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i t'SQRANTID, roxTHru: . .'I .a-ilis nimnfd prTeri, fW '". Su 'i:e lUl blu' D0 ,U,U""17 Tt"'tf ,! W.obh but for tuiRtitinr. T "J rJB uouwul o( ueltgUilngt '. . .iirea u? la w i solemn bins, 0- !! k b.-w" uf common life, lir Art -nd rrcr of tH tia? W9k'n.wi' who fcnow.t Our darlings from ui ,Bwi lSiri, iiiJ ' Uea IdmI'is "um!' lb0in 10 ,U ,Dr6' nr2?hf,Sittk k4 doubt hold to tbo nxlvg ,jf;:piSSiaS' FLOWERS. 'Take tbem away?' Why, Mr. Lin A,nl" And then Miss Nottio Darwin nouteJtnost becomingly. "I thought thoT wero' just tin) thing I And I am sure nothing coutd bo more appropnato for Later Sunday than pau.ion flowers! "Appropriate to thoso who admire them only," wPliwl Wosloy Lindon, slowly, tlie d stain dying away from his face onoo inoro. "Mis Nottio, tuko thorn away, V'0' 1 0111 Jover Prcach to-morrow with passion flowers near II 'I'll tako them to poor, sick Eva Gray, then-1 do not think sho dislikes them," said Miss Darwin, not quito satisfied. "Then tha church H all ready?" "Yes, I think so," tho rector answered, his grave blue eyes growing tender in expression as he viewed the decorations, flowers, flowers everywhere; the pil lars hung with sruilax, rosea, carnations, sweet heliotrope and callas; "the holy of holies" separated from the rest of . the chnrch by spraya of English ivy and stnilax, intermingled with purewhito lilies. Just before the altar, against a background of crimson velvet, stood a cross of ivv leaves; only that, no decora tions abont tho cross, nothing but the plain - symbol in ivy, almost direotly under the golden crown that formed the central figure of tho beautiful stained window in the chancol. A fine church, truly, was St. Paul the Apostle's in tho 'village of E. on the Hudson river, and Wcstley Lindon, standing just ontsido the altar, looked earnest and spiritual enough . to bo its pastor, lovely as it was. Ho was taH, slendor, but finely pro portioned man, with a certain tonderness in his serious bluo eyes that captivated the entire feuialo portion of his congre gation, whilo hia frank, earnest ways wont far to wia for him tho admiration of tho malo portion. Miss Darwin, Razing half awe-struck into " the "noble face, thought that he looked amazingly young for thirty-seven, despite the silver threads about his tem ples. Ho had boon rector of St. Paul's for seven year, and ho was thirty when he came, und she ob, Miss Nettie, you were a school girl, scarcely fourteen, tunn, with no thought of boing Wesley Linden's wife, but all theno seven years that subject had engrossod the ladies of , , and no one did ha seem to liko as well as fair haired Nettie. But to marry her was far indeed ffom his thoughts in his heart was a grave where the only love of his life lay buried. The rector accompanied Miss Darwin to visit the sick friend,, and stayed long er than did that young lady, in order to talk with the invalid on tho only subject that could interest her, now that she . would nover niinptfe with tho world again. The bright Eaatcr sun peeping into the windows of the rectory library.found Mr: Linden sitting by his dosk, where he had been all night long, his hoad bowed in grief and prayer, whilo his cold lips were pressed to a withered bunch of flowers. "My darling, ray darling!" he whisper ed at intervals. "God forgive me that I cannot forget yon, even in his work!" Onoo more, in fancy, he stood besido a slendor, haughty girl, in a wide garden in the sunny South; tho perfume of orange and magnolia came to him as he sat there alone, and again he saw, nndor the trees Lada St. Cloud, in a fleecy, amber colored dress, a light scarf of crimson silk hung lightly from horshonl ders, and a bunch of passion flowers (his gift) fastened in her throat. No one but Leda St. Cloud could have worn that combination of brilliant color, but in somo way they cnchanccd her royal beauty. They deepened the crimson on the dark cheeks, brightened the light in the great warm brown eyes, and made almost too tantalizingly lovely the mouth that was uttering hasty, haughty words. Ah, those words! Wesley Linden shuddered as he recalled them. Ho left collego at twenty five, and gavo his wholo energy to his work.eucouraged by his onW rolativo, tho nncle who edu cated him, himself a clergyman, and rector of St. Paul tho Apostle's. . But he worked too hard, and