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(' .Yif nerliHP seven years, impressed me
ir'?;n r y. Her face was one of the
t' est I ?ver seen, with soft, dark-
iv ni on u'
SChlOSSDere, who, a imiu
shining under a
mist of
liMden hair, "which lay
nded golden na.r, y ,
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D ifll r little Drown leev ""in buuv u.uutu
tin! -lattpr ne WOOUeil Dimes, iiu nu w.i.
rln T Int in the coarse petticoat she
4,. i rt in tne coarse pumi-uat ouo
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Eshodglimpes of a delicate white
aouAkin- ., 11 f offiir1el n
p mo.il to one of the red-saddled
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wtinstimt looked at my ideal of the little
'wireirl I wished to plant,
she was called Lottchen,and her mother
ived (There the cactus was blooming
1 the window, higher up the lull.
T was soon arranged ; Lottchen's over
.arked mother was too glad of the few
iTldcns so easily earned, and ! retraced
Mffil -y 8telS tO Uiy SlUQlO IU nail, 111) iihio
feaHmodel. . , .... ....... .
Inhalfan hourBiie came ; uiu ui u
bros, ,hange had come over tne nine Bprue i
, witl had seen on the hill,
beta Her picturesque dress was replaced by a
slum raudyfigured btnff, apparently belonging
on oTn older sister; a string of hideous
shl ds marred her pretty neck and, worst
v' . Tall her silken hair, the wild disorder
in if which I had so admired, was oiled and
,b ?JXd into two sua plaits. .
'i I could see that Lottchen was grieved
'Inn, , t,.ui,ej that her brilliant eostume
1,8rtftd not meet with my approval ; but
hen I to u Her 10 go nuiiie aim iui. uu
lljr Old UrCOS, DUD oih nivuu
u'llitn Khe was awav I tried to think
over my picture, but my thoughts refused
dwell on tne nine nuwergm.
Thcv wandered oacK iar dbck 10 a
'i I Knnr... .If 1 1 ll .-ni.tl.'j fi rut
mA IV I ell I VW "I'VI mm jumij o .uv
lash of hope and love,
what was it about that child's face that
arwliiad brought back again the romance of
.. iir
My eye waiiuereuio me moai. msiciui
iJok in my studio ; a kind of shrine to
'picture wnoso iace was iuruuu m mo
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Inevercnuld work wmi mat iace iook
ngat me ; It set my thoughts astray. I
wb poor anu siruggnnn, suu uumu m
Afford to lose time in idle reveries ; but to-
td.rlwas reckless
1 turneii me piciure nu s"'i "
forgot everything else, on a fair face, with
deep, dark eyes looking at me over one
bite Biioumer.
iraewS, "Clara, my one darling!" rose to my
pS lor lllo IUUUEHIIIUIU muc, imu viicv.
ihpre.
It was such folly to cherish still the
memory of one who had bjeafor years
ilie wife of anottier.
Perhaps her father was right in forbid
linff the union of his beautiful daughter
ritti an enthusiastic young artist, whose
aame and fortune were all in tne tuture.
ind they were in the future still, while I,
jFfriediieli Hartmaun, was drifting on to-
ardmulule age,
How the wrinkles were beginning to
how in my forehead ! I could see them
tven in ttie mirror across me room ; anu
fas there always such a melancholy look
my eyes? Someone called tnem DrigQt
ind roguish once. My hair was more un-
iempt-looking than thai oi most men.
remaps tne Doys in me street were ngiu
a calling me "Tow-haired Fritz." I
fondered n ttiey would ue more respeci-
iil when the silver hairs began to show.
And then my clothes how shabby
;hey were grow'ing! but nobody cared
ed hi0 now 1 looked.
There was a look in Clara's face that
vizuely recalled the little peasant
I111U.
Short steps sounded on the gravel out
lle, and I turned my picture lack to its
uiet hiding-place.
Lottchen was all the one I could wish
ii a model ; her expression as she looked
? beseechingly, with a little bunch of
Wers in one brown hand, was perfect.
i was caiieu out during one snung, anu
k witfrhen I returned my patient little maiden
ail iallen asleep, with her head resting
n her folded arms, and her basket of
ly thftowers overturned at her feet.
This attitude suggested a pendant,
lint oil Irttirv n ft fit i f n!ifiirA ivlnnii
On b io strangely turned my fortunes into a
anpier channel.
At last my work was finished ; there
amusff ere two Lottchens now within a stone's
irow of the castle.
