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LOVE IX A SHOWER.
"I don't tin nk I caro about the nutting
picnic," said the rector's daughter.
"Nut care about it?" said Horatia
palo, "Why, I thought you always
went every year."
"So I bavo always done, but I dou t
think I shall go tb is your."
"Ah! I seo jealous!" cried Iloratia.
"I aru not!" oried Fanny Forrester,
'and no one shall dare say such a thing
of wol"
"Nevertheless, it is truo," said Miss
pulo, "you are not going to tuo nutting
arty because uarvey uarrou pas uriana
'an Velsor to accompany him. Now,
onvitif vondarel What a goose you
are to go pining after a man that doesn't
aire for you I"
"I don't pino," said Fanny.
"To break your heart because Harvey
Carroll prefers tho gaudy city tulip to
our littlo wild rose of tho woodsl"
' I don't break my.hoart!" persisted
Finny.
"Come, choer up," said Iloratia,
laughing. "Miss Van Velsor returns to
town to morrow. The ward schools be
gin next week, and she must tnke her
place as second assistant schoolma'am in
Peake street. Anil even if she should
tako Harvey Carroll's recreant heart
with hor, why there's this consolation
there's as good fish iu the sea as over
came out of it."
"I hate vulgar proverbs," said the rec
tor's daughter.
"You hato Oriana Van Velsor, you
mean," said Miss Dale, shrewdly.
"Iloratia," cried Fanny, "if you say
another hatoful word, I'll"
"Como, now, Fanny," said Horatia,
putting her arms acouud tho waist of tho
sobbing girl, "I'm only trying to raise
your dormant spirit. Don't let th s con
ceited city girl think she's breaking
your heart; and don't lot Uarvey Carroll
suppose ho is the only man in tho
world. Hush there they cumo up tho
garden path!
"Not here," cried Fanny.
"Yes, hero. Why -houldn't Mips
Oriana vauut her conquest hero as well
an elsewhore?"
"I won't soo tliern," cried Fanny.
"But you must," commanded Miss
Dale. "Do you want her to think you're
a blighted blossom? Brush those big
drops off your eyelushes at onco and
couio into the parlor."
And Fanny Forrester decided that it
was beat to obey her friend's counsel.
Miss OrianaVan Velsor was a tall,
brilliant ly-complexioncd young lady
who called herself five and twenty, who
wore her hair banged, and generally
woro a white laco veil drawn tightly
over tho face, after the most approved
style.
Earvoy Carroll, the- handsome village
lawyer, was well-nigh infatuated by her
metropolitan airs and graces, to tho
grief of littlo Fanny Forrestor who, up
to this time, had been his fav,orito com
panion. To lose tho rich gnerdoa of Harvey
Carroll's love bowed our country girl's
heart to tho very ground, and made her
think vaguely " that it could not bo so
very wrong to commit suicido after all.
t ur Fauny had no mother, and the rector,
l i iicst man, lived iu a world of books
a..-l manuscripts, f rora which he emerged
j. l:u'tuntly, three times a day, to eat his
abstracted meals.
Miss Van Velsor giggled, flirted her
fan, as Fauny Forrester greeted her in a
low voice, Bearcoly even glancing at
Harvey Carroll.
"You're going to the nutting party, to
morrow, of course, Miss Forrestor,' said
she. Fanny was about to say no,' but
iho caught Horatia Dale's warning eye.
and changed her answer to:
"Yes; I suppose so."
"We are going," said Miss Van Velsor
"Mr. Carroll and I. He has depicted
the delights of a nutting party in such
vivid colors that I really am quite
anxious to participate in one. I do hopo
it won't rain."
"Oh, it won't rain," said Mr. Carroll.
"I don't think it will rain," said
Fanny feeling she ought to say some
thing. "And," Harvey added, "if you are not
provided with an escort, I am sure Miss
Van Velsor will be very glad to have
you join our party."
"Delighted," chimed in Oriana.
"I thank you," interposed Miss Dale
before Fanny could reply; "but Fanny
is to go with my brother Lemuel."
(Now Lemuel was an old bachelor, re
garded as tho common property of all
the girls in town.)
"Yes," said Fanny, clutching at the
straw of escape, "I am to go with Lem
uel Dale." And Harvey Carroll's con
science did sting him a little as he met
the glance of unconscious reproach in
poor Fanny's eyes.
