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Poet's Corner.
A Cradle iu tha Hotue.
We have got a cradle in the house,
And we have something in It;
A freakl'h, wayward, winsome bairn,
Not t> gser than a miuute.
Although no diadem he wearH
Bu 1 Is ringlets soft an t brown,
Hlsevery smile and irown wo heed,
As if he wore a crown.
N • sceptre in his hands he holds,
But then his plnhy fist so small,
He, like a royal rnouarc >, wields,
And we are hutnole subj jets all.
And when his tiny foot he stamps
If s.ugat, caprice < r whim displease,
The brightest gift in babydum
We bring him to appease.
An I when tie wills to close his eye o ,
We go on tiptoe throngU tne house ;
Even papa’s heavy-boo’ed foot
Falls softly as a mouse.
We have a despot ou the throae,
Keclluhig like a kinglet,
For we have a cradle i n our house,
And we have something in it.
Love is Enough.
Love is enough! Let us not ask f >r gold;
Wealth breeds false alius, and pride and
se flshness.
In those serene, Arcadian days of old,
Man gave no thought to princely homes or
dress.
The gods whd dwelt on fair Olympia’s height
Lived only lor dear Love and Love’s delight.
Love is enough.
Love is enough I Way should we care for
fame ?
Ambition is a most unpleasant guest;
It leaves us with the glory of a name
Far from the happy haunts of peace and
rest.
Let us stay heroin this secluded place,
M ide beautiful by L tvo’s enduring grace.
Love is enough.
Love is enough ! Why should we strive for
power ?
It brings mei only envy and distrust.
The poor man s homa :e please t but an hour,
And earthly honors vanish in the dust.
The grandest lives are oftimes desolate ;
L'lt me be loved, and let who will be g- e it,
Love is enough.
I ive is enough! Why should we ask l§r
more ?
What greater gilts have gods vouchsafed to
meat
What better boon of all their precious store
Thau our fond deans that love and love
again ?
Old love may die—new love is j ust as sweet,
And life is lair, aud all toe world complete,
Wheu love is onoug h.
Bella’s Picture.
‘‘Ha’ll never marry you, Puss,”
eaid John Ar;t>tr. Little Bella, his
grauddaughttr, looked up, with wist
ful, staitled eyes.
“Why not, grandfather? I think—
I am almost sure he likes me.”
Bella Arohc r had neitht r mother nor
sister, aud had been in the habit of
making all her maiden confidences to
•her grand f ither. *
Old John took his pipe out of his
mouth and watened the blue curls of
the smoke as they floated up into the
y girl," said he, “E think lie does
you. But be is in debt, my dear
i terribly tied down with that old
itgage £id the notes his father died
^ left him to pay off. And Hester
Vis has a clear $1000 of her own.
*ian cannot afford to push fortune
e when she meets him face lo
I thought so, grandfather ”
“Little girl,” said John, not without
a kindly pity in his voico, "you don’t
[know the world as well as I do.”
Bella silently rose from her seat, and
taking a blue-edged china bowl in her
hand, went out to gather currants for
tea—and to be alone and think.
"If Charley Walters can^ie as mer
cenary as that,” she thought, with the
big drops of crystal starting to her
eyes, "then there is no truth and hon
esty left in all the world.”
"Bella!”
Tarough the green wall of bushes
the gleam of a pair of merry hazel
eyes glittered upon her, and the
text moment Charley Walters was at
ir side.
VI was coming this way on an er
rand from the mill,” said he, "and bo
A thought I would just look in. But,
Bella you are crying! What for?”
"I—I do not know !” faltered poor
Bella, hanging down her head.
"But you must tell me! Dear Bella,
your tears fall like drops of fire on my
head, for I love you, Bella!”
"Oh, Charley!”
"I have loved you this long time,
dear,” he went on, tenderly pressing
her hand in his, "only I dared not
ask you to share my uncertain future
But some day, Bella, when I have
paid of! these debts and have a home
to offer you, will you oome and be its
little queen?”
