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OREGON SCOUT JONES & CHANCEY, Putliiheri. I'M.". OKKIifl. I till W W w . .. A hand tapped nt my door, low down, low down ( I opened It nnd suw two eyes of lirown, Two lips of cherry red, A little curly head, A bonny fairy sprite. In dress of white, Who suld, with lifted faco: "Papa, good night !" Snecllmbcd upon my knee, nnd, kneeling there, Ltspod softly, solemnly, her llttlo prayer: Her meeting flngor-tlps, Her pure, sweet baliy-llps, Carried my soul with hers, half unaware, Into somo clearer nnd diviner air, J tried to lift again, but all In vnln, Of scientific thought tho subtle chain; So small, so small, My learning all: Though I could call nnch star nnd tell Its plnco, My child's "Our Author" bridged tho gulf of space. I Hat with folded hands, nt rest, nt rest, Turning tills solemn thought within my breast; How faith would fndo If God had rnado No children In this world no baby age Only tho prudent man or thoughtful sago; Only tho woman wise; no llttlo turns To clasp around our neck; no baby charms, No loving care, No sinless prayer, No thrill of lisping song, no pattering feet, No Infant heart against our heart to beat. Then, If a tiny hand, low down, Tup nt thy heart or door, nhl do not frown; llund low to meet Tho llttlo foot; Torlmp tho clinging hand; tho child will bo Nicr to Heaven thai, thee nearer than theo. -f.iWe K. Hair. A DIAMOND NECKLACE. It Was tho Oluo Which Convicted u Scoundrel. Tha noontide huh of it hot summer day heat fiercely down upon tho con victs :it work in tho apparently bound less cotton-field Unit belonged 1 Colonel Joflorsnn Clay. It wjis a large plantation, and was almost entirely worked by a force of chain gang convicts leased to Colonel Clay Ijy the Statu authorities. As tho sun leached tho meridian its rays eatno down so pitilessly and with Kiieh scorching fervor that tho four guards who kept watch over tho niisor--nfolo convicts woro coinpeled to seek shelter under the few scattered pines which dotted litllo knolls in diH'erent part of tho field. Lazily reclining on tho grass tho guards played with their battered old muskets, and kept, a keen lookout for llio slightest indication of lagging work or insubordination on the part of tho eighty prisoners who were engaged in hoeing cotton. There was little danger of tho con victs escaping. A heavy ball and chain was attached to each man, and it was dillleult to make much headway. "The guards were always vigilant, and when it was necessary they had a pack of trained blood-hounds in reserve for tho pursuit and capture of fugitives. Suddenly one of the guards looked at his watch. "Dinner-time!" ho exclaimed, and raising a whistle to his lips ho blew a keen blast which was heard all over the Held. The ofloct was magical. Every hoe fell to tho ground and four squads of convicts weio t-oon hitting in the shade devouring their scanty rations of corn brcail, bacon and greens. Forgetting their mi.-eries for tho time, those un-1 iortunnles reveled in the enjoyment of their rude repast. The clinking of thei. chains was interspersed with bursts of laughter over an occasional joke such jokes as are never hoard outside of a chain-gang camp. During the progress of the meal one of the guards was attracted by the peculiar conduct of a prisoner iii on of the squads. Approaching him, tho guard said in a surly tone: "See here, Joe, no shamming now; it won't do, you know. No sickness allowed in this camp!" Tlio convict looked up willi a start into the cruel eyes of a cruel face, uud saw no merey there, "Curse you!" ho snarled; "I wonder if you have a heart," "Thinl; I have," replied the other nonchalantly, "but that has nothing to do with your case, my friend. Our worthy host, Colonel Clay, is of tan opinion that a convict never gets sick ho only shams and, us his instruc tions are to punish every case of sham ming with thirty-nine lashes well laid on, 1 have nothing to do but to obey orders. Von utidorstaudP" The com ict looked up into the face of his guard. The guard looked down into tho face of th convict. Tall and erect, youthful and handsome, making allowance for the cruel eyes and face, the guard, dcsplto his rough jeans suit, looked like a man who had seen hotter days. And his history