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h 'And the moon from her sleop Wake the nightingale sad to her singing; it I revel, I danes \man returned in about fitéeééfimlfinges, the sntehal on without delgn- ' -~TOPICS OF THE DAY. ‘nrnierlnd” : Thefihnllrliwa well, taking threeffiwsfiapel‘s anda \maga- zing for the children. The wife has \harsflk-goWns-nndqold—waeeh—her—flv * ght-olims \and solid silverware; butt ~~~ the-ranch is-seven miles from. any. vil down with it. R The train started, And the young man He had made one step toward her when hesaw-her turn quickly, utter a s es'ripen bighind warm, hdeeper dailyt > 'the turbid thou in the summer fields, \ tine-nth a summer sky. May sho entersiat my gate: 61308wa inside the will to wait; A And so orice niore I find her. would not buyt---|----*Félo#, E@leant;----- --- Atco moon's Rum glance,\ Ami the pinetanlxwe me swinging, ~ I hold in my: hurt The fiery dart Hurled fromm the san's golden quiver; .As afiro I scem, And.my-myriad huce.deliver; = Till, when in the east, . The day's high priest Arises in his glory, T rise in a mist “bradualLy—lemmbook drop. on his lap, 3 as his head sank back, bis eyes closed, L exactly asleep, and his mouth opened. He was-not but had almost lost consciousness when he became ayv'm'e 'that his satchel was. moving-slightly,: \| Without opening his eyes he let his ._ hand fall on the satchel. As he did so. :| he touched the slim fingers of a hand. that he recognized with a thrill to be those of a lady, The hand was quick- HJoyfnory-and-throw-her-armw around the neck of a tall, dignified gentleman fered the car from the other end. * \Ob papal Wherb dif yoG come from? .. Lam so glad to see you. __And . I am in such terrible trouble; and oh, I am so miserable |\ She did not make any effort to con- ceal her tears, but cried on the digni- fied gentleman's shoulder until his Under a law granting a right of -action-against the par nished liquor to ah Intoxicated person who '\tiay comtnit ° any: damage, a Lawrence, Mass., man- has recovered | $150 for Injuries he sustained by hav- ing a drunken man fall agalnat him, but. the saloonkedper against whom the award was given has appealed the ct B6. The Lewiston, Me., Journal warns irlingleaves-are-brown. - Andhwmbmkthchesnnudum V> Ts standing there behind her! \ «Who'll biy? \...Who would not buy? ~ -They found them in the autuinn woods, Bennthmfmstyskyh - - —rl)am Read Gobddle. | _--HEMOROUS.... _ Hestands at the head-'he phre- - mologist ~:&n exchange asks, \Why -do people have poor teeth?\ Probably because they can't afford to buy good ones. \How can that Mrs. Jones wear uch loud colors?\ \Why don't you know ? She's as deaf ais a post.\ ~~~ One striking difference betwéen an old toper and an old cow is that two the old cow a life-time. A countrylmy, whnlmd redd of sail- know if it was seasickness that made them do it. The bee, after all only works three - - fours a day. Ho great deal like many other buzzers. There is a deal of . _ cell'about his labor. .. , There were 21,000,000 buttons made in this country last year. And when 'a man is waiting for his wife, prepar- atory to her going out with him, He ~ Amagines she's secured at least 20,000,- ©90 of them on her gloves. | At a lecture on \The Decline of Literature\ the eloquent orator shout- ed \Where are the Chaucers and 'Bhakespeares and Miltons and Spen- sers and Macaulays? Where are they, Esay?\ _ And a voice answered, sadly, from the gallery, \All dead.\ . ! \My love,\ said a wife fondly, \am I mot tohave that beautiful dress pat- tern I spoke of? \ \ Be patient, my dear,\ he replied; \I will only say there is a surprise in store for you.\ \In store for me!\ she snapped; \that's where it will stay. A real surprise 'would be something for me at home.