And Bella, half crying, half laugh-
ig promised that she would.
"But,” said she, with a demure
in her blue eyes, "Hester
Morris is much more of an heire s
than I am. Hester Morris has a thou
sand dollars of her own, aud 1 haven’t
a thousand cen<s.”
"I love you,” said Charley, "and I
don’t love Hester Morris! There’s
where It is, my little one. And al-
tho tgh I can’t deny that a thousand
dollars would be very acceptable to
me, dill I do not propose to sell myself
for any such sum of money as that.”
Half an hour later old John Archer
was electrified to feel Bella’s arms
around his neck, her soft eheek laid I
against his stubby beard, aud to hear
her whispering :
"Grandfather, he does love me ! He
has told me so—and has asked me lo
be his wife.”
The next morning was one of those
brilliant August dajs when the leaves
scarcely pf r iu the golden rain of the
sunshine, and the purple hills seem
outlined like crayon skctihes against
the dazzling blue of tbs horizm, and
John was suuning himself on a wood
en bench in front of the house, when
up trotted a pi r .y of young equestrians
from the Oveilrok H use, ten miles
away.
"(Jan we get a glass of milk and
sometingto eat here?”|demai;ded Clare
Dallas, the forerunner of the party,as
he sprang from his high mettled grey
horse.
John Archer shook his head grave
ly-
"This is not an inn, sir,” said he.
"Not an inn? Why, there is the
sign swinging now,” said the young
gentlemen pointing with one Anger
up toward the warped and dilapidated
board, on which was painted in letters
well nigh washed out the legend,
‘ Entertainment for Man and Beast.”
* Yes,” said John, there is the sign
to be sure, jut as it bung there In my
son’s days. He kept here, but I
don’t.”
"How i r woking !” said one of the
ladies. Aud now we shall have to
ride on six milea further—aud I am to
thirstv.”
"No need of that, no need of that!”
alertly interrupted the old man. "It
ain’t no inn, to be sure, but my grand-
daughtt r, Bella, will be proud to give
you a glass of milk and some of her
homemade ginger ale, If you will
alight, Walk in, walk in !”
He walked on in advance of them,
and Bella flushed and pretty, brought
out her pitcher of milk and brown
ginger bread at once. But one of the
guests, a middle aged gentleman, quite
bald, with shining black eyes, like
beads, walked straight past the table
to the chimney piece, where a dark
canvas hung, enclosed in a cheap
frame of painted pine.
"What’s this?” said he. "Eh
WhaVd this? ’
And ho lifted a pair of gold eye
glasses to his eyes and gazed intently.
"That?” said John Archer, rather
deprecatingly. "Oh, that belongs to
our little Bella! It ain’t worth much
to look at, I know, but she thinks it is
better than the blank wall. It was laid
up in the garret these twenty years,
and she brought it down last spring.
Grandfather, says she, it will just
c jver the stove-pipe hole!”
“ Where did you get it ?” asked the
g entleman.
"There was an old furrin gentleman
died here when my son Jake kept
tavern—died of typhoid fever—and he
set a deal of store by it. It was his
wife, mebbe, or his mother, that there
woman with Ahe child in her arms.
He had no relations as ever any one
hear of. Jake buried him, poor creeter
and there was the end of it. But he
lay and stared at that picture to the
last, a muttering his furrin lingo,most
likely it was some relation of his.”
"Not (xactly,” said the dark gentle
man, with a curious smile hovering
the corners of his lipB. It’s a Madona
—one of Carlo 8forya’s. Do you say
it belongs to this little girl?”
"Yes, sir,” said Bella, coloring and
casting dow her eyes under the dark
lightning of his. "Father gave it to me
for my playhouse.”
"What will you take for it!”
Bella could hardly believe her ears.
"I—I don’t know.sir” she stammer
ed, "I don’t quits know what it’s
worth. Worth ten dollars ?”
"Ten dollars I” cried out the gentle
man, "I’d give you a thousand !”
