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HEARTSEASE.
A atagle pamy—velvet eyed—
Tin flower aba loved so well to we.
When li/ewaiyoung and brave and wo
Banned *aid the violet*, side by ride.
Bow sweet the eunllzbt on the leu,
Am bails and bio no ms, trees and bird*,
charmed to idlen-xj by her words!
And in her hand this sweet heartsease.
Too idiort those days! The tolling bell
Long sin^e proclaimed with solemn sound.
That she had left as heavenward bound:
An 1 now this Power she loved so well
Looks at me, with remembrance crowned,
Iler grace deep la its velvet eyes,
And, many b jed, ita b -auty lies
Upon ber grave and a'l arounL
I love it well! And, if God please.
Its modest I cauty. ir. ornery fraught
With raptures from those glal days
caught,
Khali bring me then, indeed, heart's ease,
Though now a pilgrim, bent and gray,
Upon each velvet blonom plays
Tbo kindly light of vanished days,
And pictured scenes long passed away.
Bo, whim God takes this life Ho gave,
Plant pansies thickly o’er my mound.
And let tbosj flowers she love 1 be found
In sweet remembrance on my grave.
—/. Edgar Jones.
MOTHERLAND SON.
lie was a cabinet-maker, who worked
all day in beautiful sheets of rosewood
and black walnut. She was a book-
folder. They had become acquainted on
that stormy autumn night when the
wind turned her umbrella inside out,
and she had to run half a block after her
flying dinner-basket.
It was lucky that he was on hand to
adjust the umbrella and recapture the
dinner-basket from a whooping gang of
atrect-urab*.
And then they met once or twice at
tdiurch, and at the Bible-clas* of a Sun
day nftemoon, and old Mrs. Tyson, the
minister*.', wife, asked them both to tea.
She had been young herself, and she
understood the signs and symptoms.
Bo they were married, and hired a neat
little flat, furnishing it as be-tthey could.
“Isn’t it nice/” said Emmy. “Oh,
Ralph, don't you wish wc hid some one
to visit us?”
“If it would be company for you, my
dear,’’ said Ralph Crystal, smiting.
“Rut there's no one that I know of,”
mused Emmy, “except some far-away
cousins in Dakota. And I never knew
much about them. Oh, Ralph, haven’t
you any relations?”
llis face clouded over.
“I don't know whether I have or not,
said he. “Oh, Kmmy, God help m
I’ve left my past behind me!”
He had sunk into a chair, with his
head in his hands. She went softly bc-
_ menta where they
don't have co second-bandempoi mi.
But I assure you, ma’am," Uniting over
the leaves of his ledger, “yoa won’t get
it no cheaper for poing to principals. I've
bought out and out!"
“I don’t wish to purchase H,” aaid
Mrs. Crystal. “But I would like to see
the person that—that sold it to you "
‘There was a lot of other truck from
the same place,” said the maa. “They're
breaking up house, I guess. Oh, I’ve no
objection to give you toe address, ma’am!
There ain’t nothing underhand in my
way of doing business,” and he wrote off
a f.-w words on a slip of paper. “It’s an
old woman with a hooked nose and a
tongue l.ke a mill-wheel.”
Mrs. Crystal, however, did not allow
herself to be discouraged by this unpre-
possessing description, but pretending to
Ralph that she was going somewhere to
attend an auction sale for the purpose of
acquiring some ttble-furniture, china,
cutlery, and such like, she took the
horse cars to Harlem, there (hanging to
another line, which, creeping gradually
out among the elms and sycamores, took
her to the edge of the Bound, where
there was a straggling settlement of little
houses around a tall factory.
a In the furthest of them all—a queer
little cabin where the spray sprinkled its
chimncy-stacks at the equinox tides, and
a row of boats was pulled up on the edge
of the sand-lived Mrs. Peter Peppin-
stall, the woman who had sold the c’aw-
footed bureau to the dealer in second
hand furniture.
The minute Mrs. Crystal saw her beak-
sbajicd nose peeping through the crack
of tnc door, she knew she had come to
the right place.
“Anything pa’tickier a-wantin’?” aaid
Mrs. Pcppiustall. “Because I’m mortal
busy to-day a-movin’. I’m goin’ to live
with hi* folks up in New London, and
I’ve got all the hard things to pack, and
my boarder to send off to the poor-house
afore I can set down to rest. If you’re
a book-agent, or one o’ them travclin’
photograph jicople— There comes Simon
Doolittle's one-boss waggin now, artcr
my boarder.”
She bounced back into the house like
an india rubber ball, but Kmmy pushed
past her into the carpetlcss, unfurnished
room, where the vivid Novemlifer sun
shine printed off the pattern of the win
dow-panes on the hoards of tho floor
with a sort of forlorn glory.
“It your hoarder an old lady?” said
she.
You’ll find her in tho back room,”
screeched Mrs. Pcpinstall, “settin’ all
ready !’*
And sure enough in the back room,
cowering in the scant warmth of the
sunbeams, sat a little old lady in a black
silk, quilted hood, a snuff-colort-d cloak
and roittened hands, cro-scd meekly over
each other, as if waiting for some ex
pected summons. Her wistful eyes
raised themselves piteously in the direc
tion of the new comer.
‘Is it the wagon from the poor-
A QUEER BUSINESS.
A Soldier’s Forty-EIrkt Wounds.
Among the battle-scarred veterans of
the civil war who went from Maine ii
John F. Chase, of Augusta. He was a
rntrmMi (•»»»'. My, eighteen years of
“0 hCT *■*■■■*■* h-Sr JTJkST -rm rcadyT-;
forehead.
“Tell me, Ralph,” said she—“what is
itf Why have you never spoken to me
about it before?”
