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Thither.
A Roldcn haze melts down (lie purple skits,
Where ((lows the lingering day llie ujouii
tiuns o'er)
'On noioelexa win9 the Mlo hnttPi flics
Drill o'er the riut.icil inrmlow's vernnl flooi ;
The diowsy hlnsom of the vcMiiiore
BieHthe heavy O'lors on the rlieatiiy air;
Hall drowsed Willi homy, drones the wemy
hee
Across the m u .-lm to his li'illnw troe.
While liom the ens! the sulty hiecru heir
The lur-eff echoes ol tho open sen.
The ioy tide of Milliner's lic-iu'y dic3j
From Irosiy eki s I lie gules ol autumn ronr;
llie rrnpni'H song is dene, mi l i t Ic lieu
II a thiniuK scythe he.ii.le hi loin ly iloni,
The sweet hud niioU lo the dny no more
No more the little hliiehii'l ciwim hi pmvci ;
Hut winlei'a loorinlft thii In-ti on the I a
And hush in ii: llie hioiik 's luw melody,
Whilw lourler ii-c. from rocky iviverna hute,
The Im -off echoes ol the i.jkmi im.
So change our lives! When childhood lit my
eyes
I dreamed that life eternal iiimmcr wore
J dieamH the earth would he a pniHdise
My sect should through the shilling yeais
ezil le;
I saw tlioguy tiitils into heaven soar,
And fancied I as deir as joy should share;
Aud when the cold woild told ol death to
Die
i could not undereland what deith might be;
III sorrow never brought to ine a cin e
Tboee furor! echoes ol the open acu
Just ftid, I lenrn the rhanfcc thy nr-nsi -n) hcai
T'heie is a twettn.nn in the ini-ioi key;
Dlest me we while we li , Meet when tioni
thee
We hear that summons low that calls us whci e
fJo echo anaweis Irom the open sen.
Erit W. Shu i lit).
JOHN AND I. '
"Come, John," said I, cheerfully, "it
really is time to go; if you stay any
longer I shall be afraid to come down
and lota the door after you."
My visitor rose a proceeding that
always reminded moot the genii emerg
ing from the copper vessel, as he
measured six foot three ami stum I
looking rcjiroai lit 1 1 1 1 v lovn at me.
"You are in a great hurry tu get rid
of me," he said.
Now I didn't agree with him. fur he
had made his usual call of two hours
and a half; having, in country phrase,
taken to "Kitting up" with me so liter
ally that I wits frequently at my wits'
end to suppress tho yawn that I knew
would bring a troop after it.
He was a fine, manly looking fellow,
this John Cranford, old for his age--which
was the rather boyish period of
twenty-two and every way worthy of
being loved. Hut I didn't love him.
I wax seven years his senior; when in
stead of letting the worm of conceal
ment prey on his damask heek, he
ventured to tell his love for my mature
Self, I remorselessly seized an Knglisli
prayer hook, and pointed sternly to
the clause, "A mart may not marry his
grandmother." That was three years
ago, and I added encouragingly:
"Ueside, John, you tire, a child, and
don't know your own mind."
"If a man of nineteen doesn't know
his own mind," remonstrated my lover.
"I would like to know who should
But I will wait for you seven years, if
vou say bo fourteen as Jacob did fur
Bachel."
"Vou forget," laughing at his way
of mending matters, "that a woman
dries not improve with age. Hut
Seriously, John, this is absurd; you are
a nice boy, and I like you hut my
feelings toward you are more those of
a mother than a wife."
The boy's eyes (lashed indignantly
and before I could divine his intention
he had lifted me from the spot where
I stood, and carried me infant fashion
to the sofa, at the other end of the
room.
"J could almost find it in my heart
to shake you!" he muttered, as he set
me down with emphasis.
This was rather like the courtship of
William of Normandy, and matters
promised to be quite exciting.
"Don't do that again," I said with
dignity, when I recovered my breath.
"Will you marry me?" asked John,
Bomewhat threateningly,
"Not just at present," I replied.
"The great, handsome fellow," I
thought, as lie paced the lloor restless
ly, "why couldn't he fall in love with
Borne girl of lifteen, instead of setting
his affections on an old maid like me 'i
I don't want the boy on my hands, and
won't have him!"
