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; MEMORY'S PICTURE. I see her how, the fairest thing ' V That ever mocked man's picturing, : I picture her as one that drew -Aside life's curtain and looked through The mists of all life's mystery, ; ' V ' As one looks on the open sea, " The soft wide eyes of wonderment ' V That trusting looked you through-and through; r ,. . '' , The sweet arched mouth, a bow not bent, That sent Love's arrows swift and true. .That sweet arched mouth I The Orient h a' h not such pearls ia all her stores; : Not all her storied, spice-sat shores ; , . -,' Hath fragrance such as it bath spaat. ri I picture her as one who knew . v: : : - How rare is truth to be untrue ; ... : . ' As one who knew the awful sign : -Of death, of life, of the divine "l . - Sweet pity of all loves, all hates '"' v Beneath the iron-footed fates. - , - . ., .. .. . -I picture her as seeking peace," . ' And olive leaves and vine-set land;. 7 . While strife stood by oa either hand, -And wrung the tears like rosaries. I picture her in passing rhyme, " ; As of yet not a part of thesa.. ... ' '- A woman bora abova her timsu ' : A woman waiting in her place,' , With patient pity on her face, - " Her face, her earnest, youthful face,' ' ' Her young face so uncommon wise; The tender love-light in her eyes, 't ' . Two stars of heaven out of place.'- , . Two 6tars that sang as stars of old " Their silent eloquence of song, ' " In skie3 of glory and of gold, ' , . ' Where God in purple passed along; . That patient, youthful face of hers . , That wan a thousand worshippers I That silent, pleading face, among -' Tea thousand f ace3 just the one - That I shall love when all is done, " And life lies by, a harp unstrung. t ' , Jjaquin MLler, in Boston, Transcript. VEGETABLE KED. : I am inclined to hope that I am the most nervous man. iu the world. Like many shy men, I am .comparatively happy when 1 am by myself. . I was very happy on a certain important but "ornery look ing" afternoon on the Underground .llailway. My office in Whitehall street had left me free at 4 o'clock, and I .had a new edition of "Sophocles" to read. The Greek drama was always my sub ject, and I have, indeed, preprared an .edition of "Sophocles'' on my own ac count in which: my various readings are conclusively proved to be only correct ones; it will be published posthumously. ("Well, the new edition was one source of happiness, my solitude was another. 'Moreover, one foot was resting on the cushion .opposite and my other leg was icrossed over that knee. I had only just begun a cigarette, and was secure ia the - ireHection that I should not have to move ! for some-minutes, when an event hap .pened which would not necessarily seem 'of any importance; the door of the next compartment (separated onlv from mine by a hfilfrway partition) opened, and two ; lades got in. They were evidently young ladies from their voices and :t words. . ' ;" . , ' "Why, this is a smoking carriage I With the usual horrid smell in it, too!" '. "Well, there's no one smoking in it now, Maggie, to go on with your tale. I always thought that you rather liked him." : . .. . ,. : - . , v ; ' 'Liked himi" the other voice (a pretty voice) answered. "Why, my dear May, he is rea-headed has that vivid, veget- able red that I always loathed and de : tested !" ... , - - . Now, my hair is red, vegetable, vivid, vile and detestable; Of that color with which only the invidious freckle Ioveth . to abide. I don't like the color of my .own hair. If I could have.braved the ' sneers of some; vendof of dyes, if I could have f need the unapproving silence of , my polite acquaintance, and the banter uot my office, then I should .have very gradually changed the color of my hair. But what was I to do now? Uf I kept silence I might overhear confidences from this unseen "Maggie" concerning her relations with and conduct toward my companion in misfortune. This would never do. So I coughed. The cough was evidently not noticed,, for th'e young lady who answered to the name of May said : VLook, Maggie, the partition doesn't go up to the roof. I wonder if there is ., a ma on the other side?" " t "I'll easily settle that my dear !" Mag i gie replied, to my horror. There was nothing else, for itj so I ,, feigned sleep h.3 well as I could, wnile I '. imagined and partly heard, this dreadful - young woman getting on the seat,1 and - felt that I was being examined over the partition. Then it occurred to me with a sort of spasm that sleep with a lighted . cigarette in the mouth was inconsistent - and. improbable. Puff at the cigarette v I could not, and my nostrils were being horribly irritated by the smoke that was curliug around them. I held on as long arl could, feel jig meanwhile that my face was becoming more and more con gested, until at last, hoping that my ob server had withdrawn herself, and being utterly incapable of living . longer with out freih air, I burst out with a yelp, curiously compounded of splutter, cough and sneeze. I looked up at the parti- - turn. The interval between it and the roof of the rarriaga was a small cne, and Maggie had been com pelted to turn her face a little sideways to get a good view of me. By mean' of her hat she had been imprisoned in this position, and was uow tugging and pulling to get free. It was a most u jcomnionlj- uncomforta-: ble situation,, but, though Iwas devoutly anxious for the immediate and painless death of one of us, I was aware dimly, just then, that Maggie was a young per son of considerable attractions. Her face was a beautiful ovalv and she had a briHiant color, partly the result of her s position aud exertionf I supposed. This state of aaire la ted, perhaps, a good - five second sr-secondi that "I felt; to dra? like the centuries which precede a summer holiday. ; WThat to do? If I oiTerei to Jielp I couid only advance I t V it- 1 m uiaiiuia uy tuner puuinj; nor Uhi oil or squaslnag it back , against the roof. Moreover, I was almost certain to touch her face I o wonder that a girl with a face like that "loathed and detested" "vegetable red hair." , ."