STANDARDS OF BEAUTY.
What Constitute Loveline in Some Out-of-tlie-Wny
Countries
Various are tho opinions held by a
wide diversity of races regarding thoir
beauties, though it is often difficult for
people bred under another sky to share
their enthusiasm. Tho Circassian
-women, who havo a sort of conven
tional reputation for loveliness, are
affirmed by thoso who know them best
to bo fnr from worthy of their celeb
rity. Short legs, glaring red hair,
faces so long nnd narrow that thoir
head seem to havo been squeezed be
tween two boards and flattened, noses
out of proportion to tho rest of the
features, and complexion of a dull,
load-liko hue. scarcely constitute
beauty according to our standard.
The Moors nnd tho Tunisian Jews re
gard corpulenco as absolutely essen
tial to beauty, and tho Inmates of rich
men's harems aro stuffed with nutri
tious food, like Strasbourg geese, for
the market. Tho Chlnoso poets sing
of deformed feet as 'f.olden lilies" and
tho rocking of their women In attempt
ing to walk as the "waving of a wil
low." Other races havo equally odd
ideas of what constitute loveliness,
for thoy "improve" their persons by
flattening their foreheads, tattooing
thoir skins, cutting off their fingers,
filling tht-ir teeth or dyeing them
black, blue or tartan, painting
their bodies, slitting their ears,
compressing thoir waists, putting
stones, bono or metal through their
lips, cheeks or cars, and in a dozen
other ways trying to enhanco tho poor
prentice work of 'nature. A Falatah
lady dyes her hands and feet with
honnnh, stains her teeth alternately
"blue, yellow and purple, ono horo and
there being left Its natural color, pen
cils her eyebrows with sulphuret of
antimony nnd dyes her locks with in
digo. Tho Hydah woman inserts a
plug of wood or ivory through her
lower lip until it presents tho hideous
appearance of a fleshy shelf over hor
chin. A Chineso or a Siameso lady
cultivates long nails. A Hottentot
belle can not got hor noso flat enough
or a Persian beauty hers high enough.
On tho northwest coast of America no
reproach is more bitter than for ono
Indian girl to toll another that "Your
mother was too lazy to flatten your
head." Tattooing is almost universal
among half-civilized or savago races;
in New Zealand tho Maori women, bo
foro thoy began to imbibo European
prejudices, oven tattooed thoir lips
lest they should havo tho reproach of
being red. Somo races slit their ears
until thoy hang in loops on their
shouldors. Others insert huge rings
nnd other ornaments through tho car
tilage of their noses. The Louisludo
Islanders regard the lid of a sardlno
box as a particularly neat pleco of
jowolry, and oven European women
have not yet ceased to suspond bits of
stone and motals through tho lobes of
thqir ears. Thoro is in truth no pos
sibility of arriving at any standard of
beauty. N. Y. Graphic.
VERY DISCOURAGING.
How a Garrulous l'anaeiiRar Wasl'erftiiaded
to Shut Up.
"Do you remember as fur back as
th' siego of Petersburg, friend?"
I sized tho questioner up, got a good
grip on my pocket-book nnd cautiously
answered: "I do, but I was very
young at tho timo."
"Wasn't thoro yersolf, then?"
"No."
"It's a great pity. I didn't know
but what I might talk ovor old times
with yer."
"Perhaps wo can find a congenial
subject," I observed, as I let my kneo
drop so that his hand could slide off,
and moved ovor as closo as I could to
tho car window.
"P'raps wo kin," ho said; "over been
tor Maddygaskor?"
"No."
"Ever seen a South American
dugong?"
"No."
"What's yer opinion on th1 subjec'
of th' sid-oral astronomatics?"
"I don't know nny thing about
thorn."
"Sho! Got nny chowin' torbnekor
about vor?"
"No."
"Say, friend, whoro you from?"
"Korgiyackker."
"Whoro?"
"Korgiyackker."
"Where's that?"
"Right across tho Yuggornock rivor
from YorstiToriski."
"Rushy?"
"No; New York State."
