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VOL. VIII.
jut mrrarxsKKD poem by bbtaxt.
The reader of Mr. Bryant’s poems will
readily remember, says the Century, the
many verses addressed to his wife, such as i
“Oh Fairest of the Knral Maids,” written !
about the time of their marriage: “The '
Future Life,” speculating as to the union of j
their spirits in the world to come: the *''Sick-
Bed,^’’describing an illness ; “The Life That 1
Is,” rejoicing in recovery; " The Twenty- j
seventh of March,”—the birthday of Mrs. J
Bryant; “October, 1866,” descriptive of her I
death and burial : and “ May Evening.” a !
gentle reference to her loss. But in addition
to these, as we learn from Mr. Godwin’s ]
forthcoming biography of the poet, a frag
ment was found among his papers, which
recalls her memory in a very tender way.
seven years after her death. The lines were
unfinished and uncorrected ; but we cannot
refrain from giving them as they were written
—dated “ Roelyn, 1873.”
The morn hath not the glory that it wore.
Nor doth the day so beautifully die,
Since I can call thee to my side no more,
To gaze upon the sky.
For thy dear hand with each return of spring.
I sought in sunny nooks the flowers she
gave;
I seek them still, and sorrowfully bring
The choicest to thy grave.
Here, where I sit alone, i9 sometimes heard
From the great world, a whisper of my
name,
Joined, haply, to some kind, commending
word.
By those whose praise is fame.
And then, as if I thought thou still wert
nigh,
I turn me, half forgetting thou art dead,
To read the gentle gladness in thine eye
That once I might have read.
I turn, but see thee not; before my eyes
The image of a hillside mouud appears
Where all of thee that passed not to the
skies
Was laid with bitter tears.
And I. whose thoughts go back to happier
days
That fled with thee, would gladly now
resign
All that the world can give of fame and
praise
For one sweet look of thine.
Thus, ever, when I read of generous deeds,
Such words as thou didst once delight to
hen r,
My heart is wrung with anguish as it bleeds
To think thou art not near.
And now that I can tilk no with thee
Of ancient friends and days too fair to
laat,
A bitterness blends with the memory
Of All that happy past.
Oh, when I
MAKING H* IIKR. MINI).
Pretty Hester Earlscourt was in
snch a quandary. Only the day be
fore, weary with care and her mo
notonous labor, she had sighed, “ Oh,
dear! I wish something would hap
pen!” And now . something had hap
pened, witli a vengeance.
For four terms she had taught the
district school at Oldville. The pay
was not large, but enough to support
her and tier sister Cordelia—little
Cuddy. It was Hester's first school,
and she had been so glad to get it—
irfter her father died, and it was dis
covered that there was really no prop
erty for the children.
Hester was young—only eighteen
even now when she began to feel so
weary and careworn as a “school
ma’am.”
Was her life to go on forever so—
long days of “reelin', spellin’ an’
geogafry,” twilight rides in the horse
cars baek in town, frugal suppers with
Cuddy, and nights that did not seem
long enough to rest in—just that, and
nothing more? It did seem a little
hard, she had been such a dreamt r— so
hopeful of a bright future.
“ But, oh. Cuddy, I’m growing world
wise!” she said, one night, to her mys
tified little sister.
But that summer the days hud been
so long and the nights so short, that
Hester cried ont:
“Oli, dear, I cannot bear it! Any
thing for a change!”
“ I believe you are sick, Hessie,” said
womanly little Cuddy, who, though
ten years old,wasn’t much larger than
a fairy and was obliged to stand on
a footstool, beside Hessie's old easy
chair, to smooth back the nut-brown
hair from the blue-veined temples.
“ No, Cuddy; only tired—so tired !"
“ But you are !” persisted the child.
“ Your temples heat, and your head is
hot anti eyes heavy. I’ll bathe your
forehead with ammonia. Oh, it’s all
gone out of the bottle! I'll run out to
the druggist’s and get some. May I
“Yet, dear !”
