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M da. per Line, w. naca ixaaBTiox. g———a———■ “Locus,Circus and ’Pteeopos Preachers.” Mr. Carlyle’s First Experience as a Birds Sacrificed to Fashion. strolls” in which they are with regular young and fair—who knocks but as sweet Spanish Brigandage. I - ity detained by a «scries of remarkable as my lost Io! Had she lived she might • Dyspeptic. Away out West in ------ State, in the Strange we never prize the music ¡At the present moment, perhaps, birds Keeping along the eastern coast of adveutures, their wives will become sus have been like you.' It would break my Till the Sweet-voiced birds have flown; The statement that Mr. Carlyle was Spain, our travelers visited Tarragona and picious. Juno suspected. For, though heart to find her changed. Do yon know, ate the greatest sufferers from the vaga- valley of the Mississippi, at’ a time not very remote, when mrii were more intent dangerously ill has incidentally revived Valencia. Strange that wc should slight the violets When Baron Daviilier first Jupiter accounted for his repeated absence I think she is dead, else would she have im« of fashion. Swan skins are for sale on “raking in the filthy” than in securing an old controversy as to Whether Carlyle went over tins route, some years previous i ^hundreds; but these are as nothing by Till the lovely flowers are gone; at the tea-table in a manner highly cred come to me.” Daily he grew more Strange tl»nt Summer skies and sunshine itable to his ingenuity, he was too agree peaceful and content as this idea of Io’s : lie side of some twenty thousand grebe, an interest in the bank of glory everlast ever intended to join the ministry of the to this trip with Dore, there was no rail ages the grebe and the penguin had ing, a zealous missionary of the; persua Scotch Church. Mr. Milburn was re road and brigands were said to infest it Never seem one-half so fair ably amiable to appbar quite natural. death grew stronger in his mind/ ' And ne time of it. r In the fastnesses of th« sion aforesaid found himself in a commu- marking on the dyspepsia from which According to the tales of travelers, no one a fir As when Winter’s spowy pinions Oue day Juno followed her spouse. Jove Death, no longer wooed, drew’c near to .jtic and Antarctic circles these singular >nity. whose religious views were no less Mr. Carlyle then, as now, suffered, and then ever set out without preparing fo> - Ate Shake tne white down in the air! was seated lieside Io in the agreeable him. But with happiness came strength Hpls increased and multiplied amazingly. manifold and contradictory than was to. asked whether the disease was inherited some adventure, and those who lived to shadow of a beech-tree. The little mai and vigor to Io, and smiles mingled with Man did not care much about them—they be expected from persons representing or acquired. “I am sure I can hardly tell,” return, if they had not been actually at Lips from which the seal of silence ‘ den was plaiting his beard into a queue, her tears. Her eyes grew bright, and her are not good eating —and confined his every phase of denominational life. Carlyle answered, as Mr. Milburn repro tacked, had barely escaped, and could None but God can roll away, and listening to whispered compliments. cheek full once mo£e; her goodness was depredations to stealing a few eggs now Finding out the three or four communi duces his words, “I only know that for tell at least one tale of mysterious Span Never blossomed 6f such beauty “There, it's done,” said Io, holding the the theme of men and women. King and then. One fine day an enterprising tants belonging to his church, the mis the first one or two or three and twenty iards, wrap]>ed alike in »heir mantles and Aa adorns the mouth, to-dav; plaited beard before Jupiter's eyes. He Telegonu9 heard of her sweetness, and, nlitter stuck the glittering breast of a sionary gave notice of an “Episcopal ser years of my mortal existence-1 was not the gloom of night, or diMppearing sud Arid sweet words that freight our memory put . his lips forward to kiss the pretty coming to do her homage, found her a grebe in a pork-pie hat, and doomed the vice” for that evening in the school house conscious of the ownership of that dia denly, bent on some deed of darkness, With thriir beautiful perfume,- fingers, but she as quickly withdrew her woman to love as well as to reverence, and invited everybody to attend. Of bolical arrangement called the stomach. with their uplifted swords or daggers ¡jr£l>e to indiscriminate slaughter. Fash- Cirine to us in sweeter accents hand, and with it gave him a smart smack and he made her his wife, and took her course to /the large majority of the in I had grown up the healthy and hardy gleaming in the'moonlight. These were on adopted the primitive decoration; no Through: the portals of-the tomb upon the face, laughing loud. to Egypt, where she bore him children« “Ahem!” said Juno. Jove’s eagle, who and was a wife and a queen; for future iat was complete without a grebe’s or a habitants this was something entirely son of a hardy and healthy Scottish dales the good old times, when the coaches ”'-1— novel—indeed, the passage of a circus man, and he was the descendant of a long were regularly stopped, and no one ever pguip’s breast stuck in r it. Fashion Let us gather up the sunbeams had been slumbering on one leg for the generations to worship under the name of iepguip through the village, or the actual halt of line of such men that had tilled their pa settled in his seat without his ransom 1 prescribed >r£sently went farther, and Lying all around the path; fsis.