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TL flame glowed and sparkled ia th
wide-monthed fire-place, leaping and
darning io jorooi glee 0 r af!K"l
ride of th great YuU log, which bad
Len seanoniog for month- in anticipa-
tioo of tb "merry Christina time."
How ebeerfn! ml coy lL beat room at
th "farm bouse" looked on tht CbrUt
bum ve, with mnslio curtains, fresb
from tb laundry, looped back from th
low window, and lied with searbrt ril
bon. Farmer McLane believed io let
ting the light of Li phaant bom b(n
ont into the night to cheer the iMuwor by.
Wht jolJy tim tb children wor
Laving in the great room, playing
"Wind roan' buff' and "pussy wanU
corner," atnding forth about of gl t
tbe wkward attempt of the elder or
tion of the family, who were vainly en
deavoring to Uarn (?) tii game.
Brother Tom ra driving row of uaiU
on either aid of the Aretjace,and by and
by each nail tu to bold a pair of little
Wakings, and the fire wa to be moth
ered out a that HanU CUna would not
barn bin feet wbeo b mad hi yearly
viit. Ab, me! tho ChrUtmi tree and
tbmall ronnd alovepipe hv fir!y
erowdel the dear old fellow off from tb
atage of action the latter year.
They were all too inU-ut watching the
Jwiay game to notice tb woe, pinched
fee at tb window; bnt the firelight mw
it, and flashed littlo wave and ripplo of
glory over It. The flame Imped higher
and higher, extending a warm invitation
to the hotnole child without, wboae
aolomo gray eye wore watching, with
cuob a hungry light in them, the frolic
aome children within,
"Well, wll," auid farmer McLane,
wiping the perapiration from bit brow,
"you little folk can tira me all out and
no mistake."
II turned to tb window a he spoke,
and at that instant every curve and out
line of the wee, pinched f uce, lit up by
dancing fire-light, wa vividly distinct
againat the dark background of the night
without. Without a moment' hesitation
be owned the door, and drow tho fright
ened child into the room. How they
crowded about her, and questioned her,
thoae happy children, who had never
been cold or hungry.
There wa a great pity ahining in Mr.
McLane' kindly blue eye, he led her
np to tb fir which had first attracted
her attention and bod drawn her to the
window.
"Who are you, littlo girl?" ho asked,
a ho warmed her blue, chilled hand
iu hi.
"I'm onlv Mugglo.and "oatohiughnr
breath with a aob "I'm ao cold and
hungry!"
"Whero ara your fathor and mother,
dear?"
"liolh dead, au' I don't wnnt to go
back to Mog. Har, oau't I ahy bore?"
"Whom MegV" akod Mr. MoLauo,
who came in from another room to (loca
tion the little atranger.
"Khe'a the woman I live with. Mar
died owin' her lot o' rent; ao hn kocp
ma to beg fur her, but to-day I didn't got
anything, and who whipped mo jimt awfut.
Kee here."
Bho throwback the loone aleevnaof hor
ill-em, whieh hung iu tatter about her,
and held tip Iter littlo arm, allowing
where tlio whip had left iU cruel
mark.
"An' ao I rutinod away," aha added,
"an' I'd rather die than go back (gain."
"Mother," eald farmer Mclitne, look
ing up with miaty eye, "lau't there room
in Aggie.' led for her?"
"Ay, Jamie; but we're far from being
rich, you know, aud our own must be
tared for."
"Huch a wee might of a thing couldn't
eat ruuob," aaid he, apreadiug the thin
little band out on hi broad palm.
"I'll eat jiiHt a little a ever I can,"
aaid Maggie, looking up appealiugly.
"Well, well," auid Mr. McLane, turn
ing away and wiping hor yo with the
corner of her apron, "wo cau try it,
Jamie."
"Drive np another nail, Tom. Drive
up another n(l," ahouted the children.
"Oh, mother, what aball we do?" asked
little Agno. "Her tookiug are ao full
of bole they'll let the Chriatma thing
right through."
"You'll hav to lond her ome I gueiw,"
ai.1 her mother.
After the children ha l been all put to
U, and the little atranger in one of
Aggie' clean, whito night Kwn, luy
aleeping teaide her, Mr. and Mr. Mc
Iaue ant in trout of the Yule log, which
wa now a bod of ooaU, and talked and
planned for the future.
