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Rest.
OIL am SHUTTLES
My feet are wearied, my hands are tied—
My eoul oppressed;
And with desire I have.long desired
Rest—only rest.
'ris hard to toil, when toil ie almost vain,
In barren ways;
Tis hard to sow,and never garner grain
In harvest days.
The burden ot my days i* hard to bear,
Bat God knows best;
And I have prayed-bnt vain hae been my
prayer—
For rest—sweet reel.
Tis hard to plant in spring, and never reap
The aatamn yield;
Tie hard to till, and when ’tis tilled to weep
O’er fruitiest field.
And so I cry, a weak and haman ory,
80 heart oppressed;
And so I sigh, a weak and human sigh,
For rest, sweet rest.
My way has wound aoroes the desert years,
And cares inlest
My path; and through tho flowing oi hot
tears
I pine torrest.
l was always so; when still a child I laid
On mother’s breast
My wearied little head, e’en then I prayed
As now, lor rest.
And 1 am restloss still; ’t will soon bo o’er,
For, down the west,
Lite’s sun is setting, and I see the shore
Where I shall reat.
— Father Hyan.
CARA'S MISTAKE.
VIOLINS,
ACCORDEONS,
BOWS,
STRINGS,
- Rosin boxes, ktc.
Machine Needles,
^ JJ2; w "^a of Machines, tor ml*. I will
MW order parts ot Machines that get
broke, and new pieoee
are wanted.
SA NDERSVILLE, GA., MARCH 1, 1881.
NO, 48.
J. JERNIGAN.
ISytfWtaed Start i'HILIi POINTS.
I the J u^S !?,!*’ COTet brautlfullj, and Instead of crowding;
\ tho^UnuG uue i ne b row9 « 11 4, and & insj
LL rtt^i * ‘i Bndin C apart, have non BOOM
^K 10 8 ™°L> dame more nourish msat from tha
become more Tlgorgtu, produoa bettar davali
average heads. Bend & Illuatratad Aai
J.AJONES,WILMINQTOH, I
!*Ul]r beliAXrn 0 t l . her To J?’> wheat, about a week ago, and I
Wlth^our Point! rC 8 0n ® morn wlioaf n hors I*, via drilled
W hen Mrs. Donald took her sister’s
second daughter to bring up amidst tho
luxuries of her wealthy home, she felt
complacently sure that she was doing a
very kind and charitable net. Mrs.
Norris was a hard-working I armor's
wife, with a house full of children, and
with very scanty means to supply their
wants. Her wealthy widowed sister
had been on a short visit to her, and the
night before she left said:
“ I think, Mary, you better let me
take Cara to educate. Graco is fourteen
years old, and she can help you with the
boys. Cara doesn’t s< em to be of much
use anyway, for I notice she’s a terrible
little shirk when there’s any liousewoik
to bo dons. She’s very pretty, though,
and she’ll be prettier when she’s grown,
and, of course, 1 want tho prettiest. I’ll
do as well by her while I live as though
she was my own child, but I do not
wish to promise to leave her anything
when I die. My son will inherit all I
have, you know. But I’ll eduoate her,
and be a mother to her.”
Poor overworked Mrs. Norris gasped
for breath at the idea of parting with
her pretty, useless Cara; but her con
sent and that of her husband was soon
gained. Mr. Norris, however, though a
plain farmer and with little education,
hadadcaiof hard practi al sense, and
heat first demurred.
“ I do not think it will do the gTrlnny
good to bring her up above her own
station in life, Mrs. Donald. She’ll be
taught extravagant habits, and I’d like
to know what good such habits will do
her when she is left without means to
gratify them. Youcannotleavehor any
property, you say, and you don’t look
overly strong yourself, ma’am. Any
day she may come back upon us with
her head full of flighty notions, and
perhaps rcorniu’ the homo-folks and
home ways. No, ma’am; I thank you,
lor your Kind offer, but I’d rather keep
my daughter at home.”
The lady thought to herself, “ he’s a
rude boor,” but she had a point to gain,
so she smiled sweetly a9 she said:
You’re certainly a strange man, Mr
Norris. Don’t you believe in education,
and wouldn’t you be pleased to have
your daughter so .well taught and so
highly accomplished that she could
make a good living if anything happens
to me ? Don’t calculate upon my speedy
death, either, for I’m not in ill health if
I do look delicate. Do take the matter
into favorable consideration.”
