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Mother Mnnsey's Lecture.
My dear little mice,
You are old enough, now
To get your own living
If I tell you bow.
The times are so hard.
That I need all the bits
I find for myself
You must live by your wits.
Do you st-e that square door?
And the nice toasted cheese
On the end of that wire?
Keep away from it, please.
Last evening your aunt,
And your young cousin four.
Saw that cheese and went in
Through the wide open door.
I watched a long time.
But they never came out;
For this is the trap
That you've all heard about.
Now prick up your cars
And hear what I say:
Never taste of a thing
That la left iu your way.
But when, snugly hid,
You find a rich cake,
Or a nice, creamy cheese,
Then a good dinner make.
So will your days pass,
Without a mishap.
And you'll live to old age
Ip spite of the trap.
The Night Wind.
At a lonely inn among the pines
I sit alone in the firelight' glow,
Losing myself in th backlog's mines,
And hearing the night-wind come and go.
And now it threatens, and now it grieves,
Pleads at the lintel, or Mums a blind;
Now it prowls, snllct), ahout the eaves
This protean, bitter autumn wind.
Fiercely it sweeps on the doorside yew,
As a vulture drojs upon its prey;
And now in the throat of the sooty line
I hear it howl, like a beast at bay.
Now it flies shrieking across the downs.
And now, like a ghost, it whispers me
Of people starving to death in towns,
And of wrecks a thousand leagues at sea!
Thomas IJailet Alduicu.
Story of a Traveling Scoundrel.
As jour object seems to be to arrive at
the real truth of the matter, and you ap
pear to have no inclination to condemn
us unheard, I have no objection to giving
jou an insight into our profession, ant!
our manner of taking people in, and the
kind of people whom we generally swin
dle. When I arrive at a house, I am not
at all discomfited if the woman meets me
at the door with a scowl, and tells me in
cross, unlady-like tones, that she "don't
buy of tramps."
I answer, "Certainly not, madam, but
I have a few articles for sale, a choice
collection, which I am selling for a bank
rupt firm, and must dispose of them for
some price."
"The fact is," I say, growing confiden
tial, "that the gentlemen of the firm have
decided to leave the country, and must
raise a little money from the sale of
these goods, eveu if it is at an enormous
sacrifice. Now, for instance, I can offer
you two papers of needles for five cents;
two spools of thread in the same way;
good linen handkerchiefs for ten cents
each, and other things in the same pro
portion." As soon as I have convinced the "honest
farmer's wift" that she will become a
partner in the swindle and receive a share
of the spoils, she becomes sufficiently in
terested to be willing to examine my
goods. I continue to bait by selling her
Eins, needles, hose and handkerchiefs,
uttons and thread, for anything which
she may happen to offer. I give her a
couple of dollars' worth, anil then I be
gin to turn the tables. I take up a set of
galvanized or plated spoons that have
cost me about twenty-five or thirty cents
a set. "Here," I say, "is the greatest sacri
fice of all. I can offer such articles as
you have been buying without minding
it much, but when it comes to offering
spoons that have cost one dollar apiece for
two and a half a set, it hurts my feelings."
"Are you sure that they are pure sil
ver?" she asks, examining them.
"Am I sure? Look at them, madam;
- compare them with your own silver
spoons, examine the goods that I have al
ready sold you, and see if everything is
n t of the best. Our firm sold only
6t ndi d goods. O 1 it was such, a pity
thai ouch a firm should go to ruin."
The probability is that the woman
has no silver spoons, but her neighbor
has, and here is a golden opportunity to
be even with her, and after much protes
tation on my part, and close bap'ainin"
on hers, she finally gets the spoons for
one dollar and seventy-five cents.
Then I exhibit some silver forks of
the same stamp. They will match the
spoons so nicely. Her cousin or sister-in-law
has a set and paid full price for them,
too, and here is a chance to get them for
less than half price.
I ask three dollars for the forks, but
knowing that it is a sin for the forks and
spoons to part company, siuce they cor
respond so well, and in consideration of
her having patronized me so liberally, I
finally consent to let her have them for
two dollars, assuring her all the time that
they are worth six.
After having satisfied mvself that I
have obtained about all the money which
she possesses, I take my departure, leav
ing my customer smiling and satisfied,
for a lew weeks.
Now let me ask, in all candor, if I
am so much worse than she, since she
was unwilling to buy until she was con
vinced that I waa ruining some creditor
by the liberal bargains which I offered
her? Was she not virtually consenting to
become a partner in the transaction?
Next I come to the residence of a
rather influential and well-to-do citizen.
