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BY AUSTIN DOBSON.
Haw shall I sing you, Child, tor whom
So many lyres are strung;
Or how Iho onlj tone srsurno
That fits a ruald so young?
What rocks there sro on eith-w hand!
Suppose—’Us on tm- cards—
You should grow up with quite a grand
Platonic hate for bards;
How shall I then he shamed, nndone,
Tor ah 1 with what a acorn
Yonr eyes nm-t moot that luckless One
Who hymned you, newly-born;
Who o’er your “helpless cradlo” bent
His Idle verse to turn,
And twanged his tiresome compliment
Above your unooncern I
Nar—let my words be so discreet
That, keeping Chance in view,
Whatever attor-falo you meet
A part may still be true.
Let others wish you mere good looks—
Your sox is slways fair;
Or lo be writ in Fortune's books—
She’s rich who has to spare;
I wish yon but a heart that’a kind,
A head that’s Bound and clear;
(Yet let tho heart be not too blind.
The head no! too severe 1)
A Joy of life, a frank delight,
s. moderate desire;
Ami if you lull to find a Knight,
At Icaat—a truaty Squlro.
TUB WEEPING CHAMBER.
An Oriental I.otfc-nd.
A strange Rtorv was once told mo by a
Le vantino lady of my acquaintance,
which I Khali endeavor to relate—os far
as I am able with the necessary abridg
ments—in her own words. The circum
stances under which she told it were
peculiar. The family hod just been dis
turbed by the visit of a ghost—a real
ghost, visible, if not palpable I She wiui
not what may bo called sii|a;rstithins,
and, though following with moro or less
assiduity the practioo of her religion,
was afflicted now and then with a fit of
perfect materialism. 1 was surprised,
therefore, to hear her relate, with every
appearance of profound faith, the fol
lowing incidents:
There is an old house in Beyrout
which, for many successive years, was
inhabited by a Christian family. It is of
great extent, and was of yoro fitted for
the dwelling of a I’rinco. The family
bad, indeed, in early times been very
rich; and almost fabulous accounts are
current of its founder, Fudlalluh Italian.
Ho was a merchant—the owner of ships,
the fitter out of caravans. The regions
of the Eastand the West had been visited
by him; and, alter undergoing ns many
dangers and adventures as Hinhad, ho
had returned to s]>onil tlm latter days of
his life in his native city, lie built, ac
cordingly, a magnificent dwelling, the
courts of which he adornod witli marble
fountains, and the chambers with silk
divans; and ho was envied on account of
his prosperity.
But, in the restlessness of liis early
years, ho had omitted to nmrry, and now
found himself near the close of his ca
reer without an heir to inherit his wealth
ami to perpetuate his name. This re
flection often disturbed him; yet ho
was unwilling to tako a wife because ho
"Vs old. Every now ami then, it is
true, ho saw men older than be, with
fewer teeth and whiter beards, taking to
their bosoms maidens that bloomed like
poaches just beginning to ripen against
a wall, and liis friends, who know ho
would give a magnificent marriage-feast,
urged him to do likewise. Once ho
looked with pleasure on a young person
of not too tender years, whoso parents
purposely presented her to him;
but, having askod her iu a whisper
whether she would like to marry a with
ered old gentleman like himself, she
frankly confessed a preference for liis
handsome young clerk, Hanna, who
earned a hundred piasters a month.
Fndlnllali laughed philosophically, and
took care that the young couple should
be married under happy auspices.
One day lio was proceeding along ttie
street, gravely and slowly—surrounded
by a number of merchants proud to
walk by his side, and billowed by two or
three young men, who pressed near in
order to bo thought of the company, and
thus establish their credit—when an did
woman, espying him, began to cry out,
“Yeh! yell! this is the man who has
no wife and no child—this is the nmu
who is going to die and leave his fortune
to !*o robbed by liis servants, or confis
cated by the Governor I And yet, ho
has a sagacious nose"—(the Orientals
have observed that there is wisdom in a
nose) —“and a beard as long as my
back. Yeh! yeh 1 what a wonderful
sight to sec!”
Fadlallah D All an stopped, and retort
ed, smiling : “ Yell ! yeh ! this is the
woman ttiat blames an old man for not
marrying a young wife. Yeh ! yell I
what a wonderful sight to see !”
Then the old woman replied : “Oh,
my lord, every pig's tail curls not in the
same direction, nor door every maiden
admire the passing quality of youth.
If thou wilt, I will bestow on thee a
wife, who will love t hee as thou Invest
thyself, and serve thee ns the itngels
Serve Allah. She is more beaut iful than
any of the daughters of Beyrout-, mid
her name is Selinia, a name of good
augury. ”
The friends of Fudlalluh laughed, as
did the young men who followed in their
wake, and urged him to go and see this
peerless beauty, if it were only for a
joke. Accordingly, tie told the woman
to lead the way. But- she said lie must
mount his mule, for they had to go some
distance into the country. He mounted
and, with n single servant, went forth
from the gates—the woman preceding—
nud rode until ho reached a villa , o in
the mountains. Hero, in a poor little
house, ho found Solium, clothed in the
very commonest style, engaged in mak
ing divan cushions. She was a marvol
onslv-keaut-iful girl, ami the heart of the
merchant at once began to yearn toward
her; yet he endeavored to restrain him
self, and said, “This beautiful Hour is
not lor me. ' tint the woman cried out,
“Selinia, wilt then consent to have this
old man ?" The girl gazed in his face
awhile, and then folding her hand*
across her bosom said, “ Yes, for there
is goodness in his countenance. ” Fad
lollah wept with joy; and, returning to
tho city, announced his approaching
marriage to his friends. According to
custom, they expressed civil surprise to
his face; but, when his back was
turned, they whispered that ho was an
old fool, and had been the dupe of a she
adventurer.