"I don’t need any consideration,”
wss his blunt answer, “ to see what’s
best for the child, and for all of us.”
“Well, then, put it in this way: Do
you think you are justified in refusing
this offer, which would make Cara, if
she studies, independent of you, or of
any one? If every person thought as
you do, there would be no progress in
the world.”
But Mr. NorriB was not convinced.
“Cara hates her books,” he Baid. “If
Grace didn’t help her, and push her along,
she’d wear the dunce-cap all the time at
school. I don’t think she’ll do anything
to help the progress of the world, Mrs.
Donald.”
But with his wife eager for the plan
and Cara coaxing and cryinu, like the
willful child she was, Mr. Norris was
at last conquered.
So Cara was transplanted to the fairy-
,and of a wealthy home, and at Goodale
farm life went on in the old way. Not
exactly in the old way, either, for though
there was always hard work for the
young people there, yet as Mr. Norris
means increasec’ they had more time for
study, and the three boys and Grace
were intelligent, and with their ordin
ary school advantages acquired a thirst
for knowledge.
Six years passed. Upon one pretext
or other, Cara did not return home even
.. The distance was too great
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on a visit. The distance
for the busy farmer or his wife to take
[toe for a trip to the cityi So they con
tented themselves wilb Clara s monthly
letters, by whioh they knew she was
well and happy.
She seemed, however, to take no In
terest in home matters. Her letters weie
brief; merely duty letters, very con
strained and artifiqial. But when she
was eighteen, and had left school, her
father insisted that she should visit her
home.
It was a visit that gave no pleasure to
any one. Tho father looked with con
sternation at his affected, fine-lady
daughter. 8he turned with disgust
from the homely ways of her family.
Mrs. Donald, who was with her, afraid
of some outburst, hurried their depart
ure.
“Thank heaven, that task is over!”
said this injudicious woman, with a
sigh of relief, as her carriage rolled from
the door of tho farmhouse. “How
coarse and vulgar your father’s manners
are, Cara! I think they’ve grown worse
with time. You ought to be everlast
ingly grateful, now that you can under
stand all I’ve rescued you from.”
“Ofcourse I am, auntie,” Cara lan
guidly assented. “I’ve been shocked
and disgusted more than I can tell, by
all I saw and heard at the farm. I do
hope I’ll never have to go back there.”
“What do you think your father
asked me t ” Mrs. Donald said after a
pause. “ He wanted to know if your
education had prepared you to make
your own living.”
Cara colored angrily. She did not
like study, and hei progress at sohool
bad beon very Blow. Even her accom
plishments were superficial, and she
was thorough in nothing but the art of
adorning hor pretty person.
“What did you tell him, auntieP” she
asked.
“I didn’t know what to say, for
you’ve done nothing in the way of
study, you know. He would have
blamed me for that, although you know
that is not my fault, and would have
declared that he knew you would no
make progress in schooling. I merely
told him to wait patiently and we would
find that you would make a support.”
Cara laughed significantly
“Oh, of course, you know what I
mean. With your pretty faeo and nice
society manners, you .ought to marry
well and soon. It’s all nonsense not to
talk over these matters plainly. It’s
your only chance, Cara; but when
you’ve landed your fish, you’d better not
take bim to Goodale farm,” and Mrs.
Donald laughed contemptuously. “He'd
be ‘disillusioned’ with a vengeance,
when he sees papa and the cubs at din
ner, and Grace’s red aims shining
through soap-suds. But she is hand
some enough, I must say, though she's
so abrupt; and she’s bright, too.” ,
If any one had told Mrs. Donald that
she was coarser in mind and in speech,
and in all that makes the true woman
than the people of Goodale farm, she
would have called him mad.
A few months after this conversa
tion Mrs. Donald was taken seriously
ill. From the first there was no hopo oi
her recovery, and fn a state of semi-
consciousness she drifted into a world
for which she bad made no preparation.
Her son, a worldly and avaricious
man, who had never approved of his
mother’s whim oi adopting Cara, and
did not like tho girl,sent her home as soon
as possible after the funeral ceremonv.
