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FCliLISIUSD EVEIIV THURSDAY * AT CAPE VINCENT, N. BT €HA-£LES, B.\ WOOD, Editor and Prop'r, To whom all letters should be addressed. All correspiudenco una advertisements should each us TuoBday morning to insure publication. H 1 IS Pptter 18nov8i JOB-WORK A SPECIALTY. T£EMSi $1.50 IN ADVANCE. YOL. X, CAPEWOENT, K; %'. Tfet&gDAY. FEBRUARY 16,1882 NO. 46. RATES O F ADVERTISING. SPAOIi- 1 W.I2 W IJnch. 2 Incuts 8 Inoli's 4 mob's sinou's X Pol. fool,. 8 W, t IS lis ns 2 60 S25 6 00 10 00 $125 175 2 Ml 8 28 410 TOO 12 00 in. $176 K Hti 3 «! 400 4 IB son 14 00 $ 2 SS 2 76 4 00 fW EN o or, 18 00 sm. $4 00 5 CO TOO S 00 9 00 15 00 25 00 6 m. $50 0 8 0' 9 00 10 00 12 00 25 0O 45 00 iy. $8 00 12 00 14 00 111 00 20 00 45 On 8ll 00 Business Cards, live lines or less, Ufa year. Advertisements In local cojumn, ten cents per lne the first week, and Ave cents per line eaoh subsequent insertion. Obituary Notices win be charged, Ave cents Jier line for all over Six lines. Notloes of Marriages and Beatns Inserted fr» UNION HOUSE, JAMES BATES, Proprietor. Noarust 1'Otet to lundlng. IT the depot — . aojd.stables and 'cattle yards duced Terms; jl.00.per day. and steamboat •\- Re- JAMES AUGUSTUS, Dealer In LIGHT aillYY MISS, OppoBlte St. Lawrence Hotel, Market St Give me a call and satisfy yourself. M. B. LEE, ATTORNEY Vincent, N. Y. AND COTJNSELOB, OAPB Office Cor. Broadway and Point Sts. E. O. KELSEY, Bepresents the old and rellamo Citiiital le Insurance Go. Pays fan amount of insurance. Capital $1,000, ooo. Surplus $1,088,422. Governed under the N. Y. state fund law. A. S. SMITH, M. D. O. M. Physician, Sum & Office and Residence next door north of the Episcopal church on Market street, calls promptly attended to both day and night. S. K. BISHOP, ~ Kotall Dealer In Groceries, Provisions, Fruits, Oigan »nd Tobacco. A full Btock of Pure Liquors and Wines. Opposite Post Offloe, Broadway. DANIEL QUINLAN, Dealer'ln Choice Family Groceries. .Vruits, Nuts, Confectionery, 'Tobacco, Cigars, end Notions. Nearly opposite the Dupot, Broadway. . WM. T. EBBS, House, Sign and Carriage Painter. Paper Hanging and Groining work done with neatness ai : a Specialty, id dispatch. Shop on Broadway, Cape Vincent, P. A. CROSS, ' Dealor in Dry Goods, Clothing, Boots & Shoes, Grocerloa, Provisions,. Yankee Notions, *c Broadway, Cape Vincent, N. Y- GEO. KELLY. Black mith & General Jobber, Broadway, Cape Vincent, Is now prepared to do all kinds ot work In his line cheaper than the ..cheapest. All woik warranted. Ho soshoelng a speciality. Contracted lei t cured or no pay. o. w. LONDKAYILLE; Fashionable Barber Shop, Iflrst door west of Woodruff's Drug Store, Broadway, Capo Vincont. A number of years ot experience will enablo me to give satisfaction. MRS. H. EABL, II ai r-Dress er, Cape Vincent, N. V. Particular attention given to the manufacture or Ladles'Switches, eto, feCeaxry :E5ei.3?±g Retail Dealer to FRESH & SALT MEAT. First door West of Post Office, Broadway Cape Vincent, N. Y. • Casta I'atH for Hides aud Folta, HACNTED.\ I'm haunted by a pair of eyes, Softly bright, of Wondrous size ;•. With pen or book, Do what I wul, With steady look, t They haunt me still. It seems so strange that those two eyes— Of ev*ry thing beneath the skies- Should all my heai-t, With joy's quick glow, Then, make me start With pain and woe. Ah, me i those eyes! I dread their gaze; They nil my soul with such amaze, To know they see What I would hide, And pity me, Ant do not chide. They do.not chide, those dear, dear eyes, As they, too, know Love's own sweet wile. In dreams they come, beyond my wUl, And steep my soul In wond'rous thrill, I cannot tell ' How it can be. This magic spell That's over me;. Nor how those eyes, e!en when away, Can melt In mind their soft'ning ray, They have no right To haunt me so, Both day and night \Where'er they go. I_ would I could forget those eyes, That gleam like lights In Paradise, With pen or hook, Do what I will, With steady look They haunt me still. A KEY TO 1HEM1S1EEY. H. N. BTJSHNELL, At. D. Dealer In HARDWARE AND GfROOKRIKS / AT BOTTOM PKICES, FHlip* MAKKS, Dealer In JPTJO ^'ITURB,. ' Lumber, Coal, Salt, &c, At. Cross 1 Old Stand, Cape Vlncoct, N. Y. HENRY PEO, ~\ WHOLESALE DEALER IK Lake Ontario Fish, Cape Vincent, N.Y., Prices as low as any other reliable house. JEROME'S