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TOTEMi HEPERTIRCK
Love came kocxMili.-. RPntlv knocking
At the jiortals oi my heart. unlocking,
And bepepchetJ me their
For p he’d impart;
But I labile I to scorn his greeting—
And regretted not the retreating fleeing
O/ fel-* batfled steps
On their' way.
Then again a inessige before, brought he.
Knocking mitly gently ai besought
An«i with c tones me—*
Yet I opened not the don.
Mildly chiding my denying,
Ami my eeoi icserve decrying,
Ho, with low and mystic sighiug,
Turned away.
Soon the little tyrant shyly—
Without warning as before—
Pulled me latch-string, and then slyly
Pushed aside the htosene 1 door.
Though niy heart was near relenting,
.And l fdt ’twould bring repenting,
Yet \ would not, by conseni* - **.
Love to-day.
Could I catch him and securely
Tie his lit'Jo wicked wings,
I would kueel to him demurely,
Tho’ I know they say he s ings
Tlutt, is he, I know his knocking,
I will haste i the unlocking.
Ah, Flies the little trilier, mocking.
awavl
HOW HE GOT OdT OF IT;
OR,
Engaged to Throa Girls in Ono
Night.
“If you will take my advice,” said Mr.
Wilding, making a last noble but futile
effort to balance the ivory paper knife on
the tip of his first finger, “ you won't go
to the Brownrigs’ ball. ”
“And why not,” asked his companion
irritably.
“ Well, I really wouldn’t, you know,’
said Mr. Wilding, giving up his struggle
with the impossible, and laying the re¬
fractory variety paper knife upon the table, “for
a of reasons. Girls play the very
mischief with you, and you know what
trouble it gave me to get you out of your
last scrape. There are four Brownrte
girls, aren’t there? And they are all
pretty ?”
“I don’t see what that’s got to do with
it,” said Snooks, sulkily. “ There’s safe¬
ty in a multitude. I cau’t marry ’em all.
can I ?”
of “Happily, land did no! Though, if the laws
your not forbid it, I am in¬
clined to think you might try to accom¬
plish even that. Still, he advised,
Snooks, and be conspicuous by your ab¬
sence at the Brownrigs’ ‘ small and early. ’
Papa Brownrig, when incensed, is not
nice, mid you know you are decidedly
intimate with Miss Kate.”
“No, I am not,” said Buooks with de¬
cision, is “ not a bit of it. Though I allow
she a handsome girl, and has lovely
eyes. Hasn't she, now ?”
“I don’t know. As a rule I never
look into a woman's eyes. I consider it
u rudeness as well as a beastly,” said
Wilding blush. earnestly, telling his lie without
n. “Never mind her eyes. If,”
Warningly, least “ you must go to this ball, at
all.- try If to forget that she has any eyes
her. at moral. you don’t, ” you will propose to
to a
One would think that 1 was a raw
school-boy,” said young Snooks wrath
fully. “ Do you think I can’t look at a
woman without committing myself ? Do
I look like a fool ?”
Whatever Mr. Wilding tliouglit at that
moment, ho kept it to himself. Before
he spoke next, he and his conscience had
agreed to dissemble.
“My dear fellow, do not let us even
hint at such a thing,” he said amiably.
slightly—susceptible, “I only meant you were and slightly—-very that Miss
Kate lias aud a that—I certain positively amount of would pleasing
power, ball if I—” give
up this
“Are you going?” broke, in Snooks im¬
patiently.
“Well, yes, I dare say I shall look in
about 12.
“Then 1 shall lo °k in with you,” said
Snooks defiantly.
himself, “Pactis, the fellow wants to spoon
aud don’t see the force of being
cutout, said lie to himself complacently
as he ran down the steps of Wilding’s
stairs.
ball Beyond decided all question the Brownings’
was a success. The rooms
were filled to overflowing, the staircases
were choked, the beat was intorable.
Sir Thomas and Lady Higgins had
actually and put in an appearance after ell,
the supper, if uneatable, was, las
sure you, very expensive. No pains or
money had been spared : everything was
what the mistress of the house called
looked “rug regal;” and all the Miss Brownrigs
as charming as any one could
desire.
There were four of them There was
Katie, the second danghter—Snook’s
friend, and the possessor of the lovely
eyes. And they were lovely; large, “and
dark, and true, and tender,” like the
North, according to the Laureate; “black
as sloes,” said her fond if slightly op
pressive mother, aud of the languid,
melting order.
Then ,,,, there ,, was „ Hetty, the eldest ...
gul, who if her eyes were not dark as
nose nof!‘ in !ff the H la<1 world. n k T A pure ‘ fi Greek r< <lea w feature 1 ®
I>^ oct in every respect., ignorant of
colds in the head, that made one long to
t ell her (only «be would have blushed,
they were all nicely brought up) about
Dudu, and her Phidian Georgie—“(jeorge appendage. •
Then came the
Third,” as she was plavfulW- termed in
the bosom of her family—who, if she
had had neither certainly nose nor eyes like her sisters tban’
tidier. A a prettier mouth
sweet little kiaaable rosebud
of a month that pouted and laughed al
ternately, and did considerable execu
tion.
Aud finally, there was Lilly. A tall,
pale girl, with blue eyes, a finely cut
chin, an 1 a great deal of determination
all round.
