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THE GOLD THAT WEAR*.
Wl pwted one eve at U parilen
When the dew wan on the heather.
And I ironiiHi*a my lovo 10 come baok to Uer
Em the pleamuit autumn weatlier—
That we twain might wed
When th* leave* were red,
And live and love together.
She cut me a tree* from her nut-brown hair,
And I kiHsed her 'ip* of cherry,
And gave her a ring of the old-time gold,
With a atone like the mountain berry—
Ah clear and blue,
As her eyes wore true— * %
Sweet eyes, so bright and merry!
“ Tho wealth of my love f all T have
To give you,” she said in turning;
“Tho gold that wears-dike the radiant etars
In yonder blue vault burning!”
And 1 took the trust,
As akn-f r must
Whose aoul for lota is yearning.
Fat*- kept ns apart for many years,
And the blue mm rolled l otwaen us;
Though I kissed each day Uie nut-brown tress
And made fresh vows to Venus—
Till I sought my bride;
And fate deiied,
That failed from iova to wean us.
I found my love at the garden gate
When the dew was on the heather,
And we twain were wed at the little kirk
In the pleasant autumn weather ;
And the gold that wears
Now soothes my cares.
As we live and love together.
A SEWING-GIRL.
“Now, girls, this won’t do!” said
Madame Molini, |>ounciug in upon tho t
nix pale sewing-girls, like a wolf into a
flock of lambs, “No.it will never do
in tlio world 1 T don't pay yon all ex
orbitant stages to nit and fold your
lmn<b, like fino ladies. Miss Sedge*
wick, wo are waiting for that lavender
ailk polonaise. Lucy Lisle, why do you
not go on with those button-Poles ! Mm
Fox, you will be ho good as to change
your Boat from tho windowto'the middle
of tho room at once 1"
“ But, madatne, I can’t boo there to
lay on these flue bias folds 1” pleaded
Miss Fox.
“You moan you can't see the carts
and carriages in the street, and the type
setters at tho windows opposite I” re
torted Madame Molini, whoso true
nomenclature was “Mullens,” and who
liad I jeen a milliner’s apprentice, in tho
good city of Cork, before she set up on
Hixtli avenue as a French modiste.
Lucy Lislo caught up her work.
“I stopped just, a minute,Madame, with
that bad pain in my side,” she said, be
ginning to stitch away with eager haste.
“If you’re Hick,” said madame, se
verely, “yon had better go homo and
Bond for tho doctor. While you are
hero your time is mine, bought and paid
for!”
While Mins Sedgowiok, insolf-defonso,
urged that she hud not enough Ailk gimp
to trim tho polonaise and was waiting
for more.
“Not enough,” shrilly repented mad
ame —“not enough ! I measured that
trimming myself, and 1 know that there
is enough, ifou nmy just rip it of!again,
and sew it on higher up and more eco
nomically ; and I shall, deduct tins
morning’s lost, time from your wages 1
What’s that, Flora Fay— the mode col
ored silk dross? Finished? And where
aro tho two and a half yards that wore
left?”
“ T folded there up with the dress,
madame,” said Flora Fay, an innocent,
blue*oyeil young girl, recently from the
country, Wnofetood, in an unconsciously
graceful attitude, beforo the fat and
florid dressmaker.
"Then you were u goofo for your
pains," shortly retorted Madame Molini,
as she unfastened tho parcel, abstracted
tic piece of glistcyiing, igteift silk, and
whisked it away upon a shelf. " Two
yards and a half isn’t much, but it's bet
ter than nothing.”
Flora Fay opened tlio innocent blue
eyes wide.
“ What is she going to do with it?”
Bho asked Miss Fox m a whisper, as
modapio rustled off to wold tlio errand
lxiy for putting too much eonl on tlio
grate fire.
“ Don't you kuow, litth* sRJvJ” whis
pered Miss Fto, laughing. “ It’s wluit
she cabbages!”
“Cabbages?" repeated Flora, in mnazo
mont. “I don’t understand you."
“ You will) when you see the mode
silk made up into a sleeveless Imsipio
for madame,” said the other, “trimmed
with the giuip that was left from Mrs.
Aubrey’s ilimier dress, aod tho pearl
fringe from Mrs. Ossetts whito'diunufeso
ball ooatnme.”
"Hut you don’t mean,” said tho
breathless Flora, “that madame takes
the ailk that is left from the customers’
dresses?"
“Goosie!" cried Miss Fox. “don’t talk
nonsense any longer. It’s wluit ('very
fasliiinmblo dressmaker doss, am I
‘‘Tliorr’s til, reception room bell,”
shrill v called madiune. “Allas Far an
swm - it at once I”
Harry Drake was standing in tho
pretty room, all glistening with satin
drajsiry, gilded moldings and huge mir
rors, when Flora enme in—Hurry Drake,
tlio young sea Captain, who boarded st,
tlio came quiet and inexpensive house
where Flora was allowed a hall lied room
at a reasonaVile rate, on account of Mrs.
Dodds having once boarded a summer
at, the old Fay farm-house, up among
tlio Berkshire hills, and still retaining a
kiud recollection of Mrs, Fftv’s kindness
during an illness which overtook her
there.
“Oil, Miss Fay, is it you?" said
Harry. “l)o you work here ? Upon
my word, you seem to lie hi very com
fortable quarters.”
“ But I don’t stay here all the while,"
said Flora, noting how his glance wan
dered from gildiug to fresco, Axiuileter
esrjH-t to bronzed chandelier. "I sew
in a little dark room. here there is a
stifling smell of coal gas, and no carpet
on Hie door.”
“I’ve come for a dross,” said (’apt.
Drake, plunging headlong into his sub
ject, nfter the fashion of men iu general
—“ my sister's dress. She is to be mar
ried next week, and some of her friends
coaxed her to have her dress made here.
Miss Fortesone—she's only my half
sister, you know,” in answer to Flora’s
look of questioning surprise;' “hut-,
she’s very nice, and is going to mam
well, I hope."
“it's tile mode-colored dress," suiil
Flora, with liriglitoniug eyes. “I
helped to trim it myself. Yes, it's fill
ready.”