in two years he was obliged to accept a parish in Florida for his health's sako. It was a poor parish enough, a littlo village on the St. John River, oomposed of lazy, thieving negroesand a few lazier, more thieving "white trash." But it boasted one wealthy aristocrat, old Her bert 4 St., Cloud, who, at tho first sus picion of war, had converted his negroes into'mouoy, and cumo out of the war al most as wealthy as he went in. His household consisted of himself, his only son, another Herbert St. Cloud, and his niece, who bad lived there ever since her father was killed in tha war. And this girl wai Lcda St. Cloud. Wesly never know how he came to fall in love with her, though sho was so warm and brilliant and lovely of face and form; for she amiled at hi? efforts to convert the negroes, told him that ho would never succeed, and that he was foolish to try. But he did succeed in making tho par ish orderly and God-fearing; and in more than that were hia efforts crowned with success; when, after two years and more, he yielded to hia love for the brilliant Southerner, and begged heri in return, the gave it without hesitation. . They bad been betrothed five months, and never quarrelled.for Wesley was too ool and practical, and Led too deeply in lovo with him to permit that. Then his good old uncle died and Wt slev was summoned North. It to ik tome timo to so'.tlo his affairs, and then, after hcoepting a call from tho vacant pulpit, ho returned temporarily to Florida, reaching thero lutu ou Satur day of Pusidon Week. Eirly on that Easter morning ho gathered a large bunch of passion flowers and sending them to Leda, repaired to tho rhnrch, where ho fully expected to suo the flowers and his betrothed daring service. But Sabbath school and after noon service nssnod, and still no Loda "What of tho St. Clouds? They are all absent to-day," ho said to a ropectablo colored vestryman. "Well, Man'r Lin'n," returned tho old man, "do St. Clouds am notturuin' from do error ob dcro ways, I'so sorry to say. Boon Imbiu' ail sorts ob gimcracks dur ing Lciit, and Ins' night all oh 'em went i1 iwn to Jac!i9ouvillo to a ball, and cauio back after five dis mornin'." Mr. Linden did not speak, only shook ln's head in a half-dazed manner, end walkod away. It was a mistake, of oourse. But a littlo further on he encountered U'o ladios from Jacksonville, discussing "how beautiful MUs St. Cloud was at tho bull quito tho bolle, in truth." "My coiihin Alico knows her well," said ono, "but sho never knew that she wus engaged to young St. Herbert St. Cloud." "Woll, everybody knows it now," ro pliid tho other, with a peculiar laugh. -Wesley waited to hear no more; the blood in hi'i veins scorned on 11 ro na ho rapidly passed over the intervening ground to tho St. Cloud place. Leda mst him iu the garden, near when the St. John Biver flowed Leda, the glorious girl who had won his heart for a plaything, and now, tiring of it, would cast it asidel L;da, his love, in her amber dress and crimson scraf, and could he believe his senses? his pas sion flowers on her breast! Ho simply told her what ho had heard, did not accuse ho.-, but tho hot Southern blood boiled in an instant. Her faco grow that ghastly prey color that only dark faces ever assume, ,nnd then a steady red flame colored her cheeks. A shnddor ran through the rector's form as thoso words that she tittered that Easter evening came back to him with all their original force and cruelty. "A man who cannot trust ma is un worthy of my love! All onr intercourse Mr. Lindon, "ceases from this moment; I will send all your gifts and letters to you to morrow, and renuost yon to do tho sa:ne with mine. You never loved me, else you had not condomned me without a hearing! But I would rather die than explain to yon! You dared to distrust mo, audi fling our troth to tho winds your ring there!" Sho drew tho little gold ring from hor finger and threw it, with nil tho might ot her beautif al arm, into tho boavy waters of the St. John. "Aud your flowers, passion flowers, trcly, back to you!" Sho loosed tho great purple blossoms, gazed steadily at 'him for a moment, flung them deliberately in bis faco, and was gone forovcr. Tlin ninrninc minliorht fell UOOn the rector's bead as he felt again, in fanoy, i .