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By R . s. HOWARD.
VOLUME V.
Fail Me Not.
I pail ir.e not thou !
are higher, brighter, more divine
I V^ n aught man can invent to light bis
I •
I | c la?s thy love, and qualities
I ' \ rl! t and mind, above all men. I pray—
I Fail me not thou !”
Sweet is thy speech,
strictly search thy heart, and mine, as
I well)
ge jure it is no transient charm that holds
I -.v fancy, but a love rooted in death
jo brave life’s storms. Such unity ot souls
>'o ill can reach.
[ Fail me not thou !
•Vc known the agony of being crushed
Beneath a fallen idol. Thou hast raised
jfenp to bo] e for sweeter life again,
With draughts ot bliss so deep I stard
an!ii2*d-
Fail me not thou !
Oh, fail me not!
\|v every hope of earthly happiness
()n t ] lK , js cast. Thou sun unto my day,
-a- warms my lile to bloom with better
deed#
I may worthy be ol such a ray
As gilds my lot.
Fail me not thou !
tollue 1 cling like ivy round the oak;
All other ties I willingly do break
)Ca t my fate with thine, whate'er betide,
forever all thine own lor love’s sweet sake
Trusting thy vow.
Boston Traf'scrivt.
A PAIR OF SLIPPERS.
She made a pretty picture sitting
there in the sunset glory that was
streaming' in through the stained-glass
window, tilling the hall with its warm,
rosy light. Little Edna Welden, with
her Slight, graceful form, small, queenly
head, crowned with its smooth braids
of chestnut hair, a soft fringe falling
over the low, broad, white forehead, a
dreamy look in the big, gray eyes, her
dainty chin upheld in ore rosy, palm,
si there thinking how happy she was
-how happy she had been 3inee invited
to the great house, that had been the
lioiueol the Stanleys from time imme
morial. to help Mrs. Stanley and Hugh,
her only son, from feeling lonely.
Handsome Hugh! tall, broad-shoul
dered y.ung giant that he was, a very
prince among men!—he it was who
planned the walks and drives —taught
shy Edna to ride the brown pony. So
kind lie was!—winning all hearts win
his sonny, genial ways.. Edna did no
try to analyze her feelings in regard t
Hugh; she only knew that she wa
ffled with a strange happiness, such a
she had never felt before; never think
ing how it would end, because eaci
hour was so full. The pretty dimple.-
came and went around the sweet mouth
whose K-ar.i t lips were the only hint
of color in the otherv. ise colorless face
f think one reason Miss Varens dis
iked Edna was just because of those
same dimples. At any ra,e, coming
iWn the hali with slow, stately step
>l.t‘felt she would give a great deal if,
hy some witchery, they could be trans
ferred to her own glowing cheeks. Sir.
had noticed, with growing uneasiness,
Hugh’s evident liking for little Edna,
thought it time to interfere: not
s h e even dreamed of Hugh’s
1 - ‘ing in love with this little country
pd; and I think if you had hinted at
bare of Hugh Stanley
c arrying her, her look ot scorn would
have struck you as something very fine;
T Claudia Varens blood was su
preme; and hadn’t she and Hugh the
5,1:11 e blue blood? Her proud mother
ays asserted that the Varens and the
1 buiioys ought to be united through
l. Ufe | Wo ’ the last of each race; though
1 ' Stanley had never uttered so much
a \ 01 ' e wor d on thi3 subject, but said
1 ; “ l i; - v Hugh would make his own
\ 10i0e ; . ut Miss Varens had no idea
waiting much longer. It was time
1 action. They were both nearing the
°f thirty, and —well, by the time
-uidia had reached Edna’s side, she
i‘ a ' |' ome lo the conclusion that it was
‘ ll "Uty to give her a hint of how mat
tfrs stood.
Slip gave the Quiet figure a quick tap
°“ the shoulder. 4
It brought Edna to her feet with a
, I’ u t she sat down again when she
i w " I* o was near, and a faint color
se lf in Iter cheeks.
ur ~ ’‘ x ‘deve you were asleep, Miss
! 0 and d 1 en ’” S:vid Claudia.
