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MY LITTLE LOVE.
HESTER A. BENEDICT.
I.
My little love, asleep so far, so far
Beyond the hills I cannot cross nor climb,
Forgetting where the bees and wild birds are,
And minding not the running river's rhyme—
I pray you, in the silence grown so sweet
And full of heaven—since having you to hold,—
Dream that the wind hath kisses for your feet,
Blowu from my heart with blessings manifold.
II.
The palms are proud above me and I go,
.Singing, across the laughter-loving land.
Yet saying, sometimes, with my voice dropped
low:
“If she could wake and understand!”
It may be that my fancy runneth riot,
Watching the wee birds peering from the nest;
ButO, itseemeth often in the quiet
Your light breath rocks the roses on my br p ast.
Ill-
And so 4 T say: “My love, awake so far ,
Beyond the skies that yet £ may not climb.
I think you know where all my treasures are;
I think you hold the meaning of my rnvme.
I think you stand, this moment, warm and sweet,
And reaching dimpled lingers as of old,
To catch the kisses for your face and feet,
Blown from my heart with blessings manifold.’’
IV.
And so I sing with brooks, and birds, and bees,
Under the palms and where the "pampa grows;
Choosiug my many friends from them and these
And from wild winds that seek Sierra's snows.
And so I wear the raiment ofdeiight;
And so I walk with glad, unfaltering feetj
And so I wait, till, past the day and night,
Finding my love, I find my life complete.
Two Anecdotes
Bishop Early.
of
Bishop Early was a notable man. He was
born in Virginia in 1786, and died in 187(5. He
joined the Methodist ouurch when he w. s about
nineteen years old, aud iD February, 1807 he
connected himself with the Virginia Conterence
as a traveling preacher. Ho was young, strong
and robi.st, and was as dauntless and fearless
in natural courage as he was earnest, ardent aDd
impnisive in his religion. When be entered
the wuik of an Him runt minister, Methodism
was, comparatively,a new religion. Everywhere
it awakened opposition and ext-i.ed prejudice
by its doctrines, style of preaching and mode
of conducting religious service. The preachers
at this early day were, for the most part, plain
and uneducated, but intensely eartus’ men.
They preached the simple truths of the Gospel
with directness, pungency and power. The ef
fect was wonderful. Whole communities were
revolutionized by it.
Jn the front ra.uk of 'hese preachers in those
dais m Virginia and N mb Carolina, esptcially,
among the young preachers, John Eariy stwod,
like Saul among the prophets, ‘Lead and shoul
ders above other men,' Ho had a manly form
and commanding presence. His brow was hea
vy, bis eye keen and penetrating, bis features
bold and stroDgly marked, and his voice sten
torian.
In the year 1808 he was appointed ‘helper* or
■assistan 1 preacuer'on the Camden Ci cult, em
bracing reeeral countiesiu the northeastern sec
tion ot North Carolina. The It v. Dcv»ny was
‘preacher in charge.* The two men were unlike
e , ch other. D< vatsy was -a son of consolation,*
E.rly was ‘a son of thunder.*
O i one occasion wc. n preaching in a sc o >’-
house in an on —of the—way part ol the c.rcuit,
Eirly felt called upon to administer a pretly «e-
vere reproof to some girls for eating apples and
otheiwise behaving disorderly dining the reli
gious service. Tiavchug round a large c remt,
and preaching evi ry day, (he circumstance and
occasion of the reproof passed out ot Lis mind.
In his regular round he hud pleached again at
the scboolhouse, and in the aiternoon of a hot
August day following the services, he called on
a shoemaker living in the neighborhood, to get
him to repair his shoes.
Ou entering the house of the shoemaker, he
found him on his bench at work, aud observed
that he did not raise his head, or in any other
way respond to the salutation ef the visi or. Af
ter a few minuti s sileece, Mr. Early said:
‘I have called :o get you to mend my shoes.*
Without raising his eyes to the speaker the
shoemaker curtly replied:
•I -han’t do it.*
‘Why not?* inquired Mr. Early.