HOTEL, AND BILLIAED EOOMS, Ice Cream Always on Hand. <4Uy) Cape Vincent W. \S\ THOMAS MASSON, M. D, Graflnato of Qneeu's tJnlyersity Kmast'n (Successor to Dr. Palrba Irh.) Office a t Mr». WaBuroff'a. Professional oallspunctually attendid to at.all tours, day and night • I was but a poor mechanic in tliose dajB—a locksmith, by trade—industri- ous, zealous andinloye, as many a good fellow before m e has been and will b e again, I doubt not. But marriage was a tiling of the fu- ture, aud each time it came nearer i t seemed to slip ahead again, and leave poor Emily and me as far from our goal as ever and with fainting hope each time. I had a mother and an invalid sister to support, and somehow or other looks wouldn't get out of repair, or need re- pairing in sufficient numbers to enable me to add a little wife to my list of wo- mankind. Emily was a deft little seamstress, and slowly but steadily went on earning her wedding outfit saying cheerily; \Remember th e tide in every man's life, John. Some day you'll take it a t its full, and fortune will follow.\ Bless the patient little woman she did prediit the truth. An order came one day for the repair of a trunk look i n a distant part of town I wondered a little, as with my bag of tools I hastened to obey the direction, that I had been sent for—such a dis- tance from th e place—and whether there were not locksmiths in thatiieigh- borhood. By an odd chance Emily's word came into my mind. Was m y tide about to turn. I found the house—a small, plain oot- tage, with nothing about itindieative of magic power, but rather suggesting that the inmates were waiting as well as John Rhodes, for the way to fort- une. A sweet faced girl refined and well bred, admitted me and with a smile led the way at once to the work Bhe wished done. It was in the front bedroom—a well- worn trunk {hat had seen its best days aud was rather rickety about th e buck- les and look. I set about the lepairs at once, as th e young lady's manner indicated haste, and while busily employed thought how much better this little fiveroomed house would suit Emily and mo than the very evident superior condition of th e fair girl I was working for. In an arm chair by the window sat an elderly lady who seemed to watch m y work with gentle curiosity, and beside her sat the young girl,speaking in alow tone, as\ if pleading. •'You work hard sir,\ said th e lady! kindly. •» ..._ 'lYes..nm>m^^ni^vffly ; \tti\*tnT\6lci lock. \My mother has a great sympathy for workers,\ laughed the young girl, patting the elder lady's pretty hand, \and thinks I am t o b e pitied because I belong t o .the hive of human bees.\ I looked at her. She couldn't do hard work, I thought, with those slim fingers and rosy cheeks—music or teaching; perhaps, at the most. \Never mind, mother dear, my tide will turn some day,\ she laughed again, as I finished my small job and arose, \and then what a fortune i t will lead on to.\ She was like my Emily cheering him- self with bits of pretty sayings, got oHt of books,, and it mnde me feel kindly toward her, as if I would like to serve her. \** My change came, strange to say, be- fore long. As she paid me m y due , which I made purposely small for the sake of Emily's cheery words, she asked quickly: \Would a lot of odd keys be .of ser- yioe to you? We have such a bigbun'ch that it i s only i n the way, and we would thank you to take them.\ It suited me very well, as I could work them over and save on them, sol took them gratefully as she held them up, jingling, in a big heap, .\All she said, half sadly, \i£ we only had now th e closets aud wardrobes' in th e paper, 1 gave jib ma n his mis- and all the locks those keys once fitted, how quickly -would our cares fade away! 'Tis, hard, hard to be so poor when our loved ones suffer!\ I eould-not answer for she \ did not seem to speak to me, but fgit still more willing to help her, She let me out the door kindly. - \I am glad I went by your shop by chance,'\ she said, \and decided to give you a job, for I think you look consci- entious. Good by!