I dismissed the living one with much
gret, and the one on canvas soon after
nljjent to try its fortune in a larger city
njj For a long time I had no word of
uu iv iur u long nine i naa no woru oi my
aid battle picture, and I began to think it was
notlicr added to my long list of disap
Jintments. when one dav l heard a
jJy had bought my flower girl, giv-
i for it a sum which seemed to m fabu-
118.
The letter stated further that this lady
as particularly anxious to know the
tist, in order to ask a question about
e picture.
The name of my benefactress was
ainwarine. This was all I discovered
r manv weeks, although I sent mv name
m pre:
id address.
Considerably encourazed bv the sale of
fj last effort, I began a new picture a
Jimpse from mv studio-window, the
pin tower of the castle showing boldly
indovl.
sinH tne summer sky, with a bit of the
-'tfk&r. Rnunntirl hv itu nnnint. nltl Kriilrrn
lamihinding peacefully below.
ude f'l I was working vigorously one afternoon
VtMlnrnln I.L .11 l
-"g anuuni jie uuy oiu tiietnoi ecu,
wn a card was handed to me.
A lady. Mrs. Mainwarincr. was waitinir
p uy mooest utile reception-room. The
o nelne wa very familiar, as my purchas-
' ere so lew.
A tall, graceful figure in deep mourning
to greet me as I entered the room.
Have yon forgotten an old friend, Mr.
irttuaiin?" she nuWivl. r.iisinir hpr
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boot heavens! it was Clara. But oh.
w oale anri RaA aha Innlr) I
'l! Her mournful expressisn helped me to
ent, ntrol my feelings more than anything
i arie coulil hva .i,
, all i-'ishe said that aler hearing my name
jo wr 94iu ieit a new interest in coming to
'' 1 h, iieiueiDerg to inquire about my
tlre, but she had fallen ill on tha
av.
With fultprm(r vnirA a Via tv,M m&
r tronble. Her husband 'had die,! twn
arafter her marriage, leaving her
inning little girl, who became almost
''f SO.e companion. Thin iilnlirp.l rhiM
11 died only a short half-year before my
. "cuug wiin uiara.
w months after her bereavement
ira vfla ,i : . i i .
v i muiucniig lurougu B piciure-
fe7' when she saw mv picture, and
Mfjjnafixed with astonishment The
gin was so overwhelmingly
e her Inst ,.k. .i . .. Ji
fc .v T"- tun biic u mnureu
f;, ."xety till she could call the picture
TTown,M J " nnfortunate chance,
she had no likeness of her fluid.
Her next wish was to know the little
girl who had served as model for the
painting. She seemed eager, as if she
expected to see her own child again. I
took her to see Lottchen the same after
noon. Happier days dawned for my little
model, and the" care of the donkeys was
given into other hands. Clara showered
blessings on her in the form of a higher
education and happier home, though she
never cared to call the peasant child her
own.
Gradually our talks together drifted
back to the past, and one calm sumnifr
evening 1 was emboldened to tell her my
love-tale, interrupted so many years he
fore. She heard it through to the end, and
this time her answer was a premise
which nas made the happiness ot my
whole life. We were married quietly
Boon after.
Perhaps it is unpardonable vanitv, but
the picture I prize most in all the world is
My Little Flower Girl.
Curious Aversions.
The secretary of Francis I. lined to
stop up his nostrels with bread if he saw
a dish of apples, to prevent an other
wise inevitable bleeding at the nose. A
Polish king had an antipathy to both
the smell and siirht of this wholesome
fruit, and a family of Aquituine had a
hereditary hatred of it. A Flemish dam
sel was sadly troubled by an uncomfort
able aversion to the Bmell of bread.
Cheese, mutton, musk and ambergris
have been so repugnant to some nasal
organs as to send their owners into con
vulsions. Gretry, the composer could not en
dure the scent of the rose, neither could
Anna of Austria. The mere sight of the
queen of flowers was too much for Lady
Henenge, bedchamber woman to Queen
Bess ; indeed, Kenelni Digby records
that her check became blistered when
some one laid a white rose upon it as she
slept. Her ladyship's antipathy was al
most ns strong as that of the dame who
fainted when her lover approached her,
wearing an artificial rose in his button
hole. A violet was a thing of horror to
the eyes of the Princess de Lambelle,
tansy and abominable to the Earl of
Barrymoro, Scaliger grew pale before
the water-glass, and a soldier who would
have scorned to turn his back on a foe
fled without shape from a snrie of rue.