And presently madame came smiting
in, with the bill, iuid tlie dress folded
neatly in a white postelx>ard box, and
Oapt. Drake departed with dim idet
that Madame Molini iH-rfeetly .compre
hended the art of high charges.
Miss Fort esc ue her self came the next
day. Bhe was a young lady not lacking
in quiet resolution. She knew her
rights, and Was prepared to defend
them..
“Where is the material I sent ?" said
she to Miss Fox, who was in attendance
in the reception room. “It is not made
up in the dress. I - had purchased
enough for anew waist and sleeves, and
it is not all here."
“You must be mistaken,” said Miss
Fox, with an aspect of polite impossitiil
*y. “ The bias puff's and folds cut Up
thu material shockingly, atod—"
But at this moment,’ little Flora Fay,
Who was packing some tulle ca]>ee and
fichus into a bandbox, at the back of '
' the jrqcmj rose and cants forward* with
doep.aifcig 1
‘"There are two yards and alialf of
i the mode-colored silk, Mias Fox,”, she
interrupted—“don’t you remember?•—
1 on the shelf 'hi tile btielfinotti.”
Miss Fpx aobyedgaqd Ift Jiqg lip.
Madtfmo Molini, with ominously dtirk
ened faep, twitglidjllie two yard| and a
half of kill: off the shelf, folded it fnto a
]>a]ic*iilid ioturlcd it fo llw Fortesouo :
muttering Something about “ a mistako ;
load© by oin- of l*r ypungtvflieu ; ”Bnd
I the y,uug lady departed, a’ iUttoridlii
otis ngw wTi ether 'or not the fashion
able dressmaker had intended to cheat
lier.
Hbe had hardly closed the 'door be- !
bind her, however, when Madame Mol- !
ini turned upm poor Flora Fay, with a
senrlct spot glowing in each cheek ami j
lips closely compressed.
“ Yomig woman,” baidshe, “y©|i are
dlscli.irgea! ”
“ Discharged !" echoed Flora. “For ;
yhal ?’’
“ t want no,one in my service,” said !
madame, “who’is too conscientious to
fulfill my wishes. You have itttferpicd
d!ed unwarrantably in the mutter of that
silk, mid 1 repeat that you are no longer
in my employment! "
Ho poor little Flora went crying homo,
with a vaguo comprehension that she
hail lawn discharged bceiutee she laid !
Hpohepout the truth.
It was nearly a fortnight afterward !
that Capt, Drako noticed the absence of i
Misii l’ay from the tablet at tlio board- I
ing-honse,
“ Is your littlo blue-eved lodger ill, 1
Mi l. Dodds ? " lie oskeiL “I dbn’tttiink
I. have Seen her of I ite.”
“ No, she’s not ill,” said tho landlady, j
“ That is to say not exactly sick. Hiit
she will lie if she don’t lookout..
boarding herself, Oipt. Drake, on bread I
and eruciicrs, and such like, poor deur Ii
and wasting uwny .Hite a little shadow,
because she’s lost her situation at that }
dressmaking place, and don’t see her i
way clear to another. And she won’t
run in debt, who says, pot even for a i
meal of victuals. All I ” the good woman i
added, “ I can rgpiCipber when ;h • liar I
Hie {lot slid darling of the old' fblks at, -
liorue, holVire tliey lost tin -ir all, l imning j
about among the daisies and buttercups j
like n. sunbeam."
“ Jiut liow did i lie come to lose her
place V” asked Capt. Drake.
And Mrs, Dodds, who liked to hen*
| the sound of her own voice, fold the
I whole story.
" Tt’s a shame,” eiicd the Captain.
“ .lust, what I nay my;a If," nodded the 1
landlady.
And the next day, Miss Furtcwhio
! (who wns Mrs. Arkwright now), ctuno 1
to see Flora Fey.
“It was till niy fault,” said she, with'
affectionate vehemence, “that you lest !
> your xiUatexn -.-arid oh, if you wsiulu
I only cojao and stow witli pie, and help ,
' me w.-th flic aeiving for niy jiuw hound, f ,
, slyjulil i oki in it #uch a ftiVjHr. Would 1
ydu, f'ldnsoi?''
“Are you quite sure that t can make j
myself useful? ” said Flora, a little liesi-
tatingly.
"Yes, r/iiifr,’’ said Mrs. Arkwright.
Aud, futlie sunny atmosphere of tlie
bride’s pretty homo, tHeyonng cou if fry
girl soorued to expand into a diflereiit,
creature. Oapt. Drake, the most do
voted brother in tho world, carno there
nearly every day ; and littlo Flora, all
umsoiiHrious ut her own feelings, begun
to watch for his dally vteit ns a helio
trope blossom watches tho sun,
Until, tlioro wiq* t:dL oi anotli
ef I*'*q. vorag' toVjqmu, ih)i! then Flora
;jro*v fule and nctWiVA again.
“ L—l Imye I icon la-re l<>ng enough,”
hlio safiT. “If f )fo to the Exchange
.Unredu they w ill probably t#Blho of a
new situation. And I need change,”
But Capt, Drake went straight to the
root of the unit ter.
“ Flora,” said ho, " ur'o you unwilling
that i should sail to JoddoV”
“ I always lmd a horror of the sea,”
whispered Flora, hanging down her
pretty head. ‘’ But, ef coulee, Capt.
Driik.\ veil must do ns von plfusc.”
“ Yes, el'course)’ lie uuvdvorfd, i#h
nently, and when 1m ImA gome Flora
shed a few quiet tears over tho table
l liuen she was hemming for . Mry Atk
j wriglit..
“ flow hold and unmaidonly it is of
j me,” she thought, "to let mysolf cure
| fpr a puin who does not thllil* twl<t| of
i mo! If ho had eared one iota for. me
would lie hot have said so then ?”
Hut tho uoiyt uvinrinjj, at iRi J; ('apt.
.Drake sauntered ip wiilqtfi/it;.smuring
;mit d' Ilir.Hl jl tei we ip Mill ! feeding
tlie dock of an outward-henna vessel.,
“ Don’t run away, Flora," said he, us
yurgh-i caught up Injr work fqnl pto
li! ireil for a precipitate retreat.
