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** Whla>. v h -tie, daughter, ainl you ahall liava b
horn",' 1
•*I never nhiKt'od, n ib* , and cannot now of
conrao. ‘
•‘TVhiet-, Aauphter, and you -that! nave a
d><w
** Hoyt run I wht* tin, raotlior? To try would mate
jue wo*- 1 .
“Wblftlr, w!; *.!!♦*, dNiipliter. and you whillhiva a
call;*’
*• I ru)iot whittle. mother, to try would m.ifc* tn
i ugh. -
"Vbi-!,. , whi >. daughter, and you -liall ha?a a
and u’
“ 1 A ; t v ):. v .... u u-H, I anuot n.a! *■ ;* gn."
* 4 Whittle. wliU l t, <S* lighter, and you ahull bate a
man;'' -
** X nevor wliint Jed. mother, Inn now I know I (an."
Ajd J.ke h merry rnock;ng bird, t' wlr.sMc aha bo
g*n,
Then nt to ran t tliu }?rctiiiMd prize, and wh.rtJM
an ahe ran.
A Spinning Wheel
The old house stood in an intre
qu< riled lnne; how infieqnented was
evident from the grass-grown wheel
trm'k in tho middle and the half-effaced
foot path nt one aide. Tt had a rnolnri
cboly aspect, the old house, as it guzcid
out' nt ihe Held a with its blinded an<i
closely-shut windows. A long, iui
trimmeil hrinr-rose tapjied with its riot
one withes <>u the front door, the littlo
yard was choked with weeds, two or
three missing panes lind been mendixi
by squares of pasted paper ; tlmra was
just repair enough to avert a look of
squalor and not sufficientqnsintuuMi to
achieve Ihe pietureßquo. Hlill, the yel
low bun ned the swocl sir of Heptembwr
batlied l.li' shablmiess and lout a peace
ful sir to the spit, and the Mine blue
sky arched above which overhangs
earth's fairer faces. Nature knows no
favorites. Her free bounty is shed for
all, and her sweetness roaches aud com
nmnicatfs itself to uulikeheat nooks.
Forlorn as the old liouae was, it worn
s delightful look to one pair of eyes—
those, uutm-ly, of a young woman who
wa.-. drivingdown the lauo iu h light
country wagon, with a companion of Lor
own age and sc* beside her. They wore
city girls, lodging lor a few weeks in a
neighboring village, and this was one of
many drives they had taken together,
partly tor enjoyment of each other and
the scenery, and partly with a view to
possible hric-a-brae, of which one. of
♦ hem was mi enthusiastic collector. Tlmy
hadtekon tlm turn into tho lane with the
expectation of tinding n human haliita
tion beyond, Hini whon the old house
caught the eye of Mattie Mason, the
bric-a-brac, faueinr, an exclamation of
rapture broke from her lips. The other
•prl did uot notice it at first. Hite warn
dreamily reperiling the liedgii-roir*, and
hununiug to herself:
Wild rose. do'iuati-Jy flushing
All Hie border of tUe (tale,
Ait thou 1 iku a pals etieok Idnshm, V
Or lilte a rwl uliovk '
“Well, Mattie, wlml is it ?” as her ab
straction was rebuked by n sharp poke
from the elbow of her companion.
“Oh! tic ter, Mm 1 Hindi a delicious
old roo.-t ! II looks ns it it were built in
tlm year one. The very house for and
lroiis nnd Inuss e.iindlcatickH and spin
uing-wle., .s. Wiiat'll you trot that I
don't find tlie spinning-wheel of uiy
drcauih in that very garret which you
see up there ? And to think that no one
told us that there was a house down
this way !’’
" It docs look apimiing-wlioely," said
Hii'Ur, it 11 a uh her friend
tliriini the wagon toward a aide door,
slwn waa viaildo a row of milk-pans set
out to air. The sound of wheels, hushed
and veiled aa it was by tbe spreading
Crriiva (*"-- J •* - 1 ...,p
wit in ii, for blinda rattled and one or Ip
heads pet-pt-d out of windows. Ity tl
time tbe homo bad chocked himself at
the top of tin* grassy rise, the door had
opened, and booonie, as Mat tie afterward
expressed it, “ densely populated," no
lens tlmu throe woman aud one old man
crowding nt once to enjoy the unwonted
spectacle of two young ladies and a
wagon. Two of the women ware good
■peciueua of that hearty, though tooth
less and wrinkled, old age so often aocu
in the Nov? England eoantry regions;
♦ho third, tt spare, shrinking little creat
ure, did not aeoni of the name genus.
Mattie train and forward, HI 1 e was always
the pokcKvvouiau of the two, mat her
voice, as alio spoke, softened itself into
the pretty, coaxing tone which she was
Accustomed to employ when tliera was
an end to nerve, or anew acquaintance
to tic pleased.
n Uo"d afternoon," said the sweet
Tnioc, “wo stopped as we went by to
ask it by chance von happen to have in
your garret an old luahioucd tlur wheel
winch >uu uu longer ueo V *
"Well, yea, f eullu-rlnto therois one,"
rcidvd one of the women.
" le if pretty sunilt, you knows and
made of dark wood V "
" h, ’te. kind of small. **
"I wonder if f might go np stairs and
see it if-.-dueincly). 1 want juat such
an old wheel. Would you aoll yours it
it turns out what I vvantf ”
You mo u not ak,ina lumt that -
f I the man,’' renniikefh the ot her wom
an, inning paid which oonoeasiou to
ta, she turned sharply mid said to the
noble ei, it i.io indicated, in a poreiup
tor,i mice: ■ • You fjo along tip and light
a candle, mi’s she can see when she gets
theiv"v- a lnaudotu which *vthe man*'
oli V'd vv if ti docility. Thou, turning
to Jlatt; : “ You can go up, if you've a
i in (i to tml you'll find it kind of dusty,
1 guess. "
"Oh, I don't mind dust in the Icaml."
laughed Mattie, who adored old garrets,
amt wav n t often able’to win ndl'iuietv
into ooe w ith ao little tioulde na this.
