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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.