did not run counter to Ids appearance, l'ive years before Dick Macon had been one of the spoiled darlings of society. Tho gaming table and tho wine cup bail sent him down at headlong speed to Ids present level- had reduced him to tho necessity of accepting tho position of chain-gang guard on Jotloion's Clay's convict plantation. J ho prisoner, whoso keen, black eyes were scanning the relentless face above lilin, was a middle-aged man, whoso slight frame showed that ho was ill fitted to bear the hardships of the situa tion. Ills restless eyes, haggard faco, trembling hands and husky voice would have awakened pity s well as con tempt in tho breast of almost any ob server. Thoro was nothing novel in tho spec tacle to Dick Macon, however, tm bringing bis musket down with a vicious thump, ho said: You'll hotter taku caro, Joe- you'll otn licking before- night,, If vuuUon't Hal about your Work quicker. Joe bowed his head and muttered: "Twonly thousand dollars, and I was fool enough to think of giving him half. I'll bide my time." "What's that?" askod Dick Macon quickly. "Nothiiir," answered Joe. with his head still bent down. "Joe!" said tho guard. "Well," was tho snappish response. "I want to know, you rascal, what you meant by your allusion to $20, 000." "O, it was nothing," replied UK other. "It was mere mndncss on my part. I meant that I would give half of the $20,000 that I have securely hid den away if I could once get out of this blasted plnco." "You lying scoundrel," laughed the guard, "do you think you can make mo tumble to that sort of racket? You never had $20,000 in your life." "Liar, yourself!" shouted Joo, witli a suddon Hash of firo in his wolfish eves. "What am 1 hero for, Dick Macon?" "Humph!" said Dick, "murder, I be lieve. " "Correct," returned tho convict, "murder it is. I was convicted on cir cumstantial evidence, and owing to that fact I saved my neck, and was sent up for life. Hut witli'that murder was connected a robbory. When old Henderson was killed ho had on his person money and valuable jewels amounting to a small fortune." Tho guard looked at the other con victs. Thoy were a little distance oil', quarreling over their rations. "(io on," said ho. "Did you over hear that tho plunder was found?" asked Joe, witli a cun ning leer. "Don't know that I over did." liavo said boon Dick, "but still it may found." Not by a sight!" answered Joo witli great energy. "Tho booty is safe enough, and I could lay my hands on it in forty-eight hours if I could just got out of this cursed camp." "What will you givo for freedom?" asked Dick, with a nrovokinir irrin. "Half!" cried tho prisoner. "Ten thousand dollars to tho man who re leases mo from this infernal place, and puts mo hcvond pursuit!" and lie looked eagerly into tho guard's in seYutabln lace. Dick Mit'-on whistled a lively tunc, turned as if to walk oil', and then wheeled abruptly about. "Take a couple of buckets, you lazy slouch!" ho shouted to tho convict. "I must have somo fresh water, and we must go to the spring to get il. I say, Hill," bo called to one of the other guards, "just bring your gang over hero anil watch 1113' pots while I go for some water." Hill did as directed, and Joe, laden with two empty buckets, limped along in the direction of tho spring, closely followed by Dick Macon, with his musket thrown carelessly over his arm. The spring was about three hundred yards from tho other convicts and their guards, and was concealed from their view by intervening trees. The guard and tho convict remained at the spring some time so long, in fact, that their thirsty comrades left behind began to cast wistful glances in their direction. The loud report of a inuskct in the neighborhood of the spring plunged the chain-gang and the guards into the grouted excitement. What was the matter? Had Dick Macon tired upon .loo in tho act of es caping? Had Joo wrested tin musket from Dick and shot him? These were the questions askod among the convict". Tho all'air was explained in a moment. Dick Mieon made his appearance, running at full speed. Ho was almost breathless when ho eamo into tho gang of prisoners, "I had to kill him!" ho gasped. "1 was sorry enough to have to do it, hut ho turned on mo all of a sudden with a big stone in his hand, and