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ORECON CITY BREWERY.
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II IC JAt'F.T.
Let not a bell be toll'd or tear be shed
When I ana dea3:
Let no night-dog, with dreary howl.
Or ghastly shriek of boding owl.
Make harsh a change so calm, so hallowed:
Lay not my bed
'Mid yews an I never blooming cypres-ses;
But under trees
Of simple flower and odorous breath,
Tl.e liuje and dog-rose: and beneath
Let primrose cups give up their honey'd lei s
To sucking bees.
Who all the shining day while laboring.
Shall drink and siug
A requiem o'er my reaecful grave.
Fori would cheerful quiet have;
Or no noise ruder than the liuits wing ;
Or brook gurgling.
In harmony I've liv'd so let me die.
That while", 'mid pettier founds the shell may
lie
1 he spirit dolt may float in spheral harmony.
. Charles Cowden Clark
Tin: i;i:A3ii:e.
All day the white-haired woman sits
Beside the ope.. liuits;
?: .hii- L - eyj sees. J 1
As, busy with old memories.
She dreams her dreams of what has been.
And knits her old-time fancies in.
She thinks of those who long ago
Went out across the threshold low.
How many times her listening ear
Has thought familiar footsteps near.
And she has started up to find
A dead leaf rustle in tho w ind.
But never as of thoso who lie
Beneath the wide and tender sky.
With folded bunds on quiet breast,
All wrapt about with peace and rest.
She thinks of them. For her they tread
The green earth with her. None are dead.
Though years have fallen like the leaers
Above the graves where Summer weaves
Her grass-fringid coverlet, to keep
Safe hid from us the ones asleep.
Whose face was love's interpreter.
O dreamer ! young again to-day,
What matter if your hair is gray !
She talks with them. When brown winged bees
Make merry in the locust trees.
Site thinks becomes and sits with her
Whose voice was loves interpreter.
O dreamer ? youug again t -day.
What matter if your hair is gray? -
Sometime she thinks that round her knee
Her children play in happy glee,
And when they t;red and sleepy grow
She sings some song of long ago.
And on her loving mother-breast,
Ske rocks her little one to rest.
O dreamer! knitting all tho day
Your dreams iu with your stitohos stray.
Yours is a happy, happy heart
A haunted world from our a art.
The years that turned your tresses gray
Have given you back your youth tj-day.
THE STORY OF MARLY.
A TRUE NARRATIVE OF ADVENTURE IN THE
FAR WEST.
1!T E. V. BLAKE.
"Did you ever know George Marri
ott?" said llorries to me as I lay smok
ing on my blanket, supper over, and
Miner heaping wood on tho fire.
I took the pipe from my lips and
paused. The name, a straDge souvenir
of New York folly, fashion and wicked
ness, came to me oddly enough here, on
the dark, silent, far lying prairie, with
tho purple, solemn twilight, starlit,
heading its hollow arch above, and the
faint, sweet, crescent moon, hung away
in the V.'est, beside the Evening Star.
Over the swells glimmered the white
flapped wagons and twinkling lights of
the emigrant camp.
"I knew his wife," I repeated-" Emma
Mansfield a fair, tender woman, as
good as gold. I knew of him and that
was enough. "Why, of all memories, do
you recall his, to-night?"
"lie's over there," answered Ilerries,
with a jerk over his shoulder toward the
emigrant camp.
"Over there? George Marriott?"
"I saw him. I've been over," said
Herrie3 sitting down, with a thoughtful
expression, on the grass.
"An emigrant? Formost in all fash
ionable folly and dissipation as he used
to he! "Why, these people are going
Gown to lncson. Miner tells me.
Acs. iiaantyou near. I, Del ore wo
left New York, of the scandle? How
his wife obtained a divorce broken
hearted, poor thing and went home to
her father?"
"les; I knew it well. .She had two
children, and the law decreed them
hers."
"That can't be, Eafe."
" hv certainly, dear fellow. Emma
told me herself I met her in tho street
They were her sole remaining comfort
those two children."
