THE MERRY BRITISH BEGGAR.
I brave the day, I brave the night.
I throw my Borrows to the wind.
And try to keep a cheerful mind.
Although my coat if thin and light.
Although my hat .
Is wondered at.
Because I shaved the outer rim .
To try and keep it smooth and trim.
I laugh and sing and whistle, too.
When 1 have wind enough to spare.
But in the sharp and frosty air
My breath comes short, my nose turns blue.
My lingers freeze, .
And my pgor knees
Would knock together did they dare;
But still I keep a jaunty air. - .
When bread is scarce and shelter poor
I watch the sparrows, and I say
. . "I only want a meal a day." . .
' And if they turn me from the door
I tramp for weeks, ,
And dodge the beaks, .
And with no money for a bed
I try an archway or 4 shed.
.'I brave the day, I brave the night,
I throw, my sorrows to the wind,
. Tis wise to keep a cheerful mind
' And screw your courage for the fight.
And so, kind sir, ' .
In case you err,
With over pity worse than none.
Just hand a copper and have done.
-Nina F. Layard in Longman's Magazine.
Chinese Points for Hosts.
Don't eat with your ears," says Yuan
Mel, a Chinese writer, "by which I mean
do not aim at, having extraordinary ont
of the way foods, just to astonish yonr
guests. For that is to eat with your
ears, not with your mouth. Bean curd,
if good, is actually nicer than bird's
nest. And better than sea slugs, which
are not first rate, is a dish of bamboo
shoots.
;The chicken, the pig, the fish and the
duck, these are the four heroes-of the
table. Sea slugs and bird's nest have
no characteristic flavors of their own.
They are but usurpers in the house. I
once dined with a friend who gave us
birds' nests in bowls like vats, holding
each about four ounces of the plain
boiled article. The other Tjuests ap
plauded vigorously, but I smiled and
said, I came here to eat bird's nest, not
to take delivery tf it wholesale."
Temple Bar.
How to Acquire a Foreign Vocabulary
Perhaps one of the best ways of fixing
the words :-nd idioms of a language in
one's mind is to teach them to somebody
else. The learner should try to impart
to some member of his family what he"
has already mastered. He should, above
all, seek command first of words in fa-
miliar use, leaving to a later stage of
.bis progress the forms of literary expres
sions; bis first business is with the com
mon objects of daily life, his last busi
ness is with general terms. As he sits at
his dusk he ought to be able to name
every article about him, just as when he
is riding in the street car or on the rail
way he should be able to mentally recall
the equivalent for every detail in the
moving panorama of objects. Boston
tteraiu. . -
Frosted Glass.
The frosty appearance of glass which
we often use when it is desirable to keep
out the sun or for a protection against
inquisitive eyes, is brought about by
using a paint composed as follows:
Sugar of lead, well ground in oil, ap
plied as outer paint, tnen pounded while
fresh with a wad of batting, held? be
tween the thumb and finger, after which
it is allowed to. partially dry. Then with
a straight edge laid upon the sash you
run along by the side of it with a stick
sharpened to the width of the line yon
wish to appear between the diamonds,
figures or squares into which you choose
to lay it off. Detroit Free Press.
A Little Brute.
Xiear8igntea. Lauiy The-. boy who is
trying to tie that tin can to that poor
dosr'a tail onc-ht to ha r.hrnjiliArl within
an inch of his life the horrid little
brute.
Maid It's your boy, mum.
"My boy?"
"Yes, mum."
"Tell him if he'll stop I'll give him
some cake. Good News.
; - A Tribute to the Frog.
;-' The bullfrog is a combination of pis
catorial, venatorial and aquatic delights.
r From his cradle to " his grave he is an
ornament and an honor to the land.
There is fine sport in the hunting of him
and . the eating of him, and -it is both
policy and justice to protect him from
the onslaughts of rival and foreign bull
frogs'. Louisville Courier-JournaL
A Poetic Child.
My oldest boy, who has not yet reached
the mature age of three, has, I think, a
poetic way of expressing himself. Thus
the other day, on noticing ttr ripples on
the lake in Central park, caused by the
wind, he exclaimed, "Mamma, lookj Bee
how the water is laughing." New York
Cor. Babyhood.
Cloth and Paper Made from One T.
The paper tree of the South seas is
species of the mulberry. Its inner bark
is so delicate that a Boft and . pleasant
feeling cloth is made from it, which the
-natives use in making their "best suits.'"