\ I went home thoughtfully pondering over this new experience. Was the tide coming iff? As I hung up the tool-bag in its place awaiting keys. As I took up the bunch one key struck my notice. The like I had never before soert, and I knew that it was never wrought by a locksmith this side of th e Atlantic, but came, no doubt, from strange lands, where they needed such ourious things to hida strange doings. It was a flat piece of steel about two inches long, and had four slits in th e square end. two oh each side. -1\ wondered what use it had ever served, and if i t belonged to th e young lady's happier days: but being a slow thinking man, and little given to rora- mance I hung u p the key bunch and went to work at my locks, thinking no more of the strange key or the inmates of the cottage. But the next day I was made to recall them b y a strange coincidence. I was sent for* to come at once to a number in a fashionable locality, and on presenting myself at th e front door found it t o belong to a n elegant .brown stone mansion, but with an air. of soli- tude about it, as the windows were all tightly closed, save on th e second floor. A colored man admitted me, and with out a word led me upstairs to th e sec- ond story frontroom. He rapped loud- iy. • \The locksmith, mudame.' The door opened, I entered,the black man went down stairs, and I was left with a sudden nervousness to find ou t my business i n this silent place. A tall, dark woman, riohly dressed, with wild, dark eyes, was walking up and down th e room, as if angry, or as J. looked closer at her, as if excited by terrible fear of anxiety. She turned on me sharply: \Have you.ever seen me before,\ she demanded, rather abruptly, passing by a table. ^Then m y slow mind plaoed her at' onoe. \Yes ma'am, at a hotel, some two years ago,\ I answered i n astqnisli- ment. \You were sent for then to open a box?\ \Yes ma'am, and couldn't,' \Yen are sent for now to do the same tiling,\ she cried out. fiercely, \and you muBt do it. I can trust no other smith with the mystery—you look trustwor- thy.\ A second time I was receiving a com- pliment for m y good plain face, and (give credit where its due) to m y moth- er's honest, straightforward, training. I picked up th e box, remembering it then very well, alse the long hour I worked at fitting keys to its singular look without success, while the dark woman walked the floor, then as now, with savage haste. I meohanically drew out my keys, and they fell with a crash t o the floor, for the first one I looked at was the strange key Ihadgottonfrom the young girl, and i n amomentlknew that it belonged to this square metal box. An d I knew further, by instinct, that great wrong had been done through this strange ke y and its mystery, and that it had fallen to my lot to detect it, keys, and like a flash the young girl's words came into my mind. \Ah if only we had the locks 'those keys once fitted how quickly would our cares fade away!\ And I held there in my hand one lock that her key fitted, and I mentally resolved that it should be restored to her. But how? I secreted the steel key in my palm, as I held up th e bunch to say: \I need a pieoe of steel—you see these will not answer—with slits in the square end, to open this box—\ She interrupted me with a quick gest- ure. ••Yes, yes!'' she cried brokenly that is like the lost key? Oh, if It had but been mine long ago!\ She began her walk again. A thought como into my mind. I was determined not to lose sight of the box, and t o stiuggle for i t if neces- sary. \Will you let the colored man go t o my shop for what I need?' I asko d half fearing, she would order me to go in- stead. \Yes yes!\ Bhe cried quietly. - \I will go down and tell him,\ I said flot wishing her t o Jbiow What I meant to do. Hastily writing a few lines i n thehall below, and wrapping the ke y seourely tress' order to caiWlt'tQits address. And then I went/ back to. the dark woman, and sat dbw<ri,fe* the box and waited. • . ; '»• She never oe«sed to pace the floor, and now and again raised her hand with a terrible gesture. • . • I thought she was weeping. At last she came to the table, 4 - '• •<Wh»t do you think, is in that box?' she said, and a wistful sound came in her voice, as if she felt confidence i n me and wished to hear'me speafc ' I felt sudden courage, Tb e young girl's voiee was in my ears and made me brave. *, ^ 'iSomething that dpeaui^_i b ei 6 i'S_^ •'How do you know?\ she cried hasti- ly. The front door surely opened. \Your anxiety tells me, and—because I have the key, which you never owned. That box has been stolen ma!am!