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v# were. going to be happy without Hor- = | it wu require height of 2700 feek of | n: finalist! ~. *gtof mdm‘tmmed high. Toa, Minthahushesolthfi lasing ‘Lhe didewalks,. and: the ; gas lamps shone 'sulkily through the mist. .'. From the other side of the streot a joice. , -i'The story has ended exactly Bait She world is n ;quéer ¢ \Blower Hali=-esniok £s you Journey along: “W\ itt -- f ou 'had 1“th con And Fanny Tullan and Ella ay came . eal e- |: _ it you we ( to tlekle:h tida- to the wedding and helped the bride r \Ke my; tar mhwhaavyngfiy unen— Don'h bnll 'him' about'it; pray, - Stew - ered in Committees of 'the Whole. _mmv for: 10m inhabitants 00) C promote® tho By Mr.. Blair-To | ore Miss Mary 8. -Brounan, tho matron of a female seminary in Cinciinat, is wild to be the only woman in the country only wish I had courage to ask.. her - about 469000 _\ It was a dull, rainy day-one of tha wall to crush tho bottom bricks, __ I6 will 'Of the wurk wo Near sh - proached,-the ; be sometime yet before buildings -of that |- --Ofthe soft and slivery streams, ° radius of an umbrella extended itself | altitude are erected. And forsvor floating, drifting. 'over her head and her arm was calm- -|- 'By their shores of shining sauld; (ty pulled under that of a tell Th e al and. - industrial _ Yomand I, sait ayes: y pulled under that of a tall young man a co normal. ant Pass and pase; but dare not and. .] in a water-proof coat. school at Tuskeuee, Alabama, which was. £ 6 3 is Misi d a Sitreps beckon on the shore, Ob, Paul, is it you? . said s Toke, | opened. in 1881 with thirty atudents an 'Yetthere cometh nevermore Verona. for a day., Among 13m | one teacher, now Has 275 students and \Mortal bark upon that strand, _ \Yes is I,\ assured a firm, m, cheerful 311132111 mg?“ ufé twenty teachers. .In connection, with the -E 0. 90086 | voice, \! knew you woirld forget your i V imBorlimbs shall be fiistitution is a saw-mill, which 'is a r umbrella.\ ; WW fibfinflifliyflfi? source of profit,. and a brick-yard, which ThB Cashier's Romance «Yesterday's wind turned it inside out riding. ”$11“th Wongrflfi last year turned out 800,000 bricks, BT rornser and split the gingham into ribbons,\ said 1°3m~ Il‘iwosztzstonzlndxizhn‘ve Juliuttxgndee: gift 'T'm almost certain that . she has . got: . Miss Verona, loughing, as she burried - which Pot: Zoi lim so m: 1:1 c 0:55 211° “rub: uce- Mtg?! 2 said Fanny - Tallan; ~~*T cad along by- the side- of. her cousin, Paul “meg: “(63836 The ~ E cad ange see it in the expression of her face, © I RO'hermel. *'Well-at all events ib was.) thoughtful of you to come for me, Paul, But you are always thoughtful,\ Paul did-not answer it; it was his way ' ought to,\ stud Fanny-'\as I foretold it would |\ , \Ard now we know that novels aren't a bit more romantic | than real life!\ as netted Miss Hay.-Aaturday Nzght. ___ A: Practical Joker Ontwltted. Recently a young physician of the idea of playing a joke on 'Miss Aunic. Copeland, .one of the lady students of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and at the samo time rubbing out an old -score he had loid up against her, - His plans.-were | carofully mapped . ont, and, everythinglbemg in readiness, the lady was called upon to attend a case of frac' Harvard Medical School conceived the |. C tous shoulder ¥ 20 And burriedly walk away, a But carefully'cover your sorrow, - And the world will- be your friend, If only you'll bury your woes and be merry Héell.cling to you close.to the end. Don't ask him to lift one finger To' lighten your burden, because Ho never will shard it, but silently bear it Andhe will be loud with applamn. The wor‘d is avain old fellow“ e \You must huglrabhbnflfee oflwit.. No:matter how brutal, rsmonstmnoe h th- tile €9.000- BRC And since you must journy together Down paths where all mortal Teetgo, favor} And fr, wis will not change him 'one whit. . Why life holds more savor to keep in hh_ moa~ ..A number of rer ylng for an ap- e and in some cases asking the ite Comhic - 15:3!) Manderson (Nebrasku,( brough fore the Senate the case of the clainx agnlnxtflexico‘torthe killing of Cap- hidEmmeH; Crawford {aMenmn troops ta stronger and for indemnity should infioduclng a bill for the re- ( :Captain Crawford's heirs, The bill The bill introduced on the previous day pensioning Mrs. Logan was pasted, as was a bill mcrensing the ion of the widow of Francis P. Blair to $2,000 a gr; ... Tha Inter-State Qommerce bill was sed further... . Executive session. 