preference to
the genuine article; and to this day the
nse of sage and other herb teas is still
frequent among the agricultural poor of
some districts in England ; and the
.“tisannes” of the French and Swiss
have been in no way replaced by the
more costly leaf. Morocco combined
tisanne with tea, putting sugar in the
tea-pot, and tansy and mint, the flavor
of which would, doubtless, considerably
disguise the tea, rendering the decoc
tion as unlike that agreeable beverage
as was the liquid which issued from the
classic brown teapot of Mesdames Gamp
and Frig on the fatal night of their quar
rel. Thibet kept clear of the admixture
of other herbs, but had its own peculiar
way of consuming its tea. This was by
boiling the leaf with water, flour, butter
and salt, and devouring the resulting
mess bodily. In China, the common
people add ginger and salt to the bever
age. The word tea, it maybe remarked,
comes from the Chinese name for the
leaf of the tea-plant.
DISHONEST ADTICE.
There are scores of men among law
yers and doctors who live on the weak
ness of others. Tricky lawyers eagerly
urge hot-headed clients to go into law
suits to right their often-im agin ary
wrongs. They do this only for the pur-
V°sc of oiftairiing’tllelr profefisionarfees, 1
in place of giving them the honest ad
vice to settle amicably by mutual agree
ment, as in nine cases out of ten would
be far better. We find ihe same class
of men among doctors, who, when peo
ple menfeun some sight ailment, make
them believe that viiey are sick, or soon
will be very sick if they do not take a
certain course of medical treatment
which they will prescribe. They also
do this for the purpose of obtaining a
professional fee—in place of giving
them the honest advice to fast for one
or two days, to take rest, and to stop
drinking and smoking, if they are ad
dicted to these vices. In nine cases out
of ten this would be far better. The
lawyer of this class makes his client be
lieve that he has been wronged, and the
doctor makes the patient believe that
he is very sick. They all have their
own profit in view, and play upon hu
man weakness—which in some individ
uals consists in combativeness, in others
in imaginary weakness of body, and in
others again in conceit about their men
tal accomplishments. And as, unfort
unately, there is no profession author
ized to point out the follies of man, men
will go on being humbugged to the end.
“ GRIZZLY BRUIN" GETS TIGHT.
A half dozen prospectors camped one
winter’s night in the Sierra Nevada, El
dorado county, California. The ground
was covered with snow, and when about
midnight a grizzly bear approached the
crunching of his feet aroused the whole
camp. The bear trotted up to within a
few feet .of the fire and seized the near
est thing that could be reached—a bag
containing a few such articles as bread
and sugar and a demijohn of the hottest
whisky manufactured on the Paciflo
coast. The prospectors fired several
shots at the grizzly, which caused him
to seize the bag and scamper off. Be
lieved of the unwelcome visitor’s pres
ence, the party dropped off to sleep
again, to be aroused about dawn by loud
and long roars in a neighboring ravine.
The men approached the ravine cau
tiously, and were delighted to see the
grizzly uproariously drank and rolling
in the snow. The bear had broken the
demijohn and lapped up the whisky with
an appreciative tongue. His antics were
very funny, “as good as a circus” one
of the prospectors says, and they were
kept up until long after sunrise. He
tried hard to climb up the side of the
ravine, and made ferocious dashes at the
men, but every time he rolled down. At
last the spectators shot him and moved
on.
A certain priest preached to his rus
tic congregation in favor of a contem
plated railway to their remote province.
“We do not need a railway to get to
Paradise,” objected a peasant. “True
enough,” responded the priest; “but
do you know what St. Peter will
say to all those who come lumbering
along to the gates in carts? He will say
what fools you are to be bo long on the
war ! ”
TO LITE LONG 4(rj> BET MICH.
A New York iS'un’repcrtar visited Mr.
Peter Cooper to ask two interesting
questions. Ob* wa3 jjkv le had man
aged to live sg> long, 'ho other how
he got rich.
In answer to the first question Mr.
Cooper said: “ I should put it in two
words t Live soberly and righteously.
We are required nqfcAo eat too much,
nor to drink too much, nor to work too
much, nor to play We are
living on earth Irf I'eautif ill and
beneficent laws, laws c )tsig)d in infinite
wisdom for the mankind,
I infer that just in -proportion as we
live in obedience to these laws we shall
have health and contort. If we dis
obey these laws we sjroll pay the penal?
ty. The penalty of disobedience must
be paid somewhere, somewhere at some
time.”