“Because,” he answered, “I didn’t
want to appear like a savage. Although
I don’t think I’ve claim to he called
anything else.”
“What is it, Ralph?” she repeated.
“I ran away from home when I was
■ixteen, Emmy,” he replied, moodily.
“Father was strict and cross with me. I
don’t say he was right, but now as I
look back to it, I know that I also was
wrong.
“I ran away from home, and I came
to the city to fight my way for myself.
And when I had earned enough to make
a little home, I came back to get my
mother out of the atmosphere that wasn’t
natuial to her any more than it was to
going to stand still for my convenience.
When I got hack to Hickory Falls,
father was dead and tho folks had moved
away—no one knew where. Oh, Emmy,
I can't tell you how 1 felt wheu I heard
itl”
“Rut Ralph,” soothed the young wife,
“you will find her. No one could ever
he lost.”
“I’ve tried, Emmy—I’ve tried my
best, and it is of no use,” he sighed.
Emmy was silent for a second or two.
“I’ve always wanted a mother,” she
murmured, half to herself, “and Ralph's
mother would he all the same as my own.”
After that, she secre tly devoted her
self to the task of restoring to her hus-
baud the dear old mother whom he had
loved and lost.
She studied Mrs. Crystal's photograph,
whose stiffness of detail nnd costume
Could not obscure the sweetness of the
spectacled eyes and the gentle wistful
lines of the mouth.
She visited all the Old Ladies’ Homes
in the neighborhood; she asked questions
here, there and everywhere. Whenever
she heard of a solitary old woman any
where, sdio made a pilgrimage to see her
and ascertain her history.
She even ventured—of course without
Ralph's knowledge—to insert a timid
Utile advertisement among thj “Per
sonals’ of the daily paper, but nothing
ever came of it.
“But I sha lfind her yet 1" .she kept
repeating to herself—“I am sure that I
shall.”
Of course,all this had its disadvantages.
Two or three old ladies in dyed silk
gowns, poke hats and cheap cotton gloves
arrived, bag and baggage, at the Uttle
flat, and could hardly do made to com
prehend that one elderly personage
wouldn't do at well as another, so far as
Mrs. Crystal was concerned.
An impostor or so presented them
selves, and poor Emmy was almost in
clined to abandon her quest. But she
didn’t; and at last, wdea she least ex
pected it, her luck cam?.
• One day this little Mrs. Crystal, being
eoonomicaly dispoed, was searching
through a second-hand establishment for
a coal-scuttle and fire-irons.
i,” said she, thriftily.
I “Couldn’t sell you anything else,”
ma’amT* said the dealer, with that in
sinuating matte which is peculiar to the
proprietors of second-hand shops. “I’ve
a ret of red damask curtains—”
Emmy shook her head.
“No," said she; “I need no curtains.”
“Half a dozen diniog-ioom chairs,
then?” suggested tho man. “Or a pair
of real old-fashioned girandoles with
cut-glass drop*?”
But Emmy Crystal did not hear what
ho was laying; her eye* were fixed in
tently on a certain old bureau of ancient
mahogany, darkened with age, almost to
the semblance of ebony, with odd, I
ornaments under the drawer-handles, and
curicus claw-legs.
Just such a one, In truth, as Ralph
was making in the odds and ends of h<s
time at the shop, because, as he said, his
jnothcr had a bureau like that.
“Where did you get that bureau?” she
asked, quickly.
“Ma’am?” gasped the dealer.
“I mean who sold it to you?”
“It was brought in yesterday from a
place out on the Sound—one o’ them lit-
quite ready. I didn’t think I should
come to this; hut I'm an old woman—a
very old woman. My money is all spent,
and I’ve neither kith nor kin in the
world—nnd I'm an old woman’.”
I hate to send her to a place like
that,” said Mr. Pcpinstall, re appearing
on the scene, with a landbox and two
bundles, “but it’s just as she says—her
money’s all gone, and she hasn’t no
folks of her own, and what he I to do?
His folks up in New London don't want
to take in no outsiders.”
Emmy Crystal’s eyes shone through
tears. She held out both her hands to
the poor little shrunken figure in the
silk hood and the snuff-colored cloak.
“Come with me!” she said, softly.
“Who are your” asked the old woman,
wondcringly.
“I am R.tlph's wife. Yon arc Ralph’s
mother. I knew you by your eyei and
mouth!”
“Ralph ran away!”faltered the old
woman, her lips beginning to quiver.
“I always said his father was too hard on
him. Ralph ran away and never came
back.”
“But you are going to him,” aaid Mrs.
Crystal. “Come with me.”
“Be you her folks? ’said Mrs. Pcpin
stall. “Well, I never did.”*
Simon Doolittle’s one-horse wagon
drove away from the door without its
expected passenger, and the old woman
trudged along to the horse-cars, leaning
on Emmy Crystal’s arm.
“You're not afraid!" soothed the
younger woman, as a little shiver
through the doll-like frame of her
pauion.
“No,” said the other; *Tm not afraid
of anything any more. I am an old wo
man. * If Ilalph had come bank, they
never would have taken me to the poor*
house, for Ralph always loved me!”
That night when Ralph Crystal came
home to supper, he called cheerily to his
wife from the hack room, where he was
washing hi* hands:
“Well, Emmy, what did you buy? *
The old w oman started to her feet with
dilated eyes and figure projected breath
lessly forward. Evidently sho rccogincd
the voice. Mrs. Crystal, with her arm
tenderly around the wasted figure, an
swered:
“Come here, and I will show you.”
And entering the room Ralph Crystal
came face to dace with his mother.
'Ralph, Ralph!” she cried, groning in
the air,, with slend< r, withered hands.