•I shan't do it, • was the on y response elicited.
Mr. Early was not a little surprised, and siood
musing for a few moments, and then quietly
took his seat, for he had not been invited to sit
down. He was at a loss lo cot j cture the cause
of the discourteous conduct ot the shoemaker.
Tue sileice was again broken by Mr. Early say
ing:
•You are a shoemaker. I have called to get
some work done, I expected to pay you for it,
anei I am not going away till ii is done.*
To this the shoemaker sullenly replied:
‘You might as well go, for I do not intend to
meud your shoes.*
Tee heit was oppressive. Scarcely a leaf
qniefl - ed in the bre« za. For a while,the silence
was uubrokeD. The shoemaker plied his awl
and worked away, the perspiration pouring off
him meanwhile. Mr. Eariy at length broke the
silercs by repeating:
•You might as well take my shoes and go to
work on them, tor I am not going to leave till
they are mended.*
The shoemaker now, for the first time, turned
his eyes on his visitor, and said, pointing to the
door:
‘Do you see that door?
‘I do,’ was the answer
‘Do you see that gun over the door?’ inquired
the shoemaker, with »n angry snarl.
•I do,’ replied Mr. Early.
‘Now get up,’ said the shoemaker, savagely,
‘and go out at that door and ltave me, or I will
use that gun.*
Mr. Early was a little bewildered, but he was
not The man to quail or to be frightened. He
retained his seat and maintained his composure.
Just then it negan to thunder. The black clouds
lay in the west. Nature was portentous of a
c lining storm. Again Mr. Earlr said, very
firmly: "
•Take my s^oes and mend them at once.
Again the shoemaker replied as before, raising
his -oice and assuming a manacing air:
•Do you see that door ?’
*I do t - replied Mr. Early, with decided em-
Ph ‘Do%ou see that gun over the door?' gruffly
and vociferously h-quired the shoemaker.
•I do,’ was the reply, delivered in no equivo
cal manner. ...... . ,
‘Then, at once get cut at that door and be
gone,’ said the enraged shoemaker, or I will
use that gun.*
At that moment there came a bunding hash
of lightning and a tremendous crash ot thun
der. Mr. Early closed his eyes and said with
great solemnity: , . .
‘That's right, my God; thunder m the heav-
The air grew dark and the shoemaker grew
pale. Then, in rapid sueoestlon, there came
* ash after flash of lightning peal after peal
: thunder.
The shoemaker trembled and turning to Mr.
Early said, beseeching y:
'Let me have your shoes.*
The storm raged with increased violence; Mr.
Earley again repeated:
‘That's right, my God; thunder in the heav
ens. *
Yielding to the earnest intreaties of the cob
bler, the shoes were handed over, and in a short
time were ready for use. In the meantime, the
girls of the household came into the room. Mr.
Early recognized them as those whom t,e had
reproved. In an instant an explanation of the
strange conduct of the shoemaker flashed on his
mind.
The storm subsided, and Mr. Early proposed
to hold prayers with the family betore leaving.
The shoemaker readily assented. Mr. Early
gave them an earnest talk on the subject of reli
gion, and then prayed with them and for them.
Before leaving, he extracted a promise from the
shoemaker that he and his family would attend
preaching on his next round. They came, and
he had the pleasure of gathering them all into
the church betore the year ended.
At the session of one of the Annual Confer-
eucies, over which Bishop Early presided, the
pastors were called od, in turn, to give some ac
count of their respective charges. It so happen
ed that a young man, well-known to the Bish
op, had been on a circuit lying on the outskirts
of the Conference territory, who, during the
yiar, had married a lady of property, and who
came up, to the surprise of the Conference, with
a fine outfit in the way of new clothes,kid gloves,
glossy beaver, gold spectacles and a gold-head
ed cane. He was decidedly 'stuck-up 1 and car
ried himself with tff cted dignity. His name
was called and he arose to give an account of his
circuit. He proceeded to state that several new
houses of worship had been erected, new con
gregations formed, a fresh impulse given to the
cause of religion, and that general prosperity
prevailed on the circuit; and then concluded
tiis renarks by saying:
‘And now, Bishop, if you will only give that
circuit half a chance, it will do well.’