A poor Neapolitan was always seized
with a tit upon attempting to swallow a
morsel of flesh meat of any kind, and
nature thus condemned lain to vegeta
nanism, a sorer infliction than thai was
suffered by Guianerius, whose heart
palpitated violently if he indulged in a
pork dinner, or by the lady who could
not taste udder of beer without her lips
swelling to uncomfortable dimensions.
Dr. Prout had a patient who declared
honest mutton was as bad ns poison to
him. Thinking this was all fancy, the
doctor administered the obnoxious rnenl
under various disguises, but every ex
periment ended in a severe vomiting
at.
Another unlucky individual always
had a lit of the gout a few hours after
eating fish, and a Count d'Armsadt never
failed to go off m a faint if lie knowingly
or unknowingly partook of any dish
containing the slightest modicum of olive
oil. A still worse penalty attached to
lobster sand in case of a lady, for if she
ventured to taste at a dancing party, her
neck, before she returned to the ball
room, would be covered with ugly
blotches, and her peace of mind de
stroyed for that evening.
According to iJurtou, a melancholy
duke of Museovey fell instantly ill if he
but looked upon a woman, and another
authoirty was seized with a cold palsy
under similar provocation. Weinnehur
tells of a nobleman who drew the line at
old ladies, which could not prevent him
from losing his life in consequence of
his strange prejudice; for, being called
from the supper table by some mischiev
ous friends to speak to an old woman,
he fell down directly behind her, and
died then and there. What an old
woman did for this old hater, an eclipse
did for Charles d'Escaro, Bishop of
Langres. It was his inconvenient cus
torn to faint at the commencement of a
lunar eclipse, and remain insensible ns
long as it lasted. When he was very old
and very infirm, an eclipse took place,
the good old bishop went of as usual,
and never came to again. Old John
Langer, who settled in Ireland in 1051,
cherished an antipathy quite as obsti
nately, but had no idea of dying of it
By his lust will and testament he ordered
his corpse to be waked by fifty Irishmen,
forcacn of whom two quarts of aqua
vitic were to be provided in the hope
that, getting drunk, they would take to
killing one another, and do something
toward lessening the breed.
Man's Age.
Few men die of old age. Almost all
die of disappointment, passion, mental
or boilily toil, or accident. Passion kills
men sometimes, even suddenly, ihe
common expression, choked with passion,
has little expression in it, for even
though not suddenly fatal, strong pas
sions shorten life ; weak men live ionger
than the strong, for the strong men use
their strength and the weak have none to
use. The latter take care of themselves,
the former do not. As it is with the
body so it is with the mind and body.
The strong are apt to brpak, or like a
candle, run ont. The inferior animals
which live, in general, regular and tenr
pernte lives, have generally their pre
scribed nunilier of years. The horse
lives twenty-five years ; the ox fifteen or
twenty ; the rabbit eight ; the guinea pig
six or seven years. These nnmlx'rs all
bear a similar proportion to the time the
animal takes to grow its full size.
But man, of the animals, is one that
seldom comes up to the average. He
onght to live a hundred years according
to his physiological law, as five times
twenty are one hundred ; but instead of
that he scarcely reaches, on an average,
four times his growing period ; the cat
six times, and the rabbit eight times the
standard of measurement. The reason
is obvious man is not only the most ir
regular and most intemperate, bnt the
most laltorious and hard working of all
animals ; and there is reason to believe,
though wa cannot tell what an animal
secretly feels, that more than any other
animal, man cherishes wrath to keep it
warm and consumes himself with the
fires of his own secret reflections.
rasasol lining! are sometimes of gay
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eceicn piaias or oinaana gooa.
Stage Frights.
Without going back to the days of
Garrick or Maeready, and a host of tra
gedians who always kept in bed nearly
the whole of the day to calm their
nerves before acting a new part, I can
just call to mind one or two eases con
fined even to one theater, The Old Adel
phi. On the first night of a new piece,
the Keeleys were always very ill from
fright. Leigh Murray suffered as much
from it as a cockney does in the " chops
of the Channel." 'Celesto used to dash
on in sheer desperation from it, saying
to himself, "Well, bey cannot keel mo
for it." Alfred Wigan, one of the letter
perfect actors, was a martyr to fright, so
much that he occasionally forget the
words ; as for his accomplished wife, ho
was obliged to divert her attention dur
ing the dav, lest the dread of a first
night should overpower her, and at
night she, on one occasion, had to throw
herself on the gronnd to subdue the
beating of her heart from fright.
