walking raised a questton in my mind
THE RIVAL LOVERS.
ns I Io >k>d down ou her from niy posi
tion on the ladder. It was solved by
Story of a Thrilling Adventure on a the lime shj reachoil a wind >w. Sue
House-Top.
"
put out ore of her little white hands
and rested it on the window-sash. At
The center of the main roof of the the same time the young man ex
Ocean House is capped by an octago claimed, ‘Mi.s----- , Clara! What are
*
nal cupola or lantern. Inside it is a you doing?'
“She made no answer, and he
large room, with eight windows ex
Vending from floor to ceiHng. --You ac- sprang toward her.
“ •Clara!' he cried, in an anxious
«ainpauja the cur ot the elevator as far
as it goes in its upward j »urney, and manner, ■wbat is it? Why did yon
then there are several precipitous come up here so late? Let me assist
flights of stairs to be climbed.
Once you down, please.*
“She turned toward him. and a sud
tip, and you are well repaid for your
trouble by the glorious outlook over den change came over her faoe. It
land and sea.
All Newport lies at was one of confusion and surprize.
I don't know how you would describe
your feet
In old times the cupola was a favor It .
•• ‘Where am I?’ she cried, and then
ite resort for newly-married coupl e.
They used to get themselves out of she gazed about the cupola In estrange
breath scaling the steep stairs, and sort of way. Before the other person
then they would sit by the windows oohld speak she rushed into his arms,
gazing forth, mooning and spooning .which were quickly outstretohed to
catch her. The pretty llttje blonde
by the hour.
- The other evening a trip was made was a somnambulist.
•• T threw myself on the bod. and
to the cupola to ascertain if possible
the whereabouts of the becalmed must have fallen asleep,' she said, ex
yaohta that were sailing or drifting for citedly.
“"The gentleman—for he behaved
the Citizens' cup. The octagonal room
was deserted save by the presence of a like an honorable fellow through it
miiddio-aged man of powerful propor all—endeavored to sooth her and per
tions, who sat in a cane-chair gazing suaded her to go down to the lower
toward the sea, occasionally refresh regions, but she grew hysterical and
ing liis visual powers by a peek he could do nothing with her.
“.‘I saw you gc up the stairs as I
through a binocular glass. Conversa
tion arose over the probabilities of the was going to my room,' he said. 'I
termination of the race, and one topic cpuld not understand why you went
led to another until the stranger ob Up toward the cupola, and I followed
you. Thank God. I did, Com'e below,
served: '
•This is my fii*t visit to Newport ih Clara. Do come.’
"She answered him by a nervous
many years. I came here to the cupola
es soon after my arrival as possiblo, sort of laugh. In anothqrJflSMuit there
for the place possesses a strange intcr- was the sound of some one rushing up
the ladder, and tire othor-ftdmirer, his
.-est to me. ”
There is nothing wildly fascinating faoe furio„s with passion, sprang into
about the bare, plastered, cobwebby the cupola. .He shouted out:
“ ‘Miss
all is over between you
" octagon, and the speaker's manner
implied that lhe varied landscape did and me. Any girl who will moot a
not attract him. Ils was, therefore, man in thia piece al this lime of night
asked what was the particular»attrac can't be my wife, As for you, sir, you
tion lliat gave rise to his desire for an must settle with me foryour conduct.’
Then he jumped oh the other fellow
immediate visit
“I saw something up here that wdhld like a tiger. I could tell by his utter
make j'our hair stand.” he replied. ance that he was full of champagne
“It was my first visit, to the town; and and that lie was crazed with, jealousy.
“The »fury of that onset neariy
I passed several weeks at lliis hotel. I
found out tho capita, and I enjoyed threw the attacked party to the floor,
climbing Up—there was no elevator byt ho struggled in solf-defonse,'and
then—to look off into the moonlight the two were locked in a moment in
a sort of catch-as-catch-can embrace.
wlsilo I smoked.
‘Ono night I had an adventure The giri was dazed at first, and then
which I will never forget. Neither she gave a little cry and sank on the
.would you if you had taken part in it. floor in a ¿Lead faint. The young men.