It is also used in the manufacture of a
very fine grade of paper. Philadelphia
Times. : .
In the abysses of the oceans, below 500
fathoms, many animals have either im
perfect eyes or none. Their condition
in this regard affords a suggestive par-
allel to that of cave life, and the causes
are probably the same. . Science is of the
opinion that all deep sea life originally
emigrated from the shallows. ... . ....... .
A writer on social affairs in Iceland
says there is not a single prison on the
island; that such things as locks, bolts
and bars are unknown, and that there
are neither watchmen nor policemen.
In the 'line of eating the Manchus,
who have ruled in China since its con
quest by them some 250 years ago, are
. strongest in baked meats. The Chinese
excel in soups.
. Old French fSrii ' are being sold very
cheap. A French artist has bought the
Fort du Gnesclin for about $1,100. They
.go from a few hundred to $1,000,
1
, Beckoning by Her Tl'uie.
"Hold the baby, please; Til be back in
just a minute," said 6he. Ten, twenty,
thirty minutes passed. . Baby awoke and
yelled as if seven ghosts were after it.
Takin'g the child, he went to find his
wife.
"She isn't here," said the neighbor.
"She has'eone to the dressmaker's. But
she left her parasol here and said she'd
call for it in just a minute. Have,-a
chair."
"Thanks." Baby screaming, head
thrown back, face red, eyes shut, back
stiff, kicked off one little red shoe and
made its mouth and hands go. Half an
hour, no wife. He carried the baby to
the dressmaker's, where he was'told:
"Your wife isn t here. She has gone
to the milliner's. But sne left a dress'
pattern here and said she'd call for it in
just a minute. Be seated."
"Thanks." '
He trotted the screaming child on .his
knee, laid it on its back, rolled it over
on its stomach, tossed it in the air,
stuffed a handkerchief in its mouth and
hummed" "We Won't Go Home Till
Morning." He asked for a rattle box,
bat the dressmaker got mad and said
she wasn't married.- Half hour, no
wife. He took the child to the milliner,
who said:
"Your wife isn't here.- She has just
left for home. Oh, what a cute little
mouth; that child has been crying!"
"Hain't it!" He started for home and
met his wife on the street. Tossing the
child into her arms he strutted away,
muttering: .
"Til be back in just a minute."
"Chicago or New York time, dear?"
"Your time!" ho thundered.
That was two years ago and she hasn't
eeen him since. Chicago Herald.
Lord Castlereagh's Ghost.
. In one of the standard British bio
graphical works may be found the story
of Lord Castlereagh' and the ghost. It
seems that when quite a young man
Castlereagh commanded a militia regi
ment in Ireland. One night he was sta
tioned in a large, desolate country house.
The bed upon which my lord reposed
was at the end of a long, dilapidated
room, while at the other extremity a
great fire "of wood and turf had been
prepared within a huge, gaping, old
fashioned fireplace. Waking in the mid
dle of the night, Castlereagh lay watch
inglroin his pillow the gradual darkening
of the embers on the hearth, when sud
denly they blazed up and a naked child
stepped from among them upon, the
floor.
The figure advanced slowly toward
the drowsy but thoroughly puzzled gen
eral, seeming to grow with surprising
rapidity at every step, until, coming
within two or three paces of his bed, it
had assumed the proportions and ap
pearance of a ghastly giant, pale as death,
with " bleeding wounds across the brow,
eyes seeming to glow with rage and de
spair. Lord Castlereagh said that he
leaped from, the bed and confronted the
figure in an attitude of defiance, where
upon it retreated before him, diminish
ing in size as it withdrew, in the same
manner that it had previously shot np
and expanded.
He followed it, pace by pace, until
the original childlike form disappeared
among the embers. This story Lord
Castlereagh told and declared to be true
in every particular at a party in Paris in
1815 when Scott was among the hearers.
St. Louis Republic. ; ,
The Sweetest Visits.
There is a pleasure in little, "scrappy,"
unexpected visi tings with friends, which
is often wanting from the planned and
rounded comings when the "fire is bright
and the cake basket ready in the closet. V
We are never conscious of a warmer,
more living nearness to a friend than
after we have unexpectedly chanced upon
him in the street and had a few minutes
of that flavorsome chat which glances at
so much and grasps so little, or after he
has dropped in, for an unanticipated
half hour, .at a time when we had no
reason to look for him.