The marriage took place with cere
monies of royal magnificence; and
Selima, who passed unmoved from ex
treme poverty to abundant riches,
soemed to merit the position of the great
est lady in Bevmut. Never was woman
more prudent than she. No one ever
know her previous history, nor that of
her mother. Some said a life of misery,
perhaps of shame, was before them, when
this unexpected marriage took place.
Selima’s gratitude to Fadlallah was un
bounded ; and out of gratitude grow
love. The merchant daily offered up
thanks tor the bright diamond winch hail
come to shine iu liis house,
_ In due time a child was liorn ; a lioy
lively as his mother; and they nanus!
him Halil. With what joy he \va ro
oeived, what festivities announced the
glad intelligence to the town, may easily
be imagined. Selima and Feillallali re
solved to devote themselves to liis edu
cation, and determined that ho should
bo tho most accomplished youth of Bar
er-Sham. But a long succession of
children followed, each moro beautiful
than the former—some boys, some girls;
and every uew comer was received with
additional delight and still grander cere
monies ; so that the pcoplo began to
sav, “ Is this a race of sovereigns?”
Now, Halil grew up to the ago ot 12
—still a charming lad ; but the parents,
always fully occupied by the last arrival,
had not carried out their project of edu
cation. Ho was as wild and untamed as
a colt, and spent moro of his time in the
street than in the company of liis moth
er ; who, by degrees, began to look upon
him with a kind of calm friendship due
to strangers. Hudlallah, as he took his
accustomed walk with his merchant
friends, used from time to time to en
counter a ragged boy fighting in the
street with the son of the Jew butcher;
bur, liis eves beginning to grow dim, ho
often passed without recognizing him.
One day, however, lliilil, breathless anil
blooding, ran up and took refuge behind
the skirts of his mantle from a crowd of
savage urchins. Fadlallali was amazed,
and said, “Ob,my son—for I think tlion
art my son—what evil hath befallen thee,
and whereforo do I see then in this
state?” The boy, whose voice was
choked with sobs, looked up into bis
face and said, “ Father, I am the son of
the richest merchant of Beyrout, and
behold, there is no one so little can -1 for
as I.”
Fadlallah’s conscience smote him, and
he wiped the boy’s bleeding face with
the corner of liis silk caftan, and blessed
him; and, taking him By the hand, led
him away. The merchants smiled be
nignly one to tho other, and, pointing
with flair thumbs, suid. “ Wo haveseen
the model youth! ”
While they laughed and sneered, Fad
lallali, humbled, yet resolved, returned
to his homo, leading the ragged Halil,
and entered liis wife’s chamber. Solium
was playing with his seventh child, and
teaching it to lisp the word “Baba”—
about the amount of education which
she had found time to bestow on eseh of
her offspring. When sho saw the
plight of her eldest son she frowned, and
was about to scold him ; but Fadlallali
interposed, and said : “ Wife, speak no
more harsh words. Wo have not done
our duty by this boy. May God forgive
ns; but wo have looked upon those
children that have bloomed from theo,
more as playthings than as deposits for
which wo are responsible. '.Halil has
become a wild out-of-doors 'lad, doubt
ing with some reason of our love. It is
too Into to bring him back to the destiny
we had dreamt of; but lie must not be
left to grow up thusuucaredfur. f haven
brother established in Bassora ; to him
will I solid the lad to learn tho art of
commerce, and to exercise himself in ad
venture, as his father did before him.
Bestow thy blessings upon him, Helima
(hero tho good old mail’s voice trembled),
and may God in His mercy forgive both
theo and me the neglect which has ma le
this parting necessary. I shall know
(lint lam forgiven if, before Igo down
into tho tomb, my son returns a wise
and sober man ; not unmindful that we
gave him life, and forgetting that, until
now, we have given him little else.”
Helima laid her seventh child in its
cradlo of earvod wood, and drew Halil
toiler bosom ; and 'Fadlallali knew that
sho loved him still, because she kissed
his face, regardless ol'tho blood and dirt
that stained it. She then washed him
and dressed hiui, and gave him a purse
of gold, and handed him over to liis la
ther; who had resolved to send him off
by the caravan that started that \u ry
afternoon. Halil, surprised and made
happy by unwonted caresses, was yet
delighted at the idea of beginning ail
adventurous life ; aiul went away, man
fully stilling his sobs, and endeavoring
to assume the grave doportmont of a
merchant. Selinia shed a few tears, und
then, attended by a crow and a chuckle
from the cradle, began to t ickle the in
fant’s soft double eiiiu, and went oil with
her interrupted lesson, “Baba, Balml”
Halil started on liis journey, and, hav
ing parsed through the Valley of Bob
bers, tho Valley of Lions and the Valley
of Devils—this is the way in which Ori
entals localize the supposed dangers of
traveling—arrived at the good city of
Bassora, whore his unde received liina
well, anil promised to send hitu as su
percargo oil board the first vohrol he dis
patched to the Indian seas. What time
was spout by the caravan upon the road
the narrative does not state. Traveling
is slow work in the East, But almost im
mediately upon his arrival in Bassora
Halil was engaged in a love adventure.
