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I KNOW NOT.
J know n '■t If thy spirit weaveth over
The (roldcn fantasies of mine for thee;
I only know my love is a groat river,
And thou the sea!
I know not if the time to thee is dreary,
When ne’er to meet we pass the wintery days ;
I only know my muse is never weary
The theme thy praise.
I know not if thy poet heart’s emotion
Responsive beats to mine through many a chord ;
I only feel in my untold devotion
A rich reward.
I know not if the grass were waving o’er me,
Would natures voice for thee keep sadder tnne ;
I only know wert thou gone home beiore me,
I’d follow seon,
lint while thou walk’st the earth with brave heart
ever,
I’il singing go. though all unrecked by thee
My great affection floweth like a river,
And thou the sea.
LOYE BY TELEGRAPH.
Miss Pearl Silverly was telegraph
operator at Jones’ Station, and Lucy
Lorillard operator at Nineveh, the next
point of communication, with nothing
but the distance to prevent their inti
macy. They had never met, however,
except electrically, and were total
strangers to each other till one New
Year’s morning, when it occurred to
Miss Pearl to send the following tele
gram to her nearest neighbor and fel
low-laborer : “To Lucy Lorillard —A
happy New Year. Pearl Silverly”—
partly because she was idle, as hers was
a branch route, with very little business
and less pay, and partly because she
was in need of a friend and a friendly
word. She had lately been in the habit
of amusing herself wondering if this
JLiucy Lorillard found life pleasant, had
father, mother, lovers and friends, and
was like herself in nothing but in being
a telegraph operator.
The answer returned promptly :
“ Thanks. The same to you, and more
also. If wishes were horses, etc.”
“Rather slangy,” thought Pearl,
“ but good-natured. I guess she has a
brother at home.” And so the ice, once
thawed, had no chance to stiffen again
after this. There was little business,
as I said, going over the lines from
Jones’ Station to Nineveh, and, as the
operator at the last named place seemed
likewise to have unlimited leisure on
hand, the two held frequent electrical
tete-a-tetes, and Pearl began to feel as
if she had known Lucy Lorillard from
infancy—as if they had gone to school
arm in arm and learned their lessons
from the same book.
Pearl’s home, if it deserved the name,
was in her uncle’s family, where there
were three cousins and an aunt, but no
uncle now ; a home where she hardly
felt at home, where she enjoyed no com
panionship, where she was perpetually
harassed and annoyed, where her opin
ions were ridiculed, and her sentiments
and tastes received no sympathy; a
home where there was no room for ex
pansion except in the way of “long
suffering and bearing all things. She
always had a dread of returning to tliis
roof-tree at night, a sort of ecstasy at
leaving it in the morning, especially
after this new friendship had begun to
coruscate across her days. To be sure,
she ate her daily bread and slept
the sleep of the just at Aunt
Hidden’s, but she hoped and as
pired and lived at the telegraph
office, since friendship is as much a
necessity to the human being as good
dinners and soft couches. She could
never exactly tell how it came about,
but gradually, from exchanging pretty
civilities and pleasantries and the news
of the day across the wires, she found
herself presently telling this Lucy Lor
illard, upon whom she had never set
eyes, almost everything she knew and
felt and suffered or enjoyed, and receiv
ing experiences and confidences and
words of comfort in return from said.
Lucy Lorillard. Nothing was too
trivial ana nothing too great for the two
to discuss across the lines between
Jones’ Station and Nineveh, which had
suddenly sprang into remarkable activ
ity, anu which at on© time caused Lucy
to remark, telegraphically, Our lines
have fallen in pleasant plaoes while
Pearl answered; “When lam here at
the office, and can rap out a message to
>ou, I forget who I am, and feel no
longer homesick for a home that doesn’t
exist, and alone in the world. You are
in my thoughts, sleeping or waking. If
it weren’t for you, dear Lucv, I think
my heart would break. No one can tell
how grateful I am for your friendship.”
Lucy : “ You silly puss ! grateful to
me, indeed ! _ I receive a great deal
more than I give. lam so happy that
J. 0 . 11 , . uk of me sometimes. Keep
.iimking. To live in your thoughts is
a kind of immortality.”
“ JJ®*® ! , who’s silly now ? Anybody
would think we were lovers.” J
Lucy; “So we are, aren’t we? I
wonder if we should know each other if
we were to meet by accident.”
I should know you, of course—see
if I wouldn t. You’ve got great, dark,
bqiud eyes, such as poet’s rave over,
with dark curling lashes, and a flicker
ing color on your cheek, and thick
■waves of light brown hair ; you're tall
and slender, and have a fatal dimple in
your ckm. There!”
“You’ve omitted my principal feature:
ffiufre” 86 JOU flattGr my poor face and
“ Oh, an aquiline nose ; and, let me
cln ,’, y ° U are f° n( l of perfumes and jew
“ lam fond of one Pearl, certainly.”
rsow it is your turn to portray.’l
Lucy: “ \\ ell, your eyes are large and
blue, like forget-me-nots.”
Aunt Hidden says they’re like
bnmed holes in a blanket. Don’t de
ceive yourself.”
“ Your nose is Grecian.”
