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Stop When this baud anil begins to away. piay, |
your ear* run |
!
“ v ’ long enough fife fiddle love !
‘ oo violin to mention, will, dove,
v., while de-claHn'et.
K'upboufe3sh strict attention?”
i iioii didst triangle-ing, adored,
All this dulcimer duly;
TL u eastanet, threw manichord,
And caught oboe—yours truly.”
»• There’s spinet times when by thv sido
I've th ught, viol, love, thou eyed ina -
* i he calliope to make my bride
Is this d ar girl beside me.’ V
•' It whistle little thought but, oh’
Its harp-in ess was thrilling. but show
What could hautboy do willing.” then
il i-n angel lie was
*• Well, lyre, resolved to guitar chance
Tw pop—nay, do not mourn it;
lit. , ib, bell-ieve this heart which pants
And do not, precious, cornet.”
*• i \ t- thought timbrii-liant,” mused the maid,
" But l de-cinrion-ly
Th -uht he’d banjo-king when he said,
* Love! violone am lonely.’ ”
j: co .oertina room Ittigan
j v o hearts like one a-beat ing.
i. *vveet a<*cordion' his Ann
tV a tolled moments swiftly fleeting.
i w nine fluttna c'ock; he stayed
With his harmonica-lar
h ’e'iling to the cymbal maid
Hi* joy was worth a dollar.
>\ w bad that young buccina-head
Per-harpsichord have ended
His lire*pa xylophone in offended. time and fled
came iu
u i'.Uat tam-hour-lne my house again
And cittern close piano.*
/ d Isave I got tabouret when
i still can shoot a men ? No! ”
i ?i flute to get organ to shoot
And drum had made him ravage.
** i' \ e got tabor that young gaV.ute
With bullets.” He was savage.
Ob. see, melod ”-ian-gry said,
This gun—that plccolo-de bass-viol lead— fellow
J i tiu him will of
1 Cub bugle-long,' I’ll yell, oh'.”
‘Explanation necesary: “By Ann, oh!” “Got to
•ear it”____
The Victim of a Virtue.
BY JAMES PAYS*.
I am one of those persons, envied for
ILitvr months iu the year and pitied for
London. nine, who “live a little way” out of
In the summer, our residence
is a charming one; the garden especially
is delightful and attracts troops of Lon¬
don friends. They are not only always
willing to dine with us, but drop in of
their own motion and stay for the last
train to town. The vague observation
“any fine day,” or the more evasive
phrase “ some invitations', fine day.” used in com
plimentuigr are then very
dangerous for us to employ, for we are
taken at our word, just as though we
meant it. This would be very gratify¬
ing, however expensive, if it only hap¬
pened all tiie year round. But from
October to June nobody comes near us.
In reply to such our modest invitations we
then receive expressions of tender
regret as would convince the most skep¬
tical ; “a previous engagement,” born,” “in¬
disposition of our youngest “ the
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rrvt £ 2 s? , , ^ SSftA'ASS w , ii- A t
Which wenllieynn they mean little next Ice. summer inclement," As for by
‘° d ’i W1 t ? !i ley
,
mean nearer first. Sometimes at theh
crdimryliow doz^n people wliolivo half a.
miles , ari of ^n wm attempt to
Jgiion; rho seasons anu expect us to go
and dme with them just as if it was
August, through four feet of snow It
does reahy seem-as Jones our excellent
host was saying the other day- tne very
height of personal conceit.
dejL'faJlmvfw deuce tor some years, we have long had hlq
the conceit taken out of us ; but we have
Still our feelings. Our social toes are
not absolutely frost-bitten, and when
thus trodden upon, we are aware of the
circumstance. It grieves us to know
What Jones has thought (and said) of us,
s gffs find myself 2SAt2gpn4 dropping asleep be
ride. I
fore we have left brick and mortar be
hind us, and as we cross the great com
mon near our home I feel a considerable
change in the temperature. It is a
beautiful, breezy spot, with a lovely
view in summer time; the playground bee;
of the butterfly and the place of the
but in the wiuter it is eoid enough.