If traveling is slow, the approaches of
manhood are rapid. Tho youth’s curi
osity was excited by the extraordinary
oaro taken to conceal his consul Miriam
from liis sight; ar .l, having introduced
himself into her garden, behold and,
struck by her wonderful Beauty, loved
her. With an Oriental fondness lie con
fessed the truth to liis uncle, who list
ened with anger and dummy, and told
him that Miriam was Betrothed to the
Hultan. Halil perceived the danger of
indulging liis passion, and promised to
suppress it; But, while ho ployed a pru
dent. part, Miriam’s curiosity was also
excited, and sho, too, beheld and loved
her cousin. Bolts and bars cannot keep
two such affection! asunder. They met
and plighted their troth, and were mar
ried secretly and were happy. But in
evitable discovery came. Miriam was
thrown into a dungeon, and the unhap
py Halil, loaded with chains, was put on
Board a vessel, not as supercargo but os
prisoner, with orders that he should be
loft ill seme distant country.
Meanwhile a dreadful pestilence fell
upon Beyrout, and among the first suf
ferers him on eighth lifrtl. olio, (lint had
just learned U> say “ Baba !” Helinm
was almost too astonished to be grieved.
It seemed to her inqiossiblo that death
should come into her house, and meddle
with the fruits of so much suffering and
love. When they came to take away
the little form wliioh site had so often
fondled, her indignation burst forth, and
sho smote the first old woman who
stretched out her rough, uusympathetio
hand. But a shriek from her waiting
woman announced that another victim
was singled out ; anil the frantic mother
rushed like a tigress to defend iho young
that yet remained to her. But the ene
my was invisible; and (so the story
goes) all her little ones drop|H?d one by
one amt died; so that on ttie seventh
day Helima sat in her nursery gazing
about with stony eyes, and counting her
losses upon her fingers—lskendor, Heli
mil, Wanly, Fadlallali, Hannah, Heu
uerali, Gorges—seven in aIL Then sho
remembered Halil, and her neglect of
him ; and, lifting up her voice, she wept
aloud ; and, as the tears rushed fast and
hot down her cheeks, her heart voaruod
for her absent boy, and she would have
parted with workls to have fallen on bis
breast—would have given up her life in
return for one wont of pardon and of
love.
Fadtallah came in to her, and he was
now very old and feeble. His Back was
benf, and his transparent baud trembled
aa it clutolled a cane. A white beard
surrounded a still whiter race, and as ho
came near his wife he held out his
hand toward her with an uncertain gesture
as if the room had been dark. This world
appeared to him but dimly. “Helima,”
said he, “ the Giver hath taken. We,
too, must go in our turn. Weep, my
love ; but weep with my moderation, for
those little ones have gone to sing in the
golden cages cf paradise. There is a
heavier sorrow in my heart, Hince my
first-born, Halil, departed for Bassora,
I have only written once to learn intelli
gence of him. He was then well, and
had been received with favor by his
uncle. Wo have never done our-duty
by that boy.” His wife replied, “Do
not reproach me; for I reproach myself
more bitterly than thou eanst do.
Write, then, to thy brother to obtain
tidings of tho beloved one. I vill make
of this chamber a weeping chamber. It
has resounded with merriment enough.
All my children learned to laugh and to
talk here. I will liang it with black,
and erect a tomb in the midst, and every
day I will como and spend two hours,
and weep for those who are gone and
for him who is absent.” Fadlallah ap
proved her design, and they made a
weeping chamber, and lamented to
gether every day therein. But their
letters to Bassora remained unanswered,
and they began to believo that fate had
chosen a solitary tomb for Halil.
One day o woman, dressed in the garb
of the poor, came to the house of Fad
lallali with a boy about twelve years old.
When the merchant saw them he was
struck with amazement, for ho beheld in
the boy tho likeness of his son Halil ;
and lie called aloud to Helima, who,
when she camo, shrieked with amaze
ment. The woman told her story, and
it appeared that it was Miriam. Having
spent some months in prison she had es
caped and taken refuge in a forest in the
house of her nurse. Hero she had given
birth to a son, whom she called by liis
father’s name. Wiien her strength re
turned she set out as a beggar to travel
over the world in search of her lost hus
band. Marvelous were the adventures
sho underwent, God protecting her
throughout, until she came to the land
of Persia, where she found Halil work
ing as a slave in the garden of the Gov
ornor of Fars. After a few stolen inter
views, she had again resumed her wan
derings to seek for Fadlallah, that lie
might redeem his son with wealth ; but
had passed sevoral years upon the road.
Fortune, however, now smiled upon
this unhappy family, and, in spite of his
age, Fadlallali set out for Fars. Heaven
made the desert easy and tho road short
for him. On a lino calm evening ho
entered the gardens of tho Governor,
and foul'd his son gayly singing as lie
trimmed an orange tree. After a vain
attempt to preservo an incognito, the
good old man lifted up liis hands, and
shouting, “ Halil, my first-born !” fell
upon the breast of the astonished slave.
Hweot was tho interview in tho orange
grove, sweet tno murmured conversation
between tho strong young man and the
trembling patriarch, until the perfumed
dew of evening fell upon their heads.
Halil’s liberty was easily obtained, and
father anil son returned in safety to
Beyrout. Then the weeping chamber
was closed, and the door walled up; and
Fadlallali and Helima lived happily until
age gently did its work at their appoint
ed timos; and Halil anil Miriam inher
ited the house anil the wealth that had
been gathered for them.
The supernatural part of the story re
mains to bo told. The weeping cham
ber was never again opened ; but every
time that a death was about to occur in
the family, a shower, and heavy tear
drops was heard to fall upon its murblo
floor and low wailings came through the
walled doorway. Years, centuries, passed
away, and tho mystery repeated itself
with unvarying uniformity. The family
fill into poverty, and only occupied a
portion of the house) but invariably be
fore one of its members sickened unto
death a shower of heavy drops, as from
a thunder cloud, pattered on tho pave
ment of the weeping chamber, and was
heard distinctly at night through the
whole house. At length the family
quitted the country in search of better
fortune elsewhere, and the house re
mained for a long time uninhabited.