"As to your being twenty-six," pur
sued John, in answer to my thoughts,
"You say it's down in the family Hible,
and I suppose it must be so; but no
one would believe it; anil I don't care
If you are forty. You look like a gir
of sixteen, and you are the only woman
I shall ever love."
O John, John! at least Ave millions
of men have said the same thing before
In every known language. Neverthe
less, whea he fairly breaks down and
cries, I relent for I atn disgracefully
toft-hearted and weakly promise then
and there that I will either keep my
jwn name or take his.
And John looked radiant atthiscou
jeeelon, for love is a very dog in the
manger. It was a comfort to know
that if he could not gather the flower
himself, no one else would.
A sort of family shipwreck had
wafted John to my threshold. Our
own household was sadly broken tip,
and I found myself, comparatively
young in years, with a half invalid
father, a large house, and very little
money. What more natural determi
nation than to take boarders? And
among the first were Mr. Cranford ami
his son and sister, who had just been
wrecked themselves by the death of
the wife and mother in a foreign land
one of those sudden, unexpected
deaths, that leave the sunivors in a
dazed condition, because it is so dilli
cult to imagine the gay worlding who
hits been. called hence in another state
of being.
Mr. Cranford was one of my admira
tions from the lirst. Tall, pale, with
dark hair and eyes, be reminded me of
Dante, only that he was handsomer;
and he had such a general air of know
ing everything worth knowing ( with,
out the least pedantry, however) that
I was unite afraid of him. He was
evidently wrapped up in John, anil
patient to his sister which was asking
quite enough of Christian charity under
the sun, for Mrs. Shellgrove was an
unmitigated nuisance. Such a talker!
babbling of her own and her brother's
affairs with equal indiscretion, and
treating the latter as though he were
an incapable infant.
They stayed with us three years mid
during that time I was fairly persecu
ted about John. Mrs. Miellgrove
wrote me a letter on the subject, in
which she informed me that the whole
family were ready to receive me with
open arms a prospect that I did not
find at all alluring. They seemed to
have th"ir hearts set upon me as i. per
son peculiarly fitted to train John in
the way he should g". Kverything. I
wdi tuld, depended on his getting the
right kind of a wife.
A special interview with Mr. Cran
ford, at his particular request, tout bed
me considerably.
"I hope," said he, "that you will noj
refuse my boy. Miss Ivlna. lie hat set,
bis heart so fully upon you, and you
are everything that I could desire in a
daughter. I want some one to pet. I
feel sadly lonely at times, and I am
sure you would till the actut nithe."
I drew my hand away from his
caress, and aloio.-t li lt like hating John
Cranford. Life with him would be
one of e.i eaii l luxury; but I decided
that I had lather keep boarders.
Not Imtg alter this the Cranfoids
concluded to go to housekeeping, and
Mrs. Shellgrove was in her glory. She
alw ays came to luncheon in her bonnet,
and gave minute details of all that had
been done and talked of about the
house in the last twenty-four hours.
"It is really magnilicent," said she
lengthening out each syllable. "Ilrothe
has such perfect taste. Ami ho i6
actually lurnihing the library, Miss
Kdna, after your suggestion. You see
we look upon yon quite as one of the
family."
"That is very good of you," I replied,
shortly; but I certainly have no ex
pectations of ever belonging to it."
Mrs. Shellgrove laughed as though I
hail perpetrated an excellent joke.
"Young ladies always deny these
things, of course; but John tells a dif
ferent story."
1 rattled the cups and saucers angrily;
ami my thoughts Hew olf, not to John,
but to John's father, silting lonely in
the libiary furnished after my sugges
tion. Wasn't it, alter all, my duty to
marry the family generally?
The house wa linished and moved
into, and John spent his evenings with
me. 1 usul to get dreadfully tired of
him. Ho v. .is too devoted to beat al'
interesting, and I had reached that
state of feeling which, if suiumar ly or
dered to ta!c my choice bel w een him
and the gallows, I would have prepar
ed myself lor the latter with a sort of
:lacrily.
I locked the door upon John on the
evening in que .1 ion, when I had finally
got ritl of him, with these things in
full force: and I meditated while tin.
dressing on some desperate move that
would bring matters to a crisis.
Hut. the boy had been roused at last,
lie, too, had rellected in the watches of
the flight; an 1 next day I received
quite a dignilie I letter from him. tell,
ing me that business called him from
the city for three or four weeks, and
that possibly on his return I might ap
preciate his devotion better.