She and Hosier jumped out; the old
woguttt tied tlit lumas to tiro foace t>v his
reins, and the whole party proceeded
in doors and np a narrow-vvailed stair
case, with sharp, square turns, to the
upper entry. ‘
Here wes a put us,', during which llnv
old man joint'd them again, a lighted
tallow dip in his hand.
"1 guess well have to go through
yottr room. Miss Treadgitr, if it won't
put you nit." said one of the eld r
women.
**Oh, go right in. Mv sister won't
mind, 1 think," was the reply, in a shy,
hesitating voice.
They ps®d, accordingly, into* large,
lovr-ctilod room, villi iruMo*son three
*!<]* s*t in h *• lean-to" roof. K WDM
furnished with some attempt at comfort.
A small ojen-grte stove stood in Ibo
chtoincv, there s lugh d'a, k> and rook
mg-cluut owwad with oUltaslnoned
“jxitch,“ * bod-quilt of th same, a cheat
of aherry-nood drawr-i, and, on* '■i|i:ar<
of faded m out- • tin* windows, a
claw-legged table of 'it;: p dished ma
hogany, Wore which Mani. M ison came
to “point," much * a t i dog doc*
when it detects the prmeiu'i of hidden'
game.
“What a dear little table, ’ (theories!;
“aueh s tan nr, ddfsaliionnl shape.
Do yon na It ranch I Wouldn't you
hit* to sell it ?*’
t' Oh ’’ Usgtui the spsw uvuo
woman, in a deprecating voice, but, as
if evoked by the words, out from behind
the bed ran another woman, with oddly
shilling ere*. She came swiftly, with
hands tightly looked together, and with
a motion as if to embrace the table,
cried:
“Oh, no! oh, no! Don’t take away
my ill He light-stand. It’s the only one
I've got. I’ve, bad it always, I couldn’t
bear to lose rny light-stand. Don’t let
them, Hexy, don't let them!"
“Hush, Harriet; hush, dear!" said
the quire little woman, evidently the
“ Hexy " addressed. “The lady won't.
She don't mean nothing by what she
said.” But still the fixed gate continued,
and the imploring voice went on: “Oh
don’t let them, you won’t, will yon,
Hexy? They've taken away so many
things. Leave me my litrle light stand!”
“ Yes, dear, yen, dear,” said the sister,
soothingly, while Mattie, discomfited
and repentant, echoed her assurances:
“ I wouldn’t rob yon of your tabic for
the world. Pray don’t suppose ao for a
minute. I was only asking from curios
ity. Don't. feci badly—please don't!”
Hut still the pitiful pleading continued,
r.cMvli in o lower key: “Don’t, don’t,”
ill tho elder woman pluc . her sleeve,
fid ivliiqien-d:
“ You’d better come away. Hhe ain’t
•iglitly in her .senses, poor ereetnr, and
ion’t know wloit she says”—and Mattie,
*lad to cscajic from a jmene which was
,i coming jraiiiful, willimzlyJollowed to
. farther room, wliioli proved to be a
>/t, vrlieno- jireseiitly the old woman’s
alee was heard demanding: “Now
whatever can have taken that wheel ? I
sis' it just t lie other year—that time that
.Ichiol’s folk* wav here, I guess; it was
twelve year, is it?—well, ’twus here
thou I’m most sure, hut I don’t seem
able to lay my hand on it now.” Hester,
mean white, loss ahsorlved in a special in-
I rest timii her friend, lingered with the
sisters, the older aud feebler of the two
still hovering over her property, as
though she feared it might yet 'at
si atened from her by fraud or violence.
“ TANARUS ahe ill ? ” whispered Hester, when
*t last the poor preature had lieen
soothed into comparative quiet and jxr
vitiulod to nit down in the frocking
:hai r.
“No, uot worse than she often in.
It's just the excitement. Nothing wor
ries her like the idea of losing tlie fur
nitur’. ’Twits that upset lier in the
first place, you know—” and “ Hexy ”
gave a troubled sigh.
“That? Yon mean ”
“Oh, all the talk uliout breaking us
up and soiling off the things, and send
ing ns to tho poor-house. Tliey never
did if, hut the idoa was enough to break
Harriet ah down. She had kept up
heart till then. Hlio was a master-hand
fordoing uud encouraging, aud when I
got wav down she would always kind of
jiull me up and make me take a hopeful
view as well ns she coaid. As long as
we cqnld live on hi the room we had
been used to always, and have our own
tilings about uh, and have jnst work
enough to keep us goia’, ahe was satis-’
fied and so was [. ’Twos home—-that
wits what Harriet always said; and we
both thought a heap of it—we was to
gether, Us i, and of course that counted
for a good ileal.”
‘•Where was this home of yours?"
naked Hester. She had seated herself,
and her gentle voice and sympathetic
eyes tempted the speaker on.
“ It was down to the North End. Ali
son street it used to Is- called, but
tin y’ve cut away uud changed every
thing, and there ain't no such street
now.”
“The North Entl of Boston, da you
111 l ? ”
"Yes, the North End. We’re Boston
h mi, mid m> vvns nil our folks, ft used
to he a real nice street when f was h lit
tle girl. 1 can recollect it some; there
was ever ho ninny big houses, and rich
people lived in them. My mother took
in i-civing then, and Harriet and mu
helped, though wo was pretty little to
do milch, but work was plenty, and wo
got on well. Then tini, h begun to
change, and the rich people all moved
away iiud poor people moved in, and
one by one wo lost all our customers.
Most of thorn hail gone to a great way
oft', where it was too fur for them to send,
and—they kind of forgot uh, I auppose.
It wasn't no more than natural. Stdl it
came hard on Harriet and me. Mother
was dead then, there wasn't no one left
but us two. Hewing was the only tiling
we knew how to do, and at last there
was hardly any sewing to he had.’
"Couldn't you have moved too, and
j, :i a little u ear or to your customers ?”
- ' That was just what folks told ua.
