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lining Homo.
Kiss me wl9i my spirit flies
Let the beauty of your eyes
Seam along the wax-e; of d -ath
Whl I draw my par. ing breath,
And am Lorne to yon lor shore
Where the billow beat no more.
And the notes of endless spring
Through the groves immortal ring.
1 am goin lnm? to-night.
Out of b i ilu'ss into sifihl
Hut of weakness, war ami p. in.
Into tocr. jware nnd gun
Out of w ii ter iiale ami pi om
Into summer I r nth nil I bloom.
From the wanderings of tli? ast,
am going hum nt Ins .
Kiss my bps nnd 1 -t we go;
Nearer swells the solemn flow
Of the w tnilrous stie .m that ro'ls
ixy the tcrilei land of souls;
1 can catch nve. strain, of songs
Floati g d own from di-ttin! throng",
At.d can feel the touch of linn la
It' achii g out from angel Intnl..
Anger's frown a d Envy's thru',
Fri K'lip killed l.y cod Ihstrust,
Sleepless night an 1 weary m irn.
Toil in fiu: Inn I forlorn,
Aching Ilea I nnd hrrnking heart,
Love d stioyrd by Slander's dirt,
Prilling Mi pi.n.l daikciiel sei.
Over there wid lighted b-.
.Iamfs C. C
BEN'S "NOSTALGIA."
. W-i M. I,. II At NK.
Farmer ( 'onnovcr strode into the hou"',
took i fT his fur cap .vol th'tk ni;tlen,
and unwound numerous li'iks of r-il
wooh n comforter from his nmple throat.
Then le sat d'-wn by the wafm wood
fire nnd sai 1 to his wift ;
"S-cms like 1 had M'ln-'thin' to tell
you, S liry A 'in, but I c.vi't far the life
of me iu-t reinemb r it ueow.''
"Was it soiih Im ly got min i i d ;'' in
quired Mr-, t innov r, who was bu-tling
ubout Setting thetalih: for supper.
"No,
.1 i.l
S'-em us 'tw as. L'lliin"
i o scd a meditative fure
pmtion of hi forehead
1 to locate the faculty of
think," and he
finder on that
w in re lie secim
memory.
' Is iinyboily "lead that you nre ac
quainted with:''
"No, no, tn'n't rycther niniryiu' or
fly In' as I kin see. Curus how I do for
get things s nil' times."
"We ain't hear I fiom l!cn for quite
nwlnle," sii .".;cs:c 1 Mrs. Conovcr.
"Thai's ii," rr.' d the farmer, umping
to his frrt as sprightly in a log. "Tain'l
from lien, leastwise it ain't his hand
writrn', 1 ill it's a letter. I've, got it
tight here in my orktt."
"I) toP," sai l his wife, clropping the
dishes she win hoi ling in a promiscu
ous heap. "If it ain't from H -n, who is
it from?-'
"It's writ to you," said her husbun 1
producing it at Inst.
Mrs. Conovi r reached up to the clock
shelf tnd touk down liar Hiblc-reading
spectacles.
"It's h slrnnge hand to me," she said,
scanning it carefully, "muM be sotin of
Cicely's folks."
So she steppe 1 to the ,l,,m- lending
above stairs nnd called at tin; toji of her
voice:
"C-i-c-e-l y! C-i-oe-1 y!"
"Here I am, tn ther," nnsiverd a
sweet voice. "What is itj"
For very inflection of her good
mother's voice was familiar to Inr, nu 1
this one bristled with oxelainatioii
points.
"Merc is a h iter, in n strange hand
wiite. I) i yen know who it is from?''
handing it to her.
"Why, it is ad Ircsscd to you, mother.
It seems to me the easiest way to I'md
out would be just to open it and read
it."
"Well, then ilo," said her mother.
"I'm so fidgeted thinking about Hm
c-fft ere alone (hat 1 can't open it."
"This isn't anything about II n,"
h.iiil Cicely, d ft ly opening the cnxalop
alter the bad admired t !.; smart college
style superscription. "It's from some
lawyer or f t u s t-l r -c a ;e:it, likely, on
business."
"What would he wiite to your
mother for ?"' fuggistcd Falber Conim
I'cr gruffly.
Cieely lead it over to her-clf fust, mid
lit .nce changed tol r.
"It is ubout Hen, mother,"
the tears rushing into her eyes
voice, "!:e is sick, and this is
al e sad
and her
from the
doctor v.ho is taking car,' of him. Oh, j
mother, don't civ. 1 1 n needs von Keen 1
moiuer, iiou i ciy, it 'ii neeiisyou. Ivor
upyi ur strength."
"What nils him:" n'k'd his father iti
nn unsteady tone.
Cctly lead the doctor's lettir.
He said that 11 n was his patient, nnd j
lie was doing nil he co.il 1 for him, but j
his nrents had b Iter c line, ns it re"
ipiircd more skill than he the pbys:cian J
had to cure him. If- ended by saying j
that the boy was suffering from n severe
uttack of nostalgia. I
"What in the world is that? I never '
heard of it before," xclainic 1 Mr. Con- !
novcr.
