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Tho Town of Ghent.
Ghent is a town which somewhat re
sembles its neighbor, Bruges, although.
.it n to me a sterner sort oi piace, as;
bents it with, its long history of inde
pendence and revolution. It preserves
much of its ancient appearance through
virtue of its sturdy walls, its splendid
.cathedral and other churches, and its
antique belfry, in which the great bell
Roland still bangs, but it has not the
mustv. delightful flavor of Bruges. It
possesses, however, a flavor of its own.
of which,' in truth, I cannot say any
thing in praise, for a worse smell than
haunts its streets my unfortunate nose
never encountered, nor could I in any
wise escape it . until I got aboard the
tram and left the town behind me
Cheat -is also associated in mymind
with the worst lunch 1 have yet encoun
tered in Europe. It consisted of some
strange meat, which I am convinced
'was kitten, and had been waiting for a
customer quite as long: as was good for
it. I tasted it once, but could not take
the second mouthful, and the restaurant
"keeper was a severe looking person who.
seemeu pi a sort to wKe onense u nis
dishes were refused. I did not wish to
becotre involved in an explanation with
strange, fierce man. and in an unfa
miliar language, and I could not eat the.
lunch for fear of dreadful internal con
sequences. Presently the restaurant
keeper stepped out for a moment; I
drew a newspaper from my pocket.
rolled up the susmcious portion in it
and stowed it away again; the proprie-
tor came oacs ana looicea unsus
piciously at my empty plate, and I
arose and paid him and went away; and I
am sure I pity the dog or cat that found
the package in the gutter into which 1
thrpw it na srw-kn I rrnt. jirniinrl t ho nor.
ner. I have plenty oi reason to feel no
agreeable emotion at thought oi (jhent,
but in truth my memorv of it is exceed
ingly pleasant, and all on account of
my visit to the cathedral, where I went
to study Van Lyck s splendid picture
of the "Adoration of the Mystical
Lamb." I was the only visitor to the
church that afternoon. and I had the
services of the sacristan entirelv to mv
self. He was a short, stout, little old
man, very wheezy from living in -the
draughty old building all his life, and
with a very calm, kind and thoughtful
face. He spoke a better sort of French
than most Belgians do, and although
my own knowledge of that tongue is
lint nrnfrui n ( net mik nlnn or x-n tv- u-oll
together. He was very readv to talk of
iue treasures oi arc in tne caineurai.
and did so intelligently and to consider
able length upon the subject of the
earlv svstem oi naintino- in Flanders.
which he had studied, as he said, in all
the galleries of the country. His ideas
were his own, and verv original and
true; and it was "good to hear him speak
so eloquently, upon the glories of the
past, when the church was the " mother
of art and foremost in all its affairs.
His tone changed, however, when he
came to modern times. "The church
has lost her power," he said, "and has
too much to do to hold her own against
the Mate, and the indiiierence of the
people to religious things, to find time
or means to encourage painters and
sculptors as she once did. Beside, the.
Samters, like the people, have lost the
eep faith in religion which is necessary
for the making of great paintings, and
I fear we shall never see again such
schools as we had in the past. Cor.
Boston Advertiser.
The Lakes of Upper Italy.
They lie in the lap of the mountains
like jewels dropped from the sky, and
.Nature has lavished her love and man
his labor on the setting. By political
geography they belong in part to Switz
erland; but if there be any force in the
theory or natural boundaries, the Alps
bar her claim with tremendous empha- j
sis, and in climate, scenery, religion.
custom, and speech they are Italian. No
sooner does the traveler by the St.
Gothard Railway reach Locarno, the
first station on Lago Maggiore, than he
finds another heaven and another earth
from those which vanished when he en-?
tered the great tunnel, a few hours ear
lier. The mountain peaks are sharper
and more serrate, the curves and inden
tations of the shore more delicate, the
outlines of the landscape more finished
and perfect; the light is at once softer
and more splendid, the sky has a deeper
and more tender blue, the verdure ia
richer and darker; the very weeds gfve
the wayside the grace of a garden run
'wild. Already there are terraced vine
yards to be seen, and vines trained over
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fl. sort of trellised arbor called pergola,
the supports of which are stone one
of the most ancient modes of grow
ing grapes in Italy and orange walks,
a nrvin rr (rnrilptn. fl.rf?r?fS rf fihrillibfirv.
walls-o? evergreen, stone stairways and
.balustrades, pillars, vases and fountains
among the flower beds, a dinerent cul
tivation, a different style of gardening,
which adorns the humblest plot. The
Inlenminnr tnwna nnnn thf wufpp's Pf? oro
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have Irregular tiers of red-tiled roots,
broken by arched porticos in the .attic.
story, by slender Lombara bell-towers,
cupolas, long, blank palace-fronts a
different architecture. All this can be
seen from Locarno, which is vet but a
oor place compared with the towns
ower down the lake. It is worth while
to stop there, though, to wash off the
dust of the long journey in great white
,roarble bath-tubs, of antique form, filled
with cool, diamond-clear water, and to
rest and attune tbfe spirit to a softer key.
