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Poet’s Corner.
L'ves’B Bongs.
I love iny love when roses bud,
1 love her when they bloom ;
I love her when they 1 ule, and find
A snow-encrusted tomb.
In seasons all I love my love;
And greatly do deplore
Thatother seasons there are not,
In which to love her more.
“Good-night, my little love,’ I said,
Yet fondly lingered at the door;
“Good-nightand then I kissed herthrioe-
And softly said good-night once more.
Good-night! end as I homeward walked,
Bathed in the dreamy pale moonlight,
I thought of the delicious time
I would not have to say good-night*
Wedded.
Now that I hold thee with a husband’s right,
Turn thy dear head, sweet wife, and let it
rest
Within my encircling arms, which thus en-
fold
Of earth the purest, of thy sex the best.
Let thy smile-wlnnlng lips all tremulous,
Press soft on mine a soul-enthralling kiss,
An earnest of the happy years to us,
Of unalloyed, yea ! perfect wedded bliss.
Bo let the sunlight of thy presence shine
Athwart the lhture vision of my life,
Thy geutler spirit radiate through mine,
And make me worthier of thy love, sweet
wife. k, e. w.
Love’s Riddle.
“Why I love thee,” Is thy question sot
“Why, when Isabel is lovelier farT”
Bear, so hard to read Love’s riddles are,
He’s no lover who can solve them well:
I may tell when thou hast made me know
Why thy smile has naught of Isabel.
“Why I love thee," dost thou ask me thist
“Why, when Lucy’s voice Is thrice as
sweet ?”
Bear, Love’s measures are so hard to mete,
More or lesB compute no lover’s choice:
Ere I tell, say what tbe reason Is
Why thy Binging has not Lucy’s voice.
“Why I love thee,” must I answer now?
“Why, when Blanche Is wittier fifty-fold ?"
Dear, Love wrote his changeless law of old,
Lovers’ wisdom should not know its why:
Why art thou not she, nor she but thou T
Tell me, love, for thereln’s my reply.
A Recollection.
The rose looked fairer as it lay
On her cold breast that summer day,
And sweeter smelled its guileless breath
Above the heart so still In death.
Beholding her the eye could trace
A tender smile on her calm face,
While on her lips one oould not miss
The Impress of Love’s last fond kiss.
She seemed as one last fallen asleep,
Like one }n blissful dreamland deep;
Or like an angel in repoee,
Breathing the breath of a white rose.
And yet her quiet loveliness
A deeper meaning did expiess—
And full of such a solemn power
As makes one dumb in such an hour.
We bended down and kissed the face
Bo white and sad, yet full of grace,
Ab felt the lily hands that pressed,
As in fond prayer, tbe beauteous breast,
And dropped a tear of sad regret
O’er one whose lovely bloom bad set
In rarer hues, and sweeter scent,
In God’s blest Garden of Content.
Sir Garnet Wolstley.
General Wolseley is the sen of an
English M^pr, and was born near
Dublin in 1833. He entered the army
as Ensign in 1852, and in 1865 had
risen through the various ranks to
that of Colonel. His first service was
in the Burmese war of 1852-’53, fcr
which he received a medal. After*
ward he was awarded still higher dis
tinction in the Crimean War, receiv
ing the Legion of Honor and the
Turkish decoration. He was also at
the siege of Lucknow and the defense
of Alumbagh, where his gallant ser
vices gained him the promotion to a
Lieutenant-Colonelcy. In ^.860 he
served through the Chinese campaign,
and received another medal. In 1867
^ he visited America as Deputy Quarter
master-General In Canada, and com
manded the Bed River expedition.
His next active service was in 1879,
when he commanded the troops on
the Gold Coast during the Ashantee
war, with the rank of ^Major-General.