1 Hi, no—not asleep, Miss Varens; but
beaming wide awake.”
o b ; we been looking for you. Mrs.
uccu iuoKing lor you. ivirs.
P - v thought—that is I—in short I
- | au dia was getting con
.u * n search of someone to do some
ft) 01 ’k f° r me. You are quite skill
wj at that Sort of thing, I believe, and I
‘ * J°u fo work a pair of slippers for
Ihi , rhp y ar e intended as a present for
dist- I continued Miss Yarens, more
hV n ,\ V ’ I wish very much to
t l‘ J t ‘ lem done in time. Here,” put
, f 1 banknote into Edna's hand, “you
ri„', e . tter see about getting the mate
b;; away—and perhaps I had
fhr ' T P a y y°u for you trouble and be
' with it.”
ev e le -f ven Edna no time to refuse,
ski’Vi e * la( * w i and as she was
... “ Ui at embroidery she could do the
easily.
w. cannot take pay for doing a favor,
* iss \ arcns, but I will do the work and
ha y e it done in time.”
as you wi E. I am in the
Paying for services rendered
Stan 1 V ie sr -P° r oiliouß tone of Mrs.
V S
Sie, but she made no sign. “ Hugh is
the forest news.
tMngrto^he' 16
th ir own satisfaction. I
Sliould nT t U and kl ! } his mother if Hugh
no neol^ ak r e & misalliance ; but she has
need to fear for him now!” she said
Z a meaning tone. ‘‘Dear Hugh, i
ma P keb- ail l W ° rthy ’ and 1 thinkl can
tnake him happy.”
olutchina d } Da! h ’° n hanJ seemed
c Sa g hei ’ heart; the Httle hands
Claudia’ t aCh ° ther ° n her la P - d
eyeS SaW a gra y ißh Pallor
oitv 7 1 ° Val faf>e; but Bhe had no
Pity—not she. If she had a mind to
betrhe a r f ° f n herself ’ why she must
bear her own folly-and she kept on in
tl at musical voice:
, Jv n . and you had not heard of it? In-
W i ! l u ange! but then Perhaps
ey thought best not to mention it.”
excuse me, Miss Varens; I think I
the g °i i0 - P 1? vl Hnge this evening for
the materials for the slippers.” Edna’s
voice was quite steady now; she should
never know - this proud, heartless
woman how this hurt her. “Please
tell Mrs. Stanley I am going for a walk;”
and Edna hastily left her seat in the
window leaving Miss Claudia quite
elated at her success.
“Cool, upon my word! I did not
know the minx was so proud! Well, I
think she has got a lesson she won’t for
get. lam glad it is settled about the
slippers. Hugh shall have them, of
course. H e will think I male them
tmenare such fools!) and he will be
flattered and propose. I only hope the
nmny (meaning Edna) won’t tell Mrs.
Stanley what I have said.”
They were very pretty indeed, the
slippers Hugh Stanley he and in his hand
one morning, a week afterward; yes,
lovely, he thought—a dark gray ground,
on which lay a tiny bunch of great, vel
vety pansies, looking so natural! as if
they,,had fallen there from a careless
hand ; but Hugh’s face wore a perplexed
look as he glanced from the slippers to a
card he held in his other hand which
bore the words: “Wear these for the
worker’s sake.” At length a light
broke over his face, and he gave vent to
a low whistle, and exclaimed, as lie
pressed his lips to the silken pansies, “I
have it! I knew there was some mis
chief afloat. We will see, Miss
Claudia!”
Whenthe family met in the luxurious
breakfast room, Hugh tnanked Claudia
for her kind remembrance of him, add
ing: “I shall be happy to wear them
for the worker’s sake.”
Turning to exchange the compliments
of the season with Edna, he surprised a
swift blush receding from her blow.
Her eyes fell beneath his penetrating
glance, while Claudia, murmuring
something about being very happy,
blushed and smiled very prettily as she
thanked him for the bracelets he had
given her, thinking the while that her
plans were working nicely. Not a
throb of compassion did she feel for the
white face opposite.