— Home Journal. last half hour, awoke aud shrieked. a minstrel Jroupe, could not have created ternal acres and gained their threescore ready at hand. The brigand's profession jr be trimming as your only wear. Black Let us keep the wheat and roses “Is that you, my love?” cried Jove, a profounder sensation—and at an early years and ten—aud even mayhap by rea was then a lucrative one, carried on in ve vet mantles, trimmed with grebe, be- Casting out the thorns and chair; tottering to his legs, and smilififf like an Short-Lived Monarchs. hour they commenced gathering in knots son of strength their fourscore years—and broad daylight, and each highway was cg >e the rage; and the beautiful bird imbecile. Juno looked at him with calm Let us find our sweetest comfort ■ 3 of two or three, discussing “as to what fiad gone down to their graves never a scoured by its own peculiar band, who in ast was often used to trim jackets torn superiority until he ceased to smile, and LONGEVITY OF THE ENGLISH ROYAL RACE. In the blessings of the day, fre n the baby seal. Grelies and pen- kind of a durn’d thing it was ngoin’ to man of them the wiser for the possession regarded it as private property. It ia then, turning a momentary glance toward With a patient baud removing If the English suppose that longevity gu ns had a terrible time for a few years; be»” of this infernal apparatus. I had gone even said that the co«arioe— the drivers— the trembling Io, asked, with perfect All the brier« fronwour way. Prominent among the female portion of through the University of Edinburgh, hav were in league with the bandits, and inheres in the descendants of George III., >u fashion has now turned from them, comjxjsure, “And who is the young per says the Watchman and Reporter, tnev are anfi I urged her sliikarries. toward sunnier tlie throng was an aged ‘sister, who en ing been destinea by my father and fath agreed with them to share their booty, or son?” Io mid Jupiter. “Oh, a great admirer of you, my love notso well acquainted with the history of clip hes, still retaining her curious fancy lightened the others by stating it was a er's minister to be myself a minister of the rather the coachman paid a regular black r “natural’! decorations — owl-beads, reg’lar sarmint they were agoin’ to have, Kirk of Scotland; but now that I had mail, which was contributed by the pas their rulers as they might be. That mon FREELY TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK. —U|xm my word she is. Goes to temple irk-heads, fox-masks, and the like— and no confounded nigger tumblin’. But gained the years of man’s estate I was not sengers ; and, curiously enough, the mem arch was the father of fifteen children — of> regularly. She was just saying how she Io was the daughter of Inachus, King would like to become a priestess, weren't whom Prince Alfred* died in hiB second but delighting most in the feather trim tlie “sarmint” was to beaftpr the “’Pisco- sure that I believed the doctrines of my bers of the band always knew when and of Argos. She was a lithesome girl of you, miss?” What could poor Io do but year, and Prince Octavius in his fifth ming, the latest craze of all. To provide pal” fashion, of which she had hearn tell father’? Kirk, and it was needful that I where to receive this tribute. Some sixteen, grateful as the budding larch; faintly nod! She couldn't say yes, and year. The Princess Amelia died ju9t ;hd fine feathers to make fine, fashionable when a giri, but had never seen; and as should now settle it, and sol entered into times the chief of a band, having earned sparkling, lively, bright and fresh as the dared not tell the truth. Jove by his after she had completed her twenty-sev binds, the world is just now being ran- it was something bad, she lielieved, she my chamber and closed the door, and a competency by the exercise of bis noble spring. Mischievous was she, but equally counsel surely intended to save her, enth year. Prince Edward, Duke of s^ejeed of its most beautiful inhabitants. was there to interrupt hiiu if he didn't around me there came a trooping throng profession, would settle down to an un Kent, and father of Queen Victoria, died Tlie unfortunate ruby humming-bird is in preach orthodox. of* phantasms dire from the abyssmal eventful life of simple respectability, but conciliatory. She would tease her father thought she. gre»t request as a novel trimming^ Thou- at the opening of his fifty-third year. Seating herself an the front bench, she depths of nethermost