Katie s eve* were larger darker arid
(when she looked at Snooks and thought
of his thousatidsi more melting than ever
that night. Her dress if slightly bizarre
v s* immeiiM-ly iumr, liecorniug. BnV»>k» for
Jiie tir-t half kept himself bravely
r.l»*f from her fascinations declined to
le-tieo her r-'proaclifni glunces anil lan
riiishing teillad- s, and for reward was
<■ r u le during d. Filially, fatal lieing driven into a
n rner « set of Lancers, Vu,« he
met her eve* and was oonuusred
v. aid dam ■ tie- p.-xt with him?
Und tin next? Y - (m ire
A in tlic until—lift CHIi »**€}
The ¥atkinsville Advance.
voi.rsi k t.
siit! is disengaged for it? Yes (this
time quite warmly).
Au hour later the deed wns done.
Some capital champagne, a dark avenue
(I believe there were some Chinese lan
terns there originally, but a kind wind
kad blown them out), and a soft little
hand slipped into his, did the work ; and
Miss Katie had promised bashfully, hut
with unmistakable willingness, to be the
future Mrs. Snooks. Whether it was
Suooks or the property affected, pertaining deponent to
Snooks she most say*
etli not.
When, however, her betrothed found
what he had done, and remembered his of
former words, and all the awfuluess
parental wrath, his heart failed him.
He went, as lie usually did when in sorry
case, discovered in search of Wilding; him into and having
and him, took a side
room, him with shutting the face. door, confronted
a rather pale
“ So the eyes were too many for you ?”
said Mr. Wilding calmly, after a deliber¬
ate examination of the disturbed face be¬
fore him. “ I told you how it would he.”
“ That’s the sort of thing any fellow
might say,” returned Snooks pathetic¬
ally. “ I didn’t think yon would have
been so aggravating. And just when you
pee I’m down on my luck, too. Yes;
I’ve been and gone and done it.”
“‘Mother will be pleased,’ ” quoted
his friend and law adviser with a shrug.
“So, by the bye, will be your father.
They both regard nothing Brownrig so highly lay as
birth. I suppose Miss can
claim to some decent breeding corncliandler, ?”
“The that, old chap least, is a used be,” said you
know at he to
Snooks, with a heavy groan.
“O, indeed! And a very charming
business, too, I have no doubt. Leads
up wheat, to quite a train of ideas. Corn,
rustic bridge staff of in life, quaint old mill, and
the distance, miller sit
ting on it. I wonder,” dreamily, “if
if Brownrig why? ever wore a white hat? And
so, Don’t all speak at once,
buch Well, well, she is a very pretty girl,
eyes, you know! I really congrat
ulateyou, my dear fellow.”
“Wilding ’ desperately, “can’t you do
something? I—Idem t know how it hap
pened. it was the champagne, I sup
pose, and oi course she is pretty; but. I
don t want to marry any one, and I know
the Governor won t hear of it.
V e 0 ,ical ! “ ow ’ W0Ilt
i he.? o” a,iked, , , w Wilding , v unfeelingly.
iie would go out of his mind if such
a dared thing was even hinted to him de
Snooks wildly. ^“Try to help me
out of if. Wilding, can’t you V”
,,r I don 1 .. t see what . , there is to . do,
ex
cept many lior, 1 crilv hopo T^acly
Snooks and Miss Corncliandler will get
on. And you should think of her beau
ty, you know; doubtless it will console
you when Sir Peter cuts you off with the
customary shilling.” ‘
“I suppose I had better cut my throat
and put an end to it,” said Snooks dis
mally ; and then, overcome, no doubt,
by the melancholy of this suggestion, ho
breaks down and gives way to tears.
“ I sav, don’t do indium,Hr that vou know " ex
ing all “Ween
over the place won’t improve mat
tore, and will make you look a worse
fool than nature intended when vou go
foot out of the room If you’have nut vour
in it, at least try to hear misfortune
like a man. Look here ” aimrilv “if
you are going to keen 'tho^oom iip t ds hideous
boohooiug B 1 have downright‘ a vou
too to your Me will" It’s in
deeent. They hear vou in the grief!”' next
liouse if yon ilou’t moderate vour
•Vs the nearest house wns a mmrtcr 1 nf
a mile off this was esivif severe
“f shouldn’t fhov ^ ^ e m •
the next town ” said Mr M nrlr ,
“TRnr.. » in oi wilding'slowlv 1„,T* . 5 . °“f
and tol only one’’viid 1
nn u 1
or-go to the nivtuinn- altar ”
“TIMollow * 8> ,,.,,,,,-1,. • 1 Y- W i.t ‘at
^ . o
l(
You have proposed to , Miss Katie,
‘ Now gi^arnl propose to the
othertbrwr
As M lldmg gave vent to his idea ho
turned abruptly on his heel and left the
'
“1*1 do it, said Snooks valiantly, ilry
. and giving his breast
pg tragic tap, eyes “whatever comes of it.” a
Ooing into the hall he saw Hetty stand
. entrance; little
near an Kate conversing a way with beyond
™ - a tall
*md lanky youth. Not daring to glance
m the direction of the latter, who plain
ly expected the wings him to come straight to her
on of love, he turned and
asked Hetty to dance.
with They danced, hall aud then (it was custom
the gocm in that mild suburban
neighborhood) he drew her out under the
gleaming stars aud up the dark avenue
that a few minutes since was the scene
of her sister’s happiness. .