But. we didn't aeem to ace our way clear
to do it. Wo was at t i died to our room
for one thing. Harriet thought " heap
of that room. We hud lived them al
ways, you ace. Some folks don't ndud
moving, but Harriot always said alia
couldn't understand what they were
made of. Everything stood juat where
it did when wo was little things grow ing
up with our mother, and we sort of
clung to the spot. Then, moving waits
luiu v, and it was stl uncertain how we
should aloug after we moved. The
folks wo used to work for got kind of
scattered, and w- ’ 't know anv of
tlm ncw-faaliioio- .of sewing. All
our work v ck. If there was
anything lid id not abide it whs
a machiii. av said the man who
invented du’t got .any jnior
womau-udks >clongm' to him, that *h*
w as sure."
"It was ntry hard for you."
" Yes, ’iwvie. ft got so had toward.
Ike that 1" r laws* l) lii r.-<- nt<-iitti-> wo
didn't lwv<- any work at all, not a single
stitch. Mis’ OliaudW. that was a
Hlivicvv— diii you ever know her, she’s a
heauiifnl Indy?—she had sort of kep in
with ns always, bat slic’d gone up to the
mountinga tht summer, and there
wasn't liolxxly etasttiat wanted auvdljn'
done. Wo'd always countod a gmul deal
on Mis’ Ohandlar- ahe was real kind to
iih always—and whan alie went away we
didn't know-which way to turn. 1 don't
know how wo should have got along at
all if it hadn’t lieeu for Mis' Ware. Do
von know bar? She's another real
fn-mtiful l vdy. She was keeptn' house
that time for old Mr. Attics, up ou Bea
>■ ei In!!, and ajuv’d taken charge of a
" District " tor’aipeli, and so she came
actpimutcd with Harriet and me. She
us* and lo hnug u things most every week.
No, 1 can't think how wa should ha.a
doMwrithout Mis’ Warn,"
“Tin* Ijord sent bet* that's inet the
long and -short >;f it," proceeded Hxt,
her voice choking a little. " You see, 1
fell sick, and Ftarrie* she got ad wore
out taking car*of ice, and w got ontof
everything, and at toot th* overseer of
the poor owma. and ha judged ’twuu't no
uae onr trying to keep along any fur
ther. We must sell off what we'd got,
he said, and just go into the almshouse
with the town poor and lie supported. I
was settrn' up by that time, so I see
him as well s Harriet. He didn’t mean
to be unkind, l gue-s, hut lie said it
kind of hard. I nqvpnse he couldn’t re
atise what one's feelings was, and he
didn't make it sound no easier than it
was. After ha had gone awy Harriet
turned kind of wild. She couldn't say a ,
ward, but walked up and down the room
whispering to herself and wringing her
bands. I cried till I was all tired out,
then I went to sleep ; when 1 woke up
she was gone! ”
“Gone! where? ’
“ I didn’t know any more than yon do
now. I was too weak to sit up long,
and I couldn’t stir to find her. ft
seemed as if the end of everything had
come. I mistrusted the Lord that night.
It seemed as if He didn’t know and didn’t
care what beanie of us two poor cree
tnj>, atid had just let us go. But there '
I needn’t ! Tt was real wicked and faith
less in roe, for we always had been
helped somehow, and we was then. The
very next morning, by !l o'clock, conn-
Mis' Ware. He sent Ler of course; and
when she hoard what happened, she
just went straight out to the police, and
they writ and telegraphed id tout the
country, and tlie third day they found
Harriet.”
“Oh, where was she?” cried Hester,
thrilled with sympathy.
“ Way out to tin back of Milton hill.
What took he? that way I don’t know
nor ever did. She don’t remember noth
ing about it. She hod jnst wandered on
and on, trying to get away from her
trouble, poor thing, as if any of us coi ’
do that"
A pause. Through the open door of
the loft Hester beard Mattie saying:
“ Yes, it iB quite a nico old wheel.
What wilt you take for it? ’’ arid the old
maid's canny voice in reply :
“ Wall—l don’t know just what wheels
is a fetchin’ now.”
“ Mis’ Ware didn’t stop there, neith
or," resumed Hexy. “ When she found
how bad we felt about it, rhe told the
overseer of the poor that she’d *ee we
was supported somehow, without cornin’
on the city. I don’t rightly kuow how
it was fixed, bnt, Home of Mis' Wnrc’s
rich friends helped, and it was arranged
we should stay on at the old place.
Then the next year they cut the new
street, and we moved out here. Mis’
Ware, she did it all. 'Twa* better for
Harriet, she thought, and nil our mvn
tilings was fetched out, to make her feel
homo-iike. Hhe’* a good deal better
sine*. 81ic likes to look out of the win
dow iu summer time, and some days
•lie's almost cheerful and like her old
self—no, not thst, but roova like than [
ever thought she would be. 1 ’
"Itis a pleasant, quiet stop for her
Are the people kind to you? ”
“Well, yes. They are kind enough,as
folks go. TlieyTe glad of the hoard,
nnd I help along a Tittle, aud wo ret on
very well. Harriet hesn’t ever got over
being strongs to them, and I don’t sup
pose she ever will; but ahe don't ever go
down stairs and they hardly ever conn
up, so it don’t much matter. .Sitting
here alone with me, she don’t realize
lmlf tho time that sho isn't in the old
place, and that quiets tier mind more
than anything else does."
The bargaining in the loft grew
loader.
“ Half a dollar was what a friend of
mine gave for one tho other day.'
“Half a dollar! That don't seetu
much for a wheel that cost’s much as
sl7 wlieu it was new.”
“ When it was n*w ! Yes ! But yon
can't expect to use thing fifty years
and t.hon get ns much us you gave for it!
Now I'll tell you,” continued the little
screw ; “ it's such a nice little wheel
that I'll give you a dollar for it. That
is twice ns much ns my friend gave.”
“ Wail—a dollar scorns fairer,” in a
convinced tone. Another moment, and
iu they trooped, Mattie with a .lust y
spindle fast in lier hand, tlie old man
bearing the wheel and its appurten-
OfWIUM
“Come, Hosier—we must be getting
home,” announced Mattie, with a look
which meant that (the judged it expe
dient to Iks ofl' with her prize without in.
judicious delay. Hester understood,
and rose to go. Bump, bump went the
spinning-wheel against the stain. She
lingered for a word of farewell.