Edna had changed in the past week;
her eyes had dark circles under them
—the sweet, scarlet mouth a pitiful
droop at the corners. She was very
proud and had told herself in that bit
ter hour he should never-know she had
cared for him, never; so she had forced
herself to be gay, to laugh when she
felt like weeping. But she could not
hide the pale face -and heavy eyes—
though to Mrs. Stanley’s kindly ques
tions she s.miled quickly and said she
was well, only “her head ached a lit
tle,” but oh! her heart ached a great
deal.
She had given Hugh no chance for a
word with her had lie wished, but had
avoided him persistently. Claudia was
always at his side with her ever-ready
gayety, of which he was secretly tired.
“ Oli, Hugh, you will please turn this
music tor me!” or if he planned a walk
or drive she always found her place by
his side, while Edna was beside his
mother. Perhaps he knew the cause of
Edna's sudden coldness; at any rate he
resolved to bear it no longer.
As they were leaving the breakfast
room, Mrs. Stanley said:
“ Edna, do you feel able to attend the
party to-night? if not, I will stay at
home with you?”
“ Not for the world, my dear Mrs.
Stanley; I am perfectly well. I will
go.”
Yes, she would go, if she had to dance
on hot plowshares. And so that night,
after Hugh had searched the rooms
vainly for her, he at last turned into
the conservatory; at the lower end, in
the shadow of a great oleander, where a
fountain splashed in liquid music and
the air was sweet with the fragrance of
many flowers, he found her, his pale
Edna. Her robe was of snowy, soft
muslin, a cluster of crysanthemums in
her belt of ribbon that bound her slen
der waist, another in her hair. Hugh
stood beside her ere she had time to
rise. She would have left him instantly,
but he caught her hand and made her
sit down by his side. His first words
dried the tears in her eyes and made her
cheeks burn with indignation.
“Edna, little Edna, why will you
persist in making us both so UDhappy?
My shy little girl, you know I love you,
and I want you for my own, my wife.”
She tried to wrench her hands away,
but he held her tight, so she only looked
at him with her great eyes full of
a righteous anger.
“How dare you, Hugh Stanley, say
such words to me?” she said. “ I wish
Miss Varens were here that she might
hear you! Oh, I know your false heart,
sir—you, the betrothed husband of an
other—”
JEFFERSON, GA., FRIDAY, MAY 14, 1880.
Edna, stop! you know not what you
say. Who has been telling you this
wicked lie? Miss Varens is nothing to
me, less than nothing, for since her
wretched untruth about the slippers—”
Edna gave a start—“ she is beneath my
contempt. You believe me, my dar
ling? Look up here with your truth
ful eyes and say you love me. My poor
girl, how you have suffered!” as the
sweet face was upturned to his gaze for
a moment, then hid, blushing and
happy, on his shoulder.
“ But how—l don’t understand—how
did you know about—about the slip
pers? faltered Edna, who could hardly
believe his happiness was real.
“I saw you working them. I had
been away all day, and, returning late
at night, and seeing a light in the music
room, peeped in and saw you; also
what your work was. Mother over
heard the whole conversation between
yourself and Miss Varens when she
asked you to work the slippers, but
would only give me a hint of it and
bade me wait. I did wait as long as I
could bear to see you so—”
“But, Hugh,” interrupted Edna, “I
tried to hide it; and indeed, sir, I have
not said I love you yet.”
“Then tell me so this minute, you
little witch! Ah, my own, as if you
could hide anything from me!” and he
kissed the sweet lips again and again;
then said: ‘ ‘ Let me take you to my
mother.”
“Oh, Hugh, I cannot! I—”
“ She knows, my darling; and is very
glad.”
And Claudia? I think you would
have pitied her had you seen her half an
hour later creep out -from behind the
fountain where she had seen and heard
the whole, and realized that she had
lost all—everything—though she told
her mother, with tears of vexation in
her black eyes, “if it hadn’t been for
those hateful slippers I might hav< been
Mrs. Hugh Staaaley!” and she believes it
to this day.
