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My Little Ud id I.
I take a little band in mine.
Y* And walk tho village street,
With cblrp and chatter as wo g«
In mingled convene sweet,
And pleasant salutations
From ever/ one wo meet,
Dear Little Lad? sad I.
I take the little hand in mine,
To climb a neighboring hill,
To pluck wild flowers, er to traaa
A laughing, mountain rill,
By which, when weary or athirst,
We pause to drink our All;
' Dear Little Lad and I.
1 take two little hands in mine.—
My boy upon my knee;
I listen to n pleasant voice,
Made rich with notes of gloe;
I feel a breath against my cheek—
A breath of life to me,
Dear Little Lad and I.
I take those little hands in mine;
I iiear a prattler's tongue
.Repeating childish thoughts and songs,
Bo sweetly said and sung;
In harmony with spirit harps,
x For heavenly music strung,
\\ Dear Little Lad and I.
With those two little hands in mine,
I think of other days;
One generation full of years
Between our parting ways,
And yet our souls clasp hands across
The chasm, in close Unbrace,
Dear Littlo Lad and I.
Those little bands, so very fair, 1
God keep them ever white: /
Those little feet unfettered yet /
May they e’er walk aright, /
That little life, so precious now, v
May it ever be bright,—
Dear Little Lad and L
C. W. firyan in Good Housekeeping.
A NEW KIND OF PET.
X
About a month ago, u stout, masculine-
looking womun, with a defiant air and a
sharp nose, applied to see the landlord of
a house in Vienna, and stated that she de
sired to rent two roonis which he hud ad
vertised.
“What rent do you nskF’ she inquired,
after examining the rooms
“Fifty guldens a month, but before I
rent the rooms to you I want to know if
you liave any children to drive the other
tenants out of the house.” .
“I have no children. Is there anything
else I’ve not got to have in order to be al
lowed to pay you fifty guldens u month
for two rooms?”
“Do you keep a piano?”
“I’ve got no piano to keep; but I sup
pose I could rent one if you insist upon
it. nave I got to have a piano in order
to obtain the privilege of paying you fifty
guldens u month for two little badly*
lighted rooms?”
“O, no, on the contrary, Ido not al
low pianos. Do you keep a dog or one
of those screeching, green parrots that
drive peoples crazy?”
“I have no use for dogs or parrots.
Are there any other pets that I am not
obliged to have before you will take my
money for the rent?”
“No, you can have the rooms. Wlint
5s your name?”
“Cornelia Vcrnrdi.”
She moved her effects into the rooms
next day. It was true that she had no
children, parrots or musical instruments,
with which to annoy the other tenunts,
but sho was accompanied by nn immense
yellow dog. The landlord did not make
this discovery u^til after his new' tenant
had been on the premises several days.
“I thought you said you had no dog?”
said the landlord, pointing to the auimul
which was curled up in a corner.
“That’s no dog,” replied the tenant la
conically.
Well, it’s big for a cat,” replied the
landlord.
As the new tenant was a very quiet
person, had paid her rent in advance,
and as it was a bad year for available
tenants, no attempt was made to put her
out. She kept herself to herself and
gave no cause for complaint.
She had an old womun for a servant
who brought her meals and attended to
her other wants.
One night, tho new tenant was sudden
ly taken very ill, and the old woman ser
vant had to ooze rapidly out of the house
and rush around for a doctor.
When tlie medical .nan arrived with
bis tongue -protruding, o wing to the fast
1 time he had made, he found his patient
in an uncnnscious condition. He hastily
wrote oat a prescription and giving it to
the f ervant told her to lose no timo in
getting it filled, whilo he remained with
the patient.
During the absence of the servnnt, the
doctor felt the fair patient’s pulse and
was making efforts to arouse her from her
deadly atupos, when, all at ouco, ho
heard a most horrible growling and
gnashing of tooth right behind him.
Looking around lie saw a huge beast
with shining eyes about to climb all over
him, or perhaps swallow him alive.
Tho doctor’s blood curdled in Ids veins
and his hair stood up on edge witli fright.
He was paralyizcd with terror, hut not
entirely so, for lie managed to get into a
distunt corner of the room behind a sofa
with a velocity that was almost magical.
As soon us tho beast saw that the doc
tor was no longer near his mistress, he
calmod down u little, but kept his eyes
on the doctor with such u peculiar ex
pression that the learned naan was rivited
to the spot.
Whilo the doctor was busy praying,
the old womnn returned with the medi
cine. Tlie doctor was glad. He hoped
that the brute’s jaw would become so
weary devouring tlie tough old woman
that lie would liave more time to make
his peace with Heaven, or his escape.