When he sees me entering his yard, he
goes into his house with the air of a king,
and slams the door shut, as much as to
say, "See how I can treat peddlers 1"
I am not at all disconcerted by this,
but I knock at the door until he opens
it, and then I ask if Mr. Smith lives there.
"No," he answers, pompously, "my
name is Rrown, Esquire Brown, at your
service."
"(), yes," I answer, "you are the man
that 1 am looking for. I mistook the
name. If you will come this way a few
moments, I will tell you something to
your interest."
The nun comes out of doors, and im
pressively seats himself upon the porch,
with a contemptuous look at me.
"My dear sir," I begin, "our company
is desirous of establishing an agency in
this community for the sale of an article
upon which we have a patent. We are
obliged to sell a few rights immediately
to defray the expense of patent, and you
have been recommended to'usas one pos
sessing superior business talent, and the
energy necessary to make such a business
a success.
"We have not the slightest doubt but
an investment of this kind would be a
fortune to you, for we offer you the right
of tins county for the mere nominal sum
of three hundred dollars, and you can
sell it out to your neighbors by town
ships, for three hundred dollars per town
ship." "My neighbors might not be willing to
buy," he will answer, or something to that
effect.
"O, I will let you into the secrets of
the trade, in such a way that you will ex
perience no difficulty in that direction.
"One of the tricks of the trade is to go
to some influential man in the township
and get him to help you, offer him the
right of half the township, if he will in
duce some other man having confidence
in his judgment to pay you three hun
dred dollars for the other half, under the
im predion that the first man is a partner.
"The fact of your having bought it in
the first place will be a recommenda
tion, for every one will say, 'It must be
a good thing or "Squire Rrown wouldn't
have bought it.' "
I tell him of several other tricks sup
posed to be known only to the patent
right fraternity, and when I have suc
ceeded iu convincing him that he can
swindle his neighbors, I have sold the
right for that county; and let me ask, is
the man that tries to swindle his neigh
bor any better than the one who ac
tually does take in strangers?
Bad as we are, I can relate incidents
to how that in every profession, the
ministry not excepted, you will find
prominent and influential men who are
no better.
I once made a contract with a travel
ing preacher to take me around his cir
cuit, for half the profits. He was to se
lect the customers from among his flock,
and represent me as an honest and up
right man whom he had known for years.
He was an eloquent and prejiossessing
m in, noted for his great piety and self-sacrificing
disposition. He had actually
convinced the majority of his llock that
their spiritual welfare was his only ob
ject in traveling through summer's heat
and winter's cold to preach to them, but
he informed me that sums which he
raised upon various pretenses, foreign
missions and the like, afforded him a
handsome profit, over and above what
they paid him for actual service.
He enjoyed the entire confidence of
his llock, anil the amount of logus jew
elry and silverware, and patent rights
that we disposed of, made it the most
profitable trip of my life.
We stopped one night at a handsome
and commodious farm-house, and as usual
the sight of Rev. Josiah Elnador was
enough to secure us a hearty welcome.
The hostess was a sweet-tempered and
lady-like kind of a woman, and exerted
herself to the utmost to make our stav
agreeable. While we were there a real
genuine tramp called anil asked for
something to eat. Instead of slamming
the door in his face and ordering him oil
the premises, that woman spread a neat
white cloth upon the table, and placed a
good and comfortable meal upon it for
the beggar, and talked to him as pleas
antly as though it had been Iiov. Elnador
himself.
"Sister," said the Rev. gentleman, "are
you not afraid that you are encouraging
vagrancy by the manner in which you
treat tramps?"
"O, brother," she replied, earnestly,
with truth, innocence and chanty beam
ing from every feature of her womanly
face, "there are many unfortunate men
thrown out of employment and obliged
to seek for work in the country for the
support of their families, and having no
other mean of support are of course
obliged to depend upon charity for suste
nance until they hui it, anil it I can as
sist them in no other way, I can afford
to give them a single meal of victuals and
an encouraging word."
"Ah, sister, the world is intensely
wicked," replied the minister; "you have
no idea how often you are imposed uixn."
"I have no doubt ot it. brother." she
answered; "but it is better to feed two
undeserving men than to risk turning
one worthy but unfortunate away unfed.
I am pretty well hardened, but 1
must confess that I felt decidedly uncom-
tortable in the presence of real Christian
charity. The sham article would have
hail no other effect uiv.m me than to
make me feel at home, but when I looked
upon that trusting woman, and knew that
she was harboring two rogues, aud un
doubtedly feeding a third, all through
the purest of motives. I felt a sense of
unworthiness and humiliation never be
fore experienced.
