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(Alt :njsic t aoods the Im- Br offered IXPRBoS rs. Bation At. It. iOIHT. Icoi. turns nenti to InuVr now I tn t'rr 11. KMC ht .X s. T.oiim. cures Sidney. ancottr- srsletc ; ff?NT"J It, I. le. th offlft, from ttlve arks. btious. lent. bred to rj lease 16 nf Been- and to., Is the sea of matrimony there are lots f litil' rocks baby rocks. t h claimed that men born blind n ver learn to smoke. Kmukack every opportunity that offer-, hut only one woman. The Bg f t',e fawn " Call me parly, mother deer." He that never thinks can never be nrie. Example is always more efficacious th?n precept. tiNF. wmile for the living is worth a dozen tears for the dead. I.AZiNEKsisa premature death. To be ,n no action, is not to live. The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must '.onclude with treachery; at first it deceives at last it betrays. After friendship and love comes be evr.lpnc and that eomoaasion which i-nites the soul to the unfortunate. Benjamin W. Dopghty, of Jamaica, hallenges any man on Long Island to drink cod-liver oil. Jay Charlton avers that Texas is so healthy, few of its inhabitants die a natural death. Thk possession of one virtue will save a man the loss of one will ruin a woman. " Low bedsteads, that burglars can not crawl under," are advertised out West. By an old bachelor: It takes a good deal of grief to kill a woman just after -he has got a new seal-skin jacket. The San Francisco Chronicle reports a shower of several thousand herrings near a remetery in that city. The only position in which unflagging attention would prove dangerous is that ui a railroad crossing watchman. A man at Manchester, England, who in eighty years of age, is cutting his sec ond et of teeth. A da i outer of Theodore Hook, the famous wit, is said to be keeping a lodg ir.jr house in London. The sign on a returning emigrant's wagon read : " Rough on Texas. Going bark to my mother-in-law." We shake hands when we meet. The Oamhier Islanders salute by rubbing noses. Either custom is absurd. The man who put down the first oil weil in Titusville, twenty years ago, died poor, and is to have a monument. There are four thousand postmis tresses in America. Now we know why it takes a postal card so long to reach us. xVeio York Expret. In the hollow of a tree, sixty feet from the ground, P. W. White, of Fenner, N. Y., found in a thriving condition a goose berry bush about a foot high. A YOUNG, man who has recently taken a wife says he did not find it half so hard to get married as he did to get furniture. There is a railroad in Peru which cost $,''.2,000,000, on which only one train : week is run, and that sometimes has out one passenger. Ayu and Cork are the two lightest i ities in .Great Britain, unless there be others that are better illuminated by eas or electricity. Naomi, the daughter of Enoch, was fire hundred and eighty years old when -he was married. Courage, ladies! The most economical man is reported ;h living in the second ward. He took a lnmg-hole to the cooper to have a bar rel made n round it. Home Sentinel. A St. I'eterhburo letter declares that the heads f the secret police have liseoygrcd that three-fourths of their men are in 'league with the Sihilists. SLEEP. sleep RTretly' tender heart, in eace; sleep, holy spirit, blessed soul, While the stars burn, the moons increase, Ani the great ages on ward roll. TtmnytOH. From the number of sporting dogs hred now-a-days, the Commercial Jiulf tin indges there is about one dog for every -'ante bird in the country. A statue, is to be raised at Chalon- nr aone, trance, to i tepee, tne ats overer of the priucipal of photography md a native of that town. rE boy who left a piece of ice in the -tin to warm up, was no more foolish than the man who opened a stqre, and expected people to nunt him out and buy his goods, Detroit Free Pres. A uauper in (rill, Mass., got five dol lars from the poormaster "to obtain the neeeseities of life," as he declared, and used the money in taking to himself a wife. The Ilea, says the Boston Transcript, the politician of the insect world. He ts ever itching lor place, creates no ena of disturbance, and you never know where to find him. Thi: man who undertook to lick a thousand postage-stamps in a thousand minutes gave out on his seventh hun dred tap. He says he had rather under take to lick the Tostmaeter-General. A man never is aware how much vital activity he has about him until he puts on a pair of last season's pants and finds an early wasp in them. Middle I own Trn script. IKktors say that the tears a man sheds when he takes a mouthful of mus tard by mistake for potato, are as genu ine as the tears shed by a man because his uncle is dead. A i oRRKsroNOENT in Watorborough, s- C, des ribing the cyclone there, cited, s a remarkable occurrence, that "a sheep was found lying in the road with every particle of wool taken from it as cleanly as a razor could have done it." Parties visitine the woods in warnti of trailing arbutus, have found it scarce. Why isn't the delightful plant canned, as is done with strawberries and green !eas, and then it could be had ail the year round. Danbury Newt. The peach crop is going to be unusu ally large, and a very beautiful spring b nnetcan be bought for twentv-two dollars This announcement should send a thrill of joy through the married man's entire being Norristoirn Herald. Uk had just arrived at the Astor House, fresh from Skowhegan, when he heard a hand-organ pealing forth " Nancy Lee." " Dern mv pictur," said he, -ef that toon ain't got as fur's Noo ork.' Puck. Some men never lose their presence of mind. In New York, a man threw his mother-in-law out of a window in the fifth story of a burning building, and carried a feather bed down stairs in his arms. "A hair-pin," says the Binghampton RejmbHea, " is a very useful article to a woman, It serves the purpose of a toothpick, button-hook, and hair-fastener; but all this is no excuse for hav ing one in your veet-pocket, when your ".te .ion t tnow where it from." comes the following epitaph has recently been put . i " . ( lr . I - up in tne cemeierv oi aiont rarnass, in J'aris: Vac-red to the Memory ot Miss Lucretla Cornelia Portia Spiff, lHd April 2. 