The lady \\ ho narrated the story went
to live in the house and passed somo
years without being disturbed ; but oue
.night she was lying awake, and distinct
ly heard the warning shower dripping
heavily in tho weeping chamber. Next
day tiio news came of her mother’s
death, and she hastened to remove to
another dwelling. The house lias since
been utterly abandoned to rats, mice,
beetles and tui occasional ghost seen
sometimes streaming along tho rain
pierced terraces. No one has ever at
tempted to violate the solitude of tho
sanctuary where Selinia wept for the
seven little ones taken to the grave, and
for the absent one whom sho had treated
with uumotlierly neglect.
Rather Curious Lniv in England.
A British Member of Parliament, Mr.
Maofarluue, has been comparing some of
the sentences recently inflicted upon
offenders of various grades, and he has
reached the conclusion that, in the eyes
of British law, it is a much lighter of
fense to kick a woman to death than to
pick her pocket, A man who kicked liis
wife to death was sentenced to six weeks’
hard labor, and in the mouth following a
man who had picked a woman’s pocket
of nine shillings was sentenced to penal
servitude for ten years. Nor are these
exceptional cases. The penalty in a
case of knocking down a wife and kick
ing her savagely iu the face was three
months’ hard labor ; for knocking down
nud kicking a woman, u fine of £4; for
trying to kill a wife with a razor. Vicing
a second offense, twelve months. Against,
these are set such sentences as for steal
ing coals to the value of two shillings,
eight mouths’ hard lalior; for stealing a
watch, live years’ penal servitude. It
would ho interesting to inquire how
much of this scandalous leniency to
brutes is duo to the undent tradition that
makes a man’s wife his slave. But it
does not appear necessary that the
woman- attacked should be the man’s
wife in order to give him practical im
munity. In a case of violent assault
upon a woman in the street, the ruffian
was Hill'd forty shillings, mid iu another
case where three men ill-treated and
killed a woman they were imprisoned,
one for sixteen mouths and tlio others for
six months, while a man who stole
a knife and some keys got live years. All
this seems to show that the equal pro
tection of English law is not meant to
extend to women.— Philadelphia Times.
A lunatic at tlie asylum iu Utica, N.
Y., is a l mtod States pensioner, and
the largest one in tho United States.
Since 1 866 he has been paid $8,280,
while liis arrearages amount to almost
as much more. By the various acts of
Congress he is entitled to receive the
same pay as if he hail lost both eyes,
both arms or both legs, insanity leaving
him as helpless as if he were entirely 1
crippled. It does not do him much 1
g'-od, as he is unaware of his wealth or j
distinction. 1
Paper Boxes Substituted for Tin.
A few years ago a process ofcpaper-box
manufacturing was invented, which has
since placed paper, the rival of so many
materials, ia the position of a strong
rival of tin in packages for certain arti
cle-: of commerce. Previous to this in
vention the great objection to using
round paper boxes for small packages,
when tin was commonly used, was that
the covers, being in two pieces (a disk
and a rim), were not durable or safe
enough to fill the requirements of fre
quent handling. Under tho new process
the heads or covers of the box are
“ drawn ” from a single piece of straw
board, so that not only is there no sepa
rating of a disk from the rim by use, blit
there is no seam through which the con
tents of the box can find its way. The
body of the box is cut from paper tubes,
made of several thicknesses of a light
weight of straw board or heavy straw
paper. Almost any desired diameter or
length of box can be made. Tho heads
are made of heavy straw board, from
what is known as No. 90 to No. 50, or
heavier if desired, and are “drawn”
under a peculiar process, with great
rapidity. One of these heads is fastened
to tho liottom of the box, another of the
same kind is adjusted to tlio top, not
fastened, and tlio box is complete. For
these a straw board lined with fancy
colored paper can be used ; oftentimes a
tin-foil paper is selected, in which case,
with tic body of the box covered by a
label, t.ie package resembles a band
some, solid tin box. The boxes have
been introduced into a great variety of
uses, where, on account of cheapness,
they have already superseded tin.
Large quantities are used with and
without water, air and grease-proof
preparations, in packing such articles as
chloride of lime, paris green, putty, tar,
seeds, etc. The same principle is ap
plied to the manufacture of small pill
boxes and toy paper-cap Boxes, the lat
ter Being known now by ‘ ‘ Young Ameri
ca,” almost to an entirety, as liis chief
Fourth of July delight. This class of
boxes is made with astonishing rapidity,
as can be imagined from the fact Hint
they are sold, by the thousand gross, as
low as 7 and 8 cents a gross.
Litoral Oil on Troubled Waters.
A most striking experiment lias beer
tried at tho Hcottisli port of Peterhead.
A feature of speech, for hitherto it has
been little else, was turned into a literal
fact. Oil was poured on the waves with
tho result of calming the fair wav at the
harbor’s mouth, so that a small boal
could enter in a storm. It lias long been
known that oil exerted this effect. II
does so by simply destroying the friction
of tho air on the surface of tho water.
It smooths the way of the wind, and,
consequently calms the surface of the
sea. Its accidental application has prob
ably produced tlie widespread knowl
edge of its effect, which has made the
figure of speeen universal. Wo are not
aware that any scientific attempt has
over been made to apply oil to the
waves. At Peterhead pipes were laid
down and a large quantity of oil was
forced through them. The oil at once
rose to the surfaco anil spread in a thin
film on tho water, with the effect of re
ducing the roughness to’ a mere swell.