She was desirous of purchasing some
thing for a birthday present for her
uauguter, wno was away at school some
tuing mat sne could always keep as a
memento of that angelic mother.
Uev. Elnador suggested a irold watch
and chain, as the most appropriate gift
lor sucn a purpose.
I had a pretty little plated watch, and
a chain, for which I had paid about fif
teen dollars, and Mr. Elnador thought
that I might get her to take it for about
eighty.
"Mr. .fclnador, saui i, "l am a pro
fessional swindler; that's my business; I
travel through this country for that very
purpose, bat if you can induce me to
cheat that true Christian woman out of
one cent of her honest earnings you are a
more accomplished villain than I think
you are!"
Instead of being rebuked by the pres
ence of real virtue, the insatiable wretch
demanded that I should pay him his
share of the profits if I did not make the
sale. Since he had done his part, I con
sented, and presented the watch to the
woman as a token of my appreciation of
her unselfish charity.
At the cud f our journey Mr. Elnador
wanted to sell me his watch, in order to
represent to the victims that he t had
been victimized by being robbed of it.
It was a valuable one, but I was too
thoroughly acquainted with such matters
not to know that be was asking consider
ably more than it was worth.
When we came to settle I found that
he hail carefully noted down every arti
cle that I had sold, in order to be sure of
his share of the profits, which amounted
to hundreds of dollars. He was little
and mean in every particular, and even
charged me for riding in Ids buggy, but
I let him have his way, and took his
watch, and paid him off iu counterfeit
money !
I emigrated that day, and a week later
I was a thousand miles away.
A few weeks later I happened to pick
up a paper and read:
UM'AUALELLED OUTRAGE.
Rev. Josiah Elnador has leeu severely
victimized by a man in whom he had
such implicit continence as to allow him
to accompany him upon his ciicuit. It
appears that the minister had been pre
viously acquainted with this man, w ho
had always followed an honorable busi
ness, and thus won the confidence of all
with whom he had any dealings. Upon
this occasion he had so artfully imposed
upon the unsuspecting minister's credulity
as to obtain a recommendation of his
spurious wares, upon the merits of his
excellent character; in this way he suc
ceeded in swindling the inmates of al
most every house which they visited. Be
coming scarce of funds, Mr. Elnador sold
his watch to this fiend in human form,
and the first intimation he had that all
was not right was when he tendered a
counterfeit bill in payment for some
goods which he had purchased. Upon
examination he found that all the money
which he had received in payment for
this watch was of the same character.
The distress of the Rev. gentleman was
really pitiable to behold; he turned per
fectly white, and trembled so that he
could scarcely stand, but what seems to
add most to his distress is the fact of his
having unconsciously lent his aid in
swindling many of the most cherished
members of his flock.
"Let him tremble," thought I; "per
haps it will do him good; but the
sheep's clothing seems to protect the
wolf most effectually."
Such was the story told by my travel
ing companion, alter vainly urging me
to accept of some splendid bargains
wtuch he offered me, and alter being told
most decisively that I would not pur
chase, and that I would give more for his
history than all the jewelry he cairied.
We were riding in a stage in the northern
art of Nebraska, and 1 was glad to lis
ten while the .stage rolled on, hour after
hour, over the undulating prairie.
I leave the reader to decide lor himself
whether there is any truth iu the method
of reasoning by which this vagabond at
tempts tojustity himselt, by making out
that the swindler is no more than the
swindled, but I fear that his victims will
not be made better by this reforming
rocess, only more cautious.
ISADOltE RoGEKS.
An Age of Events. Within six years
of the revolutionary era of 18-liJ, we have
the Crimean war, the mutiny in India,
the Austro-French war, which laid the
broad foundation of the kingdom of Italy,
and the revolution which built it up; our
own civil war, the first aggressive re
appearance of Prussia on the European
stage in the attack upon Denmark, the
Austro-Prussian war which cairied on
the unification of the kingdom of Italy
and prepared the way for the new Ger
man Empire, the Franco-I'russian war
which destroyed the empire ol Napoleon,
aid the cap-stone on the column ot Ital
ian unity and further advanced the great
edifice of German nationality ; the rev
olutions in Spain, the English wars in
Africa, the Chinese rebellion, the open
ing up of Japan, so long shut up, as it
were, within a brazen wall; the aboli
tion of slavery in America, the abolition
of serfdom in Russia, the confederation
of Canada these are some of the politi
cal events that will at once occur to the
mind of the reader as making the last
twenty years a remarkable era; and now
we are watching with interest what seem
to be the signs of the rapid approach of
another irreat conflict in the old world.