He preferred, however, to make his es
capes
As soon os the old woman saw the
brute, she exclaimed:
“Oeli hitnmcl, dot lion come dot room
oud ven I forget already I lock dot
door,” and seizing the animal by his con
tinuution, she dragged him backwards
out of tlie room and locked the door.
“Lion?” asked tho doctor, ns a chill
ran up ids spino, and the cold perspira
tion boiled out of him; “lion? Do ^'ou
kcej^lions for pets instead of dogs?"
“Only von. Dot odor von lias gone on
mit the circus," replied the old woman,
who went on to explain.that her mistress
was a lion tnmercss; tlmt the lion was
only half grown and not yet very danger
ous, unless he wus aroused to frenzy.
The doctor did not loiter about tlie
premises, but. vanished at once. As soon
as the landlord and the tenants found
out that there was a lion on the premises,
they moved out as if tho house was ou
tire in several places, und telephoned for
troops.
Miss Cornelia and her pet, she having
recovered, moved out the next day, and
now when the landlord catcciiiscs u
would-be-tenant, he includes lions, tigers
and boa constrictors ou the list, for, as
he says: “We must be prepared for al
most anything.”—Texan Sifting».
The Worship of Beasts.
It appears that there are still somo
Christians in the Russian empire who
retain one characteristically pagan cus
tom of their forefathers—tlie sacrifice of
beasts as a part of public worship. Not
long ago the St. Petersburger Xeituny
stated that this practice was in use ' on
certain occasions at Wyborg in Northern
Finland, among tlie ICaretes, who are
devoted adherents to tlie orthhdox
Church. Tlie Sciet now states that the
ritual survives among the orthodox is
landers of Muutsrhinschnri, about twen
ty-five versts from tho monastery of
Wnhiam, where there is a chapel dedicat
ed to tlie prophet Elias. Several times
every year three oxen, mid sometimes
more, are brought by Christian pilgrims
to tlie chapel, in front of which they are
solemnly slaughtered amid the ringing of
bells. The dead beasts, however, arc not
now burned as they formerly were, but
are boiled, and the pilgrims, together
with the villagers, make u hearty dinner
of tlie sacred flesh.
Muscles and Memory.
“Did it ever occur to you”' said a well
known local pianist, who spent consider
able time in thought, that human mus
cles have a memory of \hcir own, nml
that they perform their functions without
special orders from the mind at times?”
“Well, yes,” replied the writer, as he
sat down at the piano, mid unconsiously
began exercising his musclAon the keys.
“I don't sup|K>so j Hungarian working
‘in the dc tfteh’ give- his arras special
in the dc titch'
orders how to manipulate t spade, when
ho cuts out a lump of terra firimi.”
“That’s a very primitive illustration,”
rcsuniod the other, at the same timo clos
ing the piano, locking it and putting tlie
key in ids pocket, “and if you had
trained your mind to pick out examples
supporting arguments in a discussion,
you would have dropped upon a much
better one. For I assume that you nro
capable of understanding that when you
follow your calling you would make n
dismal failure if you hud to interrupt the
working of your mind each moment to
tell your fingers how to make u letter.
You must he aware of thc.fni* tliut all
you have to do in writing an' article is to
allow your thought full scope, und your
lingers will put down tho words, spelling
and all correct, without instructions from
the brain. Rut even writing is not an il
lustration of tlie highest order in appli
cation to this subjuct. Not only myself,
hut every physician, can tell that in
memorizing pieces the fingers do it all.
; It would be u very difficult feat to re
member all the notes in a pieee of music,
and some musical people rely so certainly
on their fingers for the mechanical part
of their playing that when they happen
to think of the music in tlie midst of a
performance they become nervous, and,
the chances are, break down. I will go
still further than {fiat, l a diffi
cult piece of music eight years ngo, lost
tho music, and did not see u piece for
two years, I then resumed playing, but
hud forgotten all about the pieee, when
one evening while I was nmusing myself
at tlie piano in the dark, my fingers hap
pened to strike tho chord of that piece.
Then they started in, uml whilo I was
thinking of the scenes surrounding the
spot where I had leurned tlie piece they
played it, expression und all. leun now
pull down the curtains of this room,
blindfold jny eyes, carry on a i onversation
with you on any subject, and guarantee
tlmt my fingers will play that piece with
all the expression implied in its tones.
This seems a remarkable feat, but there
are few good musicians who will not
agree to do tlie same.”— Pittsburg Chron
icle- Telegraph.
The Georgia lllomlhoiind.
Tlie Georgia bloodhound does not.
quarry his game, unless it is a rabbit—a
small mbit. lie is neither fierce nor
powerful. A boy can hold a pack oil'
with a cornstalk. Hut for trailing a fu
gitive—for hugging him close as his
shadow—or for flying along his track
when even the grass lias forgotten its im
press, and tlie wind lias powdered it
over with dust, he is as identic.
over with dust, lie is as relentless as j vice
death itself.—Atlanta Collat'd alien. J York.