" Feel my hand, said diaries Kean to
me. when ho was playing "uirainai
Wolsev " for the I don't know how many
hundreth time in tho Provinces. It
trembled as if ho had the ague. Mrs.
Sterling would never venture on the
stage without the manuscript of her part
in her pocket, as a charm to keep the
words in her head. Mr. Irving's nerv
ousness is simply indescribable ; even
Mr. Toole will not be seen by his most
intimate friends on the first night ; while
Mrs. Kendal complains that her " stage
fright" increases every year, and with
Mr. John Parry, everyone knows that it
amounts to a positive disease. Tho mal
ady is too universal for stage managers
not to provide against it by novices. I ho
worst thing for any actor to do is to hang
around the wings till his "call" comes
to try and gain courage. " Keep in the
green room, sir," says the prompter to
the novice. When the " call " conies,
the novice is somewhat hustled on to the
stage, and, like a dog thrown for the first
tune into the water, he sometimes strug
gles out of his difficulty. The Theater.
The " Ogresse des Lilas."
These has been for months in a Paris
prison.a waiting the result of a protracted
criminal " instruction," a horrible
woman, to whom has been given the
nickname of " Ogresse des Lilas." This
woman was in the habit of laying in
wait for young mothers who had infants
in their arms. Xlie ogress would enter
into conversation with the mothers, and,
on some cunning pretext or another, ob
tain possession of the infants, with whom
she incontinently disappeared. What
did she do with them ? We will let the
Pauis correspondent of tho London Tele
graph explain : " I see it gravely stated
in a Parisian some time ago, that the
Ogresse des Lilas had entered into a for
mal contract to supply an ' Agence An
glaise ' with so many babies a year. The
'English Agency' was, acoording to
vour French contemporary, engaged in
the 'substitution ' business, the ' law of
primogeniture existing in England ren
dering it imperatively necessary that
patrician families should be avoided,
route due route with a due number of
heirs male. When Lueina was nnpropi-
tious, substitution remedied the short
coming.' This is almost as ingenious as
Mr. Gilberts fantastic notion of the
pauper's baby ' substituting ' himself for
the millionaire baby, by a judicious
change of cradles.
Coffee T.. Hum.
The idea of reforming the temperate by
setting up cheap coffee-houses in the
neighborhood of the rum-siiops has been
tried with much success in England, so
great, m fact, that they have, in many
cases, compelled the rum-dealers near uy
to close their shops for want of custom,
which the coffee resorts had drawn away
from them. In Bristol, the. rum-dealers
hearing of the proposed trial of the plan
tuere. hired every available location in
their quarter; and at first it seemed that
the reformers were thwarted because of
their inability to secure available rooms
it being considered necessary to have the
cofl'ee-liouses in the vicinity of the places
where the laboring people were wont to
resort for their morning and evening
drinks. The coffee men, however, out
generated the rummies by sending out a
waaon every mornine and evening, and
peudling the hot coffee and tea for a
penny a mug. Tho success was so great
that a number of benevolent individuals
have started coffee wagons, and have all
they can do to supply the demands of the
thirsty throngs which morning and even
ing besiege the wagons.
He Had Beeu to Pinafore.
Syracuse Sunday Tlraen.
He came away up from lielow, sing
ing: " For I'm Uttl Tlultercnp,
Dear little Gutter Pup"
When the justice gently asked him if he
would stop his noise.
" Can't do it, squire I'll lose it I'll
lose it 1 m little
" Lose what what have you got to
lose
" Lose the tune, man. Went 't the
oiiera last night see little Gutter
"And where did you go after the
oiera was over asked the court.
" Went straight to the hotel straight.
P'leceuian showed me the way. What's
my bill ? Where's the feller t' keeps this
hotel I'm a little gutter pup "
" Yes, you're evidently a little gutter
pup," said the justice, sadly "your
hotel bill will lie five dollars, with the
understanding that yon follow the com
pany ont of town, and play the character
of gutter pup somewhere else."
Jim Bennett.
Baltimore Oazelto
The London World announces that
Mr. James Gordon IV-nnett has jnst bro
ken np his establishment at Melton
Mowbrav, and sent his twenty-five hun
ters to Tattersall's, and also that next
winter he proposes to try his hand at
tiger-hunting in India, his first essay at
the big game. Mr. Bt-nnett has made it
warm on several occasions for the
" tiger " in New York city, bnt his natu
ral ambition to keep np with the Prince
of Wales makes him feel as though he
owed it to himself to beat np the beast in
his native jungle.