Do you see that ladder?” lie exclaimed, who were too much engaged to notice
pointing to an unpainted stair to a me, charged and floundered about the
trap-floor in lhe roof used to reach the cupola like two dogs in a fight. It
halyards of the flagstaff on the top of was rough and tumble, hit"and gouge
the cupola. “Well, something pos on the part of tile assailant, and resist
sessed me to climb up there and look as best he might on tho part of the otlior.
offlhe top of the lantern. The night The two got on their feet, whon a sudden
was close and sultry, and all pf these idea seemed to seizo tho furious young
windows were open, with nothing to man, who was frantic with excite
prevent any one from walking directly ment. Get! Ing a fresh hold, ho dragged
out unless they had a care. Observe his rival toward the open window
what a dosoent there is! Tho long, which looks down on that steep roof
steep roof has nothing ou it to prevent of the L’ there, a
“ Out you go!’ ho said, as he panted
■ one from sliding with terrible speed to
the edge, and then tire fall to tiro earth' dram the violence of his exertion.
“Noitherone of the pair was what
would be at least eighty feet.
“I wont up to the trap-door and you would call powerful. The fellow
ton id it fastened. Ritiirning slowly who was assailed, especially, was like
down the ladder, and pausing when many other city young mon of the
down a little way to take a few whiffs time; lie was better fitted for a. waltz
of my cigar. I saw something in white than such a contest. The other was
coming up tho flight of stairs loading clearly stronger, and his rage made
to the cupola from the attic story be him overwhelmingly so. Quicker than
low. The time was past midnight; I am telling you of what they did, he
and tho moon was obscured by clouds, had jerked the weaker one to the win
to that every thing was indistiuct, but dow.
*“Out you go!1 fro again exetatmod.
I was enabled tb determine* that the
while object was a woman, and that I The other one. who was pretty well
bad often seen her face about the house winded, grasped lhe side of the win
during my stay. Site moved nolseloss- dow casing there and held on, strug
ty along and approached one of the gling hard to prevent his grasp being
•»pen windows and stood loaning her torn away. But it was useless, and in
another moment he would have gone
bead against the frame on the side.
out, to stop only when he reached tho
"I felt myself in an awkward posi
ground of the back yard, away down
tion.
I did not like to make a
there.
noise for fear I might startle tire young
“I had watched the whole affair with
lady, and the thought flashed across
a strange fascination. I had kept
iny mind that she would be terribly
quiet until the time had come whon I
frightened and, perhaps, fall out of the
could do so no longer. I sat on that
window. So I concluded to keep quiot
■until she moved away from I ho <1 vigor stop up voider. It is about eight' or
nine feet above the floor. I gave a
ous spot before speaking to apprise her
leap as I sAw the hold of the young
-of my preaonco and going down, leav
fellow give away. I landed witti a
ing hur in full possession of the cupola.
crash on the boards at the foot of the
Shy was in full evening dress of white
ladder and seized the lunatic around
muslin, or something of tho kind, and
the waist The next thing he knew
there were sonio disarranged flowers
was that he was on the floor on the
In her light hair. She was ex-
opposite side of the cupola. I am pret
tremely delicate,
of the
pale
ty strong now but then I was able to
typo
with
a
blonde
little
have handled two or three such fel
red spot on cither cheek, but she had
lows.
been very gay during her stay at the
“As I stood over him I said: Tf
bolol, mid the men about the house
called her the prettiest girl of the sea you stir I will throw you out!’ and
then 1 turned to the other. He half
won. There were two young men in
leaned against the window, with one
constant attendance on her. One was
from the South somewhere, and the hand pressed over hl« heart
“ ‘Pray take her up!’ was all he
yarn in circulation was that he was
could utter, so exhausted was he.
engaged to her. The other admirer
"I picked Qp the girl, and, telling
was a good-looking fellow from New
the crazy man that if he stirred from
York. I beliovo.