\ There w p r e steps on the stairs,' but more than one person's. I didiiot ex- pect my answer t o oomethus, but in that and all that followed Ii no more ha d a part. The end came speedily. •'I did not stealit,\ came with a shriek from the dark woman as th e door op- ened, and the black man ushered in th e young girl and her mother. Then another cry rang out sharply, \Sister!\ \Zoe! At last!\ The young girl drew near me as he r mother went up t o the darkJKsman and caught her hands, and handed me th e key. I drew the box toward me. Th e dark womau rushed toward the table, and raised her hand. \I call heaven to witness that until two years ago, when my husband died, I did not know that he nad cstolen the box said to contain my' father's last will, and truly thought myself the heir- ess.\ She paused a moment in pain,clutch- ihg her breast. \I married a gambler, as you know, but you do not know that I caught his terrible fever, and that m y only happi- ness since his death has been found a t the card table. \I found the box two yeara ago but not the key. I feared to know its con- tents,lest it should rob me o t the means of prelongfcg-my)ninctHeBB.- v - , .But at'Jast conscience stung me too deeply, when I found out how poor you were who should have shared our father's wealth, and from which my husband drove you and I resolved to know the truth at last Open the box, sir, as by a strange chanoe it is your right to do.\ I obeyed. The curious key slipped in easily, and the lid fell back. The dark woman raised a folded pa- per from the inside. Slowly she looked at th e young ghjl.whd regardedher with pitying eyes, then at her sister, who was weeping. \I see you both still love me,\ she said, mournfully,''and that my wild,, oheokered life still holds your pity. God forgive the wrong dono you.\ She read aloud the paper. It Shared a great fortune between the two sisters, instead of leaving it all to one. I arose to go, feeling that f had no more t o do here, but the young girl caught my hand and cried out, eagerly: \We owe it all to you! W e must thank you with more than words. Until your note came, asking if th e lock that key fitted was of servioe to us, we did not know it was on the bunch I gave you. So long we had ha d the key, which grandfather gave me before dy- ing, and no box to open with it, that we grew careless'of it, and b y chance it go t on that bunch.\ The sisters were talking and weeping together, and th\e One was pleading to save the other from her terrible infatua- tion. But, as my story is true, I cannot say she succeeded, for the lonely house and silent black man and dark, fierce S oman are still the mystery of the eigjrroornoouv ~-i •.:\\- - 1 - But the tide led onto fortune for both my Emily and the young girl wh o cheered their hearts with th e quotation for my wife and I now live in the cot- tage where I first met th e brave girl, who so well deserved he r good luck. She came to me often, and again an d again makes m e tell th e story of my discovering the key to the mystery. The dark woman still burns her life out with the fever of gambling. Hues una. Carpets. The present fancy for \plushes and vel- Vets that is seen in dress fabrics, millinery and upholsterings prevails also as regards oarpets. The consequence is an increas- ing demand for Wilton and velvet carpets and an increased production for the Autumn and Winter trade. The. ten- dancj in i n all carpets for parlors and bed- rooms is to floral decoration, in rich, yet delicate colors, on olive, old gold, ecru or iyory grounds. The floral decoration is generally m the form of loose sprays rather than set boquets or garlands, and the c-fiect while strong, is at the same time light and graceful. Carpets for holld ' and dining-rooms cooie in rich dark col- ors, overlaid With Persian and Indian designs.