Bmall boats were thus able to enter the
harbor which could not have vontured to
do so in the rough sea which was run
ning before the oil was spread upon it.
So far, therefore, the experiment was
successful. Whether it opens up the
possibility that harbor mouths may be
made generally safe in rough weather by
the expenditure of a few hundred gal
lons of oil can perhaps only Be decided
by further trials. The machinery is,
however, laid dtrlrn, and further tests
will, therefore, Bo easily applied. It is
evident that, the effect, ns described, is
one which would make all the difference
between safety and danger in a harbor
frequented by fishing boats, and it is in
such harbors that it is likely, if any
where, to bo of permanent value.—Lon
don Daily News.
Saving and Marking Garden Seeds.
Ever since I can remember, it has
been customary to save some garden
seods every year ; such as beans, peas,
melons, cucumbers, turnips and mus
tard. A few families save a great many
kinds of seeds. Wo should save more
seed than we do. We would know more
about our garden seeds if we raised and
saved them at home.
I will give a few hints about saving
seeds. It has been and is yet largely
tho custom of farmers’ wives to have
little bundles tied up in rags and little
pockets, which must all be untied at
planting time to see of what kinds they
urn, and all depends upon the memory
how old the seeds, are. My plan is to
gather them when thoroughly ripe, put
them up ill papers of suitable size, and
write on tho papers tho name of seed
and date of year in whioh they were
raised. For example, “ Ited-floslied
Watermelon, 1881.” Ho soon ns you
look at this label you know wliat is iu
tlio paper; this saves untying a dozen
bundles of various seeds. It costs next
to nothing.— J. N. in Cincinnati Farm
ing World.
The Tiehborne Case.
The main facts of tho story aro that
Roger Tiehborne was heir to a baronetcy
and estate yielding SIOO,OOO a year. Ho
entered the army, remained three years,
and after visiting South America disap
peared, and is supposed to have been
lost at sea. His mother, proud and in
sane, win unwilling that the estate should
fall into the hand of tho child of a de
tested daughter-in-law, aud accordingly
advertised iu Austrailin for the missing
heir. Arthur Orton, a butcher and a
low adventurer, immediately went to
England, aud, backed bv speculators and
accomplices, claimed the estate. The
mother was an easy dupe, and though
the claimant was wonderfully unlike
Roger Tichbourne, the swindle pro
gressed famously. The trial of the caso
occupied six years, and Orton was con
victed of Beiug a perjurer anil imposter.
The ease occupied thirty-one days iu
opening, forty-seven in summing up, tho
Chief Justice took eighteen days iu de
livering liis charge, and the whole ease
cost over 51,250,000. It is the most cele
brated lawsuit on record.
Where They Enforce the Law.
We admire the manner that the city
laws are made and enfdrcod liy the city
officials of Oolumlms, Ind. There,
no boy under 21 years of ago is
allowed to loaf on the streets after 10
o’clock p. m., and any minor found in a
saloon, both the saloonkeejier and minor
are arrested and fined; consequently
saloonkeepers do not allow minors to re
main on their premises. All persons, it
matters not who they may be, making a
noise on the street, are arrested at once.
With such laws, and the strict enforce
ment thereof, peace and order is bound
to prevail. —Cambridge City Times.
“As for me, Ido not believe what I
do not understand.” “Do you under
stand hour it is that fire will' soften but
ter but will harden iui egg?” “No.”
“ Yet you believe in an omelet !”
GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES.
Which 1
I pat in the care, -while juat beliin*
Twn ladle* tb'iir nimble tongifee combined
In conversation, using phrases micb
As “ 1 am 80 tired.” and •’ Ever so much. ■
“Howloveiyl” “I mow.” “He was eo kina.
“I felt o badly.” “ I’ve half a mind.”
44 And did you eeotbos-j beautiful thing* ?
“ How wuh it trimmed?” 44 Buch lovely string* I
44 Do come and nee mo.” “ Oh, thank you, y® B,
44 Isn't it awful ?” 4 ‘ Jurt ee my drew.”
44 Oh, dear me, do you think him nice V
44 My feet, T declare, ore cold a" ice!”
And'they talked of beaux and other vanities,
Of bracelet*, rings, and Euoh inanities.
My ears coahl no longer ftand the jar.
Bo I changed my scat to the smoking car.
A change iudeedl Two men wen there—
Aud, truly, they were a precious pair!
Their talk was vulgar, coarse, profane ;
They took the name of God in vain.
And, getting weary of oath and curse,
I went back to the girls, thinkingi Which is
worse ? ”
Women.
Hannah More says : “Women have
quicker perceptions ; men have juster
sentiments. Women consider lioiv sen
timents maybe prettily said ; men, bow
they may be properly said. Yy itli
women, speaking accompanies reflection;
with men, rejection is the antecedent.
Women admire what is brilliant; men,
what is solid. Women are fond of inci
dent; men, of argument. Women speak
to sliine or to please ; men, to convince
or confute.”
Preferred site Hal.
At a certain theater not long agongep
tleman asked a lady friend in front of
him if she had any objection to remov
ing her Gainsborough. She had not, and
gladly obliged him. The play proved
to be a miserable hodge-podge, and after
tho first act the gentleman _ said:
“Thank you greatly, but won’t you
please replace your Gainsborough? I
prefer the hat.” There have Been a
good many times in a long theatrical
experience when a discriminating critic
would much “prefer the hat.” —Buffalo
Commercial.
lloir American Oiris Kivs.