There is a new hotel, a remarkably fine
building, with a lofty ball of entrance,
from each CQd of which a marble stair
case leads to galleries with balusters,
frklrinnaripa pisinir nnA nlirwn tho ntlior
and intersecting Tong perspectives, liko
the backgrounds of 1'aul Veronese s
banquet pictures a Palladian interior,
every corridor ending in an arch draped
with muslin embroidered in Oriental
patterns, through which a mellow pic
ture of lake and mountain is visible.
At Locarno, moreover, there is the
first glimpse of the art of Lombardv. in
which some of the towns on the smaller
lakes are so rich, and which has adorned
the entire region with countless churches
and palaces. The front of the Chiesa
Nnova is bv Tommaso Rodari. the fore
most of three brothers who have left
their mark on the architecture and
sculpture of the late fifteenth and early
sixteenth centuries throughout North
ern Italy. In the pilgrimage church ol
the Madonna del Sasso (Our Lady of.
the Rock), half an hour's walk above
the town, the mild Luini's influence ia '
seen in an altar-piece by one of his fol
lowers. I trudged up to this sanctuary
.one afternoon, to be rewarded by Um
expedition itself beyond my expecta
tions, which were not great. Two deet
gorges bring down two noisy, ' demon
strati ve brooks bv so precipitous-a path
that the water is ready to leap into cas
cades at every step, until they unite
and seek the lake together. Up the
strip of wooded rock between them.
which rises higher and higher, broad
ening until it joins the mountain.
winds the way to the church. It
is very steep and laid in cordon ate.
a pavement of cobble-stones crossed
bv a curb at every few feet, Tnueh
like a railway track, ballast and sleep-
ers,-without rails, raised to an angle of
seventy degrees from tbelevel; th
curbs are about as far apart as cross-
ties, and' it is as hard to walk either
upon or between them. The pilgrimage
to the Madonna del basso should be
made by all but pennitents only after
the sun has set behind the western
mountains. It is a pretty walk.
although disfigured by the stations of
the cross at short intervals; the way
farer passes out of the village undor a
long, vine-wreathed pergola, then over
a bridge, then up the. narrow hillside.
between the ravines, to the foot of the
foundation walls of the building, and by
a few more sharp twists to the solitary
little stone piazza from which he enters
the church. "It dates from a miraculous
appearance of the Virgin four hundred
years ago, but has tew signs oi its age:
wiioin it is as ircsniy zuaeu, paimcu
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and frescoed as a hotel dining room,
and is in so far a surprise after the lone
ly scramble beside the bed of the tor
rent. I reached it at the hour of the
Ave Maria. The chiirch was empty
save for a woman and two children.
who were kneeling together, telling
their beads. . There was a murmur of
pravers and responses uttered by two
invisible ministrants; the voices seemed
to come from behind the high altar, but
priest or acolyte there was none to bo
seen, ihe ehect was so mysterious at
that sunset hour that the renovated
church grew venerable to the quickened
sense of awe. After the last amen.
while looking for the Luini scholar's
painting, I came upon a picture of tho
Entombment, a work oi considerablo
beauty and religious feeling, by a Signor
Lenisi, of Florence, as my fellow-wor
shiper told me. A modern picture
from our Saviour's history, painted
with talent and skill, yet reverently.
and hidden in a side-chapel of this inac
cessible and unvisited little church, was
a strange thing add worth coming to
find. The view of the lake from the
steps is nne, and sun better from a
little pillared side-porch, which looks
as if it were the oldest part of the build
ing, and overhanging the landscape
like the parapet of a castle. Ihe scene
was verv lovel v: tne waicrWere naie
rose-color, and a bluisn moisture, like
the dewon dark grapes, rested upon the
surface of the lake. Atlantic Monthly.
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Impressions of Amsterdam
how wc entered Amsterdam, to
which we had looked forward as th
climax of our tour, having read of it and
pondered it as "theVeniceof the North;"
but our expectations were raised much
too high. Anything more unlike Venice
it would be difficultto imagine; and there
is a terrible want oi variety ana color;
many of the smaller towns of Holland
are far more interesting and mnniteiy
more picturesque. A castle was built
at Amsterdam in 1204, but the town only
became important in the Sixteenth
Century. It is situated upon the influx;
of the Amstel to the Y, as the arm oi
the Zuyder Zee which forms the harbot
is called, and it occupies a huge semi
circle, its walls being inclosed by th
broad moat, six and a half miles long.
which is known as Buitensingle. The
greater part of the houses are built on
piles, causing Erasmus to say mat u
.inhabitants lived on trees like rooks.
In tho center of the town is the great
square called Dam, one side of which is
occupied by the handsome Royal Palacs
Het ralais built by J. van Kampen
In 1618. The Nieuwe Kerk (1408-1470)
contains a number of monuments to adr
.mirals, including those of Van Ruiter
"immensi tremor oceani who com
manded at the Battle of Sol bay, and
Van Spevk, who blew himself up with
his ship rather than yield to the Bel
gians, in tne uuue jverite or lauti
there are more tombs of admirals.