I felt inexpressibly relieved. It ap
peared to me the most sensible move
ment that John had made in the whole
course of our acquaintHnce, and I be
gan to breathe with more freedom.
Time Hew, however, and the three
weeks lengthened to six, without
John's return. He wrote to me, but
his letters became somewhat constrain
ed; and I scarcely knew what to make
of him. If he would only give me up.
I thought; but I felt sure that he
would hohl me to that weak promise
of mine, that I should either become;
Edna Cranford or remain Kdna Car.
rington.
"Mr. Cranford." was announced one
evening, and I entered the parlor fully ,
prepared for an overdose of John, but '
found myself confronted by his father.
He looked very grave, and instantly'
I imagined all sorts ol things, and re
proached myself lor my t-oldiic..;i. 1
"John is well?" I gasped finally. I
"(J. lite well," was the reply, in stub !
a kind tone that I fell sure, there was
something wrong.
What it was 1 carel not, but pourel
forth my feelings impetiiuu-ly to my
astonished visitor.
"lie inii.-l not conn! here again!" J
e.xelaimel. "I do not wih to see hint.
Tell him so, Mr. Cranford! tell him
that I had rather remain labia Car.
rington as he made me promise, than
become Kdna 'ranford."
"And he male vou prone se this '" ,
' i
was the reply, "flie selli h fellow
Hut. Kdna, what am I t-i do without, '
the little girl I have been expecting?
I am very loru-ly so lonely tb.it I do
not see how I can give her up."
I glanced at him, and the room
seemed swimming around - everything
was dreadfully unreal. I tried to sit, 1
down, and was carried tenderly to a
sof.i.
"shall it be Kdna Carrington or
Kdna Cranford''" he whi.-perel. "You
need not break your promise to John.''
"Kdna Cranford." I replied, feeling
that I had left the world entirely, and
was in another sphere of existence.
If the thought crossed my mind that
Mr. ('ran fun I had rather rlu-ei fully
supplanted his son the proceeding was
fully justified during the visit which I
soon received from that young gentle
man. I tried to make it plain to him
that I did him no wrong, as I had
never professed to love him, though
not at all sure that I wouldn't ret rise
the shaking threatened on a previous
oi c tsion, and I endeavored to be as
tender as possible, for I felt really
sorry for him.
To my great surprise John laughed
heartily.
"Well, this is jolly!" he exi I timed
"And I am not a illian alter all.
What do you think of her, Kdna?"
He produced .in ivoiy-type in a rich
velvet an a pretty, little, blue cyed
simpleton, woo looked admit seveu'eeu.
"liosc," he colli ililied, "Itosi- I 'ai ling:
the name suits her. itoeen't it ? she
was staying at my un- U-'s in Maryland
that'., where I have been visiting,
you know, and she was .-in h a dear
little conlidiiig Ihing that a leliow
couldn't help falling in love with her.
And she thinks no end of me, you .-.ee;
says she's quit alraid of me anil all
that."
JAhn knew I wasn't a bit a'raid of
him; but I felt an elder sisterly sort of
interest in bis happiness, and had never
liked him so well as at. thai moment.
And this was tlie dreadful news that
his father had come to break to me
when his narrative Wits nipped in the
bud by my revelations and the inter
view ended in a far more satisfactory
manner than either of us ha I anticipat
ed. So I kept, my promise to John, after
all; and as Miss Hose kept tier's, he is
now a steady married man, ami a very
agreeable son-in-law.
Itniiutiis Kcadlii?.
An example of the pernicious in
Huence exercised upon the mind of the
young by the perusal of the exciting lit
erature prepared especially for them is
found in an occurrence that took place
a few days since in Murkhain, (hit. For
some I ime business houses and dwell
ings have been biirglan. cd, and no i lue
could be obtained to I he perpet raloi s.
At last the suspicion of a banker's wile
were directed (o a young man employed
in II Hue of her husband, and she
detected him in the act of biding stolen
plunder, lie confe.-sed his crime aud
the invslcry of the burglaries was re
vealed. It appear-- that it number of boys
sons of the most re -peclable people in
the town, had formed an organiat ion
for the perpetration of crimes similar
to those related in the lla-liy literature
they were permitted to read. Members
of the gang retired as u-iial with
others ol the family, and when all was
quiet slipped out of t lie lion -e ami re
paired to the nude out, whi-h was a
cave near a graveyard. Th" laptuie
of one of the thieve., led to the' recovery
of much of the st-'h-n propel ty, and
the high standing of the paicnt-i prt
vented prosctution of the boys, who
were allowed to escape w ithnut suffer
ing the penalty they rii lily deserved.
