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Pr Ic- ' «t , ■■ t. and nobody could
find ml She would do stairs
4u t Hi ining, sad wal J,ers-if at the
bn s t ild,., and tin ii jaqia would say,
“w r, j’siis, a \ou going to tell us
y*ut S' c ot to
Painy '.. .itId hak* la*r homl, and re
jpK, •* V■>. must guess it, pajia !” Can
you not, iqi ..it?’
** Wot , I gn>wa you lmve a new tisitli
mom mg. ’’
"On, no, that is no! it Mother can
* tav - iaiU -.r than that, I think. It con
*anu vou, illi o r. o
ui ,
" II 1 gu •«, s ii.l mother, “ that
you ■■ ri, I, ,V . the pre-eut of a kitten
iron, im.t .1 uli. •
•■tel I file (Iioss," Slid brother John,
mho ... years (butting old . than i.air Pansy, cuff’s
“I I.., , you are a of
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•' Y I are all wrong," cried Pansy,
“and I all'll not tell von my re,-ret to
All
T *• <i morning, initi a* she was coining
lows St»irs. she d, and reel to lo t
*'lf, “ Hli.tii 1 fell thcui sc', iny wen t now?
tin, Pali y, I'd tic-in that yon can
jm Hf i *1 '
No „ i was sl„. seatitl at the tii'ile
l.or lugh. imtoii Ireir, tla pqm Sint, “Well,
PfttM , lit»vv I'mgor mo you ^oing
to k..,.p us ... I.......... ' ’ Vie you
till us your seeret ?
*’ Not yet, p ipa, said Pansy, liaiking
«p with a roguish smile.
“ What owi it be V" said mother, lay¬
ing down her Unde and fork, and putting
ho baud to bm head,
J d..n’t believe hrothei it is any tldug of ativ
•mount," ericil Johu. “ She
wants Well, t , keep think us eiirious," learn
** 1 pi Pansy must be her
'tom lug i new 'ce to recite,'’ said
her Unit's it,” .il Pa “H
•* nut iv. a
^portan t s. et , one that mother will like
b.-.u ”
“Oil, it’s impiiibi'.i! i; it V” ■ iid papa,
**J .to s-m.-dcr nli.-it *it '-.ni be ?'
'• Mot'ii v, whit l-v ,s it that you
lost your wedding ltd John.
“ IWl mm ,tli nl it. .f<dm II was
■row titan I* month M" 1 have hunted
high iwitl low, s- I nit not find it. I I
xronUl have given all ntv other
miliet ill’ll, (i ,ve led It
Here | Vi-.v term I red in tie' face
down fr,in her hichair, and r.in
«d (he loom.
•• rial i,m relied 1 -aid papa
Kith 0 1 * in * b,H found the ring, u,d l!
her ’jolt., mmulelhtnxy 1,1 f. met
lu a camel aril,
fin ring. Mid her tmv radiant with
light. *<• 1 found il, mother, arnon-,
doli's tliint,.' You must have droine
it th ic wli n ven were fixing them,”
Ynd so little Fine, s . ret was out
rii,(, ft-,.,! H,m,*■ I,
Phfimj the Chinomn *
Franz is a little lire, id out four
old a ho lives in Hi.-Alvu Ote.fi'irn ,
It IK tsvorite plnv I- to take some pie
«r cl.»*),, lilUiis in,mill with wafei
his bead t rom side t sid- lettin:'
w it.r uqtiirl from the corners of
ssoutli ui......hern (as he has see,,
OIh.miiihii <to«t the laiiialrv h fold them i
tom n,o .................. iV t . * . 1 ,
r f ' Tins im
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8 are not. wet
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.->o,i.«ey \umt, te says tnuiiMie . wann- .
u 4,1 » n,< 4 ° 151
Whenho , peh . fifed . j of t .. thi» . , pufe ,
f
bm tM»l. into api'.'Mif piq.-i-, takes
bun.lfo to mammtv. “1 H qv
11 * *** n " “H* blue, Jehu, say*
" mwiim it. * ,
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«Sixh»fa . (Sv'vcnty-ftve centa.) , . ,. r I
dot,', n \ .Il> oh ap.
Munmi', gives him two butt,ms. one
tai:. for the four-lift piece,
eentek «ud a smaller one for tho
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i.evx “Good by, returns mamma.
fiabet s Secrets
And . , what , . wore . her secret-? *9 o]., Slu W
v:.;.T;reV,‘
jsi 11
night, she alwayscliuilietl upon liis
to t. It him everything that bad hapiK
m b-r little world during the day ;
tier paps always listened to her
w ib a great deal of interest.
V w, there was something she
not tell, aud Mabel could think of
■•n
^before
that
to this country amount r
H 4 J-» s •E't’ f t-,
i,i»i -• • d »i«ie li'tle M < TT ‘■the
l
itiv tli: i
i ii* r v rfee hit e »♦ ;wi.
