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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.” ■ ■■ ' 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. »i V % * i. 4