Comment is superfluous. The eil
effect of the promiscuous reading of
the Hash literature so prevalent among
the young of both sexes at the prcs'-nt
time has been many times discussed by
the press. The only remedy lii-4 in
legislative suppression of the evil.
Chrtlnnd Ohio) Heraht.
CHASED BY A LOO.
experiences of the Michigan Itlvrr
Driver..
Few people have any adequate idea
of the dangers ami discomforts attend
ing the life of a "river driver." Four
months of the year, and these during
the raw and chilly spring, when he is
working Irom daylight to dark in the
water, his clothes are often wet and
frequently froen for a week at, a time.
If he falls into the cold river in the
morning, he must keep on with his
work till night. Often the heat of his
bed for the rivennan's etiquette
teaches him that clothes are to be w orn,
riot hung on a chair at night is only
sufficient to thaw out the garmenls
without drying them. I talked with
one of these river drivers, livery bit
of information was given grudgingly,
though earnestly and with candor,
lie said:
"1 have followed the river every
spring for twenty years and there arc
mighty few striauis in Michigan that
1 haven't gone to the bottom of.
"Dangerous business? Well, that
depends on what part of the job you
are working at. If you are tin-cook,
there ain't mm h danger, unless the
boys find pebble i in the beans, or mil e
in the blackstrap. Hut if the crew are
'breaking a jam' and the old man sets
you to "hit" hing on' things are liable to
be pretty lively. What is 'hit' hing on'
and a 'roll way?' lAet si ea high bank
at a river? Well, loggers draw their
logs during the winter to the highest
bank of a stream they can reach, and
roll them down it onto the ice below,
piling them up by thousands and lens
of thousand-). In the, spring these
piles of logs have got to be loosed so
that they will lloat down the river.
That is what is called -breaking a jam.'
Now about 'hitching on.'
"Sometimes they 'break a jam' by
prying out tin- logs with cant hooks
and sometimes they run a rope a- in.s
the river. A yoke of oen are hitched
on' to it, and it is thrown around a log.
The oxen aiethen started, and -na'.e
out' the log. Why is that dangerous ?
It olten happens I hat one log is wedged
in such a shape that it holds from lilty
to a thousand other and to ...tve time
this log iiiiisl, be hauled out lir-t
'I hen if th logger i. u't minding his
i oiicerus -when the pih-slarts. the w hole
lot is onto him in a jilly. Did I -' r
meet with any a-cident -? Yes; but
the most serious a'cidi-nt I ever met
with didn't turnout wry badly. He
wi re breaking a jam' at tie- highest
rolhvay mi the Muni .) liwr. I'lu ie
were million-, of logs on t he bank, and
it was pretty ticklish work. I ha in't
as many turns of rlit-iini.it ihen as I
have had since, and I called myself as
limber a man as everdodged a Norway.
I was hitching on,' and alter I ha I
been at work a while the boss, who
was giving orders from a- ross tin
river, sung out -Do you see that loose
log up m ar the top?' I looked up
Therollway was about. 1 feet high,
anil there was a big log ten or lifteen
feet from the top that appeared lo be
loose.
'I started up over (he logs with my
peevy in my hands. l'he log was
about twenty I'vet long, aud I shoved
my peevy into it to sort of sen how
much work it w as going to be to loosen
it. I found out, I tell you. I no sooner
touched her than sliest. irted hkca lladi
of lightning down the rollway. There
was no chance to run around Hie end
of tin1 log, ami il. wa-t loo high to jump
over, so t he only cham c I ha 1 was to
turn and gin- her a fool-race. We
were, as I said, near 1 'a feel from the
drink. The river was aboul sixty feet
wide, and was pretty deep. Thai va
in my lax or, if I could only re.eli il.