** MstBrna knows, ft he « MiHonpd “ fait
v«*n mu- tnH kiiar-v; i w •e goiag Hild to
iiavi a Chri»tm rr it :!li Oil,
very bo* ly will lie
ire CtnristmaB Ev*
cmii . er t (flit ® Riir§>med, oBt, tiftti most iio!i
of !!. little yin IWl : for a 1*
and uiaiiy oU » r prett* u thing? i buug ttpou
the tr* e bar her. Why. m aroma/’ he
exclaimed, ^'honiebody ox? mast Inve
1 « ret.s, too!”
The Geese and the Hawk
tme davit, Mav, as Charles walked
through th- fields', he saw n large hawk
h«»v. ring in the air, and heard a noise
an of •cuekUnK S am an old mother
(OH mo with a troop Aim. of little ones, cam*
mo»i„« toward
Si knew t at Charles would protect
ha- # „d her iedgttiurs from the cruel
l,uwk -in ■ and she was not mistaken. He
took « stick, and looking up at the
hawk, said : “ Now come on if you dare,
vo .1 old tinel!"
■ The hoik iiKidu a sw.aip down to the
griding*, top of a tree neat by. caught doubt, sight id the
m 1 would, no have
liked to elntcli one of them and carry it
oft; but. the robber-bird \reji not quite
i»oid enough to do this while Charles
sf.ssi by.
At last (he hawk flew off out of right,
mid Charles called his g.xid dog Fido,
arid Jxntitl'd at the geese, and sakl :
“ Take care of tliem, sir.”
So Fido sat down near by, and watched
Hie geese. I think if the hawk had
come then, Fido would have been more
than a match for him.
In the Swing.
The swing was hung , from , an old ,, oak .
*»* . »» . Knmd«n«»tlier i „ , a grove. _ ,j,, lucre
»“H 1 and 1 used to go every firm sum
im ,-morning before breakfast, aud swing
five inmates. Me did not swing
fow««'r timn ti'at because feo much of
this kind of exercise is not healthy.
Ono<\ wji«n I had swung her very mi*
high, Mabel had a fall, butjjt did
hurt lier, for she fell among some tufts
of soft grass; Isit if her head had struck
ti stone, it might have done her great
harm After that wo were both more
l ive years have gone _by_ ... since those
davH. , Wo noth go to Hchuol, and I do
not think you would know us. But
s't'nmcr we horn, to visit grand
ujotm-r ouco mor«‘, and ,,nd wo ahall revive
,1 “’ “ V1,1K '‘ r tluU ‘ ld " ttk
111
The sly squirrels will c<nno out and
lisik at u* ; the bird* will twitter, and
try to make us think that they have no
nests iii the trees and bushes therea¬
bouts; but we shall say, “We -hall do
you mi harm, birds, squirrels, beetle* —
no harm- for we love you all! Ho play
on, and please let us play too.”— Hdith.
~—
t mlileiiis of Mourning.
“I trust that bhu k will not always
rcnuiii mi emblem of mourning in this
country,” said a dealer in nnimning
goo.;., who is a scholar as well us a im-r
chant “It is not a suitable emblem,
but it implies an absence eeituitily nt light nhd a
want of life which iu- do not
wish to convey as out conception of the
state is supposed our of departed Ik* the friends. outward Mourning visible
to
s'/u of inward grief. Tlie notion of a
cliimue, however, would not readily be
I. - veil, for when one has to put on the
Imbiliuionta of woe grief is too suong to
bo overcome by fashion."
“ Wh it Other colors arc used iu
“In Italy women grieve iu white gar
melds aud men in brown. In China
white is worn bv both sexes, fu Tur
key, eeiitial Syria, blue Cappadocia is the tint and chosen; Armenia, iu
Egypt yellowish deemed brown, the hue of the
dead leaf, is proja'r, and in
Ethiopia, where men are black, gray is
tlie emblem of mourning. All of these
colors are syiuV.ols. White symbolizes
; puritv, an aWntmte of our dead ; the
I celestial blue that place ot rest where
‘lend happ.v leaf, soul* tells are tlmt at peace; death the is yellow, or
tin, end of
ah human hope, nml that man falls as
the autumn lent; mid gray whispers of
,bp greve to winch all return. The
Em-i.uis considered mourning for the
dead an effeminate practice, and so
whin they graved they put on women’s
i*lotlu ‘8 ns a them symbol of weakness and as
« shame m for a lack of ninnli
| I ««-■ of 7! flu'ir ' p I fowtl hractiius nuulc <liod, a feaat and when
olio <>m s every
j method loved. of This joy and delight that the were dead cm- had
f meant
I passed from a state of misery lUaek into one
- of of never never .ending end;* ; felicity. f. lieitv. Black was was in- in
! trodmvd troihnvd as ns mournint; ua.uruir.u l»v l»v the the Qiuvn Quivn of of
Pliarlc oh ai*!es VIU. Ylll. Ihdore 1- fore that that the the French French
! Queeus Qui'cus wore won; white white mounting, mourning, and and wore wei»,
known known as as the tho White While Queens,”—JV< Queens ,**—New w
, lS ya,\
Atmt.n, . .. . ..... Tr i..ur«.y. ,,,. d -
“l know that l am wo! beautiful,
Adelbert, and in my jealous moments it
comes to me with a great throb—the
power ol beauty over a man. Boft,
i pearly flesh, rounded curves, sweet, red
1 ! hps, velvety cyea—all the magic outline— and
marvel of tint and texture of
| when despair, l thiuk and of this, the proud 1 say, girl I am crushed in nt
ter
fori j with cruel force Howcr-p.'t between that her white, s!,....l wiih tap
' wrsa
: „ t! , ers in t t„, window. The noise at
track d the attention of her father, who
wa , .,. :issiu; v p_ v , and he pushed aside the
curtain and entered. * * *
“ Haw much will a new window cost ?’
