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WE COME AND 60. If you on : V To-day honld die. The birds would sing as tweet to-morrow ; The vernal spring Her flowers would bring, ,ud few would think of us with sorrow,. "Yes, he Is dead," ! ' Would then be said ; The corn would floss, the grass yield hay. The cattle low, ; And summer go, Aud few would heed us pass away. How soouvwe pass t How few," alas I f ; v Remember those who turn to mold 1 Whose faces fade With autumns's shade, Beneath the sodded churchyard cohl ! Yes. it Is so. We come, we go They hail our birth, they mourn us dead, A day or more t - : The wiuter o'er, . . . ... r Another takes our place instead. BUTTERFLItS. i tiu e more I pass along the flowering meadow, U. ar cushats call, and mark the fairy rings ; I i ll where the lich-gate- casts its coo dark shadow, I pause awhile, musing on many things ' ' Then raise the latch, and passing through the gate, tand in the quiet, where men rest and wait. Bees in the lime trees do not break their steeping ; Swallows beneath church eaves disturb them not ; They heed'not bitter sobs or silent weeping ; ires, turmoil, griefs, regrets, they have forgot. 1 murmur sadly, ' Here, then, all life ends. ' We lay you here to rest, and lose you, friends.'' ' By no rebuke la the sweet silence broken. No voice reproves me ; yet a sign la sent ; Fur from the grassy mounds there conies a token Of life immortal and I am content. .. . See : the soul's emblem meets my downcast eyes ; u v er t he graves are hovering butterfl les ! Good Words. great pain. Knowing that you made dis ease of the eye a specialty I recommended her to you. I had still another reason for doing so, which I will explain. She lives alone with her widowed mother, who has been an invalid for some years, and they are poor. I suspected as much before, but now I am sure of it. Their room was Buiuii, hiiu scarcely comiortaoie, Dut sev eral articles of furniture indicated former luxuries. A piano stood in one corner, and I learned incidentally that she had given music lessons in addition to her other work. , I doubt if they have any re sources beyond her hands, which must now be idle Both mother and daughter are evidently refined and sensitive; and although I felt great sympathy I could think of no way of making an oner of sub stantial assistance. But I thought I would ask you in case of her application to you, to make your terms for the treatment of her eyes as nearly nominal as Dossible without offending her propriety." . "I should do so most gladly ; what is the lady's name!" i "jiiss urayton Annie crayton, re plied Needham, ''here is her last work, a part of the unfinished order of which I spoke." He rose and took three or four sketches from a: portfolio, marginal de signs for a book of poems. "I like this one particularly," said Thornton, after a pause, "although it is the simplest of all this tuft of moss shot through by a spray of scarlet partridge berries; I like it because of the marvelous faithfulness with which it is finished, the evidence of a touch so tender and delicate as to be almost a caress. " 1 immortality on canvas or in marble could have made up to me for the loss of the case which I have so often blessed him for sending me, by merit of my plain profession." of the winter winter j WINTER. boy's composition. Winter is the coldest . season year, because it comes in the mostly. In some countries. comes in the summer, and then it is very pleasant. I wish winter came in the summer in this country, which is the best government the sun ever shone upon. Then we could go skating bare foot and slide down hill in linen trous ers. We could snowball without getting our fingers cold, and men who go out sleigh-riding wouldn't have to slop at every tavern to warm as they do now. It snows more in winter than it docs at any other season of the year. This is because so many cutters and sleighs are made then. ; Ice grows much better in winter than in summer, which was an inconvenience until the discofery of ice-houses. Water that is left out of doors is apt to freeze at this season. Some folks take and that from his bow he sent an arrofr whistling through all the twelve rings no mean feat. Here we surely have the rudiments of tilting at the ring, at the quintain, tent-pegging, Jtc; besides getting a precedent lor the difficulties by which it is always sought to test the merit of good marksmen. The Swiss in their Stands" (rifle alleys) still have something akin to the young Greek's rings, for they aim at their targets through loopholes pierced in a series of walls; but if Telemachu really did send his arrow through twelve rings he achieved more than most of the best shots from the Bernese Oberland could do withritie bullets. Six loopholes. ten yards apart, are. generally consid ered enough to try any man's steadiness of hand and eye. The invention of cards has often been erroneously atttlbuted to a French physician, who designed them for the amusement of the mad King Charles VI. They are of much mere, ancient origin, having come from China