“ How did you get rich!”
*' In the first place, I learned three
trades. I learned to be a brewer, a
coach-maker and a machinist, J,all before
I was 21 years old. *1 worked three
years at $1.60 a day, aud I saved enough
out of that to get a start in life. I was
making machines to'sllenr cloth. Then
I bought the patent right of the machine
and made them for salt. That was be
fore the war of 1812.”
“ What general rule have you adopted
in business ?” was asked.
“One was that I determined to give
the world an equivalent in some form of
useful labor for all that I consumed in
it. I went on and enlAged my business,
all the while keeping tut of debt. lean
not recollect a time Then I could not
pay what I owed anyiky. I would not
spend money before 1 earned it. An
other rule I had was tokeep clear of the
banks . I never asked hem for accommo
dation. I never got tiem to discount
notes, because I did nit wish to inour
any obligation withoit a certainty of
being able to pay it. In that way I
managed to keep’oleip of panics. My
rule was : Pay as yoi po. I can’t re
member tha time when/ny man could
not have had for thi asking what I
owed. Another tjjaf.g I wish to say:
All the money I ieveir made was in
mechanical -bniineas foil not in speo
(tiatnmA J ’’ ?
LAUGHED orr lit* WRATH.
A writer in the Syractse Herald men
tions an amusing incident in the career
of Mrs. Lydia Maria Child, which she
used to relate with great enjoyment in
her gleeful moments. She was presid
ing at an anti-slavery meeting where a
number of speakers had inveighed
against the apathy manifested by the
churches toward till cause of human
freedom. After a ime a gentleman,
with a white neckcloth and a face glow
ing with the excitement of indignation,
arose in his place, and asked whether
that was an occasion vhere free speech
was to be permitted.
“Of course it is,”said Mrs. Child;
“ free speech is just what we demand for
ourselves, and want others to enjoy. If
you have anything to say, come up
here on the platform and say it in wel
come.”
The invitation was accepted, and the
gentleman, after one or two vain efforts
to choke down his rising wrath and as
sume an appearance of calmness, re
marked :
“lam aD orthodox minister of the
gospel. I came litre this afternoon to
hear some of the eloquence and wit
which I understood were so abundant at
these meetings; but, instead of that, I
have thus far listened to little save in
sults heaped upon the clergy. It is the
first time I ever thrust my presence
upon you; it will also be the last. J
can find a better pge of my leisure hours
than attendance upon gatherings where
the only speakers are women and jack
asses 1 ” ; -
He paused. There was dead silence
for a moment through the halL Then a
negress, black as the ace of spades,
slowly rose from one of the rear seats,
and addressed the chair.
“De ge'l’xnan tells us he’s a minis
ter ob de gospel,” she said, “ and so he
prob’ly knows what’s in de scripture.
Dere was anudder minister long time
ago named Balaam. He got mighty
mad, too, at an ass dat spoke. But
Missus Chairman, I’d like to remind de
ge’l’man dat-it was de ass, and not de
minister, wot seed de angel.”
AMBERGRIS.
The largest lump of ambergris ever
known was in the possession of the King
of Tidore, and purchased of his Majesty
by the Dutch East India Company. It
weighed 182 pounds. Another enormous
piece of 130 pounds weight was found
inside a whale near the Windward
islands, and sold for $2,500. The true
ambergris, which is a morbid secretion
of the spermaceti whale, gives out a fra
grant smell when a hot needle is thrust
into it, and it also melts like fat, but the
counterfeit often sold instead of the real
thing does not present these features.
Men engaged in whale fishing are on the
lookout for ambergris, and usually find
most of it in the torpid, sick or very
lean fish, consequently it would appear
to be, what all medical practitioners ray
it is. the product of a diseased liver.
NATROLLINU THE OCEAN.