"I ara afraid that it' an nnwiae
thing," eaid alio, ahukiug her head dolu
fullv. "Yon hava hnrd work filling the mouth
of vour own, Jamie, dear, and thi on
will be a groat eiiwnae to uh."
"(lud won't aeo u aulTcr lHeauao we
' do a deed of klndneaa to one of bit home
leaa little ouea," li anawered. And then
began the tank of tilling five parta of
locking with the toy and sweetmeat
which had been purchawd for four.
Littlo Maggie remained at the farm
hoii mi fur aovi-ral months; but one day a
wealthy, childlea lady, atoping in tb
neighborhood, heard the child' atory,
and being attracted by Maggie pretty
face, she aked ermialon of the Mo
Ijane to adopt tlie little waif aa her own.
During the month Maggi had been an
inmat of their bome, tiiey bad groan
to lot her dearly, and ware reluctant to
part with har; but they felt that that it
would not ouly Im for her own good, but
for theirs aa we'd, to lot her go; for their
eireamtUore wer such that tby eon Id
not afford to keep her.
Again it ia Cbriatmaa era, and one
ta toe wintry wind ar making drift
aod pound of tie oewiy laiiea bdow
Tl.iia decked in iU holiday drM,
andtheatrert are thronged with gay
rMtruris. Learintr mvateriona bandle
.nJ DAckare to their reirtiv bomea,
la tU bairtiaom parlor of a brown tone
reiJeBC, on on of the ariatocratic
avenaea, a yoong merchant sita in the
brilliant light of a chandelier enjoying
the aocietv of his wife and cbild.
"Helen" baa forgotten to close the
shotter," b aaid, rising and going to
window.
PUaae. IUIoh. aaid bu wile en
treatiogly, "let them remain open thia
one evening. . ,
H tamed toward her wita a aarprwea
inquiry in hi eye,
f c&n't understand ronr motive in
leaving them ojen on thia especial ven
inff " tuf aaid. "For mr part. I prefer
kva tn home to mvaelf. and do not
care to hav the rode ve of tb world
at large gazing in.
hbe laid one white band on bu arm,
tn.1 liftinir her fair face, told him the
(rt r.f a Chriatma eve when ahe,
homeh little child, bad found a bome
and kind friend, because one man had
let the onUide world have toe benent 01
hi Cbritmee light.
After they bed reeumed their aeata.Mr.
!VntncIleihi(liUle daughter to bia
side and asked what elae ahe would like
for Cbriatmaa.
'I'd like a grandpa best of all," sue
uid innocently. "Mamie Well baa two
grandpa and a grandma, and I haven't
any, not an rat all."
Ah me! all lUlpU uenion, annual
sadly; "ther ara things, my daughter,
that money will not pnrcnaae.
lint God will send me a gandpa tor
a Cbriatmaa prevent if I ask him to,
aaid the child earneatly. "I va got dol
lira and cradle and disbee , and every
thing but grandpa and grandmas; and
I gneaa tbat Uoa can (pare juai one tor
me. when be give other little (iris three
and four apiece."
"But your are ail dead, my lime
Amy," said her mother, gently atroking
her aunuy hair.
"Then (J o.l win mane a new one lor
u a 1 . n
me, ierited tne cnuo connaeuuy.
"Oh, for the faitb or cbildiiood, aaid
Mr. Denton, aa bia eyea followed the
graceful form of bia daughter, who bad
f;one over to the window, and stood
miking down into the street. Suddenly
be catna back to her mother' lide with
a wondering light in her eyea.
Mamma," ahe whispered, in an awed
voice, "does Kauta CI us ever leave the
present on the door step?"
"Kometimea, dear," aaid her mother,
smiling, "Why do yon ask?"
'Because, I guess be lelt a grandpa
there for me, 0 papa, do go quick and
re. ,
Mr. Denton, to satisfy tliD child, went
nut into the ball and opened the massive
front door. A be did ao, be bemid a
feeble old man loaning against the bonne
for support.
"Foritive me," the old man began,
apologetically, "but it looked ao bright
and warm in ttiero.and it seemed to warm
my old blood just to see it. I'll go away
now."