161g DAx.-Mr, Call offered a resolution declaring that: cannn lands granted for xailroad purposes in Florida shall be for- felted and instructing the Attorney- General to bring sult against all cor- tions ~attem g*-to- \sell or adver- public lands embraced in railroad its where bills for forfeiture are pending glare Congress... . Mr, McPherson propose an amendment to the Inter-State Commerce bill.;.. A bill was passed appropriating 830, 000 far the widow and daughters of Erakin 8. Allin, formerly Master Armorer at Sprini; field “ca .the fniventor of the Springfield breech-l grile muskekinwmpenmflon for the use of the invention by the govern- ment.... Executive session. Day.-A memorial was presented from the New York Chamber of Commerce presentin ' objections to some of. the pro- visions of the Inter-Etate Commence Bill.. car, from the Select Committee on the Centennial Celebration, reported re-olutions dam-mg it expedient that action be taken by Congress for the due celebration in Wa hing- tan about April 0, 1889, of the centennials of the adoption of the Constitution and of the discovery of America, and directing the committee 'to-consider aud-propose the best mode of telebration. Adopted.... Megsrs. Beck and Cullom spoke in favor of the Inter- State Commerce Bill. Mr. Stanford spoke in opposition ... Executive, Session. House Sessions. 177m Day-The bill for the permanent im- provement of the Erie and Oswego Canals, and to securo the freedom of the same to the commerce of the United States was consig- The Indish Appropriation bil was Sneed ropriation bill was without dlmnssfifi: cg division. Tt appropri- ates £5,115, .The Military Academy Ap- proprindon bhl was then taken up, and awl- of an hour.... The rmlgnndon'af W. Reid as Raprnsenuv tive in tho Forty-ninth Congress from the Fifth North Carol District was received , and tabled. 18rg Day.~The House resumed in Com- mittee of the Whole the consideration of the bill for the®permanent improvement of the Erie and Oswego Canals, and to secure the freedom of tho same to the commerce of the United States. Mr. Weber (of New York) concluded his argument in support of tho measure, g that in a commercial point of view the canals were national in their character.. The Pension Appropria tion bill, which appropriates $76, 24? 5000 be- - low the without amend- mont or dtcnnlnn ..The Naval Reorgan- fzation bill was discussed. Day.-The Public Printer's annual report was read.... A communication from tho Conzmigsfoner of Intergal Revenue was received requesting an immodiate additonal of $50,000 for aslaries and ox- sensual callectors of internal revenue for he current fiscal an The House spent the remainder of day on the private cal- endar, and thon took a recess until 7:30-the evening session being for the consideration of pension bills. DA¥.-The bill appropriating $500-' 000 for a public build! fiat Charleston wont over after deba e Houso went into Committee of the Whole on the bill camou- dating -cerfain bureas of the Na ax ment. Messme. Buck (Conn.) Thoma ) favored and Mr. Ila-d (Del.} op mum (N Y.) $1511)er Bimintzodnlced By Mr. Tm ney (Mick, menu; or erection pry jward;\:the- of the buildln the: - mam of 10,000 inhabitant 25 'm . public bnfldmg in each city 50,00) | inhabitanty, B Bméifinfldgfi-Ymni certain mim- of . s By Mr. May- Tig a eso that ao parson stad be anquell. a Lack - 3 flit! yx b; reason of aze. By MmmYF— arfisvmbnssnf Erloron's: \Destroyer Hest. dwekmhfiézmtmd | hold of the matter,, studying up the | Fork Sab-Treasury, ** b Ralf-dollar bite One of the peculfaritics who holds a license as an engineer, - 'There was trouble in the school with | bleak: premamtors of the - eqmnoctml storm-and as there was not much doing to be silent and abatracted. ''Well, what luck have you had at ture of the Teg. Bomewhiit-astomished; she promptly answered the summons of suffering humanity;~confident-in-her-abil- _. the henting apparatus, and she; took. '| science of steam heating and introducing , many improvements, Finally she went before the Board of Inspectorsand passed a first-class examination and received her license as an engineer. ° * A San Francisco dentist his started a new department in his branch of indus- try. 