“ I’ve written for your father to come
for you, Cara,” he said, within a week
after the funeral. “ My wife will move
h'-’ro, and your room will be needed. Of
course, you can take the clothing my
mother gave you, though I’m afraid
yonr silks will be hardly suitable for
farm-work. If I were you, I’d dispose
of them.”
He left me room, leaving me girl con
vulscd with grief, less for the dead aunt
than for the luxurious home from which
she was thus summarily expelled. She
would have humbled herself, and borne
anything to be allowed to remain where
she was. When her father came for her,
she had exhausted her tears, and bad
fallen into a state of sullen despair.
“Seems tome you’re more sulky than
sorry, Cara," her father said, as they
jogged on in the spring-wagon, a mode
of conveyance which had brought
blush of shame to the girl’s cheeks as
she was lifted into it.
“I reckon you hate tho thought of liv
ing at home with your own people, after
the fine folks you’ve been used to. I’m
afraid it will be like the peaeook I
brought among my ehiekens last year,
that swelled and strutted and spread its
tail in the sun, till the fowls seemed to
band against it, and pioked and fought
it into good behavior.”
“ If everybody’s going to hate me,
and treat me badly,”—and Cara burst
into tears at the comparison.
“ Hush, child!” her father said,sooth
ingly. “ I didn’t mean that. Only you’ll
have to get used to our ways, and at first
it will be hard. I dare say in time
you’ll be just like one of us, and we’ll
all forget you ever went away.”
This was worse and worse. Would
she ever sink so low as to like or tolerate
the mode of life which lay before herP
No; sue had been too well taught for
that. Heavier and heavier grew her
heart until they arrived at Goodale
farm.
“Here, old woman!” cried Mr.
Norris, with a loud laugh, to bis wife,
who had run out to welcome her
daughter. “Here’s your doll come
back again to us. We shall have to get
off the city husk before we can see if
she’s got anything in her, but I’m glad
she’s back at her own home. Here,
take her in, and give us some supper!”
The mothor kissed her daughter, but
seemed hali-afraid to intrude a more
affectionate greeting upon the fine lady,
te Mi
who met her languidly, and looked
around with ill-disguised scorn upon
the homely sitting-room.
Grace, clear-eyed and sensible, carried
her off to the room they were share to
gether, for the saw her mother was
hurt at Cara’s cold and almost insolent
manner.
It was a very plain room, but fairly
shining with neatness. Cara glanoed at
the bare floor, the white cotton "tirtaing
at the windows, the home-woven bed
spread, and the oherry bureau, with its
small mirror, and throwing herself into
a chair, burst into a passion of tears.
“I wish I was dead! I wish I was
dead!” she sobbed. "I never can be
happy again, never! never t ”
Grace understood her very well, but
sensibly chose to misunderstand. “Of
course you’ll miss your aunt terribly at
first, Cara,”she said; “but then, after
ail, you’ve come home to our own
mother. I oan’t fancy a child of
mother’s missing any ono long when
we have her. You see you hnrdly know
her yet.”
But Cara wept on, and Grace, stand
ing at the window, waited patiently and
silently until she had exhausted herself.
“ What do you readhere P" she oried,
as her eyes, roving about, fell on several
shelves of books.
Grace laughed merrily. “ Wait until
the winter evenings, and then see for
yourself. We take it by turns to read
aloud, and you can't imagine the num
ber of books we get through with in
that way. We are regular book cor
morants, and every oent the boys and I
get we spend on hooks.”
I think I’d have got better furni
ture,” Cara said, glanoing contemptu
ously around.
Well, tastes differ,” Grace an
swered, good-humoredly. “Furnituro
could never give us the pleasure that
books do. We have access too. to Colonel
Steam’s fine library, and if you care for
reading, you’ll not be dull here.”
But I don’t oare for reading,” Cara
answered, sharply, “except novels. I
hadn’t much time for them, either, with
the visiting, and dressing, and parties.,
Ob, how will I ever be able to live
here P”
There was no answer to be made to
this lamentation, so Graoe quickly
walked out, and left her to her own
thoughts.
The next day, and the next, Cara
lounged about the house, with a fretful,
querulous look, which took all the
beauty out of her face.