Grace (whispering): "What lovely
boots your partner's got, Mary ! " Mary
(ditto): " Yes, unfortunately he shine
at the wrong end."
A Drspcrndo.
There has just been sentenced to a lonu
term of imprisonment at Vevay, in Swit
lerland, a malefactor of tho namo of Uhl
mann. He has committed robberies in
various parts of the country, made several
daring escapes from prison, and for many
years evaded an ine attempts of the police
to capture hiin. The sentence recorded
against him in divers cantons amount ia
the whole to forty-five years. While he
was in prison at Vevay, lie contrived to
break his bed to pieces and barricaded
himself in his cell, where, armed w ith an
extemporized weapon, he defied the
gendarmes tojtakehim hefore.tho Judges.
As it was not considered desirable
to shoot tho man, and the Court
declined to wait until he could bo
starved into surrender, the expedient
was adopted oi throwing ether into
the cell, and as soon ns I'hlmana
was sulliciently stupilied the gendarmes
rushed in and bound him. When the
Judges would have examined Uhlmann
he Homed them mid refused to plead.
" What is tho good of asking mo ques
tions?" he said. "You can do nothing,
anital punishment is abolished. and I am
already condemned to more years of
prison than I shall live to serve." lie
gave the following account of himself: "I
am Uhlmann," he said, "who lately es
caped from a prison in Poleure, where I
was known as Meyer. My father was an
escaped convict, ss I am. lie was taken
into France in IS 12 to he made a soldier
of, but ho killed tho man who was con
ducting him and got away. Uo died at
Heme, our native place. One of my
brothers was shot at Cayenne, whither
he hud been transported for life; another
died in the Dugne at Toulon, and a third,
Daniel, died in a jail at Berne. My sister
died in a prison nt llagueneu. Every
member of m v family lias been lost like
that."
Intelligence in a bullock.
An Australian imner relates the fol
lowing striking instance of brute intel
ligence, which occurred not long ago in
Aaimo township, Month Australia : a
very large bullock injured his eve, when
unyoked from the ilrav, by a chain, tho
hook of which lacerated his eve. After
a few days had passed, the eye became
seriously lnlliimed, and it was thought
advisable to get him into the stock-yard
and cast him for the purpose of dressing
the wound. This was dono by ropes be
ing attached to his legs, but it was found
of no avail, from the strength of the
animal, for as soon as they attempted to
throw him he lifted his leg and pulled
the men to tho ground. As a last re
sort they put his head in a bail, a con
trivance frequently used in that country
for securing animals, by getting their
necks lietween two upright bars of wood,
one of which is moveable nt pleasure.
Havinir thus succeeded in securing him.
they dressed his eye with Milestone. The
men then unbailed tho bullock and im
mediately rushed out of the stock-yard,
thinking the animal would be infuriated
with pain, and expecting to Ik attacked,
instead of which tho poor sufferer
walked off quietly to tho shade of a largo
gum tree, and on the following morning,
much to the astonishment of its owner
and all who witnessed it, the bullock
walked up to the stock-yard of his own
accord, and placed his head in the bail
to have his eye dressed ; and this he re
peated every day until his eye was quite
restored.
Bidding for the Site.
Now that New York has decided to
hold an International Fair in 1HH3, there
is some spirited bidding as to tho spot
on which it shall bo located. This is a
question of some importance to New
York. Brooklyn believes it is highly
important to her interests, also, and
makes a proposition to secure the site.
Brooklyn savs the situation sho offers is
healthy and thoroughly drained. It is
easily accessible now, and will be more
so iu 1883. It adjoins Prospect Park.
Tho plot contains 117 acres, and more
available land lies adjacent. It belongs
to the Park Commissioners, who have a
fund of $200,000 for its improvement.
It is fanned by salt breezes. To get to
tho placo from New York, the great
bridge, which will bo finished by that
time, would have to bo crossed. That
would undoubtedly, it is claimed, bo of
great interest to many persons. It is
claimed by New Yorkers that a lietter
site is to be found on Washington
Heights. The plot suggested extends
from One Hundred and Thirty-fifth
street to One Hundred and Forty-fifth
street, between Tenth and Nicholas ave
nues. It has an area of nearly one hun
dred acres. On the northern part of tho
lot stands the Alexander Hamilton man
sion. The place is easily accessible by
rnilrnmls mid steamboats. Other locali
ties have been mentioned, bnt as it is
desirable the site of the Fair should be
as near tho heart of tho city as possible,
that consideration will have great in
fluence in controlling tho site.