"What is it, Cicely i'' n:,kc I Mrs. Con
nover. Cicely wai a graduate of the
Normal school, and htr parents expected
her to know everything. j
She shook her Ilea I. I
"It means that xve must go to H n
just as toon ns we cnn. If there had !
been any hop! the doctor wou'dhavej
said so."
She cried and worked at the iiine i
t
VOL. IX.
time. H-'n, her only brother, was het
idol. She had opposed his going awaj
from first to lost, but the futlier was
wiser.
"If the boy nin't contcntel here, lei
him go to tiic city, nnd ! rk it for f
year or two. He's king of two hands
any where," said the grulT old farmer.
And 15 -n bad been ill, and too prou i
to let them know.
T.iey took the evening train. At tli
depot 6onie of their friends had gather' d
to henr the news.
Of each and all, they asked the same
question.
Have you ever heard of N tstalgy? '
I And rone of them had ever hoard of
it, but nil agreed that it must bo t
! drcadiul thing to have sueh a d fTnu't
! name
When they reached the city they
had cried nn I worried thcnuclvcs
sie't.
At least the two women had. The
father, with the stoicism of his kind,
Im 1 beat a constant tatoo on the cr.t
1 wit d nv and w histled an accom
paniment all tho time ho was crying iu
his heart.
"Oa, Absalom, my son! my son !"
Th re was no one to meet them, ns ne
one was interested in their coining ex
cept It.'n and the dm tor, nr.d they
neither of thciii had heard of their in
intentions. Ho (hey went nt once to the p'an
where ll'ii boanl d, a dreary house,
with innii'iieinlile small, ill-ventilated
rooms, whei for the entire miiii that lir
earned week'v Hen ( .innover was per
mitt -d to lodge.
The d' l ti i had ma le bis hrspit.il
round-that night, an 1 his la.! rail wa
on I. it. H- was a young physician, and
i i v , a i'ii; over his ,t cuts. He took
an intciv.t in the bandsi ni", w Ii de
si li e I ( "U'lti v boy jvho was lin o
cu.ti'iii' d to i :"se looms nnd sew. r .-as
and 1, in ly h. u;., a
wrot j that let- I
ter to his mother.
And as they stood on the step ringing
the grumbling bi il he walkcl tip and
soon d.scover. d w ho they wor.,
made himself known.
"a, i 'it r, is there any hope?
' lKiir, will my 1 nv get well.'
"1 'ct"i, is he -till a!ivcrv
and
I he-e were the .pif-tinas that
were
poured into (lie do, 'S , ,rs.
II"" ii' '. u iT. i i'ig t f him to la'iu!.:
"Why, tie i i. ii 'tliin r j;1 t,- w,,i;,l
the ni 'tti r w ,th him! As I wrote yu
it'rf only a ba 1 i a-e of nostalgia."
"I Tim I" snd the father sternly,
"put that 'ere wind in plain K'lgli.h !"
' O'l, I sc. ," laughed the iloclo-. "It
is th" medical t' lin fur noiii' sickness."
An 1 that was all that ai'e I the boy.
A good deal of m lit il longing and
worry ha 1 It Might on li ver, ami 11 n
him fast h'Toming r-.aily iil, but the
sympathetic young doc or had diagnosed
hi rise correctly. II- w-s a soldier who
was not -ick fi in any fatal m.iiudy. lie
was horn i k.
"New that we're h re we'd st iv and
seethe siyhl'. Slab Ann," Mi, (' itiuo
vi r said lo l:'s w ife, "and jiuicati ;nddle
H n all veil wai t to."
And Hi n was very willing to be co 1
dlel. Ihi! it was strange that after
explaining that big medical word, th
doctor stjil ,i pt coining. It worried
the old coupl'j a lit:, because they
th ought 1! ii n u t be in danger after
al1.
Hut it was the doctor who was in
danger now. Ilo had transferred his
inteie.t in the brother to thesi.'er. And
no word w as big enough to diagnose his
case.
Hut it all came I'll! right. Only Hen
must have tonies and directions, nnd at
last the il X'tor went out there nnd
established a practice-, leaving out th j
Latin wer ls.
And he was righ'. There is no more
insidious disea-e than homesickiii ss.
When the Swiss soldiers, the bravest
lighters in the world, henr the familiar
Km, des bailies they 1 'an on their car
bines and wci j) fn tin ir love I g'aciers
and ni' iintain phe.s, and often die of
that hidden wound of the heart whoso
classical nam" is nostalgia, nnd which
fieely translated mean sickness for
home. 1) droit Free 1'iess.
Clay us nn Eye-Opener.
One of the most popular members of
the Connecticut Senate has conducted a
rather di-a-trtui spet uiation in red clay I
r i :.. i. . i i.
found in Ills own town, and also c
ducts a Suiday school class of boys.
One Sunday not long since this chsi
wrestled with the case of the blind man
who was made to see by having clay
applied to his eyes. 1'arl of the di.i an
sion was as follows:
Teacher What kind of clay do you
think that w w, .I .niinie? Common clnv?
Jinimie--Well, I s'pns: it wasn't the
kind we sec down in the swamp.
