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I «rsfit tfafl vilflfi * i n <*■ *•* * i t* m# i** A»1 bnnt, iM to,. f iay t 1 'f to *j*t»V i« . . » * t -** ■■■«’» Id »hw l nt I Thai Afto* . liwi fkv . . • ;ft,t * 'rOdMm I# cliAr*l m** *»* to to* ># m ' *- niy fttem NTri Utri vTNi t*t »» '»• * * m*-i. 'a’ati w*ut Ut AWt For lr»A '«***♦< d Ipii» .«‘.v «f* f i'lltif *- ton. a '•*•* ■ j IiMt w( vr>»t ( A •*»% iluflfl *U, \ v*to thv' Iwrtl, to* 4 jAstii **•*;nm ■*! .1 * • uv • »' w'*» N *• w? vKul DttBA S Tum. DoJair fo» a mi.ins.it iv u Uo* m A. .-L' .t.'ili you could nee voor way cl ear *o marry, ing Both Ha!let. He wants you the worst kind, and he’ll be such a good pro¬ vider." “ But I don't like him wed! enough, F? tidy ; and 1 w;.ot something beside meat and drink and two i-alico ilreMt a Mi . Pmdcfjc- Hall had Aurahvi U r ankle, axel waa forc< 1 * »r-ly ;,f ■ • * clumber, with a terrible _ consciousness that lapsing everything chaos about and the farm was re into old night for want of her overnight. Her pretty sis t#*r Dora had come to stay with her; but *»■-■** “«•»?' • cliild, vou know.” “There are two kind* of lore in this world,” naiil Mr*. Hall, after a pause, in wl'icl* <ibe had been fcikiug counsel with heraclf whether Ihira wa>- old enough tf» be talked to on such matter* at all, and H flashed ii[wn her that “ the child " whs nearly well ‘20 years old, “ l’erliaiw you like Beth enough to marry him, only you don’t know it.” “Tell m« about the two kinds of love,” said Dora, innocently. I thought love was love the world over.” “ I have never known but one kind, f think, iHira. When I married David Hall he was the most well-to-do youug man in these parts, ami we never had a quairel while he live*!. He was a g«KMl practical sort of a man, aud never asked mo to uo »nything heU d1 iinivftHoiial hi ilo.*' “ 1>,r *’ j' ^ t I thit . l i vi 'tll Vi lov ic mat will d ilraw wiunui through Are : v prov.b. on Zw” Shdth tlu'iir Xn Zr th ■; will never' f..r t -h children and T they knov it it .s w. !l ^ ils a v ,i • 1 • iVnZ.Z'hZ ' wonder to me why such ing should ever have been created.” low over her work to Wd^gi? »'!•»« , »«*r rogutah «J'Z smile* at her water’s ’ • Neat to never,"«a«d Prudence, , with preat decision. “ Wo ain’t made to la, hanpv. and anvthimr *ta'u-in that’s too theZimdh o.hhI nl ways leaves a Imd \n ,1Z Comfort is a bird in u! the lc ' tt £ don't wain mvthin,, 13«Zs. C ” l. tu, ,,g “ tb , ' “ Did yon over any one about hero, Prudence, that threw herself awav for look love ? It seems unless to he me lias they house won’t aud at a man a farm “That's all ready where for them.” they’re right,” said l'rmlenoe. “You are rather given to high-llyiug notions, bread and don’t it’s time t. und out that grow ready buttered. Yes, f did know one girl, who was pretty and smart and bad no eud of chances to get married (I think my David courted her a spell, but ho never would own it), and she would have that shiftless critter Joe Baymoud, who never could make one hand wash the other, liven wlien she was a-dyiug she pretended wouldn’t have that she had l*«eu happy and done no otlier wav if she had it do again.” ‘ to over “ Was she <iur Joe’s mother? ” asked Dora quickly. *• Yes. to hu sure ; and when she died we took him to bring up and work on tie* boiu. II - more than (slid bis why; hut he a a rolling stone like hts bit!.! r, ami won't never come to any tliw.ir l forgot to tell-you—he's going to-morrow,’ “ (hiing to-uiorrow 1 ” cried Dora, with * .