Yet Hessie hardly realized what the
child said or where she had gone. .She
sat alone in the plain, but comfortable,
little sitting-room, the light fading
around her, when there was a knock
at the door.
“ Come !” she called, without rising,
thinking it was the landlady with
clean towels.
The door—which stood ajar—was
pushed open, and a gentleman en
tered. He had a pleasant, florid coun
tenance, and very blue eyes, and might
have been about thirty-five years old.
“I beg your pardon, Miss Earls
court, but your landlady told me to
come right up.”
“Excuseme!” said Hessie, instantly
on her feet and recognizing Doctor
Pell, one of the school committee.
“Pray be s> a.ed. I am very glad to see
you. The committee have decided
about the change of spelling-books, I
presume?”
“ N-o, n-o I” said Doctor Pell, with
an unusual air of hesitation. "My call
is not one of business, Miss Farls
court.” i
Ilessie may be pardoned for faintly ;
showing her surprise. Doctor Arthur
Pell had always seemed to her the
busiest and most practical of men.
How, then, should she suspect his
errand.
“No?” she said, in a half-interrog
atory tone, and paused.
“ 1—” and Doctor Pell paused.
Hessie grew a little pale,
“ Your errand is not agreeable, 1 am
afraid, Doctor Pell. Do 1 not give
satisfaction—”
“ In the school—to the committee?”
ho answered. “ Most assuredly you
do 1”
“ Thank you I” s:ud Hessie, greatly
relieved.
“I am very awkward ! lam afraid
I shall startle you,” said Doctor Pell, '
very gently, after a moment; “ but the
truth is, I have come to day to ask you
to be my wife.”
Hi* ie’s brown eyes opened, indeed
startled.
“ Yot are not offended?”
“ N—o!” said Ilessie.
“ The way of it is this 1” said Doctor
Pell. “ Ten years ago I had a sweet
wife, whom l loved very dearly. She
died, and left me with one child. My
child fell to my mother's care, who has
made the only home for me I have had
since. But she is very aged, and lias
often urged me to marry again. How
ever, this I found impossible. It has
only been since I have known you,
Miss Earlscourt, that marriage again
has seemed possible. Pardon mo ! I
know you have little expected this.
But you are not offended, though I am
no youthful hero. Try to believe me
—f think I could make you happy!"
He hen', forward and took ono of
Hessie’s small hands gently between
his. He looked very good and manly.
“ I—l must have time to think, Doc
tor Pell,” faltered Hessie.
“Certainly. I have made my pro
posal. You shall decide at your leis
ure. But while you are thinking
about it I would like to see you once
in a while, Hessie. Will you let me
take you to ride—call upon you of an
evening?”
“ I have no objection,” answered
Hessie, quietly, but she felt quite dizzy.
In a tew moments Doctor Pell had
gone away.
Before she I’ ad in the least righted
herself tliere was another knock at
| the balf-ojcn door, and Mr. Deslonde
I walked in.
Mr. Paul Deslonde was the most
elegant man of Hessie’s acquaintance,
i He was very handsome; his manner
j was faultless.
She had always stoo 1 a little in awe
|of him. Judge, then, of her surprise,
when, having seated himself in her
! little sitting-room, and chatted easily ;
i for half an hour, lie very gracefully
made a pnqiosal of marriage.
“ My father wants me to marry, and
| beinfc usually arbitrary, I am excoed- i
ingly grateful to him that iie does not
insist upon making a choice for me, but
leaves me free to please myself. And i
this is no sudden fancy. I have known I
you long, ami admiration has ripened 1
into personal esteem. Will you take
my proposal into consideration?”
Hessie caught her breath. She
looked very pretty with the maidenly
reserve mantling tier features, the
long, dark lashes shading the pure
cheek; but these words brought hucli
a bewildering vista of the elegant
Deslonde mansion, where a home was
offered her, that she was all in a whirl.
“I—l will take your offer into con
sideration,Mr. Deslonde,” she syllabled,
mechanically.