The Bishop drew up bis mouth, nodded his
head once or twice, and said:
‘Tne circuit has had half a chance.’
The young man subsided and another name
was called.
Hasn’t She a Splendid Figure ?
PIERCE THORNTON.
We were lounging on the sofa together—my
wife and I—as it has been our custom to do for a
little half hour on almost every evening of our
long and happy wedded life. That delightful
space of time between the bright sunshine ot
day ana the black shadows of night—when it is
•oo dark to work and too light for lamps—is
sacred to small confidences, twilight talks, the
dissection of the day's anxieties and perplexi
ties, and the ever blessed, ntver-w a<ying inter
change of thought and sentiment and feeling,
'n winter we occupy a spring sofa before the
fire; in summer-time a cane one on the veranda,
which overlooks the moBt qui--t and modest of
gras-'-growa streets in a rural town. It was
August at the time I write, and Maidie, whose
hand had been lying in mine under a wind
blown fold of her dress, suddenly withdrew it
and exclaimed:
‘There ! she’s coming, Pierce ! that girl I told
you ab u', from tte < i:y, you know, Hasn t
sue aspen lid figure?’
I do .’t life the ar j ctive ‘splendid.’ It sounds
to my ears coaiaior ish ind gvnhing, and is very
larely heard from the lips of my wife; but this
time, instead of . xpressir.g surprise or disap
proval, I only answered, ‘Perfect! and my loag-
ir.g eyes followed the walking goddess down the
street.
Figures are my specialty; I have made p. study
of them from my youth up without discovering
any that so nearly approached per'e ition as this.
I lave observed tie ‘human form divine’—ah,
bow sadly sardonic the quotation often is—iu
all its infinite variety. Tne thick and thin, the
dowdy and distinguished, the undersized and
overgri wn, the crooked and bent and distorted,
ample and meager, broad and.contr e f ed, these
and a hundr id more have been the obj els of my
interest for years. And the interest has been
almost as melancholy as it hrs been long-con
tinued. Iu all my journeyings abroad, and
walks about hom >, I had not till that evening
beheld my ideal figure. Not being a hardened
novel writer, I will not pass over my heroine
with a few grandiloquent adjectives, but will
describe her noble contour iu minutest detail.
Firstly, then, she was perfectly straight, and
here I am ready to pause and give a definition
of that, abused word. She wi s not flat, as tbe
phrase 'straight up and down' iiusd to signify;
but can you fancy (you will have to draw upon
your imagination, as it is so seldom seen) a
figure splendidly erect, straight as an arrow let
loose from the bow, supple as a willow and
vigorous as a young forest tree, the wa:st free
and untraromeled to
•‘Sink or swell as heaven pleases.”
the head balanced fairly on the backward-thrown
shoulders, the—but how shall I continue, how
can I describe what so nearly passes descrip
tion.
0d6 more point, however, I can not pass over.
There was not anangle in the whole o! her beauti-
fudy-formed body. That long flowing curve
from well-turned waist to hip was as line as it
was rare. Every line was one of beauty, from
rounded cht ek, reddened with the fresh free
walk, to firm elas ic feet.
‘Now, by way of contrast, take the average
young pirl that walks the streets of an average
town and this is what you see. A form either
stout or scrawny—generally the latter—but in
any case prominent shoulder blades- really a
hunchback, to some degree—and the whole
weight of head arms, and square, angular
shoulders, dragging in a stupid, slovenly manner
ou tne chest, thereby assisting the inevitable
corset in keeping the vitalizing, lifi-giving air
from the heavy, sluggish blood. That sharp
lice, from pushed-out shoulders to piuched-in
waist, is the very reverse of beautiful, and that
coarse, dug-out look between waist and hip is
even more ugly. Yet this figure well padded,
and ditto dressed, is esteemed fine, or at least
stylish.