We may see, betore long, the utter de
struction of the Moslem power which
poured into Christendom in the middle
ages, threatening to supplant the civil
ization of the Uible with the civilization
of the Koran to make the European the
slave of the Asiatic.
Tkocbi.es of an Adit-ose Dame.-
The fat woman who was at the sea cow
and learned hog show near the Centennial
grounds gives the Philadelphia Item the
following account ot her escape irom the
fire on Saturday night: "I can step at a
500 weight, and as the front stairs were
on fire, I had to go down the back way
Now. the front stairs were built espe
cially for me, of wood six inches thick,
while the back steps were only fit tor
common light people like yourself. The
first step I took crash went the wood,
and I came near going myself. The hog
was squealing awfully, and both the sea
cows were roaring like mad bulls, but I
wasn't frightened a bit. I got a long,
smooth board that was in the room and
placed it on the stairway. I tucked up
mv dress, and slid down gracefully.
smashed everything at the bottom and
got mv foot wedged. Just as I got free
a noble fireman rushed into the building
Rescue me, rescue me !' I cried. He
came toward me, aud I threw myself into
his arms. Ue fell with a shriek. My
, weight had broken both his legs I"
Another Remedy for Rheumatism.
The Medical Brief reports that Dr.
Maclagan has used salicine in rheuma
tism. He employed it in eight cases,
aud arrives at the following conclusions:
1. We have in salicine a valuable rem
edy iu the treatment of acute rheumatism.
2. The more acute the case, the more
m u ked the benefit produced.
3. In acute cases, its beneficial action
is generally apparent within twenty-four,
always within forty-eight hours, of its
administration in sufficient dose.
4. Given thus at the commencement
of the attack, it seems sometimes to arrest
the course of the malady as effectively as
quinine cures an ague, or ipecacuanha a
dysentery.
5. The relief of pain is always one of
the earliest effects pnd freed. ""
G. In acute cases, relief of pain and a
fall of temperature generally occur simul
taneously. 7. In subacute cases, the pain is some
times decidedly relieved In-fore the teni
erature begins to fall; this is esecially
the case when, as is frequently observed
in those of nervous temperament, the pain
is projortionally greater than the abnor
mal rise of temerature.
8. In chronic rheumatism salicine some
times does good where other remedies
fail; but it also sometimes fails where
others do good.
The dose employed was from ten to
thirty grains every two, three, or four
hours, according to the severity of the
case. Fifteen grains every three hours
Mr. Pemberton conceives to be a medium
dose for an acute case.
Temperature of .Milk for Cream.
At what temperature should milk be
set for making the most butter? Com
mon practice puts the temperature at V2
degrees. A French scientist, M. Tisser
in iu, says the nearer freezing point the
letter. Mr. William Crozier says 50 de
grees, aud my exjerience oints to 4'J
degrees. I have about come to the con
clusion that when milk is handled with
equal skill, with utensils adapted to the
purpose, about all the cream can be got
out of the milk at any temperature be
tween freezing aud 92 degrees.
In a late issue of the Country Gentle
man is an article on "Butter Preserving
in Denmark." It Is a common beliet
imong dairymen that setting milk cold
injures the keeping quality of the butter.
Here is a company making butter for the
sole purjMise of exerting it to hot cli
mates. They set their milk at 50 degrees
and chum the cream sweet, and add but
one-half ounce of salt to the pound of but
ter. As this company seems to be making
money, it is a pretty strong argument in
favor of the keeping quality of butter
made at a low temperature from sweet
cream. The company pays for an "al
leged loss of five to seven per cent, ot
mtter, by requiring the dairymen to
m ike the butter from sweet, instead of
sour cream. I am satisfied tiiat sweet
cream will make In'tter butter, and longer-
keeping butter, and am of the opinion
that the increase in quality will more
than eonieiisate in money value for the
s, it there is any, by churning sweet
cream.
Picamlm Pickles. Use cabbages,
cauliflower, cucumbers, green toniaties.
t few green tnrppers, radisli-p xls, onions.
beans and nasturtiums. Pull the cauli
flower apart in small pieces; slice the
cabbages, jieppcrs and cucumbers. Put
ill into strong salt and water lor twenty-
four hours; then drain thoroughly. lake
few of the vegetables at a time and
scald in boiling vinegar; when all are
scalded, mix in a bountiful supply of
white mustard seed and pack in jars. Io
each gallon of god cider-vinegar add a
luarter of a pound of green ginger, two
ounces of allspice, one ounce of cloves
and three pounds of sugar; boil siowiy
for thirty minutes; then remove irom me
fire. Mix six ounces of ground mustard
(for each gallon of vinegar), smooth in a
little cold vinegar and stir into the spiced
vinegar; pour the mixture hot over the
vegetables. In two or three days ex
amine the jars and sec if the vegetables
are covered with vinegar, if not, add cold
vinegar. Seal up aud set in a cool place.