She felt entirely incapable of saying
any more. And then Cuddy came
running in with the ammonia bottle,
and Mr. Deslonde's conversation
turned to generalisms, and then he
took his leave.
Nobody will wonder, I think, that
Hessie was very much excited. It was
not unpleasant excitement. She was
flattered, she was encouraged.
Doctor Arthur Pell was very much
respected, though he was not rich.
Paul Deslonde was very wealthy.
Such a proposal from cither w'as very
reassuring to a poor girl who3e face
was her only fortune.
Not that Hessie was a hit in love
with either. How could she be when i
stie never had before dreamed of mar
rying either of these gentlemen ? It
was all so very sudden and unex
pected !
The days and weeks went on. It
was a very pleasant change which had
come to Hessie—drives and visits, and
(lowers sent up to her modest little
room.
The new order of things brightened
even the tedious school hours. Yet,
even when a month had gone by, Hes
sie had not even approached her de
cision. She possessed, in her two
suitors, an embarrassment of riches.
They were very different. Paul
Deslonde was brilliant, captivating, so
apt witli arts and graces of the high
est social life, she could not help won
dering that he should have chosen so
unassuming a little maid as herself.
In truth, it was Hessie’s peculiar air
of docility and modesty which had at
tracted Mr. Deslonde. He liked to
rule.
Doctor Pell was practical, with an
air of reliability about him which 1
WASHINGTON, GA„ FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1883.
spoke loudly for him to Hessles reneiy !
heart.
She had needed just such a friend j
so long! Yet, the frank, dark-blue ;
eyes which were Doctor Pell’s only !
beauty were often eclipsed in the j
young girl’s mind by Paul Deslonde's !
elegant form and face. •*
She tried to be wise; so mueh de- j
pended on this decision of hers—all i
her life’s happiness. Which did she
like better? She could not for the life
of her tell. Both strove to please her
and were often very agreeable.
She wished sometimes that she could
see them from a different standpoint
than as her lovers. She tried to look
into the future, imagining either her
husband, but all was so vague!
But at last came the point when
Ilessie was able to decide.
she was shopping one leisure Satur
day and went into a stationer's to
I make some purchases. When the I
i goods she ordered were put up,
l she sat down in the back of the store
to wait for her ear, which would not
|be due for half an hour. She was glad
to rest, too, and entertained herself
with a stereoscope.
Suddenly she tieurd Paul Deslonde’s
j voice. For the lirst time it struck her
i that there was something sharp and
I cutting in it; or, rather, she remem
bered that she had recognized that
quality before without criticising it.
She observed Mr. Deslonde now at
: tentively. He purchased a little steel
implement—an ink-eraser. The sales
| man wrapped and handed it to him.
Mr. Deslonde overlooked the proffer.
“ Send it up to the house at once. I
i am goi#g directly home, and shall want
to use it,” he said, curtly.
“ Certainly, certainly,” answered the
clerk, with an air of apology. “I
| thought perhaps—it is so small—”
“ I never take my purchases; the de
■ livery is your business.”
“Yes—yes, of course, Mr. Deslonde!”
The gentleman went out, and the
i salesman muttered something to a
fellow-clerk about “ pie-crust.”
But another customer came in. It
was a broad-shouldered, florid man,
with pleasant blue eyes. He seemed
i to the salesman, and chatted
j with Him as he carefully selected a
! nice stereoscope with several dozen
j views and a tasteful carved rack for
holding them. When the purchase
I was complete and paid for the gentlo
i man held out his hand lor the package.
“ This is uuite a large parcel. Doctor
j Pell. 1 will send it up," said thy
| clerk.
I No; .1 will take it!” cheerfully.
ji “ Better Jet, me send it up, sir.'’’
j “ No, the things are for my little
Nellie. She has been confined to her
i room fora fortnight with sickness. I
\ promised them to her, and it would
j take away half the satisfaction not to
j give them to her myself. Per.'mps
| you'll feel so, Charley, when you have
a little girl !”
And with a laugh and cheery nod
| Dr. Pell went out with the bulky
parcel.