I believe it to he a literal fact that very, very
few people are born into the world well-shaped,
and we are grown so accustomed to the natural
deformities of contracted chests, stooping
shoulders, and crooked back spines that they
have ceased to be repulsive. That man is the
only creature that stands erect, is a bitter sar
casm. Straight, erect, upright—how mauiv the
words sound, bat where is the man to whom
they will apply ? Do you think there is room
for a noble, strightforward soul in a cringing,
bowed-down old-young body ? Do mothers ever
think of such things at all, I wonder? My
daughter dosen't lace at all,’ said the mother of
a lauK, narrow-chested girl to me lately. ‘She
has naturally a tine waist.’* That daughter may
not lace, but she wears corsets, and for a girl
that is naturally badly formed, with small lungs
and narrow body, this is simply suicide. Tuere
is no lack of room and air in the world to be
had for the taking—room for lungs to expand in
fullest exuberance, and hard, apiupt angles to
soften into tte loveliest lines of beauty, and air
enough to invigorate and renew the pallid,
poisoned blood that comes so feebly through
pinched and starving veins. There is no knowl
edge like that which relates to one’s own well
being. There is no beauty like health: there is
no virtue like uprightness, physical as wall as
moral,
AMONG THE GLEANERS.
BY LOUISE CEOS 6 LEY.
ONE OF CAXLYLE S PHILIPPICS.
Some years before the civil war a Northern
woman, who w. s under the impression that Car
lyle was a great philanthropist, according ’o her
interpretation of the word, visited him while in
England. She immediately opened the conver
sation with some remarks in favor of the aboli
tion of slavery. Carlyle growled out a bitter re
joinder in which be took strong grounds in fa
vor of that institution, and denounced all abo
litionists as sentimental fools and flunkies. The
lady, irritated and and surprised, hit instantly
upon the true woman's method, argumentum ad
homimem. and put the startling question.
‘Huw, Mr. Carlyle, would you like to be a
slave ?’ The old Sea lion of Chelsea shook his
mane, dilated his person to its fullest dimen
sions, and in his broad Scotch brogue, ex
claimed.
•Well, madame, I should be glad to be a great
bu!!-necked nigger, and have somebody to 'ake
care of me.’ Tne female shrieker vamoosed.
THE MADONNA DEL VELO.
There was ODee in the art gallery of the Bracce
family of Miian, one of the rarest gems of Ha; h-
aei's rare genius. / It was called The Madonno del
Veto, and derived i's title from the V.rgiu being
represented as lifting a transparent veil from the
face of the sleeping Jesus - She is gazing on the
infant with all the devoted love of a mother, and
with all a Madonna's reverence beaming from
bereyes.ind depicted in term untenance and her
posture, w hile the young St J.din is standing by
an attentive and interested spictatorof the pro
ceeding. The colors are very b autifui, and are
blended with exquisite taste and juigment.
The minutest details of the painting bear the
closest examination, and every new inspection
brings to view some unobserved charm, some
previously undetected beauty. The figures are
perfect, and the landscape forms a delightful
and effective back-ground.
But the singular and wonderful skill and fin
ish of this beautiful work, is displayed in the
veil which the Virgin is represented as lifting
from the sleeping infant’s face. It is marvel
ously painted. It is perfectly transparent, and
seems so singularly Sn», filmy, and light, that
it has all tbe appearand of what a silken cob
web might be imagined to be. Tbe whole work
isa remarkable spe. i u -n of the great artis’s skill
even in the most d fficuit and delicate matters.
f F SIR WALTER SCOTT.