In the day-time there is nobody there
stall. In the evening, pltrol. at uncertain in
tervals, there is the In the old
times it used to be a favorite haunt of
the Knights of the Road; during whose I
epoch, by-the-by, I should fancy that :
those who lived in the locality found it j :
even more difficult to collect their friends
around them than now. It iias still a ■
bad name for tramps and vagabonds, i
which makes mv wife a little nervous
when the davs begia'to “draw in” and ;
‘ draw off. She insists j
our visitors to
npon mv going av«.-r- the house before
retiring “rtof 'to resf everv nieht and making
“All’s well.” Being myself
cot much over five Ceet liigb in my boots, j
and considerably less in my slippers . in !
which I am wont to make these pere- j
grinations), it has often suggested itself j
to my mind that it would be more judi
cions to leave the burglars to do .heir |
worst, as regards the plate and things,
and not risk what is Ho me) much more
valuable. Of course I could “ hold the j
livesof half adozenmen mmyhand author
—a quotation from my favonte ,
-by merely armmg myadf with
a loaded revolver; but toe simple
fact is, I am so un. .te-le
,
of any weapon ch)that_I xx... a--. > - > - ^
can be called m,
just as likely to p^pn with shooting
number one (that is mjseit) as numoei
L if ,S' b S“”o“ in the force
the other hand, as I believe
of imagination, I always carry, on these i
expeditions, in the pocket of my dress
ing gown, a child’s pistol—belonging to
pur Se infant, Edward 'John-which looks
a red one, and would I am per-
sonal peril. “Miserable ruffians,” I had
made up my mind to say when coming
upon the gang, “ your lives are in my
power,” (here I exhibit the pistol’s butt),
“but out of perhaps a mistaken elem
ency I will only shoot one of you, the
one that is the iast to leave my house, t
shall count six,” (or sixteen, according
to the number of the gang), “ and then
five” Upon which they would, I cal
ciliated, all skedaddle helterpelter to
the door they got in at, which I should
lock and double-lock after them. You
may ask, “why double-lock?’ but you
will get no satisfactory reply. I know
no more what to “ double-look” means
than you do. but my favorite novelist—
a sensational one—always uses it, and I
conclude he ought to know. of misty Goto
It was the beginning had fallen a off early,
ber, when the leaves
and our friends had followed their ex
ample, and I had been sitting up alone
favorite end—lm chief
tliird volume, wherein all the
characters (except the comic ones) are
slain, save one who is left sound in
wind’and limb, commit but with suicide. an hereditary Some
disposition to
wliat depressed by its perusal and ex
ceedingly sleepy, I went about my usual
task of seeing all was right in a some
what careless and apparently perfunctory in the manner. dining
All was right right in the drawing all
room, all room,
right certainly in the study (where I
had myself been sitting) and all right—
no, not quite all right in our little black
hall or vestibule, where, upon the round
table the very largest and thickest pair
of navvy’s boots I ever saw were stand
ing between my wife’s neat little urn
brellaand a pair of her gardening gloves,
Even in that awful moment I remember
tbe sense of contrast and incongruity
struok me almost boots as themselves, forcibly as and the pres- they
ence ot the
astonished me as much as the sight of
the famous footprints did Robinson
Crusoe, and tor precisely the same rea
son. The boot and the print were noth
ing in themselves, but my intelligence,
now fully awakened, at once flew to the
conclusion that somebody must have
been there to leave them, and was prolia
blyinthe neighborhood, and, indeed,
under my roof at that very moment. II
vou give Prof. Owen a foot of any eroa
ture (just as of less scientific persons we
say : Give them an inch, they will take
an ell), lie will build up the whole ani
mal out of his own mind; and something
of the Professor’s marvelous instinct
was on this occasion mine. I pictured
to myself (and as it turned out, cor¬
rectly) a monster more than six feet
high, broad in the shoulders, heavy balus¬ in
the jowl, with legs like stone
trades, and hands, but too often
clenched, of the size of pumpkins. The
vestibule led into the pantry, where, no
half doubt, this giant, with his one idea, or
a one, would conclude the chief part
of our plate to be, whereas it was lying—
unless he had already taken it—a terri¬
ble thought that flashed through my
mind, followed by a cluster of others,
like a comet with its tail—under our
bed.