Johnnie- 1 don't know about that,
teacher. P.i thinks that clay was a
pretty good eye-opener.
A true st -Tv.- I New Haven News.
tYhut She Would Ilo.
Charley t'o ids pretty cousin, who is
fl.hingl -Any bit 's y t, Maud?
Maud --Only a nibble or two.
Chiirhy What . u'J you do, Maud,
if you should make ns good r "catch" ns
I am said to b ?
Mmid --Throw it ba. k in, Charley.
INuw York Sun.
ITlTSl,,OliO
MVSTERIKS OF PARIS,
Dark and Dnnrjerou3 Hcsorts
of tho French Metropolis.
Vaults and Cj'.lan Whore Murderer
and Thieves Cj3ragat),
On leaving the Chat Noil' the oth'-i
night some one propi s -d that we should
visit the cellars near the C ntral mar
ket', writes a Paris corre-pondent of the
New York fcv.m. In the Faubourg du
Temple, at Li Clinpelle, nnd in the
neighborhood of ih" Place Maubert
these cellars or vnu ts 1 elow grog shops
are famous as the resoit of thieves and
bad characters. They nre among the
sights of criminal Paris which the stran
ger rarely v.sitR, however much his
curiosity may have been nwakened by
the descriptions given by Eugene f-u-in
his "Mysteries of Paris." So
we m ade up a pai ty of three, nnd be
tween 1 and 2 in the morning wc ar
rived at the Central markets. We left
them to their dreams, and descended by
a narrow staircase into a series of vaults,
the whitewashed ceilings of which were
cocrcl with nnibeiUc3 and names
written in black with the smoke of a
candle. In one part of the e vaults a
group of men were dunking and sinking
parodies of churc'i hymns.
This did ii"t cine up to our expectation-,
so we went to "Li J-une Franco,"
a famous c.llar where a lu l l hid been
assassinated only a fw nights he I ore.
We passed through a gate, down one
fl gld of narrow stair-, th"ii stooping
low we pas-ed under mi uribwuy le
vel ved in the foundations of the house,
down another (light of stairs, then
through another mch'vay, aloag a tor
tuous p issige, nn I so to a tunnel abo it
seven feet high, live feet bna 1, and
twenty feet lung. Th ' v..if! of the roof
was covered with green tiel.iswork,
there were benches an I ru-h stools to
sit upon; wto le:i tab es brining the
marks of strife; an 1 to light ih, two
gas-jets. We were h'T.i at the very end
of the m m trip, mi l wo now un ler
stood w hy tho polic- never enter these
"caveaux" the re is no possibility of a
fair lii.dit. When we entered the "ca
ve an" there was nobody there, but
after we had ouleiel some wine two
musicians ciin: in. The one was a
m s rib'c pale fello v, lia'l .laived and
half blind, with a thill blonile mus
t.uhe. Il- tang mi I accompanied him
self by s liking a few choids on a guitar.
Th-- other was a short, bony man, wi:h a
black beard, iiMuken blue eye, loan 1
s'u,uider', and an nppearanc of bum li
ty, as if he were con-tantiy afraid of re
ceiving a kick, lie sing in turn, struui
ining on a single ba--s thord. The tip
given by siin; walc'ier so m brouglr
fi ur other visitois a Imr'y rulli in, who
W ore a huge red fc lising eighteen
inches above his crown, a young mini
wearing a tli.ti cotton b!ou-i, and two
others el ressed ill cast ell clothes ol
fihionnble cut, without a vestige
of linen. The huinMe mus'ci.in sing,
above all Ih ngs, an air from "Mignon,"
keeping hiseyes lie 1 on the groun 1 as
he sang, and pointing to his heart with
an awkward gesture wlii never the word
"hear:" occurred in the rom m . S nl-
denly one after another hilf a doz-u
athletic, square sin u'ideied in n, vary
ing in age from seventeen to twenty -live,
crept through the narrow archway, pass
ing lapnlly in without even glancing nt
our table, and mussed tl. em-elves at the
end of the van t, lolling on the benches,
smoking cigarettes, ami drinking at our
expense, for wj thought it only polite
to c'll .-r these gentlemen a glass of wine,
tli more so as the musicians were play
ing for our amusement. After "Mignon"
the ruiliiu xvith the red fe. asked for
the guitar, took a tuning fork out of
his pocket, snapped it with his teeth,
and tuneel the instrument properly. Then
the rnllian in the to! ion blouse rose and
with line 'vice, perfect sentiment nnd
direct gestures, sang other airs from
"Mignon," nn I also from "Carmen.''
All the rtilH ins listened iu perfect
silence to the singer, who was n real
artist, ami two women who had joined
the banel melted into lean at the end,
one of them exclaiming: "Ah, music!
When I hear 'Mignon' I can't help it.
I cry like a calf." The sceno appeared
to bo idyllic rather thin brigandish nnd
terrible, llawcvever, it appeared after
all thnt we might have been in better
company, for at a sign from tho waiter
1 slipped out ef the vault. "You had
better give the word to your friend to
come) up stairs. TIiq band is almost
an complef, and it is the very band thnt
assassinated a man li re Inst week. 1 1
their chief happens to c inn in you might
get in trouble." Wo did not wait to be
warned twice, but wished the gentlemen
good evening, ascended tho staircase
without undue precipitation, and yet
with a kind of internal sensation of
rapidity.