"Why, you're my grandpa, and you're
not going away," called out little Amy,
who had followed hor father to the door.
"Maggie, Maggie," cried the old man,
leaning forward and peering into the
cliilil's face.
At the sound of his voice Mr. Denton,
who wis Htanding in the hall, came
hindily forward, exolaiming:
"Mr. Muliane, is it possible that thi
Is you?"
The old man was taken into the parlor
and an easy chair placed for him in front
of tho glowing grate. After he had re
covered from hi lurpriae at finding the
little girl he bad once befriended, ho
told his pitiblo atory. His loving wife
and little Agues were slooiiing in the
churchyard near the old farm house.
Tom, many years before, had gone to sea
and had never returned. Mary had
married a drunkard, and there was
scarcely food tnough for her miserable
children, aud none lor the aged father.
Willis, tint youngest, had married an
heiress, whom) liuughtv pride barred tho
doors of her elegant home agaiunt her
husband 'a father. Old, feeble and home
less, ho was Booking alms in tho street
when the cheerful light from the rich
man's parlor windows lured him to the
tens for a doner view.
Need I tell the rest? The aged
wanderer found a home; little Amy ha
found a grandpa, and the blesmng of
kind act will follow the old man to hi
grave.
She Thought She Had Met Iter Fate.
Hhewaaa maiden ludj all the way
from the claaxio ahodotof Boston, aud
when she entered a Twenty-third street
oar for the first time she eat down and
waited patiently for the conductor to
tak her fur, One by one the other
passcugors dropped off, until some timo
before she reached her destination the
waa left alone.
Then the driver turnod and looked at
her. That first led her to notice him.aud
alio ssw a dark, haughty-looking man in
a plaid ulater and a uobhy cap, und she
know then that he was an Italian Count
in disguiae, aud hor heart nearly ceased
besting she tried to fathom tho interest
that was so plainly discernible in his
goo, ami she thrilled with the thought
that ho might have discovered in her his
fate.
II looked again; as he fixed those
dark, deep, soulful eyes upon her, with
the mute interrogatory of au exiled soul,
he tied the lines around the handles of
the brakes, and pulled off a pair of
ahsbby gloves, exhibiting a white pa
trician hand, with a largo seal ring on
the littlo linger, (all that for '.H) a mouth
and finds himself t)
"Beautiful hand," murmured the en
raptured pasaeuger. "Oh. he comes.the
conquering hero comes. It must be that
1 he at last met my fate."
Hhe could not lift her bashful ere to
hi as he atood before her aod held one
of the beautiful hand within an inch of
her ruby lip bia yoico thrilled her aa
h began to tak ye, ha was unmis
takably a foreigner.
"If yoa please, tuum, oid loika y to
put yer far in that box."
"II was hia far and not hi fsU that
h wa sacking. Cruel denouement.
But h gave him a nickel and realised
again U troth of th poet' word: "And
thing ar not what they em."
Btrak-Ml ai Ue Waale-
Barm baa returned. I mean Bar
Bernhardt, the only, real, authentic and
anion Kara. She kaabeea abeent for
11 month and gained her million. I
Lave been alway ooa of Sara' admirer
for two reason: First, on account of her
UlenU, and aacondly, because of her in
credible energy. This woman whose life
aeema to b banging only by a thread,
and whom a breath would carry away,
entered on a campaign of a magnitude
uffieient to temfy anybody traveling
day and nigbt.arriviag at her destination
only in time to give ber performance,
and atarting off agsin to appear in
another town. She who i said to U ao
badly disciplined and so capricious, only
failed to keep ber appointment on one
occasion, owing, I beliere, either to a
larva train or to indisposition. I found
ber. just aa ahe was before her depart a re
in her immenoe atelier, aeated in her
favorite corner, furnished with cushions
of Persian and Japan deaign,
dressed in her robe of wbite satin, which
follow th undulation of ber figure,
holding ber nsual court and conversing
. . . ..a a T k ! l . -
genially Wltb ail. louring uiia wierrai
ha baa traversed I do not know bow
many thousands of miles, and given 120
repreaentattna in tne mow ouk me-way
places. The most marvelous thing of all
m that she ha returned looking lesMeli-
0 . . .a . . m . i
cata than when she started. The ncces
and satisfaction of baring accompliahed
aoch a campaign baa raised ber spirits
Smiling and fall of grace she present to
ns a new edition ol Dara. uooa nea-
vena ! what a number of extravagancies,
anecdote and interesting detail I have
heard in an hour I In aome the tragic
vein prevailed. Listen, for example, to
the following:
They bad to ero a a bridge oi i ao not
know bow many kilometer in length,
panning a lake of the Missouri. Sara
was in ber American car and other car
riage contained ber uite and ber bag
gage. A tempesi waa raging uu uic
ake at tne time, ana ine guara tearea
for the safety of the train, which waa
very boavy. Sara insisted upon going
on, aa ber appearance had been an
nounced for that evening, and the guard
decided to detach ber car from those of
ber suite and tak her alone acrosa the
bridge, leaving the rest on the other
side. Sara had scarcely crossed when a
portion of the bridge fell in, and thus she
not only escaped berself, bnt waa to
aome extant the means of saving her
company wnicn remained benini.