- , Even tbcsj rive seconds came to an end at iatt. With a great struggle the face disapjreard, bat jude of my em barrassment nnd horror !; the hat fell at my feet where I was standing in inde cision aud dismav. "May," 'I heard Ma, lOTlp whisper to her friend, ' there was a man thr-re Of ' course he has red hair, and my hat , fallen over into his carriage." v We were getting near a station, I glad to see. As the train whirled handed the hat over the partition. has was in I and said with as much ' firmness - as I conld command, in an allair of such complica ted discomfort: "Your hit, I believe: . allow me!" Then, witL out waiting to co licet my gloves, my umbrella and my new Sopho cles, I sprang ca to the platform. . I am not expert ia 4 'leaving the train while it is in motion,'' at the best of times. Thi3- time which was by no means of the best, I sprang straight out at right angles to the line of the train,: and a3 a natural r consequence, was thrown violently on . to my hand3 and knees, tearing my nether garments at the knee and 'barking1 the knee itself with - more liberality than discretion. Ilowever, M reflected f as I gathered my self and my . hat together, they could not have seen me fail, so all was right.' "With the arrival of the next train the first part of my adventure came to a wel come end. It left a great impression on me, however. I was pursued by a con stant dread of failing m with siaggie" again. To avoid this I availed myself of a route by 'bus to and from my office, which entailed waste of time and a cold in the - head. For Maggie might be in but scarcely on a 'bus, and the weather was cold and capricious. . ; Miss Jackson is almost the only lady I know upon whom I voluntarily make calls. iShe is a very old friend of mine; she is, in fact, one of the few women in whose company I do not feel shy. I went to see her - about a jcrtnight after: the episode of Jhc hat". The servant showed me in without announcing my name. The room was lighted only by the fire, and as I walked iu'I heard a voice that seemed somewhat familiar finish a narra tion with these words : "Luckily he got out at the next station, and I live in hope that I shall ncrer see him again.7' "Let me introduce Mr. Carden toyouj Miss Henderson," said my hostess,. who had risen to receive me. I bowed in the darkness, not without grave fears as to the identity of Miss Henderson with the Maggie ot my adventure. However that maybe, she uttered some usual common phrase to whichT replied; "Oh, yes!'! jerKuy, not Demg aoie to imnKoxany thing more original on. the spur ol the moment. . ..:.: " VWell," said Miss Henderson, after an interval in which I raked viciously round my mind for a remark in vain, ". ininK l must be going. Where do you think I put my hat before it got dark, Miss Jackson? I've made a disgracefully long call ; it was quite light when came." - - :, - V- ' . . ' ' 'Mis3 Jackson lit a candle, while nuntea desperately about lor the miss ing hat, not daring , to look up at Miss Henderson. At last I found it close be side me on a low chair, with -a fiirry con-; trivance which, I have since learned, , is called a boa. It wa3 so close to me, in deed, that to this day I regard it as a special mercy that that I hadnot;sat upon it. , I picked ug the hat and the boa, -and as I stepped over with them I said, without looking up, - "this is your hat, I believe." Then I looked up, as was inevitable. - Of course, as you have guessed, Miss Henderson was the "Maggie of the railway carriage, I had just time to see her flush crimson before I lowered my eves. What happened before she left the room L cannot, say, as, I was practically unconscious." ' " t-' Well, after this I got desperate. It was of no use, it seemed, to fly from this hat and its wearer. I abandoned my 'bus route and patronized i the Under ground again, haunted by the dread of seeing Maggie, but sure that no amount of stratagem could - long keep me from doincr so. In the evening when I had just got home I used even to imagine scenes in which I had crushed and humiliated her by the haughty politeness of mv'manner? at, a chance meeting. :I can certainly c6nfea4hatthe recol tion oi ner race was, constsuHy" very vivid, and that I- sometimes" "visual ized" it without any hat,, or frame of stuffed pait. tion. ; ; J v r One fine morning about 9:30 I was on my way uptathe office ina smoking car- riage. i It was quite full of business men, each with his paper and pipe. I was en joying a cigarette in that state of 'semi consciousness that the - Underground favors when, just before the train left I knew not what station, Maggie opened the door. "This is a smoking carriage," remarked the .man next the door.who with the odious selfishness of his sex re garded the entrance of a lady as the violation of sanctuary. "I am sorry," Maggie answered, "but there is no time to rind another. I will stand, -and change at the next station." I had known that it was Maggie before I looked up when I heard her voice at the door. The pro pinquity off no other being ,would t bslve accounted for the sudden aura that passed over me. These nine dreadful, clean -thaved and outwardly respectable city men complacently sat and allowed Masr- gie to stand in the reeking atmosphere tl hat they had contaminated with their 1 "smoke. I am no a man who loves to f,push himself forward on such occasions as tmsj but l could, not take, a share