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lotr/W KEPENTABfCE.
Lore came knocking, gently knocking
At the )>ort4ilaof my heart,
And lc*eeciit><i me their unlocking,
For a m-i ret he’d ItupuM*
But I laugtie I toicorn nisgn'etlng
Ami regrcited not the Heeling
Of hi •* ha tiled steps retreating _.
On their way.
Then again n nicaiago brought he,
Kuo. king g iiitlv as Indore,
And with courtly tones beaought me—
Yet I opened not the door.
Mildly chiding my denying.
And my cool reserve doerylng,
He, with low and mystic sighing,
Turned away.
Boon the little tyrant ahyljr—
Without warning as before—
Pulled ine lateh-string, and then slyly
Pushed aside t he looeene l door.
Though my heart was near relenting,
And I felt '(would bring repenting,
Yet I would not, l*y consents a ML
Love to-d ly.
Could I ratch him and securely
Tic his little wicked wings,
1 would kneel to hhu demurely,
Tho’ I know they say he sings-
That is he, 1 know his knocking,
1 will hasten the unlocking.
Ah, the little trlfler, mocking
Flics awav!
thistim;,
hy i o. wilbon.
The ntln wan falling, falling,
And the night was dark and drear.
1 heard the night birds culling,
“Whither, whither can we steer ?”
" Tell ns w here w e’ll find protection ?”
“ Where find shelter from the storm ? w
Came the answer in bird diction :
14 God will keep from every harm.”
At dusk, on the cold, wet pavement,
I heard the patter of little feet ;
And a litt'e form beside the easement,
ftevealed a fnee so pale uiuj sweet
That I hasted the bolted door to open,
And, kindly taking the outstretched arm,
Drew gently in, as the words were spoken :
“ 1 knew He would keep from every harm.
And rut upon the wild, wild ocean
Of human life I am now afloat,
Tossed to and fro by every motion
Of wind or wave, in my quivering boat,
And I shrink with fear lest an angry wave
Should ingulf my bark in its wild alarm ;
But I hear ’mid storm, “ His hand can save,
And He will keep from every harm.”
HOW HE GOT OJT OF IT ;
on,
Engaged to Threa Girls in One
Night.
“ If you will take my advice,” said Mr
Wilding, making a last noble but futile
effort to balance the ivory paper knife on
the tip of his first finger, “ you won’t go
to the Brownrigs’ ball.”
“ And why not,” asked his companion
irritably.
“Well, I really wouldn’t, you know,’
said Mr. Wilding, giving up his struggle
with the impossible, and laving the re
fractory paper knife upon the table, “for
a variety of reasons. Girls play the very
mischief with you, and you know what
trouble it gave me to get you out of your
last scrape. There are four Brownrig
girls, aren't there ? And they are all
pretty ?”
“I don’t see what that's got to do with
it,” said Snooks, sulkily. “ There’s safe
ty in a multitude. I can’t marry ’em all,
can I?”
“ Happily, no ! Though, if the laws
of your land did not forbid it, I am in
clined to think you might try to accom
plish even that. Still, he advised,
Snooks, and he conspicuous by your ab
sence at the Brownrigs’ ‘small and early.’
Papa Brownrig, when incensed, is not
nice, and you know you are decidedly
intimate with Miss Kate,”
“No, I am not,” said Snooks with de
cision, “ not a bit of it. Though I allow
she is a handsome girl, and has lovely
eyes. Hasn’t she, now ?”
“ I don't know. Asa rule I never
look into a woman’s eyes. I consider it
a rudeness as well ns a beastly,” said
Wilding earnestly, telling his lie without
ablush. “Never mind her eyes. If,”
warningly, “you must go to this ball, at
least try to forget that she has any eyes
at all. If you don’t, you will propose to
lier, to a moral.”
One would think that I was a raw
school-boy,” said young Snooks wrath
fully. “Do you think I can’t look at a
woman without committing myself? Do
I look like a fool ?”
Whatever Mr. Wilding thought at that
moment, he kept it to himself. Before
he spoke next, he and his conscience hgd
Rgreed to dissemble.
“Mvdear fellow, do not let us even
hint at such a thing,” ho said amiably.
“I only meant you were slightly—very
slightly—susceptible, and that Miss
Kate has a certain amount of pleasing
power, and that—l positively would give
up this ball if I—”
“Are you going?” broke in Snooks im
patiently.
“Well, yes, I dare say I shall look in
about 12.”
“Then I shall look in with you,” said
Snooks defiantly.
“Fact is, the fellow wants to spoon her
himself, and don’t see the force of being
cut out,” said he to himself complacently
as he ran down the steps of Wilding’s
stairs.
Beyond all question the Brownrigs’
ball was a decided success. The rooms
were tilled to overflowing, the staircases
were choked, the heat was inferable.
Sir Thomas and Lady Higgins had
actually put in an appearance after nil,
and the supper, if uneatable, was, I as
sure you, very expensive. No pains or
money had been spared : everything was
what the mistress of the house called
“rug regal;” and all the Miss Brownrigs
looked ns charming as any one could
desire.