I didn't stop to cah ulate cham c or
pick nice stepping pla-es, but I jitsl
made jumps .-r all I was uoilh, and
before I'd I. inly light away I'd go
again, aud mhi bet thai log tight
alter ine. I could feci the wind ll.-hi
it, and it steincd every lime I stunk
that it was on to me. I don't In hew
my heart heal, or that I breathed,
going ilovv u that rollw ay, an I I thought
of every 'tear' I had ever been on and
every mean thing I had ever done. 1
kept ahead all right until I got willnn
about Iwiuly led of the river, and
tlu-n she .--I rin k me. I was in the an,
and when the blow ame I went like a
cannon ball mil into tlienwrand to
the bottom. A '. I came up a do, en of
the l oys gr.il'ln d me and brought me
a. hole. They had been wad hing me
from the oilier bank, ami when they
saw ine shoot out into the stream they
rushed into the water to bring out
what they thought would be my corpse
Hut 1 wasn't hurt a particle, though it
took some time to get my 'bellus' into
running shape again. That log struck
me on the hips and threw me fully
fifty feet, and that was what saved my
life; for if I had landed near the bank
that log would have crushed me."
"That was a close call!"
"Tolerable, tolerable." Detroit Free
Frtifs.
TIIK OLD MEETINU HOUSE.
How the -v F.Blaler of Mjiy lears
Ami Attended Mmrrh.
The meeting-house of New England
was m ver lighted, except ov the sun,
mil il singing-schools made it necessary
to introduce ivndh'j and rude chande
liers. Night meetings in the meeting
hoii -e were ( on idered highly indeco
rous and quest ionabh- even by the most
zealous. No liring was provide I for.
stove were utterly unknown and lire
phe es w ere riot to be thought of.
Kveii tin- rude and dangerous devices,
whi'hiiM rward were mat ured intothe
not un-oinfoi-table foot-stoves were at
lust unknown. The New Kngland
meet ing house was never warmed by
artificial heat tdl fr JM' to 1
if a co. winter morning the breath
of the worshiper, not .infre.iu. ntlv
"
would seem like sutoke from a hundred
furnaces as it cone in cont.e t w ith the
fmsly atmosphere. The walls which
had been alino.-t congealed into ice by
the lierce northwesters of the preceding
wet k, would st l ike
hill into the
frame of inanv of ihe congri
it ion.
That they should roiue to such a pla- e
as t hi on a snowy morning, plow ing
through un-wepf walk, and plunging
through fearful drills man. woman
ami child and sit with half-froen
feet under long di r es on knotty
dm trinr s, make ii -hi . i r a ; we think
of it and say from the heart "herein is
the patieme of the saints." And yet
the w riter's memory i an distinctly re-
-all the observation and experieni of
scene . like these. The e-1 erii-ni e wa"
not mi i rm l as it night seem. Mani
fold devices against the cold were pro
vided. Some that are now deemed in-
ib -p- iisal'l... were not needed. The
free-handed and open-In .-u-ted hospital-
it v oi (hi hou -, m-ar tie- in eting
I ,e wa freely pioMered aud as read-
My .i' i -.fi d. Kuoi minis kid hen fires .
w ere ex pre.
ly replenished for Sunday
it I,. .,ie w h! h s'-oies ol w orship,
cr- Irom a di.-t. im e warmed their pi r-s.n-.iuda'e
their him h"oiis. and a
win h thty lepli-ni-.lii d their foot-st-.w.-.
Th" merchant, th" inn-kei per,
the squire, th" d'H tor, the retired
luoiiey-h ii !ei. th- wealthy widow or
La lv r.oiiuiiiul who lived mar the
meeting house, all esteemed it their
duly jiud their pleasure to manifest,
this r. .is..ii.:l.e hospitality. Might
and n itiual as il was. it helped to bind
ami le Id together the little community
by the in- o' common sympathy. To
pro- tde ag.uiisi all i out iugent ies, ad
joining neighbors from a dis'ancc
would s ine tini'-s i re. t a plain struct,
lire Upon the meeting boll e green -a
:- ibbath-day hoii,e, o i ailed of one or
I wo a; '.il l ni'-n's. w ith .iniph- lire-places,
uhii h relieved s iiiiewli.it the dealt up
on the ov ri i-ueih ne-1 hospitality of
those who dwell under the droppmgs'
of the s i'ii t uary. Thee structures
have nearly all disappeared with Hi"
oca-ion which brought them into
being. Now and then the remains "f
one are id.-ntiii d by some village auli-
1 1 1 in , as applied to .'iiic baser use
of alahlc or graii.u v. Xi ir .'''