Hard by, in the Nictiwo Markt, is the
picturesque cluster of Fifteenth Cen
tury towers called St. Anthonienswaag,
once a city gate and now a weighing
house, liut the great attraction of Am
sterdam is the picture gallery of the
Trippeuhuis; called the Rijks Museum,
and it deserves many visits. Uood
Words.
Italian Marriages.
They are a prolific people. To be child
less is regarded as an intense calamity;
and no matter how shallow the purse,
no newcomer is welcomed ouier than
with smiles and gladness. Now, is it
possible that a people so home-loving.
so auectionate, so iond or on.spnng.
should be so depraved, so immoral, as
we Efabitually depict them? U e have
too long looked upon one side only oi
the Italian character; it is high tim
that we learned to know the other. An
other favorite idea of ours is that thi
Italians never make love marriages. No
doubt their marriages, like those of the
French, are often arranged bv the par
ents; but, unlike those of the French, as
a rule a veto of choice is left to th
young people; and if we could collect
statistics on that point, I am inclined to
think that we should find that the pro
portion of these marriages,' founded
upon a groundwork oi reason ana so
cial compatibility, which turn out well
is as exeat as. if not greater than, that
of our marriages founded upon youth
ful caprice and unreason. London So
ciety.
A chicken rooster entered a lady's
' mw w m i
house the other day, and seeing himself
reflected in a large, handsome mirror,
deemed it his boundeu duty to go for
the reflected intruder, and he forthwith
threw himself against the mirror, shat
tering it all to pieces. With the break
ing of the glass his shadow disappeared,
and he concluded he had demolished
his supposed antagonist The noisa
brought the good lady into the house.
when she found her valuable mirror in
ruins and the rooster perched on th
marble slab crowing for victory.
tsoslon JJudqet.
OF GENERAL LTTEEEST. -
. It Is estimated that the average cost
to the people is five thousand dollars
tor each bill passed by Congress.
i Thirst and starvation nave caused
the recent death of two thousand head
of cattle in one drove at Coahuila,
Mexico.
. The aqueduct of Washington, D.
C, furnishes the city twenty-five mil
lion gallons of water every twenty-four
hours. -
At a late fashionable wedding in
England the bride's bouquet, composed
of white lilies, was larg enough to nil
a big wheelbarrow.
: Rural Congressmen will be allowed
two. million bushels of seetis to dis
tribute among their constituents this
year. Chicago Times.
. A patient in the Nevada Insane
Asylum grasped his windpipe so fiercely,
under the impression that a frog was in
his throat, the other day, that it re
quired some hours to resuscitate him
Cryolite, a mineral which is of great
Value in the potash manufacture, has
been discovered in the Yellowstone
Park. Heretofore it has been obtained
.only in Greenland. San Francisco CalL
-Parrot-dealers of the East are mak
mg money by teaching their parrots to
croak "Kiss me, darling." Ladies are
very fond of the feathered tribe when
they can speak 'so lovingly. Chicago
Times.
In an English criminal trial there
are no exceptions, after a verdict of
guilty, no matter how erroneous the
law has been laid down or how illegal
the conviction, there follows no appea
except for mercy at the Home Office,
which is rarely granted.
Out of the twenty-two Boston ladies
counted on the piazza of an Isle of
Shoals hotel, eighteen wore eye-glasses
or spectacles, and ten had scientific
books in their hands. The intellectual
ity of the place is consequently most
pronounced. N. Y. Mail.
The first corn crop of Mexico has
proved a . disastrous failure, and as the
weather has been too dry to plant the
second, the farmers have given up hope
of a corn harvest until next June. This
will necessitate a great demand for corn
raised in the United States. Chicago
Aews.
Curious wedding cards appeared at
Guadalajara, Mexico; recently. They
read: Lhe rector of the Catholic ba-
erfftrin Ttoxr Fir RgrhActi nntin rr unffor
authority of the Archbishop, has refused
to marry me to Irene Moreno. I - have
married her according to the civil code,
and now have the honor to offer you an
invitation to our house on Calle Car
men, No. 'SI. Gregorio Saavedra."
-Writing to a German newspaper, a
victim of Daltonianism, or color blind
ness, protests against the tendency to
the exclusion of the so-called color
blind from lives of activity in which the
recognition of color is an element. He
declares that, although the sensations
are different, persons anlicted wuh Dal
tonianism possess a distinct recognition
of the dinerent bands of the spectrum.
and are consequently as capable of dis
tinguishing color signals from each
other as persons with normal vision.
While Washington was President
the Congress Springs, at Saratoga, was
discovered by a member of Congress
from New York, who was gunning on
the site. There are now fifteen to
thirty springs in the vicinity, not very
different in character. The Congress
Spring is still the most celebrated. The
Hathorn Spring, discovered about thir
teen years ago, has become its princi
pal competitor. For nearly a hundred
Vears Saratoga has been celebrated, and
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continues to be the most remarkable col
lection of mineral springs in the United
States. N. T. Tribune.