Scenes in Damascus,
Like all Eastern cities, the interior
is disappointing. The streets are dusty
and narrow, and the effect of the shabby
houses and dilapidated walls is rather
that of a collection of villages huddled
together than of a large and important
city. Our first call was made at an ex
cellent hotel kept by a Greek. Its court
yards, with fountains playing and with
orange trees shadowing the whole place,
looked so enticing, its myrtles and jessa
mines and marble floors so cool, and its
bedrooms so clean and comfortable,that
we felt sorry it had not been arranged
that we should stay there, instead of
pitching our tents in one of the far
famed gardens of Damascus. From the
hotel we made a progress through the
picturesque bazaars. Here there are cov
ered-in buildings, swarming with peo
ple in every variety of Oriental cos
tumes. Turks, Syrians, Maronites and
Druses of the town jostle each other.
Now a Bedouin of the desert rides by on
a beautiful Arab mare, with his long
pointed lance at rest, followed by other
Bedouins on foot and in rags, unsuccess
lul robbers, possibly. Friday is the
Mohammedan Sabbath, and th y make
it market day as well, so the Bedouins
of the desert who come from long dis
tances may combine their temporal and
spiritual duties comfortably and do their
marketing and go to the mosque on the
same day. The streets were even more
crowded than last night, with varied
and wonderful costumes, and so closely
packed that it was diflicult to make
one’s way through them. In the corner
stood a Bedouin Anazeli, of the tribes
from near Palmyra, bargaining for a
cane to make a spear, his goafs hair
loak, with its broad black and white
stripes, hanging from his stalwart
shoulders, Another of the tribe hard
by seemed to be doing his best to seat
his horse, while others again rode by
with an abstracted air, the graceful
mares they bestrode often -followed by
whinnying foals. Groups of Jewish,
Turkish or Christian women made their
purchases with quite as much earnest
ness and gesticulations as housewives
nearer home, while their lords and
masters lounged near, probnbly keeping
an eye on the domestic expenditures,
but apparently only intent on buying
sweetmeats from some of the many
venders. There were no Franks except
ourselves.— Mrs. Brassey , in Fraser's
Magazine.
Life in Madagascar.
Everywhere in Madagascar life is
broken up into sections and fenced
about with forms which have lost their
meaning. Thus there isjthe hereditary
noblesse, the Andrians. They are
buried in tombs different from those of
the commonality. Some of them may
carry a scarlet umbrella. The highest
grades may marry out of their own
rank, though the inferior grades may
not. For ethers the point of honor is
that they may not mend a fence. None
of them have any more prescriptive
right than German nobles or Magyars to
occupy state offices. The present prime
minister, for instance, is not an An
drian, though his family has been
wealthy and powerful for several
generations. Andrians are often poor
enough to be day laborers. One set of
these monopolizes the craft of making
tinware. The sovereign is the single
sun and center of Malagasy society.
When bricklayers’ work has to be done
in the queen’s palaces, “all ranks of peo
ple, from the highest to the lowest, take
a pride in doing with their hands some
of the actual labor under - the eye of
their queen, who sits on a raised seat
looking on.” The sovereign is an auto-
FOR THE PEOPLE.
crat. The lives and property ol all her
subjects are at her absolute disposal. It
is death even to block the way to her
cattle. But she is as much a slave to
the ceremonial which environs her as
her subjects are slaves to her caprices.
She may not move except with an
enormous retinue to escort her. On
her progresses 20,00© to 30,000 attend her.
To walk is almost forbidden. From the
great New Year’s festival which she
celebrates by majestically bathing in a
silver bath, only screened from view of
her court by the silken mar ties her at
tendants hold, to the moment when her
royal corpse is yet more majestically
interred, she is a figure in an often-re
hearsed pageant. The punctiliously
regulated life of the sovereign is only an
extreme illustration of the minute ob
servances which encompass Malagasy
life in all ranks. The best part of a Mala
gasy’s year is robbed from him by a
division of days into lucky and un
lucky. Out of the twenty-eight days
of a month twelve only are luckyj
Some months are altogether unlucky.
Children born in one month, or
on certain days of others, were, until
the missionaries interfered, put to death.
“The new-born infant’s head was placed
head downward in a shallow wooden
dish filled with lukewarm water.” In
one Malagasy tribe a child born on a day
of ill-omen is buried alive in an ant-hill.
The Hovas love their children, yet all
infants bora in an unlucky month had
formerly to be laid down at the entrance
of the village cattle-fold, that the oxen
might be driven over them. The present
prime minister survived this ordeal of
hoofs and horns. —Saturday Review.