We bare bad bom dangers ana catas
trophic," said Sara, "but without once
beinn hurt. Twice we arrived after a
collision, and assisted the wounded. On
one oscasion we came upon five or aix
car degringoles, one on the other a
human melange of legirma and broken
heads."
On occasions when they were delayed
the Americans patiently waited for them.
Once they arrived at 11 o'clock at night,
the spectators having been in their
places since fonr; but no one com
plained, the excitement and curiosity to
see Sara sufficing to prevent ennui. Ac
cording to her, American town have lit
tle tbat i interesting. New Orleant
teemed dirty and disgnrting. She toid
us that she saw part ol tni city illumin
ated "avec des petitis caiman swim
ming about, and upon bearing a certain
dranl dran! abe asked what waa that
sound, and waa told "Oh' e'es quelque
serpent a aonette. hara related all this
with mysterious gestures, adding color
ing and flourishes in such a way as to
impart a supernatural horror to ber
statement. Truly she made the hair
of those who listened to her stand on end.
The anecdotes of ber voyage are num
erous and I lie auuiecta inexnaustiDie.
The most curious tbitg,and what amnsed
me most of all, was a story which we
may call "Sara and the Whale." Kara
was, I think, at Philadelphia, when a
leraon, "tres comme u fant, intelligent
xiking and well dressed, but wearing
an otter skin cap, called upon her. He
begged aud entreated her to consent to
go and ace the whale. Neither the man
nor tho whale were commonplace; he
wo a kind of Bam u in, who had already
gained HOO.000 franca in exhibiting curl-
onitioaof all kind, and who had spent
them, de yoa know-how? in atarting a
journal, lie still had a few francs, and
those he devoted to a whale. The first
brought to Lim were too small, but at
last be found an immense one,
which he obtained for 23,000
francs: somewhat dear perhaps.
bnt wait a little. Kara went with her
company at 8 o'clock in the morning to
see the whale, llarnuro received her
lino a queen, and offered hor a cartilege
the sea monster, and a piece of its
nsh, so that she could have a beefsteak
made of it, or rather, to bo more exact,
whale steak.
Well." continued Dona Sol. "do von
know what happened? He followed me
to evory town, and eoon aa the billa an-
ununoing ray representation had been
affixed, another placard apeared close
mine, informing the publio of the
whale admired by Kara Bernhardt. The
whule became, so to speak, my shadow."
tilled Kara, smiling. "A regular incu
bus, ttowover, we Itocaine friends, not
the whale and I, but it exhibitor and I.
When 1 descended from the carriage he
was alway before me; be took off his
oiler skin csp and gave me wolcorao.
Sometimes thia inevitable apparition wor
ried mo. 'Voua voila encore?' I shouted :
but he answered me so amiably that
it was impossible to be angry with him.
On every tour, after having heard me,
people went to see the whale, or vico
versa. The whalo tumbled in pieces and
had to bo propped np, and the exhibitor
spout from 100 to K0 franc daily, and,
as ho had less expenses than I, when we
arrived at the lunt station of our artistic
tour, Tom Lowes this was hi name
ad gaiuod 1.'(H).0(X) francs bv the whale
admired by Sara Bernhardt."