-It is astonishing how much trash
and how manv things of one kind and
another can get into a well. The public
well on the court house square was
"cleaned out" on Monday, and, accord
ing to Jake Davis' memoranda, the fol
lowing is a list of the articles taken
from it: Tin cups, tin cans, old shoes,
ax handles, pop guns, bricks, bones,
match boxes, part of chain pump, old
hat, slates, beer bottles, whisky flasks.
base ball, skull of a cow. three well
buckets, well whirl, buggy shaft, vest
buckles and stone coal. Greensboro
(Ga.) Ilcrald.
The principal feature about a China
man's costume is the fact that nothing
ever fits but his stockings. His clothing
consists really of three or four shirts or
garments made after the fashion of a
shirt, each opening in front and having
five buttons, a sacred number. These
buttons are never in a straight row, but
in a sort of semi-circle naif round the
body. The outer garments have sleeves
a foot longer than the arm, a fact which
affords abundant opportunities fortheft
A Chinaman's jackets are his thermom
eter. He will say: "To-day is three
jackets cold, and if it increases at this
rate to-morrow will be four or nve jacK-
ets cold." Chicago Herald. '
We think of Wyoming Territory as
a desert and of uneyenne as a ironuer
camp, but a New Yorker lately re
turned from that Rockv Mountain set
tlement says that he found there a gen
tlemen's club as complete as any in
New York. The members are princi-
Eally rich cattle owners, many of them
Ing'lishmen. The club house is illu
minated by the incandescent electric
Jight, and a chef from Delmonico's looks
alter the cuisine. Turkish rugs, marble
statuary, a fine library, rich chande
liers, tropical plants, etc., adorn the
interior. He also says that as elegant
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equipages are to oe seen every day in
the streets of Cheyenne as in JNew xork.
N. Y. Herald.
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Johai tells a story of a gypsy which
illustrates the happy freedom from all
the ordinary restraints of civilization
which characterizes the race. This
gypsy was the happy father of a nour
ishing progeny of twelve children, one
of whom a hunter happened to shoot
one day, mistaking it for his more law
ful prey. To console the unhappy
father the repentant hunter gave him a
compensation in money, which . he
deemed approaching adequacy from his
own point of view, but which seemed so
magnificent to tho gypsy father that he
ventured to suggest that u his benefac
tor should think of hunting again he
'still had eleven children who might b
turned to account by a similar advan-
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lap-eous misia&e. mannauan.
The Hansom Cab.
"Well, I rode in a Hansom cab when
I was in Chicago 'tother day,' said an
old kicker to another old kicker, as they
men in a saioon ior xuncn at mid-day.
"The streets are full of them, and they
"What kind of things are they?"
asked the second old kicker. I- have
read about Hansom cabs ever ' since I
was a boy, in Dickens' works, and all
English publications,. but I wouldn't
know one if I saw it in the road. What
do they look like? "
"O, they look like the very deuce.
Take your top buggy and knock off the
front wheels, and hitch the shafts on the
hind axle-tree, and puW'aa office-stool
up oemna tne top oi tne buggy, with a
driver screwed onto the top of the stooL
with the lines running over the top to
the horse, and vou would have a Han
som cab. I looked at lots of them, and.
honestly, 1 couldn t help laughing at
the imitation English affairs. Those
Gurneys that have been on the streets
of Chicago for' a year or two are bad
enough about shaking a fellow up, but
the iiansom cab will dislocate a man s
liver, and shiver his spinal column, and
scare him to death quicker than any
thing. You get in and there is a couple
of doors shut in on your lap to keep
you from being shaken out, and then
the driver locks the'doors and throws the
lriTr ftwav. anil wifn mil rrat. tn tha on H
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of your journey somebody happens along
with another key and lets you out, or
may be the doors are locked with a
time-lock that opens when vou get to
he depot. The driver sits up behind, as
stitt as a frozen pickerel, and I was told
by a rainier House liar that an
iron rod runs from the seat right up the
spinal column of the driver, to tho top
of his head, where his hat, which has
an iron nut on the inside, screws on to
the rod and holds him tight. He looks
as though that was the way he was
fastened on, but the fellow may have
been lying to.me. The horse seems to
know where you are going, and all the
.driver does is to hold on to the lines.
