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ST MIIiBFRT HALL WIN8LOTJ.
With muzamr low, upon the river's fcrink,
The Netieea, kiniless vrsters icily beat;
The grazing cattle droop their heads to rink,
. The ripples flowing gently o'er their feet ;
The hazy stillness and the tummer air
Aiie life a lender dream, devoid of care.
All chaoged aud cheeriesa lu the wintry wind -That
sweeps f roia shore to shore la sullen mood
- The river rests, In ghostly shrond coafiued.
And blustering breezes sing a requiem rude.
The slow herds shivering In the fallen snow.
Scatter its powdewd paleness as they go.
And thus in life, a winter cold ami drear
; Taet follows on the summer's Joyous bloom ;
And vrhile wd wait, and idly wander here, "
Time's tocsin sounds some dreaded day of doom ;
And starting up, with pleasure-laden m:nd,
We too the pmiling summer far behind !
-Good Company.
A WILD HIDE,
We Lad been Jiving in Ireland for
about two years, and every day I regret
ted she time more and more when my
husband had decided to leave England
andeome over to manage his property
which, was situated in one of the most
lawless and disaffected counties.
Fenianism was rife, and, heartily' I
wished we were away and over the water
again, at least untilthese troubled days
had given place to better and more
peaceful times,- and now taat the long,
dark winter afternoons and evenings
had, set in again, I used to sit and watch
unxiously for jny husband's return; 1
when Li6nel would come in looking
moody and uneasy,' and kept his revolv
er always loaded, though he never told
me he suspected danger, and tried to
make light of it for my sake. !
Oh! it was a wretched, miserable
i
time, and I can, never forget it.
I remember so well how the crash
came at last, and how the volcano
burse forth thathad been' smouldering
-so long. ' y
We were' sitting at breakfast one
morning when the letters were brought
In. and after handing them the bearer
stood fidgeting about..
' , Lionel looked up.
." That will, do, Delaney , and tell John
to bring the dog-e?rt, around in half-an-hour."
'
; "Lionel, I don't like "that man," I
eaid, after he had left the room. - "lam
sure he is a spy. : I wish you would get
rid of him."
"Oh, the fellow is right enough. It is
his brother, yon know, that I am going
over fo the court about to-day,"
" What is it ?" I exclaimed, as Lionel
r got up suddenly, looked vexed and an
noyed, and threw a letter "into the fire.
"Lionel, is it another of those dreadful
letters?" :
"Yes, warning me against giving evi
'. dence against Delaney to-day. What is
the. country coming to? But there; I
, ought not to Lave told you it will
frighten you into fits."
' " Lionel, you must not go to-day in
deed, indeed, you must stay at home;
they may. mean what - they say. Oh,
promise me you won't go."
" Nonsense absurdity ; Winifred,
don't be so foolish. Why, dear, these
are all empty threats. ' But once show
the white feather and they will be ten
times worse. You foolish little' wife,"
he added, tenderly,, "and so yon worry
; and fret yourself when I am away, ex
pecting me Lome on i a shutter, L sup
pose. ; Well, don't sit up for me to-night,
for after the trial is over I am going to
dine at Col. Arbuthnot's, and shan't be
home, till late. Nqw I must be off. "
- A few more lovihg words, and then I
-stood watching him driving ddwn the
avenue, turning now aud then to wave a
farewell. T
I was only half satisfied, and was wish
ing he had not gone.
After lunch I went out to take some
wine to the" lodge-keeper's child, who
was ill.
. It was rather hits waon I started, and
the sun was setting behind the mount
; sin shedding a flood of crimson light
over the golden glories of the fading
year. , ' -
I stayed there till it: was quite dark,
when I started home.
Suddenly hearing footsteps, I, paused;
nearer and nearer they came, and then1
through the darkness I could' see two
men slowly approaching, talking in low,
earnest tones.
Sick with terror, I drew back behind
a large tree, for one of the men was
Delane'y.