in such conduct, and after a second's blush ing I extricated myself from my neigh bors and offered my scat by a "gesture of the hand. It was not so to be: I wna ound to spak, as Maggie was looking t the window bv the bar of which she as holding. , "Fray take mv seat." I said, in a voice as gruff and deep as I could make it. "Thank you, Mr. Car- den," Maggie replied, after a startled re cognitions fit'is a shame to deprive vou of it in a smoking carriage." lip and blushed, but took She bit her the vacant place. "c. '-'; ? I suppose I stood there for some three minutes in a state of agony, conscious of having rebuked the city men by my act and of having once more obtruded, as it were, my existence ,upon Maggie. At the next statioa I got out; so did she. "Mr. Carden," I heard her say close be hind me. What new torture wa's I booked for, I wondered; but escape there wa3 nonet so I turned and faced the foe, rais ing my hat and no doubt looking much surprised. "Mr. Carden,' .she said,"""! wish to beg your pardon, if you please.' my pardon Miss Mag Miss Henderson I mean," I stammered." "What on earth for?T , - . -f : : "You must know," Magg'e answered, studying the platform meanwhile, 'that I have twice been very rude to you; the first time when T disturbed you in the train, and this second time when you oyerheard me giving a vicious account of what happened then to Miss Jacksoa. I made up my mind to apologize when and where 1 happened to meet you, and I hope that - you will excuse me ?" she queried, looking at me with a beautiful Lut troubled face. : r - "I beg that you won't mentioa it,"; I said, with a firmness and confidence that have astonished me ever since. "If I wasn't so absurdly nervous it wouldn't have mattered at all." 5' 'I hope that ycu didn't hurt yourself ia getting outof the train that unfortunate afternoon. My friecd who was with me thought you must have hurt yourself e&-' riously." :-y . ' . : ; . " Oh! not at all," I stammered, "not all over; at least, not much nothing to spsak of." I bowed as, Maggie moved down the platform, and actually ventured to Temafk: " The way out i3 behind yoo, Miss Henderson." ; t "Thank .you; I am going oa by the next train," she said. ? "Then you really got out of the train to beg my pardon f" I asked, too aston ished to feel shy. . " Yes," slic replied, and tLea her face dimpled all over 3 she added: "And I am afraid that ycu got out of tlie tram to escape from me, as I see that you are not going out. Good morning." . The tram came in ana we separated oa our different ways. I called oa Miss Jackson again soon after this occurrence, but of course did not allude to it. Miss Jackson was going to give one of her. "evenings." 1 had never been to one of them : I supposed that they were torture of the most dread ful sort. Miss -Jackson begged, that l would do her a favor, by coming to this one. .! Jlr. Henderson is . coming," sne explained, "and he cares to talk nothing but Greek play. You are the only man 1 know who can help me by knowing what he is talking about." 'What! Is he Henderson, of St. Guido's, Oxford?" I inquired. ; " He was. Now he is Mr. Henderson, of London, and finds fewer sympathizers. His only interest in connection with any thing of the present day is hi daughter, whom vou me, here one afternoon. . A charming girl; I am very fond of her." ' I promised to come to the "evening." I afterward repented of the ;promise, but kept it. I scarcely spoke to Maggie, but I had much ; con versatioa. with Mr. Henderson, that is to say, I heard much of Mr, Henderson's ideas concerning the Greek drama. I am a good listener, and it transpired somehow that I was inter ested in the subject .This impressed Mr. Henderson with the idea that I was aa iatelligent young fellow. At last he said : "Come round some evening say Friday evening- and see us. We are a small family only my daughter Margaret and myself but I have some old-manuscripts that you might like to see. It is a rare treat to me to see people who take an interest in my subject." I went to see the manuscripts,: of course. Since then I have been often. I astonished Mr.. Henderson a week or go back by stammering -out a request that I should be allowed to ask his daughter for " her - hand. He laughed, made an apt quotation, but raised no ob jection.;. - r -::r'' : ; ' : - A few days ago I was standing In his hall putting on my "great coat. - "So you have really . quite - conquered your - in superable objection to 'vegetable - red' hair. Maggie?" I said. V- - ; ' - 'Your hat 1 believe; allow me?'? was her seemingly inconsequent reply. London Belyraiia. ' ' What a Blizzard Is. A. blizzard is simDlv a strong, cold wind moving unchecked over leagues of light, unpacked snow. -. It sweeps up that which has previously fallen, carries it 'away in the color ot 'avast snaken fleece, distributes it so that almost each atmospheric atom has its little particle, and drives along all with a steady fury. Whether iresh snow is falling can seldom be determined by people out ia a real blizzard.;: As far as the eye can see unward. aad that, is but a little space, the hurry of minute pellets hurl-' ing across an unrevealed sky prevai!s,and the hurrying sameness on every side is varied only by occasional tall and bending wraiths where the wind whirls inshif ting columns. A confusion of - the senses, comparable to none producad otherwise, appalls one submitted to the enormous and blinding force of such a, snow-filled wind, and scarcely a distinct thought re mains except that the awful cold forbids . crouching for rest and shelter To our per Rnnal knowledge, one in " rftf n' f 1 1-7 aiU upon a railway track liftegtrHjppi, auAvo x.a c raTrie: and may be lost by five steps the: wrong . way after stumbling