A Smart Judge.
From tbe Virginia Chronicle.
A tough-looking citizen walked into
one of the Justice's Court recently, very
much intoxicated, and requested that he
be allowed to swear oil drinking lor a
year. His Honor obligingly put him
through the solemn motions, and the con
vert with a confused ramble of well
meant but profanely-expressed resolu
tions, stumbled out of the court room.
" Bet he don't keep it for an hour," said
one of the grinning lawyers.
"Bet he sticks to it for a week, any
how," ob.-erved the Court with con
fidence.
" Nonsense ! " cried everybody.
" What'll you bet?'' asked the Judge
"Twenty to ten," exclaimed an eager
attorney, producing the money.
"DoiIk!" cried his Honor, and the
stakes were turned over to a reporter.
"Constable," said the Court quietly " go
out ans fetch that man back.''
In a few minutes the reformed one was
dragged in, and the Judge ascended his
dias, rapped for order and looked severe.
"Charged with being drunk," said the
Court. " what's vour plea ? "
"Unci I'm full," admitted the prisoner
with an idiotic smile.
"fen days in the County Jail. Con
stable, lock up your prisoner. Mr. Ke
porter, hand this Court that wealth.
Court's adjourned. Boys, let t go and flood
our lower levels.
On Monday last Officer Minto, of .Salem,
brought Joe Johnson to this city, charged
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WllU selling ll(uur v iii-hmub. i cinema
he wss brought before Judge Deady and
fined 2i with the privilege of going to
prison.
Taking a Tumble.
IT WAS THE Idt THAT PID IT.
By Hie Dinbury News Man
There was a bit of very smooth ice un
der a thin sprinkling of snow on the
walk at the comer of Slain and Munson
streets, one morning hist winter. Mr.
Merrill's grocery is on the corner, and
the place lias facilities, when the sun
shines brightly, for the standing of n
number of the populace who admire
sleighing, bright faces, or anything not
suggestive of steady, oppressive toil.
This bit of ice, like a trembling blossom
hid in the cleft of n rock, or n bright
shell embedded in the sands of a deso
late coast, had its lesson to teach to
humanity. And a deeply impressive
lesson it was too.
There were n number of people who
walked over this bit of ice without know
ing of its existence, just as there are
numbers who tread upon fragrant wood
land blossoms or by exquisite scenes, or
over finer feelings, without knowing at
all of their existence. They were hurry
ing, careless people, bent on the things
of this world.
Onco in n while there would come
along an appreciative party, one whose
soul was nhve to little things.
I lie hrsr of these was an ehlerlv linlv
f stocky form. She sat down right in a
heap, and her lips formed in tho shape
ot the letter W.
Khe simply ejaculated :
"Oh, my'! this is dreadful!"
The next was a man gifted iu the way
of legs. Ho was walking swiftly. The
right foot touched this bit of ice. I ue
right foot then shot oil' on that side, the
left foot left its mooring and flew around
in tho same directum. Ibis completely
reversed the position of the man, ho was
coming down on his hands and knees
and looking up the other wav of the
street. lie turned very scarlet in tho
face, imt said nothing.
Ho who followed linn was also a slim
man. It was the beloved pastor of the
Third Church. Tho shock threw him
forwnrd at first, but ho recovered hiin
self iu time to go down on his back at
once. A pail full of molasses which ho
held in his right hand added to the gen
oral interest. Ho simply said
" Mercy oil ns ! which evidently ill
eluded tho molasses.
The fourth person was a stocky built
party, mitllled up to tho nose( and trot
ting along lightly under the inspiration
of a angreeuble thought. Both of his
chubby feet gave wav almost sininl
taneously, and in the effort to save him
self, Ins feet smote the ice seven tunes
in rapid succession, and then ho went
down on his side, very red in the face
and very low ami vulgar m his conver
sat ion.
Fifteen minutes later a boy camo
along on a dead run. His left foot struck
tho deceptive surface, and ho curled up
in a heap like a post, without saying
anything. Ho got up and hit a boy in
the neck, who had laughed at him, and
then passed peacefully on.
The next man to fall sat down squarely
on tho walk, with both legs spread out,
and a lower set of teeth laying on tho
hard snow lietween them, lie hastily
shoved the teeth in his pocket, jumped
up, and hurried away, looking very
much embarrassed.