After leaving "Li Jeune Franco" wc
visited three or four less interesting: es
tablishments. It wns tho same spectacle
in ench of them. Nothing nt all like the
descriptions given by Kugcii" Sue, and
the narratives of other explorers of
Paris. Calvator Kosi's 1 rigands nre ns
unreal and cmvc tional ns his stormy
landscapes.
A cure for povcity. Sinecure.
CHATHAM CO.. N.
I'll o Dangerous Flat N licet.
As a train was pulling out of tin
West S de L'uion S'ation in Cliicigo a
passenger sat still a m uiftit as if li-ten
ing to something an I then ros; from his
, seat, pieke 1 up his lugjage, ail a-k?l
j his travelling companion to go with 111 it)
into the first car ahead.
"H it we have j is st go', c'tn'ortib'y
seatc I h :re," r.'p'le 1 th.-t!i:r; "w iy
j shou'd wc ma'io a c'l.mg ? Cir toi hot
j for you?"
j "No, the temperature is all right."
I "Too c jld, in-bb
! "N , it's not too cold."
j "Then xvhat is the matter; Tilij
1 should wc go into the front u : '
! "Well, I'll tell yvj. Yo;i kiuw 1
i used to bj a railroil mm, a conductor,
an I, of e mrs-, I picked up som.- ideas
on the r 1 1 tint a m in gets only from
cxp.Ticp.c A' soon ns the train started
my em told in tii' rj was a flit wheel
: under this e ir. I n't you hear it rap
ping on the rail-f Wait till the train
slows up for lii first stop, an 1 then
you'il hear it inning too fast now.
Ye1, sir, car who 1- ll itten out an 1 h ive
to be closely wate'a 1. Sjin ! impcrf-c-.
tion or u I 'Veiinei in the iron, or some
c.xtia.T lina v blow on a nil or obstruc
tion, mikes an impression on the sur:':tco
of the wh'el, and th oi every revolution
th -rc.il t r nd is t the in j it. A wheel
will ll.tlei out in a rem iikali'y short
tini , and on long ru is of t lit- ugh train,
a ll it wheel is n source of danger. If
this wheel runs from here to N-w Yor',
. and happens to b- a pretty so t w'.ie !,
the chain s are that it will arrive Ihcr.'
in a very bad condition, after iloin ; as
much damage to the tiac'v as the - n
p my w ill get in pa-senger in mey I r ani
all the oei- ipauts of the car. o c oii-
tin re's not much I rig -r; but I make i' a
i ii'i: never lo ride in a e ir that has a ll it
w .eel under it, and if yen don't mind
we'll go upahead." Chica g II r il 1.
A Farmer Sued by a Dag.
From the town of Casteluaii 1 iry,
, Fr nee, writes a Paris correspondent,
comes a story tint is literally true, yet
which reads like the iuv. iition of a sen
sational noveli-t. A farm t r.'iili i;iii
the environs e f that town, an 1 who was
known to have s.iv.' l m mey, return I
home one evening, n coinpaiiie 1 by his
I dog, a large, powerful mil v-i .-inl lli
'gent animal. i reaching tli - hou-e the
dog at one;' da' t-1 to tli- lai n '. b? 1-
I room, a if in .-e ireli of som tiiin;. mil
d aslie 1 under th- bj 1. A -U Tt straggle
, cn-ue 1, and the dog th'-n "a; rgi' I drag
ging th- corpse of a in in thr. lie In I
fou'ld hidden under the b- I. a -d whom
he' had sou d by tlu thrm: a i I in-t l it !y
strangled. Tlie farmer', w ife ncgni. ."1
the dead m in as a tramp to w hom she had
:h at inorning igiven foo l a i 1 di ink, an 1
' who had then, as she thought, l'"H" on
h s w iy. II r liusbin l at otic: went i l
-eaich of the police.', who, on air ving,
thorough')' i amino ! fi b'iv Cm
ceal' d in the i lot; cs wer- f' u i ' a long
sharp knife, a Ion led rev 'v and a
whistle. Tit? i) ilicem?n th n hi I them
j 1
I selves, an 1 one of th ir nu'iile i blew the
whistie. Four m n o'i v 1 t ie si ;inl
and entere 1 the house, an 1 were ill i
mediately e ip'.ure 1. T.iank. t 111 ? dog,
the lives of th' farmer mil his wife had
been saved, for one of the iiii.cn anis c.m
' fes.c 1 tint their coiurai- wa- to have
murdered them both, an I tint they them
selves were then to have add in strip.
- ping the house of its contents and in
e ii rying them away.
Thf Colors of Canaries.
With r'gar l to tin jvll .w e dor of
the canary birl and its t-sliniony to Mr.