At first they spoke in low, cautious
tones, but," by degrees, their voices were
raised, and at last Delaney, .raising his
hand, exclaimed, with a vehemence that
, made me shudder:
" I tell yor , if it's done at all, it must
be done to-night. What's the use of
talking, man? It's acts,, not words, we
; want. ' He passes the cross-roads to
' night, coming home from the Colonel's,
a mile beyond, by the common and the
chalk-pit. It's a lonely spot there's
- our place. Be there when the moon ia
np, and mind, no mistake this time." .
- And he laughed, actually laughed, as
'.he planned and plotted the cruel and
deliberate murder of my husband,, who
had, been a kind and good master to
him. - ; tj- , .
At last they parted, Delanejr hurrying
back in the direction of tho house with
last injunction to his accomplice no$
to fail; and, after waiting along time, to
make sure that he was gone, I went
lowly home, and reached my room un
observed. '
Tllere I matured and laid myplans de
liberately and carefully, for it was life if
I succeeded, and oh! far worse than death
if I failed.
Sd I dressed for dinner as usual, and,
though every scrap of color had left my
face,? and I knew that I could not. sub
due all expression ofy the horror that I
felt,.I preserved an outward calmness,
and went 6n down to the dining-room as
though the man that stood beliind my
chair Lad not, only two short Lours ago,
planned, to take myilusband's life.
How I got through I know not, but
the meal was over at last.
Still I could dofnothing . till Delaney
left he house and' started on his deadly
errafid. -
fy plan was this.
,When he had gone I intended to go
dowii to the stable, get the horse, and
ride; to CoL Arbuthnot's, trying to reach
it before Lionel had started on his way
honie.
If was a daring step, but the only
chance ; lonely and isolated, we were
miles from any town, and no help was
possible. ' i
1 1 should have to ride hard, and, ,to
-avoid being' discovered and stopped, I
must make a long round, which would
takq me many miles out of my way.
At last the time to act had arrived.
. Delaney must have started long ere
thisj and the servants would be at sup
per ... ,
. Tho clock was just striking 9; as I left
theroom.
Going up-stairs quickly, I put on my
hab!it and stepped out. '
It was a clear, bright night, with tlfe
pahj moon rising over the dark tree
tops, and shining coldly on the glossy
green evergreens, casting ghostly, weird
shadows across the path. I reached the
yard, and saw. to my alarm,, a light in
the jharness-room. Without taking time
to hesitate or think, I advanced softly,
and peeping in, saw, to my great relief,
that it was only the stable-boy busily
i . i
engaged rubbing up the harness. Opening-the
door, I stood before the aston
ishedlad. who gazed with .wide-open.
eyes as though I had been an apT)ari
tioij. 'I .
l Christie." I said, "srfddle Rifleman
t !
as uickly as possible. I want hinu"
Sure, ma'am, you're never going
outto-night?" I
fYes, I am. Qu:ck don't stand
talking there, but do as I tell you."
Burning with impatience, I watched
hini getting out Rifleman, and then,
as was about to mount, catching sight
oftjiie wonder and surprise on Christie's
fac-f , an idea seized me, and, sending
hin back into the stable on some pre
text, I locked the door and took the key.
Nosdne knew where I was ; it would be
' lonp before he could make himself hehrd,
nosmatter how loudly he called, for j the
yard was a long way from the house In
another minute I was out of the gate
and cantering swiftly down the avenue
anA out on the open road. "Rifle
man," I said, stroking his glossy neck,
" it' rests with you to save your master.
Ypti must do your best for the time is
shirt." . "' ! '
xway w- went, keeping well in the
shfuiow of the trees which skirted the
road,; the soft grass .muffled the sound
of ;the horse's hoofs, and faster, yet fast
er,
urged
Rifleman to his topmost
speed, for what if I were already too
late ?, Tha moon was nearly high in
tup heavens, and I knew the hour was
rapidly approaching. It was a-ride for
-life, and on we flew with fearful rapidity.
IWhat if Lionel were on his way al
ready. Oli for strength to keep up a
little longer !
The entrance gates at Col. Aibnth
notV stood wide open, and, with hope in
m,v leart, I galloped up to the house.
