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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 ELLIJAY ISgi COURIER W. p\ COMBS 1 Editor mud Publiih.r, / 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.