“ It has earned me the name of Pag
at home, however—not willing to con
tradict snch a Daniel as yourself.”
“Your complexion is like the iilv.”
“ Pad, by your leave.”
“ ). ou r is a skein of yellow floss.”
Pardon me ; they call it unmitigated
red at Jones’ Station; but no doubt they
are color-blind.” J
Sometimes they conversed in this novel
manner about the books they had read
and the journeys they would take when
tneir ships came in ; about the music
♦ hey thirsted to hear ; about now and
hereafter.
“ It struck me oddly the other day,”
telegraphed Pearl, “that I had never
heard your voice. Wonder if I should
recognize it. When I listened to the
‘ Traumerei ,’ which somebody plays
next door, I seem to hear yon speak
ing to me.”
Lucy: “You shall hear some day—
to some purpose.”
“ I hope so. Would anyone believe
that a companionship between two who
had never seen each other could bo so
sweet ? I sometimes fear that it’s too
good to last.”
“ Don’t you ever come to Nineveh
shopping ? ”
‘‘No; I’m too poor. I don’t mind
telling it, because I suspect you of the
same infirmity. Don’t you ever come to
Jones’ Station ? ”
“ Often—in spirit.”
“ I used to be so miserable before I
knew you! I used to think there
couidn tbe anybody so unhappy The
beggar-woman had her child, the old
crones at the work-house were friendly
with each other, the humpback girl in
the alley had a sister ; and now I—have
a fnend ! ”
“‘Friendship is love without the
wing, the poet says. Wouldn’t you
rather say: ‘ I have a lover’ ’ ”
, Now y°, u ’ re teasing. There’s no
“ Amen.”
Later :
“Pm going to confide to you how
foolish Ive been. I was invited to a
ball—a county ball. * Cousins Liz
Belle and Fan accepted. I made their
gowns—such beauties! pink and blue
and sea-green tarlatans, like sweet
clouds. I felt like Cinderella, and sat
down and had a good, enjoyable cry
after they were gone. I had nothing
but my old brown alpaca to wear. I
couldn’t sleep half the night, thinking
of what I had lost—such giddy galops,
such mazy quadrilles !—though of
"onrse I would have been a wall
flower.”
“ The flower that all are praising.’”
“ No; nobody but you.”
“ No? I fancy you resemble the wo
man I heard a clergyman praise in his
sermon last Sunday, with whom he
said it was pleasanter to meet than a
poem of Browning’s, Paul’s epistle, or
a chapter of Epictetus !”
“I shan’t listen to such flattery:
Our meeting will be one of disillu
sions.”
Sometimes the telegrams were after
this fashion:
Pearl: “ What are the latest things
out in suits at Nineveh ?”
Lucy: “ The young men.”
“No trifling. How are overskirts ? ”
“ Very much puffed up.”
“ Perhaps you can tell how they
dress the hair now ? ”
“With brush and comb still.”
“I mean is it worn off the forehead
now ? ”
“It is very much worn off the fore
heads of the young ladies who crimp,
and cff the crowns of men who live in
their hats.”
“ How do you wear your own, pray?”
“ Curled.”
“Splendid! Have you such a thing
as a lover ?”
“ I have one devoted lover, for a
surety.”
“ Splendid ! I’ve sometimes thought
—but no ; you’ll tell him.”
“ You won’t mind when I assure you
that my lover is only myself, Lucy
Lorillard. Now, you’ve sometimes
thought ”
“It would be delightful to be first in
somebody’s heart.”
“ No matter whose ?”
“ What a plague you are ! It seems
to me it would be so delightful to love
somebody better than yourself—so well
you could die for him !”
“He would be a fine ‘Agger of a man’
to let yon die for him.”
“ You do know how to put an extin
guisher upon sentiment.”
Later:
Pearl: “ I’ve got something dread
ful to tell you.”
“And bad news travels fast.”
“ I’ve got a lover.”
“ I knew that before. What’s dread
ful about it ? ”
“ Oh, I don’t want him ; he’s old.
He might be my grandfather.”
“ Saints and ministers of grace de
fend ns !”
“ And Aunt Hidden says it’s my duty
to marry him.”
“And I say you slia’n't.”
“He walks with a crutch, but Aunt
Hidden says I can ride in my carriage.
He is deaf, but she reminds" me that I
am not dumb. He wears a scratch, but
she assures me that ‘scratch’ is only
masculine for chignon.”
“Did I understand that you were
willing to die for him ?”
“I’d sooner die than marry him.”
“Good. But you won’t do either.”
“But I must decide to queen it at
Gable hall or be turned out of house and
home.”
“Mv arms are open to yon, as well
as my doors.”
“ How well that would sound, dear
Lucy, if you were only a nice young
man whom I might love ! I hope you
don’t think I’m improper.”
“ I think you’re an angel, and the
pink of propriety.”
“Squire Gable brought down the
family jewels to dazzle me. Liz tried
them all on. I couldn’t touch one. 1
felt that the dead women who had shone
in them would rise up and curse me if
I should purchase them at such a price,
and so cbeipen love and all womankin 1.