Why is it that the longer, more
ordered hours of meeting leave, on the
the whole, an impression less vivid and
less warm?. Perhaps because we have
lived he visit once, in anticipation, and
the reality has some faint fatal suspicion
of stateness? Certain it is, the scrappy
hours are sweetest. Boston Common
wealth. ' . -.
Did Not Know What Was Going On.
There is a fact about the French revo
lution more wonderful in. its way than
any which can be discovered in old news
papers. ' It is .the fact, gathered from
private letters of the period, that in
those stirring times, when all the world
was ringing with the events in Paris,
there were actually people in' that city
living 'in absolute ignorance of the hor
rors around them. There was no Reign
of Terror for them. They lived veritable
- recluses in their quiet suburban houses,
hearing nothing, reading nothing of the
turmoil which startled and terrified , the
nations. One wonders much what man
ner of people these oysterlike' folks
might be. Nothing sounds more incred
ible today. Yet there are many things
in history not half so well authenticated,
though history is curiously silent on so
strange a circumstance. London News.
' What the Present Was) Used For.
There was once a school teacher who
received from her pupils a most elaborate
jewel casket of, glass and silver. Not
long afterward she announced in family
conclave, "That thing is horrid, but we
really must nse it" "We? queried her
mother. "Why, how many of us are ex
' pec ted to make nse of it?" ,- "As many as
possible, I should say," was the inno
cent reply. "Isn't it a pickle jar?"
Youth's Companion. . ..
-
Knew How to Wait.
Van Jorkins (to applicant for position
of butler) Yon are familiar with wait
ing? : .
John Thomas--'Oh, yes, sir.
.Van, Jorkins Where did you get your
experience?; " ' , , ;
- John Thomas I " was a fashionable
tailor, sir; and I gave long credits,
New York Epoch.
, Birds iyiU the Statue of Liberty Light. ;
A fewvenings ago I took the steamer,
with a party' of naturalists, to Bedloe's
island, as the electric, lighfs'at the top of
the statue are known to attract multi
tudes of birds every spring and f alL
There had been cold weather for a few
days before, and millions of birds were
hurrying 6onth. We obtained a permit,
and want up to the topmost gallery of
the statue and waited. The night had
not far advanced when all' the heavens
seemed to become full of .wings, which
produced a tempest of whirring sound.
Then came the calls of. the leaders, and
they rang out so clearly that they could
be heard for half a mile through the
storm. The responses were fainter than
the signaling' cries, but they were quite
definite. The object of the calls, of
course, was to -keep the flocks together,
for, as could be seen through strong
glasses, birds of a hundred species were
driving along on the breast of the storm.
All that came near the statue hovered
around the light in large circles, but
some of them struck against the bronze
or stone. ..There .were, sandpipers .of
every kind, "peeting, peeting" as they
went; golden wings and other wood
peckers, with their loud and.: rather
hoarse cries; warblers of every kind
and their signaling"ran through wide
gamut of sounds thrushes, robins,
meadow larks, nuthatchers and congre
gations of bobolinks that filled the air
with hurricanes of lovely music as they
swept by. Sometimes a huge black
cloud passed along, and the glasses
showed that they were blackbirds, but
they did not chatter as- they do on the
edge of the forest. -...'
The leaders made all the noise and
preserved order. I know not how many
flocks went by of teal, wood duck, black.
duck, mergansers, curlew, snipe, plover,
pewees, phcebe birds and what not, but
none could mistake the kingfishers as
they went, with their scolding laughter,
through the dark.
We caught a score or so of the, birds
in nets and in our hats, and kept them
till the morning, after which we re
leased them. And all through the night
bats chased and feasted upon the silly
moths that gathered around, the spikes
of electric flame.- .
A large number of birds lay ' dead
upon the. grass inrthe morning, having
struck the statue. Harper's Weekly.
A Stamp Fad.
"It makes us swear."
."It's the most senseles fad in the
world."
The postoffice clerk went on, "Some
fool has discovered that the most un
gainly place in the world for a postage
stamp is in the" middle of the back . of
the envelope, where the flap is glued
down."
"I see."
"It's a fad npw. ' Yon must, stick your
stamp in the middle of the back of the
envelope." . ): i
"Like a porous plaster?" .y a
"Exactly. . Oh, don't the stamp clerks
rage! - They lose hours of time turning
over letters . and hunting ; for stamps.