“ Did—did you wnut to speak to mu'?"
she faltered With downcast eyes.
“ I >on’t 1 illw ay s went to to yoh?
Bit down. Flora,” s.i’id lie, “uud' hour
what L’v* lit leu planning."
“Nowit is coming,' Ite >ught Flora,
witli u siek feeling ut her heart. “He is
going to he married, and he is coming
to tell me no.”
“ t huio decided to give up thfl stiia
faring busiursa,’' mid Capt. Drake.
“ Have yofi ? '' fluttered Flora tuintly,
“ I am so glnd ! ”
“ Ami I've bought u farm in Connect
icut,” lie went on—“the old Berkshire
fawn, Flora, where you were bovn and
Drought up. I’m going to boa farmer.”
She looked at lnm, tlio' rose and ldy
following each other across her cheeks.
“ (Mi I” she cried, involuntarily. “If [
could only JtSb tHo dear old place bnoo
more I”
“ But I won’t go there to live,” said
the Captain, determinedly, “ unless
you’ll go there with me, Flora, us the
farmer’s wife I Whnt do you think of
it, little girl? Bhnll it be a partner
ship?”
And when Mrs. Arkw right came iu,
the papers were all sealed, signed and
delivered, and tlio “partnership” was a
foregone conclusion.
“ [ don’t kuow how 1 shall succeed as
aiauneg, "tuihiCiipl. DcdiP
“but <f little Fkirt*Tiffioj is ayly witli
ffii', tTiei e’stnftiflTiV in all rife world that
I haven’t the oourage to nndi*iit?ke.F
And when Mrs. Arkw right too?; Flenw’s
hand in hers, the gttl wllit^'cred:
“Ltlunk l aiu the happiest creature
•ft all Hit- Wide feiwld to-night. Because,
deal' Mrs. Arkwright, lie loves me !”
A CiWlisiAN painter onee iilitnined pern
mission to paint some great court cere
mony pi wiurlt tho Emperor William
and Ins ' son Fritz Were tho celdr.ii
figures. Thu F-'Uj s*ror asked tlie artist
to shew Jnurfeho sketch of his pie tuny
On extiruining it he noticed that the
Crown l’rinoe was represented standing
with one font on tho stepr of the throne
dais. IBs ut oft no
a pencil, nunl altered the sketch, which
was re!tuned to tlie audacious artist
with flie significant words " uot yet ”
written under the figure of tlie Triune. ’
* Though eonsnniption is very puvva
• hint in St. Petersburg; Knssiu,. it is said
that professional singers never die of
that disease there. It is therefore 'in
ferred that the exercise invtilved in Nidg
ing and the deep respiration* which’ it
B’-eossitatoa linve much to do with'
maintaining a healthy condition of tlio
lungs.
THE CIIROMIQUE.
Sijniggin* llaliblrt in (lie l ine Art*.
You haven’t seen that new invention,
the ehromique, have yoii? ‘Well, it is a
1 kind of second cousin to a cliromo. It
looks like a plate of ground gluss, and in
the, center is a circular place that looks
like transparent glass} hut it isn’t, for
when the eye is applied to it a lovely
colored picture appears. Kquiggin's
lsiards up town, and is a very moral
man. He is devoted to his w ife, and she,
poor thing, has always supposed that
tho giirl rose and set in his mild blue
i yea. Last, week she went away to see
her mother, and it was while she was
gone that trie ehromique peddler called
at Squiggins’ room. Tho agent ex
plained how nieoly the liromiquo
worked, and Hquiggius was delighted, 1
but said that he.boarded with a euri-ms
kind of a landlady, and she might grum
ble even if Hie took out one of her panu s
of glass and put in a $4,000 oil painting ; i
but the peddler kin w liis business, and, j
seeing that Sqtiigtjins was quite taken
with the now invention,' he finally per- 1
suaded him to let him set a pane with :
tlie ehromique in it in the old transon j
over tlie door.
So Squiggins selected a mini and love- '
!y picture of Pharaoh’s daughter finding |
little Moses, and was so delighted with ,
it that lie paid tho agent in advance and
then burned down town to work. Now
this agent took an occasional drink, and j
so elated was he at his good hick that he
went out and took about four too many, I
and when he got buck to the room ho i
couldn’t tell a plioto of the Niagara, falls
from a wood-cut of a man with a sprink
ling-pot, and barely remembering that
then wan a woman in (he picture that j
Squiggins pick©'l out, he made a wild j
dive iit the lot and tislied out ft picture !
of an actress iu a very high low suit j
(high in the skirt and low in the neck), ;
that was intended only for bar and Clul - '
ro iins, and fixing this in nicely lie left
the house.
The laiiilladypmeanwhile, had liad her '
•suspicions aroused, bhe could not un- ;
der ,t;tuid this ground-glass business, and
was convinced that Hqttiggins was up to '
some mischief while his poor; dear wife j
was away, and had put up the glass to j
keep lier from finding it out. Bho did .
hot propose to have any room in lier
house that she could not see into, so, at- i
ter trying her usual place, the key-hole, .j
nnd feeding nothing, she mounted aoha'r ;
and looked through the littlo place in
tlie, transom. The boarders say th%t,j
tlio yell she gave startled even the fat
uud lazy (soph; in the institution, and
every woman in the house prune running
to look at. her, and, to crow n all, Mr,
Squiggihs’ wife, who battle four days I
curlier than she wits expected to, came
yraueing up the stairs.
“ Wluit is it?” yelled she, taking j
leaps that would have paralyzed a kan
garoo.
“What?” yelled the landlady, “just
look at tne brazen-faced tiling that your
husband has brought into this house,
mV house, my hoarding house 1 Look,
vVni poor deceived Creature, nnd never
•.rust man again.”
