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corRASE, tiraivs, lOTt BT HOaaCfc F. BIDDLI. As tbe tree murt brake the stonz Ere it proves ibitttaJwart form, As the knife.muM wound the Tine Ere'lt brings u grape or wine, no the prefe must crush the bloom Kre it yields its sweet perfume. Never bero yet wu brare 'J Hi he met tne field or wave, Sever gentits sw-ertv song Till Kb Uurdem d heart waa wrung, Never hirer truly wooed I Till in ngouy he toed, . , . Courage cannot prove tti power, Ht-Hting in a shatly bower. It must meet the mUtc'ii strife, '" Pnng fl.inpftiT whore they're rife, ftad ifttfel bravely conquer death J?rt it winh (wto'i wreath. Genirm mUai eVlnre its fnt, HtrugRle wiQi Tho world and wait, Rabbet J of vhijt its work have earned, HtaTWl whllalivinK rgnumed. Crowned who dead how ud tbe doom ; Umreli ctip4 warw the fbml). : '.J ! BtuffriM-, grieve odi Hrireaod tywt, yet neverfVep1 Hear itn urnm. ikiWn. MifakpA, i Cive it gJlwifliotit reward; JfjerJ, Ww a,tieerlai world, 4htuie ht kiog bUO aluve ou tMgriT THE MYSTERIOUS, PORTRAIT. In a t mall tut, fiahdsomelycfurpisbed sitting-room in a London horeL. a jouog lady was silting in an easy chair, Kp7fre a blazing fire, one diwary -Kwe mber afternoons 11m hat and cloak lay upbo rne taoie fe-iue ner, ana In-m the eager, impatient glances the turned toward the door- at every sound of a footstep on the staircase outside, it was evident lhat she expected a visitor. At last the door opened and a tall, aristocratic-looking young mau entered the room. " Harry, what a long time you have been !" she exclaimed, springing up fn ni her teat. " What news have you brought? What does your father say about our our marriage!" hesitating with the fh-r fbs of, a bride at the last word. V "Read for yourself, Helen," replied! urr nu-osna, nanuing ner an open let ter, anji ftatding opposite her, leaning against the marble mantelpiece, watch ing intently tbe expression of her fair face as she read : ! " In marrying as you have done, you have acted in direct; opposition to my wishes. From this1 day you are -no longer my son, and I wash mf hands of you forever!" ' Harry, why did you not tell me of this before?" exclaimed Helen, aa ahe read the hard, cruel words, looking up thtough her tears into her husband's face. " My darling, what was there to tell ? How could I know that my father would act in this hard hearted manner? I knew that he wished me to marry the daughter of a nobleman living near Marston Hall, and so unite the two e-tates; hut I had no idea he would cast me off for disob-ying his wish. And even if I had known it," he added, fondly clasping his young bride to his her eyes, " I should not have acted aif fereiulyl My Helen is worth fifty estates, and as long as she loves me I shall neer regret the loss of Marston Hall, atd its fair iicns. Buf, my Jove," he continued more seriously," there is an end of your promised shopping ex pedition into Bond street. You wifl nave to do without d amends, now that your husband is a pennies outcast, in stead of the heir to 15,000 a year." "Hush, Harry 1 Please don't talk like that," she said, hurt at his bitter tone. " You know that it was not of diamonds and dress I was thinking. Hut what are vou going to do, Harry?" Bhe continued, laying her hand upon bis arm, and looking up sadly into his pale, net face. " You cannot work for a living." " "And why not work for a living?" he exclaimed, in a determined voice. "Be cause I happen to b the son of a Baro net, brought up and educated without any ideas or knowledge of business? But 1 wifl work for my living, and show my little wife that I am not quite unworthy of the trust and confidence she reposed in me when she placed this little hand in mine," he added, stooping to kiss the small white hand that rested confidingly upon his arm. It was while purming his favorite study of oil paintinire among the famous galleries of Rome that Harry Marston wooed and won Helen Tracy, governess in an English family residigg in Italy, and the orphan dauenter of an officer in the army. Before he bad known her a month, Harry, who had been in love or fancied himself in love; with at least half a dozen different young ladies in as many months, felt that he had at last met his fate. - llighted at" the idea of. .being loved for himself alone, he had not told her of , his real position, and it was not1 until after the marriage ceremony waa over that Helen discovered ' that she bad married the eldest son of a Baronet, and the heir to an estate producing 15,000 a year. ' .. it Was not without jsomc inward mis giving that Harry wrote to his father telling him ot his marriage, which were more than realized by the result, as we have seen by the letter from Sir Philip . Marston, which awaited him at his club on his return to England, with his bride. But, full of confidence in4 his ability to maintain hini'elf and his young wife by his own exertions, and thinking that surely iiis father would relent and be reconciled to- him after a time, Harry troubled hime i v ry little about Lis witn oleasnre air" ..M tt tbe first sitting f' ' 6 "Alas! air, she is d ad dead to me these twenty years, and I killed ber , ..T ne.rl Wlth nJ harshness -M)d cruelty 1." exclaimed tbe old man, inan excited, tremblinr mi A strange chill came over Harry, aa the idea that lit . : f.L -- -- " uijsuujuus visitor must be an escaped lunatic crossed his mind ; bntmastering, with an eflort, his emotion, the stranger continued: "Paidon me, young sir. This is of no interest to you. My daughter is dead, and I want jou to paint her portrait uoci.ripuoQ, as i periectly well remember her, twenty years ago." v " I will do my best, sir, but it will be no easy iasa, ana you must be prepared for many disappointments," said Harry Having given a long description luc na leamres of hrs Jong lest daughter, the old man rout d2. part and for weeks Harry worked in santlyupon the mysterious portrait 'of he dfead srirl, making sketch after sseicii , eacn ot wnicb was rejected by the r morse fltrieken father, until the work egau toxerciae atrange kind of fasi ination over Kim, and he sketched face a ter face, as if under tbe influence m a Bteu, At last, one eTenmsr. wdaried witii day of