Grace and the mother vainly strove to
interest her in their occupations. She
shrank lrom soiling her hands with
housework. Sewing she knew nothing
about, and did not wish to learn, and
reading was a bore. She was one of
those, irresponsible girls we meet with
too often, whose ideas ol duty are to do
only what is agreeable to themselves,
and to shirk any act which conflicts with
sel'-indulgence.
Sho grumbled and sighed until poor
Mrs. Norris' life became a burden, and
Grace’s patience was sorely tested by
the perpetual self lamentation.
Mr. Norris did not notice this at first,
but when he did, he came down sharply
upon the delinquent.
“ I won’t have that girl dawdling
around here, Mary, and looking as if
she’d turn sweet milk sour. Give her a
task, it she’s too lazy to take one, and
see that she does it. She’B sulked now
tor a month, and it's time to stop it
What on earth do you want, Cara."
“1 want to get away from here!” she
said, angrily. “I’m wretched, and I
can’t stay here.”
“ I s’pose that popinjay of a traveling
clerk that came here last night has start
ed you in a fresh place. I heard him
going on about the theater and opera,
and ladies’ bonnets and dresses. You
look down upon us, but if my boys were
not more intelligent than your city
clerk, I’d be ashamed of them. Why,
Grace knows ten times more than you,
and she’s more polite, and has better
manners.”
“ Grace more polite than I am!” Cara
exclaimed, in astonishment.
“ Certainly she is. You were so rude
to James Hillary last night tb at I was
ashamed of you.”
James Hillary 1” and Cora curled
her lip. “A country boor! I don’t
eare about such society, thank you,
sir."
“No, nor kind feeling, either, for
you’d insult any one it you thought
them ’ uot of your world,’ as you call it.
I’d like to know what your world really
is, child. It’s not sensible, judging lrom
you and the clerk, for you are much
alike. It’s not kindly, nor helpful, nor
beautiful, either, io my taste; fer all
your citified airs and graces will never
make you as nice and pretty as Grace.”
This was the crowning insult, and as
hor father went out, banging the door
behind him, for his temper was up, Cara
turned a wrathful face to her mother,
who had been an uneasy listener to this
conversation.
"Graoe superior to me!” she cried.
“ I’d like to see her in fashionable so
ciety, and that is my world, and I’m n^t
going to be kept here. Mr. Noland has
asked me to marry him, and because he
lives in the city I’m going to do it. I
used to see him at Max & Harvard’s,
where he clerked, though he never dared
speak to.me then; but just to get away
from here, I’ll take him. He says he’s
always liked me, and at least, I’ll be able
to go to the theater, and not be buried
alive here!
“My dear child!” Mrs Norris was so
much dismayed that she gasped for
breath. “ Mr
and ptobably not able to support you.
You know nothing About his character
or standing. Oh my dear, don't be
foolish and rash 1 Try to accommodate
yourself to our ways, and don’t throw
away your future in that manner.”
But the weak, obstinate girl would
not listen to her. If she could only get
back to the city, she thought in some
way or other she would manage to
make her way to the oharmed circle.
She was too inoxperienced to under
stand that without wealth or position
this would be an impossible task. She
was like a silly child, who only oared
to escape from fancied bondage.
Mr. Noland made his proposition in
form to Mr Norris, and it was as for
mally refused. But a few days after
ward Cara le.fc her home, on the pre
text of spending the day’witk a neigh
bor, and never returned. A few lines
to her mother told her that she had
married Noland, and was perfectly sat
isfied with the step she had taken.
Whether the satisfaction continued
ns the years passed by, the reader can
judge. Her family did not cast her off,
and they were often called upon to con
tribute to her support, particularly
Grace, who had married an intelligent
and manly farmer, and who assisted
her with no niggard hand.
Had it not been for these despised
relatives Cara and her children would
have starved; and the last I heard of
her she had sent her eldest daughter to
her mother’s oare at the “ farm.”
1 Never let her leave it, mother,” she
wrote. " Let her learn duty and work,
and try and make her like Graoe. What
a blind fool I was!”
More than one thoughtful reader will
say amen to that.— Youth's Compan
ion.
Chinese Porcelain.