- Staii«earpets naturaUy partake oithe-ohatacterof hail-oatpets, ancl.are consequently dark. Th e borders to A Beautiful Memorial Volume. Mrs. 0. E. Doihia, the energetic propri- etor of OUR SSOHD CENTUET, has pub- lished a beautiful volume entitled \Presi- dent Garfield's Memorial Journal,\ giving a Bhort sketch of U s fife from his childhood to his death; with sketches and portraits of all the Presidents of the Unijed States, from President Washington to President Arthur; including a roll of the convention which nominated James A. Garfield, and a list of the Senators and Representatives, Governors, Foreign Ministers, etc.; also sketches of the prominent merrof the time, their names, etc., with forty steel engrav- ings, including one of Queen 'Victoria, by the most eminent artists of the United States. The book is now ready. Sub- scription price, $15, $20, $30, depending upon quality of binding,— Philadelphia Mecord. —Queen Elizabeth granted the first royal patent conceded to players i n X576. »^»t»jtuJi~jTOi3'Jx_tJjw^ • tofore. There is a tendency now to cover the entire floor, though in many- houses carpets arc still laid so as tb expose a border of marquetry or other hard wood work. In India carpels, the Ahlowalia carpets are in great demand; these come in olive, green and bric-a-brac reds. Body Brussels are out this season in great- ly improved patrons, .and are having a good run. So are American moquet carpets, which come from this firm's own factories, which are sold at $1.40 per yard Ingrains offered this year, from their superior quality, have likewise' gained in favor. A decided improvement in these are the reversable ingrains, both sides of which are equally well finished. The Masulipatan rugs are among popu- lar India good's coming as they do in usuil sizes. They have ivory ground overlaid with deep rich colors. A want long felt among a large class are rugs ol good coloring and pattern at a moderate cjst. This want is now supplied by a large and varied assortmwnt of American- made rugs in convenient sizes. Con- spicuous among these rugs of home manufacture are the imitation Smyrna rugs, twhich closely resemble tUe originals, and the reversible ingrain rugs. TUe last mentioned come'in sizes ± by 2J feet and 8 by 2J feet, and co3t $8 and $10 apiece. Poor of Paris. Talking of the Paris poor, writes a cor- respondent, dp you how many of them there are within the walls of this beauti- ful city? The latest report of the Assis- tance Pubhque sets them down at 123,000. As the total pupulation, according to the last census returns published, was roughly 2,000,000, it follows that just six in every hundred men, women and children are known to be i n want of the common nec- essaries of life. Known, I say, with in- tention, for who can tell how many proud sad creatures are suffering, aye, and starv-. lug, rather than stoop to the so called de- gradation-of- tiepping; » cruet, of breads Where those 128,000 unfortunates live it puzzles careless observers to imagine. One sees few beggars on the boulevards and streets in she heart of Paris. Even in the humbler quarters the pauper—as Americans and Englishmen understand the animal—is a rare sight. And yet they must be somewhere. JSnmming over with charity inspired by the prospect of roast turkey and pudding, I walked two miles yeBterday—from the opera to the Place Wagram—looking for some deserving ob- ject on whom to bestow a bad half franc, and did not find one. But the question \Where do they live?\ is of infinitely less important than an other, \How do they like?\ That is the real mystery. The As- sistance Pnblique won't explain it. At the most it helps a man not quite ta starve. Perhaps the people who go tne Assistance for relief can hardly be said to live at all. They exist by their witts. Some pick up cigar ends and sell them. Some open car- riage doors or run errands. Hundreds earn a precarious livelihood by inventing and making toys for Ohrismas fairs. The ingenuity of the latter class, though great- ly exaggerated is truly astonishing, never a year passes without a ccore of puzzles or toyes and domestic trifles being con- ceived by their active brains. It is they who give the one touch of interest to the fair, in itself generally a dull and insipid thing enough, not for a moment to be com- pared to the fete de Neuilly or the foire anx pains d'epieea. Don't Do It . Don't sleep in a oraugnt. Don't go to bed with cold feet. Don't stand over hot-air registers. Don't eat what you do not need just lo save it. Don't try to get cool too quickly after exercising. * Don't sleep with insecure false teeth in your mouth. JQon'JiLstart the day's work without a good DreaKIaWr - - Don't sleep in a room without ventilation of Borne kind. Don't stuff a cold lest you be next oblig- ed to starve a fever. Don't try to get along without flannel underclothing in winter. Don't use your voice for loud speaking when hoarse. Don't try to get along with less than