1879, In her Eighty-first year. SThe never looked her age. A sohooi.SHIP for the training of pirates couia be niled immediatelv with cadets from the class of boys who are reading dime novels. Many a vouth standing by while his mother splits itood icr cookrnp: r nner, is within his burning to bt a hero of the high seas. Jy'ew (Jrle'ms I'icnyune. uub sisters ana our cousins and our auiHs can't understand why two bjoys, when they sleep together, enjoy varying the monotony of talk, by wrestlina till the bed is upside down, or pelting ach other with pillows till their strength gives out. Only the boys can tell. Rochester Express. " It is a very unclencal practice, and I must say a very uncleanly one. To bacco: Why, sir, even a hog would not smoke it!" "Dr. G ."replied his amused listener, " do you smoke to bacco?" "I? No, sir,!' he answejred, gruffly, with much indignation. " Then, pray, wnicn is most nice the hog. vou or I?" The Boston Courier gets this off: wno is endeavoring to striKe the o man lor a ten dollar bill on Saturd one o'clock " Now, old fel', let's the X. You know what the Bible ' Help one another.1 " His fri with a sad, sweet smile " Oh, y know; but, I say, you know, you'n ways the ' another , you are. Hark, how the little birds sing-j-the straddlebug yawps to and fro ; the yel low jacket with his sting makes msrry where the picnics grow, and ail that's mortal, high and low from custard pies to busy ants, that clamber up our snow white pants bids welcome to thee, new made king, O Spring! fit. Ijm'u Times Journal. LAST words. Dear hearts, whose lore has been so sweet to 1 now, That I am looking backward as I go ; Am lingering while I haste, and in this rain Of tears ef joy am mingling tears of pain; Do not adorn with costly shrub or tree Or flower the Hi tie grave which shelters me. Let the wild wind-sown seeds grow up unliarme And back and forth all summer, unalarmed, Let all the tiny, busy creatures creep; And when, remembering me, you come some clay A nd stand there, speak no praise, but only sa ', "How she loved us! It was for that she was so dear! These are the only words thai I shall smile to her." A contemporary prints some verses entitled " The Dying Poet." But the lines don't explain whether he was pitched out of a third story window or merely pounded on the head with a base ball bat and kicked down stairs. I Tow ever, it is gratifying to know he is dying. Of course it is a " Gentle Spring " poet. Norristoton Herald. A little five-year old was sitjting with his mother a few days ago, playing at her feet, when suddenly he looked up into her face, and said, "Mother, do vou know what I want to be wh tn I grow up?" She shook her head. "Well, when I grow up, I want to be onje of those men who Cure corns, and ftave their pictures in the paper." An old item from the London Jinch fays : Another villainous case of wjord cominer is reported from America! A person is spoken of as having " suicided.' The coiner of this verb, uo doubt, be longs to the vile gang who lately issued the word " burgle," meaning to commit a burglary, and the still more hideous terms, "excurted" and " injtinctJed,' which have lately been suffered to pass current in the States. In the same false mint, we doubt not, have been coined such words as " cabled," " wired," V do nated." "deputated," "interviewed, "orated." "reliable," "rendition," "walkist," "eatist," and the like, with which the Oueen's English has lately been, in Yankee-land, defaced, etc American Cheese Abroad. (Ni'w V..rk Commercial. While the cable reports the efforts made by the representatives of the Brit ish farmers, in the vain hope of preyent- insr the increased importation or Amen can live stock: while it also reports; that Ird Hamilton. Vice-President ofi the Priw Council, protests aaainst the anti A I n .t, nttpiKntA.I ts Him and wtipn t,h slaughter of imported American swine is threatened, under the nretext that typhus has been " discov ered " in swine from the United States, we read a Swiss paper that American competition is about to be fought against in a more proper manner, by the dairy men ot rieivetia. in a recent, teciure delivered in Thurgau, Switzerland, by Director Schatzmah, upon the Economy of the Dairy and Cheese Manu facture, he proves that Americans are now sending to England cheap and excel lent "quasi-English cheese American Stiltons, American Cheddars, and Ameri can Glosters." He infers that it cannot be very long before the European mar kets, which exhaust such large quanti ties of " Gruyere " and " Emmenthaler," will be flooded with " American Gruy eres " and " Yankee Emmenthajers." Both the Greyerzerland and the "Valley of the Emme have sent their contingent of emigrants to the United States, and these famous Swiss cheeses are already E reduced by the old factors in their new ome with the great advantage of bheap cows, admirable grasslands, andspljendid mechanical improvements. Instead of imitating the folly of English producers, who fancy thev can stop the importation of American li've stock by killinb the animals under pretext ot disease, tne i Swiss Director advines his countrymen j to adopt all the mechanical appliances of which the Americans so eagerlyi avail j themselves. He adds an expressslon of that, thanks to this, the Swiss I will long be " able to challenge th ! petition of the United States. ' corn- High Life Below Ground. Captain Matt Cananvan, Superintend ent of a Nevada gold mine, recently gave a ball one thousand feet belew the surface of the earth. The section of the mine used was handsomely decorated and brilliantly illuminated. The Vir ginia City Enterprise says : The ladies were dressed in calico and the gentle men in corresponding inexpensive raiment. The furniture was in keeping with the place, and while there was every thing necessary to comfort, nothing very extravagant was seen. Never be fore in the United States if anywhere in the world has there been given a ball at the depth of nearly a quarter of a mile beneath the surface of the earth. There was no trouble about peraonb elip ping into the ball-room without tickets. It was a quer way, too, of going to a ball, this stepping