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McMinnvill* Or CURIOUS THING3 OF LIFE. ♦ The senator (Jones of Nevada) Las always been ready to take great chances. He be­ lieves sincerely in the outside help that comes from no one knows where to shape circum­ stances around tho path of a lucky man so that success is certain. As an illustration of the peculiar luck which he has had at all times during bis life when he has once given his mind to hunting for a specific result the sena tor related a story of his early life when he was a sheriff of a certain county in Califor­ nia. He said: “We set out one day to go up a great can yon which was near my headquarters. There was no road to it; it was a most fatiguing route for auy one to travel over; it was as difficult, owing to the necessary climbing up and down, to travel six miles in this canyon as it would have been twenty-five upon the open highway. 1 had one of my deputies with me. We were out seeking for certain violators of tho law. About midday we had traversed half the distance necessary to go and we stopped for a rest. 1 pulled out my meerschaum pipe, for I was very foud of smoking even then. 1 loaded up with tobacco, when to my consternation I found that 1 had no matches aud no mate­ rial for making a light My companion was uot a smoker, and of course he had no matches. 1 was almost dying for a smoke. I hated to give it up, and iu my wondering what 1 should do, I turned around and 1 saw a match lying on tbe ground in tbe sand near u little stream tbat came down through the canyon. The sight of that match actu­ ally frightened me. 1 looked all around to see if there was any one in sight. 1 looked up to see if there was anything passing over that way, and then I walked up and picked up the match. 1 said to myself: ‘Of course it won’t light; it’s been lying ou this wet saud.' But it did light, and I bad my smoke. I never knew anything to beat that piece of luck, but I’ve had in many close calls in my iito such similar evidence of good fortune thAt 1 can but believe to a certain extent in good and bad luck.”—New York World. Joel and the Steer. Tho people of Eaat Killingly, In the ad On public occasions the governors of the British provinces in Australia all appear in joining county, thiuk that a pretty funny military uniform. Yet no one of them is a thing occurred in that neighborhood net long ago. Mr. Joel Tilomas, who is the hired professional soldier. tnan of an East Killingly farm, has a reputa­ Mrs. Le Baron, of Leavenworth, fell dead tion tor mixing himself into every dilemma as she was making a pie, aud at the same that can Uiul no other unfortunate person to time a clock which had been out of time for fool with. five years deliberately struck 12. One morning a few weeks ago Joel went to A New York ginl dropped dead two hours tbe barn to yoke a ;>air of very largo un­ after having become engaged to be married. tamed steers. The yokx was large and cum It is supposed her death was caus?d by an at­ brous and the bows were big, but ha got the tack of heart disease brought on by joy. wooden loop over one steer's bead aud pinned A citizen of Marietta, La., put some chest­ bim. With the next steer he bad a wrestle, slipping about in tlie treacherous yard iu his nuts on the roof to dry, and the rats gnawed holes through the roof to get the chestnuts, effort to hold the animal by one horn and and when it rained the water came through carry the heavy yoke end with bis free nnn. Finally, by an inexplicable mischance, either those holes with a rush. An old observer tells that one’s eyebrows tlie yoked steer twisted tlie other bow over are an infallible guideto his age. No matter Joel's head and below bis arms, or else Joel how young looking th» person may be, if his fell into it, ho doesn't know which. A mo­ eyebrows lack a gloss and do not lie flat and ment later a neighbor approaching tbe bouse beheld tbe unhappy hired man yoked up with smooth, it is no louger a young man. tlie frantic steer, bl* wiLH-ed face protruding A woman in Americus, Ga., fell asleep through the big ox bow. skipping and plung during a recent Sunday night service and ing at terrific speed down tbe road toward didn’t wake up until after everybody had him. Joel espied tho neighbor, and at every gone home and the door was locked. She re­ jump lie roared in sputtering tones: mained imprisoned three days before she was , ■ “Head us off,---- it: head us off." discovered and rescued. The neighbor succeeded in doing it, turn­ Among the Continental armlc^the German ing the team