“ Thank yon so much for telling me
about ypur sister. I wish there was
lomcthirig I could do to give her or you
• pleasure. Is there ?”
"Oh, thank you,” with a flush of
gralefnl surprise, “no, indeed, wo dou’t
uant anything at all now. Folks lnu
been so kind aince Harriet broke down.”
She sobbed outright for u moment.
“ 'Tin too bad iu me, only—only, I some
times tbiuk how different twould bp if
only someone had found out and helped
a little 1 >ofora—-she—inoko—down.”
The words rang in Hester’s ears as
they drove home iu the spicy, dewy t," i
tight. “Ah, dear !” she sighed to her
self- :i great wave of pity :<ud concern
a weeping over her hei.it—“ *hv can't
|a*ople know—why don’t they'"- and
just give the little lift, the small help,
at, the right moment, which means so
HiHch before and so little alter the Har
riots of ins world 'break down?”’
The Yalua of Mental Tension.
A certain degree of tension is iudis
pdlisshl* to the cry and healthful dis
charge of mental functions. Like the
national instrument oi Scotland, tin
mind drones woefully and will discourse
j most dolorous music, unless nn expan
; siv* and resilient from within supplies
f th* basis of quickly responsive action,
j No good, great, or enduring work can lie
safely accomplished by bra hi-furor with
out a reserve of strength sufficient to
give buoyancy to ths exercise, and it 1
may so say, rhythm to the operations t>f
the mind. Working at high-ptcasnre
may lie bad, but. working nt low-pres
auiva is incomparably worse. Asa niat
ter of experience, a sense of weanness
commonly precede* collapse from "over*
work;" not mere bodily or nervous fa
tigue, but a more or less conscious dis
taste for the business in baud, or perhaps
for some other subject of thought or
anxiety which obtrudes itself. It is the
offensive or irritating burden that breaks
the back. Thoroughly agreeable employ
ment, however engrossing, stimulates
the recuperative faculty while it taxes
the strength, and the supply of nerve
force seldom falls short of the demand.
When a feeling of disgust or weariness
is not experienced, this may be hceausc
the compelling sense of duty has oreshed
seif out of thought. Nevertheless, if
Che will ia not plcaaurahlv excited, if it
rulca like a martiuct, without affecriou
or interest, them is no verve, and, like a
complex piece of maehaiery working
with friction and heated bearing*. tiro
mind wears itself away and break
down ensue*. lad us look a little clostiv
t this matter. Popular Sciettee
Monthly.
Lit* is oiv, >d into three terms—that
which was, which in aud winch will Iv*.
la t us learn from til* |>ast to profit by
the present, and from the present to live
lsitter for the future.
" Pat. my boy, we must sll of ns die
onve." Tl-.e sick man turned over in a
disgusted hams of mind, and replied :
"TLaf's just what bothers me. If we
eoulii only die half a dozen times I
wouldn't worry about this.”
It takfts a cook to do things up brown.
True, out ths orfan-gruidar does things
**■
Frank ITattoft.
Of Frank Hatton, First Assistant Post
master General, Private Dalzell writes
as follows, in the New York Mali.
”1 was surprised to find that Frauk
Hatton is only thirty-five years old ;
his aunt Mary told me so, and she
knows. Frank learned the trade of a
practical printer, in bis father's office,
at Cadiz, Ohio, when a boy. It was
from there, in 1861, when but fifteen
years of age, that Frank ran away from
home and enlisted as a drummer boy in
the 15th Ohio. Captain Bostwick tele
graphed to Frank’s father to kuow
whether he should send him home or
swear him in, and tlio patriotic old fel
low replied ironically, “Swear him in,”
and it was accordingly done, and he
served till the close of the war, mak
ing the historic inarch with Sherman
to the sea. When lie came back from
the war, dissatisfied with the hills and old
familiar haunts, Frank went West, and
finding the Mount Pleasant Journal for
sale, induced his father to sell out the
Cadiz Republican and purchase it, and
the whole family removed to lowa.
At first Frank, his brother Burt, Rev.
McAdams, who had married Frank’s
sister G. and Rev. Brody, who had
married Vs sister Margaret, all hud
charge ot ~ Jo ■ nal, but soon finding
it unprofitable for him, Frank sold out
to Ins brother and brothers-in-law, and
going to Burlington purchased l inter
est in the Jinn ivti/e, where lie made his
fortune and this quani Obinet position
together.
“Frai k mailed a Miss Snyder, a
sober and dieceet young lady, of fine,
appearance Bt.dl farming. manners, aud
the fruit of diarniarriftge is a little boy,
now five or six j ears old, wlto will ac
company them lo Washington and con
tribute much t* oolite society there this
winter.
“ Frank never lived here, at the home
of his father's youthful days. He was
liorn at Cambridge iu 1847. He was n
special p'trlcgn of John A. Bingham, and
from him probably Caught his political
ardor and ambition.
“ Frank Hatton is a small man pliysl
oally, alx.ut five feet eight, and weighs
may lie 150 pounds or less. He is a
blonde of a darker type than riorum on,
wears a mustacha amt shaves tlie of
his round, meriy face closely. lie has
blue eyes, an intellectual forehead, ana
a pleasant face, lie is a ready conversa
tionalist of the convivial hail fellow well
met Western t ’pe, and knows all the
difference* be< ! ev. “.!. 1 lh.e
cut tobaccos, ci. mu artistically
swiilde * case n* cigars, or upon
occasion untie aeutcously over a
bibulous basko ■“ good as anybody.
Ills character b,ok lo < hthlhnqcl is with
out it blot "*■ Veniish, and even free
from those ligh ’ r escapades from which
many a more jbunihhuz youth than his
has not been vholly exempt. He hits
due business tai' and is ft ready stump
speaker. ”
Wrestling With f’hissic Texts.