'This is implanting teoth into arti- ficial sockets, where they soon become firm and serviceable if the process is cor- rectly performed. He says he has suc- ceeded beyond his most sanguine expec- |tationg,-and -belioves-thatin-ashort -time this branch of dental surgery will be- come as firmly established in profes- sional practice as ahy other operation requiring skill and judgment. A community of small farms has many advantages which are not known where large farms are the rule, The farms are better cultivated and cared for, and the whale section bears a more thrifty ap- pearance. Neighbors ars\ nearer and generally of the most intelligent class, while roads are better and churches, necessary to the most advanced civilize- tion are more numerous, and their ad- vantages can be the more easily and con- veniently enjoyed. A Texan who owns many sheep, also owns a very valuable sheep dog called Shep, While away from home he tele- graphed to his superintendent, \Bend Shep by first train,\ 'The telegraph operator thought there ought to be another \e\ in the second word, and sent the despatch as follows: Bend sheep by first train.\ 'The superintendent obeyed, and before the Texan could get the sheep back home again, many of them died, and the affair cost him a great deal of money, He is now suing the telegraph company for damages. The Atlants Constitution is authority for the statement that a man who re- cently died in Alabama had previously lived nearly five years without a skull. An accident had necessitated the removal of the top of his head down to his eyes. An artificial covering was made for what brains remained and in a fow weeks a thin film formed over them. Ho re- tained all his faculties. The convolu- tions and throbbings of the injured organ could be plainly seen. Afabama seems at last to have aroused herself to contest- with Georgia the honor of being a wonder-producing state. Statistics recently published in Russia show that between 1854 and 1884 750,- 000 persons had been sent to Siberia as convicts, It is the sole 'aim of these wretches to get away from their servi- hide, and during the last twenty years it is estimated that nearly 25 per cent. of the whole number transported have escaped. Most of the exiles are in the prime of life, which makes it more dif- ficult for the government to maintain its grip on them. About one-fifth of the convicts are women, and most of them are over 40 years of age. Marrying is forbidden during the first five years of an exile's life in the penal colony. - The official statistics state that two-thirds of crimes in Siberia are commiited by exiles. ''One of the mos: noteworthy things that has come under my observation lately,\ says Cashier Shearer, of the New 'is the demand that is made upon us now for small pills fand coins. We cannot begin to supply | ous and two doller bills as fast as they ate for, and we ste away behind \Tn the smatter of small change-pennies, Bre-cen wan, dimes, quarters, and yfihedsyh the new demasd from the ,Mmsofiwstfanm Here» tofore the people=iw 'thit part of the magma-1 mo mss for one-cent pieces; they hays rather inclined to saeer mwgammmw school-houses, and other conveniences | : sshffinoa’féed at the store, the girls took longer than usual at their lunch. upside down, under the stairway that led down to the \'shipping-room slowly muriching her soda-crackers and smoked-, beef, and Elia Hay, her companion at the kid-glove counter, was nestled at her feet, eating bread and butter and rasp- berry jam, with the hearticstof kppetites. At the same moment, Miss Verons, the cashier, came lightly down the stairs in her dark-blue serge gown, and her satin-brown braids of hair shining in the oblique light of the dust-dxmmed win- and paused abruptly. ~'\To ask whom?\ said she. got a story?\ falt Aud Fanny, spurred on by a sudden upward blaze of courage, answered: [A'You Pl Miss Verona smiled. In response, her face was cold and grave; but when it lighted. up with that rare smile, it was absolutely benutiful, Instead of being offended, however, she sat chcerfully down on the other half of the packing- box. . You ate right, Miss 'Tullan,\ said she. | ''I have got a story, else I never should have been in this store. I wasn't brought up to work, and I don't like to sit behind a cashier's desk from morning until night any better than other people do.