-at start. “ I thought his time wasn't out for another mouth.” ‘ Well, it ain’t out rightly till he's 21; but he was in such a hurry to bo off that 1 gave bun the last mouth.” y|e" sileuce fell ills»n tlieui. I'inse two women had tin same father ami mother, though a score of years lay hetweeii tluiu. PrmVence had lieeli hern in <vh< the they ••ally msrried life of her parents, New n England were struggliug with a stonv work farm mid there was L»r cv»!j billy lianda. The lilies of duty * u '* !•>»*»••*•*'•* w. re d. op-gmved in her f 11 * 5 ?,' 1 ' h* 00 ’ " ll10 '' .V‘‘ l Vvmned with a 7«»* «• "?’• Hut Dura had «-»'» to her mother late in li?*, as an..1,1 tree Hometiiues blossoms into loveliness after every on» has (orgott.m it. Her little feet bad walked in easy paths and Piuilence yearned over her like a mother. She sat now by the ojk ii tire, 1 tending h<f graceful head over sons,- delicate work that Prudence would sever have I auiil i ini,, f..v; lmi reu dnss and the flickering firelight made her a picture too lovely tor that dull room. "Pru b '"'Tiast . a hist ^uiJlT night, lt£'lte I thuik 111 go “ down V * and '1 say good-hy to linn. : You might call him up here.” : No; I think 1 will go myself.” : I Mievo 1 haven’t ever told vou, Dora, how much von pleased me hy mg up Unit olnhk-h way ot going ,m w .th Inn, that you iwsl to ha«•. 1. did v»m \ M for vou to U' foml of oHch other when >«« were little, but of course it IS out ofthe question now. ’ It might have been tho ont dnwt and the tiro light that brought such a vivid rrA-r 4 ......... \ . o,n\.. niAn -Sit i*\the '.a.,; mo, look ; U,,1 ; U,g ‘‘{P" h-stSSitZ fir bin te tUoiurhfc £ g r He was too intent on h» own to ! ot e her anil, i’ll die w, at swiftly iuto s the risun, taking Ids head between her soft hands, turu«Hl hi* face up tc j,,.,. o,j, h . | )n .) u n W( , r ,. voiiinamr k k without - •twav let Mug me know ?” T iic liarvl hues of hi» face softened and brighteuevl under her guae till one would not have known him for the same man. “I thought I should not see you ' to night, he said. •• You know 1 letter; vou know I would have crept through the kev-hote for one last little minute long will with you." “How vou wait for mo, ' ' Dora ?” “ Till you come ba -k.” U,J ..tf wUl vpars think how •N t tiki l bc ’ » . -ou rougli it together.” “ N< b bride P :i t that is not my kind of love ; my mother tried that ami she livnl a slave’s life.” " 1 -SKraatsShS!! I). tl U, as tliat wonlil not give way. “If 1 liv i' with' ti? \t>n U*r st veu year* i Ahull Im- - let ■ B*aifl f H!itl you will Id t t ui: tue f- r waitiii" for Ih puther away then and Jc**k* I at l,t*r etmooalv, as if he had never thought i Itei prettuieK before, 11 Do you kcow a hat your unine means?** he aeked, uric Theodora stly. * “ I saw it in the jailer that ‘ means ‘Gift of God;’ and you have been just that to im. If I had never seen you, I should never have had a notkm ahore <la . . . night’* aieeu. I will writ.- t i | 1H vc anv Suck and eome t„. r . \ Yenr’a eve, when I do eoine • mid if you wear this red dress 1 shall know L-t L V jou have waited tor me.” « [ tliink I shall live to we .r it wl.en vr«i crane ;t u times . sev ‘ ’ • en years, Joe ; for women are very hard n> kill, ” Baid Dora, slowly disspi tea ring from Hie kitchen. “ What have you been doing all this time? ” said Prudence, severely. “ I was only giving Joe some good advice.” “ Well, I hope he’ll profit by it.” “ Bo do I,” said Dora, heartily. ’Tis as easy to say seven yearn as one, und wo road ot Jacob's hovoii vo^tTs*scrv iw * or 1L ' loh '’ 1 . «'Dioh seemed but as nnoday llachei’s for the h.vc tind he Imre her. to he mentioned teeliugs are not thoiiglit worthy ‘" in holy writ- d-'v lsit if ntl her V,! ,ik ‘- »<«•*. -v - * :v '" And here, in a nutshell, '' tke ‘Hfferonce between a man’s love and i a woman’s. Jacob bail the sh.s-p to mind, and he did mind them uncommonly well; Joe went to seek bis fortune in ‘new scenes, and only