"She's a little jewel," he confessed to
himself. "But then she is only a pearl
and Oriana is a diamond of the first
water; and there can be lo better chance
for mo to propose than to morrow."
And morning came one of those bril
liant. Bumnier-like davs that seem to
have been plucked out of the golden dia-
Cem of Angost itaelf.
"How delightful nipped Misa Oriana,
i the sat eracefolly on a twisted tree-
top, and drank champagne out of a sil
ver eup. "Ah, how indescribably
-1 : .' 1 1 . ,
"Could you be contented to livo hero
nlwnviiV'' nutirwl ITArvov fVirrnll. a ha lav
stretched on tho green turf at her feet.
"1 could desiro no Happier late, said
Oriana, lifting hor eyes heavenward.
"Then" Harvey was beginning, when
honest Lemuel Dale camo stumbling
over the uneven ground toward him.
"I say, Carroll, what arc you dream
ing about?" criod he, "Don't you seo tho
thundor clouds piling up iu tho west?
Don't you feol tho sudden chill in tho
air? Everybody nlso is seeking shelter
from the storm, while you stay bore, ap
parently blind, deaf and dumb! Luck
ily for you ihat I came back for Miss
Forrester's shawl and rousod you from
your dream!" And Fanny, louninz on
Dale's arm scarcely looked up whilo he
spoko.
Miss Van Velsor caught up hor laee
parasol with a shriok. "Is it going to
rain?" sho cried. "Oh, I have such a
dislike of thunder-showers! Oh, do let
us go to a place of shelter, some nice old
farmhouse, or dear old dame's honey-sueklo-covorod
cottage."
"Tho nearest place is the rectory at
the foot of the hill, half a milo off," said
Carroll, doubtfully.
"Wo shall bo happy to welcorno you
thore."fpoke up Funny, unconsciously
heaping coals of Are on her rival's head.
"Oh, do let us hurry," cried Mis3
Van Vekor, catching at Carroll's arm, as
the thunder broko in low, rumbling
tones and tho first big drops began to
fall.
But Miss Forrester and Mr. Dulo
reachod the rectory by a short cut across
tho meadows, and were at the door to re
ceive their dripping guests when at last
they reached the haven of refngo.
Carroll surrendered Miss Van Velsor
at once into Fanny's care. "Take her up
stairs, ploaso, Miss Forrester," said he,
iu a startlod tone. "I think thore's
something the matter with hor."
"Oh, I am all right," said Miss Van
Velsor, with a simper. "Only a littlo
tirpd with the baste wo have made."
But Fanny started back with dismay,
quite comprehending Mr. Carroll's dis
comfiture when she caught a glimpse of
her rival's face. It was striped like a
zebra whoro the streams of raiu had run
down hor brow and cheeks, tho streaks
of red and white paint blending curious
ly trvtrnttmr- ilia ucncilinff was washed
entirely from ono eye brow; tho other,
shielded by a lold oi me lace veil, wa
totally unohanged. "Tanny was silent,
but Lemuel Dalo, honest old bachelor
that he was, proved less discreet.
"Excuse me, Miss," said ho, with his
eye-glasses at bis eye, "but I rather
think your paint is washing off."
"My paint?" repealed Miss Van Vel
sor. Ami then haiineuinir to see the reflec
tion of her fa :e in the opposite mirror,
1 1 1 1 L 1V
ska uttered a wild Burma, auu a em, uu
into good old-fashioned hysterics.
Wlion nho came out of them again Mr.
Carroll had vanishod from tho scene.
Miss Oriaua Van Volsor went baclt to
tho school in Feake street quite uufot
tnrr.,1 hv rim rrnldnn clasu of au enence-
ment ring, and they say there is to be a
wedding at the rcotory, in whioh pretty
Fanny Forrester and Harvoy Carroll are
to play tho principal parts.
Strango how slender a straw will suf
fice to turn tho current of the stream of
life! If it had not been for that thunder
storm in tho woods, the whole aspect of
Miss Oriuna Van Velaor's existence
might have been different.
llnf lior enmnlexion. unlike tho roses
and lilies of Fauny Forrester's faco, was
uot watorprooi.
Ma!cli Jinking.
