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THE OLD CHURCH REEL.
Bo mi of (he metal and the fir
Thet Ainfnmile hi.re meThan my ratlin# slro,
me of tho city's choir
Which Mints fn free air only;
X ml here since then I've patient hnnff,
SBitont, uliloucliiM: hut, beintf Swung,
aSi-. ,o my voice with Iron tongue—
. gAtoiie, hut nover lonely.
T
a small; in m-reiits stern arid clear
To all the llstonliitf people; chock
Wit h none my ut*eri#>< to or mar,
tlenilhirr my '»* near and far,
Will, oilmens claim and -ridden jar,
,
iJ shake the slender steeple.
) ring the chimes for the h; idal day:
1 toll when the dead are borne away;
I chilli.' when the red flame- rise and play
On i ruckling roof and ratter;
I tell (he hours for the slead.t clock;
I call to piayers shd (ho pastor’s flock:
And buck forth in my work I rock,
And a.k to silence after.
Pf fl<• n* iiymy*, If in belfI’jr at tilyli, anil sky,
pin:; tliroii/rli ban* ' art h
X ii -1 in >,Aiinr flic nrwzi'- tiinvinif; swr i plng- by,
A ml back tbclr kisses
I chlin,• for RniflO*. 1 toll for tears.’
I licral.l news kiuI hope- mol fears.
Am I have dono lor imifly years.
Ami nevertlraol rimflnif.
From Iilitcc of vtuiO»<"*. lookimr down
t)n w'Uow bifids nnd shadows brown
which rtinl infl tint the busy town
With him* that »floam below and quiver,
I we within the direct*
The biii/mn currents crosswise flow,
Kddj ln|r, diirirlnir to and fro.
An evci’-livliiK river.
Ami when lhe twllilfht slowly crawls
O'er slated roofs sail brieken walls,
And diirknnsH on the city fulls,
Ami liewd the Units around besprinkle.
I watch the (fliMim me creep, ‘
Ho dense the sllonco, dense and deep,
Win- very bkhWHyK seem to sleep,
Hat for the ifHdUirhts' twinkle.
Or day or nhfht there meef rny #*tut
The The Moping meshes of roofs, dreary the crowded ways
ft maze
V\ hero men lire ever wending;
One day ft rest lor them may sets—
Om ibiy in seven; hut us for me.
No lime I nun call of duty free,
My toil is tiever-ciulliig.
? chime for birth or bridal train;
I tell when souls have burst their chain;
I clang From when fire Its ruddy rain
clouds of smoke is Hinging;
I chime for smiles, I toll for tears,
I And herald news nnd hopes and fears,
mo shull ilo for many years.
And never tiro of ringing. t
— TTiokum /luuti N. I', rfdtfer.
A ROMANCE OF HISTORY.
It wns nulling time.
A blooming hand of peasant children
i»a<l gathered from far and near to have
a merry day amid the nut trees and
bodges. i
Mty children but girls of fifteen
And lads of eighteen nnd twenty were
•caltercd throughout the chattering
#roup. The harvest joyful time
nut was a to
them.
The young are always attractive in a
certain way. The undimmed bright¬
ness of the eye the satiny smoothness
of the complexion the happy smiles
ho Vo ring around the rosy lips each
has a beauty to itself; hut add to the
■chiseled youthful face the charm of perfectly
features, nnd of lustrous
brown eyes, looking out upon the world
wit h an innocent wonder at the chang¬
ing 1 scenes of loveliness so constantly
frame unfolding it in themselves of before shining, them —
a mass wavy
gold of nature’s own crimping and
poise H upon a form so lithe and slen
I in jty exquisite grace that l’raxi
lAlos inijjiit hivvj* cm on it luv his
model ami you can form an idea of
Kik: Bremer theucknovvlcdgedbeauty
of the whole surrounding country.
And there was a romantic story
About her going the*i , oimds.
It >\as.sntd dial no less a personage
than i'riiire Erie, the son of the great
And good Gimtavus, had been standing
dows one morning to witness by one of rustic the palace procession, win
a
which had been golteri up in honor of
Sonic important victory, recently won
by his famous father; and, as he stood
gazing ened suddenly, listlessly and out, lie his turned eves bright
to an at
tendant and whispered a few words
which caused him to hasten mvay.
When he returned hewas not. alone
Rika was with him.