Squire Gable has a grandnephew who
will come into his property if he marries
no one, but he takes no notice of the
young man, because his mother married
against the ’squire’s wish. This is all
hearsay, however; it may not be true.
But in the meantime the nephew is
quite poor, they, say. I pity him.”
“And pity is akin to love.”
“Yes—love’s poor relation.”
Still later:
Pearl : “Advise me, dear Lucy.
Aunt Hidden warns me that if I refuse
Squire Gable she wM wash her hands
of me. So I temporize, like a fool.”
“And the woman who hesitates is
lost.”
“I demand a month for reflection.
But when the month is ended, what am
Itodo ? My salary here as operator
wouldn’t buy my salt. I don’t know
how to do anything else ; nobody would
give me board as a cook, sewing-girls
are a drag in the market, and to beg I
am ashamed.”
“If you marry him, I’ll forbid the
banns. All that I have is yours.”
“But the trouble is you haven’t got
anything to speak of, you dear old
goose.”
“Not much, to be sure ; but enough
for us two.”
“ I can’t take eve yonr bounty. You
know the old story—poor and proud,”
“ You would ra her take my heart
and make no return?”
“To tell the troth, I’m afraid to meet
you. Now you can believe me everything
that is beautiful; then there’ll "be no
more illusion, and you may not like the
result. And I should die if you turned
against me.”
“ Then promise not to marry the
’squire ; take his poor grandnephew in
stead.”
“If you’ll forward the young man.
They s*v he lives in Nineveh, and that
he’s one of nature’s noblemen. Do
you know him ? ”
“ I doubt if you’d agree to the de
scription if you knew him as well as I
do. However, you might prefer him to
his granduncle. ”
“ I should prefer the king of the
Cannibal Islands. ”
“ Then why reflect so long ?”
“ To gain time.’’
“ To waste it, I should say.”
“So be it, I’ll refuse him to-mor
row, and trust to luck.”
“ Never put off till to-morrow what
can be done to-day.”
Later:
“ I feel so wicked! I shall not re
fuse the ’squire, and I shall not marry
him. He was found in his library chair
stiff and cold last night. Aunt Hid
den says no doubt he has left me some
thing handsome, and if he hasn’t, it’s a
justice upn me ! I shall never ac
oept an iota. It belongs to his poor
nephew, and would be only legalized
highway robbery.”
“ You have the nephew’s prospects
very much at heart; lie ought to feel
flattered.”
Later still:
“ Liz and Annt Hidden went to
’Squire Gable’s funeral. I bad a ner
vous headache, and so escaped. Liz
came home raving over the ’sqnire’s
grandnephew, the only mourner—she
had eyes for little else. But how fool
ish I am ! What do you care about
’Squire Gable’s nephew ? ”
“ Perhaps I care more than I’d like
to own, aJas !”
“Ah, sits the wind in that quarter.
They sent for me to be present at the
reading of the will. I didn’t go.”
“ You might have seen the grand
nephew.”
“ I wouldn’t have gone to see the
Grand Lama. But I saw him at church,
and thought it wouldn’t be so difficult
to fall in love with him as with the
’squire, upon my word—now don’t
laugh—though he isn’t my beau ideal."
“ Let those laugh who win.”
Miss Liz was wondering if the
'squire’B nephew would settle down in
the old place or go sky-larking over
the world, and if Parson Longmeter
would bring him to call, or how she
should contrive to make his acquain
tance, and whether green or blue be
came her complexion best, like the fool
ish milkmaid in the story ; while Aunt
Hidden’s month was watering on ac
count of the old china aDd silver ware
at Gable Hall, “that might as well
bive been in the family as not,” she
grumbled, “and there wasn’t a track in
the carpets nor a scratch in the furni
ture, and I’ve no doubt there’s silks
that would stand alone folded awny in
the attic, and nobody the better.”
And while she bewailed Pearl’s folly
Lawyer Verdict dropped in to say that
the ’squire had left his money to Pearl
and cut off the poor nephew with a pal
try SSOO !
Pearl hastened to telegraph the news
to Lucy Lorillard.
“Now I fear you will not wish to
share my cottage, gentle maid ?”
“You don’t suppose I’m going to keep
the filthy lucre ?” answered Pearl.
“I certainly do.”
“I wouldn’t touch a copper of it for
the world.”
“If you don’t keep every cent I’ll
have nothing more to say to you.”
You’re joking, of course.”
“ I was never more serious in mv
life.”
“ I can’t believe it of you.”
“If you give up the money you will
give me up, too.”
“Then dearest friends must part;
you are not the one 1 took you for.”
“ I’m your best friend, however.”
“ I couldn’t follow your advice and
satisfy my conscience.”
“ Then you love your conscience bet
ter than me.”
“I coaid not love you, dear, so well,
Loved I not honor more.’’
“ Let me persuade you to keep it.”
“You cannot; the woman does’nt live
who conld.”
“ Let me come and talk to you.”
“You may come and talk till the
heavens fall.”
“ Shall our interview take place at
your aunt’s ?”
“ With Liz at the key-hole and Belle
at the closet slide ? No; h. re at the
office. The messages are too infrequent
to signify; only yon and I have kept the
wires from rusting.”