"How fur is it from Yonkors?"
"About ten ohms."
Ho was beginning to wilt a llttlo,
and I followed up my advantage.
"I've read somo thing about Peters
burg," I said. "Did you fight in
Charlemagno's division?"
"Whoso?"
"Charlemagne's."
"It's so long ago I most forglt, hut's
near as I kin remember my Glnoral was
named Smith."
"Was ho monocotyledonously in
clined, or did ho favor anthropological
cseterotlsni in his manner of conduct
ing tho campaign?"
"Loolf horo, stranger, ono or th'
other of us is a nat'ral fool," ho broko
out, "an' I'm puffectly willln' tor tuko
th' bonoflt of tho doubt an1 shut up.
What d' y or say?"
I said, and tho train rolled on.
Judge.
m m
In splto of tho popular boliof, It
is not truo that tho rain falls allko on
tho Just and an tho unjust. Tho just
gonornlly got tho moat of tho shower
hiMMUiae tlit unjust havo coolly walked
off with lhlr umbroUus. Somtrvidc
Juurnui.
PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL."
It was a habit of tho Into Prof. R.
A. Proctor to take an hour's nap every
afternoon, and his wife always snt by
his bedsido while ho was sleeping.
Thero aro a dozen men In Milwau
kee who carry a lifo insurance of more
than $200,000 each. One, n prominent
railroad man. is insured for $500,000.
G. W. Taylor Is tho wealthiest
living Welshman. Ho recently sold
an estate in Australia for tlioonormou9
sum of $21,725,000, and wont homo to
Wales to contest a seat in tho Houso
of Commons.
Helen Blunchnrd, who mado a very
largo fortune through her invention
of nn "over and under attachment"
for sewing machines, wns so poor that
sho had to borrow money to pay tho
patent ofllco fees.
In Clevolnnd, O., thero is a lady
who is totally paralyzed by ovory
thunderstorm. Sho recovers when tho
storm ccasos. Years ago tho houso
where sho lived as a girl was shattered
by lightning and she was paralyzed,
but recovered.
A lady with whom tho venerablo
savant M. Chovroul, now in his one
hundred and third year, was exchang
ing small-talk in a drawing room re
cently, complimented him upon hisox
tremc juvenility. "You aro too good,
raadamo," replied M. Chovreul, "but I
feel I am going down tho hill. What
would I not givo to bo eighty again!"
Montgomery Sears, who is among
tho four wealthiest men of Boston,
was tho son of a grocer who lived on
half a dollar a day and slept in his
storo. Ho acquired somo real estate,
and when ho died left his modernto
fortuno to his son under tho caro of
trustees. Young Sears chafed at this
and finally succeeded in breaking his
father's will. Ho has gono on acquir
ing property until his wealth is esti
mated at many millions.
Seth Green, Superintendent of
tho New York Stato Fisheries, who
died recently at Rochester, N. Y., was
In his day tho most expert fly fisher
man that over whipped a forest brook
for trout. Ho had sold or raised fish
all his life, and know moro fish stories
than over wero dreamed of by modern
Munchausons. In fish-culturo ho was
an admitted authority. In appear
ance Mr. Greon was burly, bearded
and patriarchal, and in manner ho was
ovory inch n man and a gentleman.
It's pretty well known that Mr.
Gladstone is a great talkor, and quito
apt to monopolize conversation on
most occasions, Ono day ho sont for
a young nobleman, who is very fully
posted on tho Eastern question. Tho
young man went, and tho noxt day
was congratulated by a friend on tho
impression ho had mado on tho Grand
Old Man. "Mr. Glndstono says that
ho nover met nny ono who know so
much about tho Caucasus." Tho
young man smiled. "I was with him
two hours," said he, "and nover opened
my mouth."
Commenting upon tho death of
John Robinson, circus proprietor, tho
Chicago Times recently expressed sur
prise that P. T. Barnum should remain
so long on earth. When Mr. Barnum
received a copy of tho nowspaper, at
Bridgeport, Conn., ho wrote a letter,
in which ho said: "For that writer's
satisfaction and warning, I will re
mind him that tho Bible says tho
righteous shall live long in tho lnnd,
but tho wicked shall not live out half
their days." Mr. Robinson was a good
man, but ho was profane. Mr. Barnum
is pious ovory day in tho year.