0f conrse j coula have gone int o the
pantry at once, but I felt averse to be
precipitate ; perhaps this (upon finding would noth- fuel
ing to st-al) poor wreteli
remorse tor wliat lie had done and go
r * «. «»'<','»»<°
te ™k'me tlmt
might not be a thief after all, but
only a cousin (considerably “removed”)
have been very^S^Thwto have’S
, R K-h I knew were in the late or. Such
gtate ^heu&ble, of thi j r ,: peat would have
, but I most sineerelv
hopea £ that it had occurred. A elaudcs
ti attachment, ^ however misplaced, ^il,!e is
, . tb 1)Ur fc lar ^ with 4l po vio
Jence _ Cougllin g r ther ] 0 lv , to give
the gentleman notice that I was about,
aafl to suggest ate that he had better take
” , ; lf “ themZ^tomdrios t ,. r
wc nt to V attlc to “ ake “W 1 ™ 8 -
A 11 concerning" the^xcesrnAo
f 8 i on 01 coiKernmg tiie excessive som somno no
. ^ n b er of the Seven Sleep
r rfcr ,."' r ho "f jf?
their attention, and it took me another
wj 1( je) thatotwas !!!, fH notoive I, V 6 ‘ '* IMt * Lad I
“
v, . , ..a , ? Klrn “ -
they + tben ' were b « ds scarcely - ®f be . less ved excited upon b this and point, put -
out b Y, tbe communication I was com
pelled . to make to them though
con
veyed the utmost delicacy and re
nnement 1 asked them of which^language whether by any is capable. accident
one oi them chanced to have a male rel
ative w.io wore exceptionally thick high
Ip'^ Tliei^all n Vi a !LVhJtver^i^nin^
renlied l i-i iiulwnnnt hxaV-i'ni cIhc-iih
,, , , nomr
_.iiv which tliev meant the «mr. b
■ bn * x b ,,.
^ . .. t x x x
vpr hiehlows ’ beinc ° all fe
n-ithmit execution tiii^faud
Satisfied as^^to greatly disap
pointed) [ 1 felt that it was now incum
t UMf m meto and’pistol pursue mv researches
Oaudle iu hand in pocke* iy I
^eat relief S? it was tofeThS empty departed Was it ?^H pos
*e
he had gone without lus highlows, table
for t h eT stood on the vestibule as
large as life, and, from the necessity of
the case, a size or two larger. Their
build and bulk, indeed, impressed me
more tl , an ever . Wa8 it possible that
one burglar had come in those boots?
j entered tb% kitch en ; not a mouse
stirring; ^ on the other hand, there
a Je Sway of blacU beetles, which
sputtled in all directions except
one . They avoided the dresser—beneath
which lav the gentleman I was looking
curled up in a space much too
gmall for b im, but affecting previously to be I
i Indeed though
leb T
I j. I felt at once a is was giv
me the id^ of the slumber that Mto
honest toil. I knew . i P ->
that he was going to
and exhausted, he had taken shelter , un
der my roof, with no other object (how-
rest, of which he stocu n irgent need.
“ Don’t shoot, sir,” he t. Edward id, for I took
eare to let the handle of John’s
pistol protrude but from honest my dressing-gown. I only
“I am poor, j, came
m here for the warmth .id to have a
snooze.”
sternly. “How dig you got in?” I inquired,
“I just prized up the wash “-and us will- laid
dor,” was his plaintive reply,
down’ere,”
Then, ^ put out boots . the
“ you your in
back hall to be cleaned in tho morning,
I suppose?” this lie grinned dreadful It
At a pin.
seemed to say, “As you have the whip
hand of me, you may be aA^njnorous
as you please; but if it was ntu for that
pistol, my fine friend, you .would be
laughing on the other sidef if your
mouth, I reckon.”
“ Come, march.” said I Put Oil
"Tie got^up and as slouched a wild beast before Ases from into
liis lair, me
the hall. .
Though grateful lie looked him exceedingly for going wicked,
I felt to so peace
ably, and was moved to compassion.
“Were you really m want that you
came here?” I said, “Are vmt hun
gry? “Not lie answered th leer,
now, w a
Of course he was intimatinf that, he
i lac i supped thought at my it expense, frank of 1 i yl at the
time I m to ac
knowledge it. If I lmd kuoa i then, as
I learned afterward, that he h 1 eaten a
grouse and a half, and the 1 iole con
tents of a large jar of I svonshire
cream winch we had just res- ~ed as a
present, I should have though father it mere
impudence. I did think hesfi.nl it im
pu den.t when he said,, had as for at the his
front door which I open m
exit: -
“Won’t you give me liali i crown,
ness?” sir, to put, But, me in nevertheless, an honest wa.,-of tl;inking b U si- it
better to part good friends, fgave him
what-lie asked for. He spit upon the
coin “ for luck,” as ho perhapsias was gooW enough sub
to explain, for thanks, and also since he omitted a to
stitute
give me any, and slouched gale. down the
gravel sweep and out of the
It was 3 o’clock; the mist U'd begun.