by dint of very active work soldiers have the longest legs, judging by the into an angle of a stone wall. Then be ner­ length of step. It is eighty centimeters. The vously hopped around to the steer’s bead, step of the French, Austrian, Belgian, Swiss, meaning to release the animal before Joel and Swedish is seventy-five centimeters, and was quite killed. It was at this point that of the Russian oeventy-oue centimeters. the hired man manifested tbe striking origin ality ot bi* mind and his disgust at the neigh­ Thirty centimeters make a fortt There is an old porpoise tbat has ill bor’s lack of gumptiou at the same time. He the harbor of St. Augustine, Fla., years an4 yelled: "Here, you! what are ye up tof Never rears. Tbe porpoise is particularly tame and frolicsome. He is called Old Ghoul, and U mind the steer; come round here aud unyoke known by having one fin gone. He often ’ me¡”—Norwich (Conn.) Special to N*w York plays around the fishermen's boats and hia I Bun.____________ ____ presence always augurs a good catch. A Bit of Dramatic Criticism. Workmen in a gravel bed on tbe estern Tbe varying emotions springing from a railway of Alabama recently came upon | snow white gown of brocade given with • the skeleton of what they think was an In­ I force and power that were cut low and worn dian princess. On it was found a silver cor­ overa tucker of fine old lace, evincing skillful onet, silver bracelets, a necklace made of expression of subdued passion and banging silver buckles, tied together with silk rib­ sleeves of brocade puffed up so as not to con ion, and a peculiar knife with a saber blade. real the apparent faults of elocution and Mediwval miperatitious linger in Austria. I antique girdle of turquois and brilliant The burgomaster of Zuraki, in Galicia, has ■ medailious join d by « rar* refinement of just instituted a prosecution before tbe c™03' xpeecb and motion which convey a gown of inal court of Solotwina against a man named dead leaf brown cloth, (lit up the »ides and Jean Kowalesink for having “by his mali­ open In front over an earnestnes* whiob 1* cious sorceries and incantations caused a hail­ never subordinate to the robe of black »atin. storm to devastate the fields of Zuraki on which is a mass of jet ornaments from throat July 28.” t . to bem, displaying a much higher order of R. F. Kreigsman, of Curtis, Fla., received dramatic ability than she evinced last season. a lot of toilet soap for his barber shop. In —Norristown Herala. placing the cakes on the shelf he noticed that Selfish Mao. one of them was much heavier than well con­ Cultured Dame—Jurt lik* a man! You ducted soap generally ia. Cutting it open ho found a silver doimr c< tne vintage cf grab the (O|.-r os soon as it arrives, keep it 1KN2. He intends to deal with that firm alto all to yourself, and then blame me tor not b* ing informed on matter» ot public intereat. getiier hereafter. Uustxmd-lVell, my dear. I ll read tb* pa The daughter of s rich banker «topping at per aloud, it you wish. Let me see- 'Another Bar Harbor ventured beyond her depth while Ocean Horror." bathing, and wax only saved by tho “Oh, don't read that" a young man, who risked hi* lif* to savo hera “ ’Tlie Progress of the Campaign. Tho day afterward tbe happy father sent the “I don't care for politics.” young man a note of thanks acroinjxinied by •“Issues of the Hour.’" a $1 bill. Which was immediately aud indig­ “Never mind that." nantly returned. “ ‘Bcience Solve* a Problem.’" “I bate science." Mr*. Ian-try on rainy days dresses very “’Mrs. Tiptap'» Pa-ty-Description of tb* thinly tracing to wraj* for warmth, high Sw^hidr sol-.-Ik ^in^bapt^ D^Ob*read that"—Philadelphia Record. underwear, «ilk petticoat, and agown with at Another Way. least a ailk skirt. Mrs Heaton throw» conventionality to th« Walter Besant my» that one should write -S .. nnetrv tn order to acquire command of lan­ guage. Editor» ochiev* tbe «am* re*ult by reading it—Tima «fame »got tncue* or tee grout»- There are no trades On their fa’r faces >f sickness, sorrow, of grief or sin; Their only duty On earth is beauty— ’ They toil not, neither do they spin.” — HuZe AvoJte. HEAT AND VENTILATION. 