A warm color spread over Hessie’s
sweet face. The tears came into her
eyes; and then and there Hester Earls
] court made tho decision which influ
enced her whole after life.
When Dr. Pell came into her little
sitting-room that night with a bunch
! of English violets, she took them with
a radiant smile, held them and inhaled
their fragrance all the evening, though
a vase of Mr. Deslonde’s liner green
| house roses stood on the table.
And when, at parting, the grave,
tender, middle-aged lover took violets
and both little hands gently In his and
kissed them, she put a slender arm
about the strong neck.
“Yes, good-bye now; but sometime
you will stay with me always; for I
love you; you are so good I”
And in all her life Ilessie never for a
moment regretted her decision,—Es
ther Earle. Kenneth.
Long Sails.
The Chinese have many peculiar
fashions and fancies which are re
markable; and one of the most curious
; is the industry with which they culti
; vate their finger-nails. They esteem
it a good proof of a man's be
' ing a gentleman, or at least
one who is not obliged to have re
course to manual labor to procure his
subsistence, if he have long nails.
They sometimes allow them to acquire
the extraordinary length of eight or
nine inches. In order to preserve
them from external injury, each one of
the claws Is inclosed in a joint of hol
low bamboo, so that the hand which is
graced witli these strange ornaments is
rendered nearly useless. The Chinese
ladies are particularly attentive to
the preservation of their nails, which
are sometimes an inch or an inch and
a half long on all the fingers. There
texture resembles a dry squill very
much, and as they Increase in length
they curl up at the edges.
Scared Redskins.
Not long ago an officer of the army
(who, having lost his upper teeth,
wore a false set) was engaged in seri
ous conversation with some Indians.
His plate troubling him, be took it out
and wiped it w itli his handkerchief. :
The Indians watched the process with 1
unfeigned astonishment. When the j
captain, putting the plate in his I
mouth, went cn with the eonversa- j
' lion, they sprang to their feet and left I
the room and post in all haste,and with !
everv symptom of extreme terror.
NEW YORK SHOPLIFTERS.
MALE AMD FEMALE THIEVES WHO
BTEAX XH THE STOHES.
.71 any Thousand* of Dollar* I.am Yearly by
Shopkeepers—Early llpglnneri iu Crltue
—Skillful .Methods of Operation.
The shoplifters of New York ar e
declared by the Storijkpepers to be like
air; their presence and their work is
palpable, but, except in occasional in
stances, they are invisible to sight
These thieves, says the Timet, do not
appear to be banded together in an
extensive organization, hut in their in
dividual operations they all pursue the
same general methods and work in
about the same channels. A “ profes
sional” will not make more than one
or two visits to the same counter with
out allowing considerable time to in
tervene, and is very careful not to let
her face become familiar to anybody
connected with the stores visited. The
respective proprietors of nearly a dozen
of the largest retail stores in the city
estimate their annual losses by shop
lifting at from $3,000 to $12,000.
Professional shoplifters were form
i erly in the habit of affecting tho “klep
j toniania dodge” when detected, but
i since the storekeepers have become so
! exacting in their demands for proofs
j of good character in such cases, the
| thieves have abandoned that subter
i fuge, and now depend upon their skill
and luck to escape detection. The in
creasing experiences of the storekeep
ers and the improved facilities for
thief-catching have driven the bunglers
out of this branch if the rogues’ pro
fession, and it is now uneven match
between sharp and experienced detect
ives and smart and ingenious thieves.
; There are plenty of evidences that
“the smart and ingenious thieves”
1 arc. numerous, and they operate in all
! of the large retail stores with a fair
| average of succexs. Occasional ar
rests are made, but it is seldom that a
charge stronger than that of petty lar
ceny can lie proved against the offend
er, and the punishment is accordingly
light.
The most skillful shoplifters invari
ably travel in pairs. In detective
parlance one “stalls” for the other.