"A LITTLE NONSENSE."
When tho architect spoko of tho
groat navo thoro was to bo in tho now
church, a pious old lady said sho
"know to whom ho referred."
Barber "How do you liko to havo
your hair cut, sir?" Flanigan "Wld
do scissors, av coorso! D'yo supposho
Oi wanted you to tako a scytho?"
Judge.
Mr. Hedge "What seems to bo
tho matter with your eldest son? Isn't
he thin nnd nervous?" Mrs. Bird
"Yes; poor Dickie. This is a vory
trying timo in his life. His volco Is
changing and tho poor follow is trying
to raiso a moustacho." Puck.
Thero was confusion in tho faces
of Georgo and Matilda, who sat in
intimato proximity on tho sofa, as
Harry entored. Matilda was tho first
to recover her solf-possession. Sho said:
"Wo are engaged in a llttlo gamo of
cards." Harry "And a mighty closo
game too, oh?" Iioston Transcript.
End-man "William, can you toll
mo why a man sitting on a red-hot
stovo is like a man who lias gono to
Heaven?" Mlddlo-mnn "I don't know,
Mr. Bones. Why is a man sitting on n
red-hot stovo liko a man who has gono
to Heaven?" End-man "He's better
off." Middle-man "Mr. Wheozor will
Bing 'When tho Milk begins to Turn."1
In Zanzibar not long ngo thoro
was a race botweon a zobra and an os
trich. Tho riders wero cruel in tho
extreme, and it was painful to soo tho
stripes that tho zebra was compelled
to carry. The ostrich was in high
feather at first, but whon tho zobra
eumo out ahead it went and buried its
head in tho sand, though perhaps if it
had had moro sand it might havo won
tho raco. Texas Siftings.
Mrs. Ponn "What a quiot young
man Mr. Wallnut is. I don't know any
ono who is so modost, so retiring, so
unobtrusive so " Mr. Ponu "I
do." Mrs. P. "You do? Why, WiU
liam, who?" Mr. P. "His brother is
so inuoh qulotur that comparison ceases
to compare." Mrs. 1'. "Ills brother?"
Mr. P. "Yon. Ho'sdoad." And then
tho bllanutf was no liitunuo thuy could
hor tliw w v'uk. -VhiUidtlphia Vull,
NATURE OF FOODS.
The lllu"erenco Hetween Xltrnceuous anil
CurboimrroiiK Articles of Dipt.
Foods that supply mutorinl for
prowth nnd repair aro called nitro
genous foods. They aro also called
protelds, from a Greek word moaning
"first," because in the living cells
which aro the first principle or form
of lifo there is always nitrogen.
common namo is albuminous foods.
Albuminous substances exist in many
forms, and aro called by different
names in different things. Thoy aro
found largely in meat, fish, milk, peas,
beans and grains. Tho albumen and
fibrin in tho juices and flesh of meat
and fish, nnd in tho juices and mem
branes of some vegetables and fruits,
tho casein in milk, tho vegetable casein
in peas and beans, and tho gluten of
grains, aro all forms of nitrogenous
substances, or pro'olds.
The carbonaceous foods aj fats, in
cluding butter, tho fat of meat or fish,
oils, eggs, and some kinds of choeso.
A small amount of fat is neces
sary in digestion, aud indlspensublo
to perfect nutrition. Starch and sugar
as found in vegetables and fruits aro
also fat producing. Fats from tho
principal material of certain tissues
giving rotundity and beauty to tho
form and being non-conductors of
heat, keep tho body warm. An unduo
accumulation of fat is a species of dia
easo and is often dangerous.
Thus wo see that tho solid part of
tho flesh and blood Is largely fibrin nnd
albutnon, substances similar to tho
fibers and juices of meat and fish, and
that eggs, milk, peas, beans and grains
also contain fibrin and albumen, and
it is from theso nitrogenous foods that
tho bodily substance is chielly built
up.