4 Simple Way of Keeping tho Air in Rooms Moist in Winter. People who use their brains habit­ ually, teachers, writers, artists, must keep warm as the saving of their abilities. They must have fires early, and use foot-warmers day and night, and dress like Esquimaux if necessary, or congestion of the brain or longs is the penalty. The inflammation of the lungs which carried off George Eliot- and Mrs. Browning was descended from Lhe chilliness and poor circulation which these brain-wi»rkers had borne for years. Care must be taken, with ill this heating, to have a current of .varm, fresh air circulating in the rooms, and to have it healthily moist. ' such precautions give a soft and lovely jomplexion, equal to the famous New­ port bloom. The best way to secure '.his constant ventilation without draft is by having the top of the window itted with a perforated board, pierced by many conical borings, only a quar­ ter as wide at the center as at each lurface of the hole. This gives a fine, forcible play of minute currents ‘hrough the room instead of a danger­ ous large draught. Lt is a woman's in­ vention, and a very clever one for keep­ ing rooms perfectly healthy and fresh, (t is a little remarkable that a plain American woman should have worked >ut a plan of cheap, efficient ventilation •n the same principles as the French invention which drew the applause of saientific men years later. To keep he air moist, the simplest way is to keep a pan of water in the heat regis­ ter, with a large Bponge in it, or a wet towel hung with ends in the water, giving off moisture to tho air which (lows over it. Pans of water alone do zery little good, though better than nothing. The moisture must be directly in the path of the air to be absorbed by it. The water pins for stoves should be large enough to cover the whole top. ind to be kept clean, and full of fresh water. Such water pans purify the air, is well as keep it moist, as they absorb Impurity. A little niter, iodine and salt in the water is very strenghtening to breathe, having a mild effect of sea. dr.— Dare, in Philadelphia Press. IT DIDN'T WORK. A ConOdenca Man Strike* a Merchant Who Had ••Been There Before." He walked hurriedly into a Maiden Lane jeweler’s store, and said: “Will you let me use your telephone?” “Certainly.” "Hello, Central! Say. give me 607 B, Brooklyn. Hello! Is that you, dear? Well, say, I forgot my gold watch this morning; left It under the pillow. I've got to take a train right away, and haven't time to go home, so I wish ,-ou'd bring it over and l^ave it here for me. I’ll borrow a Bilver watch in lhe meantime. That's all, Central.” "Thank you,” he said, turning to the clerk. “I suppose you heard what I said to my wife. Now, if you can let me have a silver watch until I get buck 1 will consider it a great favor. My wife will leave my gold one as se­ curity.” The clerk simply pointed to the door. “Do you mean get out?” "Yep." “Too old?” •■Yep." “Been there before?" "Yep.” "Well, good day. " - Jeweler's Weekly. Parrots as Parlor Pets. Parrots were more common drawing room pets a century ago than they are now. No fashionable belle’s boudoir was complete without one. Belinda had a presentiment of her coining mis­ fortunes whon “Poll sat mute, and Shock was most unkind,” The beauty of the bird's plumage and its amusing tricks may account for this partiality; but it has certainly been valued as a domestic favorite for many centuries, it is said that parrots were first in­ troduced into Europe in the time of Alexander the Great, though only one variety, tho green parakeet with a red neck (brought from India) was known to the ancients until the time of Nero, when the Romans discovered other ipecies in Ethiopia. The discovery of America enriched parrot fanciers by he addition of many beautiful Brazil­ ian varieties of the species of their list of pets. — fAUarfeZ/Aut /Ysss STORIES ABOUT MEN. Fomethiug o* a Liar, but Not for Forty Cent*. A number of members from the house of representatives have stolen away at various times and for short periods from their con­ gressional duties. Most of them have en­ joyed themselves, but none to a greater ex­ tent than did Wade, of Missouri; Lind, of Minnesotta, aud Sawyer, of New York. They invaded the state of Maryland and studied the unsophisticated natives until they got tilled. The last place at which they made any stay was Leonardtown. From there they intended coming to tho capital by boat, but that semi-occasional craft having de­ parted, they were compelled to travel by rail. The train was started with a pinchbar and proceeded at a very deliberate gait. Occa­ sionally tho conductor would get off and gather a few peaches, with which he would treat tho passengers. After tho train had beeu crawling along for an hour aud bad covered at least six miles, the conductor col­ lected the fares, which, for the congressional crowd, amounted to 86 cents each. When he reached Col. Wade, that gonial “bald knob- ber” remarked, in his innocent way: “Do you charge preachers full fare on this road 1” “No, sir,” was the conductor’s reply. “We only charge them half rates. Are you i preacher he added, looking squarely at the colonel’s Methodist countenance. “No, 1 am not,” said the Missourian, “but that gentleman is,” pointing to Judge Saw­ yer, who sat a couple of scats in front of him. The conductor at onco returned to the judge, and after a searching glance at tho sun kissed countenance of the New York statesmen, proffered him 40 cents, with the remark: “Wo only collect half rates from preachers. ” “Who in blank said I was a preacher?” asked the judge, with considerable show of anger. The conductor threw his thumb back over his shoulder in the direction of Col. Wade, ai^d looked as though he thought all the time tbat the colonel was garbling the facts in the caso. In tho meantime the three dimes, tho nickel and five pennies reposed calmly in ¿he judge’s fat palm. He regarded them in silence for a moment, and then handed them back to the official, saying: “1 am a good deal of a liar, but 1 will not lie for 40 cents.” Then he relapsed into absolute silence and would not look at Col Wade uutil Washing ton was reached.—Washington Post. Tho Bill Was Passed. An ex-member of the Virginia state senate told me the other day of an incident iu his legislative career which I do not remember ever having seen in print before. A. L. Pride- more, not many years ago a member of the house of representatives from the Ninth Vir­ ginia district, was befqre ho camo to Wash iiigton a member of the Virginia senate. One day be introduced a bill for the relief of the sureties of II. G. Wax, who was a collector of taxes in Scott county. He made a brief explanation of the bill, and when he sat down Edgar Allen, familiarly known us “Yankee Allen,” who represented the Farm­ ville district, rose and said: “I wish to ax If Mr. Wax Has been too lax In collecting the tax? If such are the facts I am willing to relax And remit the tax Which the law enacts We should exact Of his sureties.” It is needless to add, my informant says, that thè bill passed by a unanimous vote.— New York Tribune. Goodwin Had the Best of It. Nat Goodwin is pretty slick and can get out of a scrape as clean as any man living. A gentleman in New York, writing to a friend here, made some comparative allusio to Chicago and tbe eastern metropolis. 1 concludiug he wrote: “But I know you feeling toward Gotham,” and then added “Here is a little story on Nat Goodwin that is not malapropos: Ono day Nat Goodwin met young Mr. Henderson, a friend of mine. ‘Hello, Nat,’called out Henderson; ‘where have you been so long?’ ‘Oh, up in Boston, Montreal and Philadelphia,* returned Good­ win; ‘and, Billy,* he continued, ‘I am glad to get back to Now York. All other places in the country are just camping out ones.”* Goodwiu has been playing here, and tho Chi­ cago man, meeting him on© day last week, showed him tho letter and asked him if he thought it was kind to speak that way after all tho grand receptions ho bad bad here. Nat looked at tho letter, smiled, and said without hesitation: “Why, my dear fellow, you don't think I would bo guilty of men­ tioning Chicago in connection with those places, do you? Pshaw! They can’t trot in tbe saint) class with this city.**—Chicago Herald. Accounted For. Col. “Dick** Wintersmith, of Kentucky, is probably tbe best story teller in Washington today. If he doesn't always conllno himself strictly to the truth, nobody will find fault with him, for he tells his little anecdotes with ouch a serious mieu as to carry conviction to tbe minds of thoso of his listeners who do not know him so well as some of bis friends da He was speaking tho other diy at Chamber­ lin’s of tbe way in which adverse luck will sometimes pursue a man, and remarked that he onco played at the White Sulphur Springs and never held a trump. Some one in the company suggested that that was impossible, because be must have held at least one trump every time lie dealt the cards. “But,” replied the colouel, bringing his fist down on the table in front of him, “every time I dealtit was a misdual.”