upon a cage instead oi into a carriage and being darted straight down towards the center of the eaith m- i stead of rolling off horizontally in the IjOKDon T ruth announcea that tner ay at have j says i tnd. U I 4 al- 1 usual way. THREE MOO OS Or St ATI KK. BT THOMAS . COLUO. Bright sunshine on the meadows lying, Low winds among the orchards sighing, Klush roaes by the pathway blooming. And brown bees 'mid the clover booming, Cowslips where murmurous brooks are flowing, Kwcet violets by the roadside showing. Pink blossoms and white daisies greeting, And blue waves on the wide sands beaUng. Like flame-flecks through the verdant srehes OI sturdy oaks and silver larches, With wealth of rapid. Joyous singing. Blithe, merry robios swiftly winging. Over the dark and sullen reaches, Surging along the sodden beaches, Weird, vague songs in its deep intoning, The drear East wind is sadly moaning With deep, sonorous roll, the thunder Reverberates the storm-glooms under. And tossing sfcaa high sprays are flinging. Where driving rain smites hard and stinging. With'fierciB, hot glare the lurid lightning Along the foamy crests is brightening: Acioss the black clouds linked and livid, Its flashes burn in splendor vivid. Far, purple skies, serene and mellow, Mingling of crimson Unts and yellow, Russet snd amber leaves entwining, And barberries and sumachs shining. Gray shadows over hillsides drifting, Gold lights through swaying branches sifUng, Birds softly to each other calling, And ripened nuts and apples falling. A little valley southward facing, A lake set in an emerald tracing, A i.d bid from winds now growing chilly, The white bud of a fragrant lily. 77n Evolution. THE SILVER LEVER. BY D. CHRISTIE MURRAY. Con tinned. It was a heavy-hearted trio that sat silent at the Pear-tree Farm that night. The ' formalities of law were going through, aud a verdict of " murder " against " some person or persons un known" was returned by a Coventry jury. Suspicion fell upon the wooden legged man, who had been seen or heard of oy nobody since he had called at Glossop's house after midnight. He never came near the place again. In Job Ryder's house some fifty or sixty pounds" in gold was discovered, but no bank-book or sign of the possession of other property. It came to be believed in consequence that Job Ryder had out lived his means, and had thereupon committed suicide. Few people knew him ; fewer still had any liking for him ; and this dark belief outlived the jury's verdict in the local mind. There were three sales by auction in one week. Job Ryder's goods were dis posed of by his brother s advice, and Sarah retained nothing but one chest of books and papers. George Ryder's goods and chattels were put under the hammer by his cpeditors, who though they pitied him, were quite content to pay them selves. George Glossop's goods and chattels were put under the hammer by Am creditors, who had pity for neither his estate nor his wife, and exacted their uttermost farthing. Then father, son, and niece went sadly up to London, there to hide themselves from prying eyes. George Ryder's possessions brought him in some dxty pounds a year now ; and Robert's pro- Eosal was that they should all three eep house together, and devote the lump sum, which amounted to about eighteen hundred pounds, to the pur chase of some business or other which might maintain them all comfortable. This they did; but the arrangement lasted but for a little while. George Ryder took to drinking, as many a bettpr man and many a worse had done before him under similar pressure of trouble. None of the three had any business training. Robert and Sarah did what little they could to keep the business going ; but it crumbled, crumbled, crum bled in their hands, and they were left at last on the verge of bankruptcy. Then Sarah spoke. "It isn t because 1 want to leave a sinking ship, Bob, dear. Vou know that. But I must go away and earn my own living somewhere. The business won't keep us any longer. You will do well to sell the goods and pay the creditors, and go on with your wax flowerp. We're all bound to be poor all our lives through now, I suppose; but there are worse things than poverty; and we shan't be able to be honest long, Bob, if we try to keep the business going." Robert knew she was right, and abode by her advice. This miserable business waa eating up every thing and produc ing nothing. With a little money to begin witn, he might contrive to make a living by his hands. His father was breaking fast everything about them took some tragic form. So these two bade each other a mournful farewell, and Sarah went out to service as house- I keeper in a large house in the country. The business was sola, ana reaiizea but little. Father and son went into a small house in the northern districts; and finding that too much for their slender finances, took one step lower, and went into lodging?. In two or three years, George Pyder was gathered to his fathers, and was buried in that old Coventry churchyard which held his fathers' bones. Robert and Sarah met at the funeral, and parted sadly again, and went their separate ways. Sarah neither knew of her husband's crime of forgery nor heard of his arrest. She had never belonged to a newspaper reading circle ; and the neighbors had held aloof from her and her trouble; and Robert and his father had held their peace purposely. But whilst she was learning patience and coming to wards resignation in her troubles, and whilst in the performance of her new duties peace was settling slowly down upon her, Gerge Glossop was e.xpiating his crime by a long term ot penal servitude. This was mercifully hidden from her ; and she only knew that the man she had loved had proved a villain, and had gone away out of her life sud denly, leaving no trace of himself, and leaving her without a wish to trace him. The hunchback dragged aloug with a private income of twelve shillings a week, and perhaps an equal sum earned by the making of wax-flwwers. There was no motive in labor, or he might perhaps have made more by his work. But Work without heart. There was not life in it Whereby the man might live." His sole business patron lived in Long i Lane, off Aldersgate-street, and