Has not the time come for the Govern
ments of England and the United States
to take some action to dimmish the risks
of ocean navigation ? Every municipal
government patrols its streets, and there
is no good reason why ‘he great ocean
highway should not be petroled. Were
England (jtd the United fttite. eaoh to
provide two steamers the route between
New York and Liverpool could be
thorough; These Govern
ment ifiXri, could remove sunken
wrecks, ani passenger steamers of the
locality of icebergs, ind afford relief to
shipwrgpted vessels. A Bteamer with
her jgaohinery broken down would be
xtowdl-' free of charge by the patrol
steamer, and would not, as is now too
often the case, decline assistance in or
der to save SBO,OOO or $40,000 of salvage-
A shipwrecked crew compelled to take to
their boats wrnjld have a reasonable de
gree of confidence that in two or three
days* time a patrol steamer would pick
them up, and the owners of a missing
steamer would have good reason to be
lieve that, were Bhe in danger or distress,
help would be not far off. a
The cost of patrolling the ocean high
way would be inconsiderable in com
parison with the benefits that would be
secured thereby. Part of it might be
paid by a light tax on vesseis in the At
lantic trade, and the payment of such a
tax would probably be more than bal
anced by the decrease in insurance
premiums which would follow. We are
compelled yearly to send naval steamers
on aimless crilsados in order that the
young students of the Naval Academy
may learn practical seamanship. Wore
wo to convert our practice ships into
patrol ships, the Navy Department
would incur little additional expense,
and the safety of the ooean passage
would be greatly inoreased.— New York
’f_ rm TURKEY OR EOWL.
Tne Prosecuting Attorney in an Indiana
court had indicted a man for atealing a
hog. The evidence proved that the ani
mal was dead, and dressed and hanging
upon a hook. The court held that the
variance must defeat a conviction, as
tto) indictment should have ohjrged
tjKn With ste&ing “ ptfch. lasted# oHi
“hog.” ' w
The next case was that of a man in
dicted for stealing a turkey. The evi
dence showed that the bird was dressed
and hanging up in a smoke-house. The
Judge ruled that the prisoner must be
acquitted, as the indictment was faulty
in not charging him with stealing a
“fowl.”
At the dinner which followed upon
this trial a-large roasted turkey was the
principal dish, of which the Judge was
very fond. ,
“ I will thank you to help me to some
of that turkey,” said the Judge to the
Prosecuting Attorney, who happened to
be the carver.
“To what?” answered the lawyer,
with a look of feigned surprise.
‘‘ A part of the turkey—a wing, a side
bone, or some breast.”
“Judge, I don’t know what you mean;
I see no turkey. Will you have some
fowl t"
“ Well, you rather have me,” replied
the J udge, with a good-natured laugh;
’ “ but you must recollect that there’s a
wide difference between a turkey in an
indictment and one on the dinner-table.”
HOW TO DRESS WITH TASTE.
The art of dress comprises color, text
ure, form and ornamentation. The first
consideration should be directed to col
or. The accepting of fashionable shades,
without any regard to the claims of com
plexion, is a great error, and the result
is rarely correct. By chance one may
sometimes make a good hit in such mat
ters, although by accident-some of the
best things in existence have come to
light. Bed, this season, is quite a fa
vorite, and can be worn by the blonde
and the brunette,, but the former must
exercise a little discretion in adopting to
any profusion this telling dye. The
blonde who can befittingiy adorn her
self m scarlet trimmings, and especially
where the hue is in close proximity to
the complexion, should be very fair; a
clear white skin will beautifully reflect
the brightness of the scarlet; whereas,
a face that has a yellowish hue, or a
rather florid aspect, should never ap
pear to favor scarlet; if this color is
worn at all by such, let it be far away
from the faces, except when arranged
in an evening toilet. A brunette can
not wear pale green, which is most be
coming in the fair beauty. Orange is
the brunette’s own color; but if the
dark belle has blue eyes this dazzling
sliade will not enhance her appearance.
The color of the toilet should be of that
nature to impart a healthy tone to the
complexion. This idea, when effectually
produced, has a very satisfactory result.
Avoid wearing those colors that height
en or destroy either the red, yellow or
white in the natural flesh tints.
He that can charm a whole company
by singing, and at the age of 30 has no
cause to regret the possession of so
dangerous a gift, is a very extraordinary,
and, I may add, a very fortunate, man.
H.soprAnnura , VOL. VI.-NO. 10.
HR atTXED THOSE BOTTLES UT.
