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EXPECTATION.
We rode into the wooded way ;
Below us wide the shadow lay ;
We rode, and meet the kneeling day ;
We said, “It is too late.”
“The sun has dropped into the west;
The mountain holds him to her breast—
She bolds and hushes him to rest,
For us it is too late.
* *To see the leaf take fire now.
To see, and then to wonder how
The glory pauses on the bough,
WhJe panting grass-tops wait.”
When, lo ! the miracle came on,
A roadnide turn—a moment gone—
And far the snn low lying shone ;
The forest stood in state.
Transfigured spread the silent space.
The glamour leaped about the place,
And touched ns, swept from face to face.
We cried, “Not yet too late !”
But one, who nearer drew than all.
Leaned low and whispered : “Suns may fall
Or flash ; dear heart! I speak and call
Your soul unto its fate.
4 ‘Tread bravely down life’s evening slope ;
Before the night comes do not grope !
Forever shines some small,.sweet hope,
And God is not too late.*’
imagine how comical he looked. Well, I
waited for him to finish his nap until I was
tired, and then I went to the piano ana gave
an awful thump with both hands. He gave
a sudden start and straightened up ; I grave
ly inquired how he liked the piece. ‘Char
ming!’ he said. He looked at the clock,
j saying he had passed a delightful evening
i in my very pleasant company, but must
| tear himself away. If you conld have seen
1 those fierce red locks around that sanctimo-
! nious face, you would have enjoyed the
j joke as well as I did.”
“Dot,” said Mr Delmayne, lookedgrave-
; ly at his mischievous ^ward, “I don't know
I what to do with you; f believe I must find
some one to take the.responsibility off my
hands. Mrs. Delmayne thinks you are old
[ enough to many, and ”
“The old cat!” interrupted Dot.
! “Dora,” said her guardian, “you must
! not apply such a disrespectful epithet to my
I sister-in-law. I cannot allow^it. ”
* “Did I apply it to your sister-in-law?”
1 “I was speaking of her.”
! ‘ ‘And I spoke of an old cat. ”
Her guardian adroitly converted a smile
1 into a yawn.
| “Yes,” he contihued, “I must find a nice
; young husband for you.”
I “I don't want him very young.”
“Oh, I don’t object to Squire Ponsonby’s
* age at all, if you don’t.”
“Ponsonby again!”
I “Who then?”
“My dancing-master. He is French, has
lovely teeth and eyes, and I think he is fond
of me,” she said, demurely, “because be
presses my hand, and sighs, oh, so sadly!”
‘Something must be done,” said Mrs. “The jackanapes! he shall not darken
Charles Delmayne, decisively, “that girl is these doors again!”
getting more reckless every day. ’ “Then, there's Whitney’s head clerk. I
“What can be done ?” asked Mr. Richard sure he admires me. ”
Delmayne, looking helplessly at his sister- u A c ] cr k *” disdainfully.
in-law; “we cannot shut her up in a con- “Well, there's the German music-teacher
vent.” at the seminafy, he is a jolly old bear ”
“No, but we can find her a husband and j j” sternly,
get her settled.” j “I beg your pardon ; he is good enough,
“But she is so young.” . _ | but I am afraid I am not good enough to
Mr. Delmayne’s Ward.
“She will be nineteen in May, and I mar
ried at that age. It is a great pity that you
were obliged to receive her into your house
hold, Richard. Guardianship over a girl
like Dorothea, was a great responsibility
for a bachelor to assume.”
“I suppose so,” was the reply, “but I
could not refuse the dying request of a
friend.’
“At first I entertained hopes that she
would improve by remaining with us,’’said
Mrs. Delmayne, plaintively, “but she is
wilder than ever. I am kept in a perpetual
state of nervous excitement, for I never
know what madcap pranks she will play
next. I thought it disgraceful enough
when she donned a suit of Dick’s clothes
and went out on the night of the skating-
party, but this last is still worse, if possi
ble.”
]VIrs. Delmayne folded her plump white
hands and settled herself comfortably in a
luxurious easy chair, and prepared to enjoy
her favorite pastime, which consisted of
retailing Dorothea's misdemeanors.
“You ki^w Squire Ponsonby has been
lookingfor a year or two—now
. be ii k is respectably connect
ed, and a very suitable match for
Dora.”
“Squire Ponsonby!” gasped Richard, in
amazement, “he is old enough to be her
grandfather, and has a married daughter
who must be co.isiderably older than Dot.”
“Well, Dora needs a husband who is
steady and solier-minded, she is so flighty
herself. Besides, he looks fully ten years
younger than his real age. In my opinion
it would be a very suitable match. But it
is all over now,” she added, with a sigh,
“he will never enter this house again.”
In answer to Richard’s look of inquiry
Mrs. Delmayne continued—
“I invited Mr. Ponsonby to tea last even
ing—I had my household duties to attend
to after tea was over, so I left Dorothea to
entertain him. She must have neglected
him shamefully, for the poor man fell
asleep, and the little huzzy seized the op
portunity to play one of her practical jokes.
She actually had the audacity to remove
his wig and substitute an old red one that
she found among the rubbish in the garret.
The poor man did not discover the trick
until he became the laughing stock of the
village. Dick happened to hear of it this
morning, and I thought you ought to be
told about it.”
“Ha, ha, ha!” laughed Richard. “I
can imagine how ridiculous he must have
looked, strutting along in his pompous
manner. ”
“I am certainly astonished at you, Rich
ard,” said Mrs. Delmayne, severely. “I
hope you don’t uphold the girl in her dis
graceful conduct ?”