I suppose he is up there so if the horse
runs away the driver could get off
without being run over, and go around
a block and stop the horse. . In the
meantime a passenger would be killed,
To ride along the crowded streets in one
of the Hansom cabs, and see the horse
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ing through the crowds with no
river in sight, makes you have respect
ior the sagacity of the horse, and vet
you feel as though even horse sense was
not enough, and you are :re that he
will run into the next beer wagon that
com along. You forgot all about the
galvanized Englishman perched upon
the shelf behind, and you feel like grab
bing the lines that pass over your head
vna drivings the horse yourself, and
when you stop to get out, and the
driver appear to open tho door, you
look at him in ivstonishment, and say:
Well, how did you get here, for
Heaven's sake?" When the cab strikes
a rough place in the street with the
right wheel, your thigh bone goes right
up and knocks your ear around on top
of your head, and you feel lop-sided
until the left wheel strikes something
and averages you up. When both
wheels strike an obstruction at once,
the bottom of vour stomach is struck
by your boot-heels and paralyzed, so
you can t eat anything but soup for a
week, and your liver is mst as liable to
be around bv the small of your back.
or under your arm, as anywhere, when
you get to the depot. It is a lonesome,
melancholy feeling, to ride in a Han
som cao. in any other conveyance
you can hail the driver and talk with
him, but to make the driver of a Han
som cab hear you, you have to shout
against the side of a building, and de
pend upon the echo coming back to the
driver and waking him up. It might
seem as though a Hansom cab would
be a
rood thing for a young fellow to
take his girl out riding
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in, if he wanted
to spark her, the driver being away
back behind and blinders on the horse.
but it wouldn't be safe, as the driver
has a hole in the back of the top so he
can look right through, and he would
be sure to keep awake if there was any
thing going on in the cab that the pas
sengers didn't care to have commented
on; besides, 'it seems as though the
weight of the vehicle was liable at any
minute to raise the horse right off his
feet aud cause him to sit down in your
lap, and no fellow riding with a girl
likes to have a horse sit down in their
laps, when they become interested in a
conversation. The Hansom cab looks
sort of tony, but a man who rides in
one feels as though be was marked.
Everybody looks at the rig and laughs,
and the passenger feels uncomfortable.
These cabs can never take the place of
street cars, that is sure," and the old
kicker, who had rode in a cab the day
before, began feeling under his shoul
der-blade, to see if the calves of his
legs were not beginning to work back
where they belonged. Peck's Sun.
Girls, Beware !
Brown's brow was clouded.
"Some girl scrape?" queried
his
friend, Bilkins.
"Well, to tell vou the truth." replied
Urown, "there is a girl at the bottom
of it. You see, ever since I made that
strike in Atchison, and thank Heaven!
pulled out of it. Pve been kinder
ceping mv matrimonial weather eye
open, as it were. I thought I d found
her, but, well" heaving a deep sigh
"it s all over now."
"Tell me about it. old fellow," said
Bilkins, svmuatheticallv.
"Well, vou know I've been to New
port for the past four weeks. I met her
there. She was a bud to look at 1
tell you. and I was awfully gone on her.
Everything went smoothly until I found
out how much she knew.
"JgnorantP" queried Bilkins.
"No; just the other way. I happened
to hear her talk the other day to rrof.
Buzzer it makes me shudder to think
of it! It was all about esoteric Bud
dhism, planetary changes, and world
periods! Think of it! It let me out,
of course. You could not expect snch
a woman as that to take any interest in
housekeeping, now could your'
"l here, is much truth in wnat you
say," replied Bilkins. thoughtfully, and
Brown looked rftlifived and lighted a
cigar. Boston Globe.
-It costs $8,100 to pay the salaries
of the agent and assistants to distribute
postage stamps to the various post-
offices in the United States. Washing
ton Star.
Diversity of Gifts.
Dont make her study geography.V
said a mother to the principal of a
school where she was putting her
daughter: "its of no use. 1 never could
make anything out of geography myself
and she can't?' This lady had no gift
for learning geography, as many nave
none for learning music, mathematics.
languages. There are really cultivated
people who never ean learn to spell per-
fectly. We know a graduate of Yale,
the best Greek scholar of his class, who
always misspells certain words and a
distinguished educator and scientist who
i3 uncertain in his spelling, though
wearing several honorable titles. , Many
of our college graduates have no talent
for languages. A hey go through the
classic course at college that they may
get -ie B. A., and straightway forget
all their Latin and ureeic as quickly as
they can. Some have no aptitude for
mathematics and flounder about help
lessly in the higher branches of that
science, getting no good from them at
all, ihe author, par excellence, the
poet, the journalist, the artist, the scieri
tist, the mechanic, the laborer, is born
and not made. But a vast number of
people have no special aptitude. Very
good imitation diamonds can be manu
factured, just as fair authors and poets
i . j - . i f
ana artists are mauo vi oruiuary
people with no special gilt in
any one direction, but with fair
average ability in all directions. A
block of mahogany may be made to
take a variety of useful and ornament
al forms. It may be made into one
piece of furniture, or cut up into ve
neer and spread over a great many
pieces of furniture, in a parallel man
ner a man may devote himself to one
pursuit and make a good lawyer, or
doctor or engineer, or proiessor, or ne
may spread himself thin over a wide
range of industries. The present ten
dency is to specialties. The lawyer de
votes himself to certain branches of the
practice, patent law, or realty or crim
inal practice; tho physician devotes
himself to diseases of the eye, the eaif,
the vital organs; the engineer selects
mining or bridge building, or railroad
building; the professor confines him
self to phvsics, or mathematics, or Ian
guages, each and all recognizing the
fact that one man in one life-time can
cultivate but a portion of his own intel
lectual domain, and but a small portion
of the domain of the knowable.