to Persia in the twelfth century and thence into Europe through the Arabs. They are mentioned in a proclamation of Louis IX. (St. Louis), in 12 VI. amonn " 1 la a in their wells and cisterns on a cold ungouiy pasunies wmeii ine pious o thev I snouia avoiu; out amines i. uocior, NOBLE AND TRUE. "It is so strange that you do not marry, Paul !" said Harry Needham to his friend, Dr. Thornton, when the tea things had been carried out, and they sat pleasantly talking by the bright fire of the Pennsyl vania anthracite that lit up the cozy back parlor of his pleasant New York home. The remark -was a most natural one, since the cozy back parlor was so suggest' ive of all sweet home comforts. '1 nere were marks of somebody's tasteful fingers everywhere, and Harry's eyes dwelt lov ingly on the closed door whence his house hold fairy had disappeared with the year- old baby asleep in her arms. "It is strange, Harry; I wish I could." "Why not?" asked Needham, in sur prise at his friend's earnest tone. "The witchery of the fire-light must be on me to-night," he said at last, with a smile.. "It is not often that I am in a mood for confidences. Why not, did you say? Because I believe I am hopelessly in love with a memory. Having once seen my ideal, I cannot . be content with less. "It was my first year at the German University. I had been miserably ill and my physician positively insisted upon out door air and active exercise. So I set out in company with two or three others, with staff and wallet, to visit on foot various places of interest. "We stopped for a week in Dresden. One day how well I remember it I had been strolling along the Elbe, through the public gardens; watching the groups of quaintly -dressed people sipping their cof fee in the shade and chatting gayly to each other. My walk ended, as usual, in the Art Galler,, for pictures were my en thusiasm then as now. Going into the hall where hung the tiistine Madonna, I saw a party of tourists standing before the painting. My first glance assured me that they were Americans, and this of itself would have attracted me a home face is so dear in a strange land had not the cen tral figure of the group riveted my gaze in a moment. The others were engaged in conversation, pointing out the various features of the picture, and indulging in 'the familiar rhapsodies; but this girl, a slender creature of hot more than fifteen, stood motionless and silent, her lips parted, a faint flush on her cheek, and the whiteness of her finger-tips showing the firm pressure of her clasped hands to gether. . You want me to tell you of her face; but it is useless to try I cannot describe.it. It was very beautiful: but no mere beauty could have held me with undiminished charm at this distance of place and time, Her expression indicated not so much simple admiration of the pic. ture as a complete merging of her own) personality into the sublime emotions which the theme inspired. The Wonder ful mingling of tender adoration was dimly foreshadowing suffering in the face of the Madonna seemed to have reproduced itself in her own until the canvas might have been mirror, where the imige of the dark-eyed, oval faced girl who stood there was portrayed. ' 4 We must be going, ' said a lady, whom I judged to be her mother; 'the train leaves at six, you know, and there is the packing to be finished. Come, Annie! Why, the child would stay here a whole day! touching the girl's arm. who had not moved. She started, looked about her with a deep breath, and, still without speaking, turned to follow the company from the room. "As she passed me at the door a knot of leaves disengaged itself from the brooch at her throat and fell to the floor; I stooped quickly and returned it to her, and to this day I cannot breathe the spicy fragrance of geranium without feeling again the thrill which her smile repaid me . Dr. Thornton might have said more, but little Mrs. Needham came in at that momentr' 4, : "Whatl the gas not yet lighted?" she said, in surprise. "You gentlemen must have been asleep, or telling secrets. Shall " I break the spell?" 4 1 wish it were jal ways as pleasantly broken," answered Dr. Thornton, gal lantly. Needham rose to light a taper at the grate. "Mrs. Needham; cannot we have a game? Harry shall take two balls, and you and I will play against him." Then in an aside, "It is but fair, Harry, I have played my game of life alone so long." - ? . When they were seated again, Needham said: . . ' "You will hardly thank, me Paul, for sending you another case When you are vercrowded already. , Our house has just lost the services of a young lady, one of the very best designers we have ever em ployed. You have seen our last edition of the 'Christmas Hymns?' The illumina tions are mostly hers some splendid work there, which you will know how to appre ciate. Our last order had not hee.n filled. so I looked np her address, and called to- uy. . l round eyes m a darkened room and suffering Among the visitors in the ante-room, when the physician's office-door was thrown open next day, sat a young lady dressed