• The story of the circus man who paid
a collegian BJt for providing “ mono
hippie aggregation” as a properly im
pressive title fot his show, and then died
of a broken he.irt at the end of the sea- '
son, when ho learned the true meaning
thereof, is a story which seems likely to
enjov continued popularityin the follow
ing form : “A Boston man had just been
showing nil the isights of that charming
city to a New Aprker. ‘And now,’ said
ho, ‘ toll me honestly, is uot this city
thoroughly unique?’ ‘ Yes, indeed,’ was>
the reply, ‘ unv , one, er/uus, horse.’
With this t ay be compared the re
mark of the Htiimmnre at examination
.ff if Tin V>/ I'•••■.* 1 '•••■.* I'ic .■ *•
would lone his equilibrium ; because,’ ns
he explained to an awe-stricken Fresh
man, “the word comes from equus and
libritm, and therefore signifies a horse
of book*.”
I’erhapa it vas the same Freshman
who, in atruggli ig with an ode of Horace,
said: “(.Vice Mvccmus equ<, Mtecenas,
take care of you: horse ; and was favored
with tlie remark: “Oh, no, Mr. 0., you
pm too much attention to tlie horse.”
it woe another Freshman to whom
the instructor slid: “You seem to bo
evolving the translation from your inner
consciousness;” and who responded :
“Well, Professor, i read last evening
that ‘by faith Enoch was translated,’
aud l thought 1 would try it on Horace.”
"Don’t yen think it would have been
necessary to melt her first?” was the
perhaps nardombl* inquiry of the Pro
ftMSor when a htedloss youth twisted the
text to say: “And tliey poured Agrip
pina into tho sea”
“Whose brother?” was the question
put to a lady student who construed /-.y/o
1 1 fritter atnbulairtu*, “I and brother
walk nnd that lady student absently
responded: “Oh. most anybody's,” to
tlis great glee of her coeducational
comrade*.
“Champagne, ’ was the reckless reply
of n Yule mau to the iuqniry : *• In tile
expression qui Jm/iii fui/i-ens cendat,
what duct rinni.i f’lrjit m mean?”
Wounds of flic Heart.
It is generally sitpjiosed that wounds
of the lioAi t kill immedintelv, atid a cor
-I<>K poll dent haA sent to use a stag’s heart
with tbe left auricle practically , milit
ated and the upper half the left ventricle
torn completely through by a bullet; so
that three Augers can !>e readily passed
through the wound into the cavity. Not
withstanding the extent of the injury,
“the stag ran about sixty yards, the
. hist teu yards np hoi.” The fact is th&t
wounds of the b irt are but seldom im
mediately fatal, ii ever so. AVo know of
no ease of absolutely instantaneous
death from e v n.jd of *lie heio-i, in 0...-
part or however ext ansi ve. The experi
eoe in the battle-field corresponds with',
that of tlio sportsman, who never s.iw
a deer shot through tlir heart that, did
not run some distance. Wounds of the
apex kill comparatively slowly, in from
one hour upward ; aud in one caae men
tioned by John Bell, in which the ni>ex
was completely severed from the rest of
the organ by u sword cut, the man lived
twelve hours Indeed, out ot twenty
nine collected eases of injury to the
heart, only two were fatal within forty
eight hours, and in tlio others death re
sulted in periods varying from four to
twenty-eight days, boeovery may take
ptac* even when the trouu.l is extensive,
for a bullet has boeu found imbeded in
the substance of the In-Art alter n lapse
of six years from the date of the injury,
the patieut having died from a disease of
an orgiu. in no way connected with tli
lesion. Some little time elapses befose
the bl.xxl wholly esc .p- s from or fails to
enter the cavities, amt the w alls continue
to eontract aud propel some of it into
the vessels for s much louger period
than is usually th.night to lie the case.—
Laurel.
Thk 400,000 ws\ candles in the 700
rooms of the imperial palace at B'tltn
are instantaneously lightest by a siugle
match, the wicks being connected with
a thread of gun cotton which, ignited .r'
one end, spriugs to its work throughout
the house.
Mit Fooc ssid to his wife: "1 will
coma right back." The wife gently re
si ided . “ Se* that you cuae hack
rigiik’’
GOSSIP FOR THE LADIF.S.
Tlirw Calve*.
Bh raimnurff’d to AAolphva, while hereyefi war* all
u-d renin, ... . . .
“I h'tar Hie marry .iiogle of tne pe-ldler of ioe
neam ; ” , . . .
iiut fihfi lof >k fri ac Mack aa thtiii'let, *nd BffT raph
mft oil explode,
WUn he loaraed the bell was jingled by a hener
down the road.
Tlien said A dolphin to hr, with a twinklft in hia
eye* . . *
“|£y Jovp, yr.u Arete not far from right, I pray you
do u*i igh; '
Although the merry, tinkling b€ll wa hot the ped
d’ftr'M pot,
We’il folio•-• i;p tiiik joung bovinft, and heifer nice
cream yet.’’
Till) liolfur •udrteuly turued tail —this tale in strictly
“Jliso'n.’ lee cream,friend.,” .aktslrt, “buthere
are hiirus f.r tivo. ,; r
'lbsfairci, Ilia not fancy thaw—it certainly nas
roiiab ;
HU6(y!.l u.- • lauutii—Ad >l|*bas hvtatiice servats.
sure enough,
ftisstiair.
Love vv ithout a kiss would be like the
harp without the hand, the rainbow
without its hue; the brook without its
babble; the lsudscapo without its color;
the tea rose -sweetest flower for scent
that blows—without its odor; the bore
alis without its variations ; poetry with
out rhythm ; spring without sunlight ; a
garden without foliage, or marriage
without love. The young woman whose
ideal traohes her to recoil from it kiss
cheats tho lover of tho joys of loving
wid does not deserve the devotion of a
manly heart. She may live up to the
dining-room dado and the sideboard
bric-a-brac, but she wiLl never prove a
congenial wife, —Philadelphia Times.
“11l llaalr.”
A motherly-locking woman carefully
handed the stamp-clerk at the postoifice
a letter marked “in baste,” and in
quired if there wns auy extra charge for
writing thnt on.
“Ob, none at all.”
“ Flow soon will the letter go out ?”
“In about forty minutes.”
“No Boonerthan that?”
“Well, wo might hire a special train
and get it off in about t w enty minutes.