There were four of them. There was
Katie, the second daughter—Snook’s
friend, and the possessor of the lovely
eves. And they were lovely; large, “and
dark, and true, and tender,” like the
North, according to the Laureate; “black
as sloes,” said her fond if slightly op
pressive mother, and of the languid,
melting order.
Then there was Hetty, the eldest
girl, who, if her eyes were not (lark as
midnight, had at least the dearest little
nose in the world. A pure Greek feature,
perfect in every respect, ignorant of
colds in the head, that made one long to
tell her (only she would have blushed, I
they were all nicely brought up) about i
Duilu, and her Phidian appendage.
Then came Georgia “ George the
Third,” as she was playfully termed in
the bosom of her family who, if she
had neither nose nor eyes like her sisters,
had certainly a prettier mouth than
cither. A sweet little kissable rosebud
of a mouth that pouted and laughed al
ternately, and did considerable execu
tion. '
And finally, there was Lilly. A tall,
pale girl, with blue eyes, a finely cut
chin, an 1 a great deal of determination
all round.
Katie’s eyes were larger, darker, and
(when she looked at Snooks and thought
of bis thousands) more melting than ever
that night. Her dress, if slightly bizarre,
vas immensely becoming. Snooks, for
the flr.A half hour, kept himself bravely
r.i ■[ from her fascinations, declined to
mti - her reproachful glances and lan
guishing sriliades, and for reward was
wretched. Finally, being driven into a
corner during a fatal set ot Lancers, he
met her eyes and was conquered. She
would dance the next with him ? Yes
1 •’ldly . And the next? Yes (more
Hamilton Journal.
LAMAR & DENNIS, Publishers.
VOL. VIII.-NO. 44.
she is disengaged for it? Yes (this
time quite warmly).
An hour later the deed was done.
Borne capital champagne, a dark avenue
(1 lielieve there were some Chinese lan
terns there originally, but a kind wind
had blown them out), and a soft little
baud slipped into his, did the work ; and
Miss Katie had promised hushfully, hut
with unmistakable willingness, to he the
future Mrs. Snooks. Whether it was
Snooks or the property pertaining to
Snooks she most affected, deponent say
eth not.
When, however, her betrothed found
what he had done, and remembered his
former words, and till the awfulness of
parental wrath, liis heart failed him.
lie went, as lie usually did when in sorry
case, in search of Wilding ; and having
discovered him, took iiim into a side
room, and shutting the door, confronted
him w ith a rather pale face.
“ So the eves were too many for you ?”
said Mr. Wiiding calmly, after a deliber
ate examination of the disturbed face be
fore him. “ I told you how it would be.”
“That’s the sort of thing any fellow
might say,” returned Snooks pathetic
ally. “ I didn't think you would have
been so aggravating. And just when you
tee I’m down on my luck, too. Yes;
I've been and gone and done it.”
‘“Mother will be pleased,’ ” quoted
his friend and law adviser with a shrug.
“So, by the bye,-will he your father.
They both regard nothing so highly ns
birth. T suppose Miss Brownrig can lay
claim to some decent breeding ? ’
“The old chap is a cornel landler, you
know that, at least, he used to be,” said
Snooks, with a heavy groan.
“O, indeed! And a very charming
business, too, I have no doubt. Leads
up to quite a train of ideas. Corn,
wheat, staff of life, quaint old mill, and
rustic bridge in the distance, miller sit
ting on it. I wonder,” dreamily, “if
Brownrig ever wore a white hat ? And
if so, why? Don’t nil speak at once.
Well, well, she is a very pretty girl.
Such eyes, you know! I really congrat
ulate you, my dear fellow.”
“Wilding,” desperately, “can’t you do
something? I—l don’t know how it hap
pened. It was the champagne, I sup
pose, and of course she is pretty: hut I
don’t want to marry any one, and I know
the Governor won’t hear of it.”
“He will have to hear of it now, won't
he ?” asked Wilding unfeelingly.
“He would go out of his mind if such
a tiling was even hinted to him,” de
clared Snooks wildly. “Try to help me
out of it. Wilding, can’t you?”
“I don’t see what there is to do, ex
cept marry her. I cnly hope Lady
Snooks and Miss Corneliandler will get
on. And you should think of her beau
ty, you know; doubtless it will console
you when Sir Peter cuts you off with the
customary shilling.”
“I suppose I had better cut my throat
and put an end to it,” said Snooks dis
mally ; and then, overcome, no doubt,
by the melancholy of this suggestion, he
breaks down and gives way to tears.
“ I say. don’t do that, you know,” ex
claimed Wilding indignantly. “Weep
ing all over the place won’t improve mat
ters, and will make you look a worse
fool than nature intended, when you go
out of the room. If you have put your
•fixit in it, at least try to bear misfortune
like a man. Look here,” angrily, “if
you are going to keep up this hideous
booliooing I’ll leave the room, and you
too, to your fate. It’s downright in
decent. They will hear you in the next
house if you don’t moderate your grief.”
As the nearest house was a quarter of
a mile off, this was severe.
“I shouldn’t care if they heard me in
the next town,” said Mr. Snooks, who
was quite too far gone for shame.
“There is just one chance for you,
and only one,” said wilding, slowly. “I
have an idea and you must either follow
it or—go to the altar. ”
“I’ll follow anything, eagerly. What
is it ?”