thought of Dora when he had hefe^'iZZ Jt J but 1 it wtdri i* i,ZZn^bl7!mX ^ to W Hilo ‘ ( ! thi AUl “* u r r , '°' ovcr cr went w „ nt away n, Dora had ™ «»«** * ** herself whether she ^ ■‘-•Imd cr a woman. Sunshine had bicu P^nty with her, and she had easily sugared f«nn life and off gild,! red h, the plain thiiigethat * r. Before the first rear came to an end »he felt that she should soon arrive at a patriarchal ago if she did not do some .long to kill the time that died so hard on her hands. “Teach school! I guess not,” said her father, when she first broached her plan to him. “ You ain’t starvin’, yet; and if you wnut some new farlioloW you just say so, and not come at it siantiu’ ways like that.” “ 1 don’t want anything, father; hut there is so little for me to do at home.” “ Nonsenso ! Iii my time, gals were alw ays lull of business, Ciui’t you make "'‘eets and pillow-cases and get ready to he married? Who knows but some body’ll ask ye ono of these days ?” “ l ’d rather teach school, father.” “ Waul, waal, folks can't always ‘ have their ’dratliors in this world. I ain’t willin , and that s the end on t. , But this was not, tlia et:d ont, and Dora easily obtained a school. She de¬ vehqied a governing talent which charmed the committeemen, und the congenial labor iu the company of little children took her ont of herself and in hired new life into her hope deferred, Every week she walked to tho post office, three miles away, to ask for a letter, goring in with a bright flush in ritlow click, Hisl coming ,mt ,sde and dull-eyeil after the stab of disappoint- ‘m meet. I wouA-r that people the country ara so anxious to 1 h> Postmas tin's; ii’ they only knew it, they are net «rs in more tr u/’ un.Jins eric-I Hum n..e ml „■ „f the ii ■tru . mo \r, »i/mp .1 Kt vtl. d g,{,{ u.Mir. s ivwst-s tlir in* k j mu ,| s . t| ie v have to rtdusr many u “Mariana in the Moated tlranve”___ w ,. nrY Wl unen who roach L h hand out of (luU Uwa f„ r „ Vt l4W and d~w V it ,,. lrk , * l ' was fur into the second year before , frttci eiune. It was surely a I:,n \' (l ' 1 8 » li <limg for a sch.s.l u> ,H frvss to do, but IX.ya earned it to •»” own little room and put on tls* red dress liefoie she read Joe s letter. Joe was working iu the anucs in Pel,. la,in. His hick had not yet come, in >”dvr nuggets at least, but hard work and n.b living wer,-.douly the other giving hit, the uitageover miners. He was never so well, aud he loved her belter th . ui! the world, Dora lived on this letter for mauv weeks, and ski. set “Colorado” fora so often to her scholars that they w iU w rite that word letter than anv other to their dying day. ' Letters oauitn uftanor it^Tears fIjpw world,’ on acmetime* Joe was up. in tho sometimes down; once his .arefully hoarded was stoloa from huu, and he Imd to begin all over again; hut this a-,a?r^....................... New Year’s day was she bardisit of all ^ ‘ S " U 80 ‘ k ’"' uoutiwl ^* bl8h n»o*t travel wh*>n he should come home. Tlie next nwwuing she fiittsl her shoulders b* the lumlon of another year. his >'•>«> young te the farmer old farm-house after another found way on Bnn «Uy evenings, ami Dora pushed them meat ao gently that they scarcely knew whether they had meant to court her or not. It was not the least of her trials to meet the entreaties of her mother and the rough arguments of her tether when one or two more persistent snitoi-would take nothin; less than “ uo” for their answer. Dora could give no reason for re lieatod refusals to marry, only she loved no one well enough, a reason which w « lld be all-sufficient if parents re »*»"? imuioitnlly yonng. Mu i, U». had mentioned seven years, as if he meant to come home tin a at any rate, She wore out the fir-t day of the “glad New Year” with busy cares till lute in \ & self in tlwi tifm-lustne kitchen. I ru flense ix-stiried m-rvdf t«> give liiiu a hearts wmh he was wariHHt ;u;d I’ .i. Id- i, _ t » talk of ins He ha i l**b U> h« furtniw aH ovt r the'Vr-st, a:id f !i*/v .