to clear, and the moon and liars were
shining. A sort of holy calmlbegan to
pervade me. I felt that I hold done a
good action and also got rid of a very
dangerous individual, and thiit to it was
high time that I should go bed in
peace with all men. My mfe, however,
who had been roused by the;servants,
was on the tiptoe of expectation to hear
a ll that had taken place, and of course I
had to tell her. I described each thrill
ing incident with such dramatic force
that she averred that nothing would ever
induce her in my absence to sleep in the
house again. This was perhaps but the
just punishment for a trifle of exaggera
tion in the narrative with which I had
here and unfortunate. there indulged Now myself, and then but it I
was very myself detained in after dining
find town,
at the club, by circumstances over which
I have no control (such as a r.te.ber at
wlust, which will sometimes stretch like
india-rubber), and hitherto I i;ad only
had to telegraph in the afternoon to ex
press my regret that there was a p -*'
bility of my'non-return. Here wa
end to all this, unless I could reas
her. I therefore began to dwell upon
the unlikeliliood of a second which burglar I
ever visiting the house, made com
pared with that famous hole of by a
cannon ball, said to be a place secu¬
rity from cannon balls for evermore. .
: ‘Oh, don’t tell me,” cried my wife,
with just a trace of impaf ni '’' SsS’^ref ntatton
in her what voice.. that “ Has'i comafphg i *,, <6,,, the
is 1
mad?” iffin 6n
She thought .... it . burglar . . .
was a norse
back . jhereas, if I may so « xprass it it
borsepatrol ' vas thei very contrary-name^, toe
, .
_ 11,,8lst .“ Kaook at tI,e wln( ? ow i h,m cal U“ flhe u ,n ’
u P on vour 8ee,n K > ex '
-
claimed. I had no alternative, since Bhe
8aK J “ insl8t " ( a8a,, Y mar f i ¥ tnlu '. wi11
understand), ( but to accede to patrol her ifishee;
80 1 wo,,t ont an<1 told ,J *e what
had happened. •
“How he inquired. long ago was the fellow here,
“ More than an hour. It is quite out
of the fi nostlon Y 011 can overtake) him.
SiAT ' t,m 10 : “
“ You do, do you ?” raid the patrol in
il,at sort ot compassionate tone of \toice
in which the visitor of a lunatic asJlum
addresses an inmate warranted harmless, iver
„ We „ , [S j am here , I’ll just go is)
tbft house and make sure there no
more o{ them It not impossible, pal behjind
Yon see he ma y have left a
\ iim »» bootU,” j |
“There was only one pair of
sa id I confidently“ J ; of that lam et*r- !
tain> „ •
Nevertheless, as l felt it would'-b* ijis a |
satisfaction to my wife, I acceded to
request. He tied his horse to the scrap- aid )
er, and came in with his lantern,
looked about hall, him. There for was I had nobody just j
in the front of course, |
cornel' noboi irougli it; in the drawing- rooih
thl .in the vestibule nobodv—best j
on table whore they had stood beforfe ;
stooA »pair of gigantic navvy’s wliisperm^ boots. ! !
“What patrol, d’ye pointing think of that?” them. j
i,l ‘- to one f of ^ I
“They’re the same,” answered
hushed amazement, “they’re tLm the amongl very , ‘
•-«. I could swear to \\
thousand. What can it mean?”
“Well, it means that the gentleman t;
who was going to lead a new We, lie i
answered dryly, lias thought better of
it and lias come back again. I
And so he had. place We under found the lnm dresser, lying ji
in the very same -V
awaiting, “O Lor 1 ! suppose, is that you, events. Mr. Policeman ?” j
.
he said, cornplainingly. »Then, it’s all
up.” ./ t
If he had had to deal , . with me alone, i
heexpected, perhaps, toluive got another
half-mown out of mo. But the great >
probability was, he hml doubtless argued i
that all suspicion ot burglars, for that j
a 2 S?Jsas 2 £rLflia 25 S 1
^ on jjg 8 j^ e j
i hetoed to fasten a strong ^attached strap to his
wrhd which was already to '
’ “And now”
that tog of «* the horse patrol’s 1
ba, J ™* w m go g and
^ i...
that operation accomplished by him jtay bur
glar, for the second time saw walk
oft though on this occasion a captive
to his mounted companion. I did
not wish, as the Judges say when
(ho was on ticket-of-leave, and presently
got five years’ penal servitude), but I
could not help saying:
“ I flunk you ought to have been con
tent with your supper and balf-a-crown, ;
and not come here again, at all events i
in search of plunder. ” i
This weight argument, with it seemed, had no sort i |
of him ; gratitude was nn
known to civilized that savage breast. Like |
tributed many more his individuals, he at- i
misfortunes to his own I
virtue.
scornfully. “No, sir, it ain’t that,” he answered j
“I’m the wictim of perse¬
verance.”