\ i The WindpiHis of Holland. ~ The most conspicuous and familiar object in Holland is the windmill, writes a Courier-Journal correspond- ent. Thousands of these structures are scattered throughout the entire «country, including towns, farm-houses and hills. They are used for grist, : saw mills und for alt manufact ' uring purposes, but principally for the 'purpose of pumping water from the 'low Iands into the canals that form 'drains to the sea. - Many of these tillls 'are of Immense size, their arms or sails -- measuring as much as sixty feet. They present a solemn look by day shd a most weird look by night + In my- opinion one of these out-of- the- way windmills at the dead hour of midnight éffers the best field on this earth for ghost hunting. If you can 'inot ghosts here, then you need Jook no farther, in the certain belief 'that none are to be found anywhere The number and sight of these wind, mills suggest the three Iimposslbilities with which I bave met in my travels —-fint, to be out of sight bfa Chita saan in San branczsw second, to be ~outof sithfl a windmil} in Holland and third, to be out of sight of a priest rammeomptedmiggs Thas Wafflslrmzuuel. from huts to - Misti T‘onfi _‘wnnte¢an 4 She-f0f3 thaporter rathee shorlly that i aha didnot want any «opper, and thes, - To my \home sun kilsed, ~ Above the 1 mountmns hoary. -Pittsburg Dispatch. VAT HORSESHOE BEND. car on-theTfasHine from Philadelphia was comparatively empty when the train pulled out of Harris burg, after stopping the usual twenty minutes for dinner. The thres drum- mers had retired to the smoking room for a cigar, and the only other occu-' pants of the car were a young lady and a gentlema She was about 20, a blonds, with little rings of soft hair falling over a white, forehead from beneath the turned-up brim of a jaunty straw hat. Her nose was what Tennyson calls tip- tilted. Her laughing blue eyes re- \belecagainst the ~otherwise> demure expression of her face, and the slight- ly-parted. lips revealed an gltmpse of: pearl-like teeth which one could never associate with a dentist's chair. Her neat figure was set off to advantage in a tight-fitting light dress, and the cluster of carnations on her bosom be- spoke a love of natures The young man on the other side of the aisle, immediately opposite, evi- dently appreciated the points of excel- lence in his fellow traveler, He held & book in his hand, but was not so ab- ~sorbed in: it that he did not cast many a covert glance at the pretty 'face half turned toward the window in admira tion of the scene. He was a bright young fellow, with a dark moustache, and a silk traveling cap thrown care- lessly on the back of his head. In the seat by his side was a small satchel, which he had never let out of his sight since leaving Philadelphia, and upon which he rested his hand most of the time. It was easy to see that he was traveling on business, and that he was used to it. He was as much at home in the swinging chair as if he owned the car and all its appurtenan- ces, and he commanded the services of tha colored porter in the off-hand man- ner characteristic of your experienced traveler. <- \Wonder what makes my fair neigh- bor so fidgety?\ he was saying to him- self. \Seems to me something is troubling her. She looks awfully wor- ried. Not used to traveling alone, I guess. May-be she thinks there is danger of our being attacked by train gobbers or Indians, or something of 'that sort, She does not look like a fool, though. There is a good deal of Intelligence in that face.\ The lady had been feeling in her pocket and had closely examined the contents \of her hand:satchel; drawing | therefrom abandkerchief, a vinaigrette, a pair of gloves, a bundle of paper patterns, some crochet work, and a few crumbs of cake. The last she put in her mouth in an absent-minded way, sighing heavily as she replaced the other articles. Then she tried to raise the window. In an instant the young man was at her side, tendering his assistance. She thanked him with a glance of her blue eyes, \At what time shall we be at Al- toona?\ she usked, in a low, sweet voice, in perfect keeping with her ap- pearance. \About 7 o'clock. \We are a little behind time.\ \We 'shall pass Horseshoe bend by daylight, shall we not?\ -\Ces. Just about sundown.. You have seen it before. of course?\ he in- terrogrted. > f it always in the dark. ° Paps prefers {avefingstnight'tomfima I am 'Bave had to enjoy the scenery.