Giving himself to one pursuit or one
class of pursuits makes a man one
sided; or, to change the figure, gives a
cutting edge on only one side. Charles
Keade needed and had a "loving
housekeeper, who would say
'Charles, leave those sweets -alone;
you'll make vourself ill." "The hero
is no hero to his valet." The valet knows
what need the hero has of being taken
care of.
We aie apt to idealize those who
have brilliant and positive gifts, and
think them altogether enviable, but
nearor acouaintance reveals ' the fact
that no cup pressed to the lips of mor
tals is altogether sweet, no mind but
has its dull or undeveloped or craggy
side, no heart but "knoweth its own
l:. ii
There are many men who have no
talent for the use of tools, and who
handle everything they take hold of
clumsily; there are women who have
no talent for the needle, and who can
not learn crochet and tatting and the
like; there are those who cannot learn
to cook well, others who never master
the art of housekeeping, others who
have no talent for society; there are
mothers who cannot be motherly and
wives who cannot be wifely. These
persons may have positive talents in
certain directions, but are denied the
power of developing them, and are
compelled all their lives to work against
the grain. A here are poets who dte
with all their musio in them," scholars
to whom the ample page of learning is
never unrolled, generals who never see
a battlefield. We often find the "round
man" in the "square hole," and the
square man" in the "round hole,!"
while some unfortunate men and
women seem never to find a place
where they may work to any ad
vantage. " They also serve who only
stand and wait." But we can all j do
the duty nearest us; we can all trj to
do what our hands find to do with our
might. If we have but one talent vre
can put that out at interest. And 5s
not this all that is required of us? ' It
is not for us to say "If 1 only had
such and such talents and such and
such opportunities, I would do thus arid
thus." The problem is what we fchall
do with the talent or the lack of ;it
which we have, with the opportunity
or lack of opportunity that is given us.
Happy," savs Carlvle, " is the man
that hath found his work!" Yes, and
happy are they, who not' having found
the work suited to them and for which
they are suited, yet diligently labor to
do that which is given them to do,
however humble or arduous or dip
agreeable it may be. Life is a training
school. Here we are set to tasks toil
some, uncongenial, difficult, oftn
thankless, and held to them with tm-
relaxing pressure until we learn to ac
cept the burden imposed with patience
and work
"As ever in our Great Taskmaster's eye."
Ihe lesson of life thus learned, we
are ready for promotion, which, though
long deferred, will come at last v.
x. Tribune.
The old women of an English vil
lage have been provided by one of Rus
kin's disciples with distaffs, spinninjg
wheels and looms, and already the old-
fashioned linen fabrics spun and wovn
oy mem are in aemana. "Ay, out mey
make good and true stuff." said one
old woman of the town. Watcrbui
7
American.
The mo it expensive thing and the
hardest thing to get in Lurope is pure
water. At the hotels even in Switzer
land, where the ice-crowned Alps are
in sight, they charge you for ice-water
to drink. There is no water on the
cars, and at the stations they look at
vou in amazement if you ask for it.!
loronto uiooe.
-There are thirty-nine professor
ships in the University of Edinburgh.
Of these the income of eighteen tis
,0 or more a year each. The Pro-
f"8srof Anatomy receives $16,000, the
Proiessor of lireek yfi.&OU, while the
V- 1 r.f thi T.atin n.nn TnAthftmatiflal
lepartmen's respectfully get $7,500.
FACTS AND FIGURES.
There are 34,000 deaf mutes in tha
United States. By their intermarriage,
mey are constantly increasing. i.
bun.
B;nce 1880 the increase of deposits
a 1 r i a .
in me oiaie ana savings banks of the
country has been nearly $500,000,000.
ntcago journal.
Massachusetts statistics show that
tte chance of being killed by the cars
are one in 20,000,000 now, while In 1858
they were one in 5,000000. -Boston
Iranscrtpt.
The ftatisticians of the United
States Mint estimate that the total pro
duction of gold in- the world during the
4W years ending 1882 was 10,394 tons,
equal in value to $7,211.797.860.. Dur
ing thj same period the production of
silver was 197.731 tons, of the value of
$8,807,318,975. Philadelphia Press.
What is claimed to be tho largest
gram elevator in the world has been
erected at Newport News, Va., by the
inesapeaice ac Uhio Kailroad Comoanv.
It is 80 feet wide, 38G feet long and
about 164 feet high, with engine
and boiler rooms 40x100 and
40 feet high. The storage capacity
oi tne noise is l.bUU.UUo bushels.
with a receiving capacitv of 30.000 and
a shipping capacity of 20,000 bushels
1 lj .
per uuur. ci. MOUIS J OSU
- The first attempts to introduce gas
as an illuminator in the United States
were made in Baltimore between 1816
and 1820.- They failed, but it was suc
cessfully introduced in Boston in 1822.
ihe next year the first gas-light com
pany was formed in New York, the
'New xork U as-Light Company."