Ntol ■ Mr McAnery to his agent
•• Did ho take tire sash with him ?”
, “ V. s.”
“ Alxmt S15.”
• ♦ * * Two years later Violet Me
An ,. rv married a man who owned two
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zriouuc. f
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Lsi,i..w . jfn, JotAf feci at all humil
-y, \ ipatiou You’re
! ,, uauinfae’nrer veil nakc money every
dav vouaotk. - K -.. •«< kv.S'f.ri. J, nial
A uk irnsd f.vl is more foolish than an
arnorant fool,
.
an
a.;l are hi Uriel,' aad Hr
sti- tte American *
il of two pro: «ii
C .1 M hi IVitl lit eg
K
Xiv m in t*wi
it tt tbo i tii«
cm ii!
w.-y iti •/» t,i the ““ t -
n cw C4, ieeit ■ CfS
i rec.
■rtr A’itv, but he c;
wuicu au fb nrihki
at Y- it ue*-»D a of
th* tv i*-: ts t - achieve -w e
Cal! it <*, “eii* t*k/' “overdra
»i sirs whatever u
push, -t uiiUnoi .e.l > , ver
, t- a ree ig.uzed f.aturo of rensti it ti-jmii
n ,1 ‘- -V ' 1 :iu; rc i« uo to
ti t it existence It 3 .s%jiec«terv
ri.ftor ia mo* tern life. In r yif midst oi
tie rush am! hnrry of these dava « nau
w,1 .‘ '"I ,ett *" ll,e »" does not
, -“* 8 hllu . " */ W'siv.a Mere brain
P wrer w >•"* ?‘ ou $ h -, T<*™ mnattt*,
hWM * “f""" wh W Wo idulity can ‘1 e
manifest,-d *
•ietermuiafapa .... to make . the
v ,i,, ‘ ‘- j ! ‘ P'V r « t! *» ma »
««•»»*»'*»• H nwdnot be jhowniu
“ way *o aimoy or disguat. Quietly, but
{" r -.»» f *’ 1 f »‘.'‘-,n.ct.may be nusle.
, " fl, ‘enee the Inc, of other*, f «*
f™' .....-I, 1 die gvc-pof *" e ,•*“ tin- T hand i and ''T foe '
'*>■ "- l*'' 1 1 ‘"' , *
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* Mon polii ae for the asme tlHOg
Brass m only coiira r - modernized, and
!ei -l- fii-'t adopting it. It appears
*' !" t'h- drnnmier is brass per
southed iu bn-mess; the Irnok agent in
journalism; in- publishing trade; the remlrter in
the pettifog,.r in law, And
the secretary of tha various lioards in the
ministry. Yet all of these eventually
lad unless they have the brains where
with to back up anil reinforce the bra
I -••• -bful bin- fa fa I b.coming a ■
histoneil character, Vied vet the bo:d lover
often fails because he took for at
feet ion was only cheek. Ureat scholars,
as a general thing, woo* make nerveless lovers.
They try to through the head in
sfead of through the heart, and fail, he
eo.se ,t is the heart which generates
boldness and sweeps all barriers away
There la 110 key to this combination,
Most men are horn with or without
bruins, and most meu cctltte into tlie
world with or without-brass.
vate brass fa like trying to
brains. If one hoen t-in«.thnig to \w
gin Ability with he general can’t, very natural, well/ultivllfe and it.
is y so is
courage. To pick them up afterwards
is the hardest kind of work. - Yefun
questionably they are abaolnfelv Tequi
site in these rapid times. To wait iu
the lowermost place in order to get an
invitation to come np higher, is pr.-ttv
Door S; nolicv 1 known* nnwiwlavH thaf'y If von don't («♦
be ou are 'annuid som,
other fellow will climb over you ami
achieve wealth and renown. A learned
man might live all his life and no one
hear of liis knowledge. There must hr
some vehicle for earning It out into the
activities of life otherwise it will "bo
wasted. The best vehicle is brass -<]e
termination and self-possession united,
The man of brass aiid brains r .7
p,. eminently within the sueee-isful niun. lie
contains liims.lt the elements
which go to make up u-'e, ss tpoheull
[„ >t; without brains or all brains with,
out brass 'this is to be an iueumplete imli
vidual in nineteouth century anil iu
this country.__ I'liUu-l-1 a Times.