Ill resign if the fool killer doesn't get
to work." i
"Must be very annoying?" -i
."Well, I should say it is. For heav
en's sake don't spread this awful fever. I
suppose next the idiots 11 hide the post
age stamps, under a pile of bricks, and
expect the clerks to go out and dig 'em
np!" New York World.
A Club of Ocean Travelers. -
A number of gentlemen in India, whose
business or pleasure calls them- fre
quently to England, have formed them
selves into what may be termed a trav
elers' co-operative association, with the
object of lessening the expense of. their
voyages to and from the east. The sub
scription to this ocean club is to be 850
rupees, payable in monthly installments
of ten rupees, there. being no annual
payment, and members will have the
privilege of a free return passage once
in three years, paving simply for the
bare cost of their food on board. Should
a member not be able to take his turn
when it comes round, he can sell his
passage ticket for anything he can get
for it, not exceeding the total cost of
raenibership. A steamer replete vith all
the latest improvements ia to be built
specially for the association, and it is
proposed that the first journey to this
country shall be made in January, 1893.
The vessel is to accommodate 1,000 saloon
passengers. London Cor. Manchester
Courier.
Lake Erie Drying; Up.
. Mr. J. T. Wamelink had occasion to
visit the building inspector's office in
the city hall, and as one or two of the
officials are, like him, fond of hunting,
the conversation naturally turned to
that subject. ; .
In speaking of the state of the water
in the marshes, 'Mr. Wamelink said that
within a few years the level of Lake
Erie had been reduced two feet. Mr.
Wamelink expressed the opinion that
the permanent lowering of the water
level was due to the constant increase in
the channel at Niagara falls, which per
mitted a greater volume of water to roll
over the falls. He was - of the opinion
that, in order to preserve the proper
stage of water in the harbors of the lake,
it would yet become necessary for en
gineers to raise the level of the Niagara
'river. Inspector Morse stated that it
would be necessary to drop huge bowl
ders into the stream in order to accom
plish that result. Cleveland Leader and
Herald.
Seventh Pis; Bad Seven Legs. " '".
Friday night last a bow belonging to
C W. P. Howell gave birth to a litter of
seven pigs. In this there is nothing very
remarkable, but . that the seventh one
should have seven well formed legs is
somewhat strange, to say the least. The
pig is still alive and doing well. Live
Oak (Fla.) Banner. - - " .
- A Knowins Cabbage.
A cabbage with fourteen heads can be
seen in . our counting room window. It
was raised by Charles F. Mendall on the
James Sherman place on t the King
Philip road.' this, city. New Bedford"
(Mass.) Mercury. '
Bad Blood.
Impure or vitiated blood Is nin6
times out of ten caused by some
form of constipation or indiges
tion that clogs up the system,
when the blood naturally be
comes impregnated with theef
fe to matter. TbeoldSarsaparillas
attempt to reach this condition
by attacking Uic blood with the
drastic mineral " potash." The potash theory is
old and obsolete. Joy's Vegetable Sarsaparilla is
moden.. . It goes to the seat of the trouble. It
arouses the liver, kidneys and bowels to health
ful action, and invigorates the circulation, and
tho impurities are quickly carried off through
the natural channels.
Try.it and uoto its delightful
action. Cbas. Lee, at Bcamish's
Third and Market Streets, P. F.,
writes: " I took it for vitiated
blood .and while on the first bot
tle becatno coavinced of its mer
its, for J. could leel it was work
ing a change. 1 1 cleanscii, puri
fied and braced mc up generally.
and everything is uow working full anil regular."
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Few people know that the
bright bluish-green color of
the ordinary teas exposed in
the windows la not the nat
ural color. Unpleasant as the
' fact may be, it is nevertheless
artificial; mineral . coloring
matter being used for this
purpose. The effect la two
fold. It not only makes the
tea a bright, shiny green; but also permits the
vise of off-color " and worthless teas, which,
once under the green cloak, are readily
worked off as a good quality of tea.
An eminent authority writes on this sub
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them a'flner appearance, Is carried on exten
sively. Green teas, being in this country
especially popular, are produced to meet the
demand by coloring cheaper black kinds by
- glaring or facing with Prussian blue, tumeric,
gypsum, and indigo. Thit method ia so gen
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it offered for tale."
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