“Mother!” he gapped, and then they
were in each other's arms.
Emmy stole away with a mist of tears
before her eyes.
From that time until the day of her
death, old Mrs. Crystal sat by her son’s
hearth, serenely happy in Ralph's love
and Emmy’s tender care. The past and
the present were alike a blank to her—she
dwelt in the present alone.
“Ralph ran away!” she kept repeating
to herself, “long, long ago. But he has
come hack. I always knew that he
would come hack; and Emmy is h?re,
too, and although I am an eld woman,
they are very good to me!”—Helen For
rest Graces.
Badly Scared by n Torpedo.
Gardiner Sims told a story the other
day about the triala now being made with
the new torpedoes lately delivered to the
Government at Willett's Point. They
were testing one of these, nnd steered it
near to a sail'ng vessel moving at the rate
of six knots an hour. As it pissed near
the ship they could sec through their
glasses the whole ship's company ran to
the rail and look at the torpedo, then
rush into the rigging, the boats, any
where for protection. As roan at this
was observed by the officers they imme
diately altered the torpedo's course, and
laughed as the boat’s crew came to the
side again to see the danger fadingaway
in the distance. Eleven and a half knots
an hour were made on this trial, and Mr.
Sims believes that this rate of speed can
be greatly increased after n time.—June
York Herald.
In Washington there are goldfish that
have belonged to the same family for fifty
years, and they appear to te scarcely any
larger than they were when purchased.
A Veteran Shows a Novice How the
Rodents arc Caught With a
Pair of Tongs—Rat BUca
and Their Effect.
“Wait till I strike a light,” said an
old, battle-scarred ratcher to a New
York Tribune reporter os he dropped a
big bag in the hallway of a large dwell
ing in sc oad avenue. In a moment
more the circular gleam from the bull’s
eye lantern flashed in the darkness.
Holding ths light in front, he moved
cautiously to the ead of the hall. Coming
to a door he rapped on it smartly, and
there was a wild scampering and squeal
ing on the inside.
“Jest hear the beauties,” exclaimed
the rat-catcher. “You want to see how
I pick them up? Well, if you’ll not be
frightened if one of the lively fellows
starts up your trousers leg and comes out
your shirt collar you’ll have no trouble.
Just slip in behind me like a flash, and
keep your feet moving, so that none of
them get into the hall. That’s the style.
Not one got out. Just stand still and
watch the fun.”
The large hag was opened, and one
side of it was loosely sup.nded from
the rat-catcher’s teeth. With one haid
he held the light mad the other side of
the bag, sa that it could be (ft ily and
quickly opened and closed, and in the
other ho held a large pair of old-fash
ioned tongs. There were rata of all sizes
and agts, from the gray-whiskered grand
father down to the thiid and fourtii gene
rations. They seemed to have lost their
heads, and ran in every direct'on, tum
bling over one another. The old fellows
followed around the base board, seeking
s convenient crack or hole to slip away.
They could find the hole where they came
in, but it had been closed by an ingeni
ous, self-acting device. When they got
settled down in a philosophical spirit, not
to worry until they found out what it
was all about, the rat-catchor took
hand in tho fun. Moving straight aero
the rcom, with the light tamed into tho
shining little eyes on the floor, with the
tongs he quickly snapped up rat after rat
with great skill. While gazing at the
light the unM^pecting rodents did not
seo the tongs and were seized, and in the
hag, biting and scratching their friends
and relatives, before they had time to
wink their eyes. And such a squealing!
Not one of them attempted to bite the
rat-catcher, hut they hovered around the
silent spectator with a great show of fa
miliarity. But n j harm was done, and
in a few minute* the last of the lot,
little fellow just out of short clothes, had
his squeal stopped forever by a quick
snap of tho tongs.
“Now it’s over,” said the rat-catcher.
“Just nineteen, all told. There will be
more here to-morrow,and then the place
will bo pretty well cleaned out. Where
do these rats come from? Originally
from tho sewer, and when the cellar floor
is not made of cement or stone they arc
sure to get into the house. When the
track is once opened they keep it well
beaten. They go from the cellar all over
the house. The lead pipes in the wall
make excellent laddeis for them to
climb. They are excellent climbers.
When a house is to be cleinol tie pipes
arc greased, if they can be got at, so as
to keep tho rats in one part of the house.
If this cannot be done, then wire nets,
with sharp-pointed sides, are hung di
rectly near the holes. These tickle their
whiskers, and when they raise the net
and pass under it they cannot get bock
to the hole. In this way they arc all
corraled in one place. It takes time, ns
they are cute, and s: mc of the old fel
low's cannot be led into any sort of traps.
If there is anything in their way they
will go a mile out of their course to get
around it. When they get in place*
where I cannot retch them _ with the
tongs I generally shoot them with a small
pistol. Some of the old fellows have a
fancy of settling in the ceiling, and are
the hardest to get at. The Lett thing I
know* of with which to treat these obsti
nate citizens is a good dose of burning
cayenne pepper. This suffocates them,
if they get a large whiff at the start, and
then tho house suddenly becomes filled
with sewer gas, which disappears as soo
as the carcasses dry up and blow away.
“Ever been bitten? A hundred times
and more. Tho bite docs not usually
amount to anything. Rats have two m
tions of the jaw in bating. The first
soft nnd delicate, and the teeth just
scratch the object they have hold of.
Then follows a quick, sharp, powerful
action of the jaw, and the slender teeth
sink up to the gums and stay there. This
bite is dangerous; the first nip amount*
to nothing. If the teeth have gone deeply
into my hand I always suck the wound.
This seems to keep the swelling down,
hut always a good deal of pain follows.