There he proposed in duo form and •
indeed, was again accepted. Hetty’s conduct,
counccd was than perhaps Katie a degree more pro
s, because she laid
her head upon l,is shoulder, and he felt
by all her. the Her laws of sentiment bound to
kiss nose looked lovely in the
pale the moonlight; so I dare say he did not
find fulfilling of this law difficult.
Alter that he had . , some more, a good .
dea 1 more, champagne; and then he pro
P f ’ s ‘‘ a t “ Miss Georgia, who also con
Rented 1 to lie ins. 4 here now remairmd
hut °ne other step to be taken. He
m-rissMl theriviin aud asked the youngest
Miss Brownng to dance. He was get
tln 8 rat,1Pr mixed bv this time, and was
very isunt of asking her to marry
.
}!“? customaiy’ ® ? ow Uailthe 1 _7,‘ ones- y
* ’
A, 1 ’‘ l 0 y !- , 10 ‘Jane- oil , inepiea v
t i, j af 1 ‘ j; , al j l ! co ii“ e: * er ‘
f .
able L.r L^i . i .i ni a ““
ii ’
■ ,
tins she told t ni"' /' ? ,w \
l,im ,i"V ti- y i 'n-i i
m : i*- his style «'.■ ,j„ '(o
course *, ended tin- nnon 00 .'
*
askeit , . her for stroll instead,
<> come a
IU " "“' ‘"8 armed at the momentous
aiKit, UemaeU lumseu of the ornate
G*''’*' 1 'linu alieiely < lone duty tlntn
’“'dof whut it was,
i \ i kw.w it wounu i up with thodeclwa
,1<m "t 1 11 1,1 r al “* ' v mite.i to
lllt ! r r v u . r
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t!' “loo !f"* '''f' "‘T'
•> it, nnctul, , ns teat » mils!
s'Htiid, don t w»nt to msrry you,
WATKiNSVILLK, GEORGIA, OCTOBER 10, 1N80.
“Don’t you. hv Jove!” said Snook,
hastily. “Well, that's awfully a" ki— No, “1
no!” pulling himself u\> with start;
don't mean that, you know ; J mean it's
awfully horrid, you know. In fact,"
warming to have his work through sheer grn
titnde, "you made me miserable for
ever; Dear you’ve broken how shocking! my heart." ’said Miss
“ me,
Lilly, will frivolously. it. I’m “Let ns hope Timo did
mend not very sure you
not speak the .truth at first. 1 really be¬
lieve it is kind, my refusing you. And
now, Mr. Suooks, if I were you, I should
go in and say good-night to mamma, lie
cause you have been having a good deal
of the papa’s constitution. champagne, and it is trying to
’’
Snooks took the hint, bade farewell to
Mrs. Brownrig, who, to his heated im¬
agination, appeared to regard him al¬
ready with a moist and motherly eye,
and, taking "Wilding’s arm, drew him cut
of flic house.
“Well?” said the latter interroga¬
tively,
“I don’t know whether it is well or
ill,” returned be gloomily. "But I fol¬
lowed your advice and proposed to ’em
a ])_
“ And they accepted you ?”
“Most of ’em. But Lilly, the young¬
est, she—”
“I always said she was a sensiblo
girl,” put in Mr. Wilding, sotto voce.
“Did you?” with much surprise.
“Well, she refused me ; sort of said she
wouldn’t have me at any price. So you
see you were wrong !”
“I always knew sho was one of tho
most Wilding intelligent girls I over met,” Mr.
repeated, in a tone so difficult
that his companion for once had suffi
cient sense to refrain for demanding an
explanation.
The next angle morning, as Katie Brownrig led
turned the of the hall that to
her father’s sanctum (whither a sense of
filial duty beckoned her) she almost ran
into the arms of her three sisters, all cou
verging toward the same spot from dif
ferent directions. Simultaneously they
entered Mr. Browning's study. (Ho
called it a library ; hut that word is too
often profaned for me to profane it, so 1
shall draw the line at study). But to re
turn. Miss Lilly, being the youngest,
was of course the first to raise her voice.
and “ I I had a proposal last night, papa,
have come to tell you about it,”
said she, m a tone replete with triumph,
It was so sweet to the mind of youth
to outdo its elders. But “on this occasion
only” They the elders and all refused betrayed to be smile outdone. in
each a of
wm-,1 ' ^’ satisfiicfinn and 1 then 11 they thov mvn g 0
“No!’ they said hi a hreatli. They;
dKl llot moau doubt or be impolite
they “The only curate,” meant surprise.
said Hetty iu a com
posed but plainly whisper. contemptuous whisper,
It wm a stage
Old Major bterne, said Miss Georgie
promptly.
“Perhaps Hen’,, Simms,” suggested
Katie, with some sympathy. Then turn
to her father she said with a con
FT? U 7\ Jt is very strange papa,
,m t I t tl f W** 1 Ii,st mgl £
. . J Vr if’ ‘V 1 i ,1leath , I! (1 e "' , lairai ' d ««orgio .
'
Llri said papu puslmig , . up Ins .. spec
tacl < f' He ‘“‘d pudgy, with
8and y 1,au and flabby nose. He way
man ’ too > aut unpleasant
to i V. 11 f“™l uitli. Proposals
«> e Brownrig family were few and far
bet ''’ e f 1 7 111 tact, curiosities aud so
£te^ ml<) 'oneduV one <la V ovcri^wererhim oveilHA'c.ied I uni. 6 ' 1 M ‘“ 8
“One at a time; my breath is not
wliat it used to lie,” he said addressing
Katie. (If lie had said breadth, it would
if she was to be believed always de
cli lrert llL> ' vas n loan l,al, v >' “ Ma ->" I
. „ - ”
««k the name of your lover ?