"But he has one with him now."
"Impossible!"
"I saw her, Eafe. A poor forlorn
child, six or seven, perhaps, with her
mother's face. I talked with him a few
minutes. He's degenerated into some
thing brutal. Foor little tiling!"
"But I can't get over it," said I, in
tho extremity of my amazement
"George Marriott an emigrant! And
the child!" I sat sometime smoking,
then got up.
"1 believe l II take a stron over.
"Want to come?"
"No. Had enough of it. They're a
rough set, miners and hard characters
in profusion. They're drinking consid
erable, and 1 think we'd better shift our
camp that s what I think,'
"Ef we mind our biz, they'll mind
theirs. I cruess." said Miner gruffly, and
added rather inconsistently "But ef
you're goin' ter git inter a skrimmage,
you'd best not cro alone. I'll go ef ye
wanter."
"All riLrbt. come aloner. ana we
strolled away from the fire. It was
longer walk than it looked, glancing
across tho swell; but presently the deep
i toned bass of a bijr white dosr warned
the occupants of tho nearest wagon of
our approach.
"Lie down Cris " nunth n. tall, un
shaven individual, who turned in easy,
unconstrained fashion, as if to do hon
ors of the camp to the unexpected
guests turned. stnrWl
Hudden. embarrassed astonishment; for
it George .Harriott s self.
.ur. ransom. 1 bel eve. Wvr flf
very well acquainted, yet I knew you
after a fashion." said he, with ready.
juuxui courisy tnat smoothed over the
nrsi unge 01 vexation; for he was plain
i. uui uiau to see me. x set it down to
ine score oi ins changed position and
consequent unwillingness to meet those
who tiaa Known bim in bette-r iinvo
Then, too, I had been a friend of his
poor wrongea wite.
Some easy common-place passed be
tween us, and then a child's plaintive
voice spoke from the wagon.
"Papa, is the soup most ready? I'm
so hungry."
"Yes, yes directly. Lie down." He
spoke impatiently, and gave a savage
stir to the kettle over the fire.
"Why, that is Marly !" I said invol
untarily. His face darkened.
"To be sure," he said, with a forced
laugh. "I didn't know you knew the
child. You seldom came to the house,
and I hardly knew you, myself. Yet
Emma said you were acquainted long
years ago. How oddly things come
about," he continued. ""To think that
you and I, of all people, should meot
here in the wilderness!"
It was the first time ho had refer
red to his wife or his married life; and
now it seemed a slip which lie was fain
to hurry over.
"It is strange," said I, "But surely
the life is rough for the child. Is no
one with her? Can I speak to her? She
isn t a-bed?
He muttered some ungracious word.
and drew aside the flap of the wagon.
The child was crouched on a heap of
stull in the corner, one rose on her
elbow and looked at me with eyes which
seemed poor Lmma s own. bhe had
seen me but two or three times in her
life, yet recollected me at once.
"Why, Marly, is it you?" said I,
shaking hands with her. "I haven't
disturbed you, have I? How do you
do?"
She said, 'Tretty well," and that she
was glad to see me; "for," she added,
with a timid glance at her father, "I
don't see anybody now that I used to."
"Lonesome, my dear? V ell, it s quite
natural. I'm sure. Strange way of trav
eling, isn't it? Quito funny in these
big, white topped wagons. Do you
like it?"
"Sometimes though I get tired and
want to get out. I wish I might ride on
a horse, as some of them do."
"lew ride! said Marriott, with a
coarse laugh.
"You're not very strong,"I said, "my
lear. Perhaps I could give you a ride
on my black horse if your father is
willing. To-morrow, may be. My road
lies with yours for some distance."
She said, with a wistful look, that it
would bo very pleasant, and glanced
again in a frightened way at Marriott,
who watched every word. After a little
I strolled away to join Miner. But
when Marriott thought me out of sight
among the wagons, I heard an oath, a
blow and a bitter cry from the child;
and my blood boiled in my veins.