“But all that is at an end. To
morrow, then, at the office. Ain’t Ia
disinterested mortal to travel to Jones’
Station just to persuade you to keep a
fortune ?”
“Excuse me if I call it a fool’s er
rand.”
“Philanthropists are always called
names. Au revoir.”
Pearl waited at the office next day in
a fever of expectation. What would this
friend be like, whom she was about to
deny herself, this friend whom she had
once longed and now dreaded to see—
persuasive, and difficult to resist, with
soft dove eyes? Every step upon the
stairs sent a quickened pulsation through
her being ; yet she was already absorbed
in her reverie when the office door swung
open and admitted a dark-browed wo
man. In an instant the color flamed and
flickered in Pearl’s cheeks, her eyes di
lated, her hands trembled, but the dark
browed lady calmly wrote a message and
made way for the gentleman who had
entered behind her—a somewhat short
and thickly-built man, with large gray
eyes and curling blonde hair and mus
tache, whom Pearl instantly recognized
as ’Squire Gable’s nephew. Again the
warm flush-stained cheek and forehead.
Had he come to upbraid her? Had he
come to demand his own, to appeal to
her sense of justice? What if Lucy
Lorillard should meet him then? Why
not steal a march upon Lucy and put it
utterly beyond her power to be per
suaded? Not that she doubted herself.
Why not, before he could demand it or
reproach her ?
“Exonse me,” she faltered, “if I take
this time to speak to you about a matter
that troubles me. You are ’Squire Ga
ble’s nephew, I merely wish to say, as
I may not meet you elsewhere, that I do
not mean to accept the fortune left me
in his will. I shall restore it to the
rightful owner as soon as the lawyers
can arrange it.”
‘ ‘ Your motives are commendable ; but
do not disquiet yourself,” returned the
’Squire’s nephew. “Another and later
will has been unearthed, which renders
your somewhat Quixotic design unneces
sary, as the bequests are now reversed ;
I have the fortune and you the SSOO.
Pardon ; but I have a message to write.”
Which he scratched hastily off, and gave
to Pearl, who presently dropped in a
heap into the nearest chair and burst
into tears at the discovery that Lucy
Lorillard was a man !
The telegram read :
Let me persuade you to accept not only
’Squire Gable’s money, but his graceless
nephew. Luor Lobili,ahi).
“ It was perfectly inexcusable, I allow,”
Lorillard averred, later ; but what can a
man do when a pretty girl wishes him a
happy New Year ? I took pains to sat
isfy my eyes many a time and oft, and
found that she was more than fanoy
painted her. And ns for the rest I have
ray maternal grandfather, one John
Lucy—peace to his ashes !—to thank for
the legacy of his name, which I always
despised till I found out that Pearl Sil
verly loved nobody else so well as Lucy
Lorillard.”
And so, you see, Pearl wrs persuaded
after all.
He Wasn’t Kemly.
Old Isaac was, or rather believed
himself to be a devout Christian,
“ wreetled ” much in prayer, and it was
his custom at night, when his work was
over, to retire to his cabin, and devote
himself to worrliip until bedtime.
These exercises were carried on in so
loud a tone as to be heard by all the
persons on the farm, white and black,
and old Isaac’s earnest and frequent
announcements that he was always
ready to meet his “ Lawd ” had been eo
often heard that some rascally boys
concluded to have some fun, and at the
same time test Isaac’s faith. One
night, therefore, while old Isaac was
under full headway in his exercises:
“O Lawd! we know dy long suf’rin
fur dis beni’ted sinner, but we feel, O
Lawd ! dat in dy love we will be spahed
dy vann-ins and raf. We are always
reddy. Lawd, at dy biddin, to cum to
de, aiH to meet dy angel Gabr’el. Send
him, O Lawd ! wid his shinin’ trumpit,
his robes ov glory, and his crown ov
life, and take dy poll sahvant into dy
vineyard—”
“Is-a-ac! Isaac!” came in deep,
sepulchral tones down the chimney.
“ Amen ! ” softly said Isaac, closing
his prayer abruptly, and rising with
fear and trembling.
“Isaac! Is-a-ac!” came the still
dreadful tones.
“ Who-ho-ho’s dat ? ” stammered the
Awe-stricken negro.
“ The—angel—of—the—Lord— has
—come—for—lsaac ! ” came in slow,
solemn tones, with measured emphasiß,
from the darkness outside.
Isaac hesitated, and then, with a
show of enforced courage, it came :
“Da Lawd bleps you, dat old nigger
hain’t been here fur a week !” Boston
Globe.
The potato bug is a hard shelled,
striped insect, nearly twioe as large as
the “ lady-bug, ” with a yellow and
black spotted head, six legs and a yel
low aud black striped armour. It is a
native of Colorado, whence its name of
Colorado beetle. It was first seen feed
ing on a wild potato, but when the set
t’ers introduced the domestic potato
! the bug attacked it at once. It breeds
j prodigiously, the female layiEg from
710 to 1,200 eggs, which hatch in about
six days, and immediately begin work,
which last for nineteen days.
Refinements in Modern Astronomical
Observations.