frniileaa Trti- fa wnn niuinr ver tfie fire watching his wife, who sat uipu wj, ousy opon some needlework. nucujM luca uuqueojy nasnea npon biin. j , . . r ' "-TkU, fair, with golden hairtind dart blue yes? Why Helen, it Is'the Very picture oi yourseur he exclaimed, -tartibg from his seat, taking his wife's fair face betweeif-his two hand and iuwiuhj into aer eyvs. A moment ha mmt ilnn and cbmmenued to sketch Helen's face; and when his strange patron called the next day,-. Harry waa so bwsily engaged putting the finishing touches trait that he did not hear him enter th. " u tffr same momouu unconscious of his presence, unti). with the cry of ."Helen, mv dantrht.r!" old man hurritd him aside, and stood entranced before the portrait. After gaxfng for some minutes in si.ence, broken only by his own halt suppressed sobs of remorse, the old man turned slowly i round to Harry, and asked him in an eager voice where he had obtained the original of the picture. "It is the( portrait of my wife," re plied he. . "Tour wife, sir!" Who VII ah a? Pardon meior Mkmr-tb. added; "but J baye heard lately that my poor Helen left an orohan danvhtAr and for the last six montfis I have bten vainly trying to find the ehild of my lost daUEhter. so that' bv kindnAu devotion to my grandchild I might, in part! at least, atone for my harshness toward hermother." Harry was beginning to tell him the story of hisj meeting with Helen at R me, and their subsequent marriage, when the door opened, and his wife en tered the room. gaHfcUWJuidMi' "wfcen tne old gentieiman Bioppeu ner, aim, after looking earnestly in her face for a few moments, exc aimed, "raraon me, madame can you tell me your mother:s maiden name? " Helen Trehernel" , replied Helen, wonderingly. , "1 knew it 1 mew itr exciaimea tbe old man, in an excited voice. "At lat I have found the child of my poor lost daugh ter 1" la a few words Mr. irenerne ex plained bow he bad cast ofl his only child on account of her marriage with a poor officer, and refused even to open her letters when she wrote asking ior foriiveness. " But, thank Heaven I" said he, when he had finished his sad story, " I can atone in some measure for my harsh ness toward my Helen by taking her Helen tor my heart, and making her my daughter." I It is needless' to add that, when Sir Philio Marston heard that his son had married the heiress of one of the finest and o'dest estates in the country, he at once wrote a letter of reconciliation, to Harrv. and. after allHelen eventually btcame mistress of Marston Hall, in the picture gillery of whicb no painting is more valued and treasured than Tbe Mysterious Portrait." ' ' The Impositional Hotel. l7f d stylish at the rate of ten cents per minute W Silt nrotoet " 'flA? nn.it.i'n. n" V..r: .nein tne 1m- k leier sunt"10' ". mg? 1? with T258' t-fIelLb8 1 for $l or tc hrin Jf ht "dlord to bring bam the v ctuafs rainects 25 ciU gravity for -doiwlLKji Jte.tJ,iJ? Ae Impositional ile feels ? -a P np '"ty'e" batting the hotel - besides, who likes o appear mall and picayunish in tire eves of" hinY? 8n! broth" waits on lost inheritai.cf ; and t tiough their new nonie consisting ot three small, poorly furnished rooms in a back street was very different from the grand old man sion to which ho had hoped to take his bride, he set to work cheerfully at his favorite art, snd tried hard to earn a living by paintinj pictures and portraits. But he f oon found that it was not so ' eai-y as be thought. U was all very well when he was heir to Marston Hall, and studied painting merely from love of art; but picture dealers, who in thoe days' had b;en all flattery and obsequiousness to the young heir, now that he really wanted to sell his pictures and (ketches, shook their beads, and politely but firmly declined to purchase. ' At last; one dreary afternoon, when Harry was.ittirtgin the lit'le room he called his Jtudio, trying to devise- some new scheme "to repltnish his 'slender .. purse, the servant opened the door and ushered "w.hj,thaired old gentleman into the room.' " . . Placlne -a chair by the fire for h'w visitor, Harry inquired his business. ' tf You a- a-portraii)ain4er,-1 berttve, sir?" said the old gentleman, lookn at - him through his gold spectacles; "ThaijLmy rolsioirsir," resUed - nvrj, fleuuieu t tne thought of hav- ins: mvna a commisioo at last. Curing Fruit by Cold. I Mountain (Cl.) MMDgM.) An exoeriment was made at a foundry in Placerville lately in fruit-curing by blasts of cold-air. In 'this experiment nbont a neck Of sliced apples were nlaced in a sieve, and subiected to a cold air blast for three and a halt hours in the cupola furnace rt the.foundjryand the fruit is reported to have been, com Dletelv and beautifully cured by the - . i . i treatment, remaining son,' ana witnout the sliiihest discoloration. We were about to say dried, but cured is a better word, for there was none of . that .hard, sliffdrvness about it. which, frequently results by drying by . sun neat ot nre beat Tbe experiment was a most grati- fying success, and,"rn ur7udgtnetit, is iraugbt with results of groat importance to growers and manipulators of fruit The blast of cold air completely freeze tbe fruit from- its excess of moisture, with no Dopsibilltv of burning or shriv eling it. Compared wii on pun-dry-J ing it enects a great saving oi expense, attention and risk, f ABy body who can command or devise a strong blast of cow air can dry fruit in a superior we might say perfectmanner, without being de pendent on the weather and waiting on the -slow process" of stffi-dryfBgTSfrtr: without the most expensive resort to fuel and the risk of overheating. Tl mr traveler at the m-a's wants a gass onager, whisky, or other bever- Sage, he must pay Jfwice or thrice the L t iL'.KJy feet di! brought to hn t6? besides olbr quarter the negro man for bring ing it obody, pretends to give y reason for these iigh taxes and extor tions It s necessary in order to con- ?M6 8tyl5 tiog'tbeTmposi tional. No one dares to do otherwise. I he nubhc it a moat patient aqd tract able beast, and seldom reb.T.nrW. over the traces of the Impositional har- nets. ; t Washing at rates double those at out side laundries, and nrf collar x. counted as an additional dozen. ' ' a