Darwin's theory it is said that, aft :r do-
' mestieation in H lgium, (i n many, ami
Kngland, ( point with which tempera-
; turc or climate miy have hid soiu".hing
. to ile, ) the birds threw up on the
feathers small patches of yellow of lighter
color, and by carefully matching those
birds that had tho large t number of
' these pitches the breeders at length, nnd
after a cousld-rable perio I, suecce l-d in
obta iiiug bright and uniform yc'.'ow
: color, more closely resembling what nro
called the "clear" birls of to lay. Hut
l the application of the phrase, "can iry
color," to indie ite a sp e ia' shade of y.d-
' low, th nigh general, i not pist Iti -.1 by
the facts. Canaries of pure ! teed are to
be found of many eo'ms. Whole I ree Is
' aro giecn; mil, by feed.ng on p pir
nnd other seeds, e in irl"s have b en pro
due "1 of cinnamon an I C' IT-- color, and
. even of re I ; an I, in t he I. r. ird v.iricl v,
the bird, though yellow in the crown,
is elsewhere ha b: I and spangl "I in the
most love y mitnner. -All tin Year
lioiind.
The CorV on (he Strrnlc.
Why should cocks fi gtito o:i tin tops
of steeple..' Chr st a n I'ounect the
custom with the repro e'i tho cock once
conveyed to St. I'jter. Hu" the cock u-ed
to be place I on the tops of saer.'d trees
long before it win transferred to church
steeples, and in North (ieimany it still
stands upo'i tin miy-.uleM. It was
partly B watchman and partly a weather
proph-t, and by it s e rowi ig it could
disperse evil sp rits and nil approaching
calamities. Its life was sacred in India
and Persia, and Cieero speaks of th- an
cients regarding tin kdiiig of a tick
as n rri ne cipia' in bliekn '-s to tin
ulToeation of a lather. Our w -atlur
i i ks ar i ib ubth ss i he -.nr.- v of then
old i le is. Chri't an at Wcrk.
('., AHML II, 17.
THE BUFFALO.
Only n Few Hundred Left In
thf United States.
A Plainsman Tells Where the Eetunnntso
Once Great Henls Are.
A letter from I' P iso, Tex is. t o tin
New Yoik Sun says : 1 was told whei
I came here that if 1 wanted to liud out
what was tiu-twoith concerning tin
ex'trniin iti'jn ol tin bu'Tilo, Captain
.lack Hiidges was tlie linn to see. ,!
Hridges was then hunting in the S rah n
Mountains in Mexico, I took the cars tc
ial'ego, where, through the e ourtcsy o!
1!. K. Comfort, Sup rinten b ut ef the
Mexican Central Hiilioad Company,
I was provided with an iu -IT n
sive brunch') to rid- ov.r tc
Bridge's camp, sen.' thirty-fight miles.
Captain .1 .rk, who f .r y rs past ha!
been on-of the most distinguished nn.'!
fearless hunters in the ivi-t, who was thr
first man to make a eontiact
to provide a large number e.t bullalc
hide. The idea suggested it-elf to ;
pelt dealing linn in I. avenw. rth, Kan
sas, who sent for Hri'lu's. teiiing him t
1'rocur ' I 'gOO hides nt once, as they
wished to try them in the F. aglish mar
ke lir i dgi s signed the c ntract and
hiring a lot of skinners, began tie- eb
sirio live wai fan: again-t thebi-on. Ill
Ii .-e w -k - and fo ir d ivs h killed with
his own Land 1 f):t iulTa!oisi and tue
hides of tins- aiiimils tonstiti.t .1 tlie
first shipiiiciit of biitf do lol'i s ., I' ir.'pe.
While the e'ontrae' was cry hit rat ive,
owing to the great abund am- of the
aniiin:, the slau htenl is-u-ted Hndee.
w ho w is a natural l orn -portsnnn,
mil -h that ho refu-ed t i be in -t l um-ii I al
in the future in miy vhoh.aie destruc
tion of good mea'. He says that he Ins
ou!v been sorry but o n . for what h
did, and that Ins been always. Jvnc"
;!ien he lias killed about lio I I head bat
only when meat was
lirel bv the
different expedition for which he wa
guide. Having shot bulT ilo fr in J'.rit
i i Ii ('oliinibi.i to Texas, and having lived
for the last thirty-five veins on tl.e great
game ranges .if tlie west, he is well ipiali
fied to speak authorilative'v on ih sub
j "ct.
"As fnr ns I know-," said Hii lgeo,
when talking on the subj-ct, "and 1 try
to keep myself po ted, 111. re are not over
fioil buffalo bft in (he Cn te l States.
There arc ab"ir gou in the Yellowstone
Park, nnd these wi.l be th- M.ie survi
vors in a year or two. In th- pitihandlc
of Texas th'-re weie about I'll; thc-e dc
not i-.iliile tins- en the ranch of Cliar-le-y
fJo'id. light, who has a lot of tin ni
se rni-loin-stic ite 1. Goolntght's ranch
is near Vernon, in Aim-troiig county.
There are about 110 in- K oisa an 1 the
Indian Territory, five or six in Colorado,
ten in Montana, an I live in I)ik it a. The
athe rs are in a little le r l in n i en: of
the wny place, which I do not wi-h
made public."