The New York Evangelist, of a recent
date, contained an interesting article on
Chinese porcelain. The writer says
there is one admirable characteristic of
the Chinese porcelain that is often over
looked . As a race they arc an almost
painfully practical people, and in art
they do not make n thing for any ubo to
whioh the purchaser may choose to put
it, but that in form, size and design, it
is for some specific purpose, and in
every tespeot ^intended to meet, to the
best advantage, the requirements of that
end. ThuB, their teaoups are always of
blue decoration, as they say that tiie
green of the tea is richer and more
pleasing when seen through that
than any other color, and the
designs are usually from the tea-
fields, the storing-place or tho drinking-
house. Only the highest grade of work
is referred to, as at present, owing to
tho great demand of the West, and
especially in the seaport towns, there is
an unlimited number of cheaper work
men hired by the drove, and commis
sioned to produce the largest possible
number of artioles in the shortest possi
ble time, simply for shipment to Europe
and America. Alter the artiole has
been prepared for tho fire, the rest ot
the operation is the most simple imag
inable. There Is a large furnace for
that whioh needs baking but once,
and a smaller one for that which
must be twice baked. Common clay
makes ttie base of the furnace, and
two more expensive varieties, called
lavtou and yortou, cover a space two
Chinese fathoms in height and four in
width, arohed at the top into a sort of
funnel. Each pieco is put into a separ
ate case on a little dry sand, and one
case is made to fit upon another. Wher
the furnace is burning it looks almost
like a miniature brick kiln, but for the
slant-eyed, long-haired and half naked
tenders that move about like spirits in
the dim light, continually thrusting lit
tle blocks of wood through small holes
in the front. The fire is kept up till the
colors become lustrous. Then the fur
nace is completely walled up and al
lowed to cool, and the porcelain, good,
bad and indifferent, is ready for the
market.
LADIES’ DEPARTMENT.
SMtt Woman’s Month.
Wide months have come into fashion
fbr women. This is a change from the
prevailing style of the past year or two
The proper mouth of tire present season
is worn in a constant but mild smile,
the corners being drawn back horizon
tally, with the lips left closed. The ex
pression is one of amiable, quiet satis
faction with all the world—as though
the mind was free from sorrow and the
feet from corns. Care should be taken
not to broaden this into an active grin,
except on mirthful occasions; nor
should the lips be compressed. All
should be in repose. The lips may be
reddened, if the natural oolor be too
light. A practice of painting the ex
posed membrane of the upper lip broad
and bright lust at the oonter has crept
in, but it is bad, for it gives an artificial
1 .ok. The fashionable belle baa out the
pucker-string of her mouth, and no
longer murmurs, “prunes, prunes,
prunes.” She can kiss two men simul
taneously, and give good satisfaction,
where before only one could find room
at a time.
The reader who supposes that the
above is fanciful, and not plain, straight
forward fashion news is very much mis
taken. Women can change the style of
their faces,if not at will, at least consid
erably. The hair over the forehead
can be arranged to produce any desired
outline for the upper part of the face;
the mouth oan be made to widely vary
its expression; the eyes can be kept
partly wide open or lrnguidly half-
closed ; the cheeks can be rounded by
using “plumpers;” the eyebrows oan
be arohed or straightened; the oolor can
be controlled to a high degree. Thus it
is apparent that a woman oan, If clever,
have to some extent the kind of face
she wants. The nose 1b about the only
intractable feature. It sticks right out
in unalterable independonoe, defying all
efforts to shorten or straighten it. Let
me interpolate the fact that not one
woman in ten ever laughs or smiles
naturally. Knowing full well our de
fects of teeth or expression we try to
hide or reform them. I know a girl
who will never go to tho minstrels or
any other funny show, because she isn’t
pretty when she laughs. If inadvert
ently caught by something comic, she
buries the laugh in a handkerchief; but
whenever possible she does all her
laughing internally. This wrenches
her terribly, and sooner or later some of
her vitals will get broken all to pieces;
but she prefers death to a display of her
scraggy teeth.—Clara Belle's New York
Letter.
Anecdotes ol the Stage.