“Mi'. Snooks,” said she with downcast
eyes and a timid smile, She tonic up the
corner 0 f cherry-colored bow that
adorned her gown, and fell to admiring
it, through which she fondly thought was
mislifuhiuess. '
“Impossible!” exclaimed Georgie an
grily. “What
rudely. a disgraceful untruth!” cried
Hetty last night, and “Mr. I Hmsiks accepted proposed bim. ” to
me,
“What is it you say? Oh, I am
going out of my mind; my senses are de
sorting me,” said Georgie, putting her
hands to her head with a dramatic
gesture. "Oris it a dream that he
asked me to marry him, and that I too
said‘yes’?” “l‘
seldom visit the clouds,” said
Lilly, with a short hut bitter laugh,
“And I certainly know he made men
a noble offer of his hand and heart;
both which treasures I declined. ”
“ Where ?” demanded the other three,
as “In though with laurel one mouth.
the avenue I”
At this they all groaned aloud.
“Perfidious monster!” said Hetty J
from two- i,,.„ r +
Browmi/ “Am I to understand .mri ” l Mi
^ ritl l ‘b k 1 but evidmit i
Sndrel Mked ' vmi y a ? to ‘ mTr^v^dm y
‘‘ff°w dSmalto yeB »» repUe r “ l
tori* ’ ’
- gins uihinany.
He was drunk, ^ said papa, savagely,
“ I can’t believe it,” said Katie, who
was dissolved in tears—in fact, ‘like
Niobe, all tears’—liy this time. “Noth
ing could His lie nicer than the way lie did
it. language was s*< jierfect, and so
thoroughly “He otldressed trom the— heart.”
me in a most, honor
able, a Jp ’, upnght, upright, and and Christian ChriHtiau fashion,” fashion,
said said Hetty. Hetty. “ “ I I am am sure sure he he meant meant every every
word wor<l he bo said. said.
Bhe was thinking uneasily of that kiss
in the mixuilight. Could anyone have
seen her? Was old Major Bterne any
where about at the moment ?
“I certainly bit eonitulered hi s manner
atrougc, not a like what one reads,”
8ai(1 D.-orgic, honestly, “but! thought
of the title and the property, aud I said
ye** directly.’
J thought him the very greatest muff
I ever s|>oko to,” broke in Mn Lilly
with decision. I relumd him without a
niomctit's hesitation, and told him hi go
daroMuv homi J m HUr( , q Wlu , well 1 did. 1
il he luul stayed here much
longer he would have proposed to mam
hnusatnaid. «•’*'. and afterward to tin
1 agres mueii with lor vou, pupa, tlm
ehwniiagm. "X-LftlOuk wss too liim '
ha ri fond of w e,” wd
Katie, in a low and trembling tone. Her
lingers are not playing with the cherry
colored , , bow , now, but , her eyelids , have
borrowed largely of its tint.
font be a goose, Iyatie, ^ said the
youngest Miss Brownrig, kiudlv, but
seoiniuliy: you don tsuppose any of us
would marry him now, after the way ho
has behaved? Do have some little
' U 0
. l crimps , he is mad, , „ sanl Hetty,
vaguely. Just at this moment, 11s a
slave to her wounded vanity, she would
have been glad to believe him so.
No, my dear, declared Lily, calmly;
** “ lams worth turning.
He said something to papa about
calling to-day at 4 o’clock,” said Katie,
Ve m
«mi "t? 11 t 1 1 n • * 1 lero toll 1)” returned
xv l"Ownrig in au awful tone. “I
shall i n set here until 5; and then I shall
get up, and go out and And that young
man, and give him such a horse whip
puig as I warrant you he never got be
< os! Don 1 <} t 1 be ls . too ' hard on him, . papa,”
entreated lvatio, weakly.
“I shan’t my dear, but my whip will,”
said papa, grimly.
So he waited until 5; I10 waited until
half-past five; and knobbed then he took up a cer
tain heavy gold table though whip that in read- lay
stretched on the as
iness, and sallied forth in search of
Snooks’ rooms. And lie found them, and
Snooks, too-—in bed, suffering from a
severe catarrh, caught, I presume, in the
laurel avenue.
And no man knows what he did to
Snooks. But at least he gave him an
increased desire for his lied, because for
a fortnight afterward he never stired out
of it. ~
When Mr. Wilding heard of all this, mirth I
regret to say lie of gave his chambers; way to noisy and
in the privacy caught by his washerwoman, was
actually ^peeped through the keyhole,
who per
forming a wild dance in the middle of
tlie floor.
Lowell ill Ijomion.
James Russell Lowell’s speech n( the
Savage Club supper has been much ap
plauded by the itself,” Londoners. “It was ad
mirable in says the London
World, “perfectly delivered, in a soft
low-toned and vet penetrating voice.”
Mr. Lowell ia described as a wonderfully
ficult young-looking believe American, whom it is dif
to is sixty-one years old.