\ Fanny Tullan's great, gray eyes opened wide. \Oh Miss Verona,\ said she, \won't you tell it to us?' a \Of course I will,\ said the cashier. «'Why shouldn't If You were very kind to me, Fanny Tullan, when first I came, lonesome and inexperienced, to the store. It would be hard indeed if I couldn't do as much to please and amuse you.\ The rain panel-ed against the dust. blurred window; the wind, shrieking around the corner, made a minature maelstrom of shavings and bits of paper in the brick shaft which afforded the only prospect; and Tullan and her friend, Miss Hay, crept up closer to Miss Verona to hear her words, \Of course, you have already sur- mised that I am a reduced lady,\ said she, ''That goes without saying. But you would scarcely havo imagined that I was once an heiress, Hornblower Hall -that was tha name of the place-a beautiful old house, down by the sen. Ob, I loved that housel-and nowI never shall see it any more. Her lips quivered; the tears came into her eyes for a second, and then she went bravely on: ''But I didn't know until quite lately that there was a lawsuit about Hor- blower Hall; that some other branch of tho family belfeved that they had a better right to it than my mother and I. Mamma never told mo about it; ond, luckily, it was not until after her death that that haté- ful lawyer's letter came. The letter, I mesn, thatmotified me with a mock re- spect that was worse than any amonnt of downright influence would have been, that Horublower Hall belonged to my fourth or fifth cousin instead of me. 'There was something in it about my noQ being disturbed in the occupancy, if it] suited me to remain, but I could listen to no such belittling proposition as that. I tore the letter into pieces, and packed my pefsonal belongings into one little trunk and came away. I took refage with a relative of my mother, who lives, in avery quiet way, on Dalston street, and it was sho that-helped me to get this situation; and there is my story.\ **The beginning,\ said Fanny Mm, nibbling up the lst eramb ofsher Inuch, . 'but not the end.\ \\Why not the ends\ Oh, because you'll see that the end wil} be that you'll soméhow go back to Homblower Kzfl‘amd the cousin will bo a stately, dark eyed aristocrat, who will Mbedkngiulmwufi you at Ert Fgosy. ' 1325175011; in mot ter \'Who has Fanny sat on a packing-box, turned ' Verona, ''They have decided to accept my in- , vention, aud put it Into immediate use on every press in the place. I am to have five thousand dollars down, and three thousand a year royalty on my patent as long as they use it-which, if it don't turn outa poorer thing than I believe will be forever and over,\ , \Ob Paull\ cried Verona, breath- lessly, 'I am very glad of this, Mary,\ he said. ' \Do you know why?\ ~*I can guess,\ 'No, I don't believe you can quite guess,\ ho said gently. \It is because this bas prompted me to speak out what has long been on my mind-to ask you, Mary, to be my wife. 'You are one of the women, dear, who should be a born princess, instead of a cashier, drudging all day long behind a desk, I want to put you on your throne again,\ 'Dear Paul !\ she whispered softly, and just for the fraction of a moment her little black straw bonnet crushed its cluster of scarlet poppies against his waterproof shoulder-''only put me on the throne of your heart and keep mo there, and that is all I want. As for my kingdom, why, Hornblower Hall-\ ''What about Hornblower Hall 1\ ''Perhaps one day we may be rich enough to buy it back. Not just yet, Paul; we are only beginning the world as yet; but some day,\ Hornblower Hall then be it,\\ said Pau', in his dreamy, far-off way. \Bu pose, Mary, that you and I and the mother make a holiday of to-morrow, and go up ani see what this imaginary place is like,\ ''But it isn't imaginary, and I wouldn't for the world have the heir suppose that we arc prying about the premises that are lawfully his.\ \Ob hang the fellow!\ siid Paul. *% suppose he can't forbid us-the privilego of looking at Hornblower Hall, can he?