Talking Twenty-six Hours.
The longest speech on record is be
lieved to have been made by a member
of the legislature of British Columbia,
named De Cosmos. It was in the inter
est of settlers, who were to be de
frauded of their .lands. De Cosmos was
in the hopeless minority. The job had
been held back ti 1 tlje eve of the close
of the session. Unless legislation was
taken before noonj]of a certain day, the
act of confiscation would fail.
The day before the expiration of the
limitation, De Cosmos got the floor
about ten o’clock a. m., and began a
speech against the bill. Its friends
cared little, for they supposed that by
one or two p. m., he would be through,
and the bill could oe put on its passage.
One o’clock came and went, and
De Cosmos was still speaking—hadn’t
more than entered upon his subject.
Two o’clock—he was saying “in the
second plrme.” Three o’clock—he pro
duced a fearful bundle of evidence,
and insisted on reading it. The
majority began to have a suspicion
of the truth—he was going to speak
till next noon and kill the bill. For
a while they made merry over
it, hut as it came on to dusk they began
to get alarmed. They tried interrup
tions, but soon abandoned them because
each one afforded him an opportunity
to digress and gain time. They tried to
shout him down, but that gave him a
resting spell, and finally settled down to
watch the combat between the strength
of will and weakness of body. They gave
him no mercy. No adjournment for
dinner; no chance to do more than wet
his lips with water; no wandering from
the subject; no sitting down. Twilight
darkened, the gas was lit; members
slipped out to supper in relays and re
turned to sleep in squads, but De Cos
mos went on. The speaker to whom he
was addressing himself was alternately
dozing, snoring, and trying to look
awake.
Day dawned and a majority of the
members slipped out to breakfast, and
the speaker still held on. It can’t be
said it was a very logical, eloquent, or
sustained speech. There were digres
sions in it; repetitions also. But the
speaker kept on, and at last noon came
to a baffled majority, livid with rage and
impotence, and a single man who was
triumphant, though his voice had sunk
to a whisper, his eyes were sunken, and
bleared and bloodshot, and his legs tot
tered under him, and his baked lips were
cracked and smeared witli blood. De
Cosmos had spoken twenty-six hours
and saved the settlers their land.
Drlnking Ice Water.
There is no more doubt that drinking
ice water arrests digestion than there
is that a refrigerator would arrest per
spiration. It drives from the stomach
its natural heat, suspends the flow of
gastric juice, and shocks and weakens
the delicate organs with which it comes
in contact. An able writer on human
diseases says: Habitual ice water
drinkers are usually very flabby about
the region of the stomach. They com
plain that their food lies heavy on that
patientorgan. They taste their dinners
for hours after it is bolted. They culti
vate the use of stimulants to aid diges
tion. If they are intelligent they read
upon food and what the physiologist
has to say about it—how long it takes
cabbage aDd pork and beef and pota
toes, and other meats and esculents to
go through the process of assimilation.
They roar at new bread, hot cakes,
fried meat, imagining these to have
been the cause of their maladies. But
the ice water goes down all the same,
and finally friends are called in to take
a farewell look at one whom a mysteri
ous Providence has called to a clime
where, as far as is known, ice water is
not used. The number of immortal be
ings who go hence, to return no more,
on account of an injudicious use of ice
water, can hardly be estimated.—Balti
more Sun.
TIMELY TOPICS.
TW* Lowell (Mass.) Sun says that the
current of French-Canadian emigration
into the United States seems to have
suddenly changed its destination from
the factory centers of the East to the
farming lands of the West. Railroad
authorities at Chicago estimate that ten
thousand Canadian emigrants will dur
ing the summer seek new homes in the
West and Northwest. The Canadian
railroads report the emigration move
ment to western points as already
heavier than at any time last year.
In order to perform an amount of
mechanical work equal to lifting 140
pounds 10,000 feet high, Professor Gra
ham calculates that a man must eat
five pounds of potatoes, one and a third
pounds flour, two and a third pounds
bread, one and a quarter pounds oat
meal, one and a third pounds rice, three
and a half pounds lean beef, half apound
of beef fat, or one and a fifth pounds
Cheshire cheese. He says that the peas
ants of all countries have been right, in
spite of many scientific assertions that
they were wrong, in their instinctive
habit of adding fat rather than nitro
genous food to their diet when under
going hard work.