*r hntliiig it, “ ® 1 “® m^nUomct ( .. . a.»d Denver, ami *ia* i* when Uora hr tnd ;* r . it al *ae with him lot a in t. *n. —a i, •• Jhd you ever **eJ'**i>h Itymomim Denver' biymond. On yes . knew, him well; hmi «th him mgi, on to* month. His wife wjs i.t r al g»>o i cook .^eouldn t ^ nowhere ui th-ra parts. Tn^^.r** Io la-niire . *3 W right smait feher, , v and mighty mud of uu «ne. Women ^ ecartx out thcie. Prudence came in, and the old man went on his way all unconscious of the great stone he had east iuto the at ill waters of Dora’s heart. “ Vt’hat’s the matter?” said Pru dence ; “ you re as white as a ghost.” * " n, J, answer was to dart ont of „ the house and run, as for her life, down thefrozen orchard-path by which she could gam upon and overtake this tor nble man. She might have said, with “ hol . v Herlieri ’ — tbouabi# arc »h a gm* of kuive*, w 'm fatten tmin only Hze into misery must Imv,, rime to crystal memory Udoiv it t..k.-s the form o^.Z'ZiZtunnu^iZ.Sd of poetry She st.Hi i u-fore the ‘Ini breathless. How did the Joe Hay mood look that you lived with ? " gasped 81 Dora, " 1 *{ evt ' r 8111,1 ‘. J V? I! '.voiond,’” said ,AA ““ £T V18 I ' ,V • 1 ,<*«» ^ foZ hJ^ld'finJhMs^ wh«Z” but* T, or, . . w' , ^‘ V Si 0f HSJZ^TfuUw Her leering of grateful awe 0 ^ as ! f ! * u f en ^ kept her from mourning much over the ,,,ssing J,«’s away departure of this seventh anniverso ry of with no sign of hU return. His letters had wholly ccp-ed, and there was her nothing left for Dora but to l* 08 *’ 8 * soul with patienec. When «n..tl,er new vear dawned upon her, she ll’a,,'"! ^ «»«* ,?.m °snv plZr,!f' , 'b,' ’“f' U the glass. Iu the twilight she walked slow l.v do a u the orchard-,,nth into and leaned on the gate that opened the road. 1 1 III , out . from . , lie hind the ^'‘''sloni, my gift ot 1-T* ' P r: sa " m,,rk ’ ® nt ° J Dora, l J*° li Tu though W A l ” } she m} .- ; *■' Issfore, felt that no Iim , that pass-word, and suffered cse • f to res si e«, ly ,n lua arms in the waiting' waiting. ' COmeS ' g When Joe aud Dora went into . the house and she looked at bun by candle hgbt, her hear almost misgave her; Ins luxuriant U-ard and the manly assurance of h» manners were not at all like her Joe of b, loved memory, and a teiribie barrier seenu-d to rise np between them, whde rrmlenee remained in the room w,tl, her company manners, which sat more awkwardly u,kh, her than her Sun (hiv gowi) VVlien Dora tiptoe.1 softly ... , by . her sis ter s door at. a very Jute hour that night Pnnl. nec tell was lying awake for her. “ Don t me, she said, “that you vo np|‘it waiting for tlrnt Joe Rayniiam* all tins time! i « « »u ( te ll yon it you don t want to hear it,” said Dora. “ Do you know whether he came Inane anv 1 letter off than when he went ask away?” said “ I Ikira, really eareh-aaly. haven’t thought Prudence to groaned him,” and her face to the wall. Joe waited only till the next day to tell Mm. Hall the story of his sm-tvss, whirl, seemed very iu. derate in histrav “led eves l.nt seemed a noble fortune to her homelv Mena. “I never thought before,’’said Dora’s father at the wedding, “that a woman wnM keep a secret; andlgwss it ain’t u oommon thaH sm)W , lo g „. , A . , , lwv( , if - for me IT whispered jJe in Dorn's ear. “ Forever,” said Doio, solemnly. And Mrs. Prudemv Hall, as she over heard the word, thanked her stars that Dora’s foolish notions had not wrecked her at Iasi, on a iMvserty-stricken mar ,ja"e. ■ How Joliann Stranss Writes his Waltzes. Strauss and his wife were Scfeonku enjoying a fL.tte- m ,, wa lk in the park at re when suiUImiIv the LeTJ/L composer ex “ Mvi lettel w u w i . 