Sllts an<1 Cockroaches ou Board of Ship,
The natural history of a voyage would
Be incomplete, however, without some
reference to those old nautical mess
mates, rats and cockroaches. Rats fre
quentlv ascend tho rigging, and when
discovered aloft the word is given, and
the unhappy rodent has to run the
gauntlet hands ot below. marlmgspikes Ihavonoticed held by will
mg several
cases of apparent suicide by the niton
these occasons ; it seemed to spring
overboard from tho rigging when it bad
descended almost to the shrouds, where
enemies were stationed and cut off its
escape. I have also when seen pursued it apparently
spring overboard by my
dog, the action appearing of a voluntary Italian
greyhound, nature. My dog w£g a of small
arid the last animal presumably pure breed,
that could bo consul
ered “ good for rats. ” However, such
was case am* a few of tlmse trapped
rodents m afi empty beef cask provided
little always and a moment unlikely-looking of excitement for this
explanation I take be dog. The
to this : It is
a oustom to cross blaek-and-tan-terriers
with the Italian greyhound to increase
the length of the nose, and this has gone
on for some time, especially in breeding
the so-called “ toy ” terriers. My little
greyhound \Jood. and bitch inherited probably had terrier
“ instinct.” Bats
seom to increase in temerity with the
length of the voyage, and their presence
in time becomes less objectionable. Be
fore the voyage was fiuiuished I quite
lost the repugnance I at first felt when
they sometimes ran across my bed at
night. As regards the ubiquitous cock
roaches {lilatta sp.) 1 learned to forget
their depredations in admiration of their
tenacity of life. Bennett records these
insects ns drinking the ink, and, as far
a8 my experience goos, nothing comes
amiss to them. Certainly, when they
were found eating my arsenical soap,
and apparently with immunity I gave
np all attempts at extirpating them
from my cabin. At intervals tho cock
roaches would flv about during the night,
and this I considered more disagreeable
than the visits of rats. Tliev, howevei
only / took wing at rare intervals and l
lla e met with no explanation of that
habit. Dr. Seeman, in bis “A Mission
to Viti,” states that at Fiji cockroaches
so swarm in some vessels that they have
• • .ymW the water to free them
id.
The Purpose of Reading.
Every reader should know the pur¬
pose for which he reads. Usually this
purpose is either rest, amusement, or
what may he called improvement. A
boy or girl, takes tired Hawthorne's by work in the shop or
house, up “Wonder Fretted
Book,”—that marks is reading school, for rest. becomes
by low in at Family one Robinson”— ab¬
sorbed “Swiss
that is reading for amusement. Eager
to instruct the mind, you rend Ban¬
croft’s “History of the United States”—
that is reading three for improvement.
combined. The purposes arc frequently
One may find in rending
Macaulay’s “Essay on Bacon,” rest,
amusement, and improvement.
Of these purposes that of improve¬
ment of mind and heart is most impor¬
tant. Ill all reading whose immediate
aim is either recreation or pleasure, the
remote aim,should be the formation of a
noble character. No one should read a
book without right rest lying to he aided by it
in every ond< aver.
The purpose for which one reads de¬
termines the choice ot the book. If
you arc indoubt what to read, form a
clear idea of the reason of your reading,
and the selection of a proper book is
made easy .—Morgantown /‘res*.
A Novelist’s “Pointer.”
Mr. James Payn, the novelist, tells us
that when he was a very young map and
had very little experience, lie was . ead
ing on acoach-box an account of som e gi
gan lie trees. One of them was doscr died
sound outside ; but within for many
feet, amass of rottenness and decay,
“H a boy should climb up, bird-nesting,
into the fork of it, thought I, he might
go down feet first, and never be heard of
again.” “Then,” he adds, “ it struck
me what an appropriate end it would be
for a character of a novel. Before i had
left the coach-box, f had thought out
‘LostBir Massingberd. bncli a pro
cess lastea for a shorter time with Mr.
P«yn than with the majority of nov- !