My arm has swollen sometimes, when t
hungry fellow has given mo a nip, to
twice its natural size. It's strange, but
there is no harm in the bite of a we'd-fed
rat. A frightened rat will fight, if
n ere cl, and viciously too. The way to
grab rats so that they canr.ot bite is to
seize them with a strong grip
of the nrck. They will howl like stuck
pigs, hut cannot get away and are entirely
under control.”
Banco Sharps and Army Officers.
One of the brakemen on the overland,
in discussing the tricks of the sharpers
who work the Western trains, said to a
Laramie (Wyoming) correspondent of the
New York 6ms: It is often charged
that the railroad men stind in with the
■harps, hot they don’t do anything of
the kind. I know most of them, and
have known most of them for years, hut
I can’t go round punching passengers in
the riba and telling them to look out. 1
did that a few times and got the worst of
it, and, besides that, I have noticed that
sometimes the passenger conies out
ahead. We had an army officer on board
once last fall, and he cot the heart ont o!
one of Doc Bagg’s men in a poker game,
and I’ve known others to beat them at
their own games. The b >ys are usaa’.lj
very careful about getting in with army
officers. You can generally tell an officer
by his outfit, bat not always. They’re
worse than the sharp*, especially after
they’ve been out here a few years. The
boys have a superstition as to them which
is fanny. Tacy think if they play with
ono without knowing who he is that their
luck it gone fo ever. I knew one fellow
who killed hi us.If alter trying for
twenty-four hours to skin an officer,
thinking he was a stock man.
The officer said something finally
about being on a furlough
and the sharp never smiled after
that. No, we can’t stop the thing. The
bunco, three-card ana poker sharps
travel with os because it pays, and if they
didn’t find plenty of congenial compan
ions who think they are as smart as they
make them it wouldn’t pay.”
Sweet lemons are a favorite Mexi
can delicacy. They are the shape, color
and size of the lemons of commerce,
hut arc sweeter than the b-nana.
jhyas
of loy-
ragged former’s 1
Tj, he rallied to* his country’s defense.
Ho was the fifth who enlisted in this
State under the first call for troops in
1861. Four brothers of his also enlisted,
two of whom were killed and two were
wounded. He took part in all the battles
of the Potomac, from the first Bull Run
to Gettysbuig. During his entire term
of service the post of duty and danger
always found him present. This is the
testimony of his Captain, which has
often been expressed. Ho never aspired
to rank, not even to wearing the chev
rons of a CornoraL He was content, as
well as proua, in simply being cannoneer
No. 1, of the Fifth .Maine Battery. Two
weeks ago Priva'e Chase was in Wash
ington, when General Black, Commis
sioner of Pensions, in introducing him to
his friends, said: “Here’s a man who
probably has more wounds on his per
son than any other soldier living.”
General Black did not speak unad-
advisedly. For nearly thrre years Pri
vate Chase went through every arduous
and trying campaign of his battery with
out a scratch, to be At last battered and
broken by a rebel shell on the bloody field
of Gettysburg. He bears forty-eight
wounds as the mementces of that battle.
It scarcely seems credible that one could
have passed through such a fearful bap
tism of blood and still survive. The
story may be told in a few words:
The Fifth Maine Battery wa* attached
to the First Corps'under ‘General. Rey
nolds. It was the third day of the fight
and the battery was posted on Seminary
or Weed’s Hill. The Confederate Gen
eral Pickett was making his famous
charge on our left centre, and a terrible
artillery duel was in progress. The bat
tery was in a hard place, being between
cross-fires. The air was full of the mis
siles of death. The heroic Chase, with
his $hirt sleeves rolled up and his face
black with powder and smoke, was
in the act of ramming homo a cartridge
when a Confederate shell f$U about
three feet from him and burst. The frag
ments flew in all directions. Chase was
thrown nearly a rod from his gun and
fell im ensible. His clothes were literally
stripped from his body. His right arm
wjis blown off, his left eye literally torn
from its socket, while the breast and
shouldei s were gashed with wounds. He
was carried to the rear. Two days after,
when the d(&d were buried, ho was being
conveyed with others to the grave. A
groan from him attracted attention, and
he was discovered to be alive. Upon re
covering consciousness tho first words
that came from his lips were: “Did
win the battle ?”
Private Chase's pluck at Chanccllors-
ville received the commendation of Gen
eral Hooker, llis battery was facing a
most destructive fire from th? enemy’s
batteries All the officers and men of
his battery being either killed or wound
ed, he, with another brave comrade, fired
his gun seven times after tho ether guns
of the battery had ceased work. The
gun was then dragged off by the two, the
horses having been shot or disabled, to
prevent its capture by the enemy, who
shortly afterward occupied the position
t h:.t had been vacated by our retreating
forces.—Leuiston (Me.) Journal.
FACTS FOB THE CURIOUS.
According to a New York medical
journal ouc-half of the adult men in
America, living in ov.r cities, are bald-
headed.
Several specimens of English flora are
said to have been exterminated by mod
ern tourists, plant dealer*, and botanists,
the lady's slipper, orchid and the holly
fern haring disapp -ared among others.
Speaking of the mudeal pitch of the
Ohio River, W. II. W. says: “The hum
ming or singing is product d by two cor
rugated bones in the mouth or throat.
A FATAL PET.
Bitten by s Mad Dor, the Wolf la
Tarn Becomes Mad—Many
Persons Bitten—Ter
rible Straggles.
Some time ago fourteen Russian peas
ants who had been bitten by a wolf were
sent to Paris for treatment against hy-
POPULAB SCIENCE.
Cultivation has so affected the evolu
tion of the tomato that the seeds are fas!
disappearing and bid fair to pass out of
existence entirely, as in the case of the
banana, leaving the propagation of the
planta dependent on cuttings.