he him-. self had lodgings in a tumble down house by the riverside, not far from St, Paul's Stairs. Thither it came to pass that one day a new lodger came with a j great sea-chest, the porterage whereof j shook the house as two men carried it up-stairs and set-it heavily on the floor J above Robert's head. The new lodger was a big man, looking considerably past middle age, bald, unshaven tor a week or two, and of sinister aspect. A man of enormous width and weight, but carrying no more fat than a grey hound ; sunburnt, and scarred across the face by a stroke which must have gone near to finishing his story. They had been a week together in the house without seeing each other, when Robert met him one day point-blank on the stairs. The man was coming up and Robert was going down, so that when they looked at each other their heads were almost on a level. They started at each other in amazement. But in the hunch back's face the amazement was half drowned by a look of mingled rage and dread, whilst joy and triumph started out broadly in the other's eyes. "Master Bob Ryder, as I'm a livin' man !" the new lodger said in an amazed, triumphant whisper. "You villain!" said Robert, laying his thin hands upon the other's co liar; " you murderer! Come with me." Bill Dean's face changed ludicrously, and for a minute surprise reigned there J pure and simple. " Wot are you a-call- I in' mo'" hp naked The hunchback twined his hands closer in Dean's collar. " Who murdered my unci? Job, you villain?" Bill Dean glared in wild amazement. " Who murdered your uncle Job, gover nor?" he said at last. " Why, who but his son-in-law? George Glossop, to be sure." Robert's hands dropped by his side, and he looked at Dean stricken through in surprise. It never entered his mind that the man was acting. The surprise and sincerity were too evidently real." "This ain't the place," said Dean, " to be a-talkin' of who murdered Uncle Job and sich-like. Come up into my room, an' I'll tell you somethink as '11 make vou jump. Come along." He laid his hand on Robert's arm and hurried him breathless up the stairs. Arrived at his own room, he motioned to Robert to seat himself upon the bed, and then sat down opposite to him on a heavy look ing chest. " Well,'' he said, regarding Robert from head to foot as though he were some rara avis whom it was a rich fortune to have caught. " This is a stroke o' fortune. "Who would ha' thought o' meetin' you .' An' yon don't knew," he went on after a pause " as George Glossop killed your uncle, nor what he done it for?" "Why did he do it?" "Do you remember any missin' ar ticle?" the man queried, bending his head forward in triumph, and looking close in Robert's face. " No. Yes. My uncle's watch." "Yes; your uncle's watch," said Bill Dean slapping both legs with his hands and leaning back again. " Your uncle's watch. An't that what what he done it for." " Why should George Glossop kill my uncle in order to steal his watch ?" asked Robert. 1 " It was a watch with a key to it! A key as was a key an' ho mistake. Lookee here." The man rose from his chest and threw it open and took therefrom a battered Bible; he pressed this into Robert's hands, and sat down again " Now afore I say another word, you kiss chat book, an' say after me : 'I hereby swear that I'll do fair do's along of William Dean, otherwise Thomas Bowling.' " Robert in much wonderment went through that formula. "Now you've swore, mind," said Dean putting the book back in the chest again. Robert nodded. " Well, then, lookee here. Me an' Uncle Job was pals, we was, in the year 1830. Theer was six on us altogether going pardners, like, as a man might sav. We come by money out in the Bawlkhan Hill?. Never you mind how. We come by that money honest an' fair, an' square an' right. Well, a lot o' murderin' thieves, as they calis zap tiehs, hears of our good fortun', an' follers of us for to steal the coin. D'ye see? We has to fight for it. Now I was right down at the fur end of a gorge, like, three mile off, when the other five was forced for to bury the money for to hide it from these here murderin' thieves. ' I was a-keeping guard, don't you see, an' was to tell 'em when the zaptiehs were a-comin'. The fight was a goin' on when I got back, an' I hid myself, as a man might say, an watcneu. J.ney a gone rouna an other way, these murderin' thieves had, an' come on my pardners sudden about two hours after the money was safe buried. Well now. the only man as got clear out of the fight on our side was your uncle Job. I meets him at a little place there as they calls Strigli, wheer we app'inted to meet after the money was safe buried ; an' theer we had a row, me an' your uncle Job. He goes an' claims five-sixths of the money, an' wants me to put it along of a sixth part. So we has a row, an he gives me this here across the face. D'ye see it? Well. He'd got the bearin's marked down on his watch-case wheer he'd buried the money, an' he showed me that, an' it was along of my wantin' to snatch that as we had the row. Well. We parted, don't you see ; an' I never set eyes on him after that till one night a few years later I walks into Coventry on the tramp, a-doing of the wooden-legged- sailor dodge to Liverpool, wheer I ex- r'cted for to get a fresh berth. Not as hadn't got a tidy bit of money o' my own, you see; but in order for to be saving. Well. I spots him, an' I follers him, an' I finds out where he lives; an' I waits about for a day or two, an' I finds him settled down an' married. But I notices, look you, as he's a-livin' poor an' lowly like, an' I thinks f Hillo,' I thinks, ' you ain't got that 'ere money yet, Joby Rogers. All right,' says I to myself; 'you'll want it some day, an' you'll be a-goin' out for it; an' then perhaps Bill" Dean may come in for a share on it.' " " Why didn't you go back yourself to get it?" Robert asked incredulously. " vVhy didn't I go back an' get it myself ?" returned Bill Dean seornfully. ' Ah ! why didn't I ? Why, because I j didn't know to two mile wheer it was; ' that's why. I should ha' : looked well. I should, a-going about the Bawlkan Mountains with a pick an' a shuffle a-diggin' of 'em op, an' a-turnin' sf the hills over