,
Who llocs the Thinking ’
Nature, v . we are told, ,, wust s noihmg. .
1 !,lt II }!* ,Cfl n said so often tint we iu
TO,wt . '• •"'* h
; ” ""‘ « n T
u,ol, ‘ that mt... utterly Nutnic wash'll. laynt.'e.- .TUs, brain
power is con- m-! ,
jwlcf Imbitmits font of every this one glob, of has the a mi flunking kon
^udy provt.UHl-c.imcs )
into
tile vorlil with it rt.-inly to hand—n>d
* ,s k how many of them use it?
lK * tlnnks. 1 erlups a dozen mya do
,, tiu‘ thinking for an outlie community,
j' 1 ' 1 * that w putting the tigtire high,
wearenot a bowed to think .
1 a {J? w how the cnties would not
1 '.'* "*• I hey give out the ttme aud we
sing it, and nufor iinateiy the tune i* p«4
!l n,w °” p - ” ttlp v <? n ,'y w P n!< l quarrel,
.
,f ** u ' y aou1 ^ ditler, if only they
would wrangle bt chance—but over any one thing, there
he ' “ for they do not.
1 time even critics to thiuk inde
pendent 1 > mouth has gone by the 1 ucx can t do
’* I vory sees pulvieatire.i of
book notices; read one and you have
read all, and have as just an appreeia
(, o’i if you had raid none. Bufyon
whut to thiuk, that s the comfort ,
of : V “U need never nfe the mt.clnnery
,
whh u hicl, yon are supplied. When the
xhibitions opeu who among the
crowd is good of ? gazers and why is it ^going is? to what thiuk is what vub
or
P and ir > pretentious, Iterated, copy?
and why why it it is? is? bay Hay two two in in fifty, fifty, and and
that that with with is is probably probably original original two two thought thought. too too many many to to credit credit
any any No, No, the the»t art
notiees notiei's will axil settle settlo all all that, that, and and save save the the
individual the trouble, and oue critic in
a hundred may know what ho is talking
about. There might be a cbanco for tlie
at large, published, if his opinion happened
to \kj ttic br-t but it probably
will not, and so it will be useless for
him to expect it at all, for no one will
beliove it, the world will have accepted
the verdict in the popular paper.-., aad
the eyes of thousands will see what the.
eye of oue has imagined to be there. If
we must have our thinking done for ns,
lot us at least try to Have it done by
; ixnapetent persons.—Aew Yen k Mail.
Oai mrev story aramt D, an Stanley
, No one feels m> to his won., ho sain
day “1 have always thought that
a 1 ,au siiou.d have three
none of "Inca I possess, hurst, I think
j a Ttean sliould know something about
subject. • t Secondly, ai>r ab^utely 1 think ignorant a of Dean the
should know somvUiiUg uhout architrot
J ' tirm } kikiw k a nth.rung i ea:i shoiud about know it. Third- some
* *
I thmg i7.gS.","S: about the management of busmens;
is
—
Ausexic is not freely soluble in any
organic mixture* and may generally be
fund as a white sediment, which, when
thrown npon red-hot coals, gives out a
strong odor like onions and a thick
smoke. Common arsenic can not be
detected bv the taste.
The Sperulalitre -Mania.
The dfapautfan to get lieu suddenly
isnares many men fiw are engag.cl ic
nits, an i «' tli wmoiu itu opjT
, ,»fa tbeywiu
aqnet-tion a-suredcompetence. few years wzen fber
l av.- are
1 !.y the occasional gams of lucky
bier emlwrk on lb - :*ea irf specnia
tiun, and iiot infrequently as
wed as tiieir won*dr ^yjusr 11*
in Boston, of Hi urv L.
.
Will) WM for a long }>eriod id'ivfitkd
with the insurance iiit.-r of New Eag
land. K - was gr , “re • ‘ a lJ
miidi Secret of the tihoe and Leather ,
ory i’ost.ei. lie
Insurance l<initially, attended t closely was
paid a tine salary, to
business, and lms .yd. i s were considered
1 except; rally g>'i.t lenly he d asp
i ware.l, aid an - ti m of the books
of the concern revealed the unwelcome
feet tha' he had, at id tines appropri
atc ate! i s-1 s] T , 000 O K* belonging hel< Hgi g to t» the the subsequently ! cumpany c rtafany
to his ~ It
own u«\ v is
leametl that \Vliite had been aaohiicg ia
stocks u.id losing on hi.; -pezniatrens.