Mr. Lowell, in his pleasant little speech,
5j sa id amoiitr Z other “ thiues- 1 “I confess
u .ucxaimt 1 who oilu offered OIK red a a 1C v
ward lor a new pleasure, were to come
ti^mn upon cait.li I should bo one of the
competitors offer his for consideration that prize, and l should
for a festival
which there were no speeches. Gentle
men in your profession have in one sense
ff great speeches advantage over the rest of us—
your the cleverest aro of prepared for you by by
men of all your time, or the
greatest genius time You can las
witty and wise at less expense than we
poor creatures who are obliged to call up
on our own resources. I admit that there
,a a good den] m the spur of lie moment,
ba animal f that dcpei,,ds very mud, upon the
into whose flank you dig it; but,
there is also a great deal in that self
possessed cxteniporaueonsuess his which a
man carries m pocket on a sheet .,f
j.aper. It remmds one of tho ewmiih
nnmt wlrn-h tlin-lnslmlwn m d to the
lelali; uutioiia it s weapon: a weapon ^afflblessdhiaMffi. wL«Vi1«AN1'
fare.-------------- (
A .. ......Character from llis Last Place.
i,, I'(■ I (Rt >n, „„ as elsewhere in lexas,
when aqnisoner has no money to employ
counsel, the .Tndge appoints a young law
’ J" 1 I .iiunts in a Hospital are
theirroSon’on , 0 t0 ’“"i"
the profession on. Not long since quite
“ '!‘'’‘.q.'V.'," "![I,' > ‘!', ',, j'Z 1 r 11,1
a ,I” an r '* ' *8 ■ *.>• with Iheyoung 1 lawyiu,
Ion?,. < , < U K tln 8 his unfortunate
.
.1 MoTk ; 1 *•’ „m. ph iu „ v .... , Honor, x „ T 1 want .
tins case continued until I can procure
the attendance ut materia 1 w.tenses.”
asked the court 5 °° expect to prove? ^
a. k (1 the court.
“I expeetto prove that my unfortu
^ . il . e c a quiet, sober and Indus
m n ‘
,2 „ v lom <0 ^ 011 t . to
cx P‘* c prove
,, 1J l .
. t ^ . r the. • . .
"'berehehas 1 110 0 spent ,C(!rs () the [ last penitentiary five
yean.”
~ ' '
I „ resence of Mind. .
There is nothing like presence of mind
after all. During a tremendous shower,
a gentleman entered a fashionable New
Turk club, hearing a splendid ivory
handled silk umbrella, which he placed
on the rack. Instantly another gentle
man, who was mourning the abstraction
of just such an article, jumped up.
“ Will you allow me to look at that ? ”
be said sternly “ Certainly ” re
marked the umbrella carrier. “I was
just taking it to the house police lieudqiiarter*.
It was left in my last night by a
, mrg i ar w hom wo frightened off. I hope
wiH prove a first-rate dew.” And,
though phfinJy the where exasperated owner had could l>een
see Jiis name
seratehed off the handle, lie *at down
and changed the subject —New York 4
lli.ur ’
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The Marquis with the of Bute was, of years heaver ago,
struck picture a
village, serving as a frontispiece to a
lKw»k of travds in Canaria, with the re
semblance of the site to a spot on his
Rothesay estate, and he conceived the
idea al e» ut of acclimatizing hocuwixiuiuik the animal. numuu, m; He
w w ,„t ,„t to to Cunada Canada for for beavers, beavers, and, and, after after
inclosing inclosing the the shore shore of of the the lake lake in in the the
woods, he let them loose upon it. Tlie
creatures s«s>n inaxle them wives at home,
and began to build as hnsil.v as if they
had remained in their native forests.
The young Duke of Portland was so
charmwl with the sight of the Marquis of
Bute’s Imaver colony that lie determined
to establish one on each aide of
in England and Bcotland. He
ha* sent to Canada for the brutes, aud is
prepHriiig the ground.
Rich arm Htwnr MronOARi- was, Iu
earlv life, a moulder, then a reporter on
a newq«q* r, und non one of our best
known and most adniiml |»**ts,
And now n physieinn bijitg sav* that long
walks I« fore bieiikfiist o« dvs
P*t»siii. ‘
Mpinnon.
Mcrnuon wns one of the heroes of the
Tvopm colossal war. He was slain erected hv Achilles, in
,\ statue was the
neighborhood of Thebes. This famous
statue, the vocal Mcmuoti, as it is called,
j s the northernmost of two colossal sit
ting figiuvs in the approach to a temple
now in mins, in the quarter of Western
Thebes called Memnonia by the Greeks,
Tln> height of each of these statues is
forty-seven feet, and thev stand on
pedestals the t welve feet high, tin tile lower
part of vocal Meninon are
two inscriptions from private and official
circles testifying that they have heard
its voice at sunrise. The sound is said
f,, have resembled the twanging of a
harp-string it or the striking of brass, and
occurred at sunrise or soon after. In
the top of the statue is a stone which, on
still being might struck, emits a metallic sound deceive that
lie made use of to a
visitor; and from its position, and the
fact that there is a squared place cut in
the block behind, as if to admit a person,
who might thus be concealed from below, the
most careful observer in the plain
it. is supposed to have been so used,
That it was a deception there can he hut
little doubt; the fact of tlic Emperor
Hadrian homing it thrice, looks very
suspicious; have a natural phenomenon would
not been so complimentary to the
Emperor, wlion it sounded only once to
ordinary that mortals. Others, however, claim
it was impossible so clumsy an im
posture should have passed without de¬
tection for centuries, while the statue
was constantly exposed to the inspection
of intelligent Romans, who, as
and conquerors in Egypt, would
hesitate to detect and expocte the
of similar the native sounds priesthood. boon produced It is said
liavo
stones from the influence of the
rays; and several of the scientific
attached to Bonaparte’s army in
have stated frequently that they
such a sound, always shortly after siin
rise, apparently issuing from one of the
roof-stoues Mr. Lowe of the that temple neighboring of Kavnok.
states hi a
temple he heard repeatedly a sound like
that of a harp-string from some stones
above him. This occurred at noon, and
ho supposes that, at this time the stones
became exposed hi the the sun, and produced the sud¬
den expansion from warmth
the sound.