No more interesting experiments have
ever been attempted in the new world,
says an English paper, than that of the
“ wheat colonies ” of La Plata, in South
America. These have been especially
established in the province of Santa Fe,
around the provincial capital of the
same name, and have recently been of
ficially visited by the president of the
republic, who, it is said, was amazed at
the progress that has been made. In
point of abundance and quality the corn
thus grown is reported as equal to that
produced in any market of America or
Europe; and the prospect thus opened
up is practically illimitable. South
America threatens to become a formid
able rival to North America, and to
share some of England’s coin with her.
A Cincinnati dentist has performed
the curious medical feat of grafting a
colored man’s healthy tooth in a cavity
in a white man’s mouth. It is well
known, says a local paper, that the
teeth of colored men are sounder, as a
rule, than those of white men, and cases
like the above have occurred, though
they are not frequent, for reasons that
are easily understood. The dentist
drew the tooth of a white patient, and
immediately went down to a restaurant
under his office, and found a colored
man, with whom he bargained for one
of his teeth at $lO. The colored man
went upstairs, took his seat, had his
tooth drawn, and received $lO. The
tooth was then placed iu the patient’s
mouth, where it is expected to take
hold.
Another marvelous cave has recently
been discovered near Hopkinsville, Ky.,
which is deserving of special mention
as a great geological curiosity, inas
much as it contains a beautiful fossil
lorest of gigantic lepidodendrons in con
nection with numerous species of tree
ferns, club mosses, cquisetums and
other crvptogamic plants, ali in an ex
cellent frtate of preservation and in their
natural positions. The gigantic lepi
dodendrons tower in some instances
forty feet in height, and vary at the base
from twelve feet in diameter to lesser
proportions. They form beautiful col
umns similar to the columns of Fingal’s
cave at Staffa, only spherical in form.
Many beautiful translucent and trans
parent stalactites and stalaffmites also
abound in the cave, as does also many
other beautiful formations. The main
avenue has an average width of about
sixty feet, and in height is about forty
feet. There are numerous dangerous
pits and yawning chasms along the
route, and great danger exists also in
falling rocks, which render cave ex
ploration a dangerous occupation.
A Colorado Spider Story.
A short distance from Buena Vista
says the Leadville (Col.) Chronicle , is a
cave inhabited by spiders which differ
from other spiders in their enormous
size, and are quite useful to the needy
people of that region. The cave was
discovered last December by a party of
sight-seers, and the spiders and their
work were witnessed. On entering the
cave one is first struck by the funny
looking webs. They are worked like
webs of other spiders, but every fiber is
ten times as large as the ones woven by
ordinary spiders. On passing further
into the care the spiders are encoun
tered. They are about the size of small
birds and make a strange sound while
weaving their web. Their webs are so
tough and the fibers so large that it is
almost an impossibility to break down
a web.
Some four weeks ago while looking at
the cave a miner got to examining the
webs. Their strands were about the
size of a No. 12 thread, and he thought
that they could be used for thread.
Having a needle in his possession he
broke off one of the strands and found
that it fitted the needle. Sewing on a
loose button to test the efficacy he found
it as strong as silk thread, and that it
answered his every purpose. Since then
the people have Hocked in and carried
away hosts of the webs, but the spiders
do not appear to object in the least.
There is some talk among capitalists of
starting a thread factory there and using
the webs for thread.
FOB THE FAIK SEX.
Fashion notes.
Plush makes prettier bows for the
hair than velvet.
Ball fassels and rosettes of ribbon are
placed on the top of sunshades.
Brocades in several shades of gold
color are the richest dress goods.
Acacia blossoms in lilac color are
among the new bonnet garnitures.
Not more than two curls are worn
when the hair is dressed for the even
ing.
Habit skirts of bright India silk or of
white muslin are worn with surtout
suits.
Turban hats should not be worn back
on the head, unless the hair on the brow
be very thick.
Bonnet strings are tied in a bow be
hind and below the left ear, quite ob
scuring the side face of the wearer from
any one sitting behind her.