perdition. Doubt, before abandoning the king's highway he and all al»out her until they frowned, and “So you wish to become my priestess, kiss them until they smiled again. When do you?” asked Juno. Once more the Prince Frederick, Duke of York, died in sadp» of these pretry creatures have been eyed the preacher closely; and just before fear, unbelief, mockery, and scoffing were was careful to sell the good will of Inachus sl^pt after dinner, Io crept be pale, dark-eyed girl nodded; for Jove had his sixty-fourth year, and George I V a the used in Paris to adorn a single ball-dress he commenced the service, and vjhile ar there, and I wrestled with them in the his business to some enterprising succes hind the royal chair, and, Liking a long slipped a little behind his wife ami was oldest son and successor of George III., —jtne beautiful iridescent bit of plumage ranging his robes, she beckoned him to travail and agony of spirit. Thus was it, sor, who probably inspected the accounts, hair from her head, she slowly wound it nodding approval and winking assurance. died some weeks before the completion oq th® neck being the chief point of at- her, and informed him that she was there for weeks. Whether I ate I knew not, and was fully instructed in the secrets of The “blue creeper" istanother to interrupt him if he didn’t preach or whether I drank I knew not, whether 1 the profession. In spite of these veryjd- round the' old gentleman's nose. He “Well," said Juno, slowly, “you’re a of his sixty-eighth year. Prince Augus »rite, and brightly, beautifully, blue thodox. tus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, died just slept I knew not; but I only know that iractive stories, alas! our travelers never roused hiiflself to curse the flies, and dis nice young party for a priestess, I must A charming little fellow is the “Well, madam,” he replied, “you won’t when I came forth again beneath the saw, far or near, the figure of a single covered thie real culprit; but before he say. But allow me to remark, that al after the completion of his seventieth liinal,” with his bright scarlet cap, interrupt me if I do preach orthodox?” glimpses of the moon it was with the dire brigand, although they frequently trav- could scold her, she had her arm under though you appear to know quite as much year,' and Prince Adolphus Frederick, |gh even he is thrown into the shade “Oh no! thht I won’t” she earnestly ful persuasion that I was the miserable ersed the roads and rocky defiles recom his neck, and was nestled beside him, as is good for young women of your age, Duke of Cambridge, in his seventy-sev e still more brilliant red tanager, a exclaimed, “but if you don’t though, I’ll owner of a diabolical arrangement called mended as the most likely and danger Snd there she lay, quiet and still as a you have yet to learn a good deal that enth year. The longest-lived of all V red blaze of scarlet. Kingfishers interrupt and expose you for sure!” a stomach. And I never have been free ous. Still these bandits are now and brooding bird, with wide-opened eyes will be beneficial to you. Come'with me George I Ill’s sons was, wc think. Prince Now, to make the exercise go off with from the knowledge from that hour to this, then heard of, and as recently as 4871 fixed lovingly upon her father's face, un and”—Juno gave a side glancept her hus Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland J 1 for sale, and jays, whose cheerful ranks t have been terribly thinned by ihis some degree of Episcopal decorum, the and I suppose that I never shall be until they displayed enterprise and boldness til his eietta was ended. Io exercised band, and spoke through her pearly teeth and King of Hanover, who died in .1851 perfect freedom. She went whither she —“I will give you such a lesson as you in*his eighty-first year. Three of George tiiplh to provide all the light-blue trim- congregation was liberally supplied with I am laid away in my grave.”. enough to stop a railway train near Sierra chose, and did what pleased her, and no will not forget in a hurry. Jove, my III.’s children died young, and only three mirig made from their wings. Then there prayer-books, and the few communicants Morena, and rob the passengers. .Travel are ipucans^with their rich plumage and were instructed to circulate among the more. The king's advisei% prompted by dear, I have left Mars and his little sister or four reached to old age. ing by diligence is, of course, still in Mexican Life. In England no man is held to be old wonderful development of lieakf.tro- people, “find the places” for the uninitiat their wives, represented to. Inachus the ilaying in the nursery. Give Hebe her vogue where the railways have not pene Although the Mexicans are a lazy peo trated, and this method of progression has and the famous bird of paradise, ed, and lead the responses. advisability of putting Io under some >ottle at seven, aud see that Mars don’t who has not completed his sevfeqtieth year. The celebrated Princess Chartdtte, with his *olden hues. For brilliant scar- kind of restraint; but the