—New York Tribune Tlie Son of His Father. Here is a story about tbe son of the late bishop of Illinois. Mr. Whitehouse had some business in New York with a large law firm, wherein a son of Rufus Choate is a partner. It was Mr. Choate to whom White­ house addressed himself. “All right, sit down,” said the New York lawyer; “1’11 see you in a moment or two.” “But,” said the visitor, “I am Mr. White bouse, of Chimga” “All right, all right,” said the lawyer, scribbling away like mad; “take a chair; I am busy just now." “But,” again said Mr. Whitehouse, “1 am tbe son ef Bishop Whitehouse.” “Ohl «•11, taka two chaira then," «aid Choate, without looking up. — Chicago Herald. NEGRO SUPERSTITION AFRICAN FETICHISM SOFTENED BY CONTACT WITH CIVILIZATION. Charms Worn for Protection Against the Evil One—Tbe Belief In Witches and “Cunjur Niggers’’ — Signs Portending Death —Various Ludicrous Notions. The contact of the African with a mighty civilization modified and softened his fetich- ism, and today his superstition is of a differ­ ent fiber. He is a firm believer in a personal devil, and accepts him with all time honored stage properties—horns, tail, cloven foot and red hot pitch fork. For protection against this awful on© the negro wore th© greatest number of charms. To ward off his familiars the witches, every negro nailed to his cabin door a horseshoe. This charm, however, hud no power unless it had been accidentally found. The “white folks at de big house” were often presented with on© of these witch defiers, and if they failed to use it, the giver, pityingly and surreptitiously, nailed it some­ where on “marster’s” premises. Old negro nurses teach their charges that the tangles which after a night’s sleep are apt to appear in the hair are knots tied by witches, and everybody in the southern states is familiar with the darkies’ belief that witches ride horses and mules in the dead of night, exhausting their strength. To ward off the approach of any of the foul sisterhood silver dimes and five cent pieces with a hole in them, strung on a cord and suspended from the neck, are unrivaled. Odds and euds of bones strung together, and blessed by a Voudoo priestess, constitute a Grigri, which is a marvelous foil against tbe Evil One. In southern Louisiana there are large numbers of negroes who believe that certain other negroes have commerced with Satan, receiving from him a liberal endow inent of his diabolic powers. These are known as “cunjur niggers,” who can “hou- doo” you. To incur the ill will of one ot them is a grievous misfortune. As every negro, even ti e most debased, is sure of salvation, and speaks with confidence of his place in heaven, where ho will “set at de same table ez de white folks,” it is not strange that he revels in signs portending death. His heaven, like tho Mussulmau’s, is one of sensual delights, and corpses and fun­ erals are to him a great joy. To put a black pin into a child’s dress, to try ou any one’s mourning garments, to open an umbrella in tho house, to break a looking glass, to carry a spade through the house, are all signs of death. To drive a nail after dark, except in making a coflin, will bring death; and any man so unfortunate as to bury three wives will bury six. A spider seen in the morning brings good luck; at noon, disappointment; and in tho evening, bad luck. If accidentally a garment bo put on wrong side out, aud if it bo worn that way until noon, and then turned, the wearer will have good luck. To give a knife or scissors to a friend is to sever friendship, except, indeed, a bent pin be given in return, which averts the impending rupture. The Roman Catholic negroes of southern Louisiana will not cut a banana crosswise, because through its center runs a dark streak, which if cut transversely presents the appearance of a cross. To avoid this sacrilege the fruit must bo brokon. They accept the Bible literally, and as they receive it in most grotesque form from th Ur “preachers,” it is little wonder that their con­ ception of things spiritual is distorted. With­ out a pang of conscience they will eat the chickens from a neighbor’s hen roost, the pigs from his pen, tho melons from his “patch,” but cannot be induced to commit tho unpar­ donable sin of euting a dove. If a black cat enters your house you will receive money; au itching palm denotes the sumo thing, while an itching sole signifies that you will travel. Should your right ear burn, then some one is talking in your favor; but if it bo the left, tho tongue is evilly en­ treating you, and you must immediately wish that its owner may bite it. Should you succeed in spitting in your right ear, you silence your enemy. If a knife, fork or scissors in falling sticks up in the floor, pre­ pare for visitors; also if a black cock crows three times in succession at the back door. The possession of a frizzly hen means good luck to the owner, while two frizzly hens de­ note a measure of prosperity which