Asa resmt, he became guilty nf em
bexzlemtmt, b z/.lemeiitu lost lost his lus place, place, wcatae >>- came a a
fugitive from justice, and brought misery
and ilisgvace his ....... ami clmdren.
The 0-1... terrible .-kulnniH, danger upon of gambling —b'b.e e b,
.. m »„V any
shape fa that, with persons of a weak
nature it finally holds out some tempta
tion turn to t“ betray betray trust trust iu iu or.ier or.ier to to gratify gratify s>
, pa^jon which has become an JutzarBiug imi«rions
necessity. Psoj, fa Ugui with
tl.-ir own money and end with putting
the money of others at at ko. The form
( gambling whicl iWuti by
of it. =
speculations , ually.sforts with a de.-iro
! to make routine money faster business. than by Men, the urged eo%
mon of
bv their own greed, which is too often
1 stimulated bv extravagant wives and
, daughters, and tempted bv fire chance
j fe*tones of others who have gone >a!Vlv
i the tlir-.iigli the whirlpool, turn aside from
U„i slow-going iiich luivo aud abs, failed lnb-lv them, safe pur- and
ts w never
venture into speculations which are' at
be • uncertain, and in most cases abso
hl , . lv *£ . rui; „ lUs . Iu a shocking number
I ! Q moneTlirn f ca there is not s-molv a loss of
aseveuts prov, life’desirable a loss of in
’
legrjty; ail that makes is
offered * ^ratiimal tm at the viewoT same lifewoukTsu^ nnestiouahle
alter
fdddenly gest p, Uut rea y, y desirable to get
jum^the rich. The employment of life
nature .hon'd pt discipline and it is bet
tor that meu fill up the full
measure of their vigorous manhood in
I honest Se and useful work, and take their
ea toward the close. A ‘of vonng, rich
man , w ill, iu nine eases out ten. get
into evil wavs and if he do not entirely
squander his money he will squander
health, morals and worthy ambition. If
^ you are howUrhnLdnim doing passably well st.dktoL^d at auv vo
tion<
j f speculation 1 » alone \ eaus^ bird in the
ieasouabfe Vnvinan who his
^ ^ cl-nvrm iiiVioimmv ss toww Is a
cola ojiupeieuceai pt u at the rue mid enu o£ onus jouruey, ia is
! | foke no'fks bf^en 4 wlmte^r *° Wi h
the majority Sly lfe is all the way
j r.mgl ^“^incto^howat a sriugele for present
Cot "rnre theed '
iHc ial
Mortality in Diffi rsnt Par-nits.
The report of the Briti-l. Il -gistrar
General shows thet the annual death
rate in the Un-t.-d Kir v. ’om is V- 'll
* larger, _ “ " the entire j<#f.nla
Tlie but not the hugest,
let a 1 . Hi tk of mortality, s-nd
is ir.v an
1 tA?. A aid
tr |extreme*
v_ tv.. n Uie t nto Yi hii h
tfi poiafloo may ■ >■ the !a
i iiig, the trading i i*"' '
£ 0*4 and the ceutrv aim tit c-d—ti e
ei.aii < h oi life are- v ry re . equal, al
though shown in a slight favor advn of the .tage ;q.p. class, are to lie be
fi rst
trucks most iJiifavc • hl 1 * to :.re,
as a rule, thow which fttkl to < *>e
the operative to an atmosphere leaded
with dust, or compel liim bo .U-al ui one
way or another with poisons. .iO>ry
'grinding, Sheffield, hh practiced on needles and
forks at fa the worst; work
mg m coat mme* m next in deadlines*.
QMm and silv revs of glass are ex
post'd to v pwis of mercuiy; workers ui
hrasa are liable to diseases produced by
»«> volafll.-ted oxide of lend ; all
who work in paints -are subject to
« ii! ™ ■“ «-b- ™ and Milors have
their lives shwtened by the exposure
they have to undt rgo, or by disease
hroug.t oa by their habits of living.
Lak. rs, tmtora and milliners are liable
-> 1 ‘‘luf.tvon; Pi fare compositor be^r than jsenliarly
- , - men compos-
1 ' J ' ! ;' lr “
appef&a «»be Um most healthy of ocm-,
piitams, wlufai that of the lunWper is
tin most lataL Butohers die compara
tivyb early, as also do brewer.<, dray
ifei, and generally those who have e*&ig much
toMavHth establishments fw and
drinking. Ike over-exertion of those
who follow athletic pursuits appears to
.Nnidum- «!«»te aw Winch to^it life as
d.s -8 the sclent ary strain ptifco student.