Ampvienn mothers havo acauired somo
reputation for skill and energy in connu
bial management on behalf of theirdaugh
tora, eays a writer in Chambers' Journal,
A Parisian newspaper some ume ago re
corded an exceedingly clever bit of
raateh-muking.executed by an American
lady of this order in brilliant stylo. Her
oi.iout. ii.niirlit.nr hud sailed from New
York with some friends for a tour of
Europe, and after "doing" the continent
had returned to tho capital for sevoral
months of rest and pleasuring. Attrac
tive and clover, bho had man suitors,
some more, somo less desirable. She
could not marry them all, so ehe adroit
ly reduced the number to two the host
of tho lot, of course.
Timn ulio wrntn home to her mamma.
explaining the exact situation of affairs,
adding that they were uoiu so uanu
some, agreeable, well connected and
rich, that she could not decide between
them, and clo3ed with tho question,
"What shall I do?" Ten days later she
received a cablegram from mamma: "I
sail to morrow; hold both till I come."
The next transatlantic steamer brought
Mrs. Blank with her sboond daughter,
just turned eighteen, and fresh from
school. On her arrival the old lady at
once took the helm of affairs, and steered
go deftly through the dangerous waters
that in a few weeks she had reachod port
with all colors flying. To drop metaphor,
she attended tho wedding of her two
daughters at the American chapel on the
same morning. After due examination
she dooided that neither of the nice fel
lows should go out of the family.
Here is an illustration of a much less
skillful attoropt at match making, with a
very different denouement. A certain
member of Parliament, who owned ex
tensive estates, was spending a few days
at tho residence of a noble family. Thero
were several interesting and accom
plished young ladies in the family, to
whom the honorable member showed
every attention. Just as he was about
to take leave, tho nobleman's wife pro
ceeded to consult him upon a matter
which, she declared, was causing her no
little distress. "It is reported," said the
countess, "that you are to marry my
daughter Lucy, and what shall we do?
What shall we say abont it?" ;Oh," re
plied the connidorate M. P., with much
adroitness, "just say she relused me."
We have said that men do not, as a
rule, figure conspicuously as match
makers; nor do they; but the judgment
and policy exhibited in this connec
tion by a knowing old gentleman
of our acquaintance could hardly besnr
passed by the most accomplished tacti
cian of either sex. "Brown," said a
neighbor to him one day, "I don't see
how it is that your girls all marry offr
soon as they get old enough, while none
of mine can marry."
"Oh I that's simple enough," he re
plied; "I marry my girla off on the
buckwheat atraw principle."
"But what principle is that? Never
heard of it before."
"Well, luftedto raise a good deal of
buckwheat, and it puzzled me to know
how to get rid of tho straw. Nothing
would eat it, and it was a great b.Uhor to
mo. At lat I thought of a plan. I
stacked my buckwheat Btraw nicely aud
built a high rail fonce around it. My
cattlo, of course, concluded that it must
be something good, and at once tore
down the fence and began to eat the
btraw. I drov9 them away and built up
tho fence a few times, but the morel
hunted them off, the more anxious they
becamo to eat tho straw; and cat it they
did, every bit of it. As I said, 1 marry
my girls on the same principle. When a
youug man that I don't like begins to
call o;i my girU, I encourage him iu
every way I can. I tell him to d me
often aud fctay as late as he pleases; and
I take pains to hint to the girls that I
think they'd better set their caps for
him. It works first rate. Ho don't
make many calls, for the girls treat him
as coolly as they cau. But when a
young fellow that I like comes around,
a mau that I think would suit mo for a
son-in-law, I don't let him make many
calls before I give him to understand
that ho isn't wantod about my house. I
tell tho girls, too, that they shall have
nothing to do with him, and give them
orders never to speak to him nf;ain. The
plan always works exactly as I wish. Tho
young folks begin to pity aud sympa
thize with each oilier; aud tho next thing
I kuow is thoy aro engaged to bo mar
ried. When I see that thoy aro deter
mined to marry, I of course givo in, and
pretend to make tho best of it. That's
the way I manage it."