if I bad been a second later ho would havu killed mo!" Koine of the prisoners murmured at this statement, but the ominous "click" of tho muskets quieted them, and af or a nrioi consultation a trusty was ttis patched to tho house , to inform Colonel Clay of the occurrence. The wealthy convict lessee swore roundly at first, but after a llttlo ro iled ion he said: "By jove! I'm glad tho fellow's gone. Ho was a heap of trouble a pow'ful sight of trouble couldn't do a fair day's work, ami always stirring up the other men to mutiny it's the best thing that could have happened." "The trusty returned to the Held bearing from Colonel Clay the laconic message: "It's all right." and the work of the day went on as usual. When tho prisoners knocke I oil' work at sundown they marched tu tho stockade, in which they were always penned up at night, and two men were sent out with a guard to bury tho dead man. No cor oner's inquest was held. It was not likely that any body would raise a Mir over so trilling an event as the shooting of a chain-gang malefactor. A grave was hastily dug near tho place where the body lay, and the carcass was dumped into tho hole and covered oyer with dirt. In a week tho affair was forgotten. Matters at tho camp moved on as usual, with tho exception of the Illness of Dick Macon. This young man foil ill without any warning, nnd after a few days reMguod his poMliou, Mi,ing that 1.. 1.1 1 1. ; . H 11(1111 1IUVU III BDUIv MUIII' iijriiiei 'jjiuployinonl. Tho great cuiiviot losxet) swore at Dick, but dually partial with him in a tolerably good humor. Tho thought nuvur orojiod Ids mind that tho shooting of Joo had any thing to I.i tt'illl ill. nitwiai nf tlln rvt.,1,.,1 nit.il J ...i ...... o ... llt4.l lilt iii desire for a change ot scene and oc cupation. So Dick Macon drew what wages were due him, and llitted away one morn ing, whither no one know or cared tc know. Tho season at llagatcllo Springs was at its height. Visitors who had not missed a season for twenty years de clared with contagious enthusiasm that Bagatelle had never appeared to Iwttcr advantage. The hotel was filled witli guests and the cottages were well patronized. Fairer women and braver men were never assembled together to trille away tho days and engage in midnight rnveliy. The gayest of all the gay and high spirited gallants who woro tho acknowl edged lady-killers of Bagatelle Was unquestionably Mr. Richard Macon. Tin's young man was a riddle to tho few students of human nature who oc eiislonally made him a special study. Young, handsome, possessed of abund ant means, and regarded witli imdi guiseil favor hy more than one of tho reigning belles, there appeared to bo every reason why young Macon should 1)0 a thoroughly happy man. That he was not happy, in spite of his bright sallies, was plain to all who cared sec. Tho days passed and Macon was engaged in a continuous round of pleas lire. Atblelie and prolioieut in ever. manly sport ami pastime, iron, a row ing match to a game of croquet, it was not surprising that his time should be fully occupied. Noboth know any tiling against Mr Richard Macon, and vet there was feeling of unpleasant surprise in tin gay circle at uagatcito wiien it was known that the young man bad won the heart and a promise of the hand 11 Irene Murray, the prettiest little blond beauty at the springs. Still it was dif licult to givo a reason for this. Mi Murray was an heiress, the only child of a widowed mother who had come to nagateiio in reality tor nor iieallliani d not lo set her cap for a second bus band. But Macon was a handsome generous lollow, a llttlo moody am queer at times, but in tho,main genial and clever, and, better than all, tb owner of certain mining stock-, which laid him fabulous dividends. His 1 teeedents were not known, but Ik claimed kinship with liighjy-rcspoct able families well-known to the social world, and no one questioned his story. It was the last night of Irene Mur ray s stay at liagatelle. Un the 11101 row sue anil her mother were to r turn home. The two lovers had much lo say to each other, and they pro ferred to say it awav from the glare of the ball-room, and away from the sounds of Hying feet and the watering- place band. As thoy promenaded on the spacious piazza ot the hotel