The oampaign commenced in Septem
ber of that year, and, after many hard
marches and discouragements, owing
to the perfidy of the natives, he final
ly defeated the Ashantees in Febru
ary, 1874, and received the submission
of their King in his Capital, Coomas-
sie. For the success of this expedi
tion he reoeived the thanks of Parlia
ment and a grant of $11:0,000,. was
cieated a K. C. B. t and given the
freedom of the oity of London and a
splendid sword. Early in 1875 he was
dispatched to Natal to administer the
government of that colony. He re
mained there until 1876, when he was
nominated a member of the Counoll
of India. In 1878 he was made ad
ministrator of the Island of Cyprus,
which came into English occupation
through a supplementary agreement
with Turkey alter the Berlin Congress.
After the disasters to the English in
Zululand under Lord Chelmsford and
| ColoneffEvelyn Wood, General W j1-
( sele„ was uppointed to the supreme
military ccumaid, Sir Bartle Frere,
Governor of Cape Colony, and Sir
Henry Bulwer, Lieutenant-Governor
of Natal, retaiuiug their positi >ns, but
being subordinate to General Wolseley,
who assumed command in June, 1879.
The British force advanced in that
month and defeated the Zulus at
Uiundi in July. By the 12th ot that
month all tire chi-fa except Cstewayo
and S.ray wo had submitted General
Wolseley then took the field in person
and followed up Cetewayo so vigor
ously that on the 28 th of August he
surrendered, and three days after
wards General Wolseley met the
chiefs and submitted a treaty to them
which they signed. Since that time
and until the outbreak of the Egyptian
war General Wolseley has remained
in' South Africa as the Civil Governor
of Natal and tbe Transvaal. With
his career since that time our readers
are familiar. His expedition from
Alexandria to Port Said, his occupa
tion of the Canal, his advance from
Ismailia to Tel-el-Kebir, his capture
of the latter place, and his still more
rapid advance to Cairo, and his cap
ture of Arab! Bey, are among the most
brilliant actions of hiB career, and ap
pear all the more remarkable when it
is remembered that he predicted be
fore leaving London that the war
would be over September 15 th—a pro
phecy fulfilled to the day—thus show
ing that no element of chance entered
into the prosecution of his campaign.
The Unlucky Day.
For one reason or another, Friday,
from time immemorial, was reckoned
an unlucky day among nearly all the
various branches of the Aryan family
of nations, embracing the Greek, La
tin, Celtlo, Teutonic, and Slavonic
races, or, in other words, the ances
tors of pretty nearly all the present
populations of E urope. This was the
case long before any of these races
were Cnristianizid. The Romans
classed Friday in the ne/asti dies, on
whioh the courts were forbidden, to
sit; end it was one of the unlucky
days of that sort on which worship of
the gods, or, at least, religious feasts,
were never celebrated. After the in
troduction of Christianity the day be
came still more obnoxious to the people
because it was held that Christ expired
on the cross on Friday, April 3, 33
A. D. It seems that in very early
times in the history of English juris
prudence it became a common prac
tice in selecting a day for the execu
tion of criminals to choose a Friday.
This practice was transplanted to the
crust of this country iu colonial times,
and has boen generally, through not
invariably, obiervjd ever since, not
only in the original thirteen states,
but in all the states. There is no
statutory provision, so far as we can
learn, making it obligatory on judges
to follow this old custom. It only re
mains to add .that the superstition that
Friday is an unlucky, evil day is so
deeply rooted in the minds of thousands
of intelligent,educated.people that they
cannot be induced to set sail on a voy
age, start on any kind of a journey, or
commence any new enterprise on that
day of the week. Th6 same supersti
tion prevails among the Hindoos.
A Journalistic Repartee.
A French journalist recently wrote
a rather unfavsraole criticism of the
performance of an actress. The latter
felt deeply wounded, and longed for a
chance to get square with him. One
evening at the Varieties, where she
was in company with a fast and stupid
young gentleman of the aristooraoy.
she spied the journalist in question.
She had a package for him which she
requested her friend to deliver in
person. The dandy arose, and, taking
the package from the lady’s hand,
walked over to the newspaper man
and presented It to him saying, “Mile
Daverger, who admires your talent as
a journalist, has requested me to pre
sent you this as a souvenir from her,”
The critic took the package and
quietly opened it before the ourious
eyes of about twenty persons who had
heard the dandy’s little speech. It
contained about a dozen goose quills.