king shook his day with fire and burn her fingers.” Then rose the minister and with the ple, and pass hour after hour in complete its wild excitements, in spite of the dim- at jhe'ibis is not outdone by any of oldest grandchild of George III., died at head, and thought, with fearful forebod prodigal’s resolve, “I will arise and go to idleness, they rise early, the gentlemen to nution of brigandage. Between Barce Did Jupiter cast thunderbolts around, ing, of-^he possibility of hearing Io's joy and louder than their roar say as he the close of her twenty-second year', At the«;, for brilliant white, the great cock my father,” etc., commenced the service take their morning ride, the ladies to go lona and Valencia, Daviilier and Dore ous laughter no more. “May her mirth snatched his wife's revengeful fingers from one time it seemed as if the line of George atoos difficult to excel; and for gold and and won the old lady's heart, for it was to early mass, which is the only occasion jassed a frightful ravine; into which a live after me, rather than I should live the wronged Io, “Noqe but 'Jove shall III. were about to become extinct, so few >lac|t,.the yellow oriole bravely holds his her favorite passage, read and prayed over on which they appear in the streets on liligence had been precipiated, carrying **' contrasted —*— **— rich :~u orange —’— often because of a wayward ooy. Next foot. Theyxtake a luncheon between 12 in its fall both horse* _aad~traveters.— until with the of his sons and- daughters had children. owuf— longer than her mirth” he said. suffer for Jove. I am master of the uni ie cock of the rock. Of.tl We should think the Prince of Wales ’ in order was the “exhortation,” in which and 1 o’clock. Mexican men arenas a Scribner for December. Io was not wise, but she was extremely verse; this is my fiat; Ip, be free?” No. rule, temperate, but, gambling is their r she heard nothing objectionable, and then pfetty. She was partial to admiration, Glad enough of an excuse to get out of ife would lie considered a bad orfe to passion, and they are not particularly hon jlace in a lease, for it is a remarkable came the confession of sins. Right be The Man Who Was Not Elected. < ! fen. Washington as a Doctor. as. indeed, are those who profess wisdom that terrible wife’s ways be sneaked home, est. They are, however, companionable act that only four of the English Princes 1 . 1 ■ t ■ hind her one of the communicants afore without claiming to be pretty. She »’as slapped Mars, and pinched Hebe when The candidate who didn't get votep A: long the traditions preserved at New- said united his voice with the minister’s and hospitable, and, though frugal in admired by all men; women compliment the unoffending infant cried for suste of Wales ever reached to the age of sixty their way of living, provide bountifully enough to elect him the other day is out R. I., from Revolutionary times, is years. Two of these exceptions were the and had gi»ttei>»as far as “We have erred ed her by jealousy. Inachus had erected nance. Washington, in which he prescrilied and strayed from Thy. ways like lost when they entertain. At dinner there are in the street now, wearing the look of aa Princes who afterwards became Edward. a temple to Juno not far from his palace, To suclr a depth of meanness.sinks he always two or three covers laid for guests, injured man. As be turns a corner he _ II. and George IV., neither of whom a hjjlgreeable medicine to the fair dangh- sheep,” etc., when the old lady turned, and hither Io went with commendable who, married, flirts—a brQte! te his host, which she tookJMcause tookdMcause it lived to lie si^ty-eight, Edward III» dy- arid in an audible whisper said, “Hush! who may chance to come in. In many meets Jones, arid Jones says: regularity, dressed in spotless white. Io was lost to Inachus; and now, in caipf from Gen. Washington. The Prov- ng in his sixty-fifth year. Thé others hush! that's all right; let the man h:>ve a Mexican houses, they have, as a rule, no _ _ “Ah! Well, I'm sorry for you; I’d have White was becoming to her, for she had deed, the poor'old king knew misery. chance to speak!'1 Lowering his voice, regular dinner. If they are hungry they bet money that yoa Mould go in by 500 long chestnut hair, which, bruided, fell There were no bright, sunny spaces to were George 41. and yeorge lit. Of al ideMe Journal tells the story: >•-* >. . Qq the occasion of Gen. Washtegton ’ s most a score of Princes ot Wales, who he kept comparatively quiet until the, eat some simple difch, or drink a cup of majority.” to her waist. Her offerings were large ireak the dull monotony of Weary life, lrs| I visit to Newport, to confer with creed was reached, and here he thought, chocolate, which is excellent; the coffee, had lived at various periods of the last six “ My majority would have been twice eyed fawns or fragrant flowers, and she o was gone; the oracle could not tell Cofiit de Rochambeau, Christopher E|- “In the Credo I must set an example and however,, although they raise a good qual that if some dastard hadn’t