Irene said as hjr oving eyes rested upon tho handsome face of her escort: Now. Richard, dear, you will follow us soon?" in ton davs at farthest, my dar liiu answered Richard. I am wait ing for a business letter which mav ail me to New York, but oven in that ase my stay will 00 short, ami you will see me before von have begun to miss me." Itiehanl. said the tan girl with a lingo of melaneholv in her tone, "there is only one thing needed to make 1110 perfectly happy" "Ha! ha! laughed Richard; "you would have the old lady viow 1110 with more favorable eyes." "That is just it," was the earnest answer. "Mamma is all I have left. ami I do so desiiM to please her; and vol her prejudices aro so uiireanoii ajilo." "ut course, l Hunk so. as they aro leveled at me," said Richard; "but never mind, dour, the prejudices will vanisn wnen sue sees now devoted 1 am lo you, and how wo love each other." "1 hope so," replied Irene .seriously nnd with a tremor of her rosebud mouth. "Of course thoy will," answered the lover, cheerfully: "no prejudice will bo proof against such love as nunc. The two continued their promenade, but dually paused where tho light from the hall-room windows foil upon t hum. "I have a little present for you." said Richard Macon, with a strange, intense ring in his voice. "It is an heir loom in our family, and has been for a couple of centuries, I suppose; I have always kept it concealed from profane eves, witli the intention of giving it to my promised wife." Tho girl's face grew radiant as she raised iter eyes witli an expectant look. Clumsily and with singular awk wardness for one so graceful and solf-povso.-ed, Richard drew from bis breast pocket iu jewel ea--e. Silently open ing it he exposed tit the astonished vision of I be beautiful girl a ouaint uid rare necklace of glittering dia monds in just Mich an antique sotting 'is would have delighted a Florentine jeweler in tho middle ages. "Richard!"' The cry escaped Irene's lips in- an agonixed tone, as she grasped tho necklace and huld it to tho light. "Isn't it pretty?" said Richard with an injured look. "O, merciful Heavens!" exclaimed Irene, "I can't bo mistaken? No, it is too evident how did you conio by this neck la eo. Richard? Did you say It was an heirloom in your family?" "What a racket!" said Richard, turn ing pain and speaking very rapidly. "os. It is an ancient heirloom in our family my r-.mt-giiiat-grandmothur usud to worn-it; it lias novur been out of tho family since it was purchased ancestor of mine, in Paris, 1 think. Irene gave another searching glance at the necklace, and then clutched it tightly in her hand. "R'chard Macon," she said in calm. clear tones, "this was never an heir loom iu von r family." "What can you mean you arc be side j'oiirsolf!" gasped Richard. "1 mean," returned Irene with piercing glance, "that this necklace is one of tho articles my poor murdered father had with him when ho was killed and robbed in ueorgia lour years ago." "Pshaw!" cried Richard; "it may re semble it. but of course it can not be the same. Don't I know that it has always been in our family? You are losing your senses, Irene." "I am not mistaken," wu tho agita ted reply. "I have handled this neck lace too often to be mistaken. Why, here is the private mark placed there by my father one dav in 1113 presence. I well recollect that ho said at tho time that the mark might some day aid in identifying the necklace if it should ever bo lost. It is the same, and now, Richard Macon, how came you hy this precious heirloon?" "Your question is an insult," was tlu; hot answer. "Givo me, the neck lace." "Never! This matter must be ex plained. I must know if jour hands are stained with my father's blood." "Conround it!" said Richard. "1 never even heard that Mr. Murray was murdered. Your talk is the maddest mystery iu the world to me." "My father's name was Henderson," said the girl, sternly. "Hi was niiir and robb"d iu a lonely place among the mountains of Georgia. Ho had with him a largo sum of money and this jewelry. A poor devil was tried for the murder, found guilty, and sent to the chain-gang for life. The' money and jewels wore not found 011 him, and ho always protested Ids innocence perhaps ho told the truth." "You said your father's name was