“I shall of course reprove her,” he re
plied. “Dot will improve as she grows
older, I have no doubt; she is merry and
thoughtless now, but I think she will de
velop into a splendid woman.”
become a step-mother to his five children. ”
“Decidedly not,” he acquiesced, with a
smile.
“Then,” said Dot, with a despairing look
on her saucy face, ‘T will not have old Pon
sonby, and there is nobody left but—you.”
Then, suddenly realizing the enormity of
her heedless speech, she darted from the
room.
“Nobody left but me,” he mused. “I
wonder 1 never thought of that. I believe
I am rather fond of the little monkey, after
all. IIow desolate the house would be
without her! Not quite nineteen—just half
my age ; I fear I am too old, but since she
lias put the idea into my head, I think I'll
try my fate.”
The tea bell aroused Mr. Delmayne from
his reflections. “I must mention this sub
ject‘to Helen, when I have time,” he said.
“Marry that forward little chit!” cried
madame, in dismay, as Richard thus ruth
lessly destroyed her air-castle. “Richard,
you must be mad ! A man of your age to
think of marrying when he lias such a com
fortable home, and all his wants attended
to. Should you take such a step, Richard,
I am sure you will regret it. You will find
a great difference with a careless, ignorant
child at the head of the house-hold, for I
shall not remain to be domineered over by a
saucy, independent girl.”
Dot stood by the window in the deepen
ing twilight, awaiting her guardian, who
had been absent several days on business.
Suddenly she was aroused from a deep
reverie by a well-known footstep, and she
ran eagerly to the door to meet him.
“Well, little girl, wlmt have you been do
ing during my absence ?” he asked, as he
seated himself before a glowing grate and
wanned his chilly fingers.
“Oh, dear!" cried Dot, “I have been
shockingly bad. I can t remember one
half the wickedness I have committed. You
must apply to madame for details. But to
business. Did you find a husband forme?”
“Yes," answered her guardian, compos
edly, “but whether you will be suited re
mains to be seen.”
“I suppose I shall be compelled to marry
him whether I am suited or not,” replied
Dorothea, merrily.
“Not by any means," answered Mr. Del
mayne, gravely.
“Oh, that is very commonplace. You
are not at all like the cruel guardians in
books, who compel their wretched wards to
marry the men they select for them. I am
quite disappointed.”
“Oh, vdry well,” said he, “if you wish
me to assume the role of a tyrant, I will do
so with pleasure. The person I have chosen
will, I am sure, try to make you happy ;
but remember, there is no appeal from my
decision. ”
reall}* going to be romantic after
all! ” cried Dot, clapping her bands. ‘ ‘When
is my fate to be presented to me? If he
had only sent his photograph my happiness
How Mildnesi Subdue*.
I “Ah, yes! I remember you did say |
J $1 a dozen?”
History of Patagonia.
ity over him. Tom was rough and awk- ^ ress *
ward, and just at the age when a boy re- 1 “Thi
Tom’s sister Nell was pretty, and a year ,p *J r uv “ , '“ *, _ . , J ® walked up to the bar and calleu
older than Tom, wanted to show her author- , * T» ant tliem for a £ ros “2 raia street- ( f or i cigar. The man in attendance
laid out a box, from which he selected
one, put it into his mouth, and laid
dowi five cents. He was about to light
it, vhen the bartender leaned over and
said:
“live cents, please.”
“’just gave you five cents.”
ward, and just
sents all meddlin:
» age wlien a boy re- j “That is someth’ng like it. A leetle
with his ‘rights.’ He too large, though.”
would put his hands in his pockets, his
chair on Nell’s dress, and his feet on the
window-sill. Of course they often quar
reled.
“For pity’s sake, Tom, do take your
hands out of your pockets!” Nell would
say, iu her most vexing, manner.
‘Wliat are pockets for, I’d like to know,
if not to put one’s hand in?” and Tom
would whistle and march off.
“Tom, I don’t believe you’ve combed
your hair for a week. ”
“Well, what’s the use ? It would be all
roughed up in less than an hour.”
“I do wish, Tom, you woulil take your
great boots off the window sill!”
“Oh, don’t bother me, I’m reading.”
Tom would say; and the boots refused to
stir an inch, which of course, was very
naughty. And so it would go from morn
ing till night.
But little sister Bess had a somewhat dif
ferent way with stubborn Tom. Bess
seemed to understand that coaxing was
better than driving ; and sometimes, when
he sat with both hands plunged in his
pockets, Bess, with a book or picture,
would nestle down lieside him, and almost
before he knew it, one hand would be pat
ting her curls, while the other turned the
leaves or held the pictures. *If she chanced
to see his feet on the window-sill, she would
say, “Just try my ottoman, Tom, dear, and
see how comfortable it is to the feet; ” and
though Tom occasionally growled in a good
natured waj r about it being too low, the
All! did I? So I did.”
The saleslady again steals over to the
fat customer, who says she thinks she
will wait until she finds out wheth
er she will require a dozen or eighteen.
Customer No. 2, witli a tinge of as
perity in her voice, remarks to the sales
woman, who ha9 returned:
Vesuvius.
The best ascent is made from Resina,
a town at the bas of the mountain,
and within easy driving distance from
Naples. A toilsome drive from Rcsiua
(one can ride horses, or donkeys if pre
ferred, but a carriage is the easiest
means) over a steep and circuitous road,
in many places cut through solid bed*
of lava, brings you to the observatory,
J Know you did, went on the two _ t hirds of the way up. Here you
otheif “but that is a ten center.” are obliged to leaTe carri8f , e8i but don .