-1 I' fill. L tue tender Ulossoni3 stnuo ins nice. j.uai nnrm touch aroused him. and rising slowly he opened tho window. "And she was innocent, no saiu iu bitter self-reproach. "Innocent, dear God forgive me! She had kept Lent most rigidly, her undo told me, and all for my sako. It was Mr3. St. Cloud, tho brido of tho youug heir, who was bei'.o of tho Jacksonville ball. Leda, L?da, whilo yon wero watching by littlo Ciosar's dying bed, I was consuring your nb."enco from service. May God forgive me! She never, never will!" Freshening hia toil t, but without breaking his fast, Wesley went to the church to gain strength for the day. He was kneeling by the altar, tho flowing folds of his whito surphco falling about him, his lips moving in prayer mora for her than for himself when a long, low moan broke upon tho stillness of tho empty sanctuary. llo raised his head. A woraaa was bowed before tho altar, hor heavy fur lined cloak concealing tho outlines of her form. Ho watched her as sho stag gered to her feot and almost ran to the door. Leda! No, that could not be; but the motion of the-receding figure re minded him strangely of her. Wesley walked slowly over to tho plaoo where she had knelt; it was just in front of tho cross of ivy leaves and there, at the foot of tho cross lay a boquet of passion flowers, yet wet with dew. "I thank God I" ho said reverently. Miss Darwin looked spell-bound at the exquisite bunch at the foot of tho cross, and even more so at the grave-faced cler gyman, whose eyes, after restiug on tb it beautiful symbol, wora dazzingly bril liant. Such a sermon Wesley Linden never preaouod before. It was strong and elo quent, teuder and beautiful, breathing of bis lovo iu an undercurrent that touched them while thc-y could not un derstand it. . . The sormon was ended, the minister gavo tho benediction, and the entire con gregation remained on their knees; oue ruau, on old. whito lmired "pillar," rose first and lifted his faco toward tho front of tho church. . "Good Lord deliver us! he ejaoulated, and at that forvent quotation from the Litany the people rose to their feet. Directly above the kneeling clergyman was an old-fashioned pulpit, that, al though he did not use it, he would not have removed, as his nncle had used it. Underneath it, half hidden by a curve in the wall, stood a lady, her slim bands holding in placo a tottering beam that had long been loose, and was now just ready to doscond upon Wesley's head. Even in that moment of horror they all acknowledged her loveliness. Her cloak had half fallen, forming a back ground of fur far thequoenly form in its rich dress of rnby velvet, a single pnrple blossom fastened in the lace about her throat. The bauds that held the beam glistened with dianionds.bat tho lustre of the great brown eyes ontrivalled then. . A moment they gozed speecnics. men cries were beard from all portions of the church, aud the ministv arose, bue smiled at him, a glad, sweet smilo, as he looked and comprehended what she bad doDe for him!" t. it l,o rnnl.l articulate. tboucU he tried to say more; but there were tears in bis eyea and tears choKea mm. "Yes, Wesley," said the dear, familiar voice, "und if you please, my arma ate tired!" Ho rachod up Ids btrong Lands and held tho Leum in its place. "Tako your hand doirn, my passion flower! my passion-flower!'' ho said, very low, and iu a vcico still choked with tears. But a dozen or mere gentlemen pressed forward and relieved the rector. "Wasn't it fplondiu?" inquired Miss St. Cloud, coolly, taking possession of Wesley's arm. "Come, let ua find Undo Herbert; hu must bo half dead with ter ror." "Well, ho isn't!" afllrmp.1 th it venora bio gentleman, npproa'.'hiusr them. "How do you do, Wesley? I declare I am rejoiced to see yon! But Lcda, I shall novcr go to church with yon auin if yon cannot conduct yourself properly." Loda only laughed, und by tlio limo the excitement had subsided Mr. St. Cloud was willing to acquiocMj to any plan Wesley might offer, tho first boing that they shouid go to tUo rectory to dine. It was not until Undo Herbert wascn joying his after dinner nap that Wesley and Leda wero alono. "Toll me, Ledj, how did you do it?" asked tho rector, scrioiuly, lifting bis eyes to her face. "Why, yon see," sho answered, with a nervous littlo laugh, "I did not.lsueel with tho others, but looked straight at the altar. I saw that tho beam would fall, anil WchIoj', in that momoct I saw, also, that I did