in black. ' She awaited patiently her turn for examination, then rose and went into the inner apartment. "Dr. Thornton, I believe?" she said, in a voice singularly clear and musical. " I am Miss Bray ton; will you please look at myeyea?" j As she spoke, she threw back the heavy veil, whose double folds had protected her from the light, arid lifted toward him the face of the Dresden Gallery ! The same, yet not the same ! By the influence of years of trial, patient endurance, and earnest, hopeful effort, the ungrouped ca pabilities of the girl had been crystallized into a many-sided character. She stood before him the perfection of his dream, his own out of all the world, he thought -yet he must school himself to the utter ance of professional commonplaces, while not the tremor of a nerve should betray his long constancy. " It is only a temporary difficulty Dr. Thornton?" she said with trembling eagerness. " That depends upon the care you shall lake of yourself,;" he answered, gravely; "as yet there is no organic disease. You must have strained your whole nervous system by some kind of overwork. Only rest and a careful obedience to prescribed treatment can givehrou back your eyes." "For how long?:' "I cannot tell;" six months at least." The poor girl uttered an involuntary exclamation of dismay, and her lip quiv ered for a moment, but she controlled herself by a strong effort. "I ought to be thankful for the hope of being well at all," she said, wearily; "but it seems very long to wait." The autumn and winter wore on Miss Brayton's eyes improved but slowly, It was true she needed utter rest of body and mind: the former she took of necessitv. but the latter was beyond her power. To find her way through the glare of the street was a task so trying that Dr. Thorn ton forbade it, visiting her at her own home instead, i Her heart sank at the thought of the long bill of charges to come in by-and-by, even while she could not repress a thri .l of pleasure at the sound of his familiar step. There was the piano as a last resort, she thought; her treasured ewela. her father's eift. had been sold already to meet the emergencies of the present. ; Mrs. Brayton s watcniui ana lenaer eyes could not fail to detect the brightness which Dr. Thornton's lingering calls brought into her daughter's face, and a secret trouble grew at her heart which she would not for; the world have put into spoken words. I Must a greater grief still be in store for the young heart that had labored so patiently and suffered so nobly? One day the doctor brought a basket of rare fruit; again it was a bunch of hot house flowers, fragrant with geranium and heliotrope; or a magazine with passages-marked for Mrs. Brayton to read aloud. . Indeed, he so succeeded in inter weaving himself with all her few pleasures that it was no . wonder if poor Annie said a dozen times a day "How kind of him, mamma 1" with her pale cheek in a glow. The time came at last when the bright sunshine might find its way unchecked through the windows. Annie's eyes were not strong enough for her painting, but the days of idle darkness were past, and she could at least look forward to the speedy resumption of her music lessons. " You will not need me much longer, Miss Annie," said Dr. Thornton, finding her alone one day; "shall you be glad?" She did not reply, but he went onj as if he had not noticed her silence : "I have brought you something quite in your line, " unrolling an engraving. "You have seen the original, j Miss Annie." ! "Yes; how did you know ?" "The poor student who picked up your book in the Dresden Gallery has remem bered you too well to be mistaken.'" A sudden illumination broke over her face. " Can it be possible ?" she cried. "Now I understand the strange consciousness I have often had of having seen you some where long ago. Here is the lost thread which has eluded me so long 1" i "Annie," said Dr. Thornton, softly, "since then your face has been with me always. It has helped to subject the baseness ot my nature anu uu me io an things noble and true. When I saw it again in my room that day I dared to hop 3 that God had given you to me. These few months of your darkness seem to have concentrated i all the light of my life. Annie, have I presumed too much?" night and keep them by the tire, so they don't ireeze. j Skating is great fun in winter. The boys get their skates on when the river is frozen over, and race, play tag, break through the ice and get wet all over (they get drowned sometimes, and are brought home all dripping, which makes their; mothers scold, getting water all over the carpet in the front room), fall and break their heads, and eniov themselves in manv other wavs. There ain't much sleigh-riding except in winter. Folks don't seem to care about it in warm weather. Grown-up boys and girls like to go sleigh-riding. The boys generally drive with one hand and help the girls hold their muffs with the other. Brother Bob let me go along a little way once when he took Celia Ann Crane out sleigh-riding, and I thought he paid more atteution to holding