Prince Erie's beauty-loving eyes had
been attraeted by her as she had stood
Amid a group of other maidens looking
At the gayly-dressed columns of her
country men tiling by.
She, too, was in holiday attire; and
the black velvet jueket, fitting closely In
her slender figure, and adorned with
ly •fiver-gilt the exquisite buttons, fairness brought of out her so vivid- skin,
with its rose-leaf tints of red upon lips
Aml cheeks, that she looked like a being
of a different sphere as she stood amid
biT mate
Confused and blushing, she now
Awaited the 1’riuee's pleasure. She
dared not raise her eyes to liis face.
Had she done so she would have been
©verpowered bv the earnestness el tho
gaze From with tho which lie regarded his her. rested
moment eves
upon Rika's face the world held but one
peerless woman to him.
It mattered not that his younger
brother, Duke John, was even then in
Another kingdom, wooing for him a
royal bride, upon whose brow rested a
diadem whose splendor far exceeded the
one which he waste inherit upon the
death of his father.
No. In that moment Elizabeth of
maid England was stood forgotten. before him The had peasant become
who
the Queen of his fancy. asked
“ Thv name, little one?” he
Rika raised her eyes to the handsome,
earnest face, but dropped them timidly
as she met ife glance.
“I am Frederik a the foresters
daughter “Nay, your Majesty ” title,
not yet crave 1 for that
maiden. Young blood must have its
vent, and I am glad to know that the
cares of government are not soon hkeiv
to rest upon my shoulders, broad
though N\Tth they may be”
a smile lie glanced acknowledged at Ins stal
wart frame, which was
to be one of the till -t specimens ot
physical comeliness in the country, a*
was bis face called the handsomest of
•nv Prince's in Europe. ivspeetfully. but did
Rika com tesied
rrtac 0 . 0 - thus.«
Address as an equal one of tlie humblest
of his father s subjects, she knew well
her position, and was to tlie full as
proud of her tiusullied innocence and
“ ,h< ’ ^
He shv niodesiy r.dddd to her L autv
in Ed .-'s eves.
I “Where Uvest thou, Frederik «•>” he
{ asked, soft! fcheJ°a -r
send thy
some trees which much interfere with
the comfort the forest.” of the King’s hunting par¬
ties in
This he said, knowing intuitively
that it would startle Rika to give her
his true reason and say that he intend¬
ed to Start but himself fn quest of fairer
and more precious game which must
he ensnared in tenderer toils than those
at command of the keenest sportsman
at his father’s court.
After a few words more he, suffered
Rika to go. Rut the sweet memory of
her presence went not with her. It
nestled deep within his heart.
After this interview, scarcely a week
passed that did not find Erie’s steps
turned in the direction of the forester’s
Cottage. Rika’s
A glass of milk, from own
white hands, was the draught hunter—although most pre¬
ferred by tlio royal
out of courtesy, he would sometimes ac¬
cept a mug of mead from the sturdy
old father.
Matters were in this stage at the time
our story opens. gathered, and the
The nuts were mer¬
homes, ry groups had dispersed to their various
with the understanding Hint
they should meet again the next and dis¬ day
ana go together to the palace
pose of their treasures.
The next morning found them on
their wav. dressed in their best, as be¬
came so eventful an occasion iu their
usually monotonous lives; for royalty
had such a glamor to uninitiated eyes
that the mere sight of the walls which
shut it in is eagerly coveted.
It was a pretty sight to any one who
might have been stationed at the win¬
dow, to dressed see that lads blooming and lasses, procession of
wended neatly their along with as they
way many they a
merry laugh and jest, until at last
hailed in the great square before the
palace. But the watching of the
to eyes
Prince—who had received a hint of the
coming of the worth nut-gatherers—there looking was
but one face at among
the throng.
“Como,” ho said to the corn-tiers
who wftro standing near, “let us go
down to the square in a body and make
the hearts of yon merry rustics even
merrier to-day by exchanging some
coins for the nuts they have with them.”
A Prince’s suggestion never lacks for
listeners, nor for followers, and soon
the rieli toilettes of the court people
were scattered about amidst the crowd
in the square.
Eric’s steps were turned at once to¬
wards Rika.