••The girl remained by the window the spot from which he had picked
but a few minutes when I heard foot himself up I would pound the life out
of him, I motioned to the other one to
steps on the stairs, and the young'man
who was not regarded as the accepted go ahead and lifted the sleep-walker
lover emerged through the opening. to the stairway. It wu bard work to
Me was in evening dress and held a get her down, but we carried her to
pair of white kid glovos in one hand. her friend« I saw the young man
He was about to speak whon the girl safely in his room. On the floor be
slowly left the window and passed neath I met the jealous lover. He was
across the cupola toward the opposite sobered by the shaking I gayo
sida Some thing in her method of and having had time to cool off
scU what no nan enaeavorea to an.
He attempted to explain and to apolo
gise, but I let him off by telling him
lliat 1 would have him arrested If he
did not get out of town in the morn
ing. When I got to my room it, was
just two o’clock.”
There was a long pause after the
narrator ceased. Finally the question
was asxeat g “Wnat Became ot mein
aHP DAI the girl marry either one?”
“I "believe she was consumptive."
was the response. "No; she died a
year or so afterward.”— Newport IM-
.
ter, in N. Y. Herald.
SUBSTANTIAL fOOO-
PERSONAL
ANO
IM
—Tha violinist. August
Ca«M ot t«» ’ t ari» Consumati«« ài
bas rented his luuch-admired
MnU by Hard-Worblus Maa.
the Rhine for a numbet of
I well remember how the sen
will take up his permanent
and thrifty New England people am
in Berlin.
whom my boyhood was spent used
_ Dr. Jessup, of the British
talk about ' hearty victuals." and
iatlon, says that the
_________
prevalent
were the doctrines that
-heeled shoes so alters th«
hard-working man wants real hearty
vity as to cause a retuni
food," “and that children ought to
f ••tailless apes, who
have hearty food, but not too hearty.”
babit
With these eminently orthodox tenets
their
•ed, of Ocals, Fla., J
the science of nutrition in its newest
-Dr.
.Baltimore XclwrhJ
developments is in fullest accord. B it
August 23, 177jJ
there always used to be an unsatisfac copy of
and advertii««J
tory vaguoness about them. I never Journal da
SOME ODD 1UHNOU1S.
• o“**®!
oould make out exactly what were is a graphic
Ships of the Desert with Deeldedl/ Out- “hearty” foods, and in just what their George wflMM
e finest ufi
thousand
aoraa
■■«Utah Vehlelee In Tow.
rid and ii;J
heartinoss consisted. It baa since oc
At the time of my longest cruise curred to me that these words express «st land In CM
W. Vs. 1
among th« West Indian islands, I spent one of the ideas which the unerring ths Kanawha Vai
enta of
several weeks in Barbadoes and found sense and instinct of man have wrought
—Recent
that private enterprise had established out of his long experience, but have fins show that
in its queer little toy capital, Bridge waited for scienco to put into clear and Roman oould not ha
town, a small omnibus which plied definite form.
The’ synonym with five feet five inch
along the sltoce road between the town which our science defines this idea is of Cleopatra me
and a favorite bathing place a few energy. Hearty foods are those in Inches. Within the
miles boyend it, sheltered by a friend which there is an abundance of poten years the height of the
ly coral reef from the embarrassing at
racy has considerably i«i
tial energy.
tentions of {he sharks. A very pict
—Chauncey M. De
The lumbermen in the Maine forests
uresque turnout it was, woll worthy of work intensely in the cold and snows ceived a couple of band
that plucky little islet, which, accord of winter and in lhe icy wnter in the vases from the French
ing to Captain Marryat, announced in spring. To endure the seyere Inbor recognition of his
the crisis of the N'apoleonio war that and cold, they must have food to yield Bartholdi statue celebri
“if all de world fight against England, a great deal of * heat and strength. graceful complimont for
England nebber fear so long as Bar Beans and fat pork are staple articles orator on that occasion,
badoes ’tand -tiff.” The negro driver, of diet with them, and are used in very quisite specimens of wo
with his smart suit of navy blue, his large quantities. The beans supply
—“One of the droll
shining "stove-pipe” hat, his magnifi protein to make up for the jjjear and things,” writes a London
cent show of white teeth, and his tear of mnsclfl!‘flflfl(t'ihey, and more
ent, "is a statement by
cheery shout of “Here, John, ear.” especially tire pork, are very rich in
that many years ago he le
would have made a choice study for energy to be used for warmth and work. paintings seven feet high
any painter. But for some reason or
I .can not vouch for lhe following, size figures of young
other the venture' did not pay, and I which lias just struck my eye in a daily
sentry duty on a cliff, a:
have since heard that it has been paper, but, if it is true, the workmon
it not been returned, b
abandoned.