The door was opened by the Colonel
himself, who hurried out in great alarm.
f My husband is he here ?" I gasped.
" No ; he has just left not more than
bin minutes ago, I think ; but what has
happened?"
f" Too late! too late!" I cried.
" They Lave killed' him ! Oh, Lionel,
Lionel.!" .
They tried to stop me, but I broke
away ; there might bo time yet, if I rode
Lard and fast. My horse might die in
tfie a ttempt; what mattered it ? It was
life; or death, now ; and away again,
thundering down the avenue I went
heedless, of cries and entreaties to come
back.
I Stopping one moment to listen, I
heard, far ahead, the rumbling sound of
wheels : it seemed to endow me with
! xjew life and strength to keep up, to
struggle a liitle longer ; but poor Rifle
tnaii was almost done for. Breathing
hard, he still labored on, answering whip
and rein to the last
1 1 Gathering up all my energies for a
last effort, I urged Rifleman once more
j o a gallop, and, .sweeping round a cor
j iter, saw, with a jwild gleam of joy and
Jiopp, my husband's dog-cart slowly as-
pending a long -steep hill, right in front,
he foot of which on the other side : was
the spofe where 'the mur Jerers were in
waiting. Every yard of ground was of
value now.
I tried to call out,
bat only a feeble
cry escaped my hps j- and, still running
with a kind of strength and determi
nation born of despair, I pashed on,
till suddenly all grew dim and indistinct.
I was conscious only of a great and
terrible darkness rising and hiding my
husband from my sight; struggling on
blindly wifh outstretched hands I stag
gered a few steps, and then, with a last
wild Wail of "Lionel Lionel!" fell
senseless upon the '' earth my last
though, my last desire being to save
him. Was it all in vain ?
-'
: When I opened my eyes I found my
self ia a cottage, in the bright glare of
a turf fire, with a crowd of eager and
frightened sympathized around, and
Lionel bending, white and,anxious, over
me. It was enough to know that he
was safe to cling, ticrhtlr to him and
feel his strong, protecting arms around
me and, weak, tired and exhausted, I
fainted again. )
It had beeu a!very narrow escape after
all. Lionel had just reached the top of
the long hili when he heard my cry,
and, driving hastily back, had found
me, to his great astonishment, tying in
sensible, and Rifleman standing besido
me. Presently, Col. Arbuthnot, who
had followed in hot haste, had come up,
and they had carried me into the cot
tage, wondering greatly what it meant.
Aud I told my story. ! -'
Had I been a minute later, in all hu
man probability I should never in this
world havf heard liis voice again.,
Delaney waited in vain that night,
and whether he guessed or suspected
that his plot had been discovered was
never known, for ere : morning dawn,ed
ho had fled and succeeded in making
his escape from the country.' Lionel
and Col. Arbnthnotdid all they could tas
have him brought to justice, but in vain
-he was never heard Of.
We left Ireland before Christmas, for
I could not bear to stay there after all I
had gone through, and I never wish to
see it again. As for I Rifleman, I will
never part with him ; the good horse
that carried me so well that memorable
night shall have a happy home and end
his days in peace ; but'! for him I should
never have won that terrible race.
The London Times emphatically de
clares that k far more serious coinjuer
cial danger than the ill-will between
Jew and Chmtian threatens Russia from
this side of the Atlantic. It' says :
"The American is Underselling-the
Russian as a corn grower and dealer.
Both for the production and for the
conveyance of cereals the Yankee 4iuds
that machinery oan do the work of 'hun
dreds of thousands of men. . j
After several seasons of scarcity border
ing on famine, there has been in South
ern Russia this yearj a fair harvest,
L though by no means as good as people
in their engerness anticipated. There
is plenty of grain ready for embarka
tion from the Russian harbors to the
English markets. But will it be able to
stand-the competition of American pro
duce ? As well might a sailing vessel
be expected to outstrip a steaiaer.r Mod
ern ingenuity and the spirit of associa
tion have given the New York and Chi
cago smart men a start which Las made
tLem victorious upon, the earnest and
patient, but plodding John Hodges o
England. What will they not do to th6
detriment of Russia, a country not emi
nent as yet for ingen uity, thrift or labo
rious energy?" The writer adds that
the Russians hope this competition is
ephemeral, and cherish ,the belief that
m this country the population will soon
grow up to the territory, raising the
price of land, increasing home consump
tion, .and otherwise establishing more
eqhal conditions. The Times asks,
" Vhat will become of the steed while
the grass grows ? " and evidently thinks
that such hopes are fallacious.