The tools used by the modern astrono
mer are clockiPto measure time, gradu
ated ciroles to measure degrees and
their subdivisions, telescopes to mag
nify distant objects, photographic ap
paratus to make permanent records of
ephemeral phenomena, photometers to
measure the comparative intensity of
light, polarisoopes to reveal the nature
of certain luminous rays, and spectro
scopes to revea 1 the chemical composi
tion of the heavenly bodies.
The invention of the clock is of great
antiquity; but it is to the wants of
modern astronomy and other sciences
to which it is applied (navigation, for
instance) that the perfection with which
they are now made is due. So with the
graduated circles, which are applied to
quadrants, sextants, octants, and as
trolabes.
The telescope, invented by Janssen in
Holland, about 1609, was successively
improved by Gallileo, Herschel, Dol
lond, Fraunhofer, and others, while
lately Lord Rosse and our own A Ivan
Clark have surpassed all former efforts.
But who can say what improvements the
future has in store for the telesoope,
especially as liberal monetary compen
sation has become a stimulus to the
ablest opticians, and the making of
million dollar instruments has been
discussed ?
Photography is now largely used in
astronomy, and the work done by it
during the recent transit of Venus, in
different parts of the earth, has enrich
ed astronomical soienoe with records of
the highest value and permanency.
One amateur astronomer, Mr. Ruther
ford of New York city, has for several
years past applied this science to mak
ing reoords of the position of the stars,
so as ultimately to obtain knowledge of
their distance from us, and their mo
tions in spaoe and in connection with
this branch of the subject, he has in
vented instruments of measurement, to
be applied to the photographio impres
sions, which have already given results
superior in precision to the measurment
by direct observation of the stars re
presented.
Photometric observations on heavenly
bodies, comparing their relative lumin
osity and determining changes in the
nature or distance, have been brought
to a high degree of perfection, espe
cially by Zollner, whojused for this pur
pose the following apparatus : The
polariscope, an ingenious tool invented
by Mains in France in 1808, is based
on certain peculiar properties of re
flected light, by which it may be ascer
tained wliat light or portions of light
belonged to a luminous body itself and
which are borrowed from other sources;
while it also shows the direction
whence the borrowed light arrived be
fore it was reflected by the body under
investigation. Zollner applied to this
instrument several ingenious devices,
making it the most perfect measures of
the intensity of light, and has thus
founded anew branch of astronomical
research, called astro-photometry.
The spectroscope, based on a dis
covery made in 1790 by Fraunhofer, and
in 1840 by John W. Draper of New
York city, is the invention of Bnneen in
Germany, and, next to the telescope, is
the greatest gift astronomy has ever re
ceived. By me ns of this instrument,
Secchi, in Rome, has so successfully
investigated the light of the stars that
he has classified them by thefr tempera
tures, which may be distinguished by
the number of dark lines or bands in
their spectra ; the hottest stars show
the least number, the next class (to
which our sun belongs) showing a great
er number, and the third class having
so many dark lines, obscuring portions
of their speotra, that a peculiar color
prevails in them ; while a fourth class,
of a still lower temperature, are still
more obscure. Next come the dark
globes, so cool that they have no light
of their own, and cannot be seen except
when they are so near to a luminous
star as to shine by reflected light.. Tois
is t.ho case with most of our planets, as
well as with we do not know how many,
perhaps much larger, darker bodies,
floating in the infinity of spr.ee, and to
which the disappearance and reappear
ance or changes in luminosity of some
stars are ascribed, these phenomena
taking place when their light is inter
cepted by an intervening dark body.
Secchi has just published some of his
recent observations on Coggia’s comet
He combined the spectrosoope and po
lariscope with his telescope ; the spec
troseope showed that there were two
spectra, one continuous, and the other
consisting of luminous bands, agreeing
with those of oxide of carbon ; while
tho polariscope showed that the latter
spectrum was origiual light, while the
continuous spectrum was reflected light,
also showing that the latter came from
the direction of the sun ; consequently
that the continuous spectrum was re
flected sunlight. He proved thus that
this comet shone not only with reflected
sunlight, but by its own light also,
thereby revealing the nature of its orig
inal luminosity. This is an instance of
the highest degree of refinement as yet
obtained in modern astronomical re
search.
Ambitions Young Singers.
Lucy Hooper in a letter to Apple
ton’s journal says : There are said to
be in Milan, at the present time, no
fewer than three hundred American
girls who are studying for the lyric
stage. Most of these have already
made debuts in the
theatres of small Italian towns, and
possesses a repertoire varying from ten
to twenty operas, all thoroughly studied,
and ready for production at any time.
And, with all this, no impresarii come
forward to eagerly cull these buds of
tuneful promise. The fact is that the
Italian opera, everywhere outside of
Italy save in London, is in a sad state
of decadence, threatening dissolution,
and managers have neither money nor
inclination to trouble themselves about
youthful though aspiring mediocrity.
Besides, these young girls, these em
bryo Pattis and Persianis, are mostly
as conceited as possible, and will
hearken to no suggestions of any career
short of that of a leading prima donna
at the Salle Yentadour or at Covent
Garden. It is on record how Carl Rosa,
when, mating up his English opera
company, came to Paris with a view of
offering engagements to one or two of
the more promising musical students of
the year, and was x met in most
instances by a contemptuous refusal,
it was beneath the dignity of these
would-be stars to sing in English opera.