down from the embankment, which, being white, becomes instantly invisible. It is recorded on good authority that bands of teamsters halting with their horses have been snowed over thirty feet deep hy blizzards; and have' survived by. beat ing out breathing -chambers till the ces sation of the storm enabled them to dig themselves to upper air. The formatioa of a drift about a halted man, or 4 horse, or sleigh, is. sometimes wonderfully speedy, and the drift, ouce established, grows by virtue ofits obstructiyeness. In some well authenticated cases lost persons have been found by - the drifts over them aad .dug out alive, ia others the spring has revealed corpses still un thawed amoag the last white relics of winter. In blizzards people have ' often been unable to see across the street of a northwest town, and sometimes men lose their, direction in trying to reach the op posite side of a well-built way. Toronto Globe. -.Fr,: , : i::. V - What "L' Means on a Gold Coin. Whea the coia is seat from the miat it is overweighted -J: to 1 per cent, of its yalue, which allows that much loss ia wear and tear while .ia circulation. When it fails to come up to the standard weight it is refused by the United States Treasury, but before they pass it from their hands is is marked with an "L" oa the face, which- signifies light weight, and also is meant to prevent its; circula tion among the people for its. full yahie. -It is said that there are great quanti ties of light-weight gold coins in circula tion, and Mthe bank teller frequently comes in contact with thenv He is sup posed to be well pasted ia the various grades of money in circulation, but not withstanding his experience a light -we'ght slip ia oa him now and then. However, goldoia is very difficult to handle, and ia nearly, all cases where it is deposited in large quantities a loss in weight can be looked for. It has been several months, though, since such a loss in weight as that ia this last deposit has been sustained.' Several months ago an amount about equallyas large as $3,200 was sustained on gold coin deposited by the local banks. This deficit,-it seems, made the teller more strict in accepting the coin?, and depositors were more careful, , resulting in" few light-weight coins being presented. . Encountering little trouble for some time, it seems the tellers have. lifted their vigilance, and the light-weight coins slipped in on one of them. St. Louis Reputlixir. The New Year in linrmah. The advent of the New Year ia Burmah is celebrated with what is called the Water Festival, which furnishes a some what boisterous amusement for the pop ulation of . Mahdalay. Men, women and boys go about armed with squirts of faa tast'c form, which are filled with water at vessels provided for the purpose, and discharged at any chance i pa;ser-by. Foreigners are favorite obeots of this aqueous" attack, and lucky is the Brit ish ofricer who before starting out has dressed for suddea shower3. " - 'Tain t So. Doa't believe that the world 13 goia' to the doss 'Tain'tso! That all women are peacocks, aad all , mea . . ' are hojra, - - Tain t so! -An' if any man tells you the world tode- spise, An' the honor of all men is sold for a price, Look squar ia his eyes aa' jest tell him he lies! ... " . 'Taint so! For he thinks that the world is fashioned awry , - - - -.- . , And ma la from the pattern they cat him cut byt : - ... , Yankee D'.ads. THE BABT Kl'G.. Ml INFANT IN AUSIS TIIC RCLEi: OP SPAIN. - Alfonso the XIIL Horn a Klnj Crowned When Fire Dajs . Old The Homage He Iteceivcs. The youngest King in- Huropa is Al fonso, of Spain. :Tnis royal baby was horna King, for his father, Alfonso the Twelfth, died some monthi before this youthful occupant of th3 Spanish throne opened his little ey es on the wo. Id ia the royal palace at Madrid. . It was near noon on the 7th of May,; 188 J, when the church bells of the Spanish capital rang out the aews to the people that a new King had cometo take the place of the one who only a" short time before had been laid in the tomb at the palaca cf the Escuriah' There was great rejoicing in Madrid, and crowds gathered in the square wHiere the royal standard was hoisted in honor of the event, while in all the churches praye:s were offered for the baby King and his young widowed mother. . Meanwhile in the palace , an ancient Spanish ceremony was taking place. The courtiers ; and nobles, in glittering uni forms and splendid costumes, were as sembled in the great hall, and the tiny new-born King, lying on a cushion jrich with lace and embroidery, was solemnly carried round to receive their admiratiou and homage. Before Alfonso's birth it had seemed probable that hisldest sister, Mercedes, would be Queen of Spain.- Indeed, she had "been proclaimed as such at the time of her father's death, but the arrival of a baby brother changed all her prospects ; for it is not the Oldest child of a King, but the oldest son who inherits the throne, and Mercedes is now; only her Koyal Highness the Princess of "Asturias, and.sister to the King. r As she was "but five years old when the little King was born, she could not realize what grave resDonsibilities were removed from her pathway through life. - -The Queen-mother, Christina, was Re gent for Mercedes during the very brief time that the little maiden was uueen, and, she now holds the same position for her baby son, and will represent him at the head of-the nation until - he is old enough to understand the duties of a King. Queen Christina is not yet thirty vears old, but she is wise and discreet. and is a tender and loving mother to her three fatherless little children. Wheu the" infant King was five days old the christening took place. " The ceremonies were of great magnificeace