Mrs. John Ballantyne, a young beauty ofE 7 -
ioburgh, and half spoiled bv flattery, was just
married. She was to meet Sir Walter at dinner,
and she resolved to put on airs, and show the
great lion of the day that she was not to be
besought to fawn even at his illustrious feet.
Sir Walter asked her to takeaglass of wine, and
she affected not, to hear him, but the great man,
instead of not) mg this girlish folly, proceeded
to talk to her with so much frankness and court
esy that she spesdily felt ashamed of herself.
This lady related that once, at her own table,
no the occasion of a large and ceremonious din
ner-party, there was a scarcity of spoons, and
whit added to the awkwardness, at the very mo
ment when a servant was washing the spoons for
farther use in an adjoining room, a most deter
mined pause iu conversation occurred. Tue
silence was so profound that no sound could be
heard save the whispers of the servants just
without, and the washing of the spoons. At
last the blushing lady‘s husband drank, ‘Be
lief to all in distress,’ which broke the spell
and set all laughing, while Mr. J.rues Baiian-
lyne called oat, wi h a line of Shakspeare.
•My iord, my lord, melhiuks you‘d spare
your spoons.* Not I, indeed, my lord, re
sponded M s. B.,’ for I have none to spare.'
'Not amiss,' cried Sir Walter in genial recogni
tion of the lady's hi Next day a parcel came to
her in an unmistakable hand writing,containing
a dozen of tbe handsomest spoons that could be
obtained in Elincurgh.
SUNSET ON THE PACIFIC SLOPE -
Bayard Taylor, who had travelled in so many
lands, and stood beneath the encranting beauty
of Italian skies, thus writes ot sunset on our
occidental shores: ‘No where on this earth ctn
one be overvaulted with such a glory of colors
The sky, with a ground hue of rose towards the
west, and purple toward the east, is mottied and
fi eked over ail its surface with light clouds,
running through every shade of erimson, amber,
violet, and russet gold. There is no dead dus
kiness opposite the sunken sun, the whole vast
shell of the firmament glows with an equal ra
diance, reduplica'ing its huesoE. the glassy sea,
so that we seem floating to a hooli.v sphere of
prismatic crystal. The cloud strata, at different
heights in the air, take different colorii g
through bars of burning carmine one may lo a
on the soft rose-purple folds of an inner curtain
and, f«r within and beyond that, on the char
amber-green of the immaculate sky. As he
light d’.mioishes, these ridiant vapors sink ana
gather into flaming pyramids, between whose
pinnacles tbe serene depth of air is of that fath
omless violet-green which we see in the skies of
Titian.
Mrs. Sallie Roach, who died in Shelby coun
ty, Ky., on the 12 h in3t., was a 106 years old.
It is said that she was never sick a day in her
Ufa but died of old age. She has worked many
a day in the woods,splitting rails, cutting wood,
and the like.
By an actual count Mrs. John Wilhelm, near
Womelsuorf, Pa., found that she had fed and
given meals last year to five hundred and fifty
tramps and gypsies.
The Lieutenant Governor of Colorado is worth
$5,000,000, owns two mines, is President of a
bank aud proprietor of a large wholesale stor .
A few years ago he was a poor stone-cutter u.
Augusta, Me., bat he took Mr. Greeley’s advice
On a certain social occasion, Tennyson told
an anecdote that was as coarse as any gentle
man’s story could well be. Longfellow, who
was present,.caa never endure anything .if this
nature, and found some pretext for retiring,
and afterwards expressed his astonisement that
a man ot Tennyson’s intense refinement could
be guilty of such coarseness. Bayard T ylor
explained it by saying that he required some
rehet from the strong, emotional pitch he had
been worked up to in his reading, and had
probably found it in this direct contrast to re
fined sentiment. Tennyson, who scspected that
Longfellow did not relish his story, gave the
same reason before the conclusion of the visit.