A gentleman retaining home from the
Gilroy hot springs by coach was asked
to exchange seats with a lady who found
riding inside disagreed with her. As ha
was making his way to the inside berth,
she bade him take especial care of two
bottles of Gilroy water, which she was
carrying to her husband. As it hap
pened, the lady had contrived to make
herself very disagreeable to her fellow
visitors at the springs, and the.passen
ger she hi’4J ousted from his sentxdeter
mined to have his revenge. * Opening
each of the bottles, he poured out half
the contents, and filled them up with
whisky. Before many days elapsed the
proprietors of the Gilroy springs re
ceived the following elegant epistle,
dated San Francisco, Aug. 30, 1879 t
“ Sirs—You are apreciouslot of scamps,
you are! My wife paid a visit to your
confounded plaoe, and brought back
some spring water. I drank about a
bottle of file miserable stuff, and went
to the Good Templars, and had not
been in the hall more than fifteen min
utes before I was ss drunk as any man
you ever saw ; disgraced myself and the
lodge, and this morning I am on a sick
bed. My impression is that any set of
men who will run an institution at this
sort ought to be soused into h£water .
springs until life was extinct” —Boston
Transcript.
the depth oe the pa ciftv ocean
The popular belief as lo the compara
tive shallowness of the Paciflo ocean
may have to be modified by soundings
made with what is known as Bir William
Thompson’s steel wire, and vhioh show
that along the entiro coast of California
a depth of 1,600 fathoms or more is
reached within a distance of from twenty
to (seventy miles westward from the
shores, the greater port of this sudden
fall occurring in the last ten to fifty
miles. At 100 miles west ef San Fran
cisco the bottom is found to be 2,600
fathoms deep. The bed of the ocean
continues of a uniform depth greater
than 1,600 fathoms until the Sandwich
WurulH are reached, the greatest depth,
3,000 fathoms, at a distance of about 400
miles, east of That great
depth is maintained until within ninety
mile •‘■of Honoluluat ififty mile*, from
that place the depth is 1.500 fathers,
ANOTHER St EI.HOD.
A method for teaching children read
ing, spelling and writing,“ all at once,”
has been practiced by a teacher in the
West. She prepares on a slip of oard
board a word which may be made the
principal one in a short sentence, as, for
instance, “ dog.” The word is written
and printed upon the slip, ao that the
pupil may learn the elements of pen
manship with reading and spelling. The
scholars are made to read, spell, and
write this word until they have learned
it thoroughly. Then another slip with
the word “ the ’’ upon it is given them,
and they are taught its meaning, use
and relation. Other words are given in
the same Way, and the scholar is then
taught to put them together to make
sentences. Thus, in every new word
that comes up tlio scholar is interested i
and his interest is preserved all through.
Cinder el In.
Do you know thatthestory of Cinderella
is one of the oldest storieß in the world?
It has been told to delighted youngsters
for thousands of years, and by almost
all races of people. There are, of course,
some little differences in the story, as
told by different peoples ; the French,
for instance, have a cow for the good
fairy, and when the animal was about to
be killed she told Cinderella (or rather
Cedronsette, which is her French name)
to collect her bones into her hide, and
to wish over them for anything she
wanted. As the Scotch tell it, a dying
Queen gave her daughter “ a little red'
ealfy,” which was. killed by the cruel
step-mother, and over its bones the.ohild,
Rashincoat as she is called, wished for
'her three dresses.— Jerusalem Mee
sengcr.
DANISH LOTTERIES.
A great institution at Copenhagen is
the State Lottery, drawn in two series
of six months each, and very popular
with all classes. The drawing of this
lottery and payment of prizes are con
ducted with admirable method and fair
ness. Nothing better exhibits the calm
and unexcitable nature of the Danes
than the systematic way in which one,
will take his tickets for thirty years
without drawing a prize, and never fret
or even mention the matter; while an
other wins the grand prize, rains him
self, and commences afresh in the same
quiet and matter-of-faot manner.—Bel
gravia. >
HIS "TECHNIQUE!."
An engaged young man is late in pay
ing his regular visit at the dwelling of
his musically-inclined betrothed ; the
young lady is anxious; the family sym-.
pathizes with Jier anxiety. Suddenly
the bell rings, end the oalm blue sky of
peace reappears in the young girl’s eyes
as she exclaims rapturously but un
grammatically:
“That’s him? How exquisite his
technique is on the bell-pull, and—oh,
the breadth of his ring 1 ”
stationery. There is pleasure in using
good stationery, especially in private cor*
reapomlence, which cannot be obtained
by the use of a poor article, however it
may be managed. The value of good
stationery to business men is rarely ap
preciated by even those who are in the
habit of using it A letter always cre
ates an impression. Especially is this
true when the letter is from a stranger.