not hato you, as I had fondly imagined for sevon years. Well, I just slipped up there, and caught it as it was falliii;;, indeed." She stopped, and put one band over" her eyes. When she removed it, ho was looking earnestly at her. "Of what are you thinking?" sho asked. "Lda, I know about my dreadful mis take, seven years ago and. forgive me, but can I hope you still caro for me?" Her prido was np in an instant. "Wesley, do you think I came hero to ask yon to marry me? To tell you that I still lovo you, and crave your love? In deed, you mistake me; 'I came sohdy on my unide's account, and aud you in sult mo so dreadfully!" Tho beantiful brown eyes wero fall of angry tears, and the rod mouth quivered like a child's. "Oh, my passion flower," the rector said gravely, taking the restless hands in oue of his. "Leda, you seem to think I do not lovo you, but am offering you myself as a sort of reward for your heroism this morning; is not that it, my darling? Look! here next my heart, have I worn this for seven years!" And he held np the withered flowers. "Passion-flowers!" Leda gasped, her color fleeing. Oh, Wesley, you can never, never forgive raol" "Only ou ona condition," ho rejoined, still very gravo. "Give me one passion flower, and I 6hall be satisfied." "This one?" asked Loda, mischievously, touching th j one that uostlcd iu hor laces. "Yes, this one," Wesley laughod, raising tho tiny hands to his lips. "And tell mo. Leda. that I may have it." "Well, you may, if '" she stopped, thought a moment, and drawing a long sigh that was a curious mixture of dis may and happiness, added "if yon are willing to take the most passionate of passion-flowers. Scir-Care Whilo Surslnj the Sick. The following from tho Christian Un ion is sensible advice, and likely to be needed by non professional nurses, who often forget themselves in their devotion t )thcaj under his care.' To thoso who are called upon to nurse the sick through a long and severe ill nesi it is of the utmost importance, not only to themlv, but to their patient, that their own health should be preserved and their strength maintained through out the critical stage, but during the poriod of convalescence, often times so tediously prolonged. To all such we submit the following simple precautions to aid them in preserving their own health while nursing the sick. If the malady of tho patient bo such as to cause any marked odor of the breath or notioeable exhalation from tho skin, tako care always to sit on that sido of the bod or sick person which is oppo site to or away from the direction which the aflluvia takes toward the window or draught cf a fire-place. Sit so that their breath is carried away from you. Do not sit too close to them or take their breath if you can avoid it. To keep one's stcongth in ease of pro longed care, and particularly if obliged to sit up all night for several nights in succession, great benefit will ba derived from taking a warm bath in tho morn ing, and putting on fresh undergarments every second morning. It will bo found that the warm bath, followed by brisk rubbiug of tho entire body with a coarse Turkish towel or flesh brush, will refresh the wearied body almost as much cs sleep. At the same timo keep np the appetite and strength by small doses of quinine, two to Cvo grains three times a day, and nourishing diet, with pfrhaps a little water and wine oc casionally. Daniel Webster's Marketing;. A Washington correspondent gives, in tho following sketch, a pen-and-ink por trait of the great man as he appeared while doing Lis family marketing: The next morning, after ono of his wonderful speeches in the senate cham ber, Mr. Webstt r might Lave been seen in tho old "Marsh Market" at an early hour, for bo was no sluggard. With him was a servant carryir.fr a lingo market basket, and he would go from stall to stall, often slopping to chat with a butcher, or a fishmonger.or a huckster and delighting them with the knowlcdgo ho displayed about meats, fish and vegetables". Selecting with care a supply of provisions for two days, as the market was only held on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, Mr. Webster would re turn to Jiis house, next the Unitarian Church, and see that tho meat was properly hung np and the vegetables put away. On Lis way to tLo Capital, or there (if bis table was not already full) Le would meet