They began operations with a capital
oi 35i,uvu,wu. nut tne people were so
slow to adopt the new illuminator that
the company was not in full operation
until 1827, when the population was
about lb6,(XrJ. Baltimore Sun.
According to the Massachusetts
Bureau of Labor Statistics among the
women laborers of that Mate are 10b
barbers and hairdressers, 6 barkeepers.
3 billposters, 9 commercial travelers. 2
bank officials, 2 pawnbrokers, 4 team
sters, 2 sailors, 1 gun and locksmith, 75
bakers, oo shoemakers, 6 carpenters, 2
door, sash and blind makers. 13
masons, 1 paper-hanger, 1 plumber and
gashtter, 2 cirri age makers, 16 watch
and clock repairers, 20 cabinet makers.
10 harness .makers, 7 machinists, 4
blacksmiths, 235 printers, 2 stone cut
t rs, 4 coopers, 295 laborers, and 5 en
gineers.
mum
WIT AND WISDOM.
He that rightly understands the
reasonableness and excellence of char
ity, will know that it can n?ver be ex
cusable to waste any of our money in
pride and folly. W. Law.
Artist's friend (pointing to sketch)
"Say, Harry, where did you get
this?" Harry "Why, I got that out
of my head." Friend "Well, it's a
lucky thing for your head that you got
it out." ' i
The best recipe for going through
life' in a commendable way is to feel
that everybody, no matter how rich or
how poor, needs all the kindness they
can get from others in the world.
Boston Budget.
Yes, my son. There is gold in the
mountains of Idaho and Montana.
Lots of it. And so there is heaps of. it
in the United States Treasury, too.
And it is jnst about as easy to get it
from one place as the other. Good deal
easier, in fact Burdctte.
A young man blackened his mus
tache with- a lead comb and then took
his girl out for a moonlight stroll.
When the fair one appeared in the
bright light of the family circle a couple
of hours later ner face looked like a
railroad map. H'ap. j
Reckless dude (to burglar, whom
he has discovered in closet): "J, you
nasty, saucy thing, to bide in my bed
room! There! Pll break your um
brella,1 so you can't go out without get
ting soaked, for it's raining like any
thing outside." Burglar faints. Chi
cago Tribune. j
"I'm afraid I was cheated on those
lightning rods." "What's the matter
with them?" "I hadn't had 'em op
mor'n a month when a fearful stroke of
lightning knocked 'em all ways for
Sunday, burned my barn, and every
thing in it." "But didn't the agent
give you a guarantee."" "un, yes; x
wrote to him, and .he wrote oacK very
eonsolingly." "What did he say?f'
"That lightning never strises twice in
the same place." Rochester Post-Ex
press. I
"Is there anybody about this estab-
l:shman who loves poetry?" he said
as he opened the door and glared
around the editorial room with a doubt
ful look. "Certainly there is," said the
editor: "have you got some there?"
Ves, four poems, all of 'em on spring,"
"Good! That's just I what we want.
John sprinkle a little mint sauce on
these and take 'em down-stairs."
What for?" demanded the poet. "For
the goat. He is the only one about the
establishment who loves poetry. But
he won't eat spring i poetry without
mint sauce." jy. Y7 Sun.
Curiosities of Eufflish Schools.
The following were recently among
the written answers in examinations
on Scripture by her Majesty's Inspectors
of Schools r
;Vho was Moses?" "He was an
Egyptian. He lived in a hark maid of
bullrushes, and he kept a golden carf
and worshipt braizen snakes and he hct
nothin' but qwahles and manner for
forty years, lie was kort by the air of
his ea while ridin' under a bow of a
tree, and he was killed by his son Ab
s!on as he was hanging from the bow.
His end was peace."
"What do vou know of the patriarcn
Abraham?" "He was the father of
Lot and had tew wives. One was
called Hismale and tother Haygur. He
kept wuu at home and he hurried
tother into the desert, where she be
came a pillow of salt in the daytime and
a piuow of hre at nite."
"Write an account of the Good
Samaritan." "A certain man went
down from Jerslam to Jeriker and he
fell among thawns and the tbawns
sprang up and choked him. Whereup
on he gave tuppins to the boast and
said tak care on him and put him on
his hone hass. And he past bye on the
bother side." London Times.
Forgotten Valuables.
A messenger boy ran ud to J. E-
Kingsley in the Continental Hotel and
handed nim a telegram. Mr. Kingsley
tore open, the envelope and read this
message:
8aratooa Spriitos For heaven s sake..-
send ray spectacles at once. 1 can't too. 1
lett them In room 18 night before last.
"Have this attended to at once."
sa:d Mr. Kingsley. handing the dispatch
to Cashier Stokes.
The cashier went to the big safo back
of the key-rack and - pulled out a bask
etful of gold watches, spectacles, rings
and other things, lhey had" all been
left lehind in Um -course of - years by'
guests of the hotel. The cashier fished
out from the collection a pair of specta
cles, to which was attached a little tag
on which was written: "Found in room
18, September 3, 1884." Tho specta-'
cles were immediately mailed to their'
owner at Saratoga.