The replacement of a diseased eye by the
healthy eye of an animal has now been
done five times, with one success, says
the Malicdl Record. In the four cases the
cornea sloughed; in two, however, firm
vascular adhesions took place.
regated bones in the moutu «»r t roat. : diophobiaby M. Rastenr. Three of the Tho King of Servia, according to tho
which they rabtMrttar.Md th- .rand di ' a . Dr. Felix L. Oswald joonmls, has issued the following:
u on the principal of tho violin or -
principal
sal glasses.
Among the wonderful product* ot art
i gives the following account of the wolfs
j attack in the Cincinnati Enquirer:
Whereas it is irrefutably proved by
science that the so-called antiseptic
• .. r, , . : Russian papers publish the following treatment of wounds yields more bene-
m the brenca C'ys.ai 1 nlacc was h vin | interesting details of the wolf episode ficial results than all other methods, wo
a lock Which admitted of 0,W», , W-) lOm- J ,h.» once Mnna Pnctox. w«»l-a Af nrn nlMov) ♦ « ahIa* tlvat Ymn/wiforw,1Y*
which admitted of 8,64'.
binations. Heurct passed 120 nights
locking it. Fichct was four month* in
unlocking it; afterward they could
neither shut nor open it.
The hravT-anncd Reman foot soldiers
had helmets, bre.istpbte*, greaves
shields, spears nnd two-edged swords.
Each legion hal aUo a band of cavalry
with lighter arms; a's> had it* own ar
tillery, not cannon, hut battering raius
that cost Mods. Pasteur three weeks of
! hard work, and the first professional dis
appointment. According to a corre
spondent of the Xoro /«', the brute that
: caused all the mischief was not a wild.
1 wolf, but a domesticate 1 pet, perhaps
the most pet;o't quadruped Eastern
Europe. Three years ago a berry-pick*
arc pleased to order that henceforward
the said antiseptic plan of treatment be
solely employed in all hospitals of our
kingdom, and that corrosive sublimate
iodoform bo used until our further dis
position.” - — «.—
The occurrence of poisonous mussels
and star-fishes in a German locality has
ing boy found him in the woods, and : led to an investigation from which it ap-
; brought him to the village of Biely, pears that simple stagnation of sca-water
. _ Government of Smolensk, where the is capable of giving rise to poisonous
and machines for di'chnrgiug great j farmer, Stephen Wassiljew, adopted him ; qualities in the animals inhabiting it; and
8tonC3 - as a companion to a motherless puppy, j that, too, when it is free from sewage
After the Norman conquest of Eng- ! Before the end of the summer the whelp and other impurities. The poison In tho
land tho King aud the upper classes had superseded his foster-brother, lie mussels has been described us a ptomaine
spoke French, and the English school- had an ultra-canine talent for flunkeyism. under the name of mytilotoxin, but Pro-
cnildrcn were taught in French. As it . and fawned himself into, the favor of j lessor Virchow says it cannot be a true
was fashionable to speak French rather so many visitors, that his owner was ptomaine, as it is not a product of dccom-
than English, those who wanted to ap- repeatedly offered . thirty rouble* for , position. It must result from the condi-
pcar “genteel” always tried to do so. lu the bushy-tailed little sycophant that tions of the mollusk’s growth,
those days it wasn’t “English, you would lick tho hands
asn’t
know.”
Tho Scotch in old times reckoned the
value of a man in cows. A King was
woith 1,000 cows, a King's son or «n
Earl 150. The lowest mentioned is forty-
four cows, nnd a little money as well.
Even thi* m
from a thane,
value of a plain man. Anv one who
killed a man of ma k had to jay forfeits *cvniary, Dust
in accordance with the above-mentioned . 0(1 Ucr P.
figures.
growth.
, Singular a} it may at>pea%|he common
stranger, »d romp ,vl:h the viU.je ! hiraing SVjdi wfilch V*St diffiwlt V
youngxters nnd billy-goats One of the f prolure arid prexerve ali* to inland
fnrmc: . R.'la vr.t hn faaonte playmate | , i„ ium , it |i inR delicate that the
» ** Liles daring
porationiss
3 to cau*c its death. For
iiiue money as wcu. -Ye- j—^ ~. ”* e , C * OOI L, *: several years Dr. Hermes, of the Berlin
must have descended “is girl friend entered the kitchen. That Aquarium, lias vainly tried to obtain
e do not know the ! y° un S l^y was chiefly responsible for : i0 mcspecimens for his establishment;
,«n. Anv one vvli . l! 1 " V?gcd.y._ On the 28d of hid either been rubbed in the net oj
. ! touched with the hand, and died before
February, Dushka—“Sweetheart,”
her pet—was bitten by a
cur, who forthwith died with all
reaching Berlin, ne has at last suc
ceeded in obtaining a live one, one cf his
. pet black squirrel owned in Savan- 1 bK™whe"n IfdSTnTh'^SiM^'! by <S. time .grown sdR.
, Ga., was left at home while its mis- tin,’* ^ c.cntly expert to catch it in a sort of
^ « vUfr Ve e/vvn ", were k uii'Ci, .'as w assn jc w uuc: class balloon lowered in the net.
nab;
tress went away for a visit. As soon as
the little fellow missed her he hunted all
over the house, nnd, not finding her,
showed unmistakable grief. He refused
to cat day after day, until it was so evi
dent that he was starving himself to
death tliat his mi'tress was sent for.
When she came the squirrel was frantic
with joy, and then it tried to cat, but it
had fasted too long; it could not swal
low, and the next day died, lying on the
knees of its mistress.
ceded for her pet. They locked him up
in a barn to await developments. Early
the next morning, March 2.1886, Dushka
laged to break out. nnd in tin course
glass balloon lowered in the net.