Native Russians will doubtless feel
aggrieved, and with good reason,! by the
libelous imputation put upon thenation
in the Washington lOsfs review of the
Ministers, who have represented Russia
in the United State?, i Russian j gentle
men decline to be held responsible for
the representatives of their Government.
The Government does not, they say,
truly represent the pebple.- The official
class is largely made up of foreign ad
venturers of no character or position at
home, who worm themselves into favor
by means little creditable to them or
the appointing power. . Catecazy, lor
example, was an Italian; Bartholomei ia
a - Greek, and Bodisco an Armenian.
The Russian Consul in New York, is a
Pole; and so it goes; These persons
represent their own nations as little as
they do Russia. It isi simply a mark of
ignorance to say or "suppose that there
are no ladies and gentlemen and no
"civilization" in Russia. There ia
civilization enough, and that is what
bothers the Czar. V
The Mother has made a Lap. The
boy is in the Lap. He is Looking at
the Carpet.. What has the Mother in
her Hand"? She has a Shingle in' Her
Hand. : What will she do with the Shin
gle ? She will put it Where it will Pq
the Most Good, Juok
A question has arisen in regard t the
''right or propriety of a profbr of an
agricultural college, and cq agequently
an employe of the public, iquirag a
personal property in any diieoveTy or
invention he may happen tdkaakjjt in
sifch employment. The factHe'ai fol- '
lows: . i If -
Two of the professors of mpt Hlnois
Industrial University were eioy4d in
making experiments in producing stigar
from sorghum. These experiTnts ere
bo Buecessful that the professors'- have
patented the processes used iheir; Own
names and as their own proTrty.34As
the question of the propriefyj ofj jhis
course has arisen, the Princijl of the
university, under his own sig?ture fbas
publicly defended it. But jithq de
fense he makes use of the foljpiwing!ex
traordinary words in regard p ith6 dis
covery becoming public property :
"'Becoming public propertifh sotfnds
well ; is a fine sentiment; buflas a; ien-
i il u j. .' : : 1.4'-
iunent ib woiuu ut jubi ap
the dear public ' should owr'as a pub
lie, all the property hi tl?' : State.''
Principal Scott uses an lustration
which completely takes the grfmbd from
under his own feet ; for the dletr public
do really and in fact own al&be prop
erty in the State, the apparent! owners
being simply occupiers, subject j 3 the
eminent domain and rights of he State.
The State can, by due procesf jof'jfaw,
take iwssession ei any person farm or
house and put it to public ussj anil in
every grant of land to an mdidtta this
precedent right is reserved, ijcsreover,
tha State can take a person's property
and his person and use them ft" jits own
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service wnen 11 is uiougnt neu jssary Dy
the State Government. The question is '
a narrow one. Must the frmr4o Ill
inois and of other States be !.mpelled
to pay a tax to persons whfy in. the
course of their employment n&a' public
capacity and while under pu blic rpay,
discover any methods for rpctsses
which they are employed to acover ?
These gentlemen were certainly? em
ployed to exjerimeiit in making sugar.
The cost of making the experiment ws
paid out of the university fun, which
are public moneys. To whonihen do
the results of thess experiment) belong ?
Is the public to be satisfied wiii a Jong
table of Bgures showing th results,
while the methods of producing- these
results are kept secret and ares-eserved'
as the private property of thft experi
menters, for which those 'peions1 for
whom the experiments were nude-v-the
farmers must pay if they desije ts use
them ? Country Gentleman.
f
A ClilTICIHVt '
The following musical criticin from
an Aurora (111.) paper is full oi strong
contemporaneous human intertlt : r t
" The Kellogg concert, as nfifht fiave
been anticipated, was largely a tended.