I coula not sleep that night. Marly
Marriott's pitiful face, with its sad, en
treating eyes, was for ever looking into
mine. I tossed and tumbled, sat up,
poked the fire, lay down again, and
what ? Did 1 dream i Was it a ghost ?
Something came softly, swiftly through
the tall grass a phantom, a shadow
under the dark purple, starry sky, and
almost touched me as I lay with tho
blood slowly freezing in my veins.
"Please get up; please wake up, Mr.
Hansom!" and the faint voice was shak
en with bitter sobbing; like the sob of
the wind on a gustv autumn night
"Please do wake up and take me away!"
Miner was on ins feet though sleepi
ly as I caught the poor little, shiver
ing figure, and felt it to be indeed fiesh
and blood. Over the wide, dark prairie
slope she had followed our camp-fire
alone the pitiful little child with only
God and the angels to care for her.
"What is it my little girl? tell me."
"Do take me away please do take mo
away. I shall die if you don't take me
to my mamma mamma!"
"How did you come hero with him ?"
said Herries.
"He stole me in the night and made
me stay asleep; and he will kill me. I
don't dare to go back."
"Up with yer duds, Ilerries; saddle
up. boys," whispered Miner, hoarsely.
"We'll take the child an' clear out. "I
can't stand this, you know. Lively,
boys!"
In about ten minutes the horses were
saddled, and we rode swiftly through
the timber, Marly before me, wrapped
in my blanket. I shall never forget that
ride. Miner led he knew the country
and Ilerries brought up tho rear. The
stars glinted, the damp night breeze
blew in our faces ; the horses never broke
their gallop for miles and miles over the
dark unending, rolling prairie. By
and by the east turned gray, the west
darker; a long, pale streak of yellow
rimmed the far-lying swells. It turned
rosy; crimson streaks shot up; the stars
paled and vanished it was day,
"Tired, my dear?" for she leaned her
head wearily" against me.
"A little, little bit. Only don't stop
don't stop yet. We are not far enough
away."
Miner turned and shot an incompre
hensible glance over his shoulder with
out speaking. I understood. George
Marriott had stolen the child to torment
his wife, and it was quite probable that
he would move heaven and earth for her
recovery. He knew me for a friend of
Emma's.
"There's some pretty rough places
between here and civilization," said
Miner, an hour later when we had halt
ed for rest, and tho child was asleep.
"If he kin git an inkling of our route,
j there's ways enough to hinder us.
We're only three. Just now it s nearest
to Xavier station, an then to Austin.
But we won't go there, as he'll nat 'rally
think we
will." If the law has judged
the chil'en to his wife, he'll keep out o'
reach o' the law don't you see? Con
sequently, we'll git round back'ards to
Montresa you don't know it; it's a dirty
little Mexican place then twenty miles
further to hollo?"
peculiar echo resounded from the
rocky mouth of the pass where we had
camped. We were on the verge of a
mountainous region; had struck west
ward from our original trail.
"I rather guess hold on! said
Miner. "Saddle up, boy, before you
wake her. I didn't camp m this here
place for nothin'. This echo s a gooa
warnin', as I've found out afore; an
these rocks don't tell no tales. I'm
goin' ter reconnoitre. And he darted
away, and was back before we had com
pleted our hasty preparations for de
parture.
"Jest so. Ihcyre in sight. A bit
puzzled halted to consider." - He was
out of breath, and shot forth these ir
regular sentences in the intervals of sad
dling up. "Now, then, don't let on
about 'em to her, ye know. Wako her
up, Bafe. Time's out."
Marly looked frightened and clung to
mo as I lifted her. I smiled into her
face.
"Did I staitle you?" I asked. "It's
time to move on, you see, so I thought
we had better not delay. .Hold fast.
I sprang to Cheveignac's back, and
wo rode down the dark, rocky defile;
slowly at first, lest the sound of hoofs
should by any means reach the sharp
ears of our pursuers. After some, fif
teen minutes we seemed plunging into
a narrow gorge or chasm, without out
let, between ierpenclicnlar jirecipices.
We followed Miner, who led tho way.