“You have proposed to Miss Katie,”
solemnly. “Now go and propose to the
other three!”
As Wilding gave vent to his idea he
turned abruptly on his heel and left the
room.
“I’ll do it,” said Snooks valiantly, dry
ing his eyes and giving his breast a
tragic tup, “whatever comes of it.”
Going into the hall he saw Hetty stand
ing near an entrance; a little way beyond
her was Kate, conversing with a tall
and lanky youth. Not daring to glance
in the direction of the latter, who plain
ly expected him to come straight to her
on the wings of love, he turned and
asked Hetty to dance.
They danced, and then (it was custom
with the hall goers in that mild suburban
neighborhood) ho drew her out under the
gleaming stars and up the dark avenue
that a few /ninutes since was the scene
of her sister’s happiness.
There he proposed in due form, arid
was again accepted. Hetty’s conduct,
indeed, was perhaps a degree more pro
nounced than Katie's, because she laid
her head upon his shoulder, and he felt
by all the laws of sentiment hound to
kiss her. Her nose looked lovely in the
pale moonlight; so I dare say he did not
find the fulfilling of this law difficult.
After that he had some more, a good
deal more, champagne; and then he pro
posed to Miss Georgia, who also con
sented to lie his. There now remained
but one other step to he taken. He
crossed the room and asked the youngest
Miss Brownrig to dance. He was get
ting rather mixed by this time, and was
on the very point of asking her to marry
him instead, so customary had the mr-s
--tion grown to him now. Miss Lily,
however, declined to dance, on the plea
that she was tired, and could exert her
self no more that night. With question
able taste he pressed the matter, and
begged her to give him just one. At
this she told him frankly she did not ad
mire his style of dancing, which, of
course, ended tie conservation. So he
asked her to come for a stroll instead,
and having arrived at the momentous
spot, delivered himself of the ornate
speech that had already done duty threa
, times that night. 1 forgot what it was,
lint I know it wound up with the declara
tion that he adored her and wanted to
marrv her. „
• ‘lt’s extremely good of you, I m sure,
said the young* st Miss Browning, calm
: 1.. it sc T feor it r,...5t
“Don’t you, by love!’’ said Snook,
hastily. “ Well, that’s awfully ki No,
no!" pulling himself up with a start; “I
don’t mean that, you know ; I mean it s
awfully horrid, you kuow. In fact,"
warming to his work through sheer gra
titude, “you have made me miserable for
ever : you’ve broken my heart."
“ Dear me, how shocking !" said Miss
Lilly, frivolously. “ Let us hope Time
will mend it. I'm not very sure you did
not speak the truth at first. I really be
lieve it is kind, my refusing you. And
now, Mr. Snooks, if I were you, I should
go in and say good-night to mamma, be
cause you have been having a good deal
of papa’s champagne, and it is trying to
the constitution.”
Snooks took the hint, lindo farewell to
Mrs. Brownrig, who, to his healed im
agination, appeared to regard him al
ready with a moist and motherly eye,
and, taking Wilding's aim, drew him out
of the house.
“ Well ?” said the latter interroga
tively
“I don’t kuow whether it is well or
ill,” returned he gloomily. “But I fol
lowed your advice and proposed to ’em
all.”
“ And they accepted you ?”
“Most of ’em. But Lilly, the young
est, she—"
“I always said she was a sensible
girl,” put in Mr. Wilding, sotto voce.
“Did you?” with much surprise.
“Well, she refused me ; sort of said she
wouldn’t have me at any price. Bo you
see you were wrong !”
“ I always knew she was one of tho
most intelligent girls I ever met," Mr.
Wilding repeated, in a tone so difficult
that his companion for once had suffi
cient sense to refrain for demanding an
explanation.
The next morning, as Katie Brownrig
turned the angle of the hall that led to
her father’s sanctum (whither a sense of
filial duty beckoned her) she almost ran
into the arms of her three sisters, all con
verging toward the same spot from dif
ferent directions. Simultaneously they
entered Mr. Brownrig’s study. (He
called it a library; but that word is too
often profaned for me to profane it, so I
shall draw the line at study). But to re
turn. Miss Lilly, being the youngest,
was of course the first to raise her voice.
“I had a proposal last night, pa.pa,
and I have come to tell you about it,”
said she, iu a tone replete with triumph.
It was so sweet to the mind of youth
tooutdo its elders. But “on this occasion
ouly” the elders refused to lie outdone.
They each and all betrayed a smile of in
ward satisfaction, and then they gave
w ay to speech.
“No!” they said in a breath. They;
dkhnotimeun to doubt or be impolite
they only meant surprise.
“The curate,” said Hetty in a com
posed but plainly contemptuous whisper.
It was a stage whisper.
“Old Major Sterne,” said Miss Georgie
promptly.
“Perhaps Henry Simms,” suggested
Katie, with some sympathy. Then turn
ing to her father she said, with a con
scious blush, “It is very strange, papa,
but I too had a proposal last night.”
“And so had I!” exclaimed Georgie
and Hetty in a breath.