Smiles and suppressed laughter were
in order, but the scribe was equal to
the occasion. “Ah, my dear sir,”
said he to the dandy, “ please give my
thanks to the lady for these pretty
feathers. I was aware of tbe fact that
she plucked her admirers, but I really
didn’t think she did so on my ac
count.” _
Pedro L. Benet, brother of General
Benet, was found dead in his room at
Uie Arsenal at Augusta, Ga.
American Inventions in the
Egyptian War.
Among the supplies for tbe B itish
Army iu Egypt, mention was made of
driving apparatus, tubing and pumps
for two huudred “A lyssiniau wells,”
by which name American drive wells
are known in Eugland, from the cir
cumstance that they were first used
by the British army iu the Abyssin
ian war. It is estimated that two
hundred wells of the capacity ordered
will furnish from two to three million
gallons of water per day, and make
the army independent of the surface
water sources of the country. Seeing
that the fresh water canals were largely
in the control of Arabi, the success
of the invasion was largely contin
gent upon the ability which drive
wells give of obtaining water any
where in the desert.
This, however, doe3 no 1 , exhaust the
indebtedness of the British foroes to
American inventors. The great war
ships of Eugland are suppled with
the Brush electric lamps invented at
Cleveland; and, as every reader will
recall, it was by means of tbe powerful
lights of the fleet that Arabi’s attempts
to strengthen the forts about Alexan
dria, under cover of night and con
trary to agreement, were detected and
frustrated. After the bombardment
began the electrio lights played a not
less important part in directing the
movements of the ships at night, in
guarding against surprises, and in
watching the movement* of the enemy
on shore.
During the bombardment the most
effective service was done by turreted
vessels; and the revolving turret is an
American invention.
The machine gun, another Ameri
can invention, has proved an ex
tremely efficient arm for the invading
forces. Oue vessel fired 6000 pounds
of shot from Gatling guns the first day
of tne bombardment. A handful of
marines, with guns of this type, were
able to disperse the Alexandrian “loot
ers” and restore order in the afflicted
city, where many times that number
would have failed without such aid.
In the subsequent skirmishing with
Arabi’s troops abcut Alexandria, and
later in the capture of S laluf aud.other
fortified places in the Suez Canal, the
same guns on the gunboats and on the
shore have been in constant use
It is so well known that the small
arms of the British soldiers are but
slightly modified American guns,
made with machinery patterned afier
that developed in the shops of Spring-
field, Mass. The system of fixed am
munition for small arms, and the ma
chines by which such cartridges are
made, are also of American origin.—
Scientific American.
Railroads.
There are 7000 men working on the
Northern Pacific Railroad.
It is stated that 8000 Chinamen have
been hired to work on the Canada
Pacific R iilroad.
The Van Burea Graphic says the
’Frisco tunnel, through the Boston
onauntains, cost $100,000.
Au exchange says the building of a
standard gauge road from Ozark to
Charleston, in Franklin county, Ark.,
is the latest scheme on foot.
In 1831 there were 94,500 miles of
railroad in operation in the United
States, whose gross earnings amounted
to $725,325,119, on which $93,344,200
were declared as dividends.-
Bryan, Texas, has subscribed a
bonus of $22,000 to secure the H juston,
West Texas and New Orleans Rail
road, and it is expected that the road
will be built to Bryan inside of eigh
teen months.
It is said that the iron and a part of
the rolling stock for the Jacksonville
and St. Augustine Railroad will be
sent from New Ynrk at an early date.
The Jacksonville Union says that the
company contemplates running a
branch road to the beach at Dago,
which is thought to be the finest on
the Atlantic coast.
Southern Railroad Building.—Rail
road building and railroad business,
last year, was unprecedented in the
Southern States. About 1500 miles of
the road were put in operation, which
is nearly 1000 more than were built
during the^irecediug year. The gross
earnings of the S mtliern railroads last
year reached $63,000,000. In 1880 they
amounted to $48,000,000, and iu 1879 to
$43,00(f000. The net earnings In
creased from $14,000,000 in 1879 to $18.-
000,000 in 1880, and more than $24,000,-
000 in 1881.