the muff than he did to holding the horse. j Snow-balling is another winter sport. I have snow-balled in the summer, but we used hard; winter apples. It isn't so amusing as it is in winter somehow. GAMES. SOMETHING ABOUT TltEIR ORIGIN. The London Pall Mall Gazette says: Dr. Thornton's house is rich in painting and statuary. Connoisseurs go there to study and admire. ' "Mrs.Thornton," said Harry Needham, as he went from wall to wall the other day, " your husband has mistaken his vocation with his taste he should have been a great artist." . Kn Annie tell him no I" said Thorn- "Men," said Leibnitz, "have never shown so much ingenuity as in the invention of games." This is not quite true, for they displayed at least equal ingenuity for devising methods for de stroying or torturing one another. Nor can it be alleged that purely utilitarian inventions, like the mangle or the smoke-jack, show less sagacity in con ception than the bat or the battledore. Rabelais mentions about a hundred games which Pantagruel could play, and he seems, to have cudgelled his brains for every pastime which he had witnessed or heard L This was more than three centuries ago, but the list has not received many important ad ditions since." Cricket and rackets are improvements upon some games with EU and ball which Pantagruel knew; hist would have been a novelty to im, but he could hold a hand at piquet. ecarte, cxibbage and baccarat; he played chess, draughts, dominoes, backgam mon, skittles and bowls, and he might have waltzed (though this is not speci fied among his accomplishments), for this dance was invented so far back as 1400, although it did not actually become fashionable in Pans until loll), when it was imported from Germany in honor of the Empress Marie Louise. Dancing is one of the oldest of recrea tions. Homer speaks of .a new dance invented by Daedalus for Ariadne; Theseus was immoderately fond of the reel or ' fandango, in which the arms move with the legs, ine xtormans revived rather than invented round dances in the twelfth century; the Bohemians invented the redowa; the Poles the polka, first danced in England in 1840: the Hungarians the mazurka and galop. The cotilion owes its origin to the courtly Due de Lauzen, who, for his audacity in contracting a clandes tine marriage with the "Grande Mad emoiselle," was imprisoned for ten years by Louis XIV. To this now popular and long-winded dance many figures were added by Marie Antoinette, and some more by the Ejnpress Eugenie. Under the Second Empire the post of conductor of cotilions at the Tuileries balls was one of considerable social importance, and was long held by one of the Emperor's equerries, the Mar quis de Caux. . Dice and knuckle-bones were known to the Lydians 1,500 years B. C. Per seus is credited with the invention of quoits, aud the Hindoo Tessa with that of chess. Ardschio, King of Persia, invented backgammon; Palamedes draughts, Pyrrhus tennis, and the Greeks the noble game of goose. Loto is a comparatively recent discovery, due to an Italian, Celestino Galiani, in 1753. Dominoes owe their name to the piety of a monk who originated them, and who was happy to pronounce a holy word while taking his amuse ment'; and it is a nun who is believed to have invented both the game of battledore and shuttlecock and the catgut racket used in playing tennis. Excavations at Hissarlik, the presumed site of Troy, have brought earthenware "marbles" to light, and those at Pom peii have yielded a number of jointed dolls in ivory, which prove that the custom of giving costly toys to children is not one of modern development. Xenophon was acquainted with hoops, and we afe told that CEbalus, father ot Penelope, was a proficient in the gymnastics of the trapeze, when he had possibly : learned irom seeing monceys swing from branch to branch by their tails. CEbalus's grandson, Telemachus, was versed in boxing, wrestling and chariot racing, which, along with the riding of races, is supposed to date from the Thurians; but he also contrived a new sport of his own, which has been improved upon in a multitude of ways up to these times. We read in the Odyssey that he set up twelve pillars, who was ablxjt'. restored them to the lavor oi tne C hurch anu tuus licensed a game which has undoubtedly excelled all others in universal popularity. Cards are now a cosmopolitan means of social intercourse. Four meu of differ ent nations can play a rubber of whist without knowing a word of one an other's language; and possibly the lower orders all over the world will come to adopt some one game as a general favorite. At present each State boasts a game in particular favor with its working classes. The English man likes cribbage, the Frenchman piquet, the Yankee and his Chinese friend euchre, the Dutchman and Ger man "marriage," the Spauiard hombre, and the Italian a kind of ecarte. Dice have almost fallen into disuse, but roulettes have greatly multiplied, and every French wine shop has its "tourni quet" which customers spin round to gamble for drink. Indeed, games of hazard seems to be on