“ Would it be too much trouble ? ”
“Oh, none at all.”
Hhe thought for a moment, turned the
letter over three or tour times, anu anally
said ;
“I guess I won’t ask you to Jiire a
special train, but if you will be kb and
enough to telegraph my sister that I
have written her a letter to tel! her that
I can’t conic till Monday, nnd to be at
the tlapot to meet ine, nnd. that mother
didn’t go to Toledo after all, I shall be
ever so much obliged. Good morning.”
—hr Ira > f Free Press.
nqinraliniK hr n NrHiiiliimvisii
ilsrriasv.
Prep* rations fnf a wedding feast be
gin weeks beforehand, aud are so exten
sive that M. l)u Gtittillu was utterly
amazed at the quantity nf.solids and
liquids that he saw stored %way • against
an approndiing marriage feast. Invi
tations to \vedil|igs'af ' -sent feifi well in
advance of the flippy day, so that the
guests may ptepare for two or three
days’ absence from home ; ami the poor
est person invited i" uevtif without a
wedding garment. Tlie happy "couple
eat, drink and dunce with everybody,
and it sconu never to have occurred to
the people to inquire how they do it.
There is a limit to the endurance of the
native head and stomach, and this
generally is found on tlm third day;
then the guests, on bidding good-by to
the bri-le, tender their wedding pres-,
ents, which ahvuya consist of money,
aud aie deposited, without being ex
amined, in a box whioli tie bride wears
atiu r side. How many American girls
l . ; ' .....rl , .’.. <'i. i'if.,, i.
similar custom might prevail here can
not cosily be estimated, hut all of them
will understand why there are but few
bachelors iu the land of the midnight
sun. Long as are the wedding festivi
ties, those of Christmas far,exceed them,
for feasting and fun are industriously
kept up from Christmas eve to Twelfth
night, and quaint and charming are
some of Hie attendant ceremonies.—
Harper's Magazine.
Terms in t w by Tinrriril I'mple.
Tiie Hii-iton Herald thinks the epi
thets used by husband and wife toward
each other are an unconscious revelation
of the true nature of the personal char
acter and of the true nature of the affec
tion subsisting between them. It says :
When a woman addresses her partner as
"Hubby,” or “My dearest liubby,” lie
may possibly like it if lie can bear it,
hut most men would like to hear almost
anything else. One fears that different
terms of address may follow, which rep
regent nnotlior iuiahU On A/tlici
hand, when nniiin addressesliisspouae ns
1 Wifoy,” il i- almost imposiblo to avoid
tliinkiiig of ‘Doggy," and there is an
uuplea-ant feeling of sickness at hearing
the word. Rut when-one hears a hus
band address his wife as “Queenie,”
which is said to bo tlie word used by
one of the most distinguished au
thors of New England in address
ing his better half, it seems ns if
the wife had her proprjr place iu his
affections. The word i.,y~ nressive ; it
grants the superiority vf| • it en
thrones her in his homo M *ieou
trasl is tin reserved tor f ruse
holds. Il is always * * and
“Mrs. Smith,” anil oue , itlv
that ho may disturb uigniiy of
that h'liise. Such severe propriety,
however*, e.in Imrdly endure tin iimova
t>ns ot children, li is “ mamma” and
“papa” wiiii-h.softens one’s feelings, aud
then they grow i-ito the more iesp,n-ta
ble terms, "father’’ and “mother.”
until ih- • v. ife enlist lie husband "father,”
and the husbaud calls his wife “mother.”
Where there are no children, and it is
always *'Mr.”ar.d “Mrs.,” there is a
m.e! ion in the household, and iovo has
esciped through tho window, like
Noah’s dove, in search of a now life.
I hen 11 o: e are the m-veiviv homely
terms which ohe finds in nte by Clwf
ley s f.irher toward bis wife, the woman
saving “nivnmu,” or simply “man.”
the husband addressing the partner of
bis toils simply ns “ wife” or “woman,”
and yet, when there is a smile on the
hardy 'aces, the words are wonderfully
freight and with meaning. After all, there
is nothing like simplicity and honesty
bet ween husbaud and wife.
five anil Four tern.
There ore two perio-is in the moral
and intellectual development of u girl
which cause the profonndcst anxiety to
a mother. At n years old, or there
abouts. the period of babyhood is past,
while the period of giilbood is not vet
feaeheu, anti, between the two. comes a
time of anarchy aud cliaos. The little
soul is now bursting its shackles and
trying to readjust itself to new condi
tions. The child is ceasing to boa mere
pet and plaything, and i< beginning to
live an individual life. Nothing is more
common than to - e * docile, well
trained child suddenly develop, without,
mo. ipp. •- it reason, a willfulness and
in il- ’c 1 u lion entire 1v at variance wi*h
its previous habits. The mother, who
has been dr,-aruing of a sweet daughter
whoist. walk beside her all her days,
making lite h-agrant aud beautiful toiler
by sharing with her all her yonthful
hopes, and jovs, and trusts, turns hoart-
A iot r you may art vx, but aa old
horse you uver eaa.
sick at (he'EaughtinesCof the half-fledged
termagant. For it is the good, cherubic
little girl who iisuaiiy Manifests tb
change ; a spoiled child is 90 tlriroUgli
lv disagreeable all the while Dm 7
accession of badness is not noticeable
A groat deal of self-condemnation and
unbappv foreboding would be spared
the mother if she would only recognize
that much of what is so very unlovely
in not essentially wrong—-that it is mere*
lv what is" good in a state of unripeness.
The fragrant blossom lias withered and
fallen away, leaving in its place the hard
and withered embryo fruit. A , wise
mother will he very careful to distin
guish between those qualities winch
promise evil in their developed tor...
and those which are mere crudities, and
her aim will be to foster all the uufo.d
ed possibilities in her child’s nature, and
help to bring them to a beautiful ma
turity. . .