eight or nine hours' sleep Don't s'eep in the same undergarment you wear during the day. Don't toast you feet by the fire but try sunlight faction instead Don't try to keep upon coffee and alco- holics when you ought to go to bed. Don't drink ice water by the glass; take it in sips, a swallow at a time. Don't strain your eyes by reading or working with insufficient or flckerihg light. Don't use the eyes for reading or fine work in the twilight of evening or early morn. Don't try t o lengthen your days by cut- ting short your nights' rest; it is poor economy. Don't wear close, heavy, fur or rubber capB or hats if your hair is thin or falls out eaiiiy. Dsm'teat anything between meals ex- cepting fruits, or a glass of hot milk if you feel faint. Don't take some other person's medicine because you are troubled somewhat asthoy were. Don't blew out a gaslight as yon would a lamp; many lives are lost, every year by this mistake. —Ittakes 1920silk;wormsto make'' pound of worms. Easy WBures for tno German. The figures of the German here given are easy of execution, and require but little preparation. The first thing to oe done is to ascertain the number ot coupleB willing to dance, and these must be Beated on chairs placed close together, generally forming a complete oblong or circle. It is impossible to carry the dance all through successfully, and with due ani- mation, without a couple who well under- stand the figures and lead the dance. If there are two couples, so much the better. Every one takes a turn at the central per- formance, one after the other, until the whole number has been through. When the number of people dancing is very large, it is a good plan to have two pairs Of leaders, aid to have every figure done in duplicate in the centre of the room at the same time; or sometimes the ^n^e^^^Pdk-ftti4ir4fi6d^^i2l!^i half—for one figure, and the bottom half for the next figure. The clapping of hands always announces the termination of a. figure. No. 1. First of all, valse generate; then the lady leading chooses two gentlemeli, and asks them what animals they will be called. They choose; she then takes them up to a lady, who chooses one, and dances with the other. The gentleman leading goes through the same performance, only with ladies, and he asks them what names of floweis they will choose. No. 2. All the gentlemen form a ring; a lady is placed in the centre, and she slips a mask or night cap over the head of Borne gentlemaa.the gentlemen all dancing around with their back to her; she dances with the one she chooses. No. 3. A lady is seated in the centre of the room, and a hand bell ia presented to her; cards are dealt round to the gen- tlemen; she rings out \any number Bhe chooses, and dances with the gentleman who has a corresponding number on his card. No. 4. A row of ladies and a row of gentlemen are placed back to back, one gentleman more than the ladies; the leader claps his hands, and the gentlemen rush and try to secure apartner: one gentleman is always left out and the rest all waltz together. No. 6. Po m ladies are placed in four corners; four gentlemen dance around them ; each lady chooses some one ; the person chosen stands by her side in ths same corner ; at last all four are chosen, and thev all waltz together. No. 6. Ladies are turned out of the room, and show the tips of their fingers round the door, which is nearly closed ; each gentleman chooses a finger, and dances with the owner; ditto may be done with gentlemen. No. 7. A lady is seated in the centre of the room; a high hat, with a hand kerchief plaoed on the top of it, is placed at her feet; a gentleman has to stoop down on one foot and pick up the hand- kerchief m his mouth without touching the floor. No. 8. A lady is seated in the centre of the room; a cushion is placed at her eet; a gentleman is brought up and he must try to kneel down on the cushion before she can drag it away with her feet: if she wishes to dance with him, she leaves the cushion and lets him kneel. No. 9. A lady is seated in the centre of the room; a looking glass is given her; a gentleman is brought up behind her,and looks into the glass over her snoulder; if she does not wish to dance with him she wipes the glass with her pocket hand- kerchief, and he remains behind her chair while others are brought up. No. 10. A lady is seated in the centre of the