piate of soup carried to a sict wnm. sn s rosan $1 extra. All oranges taken HtWn the table phnraaA T) J ?' per.an Pd every -violation of the lmposittonarfioa3etiquette fined $1. NewspaWiirtftiei. Btand donb, AH rPnretRi:dMmiii( ti.. dignified TmrxiKbiraf HrrtV eli an cira. tirra-rees 'w icbamber- maia and . porter on leaving Tvj picks vsea aner nfcituVht A tra. lerras f7 -per day, and everytbinK J.1,- Z" Ticebmpariied by -wife and children an f "extras " doubled. Baths at the lmr)8itiohal three times tbe price thargedat the barber's, next block. .' Mattress ' Wnrtid rn. chambermaid 'crtnstitutes an Imposi tional made-up bed. , liloWtf, etc ..dropped accidentallv on your room floor; chambermaid'srper quisites, and never: seen afterward. French, jKcaotfary necessary to inter pret bill of fare. Rancid hnrter in tk. mvies, fcjpiat 1 powoVr-for "ig the soup to a rich brown hue. Twenty-five different names for the same kind of soup, month in and month out. . " E Pluribus "Unum,"" if notJ " Unum E Pluribus." r For " chicken" understand old hen. Old eggs in every j style. Fried pan fish kept warm four" hours in the oven and dried to skin. Boiled tea ; a fresh cup any minute. Fifty cents extra every fifteen minutes. Tbe Impositional is now running in several parts of the country, a..d ready The Keely Motor. Philadelphia Record. For the past two years Mr. Keely has bad but little to say, but has been hard at werk with his experimental engine. The claim now is that he has succeeded in perfecting a vibrat ry engine which is entirely distinct in appearance and method of working trom any otner en gine in the world. . WJien Mr. Keely hrst oegan ms ex periments, his design was to lurnisn, power to drive the ordinary piston or cylinder engines, but he found that this could not be done very handily, so"he' set to work and devised an engine after bis own ideas, where the vibratory power could be controlled. He nas experi mented with this day and night, and at last has arrived at such a degree of per fection in his experiments that ne ts satisfied tbe great motor is an assured thing, and before many days roll around, tbe fact will be demonstrated to the public. The ereat dimcutty to overcome wm found to be speed. An eighteen-inch pulley was attached to the engine, aBl at first it made but one revolution in five minutes. The power confined here, though, was so great that it snapped a wire ot 1 600 pounds tensne strengtn m twain. Having the power, the next thing was to secure speed. Further ex periments resulted in securing abjut twenty-five revolutions per minute. Mr. Keely is having anothsr ensine constructed, containing all the' latest imnmvpmpTit. and this will be com pleted in about one month from "date; Habits ofThnrJow Weed. ln CorPe'" Sew Orleans rkaynBe.l The veteran journalist and diplomct attributes his remarkable phvucal pres ervation, at the age of eightv-two, to .s. ,ou, ,ng continued. Before Vi. I f. 0 C,0CK ""awast, he eats .Mcrnaua large appjkjvor aa orange vu -j fu ,B orange grove in Florida. For hreaWaa E.. J?-. i the yolk of hard boiled egt, a piece of ? , ' BeM)D, lie Spanish lfrei ."d JP0. nd EWlish reafattea,. Occasionally the bill of T?ned with cold rot beef, a saddle of mutton, or corned beef hash i Ti-'V V u,!,n8Uy m ennday moining. A light lunch of corn bread and butter is served at one, varied by cold corned or muuin ana sometimes sardipe". wmjr water is uranK at this meal. At MrJW d e,cePl "ttle fruil. " -v"" ueoies tne "'cuuf" w nteravy labors. In the ariernoon he sits in his-library and cd(8 witn friends, and theevenitoir aifo given up to social intercourse as a ruie. Attenoclocabego-stohisroom and some member of the famil reids iromsucn authors as D.cken-, Thackeray or Scott for an hour. Then prayer is read- irom .Kev.j Ashfon Oxendeh's . prayers ior rnvate Use," and at i quarter past eleven tbe venerable ten vitjuaa a glass or nr. I .TOIX rnn. and vichy, and retires to what is almost mvanaoiy sound awt-refieshwg-sreep. 8ince his sunstroke, tnl Mr. Weed has declined dinner partie" u s.cuuig rcucpnous. nesmoxed the oeBi.mna mvana cigars for fifty years, but th rteen . . at O t J WJU mm that tobacco was effecting his nerves, and he gave up its use imme diately and entirely, ne soon found that he wrote with greater facility than before. In his earlier editorial life he drank sparinelv of chain rmcmn at din ners but only socially. When he went wine west indies lor his daughters health, in 1864, he acquired . taste for the famous rum brewed by planters for their own use and has used it since as described for a "night cap." He drinks no other time, altboueh his cellar U full of wine. In regard to the temperance cause, he says: "-I am with those who seek to- mitigate the-evils of intemper ance; ftlr while human' nature is what it is, all prohibitory laws must fail. A liresvigor of efforts in other directions would vield eood resrHr.. if t . yoinger man I would labor to make ours a great erape-srowincr rnnntrv a that wine might be as' cheap as cider, auu ! wouia lmrjose an afmost prohibi tive tariff upon imported and distilled liquoirs. I would strive to make America what France ifr a sober country," ,' JUstress M SeTvajt jf There mtast be a hew relation h.twe.n mistress and servant, iased on mutual concession and mutual respect . The mistress must abate that petty tyrannyJ nuiuu see its to control tne servant, rmrtv visible voke of bondage, lite the collar of Gurtb, the swine-berd. i For a certain sum. the ' maid agrees to render certain services, which can not be too explicitly stated. When those are done, her time ought to be consid ered her own; andishould be -the dutv and pleasure of her mistress to teach her to spend it wisely, if she does not know how. With this unnderstend in? almost anv Bervant could be stimu lated to great thoroughness and quick ness in- bet. work. ..And. the mattress should labor to make them understand that their interests are allied to hers, nor hostile to nor separated from them. ' That any of these reforms shodld be accomplished, it is nece sary that the term of service should be of a .certain fixity of tenure. It would tend to be come so under better conditions, and if housework were no longer felt to be