\ Paul Rotherme} had his way. He al- ways did have his way, in a soft, im- erturbable fashion, which you never fully comprehended until it had gotten the better of you past all recovery. They took the train the next morning, all three of them-Paul hgving sent a note of apology and explanation to th» proprietor of the bmpty cashier's chair- and went up to Westport, where a depot carriage took them to the shore of the sound, where the salt waves were curling im fringes to the very foundations of Hornblower Hall, \Isn't it a sweet old place?\ cried Miss Verona, \Oh how I long to be here once again-to be at home here \g ''It fen't bad,\ said Paul, meditatively surveying its gray-stone towers and casements®of stained glass, the old sun- dial at the south end of the house, and the group of opposite the cedars. While old Mrs. Rothermel boldly ascended the flight of stone steps and rang the bell. Out came Mr. Pepperton, the lawyer, smiling and\ bowing, like an amiable Jack-in-the-box. 'Happy to see you, Mr. Rothermel!\ said he-'\'most happy, I am sure} Would you be so kind as to step in- yourself and these ladies? Ive had fires lighted in all the rooms a stone house like this is apt to be damp if it isn't kept well aired -and lunch has been sent | up from the' hotel in the village, Pray walk in, Miss Verona, your most obedi- ent! Iam exceedingly glad that you have bean able to arrive at a satisfactory strangement with your cousin, the heir.\ ''My cousin, the heirl I think, Mr. | Pepperton,-that you must have gone out of your mind?\ said Mary, drawing her- self up after a most stately manner, But Paul Rothermel turned to her | with a smile, - # \Higinind is all right, Mary,\ said he. \Lam your cousin, two or three times temoved, am I-not? As for being the mum my fault, isit! Tho law- mtmbegm before I wes bom.\ the printing-house to-day?\ asked Miss. \'The best of luck,\ he answered.. ity to sustain the dignity of the profes- sion she had adopted, - On arriving at the residence indicated, she was sur- | prised to find her patient to be a man | about forty years old, apparently suffer- ing the most excruciating pains. Mov- ing the covering, she discovered the fracture to be that of a wooden log. Nothing daunted, and without showing any evidence of her discovery, she qui- etly replaced the covering, stud ghe must go for some splints and bandages, and would return immediately, She did so, bringing with her some small pieces of brass and brads, with which shoat onee proceeded to repair the fractured limb. The surgical operation was performed in | a remarkably short space of time, and the injury left to the healing process of nature, She quiotly gave the necessary directions, informed the man that he would be all right in a day or two, and that her bill was $25. It is scarcely nec- essary to say that the fee was not forth- coming, the matter being treated as a good joke. Next morning, however, Miss Copeland appeared on the scone with a constable, and much to the cha grin of the son of Esculapius, collected her fee, It would seem that, if the young gradudtes of Harvard Medical Bchool wish to get ahead of the lady stu- dents of the College of Physicians and Burgeons, they will have to rise very carly, and usénore brass than Miss Cope- land did in reducing the fracture of the wooden leg.-Boston Herald. He had to be Civil. A certain Detroit parvemu of great wealth has hanging in his drawing room a large and hldeoua daub in oils, which some Shanghai dealer in Paris induced him to buy. He is very fond of taking a caller by the orm, leading him before the canvas and saying: 'Great picture that. By Macaroni di Vermicelli, you know, Paid $2000 for it in Paris ond got a great bargain. -- (coming an eminent American aftist who sometimes visite Detroit) says it's worth $10,000. A few days since this goatleman was Iunching at the Detroit Club, when the cat came out of the bag. Bomeone said : M , old Centpercent says that you have appraised that frightful nightmare of his at $10,800. Is it true? The artist answored, smilingly: 'I will tell you how that happened. He asked me to dinner one day, and after we left the table took me to see the pic- ture and told the usual story. Then turning abruptly, ha asked: How much is that painting worth?\ \'Why Mr. Centperceat,' said I, 'I really would nctlike to place a value upon it,' 'Well, I'll put it differently,' said he. - 'How much would you charge for such a picture? ** 'Idon't mind gaying,' 1 answered, 'that I would not paint such s picturs for $10,000. 