Oman wnn has returned • ’ lie y oun £ man fe * t through hl3 kevs can go ab0 ut a mile further to the
onian, nno has returned. cbthea, but he couldn’t find anymore hermltaee at the base of the cone
“bhow me those in that upper box?”f nermicage, at tne Da9e oi tne cone.
thnf rpiiiv thp «rvlo l 11 Now comes the tug in earnest; over
is that really the sty le I detested ' tbink you , n have put that on
“o° ^ *?** s * ate *”
U my . “We keep none, sir,” responded the
“How much better they look in tne Jar t enc j er
, f „ “Well, now, you can bet I’m square,
t on t >» C ’ ;*ud as * haven’t money euongh to pay
um * 'you in full. I’ll just cut this cigar in
the middle,” at the same time offering
ione to the man behind the bar.
Once more she clawed over the entire
stock, remarked that New York was
the only place to buy buttons, and said, <. xhere - s your other five cent8 .
it was no matter, as she only wanted [ .. That ain , t bu8incs8 , i wan t mouey.”
,1Y, and flounced out. j .. Y ou do want money ?” queried the
A Delayed Feast. *ther with emphasis.
i “Yes, I do.”
After Bijah had told him to make ■ “D 0 y 0u wan j; mo^y more than any-
himself at home, and after he had left [thing else in the world?”
1 ,000 feet to climb, at an inclination ol
about fifty degrees, over loose cinders,
which slide from under the feet at
every step. It takes an hour of the
most toilsome and exhausting climbing
to reach the top; the crater, the very
mouth of the Devil’s domain; all around
you the masses of cinder and scoria are
smoking and giving on sulphurous va
pors. The interior of the crater pre
sents mottled and irregularly striped
surfaces of rich and variegated hues,
the bright yellow color of sulphur
largely predominating. The form of
the crater is constantly undergoing
, . , , * r. • changes. For example, the old crater,
11 P° und of ““ d ° n the new oak and > “I do; it’s all 1 work for.” j which „ very large, the circumference
green carpet, be began : || “Would you be willing to work very j 8everal in extent) i3 nol
the real crater of to-day, for anew cone
The Impeyan Pheasant.
Mrs. Delmayne cast an uneasy look at ; v complete,
her brother-in-law's face, as she left the I believe I have it, snd Mr. Delmayne,
room. She had a reason for wishing O c „ 1 coolly producing his pocket-book
disposed of; she feared that Richard might becoming rather quiet, as he earned
fall in love with his fascinating ward, and : ° n farce without a smile, held out her
i hat would never do, for if he were to I band for the carte-de-vtsite, and beheld lus
many it would dash Mrs. Delmayne's ! QWTiJiajidsome face thereon,
hopes to the ground. She had determined I ell r he said, drawing her to his side,
that her son Dick, his uncle’s namesake, I an « trying to look into her downcast eyes,
should be his heir. Besides, her brother- ^ < . ,t m S linin £> ^ ea ^ / or a moment
in-law’s elegant residence made a very on his shoulder, then, looking up with a
comfortable home for herself and fatherless , charming color, she said, frankly :
boy, and madame had no intention of losing j 1 * iave no wia “ to a PPcal.
it, hence she made the most of Dot's mis-!
chievous escapades.
J ust as madame's silken skirts rustled up
stairs, the hall door flew open and light
footsteps danced along the passage.
“Dot! Dot!” called Mr. Delmayne.
The appellation exactly suited the young
girl who entered. A dainty form, a dark,
piquant face lighted up with a pair of black
eyes, which sparkled with mischief.
“NVcll, Mr. Delmayne!” she said, with a
saucy smile, which revealed a dimple in
each soft pink cheek, “what is it, a lec
ture ?”
“Yes, Dot, I really must lecture you.
Your conduct to Mr. Ponsonby was very
unlady-like. ”
“1 can't help it, sir; I hate old Ponson
by ! and I am confident that Mrs. Delmayne
invited him here to make love to me, so I
resolved to frustrate her kind intentions.
She left me to entertain him when I was
goffering to finish a book. I gave him the
late magazines and hoped he would amuse
himself; but no, he wanted to play crib-
bage. I liate the game, and told him I
never played except for money. ”
“Why, Dot!”
‘AN ell, I wanted to shock him, and I had
the satisfation of seeing him look horrified.
He asked for some music as soon as he re-
Among the Phasianldse the Impeyan
pheasant is one of the noblest species.
He lives among the mountain heights
of the Himalayas, scorning the low
land*, where lie has never been known
to descend. Of the color of this gor
geous child of the forest it is difficult
to give an idea. Bronze green, irides
cent gold and purple, radiant as if seen
through a golden haze, compose its
princely costume. On its head it wears
a tult of glistening green spirils, broad
at the top, each one delicate and airy
as might be a fairy’s parasol. During
the winter months the snow and cold
drive these birds to congregate in flocks
in the most secluded forest nooks of
the mountains Here the hunter may
sin prise them, and feast his eye—if, in
deed, he have an eye for beauty—on
their wondrous and glistening plumage
At the approach of spring they scatter
d ascend to the higher lands, where
thousands of feet above the sea, they
... “ -r“ “ pass the warm months in undisturbed
covered his breath, and 1 went to the piano 1
and began to make some confused sounds, j seclusion. The monauls are easily
which 1 suppose did not suit his fine ears, j kept in cages, and unless subjected to a
for I was soon startled by a snore—lie had heated atmosphere, they take confine-
gone to sleep, his head hanging over the ment easily. The first living speci-
chair, his wig awry, and his mouth wide meus were brought to England by
open. Now, you must admit that the temp- La(]y Enpey, hence the English name
tation was strong, and vou know I am no j q{ thg bjrd u b neeessary t0 provide
the cage with a corner of retreat, for
tation was strong, and you know
saint."