, That is, one of the thieves will under
! take to engage the attention of the
! clerk while the other deftly abstracts
j a piece of silk, a package of gloves or
j a card of lace from the counter. It is
I frequently the case that the confeder*
' ate. will not enter a store together or
‘ -aaf-percfiptiMc signs of
j ignition while plying their vie a
| turn. A well-dressed, respjFCtrtrtW!p=-
pHaring woman will step up to the lace
counter, for Instance, and ask to be
shown some fine laee embroideries.
The clerk, mentally noting her well
to-do appearance, thinks he sees a
chance of making a good sale, and is
consequently obliging, lie finds his
customer hard to suit and places box
upon box of choice goods before her.
Soon a second woman comes up and,
calmly ignoring the first customer—
as lady shoppers sometimes do—she de
mands to see a peculiar kind of goods
which belongs in that particular de
partment. The clerk pulls down some
thing for her. It turns out to be the
wrong article and, leaving the first
customer to contemplate the exten
sive assortment of embroideries before
her, lie endeavors to please the second
customer. Immediately he finds him
self the victim of two exacting and un
reasonable females, anu, after show
ing them a share of the goods in
his department, he is mortified to see
them walk away, each one in a differ
ent direction, without having bought a
dime's worth, and he is subsequently
; mortified to find that two or three
( cards of the most costly luce have been
stolen. The “mother and daughter
game” is worked very effectively in
many of the large retail stores where
the clerks are men. The “ mother ”
is, of course, always portly and dig
nified, and the “daughter” pretty and
coquettish. While the later ensnares
the susceptible clerks with her laugh
ing eyes and saucy manner, the adroit
mother tucks a few things into the in- j
side pockets of her ample cloak. < icca
sionally the pretty “ daughter,” if she
happens to lie a practiced thief, will,
under the cover of a small purchase, I
carry off valuable property from under
the very nose of the smitten clerk.
Detectives who arc employed in stores
are quite familiar with the ways of pro
fessional shoplifters, but even with
them a fresh, pretty face plays mischief,
it is well known that a regular system
of education is in vogue among shop
lifters There have been numerous in
stances where young girls and boys
have been caught in company with
well-known professional shoplifters,
and some of these juveniles have con
fessed that they were being taught
how to steal. To become successful i
in the shoplifting business it is neces-1
sary not only to acquire dexterity in
taking articles out of boxes or off from
counters, but to learn to pass the j
stolen goods quickly and secretly to a
confederate. The first lesson taught
to beginners is how to receive stolen
goods from the hands of the more ex
perienced thieves. Then, step by step,
the young shoplifters are advanced in
the art until they are permitted to do
the fine work of stealing laces, silks or
jewelry directly under the noses of the
salesmen. A girl aged fourteen was
arrested for shoplifting on Sixth ave
nue some time ago, and when searched
it was found tliat she wore a double
skirted dress with concealed pockets,
and also liad large pockets in the in
side of her looselv-litting sack.
“Men sometimes act as ‘stalls’ for fe
male shoplifters,” said a shrewd store
detective to the reporter. “ A good
looking man, with a brisk way about
him, can readily pave the way for the
operations of a nimble-fingered wo
rn; n This is particularly the ease at
the counters which are attended by
lady clerks. When a man and a wo
man step up to the counter together
the man is sure to monopolize the lady
clerk’s attention if lie is at all agree
able in his manner. While he talks
his companion slips what she can iqi
her sleeve or under her cloak.”
“ What proportion of the shoplifters
that operate in this city are women ?”
was asked of one of the proprietors of
a large retail store.
“ Fully nineteen-twentieths. It is
seldom that a male shoplifter attempts
to • work’ a retail store alone, and the
instances where women are assisted by
frequent. Male shoplift
ers operate mostly in the downtown
wholesale stores. They go in couples
and generally drop into a store soon
after the porter has opened the doors,
and while one of them engages the at
tention of the porter the other makes
off with a package of goods.” Tho
merchants in the dry goods district are
supposed to be the heaviest downtown
losers by the operations of shoplifters,
hut the ready-made clothing dealers
and the jewelers are frequently victim
ized. A wholesale jeweler in Maiden
lane said that he lost at least SI,OOO
worth of goods every year by petty lar
cenies. “ There seems to he a gang of
shoplifters now working tho jewelry
stores,” lie said, “ who are careful to
avoid making an outcry. They take
| but little at a time, well knowing that
] a busy ‘ wholesaler’ cannot spare tho
time to trace a theft of $75, SIOO or
| $l5O worth of goods. Sometimes sev
j erul days will pass before we miss ttie
' stolen property. Then, of course, it is
I too late to do anything. And, another
| thing, merchants, as a rule, are very
sensitive on the subject of losses.