An old lady who had several unmar
ried daughters fed them largely on a fish
diet, beeauso, as she ingeniously ob
served, the fish is rioh iu phosphorous,
and phosphorous is the essential thing
in making matches. If the phosphoric
diet caused the young ladies to shine in
society, thoy in all probability did not
adopt it in vain; for, just as fish are
easily attraoted in the night by any
bright light thrown upon tho water, so
young men are invariably found to flock
after any girl who "shines," even though
hor accomplishments may be of a very
shallow, superficial, or phosphorescent
character. No experienced match
making mamma requires to be taught
tho value of display as an almost certain
means of attraction. Thnt is the 6ecrct
of the ball suppers and iced champngne,
the heavy dicssmakors's bills, and tho
thousand and one other items of ex
travagance that have to be met in
order that the young ladies may
make a "respectablo" appearance, and
may finish with a successful match. And
that is why so many of these match
making ventures have so often resulted
in the moBt deplorablo sequels. Dis
play is met with display the one fre
quently ts hollow and falso as the other.
Tho distinguished foreigner or tho fasci
nating young nobleman is discovered
when it is too lato, to be nothing more
nor less than an unprincipled adveutur
er; and tho merchant, who was supposed
to bo littlo if anything short of a million
aire, is found also when it is late, to bo
on the verge of bankruptcy. Very often
in such matches both parties ore sold,
and then the universal verdict is, "served
thom right"
Mixed Accomplishments.
Miss Tvosalind II. Young is a resident
of Pitcairn Island, bho is a descendant
of one of tho mutineers of tho British
ship Bounty, tho crow of which founded
a colony on Pitcairn Island in 1790, con
sisting of nine British sailors, six native
Tahitiah men aud twelve women, which
has sinco grown into a moderately
populous villago, with comfortable cot
tages, a ohnrch and a school house. Tho
residents all road, write and speak tho
English language. Miss Young, how
ever, is a prodigy of scholarship in the
colony. Some of our readers will rcmom
ber that two years ago sho wrote an
article, descriptive of the island, for
Scribnor's Magazine A retired sea cap
tain, who visited tho island not long ago,
draws this picture of Miss YouDg.
Hor futhor is' pastor of tho island
church and teacher of tho school, and
sho i3 organist and assis'snt teacher.
Sho is about twenty-six years old and
weighs two hundred pounds, never had
a shoo on herWoot, and if necessary
could swim off to a ship four miles from
the island and back again to ehoro, and
then go into the little church and play
the orean nearly as well as any young
lady in the states.
An Archbishop's Funeral Pomp.
The churoh of Home delights in
august pageantry in the ceremonies of
great occasions, and tho funeral of Arch
bishop Wood in Philadelphia to-day will
be remembered as the most pompous of
the obsequies in the history of that city.
The body of the dead prelate was yester
day removed from his residence, where
it had lain since bin death a week ago to
morrow, and placed on a catafalque in
front of the altar of the cathedral, cov
ered with royal purple velvet, en
shrouded in the full vestments of his high
office, a white mitre upon the head and a
crucifix clasped in the hands. Tho sol
emn procession of chanting priests and
the stately ritual of the funeral services
of to day recall the pageantry of tbe in
terment of the remains of Archbishop
Hughes in the Fifth avenue cathedral
last January, after his dust had remained
twenty years in the vaults of St. Pat
rick's. Tho pompous ceremonies of the
church of Borne profoundly affect the im
agination of its devotees, and the impos
ing services over the remains of a worthy
prelate will make a deep impression upon
a multitude. N. Y. Mail and Express.
Inhalation op Aib Exhaled bt Com
bcmptives. Fresh proof of the danger
of inhaling air exhaled by persons hav
ing lung disease! has been given by a
characteristic French experiment. M.
Giboux took four young, healthy rab
bits from the same litter and kept them
for 105 days in cage as follows : Two
were placed in a cage where thay were
obligod to breathe tbe air expired from
animals with consumption, twice a day
for two hours; in a short time thoy be
came sickly, and on killing them, they
were found to have tubercle in the
lungs. The other two breathed twice a
day tbe tame air, but disinfected by be
ing passed through cotton wadding im
pregnated with carbolio acid ; these rab
biU remained in good health, and were
finally eaten by the experimenter.
Tilt) IESM0X OF LOUISIANA.