were sound in their physiology.*
able to remember whom he
Even more picturesque, though in a
"A, lot of wood-choppers who worked
—While Mrs. Shepherd,
widely different style, was tirepeculiar for Mr. S—in H — shopped work
conveyance which wo found, in oper tire other day, and sent a spokesman to William II. Vanderbilt,
ation in the streets of Allahabad dur their employer, who said that tho men Francisco she di nod at a fan
ing our journey through -Northern "wertT satisfied with“ ItieTr wages'and restaurant. ^Birds’ nest so
fins and «mperor’s tea we
Indht to Afghanistan. Even for India
most other things, but did like~*ybur the high-priced dainties
it was a deadly outlandish affair. One
fresh meat; that’s too fancy, andhain’t especially rulishéd. She bo
can fancy wbat a crowd would be cob
got strength into it' .Mr. S----- gave tea of that brand the res
looted in Broadway by the first
them Balt pork three times a day, and bad, the price being sev
glimpse of a two-storied omnibus with
peace at once resumed its sway."
pound.
its upper coinpartmeut filled with
Tho usp of "oily and fatty foods in
—The famdus English "bo
bifliwn-faced Hindoos, arrayed in all
arctic
regions
is
explained
by
the
great
colors of the rainbow, and piloted by a
Mr. Hutton, who died recentl
potential energy of fat, a pound of
chocolate-com plexioned driver in
learning.
He neither “
which is equal to over two pounds of
blue turban, long, whiton-i robe, and
hospitals” nor ever learned t
protein or starch. I have been greatly
crimson sash. But as if an this
t
were
of all the crevices in the hum
surprised to see, on looking into the
not enough, this singular vehicle was
ton. If lie had had all tire .
matter,
how
commonly
and
largely
the
drawn by neither horse nor mule,- but
fatter kinds of meat are used by men the‘human body thrown don
by a genuine Bactrian caynel. whose
engaged in very hal'd labor. Men in ' him. he would have been at gi
huge ridgy back reached almost as
IrHininsJor al h le t i e con tests, a s pa l 's- to arrangetfhem tn order. Y<
high aslhe top of the double-tier car
mon
frvrrd foot-ball teams, eat largo men sent patients with disidt
which *íie drew.'“ Tire sight of the
quantities
of meat
I have often him.
camel as a beast of draft was not, in
—C. N. Fain, of Carrollton.
deed, wholly new to mo, for in crossing queried why so much fat beef is used, In his possession the inaugure
tire deserts of central Tartary duiing and. especially why mutton is often delivered by ex-President Poll
, the Khiva expedition 1 had had a teanrof recommended in preference to beef for ber 14, 1839, after his elect!
training diet Both the beef and the ,
camels harnessed to my wagon three
mutton are rich in protein, which I gubernatorial chair of Tenneq
abreast, and the spectral outlines of
makes muscle. Mutton has the advan- | address is handsomely prin
their Jong, gaunt limbs and misshapen |
tage of containing more fat along with I piece of white silk, eighteen!
bodies flitting over the interminable I
een inches, and was prtj
sands in the fitful moonlight form a the protein, and hence more potential 1 Captain Fain's grandfather!
case I
picture worthy of Vasili Veresht» energy.
.Pf'. Perhaps
-p this
? is . another
anomer cast
no doubt pass through the]
1 •
a
*i
1 however, I in which experience has led , to 1 practice,
cnagin.
A
camel i omnibus,
,
tnn
mol grounds
rviazMirtri2 tai
n •> tro . later
lornr
many generations to come,
the real
for ’ whinli
which have
was still jy Moxqltx. to tue. .but . before. firm erpruW'dl^r-fentmc resenrctt — ■ relie worth ■ preserving. II
our Indian tourroded I had seen the
I is considered as one of the j
t'rof. Atwater, in Century.