'I had to be civil, you know.\- Daroit Free Press. Pigeons and Croup$ Ata recent meeting of the Anstomical and Pathological Society of Rrussels, M. Destrce called the attention of the mem- bers to the fact that cases of croup had been greatly and steadily on the increase in Brussels, so that croup and diphtheria were now epidemic there; and he ven- tured to suggest thst there might be some connéction between the keeping of pigcons and the occurrence of these dis- eases. He pointed out that Emmeriels of Munich had found the microbe of diphtheria in these birds, and he himself had met with three cases of croup Tn farnilies wherepigeons were kept, in all of which magm’cf the disease brad Fappeared, in tho pigeons.. M. Destrse hoped an: members would bear this matter fo mind, Ju order that it migh? be {manadm \What Kart\ A1! agate-loom walked fato a 17, aad ild to the yet heided etch manic gi & mas.” For he's an unmerciful foo, '- -Kila. Wheeler Wilma; HUMOROUS. - A cold snap -breaking an fcicle. The tender passion-The antipathy against tough steak. He-I could live on pigs' feot. all the time, She--Are you sure you don't? It, is said of a fashionable young man that he never paid: anything but a com- phment = \What is filling our insane asylums?\ shrieks a lecturer, .The answer probably is: | '\'Orazy people » however, does not discourage the posts,. There is'a great advantage in dressing quietly, There is no other occasion when it is so essential to be able to hear a pin drop. Inquisitive party (to «hod carrier): \And do you go up that ladder all day long?\ Pat; \No sur; half ov the toime Oi cum down.\ M ''You can't expect a man of my trade to join this strike,\\ said a carpet beater,\ \'Why not?\ asked the walking dele- gate. \'Because we are only carpet knights, and woe can raise moro dust by wlgklng than loafing. Boastful Englishman -When I was at home in England, sir, I lived in a hand- some stone mansion, and was waited or by well-paid servants, and was in the service of the. government. Practical American-Well, now, you don't look like a man that had been in jail, You'll have to be pretty careful over here.\ A Fat-Reducing Apparatus, An eye-witness describes an apparatus recently constructed for the anti-fat cures of Professors Bchweninger, Ocrtel and Ebstein in the following humorous way: 'Amagine to yourself a gentleman of aldermaonic retundity, standing in a sort of treadmill, and hard at work trying to mount an imnginery staircase without ever getting above the first step, inasmuch as tho upper ones aro constantly receding under his weight. The exercise may strengthen his lungs and even make him Iqgso a pound or two of adipose, butthe total effect would be but half accomplished if the builder of gymnastic machine had not also, in ad- dition to this simulated mountain ascen- cension, taken care to provide for a corre- sponding chunge of air, 'The physical exortion of continuously descending steps, causes the unhappy climber to set in motion a system of bellows, which inhalp the outer air and blow it full in his face. Instead of the common street air, however, the victim can also be made to inhale air impreguated with ex- tract of pine and other forest trees, and oxygen, thereby procuring him, within the walls of the city, the illusion of fill- tog his lungs with the invigorating sir of high mountains, - Besidés all this, the steps are so constructed as to be. placed more perpendicularly, if desired, in imi- tation of a steep mountain.-Paris Amer- Hleeplossness, Slecplessuess, in probably nine cases out of ten, Says a writerin Cassell, is worry. - The capillaries of the brain become stretched and loge their resilien- themselves of blgod when the hout of continues far into the night, unkl the\ body is- fairly worn ont and sinks into well for people who sulfer thus to at once take & holiday. R > ldoubtth‘ltvay mach: Would7 ye Mlmyauflfleyot probably. cak than Mmtfiatlkwfim M} Wu “\\fs§’£fifix&7 He\ Fa Joaquin Miller announces that \\the °. world is notin need of great posts.\ 'This, | > caused by continual mental strain of ° cy; they are unable, thererore, to empty\ rest comes round, and zo wflxefullnm—‘w the lethargy of exhaustion.. It will be