as if they was so many salary beds. That's a likely taie, that is." "He naver Went away?" Robert asked. " Not him," returned the other. " For nigh on twenty 'ear I went on a-watchin' of him. Once in a while or so I'd cross over an' speak to him about it, an' he'd say to me . ' Bill Dean,' he'd say, ' I'd sooner see every piastre rot theer under ground an' rust to powder, than you should touch a penny of it.' " "How did George Glossop know of this buried treasure ?" "How do you know?" Bill Dean queried in return. " He knowed cos I told him." There the man's face fcrew black. "An' he sneaks off, instead of doin' the fair thing by me ; an' in place o' priggin' the watch for a minute an' makin' of a copy of the lines inside. he goes an' p'isons poor Joby Rogers, steals the watch, an' nooks it," Not as I be lieve be meant to p'ison him. He over did the dose." "Who has the watch now?" asked Robert. "Why, it 'ud go back into the family," said Robert; "no one knew of its value ; and when George Glcsop was arrested, we were all glad enough to forget him. He ruined us all, and not one of us ever saw him again." " Then the police has got it. They'll keep it till he comes out, an' then he'll eet it again. No; he won't. Or if he does, he won't find it no good to him. I'll do it, as I'm a livin' man I'll do it!! I'll hunt that watch up if it's on the face of earth. Will you go in? WilL you help? Fair do's now. I'll go fair and stick by you. They knows me at the Yard, and I knows them a sight better than go near 'em. But will you go? Go an make inquiries, an' get a look at the watch. "What was Robert asked. the amount of mont jy " Ekal to fifty thousand pound,-'' Bill Dean answered. "Fifty thousand pounds?" Robert Ay," said Bill Dean. " Fifty thou sand pound. It's worth tryin' for, ain't it?" He laid a hand on Robert, and repeated : "Fifty thousand pound. Tbat's five-an'-twenty thousand tor you, and five-an'-twenty thousand for me." "How was all that money come by?" "Don't you look a gift-horse in the mouth," said Bill Dean. "The money was come by ; an' if you won't go to the Yard an' make inquiries about that 'ere old lever watch, why I dessay I can find a pal as will." j I will go," said Robert, rising from the bedside as he spoke. " Fair do's, you know," said the man warninely. "You deal fair along o' me, an' I'll 'deal fair along o' you." " I will deal fairly with you," Robert answered. He had been paid for work taken home a day or two before, and had per haps a pound's worth of silver in hin pocket. Once started on this enterprise, he found himself so eager in pursuit of it that he could not bear to crawl along the streets 'at his own slow pace. He called a cab, and was driven to Scotland Yard. There the officer to whom he was referred asked him where Glossop was arrested, and being answered, ad vised him to go to a police station near St. Katherine's Docks, whither Glossop was first conveved. "If the watch belonging to your uncle, and supposed to he stolen by Glossop, isn't there," said the officer, " you can apply to the county authorities in Warwick, if that's where he was tried." Robert drove to the river-eide police station and renewed his inquiries there. A stout man, sitting behind a desk with a number of papers before him, looked up with his pen in his mouth. "Bates!" this man called out when Robert had made his statement. A lean policeman with sandy whiskers appeared in the doorway. " Of all the queer things I ever heard, this is the queerest," said the man be hind the desk. "This party's come after that man Glossop : Coventry man : forgery, you know. fl know," said the lean policetman, nodding. 'Cove as tried to hang liisself in No. V "Same party," said the other. "Do you remember anything as he went mad about in particular?" "Should think I did and all," returned the lean policeman. " It'll be a long time afore I forget him a-marchin' up an' down in No. 5 yellin' out for his watch. I never see a cove go off hisself so over a watch in my life afore." " Well, this party's here now asking' after that very watch." " Ay, ay,': said the lean policeman, and looked at Robert, and scratched one sandy whisker thoughtfully. Robert' heart beat high. " Can you tell me anything about the watch? I would give half-a-crown to see it if it is here?" "Oh," said the policeman, " it ain't here. And what's more I don't know where it is." "Tell him what you do know," said the man behind the desk. " Well, I shouldn't have no call to remember Glossop out of a million more if it wern't for the watch," the policman said, addressing Robert. "I seen it once in his hand. You see I had in formation as he was off by the Orinoco steamship from Katherine Docks at seven that morning. He'd been watched for a week because the people at the bank was doubtful. He forged a bill, don't you see? And the party as he'd forged his name, he went abroad to France or somewhere, and they only suspected it was a forgery, and had him watched. Well, we gets word here as he'd took a passage aboard the Orinoco, and I got orders to go there and take him. When I gets aboard, I sees my gentleman in his berth with a map spread out afore him, and a watch in one hand." " Was the map a map of Turkey?" " Why, yes. it was," said the police man, " now I come to think of it. Yes. A map of Turkey. And when I tapped him on the shoulder, be crumpled the map up like and stuffed the watch away somewhere. 1 don t know where he put it: but when we come to search him here, we didn't find it. He kicked up such a hullaballo about it, as it passed into a kind o' joke with us here; and when a party goes wild-like, we asks I him if he ain't lost an old silver watch." j " May I ask," said the man behind the desk with an air which meant that . he intended to ask with or without per- j mission " may I ask what makes that f watch so particularly valuable to you f Robert could answer honestly without revealing anything. " It contained the only memorandum of a large deposit of money which the owner of the watch was known to have possessed." "Ah!" said the superintendent ; "now I see. And you're your uncle's heir, I suppose ? Well, sir, I'm sorry we can't do anything for yon. You see, it's five i years ago now ; and we shouldn't have been able to tell you anything if this watch hadn't passed into a sort of joke amongst our men here." to is oorructD.J Moxei get tight, but is never druuk. 