rouses the jealousy of “ole Satan.” There is a ludicrous belief that to step over the outstretched legs of any one will stop his further growth. But the evil spell will work backward, for by stepping back over tbe legs they resume their suspended work of de­ velopment. No work in garden or field can be done with­ out regard to lunar phasea An old auntie in my family would never make soap except in tbe full of the moon, and then the soap must be stirred only one way. Her soap stick, of rare virtues and great age, was believed to have certain occult powers, which made it ¡»opulur among the soap making sisters. Ask a negro man why he wears a brass ring in one ear. and ho tells you it will cure sore eyes. Chills and fever are cured by swallowing cobweb pills, and tbe pain from any insect bite is instantly removed by rub­ bing the puncture with three kinds of grass. What folly to endure warts when by rubbing them with a piece of stolen fat bacon, and then burying it secretly, the warts will dis­ appear in a few da ya Ho, too, why weary the flesh with looking for a lost article when you need only to throw something away to And the thing mislaid? Your mind, however, must be fixed upon tho thing lost to succeed, so that hero one of tho elements of the faith euro seems to come in. Any lady who throws away the combings after dressing her hair will suffer with headache, for the birds weave ! this hair into their nests. Tho young generation of negroes, who are I now skimming over the contents of a rnulti- I tudeof text books with high sounding names, are in bond to the same superstitions which 1 enchain their fathers. Not all of the mental and moral philosophy set down in the books with which they are burdened can break tbe thrall cast by the witch and tbe “cunjur man,” while the study of tbe higher math© matics haa not yet developed that reasoning faculty which exorcises the incarnate devil with all his gallimaufry of evil spirits into tbe limbo of unbelief. —Harper’s Bazar. One square or less, one insertion............... >1 00 One square, each subsequent insertion. .. . 50 Noticesuf appointment and final settlement 5 00 Other legal advertise menta. 7.5 cent« for first insertion aud 10 cents per square for each sub­ sequent insertion. Spedai business notices In business columns, 10 cents per lino. Regular business notices, 5 cents per line. Professional cards, $12 per year. Special rates for large display “ads." a S incere opinion . Au Anecdote ot the K-trl of Dorset aud Im- nioi t tl John Dryden. "Wo talk of writing easily and dash­ ing off impromptus; how say you if we should try it now? Here are six of us, who are all thought to have some knack of that work; and here are pens. Ink and paper ruady to our hand. Let us see who can write the best impromp­ tu." He who thus addressed the gay group of London fashionable wits as­ sembled in the chief room of Will’s coffee-house (at that time their favorite place of resort) was a tall, handsome man in the prime of life, who still lives in English history as Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset, one of the kindest as well as richest mon in all England, the friend of all distressed poets, and himself possessed of powers that would have made him a poet of no moan rank if he had but had the luck to be born poor. “Agreed!” cried the rest, with one voice; "and ‘glorious John' here shall be our umpire." Tho lust words were addressed to a plump little old man with very large bright eyes, who was sitting in a snug corner by the fire, and seemed to be treated with great respect by the whole company, notwithstanding his rather shabby suit of threadbare black. Nor was this without reason; for this quiet old man was no other than John Dryden, the greatest poet whom En­ gland had produced for a whole genera­ tion. Dryden readily undertook the office of judge, and to work wont the whole six with paper and pen. But to the amazement even of thoso who beet know his ready wit and wonderful fluency, Lord Dorset finished and folded up his contribution almost be­ fore his companions had begun theirs. " You Bee now, gentlemen," said a laughing voice, “why Chnrlie proposed this trial to us; he had his ’impromptu’ reaily beforehand.” "Thou canst scarce rail at me for that. Jack,” retorted the Earl, “for men say thou hast onco written an ‘impromptu’ which took thee a month to compose.” Tho papers were handed over to Dry­ den. who had hardly taken time to glance over them when he pronounced that the best was that w ritten by Lord Dorset. All the other competitors looked surprised, us well they might; but tho wonder eeused when the contri­ butions were examined, and Dorset's effusion was found to run thus : "Pay to John Dryden, on demand, the Sum of One Hundred Guineas.