a friend and say to him: "Come and dine with mo to-day. I Lave a nob'.e haunch of vejison which I bought a fortnight since, and have kept hanging nntil it ia exactly fit to eat," or "I have received a fine salmon from the Kennebec; como to dav and help roe oat it." Every spring ho would join tho Satur day parlies of congressmen and olllcials who used to go dowu the l'otomao on the old strainer Salem to tho 11-ihing ground and enjoy f ruddy ciught shad, opened, nailed on oaken boards, and cocked before laipo wood Arts. Ou oio of thoso occasions Mr. Webster hud ob tained from Boston somo rock cod, crackers aud salt pork, and ho mado a chowder. Ho hod a large kettle, and having fried his scraps, he deposited the suceetsive layers of fish, cracker, potatoes and onions over and over again until thero was no moro room. Thru pouring iu a half gallon of milk, ho rubbed he hands, exclaiming "Now fer the fire. As Mrs. Macbeth said, 'If 'tis to bo done, when 'tis done, then 'tis woll 'Iwuru done quickly.' " I quote from memory, but 1 shall never forget his joyous expression cf countenance and the merry twinkle of his deep set, burning black oyes. The chowder was a success. TkeWlckrd World. . Mrs. Roia Howard, of No. 10G West Btiett, N. Y., while laboring under a lit of temporary insanity, dashed out tho brains of her littlo girl, thrco weeks old. Mrs. Howard is a Jowes, nineteen years old lives at tho above addrces with Ler father, who is a chiropodist. Iler hus band, who is twenty years old. is tho sun of ltoiind.sman Howard, of tho Twenty first product. Three weeks ago Mrs. Howard gave birth to her child and bo camn i.-raiiouul soon after. A tursc,Mrs. E. Mitehstl, attended her, and Mrs. Howard got somewhat better after a few days, but still buffered from temporary fits of insanity, when sho wou)d declare that rdio would kill ber husband mid stub hor.ielf. Dr. Ferguson wus called in yesterday and lanced her breast. She was rational at the timo and boro tho op eration very well. Her husband visited her just previous'to tho operation, and went away happy in the hopo of her peedy recovery. Af ter, ho hud gono her father Baw Ler and she sat up in bed und asked him with a smile if ho wus not glad to havo such a brave daughter and whether sho had not stood tho operation nobly. The doctor kissed Ler and started to rctiro to his room to rest. J ust as bo was going sho full back ou ber bed bed and declared that her baby was dy ing. Her father turned and saw tho child lying on its mother's brerst half asleep and her staring wildly at him. He told her that sho must not talk so or he would go away and leave hor. She regained her coinposnre somowhat and her father went out. Mrs. Howard re mained quiet for a moment and then, seized with another paroxyisui of iusan ity, sho sprang from her bed and bolted tho door of her chamber. Mrs. Mitchell, the nnrse, was in the next room and was suddenly startled by tho cry of "Fire! Fiiel'' from her patient's chamber. Sho rushed to tho door and burst it open.but started back in horror. Tho young wo man had snatched her child from tho bed and as sho repeated tho cry of -firo she swung it around her head and dashed it to the floor, its head striking tho foot of a small stovo in the room. Tho baby's hoad was nnder thn stove, but its feet stuck out and twitched convulsively. The mother looked at tlio child for a sec ond, at the nurse for another moment, and then, closing her eyes and otrotching out her hands, which were bespattered with blood, tho foil back iu a f;iiut against an over-turned washstand. H.r night-dress was torn iu twenty pieces and her feot cut aud bleeding from the glass from the mirrors and windows which sho had broken. The window sar.h itself was smashed, and thero can bo no doubt that she first attempted to throw horself into the yard below. Sho recov ered from her faint in an instant, and it was necessary for two or thrco persons to hold her until medical assistance ar rived. Mrs. Mitchell had iu the mean time taken the child from nnder the stove. It was a very pretty babo, with light brown eyes, but tho eyelids wore now spotted with blood and tho head was horribly disfigured. Its white dress was tnm some places in patches and others in k eda. Life was almost extinct when the nurso took it from the ilojr and it died fifteen minutes afterwards. The littlo body was