A. Stephens, collector of customs at Owen
Sound, Ontario, has written a poem of serious
length, entirely devoted to the celebration of our
recent Centennial exhibition at Philadelphia,
which, it seems, he visited. Here is a single
stanza, from whtch a judicious reader may have
ail, at least enough, of this Canadian produc
tion :
“We left the good city of Toronto,
With tickets to carry us on to
where the world has been getting a s v ove;
To where ail the world has been going.
To see what the world has been showing,
At the city ot Brotherly hove,”
A preacher was called to preach in a Western
town and the elders warned him that it was a
rough place and he might be interrupted. The
reverend man said notning, but on Sunday
morning got up in the pulpit, looked carefully
ail around, took out a navy six. cocked it, laid
it on the Bible, and after eyeiDg those of the
brethren who were opposed to him, raised his
hands and said fervently: ‘Let us pray’—and
they did.
THS CHUBCH.
Dcings and sayings in the Re
ligions World,
Talking with God in public is found by many
Christians who have undertaken it, a difficuh
experiment, but*was ever crowd too large for
sinners to call upon their Maker with blasphem
ous oaths? Child of God tale courage, a crown
awaits you ‘that fadeth not away.’
The : nterest manifested in the religious ser
vices held in the First Presbyterian Church
Atlanta, Ga., for the past three weeks is un
abated. -And yet there is room.’ About fifty
of those awakened in regard to their soul's sal
vation, have found peace with God.
A little farther on and our limbs will grow
weary of walking these dusty roads of life, our
senses will be dulled, our vital force will be
abated, at last we shall lie down by the wayside
and say to our friends, 'we are tired out, we
can go no farther.’ And then we shall turn our
backs upon the things of the world and liv<
face to face with eternity. Its breath will fan
our cheeks, and its mighty whisperings will
echo though our soul. We shall have but one
great want then, and that will be God.
Daily journalism is a deeo mystery, and the
> 0r< ri^ e Etn<1 y more we don’t comprehend
, •y should every pit of nastiness and den
of crime be ransacked, and spread ont from
day to dav before all classes of people? An
average daily newspaper leaves no other impres
sion than that everything in morals and busi
ness is growing worse and worse, and that the
sooner the final confligation comes the better.
But while all this carrion gathering and ped
dling are going on, the suppressed fact, te that
there never was so much intelligence, mo’ality
and piety in the world as there is to-day.
Mr. Ralph Wells is abon* to take a three
months tear in the Southern states, in the in
terest of Sunday-school work.
One-seventh of the population of North Car
olina are members of the R <ptist Cb ireb. About
half of the number. 160 000 are colored people,
who added to their churches last year 9,000 mem
bers.
At religious Rervic°s held in Auguste during
the weolr of praver in the hall of the Young
M 0 u’s Christi ip Aseoeiatiou, R“v. Dr. Irvine
d'seussed the influence and power of the press
and fervently prayed in be'alf of the editors
and authors.
Information received in Washington is to the
effect that a plan has actuallv been eomnteted
by leading Jews, for the purchase of Palestine.
The details are not given, but it is confidently
assorted that the long cherished scheme of Jew
ish patriots is about to be aceomplised.
Rev Noah M. Wells.residing at Vienna.Mich;.
’S said to he the oldest Preshvterian min ster
in the United States. He is now in his ninetv-
eighth year, having been born in 1781; was in J
the m ; o’'i*ry, and somewhat prominent, in the
far 1812.
The most, unhappy people that extet in the
Church, and we might almost say in the world,
are those who are trying to serve God and are
still clinging to their idols.
Societe is honey-combed with infidelity. Men
stagger in their pulpits with their burden of
difficulties and doubts. The theological semi
naries have become shaky plaeies and faith has
taken its flight, from an uncounted number of
souls, leaving them in adirkness and sadness
that, no words can describe. AH this is true.