"This, then, sums up the buffaloes
,cft i"
"Yes, though there may b? a strag
gling pair or two in southern Texas. I
un told that two old bulls were seen
lotith of San Antonio the other day, and
diat they were followed up an I one
killed. But I have been told tw ice re
:ently, once by an Apache, and the
Mher time by a Wncae Indian, that on
he big plains, oiiu miles south of here,
n a c untry but very rarely travelled,
here is a very large herl. I will know
toon, for I am going down the.c this
ipring. Hut the drought has been so
icverc in Mexici this season that tho
jatne has suffered teiribly, and has had
.o travel man v miles for water."
Tito Elgin of llto Mint.
The collections of rare coins nt our
nint arc well worth seciug. There is
in ollicer there known ns the curator,
ivho is skilled in the science ol numis
natics, and who can be foun 1 daily at
lis desk on the west side of the cabinet,
in 1 who will correctly and suavely
inswcr the qu-stions propounded by
visitors. Near the exit eloor of the
jabinet, in a largo case, is a magnilicnt
American eagle, superbly mounted.
The portrait eif this "pet" can b - r-cog-ii
zed on the obvcrs; of the first nickle
'cnt pieces coined in The eagle
was called "Pete," and lived in the
uint for six years. He would fly about
.he city every day, returning before the
lime for closing the mint, lie was
wiown ns the "mint bird," nnd was
le ver molested. 11- was killed by be
ng caujit in the fly wheel of the
ii.k hi icry. - j Phi la lei phi a C ill.
A Timely Hint.
In the hotel parlor, 11 p. in. :
"Have you any i lea what tint"? it is;"
ie asked, after he had talked her to
deep three or four tinns nnd waked her
ip as often by laughing boisterously at
lis own brilliant ebullitions e f wit, humor
Hid burlesque.
'Tt -ally I haven't," she replied, wo.i
ily. "It certainly must be tim i I was going
ionic," he continued, as he made a inovo
n the right dire ction.
"Oh, I'm sure it it very niueh later
.linn that," she sai l, sweetly and Inno
eutly. and then ho went away with a
lideous suspicion in his minly bosom. .
Wushinjtoo Critic.
NO.
' THE FAMILY i ilYSU IW.
i Hot SViitrr fit.- ItruiMt-R.
riot water is the best thing tint can
be used to heal a sprain o' b u'.: Tin
we untied part should be p'1.1 .- 1 ill water
ns hot ns can be b r:i" lor tiliio-ii or
twenty minutes, and ina;i oid.n.uy a --s
' the pain w ili uradn illy di-npna:-. F !
burns oi i!ds apt ly (loth' s w-11 satu
rated with coo' - i v.a'n, keepii.g the
injaiel pint. vii r 1 Ir en thenir.
A merie an Analyst.
Ti-ritininit of t'ii-ls.
The treatment of arts i, to parotic:
hard and dry skin finin t'e ir tups, and
tin n touch them wi'h the s naile-st drop
of strong acet ii a.-id tak ng care tint
the at iil do s not iu i . T tie- wart upon
the neighboring ski.-, tor if it does, it
will occasion ii.ll imuiati u and much
pain. If this praetiie be co iiiniic'l once
, or twice daily, with regularity, paring
the surface ef the w ot when it gets hard
and dry, the wart in iy be -euiilT-i :u
nlly e ured.
1 I n so) in nie.
On re tiling for the nigh! we are apt tc
cany ur business with us, or we bav
seune p( ' th oi y to fui i !" r dev- lop : it is
wrong to p'r.u't any -n'j it to tike
posses-ion of u at -u !i a tun-. Y' t tin.
' nirroun lings ;,re in.-.! ,v it - ' I" men
tal activity. P bci inn ei-y t ) think;
it Is a iva' p'oa-ur . It i- "ii y to begin
a train of ileis, or to Had ourselves
; urged on as if by -oui uii-' in stimulus.
; There h an iriai i 'tn.tab e v.gor with
our ne'itai p" t ' I , ii-t o! en prcs-nt
: duiltig th" day. I!y -rid by -x l-gin tc
IV.ili. that 'his i ugi.' rut to be em; on'. ;
age-d; so d -u ' -! i j', l"lt -ai'l' i-
i faith--t fioiii:-. Wn i- t i e ! til'- ly ;
I have i ft. i, r s ", ,; I take., a bit of
, plain food, ti- n ll d e y t a'i":i on
, si'in other -ul'i it. and alw.r.-s xx ith
good re ill'-. Hal l! is i' un Iv I !'! i'
' not a pr per one; it "iT- 1 1 i - ling
the ib. b rniin it.on o: !.; .,,! I'i. in on" set
; of organs to ati'l'er, th' wh"!i: b "ly
wants tpiii-t rc t.
Thus f .r my Im st in a-i. I'-i relief is le
ali-oliitcly pin my mm 1 down to som
single trivi il i bj et, a - w of running
! Water, "!' counting a ha f do ui li-gun -,
i ver aii-l ov r, t l a I is f..rgt :!.
' : Health and Ibn.".
f'nlts )lls'tlts lit 1 It Iil ph.
I "ii vu'sio'i - ar- v i. i ' i - a i ' i g to p-t-s
ii s -, lio ar i. 't ... i. ' .). I to th- in.