The Maine girl, tall and ruddy, kisses
as though sho were taking an impression
in the chewing-gum of her native State.
The Massachusetts girl kisses in tho
Greek style, flavored with brown Bread.
The Now York girl goes at it as if she
were dabbling in a Wall street specular
tion. The kiss of the New Jersoy gill is
fiery as a taste of apple-jack, better
known as Jersey lightning. Little Del
ware’s girls aro as soft as the peaches
which grow there. A Maryland kiss is
rich aud juicy ns a terrapin stow. In
the Old Dominion you are met with a
genuine hospitality; the girls kiss as
though they wanted you to stay. The
Ohio girl is described as possessing the
comprehensive qualities of tlio Ohio
mau—she wants all she can get and gets
all she can. A Louisiana kiss is said to
be like eating sugar cane, while North
Carolina girls stick like tar. —Atlanta
Constitution.
“Tlae Vico ot Cleanliness.
A tidy, well-ordered house is far more
pleasant than its antipode, but there is
such a tiring as carrying a virtue to such
an excess that it becomes a vice. There
aro many women who will read these
lines who aro addicted to the “ vice of
cleanliness.” They wage a crusade
against dirt, renewed every morning and
continued until evening, which taxes
both mental and physical energy, to the
entire exclusion of auy outside demands.
A wonan who is forever iu a fidget over
possible dirt, who will spend a lialf-lionr
of a rare Juno day in chasing a solitary
fly out of her dining-room, as I have
known one to do, and afterward boast of
it as it were a deed to be emulated, is a
very uncomfortable person to live with,
especially if one icels inclined to do bat
tle for the fly.— Exchange.
“What is Lore J ”
It liaa puzzled greater thinkers than
the girls in the comedy of “School.” It
is easier to analyze the rainbow. The
old-fashioned conception of love is cer
tainly little realized in this age; and,
outside of the creations of the novelist
and dramatist, we are not likely to come
in contact with a Jacob or Abelard. Yet
how many young women thei’e are who
would he slow to admit that they are not
capable of inspiring as great a passion
as Helen, who kept the whole world in
arms for nine years :
No wonder such celestial charms
For nine long years have kepfc the world in arms.
What winning graces! whit majestic mien!
She looks a goddess, and she moves a Queen!
But do they not often mistake an ephe
meral sickly blossom for a hardy plant ?
Dr. Chapin said that many girls imagine
themselves in love, whareas they are
only idle. —Boston Traveller.
Mrs. Senator Logan.
Now and then, says a Washington
correspondent, a woman looms up above
the indiscriminate mass with such a
genius for politics, such reticence of the
secrets confided to her husband and such
consummate tact in mauaging men, that
tho husband looks toward her as his
most valued counselor, and courts and
prizes her Portia-liko judgment. Such
an one, as you know, is Mrs. Logan,
wife of tlie Illinois Senator, who com
bines great delicacy toward his affairs
with tlio most thorough knowledge of
them. I will recall for you another
Senator’s own words that the latter told
mo at a recent dinner party, as illus
trating Mrs. Logau’s graceful tact.
“When we boarded together I used to
be often in Logan’s parlor, and it was a
study to me to see his wife’s influence
over him. For instance, in opening his
mail lie would now and then como lqiou
a letter that would make him swearing
angry. Then Mrs. Logan would como
lip and reach gently out for tho offend
ing letter, and say : ‘Here, darling’—
she always calls him darling—‘Here,
darling, give mo that letter to answer.
I’ll see to it.’ Aud the General, with in
stantly restored good nature, would
baud it to her as eagerly ns if it were a
Baby with the colic, which it much re
lieved him to get rid of.”
I‘rpltj Women in Fine I.nee.
For several years there has been a
considerable manufacture of real laces
in this city by French, German, English
nnil Irish women. Reproductions of old
laces are lie in g made for house decora
tions, and exquisite bits for personal
use, ono yard having just been com
pleted for a ball dress that cost SSO.
Mrs. A. T. Stewart has a largo fortuue
in laces really, as well as Mrs. John
Jacob Astor, Mrs. 8, L. M. Barlow,
Mrs. Belmont, Sr., and several others.
Mrs. Cyrus W. Field lias a lace over
dress which cost several thousands of
dollars. A beautiful ball dress worn by
a leader of fashion recently was made of
white cashmere trimmed with laces that
resembled cobwebs and white ostrich
tips. Mrs. Wm. Astor, it is said, has
150 yards of a rare kind of Valenciennes
lace. Another craze iu laces is to have
historic pieces. Oue lady is happy in
possessing a white point-lace court train
that Belonged to a daughter of George
111. Some of the laces owned by tho
Empress Eugenie have been Rold here.
Several years ago, before the fine laces
were so common here, there was a lady
in fashionable society who always ex
cited the envy of her feminine acquaint
ances as she almost always wore the
same costume, a magnificent white
round point-lace over-dress, and sprays
of diamonds that reached from her
throat nearly half-way down the front
of the dress; she had resided abroad,
and had made a study and collection of
rich laces. Being of a stately figure,
and having the art of-walking gracefully,
she became tlie synosure of ail eyes as
she slowly promenaded across a ball
room two or three times in an evening,
But never dancing.— New 1 ork letter.