Smoked Meat on Toast. Take cold
smoked tongue or ham that has been well
boiled; mince fine; mix it with cream and
the beaten yolk of an egg and let it sim
mer over the hie. Prepare some nice
slices of toast, butter them rather slightly ;
lay them in ii flat dish that has been
heated over the fire, and cover each slice
with the meat mixture, which should be
spread on hot. Place on the table in a
covered dish.
Stukfkd Tomatoes. Get them as
large and firm as possible; cut a round
place in the top of each and scrape out
all the soft parts; mix with stale bread
crumbs, corn, onions, parsley, butter, pep
per and salt; chop very line and fill the
tomatoes carefully ; bake in a moderately
hot oven ; put a little butter in the pan, and
see that they do not burn or lecome dry.
Remedt for Poison. If a person
swallows any poison whatever, or has
fallen into convulsions from having over
loaded the stomach, an instantaneous
and very efficient remedy is a heaping
teaspoon tul of common salt, and as much
ground mustard, stirred rapidly in a tea
cup of water, warm or cold, and swal
lowed instantly. It is scarcely down be
fore it begins to come up, bringing with
it the remaining contents of the stomach;
and lest there be any remnant of a pot
son, however, small, let the white of an
egg, and sweet oil, or butter, or lard
several spoonfuls be swallowed I in me
diately after vomiting; because these very
common articles nullify a larger number
of virulent poisons than any medicines in
the shops.
Good for Pricklt Heat. Cream of
tartar one ounce, flour of sulphur one
ounce; take a teaspoontul three times t
day in half a tumbler of cold water
Vegetable diet and cold bathing arc de
sirable.
Scuofcla. A tea made of ripe dried
whortleberries and drank in place of
water is a sure and speedy cure for
ciofula difficulties, however bad.
Younjj America.
The central figure was a bare-headed
woman with a broom in her hand. She
stood on the back step, and was crying:
"Georgiel"
There was no response, but anylxxly
who had Ih'Cu on the other hide of n close
board fence at the fint of the garden
might have observed two boy intently
engaged in building a mud pie.
"That's your mother hollering, Georgie,"
said one of the two, placing his eye to a
knot-hole and glancing through to the
stoop.
"I don't care," said the other.
"Ain't you going in?"
"No!"
"Georgie !" came another call, short ami
sharp, "do you hear me?"
There was no answer.
"Where is she now?" inquired Georgie,
putting in the fillingof the pie.
'"On the stixq," replied the young man
at the knot-hole.
"What's she doin'?"
"Ain't doin' nothin'."
"George Augustus!"
Still no answer.
"You needn't think you can hide from
me, young man, for I can see you, and if
you don't come in here at once, I'll come
out therein a way that you will know it."
Now this was an eminently natural
statement, but hardly plausible, as her
eyes would have had to pierce an inch
board fence to see Georgie; and even
were this possible, it would have required
a glance in that special direction, and
not over the top of a pear tree in un al
most opposite way. Even the boy at the
knot-hole could hardly repress a smile.
"What's she doin' now" inquired
Georgie.
"She stands thre yet."
"I won't speak to you again, George
Aug 1st us," canie the voice. "Your fa
ther will be home iu a few minutes, and I
shall tell him all about what you have
done."
Still no answer.
"Ain't you afraid?" asked the 'con
scientious young man, drawing his eye
from the knot-hole to rest it.
"No! she won't tell pa; she never does;
she only sez so to scare inc."
Thus enlightened and reassured, the
guard covered the knot-hole again.
"Ain't you coming in here, young man?"
again demanded the woman, "or do you
want me to come out there to you with a
stick? I won't sjM.'ak to you again, sir!"
"Is she couiiu'?" asked the baker.
"No!"
"Which way is she lookin'?"
"She's lookin' over iu the other yard."
"Do you hear me, I say?" came the
call again.
No answer.
"George Augustus! do you hear your
mother talking to you?"
Still no answer.
"tih, you just wait, young man, till
your father comes home, and he'll make
you hear, I'll warrant ye."
"She is gone now," announced the
faithful cutiucl, withdrawing from his
post.