"But I must le iimt; when hia day'a
work was finished, ho became a proper
geutteman-ho put on hi glove and
cuuie to hear me. He paid for his seat!
Ohiln'ya rien a dire; il donnait sea
vingt francs! Th time of our parting
was heartrending for Tom Lowes.- He
would havo liked Kara to continue alittle
longer her American tour, but at the
last moment h aked for an audience,
and cam to show hit gratitude.
" "You have," be said, 'remade my for
tune.' " 'And what will you do with it
" 'I ahall start a journal.
nowf
" 'W hich will probably finish lika th
other.
" 'Oh, what doe that matter !
I have
been coachman, journalist, millionairw.
omnibus eondartdt, ate., te. Iwillba
in again. Bat will the great Sara aceapt
token of my admiration r
" Tell me what it ia T"
It waa the akeleton of a whala ? Sara
thanked him greatly, but told him that
tha gi might increase ter luggage
ineoaveuienily. Pari Correspondent
Italian Fanfolla.
rati f KUga aa4 Qaceit la El flail
William the Conoueror died from
enormous fat, from drink, anJ from the
riolrnceof bis passions.
Wm. P.nf a died the death of lot poor
kU7 which ha hunted.
Henry I. died of gluttony.
Hennr II. died of a broken heart, oc
casioned by bad conduct of hia children.
Kicnard Our da Lion, lite ue ani
mal from which hia heart waa named,
diel by an arrow from an archer.
John died, nobody know bow, but it
is said from chagrin.which we auppoae is
another name for hellebore.
Henry III. is aaid to bare died a
"natural death."
Edward L is aaid to har died of a
"natural sickness" a sickneea which
would pazzle all the college physicians
to denominate.
Edward II. waa barbarously and inde
cently murdered by ruffians employed
by bu own wife and ber paramour.
Edward III. died ol dotage, and lucn-
ard III. of starvation tha very ' reverse
of George IV.
Henry IV. is aaid to hav died ol fits
caused by uneasiness, and uneasineaa in
palaces in thoae times was a very com
mon complaint.
Hennr V. i said to nave died oi a
painful affliction, prematurely. This
is a courtly term for getting rid of a
king.
Henry IY. died in prison, by mean
known then only to his jailor, and now
only in heaven.
Edward V. waa strangled by hi uncle.
Richard III.
P.ichard III. was killed in battle.
Henry VII. waited away as a miser
ought to. -
Henry VIII. died of carbuncles and
fury.
Edward I. died of decline.
Queen Miry is aaid to have die! of a'
broken heart
Old Queen Bees is said to have died of
melancholy from having sacrificed Essex
to his enemies.
Jsmea I. died from drinking and the
effects of vice.
Charles I. died on the scaffold.
Charles II. died suddenly it ia aaid
of apoplexy.
Vvilliam 111. died of consumptive
babita of body, aaid from the stumbling
of his horse.
Queon Anne died from dropsy.
George I. died from drunkenness,
which bis physician politely called an
apoplectic fit.
George II. died of rupture of tne
heart, which the periodicals of that day
termed a visitation of God.
George III. died as he had lived a
madman. Throughout life he was, at
least, a consistent monarch.
GeorgelV. died of gluttony and drunk
enness.
Brother b'ardier on Alms-Ulxlng.
"What I was gwine to remark, began
Brother Gardner aa the meeting opened,
"waa to say dat de season ha now ar
rove when de cry fur charity am beard
in de land, an' people who hev a dollar
to spare am' spec-ted to past it ober to de
poor. Fur de convenience of people
whose heart ache to do some thin', I hev
compiled a list of patients and will fur
nish it free gratis on applicasbun. De
man who loafs all summer an' beg his
way frew de winter am on ue list. De
woman who nells her clothing
fur money to buy whisky am on de lint.
De families which support two or three
dogs, a pig an' a dozen hens on de pie
and sweet-cake begged by de chli'en am
on de list. On dat list I hev put
down men who will hand a coat or
west ober do bar in exchange fur
drink. I hev put down men who spent
deir days in Meep and idleness when
labores were being paid twelve shillius a
day. I hey put down families who sleep
on straw an' live on bread an water, au'
yet if dey should be handed a dollar in
money would use it iu purvidin an
oyster upper. When de father of a
family kin aim from a dollar to twelve
shillina per day, an' de mother from
fifty centa to a dollar, what right lies
dey to ask fur charity? If a man am old
and poo' we hev a county-house fur him.