laid out down stairs. Two officers from the Twenty-ninth pre cinct visited the houso about this time and with tho assistanco of Dr. l'ergusju got her into a carriage. Application was mado at tile Now York Hospital, but as no insane people will be rcoeived there she was tukea to tho Lellovno Hospital, where she now lies in a dangerous con dition. Sayings from the Chinese. Desire not the death of thine enemy, thon wonld'st desire it in vain; his life is in the hands of hcaveu. Obey heaven, and follow the orders of Him who govornsit. Love your ncight.or as yourself. Let your reason, and not yor.r seuso bo thq rnlo ot your conmei. Do nuto another what you woald he should do nnto you. Thou only needost this law akne; it is the lonnuauon nou princiolo of all tlio rest. Tho tonKUO, which is yielding, en dares; tho teeth, wiiic'u a;e stubborn, nprith. Bettr h" a dog ia peace than a mufl in, uU anarchy". , , To violat.) the law is tu sunie crimfl '0 tho emperor as in the subject. The hearts of tho peopJe oro the only legitimate foundations of tho empire or of legitimate role. Thoso who labor with their minds rule; thoso who labor with their bodies are ruled. Pope 6ays: "And those who think still govern those who toil." A vacant mind is open to all sug gestions as a hollow mountain returns all sonnds. When ihe tree is felled its ehadow dis appears. (Dc-scrtioa of the great when nnfortuna'e by paiapitfs.) You cannot s'rip two ekins off one cow. A limit to extortion.) A man's words are like an arrow, close to the mark, a wo:nan'n like a broken fan. The Chinese call a blustering fellow a papr tiger. Overdoing a thing a hunchback mak ing a bow. Who spend their charity on remote objects, but neglect their family.are said to "hang a lantern on pole, which is seen from afar, bnt gives no light be low." The greater fish eat tho smaller, tho smaller eat the shrimps, and the shrimps are obiiged to eat mud; said with refer ence to rulers of different classt s. Patience, and tho mullorry leaf be comes a silk gown. Trust not the (I .Merer; in thy days of sunshino ho will niv;i theo three pounds of butter, and in thy hour of need deny thee a crumb of bread. A woman's tongue is her swnrd.nnd sho does not let it rust. Lettuce fur Voting Clilct. All kinds cf stock liko green food, and it is specially desirable for young poul try. Where the fowls have plenty of range it is no trouble to havo them Mip plied in that direction, but thero are breeders who navo uut inuo room ami keep several varieties, who arccmnpellcd to keep their birds yarded nil through tho breediua season, and all poultrymeu know how soon tho fowls will clear up every vestigo of grass in their yards. To keep them supplied with fresh sods is a good thing, but it either necessitates going some distunco for tho daily supply, or soon disLgurcs a plot, or ground uy taking so much sod from it. liaising cahbugo for theui is desirable, but it takes somo tunc to get it. Iho qnicKest growing thing to raiso is lettuce. In very early spring u small hot-bed will start enough to last until tho sowings in tho open ground have grown largo eiiongh to feed. SniaM beds can be sown; aud if a good growth is kept np ut fin', the bod wilt last quito a wlnio as the tops can be cut off as wanted for the poultry, the roots being left in tho ground to cpront moro leaves aud tops, whi -h tuoy no w do if well cared for. Tho expense i f keeping np a small bd of lettuce is not verv trreat. and from it thu fo.vls can be supplied wito good, wholesoino "j-roens" at a timo w hen other "garden sass" ia yet in Us iu fancy. It is ono of tho bet things for pigeons in confinement, and as mauy of our readers ro pigeon fanciers, as well as poultry breeders, the advico abovo given will bo of two-fold advan tage to them. Breeders, try it. South- orn Planter. A I'wh PI ill Story. Thrv u.it nrniind the White House iitnv voniiTilnv Rwnmilni? lies, and when Jackson had exhausted bis storo Jones opened his sample cao and began: "I was doam in Water Cauon, south nnai Xnvmla. last fall, near Mormou Spring, where tho water rushes through ond under a mountain thirty-nve mues across" "Tnunoled, perhaps." said Jackson. "Vo. it's a natural water course, and comes out boiling on 'tothor side, then rnns off In a big stream." "How docs it pcrforato the mountain said Jackson. 