“Eh?” said papa, pushing up his spec
tacles. He was fat and pudgy, with
sandy hair and flabby nose. He was a
powerful man, too, and one unpleasant
to come to open quarrel with. Proposals
in the Brownrig family were few and far
between- in fact, curiosities and so
much luck us tlie, girls described falling
into one day overpowered him.
“One at a time; my breath is not
what it used to lie," ho said addressing
Katie. (If he had said breadth, it would
have been equally true, as bis mother—
if she was to be believed- always dc
dared lie was a lean baby). “May I
ask the name of your lover ? ’
“Mr. Snooks,” said she with downcast
eyes and a timid smile. Blie took up the
corner of a cherry-colored bow that
adorned her gown, and fell to admiring
it, through which she fondly thought was
bashfulnuess.
“Impossible!” exclaimed Georgie an
grily.
“What a disgraceful untruth!” cried
Hetty rudely. “Mr. Snooks proposed to
me, iast night, and I accepted him.”
“What is it you say? Oh, I am
going out of my mind; my senses arc de
serting me.” said Georgie, putting her
hands to her head with a dramatic
gesture. “Or is it a dream that ho
asked me to marry him, and that I too
said ‘yes’?”
“I seldom visit the clouds,” said
Lilly, with a short but bitter laugh.
“And I certainly know lie made me a
a noble offer of bis hand and heart;
both which treasures I declined.”
“ Where?” demanded tlie other three,
as though with one mouth.
“ In the laurel avenue !”
At this they all groaned aloud.
“ Perfidious monbter!” said Hetty
from her heart.
“ Arn I to understand,” began Mr.
Brownrig, with suppressed but evident
fury, “that this—this- unmitigated
scoundrel asked you all to marry him
last night ?”
“if we speak the truth, yes,” replied
the girls dismally.
“lie was drunk,” said papa, savagely.
“ 1 can’t believe it,” said Katie, who
was dissolved in tears in fact, 4 like
Niobe, all tears’—by this time. “Noth
ing could he nicer than the way he did
it. His language was so jierfect, and so
thoroughly from the—heart.”
“ He addressed me in a most honor
able, upright, and Christian fashion,”
said Hetty. “I am sure he meant every
word he said.”
Site was thinking uneasily of that kiss
in the moonlight. Could anyone have
seen her ? Was old Major Sterne any
where about at the moment ?
“I certainly considered his manner
strange, not a bit like what one reads,”
said Georgie, honestly, “but I thought
of the titl* and the property, and 1 said
yes direct]*
“I thought him the very greatest muff
I ever spoke to,” broke in Miss Lilly
with decision. I refused him without a
moment's hesitation, and told him to go
home. I’m sure it was well I did. I
daresay if ho had stayed here much
longer he would have proposed to mam
ma next, and afterward to the upper
housemaid. I agree with you, pap>a, the
“ DUM SPIRO, SPERO."
HAMILTON, GA-, OCTOBER '2B, 1880.
Katie, in a low and trembling tone. Her
lingers are not playing with the cherry
colored bow now, but her eyelids have
borrowed largely of its tint.
“Don't be a goose, Katie,” said the
youngest Miss Brownrig, kindly, but
scornfully; “you don't sup)K>so any of us
would marry him now, after the wav he
has behaved? Do lmto some littlo
pride.”
"Perhaps he is mad,” said Hetty,
vaguely. Just at this moment, ns a
slave to her wounded vanity, she, would
have been glad to believe him so.
“No, my dear,” declared Lily, calmly;
“he has no hraius worth turning.”
“He said something to papa about
calling to-day at 4 o’clock,.’’ said Katie,
very faintly.
“Then I shall sit here Nil 4,” returned
Mr. Brownrig in an awful tone. “I
shall sot here until 5; and then 1 shall
get up, and go out and find that young
man, and give him such a horse whip
ping as 1 w arrant you ho never got tie
lore in all his life. ”
“Don’t he too hard on him, papa,”
entreated Katie, weakly.
“I shan’t my dear, but my whip will,”
said papa, grimly.
Bo he waited until 6; he waited until
half-past five; ami then he took up a cer
tain heavy gold knobbed whip that liw
stretched on tho table as though in read
iness, and sallied forth in search of
Snooks' rooms. And he found them, and
Snooks, too- - in bed, suffering from a
severe catarrh, caught, 1 presume, in the
laurel avenue.
And no man knows what he did to
Snooks. But at least lie gave him mi
increased desire for his bed, because for
a fortnight afterward he never stired out
of it.
When Mr. Wilding heard of all this, 1
regret to say he gave way to noisy mirth
in the privacy of liih chambers; and was
actually caught by his washerwoman,
who peeped through the keyhole, per
forming a wild dance in the middle of
the floor. . .
Lowell in London.
Janies Russell Lowell’s speech at the
Savage Club supper has been much ap
plauded by the Londoners. “It was ad
mirable in itself,” says the London
World, “perfectly delivered, in a soft,
low-toned and yet penetrating voice.”
Mr. Lowell is described as a wonderfully
young-looking American, whom it is dif
ficult to believe is sixty-one years old.