. Th-y are r.u. Iv f ,'al, an I with an adult
tin principal tiiitig to I. d..ne i- to
, prevent the - " i. i i', -. loiitmg bini--c
t'. Any 'tli ': ' can b put
bet Weill til- tlitll to -.V 'id th" tongue
. b illg bitten. Th" l a -lie of a to-'th-
I bru-h or of a i kail''-, or
anything of . 'ik - r.atu - tliit i. at
hand. Th- el.!1,. - !,.,; ,. .
f isteiied, par' icu ai!y a'U b.n Is c.intia- !
ing the w i.t, and the -ntf r r lai 1 :
down. Il th" him is in thr ova about
they should be h -Id. Wh n tie tit is
; over tin person n,u.i b. put to bed ;
j and kept i liet It a t in -. H.ihies
j sometime, have C' -lie ;' -i el h 11 tect h
I ing or from som- ih i aiio-ie nt of the
; digotiou. If tli- lit 1: -t- f a more than '
I a mom- nt the child sV-r I be un In-s-c-l,
i xvrapped in a blank' t an I put in a
, xvaim bath to n I i th- inii-. lis, the
j head b ing i overe I with a i o'h wrung
1 out of wa'er. Ti;e do -oi- will lance
the s..olle I g nn i r n. i a ctmrsc ;
j of diet whie'i v, :1, pi v at a r currc.ice
, of the attack. It is .ei. r i'.i not as
. alarming a. it -e ui to the ui .'.her, but a
: phy-ieiaii shoiil ! h e ::-i t. I '..l lis.
. cover an 1 ,f 1 1 .s-i i-m tin eaii.e.
I
! 1( iood lloll-l kel p n -.
j Microscnpi:- To sih lilies.
Perhaps the m- t .vo nb-i fu' t'.iug tlil.t
. has been d scm-i-n-d 'f lite i- the new
t glass xvhlcli has ( ,.; ! u L e j
j Swctlcn, differing Iv in ot-iiii .n glass in
its extraordinary r.-!i-i. ti-.e pnni, tin
coinin n glass coiila n. oniv six sub.
stain-while the S.xe l.h g'a-- io:i.
of foiirte n, the nio-t imp r : . i : 1 1 elements
being pho.phorus an I b ion, which are 1
not found in any otle: . ' i Tin
' revolution w'li-h t V- u w r -fi.u-t.jr is
destined t ' mak" i. a m i , -ni . iv
ab'e', if it is tn-, as i. p tit- v allege. 1,
that, while the liioV,: p-'W.-r .1 an edtl-fasl-ione
I microsi p'c r, ,,nly
the one four i il i Ir d tli m i i i t i pa: t of
an inch, this new gl.t-s w.l , M. t
I distinguish oi.e tn liu-i In I .uilf...ir
i million s- ven hundu I ll: n-mi'li put
'of mi inch. L link o .'- h i.id in-he
to wi ite tin s- liguie-; an! who cm til!
j what wi'ilds within w -i I- in r. ii..; b- !
j discovered with -on h .-oi in linm. -i! es
i this? M i:;,.ili d alt r t'n- I i.in-n, il.e
1 snmllest aniinali ule will ! i cMiviifid
I into a giant, and if tlie . n i- n ,'r n t in g
power can be apa'i 1 t i t . r. Icphmie ,
xvc shall hax-e tin moon b- a .ht to i.m
j very doors.-- s mi t'lin ; to II -i I. !
i Deaf Miss lio I (Ii .
I Miss Doolittle iwho is de I I ut won't !
I acknowledge it to Mr. H owm i -How is
jour family Mr. lirowm :
Mr. Hrow in---AM ipi 'e well, thank
you, with the i xe. j t oil of my wife.
Shewas i.tit in the i-in the i tin r -lav
and cot ipiite we-: tin- re. nil was a
severe co'd on In r l ine., w hich xve
J fear 'd wo'i'd end in cme-t on, hut sin
is con vale t ( now.
Mi.s D.oiitte I.:le-i: S gJal,
iV'ld how j M- -. I.iowne? L'ff. J
ADVERTISING
.lint sfiKiif. one insertion- fl.Wi
One ftjuiii'-, two ii si rtioiis - 1.50
One Sijiierf , one inont h - ?.oi)
Fit lnrg'-r advcrlis nn nt? liberal cor.
nu ts will be made.
! The IVnrl of Pcitc.
A bivalve foe-tling in l In w.vm salt s"ti
j I'raws in ward "ii'i tin im a sandy
(.rain,
Wiile'i, not returning with th e-ava
ii gain.
It 'main- Ii -n- f til ils e :! g:-ef to l"V
Day alt -r .1 iy. tli s n- w i f -Ik ngre
f'.t cieatup- Im!"- it in a dewdike lam
Uf ceiiM-l t ar-. ti 1 hard' in 1 out of
I ain.
pie- iou-j earl is fii-ll on-I pei feetlv.