Every oue knows how tiresome lillu
unattractive a little girl usually is when
she has outgrown her infantile sweet
ness. The little impertinences, the
saucy retorts and unflattering personali
ties, which have won for her smiles and
caressesj of, at worst, an admiring re
proof, all at once become intolerable
and are rebuked with acerbity. The
very ways which :he has been taught to
consider charming become subjects for
displeasure wiirii the baby roundness
ami dimples are gone, her sense of
justice is outraged, aud the unWarped
sense of justice iu a child is often very
strong. Bite becomes a little Ishmael,
iier hand against every mall’s, and every
man’s hand against licr< Iu a certain
sense thU can scarcely bo alctcW, hut,
if the mother s love be unfailing, and
her sympathy always ready, she can keep
sweet the fountain of love and trust
! which, without that refuge. niic.Ht be
i come very bitter. Jiist When this new
• life is unfolding a mother’s wise Cal'® is
mo-1 earnestly needed. The soul which
bus seemed to draw its life from hers is
beginning fcJ lead an individual exist
em e. It is to the petfec” development
of this individuality that the moth
er should bend all her strength.
Each human soul contains within itself
the germ of its own life. To make of it
all that may be made the mother should
only guide the growth, leaving it free
j witiiin the limits of moral probity to grow
into its fullest possibility. Bhe cirliot
lop it off here aud there, or suppress its
gro 'th yonder, without maiming amt
stultifying the whole nature,
Tho dangerous quicksands of this
peri'id safely past, the mother begins to
breathe freely again. She again begius
to see visions, and to itt'earn dreams, till
the second i. •] more serious sc-ilseV **f
anarchy conies to try her faith. (Jlblil-
Ikk.kl is over, and woniouliood is yet far
away. The whole being, moral, intel
lee.tiial and physical, is hi a state of fer
ment. 1 New motives, new principles,
lipw emotions, are battling for predomi
nance, and itutil these relative claims
are adjusted no peace can be hoped for.
| This second I chaotic period-- which
' comes at about 14 years of age—lusts
j longer, and brings a more hopeless uri<l
radical overturning of that which lmd
se. ined so tirirrty established. Ifn inotte
er’s care were needed iu tho earlier
chaage, it is infinitely inore needed now.
New traits seem to lie starting into life,
new developments are manifested,
Changes hot only in purposes and ideas
are taking place, but changes in temper
ament, in disposition, in tone are mani
festing themselves. There is need of ,a
wise hand which shall guide without
galling, a tender heart- whidi shall sus
tain without compromising with evil.
To aid in the conflict and insure victory,
nothin*?- wiilj; 1- v nmth&r.mwn.,' i”*< ly,
nor direct tier more easily in this diffi
cult task, than the recognition that this,
also, is merely a stage of growth neces
sary to a full and perfect development
of her child’s nature, and that to her is
intrusted the privilege of fostering the
growth, while she shall be looking to
the end with the prophetic eye of love.
—Century Magazine.
Tilings Which Annoy One.
To get fairly out of the house aud find
you have forgotten the very thing you
meant to hike with you.
To get yourself snugly settled in your
seat and your baskets, bundles' pack
ages, valise, umbrella, and bird cage all
stored auay in the reck and before and
behind you ou adjoining seats, aud then
to discover you’re in the wrong cur.
To sit next the talking couple at the
theater.
To see yourself in a lucid moment as
nth'*-" ... {' von
To trade with the “ furnishing si eye
clerk who insists after you have bought
vvlnit, you and sire oil seTing you era vats,
collars, iniflk and fancy hosiers
To bujw - '.something handy W have, in
the house" and be told by your wife on
taking it home that you’ve paid twice
too much for n poor article.
To put something away for safe keep
ing so carefully that you can’t find it
again.
To sit down hungry at. the restaurant
aud wait fifteen minutes before yi u can
eatcli a waiter.
To fix your mouth for a favorite dish
aud after waiting ten minutes more to he
told “It’s all out.’’
To have the septuagenarian, who all
your life has been as an old mau to you,
speak out to you, “ Well, you’re getting
old like tl rest of us. ”
To be always putting your knife *or
pencil in the wrong pocket and going
through all the rest before you can find
tlu-in.
To stow your ra lroad ticket care
fully away in some secret recess of your
clothes and then forget it, and at regu
lar intervals bo seized with a season of
fear that you liax T e lost it, consequent on
which comes a spell of frautic rummag
ing until you find it.
To attempt ; n one day more business
of vani'inn sorts than your mind can
grasp or your hands can handle.
To lie taken on the Bowery by a confi
dence man or other species of sharper
for a verdant countryman.
To b> told you are growing old when
you know y ou are growing young.
To be told by advisory friend that you
ought not to do so and so when you
haven’t done anything of the sort, and
her. he told you ought to do thus and so
'then you have all along been doing it.
I’atti.
A Xew York paper says Patti is fat,
i dampy, a little latne, her teeth are irreg
i u!ar. her mouth large, her eyes waterv,
and she shows signs of age. Well, what
| in thunder are they paying fabulous
prices to go amt see her for, then ? O,
we forgot her voice. Of course, they go
to hear her sing. It don’t make anv
difference nlwmt the looks, as long as the
voice is there. And yet, if she was
handsome, had a gait that would take
our breath away, and had beautiful blue
eves that sparkled like diamonds and
would speak whether her mouth and
throat did or not, and lips red ripe and
ready to pick, and teeth that look, ; 3 ,
though they would help a smile along
amazing, and a heart that was the bo-sT
We could feel more like going a long dis
tance to Lear her sing “ Darling, mu „re
(trowing iiald. '—/W.-'* Ann,
NUT A .MAKRIISH Ulßl,.
y-.xplstntn* *•** .*<lT'ili**c<>r*l*le m**
f>dnnft lo mm Vnipattiem Lotrr.
They Tore seated together, side by
side, on tli? da, in the most approved
lover fashionw-his arm encircling her
taper waist, ete,
“Lizzie,” Le said, you must, haref
read my heart ere this ; you must knew i
how dearly I love you ?”
“Yes, Fred, you liavd certainly been
very attentive,” said Lizzie.
“But- Lizzie, darling, do you lota
int ? Will you be my wite ?”
“ Your wife, Fred! Of all things,
no! No, indeed, or anyone else’s.”
“ Lizzie, what do yon mean?”