Palm wine, or lakmi, is made from the
sap of the date palm. Trees in full
selected for
The
of that day not less than twenty-eight V,
persons were fiercely bitten, Ik sides a ducted by arced into an carthcnxrare
----- -- pot, and may amount to two gallons daily
Mumii-' at ^ rst * Sttuually sinking to about half
' i,„_‘;7. that quantity toward the end of the tap-
III roil, I • 1.1 ..1I..WA.1 »A A.Ann.l
do ca or two who got off with sna|>-bitcs
an:l torn clothes. At tho very beginning
of the trouble the pluck of one heroic . * ,, ... ,
Muiik wcu'.l hive prevented ell further 1>“>8- * l ” ed „ ,< >
.panion had not t.i'nc l ? n 'P" th l M “ ch of
Evils of a Glass Eye.
Tal-on-Kun. For a Queen it is cus
tomary to mourn twelve month*, for
parents and near kinsfolk three years.
What a deep influence thi* prescriptive
usage has upon the life of people is il
lustrated by the following story of
aged bachelor who was asked w
he had never taken a wife. “My par
ents, as well ns myself,’’ he said, “were
desirous that I should marry, and a suita
'A glss* eye is a greid improvement, as
far as looks are concerned,” said a mild-
voiced man from Webster, N. H., “but
a positive detriment to the school
teacher. A school teacher and a glass
eye should forever remain strangers. I
know what I'm talking about, for Fvo
got a glass optic, and I tried to teach
school with it in my left eye, but I
failed, and my failure was due entirely
to that darned old sightless makeshift
for a real eye.
“My eye was put out while at Dart
mouth College. As soon as possible af
ter the accident I had a gins* eye fitted
and wore it for the first time on com
mencement day, whoa I received my
sheepskin. As soon a* I graduated 1
got a district school near Keene and be-
gau teaching the next fall. The school
ha.l scholars, big and little, who were
just beginning tueir A B C’s, and those
well up in the teens. One of them wa* thl nusIi rtunc to lo8L
pretty as a picture.
“Knowing that the boys needed more | ^.kos' twelv
Mourning in Corea.
In walking through the s'reets of Seul
one often meets with figure* clothed from
head to foot in ft grayish yellow sack
cloth, with bright yellow hats, or rather
broad-brimmed straw baskets, on their
heads; men, moreover, who further dis
guise their identity by holding a strip of
sackcloth stretched on pieces of stick in
front of their face*. These arc mourn
ers. In the year 1882 a Japanese trav
eler who landed on the northeast roast
found the officials and all the inhabitants
in this lugubriou* masquerade. They
were in mourning for the Queen, who
was supposed to have been m irdcrc 1,
but who, after the pejplo had worn
sackcloth half a year for her sake,
emerged safe and sound from the hiding
place where she had taken refuge from
the put suit of her wicked father-in-law,
rr«: a. r... lv. .. in .....
mischief if his companion
craven at the critical moment. Peter
Till rkow. an athletic young villager, ae-
nmied I y his sister and a young neigh
fresh, when it resembles sparkling cider,
but becomes insipid after losing its
com ...Died !yl.i.siat«r,nd»jo'.n|r neigh- “ r . bo ”9 «*«•»• c ?'° r “ °I’? lo8 ““ t
bar, wa, retarding fro nan all n sTt.bmce J“»mt ky. After undergoing alcoholic
who , - cun-!»»« «r«tf Mun s..« tho fermentation it contains 4.32 per cent of
who i they
ro td in a sort of sidelong trot
an uncanny leer that made them step ;
the wolf comin? down the ; * cementation it contains jasper cew oi
of sidelong trot and with »koh..l, 32 carbonic ar id, and 5.80 of
K 1 inanmtc.
A prominent authority on the subject
—A lc to give the traveler a clian. ~ * „
leave the neighborhood hv the straightest I regards most dream representations as
route. But D.tshka had seen them, and really representations, si nee they emanate
l tho next moment male a rush and j from sensorial impressions, which,
caught Peter by the breast. “Save your
self. Olga!” tho bravo Mujik
though weak, continue duriug sleep. An
... „..cd to his , inconvenient position during sleep ca
sister, ns he grappled with the wolf, and the representation of painful work, peri-
then calling on his companion, he lous ascent of a mountain, etc. A slight
clutched the brute around the neck and j intercostal pain becomes the point of an
wrenched his head down till he had pin- enemy’s dagger or the bite of an enraged
ned him flat on the ground. At that dog. Difficulty in respi ation is fearful
moment a common pocket knife in the agony caused by nightmare, the night-
hands of a resolute man could have ended niare seeming to be a weight rolled upon
the affair, but tho cowardly neighbor the cheat, or aliorrible monster which
had taken to his heels—to protect the ; threatens to stifle the sleeper. . An in
voluntary extension of the foot is a fall
from the dizzy height of a. tower. Firing
suggested by the rhythmic movement!
retreat of the girl, as he of ter wad
plained it, and Peter’s struygle with th?
wolf now became a duel for life and
death,
fing.
Too soon the grip of his of respiration,
relaxed, and in spite of his
frantic efforts to maintain his
the wolf got his jaws free and
Power of the Press.