Following him w as a man who was
evidently n teamster, judging from his
rough exterior, and woro a dovu-may
care look on his face. The shock turned
him completely over, and dropped him
on his face, leaving him merely time to
say, " O. L."
Mr. Merrill, seeing tho series of casu
alties, told his clerk to pour ashes on the
treacherous spot. Wile that party was
getting them, a red-faced man, full of
life and vigor, stepped on the place
threw both legs wildly into tho air, nnd
amo down on the back of his head with
a dreadful thud, madly clutching a bar
rel of brooms in his descent. On getting
him to his feet it was discovered that he
had split his coat the length of his back
seriously damaged ono of his undergar
ments, and had said, " Great gaud !
" The White Led."
"The White Lady" it is said, appeared at
ine paiuce ill ucriui pruviuun iu uiu ui-uui
of tho late Prince Waldemar. It is always
seen, or said to be, bv somebody previous
to a death in tho llohcnzoiiorn family
"The White Lady" is Countess Agnes
d'Ormalundu, who holds in her arms two
children whom she killed for the sake
of marrying her lover. On the 2d of
April last a Berlin soldier quitted his post
in the corriders oi the palace anu came
running pale and trembling, to tell bis
comrades that he had seen tho White
Lady. He was arrested for abandoning
bis post. When Frederick the Great lost
one of his nephews, a sentinel saw the
White Lady and took flight. He did not
return to duty till tho next day. l-reu
erick sent for him.
"So you've seen tho White Lady?"
"Yes. sire."
"So have I. As she has been the cause
of your desertion I shall hnve her arrested
and probably order her head on.
The soldier turned pale.
"You tremble." said Frederick. "Very
well, I will pardon her if you will be
candid?"
Then the soldier told tho King that he
had taken advantago of the story of the
White Lady to go off and pay a visit to
his "girl," with whom he bad an appoint
ment. During tho rest of Frederick's
reign the "White Lady" was a doubtful
sort of a person.
1 New Kluk In Nchool-Xanagetnent.
A Mafsachusetts teacher writes to the
XatimuU JourntU of Kdiuytlion describing
an experiment in the school-room which
seems to be succc&sful. Instead of facing
the pupils his desk behind them to great
advantage. The naughty little ones, not
knowing when his eye is upon them,
dare not whisper and play. "They have,"
he savs.' so often come to gnei in at
temDtini.' to calculate chances, that they
have concluded to make a virtue of
necessity, and give np play In the school
room as unprofitable, costing more than it
comes to. Another decided advantage of it
is that it completely isolates classes recit
ine from the rest of the school ; the reci
tation benches being in front of the
teacher's desk, between him and the
school, and the backs of the pupils being
toward each other, communication uy
look or sign is out of the question. 1 h
only special rule made is that the pupi
should not look around."
How to put away jellies so that they
will not Bet mouldy.' v ny, leave tii
pantry door open, and if there are any
children in the house, they'll solve that
problem for yon in five minutes.
Titled American Belles.
As I look out upon the gay Boulevard
les Caimcines nnd note some fair faces
in tho stylish carriages passing, and
recollect that they once were the admi
ration of a broad and also a very nar
row Americnn circle "at homo, and
when I recall their native names, now-
lost under foreign titles, I am amazed at
what the cockney landlady in the play
alls the Imps and downs, it is a
ource of much inward wormwood and
gall to some of lis to behold these fair
ones lost to American citizenship and
lolling under l-reiich coronets. Jlut
love is sometimes blind nnd sometimes
cry much wideawake, and when the
latter, not even a ducal or a buronial
title will cause the most independent
American Beiuiblicnn girl to blink.