Eveuts beyond tho ocean were work
ing moro rapidly for tho interest of tho
United States than any influences the
government itself could exert. Buforo
Mr. Monroe reached Fruoco, in the
spring of 1803, um-tlier war eloud of
porteiitioiiH magnitude was hanging over
Europo. Tho treaty of Amiens, which
proved only a truce, miscouHtrued aud
violated by both parties, was about to bo
formally broken. Feariug that in tho
conflict to come England, by her super
ior uavul force, would deprive him of his
tiuwly-acqmred colonial empire, and
greatly enhance hor own prestigo by so
c.inng all tliu American poHst-ssious
which Franeo had ownod prior to 17th),
Bonaparte, by a dash in diplomacy as
quick aud as brilliant as his tactics on
the field of battle, placed Louisiana bo
yond tho roach of British power. After
returning from St. Cloud from the re
ligious services of Easter Sunday, April
10, 1S03, ho called two of his most
trusted advisers, and iu a tone of to
hemenco and passion said:
"I kuow the full value of Louisiana,
and havo been desirous of repairing tho
fault of the French nrgotiators who lost
it in 17(J:i. A few lines of a treaty havo
restored it to me, anil now I must ex
pect to loso it. " Tho English
wish to tuko possession of it, and it is
thus they will begin the war.
They have twenty ships of war iu tho
Oalf of Mexico. Tho con
quest of Louisiana would bo eay. I
have not a moment to loso in pulling it
out of their reach. Tho Eng
lish have successively Inkon from France
the Canada, Cape Breton, Nowfouud
liUid, Nova Sootia and tho richest por
tions of Asia. But they shall not havo
tho Mississippi, which thoy covet."
The discutsion went far into the night.
Tuo two ministers differed widely in tho
ailvico which they gavo tho first consul.
Ono was in favor of holding Louisiana
at all hazards; tho other nrged its pru
dent cession rather than its inevitable
loss by war. Tho ministers both re
mained at St. Cloud for the night. At
daybreak the minister who had advised
tho cession was summoned by Bonaparto
to read dispatches from London, that
moment receivod, aud which certainly
foreshadowed war, as the English were
muking military and naval preparations
with extraordinary rapidity. After read
ing the dispatches tho first consul said :
"Irresolution and deliberation aro no
longer in season. I renonnoe Louisiana.
It is not only New Orleans that I will
code: it is tho wbolo colony, without any
reservation. I know the value of what
I abandon. I renounce it with the
gravest regret. To attempt obstinately
to retain it would be folly: I direct yon
to negotiate this affair with the envoys
of tho United States. Do not even await
the arrival of Mr. Mouroo. Havo au in
terview this very day with Mr. Living
ston But I require a great
deal of money for this war. I will be
modorato. I want $50,000,000 for Lou
isiaua." The minister who was opposed to tho
sale interposed, in a subsequent inter
view, some observations "upon what tho
Gorman call tho souls, as to whetlior
they could bo the subject of a contract
for sale." Bonaparte replied with un
disguised sarcasm: "You are giving mo
the ideology of tho law of natuto. But
I requiro money to mako war on tho
richest nation in tho world. Send your
maxims to London. I om sure thoy will
be greatly admired there." The first
consnl ulterward addod: "Perhaps it
will bo objected that tho Amorioans will
be f i. mid too powerful for Europe in two
or three cotiluries; but my foresight
does cot embrace such remote fears.
Besides, wo may hereafter expect rival
ries among tho mombors of the union.
The oenfederutions, which aro called
perpetual, only hist till -one of tho con
trading parties finds it to his interest to
break them."
Louis Napoleon embodied the Htib
stanoo of these views in his "Idecs Na
poloonncs," and sixty years utter the
first cousnl spoke tho words quoted his
ncphow believed the time had come; and
tho Mexican invaiiion, based on tho as
sumed destruction of the American
union, was undortakon. The destruction
which followed was not of tho union, but
of tho unhappy Austrian nriuoe who
represented his policy, and lator of tho
Emperor himself.
Two dayB after this conversation Mr.
Monroe opportunely arrived, and oa the
30th of April tho treaty coding Louisi
ana to the United States was formally
signed and sealod. Mr. Monroe and Mr.
Livingston had no authority to negotiute
for so vast an extent oi lorruory, uui uie
former was fully possessed of President
Jefferson's views, and felt ofsurad that
his instructions would have been ample
if tho condition of France had been fore
seen when he sailed from America
Communication with Washington was
impossiblo. Under the mOBt favorable
circumstances an answer could not be
expected in le-a than throe months; and
by that time British ships would prob
ably hold tho months of tho Misbisaippi
and the flag of St. George would wave
over New Orleans. Messrs. Monroe and
Livingston realized that hesitation would
be fatal, and they boldly took the re
sponsibility of purchasing a territory of
unknown and i Imost unlimited dimcn
eions, and of pledging the credit of Ibe
government for a sum which, rated by
the ability to py, was larger than a sim
ilar plodge to day for 8500,000,000. The
price agreed upon was $11,250,000 in six
per cent. United States bonds, the inter
est of which was made payablo in Lon
don, Amsterdam and Paris.and tho prin
cipal at tho treasury in Washington, in
Bums of $3,000,000 per annum, begin
ning fifteen yean alter the bonds were
issued.