Ago, occupation, climate and our
finances should influence our choico of
food. Persons whoso occupations tax
their muscular strength often think
that they require a great deal of meat,
when thero aro many foods that con
tain as much as, or more, proteid mat
ter than meat, such as peas, beans,
choeso and grains.
Animal food Is hotter dlot for, cold
weather than for hot. Yat Is not di
gested easily unless exorciso Is taken.
Fruits, vegetables and grains eaton
with milk, buttor or oil, furnish tho
carbohydrates needed in summer.
Thoso who labor or exorciso in tho
open air need a largo quantity of
wholesome food, and it need not bo tho
most digestiblo, as thoy requlro food
that will stay by thorn.
Persons engaged in sedentary occu
pations or who tako little exorciso and
live In close, confinod rooms, can not
digest as much or as easily as thoso
who labor out-of-doors. Thoso who
tax their brain severely should avoid
fat. Pooplo who consumo much starch
or sugar aro liable to grow fat. As a
rulo tho majority of peoplo eat too
much, and between forty and fifty
years of ago an excess of abluminates
Is liable to dovolop heart, liver and
kidnoy troubles, which aro more or
less akin to dyspepsia. An excess of
starchy food or of sugar or fat, causes
obosity, not only of tho body, but an
accumulation of fat about tho heart
and other intornal organs which is lia
ble to provo very dangerous. Build
ing Xcws.
TREAT STOCK GENTLY.
Why It In Wrung to Worry Animal! by
Hough Wo r tin and Way.
I havo known a groat many froo-go-ing
horsos of nervous temperament
kept in a continual worry by tho rough
ways and words of their drivers. Thoy
would frot and sweat and grow poor
doing tho work thoy would thrlvo
while doing under mild-mannered, con
siderate control. I havo seen a great
many heifers and cows in a tremor of
oxcitomont while some ignorant or
brutal follow was milking thorn. I
never know them to bo made quiet nnd
willing to bo milked by scolding, kick
ing or pounding; but thoy might havo
been mado doeilo by early and gentle
handling. It is safo to say that rough
usage of cows often occassions tho loss
of lialf their milk. Thoy refuse to
"give down," and that dries thorn up
rapidly. Hoys, dogs and heedless mon
worry them when driving from tho
fiold. Irregular feeding and milking,
and ovcry thing out of tho regular or
der, disturbs, and thoreforo damages
them. Change of residence frequently
causes cows to shrink thoir milk for a
wholo year. A noted Holsteln butter
cow, taken to tho fair to tost her butter-making
qualities, made only a
pound of buttor from forty-four
pounds of milk, whllo in tho quiot of
her homo she mudo a pound of butter
from twenty-ono pounds and three
ounces of milk. Likely sho was extra
nervous, but all cows havo nerves
enough to requlro that their treatment
bo gentle and regular. Hugh T.
Urooks, in N. Y. Tribune.
In ono respect ryo is a cheap crop
becuuso it requires no land for its
growth, to a certain extent. That is,
if the seed is sown in tho full on land
intended for corn in tho spring, and
tho ryo turned in boforo planting tho
corn, tho ryo simply holds tho land
that would otherwiso be unoccupied
during tho winter. It is also excellent
on tho land intondod for potatoes, and,
as it r-sslsts in keeping down the
weeds, it saves much labor in that re
sped. Dralnago, says tho American Culll
valor, marks tho lino botweon swnmr
und gruln field; botweon swale aud
grassy muudows; between mosquito
plantations and pluiunnt oruhurds und
irrovtw; butwttun unprolltubly iiitd pro
fltablu ugrlouUuru.
GENERAL
O
INTEREST.
Down in Brazil tho emancipation
of slaves was mainly duo to an editor
who kept his paper rod-hot with aboli
tion arguments. Ho did not have much
success until ho printed a translation
of "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Then tho
peoplo waked up. They cried over
tho story, and raised such a protest
Against slavery that tho Government
was forced to abolish it.