I Many of them would much rather let
' a thief get away with a few hundreds
! of dollars’ wortli of goods than say any.
| thing about the matter.”
Amusements in Persia.
On the first day of the year tho gov
ernors of the provinces make their
presents to the king of Perdu, at Tehe
ran, which are accompanied by various
sorts ol’ games and pastimes. M. Tan
coigne, who was at Teheran iu 1880,
thus describes them: First came men
“ruiVirifig'Wr-stWt.'t-of more.than,, twenty
feet high; others performing feats of
strength and balancing, turning on the
slack rope, or carrying on their heads
a pile of earthen pots, surmounted with
a vaSC of flowers; then dancing and
combats of rams, which were excited
against each other.
These exercises were followed by
! rope-dancing, performed by two young
children. The rope- was of hair and
consequently le<s flexible than a hempen
one; being strained on two trestles of
more than forty feet in height, it as
cended almost imperceptibly as high as
the top of the king's kiosk. After hav
ing made several gambols with the as
sistance of poles, on the part of the
rope which wits horizontal, one of tiie
two dancers, ten years old at most,
mounted as high as the terrace which
crowns the pavilion and then descended
backward from a height of more than
eighty feet. We remarked with pleas
| lire that • -veral men placed beneath
the cord, followed all the movements ol'
the child, ready to receive him in a
large blanket, if his foot had happened
to hove slipped. We did not suppose
the Persians were capable of such an
attention, especially in the king’s pres
ence. These dancers are called in Per
sian djanbaz, meaning one who plays
or risks his soul. This expression,
contemptuous in itself, intimates that
games of this kind are discouraged by
■ religion; and is nearly synonymous
with that of excommunication, with
which our actors were once compli
mented.
Naked men, armed witli maces, and
wrestlers appeared afterward before
the king. The first resembled savages;
they struck their dubs together with
; out injuring each other. It was not
so with the second, their combats hav
' ing something hideous and revolting.
The conqueror, that is to say, he who
succeeded in throwing his adversary
on his back, went to the foot of the
kiosk to receive a piece < f money which
the king threw down to him. Fire
works of a splendid description suc
ceeded; and the next and iy was appro
priated to horse-racing.
A Grand Piece of Engineering.
A survey is about being made
i through the heaviest portion of the
; Black canon of the Gunnison. Fora
1 long distance the walls of syenite rise
to the stupendous height of 3,000 feet,
and for 1,800 feet the walls of the
! canon are arched not many feet from
the bed of the river. If the survey is
successful and the Denver and Bio
Grande is built through the canon,.it
will undoubtedly be the grandest piece
of engineering on the American conti
nent. The river is very swift, and it
is proposed to build a boat at the
western end and provision it for a
length of time, allowing it to float
; with the stream, hut controlled by
ropes. If the. boat goes the chances
; are that the baby road goes, too.—
Dencer Tritmn .
NO. 13.
MITTENS.
Pare frost-winds on the winter's eve,
Yon play among iny lady's tresses,
And pink as apple-blows yon leave
The cheeks that tuke yonr light caresses;
But from her little hands begone !
By you they’ll not bo kissed nor bitten,
For over each is snngly drawn—
A liny pale-blne mitten.
The slender perfume-haunted glove
Erstwhile that hid her lily fingers
Is not the shield that most they love,
Whereon a pressure longest lingers.
More shy, confiding, tender, true,
And softer than two curled-up kittens.
Are those dainty twins of blue,
My lady’s little mittens.