Look at the list, even in my momentary
memory of our " ltepnblicanl court'
belles : The Duchess de Prasin Choi
seul is a chiimiing, stately lady, well
known m Baltimore society ; the Coun
tess Charette is one of a family whoso
name is a household word in Tennessee,
and identified with the polished period
of a Presidency of the United States
when " grand and gracious manners
marked men of court." No higher links
of roval alliances can there be found in
France than those of Mine. Charette by
her French marriage, even if you look
down the avenue of great personages as
far as you will and back again to tho
veneral'do Duchess of St. James, the
grandmother of Mine. Charette's step
children. Yet those who can recall tho
person of our simple Democrat, Presi
dent Polk, little dream that on the banks
of the Seine dwells his favorite niece,
surrounded by the royalists of the Bour
bon and Legitimist schools, and sho the
most charming of them all, crowned with
womanly vivtnes tho true pride of an
American lady. And from the "Cres
cent City " came a belle of rare qualities
and womanly beauties, whoso name,
as the lovely Mine, do Daubier,
few of us will forget when re
fined taste and exquisite surroundings
nro the topics of our talk. I might suy
something of the Marchioness d'Hnrsele,
of New York, and that old group of tho
Livingston-Power society, but for tho
present I remain silent, f might also say
something of another sister who became
the Princess Lanti and made a mark in
society at Home, but then I should hato
to speak of another sister who becamo
tho Marchioness Garotti and the adopted
daughter-in-law of the late Fopo Pio
Nono, and as I nm not disposed to dwell
on details, I simply allndo to these
names formally to show the attraction of
our belles to tho gallants abroad and
point to the failures of our beaus at home.
Hero I might also say something of a
lovely neico of the foregoing threo ladies,
who became the Conn teas Salu and
graced the salons of Paris and Turin as
well as of Naples and Rome, but spaeo
forbids the pleasure. How much in tho
way of challenging our home-gallants.can
bo said when tho names of tho Countess
do Damns and he sister, who married an
Italian Prince, aro alluded to. Both in
Baltimore and New York tho family pedi
gree and pious family examples of theso
fair and fortunate ones is gratefully
known. Ho, too, that of tho Countess
Montanban, and now that Miss Hunger
ford, of California, is added to tho list of
foreign-titled American belles as I men
tioned in my last letter, it is a source of
some laudatdo and anxious curiosity to
know who comes next r" Why, 1 say
to my "Monumental C'ity " fair compan
ion, '" do not sonio of our American men
come over hero and marry a Princess or
two, just by way of revenge?" "She:
Do yon seo that little maiden with a big
Normandy cap, dark bluo stockings,
bright colored kerchief, and with her
violet blue eyes and sweet, artless smilo
even sho would not marry other than
a Frenchman! " Why have our girls not
tho sumo patriotism
Tho Pope's Paper.
The Tope is about to go into the news
paper business. Ho wants an organ, and
none of the existing Catholic journals are
to his mind. If he has got something to
say, which ho thinks the world ought
to know, and which differs from anything
that has hitherto been told it, no ono can
object to tho Pope running a newspaper
for the purpose of telling it. There is,
indeed, a positive advantage in knowing
what the first ecclesiastical power con
siders authoritative. It can be approved,
if true ; and criticised, if doubtful. Bo
that as it may, it is certain that the, re
port which has been afloat of the issuo of
an authoritative Vatican newspaper is
about to bo verified. Tho genuine ltput.
(lazette, which is soon to displace, or, at
least, to regulate such organs as tho
Unicern, Voce delta Verita, Tablet, and
derma iiia, will be a gigantic affair. It
will be printed in not less than five lan
guages Italian, French, German, Span
ish and English. The character of the
journal is to lie immediately official,
which is jiroved by the announcement
that in it all the Papal briefs and
allocutions will be published at first
hand, and in their original text. The
printing machines aro said to have been
ordered from Manchester. The difficul
ties involved in tho polyglot character of
its contents will be surmounted by en
trusting the supervision of its linguistic!
composition to a select eommitte of
scholars belonging to the Propaganda.
It is expected that about ten thousand
copies will be sold in the streets of
Koine. The editorship in chief is as yet
nniliK-itled; tho important chair is said to
be contended for by two rival candidates.
One is the Pope's own brother; the other
is M. Constalde, hitherto editor of the
Monde of Paris. It is well known that
Leo XIII. has long Is-en vexed at the
Jirovocative tone of the so-called Catho
ic press the "good press," of which
Pius IX. always spoke with snch eager
laudation. Even while Leo was a sim
ple Cardinal ho used to speak of found
ing a new Catholic jonrnal. The two
local Clericalist newspiqiers, the (Juxerra
tore llomana and the Voce delta Verita,
which thrived under the late Pope, do
not disguise their uncomfortable sensa
tions at the prowtiect of the appearance
of this formidable rival.
1111 the Fatted Calf.
Rev. Moy Jin Kee, Chinese pastor of a
Christian missionary church in New
York, has been arrested on a charge of
stealing drygoods, and the jdunder waa
found ujion his person. He has returned
to his first love, the " old Adam " being.
too strong for his Christian varnish.
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