One of them, Miss Julia Gaylord, was
wiser in her day and generation, and
nas lately achieved, a marked success
in Euglish opera at Dabiin. Another
one, a young southern lady, whose
stage name is Nina Gallano, has de
void and herself to Ihe higher branches of
concert-Binging, and, being a thorough
and accomplished artist, she nas be
come the chosen aid and supporter of
the great pianist Hans von Bulow.
Some of these unapprecia'ed sopranos
in italy are offering, in some instances,
a thoueaud francs for the privilege or
appearing on the stage.
The Late Empress of China,
The China mail brings news of the
death of the Empress Kea
Shun, widow of the late Emperor Tung
Chili. It was reported soon after the
last Emperor’s death that his young
widow had committed suicide, but ac
cording to the Pekin Gazette her death
did not take place until the 27th of
March. The China Mail saye : “Her
fate has been, indeed, an unhappy one.
Wedded at the age of fifteen she became
a widow at seventeen, and since the
death of her hnsband has, if native re
ports are to be believed, led a most
miserable life. She is said to have re
fused all food for some days previous
to her death, and to have sunk from ex
haustion. Whether these reports be
true or not, we can easily believe that
her position was a most unenviable one.
At best she was condemned to perpetual
seclusion for many years to come, while
she was exposed to intrigues which, in
view of her expected confinement, might
have bad her death and that of the
possible child as their object. Death
was probably a merciful relief.” The
Shanghai Courier and Gazette says that
the early death of the empress is en
tirely in accordance with the national
idea of what is most highly fitting for a
wife so bereaved. It is not impossible
that her memory will acquire a sanctity
in Chinese eyes from the fact of her
having followed her lord within so short
a period ; the event is already attributed
to her regrets, as it is said that she
suffered from no definite disease.
HOUBEHOLI) HINTS.
To Prevent Tin Rusting —Rub
fresh lard over every part of the dish,
and then put it in a hot oven and heat
it thoroughly. Thus treated, any tin
ware may be used in water constantly
and remain bright and free from rust
indefinitely.
Cold Starch should not be made too
stiff, or undissolved nortions will adhere
to the garments. If of the right con
sistency, the art icle will look as if wrung
out of water. Roll tightly, and let it
lie for two hours. It will then iron as
easily as if boiled starch had been used,
and take much less.
A Good Dentifrice.— Dissolve two
ounces of borax in three pints of boiling
water ; before quite cold add one table
spoonful of tincture of myrrh and one
tablospoonfui of spirits of camphor.
Bottle the mixture for use. Add one
wineglassful of the solution to half a
pint of tepid water, and ue it daily. It
preserves and beautifies the teeth, and
arrests decay.
To Clean Kid Shoes and Gloves.—
Dip a piece of flannel into cold milk ;
squeeze it a little ; then rub it on some
yellow soap and rob the kid quickly
with the flannel, and the dirt will be
removed very readily. Squeeze the
flannel again in the milk, without any
soap, and rub the kid again. Wipe dry
with a clean linen cloth. The things
will be ready to wear in an hour.
Furniture Polish.— An excellent fur
niture polish is made of ten cents’
worth of beeswax placed in a tin cup
and melted in a hot oveD. Into this
pour two ounces of turpentine and let
it stand to cool. Apply it briskly to
the furniture with a woolen rag, and
give it a finishing rub with an old silk
handkerchief. This polish is almost
equal to a coat of varnish.
SnoRTS Pudding. —Take four eggs
well beaten, a pint of milk, and make a
thin batter with shorts. When boiling
corned beef dip in your puddiDg-bag
and fill with the above. Have plenty of
room in the kettle with the beef, and be
sure the water is boiling; put in the
pudding and let it. boil two hours with
out letting it stop. Eat with sweetened
cream or aDy other pudding sauce.
To Clean Window- Glass.— A pan of
cold water, a wash-leather and a clean
du3<er are requisite for this purpose.
Begin at the top panes. Rub them
over with the wet wash leather. Rinse
the leather and do them over the second
time, and dry immediately with the
duster ; proceed in the same way with
the lower panes. Looking-glasses are
washed in the same way ns windows.
Care mußt be taken not to touch the
gilding, as it is easily rubbed off when
moist.
To Settle Cofeee without Eggs.—
Put the ground coffee (two tablespoon
firis or r. ore, according to the size of
tbe family,) to soak over night in about
a teacupful of water. In tbe morning
add more water and put it over to boil,
boiling fifteen or twenty minutes : then
fill in what water is necessary and put
the coffee-pot on the stove hearth ; in
fifteen minutes or so the coffee will
pour off clear as amber-colored claret.
If any be left alter the meal is over, it
can be ligated again with better result
f hm if it bad been settled with eggs in
the beginning.
The following is said to be ail there
is of the cook’s secret for producing
those world-renowned potatoes served
at the Moon’s Lake House, Saratoga
Springs, every summer: Peel good
sized potatoes and slice them as evenly
as possible ; drop them into ice-water.