and all the grandees of Spaia were present to do honor to the baby monarch. . He re ceived the name of Alfonso in memoryof his father and a long line of illustrious Kings of Spain, and is known as Alfonso the Thirteenth. Leon, Ferdinand and many other names were given him. and one of them i3 Pascual, as in the Spanish calendar Pascual is the patron saint of the little King's birthday. ' This royal baby's home is in the palace at Madrid, but all the palace3 In Spain are his by right of inheritance In the hot summer month? he goes . With his mother and his; little sisters,' Princess Mercedes and the Infanta Maria Theresa, ' to La Granja, a beautiful palace situated in a fragrant pine forest among ihe vjszztihont fortv miles fro m Madrid. La Granja is an ancient rom residence. It was built in' the early part of the eighteenth century by Philip the Fifth, who was the first Bourbon King- of Spain. -; "V; ' '-; The pretty boy, ;who as yet knows nothing of life except to nestle in hU mother's-armi and receive her' loving caresses, has a stormy past behind him, and many enemies who threaten the peace of future. , . " y.. ; A dispute concerning the right to the throne has been going on in the Spanish royal family for more than fifty years. In ' 1833, when" Ferdinand, the Seventh, the great-grandfather of little Alfonso, died, he left no sons, and his oldest 1 daughter, Isa bella the Second, ascended the throne Ferdinand had a brother named " Carlos, who, believing that a woman should not be allowed to rule Spain, declared him self King. A strong band of adherents grew up around him, who were called Carlists; and although his branch of the lauiuy ua ueYcr succceueu m gaining possession of the throne, the struggle for kingship has been passed down from father to son, and much blood has been shed in battles between the armies of the rival parties. : - The affection of the Spanish people is strong for Alfonso and - his -young widowed mother, but the Spaniards are a turbulent and restless nation, and fond of intrigue. They are not to be trusted, and the lot of the poorest boy in Ameri ca is better and happier than that of this baby King who " lives in the midst of desperate and bitter enemies. Harper's -Young People.. ' ;i " - A Famous Marble. . A Raleigh, Noith Carolina, correspond dent of the St. Louis Globc-Demomt gives some interesting reminiscences in regard to Canova's celebrated statute of Washington,' which was ordered by the State of North Carolina in 1815, com pleted: in 1820, brought over to this country by the frigate Macedonia, and placed : in the rotunda of the Capitol at Raleigh with impressive ceremonies. It was considered by many altogether the finest artistic representation oPWashiag ton in the world. The correspondent re calls its fate to mind: "In 1830 workmea oae wiady day were oa thev roof of the Capitol with a furnace for heating solder ing irons. A spark from the brazier of coals was blown iato the wood-work and sooa the building was in flames. Nothing could be done except save some of the records. People who looked through the doors , leading to the rotunda could soon baly see the curling flames, and thea, as a gust of wind blew them aadde, -the statue, still white and grandly culm. Presently; with a crash,' the roof and rotunda walls fell ia. In and instant' the statue was a wreck. As soon as pos sible the ruins of -the building were cleared away. The statue" was mo cal cined by the fervent heat that much of it crumbled to powder at a touch. The head was never found. It was long be lieved, howerer, that it had been stolen, and large rewards " were offered for it The fragments were stored away ia aa outhouse, i Years later, wheji the present stately Capitol was completed, they were put a closet." They have remair ei until now. The torso is ia fair preservation and is less calcined, than any other por tion. The carving i inimita'ble. Turn ing over a slab, the soft dust of. years was rubbed off, and there was revealed a mar vellously carved Reman sword and its belt, while below, in a sweeping script, was the inscription: MA. Canora faciebat, Romae ' 3 823." The fragments of this once superb work were last week Wednesday placed ia the State museum. Next to acouirlnir crood friends "the best acquisition is that of good bocks. rh is wcrth a kunJrel grcs ia anv market. Life 13 all sweetness ia childhood's sappy days. - . - The maa who 13 hopeless of a horse i3 a ruined man. Be not simply good, but be good for something. Character, good or bad, has a tendency to perpetuate itself. ' Shelley says that time but stains the marble radiance of eternity. Friends are like melons: ' To find cne good you must a hundred tiy. . The generous heart should - scorn a pleasure that gives others pain. Talents are matured best in solitude, but character in tempestuous seas. Learning without thought is labor lost, - thought without learning is perilous. V. Strength is like gunpowder! to be efv fective it needs concentration and aim. Happiness is a ball, after I which we run, and we push it with our feet when it stops. Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambition. .Make it the interest of others to be your friends. Command honors as well as bestow them. Men areJorn with two eyes and one tongue in order that they should see twice as' much as they say. A Bonnet That Saved Two Lives. . "The biggest piece of luck -1 ever saw," once .said Allan Pinkerton, the detective, to a - correspondent of the Albany (N. Yf) lr,"happeHed to a raw Scotchman ana his wite mat 1 Knew. This Scotch fool had been a chartist;' a price was set , on his head ; ho had a -sweetheart, Joan Carfrae. a bookfoider's apprentice, and a las3 that had caught his heart a-Singing chartist songs, who married him with his head, all but in the - T 1 s I iU - noose: ana eome irienas snippeu iuu by stealth to Quebec, he as a ship's cooper and she as a cook on. the bark Kent, . April t. 1840. On May 8 the Kent was wrecked on Sable Island, but the crew and passengers were caved by the aid of friendly Indians, who took., everything that came ashore. The cooper and wife 1 finally got from the scene of the wreck to Fisherman's Village in a small boat, and from there by a fishing smack to Aspy bay, where the Unicorn, of Quebec, changed mails with the Britannia, ne ; of the first steamers across the Atlantic. They were helped from here to Montreal, where the cooper got work heading beef barrels, and the . couple soon got to housekeeping famously in one. room. But members of the Coopers' union con fidentially told him this job would, shut down at" a certain date, and, bo he im pulsively decided on going to the thriv ing little city of Chicago. - After buying their tickets they had no money left. The steamer was to leave that very after noon. The cooper's little bit of a wife came aad confessed.:7 that she had criminally ordered a bonnet at the milliner's; that it "could not be got for the charges ; and pitifully pleaded that they wait for the next boat, a week later, that the money might bo earned, and" the precious bonnet securea. " ine Scotch cooper roared like a mad bull,, but finally consented. They got the bonnet : but that husband made that wife's life little short of a hell till" and- 3 came ia a few days that the boat thev f wouta hSLVfi taen, had it not been for that lucky )bon net, blew up, and every soul on bpard wa3 lost ! ' "I tell you that little " song-singing wife has had her way about bonnets ever since 1" chuckled Pinkerton. MFort that little Edinburgh girl was my Joan 1 and: that fool cooper that ran away from the Queen's)fficers was mei" - - The Woman Man Eater In Kentucky. Very few people in Louisville know that a Fiji Islander,- a genuine man-eater,; lives in their midst, but it is so. She for it is a woman and nameles--is a very strange-appearing character, and it is worth a long walk to : take a peep at her cannibalship. K'. "Spotty Johnny," as the man-eater has been called, may be' found at any hour of the day or night at the little cottage of Patrick Cain, an engineer . oa the Newport News aad Mississippi Valley Railway. She never goes farther away from home than the immediate neighborhood ia which she lives, and is quite as inoffensive a per son, thought not quite as beautiful per haps, as oae would care to - meet. "Spotted Johnny" was brought to. tbis country in 1872 from the iFiji Islands, along with a small band of her people, by Forepaugh of circus fame. She ran away from her captors while the show was ia Pottsville, Pa., aad no one knows how she got to Nashville, where she was finally discovered doing drudgery, the only sort of work she seemed capable of, for a family that had taken the fantastic and repulsive outcast in out of the cold. An effort was made by tho circus people to reclaim her, hut Jonany did not like the idea, and expressed her self so forcibly that her friends ent the circus mea about their business. At this time - Johnny ate raw meat with avidity, tind care 1 for little else. Now she is a , vegetarian, and scarcely ever touches meat, though she eats fish. She wears clothing juntas anyone else in her positioa would. ' She is very much devoted to Mrs. Caia's children, and they are equally fond of her. The family with whom the escaped cannibal had taken refuge ia Nashville, removed to a distant city, leaving J ohnny with Mr.- and Mrs. Cain, who were then living in the Teanessee capitaL This was more than five years ago.: -At first Mrs. Cain's children were much afraid, of their strange servant, but this wai soon can qured by -the mildness of her manner, and her simple .devotion. Her intelli gence is of a very low order, and she is able to perform only the plainest labor. The children of the neighborhood,-and some of the older ones, too, for that mat ter, stand considerably in awe of the strange being, but as she seldom leaves the house, and interferes with no one, but little is ever seen or heard of her. Chicago Iltrald. ' . Rnffalo Farming'. Much has been written about the terri ble loss of life in the Northwest during the recent : blizzard - being due to the scarcity of buffalo robes, which con tribute the enly defense against the rigors of that country. It is true that a buffalo robe or coat is now beyond the reach of those with slender purses, and it is true . that for certain purposes the buffalo hide and fur are superior to aay others. This leads me to the suggestioa that if som, of the great cattle king3 of the West would gi re up raising cattle and go into buffalo farming they would find it aa immensely profitable business. Not only would every LiJs obtainable find a ready sale, but the meat would find a market ia the cities, and the refuse of tha carcas3 could be made is to tie dozen articles cf profltablecomrierce that J the steer now ailords. cLlDcma.rc:. Ah: 1 ! J ) II C -ncnn and now they arh ri.NUI'ACTUlICl. They are tho Liatest Fad In Society The Princess Beatrice a Harpist Some Eipen- V sive Instrument 1- The "New York Commercial Adctrthcr rys that the latent fad in the musical line is the harp. For years this leau tiful instrument ha been to a cer tain extent relegated to the list of antiq uities, whi.o its manipulation, except by strolling musicians, - has almost be come one of the lost arts." Within the year, however, a mania has set in which bids fair to become a popular one among those who can afford a rather expensive luxury. - -x - v.v. A visit to a harp factory d'scloscs many interesting facts in thisconntcrion, and in starting out for such, a visit one need not stop to m?ke a selection. ; He is saved all that trouble for there, is hut one such- manufactory in the . United States.. .