Mrs. H. looked, and thou she yelled, and
tljis hurried up Squiggins, who was just
coming home, and who, thinking from
the yells that someone was beating his
wife, eame up stairs even faster than she
did; lint, instead of embracing him, liis •
wife flew at him like a tiger, while tlio ;
other boarders pointed at tho glass and
yelled “Bhimio 1 ” Ho caught tlieir |
gestures mid yelled: “ It’s a eroinique,” !
lint liis wife only yelled tho louder and
scratched and shrieked ■: “Yes, I know ;
she's aconiique 1 Home variety singer, I’d !
warrant,'’ mid heaven knows wluit would
have become oi poor Squiggins; but
at this moment four old maids Hint wore
trying to get a peep pressed too hard
against tho still-soft putty, and tho
croniiqiio dropped out ami disclosed a
vacant room. This stopped everything,
and Squiggips, after being nearly
lirigged to death by his now-repentant
wife, stamped the glass into a thousand
pieces, and, turning around, then and
there gave the iuqiuuitjye la.UiUp.dy a
piece 61 tiis nuha'iirid ennmieueed pack
ing up to incite. ■ A vacant roinn is for
rent. You can tell the house by Booing
lour old maids with cut fingers looking
out the windows.— Fnintn'illc Arinin.
Blood rurilllng Story.
Wo find the following going tlie round
of our exchangee : There is a lonely
pluco near Mt. Nulio, where Yellow
Creek flows through a deep gorgo, on
one side of w'hieli is a cave which is re
garded with horror by tlm superstitious
people lu re, who tell the following
strange stilly. Twenty years ago two
peddlers sought shelter in this cave
from''a blinding snow-storm’ on ft cold
night. Before lying down to sleep one
of them counted out a large quantity of
gull aud put mto bis belt, lie then lay
(town lind was soon sleeping heavily.
His companion then arose and gaziugi
into the face of hisDTnnpnmon to kco if
lie was sleeping, he plunged tho blade of
hi. elm p knife into tlio peddler’s breast.
The dark Ifiood gu>lit*l iron* the wound
in a stream, the form stiffened, and all
was over. The murderer- soeuivd the
belt, slimy with blood, and poured otit
I lie gold. Suddenly ho saw tin - blood
forming into a pool where tho gold lnv,
and Vo realized w hat an awful deoil he
had'done to get tlie gold. He tlrrow the
Ixydv tar into tho cave, lurried the gold,
and rushed out. of the cave, intending
to go b;u'-k some day. Ue cut the trees
silyjit: his way to ..guide him where lie
' sijiijd rftiu'ii. He won fqund miles
away from tuijcive intlicsuow, with liis
"tlands ulid feet frozen, anil was taken to
Vie luyquteil st Cleveland. After a long
lit’kimss lie y obi the story of hi a crime
hi los ißot'e, fend died/- Affe ►the funeral
the niece and her husband wrent to the
Vue# by means i*f tlie trees, which were
cut to guide .them, but found that the
roof of tlio cave had fallen in. They
hired help aud began,removing rocks
and iwpOU, when thoy were start led by
iteeurtUly Voice* arid light), trad they
gave tip tho search, the cave filling up
again after them. Since then many.un
wnW - tuj r tettowpte have teen pmthi to
McW-e jliq hidden toouMirc. Dtie ptirty
'went ont, nful while sitting around the
tump fire, thoigliostly .figure of a pod-'
Idler appeared. Tlie hair of one of tlio
party turn'd perfectly white, and they
say ire died the next day. Another man
; worki'd atone to find tbe gold, but told
Mr. Ditmnr, iu an excited wav, that
•• thivo was no use hunting for the gold
jiiivhnhrte” Tfce Au'b
vS'-ref Mi. ’ Neflo MifevC Tip The
i earifii for tlw fortune. ffStcut-rA
-1 UOlr
Hrv ink beings arc now so carefully
cared fur in Loudon that little seems left
for phihutthropists to do. So they have
nwv/b'te'd s fftrtot|qlis
OivjiHimV.f’ Fliii-hk Fi'rig itttefprel^d,
iMAnlliny burifel for pit snimMfe
logs, cats, nnd birds. Six or eight hu
man eorpses are taken ont of the river
Tlneues every night, and it is supposed
-ifSTi bedy "oartef Uh :b, but they have
• o ctimpauy fe>r tht- purpose.
A BirnMOKr Tnan says he can sup
port A family of sik persons on $1 a week
aud live well. 81o\is must lie cheap in
Baltimore.
lari Ji ■ inVi.i t *f# •
TYas Bonnd to Enjoy Hiinself.
He was a seafaring mnn, and he
i pushed his way passed tho people to one
j <f tlie best seats in the paruuette, re
uardless of tender toes and stray hats.
He plumped himself down next to a very
weak blonde young geiftlctsan, whe
; nervously pulled away Lis overcoat and
I felt around for his beaver under the
M‘ats-tosee if it was still intact or flat-
I toned out under the ample feet of the
sailor.
“It's all right, shipmate,” said the
sailor. “Just double your jacket up
'uu sling it ativeen us, ’un I’ll stow mine
I itop of it,” and he flounced an old to
bacco-scented coat half way across the
mild littlo gentleman’s trousers, aud
threw his hat on top of it. “Lend us
■your paper, lad,” he continued, taking
the programme unceremoniously from
tlie youth's hands and blinking over its
-ontents. “ What's the show, any
i how ?”
“Bir, I'm not acquainted witli you,
fend —”
“Course ver not, but I don’t object
ter making a friend o’ ye for the even
ing,” said the sailor, slapping the weak
youth vigorously on the log, and expec
torating dangerously near his patent
leather shoe. “No use o’ standing on
dis'pTin ’un manners when we’re ashore,
ha me lad,” and the hand came down
upon tho youth’s thigh more vigorously
Ilian before.
“ But my dear sir, I—”
“ I’m not yor dear sir,” said the sailor,
poking liis limbs out imdcr the seat iu
front of him and taking a fresh cliew of
tobacco; “ call mo Ike, lad; just Ike,
that’s enough.”
At thin momont tho certain went up
an OlUutle, and tlio old sailor be
-amti all eyes and ears, much to the re
lief of the mild young gentleman. Very
soon, however, the old salt was nodding
his head in time to the music. Then
lio commenced keeping time with one
foot, then with both.