started the centuries, a dozen or so were the most un walked slowly and with downcast eyes. lim whither. When he was alone he ity, is not good—they do not know how Her eyelashes were long and curled. And wept not for himself, but for those whose fortunate of mortals, some of them being erjä was Sie chairman of the committee confess Christ before men in the magnifi to prepare it. At six o’clock they drive rumor that I was opposed to education,” of ar rangements appointed by the towp murdered, cither before"they could ieign cent yet simple ‘I believe' of all the out, and from the promenade they go replies Unsuccessful. yet, for all this innocence and simplicity, late might be worse than his. He grew tò rei ieive its distinguished guest. Dur* /‘They lied.about*you, eh?” or after having ascended the th|one. Christian centuries.” . , when she raised her eyes to.the pnests at rapidly old, shrunken, weak, and sighed to the opera or theatre, taking their ing t ie General's stay at Newport he took Others died young, of natural detths. “Lied? Why, they told me the most the altar, they so roguishly twinkled that for forgetfulness of the happy time by- By this time the self-appointed con daughters, dressed in their finest, with Yet others died at middle life, without rtea at the house of Mr. Ellery, the holy men and the youths who had. Ijoue. Death, like a wanton unveiled— servator of orthodoxy was in no mood to them. If perchahce there is no place of outrageous falsehoods the human .mihd Oil this occasion many of the French lie trifled with, and so, while her hand could conceive! I’ve got a clue, and you ------- «—---------- come to ft16 temple with the most devout )eath, not grim and repulsive,Amt lovely laving reigned, though the title is borne amusement to which they cau go, then look orit for three or four civil auita for officers and patriotic Newporters were only by heirs apparent. Take it' àlto- intentions, vjere perverted to a profound and seductive—tempted him with out firmly grasped her umbrella, she said, in they remain at home, and amuse thejrt- forgetfulness of anything more divine spread arms to sink in bliss to oblivion; l^ether, it is the most unlucky title 'that iresejit. Mr. Ellery was a widower, and tones sternly emphatic, “Look a-hyar, selves with cards and music. The jouqg damages!” lis daughter,* Miss Betsy Ellery, then a you durn’d cuss! didn’t 1 tell you that Turning the next corner he meets Davis, belongs to history. than Io’s beauty. and when she had fired him with hope George III. lived to be an old man, young girl of sixteen or seventeen, pre was all right? an’ hyaf you have been a-‘ people make dancing their principal and Davis yells out: ' Ah, from what trifling causes do the and desire, slipped away and left him to dying in his eighty-second year, whence sided? at the tea-table in question, and amusement. More than half the popula “Hello! I see you aren't dead yet! chatterin’ every blessed minit since. Now tion of Mexico are Indians, and a carious greatest calamities arise! Io never knew ‘despair. Year after year dragged slowly Well, I'm sorry for you; I wanted to see the belief that his descendants must be your^d out tea to her patriotic guests, you ought to be ashamed of your on. To him the seasons brought no hap a guilty thought, and her flirtation with phase of Mexican domestic life is that you go in.” j was all the time suffering Mils Ellery ong-lived. One of the shortest lirai of Jupiter was of the most childlike and in piness; spring had no budding hope for rings has had some very aged descend rom;a severe sore throat, and could not self, an’ 1 don't want you to jaw any more thoir house servants are principally In “And I should have been elected to-night. That's orthodox enough for dian girls, although among the eight mil nocent kind. He alone was guilty. He lim; summer had no gleam of brightness spealj above a whisper. Gen. Washing anybody!” j straight as a 'string if my name on the ants. Louis XIII., of France, died in saw her at the temple, and followed her for him; autumn no fruits for him; win lion inhabitants there are half a million us forty-second year, yet of his descend ton, observing this embarrassment of his The minister took in the situation, and of negroes. These girls are treated very ticket hadn’t been spelled wrong. That home; pausing to look in shop-windows, ter brought none to cheer his solitary and that alone floored me.” ants were Louis XIV., who died at seven youthful hostess, said to her,— being a practical man, “pitched in” and and passing her several times, as was the hearth-side. Sleep, dreamless and Ibng, Ctoe block more and Smith rushes at “MTrss ElliFy, you seem to be suffering gave them a red-hot extempore discourse, kindly by their employers and are skilled ty-seven; Louis XVIII., who died atjsix- thousand seven hun- was his only comfort; then he could not absurd custom r three ’ in household affairs, as well as in the use him and shouts: ty-nine; Charles X., who died in ; his very touch; what is the matter?” which the old lady, before she was aware, dred and thify ;y-one years ago. He said think of the cheerful voice, the sweet “Hang it! but I thought you would eightieth year; Charles III.,, of the Mi 8 Ellery told him the cause of her had indorsed with a whole scries of of the needle. city was populous, and heart and loving eyes of his lost daugh nothing; for* the t wax that fellow by three thousand votes! * Spains, who died at seventy-three; Fer trout c, upon which the General said to amens. f: A n O ld -F ashioned B usiness .