The dollar freoze-out was rathr rough
I iw t. i
on the hoodlums, but the audieipe roan
aged to exist without the ' (ffttoijiary
war-whoops. The divine Loui was as
resonant as usual, which, by"' jjie w-ayf
she ought to be, being well-tasofied.
The editor of this paper makes; no great
pretensions in the way of niuSjj'al criti
cism, but when a genuine ;$Gfp grand
spiral subeand twist, back-acbn, self
adjusting, chronometer-balanfd, full
jeweled, fourth-proof, rip-snoring iebn
glomeration comes to town heroposes
to hump himself. Kellogg's draphragm
has evidently not, 'like wine, improved
with old age. Her upper frgist4 is
up-stairs near the skj-light,; ;hile: ;the
lower register is closed for reptts.$'he
aforesaid Kellogg performed, Jjr rand
triple act of singing, rollingtie eyes
and talking to some one in th-i Ivings at
the same time. Her smiles a tie aulU
enco were calm, but deternihfed,' but
her smhes at the-"feller" hdf behind
the scenes were divine, nel pinging,
when she condescended to pfiyj ari at
tention to th'e audience, to d,it) critical
esir (the other ear being caref ully folded
up), seemed to be a blendrfg of f;the
fortissimo crescendo dahi-fi-nti-o care
either. Her costume was a h-moiiou3
blending of the circus-tent balloon
style, and was very gorgeousJsirring a
tendency to spill some of th"econtents
out at the top. The Italian lit of, the
business was as fidgety and f irioUs as
usual, and demonstrated whaarly as
sociations with the handr-oanand
monkey will accomplish. Tj venera
ble and obese freak of natiue,jrighpli,
was as graceful as usual.' HJjapriear
ance' very nearly resembles a'pove in a
corner grocer v. or a water taak ton a
narrow-gauge railroad. Hewait no
fully appreciated until he tunad to go
off the stage. He then appealed p his
best advantage, and to take apanirest
in getting out of sight as boosts" possi
ble, an effbrt in which hehadi?e hearty
sympathy of the audience." if
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- i:
A poor mechanic from Caada; f waa
paid a $50 bill by mistake for J bill
by a storekeeper at Granby, lss' He
hastened home, resolved to ! ;eep( the
money ; but within a week he tTjnied,
gave up all except what he haijHept for
car fares, and promised to pa up the
remainder as soon as he couldj Sis ex
' perience with his conscience, he iM&i had
A, SOCIAL if VISAS CJB. f
The "fast set " in American society
whoae breast quivers and tingles with
delight at the idea of friendly notice
upon its travels from the Prince of
Wales, and which at home grovels, in its
own way before any titled Tom Noddy,
is a social pest. Its influence is degrad
ing and demoralizing. But it -has a
ridiculous aspect which is wanting in its
prototype. Lady Clara Vere de Verb
may be' selfish and cruel and a wholly
useless and encumbering person in th's
world. But she is the . daughter of a
hundred Earls, and she shows it as cer
tainly as a high-bred racer shows his
Arabian descent. A certain nameless
refinement and elegance and grace may
distinguish her for it is notj of course,
always so as Lovelace, although a
scoundrel, may have the urbane' and
gentle courtesy of the chevalier with
out fear and without reproach.
Ob, your soft eyes, your low replies !
A great enchantress you may be.
With all her stony-heartedhess and self
ish vanity and inhuman pride, the Lady
Clara Vere de Verd is still a swau among
inferior birds. But no mushroom wealth,
no buying of the crown jewels of France
f.s shirt-studs, no improvised magnifi
cence and astounding luxury and ex
travagance, can rival this effect. The
tone that time alone, lapsing through
long centuries, gives the picture, the
tone which is its secret splendor and
charm and worth how will you supply
that in a morning? The son and daugh
ter or the grandson and granddaughter
of the haberdasher and the coal-heaver
and the fat-boiler may outbid Emper
ors for a vase and Queens for necklaces,
but they can no more buy the poetic
perspective and the association and his
toric setting which belong to the Em
peror and Queen than they can buy the
moon.