the lowest form of labor. But one remedy which might be immediately applied is the Irish system of " discharge ' papers, gach servant, on leaving la place, re ceives a paper stating when the service was entered' upon, and when ended, with the cause of dismissal or, resigna tion. Each new employerdemands to see them, and the unwillingness of serv ants to produce aionp or inese pages noticeably binders their fugacious ten- An unusnal number of dis .Viari" shuts anv well-kept and Wirahln bouse seainst their possessor, The conditions ot nouseneia service .all for ther-best thoueht of the best women. And fhey can not feel that fr.ir Hntv is dischartrad until there I MaTery in China. i TftiffJrv exists a-nnn iha Pliiiuu in Calftjia has been observed by sev eral ers; tht the institution pre-j '""SiST'R 'nem in a modified form can & fablished by a great many (acts, observrihenever these people' are gathpdii large numbers.. It takes" the pwith reference to the adults, of cdfcrfta to abor for long terms. In the fv 9Jyoung boys and girls Ihe operaitfdoes not differ in anv essential parties front" what a hort time ago was tumble irir the slave marts of Zanrih. en. John F. Mill x, in his article fcj," Certain Phases -f the Chinestt-tion," published in the March ri,ier of the CdUfurnian, says: ' Prsci'TChina ia the great slave? penr!ych laborers for t; is coun try "is ft. 3 u'rawn j and thqre ... are, myriads r ready, and only stand wai tin J f 1 the bfeck and siom nf h galley llsrelfor wages upon which an ' AmericalriafcTe.would starved' Speak ing of th Chinese slavery in California, the Bahi'r&uciwo Bulletin, a rjaner of moderatfbonserrative views, remarks: So cotpletely is the system worked for the buefit of the Chinese capitalists or slave nets that the. A merican em ploying hinese cannot compete with iucui. yu. oii.ier, ii tne article in questionfefers to cafes where Chinese employe workiBg in the low lands borderiosihe Sacramerjto have in their services Joy from China under lone contract! $3 per month. The business in wbicwhey were encatred was raisine potatoes, and so extensive were tbe operatirji that the esculent would not pay on Jserican farms for the digging and hairing. The American farmer could ,st compete with the Chinese. while th latter have labor at $3 per month. I There is a second form of ChineiriJavery, for immoral purposes. Gen. Mjer, in a note to the article in questionsaysr " While Chinese women in Caliiirnia brinir. in the Chinese market; rom 1500 to $600. as hieh as $3,t'00 isknown to have been offered by Chinanui for a white woman m a wife, and fretently $1,000 to 1 50." The luierenra is in me cases oi tne lew wmte women tat have been married to China men tt atsomeadr-iit person, relative or otherwia, in the background, pocketed tne moiiy. I - Hup at His Birthday Dinner. Lelltr tjj the Si York WorM.J At las Jupiter himself rose, fumbled with biimanoscript and began. 'It is a beautifp fce by reason of its age. The featureiare not particularly good, but tbe higl forehead and the still bright eye are mellowed in tlie'r setting by white hiir and beard. It is a face of greatdignity. The face is not what it was, even in so short a time back as th? last " Hetnani" dinner, Hugo is now jsjaenuy very oio. ne naa written his ipeech in large characters, yet be was ifciyElpsine the place in his mam JTSaCiuia then, uu iu v ri stop atrTTck tarm up. Wis voice was low with age, folemn with emotion. " You give your hand," be said'to the old combatant, who began with the cen fury, and who goes on with the century. Fif ty years ago the man who speaks to you was hated;' to-day ": nerc he stoppf d and looked around on ns all in speechless gratitude. It was a magnifi cent effect. Many cried. Then we rose fiom the table, and the ld man. giving his arm to the pythoness led her into the grand reception room for coffee. You are not to suppose that the f. ast of respectful veneration was over even tberi. The reception room was com manded bv the drawing-room windows. and-the ho el guesti were standing in row behind the windows to obtain a iriimnse of the glories of the night They bad been waiting there for an hour or two for these crumbs from our full fnast of cnrio8itv. and when last seen by ma they were making a hearty meal of them, all gazing in rapturom suence on Huzos crown oi snowy nair anu on Sirah's shoulder blades. 1 Bey on a Farm. Bar what you will about the general usefulness of boys, it is my impression that a farm without a boy would very soon come to grief. What the bov 'does is tbe life of the farm. He is the' facto tum, always in demand, always ex pected to do the thousand indispenaable things that mbedy else will do. Upon him fall all the odds and ends, tne most difficult things. After everrbodv else M thn ugh he has to fnish up. H s wora is iiae a woman a perpetuiily waiting on others. Everybody knows bow much easier it is to eat a good din ner than it is to wash the disbes after wards. Consider what a boy .on a farm is required to do : things that must be done, or life would actually stop. It is understood, in the first place, that be is to do all tbe errands, to go to the store, 4Uia post Mv, and, lo carry all sorts of messages. If he bad as many legs as a centipede, they would tire before night His two ihort limbs seem to him en tirely inadequate to' the'task." He wonTd" lilte to nave as many legs as wheel has spokes, and Ktate about in the same way. This he tries to do; and the people who have seen him "turning cart-wheels " along the side of the roao, have supposed that he was s a, using himself, and idling his time; he .was only trying to invent a new mode of lo comotion, bo that he could economize bis legs, and do his errands with greater dispatch. He practices stand ing on his head, ia order to accustom himself to any position. Leap frog is one of his methods, of getting over ground quickly. He would wil.ingly go anjerrand any distance if he could leap-frog with a few other boys. He has a natural genius for combining pleasure with business. This is the reason why, when he is sent to the spring for a pitcher of wafer, he is absent so Jong; for he stops to poke the frog that sits on the stone, or, if there is a pen stock, to put his