--, r '.-:.'...-:, :.:V . "That harp sounds all right!" f ad a visitor who stepped in to this" concern yesterday to see what a real harp was. - "All right !" exclaimed the proprietor, "well I should hope it was all right. Its a new instrument just in from the fac tory, and I was trying the strings and studying the tone, i never let an;in strument go out uotU I have learned all about it and its peculiarities; for they do differ a little in spite of every care." ' How lor.g have you : been building harps f ''.'-;-,-.' 4 'About forty years. I succeeded J. F. Brown, who introduced the pressnt form of harp into this country, though the form Was invented in France about iSlOby Sebasiiaa Erard, and has never since been improved on to any great ex- lent. IBB UieCUUUiSlH,Ui lumoc" but the general form and the tone - ana effect are ntarly the same. The demand for harps has been very limited lor many ! r , 1 i 1 : years, ana mere is uareiy business enough to keep one concern moving." , "How many manufacturers are there in Europe?" " Only two, and they are Operated by the descendents of the original Erard. One of the factories i3 in London and the other-in Paris, and these two, with ours, are all the manufactories in the world. I cannot say whit number of harps the Erards turn out, " only the demand in Europe is greater than it is in America. The crowned heads, the nobility and the wealthy affect them more than our peo ple. I only - turn out -oa aa average twenty or twenty-five a year, although the last few months the demand has in creased greatly. The advent of the piano in the earlier part of the century, almost drove the harp out of the market, but I fancv rjeonle arefbecoming tired of pianos to some extent and are returning to their old love of the sweeter, more musical in strument. Before the war the harp busi ness was far better thasi it has been since until the last few months." How did the war affect the harp busi ness?" -f-,;.f :.0:-V-a? "The Southern people were more given to the music of the harp than we were in the JNoruw xoung laaies irom the South would come North to school, take harp lessons and then purchase in struments to take home. The war, of course. put an end to that trade, and it 1 UVll, BJt I UnderbounTV- 5 trarxxurt . .iJ. "No, it wouid hardly pay to do ca These you 'see here are mostly old .in struments sent in for repairs. We oaly make them as they are ordered, as a general rule. It takes about three months to make a harp, as the work is very par ticular, and is mostly dune by hand. We can ; use but very little machinery in Ihe work. There is a good deal of fine mechanism about aharp, though it is not visible- The seven pedals ia the foot of the herp connect with steel wires that extend up through the column aad underneath the upper bar,- where they act upon the strings and change the notes. You will notice that there are two notches below the upper bearing. When the pedal is at rest in the upper bearing the notes are fiat; when pressed into the first notch the notes are natural, and the second notch gives the sharps. Before the introduction of 1 this mechan ism harps were supplied with three sets of strings instead of one set, as now, and were much more complicated and difficult to play." ' '.4y ;..'.'; - . "What wood do you use in the manu facture?" ;-.:;."- v.Cv w 'J. ' "Ia this couatry we use maple mostly u a base, and spruce for the sounding board. - Ia Eng!and beech and sycamore ire used., wi-h spruce wood , sounding. The frame, must be very strong to stand the strain; when the strings are taut the pull is about three tons." "And what are harps worth?" ; "Anywhere from 400 to $1,003. Be yond $"l,000 it depends on the ornamen tation, and to that, of course, there is no limit. However, a 1,000 instrument is good enough for mo3t any one, though the widow, of General 'Barr'os, of Mexico, has one that cost $2,500, and many of the royal and noble ladies in Europe experd large sums cn the em bellishments of the harps they buy. The Princess Beatrice, of Eugland, has a beautiful harp, and not only that, but is a very accomplished player." "Where can people leara to play the harp, aad is it difficult to leara?'' "Yes, it" is a diiilcult instrument to master thoroughly, and requires study and application. Bu, for that matter, so it does to learn to play any instrument welL As to teachers, there are several very competent ones inNew York, but I think most of the young ladies who learn to play leara at con vents, most of which have excellent teachers among the sisters. ; Some of them are very fine. E layers indeed, though they are seldom eard outside their convent walls, and cansequently are unknown - to the world." . ' "Who are supposed ; to be the best harp'sts ia the world V "Oh, well, that is hard to say. But perhaps Professor Char!e3 Obertheursof Berlin, or John Thomas, or Apthomas.of London, though, by the way, these last two are Welshmen, and probably come by their talent by inheritance, as Wales was always a great country for harp music, and minstrelsy flourished there long after it had died out and Scotland." . ia Eng'and Finger Lengths. - A comparison of the lengths of the first and third fingers has bcea many years in progress. Ancient Greek art seems to have found the greater beauty in a longer foreSnger, but in the Apolla Belvidere there is no appreciable differ ence in the length of the two. Gorrillas, orang - outangs and Bushmen have a longer third finger, while among Euro peans and Americans the longer finger is sometimes the first, sometimes the third, and sometimes both appear