“No,” he assented. , ,
“Well,” continued Dora, “a happy there are seasons when this shy, sullen
thought came to me, and I ran up stairs and
got an old red wig that Dick used to wear
when he belonged to the dramatic club,
and having removed the squire's nicely-
dressed black wig, and substituted the red
one, I had to stuff my handkerchief into
my mouth to keep from laughing; you can’t
creature would Apparently preter death
to the gaze of man.
—The late Richard Henry. Dana’s es
tate is appraised at $118,937.30.
—The hog packing iudustry of Chi
cago has doubled since 1873.
“1 didn’t have a thing to eat all day j_ ve ry hard?
yesterday, while everybody else had j “Yes, sir.” I i e now forming within this old crater,
turkey, chicken and goose “Well, I know where they want sev- J rhi8 cone had n0 exi8t ence six months
. O ,’° l o„ 01 ° r fr . aTC '° U a 1,16,1 to " hern they gi\e a commis- ago, but is already piled up to a height
boots^always came down to its level. WteS- habitation f quer.ed the jamtor. lion of 25 per cent. of nearly 200 feet. Atirregularinter-
ever bis hair looked very rough, she would j “I’m looking for a place in a bank, The bartender had by this time for- vala of from fo , hrpp ,1,7,,., n „ r min
Ton, “so^weirt^l'^mpS ! “ nd I,m ^ 8tarVed '” anSWered the 411the u “P aid , for ! ute the crater of this new cone vomits
to let it go rough, just for the pleasure of ruarl ‘ j. Uo you think you could get me a . great quantities of red-hot stones and
having her comb it. Yet for the next three ; Well, you ought to have had a dm- diance? he said. , aa j scor i a high into the air, which fall
days, at least, he would take special pains ner,” observed Bijah, as he unlocked “Do I think so? Of course I do! 1 upon the sides of the cone and keep 01
lo keep every hair in its place, simply to | the cupboard. “Here is part of my know it. My uncle is the proprietor.” ! piling it up. From its side flows a con-
please little Besa. feast, and I shall cheerfully set it before “Have another cigar.” slant stream of red molton lava." The
As they grew older, Bess, m the same y OU# ’> The cigar was promptly accepted and ■ terrible sublitnitv of this volcanic ac-
andmanIy DS 7f*Jhe hJdaainteS™ ■ “ e pl “ Ced “ a " a plate ot ; lighted after which the bartender went [ion ha8 t0 ba see „ to be appreciated;
she always wanted Tom to enjoy it with ! cold turnl P a,,d a sl,ce of breakfast ba- on: “W hat are you going to drink ?” tll e most graphic of descriptions must
her; if she was going to call on any of her * coa well done, and told him to draw Give me a beer. fall short of conveying an adequate
young friends, Tom was always invited to right up and satisfy his hunger. He sivallowed the beer pretty quick- 1 j dea Q f tbe stupendous forces of the
go with her. “Do you take me for a lank-sided ly. After he laid the glass down he i burning, fuming crater of Vesuvius.
“I can’t understand,’' said lady Nell, hyena?” indignantly demanded the remarked that h<J felt rather chilled;! What was most astonishing to the
"why you should always want that bay for- man as i, e waved the luxuries away, that the beer wa-a little cooler tliau he writer was the near approach” one can
wanl^a c 8 rou S 1 an a " ; “I’m hard up for cash and my clothes at first anticipated it would be. make without danger, for we did not
“Some bears are as gentle as kittens,’’! are old > but when I come down to biled “Wont you take something to warm stop on the brink of the old crater
said Bess, slipping her arm through his, turnip and lean pork, I want to be con-|you up? Now bow would a hot whis- 1 where the ashes were even hot enough
with a loving hug, while “the bear" felt a sidered a jackal!” kygo?” to cook our eggs in five minutes, but
great warm glow at his heart as he walked “Isn’t what I eat good enough for “First rate let’s have one.” we went down into it, walking over
away with Bess, and determined to try you?” shouted Bijah, as his ears red-' He swallowed it wiped his mouth, immense masses of cooled lava and
harder t» be courteous and “gentle as a kit- , .ip npr j „ n ., nf i WAn * . ........ . t * ,
ten” for her sake uenea up. and went on. approached to within six or eight feet
For answer the man reached out his “Now, about this business. 1 believe of the rod-hot flowing stream. But we
black paw and brought It down “slap” they guarantee you something like $10 i did not stay there long; it was quite too
BRIEFS.
—The number of swine in the United
States is 34,766,200.
—Poverty and crime—those twin
sisters—cost England fully $S5,000,000
annually.
—The Grand Lodge Knight3 of
Honor of Pennsylvania* will hold their
muffled in his plaid, and resting on the ! next annual session at Pittston, Pa;
pummel of his sword, with two or! —There are 480 patients confined in
three attendants around him, all dead. ' ^ ie ^ f e , w Jersey State Lunatic Asylum,
To make sure of them their heads were i ,le ir * n nton *
eet off. and thrown, one alter an- h^lnf
other, into the fortress, with this hor- stood out ail winter.
rible taunt to the old man : “Your son Xever exhibit an ' ger> inipatienca or
force a way upwards were easily re
pelled by those above, and a when suffi
cient quantity of burning matter had
been thrust in to insure suffocation,they
rolled stones over the mouth of the
hole. When the cruel deed was done,
and the hole opened, Allister Bane was
found reclining in one corner, his head
provided you with meal, and we now
send you fiesh to eat with it.” “It is a
bitter morsel indeed,” said he, as he
took it up, kissed it and wept over it;
“but J will gnaw the last bone of it be
fore I will surrender.