"All right! take hold of this crust and
pull it down on that side, and that'll be
another pie done," said the rcuiorse-
btnckcu George Augustus
The S igaeiou M nikey, who, accord-
t. t in tun m re.l story, useu me
reluctant paw of a cat to withdraw hot
chestnuts from the fire, is outdone by the
lei torniaiice ot auotlier ot liu tnoe,
which is recounted bv a French resident
of South Africa, iu a letter to Les Moiides.
The writer is the possessor ol a large
coffee plantation, and his crops have suf
fered severely from the ravages of a large
species of baboon, which greedily devours
the fruit of a small tree which grows
among the bushes. The best safeguards
against the depredations arc the wasps,
which make their nests in the lower p:irt
of these trees, for, of the fierce attack
and painful stings of these insects, the
baboons have a w holesome tear.
On." mornin". a hideous chorus of veils
and howls was heard from a portion of
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the plantation where the wasps had most
thickly congregated, and wnere me iruit
ir4 I'.iinscinieiitlv were heavily ladened.
Ou searching for the cause the writer saw
from afar a venerable and ancient baboon
l.usilv nra?ed in throwing infant mon
keys at the trees. These living projec
tiles thus knocked down the nests and ot
course ere objects of the keen attentions
of the infuriated occupants. Meanwhile
the balxmn quietly made his way to the
upper branches, gorged himself, and then
added insult to injury to the badly stung
monkeys by pelting them with the rinds
aud pits of his repast.
Vl'IX.vn Picked Up Again. The as
tronomers of Europe, says the New Yrk
Tribune, -atc rist now excited by the re
discovery of Leverrier's planet, Vulcan.
Some twenty year ago the great French
astronomer announced mat certain per
turbations in the orbit of Mercury could
only be accounted for by the existence of
another planet stiu nearer me sun; even
as the jerturbation3 of Saturn had en
abled him to discover the planet Neptune.
Within three years after Leverrier's an
nouncement a French observer, Dr. Les
carbault, detected Vulcan in his transit
across the sun's disc; but inasmuch as he
has not been seen again since then, most
savans have begun to doubt whether he
was ever seen at all. But the latest
Parisian journals inform us that two emi
nent astronomers at the observatory in
that citv M. Porro and M. Wolf, of Zu
rich have just found Vulcan during his
transit as before. It i not stated whether
their observations were sufficient for the
precise calculation of the elements of the
planet. Kepler's law, however, would re
duce the time of Vulcan's revolution
around the sun to about a month. This
youngest of the planets must swim in a
sea of almost unimaginable light and
heat, and be uninhabitable by any form
of life known to us.
Let it be recorded for the comfort of
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disconsolate virgins wnerever mey uo
languish. A maiden lady was married
in Havervill, Mass., last week, after
turning her 48th birthday. I he bride
groom was her junior by two years.
The Yacht America."
The recent race for the Queen's cup, in
New York hirhor, between the Canadian
yacht Countttt of Duffer in and American
yacht Madeline, recalls the time when that
cup was won from the R yal Yacht Squad
ron of England by the yacht America,
owned by Commodore Stevens, of New
York.
It was in 1831, anil the Arnerici h id
Imjcii sent over iu answer to a challenge
to test the relative merits of the d iff rent
models of the old and new world. The
English felt their defeat very much,
though they behaved in their usual man
ly style, and showered courtesies upon
the victorious Americans.
But there was a general impression
among the lower classes that the America
had a propeller which was artfully cou
cealed. A similar opinion was also en
tertained by many persons of rank.
"I would not wager a guinea against
the Yankee craft," said a sporting clergy
man; "but I will give a hundred to see
her bottom."
The old Marquis of Anglcsca invited
one of the America a crew, a Mr. Steers,
to sail with him in his yacht, the V&irl
one of the best sailors ot the Royal Yacht
Squadron. The America, under only a
mainsail and jib, passed the Pearl with
out difficulty.
"Your loid-hip knows," said the mas
ter of the Pearl, "that no vessel with sails
alone could do that." When tm America
went slowly, he said, "Now it is stopped,"
and when she went faster, "Now it Is
going."
These remarks were not unheeded by
the marquis, and Steers enjoyed the joke
too well to contradict them.
Worn the vessels came to anchor, the
maiquis' boat was manned, and he went
ou board the A uerica. After saluting
Commodore Stevens, he went to the teni,
leaned over so far that the commodore
took hold of his leg to prevent him from
going over, lie w as looking for the pro
peller. When the America went on the ways
at Portsmouth to repair some damage to
her keel, hundreds visited the dock-yard
to see if she had a propeller.