\ _ «Altoons!t Twenty. minutes for sup. C [ The young mmbastfly seized his j satchel and left the car, telling the por- iamshagasseihimtoseeflthe lady . ag. Bas She did nok as soon as the man 333m bars Info tears When the young making the journey _by myself this | «34 time, and i is the first opportanity I ly drawn away, but the young man . So broad | was now. broad awake, - | awake that he pretended to be still ] asleep as he opened his eyes just wide enough to peep through the lashes at the troubled face of the young lady: who was \traveling alone for the, first Sho had moved -to aseat in front of him, and her dainty, ungloved vest was web Larough. said the young man, as he steppetLup and shook \hands- with- gentleman, _. \When: did you come abdard ? I did not see you before.\\ _ \I got on at Altcona, Hal, my boy. -I was there on business connected with the bank, and I thought I would hand was hanging over the back, as if give my daughter a pleasant surprise she had been afraid to take.it away when the young man moved. Five minutes passed, during which she sat perfectly still, looking at the apparently closed eyes of the young | man, while the loud talking and laughter of the three drummers, who were telling each other© highly-colored anecdotes in the smoking-room, were the only sounds to be heard save the rumbling of the wheels. \Strange how a man may be de ceived,\ thought the young man. \I always ~considered myself pretty bright, but I should never have sus- pected that girl of being a sneak-thief. She does her work like a professional, too. Probably works the. trains all the while. Hello ! sheis going to try it again.\ The girl had arisen, and the white hand was steadily advancing toward the satchel. The young man found it difficult to breathe regularly and nat- urally, and his eyelids quivered with theexertion of keeping them in such a position that they appeared closed while allowing them to watch the would-be thief, Now her hand is on the satchel and she is gently pulling it toward her, Slowly it is drawn from the young man's grasp. In another minute she will have it. Her face is flushed, the blus eyes are dilated, and even the pretty blonde rings of her hair ssem to be curling tighter in the intensity of the moment. Then- \Here is Horeshoe bend,\ says the young man, suddenly sitting up, \and beautiful it looks in the sunset.\ He does not appear to notice the girl's confusion, but he takes the pre- caution to pick up his satchel as he steps to the other side of the car, and points to the broad mountain panorama spread out in the red light of the dy- 4ng day. The girl moves over to the window and is at once lost in admira- tion of the scene. 'There is no doubt about the genuineness of her delight, and the young man confesses that sneak thief though sho may be, she has an artist's eye for the beautiful. Uncon- sciously she points at features of the landscape that strikerher fancy, and calls attention to light and shade of- fects among the pines as they tremble aud wave tu the goutle evening breeze. \Funniest girl I ever saw. Wonder if it is not a case of kleptomania. Sho has every mark of refinement and ed- ueation,\ thought the young man. She evidently would like to get thAt {white of Prussia with the red and satchel if she could. Guess she knows . by the looks of it that it contains ' jewelry. Probably she bad her eye on me in Philadelphia and determined to pige and buff The Whigs were the get it before we reached Pittsburg. By Jupiter! 'll give her a chance. 80 }fore the Revolution. The Whigs were I can see what her game really is.\ He had returned to his seat by this ' time and the girl was leaning on the window-aill, looking calmly at the { of red in the union to signify the coali- rugged mountain scenery which ex-! tends for many miles west of Horseshoe | bend. He teok a cigar from his pock- et, bit off the end, and then strolled care- lessly in the direction of the smoking room, leaving the precious satchel on the seat, He sat down with the drum- mers and lighted his cigar, but kept tnsuch x position that he could watch his sachel He bad not long to walt. Hastlly and nervonsly the girl whom he had left apparently absorbed in the view from the opposite window sprang upon the satchel and moved it from the.sest. Things were getting Inferesting and the young inan almost | swallowed a mouthfal of smoke as he Teaned forward to get abetter view. The train was moving at the ratwroff with WWM about forty miles an tour, and he kmew the thief could notget of fast| sl events. Bat what was this! She had thrown | by dropping on her unawares. She does not seem very pleased, though. What is the matter, Blanche?