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THE SODA FOUNT ONLY A DRUNK. , instantly to ]ioeae»s a million gold pieces 1” No sooner said than the great, shin ing gobi pieces came pouring down upon him in a golden torrent, over his head, shoulders ami arms. Pitifully he cried for mercy, and tried to reach and unbar the door; but before he succeeded, he stumbled and fell bleeding to the ground. A b for the golden rain, it never stopped till the weight of the metal crushed the floor, and the jeweler and his money sank through to the cellar. The gold "Only a drunk,” yet the mother who bore still poured down till the million was him Smiled as ah» patted his fair dimpled complete, and the jeweler lay dead in the cellar lieneath his treasure. cheek; Kissed him so tenderly, bent fondly o'er The noise, however, alarmed the him. neighliore, who came rushing over to Watching hie slumbers, not daring to | see what the matter was; when they speak; Called him her darling, her pet and her ! , saw the man dead under his gold, they beauty, exclaimed: “Doubly unfortunate he Praised his red lips and his bright, roguish I whom blessings kill.” Afterward, the eyes. Thinking of him made a pleasure of duty— I heirs came and divided trie property. Each day’s return brought to her glad In the meantime, the farmer reached surprise. home in high spirit« and showed the "Only a drunk,” with bin garments all tat- tered. Telling a story of went and despair; Over hl" temples the rude winds have scat tered Long, straggling locks of thin, silvery hair: Bleeding and bruised by bis tall, where they found him, Face like the hue of the ashes when oold. Helpless he lies in the strong arms around him, Homeless and friendless, and wretched and old. \ iMMr’S FOUR TALES HOW FIELDING HADE MRS- ILLUSTRIOUS. HUSSEY The boy behind the soda fount! What recketh he of care— His finger on the thingumbob The Different ClMeel of Women Who That aquirteth empty air? ■•toy With Heart.. What knoweth he of misery, Since all his mission is To rake in niokals carelessly, The mere suffering which a man un And fizz and fizz and fizz? “Henry Fielding was fond of coloring hi« pictures of life with the glowing and variegated tints of nature, by convers ing with person« of every situation and Among the hundreds of New Yorkers calling, as I have frequently been in in the Catskill Mountains the other day formed by one of my [t. e. J. T. Smith’s,] dergoes at the hands of a coquette is not Full seemly proper scrvoth he T he flavors we may name, were Cyrus W. Field, Dr. J. Marion great-aunts, the late Mrs. Hussey, who in its first effeits so greatly to lie de And eke sb Biruptitiously knew him intimately. I have heard her precated. It is in the consequences that He draweth of tho same; Sims, F. B. Thurber and Joseph Jeffer say that Mr. Fielding never suffered his lies the deepest wrong which the insincere Pineapple pale and ginger ale. son. The visitors risked their necks talent for sprightly conversation to mil And berries, straw' and rasp’; going down and up the rickety stair dew fora moment: and that his man woman does to the man who loves her. Then tutoreth he the throttle valve To gasp and gasp and gasp. ways, only to look at bare rock, over ners were so gentlemanly, that even For the distrust of her whole sex which O boy behind the soda fount, which a mighty volume of water was with the lower classes, with which he grows upon him, and the conviction A'hat wickedness is thine! frequently condescended particularly to that neither she nor her kind are worthy With frost alone thou brimmest up not pouring. Ou their way they read that, such as Sir Koger De C’overley’« This thirsty heart of mine! an inscription cut into the stone, about old friends, the Vauxhall watermen, of the best that is in his nature, she is But thine!—ah! thine is brimmed with a noble dog that had, in 1876, leaped they seldom outstepped the limits of responsible. The disdain which he may Of youth, and thou, unhurt. In life's first "bust,” hast only just down the precipice. 