Bella put her hands resolutely be
hind her back.
"Sir, that would be cheating you
It is not worth so much money.”
The old virtuoso smiled grimly.”
"Child,” said he, "what do you
know of art? Is It for you to deolde
what a Carlo Sforya is worth ? A bot
tle of Ink, please,” to old John, as he
pulled out a pen and a morocco
leather paper book from bis vest
pocket.
He knocked the frame up at once,
rolled up the black aud age-stained
canvas aud carried it off, as old John
afterward remarked, as carefully as if
it w rs a baby, while Bella, staring at
her check for $1000, could hardly be
lieve that the whole thing was not a
dream.
"But, grandfather, is this money ail
mine, to do what I like with it?”
"Of course it is, child.”
"Then I’ll give it to Charley to pay
ofl the mortgage with, and we can be
mairied i.t once.”
"A woman all over,” said he.
"Weil, my lass, do with it just what
will make you happiest.”
Charley Walters refused to accept
the money at first, and then he said
he would take it as a loan.
"Aud you into the bargain, my
little go id fairy,” said he, with a
smile that was choked by a sob.
Relative Longevity in Various
Occupations.
An interesting exhibit of the mor
tality in the diflerent walks of life
was furnished by the General Regis
ter in report on the death-rate of the
whole of England in 1851. From this
It appears taat out of evt ry thousand
persons between the ages of twenty-
five and fifty five, foity died on an
average. Classified according to the
most favorable mortality, and in
creasing downward, we have the fol
lowing tables:
Below Average. Above Average.
1. Merchauts. 7. Miners.
2. Weavers. 8. Tailors.
3. Cobblers. 9. Bakers.
4. Carpenters. 10. Butchers.
5. Blacksmiths. 11. Liquor dealers.
6. Laborers.
The mortality of the eleventh class
is so great that in good companies
they are only admitted with great
caution, and on shi rt endowment or
term policies.
Mariners, also, are consid< red pot r
risks, as 35 per cent, of the deaths
among them ae attributable to acci
dents. Among miners 25 per cent,
among machinists 15 per cent., among
painters, well-diggers, and glaziers 10
per cent, die in consequence of casu
alties. The callings of brewer, type
setter, tinsmith, lithographer, and
stonecutter are also in a measure
detrimental to a prolonged duration
of life.
Elephants.
Mr. Sanderson, the elephant hun
ter, in Africa has captured this sea
eon, jjp to March, a total of two hun
dred and fifty-one elephants. Two of
his drivers were very successful,
yielding sixty-five and fitty-five re
spectively. He could easily have
caught a hundred more, if he had had
a sufficient number of tame elephants.
All the wild elephants were caught on
the Garrow Hills so that it may safely
be concluded, when so many have
been caught in such a comparatively
small arena, that there is little fear of
Aheir extinction in India at all events.
Although Mr. Sanderson had little or
no time for sport, he came across and
killed some good buffaloes (the horns
of one bull measured nine feet six
inches outside and across the forehead,
and nineteen and half inches in cir
cumference well clear of the skull),
also some good specimens of rhinocer
oses, which he says are much easier to
kill than a buffalo. Mr. Sanderson
also killed some tigers, two in one
day. One of these was what he hith
erto has not believed in, viz., a ten-
foot tiger. It measured ten feet one
inch by the shortest mode, and he
says could be made to measure ten
feet and nine inoheB.
Papa Castel’s classics : The unedu
cated manager is liable to laughable
mistakes. One of these geutlemen,
Papa Castel, was getting up a mytho
logical ballet. His stage manager was
explaining the intended arrangement
of the principal tableaux. "This
raised Bcaflolding in the centre is
Mount Olympus, where we will place
all the heathen divinities ; that to the
left is Mount Parnassus, which we can
oover wjtli the poets of antiquity; on
this, tojihe right, Mount Pindus, we
will fena three groups, composed of
the nife Muses, the three Futes aud
th^tlflee Graces.” "No, no!” said
Papa flastel, " that will never do; too
uusymuetrloal by far; too Irregular.