“ You will oblige me very much by
koopiug your feet still," said a gentle
man just behind the mikl youth.
“Beg pardon," said the mild youth,
“ but it s this party next to me.”
“What’s in the wind?” asked the
sailor, looking over his shoulder.
“ Keep your feet still,” said the gen
tleman behind tho mild youth ; “ you’ro
disturbing everyone.”
“See here, you,” said the sailor, “I
paid for this berth, ’un I mean to enjoy
•the show, so stow yer talk and give us a
chance to take in the music,” and tlio old
sailor started in again with his heel and
toe drumming. By this time 1 others
about them were glaring at tlio mild
youth, who grew red and white by
turns, and at last appealed to the
sailor to stop.
“ Bee hero, sonny**said the sailor, “I
came as I lore fur a racket, ’un I propose
to enjoy it me own way. I got lots o’
money stowed away in my belt, ’un I
can pay mo own way, and when I can’t
do that I can fight,” and ho compienced
to pull off liis coat.
“Here, usher! usher!” cried the
mild youth, springing to his feet,
“Put ’em out!” Put ’em out I” came
from all parts of the house, and soon two
ushers rushed down the aisle, followed
by a fireman.
“Goino, young fellow,” cried one of
tho ushers, “ out of that.”
“ It’s not my limit, it’s—-” but the
blonde youth wns soon hurried through
the aisle and out upon tho sidewnlk,
while the old sailor settled back in his
seat, took a fresh cliew, and eoncluded
he would now “bo allowed to enjby
tho ringin' in pvao'e.” —lirooltlijn J'aq.'e.
Wealth nml a Gold iu the Head.
People who aro poor, anil who catch
colil and sneey.eyuvmnd, and have red
noses, are apt to envy the rich, believing
that those who are wealthy, and cam take
every precaution against, raking cold,
must be exempt from such annoyances,
but statistics show that tlie millionaire
is just as apt to take co.ld us tlie poor
peanut ronßter or the tramp, and his mil
lionaire bazoo is’ just as liable to be
blown as the poorest nose in the land.
The same draft of air that gives tho
emigrant a cold in the forward oar, will
pass along to the palaco sleeping-car
and blow up the trousers leg of the
millionaire Senator and cause him to
sneeze. He may : wear underc’othing
, that cost as much as the house of the
poor man, but he cannot bo exempt from
1 cold that reddens his nose. And wluit
1 can ft millionaire do to cure hie higli
! toned cold? There is no expensive med
icine, a dose or two of w hich can make
him as good as new. He has got to go
through the same treatment to cure him
l self as the washwonun lias. He has got
to soak liis feet in mustard water, driulc
~a bowl full of gingor tea, put a compress
on his lungs, a mustard plaster on his
back, an onion poultice on liis throat and
feet, and gargle the.same diabolical stuff
| Unit tlio poor ilovil hap. , His millions, or
liis high position as statesman aud a
scholar and a judge of pine logs, does
not help him when the cold comes. He
may mu well for office, but not better
than his nose does for a cold. When
the chill aud the sneeze attacks a rich
man he is on a par with the poorest of
God’s creatures. Then what is the use
of wealth, if it does not exempt the
owner from a cold? Some of the pooest
men iu this country arc tlie healthiest,
while some of tho richest are the great
est invalids. The country is full of mil
lionaires who re paralyzed, dyspeptic,
rheumatic, and fi led with chronic ail
ments that they would trade for a poor
man's health, aud throw in all their
mortify, and the poor man would not
tradtx If wealth would bring exemption
from disease there would lie an excuse
for going it blind in search of wealth,
hut as it is almost certain to bring witli
it some diabolical disease that, knocks
the fun all out of a man, we advise poor
men not to fool away their time trying
to obtain tho confounded stuff. Wo
wouldn’t pick up million dollars in the
road, unless there was a guarantee that
there was no gout or rheumatism or dys
pepsin hanging onto it.— Peak’s Sun,
me value *r Authenticity.
Tlie British Government has liought
of Lord Suffolk, fa £45,000, picture by
Leonardo da Vine. Some twenty yeare
ngo the picture vas stolen from. Lord
Suffolk’s country seat, being cut from
; the Lrnmi'. Aftervard it was offered for
sale in Loudon. When shown to tlie
resident of tile IbyidAcademy, tee pro
noutite'd it a cow of the well-known
“La Vierge auvfe'ohors,” ruid no one j
would buy it. Sane one, remembering
the roldxiry, subsspieiiMy took pains' to
iuquire into tlie natter, and traced tlie
picture to the poaessiiin of a mefeseng-er
or dnor-;-orter a' the Foreign Office,
Downing street, who produced it, rolled
up, from one of tlie servants closets
there. The picture was taken to Lord
Suffolk's, and fitted exactly the cut part,
proving ineontestihly that it was the
stolen chef d’lrur'f of Leonardo da
YiucL That £9,Off is not too much tor
thus picture is interred from the fact
that, at the time when it was restored
to its owner, it'whs remarked that,
while not authenfciite-d as an original
work, £5 could tot be got tor-it, but,
wrlign it -w us anfhentreated, it was well
worth £IO.OOO.
Nature’s ioWefceVpiny.
Nature has tfiarijr of what we are ac
customed to call the small economies of
life. Bhe does nothing without a pur
pose, and stie has a horror of waste. In
the world of living beings, iiorticnlarly,
is she careful of her materials. It is no
easy lift to bring matter up to the
organic level. She has to call in the
sun to her assistance, and get their
united shoulders under the load, ere it
can lie raised to tlie required height;
and she can not aflord to let it down
again while there is any pith left in it.
It is interesting to follow her through
this portion of her housekeeping, and
watch the care with which she gets all
the life-force possible out of her organic
stock iu trade, letting not a crumb go to
waste. She invites a guest with a special
appetite for every morsel—guests fur
nished with teeth to rend, nip and gnaw,
claws to tear, augers and chisels to bore
and gouge, saws, drills, puuches, aud
suction-tubes—that no fragment of the
feast shall be left on the unswept tables.
There are guests of every shape, size
and description, alike only in the due
particular of being normally hirngry.