'al nu» tl»** down'. of or envelope to write it liefore I forget it.” Alas! after much rummaging ot pockets it wa» discovered that neither of them had a letter about ks at^sx-iWs^ heart-rending. At last His sii^w^ii^cSrrd despair was MB.‘ 1 TlZ'ffs' mate W sh,mHl' 1 the ^same b «‘e then Fran Strauss collar, then not »iw‘»iei *a-iap of standied lim n mi wl.icli {? l ‘ ouollu1 "^olmni' « tl,e ‘TZffdte' -f t m* here bec ' ime iZiug frudie He was ™ _ n tb (or L~ u Ivon ab >wed to write : three-quarter ,, of f ,, t „ Tf ,, . » ^ stmilS8 . she ^ band b q 0 a capacious pocket, fished out a purse opened it aud displayed, to his delighted gaze a bran new hundred gulden note Hurrah t The entire fiuale wa s written on the bank-note, and then .To!;ami Strauss relaiwed into his usual .Jaciditv, * i -----:— lSS gold . " E SSv X ot i- now . le! ? ,h * n SI >30,000 000, and its foreign . practically suspended. In the ”"* 3,£5,5.5 * 'm'm'ST. «*.•**»*»■ A max in a New York restaurant opened 7,000 oysters in twelve hours. From Poverty to Eminence. In an address liefore the medical [ £r^ss,i has ,, s?rs=sf^ in the rid, student tor success w the emiueut surgeon. l)r. D. Hures Agnew. sai«l: L«t m* 1 repeat to Ton that the success you H.-k lies wholly l within the pale of the law, and if were to lay It* fore you what I l*lit:ve to W &e anditiotH which regu •- . Nraaee* mentor distinction in this life, I should sav first that the subject which is and tocom mand the service of your hand miud must be intrinsically worthy, and here j,. t me that I have never known a me.lie.1 man, the governing principle reach dis- of whose life was mercenary, to tiugiiisbed success. The purer and more ennobling the subject whfch t|„. attention of the student the more WJ j] !,is mind he elevated, his feelings rejiued, and the whole man be lifted out of the environment of his lower nature into au unclouded atmosphere of thought aud “There°is feeliii".” an opinion much too pre¬ valent in the world that the posts and places in life depend largely on ati undefined and unregulated force, which makes man the passive creature of a for tuitous play of circumstances. Wealth, family, into‘notice genius, have all been nr.-ssed as constituting important factors in the race for distinction. How mauv and‘in ha.Tc fought their wav to tlio frout spite iiigh of poverty have al length 4, ie seats of liamiug and P'*v.rty did hot prevent Sam n<d Johnson rising to literary eminence, V*? P^utologlstof 4 P rev ^? lt Innii.eus Ins tune, heepujing lovertydid lllns tiums. Heyne, of Gottinged, the son of “JXut SgieZS-r thinT veZs v i li extreme -.vcrty d2iS yet fin ^SarZhfa v iavame t ““°- Vflpeati, the grwit figure iu French ^‘“wioligcd fat ftom the dfa-ecling table vZyhanm over whieh e wrought n Ldn 1 th ^ns . , ator of , the works ot Hipixa-rates, .so Iron, the most abject poverty. i)r - Agnew paused an instant, and his Tr^T^T *™“J ^ tlu “i £t lu-dinglrisiVa 1 parient .7,1 he evV^iad / 0 , V!1H '>'>y whose poverty thirst did place not fu prevent him to a nation’s ’’i** “f 1 l8e Ancestral Woo valueless l, divorced from * ’ a posses a,, tl so “° of tlle «"»*«* ju hiRtory have , been those whom the world rec -guiz d as men of g-nius, or, as Car digious ly| e would term them, men with a pro Tnnuug capacity of earn the ing troubles. ** now to medical profes siou, does it come short of the conditions which have been designated as essential ,„ M Jjfe It has always remained fession «*n whose uusolvable members paradox'that a pro do so much to rpUeve humun .suffering iu ail walks of )jfe aud ^ m wim fl>1 . Q ,^ ncflt