Let Ms have the five MuseB, the five
FalM and the five Graces. That will
be Kmnch^nretUftr arrangement.”
Table Conceits.
The Boa Ton.
Fashionable dinner tables are 11 >ht*
ed by candelabra on either side of the
centre piece, or occasionally by a cen
tral cluster of branch lights,which sur
mount a pair of vaVs, all springing
from the same base. Usually the foun
dation is a mirror, and the support
the figure of a child or mythological
subject.
Glasses for wines should indicate In
shape or color the kind for which thev
are intended. Taus, a red glass is suit
able for whits wine, green for various
kinds of Rhine wiue, while white of
small size signifies sherry. Claret
glasses are larger than port glasses,
while th se for champagne are thin in
the stem and of wide brim.
Much amusement is derived at some
popular dinn rs from the cards
which indicate the seats of guests.
They are of endless variety, are otteu
printed expressly to order and contain
witty allusions or sa*ideal pictures.
The newest are mounted uppon rib
bons of bright colors, about three inch
es wide, which are fringed out at the
edges, aud upon the centre of which a
painting is either executed upon the
material itself or upon tinted card.
For a recent farewell bachelor din
ner, on the eve of a wedding, such
cards made expressly to ord< r by Tif-
fany, each one being reserved for a
special guest as a memento of the oc
casion, cost $3 a piece.
For hunting-dinners floral decora
tions assume characteristic shapes,und
a rabbit, hare or game of some kind
appears iu emblematic form upon the
ta ble.
Beautiful little baskets are now in
fashion as liquor stands. Each con
tains four bottles, while srouud the
edges of the basket are twelve little
hooks, from which depend small
square-shaped glasses. Usually bot
tles and stoppers are of different oo]< rs
while the little glasses correspond by
having handles unlike the body of
the glass.
Coffee is presentsd to guests after
dinner in the reception-room upon a
revolving I ray. In this, the latest style,
a little urn is in the centre, from which
the coffee is to be poured, and the s-ts
imported from Minton are provided
with six, eight or twelve cups, cream
jug, milk pitcher and sugar bowl.
Upon the same principle 12 o’clock
breakfast and 4 o’clock tea are served
in boudoirs upon revolving tables.
Sets of china are made which sti ve
either purpose, being provided with
toast-rack and muffin dish ftr use in
the morning, while if intended for
afternoon tea these articles are re
moved.
The tables for these sets are in
Q, aeen Anne style and the mufli a dish
fits into a round hole beneath the tea
tray. Such sets of china comprise
the requisite number of cups, a tea
pot, a tea-kettle (both in china), cream
jug, milk pitcher and sugar bowl. By
their use the attendance of a servant
is dispensed with. Universally popu
lar in the best society in England,
they i ra becoming somewhat general
here and in Washington.
Novel napkin rings are made of
flowers, wired into shape and placed
upon the semette. Although they
serve no useful purpose they are orna
mental.
The newest ice cream plates are
of Bohemian glass with little handles.
The shape is something between an
oval and a square. Others are in
china, cream-colored ground, with gilt
edges, in shape like a full-sized grape
leaf.
Single vases for each guest are no
longer so popular as they were for
dinner tables. The more fashionable
style to day is a central globe either of
deeply*cut crystal or of Bohemian
glass, which rests upon a polished
mirror. Some of these globes are
mounted upon deep crystal trays, thus
providing a second receptacle for the
flowers. Four oorner pieces are sold
with the globes, either for a con
tinuous design around the centre or
for the ends of the table.
In spite of the attempt to introduce
color Into the table doth, preference
in the highest oirdes is still given to
fine white damask, but occasionally
the doths are trimmed with lace
edging.
Exquisite desert plates are in the
richest Dresden china, with deep-toned
centres and open-worked edges. The
designs are so beautiful that doylies
are not used with them.