Henderson?" "Yes. After his death a wealthy bachelor brother of tny mother died and loft her a fortune 011 condition that -ho should resume the family name of Murray, and the condition was exacted of myself. We accepted the terms, but when a foul murder is to be avenged, Irene Murray remembers that site is Irene Henderson." Richard Macon looked dumbfounded. "I swear ," he. began. "1 will not hear von!" exclaimed Irene, her eyes Hashing fire. "You be gan with alio you called the necklace an heirloom you will lie on to the end of the chapter if 1 permit it! If you have tiny'stulcmout to make explaining how Iho necklace came into your possession you may proceed." I'ora moment. Richard Macon looked like some wild animal at bav. Then, recollecting himself, ho male a pro found bow, and said: I shall leave you now, Irene you are in no mood to lis'en to reason, in the morning you will laugh at your conduct. to-night and will beg my par don. I shall leave you here. Aq re voir!" and with a mocking smile kissed bis hand and walked rapidly away, leaving Irene standing like a statue, with tlic necklace clutched tightly in her hand. When morning came, just asthegiuv light was chasing tho darkness awav, : pistol shot rang through the hotel There was a rushing to and fro, and filially a crowd of servants and hoard ur.s stood 111 Kicliar.l JMacou s room gazing upon tin dead body 01 the stu- ide as it lay stretched upon the b with a pistol firmly grasped in the right hand. luehard M icon had taken his own life. It wis not the fear of the law that impeled him to this rash step he felt ible to hold bis own against the world But ho know that no deceit, however artiul. would clear htm in the eyes ot Irene Murrav, and death was a thou sand times prefer ibln to lif with the ver-iiresent sense of hor loathing and mlulout suspicion of Ins guilt. Tho miserable man left a sealed let lor for Irene Murray. in it was true ivoit.il of tin fact i iu the ise. Too proposition of the convict loo was staled, and the writer told how he yielded to temptation how ho induced the prisoner, by promising him freedom, to disclose the hilling place of Henderson s money ami jow ls, and how, when he had ascertained what he wanted, ho bad treacherously :uid coolly shot the oonvietilowu 1 iko 1 dog, and afterward made use of the scoundrel's hidden plunder. The let ter was written with devilish coolness. but at the close the writer expressed lis undying affection for Irene, and egged her to forgive his madness. follv and guilt. The buttorllios of the social world at Bagatelle could not fathom the mys tery ot Macon s suicide. Thev did not now the contents of his Totters to hone, and it was not until she was happily married, a couple of years iter, that any one knew it. Sho told her husband all about it one dav. and io, for an answer, merely folded her In his arms and kissed her. HWueo ', Ikwl, in MlanUt CanstittUioii. -A wood turner of San Francisco died ten days after receiving an injury to tho brain, which was not discovered until several days afterward. Tho sur geons found behind one of his ovos a plefo of steel throe and a half inches long, one inch wide at tho center and tapering to sharp point at tliu onus. One end was buried one inch ami u half in tho brain. Sun I'mnetsnu by an NOC i uRNAL VISIONS. A Conclcntlnm riiysininnU Itnttonil View nl Hrrnm Keprriontiitlum. Wiindt regards most dream repre sentations as really representations, since they emanate from sensorial im pressions which, though weak, continue during sleep. An inconvenient posi tion during sleep causes tho repre sentation of painful work, perilous a.-eout of a mountain, etc. A slight in tercostal pain bcVoiucs the point of an ouenry's dagger or the bito of an en raged dog. DiHiculty in respiration is fearful agony caused hy nightmare, the night mare seeming to be a weight rolled upon the chest or a horrible monster which threatens to stifle the sleeper. An involuntary extension of the foot is a fall from the dizzy height of a tower. Flying is suggested by the rhythmic movements of respiration. Further, "those subjective visual and auditory sensations which are represented in a waking state as a luminous chaos of an obscure visual field, by humming and roaring in tho ears, and especially