Like the sitters-down at a public dinner,
tliey all seem to have been saving up
appetite for the occasion. Some there
are, indeed, of such omnivorous tastes
that we would be quite willing to have
them left out from the general invitation.
But that is not Dame Nature's way.
Every crumb must be eaten; and we
know little of her facility of invention if
we imagine that she can not find a tooth
for every hard morsel. She is ready for
any such emergency, and you will be
hound to find some queer creature gnaw
ing away at tho indigestible fragment
with as much zest as if it were a dish lit
for a king.
Let us take a sly glance in a Nature’s
kitchen and watch her guests at their
meal. We shall not call it breakfast,
dinner, supper or lunch, for there is no
such formal division. It is a whole-day
feast and a whole-night feast, too, for
that matter. The tables are always
spread, the guests always hungry; they
crowd in from highways and byways;
always one ready to take up every vacant
knifo, fork, and spoon; or to plunge iu
with fingers, teeth and claws, in the true
primitive fashion. —■ Popular Science
Month!sj. . ..
Give Us a Rest.
Look around the reporter’s table.
There never wns a more brilliant set of
vopng men than that found in journal
ism. What becomes of them ? You
might as well ask for a dead mule. You
don't find many of them occupying the
managing editor’s desks of your great
dailies. Why ? They rarely live to bo
old enough for that. They wear out
their lives in a work that affords little
rest, “(five us a rest.” I can’t tell
you how you can rest, but you-must rest
or die. An American at forty is at most
a wreck. We waste tho best of our lives
by burning our life-caudlo at both ends.
Our. amusements themselves area worry.
We go away on a summering, bang up
and down the country, and obtain the
advantages of what ? Best.—of a fash
ionable season. lam not entirely given
over to_ too-tooism. I always associate
an aesthete with laziness, and a lazy man
doesn’t know what rest means. I aiu
glad I am away from the ladies, but
really I don’t admire a Queen Anne.
chair. I know it is high art, but just
think of one hundred and seventy-five
pounds of 'muscular Christianity resting
in a spindle-slianked'Queen Anne chair 1
Then I can’t say that I am in love with
those new chandeliers made in imitation
of a tallow dip, with a gutter of smut run
down the sides 1 Then there are those
narrow-necked jars in a Japanese cabi
net, so frail that one is afraid of enjoy
ing a hearty laugh for fear of breaking
up a hundred dollars’ worth of high art.
Do you know I enjoy seeing a man lying
on tlie sofa 1 I know it’s rough on the
sofa, but it’s the bost thing in the world
for the .man. .1 often wonder, when. I
get into a parlor filled with all the jim
eracks of lestheticism, what it was all
for. I like a parlor where children can
turn somersaults without fear of what is
coming after. High art 1 Somebody
once told me that the covering of Sc/rib
iD/'V 'Monthly was a specimen of it ‘I
remarked that I couldn’t make out just
wliieli way tlie snake was going. Ha
was inclined to lie offended, but all I
could imagine of the design was a re
minder of a sb'ake crafeiiug backward or
forward, or,-perhaps, a dish of vermi
celli soup cm a piece of brown paper.
The boy that quits his public school
or his college ought to be induced, or
flogged, if need be, to prevent him from
at once going into a business life. Let
him spend his time on a farm. I don’t
know liow it is, but in every place I’vo
been true American labor was dying out.
I went into a prayer-meeting in Maine
the other day (they go to prayer-meet
ings in Maine yet), and they were sing
ing “ There Is Rest for the Weary,”
aud, American-like, they place that
haven of rest “beyond the Jordan.”
Nations have passed off tho face of tho
earth by disregarding lesser laws than
that of American restlessness. —From A.
IF. Tour gee's Lecture on Rest.
Life in the Deep Sea.
The conditions under which life exists
in the deep sea are very remarkable.
The pressure exerted by the water at
groat depths is enormous, and almost
beyond comprehension. It amounts
roughly to a ton weight on the sqfiare
incli for every 1,000 fathoms of depth,
so that at the depth of 2,500 fathoms
there is a pressure of two tons and a
half per square inch of surface, which
may be contrasted with the fifteen
pounds per square-inch pressure to
which we are accustomed nt the level of
the sea surface. An experiment mado
by Mr. Buchanan enabled us to realize
the vastness ot the deep-sea pressure
more fully than any other facts. Mr.
Mr. Buchanan hermetically sealed up at
both ends a thick glass tube full of air
several inches in length. He wrapped
this sealed tube in flannel, and placed
it, so wrapped up, in a wide copper
tube, which' was one of those used to
protect the deep-sea thermometers when
■enfc down with the sounding apparatus.
Tlie copper case containing the sealed
glass tube was sent down to a depth of
2,000 fathoms, and drawn up again. It
was then found that tlie copper wall of
the case Was bulged and bent inward
opposite the place- where the glass tube
lay, juat as if it had been crumpled in
ward by being violently squeezed. The
glass tnl>e itself, wi hiu its flannel wrap
per, wns found, when withdrawn, re
duced to a fine powder, like snow si
cs .st. —Rotes by a Ratura/*s s on fhc
Challenger.
The largest of all New England’s
financial corporations is the Connecti
cut Mutual Life Insurance Company, of
Hartford, whose assets now reach $50,-
258,785. The position of this single in
stitution, in comparison witli Hartford's
hanks aud fire-insurance companies, is,
that its assets now are more than six
times the combined aggregate eaiptal pi
the national and State banks ana trust
companies of that city, and ftearir five
tunes tho- combined capital of Hartford's
fire companies.
A Woman's Heart. | -
“Lemme see,” said the okl man ris
ing with his chin on the top of his cabo
and speaking in the sunll falsetto vofco
of a4 “it must be forty-seven years
since Anna Maria died, yet I can
ber the very gown she w’ore aftd t£e
color of the long curls that hung down
over bet shoulder and the red on her
cheeks that was like a winter apple!