1 ; - ms to make but little diflVronoe
in workers the *^ixict»r,i. whetiier tlieir of labor life- of is bald iiwlopr or
not; but those vrbo are employed out oi
doors have a cifanco of living six years
longer, if their work keeps them busy
and active, than'if It fa',, mere matter
of routine and standing an mid; ami a
‘-comparison ,0 the table lcaifa us to the
conclusion that the life of; the out-doo*
worker with little exercise is worse than
that of the sedentary 111 -door worker,
whether with little or great exercise.’
The most curious fact dustmen brought and clea«- out is
that the scavenger,
ers of severs m London are reckoned
among the healthiest of tlie population,
The Pabhage Pest.
Tim _ imporfed . , . cabbage , . worm has , Long eome
tn ht y ‘, 77,s ' 1-st summer on
e showed , the natives that he
capabfo of mlvancing worth the price dertroyed ot cab
bage-gStlftOtK) the suburbs was of New lork. m
one Reason m
He^s followed the tide of eivUizntioi,
■“‘.TO* »>' at wiU kilt the 17ie P robl and f lu not » ow «*
worm injure
«»* «ibb^o? We would suggest, that
dehv6r “« s mmt l v P lvvw “
>"« th f. raoth . , l!lylu « th « ^ on
the cabbage. We have suggested to our
neighbors to try tying newspapers, or
sacking, or netting »>f any kind, over
tl,,! c; 1 b»uge fnants during the preva
lonce of the moth ; when it <b-:ap]>ears
the covering to lie. removed. Few of nil
the remedies so far named have given
.satisfaction. lutelligsiit, Prof. C. V. Filer, always
practical R^tlmijn. and Ho first suggests tried it in tbe 1879, use
°*
hut did not recommend it that vpar. ns
he wished ti > test it fnrtht r, -Ho has
made t sts, and canoed tests to lie nuak
by agents, aud the general experience
hits been most favorable. He uuhesi
attingly recommends that pyrethrum infest the for cab all
the dilTerent worms
kige pbuita. Prof. A. J. Cook, o! Lxns
feg, Mich., says no tried bi-snlbhnfo of
carbon as a weapon against these posts,
It had been successfully inf employ, which d m
fighting suggested the phylloxera here. ranee, He made
its use a
small hole close to the plant, three or
four inches deep, aud turned into it
about a half teaspoonful with of liquid, then aril
quickly filled the hole earth
packed by stepping on it. The same
experiment was tried for the squash
borer with gratifying success. He tliinks
the bi-sulphide of carbon would prove
eflVctive in fighting the peach-tree borer
and the radish and onion maggots.—
Exvhnnyc.
____
Enkissscl Kisses. i
rti.y sat together ,, '
on (lie . verdant ,
banks which ran down clow) to theoeoan j
beacu. In front of them lay the slum- j
berrag sea, beneath its placid surface softly
gleaming the mellow light of the
rising moon.
“ Tm» n,.i on hour nnr a .reneior.iight
An Ashesat ^^“’£. with her d ^tho, hut w ut ! j
there i night.
There was no one near them; at least, •
no one that they eared for—pateriiiinil- i
ias aed the the mnt night night ir ditto air into into having tho the meandered j
out out of ot air warmer warmer at at 1
mosphere mosphere of of the the hotel. hotel. He He broke broke the the ■
poetic poetic “Ami silence silence 1 by by I’.ave , observing observing read 1 Oscar ; ; S
so you - - . '' Wilde’s
poems?” !
v have.”
^Aml vrat like tliem ?” !
“O. I think thev are jnsf. too awfully
too too. There is an outwardness and
entirety about them go extremely son!- I
ful. They are tangibility. gushing with the sub
stance of m ”
“IVh.it do von think he means when
fe, writes about tho barrenness of uu
kissed kisses ?”
First of all, I thought he '
“ referred to
those kisses which young ladies give to
ouch other when their veils down '
arc :
riderahSu"-here but. on giving fi;e matter thormigh Sously cou
she looked
M , nUK \—“ I came to the conclusion that
* ev were those ki ses which a lover
to toke when he is aloni with his
.. ........ and allthc chances are favorable
Yor his obtaining them.”
Having said this, she cast her eves
down and blushed. Then hia arm wan
dered around her waist, her bead
. drooiwni upon his shoulder, and—well,
imagine tlie rest .—Somerville Journal
lpa - t , a from a orivate reix.-t
zssssxxs&spzi phor tree, and whose silk is utilized m a
singnlai-manner. When full grown, the
caterpillar is cut open and the silk ex
tracked in a form much resembling cat
gut. This substance is subjected fish- to a
hardening process and made into
lines.
Naming the v ( Inform.
Remember in giving names that tlx
children when grown up may be in sit
nations where they will have frequently
to sign their initials, and do hot give
neu.es thatmight iu this situation jiro
yoke contemptuous remark. For iu
ulavce, David Oliver Green, the initials
ma’-.e “dog;” Clara Ann Thompson,
the initials child spell is “ boy, cat.” it be equal
If the a may
jy nucomfortable for him to have a long
string life of becomes names. Suppose that in banker, adult j
he a merchant or
with plenty of business to do, then he
will not be well Robinson” pleased to write two “George three
jl.eiry Talbot or
hundred tiines a dav.