It is so true that tears raav well mingle in one's
ink as he writes it; but, after all, we have eve
ry thing left that we have ever possessed. Noth
ing is proved against our faith. Science has
never proved that there is no personal God, no
soul, no immortality, no C irist. and these are
matters that we have always taken on faith.
Not only this, but they are matters which sci
ence is utterly ineomp«tant to handle. They
are outside (he domain of sei nee. Science can
no more touch th°m than it can touch anything
that it confet-ses to be ‘unknowable.’
Answers to 0 > ’3*civile its.
Aleck says: “At a meeting of our Literary and
Social Club last evening the question was asked
‘What is tbereil meaning of the word halcyon ?’ mid
no one could answer it: then some one asked the or
igin of the words ‘husband and wife,’ a young lady
said the former word was originally ‘house-band
but nobody could tell the origin of the word, wife.
Will you please inform us?’
“Halcyon is synonoraous with joyous calm. It is
derived irom the table that thehaleyon or kingfisher
made its nest on the surrace ot the sea and possessed
the power ofeharmingthe winds and waves to rest
during the period it was hatching its eggs, which
was fourteen days, rhe young lady was right os to
the signification of the word husband. It means
‘band of tbe house,’ coming from two Saxon words
and has alius on to lie‘tie’that holds together the
sheaf of wheat. ‘Wi le’ signifies weaver, referring to
the universal custom of the women of tiie house in
those days when factories and steam were U' known
—to weave with their own hands the clothing
for their husbands, children and themselves.” °
Geo roe C- writes: “When I was in Atlanta last,
I saw Ro‘e Eytinge play ‘Led Astray’ and thought
her a splendid looking lady. Is she married? Some
one said she was, but she looked quite young.’
“Sorry to be disappointing, but Rose Eytinge is
married-very much married indeed, havi n g°two
living husbands and a grown up son and daughter
who are also on the stage. Y'oung looking! why,
my unsophisticated triend. all actresses are young.
\Y rink led Time never dares show his head be ind
the footlights. tie stands in awe of enamel and
French rouge, patent eye brows, beila donna, and
that other mysterious and cosl’y preparation known
onlvto professionals, whereby .vgeis utterly rout
ed.’and Lotta at thirty-two frisks as Littie Bright-
eyes of twelve, peeping at you kora under a sun bon
net, and Maggie Mitchell sheds forty o- her fifty odd
years and skips in the shadow dance, or paddles
about as artless Little Barefoot
Oscar D’ T. ask-: “Can you tell me at what time
the Natural Scientific Expedition sets out, and
when it returns. Also what is the entire cost to
each person accompanying it?”
“It sets out ou the eighth of May next and it re
turns in September of the same year. It will leave
from the harbor of New York and visits Ireland,
England, the Mediterranean Sea and the shores
of Greece and Italy, Egypt, the East India islands,
China and Japan, the sandwich Islands, and final
ly anchors in the Golden Bay of Ban Francisco and
take a three thousand mile journey over the won
derful and picturesque Pacific railroad- The Expe
dition takes placeunderthe patronage of the Nation
al Government and its entire cost is twenty-five
hundre i dollars to be paid in five hundred dollar
installments.”
Chart.ie P. says: “Do you think there is any harm
in a mock marriage?”
“Yes. even if no serious result grew out of such an
amusement it is a flippant burlesque of a solemn
ceremony, and it seems indelicate and frivolous.
There is too great a tendency to look on marriage as
a kind ot frolic.”
L. W. T. S. of Augusta Ga., asks: “How do you pro
nounce the name of the great violinist Wilhelmj ?
That “j” seems to me as useless as a fifth leg to a
horse. Does Wilhelmj use Paganini's violin as I
have heard. Who made the first violin and when?
What is the difference between a Cremona and aj
Stradiuarius, and why must a violin be old before it
is considered good? A iong list of questions, I
know, bat please answer them, as I am deeply inter
ested in all that concerns the violin.” --« ,
Wi’helmj’s name Is pronounced ‘Vilhe'irme.