John McCullough, the tragedian, hns
been talking with a Cleveland Herald
reporter about the stage and plays in
general. He thinks “Virginius” a
great play, ennobling anil elevating in
its influence, but “ Othello" and “Kin b
Lear” arc the grandest plays on the
stage. “I don’t believe that in any
languago in any country any author has
ever written such plays as those, Mind
you, they are a great deal harder to
play than those of any other class. As
they are godlike in their conceptions,
the actor must be godlike to play them,
and feel them and make them move—to
feel and talk and ait them as Shakes
peare has*given him an opportunity to
do. Mr. McCullough told a pleas
ant story of Forrest, which was as
follows: Forrest was playing Rich
ard, when Catesby came in to sum
mon him. The actor was so struck
with Forrest’s manner, look and
tone, demanding, “ Who goes there P”
that he could only stammer out, “ Tis
I, my lord, the early village cock,”
while the other words, ‘ * has thrice done
salutation to the mom,” stuck in his
throat. Forrest got the laugh of the
audience on his side by responding*
“ Then why the deuce don’t you crowf"
THE MERCURY.
PUBLISHED EVEHY TUESDAY.
NOTIOE.
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Cashmere drapes graoefully over skirts
of white or colored satin.
White or blaok jet bonnets are in
tyle for day or evening wear.
Large hats for some faces are more
ressy and becoming than small ones.
Short waists are coming in style again
and will be worn with short skirts or
trains.
White dresses next season will be
largely trimmed with imported machine
embroideries.
Long cloaks of black brocaded satin
or velvet, concealing the wearer like a
domino, grow in favor.
Spring bonnets show a great deal of
Tuscan braid work of deep yellow and
much open lace straw.
For evening and dinner dresses young
girls wear robes of light-colored nuns’
veiling, or very light cashmere,
trimmed with Surah or satin.
Bands are made to fit the shoulders in
the newest styles of chemises. They
are not buttoned or drawn up by shirr
strings in front, but are drawn over the
head.
Illusion is used in a peculiar way, not
being puffed or allowed to float in
clouds but laid in clusters of plaiting or
in lengthwise folds set between panels
of satin.
Ball dresses of light materials, such as
gauze, net and crape, may be either plain
or elaborately embroidered and finished
with long garlands or wreaths of va
riously-colored flowers.
Very fine woolen gloves resembling
stockings or Jersey webbing are now
imported, having long woven wristB
which reach nearly half way to the
elbow. These gloves have the appear
ance of the undressed kid gloves.
For cloth cloaks, says the Bazar, a
most economical and comfortable wrap,
easily made at home, is one of the circu
lar shapes, either that with separate
fronts that button the entire length or
with a round circular that has short
wide sleeves set in, or else merely the
plain round circular, with a seam down
tne middle oi the back.
Some of the dress sleeves are cut to
fit the arm so closely that they have to
be buttoned or laced from the wrist to
the elbow after the dress is put on. The
long Suede Saxoj gloves are then in
order. They are drawn over the dress
sleeve for the promenade, and no cuff or
frill of lace is visible. Over the gloves,
however, are worn any number ot ban
gles and gold bands, whioh are now de
rigeuer upon all occasions.
Toll and Lovi.
Ye whose earnest aplrits long,
With the ardors that endure,
To be oounted ’mid the strong,
To be numbered in tho pure.
Pray to toil to born the hand
With hi* deep and bitter brand,
But yonr joyous hearts above )
Wear the shining marks of love.
For tho tree ol Hie ia high,
And its branches touoh the sky,
But without the golden irnif
Are yonr lips forever dry,
And ye perish by the root.
Only toil the prise may grasp,
Though it wither in hie elasp,
Love to reach ia Incomplete,
But her touoh will make it sweet.
—Katherine Lee Bet**.
One ol the beet things A item us Ward
ever got off waa a new sixty-dollar over
coat.—New York News.
They tell us matches are made in
heaven, but somehow they never smell
that way when you strike ’em.—LawzU
Citizen.
'I’m going to come down on you
hard,” as the rain said to the umbrella.
“ I’m not to be shut up in that way,”
was the reply.—Philadelphia Bun,
1 1 presume you understand my busi
ness,” said the census-taker to the aero-
bat, “I merely wish to know your occu
pation.” “ Ob, yes! I tumble,” replied
the acrobat.