Accordingly it is well for every one
who wiites letters to consider what kind
of an impression his epistle is likely to
create in the mind of the person to
whom it is addressed.
The most important element in creat
ing a favorable impression by the letter*
one writes is in the style and quality of
the paper and envelope, the character of
the printing forming the letterhead, and
the taste displayed in the general ar
rangement. If the whole be done in a
way that indicates taste, a favorable im
pression is almost invariably made. On
the other hand, if *tlie general style of
paper and printing be sloncliy, an im
pression quite file opposite of favorable
will be created in the minds of th?p6r*
sons addressed.' There is nothing which
the business man uses-in which cheap
ness is such a bad policy as the station
ery employed in his correspondence.
He may pay his clerks half salaries, he
may descend to all sorts of meanness in
his management, and perceive no disas
trous results arising from his policy, be
cause no one outside of his own store
will know it. Such management cannot
be patent to his customers, and, there
fore, can have no effort upon their
minds. On the other hand, every one
with whom he deals by the medium of
oorrespondenoe has an opportunity to
ndge of him by the character of the let
era he writes, and will riot be slow to
form an opinion. A handsomely-written
letter, upon good letter paper, having a
fine heading, indicating that- good taste
has been exercised in selecting it, never
fails to oreate a good impression.
OLASINO AT A SLEEPER.
Thirty years ago one of the popular
lecturers in this country was Henry
Giles, an Irish Unitarian clergyman.
Now, at an advanced age and paralyzed,
he is forgotten, save by those who pro
vide for his wants. “Templeton,” the
Boston correspondent of the Hartford
Courant, tells the following aneodots o
the onoe-noted man. “He was a man
of large self-esteem, and considerable
capacity of self-assertion, which stood
in the way of his success in the ministry.
“I call to mind one incident which it
was my fate to witness.
“ Mr. Giles was engaged one summer
Sunday to preach in a town about ten
miles from Boston. He stood up in the
pulpit to announce his text.
‘ ‘ Exactly at the same fr&nt, a
tired fdrmor, who occupied a *,ijfcpfon
ous pew in front of the pnlp/.,5%w s
red-silk handkercWf out of his pocket,
deliberately spread it over his own bald
head and forehead to protect them from
the flies, and resigned himself to slum
ber.
“ This was too much for the dignity of
Hr. Giles. He stopped, shut up his ser
mon, and began to glare at the somno
lent parishioner.
“ The latter rested in serene uncon
sciousness, while the rest of the congre
gation looked to see how this singular
duel would end.
“ The silence became protracted, till,
all at once, it appeared to occur to tho
individual who was the cause of it that
it was worth wliiie to ascertain what it
was all about. t
“He removed his handkerchief and
looked up, only to find himself fixed by
the glittering' eye of. the preacher, and
by the eyes of everybody else 1
“Vfctlf a convulsive start, he aban
doned all thought of a nap that day,
and the sermon went on. In fact, it was
a pretty lively congregation for a hot
Sunday.”
INEVITABLE.
As waprogress in age or knowledge our
tastes change as well, even in the matter
of friendship. There are men and
women in public life whoee pathway is
-marked by the “remains” of whilom
friends whom they have squeezed dry and
dropped, like So many sucked oranges.
In politics it is said of such a man that
he is kicked down the ladder by which
he climbed. In literary or other walks
the human sponge often swells up with
the thought that he has “ outgrown”
his humble friends of other days. In
private life the self-conscious soul con
tents itself with blooming more and
jpore the center of its little circumfer
ence, taking none within its orbit who
will not consent to revolve around it and
emit light and warmth for its enjoyment.
It is too absolutely selfish to bestow or
receive real, lasting friendship.
Tae term brlc-a-brao probably comes
from the old French expression, de brio
et de broque, which means from right and
from left—from hither and thither. The
word brie signifies in old French an in
strument to shoot arrows to birds; and
some etomologists derive the word brae
from brocanter —to sell or exchange—
the root of which is Saxon, and
also the origin of the word “brok
er.” Its signification in purs English is
second-hand goods, but it has, of re
cent years, been used to indicate objects
of some ariisio value made in olden
times, and which are much esteemed by
modern collectors. This century is one
of collections, ranging in value from
defaced postage-stamps and wax impres
sions of seals to watches and snuff-boxes
of rare metals, ornamented with pre
cious stones
Dieficui-ties are always mountains till
we meet them, and mole-hills when weVs
passed them.