Buying: Buttons.
; on the little mound of turnip, causing
! the provisions to jump clear off the
An extensive dealer in notions, par- j plate. What followed nohuman being
ticularlv buttons, on Chestnut street,! will ever know. The next scene opened
Philadelphia, declared that the counter with the man licking the plate in the
over which buttons are sold is the best humblest manner, having previously
place in the world to study some of the bolted down both turnip and bacon,
inexplicable ways of the gentler sex. “Pm a good mind to make you eat
crusts were sweetened with white sugar
worth ’leven cents a pound! When I
had you doubled’ up under the table
there, 1 was a good mind to break your
neck!
to depart.
“Well—yes, sir.”
Though buttons,” lie said, “go but a
short way toward rendering the life of
man agreeable, yet to the opposite sex
they seein to be necessary to absolute
felicity. If you would learn how they
purchase the little articles, step this
way.” Behind a counter were four at
tendants, doing their utmost t^ answer
a thousand-and-one questions and wait
noon at least a dozen customers at the
same time.
The customers all wanted buttons;
all were In a hurry; not one of them
had decided upon any particular style
or pattern or price; and each and ev
ery one expressed a desire to see the
whole stock at once, and wondered how
in the name of goodness they could not
get a dozen buttons or so without wait
ing all day.
The way it is done is this:
A lady rushed breathlessly up to the
counter, and, while waiting lor the
saleswoman, begau to claw over every
box within her reach, just to get an
idea of styles. Presently a young lady
snatches an opportunity from a fat,
fussy customer to ask what she wanted.
“Thank goodness, you have come at
last,” said the purchaser; “I have been
standing here an hour. I am in a very mone Y now what was his answer." ’
great hurry. Please show me some |
outtons.”
“What'style?” inquired the attend- )
ant.
“Let me see wliat you have.”
“Oh ! this is your whole stock, is it?”
“Goodness gracious! seventy-five
styles.”
“No. Those are too large.”
“It’s really too bad; those are too
small.”
“Yes; something like that; only
more showy.”
“I can’t understand it. I’m so easi
ly pleased, too.”
“That’s too high. The idea! one dol
lar a dozen.”
‘•Why, really! so you did show me
them before.”
“Well, I never! Did I say they were
too small ? So I did.”
“Yes, but I want something real
showy.”
“You really confuse me with so many
patterns.”
About this time the fat, fussy cus
tomer glared at the saleswoman, who
glided over to wlere she was digging
That Good Do?, Jaclr.
Two girls, daughters of an Elglish
country doctor, were once out for a
walk together. It was an autumn af
ternoon, sunny and pleasant. They
were accompanied by their little dog,
named Jack, who was a clever little
terrier, and more than once had proved
his claim to be considered, as indeed he
was, their protector while outwalking.
Their father often said he felt “quite
happy when Jack was with them; he
was sure no harm could come to them.”
l’he two girls pursued their walk mer
rily. The fine afternoon tempted them
to go further than they ought, howev
er, and by the time they turned the
lusk had fallen, and they were afraid
they would be late for tea. One ol
them proposed to take a short cut
througe a wood with which they were
well acquainted, having often gathered
blackberries in it on a summer after
noon. The other agreed, and so they
arrived at the edge of the wood and
prepared to enter it. “All the same time
l am rather afraid,” said Dora, the
younger of the two; “there have been
several robberies in the neighborhood,
and I saw some very odd-looking men
pass our door to-day, besides, I am
wearing my new watch which papa
gave me on my birthday.” “Oil, non-
sence!” her sister replied. “It is near
ly six o’clock now; and we ehall be
late. Be sure no one will wish to harm
us.” “I wish I were as certain as you
are. But what’s the matter with
Jack?” Just as she had said this,
Jack advanced toward them, and*plant
ing himself in the middle of their path,
sat down and whined. “That is odd,”
:-aid Dora. “I never remember him
Joing that before.” The other girl de
rided her fears, and attemjited to pass
per day, and you have to put in no cap- warm to be comfortable. If the ascent
ital, except youi time and brains. It’s j was slow and irksome the descent was
nice, easy work; all you have to do is quite the reverse, for while it took us a
to walk into a parlor, ask to see the 1 lull hour to climb the cone, we ran, or
lady of the house, and tell her you rather slid, down in five minutes, bur- c * ,e Jog; but he caught her dress in his
would like her to buy from you a His- ied almost knee deep in the loose, slid-1 teeth, and held her so firmly that she
(toryol Patagonia, in seven volumes, at! Ing cinders. As we were going down i hardly dared to set herself free, One
/SlQ^her volume. Then you get one- how we pitied those who-were puffing more effort she made, but Jack was res-’
quarter $li.50. Isn’t that good pay ‘ and scrambling to reach the top. olute; so at last, seeing how determined
j he was to prevent their further pro- —The Sing Sing (X. Y.) prison earn-
The Headless Cumins. gress, she gave up trying. “Well, cd in March $18,558.12. The expanses
well, you stupid little brute!” she said ;vere $16,328,16, leaving a profit of
In the parish of Edinkellie, a place j an £ ril Y> suppose we must goal! that I $2^229,96.
that India-rubber cat!” growled Bij-iitf
as he put up the plate. for ffcn minutes talkin
“Don’t sir—please let me git out of The bartender didn’t reply, but made
this?” stammered the terror-stricken i bee line for the man who had duped
man. him. The latter dodged the well-
“The idea of you finding fault with meant kick of his pursuer, which al-
such a dinner as that! Why, you’d most took the knob off the door,
growl about mince pie, unless both
excitement when an accident occurs.