room; a fan is given: two gen- tlemen are seated with their backs on either side of her; she giyes the fan t o one, and goes' up and dances with the other; the one with the fan purBues the the dancing couple, hopping after them and fanning. No. 11. A lady is seated in the centre of the room ; two gentlemen are seated with their backs on either side of her; she presents a glass of wine to the one and dances with the other. No. 12. A lady stands on a chair in the centre of the room, holding up a lighted candle; various gentlemen brought up jump and try to puff it out; the suc- cessful one dances with the lady. No. 13. A lady.is standing in the centre of tm room, holding two aprons tied up; two gentlemen stand IU front of her; she throws each of them an apron, and the one who first gels an apron dances with her. No. 14. Bouquets of flowers are pre- sented to all the gentlemen; ihey present their flowers to the ladies they choose, and dance with them. No. 15. Ditto, with ladies, presenting flowers to gentlemen. No. 16. A good finish lo march up two and two, and bow to the host and hostess. The Open Polar Sea. S o Btaitl OOBO Out. \Vivier the famous horn-Dlower, who has marked triumphal progress over Europe by his innumerable \'sells has made the morgue tho seenejof bis latest exploit. En- tering that cheerful resort he posts himself in front of the glazed case where the bodies of the drowned are exposed, and gazed fixedly and with a face of horror-stricken interest at one of the corpses. J n due time a dozen spectators, attracted by his earn- estness, gather arond him. \Great heavens, it cannot be!''murmurs Yiver, excitedly, \and yet I could swear' — \What? What?\ \No I must be mistaken, Poor Edgar, And yet I thought h e moved. And there! again—see!\ The crowd, cxeitdly—\Moved! Ha by Jove, did't his breast heave teat time?\ Yivier— \I thought so myself.and see hiseyel\ The crowd—\Yes his eyehd is twitcn. nig.\ \Vivier—\Surdy it can't be, and yet it looks as if he wasn't dead.\ The crowd—\He isn't dead! The body is alivel Hi, keeper! (They ring the bell furisusly. Enter keeper.) Keeper—What's wrong' What's the matter?\ The crowd—\That body there—lidgar's —on the second marble slab\ * • Meepcr—''Well, what about it?\ The crowd—\It isn't dead!\ Keeper—' 'Will you all go to blue blazes? That corpse has been under the tap for six days.\ The crowd—\But this gentleman saw'' They look around for Yivier, He had gone out. The Arctip Ocean is a vast myslortous sea lying around the North Pole, with an ice bound coast of nearly 2,000 miles. For hundreds of years navigators have tried in vain to explore it, but so far as is known no human being has ever yet gone further northward than a point 410 miles from the pole. The accounts given us by Arctic explor- ers of theit adventures in these frozen wa- ters are full of interest. They tell us of vast icebergs, some of which are rose-tint- ed, of red snow, of mock suns, and of the splendors of the Arctic auroras. Dr. Kane speaks of some of these beau- tiful auroras as \arch-like in form, corrus- oating with motions, and rich with ohro matic displays, with beaming wreaths, flashing 'merry dancers,' and jets of pea- nreen,- .rauxplo.*na vloietjjjmt,.\ Be., tella i'ioA^s*^--*-\ 10 - 2331 ^ that « T O m P er petual show and whose lives are one great winter, and of the seals, and of traveling over the ice iu sledges drawn by dogs, and of the long, daaa, Arctic night when for many months there is no sunshine. Let me tell you what he says about see- ing the sunrise after long' and weary months of utter darkness. \January 29th—Going on deck after breakfast this morning, 1 found the dawn- ing far advanced. The whole vault was bedewed with tho coming day; and except Capella the stars were gone. The south- ern- horizon was clear. I was certain to see tho sun after an absence ot 86 days, I took my gun and walked over the ice about a mile away from tho stiip (which was frozen solid, in the ice), to a solitary spot where a great big hummock hemmed me in, opening only to the south; then, Parsee fashion, I drank m tho rosy light and watched the horns of tho orescent ex- tending themselves round toward the north. \Vtry snon the deep crimsnn blush lightening into a focus of incandescent white, showsd me that the hour was close at hand. \Presently the sun camel Never till the green sod or