Harry Whiteside, of Harbor Point, was
scene and began to belabor the monster about four miles from camp,
with a long hatchet. The wolf then left While engaged in fishing he caught
ucsiruus tUBi x suuuiu uinrTv.iiuu u nuiui- i i_ 1 , i .. ... ® ® ,
bio young lady being found our betrothal “JSf, i ,I *“ ot » bear cub t ; J Ie 6»™ cb “ e U an ®
,„_i. .pi i and with (wo successive npsto.o his faco cautured voun<r Bruin, and started cX
took nlure- Then mv future fatlicr.in- 1 . siiceessiro ripsioro ms lace captured young liruin, end started CA
law died, iud r wc had, of course, to wait ! “'“."I’the uufortuMte^T’ah^n^d 1 “T r 1 ?w" V™ 0 ™'. 7' hc **?“
three years. I bad hardly put off ray | nostrlls - tb ® unfortunate man staggered , did not relish his new acnuaintance. and
mourning than I h-'.d to bewail the loss j
of my own poor father; necessarily here *
was another term of three years’ waiting. !
When these were up the mother of my
out of the way a id left the ogre at leisure j kept up a squealing that made the woods
to turn his attention to a third adversary, ring.
tho Mujik Jackolen, whom Peter's sister Whiteside had barely started when he
had in the meantime rammoned. from the heard a crackling in the bushes, and,
v.ment. So that, a9 four times three
. . .r T . t uiunva twelve, that number of years had
I css ™ b ®“’>»*-
and gave the girls desks
future wife took sick tod expired, and ! ^ 8 U ?® in S bock saw young Brain’s
thin wo were oliliffed todclavo ir m ir- : T, ”‘ 6 ™ a , n g ,C( ** and had to Dick out mother, a huge black heir, rapidly bear-
another three Years Lastlv I had towar< * tlic tenm * trying in vai.i to cover ing down upon him. Whitodde took to
tluP^mbfartiinc F to ^iose* my^own’dear ' Si* T ’S* “ d *°
mother,which naturally canned a further i fid it w P1> '? " h i 5 »>* fisb P°' e -
ad ourr.mcnt. So that, us four times three ■ .5 n P » 1 sldt * tnd . ™ cc . gtded »* b lt coat, but Mrs._ Brum cared for
v the left
side. This change* excited some com
ment, a* from time immemorial tho re
order had beeu observed. I could
measure. However, I gave no reason
beiorc night nineteen persons, some of
them torn almost to pieces, wero
,, _ ... i next village the havoc recommenced, and
the older. At this time my Let rot lied fell j ««
ill, nnd as she was at death’s door I went
to pay her a last visit. My future brother-
in-law met mo at the door and said: *A1-
r :^* JJSE I though you are not formally married, yet
that the change was not a popular , may , w lhUoB r.Iook upon^
man and wife; come in and
last in routing the apparently indc5tructi- none of these things, and came on like an
ble monster. But in the outskirts of the avalanche.
After many regrets he concluded it
o.ild be best to drop the cub; but what
his surprise and terror to find that
turned over to the district hospital at the bear passed its offspring without
Scmstow. The village priest of Biely recognition and continued its mad
and the game-keeper, Nikfcin G arse witch, charge.
died on the following day from wounds it vras gaining every minute, and once
the move. Everything went along with- j t i, u i wdiv pntoml nn-1 f« P .. as desperate as any treated in the field- as Whiteside supped it caught a mouth-
out apparent friction or incident until ! , . 7 f ~ ./ j hospitals of modern armies, for the pet. ful of his shirt. In the desperation of
the second Friday of my first month. At J? . \. ar vL T ! of Biely had attained the size of tho the moment it occurred to him to try the
that time I received a note from the j .. j t - hniI . f ~ fi n i friltn I largest specimen* of his tribe. Two eTect of fire, and taking a newspaper
school directors asking me to attend a T more dic « in the course of the week, and from his pocket he lighted it and thrust
asking
meeting of that body on tho following
day.
■I went to the meeting, expecting
to trouble on account of my changes
in the school-room. Tho meeting had
not fairly opened before the senior di
rector, with much stammering, informed
t that the pretty young g’rl, the oldest
the school: calling her by name, had
informed the d'reitora that 1 never took
my left eye off of her from the beginning
of school until it closed at recess, noon
and night. 1 explained that the accusa
tion was without foundation, and taking
the glass shell from the socket, placed it
on the table. They immediately saw the
injustice of the accusation, but at the
same time maintained that as long as I
wore a glass eye its effect on the girl
pupils would bo the same as if it was
real. In other words, I either had to go
without the eye or give up the school. I
did the latter, and started out on tho
road.”—St. Paul Globe.
three of M. Pasteur’s patients died.
lighted i
it into the bear’s eyes. The effect was
Where Children Abound.
Speaking of Madison Square, the New
New York World says: We challenge
the world to show such a nosegay of hu
manity. Roses, lilies, peaches, nectar- lives of
incs,with here and there a berry from | nounccd
The Russians t> as a nation, are not much magical. The bear wheeled about and
given to lynching, their official provi- Whiteside continued his dejected jour-
sions for retributive justice being rather ney into camp.—Grand Rapids (JftdL)
in excess of demand, but at the mass- Times.
meeting of the Semstow peasants tho im —
wretch whose cowardice had cost the The Horses of tho World.
many braver men was de- D of Frankfort.
iuu9,yyuu jiero aim lucre a uerry irom j nounccu iu terms which induced him to . .. ... . . .. !7 f .. . _ _ _ _?
the Antilles. Girla with Ion* tawny ! consult hi» safety by diaappearlBk under F/mUmfonowin.g statistics of tb » h *™»
hair—Undines a la mode. Sturdy boys iu * "oi van us countries.
Knickerbockers, with their sailor hats. • Russia, where even the urox has been
Spidery boys, who seem all legs,
According to Bchwarzenccker, Prussia
The Photographic Business.
“The photographic business i* thor
oughly overdone,” said a prominent
New York photographer to a Mail and
Exprt* representative. “Pictures are
t ikeu for a song now. Formerly cabinet
size photographs cost $1 and $10 a dozen.