It is not ft had plan to give girls only
one baptismal mime, so that if they
marry they can retain tlieir maidensur-
11MU « . a s' Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
H; U 'riet Beecher Stowe. This is the
practice among the Society of adoption, Friends,
and is worthy of more general
for we should then know at once ou see
mg the name of a lady whether she wan
married, aud, if so, what her family
name vss.
Some pareuta very wisely susceptible refuse for
tlieir children all names of
tj, e melting process, thinking with Dr.
Rove that, “it. is Jack’d not a good Sim’d, thing Sam’d, to bo
Tom’d or Bob’d, .Tra>’d or
Mi. I'd or or as
you go through the world,
q'i, e euphony of our nomenclature
v ,ould he greatly improved by n jmli
citms adsptation of the Christian name
to the monosylwKe surname. When the surname is
a the Christian name
should be long. Nothing can Murk reconcile Fox,
the ear to such curt names as
!Y>x, Duke A)<xaiider Harte, Ann Harto Scott; and Cecilia but .Gilbert Scott
are far from despicable. excellent Chris
With such a variety of
tiau namcH, it is astonishing that so few
should be in ordinary use. The dicUon
aries nri contain lists of about 2 cC male tnd
150 hm <■ names, but out of these not
more than twenty or thirty for each sex
can be called at all common.
Yet our language has inmiv beautiful
names both male and female, worthy of
a noimlarity they Imve not yefc attained,
Among tlie males for instance : Christo- Alban,
A nth use, Bernard, Clement, Michael,
plier, Gilbert, Godfrey, Harold,
Marmaduke, Oliver, Roland, Paul, Ralph, Sylvester, Ru
pert, Roger. Beinald.
Theobald, Urban, Valentine, Vincent,
Gabriel, Tristram, Norman, Pereival,
Nigel, Lionel, Nicholas, Eustace, Colin,
Sebastian, Basil, Martin. Claude, .Jus
tus, ate—all of which have the attrib
ut« s of euphonv, g.xnl etymology aud
interesting assomatitnis. female why have
And among names
we. not more girls called by the noble or
graceful appellatitms of Agatha. Bea
trice, Bertha, Cecilia, Evelyn, Moreuce, Ethel,
Gertrude, Isabel, Leonora. Philippa, Pauline,
Mildred. Milli-ent,
Hilda, dance. Ambel, Irene. Muriel,
EsteUe, Eigenia, Euphemia, Cimstabel,
Theresa, Marcia, Antonia, Claudia,
Rosabel, Rosamond, etc.?
, , -7-TT
twenty-live t
‘ per cent.
—---
If the two sun—be thermometers—exposed covered, with equally
to one white,
th- other with black cloth, the instru
in. nt under the black cloth will indicate
a higher temperature than the other.
a tlheslly lwru.
The Cincinnati Commercial publishes
, f articles on exhibition at an un
establishment at Vinetmies,
fi. diana , which, for suggesting hard things
it vault lie to excel.
i’ueir enrmtneratiem ia as follows ;
Article No. J—Is an tat, covered arith
which wa» tile instrument ussu by
man named Vn-v. st, ou th* night of
i, 1878 ia killing the A atehell
composed ©t i^u.iaud, the wife and
sons. This was most terrible
that ever occurred in the vi
jxxity.
V<, q \ easqvin which killed Hahiuel
{Vririn-, in September, 187a
>-<,. ;<_]» a towel with which Provost
suicide, by hanging lus horrible himself
»ciierv* ; a ji % ' uUC dav.- mt«f
i ' flI j,o
i-dv 1—1 knife that idled named two PffiSps: map in
tili [jiis , on. ,, f t ;.o-:..
^ iu JkTI.
No. 5—Another jn;Ifo which on Ail
s day, 1ST- in the hands of Mitchell
Mallett, sent Joe4Juslemau to the other
or ,.
No. 6—A brick tint, thrown by a small
| wv at hi-plavmate. Killed him instantly,
*
Mav2 ,, t l87&
No. 7—A rope found ou a man named
J Smvthe, tlrowned in the Wabash, May
JS78
Xo g_ Xwo masks worn bv two men
who „ ere ehot and killed whifo in tlie act
rf rob bnig the store of Watts Bond, in
Oaktown, Indfana, U January oi, 3. 187ft
N „, .,_ A knife i D. Pronelt,
drownt ^ itl tlie Wabash, December 26,
lava '
’
v io_Po-ket bo< k found on bio
\ jt W —Bra-skuuckles h , diediui .il Jaunarv oil* 1° IsTs"
0 11 railro^l ‘ found inau
| eled " on ,o_V„ the theV
x () oocket lxiol- bC on
.. man wlioco-ainitUi * " 1 suiohle drown
’
18“4
l i_a «•,«• buttom win,), wbl" whila w -a*
{Xrf ^im17thd 1 vS Itverwm rZm ’£
L-j”, ” , p ^ ut ’ 0,1 o, Ve" 11 11 foCt pllt ? i f W u ae Id *.»