He soon possessed himself of hermits;
and after coin) paying for them lavishly inner in
golden ho took from an
pocket a locket and chain, which he
gave to her, saying:
“ Wear it for mv sake. There is no
one who would look fairer in it. You
ought will yet to make be a Queen, one.” little Rika, and I
Before you
Rika had time to realize aught
but that his words had filled her heart
with a bewildering sense of happiness,
he had gone, his gift alone remaining
to prove that she had not been dream
ing. Tier
Rut she toon came to sober
senses.
It was well known that King Gus
tarns with had maiden been holding negotiations
the Queen of jeweled England, to
induce lief to bestow her hand
upon his elder son, and it had reached
Rika’s ears.
Such a thing had been known as a
maid of low degree being wooed and
won by a royal suitor. The tale of
Grisd’s happiness, and of her woes as
well, was a favorite one among the
folk-stories told around the humble
hearths of the peasantry; and if fate
had ordained it to happen to her also,
Rika maiden would have been the as glad had and sli proud
a as over sun one on.
Rut she would listen to no words oflove
from one whose hand was as good as
given Thus to another. thought she walked slowly
she as
homeward.
So the next day a little barefooted
boy—the child of a neighboring farmer
—was sent to the palace by Rika with
Prince Eric’s gift, carefully tied up in a
piece of linen cloth cut from the corner
of a web which she herself had woven
from thix raised from the seed, and pre
pared bv her own deft hands,
Could the unconscious trinket have
told Erie that Rika’s bright eyes had
lingered and that lovingly she bad and pressed regretfully it upon 1
'ti to ier
lips again nnd again, receiving it might have les
setied bis chagrin in his pres
hack again.
As »> "as. it only kindled anew his
determination to wm Rika for his own,
>'»' lhe consequences what they might,
It should not be said of him that a low
peasant Prince of girl had given him. the Crown
Sweden, such a rebuff
Rethrew a large cloak over his rich
conn suit, and thus disguised lie mount
ed Obit, his favorite hunter, and hast
ened towards Rika s home,
Hot anger was contending with his
love for the rustic beauty as he rode
along.
But when he at last reached the bor
ders of the cleared patch of land in the
forest which held the little cottage, bad
dismounted from his horse and tied him
to a sapling, and found himself stand
ing :u the door aw aitiug his answer to
kto rap, all was foiptten but the thought
hat.he was mod to gaze upon he beau
Uful face which had haunted his fancy
so persistently since fate had nrst
brought it before bon.
luka opened the door and stood . tor
an instant m glad face surprise, utter gating forgetful- up
mto her lover s m
ness ofthe difference in their statu m.
" Ah. little one, thy face tor’onu tills
me all that 1 wish to know, lhoulovcst
mo. I see it in those eyes.
And before Rika had time to retreat
he caught her to bis heart and impnnt
ed passionate kisses upon her trembling
i ‘w tow w, tom O-j*.
i arms, and stixal panting like a fright
oned fawn.
Then she threw herseH at his feet.
and. clasping her hands entry atmgly,
I ,h f.Si d: mo « iwo. MII U
put against thy record that innocence
j and virtue received no respect at thy
hands! Go, I entreat you! Should my
Si sure™ fiRtwlme^Md then kS
“• - *■*■« ° h >
“I mean thee no harm, Rika. I love
thee: and when one loves he hurts not
the object of that love. To win thee I
will give up my John: heirship to the crown
to my brother and while he wears
the diadem upon his brow I will con
tent myself with love and happiness
with thee.” "so,
“Not noble Erie,” said Rika,
firmly;, “if thou wouidst make such a
sacrifice, I, for one, will not be a party
to it. After such a marriage—entailing loss —love woul 3
as it would, so much
prove but a transient guest within our
liome. Reproaches would drive the fickle
god away ” ,
“ Tell me the truth, Rika,” interrupt
ed Eric, with passionate earnestness;
“do you love me?”
“ So well that I would rather die
than know than harm would come to
one so noble through any influence of
mine.”
“And yet you refuse to make me
happy?” refuse work ruin, noble
“I to your
Prince. The present is not all of life.
But l’oacbed see—the the middle sunlight point of has your already dial!
In ten more minutes my father will be
here. If thou wouidst shield me from
harm, go.”
“I will obey now; but I will not
promise to give up the hope which lured
me hither. Farewell for a time, most
obdurate maiden.”
Then, with a long, lingering, re¬
gretful look, the Prince turned and de¬
parted.
Days and weeks passed on.