But it seemed a narrow, tortuous way.
i(I say," said Herries at length, "do
you mean to be liko mice in a trap? For
we're in one."
"No wo ain't, young man. know
this hero region," retorted Miner, with
out looking round.
Sure enough, at the end of the
gorge, a narrow aperture, barely admit
ting a horse and rider, yawned beside a
huge boulder. It looked liko the en
trance to a cavern; and Cheveignac
pricked up dubious ears as he followed
Miner's roan carefully into the darkness.
For a few minutes all objects were in
distinguishable. Looking up I saw a
narrow white line drawn at an incalcu
lable height across the blackness above
us. It was tho sky. Our horses' feet
on the hard rock alone broke the silence.
Presently a faint white glow appeared
to broaden and brighten . before and
around us. The white line became a
broad strip, and the cliff summits were
lower and further apart.
"Now, then, jick up your feet, Jock,"
observed Miner to his horse, and added
oyer his shoulder, "Oome ahead at your
best. We've no time to lose."
And strange, hollow echoes of hurry
ing hoofs went flying down the pass.
Well, we bafiied them that time, and
in due course came to Montresa, where
we put up for a night at a dirty little
inn. Marly was worn out, and the
horses needed rest. We felt secure
from pursuit. Next morning we were
to resume our journey.
Tho horses were saddled in the dirty
little court-yard. Wo stood by them
settling with the innkeeper. There
seemed to be a number of men lounging
about. There were coarse red curtains
drawn at one front window of the low,
rambling building, and Ilerries hap
pened to remark on the fact.
"An American lady, senores, who is
traveling. She looks almost ill. She
starts also this morning."
"By the great " shouted Miner,
breaking off in tho middle of his exple
tive. "Surrender! Down with your
tol!"
pis-
"I'll be shot first!" shrieks Miner in a
fury, firing right and left. Cracks,
shouts, yells; a tornado of bullets,
smoke, hoofs, and mounted men. Che
veignac reared I caught his bridle.
Marly caught my other arm. Thus for
an instant hampered I saw George Mar
riott, revolver in hand, rein his foaming
horse ten feet away saw the flash and
heard tho report. There was just one
thing that saved me. He aimed at my
heart; and then ah, then little Marly,
with a shriek, sprung from the ground,
seizing at my shoulder and chest to
shield me. She gave a sharp, gasping
cry, loosed her hold, and fell as Herries
fired his sixth shot, and I saw George
Marriott reel and clap his hand to his
breast. But I cared for nothing more
as I lifted tho little child shot through
the back by her own father's hand and
got her in out of the melee.
For the men who were lounging
about had, in a body attacked Marriott's
party, and, aided by Herries and Miner,
were getting the best of it. I shouted
for the innkeeper, who, like a coward,
had vanished at the first shot, when the
door of the curtained room suddenly
opened on the long dirty public apart
ment, and I saw whom ? I recoiled as
at a ghost.
"My God my God!"
A wild, terrible cry of a mother's an
guish. "Marly, my little Mrly mam
ma's precious little child! Give her
here give her to me! My little angel!"
"Emma, Emma! you will faint! you
will drop dead! Let me lay her on your
bed."
It was a rough enough couch of straw
covered with blankets, but the best the
inn afforded.
Emma Marriott, with officers of the
law, had tracked her lost child across
the country, only to find her, in this
sad, strange way, in the Valley of the
Shadow of Death. Slowly the dark
eyes opened, and filled with ineffable
happiness.
"I havo found my mamma," she
whispered softly, with her arms around
Emma's neck.
Miner and Herrie3 hurried to the
door.
"We've whipped the consarned ras
cals, and Marriott's got his death
wound, I reckon," cried the latter, and
then, starting suddenly, exclaimed,
"What! Good heavens! he hain't shot
the"
"Hush hush, my friend. It is all
of no avail, now. Thank God, her
mother is here."
"Tell papa I forgive him," the child
murmured, and fell baclcdead.
