'."V “T ■’-------------------- ------------------------- RURAL REALITIES Csrl«ton round Tk«m .Soo Near J<«w York. « th« «olden tiro* when the thouxhe- "° M,v. unto hii»*elf. Io, It i» hotter /L wm iu town, end I will «wi*« «nd bud to the mountain,; I will ley me ’“unuuid "it** » uiulwimmw night'* ’ br ibe bank of the laughing waters, " trw* beloved by the *low stirring r I trill vie* the coming of the chariot tbnawh the gate* of pearl g*rl*nd«l J ‘ . J wj;i listen to the choir of happy 'medniue of the waintenng bee, the of the nestling* umter the eav«a, th* of th* lootut aiid the deep throated ’ of the bullfrog in bi« «edgy lair; I will . the «torni king build bis towers and and battlements on high, burling cloud at cloud and thunderbolt against thun- )|t till his wrath is appeased, and then to agU l>e blown the sweetness and the cool-» Wet fields, and through the long and uorous purple hour shall come twilight the peace of bim who liveth well; and irtlw solemn dome of dusk, under the ‘jyes of the stars, under the broad *of the risfhg moon shaJl I float down irer of rest to an infinite calm. » .is it the city man’s dream of a country en but I have not found it. t oJri the trees belayed fey the slow «tr new sites and (895,000 for new build­ ings or a total sum of (5,385,262. —Consul-General Cardwell, of Cairo, Egypt in a report to the Department of State, cnll* special atteulion to the successful labors of American mission­ aries in the valley of the Nile. Nearly 6,000 native pupils are in attendance at the schools that have been estab- lished. —There is such a thing m talking away all' sense of feeling, and the talker, amid his expressions of abject Borrow for past sins, is in truth grati­ fying iiis vanity by making himself the hero of his foul story. The outstand­ ingly wicked man. whon reclaimed by. God's mercy, ought to walk softly and spoak mildly.— Bishop Fallows. —One of our exchanges Bays that when Mr. Moody was in ^London a number of young men w'erfe commis­ sioned to follow up the converts to see that they remained true to their pro­ fessions. They did bo . Two of the ' committee were at the Bible-scJiool and said thoy got tho names of forty-five thousand converts made tn London.— Indianapolis Journal. —A4 a meeting in -Philadelphia of the missionary council of the Protestant Episcopal Chiireh reports showed re­ ceipt* as follows: Legacies, (29.170.- 42; othorsources, (285,794.96; special*, (69,778.19; enrattnrent fund. (17,696;- 95: total, (402,440,52. a decrease of (17,828.45. The contributing congre­ gations numbered 2.200, against 2,876 last year.— Public Opinion. —The Roman Catholic Church ha* forty-five IndialTMJhools scattered over the country from Florida to Alaska. Dakota has the lion’» share, »here be­ ing fourteen in that Territory. New Mexico has eleven, Minnesota seven, Wisconsin five, Alaska two and Col­ orado, California, Nevada, Oregon, "Kansas and Florida one each. Of these ‘ schools thirty-five supply board and clothing as well as instruction. The aggregate attendance is nearly 4,000. Most of the teachers are German and French. — Indianapolis Journal Several men were sitting in a store at Jameson's Urn-yard talking of the pictures which they had seen in tho “art’’ gallery of a county fair. “Yea looked putty well,” said an old fellow, "but they ain’t what I call ling paintin'. Boys, you know’d Andy Summers?” “Y.s.” “Wall, Andy was a painter. One day he paiuted the .pictur’ of an over­ coat, an’ it was so nachul that his daddy put it on an' had wore it some time before he Iouud out it was a pictur’." •-Yes,” rejoined a fellow names I Smith. "I have heard of that pictur’. Andy was a putty good cub painter, thar ain't no mistake about that, but when you want to get some right good work done you've got to go to a feller that has l'arned the trnde sho nuff. Now. Miles Stokes was what I call a number one painter. Yob all know’d Miles—lived on the old Astord place the year after