A Greenville (Midi.) womnn who
asked for a divorce tho other day told
the court that a little, measly, ono
nrmed cuss had licked her husband.
"My marriage contract calls for a lord
and protector," sho said, "but when a
man Is so easy to got away with ho
can't be mifjh of a lord to a woman
and protect her." Tho court allowed
that sho had all tho logic on her sdo.
King Mwnnga, who rules over tho
black Province of Uganda. Is not a
pleasant man for a next-door neighbor.
He rules over 10.000,000 subjects, and
Is as ferocious as ho Is powerful. Ho
has l.oOO wives, and kills live of them
every day for his amusement. Ho Is
tho largest slave-trader In Central
Africa, supplying tho Mohammedan
dealers annually with about 150,000
slaves.
A passonger on a west-bound&truln
from Chicago hid his money in one of
his shoes, on retiring for tho night,
nnd then placed tho shoo and Its mate
In tho aisle, near his berth. A porter,
having subsequently blackened tho
shoes and found tho "hidden treasure,"
returned it to tho ownor, who is said
to havo domanded a light, so that ho
could count tho money and see if tho
finder had taken any.
A writer In a recent book about
traveling in tho East, tolling of tho
slow puce and multitude of animals
required in caravan traveling, makes
tho calculation that tho Israelites,
when thoy wont from Egypt undor
Moses, must havo had a caravan at
least two hundred leaguos long and
must havo employed six million
camols. What a parade for tho youth
ful Egyptian as ho saw it pass.
Jefferson's Island, in Louisiana, tho
sometimo winter homo of tho genial
actor of Hip Van Winklo, Is a superb
hill crowned with great forest treos,
lying on a trembling prairie or semi
marsh, and with a lino lake, called
Lake Peynlor, for its outer margin.
On this island, which contains 2,000
acres of land, was formerly an orchard
of fine oranges. Hero Mr. Jefferson
plays at raising lino cattlo. Ho has
something ovor two thousand head and
u fow bloodod horsos.
Extraordinary stories aro told of
tho healing properties of a now oil,
which Is oaslly mado from tho yolks
of hen's eggs. Tho eggs aro first
boiled hard, and tho yelks aro then
removed, crushed and placed ovor a
llro, whoro thoy aro stirred until tho
wholo substnnco is just on tho point of
catching Hro, when tho oil separates
and may bo pourod off. Ono yolk will
yiold nearly two touspoonfuls of oil.
It is in gehoral uso in South llussla as
a means of curing cuts, bruises and
scratches.
Julius Eichborg, tho woll-known
Boston musician, tells this story of an
early oxporienco: Ono day a lady,
somowhat advanced in years, came to
mnko arrangements for taking prlvato
lessons in singing. At tho end of tho
second losson tho teachor felt con
strained to toll her that her oar was
not truo. Sho received tho remark
very coolly, and at tho next losson
sang as badly as before. "I am
afraid," said Mr. Eichborg, "that you
can never learn to sing in tunc." "Oh,
it doesn't matter," was tho surprising
answer. "Doesn't matter!" said tho
astonished teachor "No," said tho
pupil, "I don't caro any thing about
music, but my doctor said that singing
would bo tho host thing for my dys
popsia, and so I docided to tako les
sons." Force of Sea Waves.
Somo idea of tho tremondous forco
possessed or exerted by sea wuvos may
bo formed by tho fact that an iron col
umn, twonty-threo foot long and
weighing somo 0,000 pounds part of
a now lighthouse holng built was, in
tho courso of operations, landed at
Bishop Hock, England, and, a storm
coming up, was loft lashed by a half
inch chain at each ond to strong eye
bolts. Three days aftorwurd it was
found, on examination, that the groat
column had been tossed up by tho
waves a distance of some twenty feet
to tho top of tho rock, where It wus
swaying about like a pioco of timber.