"Gentlemen of the jury," said a Bal
timore lawyer in the Criminal Court,
"do you believe that my client was
guilty of selling beer to a boy in a small
bottle ?" The boy was a good sized one,
and the jury rendered a verdict of "not
guilty."
"Don't go to the Black Hills to get
rich. It is far easier to organize a life
insurance company and pay yourself a
salary of S30,X)0 a year." Detroit Free
Press.
1 COURTESY CF BANCROFT LIBRARY,
Cress and Fashion. Notes.
For the summer the novelty will be
long white lace mitts that reach up to
the elbow.
Balbriggan stockings are particularly
well adapted to display sprigs of hand
wrought embroidery, very fashionable
just now, and easily worked.
Hosiery for spring still continuosin
the dark shades of brown, navy blue
and red. Very pretty combination
stripes of cardinal red and black, or car
dinal and white.
A novelty from Paris is a crepe de
lisse tie, embroidered and having scol
lops at the edge, bordered most effect
ively with very tiny peacock feathers,
which form a most happy contrast with
the dead white of the rest of the scarf.
The newest white muslin wrappers
are made of nainsook, trimmed with
bands of Hamburg insertion and plain
or frilled edging. They are in Prin
cesse sha23e, perfectly plain down the
front and sides, and quite narrow in the
skirt.
Among the novelties of the season is
a variety of applique embroideries in
silk on grenadine foundations. Both
insertions and edgings are found in
these trimmings, which are used for or
namenting grenadine costumes. Fringes
and galloons of every imaginable style
and pattern are exhibited, and continue
popular. Tho new galloons are worked
with gold, silver and glass beads.
A ball dress seen at one of the Now
York openings of last week is thus de
scribed by an admiring devotee of fash
ion: "It is a Princesse robe en train
of tilleul satin, with overskirfc and
flounces of silver net, with silver tassel
fringe over buttercup-tinted gauze
supported by a modern reception skirt,
latest Paris style, flat in front, close
sides, with sufficient tornure for an ele
gant oultine." Of course tlris is easily
understood.
The Princesse dress is being made up
for little girls summer wear in gray and
buff linens, trimmed with white embroi
dery or Smyrna lace. It is fastened in
front, is only half-fitting, and therefore
cool, and sometimes has boy pleats
down the front. These pretty dresses
hang all the weight from the shoulders,
are in one single piece, and are as suita
ble for the street as the house, all of
which are desirable things in children's
dresses.
About Bridal Veils.
We have learned to consider white as
essentially a bridal costume, but it has
not been always so; aud even now the
Bokhara bride wears a rose-colored veil
on her marriage day, and in the modern
Greek islands the bridal veil is of red
silk a custom which has descended, no
doubt, from the "flamen," or red bridal
veil of ancient Greece; the Itomans in
old days wearing yellow veils. The Ar
menian bride, on the most important
day of her life, appears in what closely
resembles a sack made of rich silk, com
pletely enveloping the figure, feet and
head. The face is further hidden by a
linen veil over which falls another of
gold tinsel, and a part of the ceremonial
is for the priest's wife to dye the nails
of the bride a deep red with henna. In
Turkey, the bride appears in rich white
satin brocade, shot with silver, and be
dizened with pearls, a jeweled girdle
around her waist, her face painted a
crimson patch the shape of a heart on
her chin, the rest of the visage a mass
of white, except the black-penciled eye
brows. Our marriage ceremonies are
remarkable for their antiquity, and have
varied but little. Ihe wedding ring,
w hich the Puritans repudiated as as Sa
tanic bauble, has been worn from time
to time on the right or left hand, the
reason for its present assignment on the
latter being a tradition, whether authen
tic or not, that some vein in the third
finerer of the left hand has a special con
nection with tho heart. Our bridal
veil is of modern introduction, though
it is said to have replaced the Anglo
Saxon custom of the bride wearing her
hair floating on her shoulders. For
many years nothing but the wreath was
worn over loose tresses, lindal favors
are said to be of Spanish origin, and at
one time these were made not of white
but in the bride's own colors, whatever
they might be. Cassell s Magazine.