of other u profession whose U1(!in , 1( . rs or ,li nftril y devote one-fourtli of their their lives to the'gratuitous dispensing * o{ ^rvices, and so few ..f whom a cumulate a competency of this world’s ^khIh sufficient to keep the w tdf from the door or at be8t to remove tlie anxieties of advanciug year ,-I say it is puzzling to explain iu the face of such a record , vhv BO littW sympathy exists between thr 'question VM( . ilin a)ld tlle ^ lhlic Only let ^me of general im^.rtance wiae in wbich the character or pro fens ion al reputation of a imnlical man is involved, and, ten to one, the public will range tor." tliemsekes over against tiie doc- * ucifsenMn Keeipe. In the information . column of some, of our that exchanges, the startling assertion a watermelon may be vanished and mil keep till Christmas, u» atill sr ‘,!’,! n<4 ‘ watermelon . » . onf favorite ., fruit , . «'« l ^ thil tb «‘ «e would fhnstmas. V 1 ’ 8 a,ul 1 8, he ' v P surprise r,sl> '»'* was fneu all ^ nglit with , *»«* th « wasnt «>**\ *« r m »ch. Att f? 'he turkey ami , cranberry sauce bad been demolished, we remarked as we sharpened the carving knife on onr boot Jog, fn “l. that we would now deal ont the " l,e , - .. .... - . 'Z® . ,. Enough “ the .T® vanushed , V 1 shed * Tw of o tin-water- 8 IUl hui, aliout a quartol melon juice m a 1 1 '‘' p and stopped tht flow of conversation. \ es, you ean varnish a watermelon and ^ '*"* uex * ' lll > ” nf w * l ‘“ n yon hold Z.r'l £ but ‘the r e ™‘ T th ^M * \ •) ' le ve „ r leiuemb ^“ em ,, , r rZm" Uiat , n itTen’t v \ ent . to to . l ‘^Z . ‘Za barn'' , 1 . ^ " ‘'' V!J ^£.sn’t rim rid, ‘ always bet on these reoine v< m lVJU \ ij, the mwier* We re mem be >’ once of reading tlmt r oertiiu .......- *» \Ye tried it ' ’ihe'flmilv iZl to move nut an a ranch tIil tll , ^ ha d blown ov.r. And while we were gone, the coroner brake iuto the ‘ ' s >e ' v,l ° hf ’ d ' 08,1 k,llei1 an<1 " P tbere ln order con ‘ !l ‘ al B*imr I”' of , these o editors r , who l compile v«-cq> ^ for housekeepers ^ don’t know a ^ from * tl)1 Ih.ooue is that which . three feet but u.vr nas «-> legs, is all body hat no limbs, has no toes on the feet, no head, nr ores a great deal but uev-r uses its feet for that pur pose, has one foot at each end and on« the center of the body? This is a queer creature in some respects, and it v. ry popular among the ladies and soma gentlemen. It never walk* out, buk goes fie. with one foot where the head might drugging the otlier foot behind, Pf "f “?*' >”*, “ ><?■' »» TheRE are 60,000 boatmen employed on the “ raging canawl ” known as the " “ Erie. FOPILIB SCIENCE. - jr™ OT, * i “ -* There are 174,*)00,000 air cells iu tlie ’ The . cloud to tue earth nearer a rain is larger the drupe, Soda put into sea water makes it fit fer Tiwhing flnthia Glacbeb salt is the sulphate* of soda pf m<*lern chemists. Meat immersed in molasses has been preserved for months. JeSSS rvrrv irfr inclines are said tn Vu, o The distilled juice of the cocoa tree forms the well-kuovvu arrak. Uxpeb-shot wheels require a mueh larger body of water than overshot The diamond is rather more than three and one-half times heavier than water, Etkek is so volatile that it cannot be jxmred from one ve-sel to another with¬ out loss. a T a white Xh beat cornier nassea off into .reeu’flome v Vrums .\, s ldood , is . a resinwhieh . ... ei )^ les ^’ an ? ,is trees ‘ 11 is so called fronj lts retl color ' Leeches may be indaeetl to bite more readily by bathing the surface to which th *7 ^ applied with milk Ostoes to the amount of five per cent, of tlie quantity inhaled disapjr arH at ^ h '^ The p.irUidity or autlpari.y to e.rl.uti odors is unaccouptablc. The Italian lu dies who dread the rose delight in rue. XLVErl TWO iu a 1 ,u !i ' lrcJ '* ^'T ^ , J ’ “TS* - . 