the ice covers me, may L fore- go that blessing of blessings again! X look- ed at him thankfully with a great globus m my throat. Then caine tho shout—three shouts—from the ship, cheering the sun,\ Bui. the most marvelous story told by Arctic explorers is, that after going north- ward many hundred miles, through vast regions of night and desolation, where the cold is so intense that BUOW and ice are perpetual, and vegetation cannot live, they came to a great mysterious open sea, rolling away toward the pole. This sea contains little or no ice; its waters are compsratively warm, and there are other indications of an approach to a milder cli- mate, Dr. Kane says that his party had left the vessel, aud were traveling northward by sledges drawn by dogs. After many days journeying over frozen fields of thick ice, • and among great icebergs that covered the entire sea, east, west and south, they sud- denly found theiee growing soft and weak. This continued until the dogs were terri- fied and refused to go on, when suddenly they saw to the north, a long, dark, band, which was open water. They altered their course, and soon came to a long cape ex- tending still northward into this mysteri- ous sea. Climbing up some hn?h cliffs, they looked out upon its \white capped waters,\ and estimated that it had an area of more than 4,000 square miles, Animal life, which, says Dr. Kane, 'had so long been a stranger, now burst upon us,\ They saw enormous flocks of the eider and king duck, and the brent goose, and many other birds which live in warm • er climates. There were vast numbers of sea gulls, aud the rocks were crowded with sea swallows. As they continued their journey, the land, ice and snow which had served as a sort of pathway for their dogs, crumbled and melted, and at last ceased altogether, so that the sledge was useless, and they toiled along on foot over rocks and along the beach of the sea. The water grew warmer as they went northward. Although it was early in the season they recognized many flowering plants. As they went on to the end of the capo the coast became more wall like, and lofty cliffs overhung tho sea. From a height of almost 500 feet, which commanded a hori- zon of forty miles, their \ears were glad • dened by the novel music of dashing waves and a surf breaking in among the rooks at their feet\ \Beyond the cape all is sunrise, the high ridges to the northwest dwindled oft into low blue knobs, which finally blended with the air.\ \I do not believe,\ continues Dr. Kane, \that there was a man among us who did not long for tho means of em- barking upon its bright and lonely waters.\ People have wondered a great deal about this open sea at the pole, and many strange and curious theories have been advanced to account for it. It is probably causad by a warm current from the Pacific flowing into the frozen ocean through Behring Strait or b y the warm waters.of the Atlan- tic Suif stream turned northward by the cliffs of Nova Z3mbla. One by one the great geographical ques- tions like that of the Nile's soured, have been settled The Polar problem, is about, the only one left to vex the world, and It cannot be many years before some enter- prising navigator will immortalize his name by being the first to reach tho Pole, tho point which has no longitude. School Headaolios. Scholars are often twitted about the headache that invariably afflicts them in school and which never comes when they remain at home. This complaint, like spring fearer is ridiculed by those inclined to belive all children eager to Bhirk study. When we consider, however, the defective ventilation of our common sckoolhouaes, which are not as well provided with fresh air as our jails and prisons, is is small cause for wondor that children gape and yawn through recitations and have heavy and aching heads. The sanitary condition of public tc'iools in this particular is abomi- nable. Ventilation must cither come from the windows, causing colds in [hose whose backs are exposed to the drauft, or else through dusty flues \which fill the current impuiities. It is impossible to send a deli - eate child to the common public school and have it pass thiough ths term without sick nes. Families who can ill afford the out- lay are-compelled to place their children in private schools to ensure thera the supply of oxygen necessary to g03d health. K