the war. One time Miles painted the pictur’ of a Addle, an’ I'll be banged if a fe ler didn't take it to a dance an' play on It all night. Never heard sioh music In my life. Made it'far’ly talk, the feller did. That was one paintin' sho nuff. “That was a mighty fine pictur’," said old Gates. "Miles could have done suthin at paintin’ ef he had kept on tryinV but he peered to lose his grip airter Bob Hadley come around. Had­ ley was a fine painter. Of course. I ain’t no art"critic, nor nothin' of that sort, and don't pretend to put my judgment up any higher than you can. reach, but somehow he always struck' un: as bein’-a.paw'ful nachul painter. One night thar wits a possul of u over at old Simmons’ house an we got atter Bob to paint us a pictur'. He said he didn’t feel like paintin’ an’ kep’ on snakin’ excuses till old Simmons went out and fetohed in a bucket of paint an' a bresh an’ told Bob that he jest must paint some sort of pictur’, whuthcr or no. . Wall, Bob he tuck up the bresh pn’ begun ter slash it aroun' till the fust thing we know’d ho had tlun painted the pictur’ of a Jug. It wuz jest as nachul as any Jug I ever seod; an’ when I tuck it up and sorter shuck it I hearn suthin’ slosh. I turned it tip, I did, an' hanged ef thar wan’t whisky ¡a Ito” — “Sho nuffwhisky?” “Tell you hby *ho’ 'nuff it was. We let in to drinkin’ it, an’ it wa'n’t long till we woe all drunk.” “It’* ywré’fímc¡ rrów, TTñcIe’'Bu'ckT'r cried a young follow, slapping an old man on tho back. “I ain’t no han' to exaggerate, boyij,” Uncle Buck replied. “To mo thar ain't no fun in a impossible lie.” “Thon what you air goin’ to tell us is the truth, eh?” “Yes, an' TU bet my boss agin yourn.” “Well, wait till I’ve heard yonr story." “AU right,” Unole Buck continued, “I was in Bill Rickey’s »tore some time ago. Bill, yefu know, while he don't make no pretense, is consider­ able of an artist Wall, jest to amuse moor himself, he painted a nigger, an’ the nigger went out-doors, chopped some wood, brought it into the house an’ made as gpod a fire as you ever rieaal to the North. saw.” Tho superstition that human beings “Uncle Bnck, I’ll take the bet" “All right Yander’s John Higgins should sleep with their boads to the North is bolieved by thoFrench to have outyander. Call him in.” Whon Higgins came in Uncle Buck for its foundation a soiontifie fact. asked: “ Higgins, wa’n’t you at Rick­ They affirm that each human system is in itself an electric battery. the head ey’s store one day last week? ” \ ’ being one of the electrodes, tho feet “Yes." tho othor. Tboir proof was discovered • “ Seed me thar? ’’ f-om experiments which the Academy “Yes.” . of Soionces was allowed to make on “Anybody else thar?” ' the body of a man who was guillotined. “Yes. a nigger.” This was taken tho Instant it fill and “ What did Rickey do to him?" .placed Upon a pivot free to move as It “Snatched up a bresh and painted, knight Tho head part, after a little him, jest fur fun. ” vacillation, turned to tho north and “What did the nigger do shortly the body then remained stationary. airterwards?” It wag turned half way round by one “Chopped some wood an’ made a of the protestors, and again the hood fire.” end of the trunk moved slowly to the “Gabe," »aid Uncle Buck, cardinal point due North, the snmo fetch that horse round here.” results being repeated until tho final “ Oh, no, you said ha painted the arrostatioh of organio movement.— pictur of a nigger.” Science. * “No, I didn’t; did I boys?” “No, said he painted a nigger," —At a recent seanoo m Rochester, some one replied, and the boys agreed N. Y., by a medium from Brooklyn, that those were his exact words. several written communications, pur­ “That’s the only boss I've got. Un­ porting to come from the spirit world, cle Buck.” were handed out from the cabinet. “Kain’t he’p it; fetch him." Six of the notes in which the cbirogra- Gabe brought the horse around and pt/V seemed to be the most dissimilar Uncle Buck led him away.