At last came a time which was to
plunge tho nation into mourning. The
good a nd great Gustavus was stricken
with a mortal illness.
He died anil was laid beside his King¬
ly progenitors, and Eric was the reign¬
ing sovereign in Sweden.
Young, impulsive heart and his with own
tor, with bis filled bv#
image, is it to be wondered at that he
suffered no obstacle to delay his union
witt the maiden of his love, after tho
days of his mourning were fully ae
complished, Sweden arul became that the its pretty nut ed
girl of crowi
Queen? and
Search the annals of history, you
will find the romantic story of the mar
riageon record,addingstillanotherfolk
tale to those the country maidens tell
over to each other at that witchingtime
between is daylight going and starlight, and when hearts all
nature to rest young
are attuned to sympathy with all true
lovers
What a Hailor Said.
ITis Honor had before him at the Cen¬
tral Station Court a long-legged, voice bow- who
back man with sailor. a liigli-pitched
said hewas a
“What are you sailing around here
for, I a fore navigation lias opened?” Got
“Well, you sec, my name is Flint.
that down?”
“Yes.”
“Well, my first name is _ Sam. You
can spell Sam, I suppose?” and I
“Yes; you are Ham Flint, can
fjytell “Well Ikitii I names.” the late'cTwjpjWg
was up
wood. The other day I got tired of that
work and came down to see what the
prospects were. Says I to myself: ‘May
he there'll he work and maybe there
won’t be, but we’ll glide down to I)e
trait ”
“Yes, “And you glid?” I I
and when got here says
again: ‘Twon’t be no time lost, fur if
you don’t get work you can get drunk.’”
“And so yon got drunk? ”
“Yes. And when I found I was get¬
ting drunk, I says to Sam Flint: ‘ 811111 ,
my boy, they charge as much for a little
drunk as a big one, and so Sam, get a
big drunk. ’ ” did say?”
“And what else you
“Well, when I was hauled in I says to
myself: ‘Samuel, you are booked for.
thirty days, or I’m a gnat, but you will
nave railroad fare and l>e linndy by when
the season opens.' ”
“And did Sam say anything to that?”
“Not a word, yer Honor, but he kind
o’ grinned and hint lookeu pleased. month. ” If I
were yon, T’d lift for a
But His Honor wouldn’t. He turned
Uini out in the spring slush to go back
to his olupiiing .—Detroit Free Press.
How an Enthusiastic Dog Was Rebuked
by u Turret.
A gentlpmnn Jervis living near this village,
says the Port Union, lias a parrot
who kuowns a good deal more than the
law allows. A friend of liis, whose name
we withhold for obvious reasons, called
at liis house one day. A valuable young
dog, a pointer, was with him. The two
gentlemen sat on tlie porch smoking,
and the parrot, which is very tame, was
seated ill an interstice in tlie trellis about
floor tlie poreli. liis master’s The dog was lying 011 the
at feet ami finally his
attention was called to the bird, which
was looking steadily drew at him. The dog
sprang up, ou tho parrot and
fastened. There lie stood, still as a
statue, for full three minutes, when the
parrot, with a contemptuous flirt of liis
feathers, screamedat him, “Go home,
y ou cussed fool!” The dog dropped tail
and ears, wheeled round and struck a
Invitee over the fields for home. Since
that time he has refused to point a bird.
T Ld je ct of a railway between the
north south of Anstialasia is now
{ j aud wm reduce the
tjlm ; between Emflaud and Svdnev bv
thirtT d , lvs Tbe p riuc i pa i section of
the northern part is alreadv completed,
Jt ^ ,, ]2 mi! ,^ lon „ aUll ri j ns l)e ( Ween
j^pane and Rome. Between the latter
^ ^ of CarT>eIltariji The t)lere line
arevet 837 miles to ooustrnet
connect with that between Rec¬
bftfnptem ^ Emeraddtowii. There are
s t;|j pap* y,^nd to till between Bri T bane nnd
8 l j ne Sidney and Adelaide. The
^ j \rfli link together the L principal
^ ^ reKio 0 f the
emi b _ ^ Legislature of liueens
land to construct all the rood within its
and will rc<> q T0 4>00 , ; aorM of
pub ji c far each kilometer or three
*M»
__
Th* bine pencil fiend travels with an
oner* troupe.—A”. O. Picayune
TORTURING BY ELECTRICITY.