1 Enormous deposits of miner! phos phates have been lound near Vntan Canada, and are now being d5'iieatlv I worked. om.oi uir iswsi sci'uiii fj TU. canized rubber in England jB Q render china, stone and glass wr nuiselesa. It is applied in the form 0f narrow strip iaserted in groove. Prof. Tyndall y, WT Rrcat improvements in VAt electric light must sot be regarded inevitable, but he 4nes not belie v that gas will be beaten os it of the fi jJd by it ; there is too much se for gas, CAaUcrn. experiment in England hare shewn thai welded iron is by no means no safe to resist pressure as that which has been secured by a system of rrvets. Some late explosions have fully confirmed this conclusion. A more economical lubricator than oil may be made by boiling one ounce of soap in a pint of water. This lubricator could not, of course, be used on ali oc casions, but there are tnanv instances in which it will save gallons of oil. As a substitute for spirits of wine for the preservation of zoological and ana tomical preparations, concentrated gly cerine is cheaper, not liable to evapora tion, not combustible, and, moreover, as better preserving the natural color of various preparations usually kept and preserved in spirits of wine. A bell., worked by electricity, is set up at the depot, and when the trains come within a mile of the station it will ring wry til they arrive. The danger sig nal is thus given, and the waste of steam is avoided, to say nothing of the racket of the usual whistling. It has been tried is New York and ia a success. . The Bessemer gold medal for 1879 has been awarded by the English Iron Association to Peter Cooper, " the father ef the American iron trade." The medal was received, by Mr. I. Lowthian Bell, M. P., on behalf of Mr. Cooper, who, he sa;d, was only prevented by age from undertaking a journey across the Atlan tic to receive it in person. A new material, passing under the name of illuminating clay, has recently come to light at Rio Janeiro, which has thus far been employed in the manufac ture of gas illumination. It looks like coal, except in color, which is that of clay, and burns like wax when ignited. It is said to yield seven cubic feet of gas to the pound, or twice the amount that can be obtained from coal. Fireproof paper for valuable docu ments may be made from ona part vege table fiber, two parts asbestos, one-tenth of a part borax, nine tenths of a part alum. A fireproof ink for the same may be made from eight hundred and fifty grains graphite, eighty grains copal varnish, seventy-five grains cmperas, three hundred grains tincture of gails and indigo carmine. Ax easy way of making' a hole in plate glass is to make a circle of clay or cement, somewhat larger than the intended hole; into the cell thus made pour some kerosene, ignite it, and after placing the plate on a moderately hard support, and with a stick rather smaller than the hole required, and a hammer, strike a smart blow. This will leave a rough-edged hole, which may be smoothed with a file. Youno men are mapping out Hhort routes around ice-cream saloons. Crimping the hair is still in favor among young ladies who willingly sac rifice their locks in order to look co quettish for the present. Mrs. Noen Njoh Liang has just died in Hartford. Iljalmcr Hjorth Boyesen should make a note of this Cincinnati Enquirer. Old gold braid, one or two inches wide, faces the brims of black chip round hats and bonnets. There are also jet galloons, showing nothing but the heads, used for facing the brims of black satin or jet bonnets. What is more deserving of our sympathy, remarks the Middletown Transcript, than a young man with fif teen cents in his pocket, a girl on each arm, and seven ice cream signs in sight. Many trained dresses from the best modistes are slim and sheathlike, but many others exhibit the panier, while short dresses are now covered with folds and wrinkles in front, and drawn into full drapery at the back. A Chinese maxim says : " We require four good thing" of women ; that virtue dwell in her heart that modesty play on her brow that sweetness flow from her lips that industry occupy her hand." A most interesting sight to see is that of a young lady with "lips like rubies," and with "teeth of pearly whiteness," and with cheeks that have stolen the " deep carnation of the deathless roie," with her mouth full of gingerbread! Every young man in the Sioux nation carries a pocket-mirror, either of glass, backed with quicksilver, or some shining metal; but an Indian maid is not permitted to look at a reflection of her face, even in a brook, for this is the masculine privilege. One extremely delicate " Gerster '" hat was made of chamois-colored kid. It was very pretty and trimmed with j long self-colored ostrich plumes and the same shade of water-silk ribbon. In all cases where ribbon strings are used they are tremendously long. Natcral flowers are greatly worn. Breast bouquets the size of dessert plates are univerially worn. They are formed entirely of r -. or carnations, azeiiaa, or some- small flowers mixed. They are fastened on the left ride of the breast, and look like peasants' bridal bouquets. The Philadelphia Jjedger thinks it is very curious that all the messages from the spirit world come in our own lan guage no mstter whether the author ia Greek, Jew, Swiss. Italian, or a Berks County Dutchman. Evidently the English is the universal language in the Summer land. Say. si Lacy Cooper: Give to a Parisienne an English girl's complexion of cream and roses, those masses of gold-gleaming hair, those candid bine eyes, those rows of pearly teeth, and aee what she would make ot herseu. DM would step before the world a wonder o' beauty. But her British sister hides jj these charms, or spoils them i, dismal fashion with ugly and ,;i fitting clothes, and contrives tq Tike a dowdy in spite of them. Go4 mi. sBitortie gsrioifl. I Links, 4r 1. Tsussrosmnjr. t knew a word at Mtars fawr. wkwa traaspasett makes tlx wer1a ar mm First, the rnVci ot wanting tparri , Sn-ntxl, If mod . will U ta read : Third, jo, assy eat If you ran kill . Ftarth. ditch Irads to or from a saUl ; ! Mtth BBSS! el as Asiatic coin : Sink, parts 1 words you saost eeajota ; Tsk what draotea reacting, six) tough. The two will saakeyoa gals, asjauga : ' irasa mwmvoHadxulausr And then add up the valgar IcurUoas a rViLvrstoss. At ' hunt IS stag." or olat st " hare aad rata ,1 .