\ R «'Blanchel' thought the young man. \Her name is as protty as her- self,\ \It was a tear-stained, disconsolate face that was raised toward her fath- er's as she said; \Why papa, as soon &s I left Phila- delph{@~I found that I had lost my pooket-book. -I-had nota .cent.of mon- ey, and, ob, I am sé hungry! This gentleman has a package of cakes and -and-I am ashamed to tell youl I tried to st-st-steal a cake whilehe was asleep, but he woke up. Thep. I tried again when he was away. 'Then you came in, and—and—I am so glad to See you. And do apologize to this gentleman for me. And-and try and get me something to eat, won't you?\ \Here are some cakes at Miss Ar- gont's disposal, said the young man, with a mischievous smile. By the time the train reached Pitts burg the banker's daughter and the young wholesale jeweler were excel- lent friends. He is now a pretty con- stant visitor at the Argent residence, he and Blanche always find plenty to say to each other in a rather low voice, the subject of their tete-&-tate being invariably the beauty of the scenery in the vicinity of Horseshoe bend. National Flags, The present beautiful tricolor of France which succeeded the white feld with golden lillies, was formed by the combinatiod of the colors of the city of Paris, red fod bluo, with the white of the house of Bourbon. What is now [called 'the \union\ of the British flag once consisted only of the cross of St. George. Then the cross of St. An- cross of St. Patrick, and as the first and last are of the same shape, the last change could only be denoted by ! the addition of the narrow white line i to the edge of the cross of St. George, which can be seen byclosely oxnminlng the union of Britain's banner. Many people fancy that the present German flag has some relations to the \Gertoan libetty flag\ of black, rad and gold borizontal stripes, adopted by. the] German revolutionists, which in turn i fancifally connected with the Holy Roman empire. As a fact the Ger- man flag is simply the flag of the North German Confederation, which was a combination of the black and white of the Hanseatic league 'The blue in the American flag came from | the English Whigs, whose colors were friends of the struggling colonies be- {allied with the Protestant cause in Germany and got their colors from Sweden. Blues and buff, with a dash tion with Norway, still form the Bwedish flag.-Cultivator, A Good Word for Cheese. Buy several chesses and keep them through the wintez: As they ripen, get older, they taste better and digest easier. Every lmefiéan family fioafi make cheese an article Of dict, taking the place of more costly foods Our basis for eating cheese is all Wrong. [It is eaten with ple Do away with pie, and eat cheese in the place of | meat or as a partial substitute forit To crowd pis ma thecsednto a stom- ach dresay crammed B to Invite ths doctor and mange patent medicine Better eat cheese as s food, spiced own welfare More cheess, mote cows. Mote cows better\ farine sod Hivator. *~ bills ~«Why, Mr. Argent, how do you do? *- drew was added to it, and finally the ; people who-are-going-to-Now Orleans | | this- winter-of the-fate-of -a Maine. man who went down last January and' -undertook-to order -dinner-in -a French restaurant. He -could not speak '| French, and tried to give his - Qrder on the Kindergarten plan.\ He drew what he called -a mushroom on ® card and handed it to the waiter with cabalistic signk. The walter brought him an umbrella. The Russian admiralty have under consideration a proposal to construct wn electric boat. Its length is to be about 100 feet and its width twenty feet. 'The electrical power is to be stored in Nifty gecumulators, which, it is calculatedy will suffice for four hours. Its mean speed will be nine Enots. In the forepart a lighting ap- paratus of 6,000 candle power is to be placed. It is especially intended for action against hostile torpedoes. Argentine is the only country in South Ainerica where photographers [nre not permitted to sell pictures of local - beauties. In Chili, - Peru, Uruguay, and other countries you can find photographs of society belles on sale at all the news stands and pic- ture stores, like those of actresseg with us, and the measure of a girl's popu- larity is estimated by the number sold; but in Argentine no photographer dare Tét a print of one of his clients go out of his hands. Two signs in the window of a deal- or in surgical appliances in New York read; \Old Style Leg\ und \New Style Leg.