band over the. spout, and quirt the water a little while. He is the one who spreads the grass when the men have cut it ; he mows it away in the barn; he rides the horse to cultivate the corn, up and down the hot, weary rows; he picks up the pots' oes when they are dug ; he brings wood and water, and splits kindling; he get up .the horse, and puts out the horse; whether he is in the house or out of it, there is always something for him to do. Just before the school in winter be shovels paths; in summer he turns the grind stone. He knows where there are lots of wintergreens and sweet flags, but in stead of going for them, he is to stay in doors and pare apples, and st ne raisins, and pound something in a mortar. And yet, with hi mind full of schemes of what he would like to do. snd his hands full o. occupations, he is an idle boy, who has no.hing to busy himself with but school and chores I Hewou'd gladly do ail the work if somebody else would do the chores, he thinks; and yet I doubt if any boy ever amounted to anything in the world, or was of much nv rn thft one nauu. auu me uiu rci Hlitv on the other, a new relation of mutual benefit, which, in many cases, shall deserve the noble name of mend ship . Recipe for the Modern Successful Play. LFrom tbe N'aw York Graphic No plot. ?i Or but the stub end of a plot. -Sojig and air from "Fatinitra." " More airs from Pinafore." Parody on " Pirates of Peniance," more-or less. ; - " fcofigs, and airs from everything. . Two cobd female dancers.. One sacred melody to gi ve tore. One male dancer. , One male acrobat with India-rubber legs and arma. - . Ladies all pretty and robust One slang phrase to every twenty-five words. Short skirts, well turned ankles, and Incy hosiery.' i T ins of highly.. colored pictures and posters. Printed -opinions of the "play " from Un fed states exsenators and ex United States Ministers from Cape Town or the Short Cake South Pacific Islands. Good for 10,000 nights and $10,O0C -per month proht He exeecta itin tag weeks, but. .thirly.. grows out of the ruins of the old tyran- days may be required, w im tnio no pr.'poses to show the power and soeed be has obtained an4 will cause a tHree-feet circular saw to revolve 2,500 times in a minute and eut hard woods, Buch as ash, cherry and oak. How thislsto be done with the pulley from tne engine revolv ing onlv twenty-five times per minute, M r. Keely does not undertake to explain. H hold that, having ascertained how to increase the speed from one revolu tion in five minutes, he now has the secret of causing as many revolutions per minute as the machinery can stand, and sufficient to do all the work required. The new engine will have about tbe same power as an ordinary ten-horse piston engi ne. - In addition to this, drafts of plans 1 have been nrtde for another engine, which ia to be a monster. Keely motor, and is to be equal in power to a 1,200 horse engine. One portion of) this has already been completed, and fwas re ceived from the Eureka Iron Works, at Cheater, oa Saturday. The bed ot ,Uii will occupy a space pi seven feetuquare. Negotiations are pending folf a plot of ground adjoining the present workshop, on Twentieth street,biear Master, where the new engine will pe Jseti up? This is constructed upon the sam plan as the smaller engine. . - j ' 4 Fast Horses. . The running horse in this country is "Well, sir, I want you to paint the I Fish and guests smell at three davs portrait of my daughter, ' ' nA old. not so valuable a the trotter. Pierre liillard Daid M.8.083 for the famous runner Falsetto, three years old, recently seit to England. Mr. Keene paid $15, 004 for Spendthrift. When we come to the trotters we nnd tne prices up. m. Bonner paid $40,000 for Pocahontae, $36,000 for Karus, $33.000 for Dexter, 20,000 for Start!, $16,000 for Edwin Fdrrest, and $16,000 for Grafton. Mr. Smith, of New Jerjey, paid $35,000 for Go'dsmith Maid, 32,000 for Jay Gould; $30 000 for Lady Thorne, 25,000 for Lucy, and $1?,000 for Tattler. Mr. Vanrierhilt Mid tzl.OOO for Maud S-, and $10,000 for Lysander Boy. The largest sum ever paia ior a none in iar land, where they have few trotters, was close on to $72,000, paid for-Doncaster by.the Duke of Westminster. French books are sold at about half the price of English boks of the sane qoalitTi ' A New Occupation for Women. IScribner'a MaCKine.l With the exception of the double r fviolin and the heavier brass in deed I am not sure that these except tions are necessary there is no instru ment of the orchestra wnicn a woman oannnt t1v miccessf ullv. The ex ent. depth, and variety of musical capabiW 4t.v amnnv the. women of the Un.ted State are. continual sew sources of aafnniari merit and Dleasure to this writer. although his pursuits are no pecially bf a nature to enng them ueiore ms at i.nfnn it. mv be H8?erted without ex travagance that thdrr isno limit tp the .iVilo afhlATvinents of our country women in this behalf, if their eforts be rinm tnnwdta the right din cton. Th' rfirar.tinn i nnonestionably, the ortShes- tra. All theworfd has learned to play 'ihe niar.n. Ijt our vouoe lad.es a.- wavs saving, of course, those who nave the" g ft for tbe special instrument leave that and address themselves to the violin, theflot, tbe oboe, tbe harp, tbe clarionet, the bassom, the kettle-drum. It is more than possible that upon some of thete instruments the superior dain tiness of the female tissue might bnaliy make the woman a more successful play er than the man. On the flute, for in stance, a certaiu combination of delicacy with fiexibilitv in the lips is ab-olutely nece-sary to bring fully out that pas sionate, yet velvety torie hereinbefore alluded toj and many male players, of all rennisite onalifications, SO far as manual execution is concerned, will be forever debarred from attaining it by reason of their intractable, rough tone. The same, in less degree, may ba said of the oboe and bassoon. Besides, the quslities required to make a perfect orchestral player are far more often found in women than in men ; for these qualities are patience, fervor and fideli ty, combined with deftness bf hand and quick intuitivene-s of soul. A Bad Girl to Marry. A bad daughter, says an exchange, seldom makes a good wife. If