“Ship of the desert” figuring in j
delivered by the distinguish
another capacity more extraordinary j
I dent
still. While we were at Cawnpore one ■
HOW TO GRADE LOTS.
of our acquaintances there, a young |
— The following query
civil engineer had"to start’off Vnex° I Th’T"’’1’ * R“1' peared in the Boston A
' -- - ”............. — — ------ — ------ |
pectedly one evening just after night- . The advantage in appearance which I swered: A clergyman
fall in order to survey the route of a a house has that stands up well above I from a bridegroom for th
projected railway to tire border fortress I the level of the street or roadway, is . of the marriage ceremon
of Jhansi. We went out to see him now very generaljy understood, and ; man used most ot the
off and found to our no small amuse consequently we find the. foundation 4 ■table deeds. Wilk the
ment thaV the “dakgliarri” (post walls built higher than was customary j gel credit the good deed
chaise) which he had hired for the some years ago.
In order to increase groom orlheclergyman?
journey was drawn by a full-grown the effect still more, it is now a very !
—Men are apt to
camel of trucdulent appearance, pro common practice in ordinary suburban
testing against the duty assigned to it lots to fill in soil sufficient to.raise the strength of their arg ime
with a succession of those harsh, un surface a foot or two above the street, <d mind resents the chill
pleasant screams which, like an En I. thus farming a terrace at the street lentles- scrutiny of logi
glishman’s oath, seem to express every j line. We do not advise this practice
possible variety of emotion.— Cor. N. > for general adoption, but in some
Y. Time».
j cases the peculiar circumstances make
■ it desirable.
Where the fall of the
A Canary's Four Notes.
! drainage is very slight, it is even nec-
In the song of a canary four notes ! essary; where the grade of a street is
are recognized by dealers, and they I lowered, and the grounds have al-
t
can tell by listening to it for a very I ready been planted, thereTs usually*
Is the Oriental
|
no
other
course
but
to
terrace
at^he
few minutes whether the bird is Ger
knowing that
: time.
But a course that is
man or American. They arc the water
necessary under the
conditions
cannot exist ,wi
note, which is a rippling, gurgling, at 1 named has been meauinglessly copied
healthy Liver.
tractive bit of warbliug like the mur in many instances where there was no
Liver is torpid
mur of a rill; a flute note, clear and occasion for it, and we see the lots
els are sluggish
ringing; the whistling note, of the along the whole lines of streets piled
same class, but very much finer, and up sometimes as much as three feet or
stipated, the
the rolling note, which is a continuous more above the general level, even
in the sto
melody, rising and falling only to rise where it is necessary to build within a
Eted, poisoni
again.. It
1 is in the last-named note few feet of the line, thus requiring the
t>d; frequent
that the ! American birds fail. They entrance to the house to be by a flight
ensues; a feeli
can not hold it Another difference of eight or ten steps. On larger
tude, despond
between the two is that the German
grounds where are built villas or resi
nervousness indi
canaries are night
_
singers—they will dences of much pretension in style
sing until the light is extinguished. »and finish, and which occupy a suffi
the whole
But American birds puttbeir heads ciently elevated site, and at consider
ranged, i
under their wings with darkness. — N. able distance from the street, this
Regulator has
~ World.
Y.
method of grading up the front and
means of reetori
terracing at the line is sometimes
people to heal
A Candid Author.
adopted, but the appearance is far less
happiness by givi
A. —I see that in the preface to your pleasing than an even grade over the
a healthy Liver
book you state it is written to fill a whole surface; one effect is to shorten
agency known on!
long-felt want.
apparently the line of distance from
It acts with
the street to the house, and thus di
B. —Yes; and so it is.
dinary power and J
A
** What do you mean by filing a minish the size of the grounds.
nxvir bexn oiaami
gentle and gradual rise from the
long-felt want?”
•• What do I mean? Why. I've been street line to the front of the house is
Torpid Uver, Constipation,
needing a square meal for the past two" the handsomest surface a residence lot
}?*“ dlsappetnten In the rtl
years, pon't you call that a long-felt can present. — Vic ft Magazine.
it seems to he almost a perfr
diseases ot the Stomach and
waut?"— Texat Siflinaz.
W. J. McEuw
How
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