Mr. Lowell, in his pleasant little speech,
said, among other things: “I confess
that if Alexander, who once offered a re
ward for anew pleasure, were to come
again upon earth 1 should be one of the
competitors for that prize, and I should
offer for his consideration a festival at
which there were no speeches. Gentle
men in your profession have in one sense
a great advantage over the rest of us
your speeches are prepared for you by
the cleverest men of your time, or by the
greatest genius of all time You can he
witty and wise at less expense than we
poor creatures wlioare obliged to call up
on our own resources. I admit that there
is a good deal in the spur of the moment,
hut that depends very much upon the
animal into whose flank you dig it; lmt
there is also a great deal in that self
possessed extemporaneousuess which a
man carries in his pocket on a sheet of
paper. It reminds one of the compli
ment which tho Irishman paid to the
national weapon: ‘God bless this sliil
lehili; it’s a weapon which never misses
fire.’” *
A (jlwml Character from His Last Place.
In Galveston, as elsewhere in Texas,
when a prisoner has no money to employ
counsel, tin- .fudge iqqioiiits a young law
yer to defend the doomed man, very much
as the pauper patients in u hospital are
turned over to the young doctor to learn
the profession on. Not long since quite
young lawyer was appointed to defend
a man for burglary. The young lawyer,
after consulting with his unfortunate
client, said ;
“ May it please vour Honor, I want
this case continued until I can procure
the attendance of material witesses.”
“What do you expect to prove?”
asked the court.
“ I expect to prove that my unfortu
nate client is a quiet, sober and indus
trious man.”
“By whom do you expect to prove
that ?”
“By the off.i .era of the. penitentiary,
where he has spent the last five years.”
Presence of Mind.
There is nothing like presence of mind
after all. During a tremendous rdiower,
a gentleman entered a fashionable New
York club, hearing a splendid ivotfy
handlcd silk umbrella, which he placed
on the rack. Instantly another gentle
man. who was mourning the abstraction
of just such an article, jumped up.
“ VVill you allow me to look at that? ”
he said, sternly. “Certainly,” re
marked the umbrella carrier. “I was
just taking it to the police headquarters.
It was left in my house last night by a
burglar w hom we frightened oil'. I hope
it will prove a first-rate clew.” And,
though the exasperated owner could
plainly see where his name had been
scratched off the handle, he sat down
and clmnged the subject.— JV/w York
Hour.
Tub Marquis of Bute was, years ago,
struck with the picture of a heaver
village, serving as a frontispiece to a
book of travels in Canada, with the re
semblance of the sit*: to a spot on his
Kothesay estate, and he conceived the
idea of acclimatizing the animal. He
sent to Canada for beavers, and, after
inclosing the shore of the lake in the
woods, he let them loose upon it. The
creatures soon made themselves at home,
and began to build as busily as if they
had remained in their native forests.
The young Luke of Portland was so
charmed with the sight of the Marquis of
Bute’s leaver colony that he determined
to establish one on each side of his
estates in England and Scotland. Ho
has sent to Canada for the brutes, uadis
preparing the ground.
Ill* ham* Husky Stoodakd was, In
early life, a moulder, then a reporter on
a newspaper, and now oil*: of our best
known and most admired poets.
Asn now a physician says that long
Monition.
Memnou was one of the heroes of the
Trojan war. He was slain by Achilles.
A colossal statue was erected iu tho
neighborhood of Thebes. This famous
statue, the vocal Monition, as it is called,
1h the northernmost of two colossal sit
ting figures in the approach to a temple
now in ruins, in the quarter of Western
Thebes called Meiunouiu by the (irooks.
The height of each of these statues is
forty-seven feet, and they stand oil
pedestals twelve feet high. On the lower
part of the vocal Memnou are seventy -
two inscriptions from private and official
circles testifying that they have heard
its voice at sunrise. The sound is said
to have resembled the twanging of a
harp-string or the striking of brass, and
it occurred at sunrise or soon after. In
the top of the statue is a stone which, oil
being struck, emits a metallic souud that
still might be made use of to deceive a
visitor; and from its jmsition, and tho
fact that there is a squared place cut in
the block behind, as if to admit a person,
who might thus be concealed from the
most careful observer in the plain below,
it is supposed to have been so used.
That it was a deception there can he lmt
littlo doubt; the fact of the Emperor
Hadrian hearing it thrice, looks very
suspicious; a natural phenomenon would
not have been so complimentary to the
Emperor, when ii sounded only once to
ordinary mortals. Others, however, claim
that it was impossible so clumsy an im
posture should have passed without de
tection for centuries, while the statue
was constantly exposed to the inspection
of intelligent Romans, who, as foreigners
and conquerors in Egypt, would not
hesitate to detect and expose the tricks
of the native priesthood. It is said that
similar sounds have been produced from
stones from the influence of the sun's
rays; and -several of the scientific men
attached to Bonaparte’s army ill Egypt
have stated frequently that they heard
such a sound, always shortly after sun
rise, apparently issuing from one of tho
roof-stones of the temple of Karnok.
Mr. Lowe states that in ft neighboring
temple he heard rejieatedly a sound like
that of a harp-string hum some stones
above him. This occurred at noon, and
ini supftoses that at this time the stones
became exposed to the sun, and the sud
den expansion from the warmth produced
the sound.