If a poo man am aick wo hev
hospital. When a child am left
an orphan we hey homos and asylum.
"De hull subinck am a fraud on
workin' people. We am simply offerin'
premium ou loaferism, laziness and
degradaahun. Ebery time wo hev in
creased our poo' fund we hev increased
de number of beggar. Ebery dollar
bestowed upon a beggar makes him hate
work so much the harder. A child who
cos hia parents live by fraud and beg
gary am aartin to cotch de same ideas
and practice defame principles. Foller
de poople aoen the oftonest at the poo'
master an' you will find neighborhoods
wliar do most potty tbivin am practiced
an do mos lirzinesa am indulged in.
"When death enters do family of a
workin' man he may want a loan. When
a laborin' man meets wid an accident his
inoome stops, and to tide him ober de
gap am a bounden duty. When charity
goes beyond dat it support fraud an'
breeds vice." Detroit Free Press.
Severity in Mem and ix Women. It
is as well that no occasion should bo lost
of testing the commonplace fact that
men are harder than women. Irish ten-
ants are said to have found that the re
verse of thi is noarur the truth. Speak
ing of the coses settled at Ballina. the
Times' correspondent say that they were
extreme cases, and the faotthat the land
has been in the poatcasion of a lady did
not diminish the risk of rack-renting. On
the oontrary it may be said without any
sweeping disparagement of the gentle
sex, that in many instances they have
been found the most severe and exacting
of all the proprietors, who enforc their
claim with uncompromising strictness.
Pall Mall Gazette.
Mho didn't know it until it wa all over.
but the menu cards at a New York
luncheon party the other evening were
painted by the divorced wife of the host
' husband, who now earna her living
in thia artiatio way.
CatigUg riKfi.
A eitixen who had to office on tb
top itorj of ft block oo (JrUwold
ttreet bad half ft ton of coal dumped
on the walk the other daf, and the
cart hadn't yet disappeared when a
boy came puffins np auin and called
out:
"Say, want tbat coal lugged op?
"Tbnl'a no way to addreaa ft per
son," replied the roan. "Why don't
yoa addre roe in ft citil, polite
manner?".
"I)aooo bow," answered the boy.
"Well, I'll abew yon. Sit down
here and suppose yoa are the owner
of the office, and lam the boy who
want to bring op yoar coaL"
lie elepped into the hall and
knocked on the door, a the boy
cried, "come in," the man entered
the room wilb his bat in bi band,
and be;an:
"Be!? pardon, air. but yoa bare
some co-1 on tne walk below."
"Yea."
"Shall I bring it up for you?"
"Oh cerUinly.
"IIow much will yoa pay?"
"Well" renlied the bov. ftS he
, ,
looked around at the scaotv lurnc
turc. "I eenerallv promise boy fif
teen c-enu, and shove bogus quar
ter on him, but secio' it'a you, and
yoa are the only support of ft large
family, n yoa u tiring up inai coai
and put it io that box I'll gi?o you
my whole income iorayear ana a
half and ft pair of old boots in tho
bargain."
"coy, what do you mean; de
manded the man, as bo flushed up.
Hut the bov dodged him and
reached tho stairs, nod &s he paused
at one of the landings to look up be
called out;
"1 expected every minute thai
you'd advise roe to get the coal up
stairs before some creditor gobbled
it. You can't play boy for shucks!"
Detroit, Free Press.
A Phantom Beat.
Captain Bird, of the schooner
Frank Norton, at Dutch Island liar,
bor, reports an experience as weird
in its events and as ominous in the
possible fato of his six fellow beings
as any on tbe pages of romance.
The r rank .Norton was bound from
Rocklunil, Maine, to Philadelphia.