— D orskt .”— Dacid Ker, in Harper's Mag­ azine. ,.v¡ k /ó® MOTHER GOOSE’S AGE. . Interesting Information Concerning Amor« iuu’s Most Popular Authoress* Mother Goose was not a mythical person, nor a nom de plume, but a real live woman, who, although Bile may not havo had so many children that she didn't know what to do, and was not compelled to live in a shoe, nevertheless hud children, grand­ children, and (probably) great grand­ children of her own before she died at the advanced ago of ninety-two. Her maiden name was Elizabeth Koster; she was born In tho year 1665, was married to Isaac Goose (or Vergoose ns it is written in the description ot her con­ tained in tho probate of her will) in 1698. and died In 1757. The first edition of the songs, which she sang to her grandchildren, was published by Thanas Fleet, in 1761. There is an edition of her works published by Houghton, Osgood & Co., of Boston, well worth perusal by all mothers who would like to kuow about the good old lady who wrote tho lullabys and melo­ dies which are now sung and will con­ tinue, doubtless, to be sung for ages yet to come. Mother Gooso resided In Charleston, where she was born, until her mar­ riage. Sho then moved to Boston, where her husband had a home ready to receive her on what is now Wash­ ington street. Hhe was Mr. Goose’s second wife, and began her maternal life as step-in ither to ten children. This numerous fact was probable the cause of her writing the touching melody of “The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe,” especially as we learn that she afterward had six chil­ dren of her own. One of her own children became the wife of Thomus Fleet, the publisher of the "Melodies by Mother Goose,” and when Mother Goose's first grandchild was born Bhe insisted on going to live with her son- in-law as nurse to his son. She sang her ditties to this grandchild from morning till night— •‘Gooxlr, go »«le ganger. Where flo you wander? Up stairs and down « rairs. And in my lady’s chamber,” etc — until her son-in-law become alarmed at the fertility of her genius for mak­ ing this kind of rhyme. Mr. Fleet took down the various songs she sung until he hud a bk full, which he printed. This book hiul a great salo, aud, it is needless to say. has increased in popu­ larity until this dav. so that there is Satan’. Legal Klghta. scarcely a child in the land that does A London correspondent write* from Fin­ not know Mother-Goose by name and I land that a property bolder in one of tbe her melodies by heart. Sho was left a interior towns of tbe province left a will be­ widow In 1710.-- Chicago Mail. queathing all bi« ;.«*M*lon* to tb« devil. The dead man'« family protested tbat the Experience Teaches. will wax void, but tbe Finnixh lawyer« wen “ Mister, ” said a countryman to a disinclined to Interfere with tbe right* of ao formidable a personage *• the now legatee, Sixth avenue dry goods dealer, “1 want Had to Be a Venus, and, tbe corroqiondent add*, tbe devil baa to git a shawl for a purty little girl “You are looking lovely to-night, my become, by legal right at least, a Finnub down at Starin's Corners. You needn’t dear," «aid Gracia landowner.—New York Tribune. say nothin’ 'bout it to the newspapers, “I murt be,” >b* replied, "l«r«llH while cos I want to keep it quiet, but we’re eomiug home In a car tbix afternoon a Phila­ When you are buying kid glove« remember delphia gentleman gave me hi* xuet,"—New that there u aucb a thing a. a price that la goln’ to he marries! In a month an’ I'm York Evening Sun. too cheap. It ia beat to pay a good price and thiiikin’of givln'her a shawl. Suthiu’ g-t th« good glove, tliat go with It. Ex bang up — han'somo.” “I ■•»ii show you a flno line of India Inducement*. amine tbe atitcblng to find place* where the Raid a penmasiv* Egyptian guide to a thread haa broken through the leather, ■hnwl*. sir.” “N- iio , I guess I don’t wnnt them. I travelar who rafum-d to climb the pyramids: stretch the ream*, and if the thread pull« “Carry up one side, down t’other, twenty away, leaving a white apot, don't get tbe hiul a pair uf mocoastas onct, an' 1’ui minute«, no Ix/ne broke, and you very happy, glova*. The leather .houlij a'.rehch easily to dinged if the bonds did u' lai I cutuuufl.” luaku a good fit and to wear w«U. only two Unliia’.”—Youth s Companion. —a. K M m . • l J si V * v.l ■ "5 '■