of eaual length. : r - ' . - y " ' Paris Las lost 10x00 populatica ia the year post. ronciiT i:n r. Liia ti e tresth cf tl:o rac, f'l.ir; To slumber riaiait your clu ck Lila a h?art pulse, soi'tly dyiuj, Ey passion rc:i Ired weak- Like a wLLper fakitly h?ard, The recoil of a tiny word Into tha distance flying . Dearest, I hear you speak: Forget me not forget me not I Tis pleasant pain to part When love is not forgot; Forget me not forget ma not! Tour words are in my heart; Forget ma not Sot like an organ, pealing - . Down the cathedral aisle, To the black-robed figure, kneelins1. With the more than earthly snul : - But an echo that no man knows, That lingers, and thrills, and goes Into tLo distance stealing s I hear you all the while: . Forget me not forget me not! "Tis pleasant pain to part . i When love is not forgot; , -" v Forget me not forget roe notl Your wordsture in my heart; Forget me not! Like a hymn of pladnesi, showing - -. The strength of the holy f pell like the tearful joy outflowing At the chime ot the vesper l eli Like a prophecy, told auow, But ever aad ever true Into the distance going , I hear your sweet farewell : - Forget me not forget me notl ' Tis pleasant paiu to part When love is not forgot; - Forget me not forget me not! Your words are in my heart; " Forget me not! , Boston rtfoL PITH AND POINT. Always on top The roof. The game of authors Reed i"rds. Ofttimes it gives a man a cold chill to get 'fired." Was Noah's celebrated vessel lighted by aa arc lamp? Cleaning upsets two things badly x house and a watch. . v , .. Another thrifty animal is the snake, lie can always make both ends meet. , The cold-M'ave flag carries a' black lozenge in the center. This is for bronchitis..;:--' . , . - Love is an old,: old story, yet few of the girls murmur "chestnut" when they hear it Epoch. - "I get your views, l' as the constable said when he levied oa a stercoscopio show. Siftings. The unlucky maa declared if it should raia soup he'd just about be out in the field with a hay-fork, v There are some people who don't want the earth. They belong to cremation so cieties. Rochester Pt-Exprtssl A wise reflection by Jones:: "Doesn't it strike you as rather odd that while tho papers are daily commenting on the de cease of celebrated men they never an nounce their birth?" , . , Frank James is clerking in a store ia Austin, Texas. '- "When he reaches in his pocket for a lead pencil and shouts : . ir"ae"M" nil .Ti rntnmrs iumnto their no, ignition. 1 -Hw- ,i . uuu, emnfv if 1; amity I'nyaViVSTSr to ord'nary have been eating too much cakkiinli sweet stun. ; let me see your tonne." Little girl "Oh, you can look at it, but it won't telV'fyrinzield ' Jlepullkan. ) "Fire P she yelled ia his slumbering ear At the morning hour bawitcbin', With a 6udden spring he was out: "Where! Where f'. . ' . - - - cne replied ; "jviake one in tho kitchen f ? , " -; i Detroit free Press. According to a Tucson paper " Chief Tlole-in-the-Saow hankers after mora JCalps. Up, noble champions ofYankeo Doodle! Let hs wipe the ground with this red hanker-chief. B'.rm Ingham, Jle publican. " . : '-,s : It is said that the great and only Bar : num is shaking hands with himself over Barnum imports more roar material, than , ane other man in the couatry. Neva York Sun. -v"' V J; ;: : 2- It is stated that Noah Webster first coaceived the idea of his dictionary while on a visit to Boston. He heard so many Dig words tncre which he did not understand that he felt the need of one. New York World.. . ; ; . "No, thank you, stranger," said the gentleman from Dakota,as the car porter offered him the dressing room comb; "I I ain't what you'd call musical, an' my moustache everlastingly tears the paper.! A young lady in Chicago acknowl- euges toai sue is anxicus 10 marry an In dian chief. All the Indian chiefs whoso names are in the Chicago Directory havo been seen, and they smile sadly, but reso lutely refuse to be interviewed. Lowell Citizen. - y- , . An old skin-flint was looking for a furnished room : "What will you charge me for th's one for a week?" he asked. Three dollars." "F'l give you two.? "No, sir." "Come, let me have it for that ; the days are so short now. Nexo Ilusband (exasperated) --What in the mischief did you do with the snow shovel I: brought home last night?. Wife What did you expect I would do with it, handle and put it lathe parlor. Dulitth Purajrapfur. ; .- ; Mrs. Cassidy "Why don't you coma down and see me, Mrs..McGinni3?" Mrs. SrcGinnis "And it's you that's talkin', 3fn. Cassidy; and not a sight did I see 01 ye sincz last Aisteri nure, 11 1 uvea as near to you as you do to me, I'd bo aroppia la every week.' Graphic' Aa object six feet high caaaot be seen curvature of the earth, which is said to be seven inches to the mile. Why it is that the notice, "Shut the door," cannot be seen at a distance of ten inches has never been explained. Omaha IVorld. First Gentleman "See that cab horse? hnrsfl Shpf-t Anfhnr; nut rnw lit it nnlv the cab Excelsior." Second Gentleman "What on earth do they callLimExcel-ior fori" First Gentlemaa "Because ho stand s for hire. Ta-ta. "llirper't Pizir. In Washington: Katharine "Well. Charlotte, I hear you are to be married!" Charlotte " Yes; it takes place very icon now." Katharine "Will you slope ? " - Charlotte' Of course I won't. I'm not in the chestnut business. I shall ct married ia the regular way and siartla locicty." WiuMntoji Critic. -In the low ceillred roof of a strange hoteJ, . Vbea a roaa cba-Ting h:3 tlJrt, And jabs tistumbi- 31 I t .t r above, , J. lie growl-t, but is ot much Lurt; Est ia hustling the collar oa for a traia That's nearly clu3 ty the c;xk, How mad to get wheu the Lutton goej down. Peep i"jVk n, 'way dawn ia h;s 0il Vd-j L:::-n!. ;