Saturday night was very dark, and
tbe wind b'.ew strong from '.he north
west Terrific hurricanes had swept
tbe A '.Ian tic for nearly a month, and
something of their power was to be
seen in the heavy sea running. At
11 o'clock at night tbe vessel was
seen thirteen miles northeast of
Thatcher's Island. Captain Bird
was at tho wheel when a largo yawl
boat was made out As it bore down
upon the schooner it was seen that
there was fix men in it. The yawl
was abreast ot the Norton's chain
Elates when ore of the men in ber
ailed tbe schooner. Ho said tbat
they were a shipwrecked crew, and
that they wanted to be taken on
board the schooner. Captain Bird
at onco put the helm down, and kept
off fo leewurd, with tho intent that
the men in the bout should bear
down upon hiiu. Tbe minutes wore
into hours und darkness laded into
gray dawn, and no trace was seen of
tbe bout. Sunday morning came,
but no boat was visible from the
schooner us fur us the glass could
sweep the seas. Tho Norton was
then, at 8 o'clock, put on her course.
Tho fate of the men is shrouded in
mystery. It is scarcely possible
they could have misunderstood the
maueurro of tbe schooner, but they
may huve been unublo to reach her,
or may havo been engulfed in tho
high seas.-.Cbicago Tribune.
Mr. Itialne.
Washington Letter: The question has
long been mooted and successive cabinet
ladies havo groanod iu spirit and injured
their health in the attempt to return a
call for each piece of pasteboard left in
their card trays on Wednesdays. Three
thousand colls are not the most that some
of them have received in a season, and
any one of a calling turn can soon tell
how many afternoous are needed to pay
them back iu. Mrs. Bluine seized tho
question firmly the moment she became
a member of the cabinet family, and what
she decreed the ladies acquiesced in.
That energotio lady roused many petty
wraths and angered pigmy souls, but
she swerved not in tho course adopted,
and showed that she had the firm
purpose and daring of a leader. In gen
eral Mrs. Blaine will be missed from the
position she has been expected tooo
cupy, for what Mrs.' Blaiuo said
was quite as momentous as th opin
ions of tho mythical Mrs. Grnndy,
aud when Mrs. Blaine spoke it was gen
erally in a manner to be understood.
Many stood in awe of her' and not a few
experienced stago-fright in her presence,
while the mere fact of her cousin "Gail
Hamilton," being in the same room
would seal tho lip and freeze the soul of
the giddiest society woman. The sar
castic Abigail had made it pretty gener
ally understood that she considered wo
men very small game for the swift ar
rows of her long bow; and she cast few
or none of her shafts at bucIi inapprecia
tive things as humans of her own sex.
With msHcuIine minds her own was bet
ter able to cope and more alike in
characteristics; and famons are the en
counters ahe has had over the consinly
mahogany with the great men of this
dav.
An old lady in the country had a
dandy from town to dine with her on a
certain occasion, and on the table waa an
enormous apple pie. "La, ma'am," said
the gentleman,"how do you make uch a
pie?" "Easj enough," wo the quaint
reply, "we make the crust in a wheel
barrow, wheel it under an apple tree and
then shake the fruit down into it,"
.ESSE 13D
IIow to make a low horse fast don't
feed him.
Speaking of duels.the year of Jubai E.
ha eome.
Thieve don't have a very qaiet life
even if they do take thing easy.
A man seldom feci religious when his
teeth are chattering with cold.
Actio Louise Carey ia going to marry
one of the Lorillard. Oh, chaw.
The coffee colored King of Ashantee is
called by his intimates "Old Chicory."
Circumstances are tbe rulers of the
weak, -they are but the instruments of the
wine.
It is predicted that ice will be high
next anmmer, but, then, it is never any
thing else.
No life can be utterly miserable that is
heightened by tbe laughter and love of
one little child.
When a tailor send home a auit of
coachman's parade uniform the family is
very much insulted if hi colored man
ask for cash on de-livery.
The Ash drinka by the gill; the little
pig gradually gets accustomed to a hogs
head; the man who smokes a little put
away a pipe; he tries to get a butt
The Parisians have eaten 250 jackasses
this year. If a Parisicnne telle you that
yon look good enough to eat, yon will
know how to value the compliment.
It has been said tbat Guiteau is suf
fering from soften ir,g of the brain. Pos
sibly; but no alarming symptoms of
softening of tbe cheek have yet been
noted.