—Shoe at that time he h< was rather afraid of his ter. “I’d have done it like a shot,” replies ■ At the conclusion she felt bound to making is of great antiquity. The in He woke one morning, and it was as if dinand I., of the two Sicilies, who (jicd at icr,- wtfe. Io c< :qnld not help noticing him, II F mffer myself very frequently from apologize for her conduct before and dur strument for cleaning hides, the shoe Unsuccessful, “but the inspectors re seventy-four; and L?uis Philippe, King for he was eecidedly handsome, with a he had felt moist lips upon his cheek. of the French, who died at seventy-seven. a sori throat, and take a remedy which I ing the service, and so, seizing both his maker’s bristle, added to the yarn and his ceived hundreds of-illegal votes, and I on He looked around; nothing came within magnificent ¡ beard, and two ringlets _ All these were reigning monarchs, anil tindi iry useful, and which I would sec- hands, she thauked him for his Gospel knife,were as early as the twelfth century. was laid out. This thing isn't through ‘ ‘ ‘ tongs, . He his dim vision. He put his thin hand to his forehead^ crisp from the omminil to you were I not sure that you two of them had about the longest reigns sermon in lauguage as unique as her man He was accustomed to hawk his goods, with, however; I propose to carry it to carried a pet eagle _______ on his forefinger, forefinger and his cheek; upon it was a drop of mois known to history,- namely, Louis XIV. would not take it. ” ner was hearty: “You see, mister, we and it is conjectured that there was a sep the Supreme Court.” i in the otiierjiand a choice and elegant ture. Had he been weeping in hi9 his sleep? “Bit I am sure,” replied Miss Ellery, jvarn't suro of you; we only had beam As he reaches the City Hall the fourth and Ferdinand I.; and he bad other de arate trade for annexing the soles. The oard was spread for the lonely assortment of thunderbolts. Altogether His board “thstll would take any remedy that Gen. man bolds oufrjris hand and says: scendants who lived to great ages. - It is tell of you ‘Piscopals afore, an,’ we were Romans,in classical times, wore cork soles he »as rather Conspicuous. The next meal, and he walked to his chair and “ Well, you couldn't both be elected, impossible to infer anything from ; the Wastangton would propose." uind of skeered like; but it's all right in their shoes, to secure the feet from wa time Io returned from the temple she did sank into it with a sigh. “Another day,” ( “V Velh 3-- then,” said the General, “it is but you did just run like a quarter-horse.” ages of parents. George III., for exam ter, especially in winder, and, as high heels now, an’ I want to toll you that I had so by the short way over the fields, and he moaned. ... “ I can tell yon something,” whispers ple, who lived till his eighty-second year this, dbnion« boiled in molattet. It has nothing to do with those rowdies back then were not introduced, the Roman The handmaid who came to wait on there it was Jupiter introduced himself, Unsucerisful. $me often.” was well advanced, was the son of Fred cure, there who interrupted the service. Now ladies who wished to appear taller put ne began by remarking upon the weath him was thin, pale, her face disfigured “Eh! What?” erick, Prince of Wales, .who died at forty- I Ellery took the remedy, and of we’ve had Locus preachers here, an’ we’ve plenty of cork under them. The streets er, the attendance at temple, and the by time and sorrow. “1 believe the ballot-boxes were stuffed . four; and his mother died In her sixty- cours| was cured. had Circus preachers here, an’ we’ve never of Rome, in the time of Dpmitian, were “Why do they «end old women to wait singing, and went on to make fun of the third year. ■ j against me!” The youthful Itostess of this tea party had any of you ’Piscopus preachers afore; blocked up by cobbler’s stalls, which he “ I priests, which shocked Io, though she on me?” said Inachus, peevishly. ‘‘ • ------------__d------ “No!” - • ' died t Newport in 1857, a few days be an’ do you preach orthodox, an’ preach therefore caused to be removed. In the could not lielp smiling at the funny want young, pretty creatures, to make “ ’ Btrue as you live! I think I can put fore be lie ninety-third anniversary of her A t last she entirely cured him. For all night if you choose—if you do wear Middle Ages, shoes were cleaned by wash things this good-looking gentleman said. me forget what I am.” The woman put my hand on a man who will swear to it, birllu She was a woman of strong and yotlr shirt outside youi breeches.”