Two days afterward, when tho work
mon woro ahlo to land, it was found
that a blacksmith's anvil, weighing
160 pounds, which had been loft in a
hole three and ono-half foot deop nnd
two and ono-hnlf feot in diameter, had
also boon washed by tho waves com
pletely out. Science.
An Intemperate Conclusion.
Two ladies mot in a streot car the
other day, when ono remarked to tho
other that sho had a bud cold, and
asked hor if sho wus doing any thing
for it.
"Oh, yes," sho sale?, "I havo boon
udvlsed to tuko a good hot dose of
Kin"
"Why, Mrs. ," said hor frlond,
It can't bo possible that you would
st such an example as that In your
responsible situation. It would be
moral suicide."
"You interrupted mo," said the
other, coolly, "I was going to say a
good hot dose of ginger tea taken
very night was u surg aura for u
wild."
'OUr-lMroit t'rtc 1'wt,
OF
'A JAPANESE HOUSE. j
It Oddltle Have No Counterpart In Wrut
ern Architecture.
How to describe a Japanese houso,
where nothing is liko any thing corre
sponding to it at heme? From tho
outsido it is an uninviting big black
barn; inside It Is a spotless rioU'a
house magnified a thousand dinmeters,
all wood and wicker and white papor.
Tho entrance hall Is a platform raised
a couple of feet abovo tho ground,
where you tako off your boots If you
aro a foreigner, or leave your sandals
if you aro a Japanese. A screen door
slides back and you aro in but that
depends on circumstances. Somotimos
you aro in one room and somotimos in
another. It may bo a gonoral sitting
room, fifty feot square; in may bo :
bedroom (if you call early In tho morn
ing'); or you may find yourself in an
improvised sa'ictum and intruding
upon somebody writing labored de
scriptions for a far-away press. For
here walls havo not only ears, thoy
have also legs, and whon you wish to
make a now room you Hlmply "form
square" by sliding enough panels in
thoir grooves to incloso tho spneo, or,
at your pleasure all tho rooms can bo
thrown Into ono, Inclosed, In our
case, by forty-six panels. Thoso
forming tho sides of tho houso
consist each of sixty llttlo papor
panes. To wet one's fingor, stick
it sllontly Into tho window, and
peep through this is tho natural
Japaneso counterpart of occidental
surreptitious Inspection by tho koy
holo. Tho floor is of mats; not mats
strewed about as at homo, but solid
structures of dollcato stuffed wlckor
an inch thick, of conventional and
regular size, lot into tho fioor elastic,
spotless, immovablo, nover profaned
by ovon tho daintiest of sllppors. Chairs
and tables are, of courso, unknown,
nnd tho posture of roposo Is to soat
onoself on ono's hcols. This squatting,
by tho way, Is very painful at first,
and, like tho "blameless dances" in
"lluddigoro,"takosadoal of training."
At meal times you squat anywhere
and your food is placed boforo you.
Whon you aro tired you throw your
self anywhere on tho floor, with ne
fear of soiling your whlto linen suit.
Whon ovoning comes you do not scok
your bedchamber; you simply make
it, by sliding tho walls round the spol
you havo chosen for your slumbers.
Tho rough nnd ready way, according
to my American frlond, is to troad
around on tho floor till you find o
spoolally soft mat. and then lay a fow
walls upon It for a couch. A moro
luxurious ono la to havo a futon ot
thick quilt spread out, and roll your
self In a rug or blankot upon It. The
chief drawback for a foreigner is that
his hip-bone, which Is moro prominent
than that of a Japaneso, Is torrlbly In
tho way, and my journalism not hav
ing yet advanced to graduation upon
tho plank bod, I havo not learned the
trick of obliterating tho natural pro
jections of tho body. But you sloof.
comfortably In splto of tho marauding
rat, whoso Immunity from attack has
rondorod him equally inquisitive and
harmless, and In tho morning whon yon
roturn from the bath, bod and bedroom
havo allko disappeared. It Is tho storj
of Aladdin domesticated. Toledo Cor.
Washington Star.
A PROFLIGATE DUKE.
How He MaiuiK to 1'uit Away HUTImti
In th French Capital.