\ They show that there is a fashion in artiGclal legs. The old style leg consisted of a short wooden sump and socket, which was to be fastened to the remaining portion of the member by a stout broad strap. It was of the same style usually ex- hibifed in picture books and on the comic opera stage. The new style leg was a flesb-colored copy a human leg and foot, light and apparently as com fortable as a cripple would require. Sportsmen should be careful not to | eat from meat of animals which have been much tortured by dogs during the death agony. Dr. Delmars of the ; National Society of Microscopists, in faxamlniug samples of the meat the | eating of which had killed several per- sons in Momence, Il., found changes which were clearly attributable to a frenzied condition of the animals from which it was taken. The Doctor's opinions upon the subject were formed after careful microscopical examina- tions of bundreds of samples of meat from cattle slaughtered in Chicago while they wore in a frenzied condi- tion from fright, The Imperial Canal in China is the longest and largest in the world. It is over 1,000 miles long. The Erie canal, in this country, is 850} miles long; the Ohio Canal, Cleveland to Portsmouth, 342; the Miami and Erie Cincinnati to Toledo, 2901; the Wabash and Erie, Evansville to the Ohio line, 874. The largest ship canal in Europe is the great Notth Holland Canal, com- pleted in 1825, 125 feet wide at the water surface, 81 feet wide st the bottcm, and has a depth of 29 feet; it extends from Amsterdam to the Holder, 51 miles. The Caledonia Canal in Scotland has & total length of 60- miles, including three lakes. The Juez Canal is 88 mfles long, of which 66 miles ars actual canal. A grain ranch in California has been visited by a correspondent and described as a sample of the farms of Thetegion. The house standing un- der broad nut trees, is plain, partly of logs boarded over, bat roomy and com- Tortable In that climate, though it would be thought rough afd riskety for an Eastern farmen | \The parlor we brussels carpet, piano, haircicth | aind pictures; the family foom and guest chamber have heavy, | bagany,dzt'n:g7wsafimdefuy [good carpets and- old-fashloned moa- asics age, nnd she has- not been- off the place - - for five years of, had a visitor in that Bome days 036. says._the London Telegraph, a letter appeared in a con- temporary, calling attention to the Raindrop. - mm“ sight clouds! besom, aool I fall, with & stray cramb.. on his- mustache Hng even-to look at At, \and was fumble } oif <0 . . ® Adown the darkness roaming; - and-an aroma of-coffea clinging to his/ ling at thelight fall topeont he had Don't \go west, young man,\ but- 3] ie heasteorme flowen an -| e ~thip From | 2C whoa in the parple gi (| clothes, hp nofliged that hin traveling | I9Tt on the seat. south. ~ Read -this from the 1 TT him-”935511, haas -|- compantortreyes were red, and that sho | - 'The, young-man started.-\By the- _ (Fla.) Herald \of ~the ~Astho night winds wako - | flocked gonurallydisconsolate. , ~~| powers! She ds-after fiatzvdmmona—wveal‘bh—et ~~—the— town | is -- to- -<thodiower to ihomawaying; - | -. teavaling by- herself, ring. in the posket. - I Had\ wimost for- | beo-inherited--by -young-girlse-with \ . & 3:2“ the 5\; G‘ZD-m and feels lonely,\.was his inward com- | gotten .it. She Is a sharp one. 'How | orangé groves. Their fathers have no . | ~f ~Of the moon's bright beam ment, as he settléd himself in his seat, | did she know it was there? This has | sons and no- poor relations. These | time,\ witggzxmfi’ Adownthe féumm plying. after placing his satchel by his side, | gone far endugh. I guess I had bet- | groves 'will average an income of < gies\ g would nétbnfi = _ I watch the atars peop, and throwing a paper bag of cakes | ter join in the fun myself.\ $40,000 clear of all expenses.