— Har ing with a sponge and oil; soap and grease But when he proceeded to ridicule Juno down his cup, bowed low as she retired. months she had patiently endured , the and I tell you I'll make it red-hot for - cultured intellect, and delighted in telling pangs so many young wives are compelled per'» for December. were the substitutes for blacking. Buckles herself, calling her a nice old dea— which He called after her: “Stay, stay; I am her Children and grandchildren about the those inspecters! ” to suffer. Almost every morning; at was a very old joke even in those days— but a foolish old man, and you will serve were worn on shoes in the fourteenth cen trials of the patriotic sons and daughters And the unsuccessful candidate is cer tury. In Ireland a human skeleton was and speaking of her otherwise irrever me perhaps lietter than another.” She breakfast the heartless husband expressed iioT by S everal T housand Y ears . — of Newport who were exiles during the tain in his own mind that he is a great the hope that he might live to see the^lay ently, Io thought it best to change the returned, and spoke to him cheerfully and An exchange tells us that a new religious found with marks of buckles on the shoe*. martyr.— Detroit Free Preee. Britisji occupation of their town. when he might get such coffee as s he Used kindly. When he answered, it was but subject. belief is gaining ground iq Ohio. Its In England they became fashionable be “What a dear eagle that is! Does be “yes” or “no.” Presently he rose from to have at home, or such corn bread as adherents are called Eternalists. They fore the reign of Queen Mary; the labor A J apanese L egend .—A certainwhite the table, and, with a heavy sigh, walked his mother was ' wont to make arid bake. B rilliant W hitewash .—Take half a hold that the soul is immortal, and occu ing people wore them of copper,' other peck?” from the room. Then the plain, little At dinner the meat was overbaked inlthe bush of good unslacked limp, and slack pies a succession of bodies on earth, both persons had them of silver or copper gilt; fox of high degree, sad without a black “Juno,” said Jove, and laughed. “How wicked you are! Do you,think woman sank on her knees by his empty range. To be sure, his jn°tber nse^ 10 it wii i boiling water, covering it during of men and animals. Belief in the trans not longafter shoe roses came in. Buckles hair upon him, sought and obtained the chair, and laid her head upon her arms roast the meat in an o|d-fashioned Dritch the | ocess to keep in the steam. Strain migration of souls is no newer than any revived before the revolution in 1789, and hand of a young female fox who was he would come on my hand?” “He would never come back to me. and sobbed. For she was Io, and even tin oven, and the piece was always cfone the 11 lupr through a fine sieve or strainer, of the half dozen materialistic and pan finally became extinct before the cloee of renowned for her ¡tersonal beauty and her noble connections. The wedding was to her father knew her not. Many years of to a turn—the fast turn of the revolving and aflfl Id to it a pec peck of clean salt, pre theistic philosophies which during the the eighteenth century. Do you likejthunder?” spit. Those days were forever gone. But vioUSty dissolved it wmci, uncc lie a grand affair; but, unhappily, the imprisonment had she suffered under the in warm water, three “Not at all.” last half dozen years have attracted at Shut from he might and ought to get such a green pounds of ground rice, ground to a thin tention. Ia Greece from the time of “I have a few bolts here if you would vigilant watch of Argus. S heridan , (not Phil.) one day being famines of the betrothed pair could not light, life, sound, from everything which ~hie!; apple-pie, with new cheese, as his mother pasta and stirred and boiled hot, half a Thales transmigration was taught. The dressed in a very handsome pair of new agree upon the kind of weather to bfe or like to throw one.” u used to give him. At length thei» long- pound of powdered Spanish whitening, Druids in Britain believed in it; so did boots, met a friend, when the following dered for the occaaien. The parents of keeps us young and fresh, she had pined, “Oh, dear no!” said Io, shrinking with fear, and looking with terror on the ap and lost all that once distinguished her. suffering wife arose in her wrath, upset and a pound of clean glue, which has the early German tribes. It is a supersti dialogue ensued: “Those are handsome the bride thought it good luck that a paratus. “They won’t go off, will they!” Jupiter, seeing her in this condition, was the table, sending the dishes and their been previously dissolved by first soaking tion with most heathen nations. If the boots, Sherry. Who made them!” shower should fall on a bridal procession. crashing to the* carpet, it, stridec it wel|i and then hanging it over a slow ?” The bridegroom and his friends objected Jove threw one on a stone like a crack moved to pity, and implored his revenge contents over to the astounded husband, gave him fire in a small