1 rom 'lit'-r -e.i. of p iseo', s-i-ofst if",
'111 re drift, n! limes upon the h mm
heart
A s-eiel rankling nr.- f that day by day
Wee e.ei- w.tli 111" bill- - t .It's of life,
'i'-il wr ought "f p i n fi'.in oat our nobler
part
Th-pearl of pae- re-uii s with us n'way.
-; W. W. Martin.
nnioiiors
T. e .t, ii--grapuer think, that talk
will uevei In i h up.
Tn tail of a fox is tailed i b.us'i, but
th.u do s i't in ike a I. ib .t s tall a
hare blush.
I'ne (' ir I ll giant is si,,i I nviy ill a
I: .!-:-et of a h ai - in I' x is. II : has been
a! i.l-' pte'i'iin.'C d :,v de -I.
In ii, nr lei- e- i-i s w h ie th-re is danger
Co hanging the ptisour tin dr-fens-
iiiik-s cv ry i iT it tj hi'iith:
jury.
"I hav- a theory ab '-a th" deal Ian-
eU !ies,'' l elllarke 1 11 f I . s!i mail . "J
think they wer - k ii" I by Ic ing stu lied
t'.o bar I.'
It is sti'e 1 that a pow i r company in
Nn.v Y"fk ha-stop'.-d I none -s, but it is
nothing in'-w to hear of a powd-r mill
"going up."
Wlii n a in in i'oa-ts that lie moves in
the b'-st of . m I - t y , it 111 iy n"t be itn
peitinent to sugg-st that It is probably
bec .uis' he is not permilti'l t stay in it.
"I I ave sin h an indulgent hu-band,"
f.ii.l little Mrs. ii.li. "',-s, so (b'orge
ays," le-p oi le 1 Mrs. Sptteltl'. q ii-tly;
".-onietini' s h- indulges ttn much,
do.--.ui' I In :" T'hey no long- r speak to
each othi r.
A corresprindeiit thinks that ther-i Is
something in the Amctii an nir that
itie lines people to ch w. M a clo w to
bacco and women chew gum. It is
probably becau-- Anieric.i is -a free
country, where p-op'e do pretty much
US they ch'-Ns.
mining a Mile on (ho lies.
"Talking about peculiar railway tc
e itleuts," sai'l n freight conductor on thr
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, "let
me tell you of n ipie.-r one wc had a few
w e ek-, ago up near Lanark. It xvas just
ab, ut three miles tti.t of that station t hat
our caboose jumped the track and began
humping on the lies. We had a long
train ahead, and w.-:e iu-t going into thr
valley, running at a lively rate, and it
took a long time to stop the train. My
hrakcinan go! scared the t'i-t thing and
jumped, while 1 went ahead and began
setting brakes, an 1 trying tt) attract the
attention of the engineer and of the head
biakemii'i, who was iu the engine ah.
We had several passeiigeis iu the ca boose,
one a mm with a little boy, and
they welt' were afrni 1 to jump. The
caboose, humped and rattled along on the
ties fully a mile. In going that dis
tance we passed over one high embank
ment and acr.i-s one short bridge. The
eaboose clung to the ties all the xvay,
though sometimes, as we afterward saw,
the wheels xvcre xxithin an inilioftho
i nd of the sleepers on one side or the
other, and thereby snv.'d the lives of the
passengers. The man who ha I the little
boy with him was almost in a faiijt when
we dually brought the train to a stand
still, and no wonder, for it must have
been a frightful experience. (.'iiiiago
Herald.
Their Nanus in (he Paper-.
"Time ait-r tune have 1 heard
that old chestnut 'Dm't put my iiamo
in the papers,'" said a reporter the oth' r
dav, and "an experience Iliad of another
kind was ivrro-i, ng. I was reporting a
large meeting, of an nssocl.il- a, and
fe eing a la ly with whom I was ac
quainted an 1 win was a lea ling unni
ber of ih- as. oei ition, I approached
h r and aski ! if she xvoiil I give me tho
n lines of a tew of the in prominent
p-rs.ins oti the stag-. s!io sc anil'! 1 the
group there-Hi seated, and replied
ipiickiy: Tie -re's pa!" and I put his
i.ame down. It reinin Is nn i f another
incident. I was reporting a struggle
e ver a will, and 1 ii-ke I ou of the e-o-i-(e.tants
her nam '. She rep! ie I, 'Oon't
put my name in tin pi"f, p "a-.e. My
name is Mary Ann Smith; but if you'd
put it in, do you think it will get in all
the papers:' she ndded, sweetly. " --Philadelphia
Call.
An Amusing Mistake.
A very amusing mistake recently oc
curred in one of the public schools. Tho
reading class xvas up, and a bright littlo
felloxv was reading nway xvith decided
vim. The teacher was listening with
admiration, I'Ut presently xvas startled
xvhen she licnr-l: "And he garnished his
teeth xvith rags." "What's that ? What
did you say?" she ipiickiy asked. Tho
answer enme in childlike simplicity:
"He garnished his teeth xxith rags." Tho
teacher could not refrain from laughing
outrig t xvhen she saw how her pupil
hid distorted the sentence, "He gnashed
Lis teeth with rage." Hichuiond State,
flMwin)wiii4eiiijp-ifiy, !