Expression Is ol more consequence
than shape—it will light up features
otherwise heavy.
All virtue lies in a power of denying
our own desires when reason does not
authorize them.
The mind hath reason to remem
ber that passions ought to be her vas
sals, not her masters.
—The maple sugar harvest in New
Hampshire the present season is valued
at $240,000.
—The loss of trade In the Mononge-
hela Valley by the recent strike of coal
miners is estimated at $1,000,000.
—New Hampshire, Kansas, Minnesor
ta and Colorado now give women the
right to vote at school elections.
—Bordeaux exports nearly half a
million casks of spurious liquors annu
ally.
—The present cotton crop 19 one of
the largest ever raised in the South; it
will foot up to over five million bales.
The tax on armorial bearings in
England realizes half a million of dol
lars annually.
—The contributions in Massachusetts
for the families of Gloucester’s lost
fisherman, aggregate $20,000.
—The London police have received
orders to arrest any person seen drop
ping orange peel in the street.
—On the 1st ot March the total num
ber of poor in London was 89.529—15,-
013 in workhouses and 44,516 outside,
though receiving help.
—Cornell University has 403 students
of both sexes attending the university,
and only about 350 young men, against
about 700 when the experiment began.
—King Humbert, of Italy, has a face
to which no picture does justice, He
has a remarkably kind and sad expres
sion.
—The Lehman foundry at St. Peters
burg has the portable printing press
which was captured from Napoleon on
the retreat from Moscow.
—The last census of Paris shows
that the population is composed of
1,754,000 Catholics, 32,000 Lutherans
and Calvinists and 23,500 Jews.
—The world averages an annual pro
duct of G»,000,000 pour ds of tea, China
producing 600,000,000. Japan 40.000,000,
India, 35.000,000, and Java 6,000,000.
—In the holluw of a tree sixty feet
from the ground, P. W. White of Fen
ner, X. Y., found in a thriving condi
tion a gooseberry bush about a loot high.
Hunting Another Dj-er’s.
The woman who was ready to die in de
fence of her rights, was escorted out by Bi-
“I am glad you didn’t,” sighed the) a ^ m0 ®f gallant manner, and her
fellow; and there being no reason for 1 ™® 06 wurls without any loss
. . . . . ,.7 ,, .of time, baidshe:
longer deta.nmg h.m he wa, allowed ; . You ^ j wa8 ripping up my ^
skirt, calculating to have it dyed over plum
A Lawyer Bulldozed.
A lawyer had a case on his docket,
which, among other things, he wish
ed to prove that his client had no mon-
towards the centre of Morayshire, in 1 lo "B wa y round -” So t,ie tw0 8i8tcrs the ltwir Con^tie^t
j the northern part of Scotland, there i. j abandoned the idea of taking the short ■ , |ave bL . e|1 8aen as , ar n ' ortb as Roukv .
j a romantic and fearful chasm, suppos- j l )ati " through the wood, and went home r UiH f ten miles below Hartford,
ed to have been at one time the bed of by the safe high-road. When they ar-1 _ T |,e death is announced of Admiral
the river Divie, It has two entrances i rlvet L grateful, how unutterably Smyth, one of the few survivors of
at the upper end, and the ancient [ thankful did they feel to their little L'rafalgar. Ha entered the navy in
courses which led the river into these ! protector, whose intelligence had beer. 11803.
successively are easily traceable. The ' 80 far superior to theirs, and had saved —The Duchess of Marlborough un-
lower extremity of the ravine terrain- 'bem despite themselves. A man li»d ! ^fl^ ** ® a |(® s ‘«“brhil Window in
ates abruptly about forty feet high been found in the wood shortly after |® 9 | h ofMar “ h C >-draL, Dublin, on the
above the Divie, that flows at its base, they had left it, murdered and robbed, j _ sta mford, Conn., rejected the char-
This spot is one of a very interesting ( 11 was conjectured by the tramps who 1 ter granted by the last Legislature in
dye it plum
tains. Says I, where’s beer stains, and
. , , . ays he, right here, and here, and here,
ey, aud to that end he cros3-questioned bys bow dare you, sir! And says he,
one of the opponent’s witnesses as fol only telling the truth. Says I ”
lows; “Mrs; Bebee, what does all this mean?”
“You asked my client for money, iterrapted the Court.
did you not?” ! “Why, sir, haven't you been paying at-
tnticn to my legal speech?”
“Haven’t heard a word—not a
sactions. Near the upper end of the ra- , similar fate. Their gratitude, it is need- ; waonnt9 to about one-fourth of its tax-
vine there is a curious cavern,formed of ; less to add, was profound toward their property, and iu annual tax rate
huge masses of fallen crags, that cover j l.ttle four-foote.i protector, who, we arc I AImogt all the pIaces of ammeme nt
‘Answer promptly, sir. Let us have
no liesittaion. You asked him for
the bottom of the place. It enters | glad to hear, lived to a good old age
downwards like a pit, and the mouth, ; Wooden'“e^duium..
which is no more than wide enough to
admit a man, is not easily discovered,
rord ! ^ ere ^ was th at the brave Allister
j in Boston, a city of about four hundred
j t housand inhabitants, are within a
circle the radius of which Is little more
are charged with disturbing the peace. ” j R ane secreted himself after the Battle
“What peace?” i of the Lost Standard. At this time the
“Tbe public peace, madam. ” (Castle of Dunphail was besieged by
“I never did, sir! All I did was to tell, Randolph, Earl of Moray; and Allister
that qjrer that he lied, sir, and to go out on B ane> wbo could no longer head
An interesting dn-cussion recently than one hundred yards,
took place at a meeting of London clock- _a weather record, kept in the
makers on compensation pendulums. | northern part of Vermont, shows that
l'fie general judgment seemed to be In there have been 120 days of sleighing
favor of plain wooden pendulums for 1 rhe l ,ast fica f>n, aud that 42 inches of
.. . r *• /v i ; snow have fallen,
all sorts of timepieces. One speaker
^ , . , _ . —The honey crop of San Diego coun-
said that wooden pendulum rods were [ ty _ Ca i_, in 1878, was more than 7S7
I don’t know as I can tell.