In a sepai ate treaty, made the same
day, the United Stutes agreed to pay
20,000,000 francs additional, to be ap
plied by Franco to the satisfaction of
certain claims owed to American citi
zens. Thus the total cot of Louisiana
was 80,000,000 francs, or, in round num
bers, $15,000,000.
It seems at .this day scarcely credible
that the acquisition of Louisiana by
Jefferson was denounced with a bitter
ness surpassing the partian rancor with
which this feneration is familiar. No
abnse was too malignant, no epithet too
cuarse. no imorecations too lavage lor
the great philosophic statesman, who
laid tbe foundations ro broad and deep
for the country's growth and grandeur.
President of a feeble republic, contend
ing for a prize which waa held by the
greattht military power of Europ:', and
coveted by tho gn-atest naval power of
tho world, Mr. Jefferson, through his
chosen anil trusted agent, so conducted
hi important negotiations that the am
bition of tho United States was success
fully interposed between tho uocoHxities
of the ono power and the aggressive do
di sigiu of tho other. Beady to sido with
cither of these grout powurs against the
otlur for tho advantage of his own couu
try; not underrating tuo daugers of war,
nu.l yet retdy to engago in it for the
control of tho great water way to tho
gulf tho president made tho greatest
conquest ever achieved without anteced
ent war, und at a cost so small that the
total until expended for the entiro terri
tory does not equal tho revenue which
has oiuce been collected on its soil in a
single month in timo of great public
peril. The country thus acquired forms
to day the states of Louisiana, Arkansas,
Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Min
nesota wet.t of tho Mississippi; Color
ado north of tho Arkansas, and Oiegon,
kesides Indiati territory, and the terri
tories of Dakota, Wyoming, Moutanu,
Idaho and Washington.
This coup d'etat of tho flrht consul
was an overwhelming surpriu and dis
appointment to the English government.
Bonaparte was right in assuming that
prompt notion on his part was necessary
to sive Louihimn from the hands of the
Eulish. Twelve days after tho Iroaty
ceding Louisiana to tho United Stales
v,:r sigued tho British ambassador at
Puris, Lord Whilwottu demanded his
passports. At Dover ho met tho French
ambassador to England, General
Andreassy, who bad luewiso demanded
his passports. Lord Whitworth loaded
General Andreassy with tokensof esteem,
and conducted him to tho ship which was
to bear him back to France. According
to an eminout historian, "tho two am
bassadors in tho prosenco of a great cou
courso of pooplo, were agitutod, uneasy,
sorrowful. At the moment of so im
portant a dctcrmiuation tho warlike
passion subsided, and tho men were
seized with a dread of tho oousequences
of a desperato conflict. At this solemn
moment tho two nations scorned to bid
oaoh other adieu, not to moet again till
after a tremendous war and the convul
sion of tho world."
The consequenon that would have fol
lowed England's acquisition of Louis
iana must have proved in tho highest
degree embarrassing, if not disastrous to
the union. Had England
seized Louisiana, as Bonaparto feared,
tho Floridas, cut off from tho other
colouiespf Spain, would probably havo
fallen into her hands by easy and prompt
negotiation, as thoy did, a few years
alter, into tho bauds of tho United
States. Eoglaud would thus havo planted
her colonies on the three land aides of
tho union, and on tho ocean sido her
formidable navy confronted the young
republic.