A Colorado Woman' Mine urn.
You will ask yourselves, "What docs
that mean a woman's museum?" and
you will think, I suppose, that it means
only a collection of curious things which
some woman has bought and arranged
in glass cases. Ah, it is quite different
from that. I will try to tell you about it,
and perhaps, by the help of the pictures,
and what 1 say, you will get some idea
of how wonderful a museum it is.
There are many things iu this museum
shells, minerals, coim, curious armor
from Japan, queer garments from Alaska,
tapa cloth from the Sandwich Islands,
and a great many other curiosities, more
than I can remember, or could have room
in the St. Nichla to tell you about. I
am going to tell you only about the
tulf;d animals and birds. These are the
most interesting things in the museum,
and the wonderful thing about tlietn Is,
that they all were stuff ;d and many ot
them killed by the woman who owns the
museum. Think of that! of a woman'
being able to lire her rifle as well as any
old hunter could, and then, nfter she lias
brought dow n her bear or her wild-cat,
knowing how to t-kin it and MulT it so
that It looks exactly as if it were alive.
This is really the m st wonderful thing
of all. You know 'ery well how st idled
animals generally look. You know th-y
are dead as far off as you can see them;
but these animals alt look as if they
might walk off any minute they liked.
Mrs. Maxwell (that is the name of the
woman who has made this remarkable
museum) is really a sculptor of animals.
She mollis the animal out of plaster, of
the size and in the jMisition she wishes.
Then she fit the tskin on the plaster
shape.
It you visit the Ccutcnnial Exposi
tion at Philadelphia, you may see these
stuffed animals and birds in the Kansas
and Colorado building, where Mrs. Max
well has arraiiged them for exhibition.
St. XicJiolat.
The ex-Kmpres Charlotte.
Nine years ago Maximilian, Emperor
of Mexico, close I his brief reign iu the
court-yard of Queretaro, where he was
shot by command of the late President
Juarez; and ever since, his widow, the
ex-Empress Charlotte, has wen a prey to
acute melancholia, the paroxysms ot
which, however, were at first followed
by intervals of partial return to re ison.
In these sh was allowed to amuse herself
if amusement Ira the word for an occupa
tion which turned upon the deepest
tragedy in writing the experiences of
her husband and herself in their few
months' sojourn in Mexico. This she has
long abandoned, and in the chateau of
L aeken, where she is under strict medical
surveillance, she has relapsed into con
firmed dementia, which her physicians
have given up all hope of curing. As in
similar cases, she recurs to the predilec
tions of childhood, one of which was a
passion for flowers, and, Ophelia-like, she
spends most of her time over them, feed
ing as they do her once lively but now
diseased imagination. Their attraction
for her was touchingly manifested the
other day. Eluding the watch of her at
tendants, she had tied from the castle;
but, when overtaken, it was found impos
sible to induce her to return, except by
the use of means which would certainly
have proved hurtful. One of her physi
cians bethought himself of her morbid
affection for flowers, and, by strewing
them from time to time before her. she
was gradually lured on her way back to
the chateau, where a closer surveillance
has since been placed over her. Lancet.
Ligiitino Schoolrooms. Repeated
experiment has proved that in school
rooms lighted by windows on both sides,
the children suffer more or less from in
jured vision; and so important baa the
subject been considered in Germany, that
a law has been 'passed forbidding such
disposition of windows In schools.
Tub number of Centennial awards
will be about 13,000.
The Centennial Dog-Show.
The Centennial managers have added
a dog display to the attractions of tho
Exhibition. The Tribune says of it:
For tho accommodation of the cunlurt
wonders nine sheds with double rows of
stalls are provided. ThectalUdlflVronly
from those ordinarily used for the exhibi
tion of cattle at Stute or county fairs, ill
having their floor placed two or thliu
feet above the ground. The dogs, singly,
in pairs or families, are chained or tied iu
their places, and supplied with straw
beds ami plenty of iiiscuit and water.
There are about GOO of them here, of all
kinds, fiom the rough bull-dog and the
common rat terrier to the thoroughbred
English or Irish setter, and (he slight aud
graceful Italian greyhound, and of all
sizes, from the diminutive toy black-and-tan
terrier to the massive Siberian bull
dog and the mild-eyed Newfoundlander.
Long before the visitor reaches the
show he is greeted with such a medley of
dog voices as he has assuredly never
heard before. From the deep bay of tho
foxhound to the sharp yelp of the terrier,
from the full tones of the English mastiff
to the uncertain squeak of the poodle,
there are numberless gradations, with va
riations for each mood of the dog mind.