Value of a Woman's Friendship.
It is a wonderful advantage toman, in
every pursuit or vacation, to secure an
adviser in a sensible woman, in wo
man there is at once a subtle delicacy
of tact and a plain soundness of ludg
ment which are rarely combined to an
equal degree in man. A woman, if she
be really your friend, will have a sensi
ble regard for your character, honor
and repute. She will seldom counse
you to do a shabby thing, for a woman
friend always desires to be proud of
you. At the same time her constitu
tional timidity makes her more cautious
than your male friend. She, therefore,
seldom counsels you to do an impru
dent thing. A man's best female friend
is a wife of good sense and heart, whom
he loves, and who loves him. But, sup
posing the man to be without such a
helpmate, female friendship he must
still have, or his intellect will be with
out a garden, and there will be an un
heeded gap in the strongest fence. Bet
ter and safer, of course, are such friend
ships, where disparity of years or cir
cumstances puts the idea of love out of
the question. Middle age has rarely
this advantage; youth and old age have.
We may have female friendship with
those much older and those much
younger than ourselves. Female friend
ship is to man the bulwark, sweetness,
ornament of his existence.
A stokt is told of a shrewish Scotch
woman who tried to wean her husband
from the public-house by employing
her brother to act the part of a ghost
and frighten John on his way home.
"Who are you?" said the guidman, as
the apparition rose before him from be
hind a bush. "I am Auld Nick," was
the reply. "Come awa', man," said
John, nothing daunted; "gie's a shake
o' your hand I am married tae a sister
o yours."
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The Arab TKief and the Boy.
The following anecdote is given as an
illustration of the adroitness and audac
ity of the Arabs in some of their thefts.
An Arab introduced himself, by creep
ing on all-fours, like a quadruped, into
the tent in which one of the Beys was
reposing, and carried on his clothes and
arms; in which he attired himself. Quit
ting the .tent very early in the morning,
and assuming the manner and haughty
carriage of chief, whom he had left
asleep, he so imposed upon the attend
ants by his appearance that they led
forth their master's horse which the
Arab mounted, and rode off without
creating suspicion.
An hour afterward the servants were
surprised at hearing the voice of the
Bey proceeding from the tent, calling
for assistance. The latter was still more
astonished than his servants; the bold
ness and adroitness of the thief appeared
to him perfectly incomprehensible. Af
ter several weeks spent in fruitless en
deavors to discover the delinquent, the
Bey announced a free pardon to whom
soever would acknowledge in what man
ner his arms had been removed from
under tho pillow on which he slept.
Some days afterward the identical Arab
presented himself before, the Bey, and,
reminding him of his proclamation,
motioned him to recline on his couch.
and remain silent while he should ex
plain the mode by which he effected
the robbery.
lho Arab forthwith dressed and
armed himself as before, left the tent,
and again deceived the domestic, who
brought out for his use a valuable and
favorite horse, and moreover handed
him a most magnificent pipe, supposing
all tho time they were waiting on their
master. During the whole of this scene
the Bey, who saw what was passing, was
convulsed with laughter; but his merri
ment was soon checked when his proto
type fairly made off, at full gallop, with
his weapons and baggage.
A Peasant's Funeral in Lower Aus
tria. While we were driving slowly by
the market place in Czernowig, a peas
ant funeral passed. Notwithstanding
the frightful cold, the coachman and
footman took of their fur caps, and sev
eral Moldavian nobles present lifted
their hats, and remained motionless un
til tho funeral tram had passed. And
such a strange, comical train as it was.
The coffin, painted blue, streaked with
white, was on a low sled, drawn by two
oxen, ihe pall-bearers, four men. sat
on the coffin. A procession of women
followed, their heads wrapped in huge
folds of white cotton cloth, and their
feet encased in heavy cowhide boots.