Do you receive many communica
tions like that telegram?' a Time re
porter asked.
. " Yes; telegrams or letters inquiring
for watches, rings, pocket-books, and
everything a traveler carries, come to
us every day. We've got lots of things
that have not been asked for. We shall
keep them so long as we have a hotel
here. Everything found is put away
and carefully tagged with its history."
"Do guests frequently leave valuables
after them?" said Clerk Cormack, of
the Girard House, echoing the report
er's question. "I should say they did;
so frequently, indeed, that we've got a
man, known as the propertv clerk.
whoso duty it is to take charge of
everything left in the rooms and try to
trace the owners. Sometimes he sue-
ceeds and sometimes he does not. Only
this morning we received a letter in
quiring for a seal ring that was left on
a wash-stand. The writer said he val-.
ueithe ring because it was an heir
loom. We hunted up the man's name
on the register and found what room
he had occupied and then went to the
safe and found the ring labeled. The
ring's on its way now to Wheeling, W.
Va. A guest with barely time to make
a train and a thousand and one things
to do in that time will be pretty sure to
leave a pair of slippers under the bed, a
night-gown under the pillow, or a
watch on the mantelpiece, or an um
brella or cane in the corner of the
room. General Simon Cameron, with
Just three minutes to reach the Broad
'Street Station, started one morning in
a carriage for the eleven o'clock train.
Ten minutes afterward 1 was surprised
to see him walk into the hotel office.
I bad to let the train go,' he said.
Janghingty; 'l
left my spectacles up-
stairs. 1 cant
go without . them;. I
swear b
em.
porter , found tho
!stay until 5:
:30
before he got another
nam.
'Last week a patron of the house,
who lives in Harrisburg, came down
'and staid over night. When he came
to the office in Ihe morning to pay his
bill he fumbled through his pockets.
looked at me with a puzzled expression.
and said: '1 haven t any money; why,
I've been robbed. I know all about it
now. 1 went to a theater last night,
and afterward rode in a horse-car. The
car was crowded, and I stood up and
grasped a strap with my right band,
that pulled my ooat away from my
vest. I had S900 in billa in one roll in
'my right-hand vest pocket. Of course
he didn't pay his hotel . bill, and 1 even
had to loan him $10 to take him back
to Harrisburg. He hadn't got twenty
miles out of town before the chamber
maid who fixed up the room that he
had occupied' brought the man's ro'l
down to the office. She said she found
it under the pillow of his bed. 1 tele
graphed to Harrisburg, and that night
received a reply telling me to take tho
amount of the hotel bill and $10 out of
'the roll and transfer the remainder by
telegraph. We had a hot time here
several months ago about a lady's soli
taire diamond ear-ring. She lost it in
bed, and made a great time about her
loss. -We took all the furniture apart,
ripped up the carpets, in fact palled
everything out of the room, but the
diamond could not be found. The wo-
man accused the poor chambermaid of
stealing it, but we felt satisfied that
the servant was innocent. Two months
afterward the diamond was found in
the mattress. It had caught under one
of thebuttons that hold the hair in
place, and had remained secreted there
all that time.
"We have several watches in the safe
that have been left under pillows, a few"
pairs of bracelets, lots of gum shoes
and slippers, a book-case full of novels,
packs of playing-cards, pocket-knives, ,
razors, bair-brushos and combs, ana
various other things I suppose enough
to start a regular pawn-broker's auc- .
tion store. There is any. number of
umbrellas and canes. But night-gowns
beat everything. Tbey have been ac
cumulating for years, and we've got
over five hundred of them, some elabo
rately embroidered. A few are trimmed
with expensive lace and a great many
are nrettilv marked with the owners'
Initials. Hardly a day passes without
our receiving a letter asking after the
fate of a certain n;ght-gown. Some
people won't write for them, and
wouldn't admit the ownership of them
if we should forward them. I received
a letter from a ladythis morning ask
ing us to look op a night-gown that was
left here more than two months ago.
I suppose we'll be able to find it.
Nearly every day a night-gown is sent
to the laundry; a label is then put on
it, showing the room it was found in
and the date, and then it is packed
away with the other night-gowns to be
kept until called for. There are a hun
dred of them, yellow with ago. Annie
Pixley, the actress, left a white satin
night-dress here the last time sna
played in this city. It was embroidered '
all down the front with a dozen differ-
ent kinds of sewing silk, and must have
cost seventy-five dollars. We sent it to
her in a few days-after she lett here.;'
Philadelphia Times.
-A policeman who was patrolling
Montcalm street cast ' the other day. "
heard a whistle blow for all it was
worth, and ran a block and a half, to
find a woman with her head out of a
vlimhr window. "Who blew that
whistle?" 'I did." "Do you want
ineP" "No, sir. My gal and her beau "
are spoonin' around on the side stoop.
....rl f MaW fhn whintlA tn lft him know
that it was time to skip or look out for
'dubs." Detroit Free Press.