8 <% . t *«»**"»"* r butter ;i!ifl Z i i li t, cax^ot determine the sound of a string which makes less than thirty vi bmtions per second, nor of one which mon. , v „. v „ thrni 7,5o- rr-i The icebergs of the Southern hemis pheres are much larger than those of ^ Ue *R Ut of l m ,wt “ ’ I’Afiut can lie made transparent hy spreading over it, with a feather, a very applied thin layer of resiu sides. dissolved in alcohol, to both Bai.t— or better still—saltpetre, finely powdered, will placed about the wick of a candle, prevent it from guttering aud eause it to burn slowly. An essential oil is obtained from cloves hy repeated distdlations. It is a common trick to mix cloves thus de¬ prived of their oil with others. When a glass tube containing a crys¬ tallizing liquid is scratched with a glare rod the crystals deposit themselves on the scratches in preference. I r is said that in the intestines of flies and other insects are blood-vessels, the smallest branches whereof are 200,0"0i times less than o hair in size. The annual cotton plant as cultivated in America, attains though its growth during four months, it continues to de¬ velop® seed and liber for'a longer period. Case-hardening is a process hv which a thin co.it of st.-el is given to iron The steel can lie hardened to that particular depth, leaving the iron soft. Silk articles of delicate shades should not be folded in white paper, as th. chloride will of probably lime used impair in bleaching the paper the color of the silk. Dissolving tiro of „ nitric , A . and ounces Hie same quantity sal-ammoniac, finely powdered, in nineteen heat ounces of water, will reduce the of the liquid forty degier-s. -- The Luxury of Living- iu Tari*. I live in a garret, but I live as I please. Eight dollars per week pays all expenses tickets —rent, fuel, food, wine, washing, car and the theater. 1 can here go „ nt with a basket on my arm, buy my dinner, bring it home and eat it. lean go out in a pair ot old slippers and au old coat. This is luxury. Borne dinners are bought at the cook shop around the comer—cold meats of many sorts ve-e tables and many kinds of salads, cooked turkey, m1 chicken, go. se, duck, laief, veal * * Hr ,rk > or hot {ripa ,iua potatoes, Fifteen minutes and fifty cents will put half a dozen dishes and relishes on my ^bJa, incluiiing a bottle ot nine. The etiquette of the house allows me to ask , Mademoiselle Celestiue to dine with me. ! She sews for a living twelve hours out j of twenty-four. Lives in a hit of a ^ wit ^ out frc, “, vea, ' s 811,1 to <*«- Earns . i **** lrt Has titty cents per i ‘ . v - a cough and pam m her side, 1 the t ?“ ! « ai « hand flt 1 ! m eTemug. carrvingm one | chareoul, an.l in' the other a few ‘ ft ot .“ r<m, ” llt of «' b *‘-h she ^ ^ .^f > 0ps r v!! m , her table el ’ my relis't/lier e'lnrot^ f xv'ev ° V S ie * ? e ? iHSSsSS 1 tue is its own reward CetestinVis bid andli. wZina lames te£ewZL‘^consumptiZ help fill j r up thoeatacomhs and add their mite to the subterranean sepulchral curiosities of Paris. Hard work, poor fare ai«l a room permanently whhout hre will kfll her. On Buntlay she serous her den. It* furniture can becartedoffinawheol-barrow.—Pren tin ,n .San FraueUco Chron ’*■ Cure for Snake Ritev. An . oh, ,, mountaineer mv ...... irgimagiyea “* c ” r8 wi rat ttesnaa.* Dites asfoitows: P nt the niontn or a nottle tilled J izen will ilror w* on. Z audmakt , f, "ZTAV** the turpem- 1 tm % green- home, however, kill the a pi 'T !l , trt,c »t <J»rs f1 the Lus e^jns : male pucen out. . what pickmckers cany m <“ «“ ".*« are so fearful of woundiega wom an’s vanity that they rarely remember she grain may, by some pi'issfoilirv, possess a ( of common sense.