The Marianna, Fla., Courier says:
The Pensaoola and Atlantic Railroad
will soon be completed from Pensa
cola to Cuattahooohee. This will en
title this company to the odd sections
of the United States lands for six miles
on each side of the road, and where
these sections were entered before 1856,
the compauy can tl at for the quantity
so entered anywhere within fifteen
miles of the road. A'so the alternate
sections of the swamp and overflowed
laud aiong tbe line for six miles, and
to 20,000 acres of land per mile from
tbe swamp and overflowed land near
est the line of said road.
The Northeastern Railroad has
reached Enterprise, Miss. A special
to the Times-Democrat says: The lay
ing of the track on the Naw O.'leans
and Northeastern Railroad, which
runs through the western su\>urb3 of
this place, has been completed to this
poiui. The whistling of the engine on
the line, indicates to our people the
dawning of a new and bright era in
the history of our little city, which is
looked forward to with much interest.
Several parties con template at an early
date erecting storehouses and other
buildings near the new depot. Being
a competing line with the Mobile and
Ohio Railroad, it will cause a reduc
tion in tariff rates, which will give
such advantages to our place as It h is
not heretofore enjoyed.
Moral and Pious Sentiment.
L Mother’s Heigh-Ho.
Helgh-ho! Handle the dough !
How I do wish that dinners would grow,
A sponge cake vine or a doughnut tree—
Wnat a refreshing sight to Bee I
Heigh ho! Measure and sew I
How I do wish that garments would grow!
An overskirt bush, or roundabout tree—
What a refreshing sight it would be I
Sunshine and 8hade. •
There Is never a rose, my dear,
That hasn’t a thorn at all;
And over each glimmering day
Night shadows must always fall.
Oh 1 soft, in the early morning
The dewdrops are Bhinlng bright,
But swift In the garish sunlight
They vanish away from sight.
Come, and I’ll tell you a story:
I have a lover, you see;
And his sweet eyes winking and blinking
Are ever laughing at me.
The sheen of the king-cup is faded,
Tne daffodil’s splendor Is done,
When the golden head ol my knight
Bhlnes fair in the summer sun.
And never Is bird song sweeter
Than the rhyme he sings to me;
And never a tree-top whispered
A daintier melody.
Heigh-ho 1 why Is It that never
Our loves or our hates go aright ?
My sweetheart's a two-year-old baby,
While I am twenty to-night.
s. e. w.
The “crown of thorns” brought
from the Holy Land during the cru
sades, and for whioh the Bainte Caa-
pelle in Pails was built, is at this mo
ment exhibited to the veneration of
the faithful at the ohurch of Notre
Dame. This relic was in the posses
sion of a Jew when It was purchased
by Louis IX., called Saint Louis.
Christianty.—The best definition
of Christianity as an inward and out
ward life seems to me to be this:
“From God, for man.” Of this life,
which combines faith and works, piety
and charity, truth and love, Christ is
the ideal. After criticism has done its
best or worst on the records, Jesus still
remains the source to mankind of this
ideal. He will stand fit it before the
human mind forever. This ideal is
above all dogmas and all sects. Noth
ing higher can be imagined than the
condition of one who is inwardly fed
by God’s spirit and is the medium of
that spirit to bless his fellow-men.
“From God, for man.”
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A Traffic in Tarantulas.
One of the curious developments of
trade in*Bouthern California is the
traffl i In tarantulas and their nests.
It is an entirely new avenue of trade,
and to Master Leo Fleishman seems
to belong the discovery’ and develop
ment. He began a short time since
to gather their ourloua and ingenious
ly contrived nests for rello hunters
and eurioslty seekers, and as the trade
increased he began the oapture and
preservation in a state of nature of tun
tarantula itself, whioh he does by in
jecting into the animal arsenic in con
siderable quantities. This has the et-
foot of preserving the tarantula and
destroying all its poison, and it may
be handled with perfeot impunity
after suoh treatment. In certain
localities these mseots are quite nu
merous, and the industrious hunter
will sometimes oapture twotlozen in a
day, and these when prepared and
nloely mounted bring six dollars per
dozen.