Collarettes and lace scarfs should
never be tied. Fastening them with
ornamental pins preserves their fresh*-
ness and secures a gracelul arrange
ment.
Lace sleeves will be worn this sum
mer With evening dress. The square
opening at the throat is tilled in with
lace so arranged as to be perfectly trans
parent.
Ribbons grow more and more gor
geous, and no color seems too brilliant
t--: be used, either by itself or in combi
nation with others, as a trimming for a
bonnet.
Mantles have the sleeve cut in the
shoulder piece this year rather than
dt; wn from the back, and the effect is
to obviate the ugly flatness of many of
the old shapes.
The elastic materials sold for Jerseys
comes in all light colors, and even in
white. Broad gold bands are placed
about the throat and wrists of some new
garments of this description.
The costumes called directoire make
up for absence of drapery on the skirt
by collars and lapels, and pocket-flaps
big enough to suggest the idea that
they have absorbed all the stuff in the
drapery.
Elastic polonaises reaching nearly to
the hem of the short skirt, are woven in
one piece, and finished with deep points
around the lower edge. These garments
button in the back, and have a drapery
of the same stuff.
Women Speculators in Wall Street.
The New York correspondent of the
Washington Republic says:
People are dabbling in Wall street'
who are scarcely capable of taking care
of half a dollar’s change in a horse-car.
A mania for getting rich in a hurry,
and without work, pervades the whole
community, including the women. Said
a leading broker to me yesterday: “If
I wanted to do so I could add twenty
five per cent, to my business by taking
orders from ladies. Why, I have calls
from someone or other of my wife’s ac
quaintances or mine asking me to invest
for them in all sorts of things. I in
variably refuse, but others I know do
not.” He explained to me that he un
derstood the sex well enough to be
aware of the fact that if they should
lose their money—which they will do
sooner or later, he thiuks, owing to
their dense ignorance of financial mat
ters and keen desire for big returns —
they would lay all the blame on him
and make life a burden to him and his
family.
I asked the stereotyped question,
“ How long will it last ?”
“Until there is a smash-up and the
poor ‘ lambs ’ have been shorn,” he re
plied. “This can’t go on very long.
There will be a crash in the 4 fancy ’
mining stocks first, and some of the
more solid ones will probably ‘ take a
tumble ’ after them. Then the miscel
laneous share market will be shaken up
somewhat, but there it will stop.”
“Then we won’t have a general
panic ?”
“No; we are too firmly settled to be
easily shaken as a whole. It will be
only a cutting away of an excrescence
on a generally healthy body.”
How a Town Got a (Jueer Name.
What’s in a name? A good deal, we
are told, and how came Tombstone,
Arizona, to have such a name ? It was
not borrowed or stolen from any other
place on the globe, nor ever suggested
by novel or gazetteer. The story goes,
and it is true, that two young men,
brothers, when about to start from Tuc
son on a prospecting tour into the
Dragoon mountains, Sonora, or some
where else, were advised to give up the
undertaking, fer if they persisted, they
would find neither mine nor fortunes,
but their “ tombstones ” instead. The
boys bravely bade good-bye to their
friends though emphatically warned
that they would never come back alive.
The prospectors went off, and following
“ that blind trail,” already referred to,
came to this plain and made their camp.
On looking about they saw a ledge of
ore cropping out several feet, all marked
and rich with the precious metals.
“ We have found our tombstones,” they
exclaimed, and no other name would do
to designate the camp. The town has
adopted the name, which, if not poetical
or classical,is certainly original. A valua
ble tombstone, too, it must be confessed,
for these Schieffelin brothers last week
sold their half interest in the mine and
will for $1,000,000 to parties in Boston
and Philadelphia. Now that so many
mines are located in this Tombstone
district, this first discovery is known at
present as “The Tough Nut.”— San
Francisco Bulletin.
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NUMBER 49.
Spring Flowers.
Up through the wrinkled and naked eaith,
Tenderly sweet, tenderly iair,
Crocuses blossom, snowdrops peep,
Shyly, modestly, everywhere;
Pale and purple violets creep,
Filling with too much sweet the air;
Blue-bells nod, and daffodils stare;
Under the moss the hyacinths sleep,
And dream not ol' sorrow or care,
Waiting, waiting tor summer’s birth.