They had women dootors in Egypt
over 3,000 years ago. They used to
bend over their patients, crooning; “Let
me kiss him for hi* mummy."—Phila
delphia Bulletin.
Harvard student (who has just failed
in a Chinese sentence, to prolestor)r-
Thou tea-chest—” Professor (furi
ously)—” What! you dare to—" Stu
dent (calmly proceods)—" Thon teaohest
a moet difficult language.”
▲ singular fact—A Galveston gentle
man has observed that when he goes ont
hunting, and has his gun with him, and
wants to ride on the street-ear, be has
never yet bad occasion to signal a street
car driver twice.—Galveston News.
A youngster, while warming hie
hands at the fire, was remonstrated
with by his father, who said: “ Go
away from the fire—tho weather is not
cold.” “I ain’t heating the weather;
I’m warming my bands,” tho little fel
low demurely replied.
It was a bitter cold day wh6n the
traveling combination which I have the
honor to feed gathered its solitary valise
and stepped ashore at Hartford, Conn.
The Dutch found this beautiful oity
here nearly 2&0 years ago, and the first
thing they did was to establish Colt's
armory and go into the insurance busi
ness. You can get insured here in any
way ibr any thing yon wish—mutual,
endowment, tontine, accident, inten
tional, nomadic, differential, proto
plasmic, renaissance, gothic, byzantiue,
greenback, composite, oorinthian,
Suotoli, clievolt, gossamer, seamless,
barbed wire, liver pad and hard finish-
It is the central and distributing point
for the entire insurance business of
America. No insurance company is
genuine unless “Hartford” is blown
upon the bottle.—Burdette.
A South End maiden asks: “ When a
young man comes twice a week with a
carriage and takes a young lady to the
theater and a supper afterward, and
makes her magnificent presents, what
does it indicate?" It indicates, ma’am
that he has got more money to fool
Noland is a poor clerk, ( away than we have.—Boston Post.
American Pearls.
With the exception of about three
thousand dollars’ worth of pearls, whioh
come from fresh water mussels and are
found all over the Union—principally
in the Miami river, Ohio—American
pearls come from the Gulf of California.
They are as fine as any Oriental pearls,
and are valued as highly. The fresh
water pearls are almost all small, but
brilliant and somewhat ro 3 y in tint.
About half of the California pearls are
black, and command a better prioe than
the white pearls. Some years ago about
eighty per centum of California pearls
were black, the proportion having
diminished rapidly during the last ten
years. The biggest pearl ever found in
this country was the celebrated one
found about twenty years ago in a New
Jersey pond, and sold to the then Em
press Eugenie.
Of late, :> any small and almost worth
less pear a have been received from
Texan farmers, who have an exaggerated
notion of their value. They are pur
chased more as a matter of encourage
ment to the pearl hunters, than any
thing else. Some day these hunters
The Nordenskjoid, the largest torpedo
boat in existence, was recently launched
at Copenhagen. She measures 915 feet
in length and forty-two feet in breadth.
She can make fifteen miles an hour.
Her steel armor is four inches thick,
and she carries an unusually large
breeoh-loading Krupp gun.
may discover valuable gems and their
: Yno
custom may bo worth something. Those
already found are small, pink, irre
gular-shaped pearls, the majority of
them not larger than a pin head. The
larger they are, the more defective they
are in shape and color. Some of the
larger ones might be mistaken tot bits
of bone polished up. The only use
to whioh they eau be put Is for re
placing lost pearls in old jewelry of no
great value, which is sent for repair.
Sometimes they can be cut into pieces,
and a small piece of fair pearl can be
obtained for enameling.
The finest string of pearls ever
brought to this country, is now in the
possession of. Tiffany & Co., of New
York city. It consists of sixty pearls,
the largest being about the slie of A
wren’s egg. Every pearl is r&ffcctly
round and pure in color, and not dne is
valued at less than (MO. The difference
between real and imitation pearls can
not be told until they are handled. The
best experienced cannot tell a good imi
tation pearl from the real without
touching it. The weight is deficient in
imitation pearls, and the surface is dif-
ferent to an experienced hand. They
can only be distinguished by touoh and
weignt. Bat every pearl in a ballroom
might be false without the best expert
in the trade suspecting it.