>»ts ; witn many the little wed might
have ^nmnated for w lietore it
,
oronght iortli for to tniit. eh ret .ui. amlcolnuBncy J. .e j is r<*- !
markab f an,ess
ot las plots ; they alnav-i hang togetlmi,
and have a subs tan n . packixme. ;
< b sieinU ' " • |
On the subject of domestic manage
roent I may quote a recipe for avoiding j
family quarrels, wbmli I think may fairly I
claim credit for good sense, ft was |
|given me bv an old man as invent, d and
f’ P^ced Z’t°Z by ! a £'■ coujfie whom he used to . !
\ i,rtl b0e i wr ; m J - 8illJ **,. 1 b ‘ Y C <* n - 4 J<e
* >
-•< n ';’ ( Vl 8 “ <1 ‘ 1
W home he a little «»ntra.ry and out
d>f temper voie In, hat on the b.atk
^ ht» head,, and then she never said a
“ a,1 ““ , “ 1
) If similarly wise danger signals could
pretty largely collisions used, how many avoided, un
necessary would be
an d how many a long train of evil con
sequences would be safely agiin. shunted till
the line was clear - Leisure
GOSSIP FOIT^THE LADIE ft
-
tlnei Uonimasct
rt wa " Co, “ in Jsck " id 80 m '
’ '~
t W( , ,, n tlle tor tiio av*' 11 ^ waB warra !
The went of the im* rteia» crept up from the
*‘"qnite ir tha a»rk, save the flre-mes’
<n wae just c..« 8 m J«i, and eo-what , vn the
1 “ rl “ .i whirring broke the
A , li \ 1 K*im f m t ho hedce up,
; fodlsh elerm.
He >»>■', as I Bhirteil in
4ud l,^’n“? UB °’ ! " ' JL ’ w»n tim
-skauvr rutm-m, m The Century.
WoitiHti’w U it.
A woman’s advice is generally in trouble, worth
having; so, if you are any
tell your mother, or your wife, or vour |
sister all about it. Be assured that light
will flash upon your darkness. Women
are too commonly judged verdant in ail
but purely womanish affairs. No philo
Kophicul students of the sex thus judge
them. Their intuitions or insight are
most subtle, and if they cannot see a cat |
in the rueal there is no cat there. I ;ul- !
J ■ * ‘ ,,, nf i,s. aff a„
, j i{ jjanv a home has been
save d and many a fortune retrieved by a
man - H confidence in his wife. Woman is
fnv more a seer and a prophet than a
umn jf s h c be given a fair clmuce Asa
general rule the wives confide the minut
o{ thelv plau8 an q thoughts to their
husbands " Why not reciprocate if but
{or (lu , pleasure of meeting confidence
w itli confidence ? The men who succeed
best in life are those who make contl
( i in q s 0 f their wives,
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Follower* or iicautv
I • Tt • * , .
j , id. intelligent men Hko witl.
| V' ^ “ 1. uiino 1
| . f j rVi,,! ..Ton an q
; J n ..nil Hons
I ZTTwowT 7, t , T i . .
11.- ! ?! ’■“‘caning , ' , . ’ oi r
“
tlus w " 1 8,10 , ,. tl at 1,1,1,08 " ore
foncl . t receiving attentions, ami so
, lo ng as they got them the^ were not so
trom B ar “ 0Ui 'Jf,, ^ 031ll 118 . *' °* i ) „ ,e ;. ? ou 8 r°f i0 , ^ owevor oame
, ’
excellent . I men ut sense are as husbands, ,
tlle y maae very nuunerent lieaux ; tney
are 80 ( “ cni '™iy in earnest m wliatthev
®'\y. or( h ) > al ''‘ overpower you so with
“ lt ' u ' sense, tlmtit lsa positive relict to
| ,n .™ J ^ oro a “ U8ln 8
I!’,?' 11,18 ... 0 . *l , j, ‘ a,iat 8 ?? lou a 11 ltt,ie nmse Ue is .
,.,J ,
80 apimmmtod, teach j me to talk
“°“ sc “, 8 |'* t ,‘ at 1 ,ai ! ,° ” lyso ^i m,,ro
“6 reeal)le M 1 Y 0 , ' 1 ua a 8aiu 8|10
- > >
Y 011 ft p <lom K < Ia d very weH already
seriously, added she, the great
sensible men, next to
m number, w that
the 7 prefer to be the slavcs ot their own
^lmns ra her than of ours. A man of
8ell8 ° entll ^ on ® 8 000 amon g n « “ 11,0
<l aeell of iaa afioctious, and restrieta his
attentions . to her alone, while every one
? the 'tbS loyal subject o^T^ ot at hast a a Z’T dozen,
who > “»'™yfb »over permit him to ap
P **’ roac IU1< ^ then 0 bear throne away but t lc,r to oomman bow before ^ 8,
A Ufllimil'a Wliiiiim,
The Empress Josephine had 600,000
francs for her personal expenses, but
this sum was not sufficient, and her
debts increased to an appalling degree.