Six Thousand Years Old.
The Asliinolean Museum, at Oxford,
contains one of the oldest monuments of
civilization in the world, if, indeed, it is
not the very oldest. Thisis the lintel stone
of atomh which formed the last resting
place of an officer who lived in tho time
of King Sent, of the second dynasty,
whose date is placed by M. Marietta
more than six thousand years ago. The
stone is covered with that delicate and
finished sculpture which distinguished
the early periods of Egyptian history,
and was immeasurably superior to tho
stiff and conventional art of the latter
ages of Egypt which we are accustomed
to see. in our European museums. But
it is also covered with something more
precious still than sculpture, with hiero
glyphics which shows that even at that
remote period Egyptian writing
was a complete anil finished art,
with long ages of previous devel
opment lying behind it. The hiero
glyphic characters are already used,
not only pictorially and ideographic,ally,
hut also to express syllables and alpha
betic hitters, the name of the King, for
instance, being spoiled alphabetically.
In the hands of the Egyptian scribes,
however, Egyptian writing never inndo
any further progress. With the fall of
what is called the Old Empire (about B.
G. TWO) the freshness and expansive
force of the people passed away, Egyp
tian life and thought became fossilized,
and through the long series of centuries
that followed Egypt resembled one of its
own mummies, faithfully preserving tho
form and features of the past age, and of
a life which had ceased to heat in its
veins. Until the introduction of Chris
tianity the only change undergone by
Egyptian writers was the invention of a
running hand, which in its earlier and
simpler form is called hieratic, and in its
later form domotie.
A Remarkable Affliction.
A most remarkable case of disease
which has baffled the skill of some of the
most prominent physicians in Western
Pennsylvania, is reported from Glenfield,
a little village a few miles below Pitts
burg, on the line of the Pittsburg, Fort
Wayne and Chicago Railroad. The un
fortunate being is a young Judy twenty
three years of age, who has abstained
from the use of solid food for a period of
three years. Mix years ago she noticed a
swelling about the base of her nose,
which was lanced, an it subsequently
healed, hut swellings of like nature soon
appeared about the abdomen. Two phy
sicians were called, who disagreed as to
the cause of the ailment, one holding
that it was caused by the gas of the ab
domen, and tho other stating it was
caused by water. She gradually grew
worse, aiid about three years ago she
began to lose the power *if speech and
sight, and for two years the sufferer has
not spoken audibly, and lias been totally
blind anil without mind. With the loss
of these faculties she also lost tho use of.
her limbs, and neither her hair nor her
finger-nails have grown a particle. She
is only conscious of her sufferings. All
that has been given her, and that sin-has
been able to take in the way of food for
three years, is a tithe of bird broth and
diluted whisky. Of late she lias bad two
violent spasms weekly. Six weeks ago
her spine commenced to curve inwardly,
until now there is a space of four a and
half inches between her buck and tli<- lied
upon which she lies. She is a mere
skeleton in body, but full in the face.
The unfortunate woman is the daughter
of Mr. Duff, a well-to-do fanner.
Wiiitk furs or ermine may be cleaned
as follows : Lay the furs on a table and
rub them well with bran mode moist
with warm water ; rub until quite dry
and afterward with dry bran. The wet
bran should be put on with flannel and
the dry with a piece of book muslin.
The light furs, in addition to the above,
should be well rubbed with magnesia or
a piece of liook muslin after the bran
process. Lry flour may be used instead
J. L. DENNIS, Editor.
#I.OO it Year.
Drinks for the Kick.
The sick, especially those afflicted
with fever, often Butter from intense
thirst. The quenching of this without
injuring the patient is a matter which
requires knowledge and good judgment.
Dr. H. H. Kane says that plain water,
when taken beyond n certain amount, is
very apt to disorder the stomhcli and
bowels, especially in levers, w here niueh
fluid and hut little solid food is taken.
Enough water to quench the thirst
would certainly he enough, in most
eases, to disorder digestion, or rather
further disorder it, mid so ini|M>rtant is
the little that romnins of this function
(list we cannot afford to abuse it.
Bmnll pieces of iee held in the mouth
and allowed to dissolve sometimes an
swer the puqsme, lmt not in the msjor
ity of eases.
Up to a certain point, the action of
water taken internally, in fevers, is ex
cellent. Aside from allaying irritation
by quenching thirst, it flushes the kid
neys, carrying off much of the effete
material produced by the high tenqiera
turo.
It has been found that the addition of
certain substances to water greatly in
creases its powers to quench thirst.
This is especially the ease with acids.
One drachm of hydrochloric acid lidded
to a quart of water will give it sufficient
acidity to accomplish the desired pur
|m>kc, while at the same time it adds to
its pleasantness, and sometimes relieves
nausea.
The use of acids in fevers is highly
commended by some authors, and this
is, 1 think, the best way in which to ad
minister them. Tlie same amount of
sulphurous acid maybe added to a quart
of water when the liowels are liaise or
there is a tendency that way.
Iu these cssch acidulated liarley-water
is pleasant and nourishing. The same
may be snid of toaat-wator.
in constipation, oatmeal water may
lie used in the same manner. A few
tamarinds added to a glass of water will
often assuage thirst and open tho bow
els gently.