the iucrease everywhere, and Englishmen may notice with a mixture of regret and pride that theirs is the only country wheru there has nobeen a correspond ing diminution in athletic pastime. The French used to be great players of tennis and bowls, they now play chiefly at billiards. This game, origiu ally called table bowls, and invented by- a courtier of Queen Elizabeth to amuse her Majesty when it rained, is athletic in a way, for it gives gentle exercLe to all the limbs and keeps the brain and eyes on the alert; but its usual association with stuffy rooms full of tobacco smoke makes it unworthy to be named with the healthy outdoor sports in which Englishmen delight, and in which they seem fated to remain unrivalled. For all attempts to reac- chmatize cricket, football, goii or rackets in the Continental States, wl eie they once flourished, have failed. The Frenchman or Italian will not risk his shins to be scored by a hockey stick; the young German, who belongs to a lurncerrin and does gymnastics on scientific principles, cannot see the beauty of "fielding out" all day in a broiling sun; the Russian and Austrian will never take kindly to polo, though both have nimble ponies and wide plains which would do capitally for the sport. As for rowing, which is prac ticed after a fashion in France under the name of canotage, it is rather an excuse tor summer day outings witn young ladies than a serious exercise for wind and muscle.' ine xrencn nave no national style ; of rowing, and the days are not nigh when a picked crew from the University of Paris will offer to meet Oxford or Cambridge on the Thames. This lamentable decline in Continental athleticism offers no reason why Englishmen should be put out of conceit with their manly pursuits; it should, on the contrary, urge them to continue as they are doing. After all, an athletic race is a master race; and there need be no talk of British deca dence so long as a hundred English schoolboys, taken at hazard, might safely be matched for strength and en durance against a like number frem any foreign schools. ' The time spent in handling bats and oars is not wasted. MISS DOLLY. THE WONDERFUL COLL1XTIOX Or DOLLS AT THE PARIS EXPOSITION. A correspondent writing from Paris says: The dolls are brought to the greatest Erfectlon, one of them, called "The ytou," exhibited at the Paris Expo sition, it is said, having actually mas tered the difficulties of swimming. Equally wonderful are the parapherna lia and appointments for dolls. Noth ing is lacking, from skipping ropes to feeding bottles. You may purchase dolly in a trunk with a stock of clothes which any young lady might envy, or a basket which, opening in three divi sions, displays not only the doll and her clothes, but provisions for a pic-nic meat, plate, glasses, etc, and brushes, combs, hairpins and everything re quired for the toilet, not forgetting nail-scissors and tweizcr. We could almost fancy we were assulirrVit the trou.seau of a Liliputian princess dresses, mantles, tunics, flounced skirts, jackets, pelisses, round capes, muffs, boas, nightgowns and cap-. Under linen of all kinds trunks, bandboxes, portmanteaus, carpet bags, medicine clients, couriers, pouches, dressing cases, reticuh-, pockethook ; chaus survs of all kinds, from skates and fur lined boots to satin shoes with Louis XV heels; collars and cuff, ivory tablets, opera glares these are all here, even to playthings, yes veritable dolls' playthings, for everything has been provided for, including mourning, powder boxes and babies' bankets ; and while dolly number one may be seen tending her baby, dolly no ruber two is hard at work in her firm-yard seviug after the poultry and milking the cow, or watering the flowers in the adjoin ing garden. But to come to the several kinds of dolls. The French leather ones, with porcelain beads, arms and leg, are among the strongest, and, being well shaped, are adapted lor dressing in cos tume ; so also are the composition doll, made with the arms, legs and bead movable, and the prettcst face imagina blereal hair curling crisply 'about them, or capable of being dressed in puff or plaits, as fashion may dictate. Quite a novelty is the unbrvakabte wooden dolL, with joints that move any way, even to the ankles and wrists the usual size from 10 inches to 16 inches. But most wonderful of all is the ' Live Baby," which clearly and distinctly euuuciates "Papa" aud 44 Mama." What a wooderful contrast to the original Dutch dolls, with their sliU, unwieldy joints; but there are many improvements even in these, and some are to be had with Chinese and other character heads useful for dress ing and worth a thought at Christmas time for Christmas trees and similar occasions. The rag dolls are useful and indestructible, and are now mil naturally moulded. These are mostly dreacd as infants, but of course there are rag dolls. All these could U-ach one useful lessons in doll dresiug. viz: the maximum of effect produced with the minimum of material. Germany supplies the pretty dolls with stuffed bodies and china heads, arms