Moreover, it is a .compensation of
justice, that those in whom the refine
ment of long training is most conspicu
ous disdain the shoddy splendor of sud
den wealth. The amazing extravagance
of luxury in some instances in America
is as little representative of distinctive
American character and quality as an
English rake of a noble family who
comes to hunt up a rich American whp
is a type of that trained intelligence and
public spirit ,aud service which' mark an
Englishman like Lord Granville in Par
liament or the late Dean Stanley in the
church. " Editor's Easy-Chair," in
Harper' Magazine.
dMJSHlCAX
HOUSE-SHOES
Of. AND.
The poetical surroundings of " the
village blacksmith " and his harmonious
anvil, says Vhambirts' Journal, are
threatened with a powerful rival,-by the
introduction from the United States of a
new industry ; namely, the mauufacta.'u
cf machine-made horse-shcex. A com
pany whose premises face the Thames
opposite Greenwich has opened its
works to supply the United Kingdom
with these machine-matte articles. The
iron is rolled from kerap, coming from
the rollers as a grooved bar, which is
afterward cut into Jeugths, punched
with the necessary holes, and finally is
bent by the machine into the horse-shoe
shape. It is calculated that there are
in the United Kingdom about 3,000,000
horses ; in Europe generally more than
30,000,000; requiring annually 1,500,
000 tons of shoes. So that, if the new
company turns out good work, there are
plenty of customers for its goods. It is
said that the new shoe has met with the
approval of some eminent authorities,
and is already used by several tramway
companies.
UOW THE "V1GGEK" KEEPS WARM.
Over in the Big meadows, any day, a
fine illustration of chilly comfort may
be seen in the plan adopted by the In
dians to catch fish and keep warm at the
aanie time. Follow the river, and occa
sionally you come across a noble jred
man, muffled up iu ajl the old coats and
blankets he possesses, sitting in his ca
noe, which is loaded with firewood.
Three or four feet otr the center of the
canoe is covered with sand to tho depth
of two or three inches, and on this he
keeps a bright fire blazing, and, with
his back to the flame, pursues his duties
of taking in the speckled beauties. The
6moke might prove troublesome to a
white man, but the Digger is in no dan
ger of having his complexion injured,
and, as he paddles along from one good
riffle to another, he looks as independ
ent as a lord, and throws a glance of
pity at the poor devil of a white man,
i who takes his "chances from the snowy
bank, and has to knock under in tho fish
ing race at the rate of about five to one.
Plumas (CaL) National.
" MoiHEit," renfarked a Duluth girl,
" I think Harry must be going to pro
pose to me." "Why, so, my daugh
ter?" queried the old lady, laying down
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like a moon in its fourteenth night
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"Well, he asked me this evening if
wasn't tired
living with snch a menag-
erie as you and dad,"
A stnpioatb of Minneapolis capitalists
has purchased fifteen of the principal
elevators there, having an aggregate ca
pacity of 537,000 bushels.
1 THKY XRVEH GET OVJSM IT.
i f Do you know, my dear, she sud
denly said as she looked tip from her
piece-work " do you know that next
week will be the twentieth Anniversary
lof our wedding ?"
" Is that so ? By George ! how time
flies ! Why, I had no idea of it."
I " Yes, we have bec-n married almost
: twenty long years, she continued, with
something of a sigh. "You have beeu
a good husband to me, darling."
" And yon Lave been a blessed little
wife to me, Susan. Come here till I kiss
you.. There !"
Y I wa? thinking to-day, I was think
ing of of "
" Of that sickly-faced baboon who
used to go home with you from prayer
meeting before I knew you ?" he inter
rupted.
: "Who do you mean?"
i " Why, that Brace fellow, of course."
V Why, George, he wasn't such a bad
fellow."