A Siioileil Piclure.
st. I'clci slmig h, i narrowly i sca ed
losing Ihe iiio.-I precious of ils art
treasures, the celebrated Madonna del
la Stalla of l.'aphael. l'he pi. ture,
which for nioic than three cent uries with me Tiniest oi cigars-mv cigars
and a hall oelongi l to the stalla fami- ' they look like-much better madethan
ly, wa purchased in 17" by the cm. . the larger article. If curiosity had
pi roe ol Ku -la for v 1 J, Jtai, and was prompted an examination these little
by him piv .olio (.. the late liiiipic.s, , cigars would have been found to have
w lio.il In i d. a'h be picalhcl it tothe art been made of the best tobacco and
museum at the Hermitage, 'l'he heat- very fragrant ly scented. These small
ed air ol the gallery in which the pid- 1 specimens of the cigar-makers' craft
lire was Iniiig ten nlly split the square are the new form in which the appe
piue panel on which l.'aphael paiitd-d tite of opium smoking is indulged in
his ma-tci i i and for a lime it was in a more open manner than it can be
' feand that the damage was irrcpara-
, bc. A i i I .un at I ist ii. inn. I snloioM
. Volunteered at l.l -t, h"W ev er, to set
. matters ngbt. Alter larelully t-up-
"i I ing the l.n e nl tin- pi. I me w il h
II in ii 1 -,i. K 1 1 by a slab "I niaiMe. he la-
' bmioii iv iiibbelawav the panel. Hist
; with lib and alleivvaid with pow-
i deled gl.l -, and then silo I .'.led ill
j mounting tin- thin rem. lining him on
i i an V , . in I he tour -e of I his dcliiilte
loiicralioii it was discovered that in
l 1
stead ol the hook whiih tin- Madonna
in the pi. I tne now hold-, there was
originally a pomegranate, towards
j win. lithe infant .le.tts stretched nil'
his hand w ith childish curiosity. -St.
j ,i.-;,i-.s' lit,:- H' .
I la Cii-.e nf lire.
If your ilnthing takes lire, y.mr life
may depend upon your own good
sense, slide the hand down the die
keeping them a i lo.f to the body as
possible, at the same tune sinking to
the Hour by bending the knees; roll
over on the tlonr, and, if possible, gel
hold nf a nicer tear up the tarpet.
and envelope yourself in it. Nothing
so quickly quenches the lire as to
smother it. It niav be done with a
coat or bed-t lothing, or elTect ually by
-. . i, ,,..,... i"""'!"'.' ;; '
veloiung the person in it. Jlall .
Journal af Jlealth.
SCIENTIFIC Sdi ATS.
Mr. Earnest Giles, the eyj lorer, r .!.
templates organizing ; grand hu.d e .-
pedition f0 traverse the iwnaiiiing m.-
explored portions of the Au.;;!:.;i,
continent.
We read, says the .', . ,' ;,v Ai.t ii
enn, every now and then of a-e.iii
which burglars are supposed t hav
rendered their victims ure on ions by
holding cloths wet with c!:loioi.i:n to
keyholes before entering an apart ua-nt.
Of course, the absurdity of s n ii a l;c
tion is apparent. Whether sleeper..
1 can pass from natural t chloroion.i
eleep if it is held near the Le e. is still
u niiuliiin
1
Mtherwood and llaiilan have
"pressed the belief that excessive
rnental work produces a rapid d.-ay ..f
the teeth. As an explanation of the
alleged fact, ai. other writi-r suggest .
that the overworked brain steal ,'t!l
for the phosphates ami 1- av es none f-,.
the teeth, or else that too nvi-l, s'u !y
causes tne general fie.utu to 'i -i -i i -
J lie miw I no ii. is ii i-M.-s-. ,r
mental work can o it i I ncm-i- .-r;-ous
disease, but thinks it i;e-:e pro! a.
ble that ill effects result Iran tic
worry- vvhii h wears upon th" v-i' in
like friction upon the engine a! !i-:..-
ing such work.