and legs. from two inches to twelve inches or fourteen inches in height. They are moulded to represent boys or girls, the latter with light or dark hair, drescd a I lmralrUt in nets or in plaits, and having boles for earrings in the ears. They nre well adapted for dressing hi costume, and, moreover, are very inex pensive. Lastly, there is the guttaper cha doll, which will stand a great deal of nursery ill-treatment, and is much in favor on account of its power of squeaking in anything but euphonious tones. They are mostly dressed iu bright-colored wools, crocheted either to simulate a Zouave, a drummer or a nigger boy, or sometimes a baby in long clothes, with cloak and hood, which are all worked in the ordinary rochet stitch with white wool ; for the others, the more vivid the contrast the better red. blue and yellow blending most happily with the guttapercha. DOMT WORRY. Men and women given over to worry will worry about the strangest, the most out-of-the-way, the most unheard of, the most laughable things it is pos sible to conceive.; It matters very little what are the outward circumstances the will can find something in them to remind it of its own limitation of power, and to pro voke its consequent resentment. It is curious to see how people of this habit will take anything that first comes to hand good, bad, or indifferent and instantly begin to find in it something io grow anxious ana impatient over, and to pull about first on this side ana then on that, until an exciting con sciousness of their own inability to do anything In the matter, and an irrita ting feeling, in consequence of it, get the upper hand of their good sense. What we have to say upon this subject. by way of practical suggestion, is just what everybody says, and says to httle or no purpose. Worry doesn't do you the least good. It relieves from noth ing, it helps nothing, it qualifies for no work, it conduces to no desirable result. It very gratuitously puts an amount of wear and tear upon the nervous sys tem without in the slightest degree obtaining in return any compensatory satisfaction. It is neither a duty nor a pleasure; and yet men almost invite, certaiuly entertain it, as if it were both! When an editor carefully contem plates his subscription-book and views the vast number of delinquent sub scribers enrolled thereon, he buries his face in his hands, heaves a sigh that scunds like the soughing of the wind among the pines of the mountain side, and wishes he were in heaven and had A NEW TANNING MATERIAL. It appears that a new material for tanning, which is found in abundance in G reece and Asia Minor, has lately made its appearance in Trieste under the name of Hart. From an examination by Mr. Eitnerit is found to be a species of gall produced by an insect (Cgnipg lal lari) in certain species of oak, and which differ from ordinary galls chiefly by reason of their great dimensions. They attain as much as 45 millimeters in diameter, while the size of the com mon gall varies from 12 to 23 milli meters. The new product likewise contains a greater quality of tannin than ordinary galls, the proportion be ing 2d to 34 per cent, as compared with 23 to 30 per cent. The name Hort is derived most probably from Jiveerr, which is the name applied by the Ital ians to a species of oak. This new ma terial gives to leather a fine clear color, and the Tanner's and Currier's Jour nal believes that it will prove of great value in tanning. The quanity of the product is said to be limited only by the demand. The tannin Is contained in a great spongy cell, and is easily extracted. her sittimTwith bandaeed ton, coming to his wife's side and drawing Odyssey that he set up twelve puiars, the money lor his clothes.-. J. 1H tart roVand 3 1 her' within the shelter of his nn; " no to each of which was suspended a nng, I publican. In the matter of puns, here is one made by no less a person than Charles Dickens,who was not addicted to them. This one has the merit of being. In every sense of the words, a creation of his own. One day, while he was being taken by a photographer, the result being the well-known picture in which he is shown writing, the artist told him that he did not hold the pro right, and suggested that he should take it more naturally in his fingers, "just as though you were writing one of your novels, Mr. Dickens," said he. "1 see," said Dickens, "all of 'er twist." At a recent Sunday-school concert the superintendent was talking about Idols when, to ascertain whether the chit dren were understanding what he was sayinj, be asked, "children, wliat Is an idolr" "Uetng lazy," was ine ioua ana quick response of one of the members of the j nvenile class. HISTORY THAT BRINGS TtARS. COUNT BATH I ANT, THE nO'OARIAX MARTYR. AJtD II tS WIDOW. A correspondent writing from Paris, says: Nothing exhibited at the Exposition is so popular as the Hungarian gypsy musicians, who now daily play in the Hungarian building called the Caarda (prouuunced Ckarda, I believe), which is in the Champs de Mars. There are sixteen musicians. They may be Com pared to the