Notwithstanding could the position of her
husband, she never submit to
either order or etiquette in her private
life. She rose at 9 o’clock. Her toilet
consumed much time, and she lavished
Unwearied efforts on the preservation
and embellishment of her person. Bhe
changed her linen three times a day,
and never wore any stockings that were
not new. Huge baskets were brought
to her containing different dresses,
shawls and hats. From these she
selected her costume for the day. Bhe
possessed always between 300 in and the 400 morning, shawls,
and woro one
which unequalcd she draped about Bhe her purchased shoulders
with grace.
all that were brought The to her, no matter
at wliat price. evening toilet was
as careful as that of tho morning; then
she appeared with flowers, pearls or
precious stones in her hair. The smallest
assembly order was always an occasion . for of her the
te anew costume, m spite
liourds of dresses in the various palaces,
Bonaparte was irritated by these passion, ex
penditures ; lie would fly intoa
and his wife wonld weep and promise to
be more prudent, after which she would
go on in the same way. It is almost in
credible that this passion for dress
should never have exhausted itself,
After the divorce she arrayed herself
with the same care, even when she saw
no one. Bhe died covered with ribbons
and pale rose-colored satin.
Miall Women l*rii< li«'i* ’leclieiiie ?
The most serious obstacles to be en¬
countered are not always the mo t real
ones. In this, as in everything that
women do, the question of capacity is
often outranked by the qinst it ,n of taste*.
'Whether woman, with all h< r organic
imjierfectionK on her head, can be theo
retically supposed capable of the whether, study
a nd practice of medicine ;
which is quite a different question, there
actually whose capacity exis* in any this number direction of lias women been
fairly tested an I demonstrated-these
ar iuter^tinc crnWy subidcts affirmatiie of iaquirv. But
th-most answer
to Knch inqniry might s >i!i leave unset
tied a question of much more import
anw conditions ‘.f*.* 1 'large and actions chm of people under whose the
ar*
permanent domination of their tastes.
These ask not, “ Is she capable ?” but,
“Is this fearfully capable person nice ?”
wi]1 sllf> npsftt our ideal of woman
hood, and maidenhood, and the social
r e latio ns of her sex? Can a
woman physician be lovable? can
ghe marry v can 8 he have children?
will she take care of them ? If she can
wha t is she? “ </.■ ',*r■ yCuue
. n „ a French journalist in this
, . . . . .
practice medicine. Hence tiie infer
ence that piety, if nothing else, de
manded the exclusion of women from
the Massachusetts Medical Society. It
is from tie* peculiarity of the conditions
involved that the handful of women now
^
bo considered in any way to effect or en
danger existing Thousands arrangements or social
ideals. of women, from
manifold canses quite extraneous to
medicine, remain celibates all their
2S4T--5»ur “STJS
mo ther. Thousands of women
earn their living by non-domestic
labor; one profession, that of public
teachingj prac tical7y thrown open to
women only during the last half century f
is already thronged by them. Yet no
one feels that the foundations of so¬
ciety are therefore liable to be over¬
thrown. Wliat is it in the profes¬
sion of medicine which excites at
present such a different iceling and
such bitter prejudice? In the first There are sev- the
eral things. place, sub
profession of medicine has been
jected to popular misconceptions, and
h ,e odmni due to these is necessarily
shared by the women who aspire to be
physicians. Again, by a usual social employ- fiction,
ls assumed that the
men } 8 ao ' v sought by women are to
be filled by them only while waiting
for marriage, or as a resource in widow¬
hood or desertion. Even such profes¬
sional work as teaching is expected and there to
be laid aside after a few years,
is much, at least in the primary grades
of teaching, to make such interrup
I tions rather desirable. But the pro
i | fession of medicine must be chosen de
i hberately, and not at haphazard, from a
strong and genuine tftsto, { lu il not from
\ ,be mert S pressure of economic necessity;
lt ‘Mist bo seriously prepared for in
-
' youth must bo entered at the
at which ; upon age
at present many women marry;
does not yield its best returns until full
[maturity has been reached; must lie
! time. adopted, Henco therefore, if at all, for a life
I is required either an acci
tlental celibacy or deliberate renuncia
tion of marriage for tho sake of medi
; | cine, such as is not dreamed of in regard
to any other work, or else such an ad
; justment of domestic claims as shall
1 ren der them Mid the practice of medi-
1 cine by married women mutually
com¬
, patible .—North American Review.