Six Thousand Years Old.
m, He Ashmolian . h . Museum Museum, al at Oxford Oxford,
ol ‘‘JV* ““‘f * '.’ f
civilization 111 the world, if, indeed, it IS
not the very oldest. This is the lintel stone
q{ g tomb which formcwl tlic lust rost-inc*
p ] ttCe king D f ttn officer who lived in the time
Bent of the second dynasty
w ], ow , date is placed by M. Marietta
more than six thousand years ago The
stone is covered with that deucate and
fiuis h e( i sculpture which distinguished
the early periods of Egyptian history
an <l W as immeasurably superior to the
stiff and conventional art erf the latter
n „ 0H of K Rypt which we are accustomed
to see in oiir European museums.
it is also covered with something more
glyphic* precious still which than sculpture, with hiero
shows that even at that
rera0 | e period and Egyptian writing
wflH ith ft long com pj t .te of finished devel- art,
w opment lying ages behind previous Tho liiero
it.
glyphic only pictorial characters ly are ahemlv used,
Jlot hut ftlso {„ and i, ttblm ideograpliically alpha
sv
betic letters, the name of the King, for
1 IIHtal,c f. being sm-Hed the alpliabetically.
T tho hands of Egyptian scribes,
Itowever, Egyptian writing Witfi never made
anv hat further called "progress. the fall of
w is the Old Empire (about B
f 0 rce of the Deotile uassed uwav fwisilize^ Ei/vn
ban nd life and tliouglit long series became centuries
ft through the of
tlmt followed Egypt resembled one of its
own faithfully ureserviug the
f r)r rn and features of tho pant, age, ami of
a life which had ceased to beat in its
V( ,j )lt) Until tho introduction of Chris
tiauitv the onlv change undergone by
running hand, which called in its earlier and
simider fomdomotie' form is hieratic and in its
later
A AfiiL.tfbm *..
most ccutt) of disrase
which .. has batllud the skill of someoi the
most prominent physicians in Wesh-n,
ne'T 1 ”’ is few reported from below Glm Pitts- fit 111,
a little village a milw
burg, on the line of the I ittslmrg, 1-ort
Wayne and Chicago Railroad, j be tin
fortunate lieing is a young lady twenty
three years of age .who ha* abstained
from the use of solid food for a period of
three years. Bix years ago she noticed a
swelling about the butte of her nose,
which was lanced, an it subsequently
healed, but swelliugs of like nature sfxm
STijr^eMS siciatis were called, ‘ShTdLiJSd wlio disagreed 2’ a* U> Ki
the cause of the ailment, one holding
that it was caused by the gas of the ab
demon and the other stating it was
caused by water She gradually grew
worse, and atamt three years ago she
began to lose the power of speech and
sight, and for audibly, two years the sufferer totally has
not spoken and has been
lilind and witliout mind. With the loss
of these faculties she also lost the use of
her limbs, and neither her hair nor her
finger-nails have grown a sufferings. partia'e. She All
Is only conscious of her
that lias lieen given her, and tlmt she has
been able to take in the way of food for
three years, is a tithe of bird broth and
diluted whisky. ■ Of —- late ——..... she -—---- has liatl - two —
violent, violent spasms spasms weekly. weekly. Hix Hix weeks weeks ago ago
her her spine spine commenced commenced to to curve curve inwardly, inwardly.
until now there is a space of four a mid
half niches between b.-r back and the bed
ui«m which sin- lies. Hhe is a mere
skeleton in Usl.v, but full m the face,
The unfortunate woman 1» the daugbtei
of Mr. Duff, a well-to-do farmer.
White furs or ermine may la 1 cleaned
as follows ; Lay the furs on a table und
rub them well with bran made moist
witli warm water; mb until quite dry
aud alterward with dry brim. The wet
bran should Ui put on with flannel and
the dry with u piece of D*.k muslin,
The light furs, in addition to the iilove,
should Is- well ruhbisl witli magnesia or
a pine of b,*,k muslin after the bran
prrs’ess. I try Hour uu»y lie used instead
of wet bran. They should be rubbed
against the ws> of the fur,
NUMBER 33.
Drinks for the Sick.
Tim sick, especially those afflicted
with fever, often suitor from intense
thirst. The quenching of this without
injuring requires the knowledge patient is a matter which
Dr. H. H. Kano and that good plain judgment,
when says water,
taken beyond a certain amount, is
very apt to disorder the stomach and
bowels, fluid especially little in fevers, where much
and but solid food is taken,
would Enough certainly water to be quench the thirst
disorder digestion, enough, in rather most
cases, to cur
further disorder it, and so important is
the little that remains of this function
that we cannot afford to abuse it,
Small pieces of ice held in the mouth
and allowed to dissolve sometimes an
mver the purpose, but not in the major
ity of cases,
Dp to a certain point, the action oi
water cellent. taken Aside internally, allaying in fevers, irritation is ex¬
from
by quenching thirst, it flushes the kid¬
neys, material carrying produced off by much the of the effete
high tempera¬
ture.