— Arkansaw were submitted to experts in the mat­ Traveler. ter of handwriting. Both of the ex­ ---- <1 • — —me lowa State University has re­ perts agreed that not more than two cently acquired a fine specimen of the persons wrote the notes, and one extinct musk ox of North America. of them was inclined to think that all A The bones, which are remarkably well were written by tho same hand. preserved, were unearthed near the l>encil-drnwing, purporting to be a por­ Missouri.river at Couuifl Bhiffh ia the trait of J-an Ingelow, represented her formation known to geologists as the 'Mfatnan. loess. This creature, like the modern —mr». Dr. Ki'nSTaii American lady. Is musk ox. is supposed to hare been physician to the Queen of Corea. She clothed with a long fleece, and the dis­ has apartments in the royal palaco-at covery of the remains at Council Bluffs Seoul, and receives a yearly salary indicates that a low temperature must which is equal to eighteen thousand have prevailed in that region duringthS dollars. She is expected to visit the period when the loess wks accumulat­ Queen daily and remains in call when ing. so that Arctic animals have found her Majesty is indisposed. the climate comfortable there- PERSONAL AND LITERARY. * —Senator Blackburn, of Keetuoky, Is said to have the moat musical voice in CougreaA —It is said that Henry M. Stanley has been offered (60,000 for a book de­ scribing his latest travel* when he reach*« home.—Conyreputiomslug. —William Hostetter, of Hendricks County. Ind., is a descendent of General Warren, the hero of Bunker Hill, and has in hi* possession the mili­ tary coat worn by Geuend Warren when he fell pierced by a British bullet. The garmont is in a fair state of pres­ ervation, but has lost all it* buttons sure one. —The wife of the King of Holland hoe a bail trick of winking her eyes. The oourtiers do not know whioh way to look when the pretty Queen wink* at them, and some very sad blunder* fre­ quently occur, owing to this physical defect. A young attache of the Belgian Minister who returned the Queen’s wink found himself ¿•returned with thanks" to his native l(nd,by th* next mail, and ainoe then none of the Hol­ landers has dared to sauce back. —Ex-Comptroller John J. Knox has received from a friend an interesting relic In th* shape of a protested note Of Robert Morris, the financial backer of tip^Upion in it* war for independence, pjrabil to the protested note is the ariginal note for (5,000. The signa­ ture is in a bold hand. The date is 1795. It is well known that Mr. Mor­ sis, after raising (1,400,000 on his credit for the Revolutionary army, and doclining tho Treasury portfolio in favor of Robort Hamilton, met with reverses and died a poor man. ,-John Radcliffe, the well-known English flutist, was recently visiting a country town, where ho met a quaint old woman who was gazing intently at a cheap print representing the Virgin, with St. Elizabeth on the one hand and St. Joseph on the other, anil the in­ scription “Ave Mama” underneath. “Of course, you understand that?”" asked. Radcliffe, seeing the old lady appeared puzzled. “O, yes,” -was the reply, "I know all about that. The man ¡is axing the 'ooman in the middle will he ’ave her, and she i^ieaying a* how, bein’ married 'orsidt, she can’t, but won't he ’ave Maria.” " —The London Athenwum says: It miuit be. jet. down, to tho credit of . Americans, when English authors in­ veigh against thoir oopyright arrange­ ments, that it has before now hap­ pened that a future great author has received encouragement _ from the. Other side of the Atlantio at a time when he was seeking it here in vain. The Americans were very early in recognizing the genius of Thackeray, and they showed their appreciation of his work by publishing collected editions of his miscellanies before any- 'xaly in this conntry had considered -td! a collection worth making. 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