a girl is ill-temDered at home, snarls at her narents. snaps at brothers acd sisters, and "shirks " her ordinary duties, the chances are ten to one that when she gets a home of her own she will make it wretched, there are gins wno iancy themselves so far suuer'or to their narents that the mere privilege of en joying their society in the house ought to be all the ou people sncuio nave me assurance to ask. While their mothers are buv with domestic duties they sit in the easiest chairs, or lie on the softest sofas, feeding on cheap and trashy novels, and cherish-" wtieti tbat A Millionaire's Career. (Jew York Tnbflo.l Millionaire Borland landed in thW couMt froTi Ireland when a boy snd worked on a frm np the Hudson for $10 a month. In 1852 he went to Pan Fran Cisco and mnn afterwird he;an work in the mines for $4 a day. Since that time he has made and lost fottnnev He is represented by thesAu'.v Mining Nnr as saving: " In 172 i bought fii'O shares of Central for less than $5,000 Thiamine was won aTterward cut up and put into Cm'if""". and the redis tribution gave me 1,250 share I never paid an assessment on it, for rone wa evercal'ed f'T, ani in no time the stork went up to $740 a share, when I foi l. Tbat paid pretty well. Tt mesre: I p.id $5,f 00 and sold for $025 00O. That left me a profit of $920,000. That was ore of my best speculations, bu. not qaW as good as VwtHr e lhr t I was in almost at the tkrae time. TWitlii 500 shares- of ConMided Virginia for $50 a share asf AdjkUOsinents on it, which brought up the pri-e to J5C S" share. This mine was also "eut up," just about this time, and my 5 0 -hares spread out into 2,760 shares. I he''! this stock for two years, when i' went up like a flash., I sold out in 1874 for $75) a share. It cost nie $2,0' 0 for my stock, arid 1 sold it for $2 032 5;0 lhat was prettv good ii terest on th. money. O Saturday the stock was -elling far $350 a share, but I held on. The fullowing Monday it was $500 a shar- I tell you, it took a pretty strong head to stand that. I was gettieg rich, not at the rate of a million a minute, ns they say, but $100,000 a day or so; but that was fast enough. Nobody evei knew anything aout this till it wa a I over. 1 never told my wife and family, any of my business artairs, and never kept any bo ks. The only book tbat I kept was a litt e pass book lhat I carried iu my inside coat pocket, w th a tec id of a'l hat I bought and s Id, and the price, i 1 never let any one see this, and Lever brought it out except sometimes on a Sunday afternoon, or when I was alone. My heavy losses iu 1878 were on Herra Nevada and Union. 1 lust$l, 400,000 then inside ot tau days thrui k that much in depreciation of stock. Th-i veins were not so wide as was ex pected." - PASSIM. "SMILES.-. " You look good enough to eat" said he, lotking over her shoulder into the mirror. ' Fojd for reflection," she re plied without a smile. " Hor many deathsf ' asked- the hos pital physician while gulng Us rounds. " Nine." " Why, I ordered mdiein for ten." " Yes, but one wouldn't take it" Westfb papers are discussing the question, "Shall married women workT" Unless they dn we suppose . good msny husbands of the period will starve to death. A medical journal tells nf a mau liv ing five years with a b-11 in his brad. We've known ladies to livrf twiceasl ng without auytbiug but bal.s in their heds. It was a delicste piece of sarcasm' la the .boarder who sent his land'ady last evei lng a rar, neWy enclou S . isrX ha' dsome silk-lffienTase, and MDtltM -utter-knife." I A BEVY orCTrcsjgl?Ir),"rji recent wedding threw thir slippers at the bride on her departure on her bridal tour, for uck.- One of H em h;t her, and her funeral occurred thr-- dys later.' The Irish people can t fat the speeches made in this country over the w es, nor yt t make soup ( f the reso'Xirt -Ts passed at imass-meettngs, W-at-'hey want is pork and potat oes. Detroit Free Prm. The members of the Dfrrictnta.fi were bluffing as to who bad got off the btst thing during the week. When it came' to the last man, he said be thought the best th ng be bad got od was hu. dtrtt- i they are very literary individuals. 1 he honsehold drudgerv ii too coarse for such fine ladies as they are. Giris of this sort are generally very anxious to be married, that they may escape tbe disagreeableriess of a borne where they ariheld more or less under subjection, A aaller who doesn't have a chance to sefthow theybehave asjdaughters, may hplexcused' for fancvine them lovely and lovable beings ; but one who does see it is foolish if be commits himself bv oflering marriage to a girl of this sort. If she will not assist her mother in the domestic lab ts, is she not likely to be equally slothful and ill tempered when the marries? If she now thinks herself too fine to work, is it safe to expect that ber views as to tbat matter would radically change if she became a wife 7 Driven to Suicide. Whejt you dream ot seeing angle worms crawling toward you, it is a sign vour washer-woman will dun you on the following day for back pay. Dr. Calderwood, Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Edin burgh, has, in hi work recently pub lished, em itled " The Relations of Mind and Brain," the following story- of $ dog: "A dog belonging to a United Pres bvterian minister. kilTed the fowls while the family were at church, and buried them in the garden. , The bodies were fourd. The dog was taken to the garden ana immediately coniessea nis guut. His master took him to the library, and, having shut the door, began a repri mand, after this fashion : ' What I wicked -thing vou have, done in murder ing the bens! Yos are a minister's dog, and should have been an example to other doss, instead of doing sui h a thing as this. Then this is the Sabbath dav. and tbe deed is all the worse on ac count of the dav on which it Tiai been done.' Thus admonished, the doe was put out of the door and the door shut Next day he was found dead. A veteri nary. surgeon was consulted, ana ae clared that the dog had died cf a broken heart" . A Ya.sk EE in Boston has invented a machine which will make 80,000 paper boxes a day. A Monarch of the Sea. The City of Rome, the new steamer of the Inman Line, now being built at Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire, Lng land, will be a marvel of ma-ine arch! Jecture. The .New Yorx neraia says she will be the largest and nnest mer chant vessel in the world. Bhe win be ! 