*»• «hic. meKmm of the
I
the Czar of Russia were mercilessly put
to torture. Russakofl was electncized
j intolerable “7 powerful batteries, he suffered and forced by the
! the questions agony put him. to answer
i to
Park Benjamin, the scientific expert,
said to a New York reporter: “The
idea of torturing criminals by electricity
is not original with the Russians. It is
a British invention, and was first sug
gested about five years ago by an English
. journal, commenting
tpeebamoul in up¬
on the execution of criminals by e.ectoc En
shock instead of by hanging. Tne
ghs.i writer wanted to do away witn the
}> oat-o-jnne-tails, which is administered
England to garroters and other crim¬
inals of certain classes, and use the elec¬
tric battery, as he somewhat grimly ex¬
pressed it, so as to produce unaccompanied absolutely
indescribable torture, by
wounds or even bruises, thrilling
through every fiber of such miscreants.
There was an American inventor who
had a design for inflicting this species of
punishment. He fitted brackets of iron
o:i the arms and thighs of the criminal,
and placed in them wet sponges. When
connected with a current of electricity,
the shock would by this system pass
through the legs and shoulders, and
avoid the vital parts of the body.
“ The torture inflicted by electricity
is of two kinds—by contraction of the
muscles at rapidly-recurring intervals
ind by burning with sparks. The tort
ores of old days, when not done by fire
or compression, were the straining and
tearing asunder of the muscles. Of this
kind were the rack, scavenger’s daugh
ter and the cages of Louis XIV., iu
which a man could not stand up or lie
down. The electric shock exactly re
verses these conditions. It produces an
-enormously-rapid contraction in the
bodv of the muscles at very short inter
vals*. The degree of pain produced is
‘ aliout the same. The force of the elec
'£f lla8 to be niceiy graded, as a too
^j. )We u j 8 } loc k would numb or kill a
aD
.. i. sharks v condensimr on'
g-^j^ier of intermittent the
eK ,. TMb bums the skin, and at the
game time produces contractions of the
mUtSO i eB- if pu t to the side of the jaw it
would make every tooth ache."
A distinguished surgeon, of whom
Gong were aske[ j concerning tlie
“The best way to ex
,, .,j n it is to give you actual exactly experi
, c( . .,'.fe ■ then you will know how
!( Here is a Faradic induction
eoij. I pull out this tube a little way.
jf ow let me place this electrode in your
h m l There ”
Oh ! ” exclaimed the inquirer, as a
tingling, thrilling sensation hand closed ran through iu
cviy finger, and Ills an
in voluntary ^ cra-SD
‘ Does hurt? ” asked the doctor.
ffi.“ A little.”
“Well, we’ll try again. Now, you
a*,* I pull this tube further out. I
fi, touch it to your hand and—”
«‘W ood 1 ” shouted the victim ; “ take
it awe I”
q| lt , .eelilfg was as if the hand was
crushed in a vise. Every nerve ached
ag,>trembled with did pain, Why, that’s
‘ That hurt, it?
Sorting?’ different sort.” TrtNrf vdy
phi fastened to one wire a small wet
sponge, and to the other wire something
liko u paint-brush, with the brush part
ma j 0 ( ',f fi ne wire. He put the sponge
in the visitor’s hand and then touched
the back of the hand with the wire brush.
The pain was unbearable. Tlie surface
of the skin was scorched and the mus¬
cles of the hand were contracted in a
violent manner.
“ That is called the electric scourge,”
said tlie doctor. “ If it were dark you
could see sparks fly from each wire.
Imagine the effect if the electricity were
ten times more powerful.” that torture?”
“Could any man bear
“ I think not; any man would confess
un der it, hut it is a question what con
ffeeuce could he placed iu such a con
f ess ion. A man would confess anything
to escape the agony.” the pain
“What could you compare
to?”
“ It would be the same as burning
alive. ”
“ Would it injure the man ?”
“No; not unless the pain drove him
insane. If the battery was too Applied power¬
ful it would kill at once. to
some parts ot the body parts.” the scourge
hurts more than on other
Fete’s Icicles.
Pete was a Kansas immigrant from the
South, in which climate he had never
seen weather sufficiently cold to form an
icicle. The farmer he hired out to gave
Pete instructions one day to go to tlie
wood-slied and tell Jake, a Northern
“nig,” to remove the icicles from the
barn. The word icicles staggered Pete.