Once at the play, when lights were low.
And down had dropped the great green cur.
tain,
I took her hand: we turned to go;
Her fingers clasped o’er mine, I’m certain.
That sudden thrill I feel again,
That never could be told o r written,
When’er I see or touoh, as then,
Her downy little mitten.
Some memories those mittens hold,
And secrete, might one coax confession.
Ah, dearer than a gage of gold
I’d count of one to gnin possession.
Yet ask her I shall never dare,
Nor tell her how my heart is smitten,
For fear, in answer to my prayer,
She might give me the mitten.
—Henry Tyrrel, in The Continent,
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
A quiet story —The garret.
The best thingout—Out of debt.
To a ship the rudder is a stern ne
cessity.
Size isn’t everything. A watch tick
ing can lie heard further than a bed
ticking.
Nobody wishes the baby stolen, still
it is a relief when the nurse cribs it at
night. —Boston Bulletin.
When a pickpocket gets out of prac
tice it takes a long while for him to
get his hand in . Statesman.
The man who w:is “ largely instru.
mental” was probably of a mechanical
turn of min I.— Boston Transcript.
The Ameriian Peace society lias
about $00,0(H) on hand—enough to
have a glorious light about.— Lowell
Courier. *
When the lien with chickens at
tacked the small hoy in his mother’*
yard, the hen inforirted him she had
been laying for him for some time.
It takes but thirteen minutes to lead
an elephant on a train, while it takes
twenty for any sort of a woman to
wn,wl.bvA „ml
check for her trunk.— Rome, Sentinel,
They tell of a Kansas woman who
slept so soundly with a hot flatiron at
her feet that she never felt the blisters
until someone woke her up. A wo
man with such a lack of feeling would
wear the same bonnet ten years.—De
troit Free Press.
A spruce and conceited young Mr.
Fell in love with another chap’s r.
With his sweet little cane,
At the end of the lane.
He met and fain would have kr.
But he tsod on her train,
At the end of the lane,
And a slap on his face made a bir.
Old Mr. Jones was always paying
his attentions to the widow Tompkins,
and she detested him from Dan to
Beersheba. Ho was forever tallying
her and asking her silly questions. The
other evening, after a bold compli
ment, he asked, “My dear Madame, how
do you tell a fool when you see one?”
“ Well, Mr. Jones, I usually tell one to
leave. Will you he kind enough to
go?” lie hasn’t stopped going yet.—
The Drummer.
Brotherly Love.
Ye.stor.lay, about 1 o’cloek, a boy of
twelve summers went up Austin ave
nue at such a rate of speed that every
body who saw him was fully per
suaded he was going for a doctor, par
ticularly as there was a scared ex
pression on tho hoy’s face. A kind
hearted man caught the flying hoy by
the arm, and asked him :
“Sonny, is there anybody very sick
at your house?”
“ No; but there will be if you don’t
turn me loose.”
“ Who is going to be sick ?"
“ Well, it’s my brother Bill. He
will be a remains before night if l don’t
get there right away. Wo have
oysters and things for dinner, and if I
ain’t there to get my share he will try
to eat for us both, and he will founder
himself, sure. Please let me go, so
that 1 can save iny little brother’s
life.”— Siftin'js.
The Crown of England.
The crown of England is a beauti
ful jewel sparkling with stenes worth
half a million dollars. There are
twenty diamonds round the circle,
worth $7,500 each, making $150,000;
two large center diamonds, SIO,OOO
each, making $‘20,000; fifty-four smaller
diamond*, placed at an angle of the
former, each $500; four crosses, each
composed of twenty-live diamonds,
$00,000; four large diamonds on the
top of the crosses, $20,000; twelve
diamonds contained In the fleur delis,
$50,000; eighteen smaller diamonds
contained in the same, $10,000; pearls,
diamonds, etc., upon the arches and
crosses, $50,000; also 144 small dia
monds, $25,000; twenty-six diamonds
in the tipper cross, $5,500; two cireha
of pearls about the rim, $15,000.