sub jective retinal sensations, have an es sential role," according to Wundt. "There aro shown to us innumerable birds, butterflies, Hsb, multicolored pears, llowers, etc. But if there bo some cutaneous irritation, th"so visions aro usually changed into ca erpillars or beotlus, crawling over the skin of tho sleeper." The sleep' r sometimes dreams of his appearing on tho .street or in society only half dressed; the innocent cause is found in somo of the bedclothes" having fallen off. An inconvenient position of the sleeper, a slight hindrance to respiration, or interference with tho ac tion of the heart may be the cause of dreams where one seeks an object without being able to find it, or has forgotten something on starting on a journey. Tho movements of respira tion may suggest to the sleeper, as previously mentioned, flying, but this flight may bo objective, and instead of himself Hying he sees an angel descend ing from the heavens or a luminous chaos where birds are swiftly moving. Tho representation of dreams hav-! ing sensorial origin may have mingled j with thorn those which arise solely from the reproduction of past 11101110- 10s. Parents and friends cut oft 111 the flower of life ordinarily appear in dreams, because ot tho prolound im pression which their death or bur'al has made, "hence the general opinion that tho dead continue during the night their intercourse ivith the liv ing. I Ins view ot dreaming is ration al, and explanatory of most of the phenomena that we are conscious of. while it may lead to a bettor under standing of those visions to t lie asleep and half-awake that aro so extraordi nary as to appear at present unac countable except hy im'puling super natural causes to them. Thrcnologiatl Journn'. THE ART OF WELDING. A Cfiid Ti-lllna: Wow It Was Kiv-iili-il tit 11 Smith liy tint Kvll Our. Standing on the curb, with a friend of a philosophical turn of mind, look ing at the operations of a smithy at a portable forge, lib said to me: "That blacksmithing reminds mo of the story that is told about the art of welding. It is said that it is only within a liun- Ircd years or so that blacksmiths have boon able to weld two pieces of hot iron together with any great degree of success, and that the secret of doing this was discovered in a dream. The -tory goes that a slumbering black smith dreamt tint ho had an-interview with the devil; and, seeing that it was a great business opportunity, im poiiuncd his Satanic Majos'y to inform him how he' could weld iron together with suc cess. Satan was in- an agreeable mooch and said something which sounded like 'send it,' and then sud denly the blacksmith awoke. Ho puz zled himself a long time over the mean ing of these words, and at last con cluded that what thodovil had said was 'Sand it.' He then tried rubbing the heated iron in sand before welding it, and finininiiat he had discovered tho secret which has been in use ever since, and has played a groat part in the progress of the mechanic arts. Tho method of making a pulley turn anoth er puny, at a distance, in the opposite direction, was also discovered in a dream. For ages the ingenuity of mechanics could not efl'ect this. At last a mechanic fell asleep and dreamt that this could bo done by twisting tho belt, and the device lias been iu use ever since. Viicano Journal. Tumors and Cancers of the Eye. There are certain tumors that aro apt to grow within tho eye-ball or in ; the orbit, interfering with tho vision I by the pressure thoy give rise to, or by destruction of the essential structures of tho organ of sight. The retina it- elf mav givo origin to a tumor (glioma or btireoma) which will de stroy the oye, and, eventually, the life of the sufferer. Such tumors are to bo observed mostly, if not entirely, in children. Thoy give a peculiar yellow tint to tho eye when looked at closofy, somewhat reminding ono of tho oyos of the cat. Extirpation of tlfo oyo-ball early oilers tho only hope of saving life, and this is generally doomed to disappointment. Tho growth returns to the orbit or within tho brain, and ends hy killing the patient after months of siitlering. Cancer, in any of its varieties, may attaok tho oyo-ball or its surroundings in the orbit, even tho bono not ooapIng its ravages. Its and is iu death, unless lifo is out short liy other disease. St. Louis Qtohe- MISCELLANEOUS. "Thev never throw any thing away in No. v England." 