No oolonial acquisition ovor made by
England oa auy continent would have
proved bo profitable to her commerce
and so strengthening to hor military
position as that of Louisiana. Thin fact
was clearly seen by Bonaparto when ho
hastily mado the treaty ceding it to tho
UniU'd States. That England did not
attempt ut onco to soizo it, in disregard
of Bonaparte's cession, has boen a souroe
of surprise to many historians. Tho
obvious reason was that sho dreaded tho
complication of a war in America when
sho was about to assume so heavy a bur-
don iu tho imp.ndiug European con
test, Tho inhabitants of tho Union in 1803
wero six millions in number, of.great
energy and confidence, a largo portion
accustomed to the sea aud ablo to Bend
swarms of privateers to prey on British
commerce Citizens of un independent
government would bo even moe
formidable than wore rebellious colon
ists in tho earlior struglo with tho mo
ther country, aud, aotiug in conjunction
with Frauce, could havo effectively
maintained the contost. Considerations
of this nature doubtless induoed tho
Addiugton Ministry to nequiosoe quietly
in a treaty whose origin and whoso assured
results wore in every way distasteful
and evon offensive to tho British govern
ment. Bmine's Forthcoming Book.
Chinese Fishing.
Among their fishing appliances are
dip-nets, largo squares of nutting ex
tended on a frame work of bamboo,
which is weighed and suspouded from a
polo, Unit has to bo alternately raised
and lowered either from a bank or a
boat and brings up each time all the
fish that may be passing over it at tho
time, ilio casting not is very laminar,
but China is a peculiar homo, and it is
there used in varying sizes by men and
children of all ages. A moro origiual
method of capturing fish is that pnrsuod
by what are known in Swatow as "slip-por-boate."
These craft, aro gonerally 25
feet long und 18 inches yido, and they
fish in couples, moored side by sido, on
bright moonlight nights, their only im
plements of capture being a white board
f.mlnnml filnn7 the onter sido of each.
This board cutches the bright rays of Ihe
moon, aud tho Hsu, wno woum seem 10
le of a oonfiding nature in this portion
of the empire, are said to mistake it for
water.and leap from their native element
in the slipper boats in largo numbers.
Innumerable devices of this charactor,
peculiar to the country, are here on
show in the Chinese annex. This would
seem to be a branch of industry natu
rally commending itsolf to the
miuds of a pooplo who liaya
always been universally credited with a
more than ordinary amount of cunning.
Their fish trap aro, moreovor, manifold
and varied, and of the highont workman
ship and utility. In the British Isles
this is a mean of taking fldi practically
unknown and nnpraeticed, with the ex
ception of our stereotyped eel and lob
ster poti. but the Chinese devote them
selves largely to these strategic methods
of fishing, and with an unvarying sno
cess that nothing but the boundlei, for
tuity of their rivers and seas could ex
plain or withstand. The day will per
haps come when western idoas will pene
trate sufllciently there to insure the sup
pression of wholesale fish poisoning and
such like fatal poaching arrangement
for the capture of small fry as are rather
too candidly exhibited here; but at pres
ent we can only admire, perhaps with a
tinge of dejection, the hunlrcd and one
devices employed in a land where,
of nnsDorUmanlike
destruction is rampant, the fish supply
eem to remain as abundant and aeeet-
aibleatever.
Cormorants are another means em
ployed by tho Chinese on lake and the
shallower sheets of water for taking
llnh. This aqoatio specie of hawking
it of very old dalo, and was known and
practiced iu England, whither it doubt
less was imported from the cast, two
conturies ago, But it is followed with
success only by the painstaking celes
tials. The birJs, which havo to undorgo
a regular training, aro taken out in a
boat, und before work commences a strap
or ring i placed round each cormorant
turout, sufficiently tight to prevout it
swallowing any fish it may catch in its
Btrougly-booked beak, but uot so tight
as to prevent respiration. Tho dark
winged fishermon then go off and cater
for their master with success and regu
larity, being rewarded with an occasional
fish, which they aro permitted to swallow
when tho strap ha been ro moved.
Above all things the Chinese are a frugal
nation, making use of substances that
would meet with culinary contempt in
any otliercountry. Tho discarded shark
represents to thtm a vuluablo supply of
food. Tho fins go to form the well
nuowu soup, or uro used in tho prepara
tion of gelatine; whilo Iho skin, after
being cleaned und prepared, serves for
covering bword haudles, and for various
otiier orn imcntal purposes. Evon tho
en tile-fish, a crew uro repulsive to fish
ermen of most other uations, is tho object
of careful pursuit villi nets and
lines by tho Chinaman, at a time when
other work is slack; and, carefully dried
and packed in bales, commands a ready
sale ull through t!io Flowery land. Tho
nv.slor, also, and it pearl bearing kin
dred, iho Chinese mussel, aro not merely
looked upon as dainties. Though culti
vated with skill aud soienco as such in
tho first placo, their refuse shells are
burnt for lime, and, whilo still living,
they are induced to secrete tho hard
white substance which is so highly valuod
for its beauty aud scarcity all ovor tho
world. Loudon Telograph.