Now, by special arrangement you can
get them for $2 and $S. What has
brought down prices? Merely great
competition, combined with the amateur
photography craze. Then, too, the club
bing sv tern has h;ul som; effect in re
ducing pies to a minimum. With the
ictro luctioa of the instantaneous pro
cess, it is much easier to take a good,
natural-lo.ikrag picture, even by men who
know no more about art than a pig; hence
the increase in so-called artists.”
Mocking birds can be taught almost
anything in the way of tunes. Macon
used to boast of a bird that whistled
“Dixie,” and yearn ago a Frenchman
traveled about the country playing airs
upon the piano which his bird would fol
low accurately. At the Pulaski House,
in Savannah, a negro used to keep a bird
that would whistle a good alto to tunes
his master whistled.
fiank eyes looking straight into y<
own. with that calm, guilehs* look ■ fawns of our Southern Alleghenies,
which the angels may but mortal man- m
can never assume. Babies in their
nurses’ arms lookirg straight up into
the blue heavens; their wee wet mout's'
and pulpy cheeks, all lawn and lace and
lightness, like thistle down, with a halo,
of purity about them suggesting thoughts
of the breuth of buy, the coo of doves,
the chirp of ch'cklets, spring meadows,
running bri-oks. and all that is fr.-sh in
na'.ure. C hildren. children, children
everywhere, with their round, frank eyes,
round mouths, lound faces and little
round noses. One grave and thoughtful
as a little judge, dark hairel. ox-eyed.
cover of the next night. In Western
Ruaaia, where even the urox h»l b« e n afuxretha- *,311.817 boon, or
arcs?f
caught and tamed about
serene; another like a turquoise butter-
fy- Hero an infant on it's nurse’s lap
breaking breath as sweet as any fawn’s;
next to ita grimj tnunpreeking cf rum
and tobacco; yet both are God's crea
tures.
Bad Effects of Bicycling.
oftMiMtlm 1,000). Austria-Hungary possesses threo
and one-half millions, or 00 per 1.0(H) in
habitants. Hungary alone has 2,000,-
000. France has altogether 2,882,850
horses and 300,000 moles, or
Leaders of Wall Street.
• Death, failure, and voluntary retire- per 1,000 inhabitants, aud 51 per square
ment have of late depleted Wall street kilometer. Denmark (census cf 1881)
of its great leaden. Vanderbilt and • possesses 816,570 hones; Belgium, 233,-
Woerisnoffer by death, Gould by ap- 163 horses, or 60 per 1,000 inhabitants;
parent withdrawal, Viilard by failure 1 Holland, 250,000, or 73 per 1,000 inhab-
and exile, Henry N. Smith and James R. itants; Italy (census 1868), $37,457, but
Keene by bankruptcy, William Heath by ' in 1870 she had only 615,457 horses, be-
failurc and death, George L Seney by .aides 203,868 mules: Switzerland, in
disastrous railroad operations. These 1866, about 103,000, or 40 per 1,000 in-
are some of the big men who have been habitants; Spain (in 1865), 680.373, be-
retired from Wall street leadership dur- i sides 2,310,846 Wiles and assea; every
ing the past two years. Who are left? year there are killed in* the bull fights
Only three or four names answer to the 3,000 to 4,000 horses; Portugal, 88,000
roll-calL Addison Cammack. P. D. horses, 50.800 mules, and 127,950 asses;
Armour, 8. V. White, and perhaps one j Russia (in 1872), 21,570,000 horses:
or two others are all who remain of | Sweden and Norway, 055,455,
the active traders. * The Vanderbilt bey
are not active in Wall-street speculate
horses per 1,000 inhabitants; Greece,
about 100,000; United States of America,
and at present it looks as if Mr. White j 0,504,000; Canada, 2,624,000; Argentine
was the coming man of the street. He Republic, 4.000,000; Uraguay, 1,000,000;
: has given a taste of his ability in his ! Australia (in 1871), 804,000.
A St. Louis doctor says in an interview: i 8 iren * «*te or his .Wily in his
“Bicycle riUing, like roller ak.tinj,^h«
six yean old, and is treasurer of Plymouth
Church and a warm adherent of Henry
produced a new class of disease. It is an
affection of the spine and kidneys, re
sulting from the continual jar of the ma
chine. I know of six or eight cases of it
that cannot be classified by I’teir symp
toms wiih any heretofore known ailment.
In every instance it can be traced to the
wheel. It exists only, however, in men
of feeble organization and non-elastic
constitution. They have no business
taking violent exercise of any kind, and I
don’t know of any evil results following
where the subject is active and strong.
In fact,we frequently recommend bycycle
riding as exercise, and in most cases the
result is good.” —
Three Brides'for an Emeror.
... „.■■■■ The young Emperor of China has re-
He makes astronomy 1 centiy been engaged in the pleasant occu-
’ - «•- nation of selecting three ladies as brides
from among thirty-two assembled at his
palace. These are collected from all over
Mantchooria from certain noble Mantchoo
families, and travel, some of them,
for hundreds and even a thousand miles
to Pekin to undergo review. The future
Empress is first selected, and then two
assistants called the Eastern and Western
Empress®*. This is the ancient custom
of the empire since the Mantchoos be
came ita rulers. The Emperor will take
over the reins of power next year. ^
Ward Beecher. w
and politics his recreation—Baltimore
?k*. .
Unique Birth Aaaonnce»ent
A recent Berlin paper contains a birth
innonncement in thymes, which may hi
Urns translated:
“This morning at eight
I knocked at Berlin v gate.
Xy parents were glad,
BuiI yelled like mad”
—Richard Koth, Jr.