Wasn't, eh ? Well, I'd like to know
of a worse one. He didn't know enough
.to chew putty, and there you were as
good as engaged to him."
" Yes, George, but you know you were
keeping company at that same time
with that Helen Perkins."
j " That Helen Perkins ? Wasn't Miss
Perkins one of the loveliest and prettiest
.young ladies in the whole country?"
ji No, she w asn't ! She had teeth like
;. horse ?"
ji ''She did, eh? How about that stoop
shouldered, white-headed Brace ?"
" And such big feet as she had ! ' Why,
George, she was the laughing-stock of
the town." '
h " Not much she wasn't ! Si'.e was a
young lady who would have made a
model wife."
! 'Then why didn't you marry her and
all jher moles and warts and mushroom
eyes?"
i "Don't
talk that way to me!
Her
eyes were as nice as yours !"
"jThey wan't."
"They was ! I believe you are sorry
because you didn't marry Brace !"
i "And I know you are sorry because
fovs didn't marry that beautiful aud ac
complished Miss Perkins !"
! "ji am, eh ? I thought you said I had
I been a good husband to you ?"
"And didn't you call me your blessed
littkWife?" "
j Tjien he plumped down and began to
read the mortgage sales and advertise
ments in the paper, and she picked up
her jsewing and gave the cat a gentle
kick. These old things will come up
now 'and then, and somehow neither side
evei-gets entirely over them.
:i KNOWLEDGE IS A NUTSHELL.
, A cubit is two feet;
K- f'P'123 is three feet.
;j A fathom is six feet.
fj A tepan is ten and one-half inches.
fl A palm is three inches.
is A league is three miles.,
A great cubit is eleven felt.
'j Tliere are' 2, 759 languages.
Oats, thirty-five pounds per bushel.
;! Bran, thirty-five pounds per busheh
Barley, forty-eight iounds per bushel.
; A day's journey is thirty-two and one
half miles. ,
Two persons die eveiy second.
Sound moves 743 miles per hour.
' A square mile contains 640 acres.
A storm blows thirty-six miles per
hour.
3 Coarse salt, eighty-five pounds per
busheh
1 A tub
ot water weighs eighty-four
pounds. .
: TJuckwheat, fifty-two pounds per
bushel.
-1 The average of human life is 31 years,
A barrel of rice weighs 600 pounds.
A baiTel of pork weighs 300 pounds.
1 An acre contains 4,840 square yards.
- A barrel of fbur weighs 300 pounds.
Slow rivers flow five miles per hour,
"i A firkin of butter weighs fifty-six
pounds.
Timothy seed, forty-five pounds per .
bushel. . .
: A Land (horse measure) ia four inches. (
' A hurricane, moves eighty miles per ,
hour. . j
A! rifle ball moves 1,000 milesper hoar, j
j Bapid rivers flow seven miles per hour.
j The first lucifer match was made in j
1829, ' ' j
j Gold was discovered in California in i
1848.
Electricity moves 228,000 miles per ;
hour. .
j The first horse railroad was built .in
1S21
Almoderate wind blows sven miles
per hour.
i Tbe first steamboat plied the Hudson
I in 1807.
j Ajmile is 5,280 feet, or 1,760 yards in
in hineth. .
Al Cincinnati woman
who found a
babv in a basket on her door-step, took
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the infant to the station house, but
savey the basket to carry home her mar
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li.
keting. -
F0kepatjoh claims to have made
23i000 last season ! Barnum'B Combi
nation $400,000. People may not have
moiiey at times-to buy bread and C50al,
but for whisky, and a circjns it always
turns up somehow. ' .
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FLEAS AN1BLES.
Therk ' ia something high-toned in -
church bells. -
, .
Whm a bank " goes up," it generally
fails to " come down." t
TetjLBBs of exaggerated stories ; are
known as yarn merchants.
What five letters form sentence of '
forgiveness? I x qq u.
"Whex aorrow has left its traces," r
what has become of the, rest .of the
harness? '
An editor without a backbone don't
amount to muoh. It's his principal
column yon know.