1 asked the show propriety. My aunt, who lived to the feel toward her cannot greatly injure To squirt and squirt and squirt. age of 105, had bean blessed with four him. But the spirit in which he regards -fJ- W. Kiley. man, on reaching the top, lmw and why husbands, and her name had twice been the brute had done such an undoglike changed to that of Hussey; she was of the tendency in his nature which looks ITALIAN DOCTORS. thing. a most delightful disposition, of a re to woman for the truest support of his "lie was a trick dog,” was the reply, tentive memory, highly entertaining, life, ami the systematic hardening of The October Century contains «jm, I "belonging to the circus that went and liberally communicative, and to her those qualities in him which reach out amusing experience of “A Foreigner in “Only a drunk.” yet a fathei’s heart ring to hi« wife. bounded, I “Henceforth we shall never lie in through here, ills master left him on I have frequently been obliged for an instinctively to the feminine side of Florence,” who says of Italian doctor» Looking oa him as his pride and his i»»;' want, dear wife,” be said. “Our for the platform and started down the gorge. interesting anecdote. She was, after humanity, are soul hurts, which are not "Physicians have, like judges of the Listened to hear while the praises were tune is made. Only we must be very The man got half-way down across the death of her second husband, Mr. healed when the pain of the deceived criminal courts, no social position and sounded careful to consider well just what we yonder where the stairs turn and then Hussey, a fashionable sacque and man. love has passed. His judgment of the no knowledge of medicine, according tn Of his light-hearted and beautiful boy: While by his side he would sit oft and ' ought to wish.” whistled. The dog heard the call, tua maker, and lived in the Strand, a whole sex cannot fail to be biased by our ideas. They are, as a rule, far ponder. The farmer's wife, of course,proffered sprang up on the railing, lost his bal few’ doors west of the residence of the his experience of the woman who has liehind the age. They still clingblindh Picture the manhood of such a fair advice. "Suppose,” said she, “that ance, and went whirling down through celebrated Le Beck, a famous cook, who most deeply interested him. Thus it is to bleeding,—unless they have changed youth. Never once thinking how soon he might we wish for that bit of land that lies space to the rocky bottom, being of had a large portrait of himself for the that the coquette, by lowering the whole during the last few years,—and weaken wander course instantly killed by the fall.” between our two fields?” sign of his house at the north-west standard of womanhood in the eyes of their patients by the old system of diet Far from the pathway of virtue and truth. ' Five minutes after, Field and Sims corner of Half-moon street, since called man, injures her own sex as well as the ing. I have seeh cases conducted with “That isn’t worth while," her hus- “ 7nly a drunk:” yet society gave him band replied. “If we work hard for a caught their breath, with the usual Little Bedford street. One day Mr. other. such ignorance of the commonest laws Honor, position and riches in store; The forms of coquetry are infinitely of nature as would make any of our year, we’ll earn enough money to buy difficulty, after a climb up the stairs, Fielding observed to Mrs. Hussey that E’en as lie fell stretched a hand out to save and used it instantly to ask about the he was then engaged in writing a novel, varied, and some of them are much physicians faint with horror. Heat, it.” him, So the two worked very hard, and at dog. Gave and forgave much, yet «till would w’hich he thought would be his best more reprehensible than others. The starvation, ami dirt are their general give more. the ex. production, and that he intended to woman who undertakes conquests simply remedies for almost everything. Incases “He was a trick dog,” 'suid ’ harvest time they had never raised such Friends he had once, tho’ by a now for a crop before. They luid earned money hibitor^of the dry cataract, "and be- introduce in it the characters of all his tor tin glory of displaying at the wheels of scarlet fever,—which arc not common, saken; Home, credit, influence, power for good— enough to buy the cot ¿ted strip of laud longed toTa circus. Had been learned friends. Mrs. Hussey, with a smile, of her chariot the captive she holds by however,---they order the doors and Gone now, like leaves which the chill winds ami still have a bit to spare, "See,” to run after stuns and fetch ’em back. ventured to remark, that he must have the rosy bonds of love is the commonest windows to be carefully shut, that no have shaken; said the man, “we have the land and The man what owned him throw’ll a many niches, and that surely they must type. As her coquetry is of the most breath of air may get to the patient— Only a wreck where a palace once stood. stun over the railin’ of this ere platform, already be filled. “I assure you, my patent kind, its wounds are rarely absolutely drawing the bed-curtains the wish as well.” Gone is the blush of his childhood’s fair The farmer’s wife then suggested that and the dog jumped over after it. That’s dear Madam,” replied he, “there shall severe or lasting, and yet there is a around them; forbid washing of any morning, they had lietter