As to position in writing, n Gorman
professor maintains t ha, while t'e-n -r
mal distance bet '.vein 'le- eye, an-1 th'
desk ought to be tw-nty-tive ci r.'i
metres, fappro iu;,-t' -. t' ri i:r ! ,,, it
is but rarely that this
ally observed, in very
no more than sevt n '
inihes) being permit
i!i-t ii-
ae II
iii.-uy ill-'. Ilice
lllliie I Cs i '
'ed. I r-.-o tlii-
cloe application of the h -a I ! to'
desk, and the ein urn-1 a-.i C at in
most c-ises tlie body in m o,u j-1-. isf
ed to the right, thereby iiinin; an eh-'
ration "f the right shoulder, a i nr. a
ture of the spine ( do flop- ! to Iron,
thirty to forty per cent, ani uig g:rNi
is not infrequently brought iiU til. It
was further remaii.e 1 that ol the hil-l-rm
examine I only ten p--r o n!, wen
naturally short-sighted, and that, as
among wild races defei live v isi'-n is a
matter of great rarity, tlie tn.ui.ie in
question was a prodm t of m .d.-i n civi-
lization and the existing system of
class tea' hing.
Opium ( tears.
There are few persons outside of
those in polite circles and diah-is in
articles consumed by opium uers that
are aware how widespread is the use
of this noxious drug in s.m I'ram i -i ...
Druggists an tell of the riuiinrotis
calls fur it in liquid and powdered
form. and the polii e have only ;i paitial
knowledge of the number of p'a. i s
where opium smoking is surrcpt ii i"iis.
""' ' '"""s tuip.cgnatc,
won ine iiimes oi ine oiugnaw i"iig
been sold, and in this way the habit of
opium smoking has often been unron
Bcioiisly acquired. If the several
forms mentioned in which the drug is
made to supply the demand were not
enough, another;' ml more insinuating
at the same time as innocent in aji
pearance as any, has been introduced.
1'robably some of the readers of this
item have recently seen small, eh gant
jy made boxes, an inth or an inch and
a half wide by t wo inches long tilled
Usually followed by the devotees nf the
pernicious habit. Opium is too costly
to be mixed with the tobacco of these
small cigars, and il is a qn. -I i-mi if it
is not in a more poi -onoti , shape t ban
when used ill the way ol a liquid sti. Ii
as laudanum, or a powder, or in the
usual pasty form, l'he tnb.mo ami
good tobacco is used -is put in a
brazier and held ov cr burning iq-ium,
until the weed i ; thoroughly impreg
nated with the fumes of the drug, and
it is a que l inn if it is not stronger
thus smoked than when inhaled direct
from the paste. Those who know thn
terrible eld-Is nf drinking anything
from a glass smoked" withtoba.eo
smoke tan probably appieciate the
strength nf these innocent looking
small cigars vv hen sal uratcd with the
fllmf, f opium. These igars are m.t.
j S(1, i,v tobac. onists, and ai e diilii nil.
to get even by those v ho u-e them.
Tin y are sold on the quiet, so it is
said, by Chinamen who are strictly
"no sabee" to any one they are not
certain if. Two sie.s were shown tho
writer, .one an inch long aud over an
eighth nf an im h in diameter, the
. other nearly halt an inch longer ami
proportionately thitker.both kinds w. 11
made. A small mouth-piece, similar b
a cigarette holder, accompanied thu
box, which contained Utteen cigars.
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llie Man in the lo'in.
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fc,, I,., j ,. 11. ,ilr , M !-, 19 tun iliKlOIS S.J-
1.
Il it i-t.'l le- i.cT
II. - j i-t .licim-. I -'i.i-. s Oh- iWtois fcUdo'
AikI lie- M.iii in tub M-xiii h .8 a biil on bit
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VV i.nt .'i i2 ii'm thiny'
I lorn.-' l ut tli ire l i t uiu authentic, mj
l-.ir--
Xiipii a I. I..., I on his en, itii-l it coin on iiii
f Inn -
II.- rwW il ii .ini !-. I il -I tuple ti' k inj
f il n.i-l.i l,r; a (iiaiju lun.e i over, you
Kcov;
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A i.'l I"- I i 'i-!.. s lie in "ll we h ii .1 i..ineie InD,
Wi,i.
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h.it it lit ll V'-liitl- 111:111'
V'-'i, 11 1 ii vi i 1 . hi ,1 !.i!-K 111 11 M-I'iil-'illil'l'
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I I M.iiM I'UI MilSU'IlS.
The s,,e.-s .-I' night ga';n-r in h'W
t illie.