negro minstrels, that is they play the music of a rsce, "the wood notes wild" of an epoch when music was rather a trad it too than an art; bat their music Is neither the buSooaery nor the sad strains of Africa; it is music of dancing, waltzing, hunt ing, war. Their nvt famous work is " iUkocxy'. March," the national air of Huoryr Tfcs - march - wwcas to have bero composed in the eighteenth cvniury by some partisan of ltakoczy (the Kossuth of his day); then it fell into oblivion until Iloz-savolgy, a gypsy, found it in some peasant's novel (the jfrtjati, who never forgot anything !j abuut 1JU, when the pirit of stales' rights, once m re animated the Hungar ians. This march raised the wijdrsl eninu&iaam wherever tt was heard in Hungary, and tl was cherbbed as the uug of dear naure land unul lMi came wuvn it wa heard above lue uaute s fiercest runr ; it comforted the wounded aud the d)ing in hours of defeat, it kept alive hope, until the suule againt the oppressors ended in a sea of oloud. Austrian and Uuian were mcrcilcsa. llakoczy's March became treasonable. Count liAihiany, one or the Hungarian Ministers during the struggle, was arrested, tried by court-tuaruol, and was sentenced to be hanged. Count Bathisoy's death (I translate from a French ncwpapcr) was an epic Sen tenced to bt hanged, h- was granted peruii"ion to have a last Interview wilh his wife. They wrre Ictt together alone that be might write and aUo ex plain his will to her. He had no fear of death. He shrank Irom death by hanging like a common fUou. His wile understood nun. Mie gave him a pcu kmle, Ums only weapon she hod been abeU lutruduoc Into prit. He cut the jugular vein, but m awkwardly as to produce ooiy swooning, not death. The urgtou said it waa physically impoibM to hong him in hiscoudiUon. A handkerchief was tird around hi neck. He ta fanteucd to a stoke to support him. He was shot. The law provided that the body of a person exe cuted should remain four and twenty hours oo the spot where the law's ex treme penalty bad been paid. Uunag lite following night Count Balhiaay's corpse disappeared. Hunpuian Fran ciscan friars bribed the guards to let them remove the body. They buried it iu their content's garden that the tlriol might sUep in hollowed ground. There it remained till Francis iAstk at lost succeeded, wiihdat spilling one drop of blood, in securiug his country's independence; then a noble stole funeral, at which all Hungary followed as mourners, mode public acknowledg ment of the debt tits country owed hiiu. Hungarian gypMes (they hod been the bauds of the Hungarian regiments) flVd and supported themselves abroad by giving converts. One evening 1 went to a Hungarian concert in Germany. It was given by the band of Kouth regimeut. The coj cert-room was crammed from the topmost tkr of boxes to the pit ; even in the passage people stood on chair placed as thickly as could be. The bond pi Ted Kossuth's March, which is t lUkocxj's March as -Ie Chant de Gi rood ins" U to " La Marseillaise." All at ouce convulsive sobs were heard above the music In a box a woman in deep mourning, agita ted by an emotiou wnich site could not command, writhed in the anguish of despair. Instantly the whole audience were on their feeu Every lace, all eye, were turned to the box whence tnat distressing wail came. Who was that woman t bo tat body recognized her. Her name was whispered from ear to ear. Ever) body understood uer anguish ; how the sight of those excited Hungarians, how the melody of their music recalled happy bygone hours, her bleding country, her cause's martyrs. She was Count llathiany's wldjw. That which then took place defies de scription. The audience hod received as 'twere, the shock of some great elec trical battery. Pity, deep, Inexpressible pity, took possesion ot every soul, every heart. AU were still turned to that box. All applauded how wildly I wilh what frenxy I Every woman waved her handkerchief to that box. Lips quivered ; tears, or torrents, streamed down every cheek. Then the err rose madly, imperiously. lUkocxv's Mar JLl llakoczy's March 1" The Hungarian musicians, even more excited than the audience, had seized their instruments and, giving the military salute to their unhappy country-woman, they bean their native land's hymn. Electrined by the public, frenzied by recollection of all home, Dauiea, no pea, martyrs, wrongs they executed- Ilakocxy March as that march. had never fccen executed. The crushed their bows, so convalsively thrilled were their hand, by passion; the strings wailed under the wild pressure, llakoczy's March became the howling of general indigna tion at the me role crwltica of the conqueror. Never la my life boTe I felt such poignant emotion a at that hour filled my whole being. 