wish for a cow and I how it happened.” be a bracket for a bust of you.” Some certain vulgarity about this spirit of description, even to the hands and face, Gone all the brightness of youth's glow “Did you see it?” Mr. Field inquired. time after this he informed Mrs. Hussey conquest which makes this type of and no change of bed or body linen a horse. But the man replied : ing day— “I was a standin’ right here when it that the work was in the press; but i women dangerous to both men and during the entire illness. Gone past redemption and gone without I “Wife, why waste our wish on such warning trifles? The horse and cow we’ll get happened,” ami the man pointed out immediately recollecting that he had women. „____ “There is one malady prevalent in Manhood’s proud strength, and left only anyway.” the exact spot as conclusive evidence. forgotten Iris promise to her he went to | A more subtle and disastrous in- Italy which I sincerely believe to be decay. Sure enough, in a year’s tiine the It was his word against the guide the printer, and was time enough to fluence is wielded by the woman who is produced, nine times out of ten, by their Out from th** arms of the dear ones still pleading, money for the horse and cow bail been book now. Five minutes later Mr. insert, in Vol. III., page 17, (book 10, I bent on the scientific analysis of the doctors, and that is miliary fever. Un Low with the brute in the mire he’s sunk— learned. Joyfully the man rubbed his Thurber put the inevitable question. chapter iv.,) where he speaks of the various effects produced by the tender less a patient’s symptoms in the begin Food for the jest as still downward he’s hands. “The wish is saved again this1 ■ Field and Sims had departed, and 1 shape01 Sophia Western : “Such charms passion on men of different character ning of an illness indicate the disease speeding, year, ami yet we have what we desire. I ' turned away all but my ears so as and nature. She has little pigeon-holes Not e’en a man now, he’s “only a drunk.” 1 are there in affability, and so pure is it very clearly, the doctor, on the principle llow lucky we are!” not to influence the man in his choice ’ to attract the praises of all kinds of marked with different characteristic of 'when in doubt play trumps,’ pro “Only a drunk;” yet the Savior, so holy, But now his wife seriously adjured between the two stories. Two? It • people.”—“It may, ind?ed, be corn names, and into these she classifies every nounces it ‘ miliare ’; but there living no That which was lost ctune to seek and to him to wish for something at last. turned out to be a third. save; pared to the celebrated Mrs. il ussey.” new specimen. She is apt soon to dis eruption, which is an evidence of that Wept o’er the prodigal, pitied the lowly, i “Now that you have a wish to be “The dog was a p’inter,” said he, - To w hich observation he has given the cover that the pigeon-holes may be very disease, they regard it as suppressed, Rescued the thief though in eight of the j granted" she said, “you slave and toil, “and he beam a partridge some’rs over following note: “A celebrated mantua- few, and that nearly all the men she and so, very dangerous. They then grave; Told of the joy which the bright angels and are content with everything. You yender. He didn’t know nothin’ about maker in the Strand, famous for setting meets will fit exactly intoone or another proceed to produce a rash by covering * cherish, might Is1 king, emperor, baron, even a the gorge, ’cause the boardin’ was tight off the shapes of women.”—[Nollekens of them. When she has arrived at this the poor sufferer with as many blankets A b they look down from the mansions I gentleman farmer, with chests overflow from the floor up to the ceilin’, jest as and His Times. conclusion she is satisfied ; two or three as he can bear, excluding every breath above, ------------------------------ good specimens of every sort having I of air from the room (canning him, so When they behold one just ready to perish, ing with gobi; but you don’t know what 'Jis now. So he jumped clean over, WAS MAN DESCENDED FROM A BEAR? you want.” ! and that was the last of him.” Hawed by the grasp of an infinite love. been coolly analyzed and properly to sjieak), and then forbidding any “We are young ami life is long,” he 1 hung around to see the earth yawn It is variety anil not nourishment saving the weakest of weak In a cave near Morrison, Col., I have pigeon-holed. “Only a drunk;” but there’s hope while life answered. “There is only one wish in and swallow him; but before it had found a number of bones that look to quantity she desires, and, having al broths. Now, as this special fever is lingers, Up to his rescue, still, still there