\ 4mplaymanbobwomen4n—eeuieflesw“ Lee a e- not in the mincs,-9' course, aince that [is iMeput, but- or tie bank and—at—tha | pit's~ ~- mouth. Large numbers of wornen are notoriously so engaged, . and 16 may 'at once be granted that their occupatlbfl‘ is about ag unfemal- ning as it is possible to concéive. The work they do makes heavy demanas upon physical strength; its conditions: are rude, and; if not actually debasing those-who-never-knew. nnvjhlncr better, do not- tend. twin-emote 1.118; refinement and delicacy which we instinctively --assoclate-with_-women, . while in one not unimportant respect it unsexes-the female saborer' by com- pelling her to wear the garb of, and become almost indistinguishable from her male comrade. In the Confederncy's Last Days. I visited Mobile in March, 1865, on official business, and, of course took a week to do one day's business in and\ spend a useless surplus of six months' pay. An invitation. to dinner. was- an event in a soldfer's life to be sought fortby patient strategy, and the dinner, if secured, treasured in memory for months after, to be related, item by item, to the boys in camp, who took great pleasure in listening to every de- tail of the feast, The Slaple food wis~ ~ corn bread, with bacon and flour gravy, but wealthy families had a very fow small wheat biscuits on the table at dinner only. It was etiquette of bome visitors to eat but one or two of tlfese, on the polite supposition that the guests had such delicacies at home, but the soldier was urged and expected to cat his GL I remember hearing an aside remark made by one wealthy and hos pitable lady to another about their clergyman's daughter, who was then visiting, or rather for’néing, among the faithful, . \She eats five biscuits, and flour $400 a barrel!\ The comical al- literation in this indignant protest caused it to stick in my memory. I rememembsr' buying a pair of red negro brogan shoes in r large store on Dauphin street for $150. It was the only pair in the store, and the sole clerk, a boy of 15, was perfectly Indif- ferent whether I took them or nok One meal at a hotel cost $5, and no one got as much as he could eat at that price. ~ A regular allowance of corn meal, coffee, oatmeal, biscuit, fried bacon, and in some cases fried chicken, were Served. When consumed the waiters reported \all give out.\ Sometimes a heg at the table would ~ take the last two biscuits, holding ong ~- in reserve while eating the other, but ' this was rare and apt to be rebuked by some spectator who was \heeled.\ Louis Republican. 2200 oo -__- About Auroras. The extent of the auroral displays over the world is not uniform, the United States being the most favored, « Awhile Siberia, opposite to us across . the pole, but much further north, Is i the least. New York city has about a the same frequency of auroral displays 1 as St. Petersburg and London, and t also as Siberia, imore than half way up 21 t the Behring Sea coast, fully 1,500 to 2C g 2,000 miles nearer the pole. They are b seen as far south as Cubs, Yucatan, m Central Mexico and Cape St. Lucas on H the American continent, while in Asia % they are unknown in Pekin, and P almost so in the Japanese Islands, l Southern, Europe, on the latitude of ~ 'e New York eity, being just within the 'b limits of visibility. In general tis Ip seen about 1,400 miles further south 'a on the Western Continent side than It ip is on the Eastern, or just the distance ip the magnet pole is from the true or R iq geographical one, pulled over the same a~ d side, so to speak, it being just north ~ 'p of our continent It thus plainly: 205% J ghows that the magnetic pole is a ~ is central point from which the auroral Db force in some finknown way is depend- ; ent. | The magnetic pole, approximate- . ly speaking, is on longitude 100 de. * grees west ct, and -on - b that meridian the displays are more ~B frequent than at other points of the -O same latitude,-Lftent_Schwatka, g - Holding Out nglcements‘. a A grocer's boy complained to hi => employer that he was worked too bard, [® and did notge$ 8355153. rest f *f know, Jobany,\ < adrmftted - im grocet, \that you ate kept pretty NS} ~ € most of the time, but THsee what car t be done. Pertaps when real. wold, yd weather sets in FH Ist you mwrzo cace in # while\ ~FW Tivies