Enrly New York’s First Families
Very few of the first settlers of New
York were persons of consideration. The
original Dutch establishment was u poor
trading post, not even a. colony, hardly
more than a station for collecting hides
and furs from tlie Iudinns; and when per
manent agricultural settlements were at
last attempted it was long before they
prospered. When we read of the ances
tors of some of our well-known families
that they were “successful merchants” of
New Amsterdam, we may remember that
a “merchant” in the old Dutch days was
usually—at least in the beginning—a
small dealer, not above selling a penny
worth of candles or a bottle of rum over
his counter; although it was probably by
the burtcr in bcAVcrskius that lie made
most of his money. The West India com
pany attempted to keep the trade in its
own hands, and there was little in its
service to attract tlie better class of ad
venturers. The establishment of the
quasi-manoriul system under the pntroons
was not entirely successful, but it brought
men of wealth mid consideration into
personal relations with the colony. Un
der this system proprietors to he known
us patroons (patrons) were authorized to
acquire hug: tracts of laud by purchase
from the Indians within tlie limits of the
company’s territory on condition of estab
lishing thereon a colony of not less than
fifty persons. The patroon was a kind
of feudal lord, with the right to adminis
ter justice, appoint civil and military
officers, settle clergymen, etc., and the
colonist were tenants who owed him ser-
for a term of years.— Colonial New
A Lilly of MuRulllceiit Kului.
A correspondent of tlie London Timea
who nccom|KUiitid tho expedition to Bur
undi, writes us follows: Wo sighted tho
ruins of Fagan early on the 28<1. Theso
remarkable ruins extend for more than
eight miles along the eastern hank of tho
Irrawaddy, and average two miles in
breadth. In this space there are tho re
mains of between 1*00 and 1,000 temples
and pagodas, some of them in tolerable
preservation, and mauy of them of greut
size and magnificence. Tho site of the
city is covered with jungle, and tho vast
assemblage of buildings towering nbovo
the surrounding trees, and stretching ns
far as tho eye can reach, is singiMurly im
pressive. The oldest of the Pugau tem
ples are supposed to date from about the
year 850, mid the city reached tho zenith
cf its power mid prosperity about tlie
time of the Normmi conquest ofEugiuud.
In 1824 the city wus almost completely
destroyed during the Chinese invasion ol
Btirmnh. Then the king of Pagan pulled
down mi enormous number of temples—
some ’chronicles state us ninny us 4,000—
and used the inutorhils in strengthening
tlie ramparts of tlie city. When tho in
vaders captured it they completed the
destruction. Perhaps tlie most remarka
ble of the great temples in Pagan is tlie
Ammdii, which is still used as a place of
worship. In plan it is n square of 200
feet to the side, broken on ench side by
the projection of large gable vestibules,
which convert the plan into nn utmost per
fect Greek cross. Tlie central pinnacle
reaches to the height of 108 feet. Anoth
er of tho great temples of Pagan is tho
Thupinyu, the spire of which rises to tho
height of 201 feet ubovc tho ground and
overtoils nil the other monuments. Tho
Gaudu Palen temple, dating from 1100,
rises to a height of 180 feet. Being near
er the river than either the Ananda or
Thnpanyu it is very couspicious when ap
proaching Pagan, os wc did, from the
southward. Gleaming in its white plas
ter, with numerous pinnacles and n tall,
central spire, it seemed, when we first
•iglited it, like a distant glimpse of Milan
cathedral. Muny of tlie ruins nt Pagan
are so unlike all other Burmese buildings
that it lias been suggested by some author
ities tliut these buildings urc due to tho
skill of u western Christum or missionary.
CLIPPINGS FUR THE CIJKIOU^ \
A caso of hydrophobia of spontnncous\
origin in man is believed to have oc
curred recently in Purls.
Patchouly is supposed to lie the most
permanent of all vegetable odors. The
plunt resembles mint, anil is a native of
various parts of India.
The largest clock over known is thnt
in the euthedrul nt Btrusburg. It is one
hundred feet long, thirty feet wide and
fourteen feet deep, and lias been in use
for three hundred yenrs.
The most complete eollection of coins
in America, embracing coins of every
description, from tho early colonial days
down to the present time, is in the pos
session of Lorlng G. Parmalee,of Boston.
Its intrinsic value is something less thnn
one thousand, two hundred dollars, but
its inorcuntilu value is about seventy
tlumsund dollars.