Brilliant novelists nnd dramatists
would undoubtedly find a subject
worthy of study and description In the
person of tho Duko of Mondolfl, an
opulent member of tho Important Rus
sian colony in Purls. Tho Duko loads
a lifo which resembles to a certain ox
tent that of ono of thoso Roman Em
perors or oriental potentates described
by picturesque historians. Ho lives in
a splondid hotel in tho Avonuo du Hols
do Boulogne with his mother, Princess
Woronzoll, who was a slstor of Prince
Nicolas Troubotzkol, and a mombor ol
tho household of tho Czar boforo hor
lawsuit with hor nophow, Count Woron
zolT, ono of tho Emporor Alexander's
court marshals. Tho Duko of Mondolf,
Is reputed to havo $100,000 a year, most
of which ho manages to spend In a
magnificent manner. Ho nover goes tc
bed until daylight does appoar, and he
gonorully gets up at throo o'clock in the
afternoon. After a meal, und oxtonded
at full-longth on a sumptuous divan, he
receives his friends and visitors, hit
mother, tho Pylncoss, bolng prosont at
tho levee. On theso occasions the
Duko wours olthor a suporb dressing
gown in ivory-colored plush, lined
with sutln of tho lute of tho poach,
garnished with silver braiding and or
namented with jewels, or an nmplt
jacket of heliotrope volvot, with gold,
and clasped together with ducal coro
nots studded with brilliants. Whllo
conversing with his visitor tho host, It
is said, toys with precious stones ol
rare value, polished and uncut. Jr.
tho intervals of conversation a band ol
Neapolitan singers warblo tho melodi
ous ulrs of sunny Italy, und thoso are
succoeded by Tzigane rauslcluns, whe
mnko tho ducal hall rings with tholi
nativo wild and diabolical strains.
After each musical porformanco the
leader of the band approuoho tho divan,
kisses tho hand of tho most noble mastoi
of tho houso, and receives his orders foi
tho noxt morceau of demoniac bliss.
iator in tho evening tho Duko repair
to a splendid cafe on tho boulevards,
where ho dines with his friends and
listens onco more to tho musicians, to
whom ho distributes bountiful lurgoss
in the shade of fistful of louls, while
his guests quaff liberal bumpers ol
spuming ohuiiipugiio in his honor.
Varii J,tller.
On Strimthuiu Common still stuiuii
u hollow tree, into which in hoyliooe4
Cardinal Manning used often to ulluil
tu oniulc nuts and out hurley sulfur,
UNCOMFORTABLE PEOPLE.
rtnoia Wlin t:Ut Solely for the, Trial oft
Their JfelRhhorn' 1'nlth.
They aro thoso who novor let you
alone, or lot you enjoy yourself in
your own way, but Intend nnd in
sist that you shall bo happy in
their w.?y or nono; who want you to
drink coffee whon you want to drlnlc
tea; who Insist that you shall wear
your hair plain when your pleasure is
to have it banged; who speak to you
ns if you had committed somo heinous
crime should you havo tho temerity to
havo an opinion dllferlng from theirs.
Thoy question tho correctness of
your knowledge upon any subject un
dor consideration, and argue tho most
trilling points with a fervor botlttlng
tho most weighty causo. Thoir opin
ion upon art, literature, science, theol
ogy. In short, all human learning, Is
so oxhuustloss, their taste so cultivat
ed, their code of ethics so just and
pure, that you, with your limited
ideas, are at onco put to silence, and
thoy would fain Impress you with tha
belief that from their ultimatum thero
is no appeal.
Such peoplo novor let you appoar nt
your best; they havo tho effect upon
you of a moral torpedo; thoy maka
you shrink into yourself, mako you
ashamed of yourself, instead of inspir
ing you to any endeavor worthy ot
yourself.
I know not whothor thoso high and
mighty folk aro not to bo preferred to
thoso not moro humble ones who
mako no pretensions to culture of any
sort, who In fact frown upon any thing
of tho sort, thinking It a wns to of timet
and energy, but who aro nevertheless,
firmly of tho boliof that thoir opinions,
aro tho only ones worth having and
that knowledge will dlo with them.