Theory anil oxjierience both show
that drinks mnde slightly bitter and
somewhat acid slake thirst moat effect
ually.
A weak infusion of enseurilln or orange
peel, acidulated slightly with hydro,
chloric acid, was with Graves, of Dublin,
a favorite thirst-ullaying drink for fever
putients.
Raspberry vinegar is a useful drink.
Bucking iee is very grateful.
Bweet fruits, although at first agree
able and refreshing, must lie taken with
care and moderation, for they often give
riso hi a disagreeable taste, and are apt
to produce flatulence and diarrhea.
Two- Hundred Tlmnsnnd Kqiinre Feel
of Ambuscaded Combustion.
It is a “fact not. generally known," or
at all events not very commonly borne in
mind, that there is in London a “fiery
mine” of so very excitable a disposition
that no artificial light of any description
has ever vet been allowed to he brought
even its uoighliorhood. Its pro
duct, however, is not cool, hut rum. The
mm-siiod, as it is called, of the West In
dia Dock, covers n space of two hundred
thousand square feet, with vaults of cor
responding size, nil crammed with huge
casks of spirit, from every pore of which
and tlie most caqduljy closed have
jsires in plenty- the fiery viqior is for
ever streaming out into the ail’, only beg
ging for the smallest chance of convert
ing the whole area of the docks, with
their iwo hundred and fifty odd ships,
and two or three hundred thousand bins
or so of cargo, and their more or less in
calculable stores of timficr and tea, silk
and sugar, cigars and ccrculs, coals and
cotton, wine, wool, whisky, whale-fins,
and what not, into the most magnificent
howl of snap-dragon ever imagined in in
fant nightmare. Into these fiery regions
not even a hull's eye lantern is or ever
has liecn allowed to penetrate. Even
the wharf along the side where the great
puncheons arc landed is forbidden to
the approach of vessels, every cask being
transferred from ship to shore in the
company's own lighters. Each cask in
that vast range of dim dark vaults is
marked and mini Wed, and on the right
reading of these marks and numliers de
pends the efficient execution of every one
of the numerous ojmi rations to which
every individual cask has been subjected
before its contents can go forth for the
mixing of the world’s grog. How any
one but an experienced .Japanese juggler
ever manages to perforin bis feat in the
very brightest weather hv the simple aid
of a little plate of polished tin artfully
turned and twisted to catch tlie solitary
ray of highly diluted daylight which
here and there filters down from the
floor alsive, is a mystery by no means
amongst tin- least wonderful of the many
of which the visitor to this commercial
paradise catches here and there a tantal
izing glimpse.
Name of Miss Corou’s Teachings.
Potatoes, at any time of the year, can
be made mealy if boiled in salt and water
and drained and then covered with a
thick towel and left in hack of the range
five minutes,
To retain the color of any vegetable
plunge it into cold water after boiling.
Cooks make the mistake of boiling
things too much. After reaching the
boiling point meats should simmer. The
toughest meats can he made tender by
so doing.
It is always best to under-season rather
than to over-season food.
When anything is accidentally marie
too salt it can he counteracted by adding
a tables] >oolifiil of vinegar and a table
spoonful of sugar.
Meats of any kind should not lie
washed, but, wiped with a towel to pre
serve the juices and quality.
To wash towels with colored loaders
let them soak in a pailful of cold water
containing one teafcpoonful of KUgar of
lead ; let them remain ten minntes be
fore washing; to make the colors look
clear and bright, use pulverized borax
in wash water, very little soap and no
soda. To wash red table linen, use tepid
water, with a little powdered borax,
which serves to set the color ; wash the
linen separutelv and quioklv, using very
little soap; rinse in tepid water, con
taining a little boiled starchy hang to
JOTTING* AND CLIITINGS.
It is estimated that Michigan Ims 110,-
B4I) farms, and produces IH.bffo.nOU
bushels of wheat per annum.
Tup. personal property of California i
valued at ollH,:iUi,4.jl, nod the real es
tato at $446,27:1,885.
Gaunuß Ti'ckkh, all inmate of II New
York penitentiary, lms just inherited $12,-
tint). Hisnenteueo will expire in 1885.
In 1874 the nhfce crop of
Florida was represented by 2,5011 half
barrel eases. In 187!) it amount <1 to
200,000.
A MvHHAriu’SHKTN bov about as high ns
the counter reeenlh eiiute into a k
store and iiskisl tor “n book for ten cents
with a murder in it.
Dm you ever see a bsld-heudcd man
who didn't have such a “beautiful lien*
of hair ” till “ that fever,” or something
or other, took it off?
A HKi-yvr law suit In London incidentally
brought out the opinion of experts con
cerning the value of land in the city , Ilia*
one aero was worth .(M,! 1)1,420.
Eimtou Thohn, of Xu/ 1 * unit i/ii' i k*.
has retired from the office of Assistant
Librarian of the House of Lords, nt the
age of seventy-seven, on a pension oi #d,-
750 s year.
Till: Khedive lms sent his hinvni te
Smyrna, his wives having sleoui n ten
den’ev to clone nt Naples. He got tire'
nt roll-cull of finding two or three of the
pretty ones gone.