ALL SOKTS.
A friend cannot be known iu pros
perity, and an enemy cannot be hid
iu adversity.
We caunot bo too much on our guard
against reactions, lest we rush from one
fault into a contrary fault.
Asparagus is a diuretic, and forms part
of the cure for rheumatic patieuts at
some of the loading health resorts.
"A fair court record," rcmaited a co
quetto as she wrote the name of her
sixteenth rejected lover in her diary.
Only that is truly boautiful which
either has within it the clement of
growth, or suggest vital energy as its
cause.
If wo did but know bow littlo some
enjoy the great things they posses,
thero would not be much envy in tha
world.
He who swims securely down the
stream of self oontldeueo is in danger or
being drownod in tho whirlpool of pre
sumption. Tho pleasantost things iu tho world are
pleasant thoughts, and the greatest art in
life is to have as inuny of them as pos
sible. We must distinguish botwecn felicity
and prosperity, for prosperity leads
ofton to ambition, and ambition to disappointment.
It is not until we have passod through
tliafurnaoo that we are mado to know
how much dros thero is in our compo
sition. Coltou.
A man may bo too well learned for
niactioal usefulness in life, us a soldier
may bo too well armod for usefulness in
t io field. Uerron. ,
Savs tho Philadelphia Tress: "the
editor of the Moraphiu Appeal call
Chalmors of Mississippi, a liar, and both
gentlemen aro still alivo. lesi uopior
ablo, isn't it? Bos. Post.
"Where did yon eet your wonderful
nower of lancuapte? ' askol on admiring
auditor at the closo of a looture. "Oh,"
replied the lecturor, with a laugh, " I
used to worn tn a oaruor Buop.
Lot na bowaro of losiuir our ehthusi-
asms. Let us ever glory in eomothing,
and Btrive to retain our admiration for
all that would onoblo, aud our interest
in all that wouid onrioUand boautily our
life. Phillip Brooks.
Sixteen members of the common ooun-
oil of Now Orleans have pledgod them
solves to go to jail rather than obey the
mandate of the Unitod State Cirouit
Judgo Billings to provide for an extra
tax levy this year to pay tho judgment
for 81,890,000 obtained by Mr. Myra
Clark Oaius. The rato of taxation in
that city year bids fair to exceed five per
cont.
Mr TnrM Tho nristinz oodar of
Lebanon are only 000 yeersold. The
cypress trees nt Montezuma, Mexico,
according to a French botanist, are 6,000
years old, and oonsequeutly he make
them out coeval with the croation of the
world. Still, that is only estimate Tho
Aarlh. ro fur aa absolutely
known, i the "Bo" tree, in the aorod
city of Amaradoora, Burmah, It was
2.171 years old. It great age is proved
by nistorio aocumeuis, ccruiu$ w
James EmeTtion Tcnnon., who rays : "Tn
it king have even dedicated their domin
ion, in testimony of the bolief that it is
a branch of the identical fig treo under
whioh Buddha roolined at Urnrelya,
when he underwent nia apomeoaiB.
i,,.a nrairiBil iwiTii streamer by
tun. wo - - - j - -
pilgrims, but it i too aacrod to touch
with a kniie, and luereiore mey r.r vuij
gathered when they fall .
r.-... rir, St-iu'i'd- -Vmv.h1 a Citv
Lint v . - 1 -
r:. r'nmimnv Imvn discovered U6W
chute of ore, the point of development
being the GOO foot level north. Within
two or three day tliey nave iaon omaa
tl.nimanrt ilnllarii' worth of VOrV
rich free gold quattz, and it is possibla
the buncu may prove an immenij pro
ductive one, as there is snore of the ume
kind in sight, besides what may bo hid
above aod bolow on the new ohute.which
was by ome kind of luck mseparaoie
from mining missed on the higher levels.
Tender. "Young clover," ayWm.
S. Fowler, "i so tender a plant that the
tmmninff of hoofs, however light, will
destroy or seriously injure it. At any
period of it existence a man or onuu
cannot put a foot on a clover plant with
out materially injuring it. Any kind of
tock will trample down and iojnre twioa
or thrica aa many olover plant a
ata."