Their uncomfortablonoss takos tho
form of differing from you on any
subject that may happen to bo brought
up, partly from sheer obstinacy and
because thoy aro constitutionally contrary-minded.
It matters not what your efforts may
bo to plcaso ono of this sort; you wilt
meet with no favor. A cheery "good
morning" moots with no response,
and all your well-mount efforts to en
gago hor in conversation brings forth
but monosyllable replies, If, indeed
any at all.
You tako particular pains to poach
hor an egg; sho doclaros that it is not
fit to bo eaton, sho would rather havo
it boiled. Is hor bacon boiled, sho
would rathor havo It fried; tho tea i
too hot, tho cocoa too cold, and so on,
ad injinitum. Do you suggest a walk
or a drive, sho is sure it will rain, op
it is too hot, too cold, too duBty or too.
something olso.
You plan a plonsuro trip or a visit
to a distant frlond; sho really can't
understand whnt pleasure you will ex
pect in such a placo, or how you can
abido such and such pooplo. Sho
novor falls in with any of your plana
or In any wlso aids you to compass or
fulfill thorn. Sho has novor a word ot
chcor or praise for any offort, how
ovor laudablo its motive. By soma
strange porvorslty sho seeks out tho
fiaws and defects. Liko "Iago" was
it "Iago?" I havo not my Shukospoara
by mo sho Is nothing If not critical.
Sho performs tho part of a wot blankot
in tho houso, chilling and dampening'
ono's cnthuslusm in ovory thing. Such,
a porson, man or woman, Is a sad dis
couragement, any thing but a well
spring of joy in a houso, smoko to tha
eyes and vinegar to tho tooth.
All such pooplo, taking thorn collect
ively now, aro pormlttod to exist for
tho trial of our faith and tho perfect
ing of our pntionco. Thoy aro tho
means of a wholosomo discipline on
our road to sulnthood. God grant that
wo falter not nnd fall not before wo
reach that blessed consummation.
But as for you and mo, gontlo reader,
lot us not .lend ourselves to bo such
luddors to olovato others, let them
work out thoir own salvation. I'tila-
dclphia J'rcss.
AN INTELL.rGEN V DOG.
How Ho Tried to Urine it I.onn Mormon taej
it CIohu.
During a rocont journoy in Canada
I mot with a striking instance of rea
son in a dog. I was staying at the
Mohawk Indian Institution, Brnntford,
Ontario. Row R. Ashton, superin
tendent of tho school, is also Incumbent,
of tho neighboring Mohawk Church
(tho oldest Protestant church in Can
ada.) Mr. Ashton is vory fond of ani
mals, and has many pots. Ono of these,
a black-iind-tan torrler, ulwuys ac
compunios tho ninoty-nino Indian
children to church on Sunduy morn
ing. Ho goes to the altar rails und
lios down facing tho congregation.
Whon thoy rise to sing ho rises, and
when they sit down ho lies down. Ono
day shortly boforo my visit, a stranger
clergyman wus preaching, and tho ser
mon was longer than usual. Tho dog
grew tired and rostloss, and at lust n
thought occurred to him, upon which
ho at onco acted. He hud observed
that one of the elder Indian boys wax
accustomed to hand round tho plate
for alms, after which tho sorvlco at
once concluded. He evidently thought
that ir ho could porsundo this boy to
tuko up tho collection tho sermon must
nuturully end. Ha run down to the
buck seat occupied by tho boy, soated
himself In tho ulslo, and gazed stead
fastly In tho boy'a face. Finding that
no notice wus taken, ho sut up und
"bogged" porslstontly for some time,
to Alt. Ashton's grout amusement.
Finally, us this also fulled, tho dog put
his noso undor the lad's kuoo and tried
with nil his strength to forco him out
of his place, continuing this at IttWr
vals till the sermon wan concluded.
Did this not provo a distinct powwr of
oonsooiitlvo toH)HlnjP hwdm im