Have a kettle of lard, as for fried cakes,
and very hot. Put a few at a time into
a towel, shake them about to dry them,
and then drop into the hot lard. Stir
them occasionally, and when of a light
brown, take them out with a skimmer,
[f properly done, they will not be at
all greasy, but orisp without, and
nearly within.
Chicken Salad. —Mince finely the
white parts of one chicken previously
well boiled. Take blanched, orisped
celery and chop very fine. With one
measure of minced chicken mix a measure
and a half of the chopped celery. Boil
hard one large or two small eggs, roll
tbe yelk fine, and, mixing in a teaspoon
ful of mustard and nearly as much salt,
with half a teacupful of vinegar, pour
this over the chicken. Cut the boiled
whites of the eggs in rings and lay on
top, garnishing also with the smaller
leaves of the celery. Usually the celery
is not chopped fine enough.
To Dry Plums.— Gather the plums
when not too ripe. Prick each onewith
a darning-needle in several places. Take
half a pound of sugar to each pound of
fruit. Melt the sugar with a little wa
ter ; skim it thoroughly ; then add the
plums, and boil for half an hour. Lift
out the plums and boil the sugar for
twenty minutes longer or until it nearly
candies, which you can tell by taking
up a small quantity in a spoon and let
ting it drop down until it threads out in
strings ; turn it over the plums and put
them to dry in a cool oven, stirring
them up every few minutes. When
candied put into boxes.
Horse radish Sauce is a great im
provement upon the plainly scraped cr
grated horse radish for eating with
either hot or cold roust beef. A desert
spoonful of olive oil or croam, same
quantity of powdered mustard, a table
spoonful of vinegar, and two table
spoonfuls of scraped horse-radish, with
a little salt to taste, must be stirred
and beaten up together until thoroughly
mixed. Serve separately in a sauce
tureen. It will keep for two or three
days, or longer if oil and not cream be
used. I have tried this two or three
times lately, and am much pleased with
it. It is an English idea, but it will
soon become au American one if its ex
cellence is once known.
Gold Fisn may be kept tea or twelve
years (the average period of existence)
by using the following precautions:
Allow not more than one fish to two
quarts of water. Use tbe same kind of
water, whether well or river ; change it
every other day in summer, and twice
each week in winter. Keep clean salt
and pebbles at the bottom, washing it
occasionally or replacing with a fresh
supply. Use a small net lathir than
the hand while changing the water.
Feed with cracker, yelk of egg, lettuce
or die*, once each week, except in cold
weather; remove any crumbs that rs
m n'n on the surfaoe after feeding. Do
not feed at all from November to tbe
end of February, and but little during
the following three months If there
arc growing plants in the aquarium,
water need be changed but rarely.
Keep from euh and in coolest part of
room.
Whether for use on man rr beast, Merchant’s Garg Ing Oil will be fonml an invaluable Llntmert
and worthy of use by every resident in the land. We know of no propriPiary medicine or article now
used in the Unite! States wh cn shares the goo- 1 will of the people to a greiter opr;e • tha i this. Yel
low wrapper for animal, an 1 white fir humvi flesh —.V. F. Itulrpen-lenl.
MERCHANT’S GAJRG3JIWG OIL
Is rhe Standard Liniment of the United states Established 1833. Large size. sl.nn; rnedinm size, so
cents; small size, 25 cents. Small size for family use, 25 cents. Manufactured at to- kport. New Yors,
by Mercban ’s Gargling Oil Company. JOHN HODGK, Secretary,
The Servant Question. .
[By the author of “John Halifax, Gentlemen.”]
Few will deny the melancholy fact
that the servant question is growing
more difficult year by year. Perhaps
naturally so, sinoe every class is rising
aDd trying to force itself into the class
above it—a not ignoble aim, if it at the
same time educates and fifs itself to
enter that class ; but it mostly does not
and i this. Therefore a continual struggle
goes on, a continual pushing up of the
heterogeneous elements into the already
wildly seething mass, and the result is
chaos ? Let ns hope not. Let us
trust that all will settle in time. Provi
dence knows its own business much
better than we do.
Those who remember the servants of
even twenty-five years ago cannot fail
to discover a great change in the whole
class as a class; for lees work is done
by each individual, and far more wages
expected. The most faithful, intelli
gent, and clever servant I ever knew
began life at thirteen years old as maid
of-all-work in the family of a gentle
man—a poor one certainly, still it was
a “ gentleman’s family”—consisting of
himself, his wife, and three children.
Her wages the first year were three
pounds per annum. What would be
thought of such a “ place ” nowadays?
Yet it turned out not a bad one. The
girl was taken literally as “one of the
family.” The mistress trained her ; the
little ones loved her ; the eldest daugh
ter educated her—ay, up to a point that
even the most exacting would approve,
for she could read and understand
Shakspeare, and write as good a letter
as most young ladies when they leave
school and marry. She never married,
but she remained faithful to the family
in weal and woe—far more woe than
weal, alas!—until she died, but not
nntil she had served two generations.
Her grave has been green now for many
a year, yet the last remnant of that
family never hears the sound of her
name—a very common one, “ Bessy ”
without a throb of rememberance too
sweet for tearp.