“It is not known certainly who made the first vio
lin in its present form, the violin became what it
is through improvements upon anutn wrote ther
instruments. It had its “evolutions” through the
eythera, the lyre, the lute the viol and the ernoth.
It is generallybelievedhowever, that the first regu
lar violin was made by Gasparo, a young lute maker
of Salo, It ly The story goes that he loved a beau
tiful girl whose parents bitterly opposed his mar-
iage with her. and finally put 'her in a convent to
prevent it. >he had a voice of wonderful sweetness
and Gaspare's only consolation was wandering
around the chapel walls to listen to i's ange'ic
notes. Finally, he conceived the idea of imprison
ing those notes in a lute He worked day and li ght
with this ide i, and ihe violin—'lie one instrument
whose tones resemble those of the human voice—
was the result. This violin, which has an angel
beautifully carved upon it, is said to be still extant
and in the possession of ule Bull. Cremona is the
name of the town » here the two world renowned
makers of violins lived and worked, stradiuarius
is the name of the most famous of these; the other
is Amati-
Paganini’s celebrated violin is not the one that
Wilhelmj plays. All Wilbelmj’s money could
not buy it. It is kept in a g ass ease in the muni
cipal palace at Genoa. It is a Guirnerius—that is,
it was made by Joseph Guarnerius. The reason a
violin has to be old before it is considered good is
because nothing but age can give the seasouing
necessary to its sounding board. The makers of
violins travel in the Tyo ese mountains and buy
up all the peasant's oid tables, benches, etc., which
are made of red fir, for the sounding boards of t'n ir
instrumen s. These to be good must be of the soft
red fir that is only found in the Tyrolese mountain
regions.
Ida Lewis, the ‘American Grace Darling,’ who,
as assistant to her mother, the lighthouse keep
er at Lime Rock. Narragansett Bay, has saved
many persons f-otu drowning has succeeded
her mother, and is now in charge. The salary
has been raised from $500 to $750 a year.
Some railroads keep photographs of all the
journalists who have passes, so that the conduc
tors can tell whether the right man has the pass,
if the photograph happens not to be a good
likeness the most honestly disposed dead-head
may be put off the train. That is. the original
will be better taken than the picture.
Lord Stanley defines health to be the state in
which existence iis«lf is felt to be an enjoyment,
in which all simple and natural pleasures are
appreciated, and tbe little every-day anxieties
of our bnsinrss sit lightly upon us. ‘
A son of the famous David Crocket is living
in Texas, old, infirm and poor. It will be re
membered that his father was killed while fight
ing galiautly at the battle of San Antonio de
Bexar.
According to the Romanul, Ihe Governments of
Belgium and Holland are disposed to recognize the
independence of Rwmania, and \Ir. Collimachi
Catargi is about to proceed to Brussels and the
Hague to induce the two Governments to make a
formal recognition to this effect.
Breslau.—A conference of Jewish teachers and
Tabbis in the province of Silesia and Posen was
held in Breslau towards the close of D cember.
Some of the most eminent Jewish professors took
part in the proceedings.' At one of the meetings
it was resolved to establish a Jewish Teachers'
Association for the two provinces.
London.—The Late Sir Francis Goldsmid.—
A memoir of the late Sir Francis Goldsmid is in
preparation, and will contain an extensive selec
tion from his correspondence. The memoir and
c irrespondence will throw considerable light and
will give much valuable information on tne sub.
ject, of the emancipation of the Jews in England and
other countries.
In a pamphlet on the condition of the blind in
Great Britain and Ireland by Dr. Armitag the
blind philanthropist, he mentions fifteen pension
societies which give in the aggregate about, £23,-
832 a year, mostly to ihe infirm ami a a @j blind
to the numher of 3.005 pensions. The Jewish
blind pension fund, forming part of the aggregate,
is stateil by Dr. nrmitage to he £1,100 annually,
and the number of pensioners 49.
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