It has been found that the addition of
certain substances to water greatly in¬
creases its powers to quench thirst.
This is es]ieeially the case with acids.
Ono drachm of hydrochloric acid tuldcd
to a quart of water will give it sufficient
acidity while to accomplish the desired pur¬
pose, at the same time it adds to
its pleasantness, and sometimes relieves
nausea.
The use of acids in fevers is highly
commended by some authors, and this
is, I think, the best way in which to ad¬
minister them. The same amount of
sulphurous acid may be added to a
of victor when the liowels are loose or
there is a tendency that way.
In tlieso cases acidulated barley-water
is pleasant and nourishing. The same
may be said of toast-water.
fii constipation, oatmeal water mny
ho used in the same manner. A few
tamarinds added to a glass of water will
often assuage thirst and open the bow¬
els gently.
that Theory drinks and made experience slightly both bitter show and
somewhat acid slake thirst most effect¬
ually. infusion
A weak of cosearilla or orange
peel, acidulated slightly with hydro?
chloric acid, was with Graves, of Dublin,
a favorite thirst-allaying drink for fever
patients. vinegar
Bucking Raspberry ice is grateful. is a useful drink.
Sweet very although
fruits, at first agree¬
able and refreshing, must be taken with
care and moderation, for they often give
rise to a disagreeable taste, and are apt
to produce flatulence and diarrhea.
Two Hundred Thousand Square Feet
of Ambuscaded Combustion.
It is a “fact not generally known,’’ or
at. all events not very commonly borne in
mind, that there is in liondon a "fiery
mine” of so very excitable a disposition
that no artificial light of any description
has ever yet been allowed to be brought
duct, even into ils neighborhood. Its The lim¬
however, is not coal, but mm.
<lia rum-shed, .« it is called, of the West In
Dock, covers a space of two hundred
thousand square feet, with vaults of eor
responding spirit, size, all crammed with of which huge
casks of from ea^fulfy every pore
and the most closed have
pores streaming in plenty-the out into fiery the vapor air, only is lieg- for
ever
ging the for the whole smallest of chance the docks, of cunvert- with
|»K. their i wo hundred area and fifty odd ships,
ami two or three hundred thousand tons
or so of cargo, and their more or less in
calculable stores of timber and tea, silk
cotton, wine, wikiI, wlusky, whale-fins,
and what not, into the most magnificent
bowl of snap-dragon ever imagined ill in
hint nightmare. Into these fiery regions
not even a hull’s eye lantern is or ever
has been allowed to penetrate. Even
tlm wharf along the side where the greet
puncheons the are vessels, landed is forbidden being to
transferred approach fnan of ship every shore cask in the
to
company’s own lighters. Each cask in
that vast range of dim dark vaults is
marked and numUwed, and on the right
rending of these marks and nwxdvws de
iwnds the efficient execution of eveiy one
of the numerous operations to which
every imlividnnl cask has l>een sul>jecte<l
before its contmits can go forth for the
mixing onelmtaiiex)*»riencedJapaneHejnggler ()f the world’s grog. How any
WO r manages to perform his feat in the
very of little brightest plate weather of )K>lished by the tin simple artfully aid
a amt
turned twisted to catch the solitary
ray ((f ),jglily diluted daylight which
j J( , rc an( ] there filters down from the
fl oor a i K)V0) i* a mystery by no means
aniorl( , B t the least wonderful of the many
„f which the visitor to this commercial
j, ara ,]j H( . catches here and there a tantul
,zil *K gbm r »se.
Homs Home of or Hiss C«r«M’s cor n » Teachiar* reaching*,
I>otafcoes ; at any time the year, can
be made mealy if iK.iled m salt and water
and drained and then ciivered with a
thifk towel and left m back of the rauge
five minutes
Io retain the color of any vegetable
plunge Cooks it make into cold the wuJter miatake after Ixnling. IxiiTing
of
things |wiut too much. should After reaching the
ladling meats simmer. The
toughest meats can lie made tender by
so It doing. is always best under-season
to rather
than to over-seiuwm food.
When anything is accidentally made
salt salt it it lie tie „ „
too too can can counteracted counteracted by by adding adding
ft a tablespoonful tublespoonful of of vinegar vinegar and"a and a table- table
spoonful Meats of sugar.
of any kind should not be
wa*h«l. hut wiped with a towel to pro
serve the juices and quality.
To wash towels with colored t*>rders
let them wsik in a pailful of cold water
containing one teaapoonful of sugar of
b-iid ; let them remain ten minutes be
‘w washing; to make the colors look
Gear and bright, use pulverized borax
wash water, very little soap and
soda. To wash red table linen, use tepid
water, which with a little powdered color; wash borax, the
serves to set the
tnen w parutelv and qui*kly, using very
>Hl* soap ; rmse boiled in tepul water, con
teimng dry in the a littte shade, and starch; wh"u hang almost to
iron
dry.
ihe 'M latlunjuille guluante.
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JOTTINGS AND CLIPPINGS.
It is estimated that Michigan has 110,-
840 farms, and produces 18,000,000
bushels of wheat per annum.
The personal property of California i»
valued at #118,301,451, and the veal es¬
tate at #440,‘273,885.