This is wbat servants used to be, as
many an old family tradition will prove.
What are they now ?
As an answer I could put forward two
illustrative anecdotes—of the but
ler who threw up his place because he
had “ always been accustomed to have
a sofa in his pantry,” and the parlor
maid who, having accepted a situation,
declined to go because she and her
luggage were to be fetched from the
station in a spring-cart, whereas in her
last place they had sent the carriage
and a footman to meet her. These are,
I hope, exceptional instances, but we
all know what our own and our friends’
servants are in the main.
The formality of “getting a charac
ter ” has often seemed to me one of the
most curious delusions that sensible
people labor under. When written it
is almost valueless; anybodv can forge
it, or, even giving it bona fide, may ex
press it in such a way as to convey
anything but the real trulh. Besides,
is that truth the real truth? When we
consider the prejudices, the vexations,
on both sides, which often arise in part
ing with a servant, can we always de
pend upon the faithful statement, or
upon those who make it? I have often
thought, that instead of inquiring any
servant’s character, we ought rather to
inquire the character of the late mis
ress.
Besides, as a rule, a really efficient
servant needs no ciiaracter at all. Such
a one on leaving a situation is sure to
have half a dozen families oager to
secure so rare and valuable a possession.
A good servant never lacks a place ; a
good master or mistress rarely finds
anv want of good servants. Temporary
difficulties may befall both ; but in the
long-run it is thus. Even as—if one
carefully notices the course of the world
every man, be he religious or irrelig
ious, will come, at the middle or end of
life, to the same conclusion as David :
“ I have been young, and now am old ;
yet have I not seen the righteous for
saken, nor his seed begging bread.”
Not that all is smooth, or easy, or
fortunate; on the contrary, “ Many are
tbe troubles of the righteous ; :1 but the
Lml dclivereth him out of them all.”
Vinegar Bitters. —The great merit
of Vinegar Bitters has made them the
leading medicine of the day,and respect
able druggists everywhere write: “They
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ration in the market. ” They have
stood the teat of public opinion and
won confidence. They sell rapidly be
cause they cure. If you are sick you
want reliable medicine. Vinegar Bit
ters commend themselves to the ailmg
and fftbeted, as they are deficient in
one thing alone, viz: the stimulant that
unduly excites the brain, and e eates a
morbid thirst for spirits! There is no
phase of Indigestion, Biliousness, Ner
vous Disease, or Physical Debility, in
which they will not effect a cure. In
valids who are wasting away from a
want of proper action in the liver,
stomach and bowels, will fiad them a
constitutional specific, and a fountain
of vitality and vigor as refreshing and
exhilarating as a cool, gushing spring
of tvattr to the parched and fainting
traveler in the desert.
Tooth Ache proceeds from ague in
the face, operating upon <ho exposed nerve of
a decayed tootli. Rub the gum thoroughly
with the finger, wet with Johnson's Anodyne
Liniment, heat the face well, and lap a flannel
wet with the liniment on the faoe, also put a
litt.lo of the liniment iuto the cavity of the
tooth on cotton.
The system frequently gets out of or
der and should bo at once regulated, else
other troubles will ont*ue; when physic is
needed take Parson's Purgative Pills ; they
are a nafe, whole-<ome, and natural medicine.
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IWXRE
hr. J. Walker’s I aiilnrn i;t Vi*
fbjar Bitters are a purelY Vegetabi*
preparation, made chiefly from the na
tire herbs found on the lower ranges
the Sierra Nevada mountains of Califor
nia, the medicinal properties of whirl
are extracted therefrom without the u&j
of Alcohol, The question is almost
daily asked, “What is the cause of tbs
unparalleled success of Vinegar Bit
tkrs?” Our answer is,Hhat they remov*
the cause of disease, and the patient re
covers his health. They are the great
blood purifier and a life-giving principle
a perfect Renovator and Invigorate;
of the system Never before in the
history of the world has a medicine bees
compounded possessing the remark jo*
qualities of Vinegar Bitters in healing the
sick of every disepso man is heir to. Then
are a gentle Purgative as well as a Tonics
relieving Congestion or Intiammatic' oi
the Liver and Visceral Organs, in Biliout
Diseases.
The projiojdies of Dr- Walker s
Tinegar Bitters are Aperient, Diaphoretic,
Carminative. Nutritious, Laxative, Diuretic
Sedative, Counter-Irritant. Sudorific. Altera
live, and Anti-BUious.
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i' . ivVcMH
S I M M O N S’l
For all diseases of tbe Liver, “tomach and Spleen.
Asa remedy iu Malarious Fevers, Bowel I’om
plaints. Dj spepsia Mental Depression. Restless
ness, Jaundice, Nausea. Sick Heaoacbe, Colic,
Constipation and Biliousness.
IT HAS NO EQUAL,
It contains four m -dical elements, never united
in the same happy proportion in any other prepa
ration. viz; a gentle Cathartic, a wonderfol Tonic,
an unexceptionable Alterative and certain Cor
rective rf all impurities of the body. Such sigwi.l
succew has atteuded its use. that it is now regard
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TESTIMONIALS.
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Host. Aux. 11. f-TKPH K3se. —** I occasionally
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