According to Dr. E. Pnrmly Brown,
tho Sandwich Islanders formerly had tlie
soundest teetli of nny people on the globe,
but their teeth have now begun to decay
rapidly, nn effect, it appears, of eating
iurge quantities of salt. This substance
and sugar Dr. Brown regards us leading
factors in tlie destruction of human teeth
at tho present time.
Students are graded nt Princeton in six
groups. Tlie athletes stand well down in
tho ranks, according to President
McCosli. Fifteen of the twenty-seven
are in tlie lowest two grades, all but seven
are below tho middle, and only two get
up into tho second grade. The doctor is
in favor of utldetics, hut believes that ex
cessive bodily exercise takes too much
time.
This wus ono way of proving that a wo
mnn was a witch in tho olden time. She
wus placed on a chair or stool with her
legs tied cross, nnd by that means, after
somo time, tho circulation of the blood
would he much stopped. She wus ob
liged to remain in this )M>siti(m for
twenty-four hours, without olther sleep
or food. In order to free herself from
this torture it wus no wonder thnt she
wus willing to confess that she practised
witchcraft.
How Gotham Grows.
Considering thut last year was not ono
of the best for money making, New York
did pretty well in that line, huving laid
up $37 ,000,000 or so by increase in tho
value of real estate. Tlie guin was
greater in somo previous years, but $37,-
000,000 is not bad for dull times. There
docs not seem to he much danger of Chi
cago getting ahead of Gotham just yet,
except in miscellaneous cussedness, nnd
Now York throw up tho sponge in tlin
matter some time ago. There lias lately
been some random talk about Chicago ul
timately taking away tlie bulk of the dry
goods trade from both New York und
Boston, hut dry goods men in both cities
say it is till fool-talk anil tlmt the trade
increases in each city every year. The
steady and rapid growth of New York is
not fully known even by New Yorkers
themselves. Very few of them have any
idea of how fast the new part of the city,
tlie section north of tlie Harlem river, is
filling up. Tlmt section is about as large
as the origiual Manhattan Island, and
much of it is now us closely built as Hnr-
iem was ten years ago. As for increase
of population that does not stop a
moment. Not from the Old World only,
but from all parts of the New World, the
stream of humanity (lows steadily into
New York, and all the probabilities are
thnt it will keep on doing so while there
is room to spread. Some enthusiasts
about the future say there will be a plan
some day to arch over the East river, lay
out streets nnd build houses on a vast
structure supported by piers und cables,
as the Brooklyn bridge is, without inter
fering with navigation, nnd make New
York, Brooklyn and Long Island City a
single city, the largest in the world. This
may seem a bare-brained notion, but so
did the Brooklyn bridge when it was first
proposed. And if a man had said twenty
years ago that families would now be liv
ing on tlie toil floors of ten-story build
ings he would have been called a fool.—
Hartford Times.
A “Pcushau Immcjlately.”
Some of the applications for pensions
are ludicrous enough. Tho following,
from the Washington Tribune, is Ben
Davis’ application, just ns Ben sent it:
“In June 1803 I wus ordered, in tho lino
of duty to break in a mucl to work nt the
suildle iu tho wuggen anil hawl wood for
the army ut Bowlinggrecn, Ky., and on
undertakin tlie order given by the wag
gon master, I called on Ben Dcspuin and
Bed Wortli to assist mo, which they did
in bridling tho inewl and put mo on the
mewl, und in uttumptin to control sed
mewl, while on the mewl, the mewl got
loose from sed Scnggs and Ward nnd
Dcspuin and run off tords tlie stuhii and
bean unubil to manage the mewl nnd to
save my life nnd lim, the mewl rapidly
npproiichin the open (lore of the barn,
the (lore not a boin big enough for both
me and the mewl, in the altemp to git off
tlie mewl was forcibly thrown on the
grownd and my lied made a hole in it
nnd my rite shoulder first strikin a saplin,
tiien and tlmr in the line Of duty as order
ed ns stated by sed Skaggs & Worth was
toted to the hospittlc at tliut pint. I was
so infurnelly dubbled up by the lick I
struck the saplin and glancing off tho
grown whnr I made the big nucks hole
with my lied, I haven’t been ubil to
straiten myself out fairly ever sence, and
I’m shore,-Mr. Pension Burow man, you
will send the penshun money immejintc-
ly, seein’ as how I wus knocked out in
the line of duty.”
A Medical Directory.
“How are you getting on?” asked
Yeast of y?ning Crimsonbeak, whom he
met on the street the other day.
“First rate,” was the young man’s rc-
plv.
“What are you doing?” further queri
ed Yeast.
“I’m a medical director in an institu
tion down town.”
“A medical director!”
“Yes; you see I direct envelopes in
patent medicine house.”
“Oh.”— Yonkers Statesman.
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