“But surely you remember.” _ _ , f |L, 1W .
“Yes, sir.” t ^7‘ lk - and S^ ve h!m °P inion °? h* 111 against him in the open field, content- : ^nerally in use for turret and church ions. Sian Diego comity produced
“Then out with it. What was his an- f.ZL „. X ed himself wilh harassing the enemv. blocks, and also in regulators. Another more honey than all the rest of the
’ y 1 Knowing that his father and his garri (concurred in that statement,and thought | *** taken together.
i — l . a. i. 'flint ad n-nnilnn np n d n 1 n m a u’prp Df. .LlCOO Damp)
Were there any beer stains on the ( son wereReduced to great want, ho and j that as wooden pendulums were) st- ^aVC h^
yesterday if he couldn’t lend me half a
dollar, and he told me he could not.”
“And you believed him, did you
not?”
“Yes, sir; for he said you had rob
bed him of every cent of his ready
money, and if he didn’t get out of your
hands pretty soon his wife and little
ones would come to”—
“That will do sir. You can step
down off the stand.”
down to the bottom of a large box.
The young lady protested on hor sa- j
cred word, for the fourth rime, that fill e
did not know how many buttons was
neeessary for the front of a princesse
wrapper for a young lady of eighteen,
very large for her years.
Customer Xo. 2 discovers the absence
of the saleswoman and ejaculates,
“Well, I never I I wonder when I am to
be. waited on; I declare I will go right
out.”
“Show me something for a gros-
grain street-dress.”
“O goodness! how horrid I”
“They are entirely too common.”
“Haven’t you got something rather
sort of ”
“There is something I like in that
box.”
“To be sure. The same as I saw.
How ugly!”
“Why in the name ol goodness don’t
you get new styles?”
“What a poor selection J”
“Rubber buttons, girl! You are
mad!”
‘Oh! J did see this style?”
‘How much-lor this style?”
Their Origin.
best London make, by substituting a
ife 86. They have had
_ je and his
wooden fbr~a brass "pendulum,” with | 10 ch ,! ld ™', 1 ’ 51 grandchildren. 53greac-
. . .. , , xa • , grandchildren, and 1 great-great-graud—
Very decided advantage. It might poss
swer?
“I’d rather not tell.
“Hoi ho! Youareon that tack are dress?” he asked. ' afewofhis follower; disguised them- good for church clocks they might use-, be^he" oldest married couple
you? Yon won’t tell?” “Never a one, sir. Those stains were selves as countrymen, and, driving a fully be adopted for bracket clocks. He tliar section of the State, having
“I should rather not, sir.” where I had spilled tea and coffee and I can ; parC el of horses, yoked in rude sledges, 1 had accordingly altered a very old fara- ■ lived in wedlock for a period of 63
“But I should rather you would! So, my 8CTen children and three i [ adaa with sacks,they came to the edge ily clock of that description, and of the . yeais. Dr, Dmnpman _is 89 years of
sir, if you do not answer my questions oQeop a tra didn’t go around among the °r the glen where Randolph’s beicag-
promptly and truthfully I’ll call upon dye-houses and raise rows,” suggested His uerin S party lay, and pretending to be
the court to commit you for contempt.” Honor. j peasants carrying meal from the low
“Well if I must tell tales out of “I can’t help it if she didn’t. I know my countries to the Highlands, they en-
school here you have it. I asked him ri S h J s and , 111 httVe ?em or P^ ri8h J ” j treated their protection from one Allis-
“I shall have to fine you ^5, Mrs. Bebee.’ ( ter of whom they were afrdai.
“Com**, sir-here is the cash. It was Their prayer being granted, they un-
vorth the monev to tell that man just what ,
thought of lum. I’ll go back and—” I - voked their hor8e8 < and took care to
“And get fined $10 for it,” he put in. 1 Jeave their sledges at the brink of the
Sle concluded not to, and taking her! precipice, so that on a given signal
dress under her arm she left for home agreed on with the garrison, they turn
ed mother dyer’s. ! pled sledges, sacks, and all into the
( glen below, and the garrison mak-
Mother Carey 4 * Chickens. ] ing a sallie at the same time, each man
ibly be worth while to make a similar
alteration generally; brass, being a
cheaper and a prettier material, having
probably been used by the makers of
bracket clocks without consideration.
A third maker never used anything but
wood when he could help it for rail
way, church or turret clocks. Another
speaker considered that one of the ad
vantages in the use of wood for pendu
lums might be that, In a fall of temper-
child.
—A San Francisco iuror, who offer
ed to sell his vote lor $500 to save the
prisoner, a woman, from the penalties
of. her crime, lias been sentenced to
lour year’s imprisonment in the State
Prison.
—The Xew York Evening Post has
already started a “Fresh Air Fund,”
for sending sick and debilitated child
ren of that city to the country for brief
vacations. The sum of $3150 has thus
far been subscribed.