The w hining of some of the petted lap
dogs, exposed to the cool wind of the last
few days, us well as hometick, and per-,
haps hungeting for the dainty food to
w hich their fair owners have accustomed
them, is really pitiful. Setters are more
largely represented than any other va
riety of the dog race, and there are many
flue, highly-bied animals here. There
are some excellent led Irish setters, in
cluding a few that are valued at 200
guineas apiece, and some bluck-and-t iu
Gordon setters so finely marked that they
would form flue subjects for the animal
painter. Many K iglUli setters are ex
hibited, and some of them not only show
the point of good dogs, but have pedi
gree of remarkable extent. Most notice
able among the latter are two dogs, re
cently imported from England, late the
property of Edwurd Laverack, of Shrop
shire. They are descended from stock
which Mr. Laverack obtained in 1821,
and w hich it was supposed had been pure
for thirty-two years. Ho has kept a con
tinuous strain of pure blood since that
time. Tho pedigree of two dogs for nino
generations is shown, and the number of
names iu it is adapted to give a person
an enlarged idea ot the dimensions of tho
graveyard which might contain the bones
of liis ancestors. Some wag has bur
lesqued the pedigree-mongers by issuing
the prospectus of the full pedigree of a
'in KivitiZ l' desccut from one of tho
Biblical dogs that licked Lazarus's sores.
There are comparatively few pointers, but
some arc good animals. Some Irish ter
riers are shown of a very high strain of
blood, as may be Judged Irom the price,
200 guineas in gold, asked for one or two
of the best. Very curiou iu appearance
are the Irish water spaniels, with long
curly topknots and sli iggy ears. There
are quite a number of dachshunds, a me
dium sized dog with singular crooked
loielegs. Among the other canines are
Euglish fox-terriers, used to uneatlli tho
fox w hen tho h rands have run him into
his burrow; many Skyo terriers, Scotch
teriier, black-and tan terriers, poodles
and lap-dogs, Spitz dogs, Siberian blood-
hounds, a tiiio J.igl.sli mastiff, J;nglish
and Italian greyhounds, Chesapeake- Bay
duck dogs, v icMUs-looliill bull tlMTier,
E igllsli puj-d ig, wlieep dogs, and two
queer ban lews Mexican hounds.
I his is the lirst extensive dog-how ever
held in this country. Such shows have,
however, liceii of pretty regular annual
occurrence in England aud France for
some time past.
Centennial Losses. Adjutant Iloyt,
with his many trunks full of articles lost
on the exhibition grounds, could start a
buzaarju opposition to tho Japs. In an
immense record book he keeps an account
of every article brought to tho office,
where it was found, when and by
whom. The lost goods aro packed
so systematically that, with the aid
of the record, the adjutant can, as soon as
he receives a description of one of them,
return It to theowuer in a moment. The ar
ticles comprise purses and pocket-books
containing money, wutchce, hats, valises,
tans, parasols, spectacles, umbrellas and
other articles, tho names of which would
make a lengthy vocabulary. Watches,
money and children are soon redeemed.
About a dozen lost children are brought to
the omce every week. Persons Irom places
as far distant as California and Kansas have
visited theexliibition andgoue homo again
ignorant of the fact that they had lost con
siderable amounts of money on the
ground. They have, however, without
exception, recovered their property upon
writing to tho adjutaut aud proving it to
be theirs.
Ambiguities. These extracts, found
in a uiagaziue article, show the inconsist
encies aud ambiguities of the English
tongue. It is not strange that foreigners
rind it a difficult language to learn.
"A man," says Punch, "was arrested
for attemtitinir to damasre tho river
Thames. What was ho doing? Ho was
trying to pull up the stream."
A lady, in advertising herself as a
teacher, snoke of the "renutation for
teaching she bears." But a furrier, au
expert in making up old furs, advertised
"capes, victorines, etc., mado up for ladies
out or their own skins." The advertise
ment of a concert was doubtless pro
phetic when it announced that "a variety
of songs might bo expected, too tedious
to be mentioned."
"You walk Tcry slow," said a man to
a consumptive. "Yes, but I am going
very fast."
"Show mo a fire," said a traveler to the
landlord, "for I am very wet; bring mo a
mug of ale, for I am very dry."
Science is a great thing. It has been
of immense benefit to the human race,
and to brute creation, so far as we are
able to learn; but it fails to explain why
the man who stubs his toe in going over
the gutter Invariably looks down re
proachfully at his boot, as though it
had led him astray. Eatton Fr Pre$$,