However, he kept muttering the sen¬
tence, “ I>e eye sycles the ill de barn,” until,
when he reached woodshed, the sen¬
tence was so inextricably mixed that lie
stood for a few moments looking at Jake,
expecting he might anticipate the mes¬
sage and relieve the oid man of liis diffi¬
culty. Finding no relief in Jake’s stare
of inquiry he launched out w ith, “ Look
a hyar, you Jake, de mass’r tole me to
tole you, dat you wor to—to—or—to re¬
move de barnacles in de ice ; you hyar ?”
Jake’dropoed woolly queried, his ax, and, scratching his
pate, “ De whaticles in
dewhar?” “ Didn’t I tole yer as plain
as your underlip, de nnfthi bicycles from the
yam?” “ You said o’ de kino;
you said de ‘obstacles in de ice house. ”
“ I tell you, nigger, wot I tole you was
de ‘housicals from de barnacles. ’ ”
“ Look a hyar, you Southern galoot, fool,* you
is a whimsical and nonsensical an’
yon is rittm’ too quizzical to suit dii
chile. I know wot you s a diivin’ at; de
mass’r tole yon to tole me to <*iop de
wood darned quick, an’ dat’s wot I'm a
doin’ an’ don’t yon forget it. ” “Well,
Jlke, I knew it wor Bomefin like dat, but
bre« my soui if 1 could 11 st glide exfe
Tocabuiary.
“Know what society is? I reckon
Ido. cried Mr. Griff Vhy I ve been
put out ot more than twenty as sweD af
tairs as ever were gotten up in tins city.
—Boston Post
If Pri lessor Swift ever discovers a
baby comet he is advised to let tlie sky
P«v»kt;t.
( ; Bores.
There are Tarious orders of men. The
W e believe it more and more. \Y e see
; hvlu K arguments enforcing the fact
every walked day of our life One has just
. out of our office. W e bowed
; out with snulmg grace, but now his
' back is turned, we venture a pr ach
ment - It happened m a certain profes
sional institution, years ago, that one
” e t ^ beg e him ,,f“ l to . ab J forgive e Vj . ores us, was if he . a sees stud ?, this n£ ‘
incident; but, then, these creatures are
not thin-skinned. He was a most excel¬
lent scholar—more’s the pity—standing
well in bis classes. He possessed a large
fund of knowledge—knew too much, in
faet; and when he had once buttonholed
you, woe be to any other engagemeut.
Only a legal process would release you.
After the holidays, one year, it happened
that ho was late in getting back to his
wor * £ - The question was mooted at corn
fnons, “Where is P. ? “Oh,” replied
f^ewagof filing the of class, his stories, “Phil is and engaged hasn’t
ln one
got through.”
Ethnography affords an opportunity
o{ studying the races, kindreds and
tongues of the earth, lhe Anglo-baxou,
e North American Indian, tile Slav,
have , their characteristics sharply defined,
" e ” a ve 4 Runnmi Quadrumana, and
. , lo but loss with
s °°”> “» z o° gy, are at a
what class to place the Bore*. Lixe the
winged creatures which Ezekiel saw,
they are endowed with several mouths,
le 7 f e£ them going, and* go oil and
, ea y° £ em their own sweet will. A
“
f 01 *' ? learned cherub, they fly to and
fro , their four wings, resting where
on ® 13 distractingly have been busy,
, done with wondering what is to
» e them. It is possible here
hes the settlement of the Indian question,
v\hy not send a regiment of them to the
far West? If the aborigines only knew
f“ey were coming the Pacific would be
£u ™ dusky suicides. Or if that is not
feasible, why should not public men
employ professional bores? And then,
when Greek met Greek, would come the
tug of war. It would be as huge a joke
as setting two deaf Whe people the to iut entertaining
° n ? a “ oth «f’ f, frview was
implied, , they would sympathize with
the cats of the green isle,
But > seriously, we have little faith in
these ,« propositions, although we claim
originality in mooting them Tlie ex¬
“fence of bores belongs to the unsolved
^rfes Doubtless they curtained have as by good the a infinite, right to
! lve able aa the to ““arable temporary llttle S insanity nats whlch
are cause in a
pd 16 colt. We hardly hope to expose
*,, el1 ' finai cause “ ®° bn *\ a paper,
Tlie German specialist . spent his , file
on
the “’tide On his death-bed he
mournfully regretted that he had not
confined himself toone inflection Such
a subject as this grows onus; “it m
llat f- expands, it formulates,” as the
cm-bstone orator remarked. New vistas
open to our vision. We dare not follow
their fascinating beck. Here is a field
for the scientist. He may win new
laurels, and gain the everlasting regard
of future generations.