kettle, within a large one adherents in Ohio wish a full explanation “Hoby.” “How did you prevail on him!' to having their good clothes spoiled thus, er; there followed a brilliant flash and a ful spouse to restore the poor soul to her “ Guess. ” “ I suppose yon talked him over a box on the ear winch knocked him of * fillediwith water. Add five gallons of of the belief, they should turn to Hindoo former condition, most solemnly f ‘ \ . vowed. . fearful report. Io screamed. literature, where as an integral part of the in the old way.” “No—that won’t do, and ta the dumper which the rain would his chair, aod remarked: “ There's a blip hot Mater to the whole mixture; stir it never to speak to or even to look at her You don’t like fireworks?” said Jove, Brahmanic religion, it is fully set forth. now.” -‘Then when they came home you or put their merriment There was danger He knew over the head for you, such as your mother well,ri«nd let it stand for a few days, cov again. He did not want to. inquiringly. dered half »dozen pair more f” “No. “Per- that the match should be broken off, several ladies prettier than Io, and was used to give you when you was & boy I” ered from dirt. The whitewash shouk “Not those jvith a bang in ’em.” gave him a check on Ilammers- when a very astute fox suggested «.com b«P?- Thereafter there was domestic peace anc L ittle Willie having hunted in all the be pqt on quite hot; for tills purpose it “Oh, 1 know the sort you like. You only too glad of a pretext for avoiding would not be hon- promise. They might have sunshine and Gods of that day quiet in that family, with never an allu can bf kept in a kettle on a portable fur corners for his shoes, at last appears to «hould come with me and see brother Plu one he had injured. you might rain together. This bapny thought was were very much like men of the present. sion to the maternal cookery and comforts nace. It is Mid that about one pint o ’ give them up, and climbing on a chair you hit it; I received with acclamstiouli and the order to; he’s the fellow for pyrotechnics.” was given accordingly; the bride’s pal Juno saw that Io was no longer pretty, of the by-gone days.— Browneville «e.'.i this mixture wjll cover a' square yan betakes himself to a big book pn a ®ja’e paid for themf’ “Where does he live?” table. Mother says to him: “WXat ]8 Herald. * anquin or norimon was borne to the house upon the outside of a house if properly and, giving her husband credit for mean Jove hesitated. “We never mention his IlEdidn’Hook .I1SP of her future husband with blissful satis applied, «Brushes more or less small may the darling doing with the bootof»» «n ar, but he Since of residence,” he said; “but it’s ing what he said, she released the un B y the S ein or O n »’ b T» bth .—When be used, according to the neatness of the ith the dictionary; papa lookth i/fthe dic had his plans all laid before he struck faction on all sides. In Japan a sun own there, underneath the primary for happy woman. in it Vicksburg, and he clitwod a hundred dol shower is called “The Faxes’ Wedding.” And now Io served her father as his one makes a narrow escape, it is usual to job required. The wash retains its bril tionary for things, and I’n^ I mation. He’s mad about fire, Pluto is. to see if I can find my lar» in two days. He .didn’t go around In New England, the natives mysteriously It must cost him a fortane for colored handmaid, and a change came upon them My that he saved himself “by the skin o liancy for many years. There ie nothing K ’- < ■ ■ y whining: “Please, sir, for the love of remark: “The devil is whipping hi« wife lights, and however«.he manages to con both. Inachus became happier In the his teeth.” In the most splendid of all of the kind that will compare with it, either for inside or outside walls. compositions (see Book of Job, chapter sume all hia own smoke ia a puzzle. pretence of his unknown daughter. He T h » headquarter« for/literatare J qm God,” & moat of them do,^ut be walked with a cod-fish tail.”— Soribnar fbr Dm e —♦♦ xix., verse 20), it is written written: : * “My hone Will you go with me one evening to— spoke to her of his loss, and questioned xix.,'verse now are the drug s wbo up to a man, called him ^General ’ to Whatsltsname?” t Io declined *. and . as they " her concerning her history. She told cleaveth to my skin and to iny flesh, and T h » London Missionary Society now doesn’t bring home at ten medical start off with, and thr ‘ were within sight of her home they him of her misfortunes, but concealed I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.” publishes a newspaper at Antananarivo almanacs and read marvelous ia faster than be com from him her identity. For one day be parted. . ital of Madagascar. It is print« curds of fever fathw who ie only fire men in town When husbands for no stated reason go bad said, “Poor woman, you, too, have P eru will pay off her debt with guano ute were men whe to bed in carl papers, and take “little suffered misery. Perhaps you once were dremed “Captain.' The Blessing of To-day. M ------ ------- — ,------