Ma. Btod asked her, Bose, wilt
thou be mine? " Rose answered, "lam
sorry but a rose cannot be turned into
a bud."
Boiling hair in a eolation of tea will
darken it, says an exchange; but some
folks dou't like to have, their tea dark
ened in that way. . ,
' A. iouthtoi Pennsylvania Granger,
about to be chastised Jby his father,
called upon his grandfather to protect
him from the middle man.
"Now, then, what's your papa's
name, Freddy?" "Danno." "Don't
know your papa's name! Why, what
does you mamma call him ?" " Brute I"
A babbeb offered a reward for instantly
removing superfluous hair. Among the
answers was: "Undertake to kiss a
woman against her will."
A 6-YEAB-onD was enveloped in a shirt
much too big for him. After strutting
about for some time he burst out : " Oh.
I ma! I feel awful lonely in this big
S shirt."
" Whit is the greatest charge on
record? " asked the professor of history.".
And the absent-minded student an- '
swered: "Seventeen dollars for hack
hire for self aud girl for two hours."
" Yotr never saw my hands as dirty as
that I" said a petulant mother to her
little girl.- "No, but perhaps your ma
did !" was the sharp, if not respectful,
reply. ,
Physicians say it is not healthy to
sleep in the daytime. That is why the
baby which is taken to church never
goes to sleep. It knows what is good
for its health.
An old citizen iu a country village,
being asked for a subscription toward re
pairing the fence of the graveyard, de
clined, saying, "I subscribed toward
improvin that buryin ground nigh onto
forty years ago, and my family hain't
had no benefit from it yet."
" Give the young man a chance," says
a writer. Yes, give him a chance at a
church festival in a raifla for a blue-eyed
doll in poke-bonuet, and a "just too love
1 for anything." Give him a chance
to go out aud kick himself full of holes
because he went to the festival.
Christian at Work.
A youno man living- in Leadville
shipped to his little brother in St. Louis
a choice donkey of the diminutive spe-
! cles known as the Mexican burro. The
agent, iu making out his manifest, con
cluded that " burro " meant " bureau,"
and reported accordingly to his superior,
"one bureau missing aud one jackass
over."
"How is this for cheek?" inquired J.
11. Davis, one of Barnum's renresenta-
j tives, Girard House, Philadelphia, to a
skin on the left side of John Hoffmier's
face and pulled it out five or 6ix inches,
like so much India-rubber. The repor
ter was struck dumb by .Mr. Davis'
cheeky behavior, but Jbe was still more
astonished to see Hoffmier smile as
though he enjoyed tho maltreatment.
Then Mr. Davis explained that Hoffmier
is the wonderful " India-rubler. man'
who has puzzled German and French
savants for several years. Althongh
the rara avis with the elastic cu-
j tide does not speak or understand
' English, he smiled approvingly -when
j Mr. Davis ceased speaking, and then, as
if to sustain his reputation, pulled a
handful of skin on the back part of his
j head around fo his month and bit it,
! covered his entire face with the folds of
skin which he drew up from his throat
and neck, and pulled the skin oh his
arms aud legs thirteen inches awpy from
J the flesh. The most remarkable thing
I is that as soon as the skin is released it
instantly contracts to its original place,
and as far as appearance is concerned
does not differ from the epidermis of
j any healthy white person. The, skip is
' Tery fair and its texture is remarkably
j fine so fine, indeed, that it feeU more
like an infant's than an adult's.
A cTjaiJY-HAiBErboy,being complained
of by a New York merchant, for peddling
bnttouc in front of his store, pleaded
his own case before the Justice" as fol
T live with my father and
I ,i.. t m a nnnr Vw and if mv Mr-
V w .
luoiucx. i jw . -
j ft.. were rich i WOuld not have to ped
die. My father was a mercnant not
many years ago, but now he has to ped
dle,too.'' The Justice remarked that the
complaining merchant took up' mere of
the sidewalk with his business than the
boy did, and that as he was trying to
earn an honest lining he wotd4 not
terferewith him.
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