They all wore Buffalo-skin sacques over
their short dresses, and, notwithstand
ing the solemn occasion, they talked
and laughed as if they were going to a
picnic. Sleighs followed, filled "with
men and boys, and so the funeral train
moved on, the men silent, the women
smiling; but perhaps death has no ter
rors for the poor creatures, who toil like
slaves from morning until night, while
their husbands smoke, eat, sleep and en
joy themselves. London Standard.
Generosity of Napoleon. During
the campaign of the great Napoleon
Bonaparte in Italy in 1796, an incident
occurred which showed that he could be
generous as well as stern and brave.
It was during the night after the re
pulse of the Austrians at Areola, a srnall
borough in Lombardy, that the general
was walking through his camp and tak
ing his survey. As ho was on his way
he noticed a sentinel asleep. Instead
of waking him, he took the soldier's
musket lightly from him, and, going on
guard, waited until some one should re
lieve him. After a time the soldier woke
up. Great was his horror and surprise
on seeing the general under whom he
was serving pacing up and down the
beat! He exclaimed with terror, " Bo
naparto! I am lost! "
The good natured general replied,
smiling, Be easy my friend ; you are
a brave man, and deserve some sleep
But next time wait for a better chance."
Gigantic Spiders. In the sands of
Central Asia a huge spider exists which
is known popularly as the Grandfather
Greybeard, which has long hair, " and.
when walking, seems as large as one's
two fists." This formidable insect is
given to biting when irritated, and with
its jaws makes four little holes in the
flesh. The bite is poisonous, though
not deadly. Its victim feels at first no
more discomfort than from the sting of
a gnat; but after a time the pain spreads
over the whole body, and" is accompan
ied with fever and great exhaustion. A
Chinese traveler states that the body of
this loathsome creature is the size of a
butternut; and that of the smaller ones
of a walnut. Spiders of such dimen
sions, with their big, hairy bodies lifted
upon long, stout legs, must be fright
ful adversaries in a small way as one
would be likely to encounter in any ex
perience amid the haunts of wild animals.
He had come over to see her father,
and they had been sitting together for
some time alone, and at length she ten
derly asked him why he didn't get mar
ried. And he replied with some agita
tion, that he had always feared that if he
did some time he might stroll into a saw
mill and be pushed against the saw and
have one of his legs taken off and have
to wear a wooden one, and he thought
it wouldn't be fair to his wife. And
then he added, nervously, that he was
in a hurry and thought he wouldn't
wait any longer. 2rorwic7i Bulletin.
All That is Necessary. "Aunt Ju
lia," said a blooming girl of seventeen,
"what ia necessary in rrder to write a
good love letter?" "Well," replied the
aunt, "you must begin without knowing
what you mean to say, and finish with
out knowing what you havo written."
" John," asked a doctor of the apoth
ecary's boy, "did Mrs. Green get the
medicine I ordered ? " "I guess so," re
plied J ohn, " for I saw crape on the door
knob this morning."
Banking in Ancient Assyria.
Among the many thousand tablets
brought to London from Babylon by
tho late George Smith, nearly all refer
to the history of backing in antiquity.
These tablets relate to a banking-house
that traded under the firm of "Egibi Sc.
Son." It flourished in Babylon be
tween the first year of the reign of Neb
uchadnezzar, G00 years before Jesus
Christ, and the end of that of Darius
Hystaspes, 485 years before our era. It
seems the chief business of the house
consisted in lending money, for the tab
lets mention such operations effected on
moveable securities at a certain percent
age ; but mortgages were by no means
unknown, for they contain instances of
sums loaned on land or houses for a
stated period, with very circumstantial
particulars, and surveys Accompany the
documents. There are also sales of real
property mentioned (in one, the plan of
the land sold is annexed) , and also the
sale of slaves. It appears that during
the first year of the reign of Nebuchad
nezzar, Egibi retired from businesa,
and that his grandson, Sula, the son of
Zirchin, became the director cr chief of
the firm. He performed the duties of
that office until the 23d year of the reign
of Nebuchadnezzar. In the fifteenth
year of that monarch's government,
Sulu went into partnership with his
son, Nabu-Akhi-Idin, who, on his fath
er's death, became the chief of thefirm,
and remained so until the twelfth year
of the reign of Nobonidus. In the
eighth year of that prince's reign. Nabu-Akhi-Idin
took his son, Itti-Marduk-Baladhus,
into partnership. This young
man succeeded his father 'in duo time,
and remained the chief of the company
during the reign of Nabo Nanbonidas,
and during those of Cyrus and Cam
byses. His son, Marduk-Nazir-Ablu,
succeoded him in the second year of
Darius. Some of the tablets are checks,
receipts, and other similar documents.