is time; the ring, and that is easily said. Who done so, Mr. Jefferson came up. He me like those of a human creature that ready become quite familiar .with the usually brought on by overheating, and Weave bands of love with kind Charity's knows but sometime we may sorely need called for the dog story, and got it like may-have been half bear and half man. manner in which a certain ¡specie* of the consequently should be treated by a fingers. this wish? Are we in want of any this: But there may be bears’ bones and genus homo is affected by the greatest cooling system, they succeed in pro Hold Inin to heaven with faith that's sub thing? Have we not prospered, to all “The dog was a ’normous big St. men’s bones in the same cave. I am of passions, she allows many possible ducing the disease in its full glory, rash lime. Bee from on high how the Savior is reaching people’s astonishment, since we pos I Bernard, lie belonged to a lady that convinced that these are among the victims to pass by without ¡an effort or and all, and they then set alwut curing Down to redeem him from sin’s dreadful sessed this ring? Be reasonable, and was stoppin' here at the hotel, and she most wonderful discoveries ever made desire to add them to her collection; it, which of course, becomes a doubtful taint; patient for awhile. In the meantime, had a child that he sort of guarded. Mercy and grace for him still are beseech by a zoologist or anatomist. We found but if a specimen hitherto unclassified consider what we really ought to wish Well, that day the lady took the child bones of shell fish and many crinoids crosses her path, she is ready with her undertaking, so weak is the patient from ing. and fasting. Sinner he has been, but may be a saint. for.” down the gorge. The dog was asleep, imbedded in rocks. The undisturbed little dissecting knife to peer into the heat “A friend of mine, spending a few And that was the eml of the matter. exactly there where you’re standin’. remains of creatures that have lived and labyrinths of a new phase of human weeks in Florence, was taken ill with It really seemed as if the ring had The child got dizzy and scared, half died a natural death are beside the nature. THE WISH RING. what proved afterward to be an internal brought a blessing into the house. way down, and giv’ a scream. That bones of creatures that must have served Another class, perhaps the most cancer. She sent for Doctor Z-----. one A young farmer who was very un- Granaries and barns were full to over ’wok the dog, and he leaped plum’ over the cave-dwellers for food. It has been dangerous one into which we • are divid of the most noted of the Florentine htcky sat on his plow a moment to rest, flowing, ami in the course of a few years the rail, kerflop down to the rocks.” held for a long time by geologists that ing coquettes, includes tho ose women It was August and very hot. _ and just then an old woman crept past the )s>or farmer became a rich and |s>rt- “And broke into half adozen separate man must have been a contemporary of who fancy themselves in love with each doctors. and hie orders were not only to shut out and cried, “Why do you go on drudg ly person, who worked with his men dogs,” said I. the cave bear. I hope to establish the fresh lover. These are emotional and air and cover ,herself with blankets, ing day and night without reward? afield during the day, us if he, too, had "What makes you say that?” the truth of my idea that he may have been sympathetic women, who, being in the lint to remain entirely immovable—not Walk two days till you come to a great to earn his daily bread ; but after sup man asked. something more than a contemporary— capable of strong feeling themselves, are to stir hand or foot. She carried his fir-tree that stands all alone in the forest per he liked to sit in his porch, con "Because it needs a separate dog for let us say a descendant. The strata borne along by the force of a passion wishes out faithfully for twenty-four and overtops all other trees. If you can tented ami comfortable, ami return the each story.” below’ those in which the first bones which fascinates them, and which they hours—not even raising her hand to hew it down, you will make your kindly greeting of the folk who passed "Look here, now," and his tone was were found have not yet been disturbed. would gladly reciprocate. In their brush a fly away—ami then, becoming fortune.” and who wished him a respectful good apologetic in the extreme; “if you had But I see many things to convince me often renewed disappointment at finding nearly crazy with nervousness and weak Not waiting to have the advice re evening. to send that dog down the chasm twenty that the cave had been inhabited by that the new lover cannot make them So the years went by. Sometimes, to thirty times a day, the season through, long generations of bears and men. forget themselves, they feel a sense of ness, she sent for an English physician. peated, the faruier shouldered his axe and started on his journey. Sure when they were alone, the farmer's wife you’d feel like giving yourself a little When the western basin of which the injustice to themselves, and never dream If you had seen his look of [horror when he came into the room! enough, pfter tramping two days, he would remind her husband of the magic variety.” Morrison soda lakes formed a part be- . that they are not the injured ones.