000 tons larger than the Arizona or heCitvof Berlin, her 6ister ship, and 800 tons larger than the new Cunarder, now being constructed on the Ciyde. She iB to cost over H 000 000, it is said. and will be as neav perfection in tne way of safety, sp3ed, and comfort as it U possible for steamer companies and arifn-hnilders to attain. She will be completed in the spring of 1881, and is to be placed on tne regular hub uemeeu New York and Liverpool. 1 tie dimen sions of the C.ty of Rome will be: Length of keel, bib feet; lengtn over all, 590 feet; breadth of beam, 52 feet: depth of hold, 38 feet 9 inches; depth . i . , , i i i i net t . from top ot aecx nouses to Ken. w icct. Her measurement win ne o ouu tour. The bull will be of the Best iron, ana will be built in tbe best "manner, with eleven horizontal bulkheads and two longitudinal bulkheads through tne en: gine and boiler rooms. The engines will be of 7.500 horse power, .with six cylinders, three of which will be high pressure ana tnree low presurc. h promisea mat tne yessei win aiu great speed of eightem. and one-fourth L-. an hnnr TVi. nfllnon and state- m.uvMa - " - , rooms will be placed amidships, and will contain every facility for comfort and luxury. All the latest imi rove meats are to be added, and the cabin will be splendidly furnished. Tie Cunard Company have laid tbe keel of a monster steamer at an estab lishment on the Ctyde. Although not so large as the City of Rome, she will have engines of even greater power, and, it is claimed, will be the fastest passen ger "steamer in the world. The new vessel will be of 7,500 tons burden and 10 000 horse Dower, according to a state ment in ihe London Timet, and will be exceeded in size only by the City of Rome and Great Eastern. She will have an extra promenade deck, and wi'l practically be a five decker, Demg nirea for 450 hrst class and 600 steerage pas sengers, with accommodations for a crew of 200 oScers and men. The hull will be built with a double bottom on what is called the longitudinal and bracket system, with watertight compartments. It is said that in ner construction sieei is to be employed instead of iron. The nam Teasel IS to be reaay ior toe ee next season, and before be ng placed on tha liflA will have the n oet ikborat- fittings for the comfort and luxury of tbe passengers, ine name win urouauij oe the oervia. San Francisco Newspaper Humor. The San Francisco A'eirt Lrfter, a lively journal of the Tacific coast, h.iB invented a new style of romauco in a s. rial, now running in its unique col umns. It is called "An Kng ish Novel,' by an American author, and its humor consists in rotting the higl est British aristocrats couverse in the m t genuine American s'ang. This is the account of the premuta tion to the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland anJ Empress of India: ' You know niotutr, dou'ljou?" the Prince aiks, as tbey push their way through the ciowd and take up their pieces in the line. 'It's the ru'e to be introduced every time," the Prince answered eeiuen liously; " but I reckon she'll know you when she sees vou along with me.' 'Ihen they find themselves stnndi g in front of Victoria R. dear? says the shirt OU CUy D rrick. We said, the other dav, " A million-, aire with a boil is not a bit happier than a beggar in thf saure prdi ameut.' and forty-tev. n milhonnireshsvecailea upon us for an txplatiation. Oice for al', we must say right li re tbat we havtn't time to foot with millions res. . In a little family discussion, the other day, the madam remarked, some what tartly: " Whtn I marry again" "I suppose you will marry a fool," interrupted the husband. - " Beg your pardon," taid she, " I ill do nothing of the kind. 1 prefr r a change." Tne lord and master wilted. An exchange says: " There are three I headless roosters being exhibited in a town'in Indiana." There are lour bead- (ess roosters being exhited in this oity, : and the butcher sticks to it ibat they I are spring chickens and cheao at eight cents a puuud. h'cck't Milwaukee Sun. j An army officer is retired when he 1 goes out of service, and a wheel is re i tired to go into serv ce again. When j sheriff releases a prisoner he loses powea , sion of him, and when he releases a j house he regains possession of it, and this is a howling old language of ours, I isn't it?" i We protest against the folly of this senseless demand that the money ef the ' land should be kept in circulation. . 1 That's just the trouble with It; it circu- ters. Duriinywri uawjvryr. 'My knowledge oftho diplomatic i-ervice," said a young Republican, last week, ''is very "sliidit. 1 djn't know rthat an ' Envoy Extraordinary iiy" but after the Londoners had p'syed inker with General s-chenck a few times . i ... .i .1.. t.:... Queen, smiling kindly, as .be put, out ; - - " " her band wilhouwaitmg for tur formal i -rdinary einoy. . introduction. "What is home without a wife?" "Fine," replies Evy, shaking her " s((kl, tue yonkers Gazette. It is the din f tit ii rp mft 8 hand as warmly as a due rt- i in.ro0m in the parlor, the coal bin in . . . . -.i.. ,n . o : . . . . . gard for the ralety oi ner gioY.n .w ; permit. " How's yourself 1" . . "Can't complain," answers her Koyal Holmes". "I'm getti' g pretty tired, ' ilmtmh. of this bai.d shaking business, ' and standing around like ibis lor two or ; More? three hours ain t what its made out to jjj, u i i UV,A a rovl ilkU. m , auu duo uvft'v. - j c. j U0W1I I a-s Whv don t you set Lady Genevieve. "Ain't a seat to be found,' says Vic toria. "I've had Mr. Brown hereon tue hunt for o.e, but he can't " ' Whv. there!" interrupts G nevieve, ; glancii g up at tne throne, which ci u pi.sa raised dais at the bick, and to which a flight of marble Bteps lead. t " Oh, I'm sick of siitiog on that," r -, plief tue Queen. "ilafcB me leel like 1 as up iu a balloon." ' Is lhat so?'' iisquires Evy, reflec livplv. '-Does it make you sick louk- : ing Sown; at the folks!" and she thinks i hat i before her wncn ner nay ; s. Kifled ski Ott