Ralph Wu.no Emkiihon contemplate
a visit to England next year. He is ex
tremely desirous of meeting t urlvle,
Cardinal Newman and Mr. Herbert
Spencer.
Worn we reflect that every woman lin?
children of surprising genius, it is a mat
ter of serious inquiry where all the or
dinary men come from who cross out
path in every-day life.
A Gkoiiuia young man asked his sweet
heart, whether she had ever read “Romeo
and Juliet." Bho replied that she had
read Romeo, but she did not think she
had ever read Juliet.
SqrAliK umbrellas liavo been intro
dimed in Paris; but someone says they
are just as bad as the old kind 1 >ecauso
they are never round when wanted.—
Philadelphia /hi I tel in.
A Nkw York paper says that a lady
teacher in a Philadelphia Sunday-school
tins horse-whipped the Superintendent,
Fisher, with an umbrella, for “showing
her an uninvited partiality.”
Lon. Moonn, a Greenville man, now
has a convenience in the shape of a gross
cutter. The people say lam. Moore pur
chased the lawn mower, na lie could get
along moro conveniently with it.
A i,Auditors calculator of the Lonilou
Statistical Society has computed that the
population of that city three centuries
from this will, following the rnte of in
crease of the past fifty yours, be over
186,000,000.
Establishing a newspaper is like [s Hir
ing water into a lenkv cask if you have
got grit enough and Water enough to
keep the vessel full, possibly the staves
may swell up and become water tight. -
Va il C. liai/nail.
Tim Croton aqueduct is taxed to its
utmost power tor supplying tlie wants of
the people of the metropolis. New York
daily consumes upwards of !)1,000,000 of
gallons of water, while tho capacity of
the aqueduct is put at 1)5,000,000 of
gallons.
“I don’t like Newport,” says the Har
atoga swell, “because everything down
there tastes as if it hail been caught with
a hook. And then if a man stops at a
hotel, you know, in Newport, lie is taken
fur a tramp! Now u man doosn t want to
be taken for a trump, does he?”
An exchange says that a young girl
wonts the paper to notify tho young men
that she is a worker, and to illustrate,
she says, that she picked twenty-five
geese in one day. We didii t know that
geese were ripn yet. However, that is
not very heavy picking. When we were
in the army wo could go out with a sabre
and pick geese enough for a mess in ttvo
minutes. — Peck's Nun.
Tun Holyoke (Mass.) Gazette says: It
is stated upon excellent authority that in
this neighlarrhood them is a lady who
has built u house out of a fund made by
selling rum to her own husband. He is
a drinking man, and so his wife struck
the bargain with him that il he would
drink lie must agree to buy all bis liquor
of her. Hlie thus pocketed the profit,
instead of the regular rutusoUcrs.
Mr. Fred. Wilhelm, \>U opening a
twenty-three jsmnd watermelon oil Sun
day last, discovered within it unothfl
melon weighing, by actual weight, seven
and three quarters pounds. The rind
of flie interior' melon was of an orange
color, and the flesh was of u brighter red
than that of the enclosing one. Any of
his friends anxious to see this freak of
nature can do so by calling at liis risim,
where it will lie on exhibition for a few
days. —Columbus ( Oa .) Enquirer.
Not ho Easily Fooled.
Chambers’ Journal recalls an anec
dote which is related of a certain Edin
burgh professor of nuturiil history who
was engaged in delivering a course of
lectures on geology, Imt which hod a re
sult different from what was anticipated.
One day a chosen hand of his students
acquired possession of a brickbat, which
they painted a variety of specious lines,
and placed among liie other fossils and
rocks on which their master was to dis
course. The professor illustrated his
lecture by reference to the specimens
before him on the table, saying, for ex
ample, us he went on, “This is a piece
of volcanic trap-rock," or “This is a
piece of granite.” At length he came
to the mysterious stranger with the
gaudy livery, and, after taking it up in
his hands and examining it attentively
for a few moments, lie proceeded ;
“ And, gentlemen, this is, L am sorry to
say, a piece of foolishness.”
A similar story is told of on American
professor, whose s|>cciaHy was entomol
ogy. Home of his students, wishing to
test his knowledge, prepared a bug with
great care, making it up of the wings,
legs, etc., of the different insects. Car
-1 rying it to the professor, they said:
“ Professor, here is a strange Specimen
that we have found. Cun yon classify
it? ” The professor studied it a few
moments and then said quietly : " Gen
tlemen, this is a hum bug."
Sunshine.
Tlie world wants more sunshine in its
disposition, in its business, in its chari
ties, in its theology. For 10,000 of the
aches and pains and irritations of men
and women we recommend sunshine.
It soothes better than morphine. It
stimulates better than ohanqiagiie. It
is tlie liest plaster for a wound. The
Good Harnavitan poured out into the
fallen traveler’s gash more of this than
of oil. Florence Nightingale used it on
the Crimean battlefields. Take it out
into all the alleys, on board all the
ships, by all the sick-beds. Not a vial
full, not a cupful, hut a soul lull. It is
good tor spleen, for liver complaint, for