Women in Journalism.
The Lowell Offering was the first mag-"
azine in America, if not in the world,
entirely sustained by working-women.
The Rev. A. C. Thomas says: "It was
the first work written entirely by factory
girls, and the first magazine or journ il
written exclusively by women in all the
world." A volume entitled " Mind
Among the Spindles," being a compila
tion from this journal, wa3 published
in England. This was in 1843.
James F. Babbock, ex-editor of the
New Haven Palladium, at an editorial
convention held at Middleton, Conn.,
on the occasion of the centennial anni
versary of the appearance of the news
paper in that State, stated these facts:
"From the time of the first American
newspaper, in 1701, to the appearance
of the first in Connecticut in 1788, there
were seventy-eight newspapers in the
colonies one-half of which suspended
before 1775. Of the whole number
printed, sixteen were conducted by
ladies, fourteen of whom were the firm
and undaunted champions of liberty
and equal rights. Mrs. Franklin was
not only a printer of laws, newspapers,
and almanacs, but of calicoes and lin
ens." The Boston 2?ews Letter, the first news
paper in America, was conducted during
some part of the Revolutionary War by
Mrs. Margaret Draper.
Dr. Warren, president of Boston Uni
versity, says officially: "In no depart
ment of the University has the presence
of young women depressed the standard
of scholarship; in several instances it
has aided in elevating it. In the selec
tion of electives they have never evinced
a disposition to pass by the hardest of
mathematical branches or the most dif
ficult of the languages. At all times
has their influence been promotive of
order, studiousness, and a true social
culture. Of the day students, 144 are
women." Chicago Inier-Ocean.
The Dark Side op Public Lifb.
Some sad scenes attend the death of
a Congress. Said one of the ex-members
the other day one who has had an
honorable though uneventful career:
"I have now been in public life twelve
years. By the re-districting of my State
my District has been abolished. I am
almost glad to get out of the public
service, and yet I do not know what to
do. They have called us all thieves;
but I have scarcely enough money to
stipport my family in respectability for
six months. I was bred a lawyer, and
have had my old shingle for the last ten
years creaking upon its rusty hinges
before my office door in my native town.
It is a little town. The business is small,
and has greatly changed, and the people
have almost forgotten me as a lawyer,
and I doubt, if I commence life there
again, if I could earn my salt. The
young mf'n have got all the clients, and
need and deserve them, because they
know the modern ways of the courts.
The truth is, it is like beginDine life
over again, and the prospects are pretty
blue. I tell yon, young men, if you
have any ambition for public life, don't
do it. It is a pretty sorrowful spectacle
to see a man three-score years of age in
my condition."
A Russian Hotel Custom. At a Rus
sian hotel you are obliged to stipulate
for bedding, pillows, blankets, and tow
els, or else pay extra for them, as the
landlord assumes that you carry these
articles with you. This has been the
custom of the country from time imme
morial, and has produced among certain
Russians a curious kind of fastidious
ness. They strongly dislike using sheets,
blankets and towels which are in a cer
tain sense public property, just as we
should strongly object to putting on
clothes which had been already worn by
other people. National Republican..
On the arrival of the news of the cap
ture of Lord Cornwallis and his whole
army, one African meeting another sa
lutes him thus: "Oh! how do, Cuffee.
You hear 'bout Cornwallis?" "No, what
about Cornwallis?" "Why, General
Washington shell off all de Corn, and
now he Coiwallis. Mass. Spy, Feb. 28,
1782.
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