George Tucker, an inmate of a New
York _ penitentiary, lias just inherited $12,
000. His sentence will expire in 1885.
I11 1874 the entire orange crop of
Florida was represented by 2,500 half
barrel eases. In 1870 it amount ’d to
200 , 000 .
A Mashachcsheth boy about as high as
the counter recently came into a book¬
store and asked for “n book for ton cents
with a murder in it.”
Did you ever see a bald-headed man
who didn’t have such a “beautiful head
of hair ” till “ that fever,” or something
or other, took it off?
A recent lawsuit in London incidentally
brought cerning out the opinion of experts con¬
the value of land in the city, tha‘
one acre was worth #1,11(1,420.
Editor Thorn, of JVoti ,v and Queries,
has retired from the office of Assistant
Librarian of the House of Lords, at. the
age of seventy-seven, on a pension of #3,-
750 a year.
Tub Khedive has sent his harem to
Smyrna, dency his wives having shown a ten¬
at roll-call to elope at Naples. He got tire'"
of finding two or three of the
pretty ones gone.
Rauph Waldo Emerson contemplate
a visit to England next year. He is ex¬
tremely Cardinal desirous Newman of meeting Carlyle, Herbert
and Mr.
Spencer.
When we reflect that every woman has
children of surprising genius, it is n. mat¬
ter of serious inquiry where all the or¬
path dinary in every-day men come life. from who cross our
A Georgia young man asked his sweet¬
heart whether she had ever road “Romeo
and Juliet” Sho replied that sho had
read Romeo, but she did not think she
had ever read Juliet.
Square umbrellas have been intro¬
duced in Paris; but some ouc says they
are jmit as bad as the old kind because
they are never round when wanted.—
Philadrlph in JiultcHn.
A New York paper says that n lady
teacher in a Philadelphia Sunday-school
has horse-whipped the Superintendent,
Fisher, with an umbrella, for “showing
her an uninvited partiality.”
Lon. Moore, a Greenville man, now
has a convenience iu tho shape of u grass
cutter. The people say Lon. Moore pur¬
chased tlie lawn mower, m he could gel
along more conveniently with it.
A iiABOiuoi'H calculator of the London
Statistical Society has computed that the
population this will, of that following city three centuries in¬
from the rate of
crease of the past fifty years, he over
166,000,000.
Establishing a newspaper i* like pour¬
ing water into a leaky and cask if you have
got grit enough vessel water enough to
keep the full, possibly the staves
may swell up and become water tight.-—
Cecil C. llmjnail.
The Croton aqueduct is taxed to it*
the utrnoHt people power the for metrojKilis. supplying the wants York of
of New
daily consumes upwards of 91,000,000 of
gallons of water, while tho capacity of
the aqueduct is pnt at 95,000,000 of
gallons.
“I don't like Newport," says the Sar¬
atoga swell, “because everything caught down
there tastes as if it had been with
a liook. And then if a man stops at a
hotel, you know, in Newport, lie i* taken
for a tramp! Now a man doesn't want to
lie taken for a tramp, does lie?”
An exchange says that a young girl
wants the paper to notify the young men
that she iH a worker, and to illustrate,
sho says, that she picked didn't twenty-five that
geese in one day. We know
geese were ripe yet. However, that is
not very heavy picking. When we were
in the army we could go out with a sabre
and flick geese enough for a mess in five
minutes.— Peck'a Nun.
The Holyoke (Mass.) Gazette says; It
is stated upon excellent authority that in
this neighborhood there is a lady who
has built a house out of a fund made by
selling rnm to her own husband. "He is
a drinking man, and so his wife struck
the bargain witli him that if he would
drink he must agree to buy all his liquor
of her. She thus pocketed the profit,
instead of tho regular rumsellers.
Mr. Fred. "Wilhelm, on opening a
twenty-three day last, discovered pound watermelon within it on another Sun¬
melon weighing, by actual weight, seven
and the three interior quarters melon pounds. of The rind
of was au orange
color, and the flesh was of a brighter red
than that of the enclosing one. Any of
his friends anxious to see this freak of
nature can do so by calling at liia room,
where it will be on exhibition for a few
days. —Columbus (Qa.) Enquirer.
Not So Easily Fooled.
Chambem' Journal recalls an anec¬
dote which is related of a certain Edin¬
burgh professor of delivering natural history who
lecture* was engaged geology, in a course of
on hut wh ich had a re
suit different from what was anticipated.
One day a chosen band of liis students
acquired possession of a brickbat, which
and they placed painted a variety the of other sjK>cious fossils hues, and
among
rocks on which their master was to dis
course. Tbe professor illustrated his
lecture by reference to the specimens
liefore bini on the table, saving, for ex
ample, as lie went on, “This is a piece is
0 f volcanic ri-ajercck.” or “This a
piece the of granite.” At length he caiue
to mysterious stranger with tho
gaudy hiB hand* livery, aiid and, examining after taking it it up in
f«, f moments, he proceeded nttontively
r PW - ,
“ And, gentlemen, this is, I am sorry to
aay, a piece of fwilishuess.’'
A similar story is told nf an American
professor, whose his specialty was entomol
ogy. Homo of student*, wishing to
test his knowledge, prepared* bug with
great care, making different it up of the wings,
legs, etc., of the insect*, (’ar
lying Ifa-ofessor, it to the professor, tiny said :
here is a strange si*>ciinen
that ww have fo.md. Van yon classify
it?" Tlie professor studied it a few
moments ami then said quietly; * “Gen
tleuien, UiU i* alnua bug."