Dear met she’s never faded a mite in fell
them vears, but just site there took*!
at me, as she did when I brought her
home. You see there was a kind cl
romance tew it, and I’ve offen and often
thought that if I had the power and could
rite it out it would road beautifuller tiffn
a novel; the fact was Anna Maria had
another beau, but that aiu t no wonder
for she was the smartest aud prettiest
and best girl in the hull country sicte,
but what I mean, she liad favored ban
ever so little, afore I come around and
began keepin’ lier company. Folks kind
of coupled their names together, and
some of ’em, to bother me, hinted tluat
she cared a heap for him. Why, you and
orter tew hev seen him t He was slim
and fine aq a lady, and wore gaiter shoes
and had holler ejos' es if lie’d never had
quite enuff to eat. ‘Ann Maria care for
him?’ why, the girl had sense aud knew
the difference atween a feller as straight
ns a sapling with a color like new
mahogany, and such a melancholy look
ing specimen as that. Besides, I teed a
mor’gage on the old homested, and Ann
Maria s' father owed me money, but I
did right by them. I told her ef she
married me I’d deed the whole thing
back to her, and I did. Well, we was
married, and wo jaaade as purty a couple
as you ever saw in your life. Ann Maria
had a settin’ out of china anil linen, and
I provided the house, and folks said I
had the best wife a man ever had in the
world, and I’d got everything just as I
wanted it, and s’posed it would always
be so; but from the day we were married
my wile failed in health and spirits, and
in six months I buried her—folks said it
was consumption, but it didn’t run in
the family. I was blind and full of pride
theii —but I've thought since,” here the
old man lowered his voice, “ that- mebbe
all the time she loved that white-faced
chap ns I despised; a woman’s heart
I’ve found out, is a_ queer thing, and
Love goes where it is sent, but if she
did and married me from a mistakened
sense of duty why all I’ve go to say is
I’ve been punished, too, for I loved her 1
Perhaps*, I never felt it as much as I aid
when Lsaw lier lying white and peaceful
in her chintz gown, with the violet on it,
and something round her neck' that I
never see before— a little cheap looltet
with some ban* in that wasn t mine.
“Then I mistrusted that her heart
had broke and I said solemnly as I
kissed her good by: ‘My dear, I’ll
never have a wife but you-if Hive the
four score year and ten!’ and I never
have, and I think mebbe she will see
that I loved her truly, and forgive me at
Inst Detroit Free Prcst. _
Live .Jewelry.
“Here is something new in the way
jof ornamentation,"’a Salesman in a large
tip-town jewelry store said, opening
•box.' Out walked a monster ' beetle,
fully four inches in length. About its
!. body was a solid gold baud, locked by a
tiny padlock, to which was attached a
1 costly gold chain, about two inches in
length, fastened to a pin. The beetle, s
back glistened in light, having been
treated to a dress of gold, and as it
lumbered along its long legs worked tp
' getlier in a curious fashion. “It’s a
shawl pin. You see the pin is used to
i fasten the facoofashawl, or perhaps worn
lon the bonnet, the insect crawling
\ around the length of the chain. They
1 arcperfectly harmless and not expensive,
| as they live on air—that is, they have
! never been seen to eat. This .one was
; brought here to mount, which is a very
' fine operation, as the legs and an tenure
• are all so delicate. After all, there is
1 nothiug objectionable about them, ex
eept the idea .of liaviiig them crawl over
! you. They all cqqie from South Amen-,
■ ca, and the only lot iu the city is to lie
’ takeD. to France,’ wheYe the owner will
! try to introduce the fashion, oi wearing
| fliein. They cost from $lO to SSO, depend-,
ring entirely on the amount of the ring.
: There is nothing cruel about it, .os they
; are bound loosely, and the gold has no
effect upon their hard sides.
In Brazil the fashion of wearing beetles
is carried to a great extent. A well
* known resident has a beetle with a col
lar of gold which meets at the top, and
is there ornamented with a diamond of
great value.' The insect has a cage sur
rounded by the plants among which it
lives in its native state, and * nothing is
neglected to make it as comfortable as
possible. But the most popular insect
used for an ornament in Brazil is a small
phosphorescent beetle. These are often
worn fastened tel the hair, and as the two
phosphorescent or light-giving spots are
on the rides of the head, the black in
sect is,of course, invisible, especially
when in the raven locks of the fair Bra
zilians. Twenty or thirty of these - bee
tles will throw out a light sufficient to
read by, and when arranged around the
head in a circle, or grouped over the
forehead and held in place, the effect is
beautiful.-—A'ewi York Sun.
The Microscope at Home.
In a lecture on the use of the micro
scope at home, by Henry Pocklington,
the following directions are given for
using the instrument to detect adulter
ated dry goods: Most people like to be
sure that they get what they pay for.
The microscope, in many cases, places
the possibility of certainty on this point
within the reach of its owner. Suppose,
for example, that the lady of the house
wishes to know whether the piece of silk
she lias set her heart upon is all silk, or
a mixture with cotton, jute or China
grass, and, if all silk, whether it has
been loaded with dye and dressing. The
microscope will set her mind at rest.
Take a pattern of the silk, unravel the
I warp and weft, and examine it under the
quarter-inch objective, anil you will, at
any rate, see whether all the little fibers,
of whieh the weft and warp are com
prised, look alike. That, of course, will
not toll you whether the material is silk ;
but if you procure a piece, of known
silk, good, raw silk, and study its ap
pearance. nnd compare it with the sus
pected specimen, you will come to a
sound conclusion very soon. Then take
a little cotton and examine it, to find
that it consists of flattened tubes, euri- '
ously twisted, quite tinlike the loftg, cyl- i
iudrical tubes of silk, and different again !
from the long, consistent tuUes eii llax.
with their attenuated and ffiarked j
w alls. Take wool and hairs Of different
kinds, noting their peculiarities, ami you *
will soon be able to tell whether your t
coat is all wool or (as is much more I
probable) not; whether your wife’s sa
ble muff or seal jacket *is what it pro
fesses to be, and will not improbably
learn a lesson iu the department of trade
morality, .
“ Won't you play us something, Miss
Hamm'eranabfeug?” asked Fogg. “ I
siMftild like to ever so much,” she said,
looking nt her watch: ‘•but really I
■ have itime.’’. “So I liave heard,” re
plied Fogg ; ‘•futj.we will overlook that, j
you know.” —JSoiton Transcript. 1
The aborigines of Ameria*, in 1492
did not knew the use of iron.