1'. B. Aldrich said to me one day; "thoy alwaj's put it up in the attic." St. Nicholas. "What." asked Toozor. "do you think of a man who owed his tailor n hill for years?" "Who is the tailor? Quick!" Pittsburgh Dispatch. A Missouri .sheriff wont homo in disguise in the evening to see if his wife would scare. Sho fired three shots at him so promptly that ho dropped hi experiment and began looking for the end of one of his fingers. Detroit Fret l'rcss. Deer iu the far West aro fast going the way of the buffalo. One dealer in Jacksonville, Ore., in two months bought thirteen hundred deer skins, anil other dealers in Southern Oregon have bought as many. These were all killed for their skins only, contrary to law. About five hundred workmen are employed at Berlin in the production of shoo rosettes. Tho sale amounts to about one million yearly, and tho ro settes aro exported to all the European countries and North and South Amer ica. A devil fish with seven arms, oacb from nine to-tliirtecn feet in length, was lately washed ashore at the Oregon coast, having perhaps died of old age. Those who examined tho body woro of the opinion that he could have easily handled three men in shallow water. Smear on the Printer's Ink. If you want to succeed In n business lino Sineur on the printer's ink. If in n procession you wish to shine, Smear on tho printer's Ink. Tear not to tell what you have to sell; Advertise, and do it well ; If you'd have the customers come pell molt. Smear on the printer's ink. Brooklyn Citizen. Natural gas is no means a recent discovery. Even its utilization for tho purposes of the mechanic arts was long ago successfully attempted in China, where, by pipes of bamboo, it was con veyed from natural wells to suitable furnaces, and consumed by means of terra cotta burners Very few hotels now keep old reg isters. They aro either burned, dis posed of to autograph collectors, or sold for wasto paper. Tho trouble hotels have become involved in, and the unenviable prominence somo got through registers in court, is tho reason for this action on tho part of proprie tors. Ar. Y. Herald. A party of young ladies wore in the city recently who aro taking a trip to Washington on tho savings made by eschewing expensive dresses on class day at their college. Tho custom not only enables them to see the world, but will make them a preferred class of candidates for matrimony. Pittsburgh Commercial Gazelle. Profound philosophy is sometimes met with in unexpected places. A poor old man who was engaged in out-of-door labor that evidently paid but a pitiful return for many weary hours of arduous work, was overheard to remark feelingly to a fellow-laborer: "I wish IT could live two lives, and have tho last ono first." I'l'.iri'lrnce Jourml. Tin; town of Weathorsfield. N. Y., has a freak in tho person of a young girl, the daughter of a farmer, who, without any previous training, has de veloped a decided talent for literature and music. A few davs ago she rose from a sick bed and wrote a book which is said to bo interesting, and since then she has composed several pieces for tho piano. Her "gift comes from an in'll" ence outside of her," she bays. - " f ofe'ssional humorists may be in let csted iu these two jokes: ".Mrs. W., walking on one of the wharves at New York, jocosely asked a sailor why a ship was always called she. ().' said the son of Neptune, 'because the rigging" costs more than the hull.' " "A preacher who kept a huckster's shop was heard one day to say to his shopman: John, have you watered the rum!J' 'Yes.' 'Have you sanded the brow-i sugar?' 'Yes.' 'Have you wetted tho tobacco?' 'Yes.' 'Then come in to prayers.' " The first was published iu tho "Massa chusetts, C innecticut, Illiodo Island. New Hampshire, and Vermont Al manac" in 17'.'l), ami the second in "Benjamin Wet's Rhode Island Al umnae" (It IN").. xY. J . nlUl. BSUOUSftESS Is an affection of the Liver, and can be thoroughly cured hy that Grand Regulator of tho I.lver and Biliary Organs, SIMMONS LIVER REGULATOR MANCFACTUKED BY J. H. ZEILIN & CO., Philadelphia, Pa. 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