'I lie Ml alii- Age -liet vvcell thilfy
and n't;..
Meat 1 1 -..p - are .itdy 1 oiisidered good
1 i .11 at til" pi nit' n! 1.1 1 ;".
i he;.- - em to b no i all lor in ex
hibition .'I I i t at .1 1 I' ll. et the
au'li. in - i - ..I ,v ,i,-i:i t iv.
V. I1.1t i . tin- .hit. 1 . in b t .wen a
timid ii 'Id ,i'i I a s,'j,. n- l..'i sailor f
Oil" I.I, ! ' i.i.-. ...a .iii'l tin' other to
1,1- soar.
II ymi 1 -ii g 1 oil. lo.vcl out of one
y., rd oi 1 1- th. Ii".'. '11. my lowel-, -an
1 ..ii ..I two yards? Ilia' tlc-pei.d--
..I' ig' I'h r on lio.v many there
.!' "Il ti:" I iotlc I'll '.
'I .1 11 ). Miig I-, inn l"i" ilat" treas
urer." said .1 p. -bin i in I t all acquaill
l.iu e. "I ii.it 1 10,11 . . .-aiy ." the ae
qi.aiiit oi' c 11 p!:i .1; -wad until you're,
cic. t. d. iiirl lie 11 .1" your running."
The in i-t d rrii'lv li ippoiat -d p-r-s..
w Ii ,r e e 11 dill tig th" prc-.cllt
ii-iiturv w a . 1 In-y 01111 ; Ii iy who took
1 .t ,,, i, .i 1 1 nl u 1 11 -1' to a 1 1'ielid's
hou e, and who wa . not a-I.ed to sing
llllllllg the whole eve g.
Uli! I s. e. you ;tr - afraid nf me,"
said Lev. sydney Snulli one day to a
y oung lady whoi ai be.nl" him at din
ner. Vnii crumble your bread, and
that is an undeniable proof nf shy ness."
! il-. it. she n pin d, -when 1 sit by
the liiVii... of London, and with bntl
hands when 1 sit by the Archbishop."
's ,11 W ilde is in lav or of giving
one's wile, 1 11. nne e.l hit ically suggest
ive ol In r hu'-an d's business. A good
plan. A 1 In mist's wife would bcthen
A1.11 l.li.a; a liintituie dealer's. So
phia; a dinner's. Tilly; a fisherman's,
Nettie; a totisnii.il artist's, Itarbare;
a I'.iw 1. broker's, .lew lia; ii burglar's,
Kit ty, au ,'iltoiiicy's, Law-r.i; a bar
keeper's, Liii-ev ra; an editor's, Kit-a.
A Minister.
Ill Is". 7 the Ihlce.chief olliieisnf
the ship t il I ibail 1 aim- upnll a sca-sel'.
I cut in the o can in the v n-inily nf St.
Helena. li 1 I. mug that then- heaved it
si II nut ol 1 In s a, all . ,it I w . tit v yards
di. I. ml Ii. .in the -hip. a 1 ic.it lire with
it head sh.ipid Ilk" il lltlll-biioy, mid
sew 11 i l eight lee! ill diameter at the
laigct p. nl, with it kind of si roll o
I I ol I - -kin 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ling it near
the top. 11 ocmei to be some Jlltl feet
iu leiigih, and vvai nf a diirk color
potted vv uh v ii il . Combining all the
I. I. I all I allejat tons lint cntlld be fol
ic te.t, t he 1 a .1 111. 1 le out by the advo
cate, ol tl e.i serpent theory was
t'l.it Hi -. 1 'tur usually apiearcd in
until qui nied si as and calm weather;
that it had a slender body nf perhaps
piii I eel ill length, ii broad, snake-like;
In a I w ith prominent eyes, a long and
II. in., w in-, k .in-1 Im , and was com
in. -nly of ad. 11k 1 olor. It svv am swift
ly :ii the surl.i 'i', vv ith the head ami
ne. k t h v atcd. progressing apparently
by a crt ii al luidiiliilinginotinn. There,
did not seem to be any fish to which
tlieaiiim.il cnidd be referred, but it
w a maintained to put the matter in
ils plainest form that there might be
sum - liioditie 1 type of the secondary
cnalin-auriaus ( marine liard ), or some
form intermediate between them and
the eh'iigated cetaceans.