Fruit in Italy.
We have fruit upon the table a
every meal, except breakfast, just
when we want it most. The nmrkets
are as pretty a picture as you would
see, with’ the.heaps and baskets of
handsome, shining fruit. Vast quan
tities of grapes are raised for eating
purposes, far more than with us.
Several kinds of the grapes for table
use are of a pale, translucent green
color, very tender and pulpy. They
are called white grapes. They are not
particularly swtet, but have a very
delicate, slightly tart flavor, which
makes them peculiarly grateful to the
taste in the broiling hot weather. They
could undoubtedly be cultivated ex
tensively in the Southern States of our
own country, and ought to be. We
have also seen some apples here and
there, but as far as they have come-
under our notice, neither the Italian
apples nor peaches are as fine as our
own. Olives grow in every part of
Italy that we have seen, which in
cludes every portion except the south
eastern.
The olive orchards here frequently
cover the sides of the Appenine moun
tains qulte^to the top. Thousands of /
acres are devoted to olive culture.
When we used to read in the Bible 4
about the people who ate bread, wine-
and olives, we always supposed, you
remember, that an olive was a fruit to -
be eaten rip3, like a peach or an>
orange. It seems necessary to recon
struct our Bible belief in this respect.
They tell us here that an olive is a
fruit whioh must never be eaten raw;.
that in that state it 1b a bitter, burn- -
ing acid-tasting thing which a goat
itself would refuse to take down. Jt
is a product to be piokled and then<
eaten, usually with bread. In the
pickled state those who are accustomed
to eating it in its native state say it is
delicious. There are various ways of
preserving tbe olive. It is chiefly
raised, however, for the oil, on which,
it is said, a great profit is made.
There seems to be no good reason why
it ceuld not be cultivated successfully
in Florida, and perhaps in other parts
of the Southern United States. In
appearance, the olive tree is about the -
size and shape of an ordinary peach
tree, with a gnarled trunk Its leaf is
the shape of a peach leaf, but small,
harsh and stiff. The color of the
folliage is a pale, dull green, like that
of a sage bush, the true aesthetic
shade.
We have had a varied experience in
eating fresh figs. There are several
varieties, of different colors when ripe.
We have eaten small green ones and
large purple ones. Readers who are
fortunate enough to have spent their
childhood in the country, will remem
ber the little woods fruit we uBed to
call a “May apple.” Well, a fresh
Italian fig tastes like that. The rind
is bitter and irritating, and must be
peeled off. Fig trees grow to great-
size.
Italian watermelons are good, very
like those dear to the soul of the-
colored brother in August days. But
the muskmelons taste to us Ameri
cans like a raw pumpkin. There was
one fruit we could not possibly make
out for a week or two. It was like a
plum, and then, again, it wasn’t. It
was yellow inside, and smooth,
shining and yellow, with a brilliant
red cheek upon the outside. It was
tougher and dryer than a peach, and
yet tasted like one, and was on the
whole good, and interest in the subject
ran high. W e took sides and had dis
cus ions. We bet bottles of wine on
it. Was it peach, plum or apricotf
At last we found a solemn old Italian
waiter who knew enough English to
solye this important question. Ho
said the mysterious fruit was called
the nut-peach. Did he make the
name out of his own head ? I don’t
know. -
A Russian Prince.
A Russian Prlnoe died at Sb. Peters
burg lately who contradicted sril the
popular notions of Russian Prinoeu.
This was Orloff Davidoff, the son and
nephew of the five famous brothers
Orloff of the days of Catherine. This.
Davidoff was the frieDd o' Bir Walter
Bcott and Goethe, a pamphleteer and
essayist himself of no mean pretension,
but above all a humanitarian. Being
one of the largest land owners in Rus
sia he devoted himself to the eleva
tion of his former serfs, founded in
dustrial aud other aohools for them,
with system and appliances far in
advance of those in England. Many
of our refers will doubtless remem
ber the exhibit made by the serfs
the Exposition in Philadelphia, of
designs^ mathematical and other
work.
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