WfWIng. the midst of the great events of Railroad Crossings, Mr. Jamaa Torrance, of Trov, N. Y., proposes the following method of abol ishing tne danger attending me proscuv style of railwav crossing: He would - . :1 use for sucn crossings a rail or special form, rolled in one piece of the usual length, With a groove widd enough for, the flange of tbe ear wheel to run in;, the grove to be wedge-shaped and widest at the top, with plain sides, so as not to catch tbe feet of men and animals. In this way he would get rid of the usual trap between the plankin; and the rails. Such a grooved rail could easily be kept clear of snow and ice ; and (the extra cost of rolling would be nothing, he thinks, compared with its advantage in doing awav with tbe risk to life and limb attending the present style of cross ings. j Thx sizes are marked on French-made aboes in centimetres, so tbat what in America wonld be about No. 5, in Paris is No. 40 and so on up. This fact will prevent American ladies from wearing French made shoes. They don't like the sound of the thing. Boton Port. tbefwar such incidents ks the following werb comparatively unaotittdtjnd, ton j to be long afterward related jn, prinW , Misk Annie Picsens, daujter ofjhe-1 Governor of South Ua'roTinaVSrr to Ur-t married on April 22, !86fSlrreaTresU.n, ' to Lieut Andrew De Rochelle. Ibe! wedding party was assembled in the j Pi.kn rpsidt-nne. and the clercvman ; was Asking the bride if she wai ready. ': ,r0 saii a,g(Hd ways 'o when a shell irom a Union gun in the . .. rareand radiant'' being who is harbor broke info tue room ana our-i. Nine persons were hurt, but only Mirs Pi.kens' wound proved mo.tal. Phe bore tbe pain with .wonderful lort tuoe, and was unmoved when informed tbat she had only an hour or two to live. ! De Rocbelle said that he would like to have her die his wife, and the revt girl smiled sadly iu asseot. The gues s remembered the scne as far more ptti fttl than they can described. Tbe biitie lay on the sofa, her white dress dabbled in blood and her bair disheveled, while ber pallid face was so wrung with agony that her eflort to smile became futile. The ceremony was hurriedly performed, though the bride's " yes" was in a faint, labored whisper, and her lips hardly moved in response to her husbands kiss. She died immediately afterward. Just as Any Han Sight Do. The kissing clergyman of Hoboken is not so bad as was at first supposed. He was indiscreet, however, ana ne uu ur to the following occurrence: One moining 1 was going up.- she came rtnoing down .uddenly but unintentionally together. IUugbed, snd catching ber in my aims, drew her to me and kissed her. It was done on the spur of tbe monent- un- thouihtfully, just as aimosw perhaps under similar circumstances wourd have done. I laughed at her dis comfiture and thought no more about it. Bhe left the house, it is tiui, but I ix- i .iw. matter to her father, nd 1J 1JV.J tUV aaw w-w - r. a w.fi Una- Wn forgotten, Ior .v,I . forward was a teacher iu my sun dv-school snd a communicant in my church." . the cold pale ihe kiu ben, the clean Blurt in nlding, a depot for soiled clothes, a trysting place Ior divorced stockings, a smoking fur nace, a private pandemonium, a cavern of profane rumblings, a lunatic asylum." it less you give me am, miu b beg sr to a benevolent lady, l am alr'aid I i-hall have to resott to some ihing which I great'y dislie to do." The lady handed him a dollar and cora passionate'y asked : " What is it poor man, that I have taved you IrouiT" " Work." was the mournful answer. A FAJIors judpe came lale l'i court Ou- tin. in Imay n'!. m WlMnreal'lita clerk, In w-ai "u'rprtao." Inquire! ol him lle rni'n, "A child luro," tin tl-jnur wld, "Ali-I I'm Oic lil'l'y ;r." "An inlaiii ju.liie?" -ii, no " uid be. "As yei he a lut a crier. , " WoMf.n" says a literary journal, -' live on love." That may alt be; but we notice all lhat have ihe pleasme ol our acquaintance linger around the t ble thrt-e times a day and tret on the outside of an awful lot of beef stesk and potatoes, as well as other substantial srticlea of fojd. Elmira Sunday Tele-, gram. Otheb papers are busy telling what ihey want to sec. Tne Argo has two wants. First, it wants to see a show which surpasses it- advertisement riec onlly. it wants, very much, to see a scribbler who u-es a nom de plume, and don't use every exertion to let the pur r,o bnnar his or her true name. The o see toe satisfied with tho chosen nom de plume. The charitv balls have been unusually successful, snd in many instances the poor dress-maker has realized a proDt ol $75 on one costume, snd the poor tailoi has been scarcely lei-s fortunate, while the poor florist has bad more oiders for S boquets than be could fill, and tbe is.or livery men have had a'l their car riagesoutall night at 12 anbou', aud the" poor cat-rer has resized his usual , r ifit on Jerrey cider at champagne prices. In the meantime we believetbe 'poor people who don't tm bow t do anvthii g but saw woo l and dig ditches ha'vegooe on starvini; about the fane, but then a charity ball can't be expected ' to take care of all kinds of poor people. Hawkeye. Valuable Child's Play. A mint wn ic h has recently been pur chased in D-nver, Ol., for C5,000, was discovered by two children aged nUe and ten year. They were "plsying mine" at the time and bad dug oown four feet on the Little Chief, near Kudy HiP drilling and I lasting five feet more, until a valuable lody of. ore waa bronght to iijiht Their fsthe-. who owned tbe claim, gave them 1 1,000 each, and now has sold bis interest. Ax insurance agent seeing a would-be-insurer bad, in filling up the proposal form, answered the questions, " Age of father, it living V "Age of mothrr, if t,in"' bv malting the one 112 years . S and the other 103 years old, congratu lated him on coming, oi a nmg-uri family. "Oh," said the applicant, "my parents died many yrars ago; bnt, if living, would be aged as there put down." ' ti r nucn hr 'nt-ath ..-t Win. the song, and an exchange factory" ,r?orm ihe ceremony , 'one preaches better than the ant "eati the cV.d ,.s!en..e.-' f ad say. nothing 5 -aiSSftia, ri-
The Blue Ridge Blade (Morganton, N.C.)
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