-m at i , -pr attaMv aoui On, on throuch brake anJ t-nar. aad Wad aw dt'ra tnay bars: Lot laggard, be Iks lart ... 1 may taJss the Srss. How giaad to iw the aaolliod ikw'i paos. lto nork aid Msaba oatstreirhwd. to win I nis oioni wnn courage all, SI adv sablf SI To keep ftrst all the way aad Utr Uw wtaheJ-for ssise. The ship at Mori lake's often raise! the shoot That Ox fur I now Is Srst without a doubt; dut Cassbrtdge, too yon are. as oi has heard the tame When placed by me urwo the rtrtor ' small at fam- . SujCASK WolM. Peter Jones was a barbel r crusty aad old, a aiieer as well, lor he'd plen'v ml gold; Hla c-LmSos w re all tattered, nia rsaabw a hare. The commonest food served hlta well (or his I are One bleak winter's ntgh1, while son tig sloas. T . ht horror ho heart! a low, pitying groan ; The door It did second - there rnteicJ a saan la: luil in rag, wllb features ao waa ThievojMhieve.!- eried th aaiawr: and tkasa, as I poo tht intruder be rushed like a bear, W ho baring a first rather long (roore's the abasaav Peter l ulled u. and .wit I, th. ai..J came 1 mm " If you don't leave any roim!" Trier cried, "I'll third lor the police, who will then be K u He rb e Isndtag they reacted, sad then, j atto a swsres. Madly luhttng. they tumbled headlong doasra cbo alalia. There they lav, snd excitedly ought on the So. And l is aorry to stats that both ot tbaas sw tvss; But the obber at last mote 1'eter'a poor first. Than took to his heel sad quickly dispersed. Kver slnte that great night in P, tor's rarest , Every robber keeps out of his way bow isrotuh lear! So. readers. I think I'll just bid you good-day For here fount, my verse, and 1 tr no more ho say. 4. PaBCArtTATtos. When whole, 'lis plain This uiesns io sprain ; But if you cut off Its hes l A aerie, you htrve loote-d. Behead the latt and you will tare Something that wuuld wei vou and at; Twice behead, and you will nml A proposition brought to mind . 6. NrsKBit ai Kan. as I sm composed of 14 letter. My 4, 8. 10, 6 is sn article of fuel My 7, 6. 1,9. is one of the moat valta Hy 11, 2, 14 is kept by all mariner. My !.', 3 i verb. bteoi-i la. My IS Is an adverb. My wt hole is a prominent Senator. ANSWERS TO LAST WBBJC'B KINKS. 1. A Riddle: Spits dog. 2. Inltisl Psule: IO B'g-Pig- Fig. etc. S. Numerical Kaigssa: Hew to the line let the chip fall whajre they may." 4. Poetics Puasle: Wngbt, rile, write, right. S. Prspltstiou : t hair, hair, sit. Shaving tbe Beard. The custom of shaving the heard was enforced by Alexander of Macedon, not for the sake of fashion, but for a practi cal end. He knew that the soldiers of India, when they encountered their foes, had the habit of grasping them by the beard, and so he ordered his soldiers to shave. Afterward shaving was prac ticed in the Macedonian army, snd then among Greek citizens. The Romans f imitated the Greeks in tbe practice, as they did in many other things, and , spread it to the different Europea a na- tiona yet barbaric. In the Middle Ages, j at the time of the Renaissance, ah av tug was introduced, and the habit Mat re- j tained, though classicism gave pjace to ' romanticism, and that, in its tt rn, was replaced by realism. The bear d was a I source of trouble to Peter the. teea,, Who, simultaneously with the :ottrtwjc- j tion of hi great reforms ij Rantjua, tried to induce his people to imitate the , shaving nations. This inno.vation waa resisted by his subjects with the utmost persistence, and they prefer jtspd to pay a i heavy fine rather than u jinr disfigure ment, as they believed, of the image of God. To the Russiana o olden times the beard was a symbol of liberty. Ia j several countries of Western trrre and in the United StaU s the beard was restored to honor only about twenty years ago, but even yet,the majority of men respect the custom introduced by Alexander the Great. Richard Craatvreli. Of Hiver CromwelL says the Ixmdon Week, there are several portraits in the Royal Academy. Thfiy present a face, too, with many traces of suffering in it, brought about by private ss well as public cares, for he had lost children who were dear to him, especially the son of whom lie said bis deaUi " went as a dagger to my heart, indred it did." Of that other son, Richard, for whom he cared far less, ami who did what he could to bring the name, of Cromwell into contempt, there is also a portrait. A weak an 'I namby-pamby looking per son, bearing out the short judgment which Carlyle protaouncea on him "poor idle triviality." In less than eight months his ahort lease of power was over, but he lived, " a little and very neat old man," till 1712, fifty-four years after his father's death. One day a curious incident occurred. It waa in Qceen Aitne's reign, aad Richard Crom well, who had gone to Westminster to give evidence in a lawsuit, strolled into the House of Lords. A stranger, think ing he was from the country, asked him if he had ever sees such a scene as that before. "Neves-," said tbe old man. "since I sat in the chair," pointing to the throne -o wonaer tne stranger book him for a madman Basis ess Before Pies a re. 1 he scene was hereabouts ; the char acters, a rising young merchant and a pretty woman. He had an affection for her; she s liking for him, ao they be came betrothed. After a time she four d out that she didn't love him well enot .go to marry him, and tbe match waa br .ke a . . T T sa-aa. ta aaaft rnra V.l 4 .oar at J Via at. we sbsd as mw, m caj MIW m jQ staggered under it: but he fou e)' -.ii for himself, protected that b:.:.. Ju ruined, asked if ah- could ' love him, and in all way aJL.Tf Ul thing. She was hmsw f . w? ., -rTatdv however, Wwe WhiU h -wclantly took his h!i J" - eyes were full of 5 ..a - - ka, k-Ho hi. faJwiaao farewells, the a dosed tbe door aeon his - - 1 u : . hopes. A i assat i a tar r