] bore off a sack on his back, whilst the i ature, w r hen the rod would be shorten- i —Complaint is made in Gettysburg
Thownerot the imposing title “Thalas- j p re tcnded peasants sprang for their e( * t the hygroscopic property of about raising corn in the portions of
siiroia Pelagica” is only six'inches long, , , ollf h „ fn 'the wood would come into play, theGeltysburg battlefield that have been
ani 3 the smallest of webfooted birds. the “!’ a i shed 8 en t ?nel8 offhe enemv ' which would tend to lengthen it, and laside as monumental of the great
AW)v its feathers are black sleek andl tne astonlsnea seniinds oi tne enemy ** . * _ combat on Culp s Hill. Many ot the
gl(ss\ with glints of blue; hut under.! had well given the alarm. Randolph so cause a natural compensation by the 0 ld bullet marked trees have been con-
Parsley was first known in Sardinia. :netthtkey are"dark brown. Its wings are was so provoked on learning who the thermometric and hygroscopic proper- verted in to .lire wood.
The pear and apple are from Europe l°n{,and"it flies very swiftly, seldom flap- author of this trick was, that he set a Ge* of the wood acting in opposite dt- j —Qetieral R. E. Lee’s portrait, paint-
The sunflower is a native of Peru. ' ipiaJ - Sometimes it seems to hang in the! Dr ice uDon his head. A certain private i rections. In some climates that cer- j ed bv the southern artist Guerrv, was
Tobacco is a native of Virginia.
The onion originated in Egypt.
The chestnut came from Italy.
The nettle comes from Europe.
Celery originated in Germany.
The citron is a native of Greece.
The pine is ol American origin.
The poppy came from the East.
|Pinf. Sometimes it seems to hang in the! pr i C e upon his head. A certain private | rections. in some climates that <--er-' ed by tile southern artist Guerrv,
air vith wings outspread, while it runs p jq ue ; ed aCumin to betray his master’s 1 talnly might he the case, though in ! exhibited at the Centennial Exhibition.
,aloiE the surface of the waves; and from i U r|;in°-place. His enemies hurried to others they would work together, : and the state of Texas ottered for it
crs&riSSur.i'SK• - --- - —— —
who walked on the water, men’ a stem! " hen the y saw the 6mal1 uncouth-look-
ing aperture, they paused in a circle
around it. One could descend at a time
and the death of him who should at
tempt it was certain; for the red glare
of theCumin’seye in the obscurity with-
and the flash of the dark-blade, show
ed that he had wound up his dauntless
soul to die with the courage of a lion
is beving, although no other sign can be
seenbv man, the petrels flock together and
givr laud shrill cries, as if to warn ship-
mizi of coming danger. For this reason
aiors call them “stormy petrels.” But
The mulberry is a native of Persia, mn of science say that the reason why pe-
Spinach was first cultivated in Arabia trls gather before a storm is that then they
The walnut and peach come from cich very easily tne sea animals on which
Persia. Uey feed. Some observers add that when
The ’ horse-chestnut is a native oi ' Mn falls thc P ctrels catd > .‘he drops, and on his crest. They called on him to
Thibet that is how tney quench their thirst. These surrender at discretion. He replied
ti. , Gittis arc named also “sea-swaiiowa,” be- b v howling a deep note of defiance
I he cucumbsr caoae from the -East* ponnr their flvinfE is like that of the com- 1 _ , . . . . _
, o cause tneir nying is use uuu oi ine com- f rora the ^ ar k womb of the rocks : “Let
Indies. m on swallow. They are called “Mother . . . , .... * , .
Carey’s Chickens” by sailors; but I never ™ e but c0 “ e °“ t ;. and w ‘ th ” y back 10
sc —There are over 67,000 Sunday-have learned why they got that name, nor t ^ iat cra 2> I Wl “ ^ lve or Ilke a Uum-
hools in the United States, with *n who Mother Carey was. I have heard in! “Xo!” exclaimed the leader of his
aggregate attendance of 3,000,000 chil- though in the Faroe islands these birds be-; foes; “thou shalt die like a fox as thou
Jren, i come very fat, and men string them on art!” Brushwood was piled up over
wicks for use as lamps! Although the t k p hnlo hut nr» Antppntv tor mernv as
hen the effect would be to increase ; $8,000. ^ It was, however, returned to
, . ... „ Greenville, Ga., where It was acciden-
the error. It is stated that a wooden | ,
pendulum with a leaden bob had been
affixed to a regulator clock In one ot
the leading shops, and was keeping
excellent rime. It was a very simple
form of pendulum, and might be made
very economically. Further testimony
was borne to that form of pendulum.
Dr. Mann has used one in Natal, which
was simply a rod of varnished wood
supporting a cylindrical bob of lead.
It was, of course, subjected there to
great and rapid changes in the atmos
pheric pressure and by diversities of
heat, but it worked excellently for
many years. Subsequently it was re
tally burned.
—The rice fields on the Cape Fear
river, near Wilmington, X. C., which
have lain ifile and grown np with
weeds since the war, have been re
claimed and planted this season by sev
eral energetic parties, who expect to
raise at least 200,000 bushels ot rice in
the next five years.
—A gentleman while trying on a
pair of gloves in a-store at Brackton,
Mass., found a gold ring inside, on
which was inscribed the owner’s name,
that person having tried on the gloves
previously and the ring having slipped
from his finger in withdrawing his
hand.
—The Sultan lately gave a reception
placed by one of Frodsham’s best steel ^ a corps of bisters of Charity sent to
pendulums, and though there was some his aruiv by the Queen of Saxony, on
improvement, it was much slighter which occasion he thanked them for