— “‘Open the window,’ he almort ------- . « -------------- oame to the fir-tree, which he instantly ring, and suggest many plans. But as ["A Newport Aquerelle.” came a great inland sea, bears and men shouted; ‘ take off those coverings; get prepared to cut down. Just as the he always answered that they had HIGHWAYMEN RETURN MONEY FORC- or the prehistoric creatures that then I right up, and lie on the sofa. Inaweek IBLY TAKEN. tree swayed, and before it fell with a plenty of time, and that the best stood in the place of men, fled to the COACHES IN THE DAYS OF GEORGE IV- you will be able to go on to Paris. crash, there dropped out of its branches thoughts come last, she more and more A little over one month ago whilst a caves for protection. The roof of the “And in a week she did go on to Hackney coaches were always drawn a nest containing two eggs. The erfgs rarely mentioned the ring, and at last circus was showing at Twenty-third and cave in which we are w orking is between rolled to tho ground and broke, and the good woman ceased speaking of it Stout streets, a gentleman resident in twenty and thirty feet high. Men and by a pair of horses, for the most part Paris. "The Italians love medicine, and there darted out of one a young eagle altogether. Denver and living at some distance from bears came to live and die in this under miserable looking creatures, which it and out of the other rolled a gold ring. To be sure, the farmer looked at the the heart of the city, was, unknown to world. They came to huge bowlders wonld have been cruelty to urge to any have the greatest faith in it. They take The eagle grew larger, as if by enchant ring, and twirled it alsiut as many as himself, followed late one evening and at the mouth of the cave and stepping speed, though I fancy they were capable it not only for every little ailment, but ment, and when it reached the size of a twenty times a day ; but he was very as he reached the circus grounds was upon them were somewhat above the of keeping up their jog-trot for a con after a fit of anger or grief.” man, it spread its wings as if to try their careful never to wish. “held tip” by two strangers, one of water and could get breaths of fresh air. siderable time. The drivers were usual AMBER. strength, then, soaring upward, it cried: After thirty or forty years had passeil whom held a revolver at his head and 1 believe that this cave may be but a ly elderly men, attired in stone-colored “You have rescued mo; take as a re away, and the farmer and his wife had demanded hie money. Tremblingly he series of caves and that if these could great-coats with many capes. I also Some very interesting research** ward the ring that lay in the other egg: grown old ami white-haired, and their obeyed, and they, as he afterwards re be uncovered and explored we should just remember two or three sedan- recently been made on the flora of the it is a wish.ring. Turn it on your linger wish was unasked, then was God very membered, as tremblingly received the have chambers and underground lakes chairs waiting for hire near the old amber-bearing formations of East Prw- twice, and whatever your wish is, it good, and on the same night they died contents of his pocketliook amounting ami rivers that would surpass those in squares at the west end of town, but sia by Messrs. Goeppert and Menge shall be fulfilled. But remember there J |»eacefully and happily. to $47.50. The highwaymen at the the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky.— they were worn and shabby, though In ancient times there must have been w™: ----- children uni-------- witli likeness enough of their better in this part of Europe a group of conifers is but a single wish in the ring. No No Weeping and grandchildren same time became possessed of an en- [Prof. F. G. Gherke in Denver News. selves to recall Hogarth's pictures to comprising specimens from almost al Sooner is that granted than it loses Ua its surrounded the coffins; and as one velope upon which was written an ad. power and is only an ordinary ting, wished to remove the ring from the still dress, and ascertaining from their vic. THE PERCENTAGE OF ACTIVE OLD .’MEN mind. There were stage coaches from parts of the world. Among the wplendid I certain central points to the suburbs specimens of the California conifer* Therefore, consider well what you desire, 1 hand as a remembrance, tho oldest son tint that it was his own made the state- ON THE INCREASE running several times a day, but seldom so that you may never have reason to I said: “Let our father take his ring ment that having been disappointed in In a young county like this, where starting on their last journey later than i were the redwood, the sugar pine, ar»' repent your choice.” So s|>eaking, the j into the grave. There was always a not receiving expected remittances ami the Douglas spruce; and of the el' continually at fever heat, and life is ,8:30 o’clock p. M. Small chance was ample* of the Eastern States were the eagle soared high in the air, circled j mystery about it; ]>erhaps it was some having exhausted their means they had over the farmer's head a few times, then I dear remembrance. Our mother, too, followed him and resorted to this des where action lather than reflection ; there of procuring a place in the “last bald cypress, red cedar, thuya, and fi* darted, like an arrow, toward the east. so often looked at the ring—she may perate scheme to get funds, but that carries the day, old age seems out of coach" from any suburban district I’inus rigida ; from the eastern coasts« The farmer took the ring, placed it on ! have given it to him when they were they were gentlemen, as their appear place. In the staid old townsand cities without the preliminary ceremony of Asia were the Chilian incense cedar, of England, Hawthorne tells us in his booking it. There was always, however, his finger, and turned on his way lionik- young.” ance indicated, and they would refund the parasol fir, the arlxir vitee, “* So the old farmer was buried w ith the the amount of the compulsory loan upon "Old Home,” that he observed that and at all hours of the day, one hope— glyptostrobus, ami the thuyopsis; and ward. Toward evening, he reached a old age came forth more cheerfully and though often a forlorm one — for the town where a jeweler sat in his shop ' ring, w hich had been supposed to be a their return home. Yesterday the vic the Scotch fir, the spruce, and the liehind a counter, on which lay many w ish-ring, and was not; yet it brought tim of this, at the time unpleasant generally into the sunshine than among tired wayfarer, ami this was a “return < vpress of Europe, ami the eallitri« ourselves, where the rush, stir, bustle chaise.” The phrase, familiar enough Southern Africa. It appears that the costly rings for sale. The farmer as much good fortune into the house as episode, received a postal order for showed his own, and asked the merchant j heart could desire.—[Anna Eichberg, $52.50, living the amount originally and irreverent energy of youth are so 50 or tiO years ago, has no meaning now, , deposits of ambtr for which the Baltic'• preponderant that the poor forlorn grand I in St. Nicholas. its value. ' taken from him, in addition to $5 for sires begin to doubt whether they have ¡but when railways were not, and the noted are the product of generations 1,1 "It is n’t worth a straw," the jeweler I interest on the loan. He says while he a right to breathe in such a world any wealthier classes travelled chiefly by these resin-bearing trees. The riche« answered. A F ktisii in the E ditorial R oom .— , is thankful at receiving his money again longer, and so hide their silvery heads aid of post-horses, the empty postchaise deposits are situate along a strip of co** on its return journey was often to be Upon that, the farmer laughed very "There is only one course open to us. I he would much prefer another time to in solitude. But "fast” as this country I seen on the highroad. The postillion, l>etween Memel and Dantzic, though the heartily, and told the man that it was a We must semi the Fetish." j loan his money in the orthodox way. and this period both proverbially are, it lie sure, always kept his eyes open to real home of anther has been supi«’*’1 wish-ring, and of greater value than all •‘Who is the Fetish'.”' aakeil the i [Denver News. is a fact that the percentage of old men catch any sign from a pedestrian going to lie in the hed of the Baltic l*tw<*t> the rings in the shop together. rhyming genius, who had been on a who continue in active life, and who the same way, for it was a common Bornholm and the main land. It tu® The jeweler was a wicked, designing prolonged vacation. “What's the bell ringing for?” asked upon cretaceous rocks and c-0**“** man, and so he