ue tapmni n, PPf0 oack into the room, and with . a hia voice, brokenly lawrmured: . nope this will make ac Mifterence -oout your coming to the store. Miss ; sad that your mother, will continue to trade with us. I ahall be happy to K've the usual ditroa Our stock ia rge aad varied; ajtir aim to please." And the door that rJ'v, leaving bits alone with hit grief: -5 e-:SiwWaSla7S Taw ft tajtol. Par oJchl ' lata wwrM'a dadaat . Swat atop to haaey too?, ; rare", t he. k aad rots TAe day ot ri. aav .out'. rlss votrost Thanh ooo dlaiarfc ; Christ's r'STaai aad Hk prs r.r-iisse. The hours low Blik hagh tea tea doth rhlaae. Were ail ass l.d evil day tla'.aa aad aahavated as ta thy dark loat. Waswo peoco. but by a-aaao aagr, wtaa So i blow, r, at Tkas I la Draws all the leaf year Waa VI keep sod a. r aaador h re. There ts 1 God, boss say. A deep but daaaling darit.ee . a saewj haws Say II ts late sad dawk, tut taoy See sat all rleair Oh. lor that Bleat' where I ta Him Might live in. vMe sad diss' S Mary I saphaa i The higher up the mountain olimb, the hirher vou can aee. yoa Wjto despises the worki judges incor- . roc try, but thinks rorrcvtly Tht. greatest atMortune of all is not f he able to bear- mi. 'or tune. It is move Ytrofitahle tn look up our de J fecta thaw to boast of our attainments. t Tw sttJ". is a German proverb which says that Take-It-Ear ami Live Ing I aes) brothers. WHEN a man apeak the truth TOO may count pretty surely that he p. a ,-wfttaes most Other virtue tar - ,.,- i- i ... ,v ami hK is the penalty levied on thf i txmu oi prsise, ana can ie rentrerert srective only wnen noticed. It was George Uim, we believe, i who once said that he hated theology ' and botany, but that he -loveH reltrion and flowers. !it Anm Oliver, Who has taken ; t-'aarge of a Hroeklyn Church has this 'inancial creed; ' Trust in ioa. Nerer attend aJolar until it is in your pockei, Do yowr utmost to help yourself. ( Tips liberty of uing harmless pleaa i v re will not be disputed ; but it is still tr be examined whst pleasures are Ifermleas, The evil of any pleasure is riot in the art itself, but in its ronae .luences. TilR moat reckless sinner against his j own conscience has always in tht- back ground the consolation that he will n on in this course only this lime, or only so long, but that at ucb a time he will e i t . , amend. Paltry affectation, strained allu siona, and 'disgusting finery, are easily attained by those who cbttose to wear them; they are hut too frequently the badges of ignorance, or of stupidity, whenever it would endeavor to please. Conhclt your friend on all things, especially on these, which respect your self. His counsel may then be useful, where your owa arW4ore might very naturally impr.fr your judgment iNtiRATlTivt (a only a word, after all. When you 'le vert-ice to any our you are fully ;.v i by the pleasure of doing it The aj,e you do it U owes you nothing. All yon have to ask is thai he ibaa't k ear you too great malice. ' Tata tissue ot the life In ho We wears with rotors all our awn. And In the g. 1.1 of deattny We resp sa we have sows." No thought, no word, no act of man evarc dies. They are immortal as bl own sowi. We wiH rs irc to find them again somewhere. Somewhere in thi world he will nsseV their fruits in pari ; somewlrrre n the future life he will meet their gathered harvests. It may, and it may not, Is a pleasant one to ik u pea. Moimkska has sailed for t.urope n a visit, iler hue band has tat k-ti steps to become an Ametii-an citizen. Emma Abbott has given orer her European trip, and will study new roles at home break fst roll, e Mipptrse. At a t-lub dinner at the t 'ontineuial Hotel, Pari-, recently, il took " datk Twain " three quarters of an hoar to give his reason for not htring abb tossy anything at all. Mb. .Ion: Fihkr. f l .-ton. has been invited, through Pr -fa saor Ifutla-y, to deliver his course of lectures on Au.cn can II story in luidon. and will leave for England immediately. In IKK. are eightfti amateur Pinafore Companies in the State of Missouri. Ami yet we talk about trying to en coursge immigration. St. h." Tr, Journal. A "I l'l" in a liicago theater th" other evening was overheard arranging ith a bootblack to shoot at bim ss be went on the stare to remove tbe chairs. City Iffrriri. While wsiting for the urea f Hong, opera lovers bate i-en treated to 'irbutanie. The last is dainty little Mile. Marie Van Zandt, sn American girl, whose mother ia well known in English and Italian opera, and whose first apfwarar.ee was greeted st Her Majesty a by a large sudience, wboee hearts she won by her sweet snd sym pathetic voice and graceful a ting fa erlina in " II Ion Giovanni " Shrewd ly selecting s simple girlih part, she made a proncunced suceeas and was peatedly encored and even recalled a second time. Mile. Vai Zsndt'a rerep- e-aHi-.i. i m. tl it) Kw t I .r..1,,r crilw . I.a. ttff-ri e . v. it '.ia New York has a "man" di maker who ias Parisian F renchman and a man of education He begsn as s costume r at one of the theaters, snd now oiairoa a handsome private patron age, beaids that of tbe leading theatrical ersoaages. Among these he name Fanay lavenport. Sarah Jewett. Ie f'orhfan. Linds Hietx, Mrs Florence. Mrs. Ostea snd Mrs. Ole Bull. Hegoewto Pnrnna cut mtMOtk. visiting tb- fash ! ionable watering places, aad he declares bis preference for the styles of Pmgst over those of Worth, both of wbi'-b ' magnates of fashion he says he has v i i ited ia their elegant French homes. Mma Hanhett, wife .f Dsvid I Ha- cbett, the ar-Uir, and herself a well ' known actress, died at her home in ' hi cago, a was a si few lav" allies. J he orcrasei ta-r of Mr. William Warren, tbe well-known, comedtsn also of the wife of of Chicago Mr W upon learning f b's i tint city, and n. John B. Rice, rr- n left Boston i.ier'saeriraua ill iu: previous to t-hett went upon re. aad in later ana re-'t-o death Mrs Hai stage in lialtim her the vear tla-d old woman s parts, chseny ! 4?liiVao. Cincinnsti aad t- IUte. Mias Fanny It Price, the set daughter of the detaasd by erjsjTiage. Bottan Transcript- is a former BBS -
The Western Sentinel (Winston-Salem, N.C.)
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