1 felt as all that audience felt: Connie Balhiany waa no widow bereaved of all she had dearest on earth be was Hungary, crushed, bleeding, trampled under loot by a ruthless soldiery. i w - . f Mxty thousand troop are garri sonel in iari at tmU J The Paris r!ow covers eigt&teruare miles of territory. The Etuurrm of Austria wears a trail thirty feet long, and two small boys have to carry it. ( j , Foxes are Lrcuininsf very scarce la Great Britain ; ?omi Munrod does not relUh the fact j uUCTljlon are ling raised In France for a uiouutuent to Alexander Dumas the elder. A oolnml wrunan, said to be 107 years old. died In lUltlmore on Sunday. She left lil descendant. . Cfctffi:h.Uil Is not bapr inV-j. An oyster may he contented, llappiorss is cutnpounded of richer elements. For 101 rejimeriU England lias frenrrals, about 1 ,3J colonels atid 2, lieutenant colonel. The total nuiulrrof Slavs U .. 4 02. 1J, chiefly inhabiting tins empire of Hussia. ' I Society in republican Pari rui to be as brilliant at it could U under a monarchy, and crts a thousand time 1. J 1 mlians have no surname. They are naumi at birth, and whether mar ried or single, Uar the axse name through life. j An old Ihttuan play, written 2.UVI years ago by Marcu Acckj lLiilo, was recently i-rlornml five times to lorre audiences in 1 Untie. ; God hf thanked for Look. Thry are the Voice nf th distant and tle dead, and moke us heirs of the spiritual life of lust av. j FromO.iober2I, l, tolieoeml-r 31," 177, the aak-aof church nrrty at auction iu Italy yielded the national trraMiry tllvJI-,u,Jl. An alUmpt U to 1 made to grow the uar cone in Switzerland, and grains lufve been forwarded li 1- dis tributed auu.ti farmer. A Chicago paper Ull of the light weight which bakers in that city give to bread, and speak signiheantly of a way they have In Turkey of naihn the ear of a baker to hi daor-pot when he 1 discovered to have sold bread of h-rt weight. Soch an uag would be whollr impracticable iu th wiodv city. Cover up a whole block with a Chicago man's ear? Cin. iiL -Yiy'.L The wolf, says a Ilusoian proverb, change its hair every year. The young lady or the period doe netter the change hers every afternoon. The lAudon Sdol litianl ho tr solvrd to ruoke lrewtui In ok-VIu of their regular tccles of instruc tion, j A German hihtMoplier lias discov ered the secrrt of occult knot-tying a practiced by the Davenport B rot hers and others. I An African chief Is said to have presented a waler-cieT and tfty fe male slave to Stanley in exchange for a penny whistle. j Ireland Is remembering her greatest cmapuwr. A bust of Bolle ho been placed in the Dublin National Gallery, and a memorial w indow in his honor is to be placed in SL Patrick CathaJral Texas Uiast of an ancient and affectionate couj4e of 10 and lui, Mr Ilohinsun and wife of Mountain City, native Kent uek ions, married eighty two years ajo. j " Trie average rein of ihe seven 4 (Prussian) kings of Use house of Ho- nenxoilern, including the present mon arch, has amounted to twenty-three If only those things can bedcuiMnl nated the goods of a man w bkn are instruments for hi benefit,' bow few are the good even of the richest man arnnnif ti ! The great business of a man is to improve bis mind and govern his man ners; ail other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to coiaj3AS or not, are only amusements. j Parents are commonly more care ful to bestow wit on their children than virtue, the art of raking well than doing well; but their manners ought to be the great concern. Children are very nice observers, and they w ill often perctive your slightest defects. In general, the who govern children forgive nothing In them, but everything In themselves. Leas wisdom is required In realix- big a fortune than is necessary to use it properly. A man or one idea may accumulate money, but it takes a broader mind to spend It Judiciously. No good writer was ever loer neg lected; no great man overlooked by men equally great. Impatience Is a proof ot inferior strength, and a de stroyer of what little there may be. KlngOear, of Sweden, has re ceived an honorary title from the Prankford Academy of Science in con sideration of his translation of "Faust" into Swedish Verse, j A magnificent loan exhibition o pictures and works of art b on view at Manchester, England, which for years past has been the great absorber of 06 jU d'art offered for sole in that ooun- In l77,In EiiyUnd, OO.OX) pottage stamps were found loose In letter boxes and bogs, having been rubbed o!f tbrorgh insuthcicnl lkkinf and stick ing," and CO),UJ0 letters twera con signed to the lleturned Letter O&ce. A Sacraraentan, w!j I at present In Arizona, writes that tba ground where h U located is hardund dry as the top of a stove; lijeruKJturter ninety-live dejre ; no grtwi thin in alht but cactus plant of various sires, and all the fame they have Ui !ckt are? raltlesnokra, tarantulas, ; centipedes and scorj ions. The Society for lYousoting Iy-jrL lot ion for the Core of Habitual Drunk ards held IU first annual Uswetiinc in Iondnn recently, Ird ShoftesUiry presiding.- It b eudevorinjj la -o-cur the passage uf law pnvilioir for the treatment of druukeunes a a di- Old stater mm in Eurr p" IV couAfteld, "4; Gladstone, 7v; Bright, C7: Granville. 3: n.-rwlolnff. tO ; BUmarck, ft;Voo Moitke, Mabon, i; Daiaure, r$; Mc- i ' i ? i 4 V : f , - 4 i 4 'A' Y ' 1 t t , : w '.I : 4 i i