187 ». fel1 ,, «l» u a «l«toon , and , broke , his
“y,; i .4 rinn which ix- « ot
'
r> cmnnntfed .11 suicide , m jail, Novem
l- ,",- * v^ b ,iekeve drewnc^TpS found r.J 187?' V r
„ 8 who u’fVl, -ifti f -0
fiev hTtbiv y 1 ’ 1 i T
t in 187a
^,’ Vo l 1 7 _ » rk^r with r-n„,u,.
rr mm-ifered mUldeUd Wilfe.m WlUSaai
’
^18 cob “a red sfa-’ro
Aa A ™i which c u was w,« fonnd f 1 on «
’‘''kuo'vu , Uuciuuatiau, kided by the
to lW>us|MeB m ! l of d s auu. halted 1 , ,
~
No. 'J) A piece of , suspender and small
P 1 ^ 1 ’ foundmside.bf thebody of
'“T*. Coleman, who was killed by the
f foundry, pl*"*"^* December boiler 11, in 1877. Clarke & Buck’s
"T f-lu ‘lead 7 -rh.g in cheek bed, May wlueh 1 1878. was ou
N ”’• 22 “j Ilvc ^^ Piecefound pn Mr.
Hankins, body „ ^covered drownecl February- December 19, 1878. 27, 1877;
Na 23 -® nn ® < *' ,f elotlieB fonn<1 ^‘h
a baby , murdered November 10, 1877.
No. 24-Boot of John Miiler, who was
killed by an explosion, tlie same that
kill, d Coleman on 1>c-mb r 11, 1877.
-Miller the outside was wall I|lown of thirty frame feet, house. through
a
Seventeen other articles r.f less impor
tunco are eniimerafed. .Mr. Gardner,
the owner of these relies of crime and
accident, conceived the idea of his
museum ten years ago, and since that
time has exerted himself to make bin
strange museum of respectable pyoy-or
tion.
Reckless Mosby.
brave Although a guerrilla, Mosby was a
man. He would run risks and
take cliiiuoris which he would not order
V^ * 2 i: *! Mas’nng- . .
J ijf® 1?. v ^ ? nt tlc «^ d I l - ring “®i’ tfie W “ l *“
lnOT< ’ than a dozen instances he pene¬
trated the Federal lines for information.
Near Middletown he was once cut off
by Federal cavalry w ho held the pike
in both directions. When ordered to
surrender lie drove bis horse over tlie
stone wall and got away through tlie
fields. Three bullets pierced his Cloth¬
ing, his horse was struck twice* anil an
overcoat dean strapped to his saddle was
while he cut away by dinner builets. One day
valley was six eating Union in the Lu
ray him, They did not cavalry know walked him in
on as
Mosby, but rightly conjectured that he
he was a guerrilla. As they attacked him
shot two and dashed through a win¬
dow mid made off with one of their
horn s. He was oree captured in
Washington while on a spying expedi¬
tion, but feigned drunkenness and made
a dash for liberty while on tlie way to
the Provost Marshal’s office. At that
time he had plenty oi proofs on his per¬
son to have convicted him as a spy.
Near MTrrenton lie one night rode with
twenty-four men full upon a Federal
reserve picket of at least a hundred
men. Both sides stood staring at each
other for a moment and then Mosby
called out:
“Did any of them mules come this
way ? ”
“Haven t seen any,” was tbs repiy.
“Cuss the critters—they stampeded
turned on uy’ his growled men and the rode guerrilla, as he
Some of liis had blue away.
men overcoats
on, some wore citizens’ clothes, and no
one could say that they did not belong
to the Federal wagon trains.— Virginia
li tier.
A Pretty Picture.
trees, A leafy hammock background, two beautiful
she a whom swinging heart beneath, and
on your is fixed, lazily
swinging in the same, is a very pretty
picture, young znan, very pretty; and
v\ e don t blvme yon tor being attracted
to a magnet of such wondrous power.
E > c-n the floomt rang reporter was forced
to acknowledge that your evident infatu¬
ation was pardonable. But consider if
your means will enable you to keep
mat picture all your days, or whether ia
the coming time it will not be supplanted
by a ehromo or wornout, jaded woman,
trying middle doughnuts of hot over a not fire in the
pictures a intimately summer day. The two
are connected.—Rdf
yge’s Boomerang.
Anoxo the Indians near the Amazon
there are no words for numbers, and a
similar want of arithmetical power.
The ignorant hath an eagle's wings
and au owl’s eyes