How shall the bores be suppressed ?
What courteous extinguisher may be
employed? “liver-pad” Is there electrical any help disk? iu the
or the We
Hfltef for reply. thilo ,
intt, afiernl), we wait, vje re¬
member in this world, patiene* is to
have its perfect work. We know of no
sharper chisel for the carving of such a
statue for the gallery of our life than a
semi-weekly visitation of bores. They
have no nationality; they are cosmo¬
politan. Like the wandering Jew, they
live forever. They penetrate to tlie
public assembly, the Sometimes prayer-meeting, they
the business office.
have books to sell, quite often a map of
the world, a bankrupt stock of woolens.
They are getting up a history of the
town; twenty-five dollars will place
your life-size portrait on the page They and
tell all about your grandfather. rural friend,
have fruit-trees for our
which cause more trouble than that one
in a certain garden years ago. They
have a patent lightning-rod, struck and long you
wish the lightning had them
before they saw your home.
But of all horned cattle, to use a
simile of the immortal Horace—the great
editor, we mean—the religious bore is
the most detestable, l’ou may know
him wherever you see him. Avoid him
as the plague. You may place after his
name a D. D. (dignified dullness), old Methodist but
drown him out with a good
hymn when his time is up; if he gets
into the pulpit to present any “cause,”
cause him to retire as soon as possible.
It 1ms been some little time since our
door closed, and our irritation has oozed
out at our pen-tip ; and we suppose we
shall be blander than ever when the
next seedy caller appears with “a
patent preparation for the removal of
grease-spots without the slightest injury
to the fabric.”— Providence Journal.
Happiness is in the Strife.
Tlie most unsatisfactory thing in life
is success. It sounds paradoxical to say
so, but it is profoundly true. The only
tiling about it that is worth the having
is the struggle for it, and when it is at¬
tained the predominant feeling is a
question as to whether it is worth tlie
effort. Nine successful men out of ten,
ii they told tlie truth, would say that it
was not, .still if they had to live tlieir
lives over again they would struggle
every bit as hard, because it was in them
to do it and the struggle was the only
part of the game worth having. It
kept them alive, and once so successful
that nothing lay ahead, they become
morbid, dissatisfied and restless.
An Antocrat.
The King of Abyssinia nts off the
noses of those who* take snuff, and the
lips of those who smoke. The King is
hated more than Theodore was. Cruel
to a degree, he does not, however, take
life. He cuts off the feet aud hands of
people w ho offend him. He puts out
their eyes mid poms hot tallow into
their ears You can buy notlung with
“"eHer you without^ order-in fact,
no more complete £ desjtotism could exist,
CAnnot la t> for the King will go on
{rom one mB j ness to another -C’oL Got
don in central A frir-a
Not that whicn men do worthily, but
what they do successfully, is what his
tory makes haste to record.— Beecher.
FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.
Fifty years ago tomatoes were called
love apples and were considered poison¬
ous.
It is calculated that sixty tons of steel
are annually consumed in the manufact¬
ure of steel pens.
One of the wonder of the Cathedral
of Cologne is the chapel of the three
Magi, which contains the skulls of the
“three wise men of the East,’’ set in
precious stones.
Thebe is no tide perceptible in the
Mississippi river after you have passed
up about thirty miles from its mouth,
and the tide only rises from one and
a-iialf to two feet at Balize. The num¬
ber of tributaries (the Ohio, Missouri,
and so on) which help to flood the Mis¬
sissippi and swell its volume of water,
gives it that downward current which
overcomes the tidal. every resisting influence,
even
Catgut, it is stated, was used in the
earlier watches in place of chains, the
latter, it would seem, being first at¬
tached to such mechanisms in the golden
Johns, egg or acoru-sliaped of watches of Hans
maker’s timekeepers Kouigsberg. Some ef this
had small wheel
lock pistols to serve as an alarm, an ad¬
dition that would go far to upset tho
equable temperament and delicate sus¬
ceptibilities of a modem chronometer.