“,Tast what 1 say, Fred. I’ve two
married sisters. ”
“Certainly, and Mrs. Hopkins and
Mrs. Skiiipor have very good husbands.
I believe. ”
•‘ So people say; but I wouldn’t like
to siaiid in cither May’s or Nell’s s>>q*B j
that’s all. u
“ Lizzie, you astonish me.”
“Look here, Fred! I’ve had over
twenty-five sleigh-rides this winter,
thanks U> you and niy other gentlemen
friends.”
Fred winced a little here, whether at
the remembrance of that iivery hill or
the idea of Lizzie sleighing with othr
gentlemen friends, I can not possibly
answer.
“ How many do you think my sisters
hate had? Nof the sign of oae, either
of then!, pretty girls as May and
Nellie were, too, and eorntwh aftupfion
as they uAcrl to havp- i
“ Now. Ih/.zic —’
“ I am fond, of going to the theater
occasionally, as well as a lecture or c>on
cert sometimes, snd I shoiildu t like it if
I proposed attending any such entertain
ment, to be invariably told that time*
were ’ hard nnd my husband could not
afford if, and then to have him sneak of
alene."
_ . . . -TV
“Lizzie, Lizzie —”
“And then if onoe in a dog’s age he
did condescend to go with me anywhere
in the evening', I shouldn't like to be left
to pick my wav along the slippery places
at the risk of breaking my neck, he
walking along unconscioiisljMty my side.
lam of a dependent, clinging nature,
aud I need the protection of strohj
arm.”
“Lizzie, this is all nonsense.’
“I'm the youngest in pur family, and
■perhaps I’ve liee.o spoiled. At U events,
I know it would break rny heart-to have
my husband vent, all the iff- tempi
which lie conceals from the wo? rM uv*” 5
riv .i f'Ußc'q' head. ” i
“.But, LDwie, I promise yon AiiStl-M I
“Oh, vos. Fred; I know what yon are
going to any--that you will be different;)
but May and Nellie have told me time
and again that, no better husbands than
theirs over lived. N <>, Fred ; tie a lover
you are just perfect, and I hate awfully
to give you up.. Still, if you are bent
on marrying, there are plenty of fprh
wlm have not got married sister*, or wi?
are 1K wi>*e enough to profit by their
example, if they have. And don’t fret
about for I’ve no doubt I can find
some ofte to fill your place—"
But before Lizzie lind concluded, Fred
made for the door, muttering something
’ “ unmentionable to ears polite.”
“There f” exclaimed Lizzie, as th“
door closed with •, hang, “1 knew he
was no lietter tlitn the rest. That's the
way John nnd Aleck swear and slam
doors when things don’t go jnst right.
He’d make a hear of a husband ; but I
am .lorry lie came to the upint so soon,
i for he was iust a snlenidid befffi ”
iiUL-j.. 1 u.-yj
FACTS FUR THE ~U lit j v xo.
Thr elephant, the rhinoceros, the ti'
gcr and tho hipppopotamus are the only
animals that are not afraid singly to fight
the lion.
Tt* tlie armadillo is in danger of being
attacked, nnd happens tube near a preci
pice, it will contract itself into a ball and
roll itself over
The flat-head hussar, a fish found in
Essequibo, will march in droves over
dry liuid, as fast as a man ordinarily
walks, using its serrated fins for legs.
Paper bags to the number of 1,069,-
000,000 are used yearly in the United
Htatcs. The combined capacity of eight
of the principal factories per day is 5,001), •
000. They are sold for a small fraction
over the cost of the paper,
Pr is reported that Die stomach of an
ostrich which died in the Paris Zoologi
cal Garden was fouud to contain four
te mm pMif*
two small keys, one cigar elite, one r<?
sary, six sous, one pair of sen-wtprs, odi
belt plate, sever? door handles aff4 *ev
end pieces of a baby trumpet.
A thotjsand wonders in nature are
lost to the human eve, and only revealed
through the microscope. Think of divid
ing a single spider’s web into 1,000
strands, or counting the arteries and
lierves in the w ing of a gossamer moth.
Yet, by tbe powerful aid of a leas of a
microscope it is found that there are
more than 4,000 muscles in a caterpillar.
The eye of a drone contains 14,!*00 mir
rors, and the body of every spider is fur
nished with four little imnps, ptercvl
with hny holes, from each of which ip;
sues a single thread, and, when l,o(ri
f these fi om each are joined together,
thov make the silk line of which the
spider spins his wet*, and which we cal!
a spid.-r’s thread. Spiders have been
seen as small as a grain of sand, and
theve spin a thread so line that it takes
4,000 of them-put together to wjtiai
size a single hair.
Fon years no one had supposed that a
lump of soft coal, dug from its mine or
bed in the earth, possessed any other
purpose than tliac of fuel. It was next
found that it wonld afford a gas which
wits combustible. Chemical analysis
proved it to Ire made of hydrogen. In
process of time mechanical and chemi
cal ingenuity devised a mode of manu
facturing this gas and applying it to tbs
lighting of buildings anti cities on a
large seale. In doing this, other pro
ducts of distillation were developed, un
til, step by step, the following ingredi
ents sre extracted from it: “An excel
lent oil to supply lighthouses, equal to
the very best sperm oil, at lower cost;
benzole, a light sort of etlierial fluid,
which evaporates easily, and, combined
with vapor or moist air, is used for the
purpose of portable gas-lamps ; so-called
naphtha, a heavy fluid to dissolve gutta
perclia and india-rubber; an excellent
oil for lubricating purposes ; asij4altum,
which is a black, solid uied
in making varnishes, covering rooMf*
covering over vaults : paraffine, a f
crystalline substance, resembling wjf. .4
wax, which can be made into b ant'-ij
wax candles. It aielfs at a temp-’ a furs
of 110 degrees, and affords an exceli? l " -
light. All these substances are now j
made from soft coal. I
A musical young mena of ours, wise-1
mg to bespeak his mistress’ attention
the suppliant posture he had taken ’‘n
at her net. sang with thrilling effect tin*’
Ids earliest exercise : “Dor*,
solace cfo fion<ion Time*.