The Courier-Journal denies that buck
wheat cake have anything to do with
cutaneous diseases. It isn't the buck
wheat cakes, it is the glucose syrup that
does it.
A land-slide on the Pennsylvania
Railroad frightened away two thieves
who were after old junk. Even Provi
dence takes the the method of using aa
axe to smash a fly, sometimes.
"Sit down," said a handsomely -dressed
and vivacious young lady at a fashion
able watering place, "sit down, it's
about the only thing you can do here
without paying for it."
It has just been discovered tbat Gerster
is not a great artiste. The dress which
she wears in "Trevista" cost only $1000.
A 81000 garment might do for an ama
teur, but great artistes are known by
their 85000 dresses.
Everything boor hard upon the poor.
The rich man who puts nothing in the
contribution box Sunday morning is at
once supposed to have left hia pocket
book in his other trousers; but the potr
man who has bnt one suit of clothe can't
get off so easily.
Syracuse, N. Y., now comes to the
front with the champion ignoramus of
the country an the age. Iu a murder
trial there, recently, one of the witnesses
swore that she could neither read nor
write, count, nor tell the time of day.
What a juryman that woman would
make. N
A countryman, upon coming to see the
sights, was taken by a town friend to a
theater. When the lights were down
and the play had commenced, he was
offered an opera gloss. Examining it as
closely as the darkness of the place
would permit, he placed it to hia mouth
and turned it upward. Finding that no
liquid was coming out of it, he handed
it back in despair, saying: "I'ts empty,
John; there's no' a single drap in't."
Two Irishmen were poring over a
newspaper, and coming to the heading
"Litest," and then, immediately follow
ing it, to the heading "Very Latest," one
said to tbe other, "An' sure, Tim, will
ye be after explainin' what this mans?"
"Arrah, bedad," said Tim, "an" its my
self that Cau explain it to ye. Sure the
latest is what comes in time to be printed
and the very latest is what comes after
tho paper is out."
"What did you do with that lettet that
was on my table?" asked Gns De Smith
of the colored boy who cleans up his
room. "I tuck it to de postoffice, sab,
and put it in de hole. "What did you
do that for? Did you not see there was
no address on the envelope?" "I saw
dat dar was no'writin' on do 'velopo, but
I 'lowed yer did dat r on purposs, so I
couldn't tell who yer was a writin' to.
I'se an edioated negro, I is." Texas
Siftings.
We seem to remember remarking that
David Davis wouldn't look badly in the
chair. Springfield Republican. "Look,
badly" looks bad. Overhaul your gram
mar. Lowell Courier. We oopy tbo
above in the hone that it may meet the
eye of the school-master. Among people
who lay claim to culture we know of no
more prevalent solecism than this "look
badly," "feel nicbly" atrocity. On
might as well say "feel Voldly" or "leel
hotly." Boston Transcript.
"These rubber garments are Buch a
blowing!" remarked a fat man, as he
brought into a Btrect car a perfect deluge
of water. The lady at his right, who
mopped one side of his coat with her
costly dress, agreed with him perfectly;
the man at the left, who caught about a
pint of the drippings in his shoos, could
scarcely conceal his admiration; while
the little miss to whom the fat man gal
lantly offered his seat a few minutes
later, went into perfect ecstocie as she
sat down in a pool of water left on the car
seat.
A fond young lover who grew up in
the sentimental shades of Alameda,
knelt at the feet of ber he loved and
begged for a lock of ber bair. She Bhook
her practical head. "Can't do it, Ilarry,"
she said. "Hair is hair thia season;
5 75 for a curled bang and a small for
tune for a real switch. But never mind,"
she added, seeing her tender hearted and
sensitive lover weeo, "never mind; but
just wait here a minute and I'll run up
and bring you down a spoonful of my
Sunday complexion." That comforted
him.
The Binghamton, N. Y., Republican
publishea the folLwing: "This para
graph may inform somebody that they
have lost their upper false teeth. The
grinders were found near Kent' cigar
manufactory by a lad who brought them
to this office. A they won't fit any one
here.the owner can have them by calling
at the business, office and proving prop
erty." We have not the lightest doubt,
if these teeth have not been claimed by
thia time.that the owner ia now in an ag
ony of fear under the impression1, h at he
or ah has swallowed them.