Deep in each deli and mossy vale
Lifts up the orchis her curious crown,
Lovingly peeps the primrose pale
At the cowslips, golden, orange, and brown;
The hedges are whitening for May,
Where the iragrant, vagrant dog-rose
blushes,
And winter had passed away,
When the bindweed peer through the
bushes !
All nature is smiling to-day,
As the blush of the springtime flushes.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The Whoopinkoffs are an old Russian
family.
Don’t poke fun at that girl with her
hair banged. ’Sh! Don’t let it go any
further! She has freckled brows!
It is strongly suspected that it was
Ananias who invented the circus pos
ter. — Philadelphia Chrohikle-Herald.
An ordinary sized man, supposing
his surface to be fourteen square feet,
sustains the enormous pressure of 30,-
340 pounds.
“How does painting agree with my
daughter?” asked an anxious parent.
‘lt makes her too red in the face,” re
plied the teacher.
Within the past few years wild ferrets
have become numerous in the vicinity
of Quiltman, Ga., much to the surprise
of local naturalists.
People who lock children in rooms
where there is fire, and then go away to
spend the day, should be careful to take
a coffin home with them.
A Hawesville (Ky.) colored boy is a
candidate for fame, with six fingers on
one hand, seven on the other, seven
toes on each foot and double-jointed
bones all through his anatomy.
The Irish do not understand the art
of hay-making. They let the grass lie
too long in the field and too long in the
cocks. One-fifth of its nutritive element
is lost by imperfect manipulation. The
1,500,000 acres mown in a year yield
about two tons each.
An old lady wearing a pair of green
goggles stepped on the Sacramento train
at South Vallejo and knocked at the car
door, and actually waited till it was
opened on the inside by a passenger.
For consummate politeness this has no
parallel.
The American sea-going steam ma
rine comprised, on the first of January,
1880, 519 vessels, measuring 601,289 tons
gross, and 368,598 tons net. There were
under the British flag at the same time,
3,542 sea-going steamers, measuring
3,933,966 tons gross, and 3,555,575 tons
net.
A young woman who is teaching the
Indians at Hampton, Va., was recently
drilling a company of girls on the hymn,
“ Yield not to Temptation,” and trying
to explain to them the meaning of the
words. Some time after the class was
dismissed a pupil came to her and said,
“Me victory!” meaning that she had
gained a victory. Being asked to ex
plain, she said: “ Indian girl, she big
temptation to me; I no yield—l fight
her.”
Interesting Historical Facts.
Boston was incorporated as a city in
1822.
The military academy at West Point,
on the Hudson, was instituted in 1802.
In the summer of 1770 Daniel Boone
was the only white man in Kentucky.
Q,ueen Victoria was married to Prince
Albert, of Saxe Coburg, on the tenth of
February, in the year 1840.
Eli Whitney, inventor of the cotton
gin, died in 1825 at New Haven. He
was born at Westboro’, Mass., sixty
years previous.
William Shakespeare died on his fifty
second birthday, in April, 1616. Cer
vantes died at the age of sixty-nine, in
the same year and day.
In 1492 Cuba bore the name of Juana,
in honor of Prince John, son of Ferdi
nand and Isabella. Cubta, is the original
Indian name of the island.
The cucumber is known to have been
cultivated for a period of over three
thousand years, and was a common
vegetable in Egypt at earliest historic
dates.
At a wedding in Switzerland three
hundred people lost their lives through
drinking. At a feast in St. Petersburg,
in 1779, five hundred died from the same
cause.
The first balloon ascension in the
United States was by M. Blanchard,
from the prison yard, Philadelphia.
President Washington was present. It
was on January 9, 1793.
The oldest illustration of a tobacco
pipe in Great Britain is in a carving on
a chimney in the keep of Cawdon castle,
where, among other devices, are a cat
playing a fiddle and a fox smoking a
tobacco pipe. Date, 1510.
Several of the most famous of Ra
phael’s paintings were produced in the
year 1500. He died twenty years after
at the age of thirty-seven. Raphael
was never married, though very popular
personally. His father was an artist of
respectable ability.