Scientific line*, of tbe lti*>
It is one of tho ingenious theories of
science that all flowers were original y
yellow. This formula leaves us a world
of conjecture as to how Moses made
his floral selections, when gathering the
various tribes of plants for perpetuation
in the ark. The resolution of tlie prob
lem involves no important principle, so
we may pass to a more generic phrase
of this interesting theory. All colors
in the primary condition, science tells
us were almost uuihued. Yellow seems
to have been the base. Bright lines
came from tho 'need of the development
of tlio species. “ All flowers that expand
into variegated and bright colors do so
by the law of their being. That law in
vents them with shades that attract
their particular insects upon which the
color of the flower is fed This is the
point that suggests curious reflections
and analogies. The unscientific person
is prone to suppose that the iuseet feeds
on the flower; but it seems this is a fal-
lacy. The nutrition is inter-dependent,
The delicate red of the rose is engen
dered by the iarvie left in its petals, while
the industrious bee fills his honey reser
voir. Flowers, of course, are very in
teresting. A hunch of them on a lady’s
hair or bosom is a sight of real beauty.
But why should science devote so much
care to a mere inanimate loveliness,
when there were so many more interest
ing questions that the world would like
resolved. If color is fed, as scientists
tell us, what is the origin of the ruby on
the lips? Of coftrse tho theory of the
tlie cynical, that purely human alembics
produce the delicate carmine that poets
write about with such rapture, cannot he
for a moment considered) How can the
color of the lips Jo fed? There is no in
sect known to man that impregnates
the portals of pretty mouths. The idea of
certain food bringing about this phenom
enon must also be rejected, for do wo
not see daily in the same family lips fed
from tho very same aliments as diverse
in color as the noses on the faces, or on
the shades of tlie hair ?
There is but ono rational theory’ to
accept in this interesting dilemma. The
lip is fed hv the kiss ! What more nat
ural ? Any observant person may test
this by marking tlie effect produced by
the encounter of these oigans. Some
times, it will bo seen, the color of the
lips is not only enhanced, but the whole
face is fed upon this exquisite nourish
ment. Indeed, close observers will bear
witness that the roseate hue extends
downward to the neck—proving incon
testably that the kiss is the scientific ex
planation of the crimson so much ad
mired on the lip of beauty. It will not,
however, bo safe to assume from tho in
teresting evidence of the scientific office
of tlio kiss that the color wave extends
to tlie hair, and that frequent kissing
leaves the Titian tinge ladies admire so
much—on their neighbors. It is a curi
ous circumstance, too, corroborating
this theory that, until lips are touched
by mustaches, they never bloom into
such rose liko loveliness as wo observe
in marriageable girls or reigning belles.
Girls who have numerous brothers and
cousins, it wiil be observed, geneially
have tho best-colored lips.
These hints given, any discerning per
son can take up the subject and find
useful diversion in the speculation.
Young men will naturally take up the
study with the greatest enthusiasm. Be
ginning with their sisters, tlie investiga
tion may be carried on among other fel
lows’ sisters, until sufficient data have
been accumulated to take the matter
from the narrow field of speculation into
the ground of absolute fact. Some phi
losophers hold that the deep blue of the
eye and the empyrean comes from the
condensation of opaque molecules. It
will undoubtedly be found that this, too,
is an error; that the blue of tho eye has
a subtle relation to the impression of the
iips. Indeed, a mail at all well ground
ed in the science of colors, remembering
that yellow is tho primary, will Be con
vinced that it is the kiss which, like the
dew, fructifies every appetent beauty of
face, mind and heart. —Philadelphia
Press.
Tke Mania for Collecting.
It was horn within man to collect
something and this something is usually
not money. Every boy has been through
the various collection manias as ho en
dured the various ailments known to
childhood. None were fatal, except to
time and money. Some of these things
collected have been styled under tlie
head of “ rubbish.” But this is met and
disproved By r the statement that what
ever adds to man’s happiness is not rub
bish. Thero was a mau well known in this
city who collected tin boilers. His plea
was that they’ ivoukl come in play some
time. He did not live long enough to
see tho old tin boilers made useful. Col
lectors of autographs still worry publio
men and women, but with less zeal, ’tis
said, than five or ten years ago. Some
persons collect monograms, all with
paste to go in a book. Others collect
trftilesmarks and devices of various
kinds. Heraldry lias some devotees.
Badge collectors form anew specie of
the same genera. Badges, all of silk,
some must have, and others will take
aiiy the market affords. Medals belong
to coins properly and with them are
classed. Hair albums are among the
new (to some persons) freaks and fancies.
Single hairs or locks of noted men and
women are pinned on the album page
and labeled. A hair from tho head of
George Washington and one from that
of Henry Clay are found in an album in
this city. It is hardly worth space to
mention that young men of more or less
intelligence are collecting hair-pins, put
ting them iu a book and labeling them
with the wearer’s name. But that has its
advantages. It keeps fools out of worse
employment. The quilt-piece search
goes on still, aud tho card mania is not
dead. Old or new postage stamps aro
in demand stiH. —Providence Journal.
Save Something.
If you cannot savo much, save what
you can. Don’t think a dollar or a dime
is too small a sum to lay by. Every
body knows how a dollar here and a
dime there gets away with large sums,
but few seem to know that the rule will
work both ways. If a dollar here and a
dime there soon makes a large hole in a
man's income, so these dimes and dollars
laid away soon become a respectable
stun and make one independent. How
many times do we buy that we do not
need or could do without ? Think twice
before you part with your money. Be
saving but do not be stingy. Money
spent for tobacco, whisky, etc., is more
than thrown away. Half the annoyance
and trouble in this world is due to debt.
Wliat a crop of trouble springs up from
the seeds of debt. —Cincinnati Farming
World.
HISTORICAL.
Thb African diamond country was
first discovered in 1867.