Col. Ironsides, who lived in India
early in this century, relates that he met
in his travels an old white-haired man,
who with one leap sprung over the back
of an enormous elephant flanked by six
camels of the largest breed. A curious
French work, published in Paris in 1745,
entitled “ The Tracts Toward the His¬
tory of Wonders Performed at Fairs,”
mentioned an Englishman who, at the
fair of St. Germain in 1724, leaped over
forty people without touching one of
them.
In 1855 Sir Henry Rawlinson carried
with him to England many relics o:
ancient Babylon, all of which are now
in the British Museum. The town of
Zitlah, with 7,000 inhabitants, is now
considered the modern representative of
ancient Babylon. As for Thebes, the
ruins comprise nine townships. Recent
excavations have brought to light these
constructions of the eleventh dynasty.
The Nile flows through the midst of the
ancient city. It is now inhabited by a
few Arab families. Tyre existed, amid
all its destructive experiences, until A.
D. 1516, when the conquest of Selim,
together with the newly discovered
route to Asia by the Cape of Good Hope,
put an end to its wealth and commerce.
Among its ruins from 3,000 to 4,000 in¬
habitants now dwell and earn a liveli¬
hood by exporting tobacco, cotton, wool
and wood. Ninevah was destroyed by
fire about 605 B. C., and the slabs and
statues found there show the effect of
intense heat. The excavations exhibit
many bas-reliefs representing war and
hunting. The discoveries of Layard and
others supposed in the neighborhood Ninevah, of Mosul,
the site of since
1839, have in a manner disinterred and
re-peopled seemed a city bietted which, for centuries,
had to be from the map
of the earth.
“Transpire” or “Perspire.”
“ Have you jpnoeent-looki.'ig a dictionary with you?”
asked an young man
of a Cleveland Herald reporter at th*
Union depot.
The speaker was one of a party of
three gentlemen who alighted from
train No. 8 . The other two were neatly
dressed fellows, whose sundry winks to
each other at once gave them away as
“ pals.”
The young man addressed did not
happen to have commercial his unabridged standing with
him, but a man
near at once set down his valise, ana
from it fished up a small pocket edition
of Webster.
The three bent over tlie book for a
moment, till finally one of the two
“ pals,” slapping the first young man
on the back, said:
“You’ve lost your money.”
“So it seems,” was the quiet reply.
There was an exchange of currency
between the two friends, and the young
man who had first addressed the reporter
explained: dollars. You
“ There goes five see, I
came the along through about the car word. and It heard did
two arguing that they a friends
not occur to me were
and trving t© work a racket. They ,
were using talking it in about the word ‘perspire.’ ‘ transpire, One
the sense
wanted to bet the other that it had that
meaning. ‘You would certainly lose,’
said the other, ‘and I don’t want to
take your money.’ interested, and finally bet
“ I became
the fellow five dollars to ten dollars that
transpire was never used ill the sense of
the word, perspire, and I find I have
lost. ’ ’
Water of the Ocean.
From a comparison of the results of
recent deep-sea soundings, it appears
that the following are just generaliza¬
tions : 1. The water of the North Pacific
is in its whole mass cooler than that of
the Atlantic, 2. The water of the South
Pacific is, down to 4,225 feet, somewhat
warmer than that of the Atlantic, but
below that depth cooler. 3. Tlie bottom
temperatures are generally lower m the
Pacific than in the Atlantic at the same
depth, and in the same degree of lati¬
tude ; but nowhere in the Pacific are
found such low bottom temperatures as
in the Antarctic portion of the South
Atlantic, where temperatures of —0.3
centigrade to — 0.6 degrees have been
measured. 4. In the western part of
the Pacific and the adjoining parts of
the East India archipelago, tlie temper¬
ature of the water reaches its minimum
at depths between 1,787 and 8,997 feet,
remaining the same from this depth to
the bottom. In the whole of the Atlan¬
tic the temperature from 8,937 feet to
the bottom gradually though slowly in¬
creases.
give f more milk and
make mQre butter n a bright sunshiny
chaiaeten da : \ t! i 3n du The ™S on n. ® J*
heartily, digests better, while the , vita
wee3 are ^tive during the plea ant
da v - These £acts are not ln lhera elv es
- important, they the L
very yet suggest in
query whether close stabling of cows
winter or summer is bettor than giving lot.
them the run of a yard or pasture