'Tliprn'a a scries of beautiful falls. with nico steps leading down, thon a deep pool as dear as crystal, with plenty of mountain trout sporting at the bot tom. Ono clay a lund ot Apacuo in- .linns tiitehod their wickiups near tho btream, and an old buck and his squaw, hearing the rushing waters oeiow, wont .Inwn tlm natural stairwav to tho stream. The old buck seeiug the trout in tho bottom, made his squaw dive for them." "And did she do iir nsKea jacKson. "Ynn bar. for Indian bucks won't stand foolishness. But his squaw didn't come up. Sho weut cU-ar under the the mountain and camo out louior buic, thirty five miles." "Did it urowu tier? faid J aoKson.wuo had becomo very much interested in tho fate of tho sqnnw. "Vnr nlto enmo out driniiinir wet with a two-pound trout in her mouth and ono in each hand. Halt Lmko lnouno. Facts About Texas, in orMinnirn 1nt tlm followin?: Texas. Iimnpr.itiii Htiito. in a fear ful examplo Republican papers do not refer to. In Texas there uro C200 miles of railway lines growing two miles daily. Tax is 30 cents on each 81000. There are $1,250,000 hi tho Stato Treasury. State bonds are worth 40 cents premi um, and tho dobt of the State was re duced by that rnro old genius, Gov. Roberts, who doesn't believe in political thanksgiving days, $1,100,000 last year, , . rn 1. . 1 ... leaving a oaianco ox xcxau uuuun um .i.n.iinit onl iml.l nminlv bv Texan schools and institutions of learning, of .... mi. (ii i l gl two.uuu o per cents, xno oioie iax abie wealth has grown from 8280,000,000 in 1877 to $110,000,000 in 1882. The free school fund will soon be $0,301,000. More than a million dollars wore dis pensed last year among free sonoois ...ln.l V, .mr. nnil nnmlit. A whittl and colored normal school provide i 1 1 .. t. m.i TIia nnivnrailv has one million acres of choice land, and thero is engrafted in the constitution of Texas a provision allowing a poor man to invest 55000 in realestuto and making it his homestead. It csnnot bo mort gjged for debt.andonly conveyed by the joint deed of man and wife. Rcssias Colonization. The Russian governni'-nt bus begun to execute its scheme for colonizing the lowor part of the Amoor Province, adjoining tho Chi nese frontier, by tlispatohing from Odessa eight hundred and ten emigrats, constituting two hundred and fifty fami lies. If the project, which contemplates the removal of 100,000 persons to the new settlQfuEhls, is carried out on the scale on Wiloa it was began tl:o ex pense will bo enormous, not Ipss than 10 000,009, in tho opinion of the Mos cow Gazette. The colonists already dispatched were already supplied with flonr, oats, agricultural implements, forty mill stones, 2000 wagon wheels, several thousand pairs of boots, and other articles of clothing, nails, screws, axes, saws and window glass, and erph family received fifty dollars with which to build a Lnt. The Clcvtknd Herald ushers in the season of outdoor sports in the following poelie style: "This is tho dawn of tho seai-on when even tho ladies begin to discuss home runs and' foul tips, when tho street fcamins flip pennies on the record of their athletic favorites; when the disgruntled umpire faces two altern atives, each seeming to involvs a lynch ing, and when tho male biped, from the national phenomenaat the popular game down to the toddling youngster, regards the mangled right Land as a badge of godlike gbry." m Nothing so strongly tests a msn's va racity as to be summoned to the door to be confronted with the question: "Are yon the bead of the bouse?" ALL SORTS. School bored A Jazy scholar. Always in a mcd Army officers. Headquarters the batter's storo. Did you ever hear a mountain's speak. Tho prizo ring The engagement ring. Curvets of their own fortunes Butch ers. Every ea: pouter has a piano duty be fcro him. Tho curly angler catches tho worm and a cold. rill-makers aro among the most export boxers. Tho song of tho bricklayer "And still there' mortar follow." "Mrs. Lofty," said the teacher, "your son has contracted uomo very bad hab its." "Glad to hear you say so," was tha ansmr. His bad habits crtain!y uood contracting." Satiro cau no further go than whou Si n Johnson said to a booby: "If I have said anything that you nn dcrtdaud, sir, I humbly crave the pardon of tlio test of the company." "Wasn't tho boss a little full last night?" osked a customer of tho barber who was shaving him. "Full? Woll, I