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xo A ciiii.n. 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.