invited the farmer to "Our new office boy,” replied his a man who had just arrived in a south- do not show their years except to a thing for the roomy yellow chariot to chiefly of their debris, forming a pop** remain as his guest over night. "For,” chief; "Christian name John, surname I ern town. "Prominent citizen dead, close scrutiny, is on the increase. i halt and a little bargain to be struck, mixture known as blue earth, which »F he explained, "only to shelter a man unknown. Definition of Fetish—a wood | sir,” replied the inhabitant. “Well. I Erect and active octogenarians, even, i in accordance with which the pedestrian pears to exist throughout the I’roV’®^ are not unknown on our streets, whose | obtained “a lift.”—[London Society. who owns a wish-ring must bring luck.” en idol. John is wooden, also idle." of Samland at the depth of 80 1,1 * i hope he’ll stay dead. I've been travel appearance still makes them pass cur. So he treated his guest to wine and ing over this country all summer and rent as being in the executive period of feet, and to contain an almost inexh»** The mother of twenty-eight children fair words; and that night, as the The young ladies are going to get up ible supply of amber. Immense 'It*11 haven't met anybody but prominent farmer lay sound asleep, the wicked is living in Brownsville, Ga. She is citizens, ami the fact that one of them life. The constant improvement in the an auti-cigaret society. The question tities of amlier are washed out to ** man stole the magic ring from his fin still in the prime of life and vigorous. is actually dead gives me great encour- average style of living in the matter of upon which they are divided now is from the coast or brought down ? dwelling, food and raiment, perceptibly ger and slipped on, in its place, a com Her husband, the only one she has ever I agement.” promotes longevity and increases the whether it will be better to refuse to kiss rivulets and east up again mon one which he had made to resem had, is also alive. Twenty.three of the all the young men who soil their lips storms or in certain winds. The art** number of cases of it. children are dead, though all lived ble the wish-ring. with tobacco or to agree to ¡kiss all yield bv quarrying is 200,000 to JOO.W "I feel worried about Charles!" sighed - - several years. Among them were four The next morning, the jeweler was Mrs. Wildhnsband. "It’s getting late, Saratoga is much interested in a those who do not. As most of them pounds a year, or five times the quanta? pairs of twins, born within a period of all impatience to have the farmer be sure enough,” said sister Kate, looking handsome young bride who is stopping favor the latter proposition there is estimated to be cast up by the waves'1* gone. He awakened him at cock-crow, six years. at the clock, "but I guess nothing un at the Grand Union, and who is to be great rejoicing in the .ranks of the non- 1 the strip of coast aliove mentioned--* and said: "Yon had better go, for A very interesting exhibit at the usual has happened.” “That is what seen walking up and down the piazza smokers. [London Times. you have still a long journey before coming institute fair in Boston will lie frets me,” replied Mrs, Wildhusband. of the hotel for hours at a time in com you.” made by the Williamtic Thread com “I am afraid that inetliing usual lias pany with a beautiful black and tan “No, sir," said the physician who had Queen Marguerite of Italy hold’ As soon as the farmer had departed, pany, who will show the process of happened to Charles.” dog. This dog was a wedding present, worked over the Texas man fi»he>i out receptions on quite a democratic the jeweler closed his shop, put up the spinning and spooling cotton and silk, and cost $400, says Jenkins. It is of the water unconscious. "I never Instead of persons being led up ahntters, so that no one could )>eep in, the entire process lining manipulated by decorated with earrings worth 1'2.000. could have brought him back to life. If queen to be presented, she herself The Critic thinks Oscar Wilde ’ s play bolted the door behind him. and, stand women operatives; and even the engi will do very well "on the mad,” or and a collar studded with emeralds and that circus procession hadn't pas-ed lie ing in the middle of the room, he neer, who is to run the engine to furnish down a hack street, but says it is en. pearls worth $3.000. This lady and never would have regained eons, ious - a progress round the room, giving hand to each one, accompanied by » turned the ring and cried: "1 wish power will be a woman. ness. tirely unfit for city use. pet are the talk of the town. i pleasant words of greeting. ■Captaining a Memorial Inacrlptlon That Did Not Toll Enough.