should smile! Why, ho whh so full he tried to.flud out whore he lived by looking iu tho dictionary." "I hope that ctnst is short enough for you, Mr. Fogg," said tho boarding-houso miatress. "My dear madam," repliod Fogg in his blandest lonoa, "nobody can com plain that any imi t of your faro is not short euongli. Yes," said Ilendcrfon, "I've got quite an etr for music" "You have quito an oar, sure enough," replied Fogg, "but I wasn't suro it was for music. I didn't know but it was in tended for a w indmill." "Strange," Mrs. Brown. "I havo rnng at Mrs. Smith's door three times this week and I didn't succeed in raising any one. I guess tho familv is out of town. ' "Possibly," replied Mrs. Jones, "but Mrs. Smith was tolling mo just now that she could tell your ring among a thous and." "Oh.dcar.I'm all tired ont!"exdainied Mrs. Shoppingham. "Yon can't have parcels sunt to the depot now, you know, without paying, and, in an economical fit, I've been lugging this all about the city. And with a sigh of relief sho took a spool of cotton out of hor pocket and deposited it on the table. A littlo work published in England is entitled "Thirty-five Ways of Popping tho Question." Good gracious I It makes tho perspiration run down a young man's back to pop the question only one way, and if bo hud to undergo tho ordeal of thirtv-fnur additional pops, thore wouldn't be muoh moro than a grease spot of him left. "Wo'ro Reins to havo sorad amatonr theatricals for tho benefit of ouroooiety," said Brown. "Do you think that Biggs would take a part if it was dffured him?" "Biggs tako a parti ' exclaimed Fogg. "Gnoss yon don't know Bixs. No, sir; ho wouldn't tako a part. Ho'd want tho wholo or mithing. Nothing Lalf-way about Biggs." "Aro your doinnetio relations sgroo able?" asked tho judge of a oolored wit uess. "What's (bit conjunction, boss?" "I ask, aro your family tics pleasant?" "Wall, no, suh. When a 'oman tics a man when he's drunk and whips him till ho's Rol er, I (loan' think (hit it's pleas ant, sah." A lcctu.'er, discoursing ou tho Bubject of Health, inquired: "What use cau a man mako of his time while waiting for a doctor?" Before he could begin his answer to his own inqniry.somoonoin thoauJiouoo cried out: "Make hia will!" "Where do the wickod men go who ilrinlr linnnr?" asknil a tamncrnnca lec turer of a small boy at an Austin Sunday school. "Well, somo of them go to Borncfiuld's saloon and some to the Iron Front, bnt tho wickedest ones, tho legislators, al ways go to the nearest saloon. It yon ask pa, he will show yon where yon oan get the best beer." A Boston lady, who baa an orange grove in Florida, was speaking (enthusi astically one day of the olimate there. "But how is it for invalids," said a friend, "should you want to go there for your health?" The lady instantly replied; "Oh, Ishonldn'twauttogoto Loavon for my health 1" Tho theory, so ably advanced by some of our esteemed contemporaries, that the floods are due to the denuding of the forests, in not without its eucot. A tramp refused to saw wood for his dinner recently, giving as a roason that bo was bitterly oppose 1 to tho destruc tion of our forests, and would do nothing to encourage that sort of business. And ho walked off, picking Lis teeth. "Who aro those two mou?" askod Dea con Gilpin of 'Squiro McGdl, the other evening. "Ob ll)0?0 are the men who camo to work in Jural urn's placo! Ua Los moved to Binghampton." "To work in Joralnm's place! Why, he was the laziest man in Marathon!" "I know itjand that's tho reason there's two of them. It takes both of them to be as lazy as ho was." "He Lai pal 1 the debt of naturo,"said a minister to a man who inquired after one of his purishiouers. "Aro you sure of that?" asked the man. "Oh, yes; for I was at the funeral." "Well, lam glad to hear that ho paid it, for he had beeu owing mo seven dol lars fur a barrel so long that I bad begun to to think Lo wouldn't pay anything. Natnre was mighty darn lucky, that's all I'vo got to say." "Mary, my love, do you remember that text this morning?" "No, papa; I never remember the text. I've such a bad memory." "Mary," said her mothor, "did yon notice Susan Rrown?" "Oh, yes; what a fright! Sho Lad on ber last year's bonnet done np, a pea green silk, a black lace mantilla, brown gaiters, sn imitation Aoniton collar, lavs bracelet, Ler old efr drops', and such fanf"