,
. kiiglisli ., .... Itohln i at ,, Home,
\ gentleman wan standing in one o!
the shadowy nrcadc^f the Coliseum at
where he wa^omewhat brnsqely
j !Us tled by n passing figure. With a
,j,,iik instiuct lie clapped his hand to
Jus watch jioeket. His watch was gone !
He darted after the thief, who turned
8 i lrtl j,iy round, at the same time clutch
ing , 4 -G ive me that watch 1”
A dash !—the stolen property was ro¬
covered The startled roblier disap
,, oal vd, and the gentleman went home
t o boast of liis adventure and hisprow
ess . what, was Ids consternation, on
on tering bis bedroom, to find his own
vvatc j 1 which he had forgotten to put
on> him in the face from the
mantelpiece! He had been the thief
d the other wretched man hud stum
b!oil ovel . bim in stopped the dark, and merely when
“vm-tukeu and was
c ] a t,.hing his own watch, which lie had
not Uu , to re8CU0 train the tourist,
That tourist is now known to a wide and
admiring circle of friends as the “Ban
dit of the Coliseum ."—London Truth.
Ton Ti on, Too Troo.
Man that is married to woman is o!
many days and full of trouble. Iu the
morning lie draws his salary, and in the
evening behold it is all gouo. it is a tale
that is told, it vanislieth, and no one
knoweth whither it gooth. Ho risetli up
clothed in tho chilly garments of
night and seeketh the somnolent pare
gorie wherewith his offspring. to heal Ho the iinitatetli colicky
bowels of
| the horse or ox, and draweth the chariot
; of his posterity. He spendeth his shekels
i in the purchase of fine linen and purjile,
( to cover the bosom of his family, yet he
himself is seen at the gatei of the city
with one suspender. lie eometh forth
as a flower, and is cut down. There is
hope of a tree when it is cut down tlmt
the tender roots thereof will sprout again,
but man goeth to his homo, and what is
he then ? Yea, he is altogether wretched.
A Forest of Petrified Trees.
From twenty to thirty-five miles from
|, llV0 ,. t between Oln rrv Creek and Ren¬
llirig Creek, the Denver and New Or
i,; ; u-, I J; til road forces struck an unusual
obstruction, it being nothing less than
a buried forest. The trees are all petri
tied and agatized, are of all sizes, and
lie buried at various depths, from ten to
twenty-five feet, which is as deep as any
excavations were made by the workmen,
They came upon these relics of n by
gone age in at least half a dozen locaii
ties, and have met with not a little diffi¬
culty on their account. The trees are
very perfect whole and could be taken out
nearly if suitable machinery were
employed. tiie grain The trees show the bark
and very perfectly. Above
flies;* buried representatives of a once
mammoth forest grow the [tines of the
present generation. — Greeley {Col.)
t 'hro/ttcle.
A Successful Bluff Game.
A srn ak-thief grabbed the carcass of a
lamb tlmt . hung . on a ...... hook m front of a
market, and, on hndmgdie was pur
-u-d, i an into an cle-y nearby, threw his
b ‘ hl,il1 a P bo ol 1)UX< ®. and boldly
k * HlS 1,ur8UWB met lum at
11 \ /
, 11 n i o»» i i i
W1,at iamb ' mnocentl Y ‘he
... .
..V V | lv the one von r-.r,
A.,.'who r ,teth u minute turo ’ exnkined tho
Icul taker ‘ ho’dof ‘ the strnmror 5.
,, t t . y In
- . ■ t
lji-i .
’ ’ --K
“ver shoflderl ti,, n,w cor?
hte He turned that
just two minutes ago.”
“ He’s our man,” exclaimed both, and
off they started, tearing the real thief to
di-appear hastily down the street. The
men found the stolen meat, but did not
catch the thief .-Detroit Free Preu.
„ . .
Since 1860 Memphis, S&S7S2&S in spite of the
war
an d three epidemics, lias grown from,
23,000 to 47,000, while Nashville has
erupt up from 17, OOOpopulation to 75,000.
and The growth of Chattanooga, Knoxrille,
other towns, has been at proper,