Before the Conquest the city of Lon
don was called Londonburgh.
The earliest known cook book was
printed in Venice in 1475, and was in
Latin.
Cherries were first brought into Eu
rope from Kerasunt, in the Black Sea,
by Lucullus, about the year 70 B. C.
Victoria as a surname occurs in the list
of gentlewomen who went with Henry
VIII. and Katherine to Canterbury.
Playing-cards were introduced into
England soon after the second crusaile
—in the latter part of the thirteenth
century.
An Arabian geographer of the twelfth
century says that so many varieties of
marble were found in the ruins of Carth
age that it would be impossible to de
scribe them.
Chain cables were first used on ship
board in 1811. The first vessel to use
them was a West India ship. They were
invented and patented in 1808 by a sur
geon of the navy.
In the Chinese famine of 1875 somo
of the inhabitants ate the thatch from
their cottages. A statement hardly to
be understood is that seme af them at
tacked red slate-stone.
Charles Martel, grandfather of
Charlemagne, sent his son Pepin to
Luitliprand, King of tho Lombards,
“that lie might cut his first locks, aud
by this ceremony hold for the future the
place of his father.”
Messier, in his old age was asked why
he recommended river water as superior
to well water for bathing, and answered
that it was because it svas magnetized.
“Why,” said the enthusiast, “twenty
years ago I magnetized the sun.”
It is a common belief that Dr. Guillo
tin, who invented the instrument bear
ing his name, was executed by means of
it. It is, however, stated on good au
thority that ho survived the Revolution
many years, and died a natural death in
1814.
Italy has tho strongest man-of-war
afloat; it has an army nearly equal to
that of its neighbors ; it is about to re
sume specie payment in gold, and is
about to adopt electoral reforms which
Gambetta found it impossible to carry
out in France.
Up to the time of James L the Eng
lish Church Catechism consisted only of
the repetition of the baptismal vows,
the apostle’s creed and the Lord s
prayer. The additional portions were
added after the Conference at Hampton
Court, in 1604.
In 1759, when Colonel John Hale
(who went to London with the news of
Wolfe’s fall and the conquest of Cana
da) raised the Lancers, George 11. or
dered that “on the front of the men’s
caps and on the left breast of their urn
form there was to be a death’s head ana
cross bones, and under the motto ‘or
glory !” This grim device they still re
tain.
A Teratological Curiosity.
According to the Presse Medicals
Beige, two united children have been
recently exhibited in Vienna which sur
pass in interest the celebrated Siamese
twins. They were born in 1877 at La
cona, in the province of Turin. They
have each a well-formed head, and per
fect arms, and a separate thorax with
perfect internal viscera. At the sixth
rib, however, they unite, and there is
but one abdomen. From behind, two
vertibral columns are seen, two sa
crums, and three buttocks, the central
one evidently being due to the fusion
of two, and in it is a rudimentary
anus. Each individual has power over
the corresponding leg and not over
the other; thus the right leg obeys
the will of the right twin named
Baptiste, the left that of the other twin
named Jacob. Walking is therefore im
possible, although tho legs are strong.
Each child is said to possess a distinct
moral personality. Sometimes one is
laughing when the other is crying; one
may sleep while the other is awake.
Usuallv the head and face of each is in
clined “laterally, but if one is held per
pendicularly the other becomes almost
horizontal. The condition of sensation
in the legs is not stated hi the account.
The Maii-in-tlie-Moon.
The man-in-the-moon is one of tho
most popular, and perhaps one of tho
most ancient, superstitions in the world.
The name is given to the dark lines and
spots upon the surface of the moon
which are visible to the naked eye.
Some say that these lines and spots are
the figure of a man leaning on a fork on
which he carries a bundle of thorns or
brushwood, for taking which on Sunday
ho was confined in the moon. Some of
those versed in such lore explain that
this story undoubtedly had its origin iu
the incident recorded in the fifteenth
chapter of the Book of Numbers, thirty
second verse. With the Italians, Cain
appears to have been the offender. The
Jews have some Talmudical story that
Jacob is in the moon, and they believe
his face is visible. Bishop Wilkins
writes that “as the forme of those
spots, some of the vulgar thinko they
represent a man, and poets guess ’tis the
boy Endymion, whose company slio
loves so well that she carries him with
her; others will have it onely to be tho
face of a man, as the moon is usually
pictured; but Albertus thinkes rather
that it represents a lyon, with his tail
toward the east and his head to the west;
and some others have thought it to bo
much like a fox; and certainly it is as
much like a lyon as that iu the Zodiake,
or as Ursa Major is like a beare.”—
Chicago Inter Ocean.
There are women to-day in San Fran
cisco subsisting upon scant crusts in
blind alleys, who could step into the
empty mansions of our new millionaires
and arrange the appointments of room
after room of the entire house with an
artistic sense and individuality of taste
which would put to blush the first up
holsterer of the city. The day is not
for distant when this will become a dis
tinct calling for women. The origi
nality of conception and design mani
fested by women wherever their artistic
powers are allowed a chance of develop
ment will lead to many new paths for
industrious womanhood. San Fran
cisco Chronicle.
The Scientific American has a cut
and description of anew hay-rick which
is also used as a shelter for stock. It
consists of two square inclosures with a
passage-way between them, which is
covered by a peaked roof, the hay being
placed in the spaces thus inclosed, and
upon the rafters, being built up as high
as necessary.
“And now,” shouts an excited ex
change, “where shall we look for in
dependence?” Oh, friend and brother,
searching and long-suffering fellow suf
ferer, look in the kitchen, look in the
kitchen. Haukeye.