Very pretty pieces of glass are now
In the leading stores for "odd” pi
on a dinner table. TUey are in Sevres
glues, amber or blue in color, and ara
enabled in raised designs or gilt in
relief. The shapes are especially novel
and attractive.
For gentlemeu’s dinner parties menu
cards painted by hand are in vogue,
representing some very realistio part
of the preparations for the entertain
ment. Upon one the cook in cap and
apron is to-sing a pancake, on another
the butler has just drawn the cork,
and so on through the series. For or
dinary dinutrj menu cards are upon
tinted bristol board, aud the newett
style is to have a vignette on one cor
ner, date, aud plr.ee of entertainment
occupying the other, This ii on single
cards, but those referred to above are
double, and are iutended to be laid
opposite the plate of the guest.
Some very fashionable people dia
pause with flowers at the dinner table
entirely. Ici fact, they are altogether
less in faver for festive occasions than
they were, probably because they are
so much in request at interments.
The Mile and the Knot.
The confusion in the public mmd,
and redacted most clearly in the writ
ings of popular authors in regard to
the diflerence between the mile and
the knot, is astonishing. In the same
article the knot and the mile is repeat
edly compared as though they were
sononymoua terms. It is very difficult
in regard to English steamers to find
out what speed has really been made.
A mile and a knot are by no mems
the same thing. A mile is It, s than 87
per cent, cf a knot. Three and ono-
half miles are equal, within a very
small friction, to three knots. The
knot is 6)82.66 feet in leflgth. The
statute mile is 528) feet. The result of
this difference is that the speed in
miles per hiur is always considerably
larger than when stated in knots, and
if a person forgets this and states a
speed as so many knots wheu it was
really so many miles, he may be gluing
figures verging on the incredible.
W hen we hear parties say that such a
vessel is capable of making 20 knots
per hour, we usually take the state
ment with a very large grain of salt,
for, 20 knots is 23.04 miles per hour,
a speed which very tew vessels have
made, and it is doubted by some who
have had the best opportunity for
making actual rneasu r aments, whethi r
any vessel has ever made 25 miles in
60 minutes. What, then, shall we
think of a person who reports that
some of the English torpedo boats
have made as high as 24 or 25 knots ?
T verity four knots are over 27J miles
per hour, and twenty-five knots are
upward ot 28J miles an hour.
How to Prevent Tocl3 from
Rusting.
The best plan of preventing too}
from rusting is the simple preparatic
employed by Prof. Olmstead, of Yall
College, for the preservation of scien
tific apparatus, and which he long
ago published for the general good, de
ciding to have it patented. It is
made by the slow melting together of
six or eight parts of lard to one of
rosin, stirring till cool. This remains
semi-fluid, ready for use, the rosin
preventing rancidity and supplying
an air-'lglit film. Rubbed on a bright
surface ever so thinly, it protects and
preserves the polish effectually and it
can be wiped off nearly clean, if ever
desired, as from a knife blade ; or It
may be thinned with coal oil or ben
zine. A writer in Forest and Stream
says that if oxidation has begun, no
matter in how slight a degree, it will
go on under a coating; it is therefore
essential that the steel surface he both
bright and dry when filmed over.
Heavy Grades.
At Mauoh Chunk the elevation of
the Lehigh Valley Railroad is 644.4
feet above the tide. The top of Mt,
Pisgali is 4500 feet above the tide.
From the top of Mt. Pisgah to the
foot of the Mt. Jelferson plane
the distance is six and two-thirds
miles, and the grade is 46 feet to the
mile [from the top of Mt. Jefferson
Summit Hill the distance is one ml]
and the grade 45 feet to the
From Summit Hill to Mauch
the distance is nine miles, and t|
grade is 90 feet to the mile.
An attractive ad.: A clerk of an
neutly respectable house, the head
which is a d< aeon, was instructed
prepare an advertisement and
inserted In the papers. He pre
one which read: "The pot sooo
We hotft four aces to the bob-tall
of any other house In town on
.table cloths.”