Thr loss of-a hand was one of the
plMita haa been attributed to the daugh
ter of Linnaeus.
Hangings for rooms, called anas
were first made in Arras, France, in the
fourteenth century.
During the reign of Trojan 5,000 poot
children were supported by the Govern
ment in Borne alone. .
It is within the last two centuries that
the first attempt was ’made in Europe to
establish quarantines.
The first balcony, or belcony, as it
was originally called, was put up iu Con
vent Garden, by Lord Arundul, in the
seventeenth century.
One ancient Mexican penalty wag to
have the hair cut, at some public place;
and during mediaeval times in Europe
cutting the hair was enacted ax a pun-
isliment.
Domitun once actuallv assembled the
Roman Senate in special session to vote
on the merits of anew sauce which he
desired to try on a fat specimen of tho
Mediterranean turbot.
There were no sermons in the time of
Elizabeth, except when the Sufiday hap
pened to he a. festival. The succeeding
Kings had two every morning; they
often lasted more than two hours.
Italy is the only country in Europe
where till famous men are expected to git
in Parliament, and where the humblest
citizen would ratlior vote for a great
composer or General than for a local
celebrity.
When the first censns of Ceylon was
taken, in 1871, it was a common belief
among the natives that the object was
to discover- the number of unmarried
youths, with % view to their being takeD
to Europe, whose male population, they
said, had been destroyed by a great war.
James 11. brought the coinage of
Ireland to disgraceful condition during
his stay there. His coins of gun-metal,
.copper, brass, ■ and pewter were forced
into circulation by every device, and his
Irish subjects were the losers, having in
tlieir possession nearly the whole of his
.worthless money.
Garfield’s friend, and commander,
.General Thomas, whose stubborn cour
age saved'the day in the great battle for
possession of Tennessee, was well called
the “Bock of Chickamauga.” In tho
greater battle in 1876, for the nation’s
honor, Garfield well deserved to be
called the “ Bock of Ohio.”
Jn sustaining and defining the notion
of sin, the early church employed the
machinery of an elaborate legislation.
Constant communion with the church
was regarded as of the very highest im
portance; Participation in the sacra
ment was believed to bo essential to eter
nal life. At the time of St. Cyprian it
was administered to infants.
Fun in the Senate. v
Tlie silence of the Senate Chamber
was suddenly broken by Florida,
who cried out:
“ I call the Senate to order.”
“ That’s a Plumb good one,” remarked
bleeding Kansas.
“ I’ll enter it-in my Kellogg,” sang
out Louisiana, the female privateer.
‘ ‘ That’s Ferry good, ’’responded sturdy
Michigan.'
“I’ll give him a Garland,” sang out
tho Arkansas traveler.
“Ob, pull down your Vest,”-cried
merry Missouri.
‘ ‘ Hale fellow well met, shake, ” shouted
Maine,
“La-mar, aren’t these folks cranky,”
simpered Mississippi.
“Don’t Teller—don’t Teller!” shouted
Colorado, tho mountain climber.
“ I ad Vance the proposition that a
RansOm is necessary,” said old tar heel
North Carolina.
“A Butler is a good thing to have iu
the house;” suggested aristocratic South
Carplina,
“Oh, Pugh!” sneered Alabama.
“I prefer a Miller/’ volunteered
golden-haired California.
“I’ve got a Hill that’s hard to climb,”
boasted gasconading Georgia.
“I can Walker log!” yelled Arkansas
the toothpick-wielder.
“I can Groome him, if am a Gorman!”
cried My Maryland.
‘‘lf I can’t Logan, or I’m a sucker,”
shouted Stalwart Illinois.
“Windom up! Windom up!” vocif
erated Vermont, the Green Mountain
boy.
“I Dawes-n’t interfere,” explained
cautious Massachusetts.
“Oh, Frye, Frye,” exclaimed Maine
in deprecatory tones, that sent them into
a Brown study.
“ I’ll sharpen your wit* on Mahone,”
said readjusted Virginia.
Just then Texas, fearing a Hoar frost,
qnietly put some Coke on the fire to
produce a Maxey-mum of heat, thinking
no one was looking, but Wisconsin cried
out exultingly:
“I Sa-wyer, I Sawyer.”
“That’s not Fair,” expostolated silver
top Nevada.
“Hawley,” chimed in steady-going
Connecticut.
“If it is I don’t Se-well,” joined in
sandy-headed New Jersey.
“NowyonVe Don it,” put in Penn
sylvania, protectingly.
“ Let’s all Wade in,” shouted irascible
South Carolina.
The confusion began to Grover-y great
when a great Blair from the White
Hills recalled them to a proper sense of
their Senatorial dignity just as Kentucky
was about to Beck-on to Rhode Island
for a game of Anthony over, and silence
once more brooded over the scene.—
Washington Republie.
Mourning Colors.
In Italy women grieve in white gar
ments and men in brown. In China
white is worn by both sexes. In Tur
key, Syria, Cappadodia,' and Armenia
celestial blue is the tint chosen. In
Lg)l't v yellowish brown—tne hue ol the
dead leaf—is deemed proper ; and in
Ethiopia, where men are black, gray is
the emblem of mourning. All of tiiese
colors are symbols. White symbolizes
purity, an attribute of our dead ; the
celestial blue, that place of rest where
Happy souls arfe at peace ; the yellow or
-dead lefef ..tells that death is the efid of
sjl human hope, and that 01*0 falls a 1 )
the autumn leaf, and gray whispers of
■the earth to which all return. The Syr
ians considered mourning for It he dead
an effeminate practice, aud so when they
j grp they put ©n women’s clothes as
a symbol, of weakness, and as a shame
to them for a lack of manliness. The
Thracians made a feast when one of their
loved ones died, and every method of
joy and was employed. This
meant that the dead hacf passed from ft
state of misery into one of felicity. Black
was introduced as tnonrniDg hy the
Queen of Ghattea VIII. Before that the
French Queenawore mourning and were
known as white Queea.