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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1891-3-19, Page 6Aa 01d-1easTateume Veld. She ean peel and boll potatoes, make a ealad of tomatoeS, but elle doesn't kneW it Latianean from lama; Atla se welt she coolie a chicken that your e.ppe. tite thwonkl quicken, but be cannot tell what's modern frOm antique ; She knows how to sot a table and make order out Of Babel, but elle doesn't know Euripides trona Eaut ; , Once at malting pies caugat GOr—tiDsre an ex- pert must have taught her—but she doesn't know true eloquouce from swat; She hoe quite a arm conviction one ought only to read fiction, and she doeat care for ecienee, not a bit ; And the way she makes her bounets, sure is worth a thouattud sonnets, but she doesn't , care for " cultere," not a whit ; Sae can ine,ke her wraps and dressee till a fellow fast confesses that there's not another maiden half as sweet ; She's immersed in home completely, where she keeps all things so ueatly, but from Brown- ing not a line can she repeat. Well, in fact, she's just 5 woman, gentle, lovable and human, and her faults eho is quite will- ing to EtUnit •, 'Twere foolish to have tarried, so we wont off and were married, and I tell you I am mighty glad of it. —Nathan M. Levy in .Tuage, THE -PRIMA. DONNA. My heart throbbed in respoesive vibra- tion as the oedema fell, like charmed aympatim, from one who knew the terrors of loneliness. 'Thou to whom I love to hearl, an, Come, ere yet the shadows dal. ten. Though my soul do but &aeon, me, Say thou'ru true, and I'll belie ,a thee. Veil, if ill, thy heart's into, Lot me think thee innocen„." Reaching the gate in the in te wall and finding it open I almost i molunterily entered and, under the shad, o of inter. vening foliage, crept nearer to the singer, as she continued: rave thy toiling, spare thy treasure ; All I ask is friendship's ples,sure, Let the shining ore lie earkline, Bring no gem with lustre sparkling, Gifts of gold are naught to me, I would only look on thee.' "Paint for them the deep eensation ; Rapture in participation. Ted to thee high-wrougot feeling, Eestacy in but revealing ; Yet but torture, if compressed lu a lone, unfriended breast." "Oh mita !" I mattered ; " Where are you hiding? How ere yoa so blind ma not tef see; eo deg, not m her; eo cruel, not to respond to euela a call ? " I felt it was with all my heart, for friend. Ellalp's pleasure was that for which I longed Me etitesOy• in but revealing was something which I could plainly under- stand aa able to drive away the tortures that lay compressed in my lone, unfriended breast. Breathlessly, now, I liatened to the last verse : " Absent still! all. come and blase me Let these eyes again caress thee, Once, in caution, 1 could fly thee ; Now, I nothing could deny thee. In a look, if death there be, Come, aud I will gaze on thoe," The singer rine elowly when the song wee finished and wearily massed the balcony, naming through is liOtt light falling from beyond an open door. " Leonora, 1" I cried, trembling as I sprang from the shadows. "You are calling some one." "Signor Anthony 1" she esolainled step. ping back gracility towerd the open door. "It is your voice. No 1 I was not calling any one," "Do not go away, Leonora," I pleaded. "1 did not come to dimover your semen I did not know that it wee yori while I hetened to the singing. Bat now that I know, Leonora, tell who he is and where, and I will fetch him to you from the end of the earth, only in return forgive me and be my friend." It was is curious combination of send. mente, but I did not consider the logioel oomplieetions and, indeed, had no farther desire to, when Leonora replied: "As much as say one, Signor Anthony, I was thinking of you." Ob, I could make a weary journey 'sway to Boppard, on the Rhine, only to find that Mine was gone after I had labored for ten long years to win her; but I had only to follow the first random prompting of a moment, only to wodie beyond the Roman Gate to discover Leonora, beautif al goddess of the night, waiting for me, thinking of me, ceiling me. Approachidg the bsloony and leaning upon the balnetrade I spoke, without forethought or consideration, pre. eisely what was in my heart. "1 have been wretchly lonely, Leonora. My father has been from Florence more then six months and will not return for years, perhape. I have done nothing good in any studio, for I cannot without some one to tell me whether I am right or wrong. I am gloomy and unhappy. I have no one to speak to; no one to make me forget myself an you used to. See I I have brought your little purse with me. It is all that I bave to remember you by, and together we have come to stek you if you oannot forget the oast and come baok again, sometimes, to the etudio. I do not mean to act as a model any more, but as a nritio to tell me about my work; to talk to me and cheer me as you used to. Will you not come, Leonora ? " I say it from long afterward and imam cent, I am sure, of any desire to mitigate the slightest wrong or 'folly of those days that with all my heart, I meant preoisely what I said, no more and no less. Leonora, hesitated. I saw it as I leaned upon the rail of the vine.covered balcony and, looking up, pleaded more earnestly: "Do not say no, Leonors, for if you knew how muoh it would be to me to have you come you would instantly consent." "Signor Anthony," she said, "the tongue is very pliable to eay pleasant things to women when man wills it. Bat I am not a silly girl, Signor, though I am poor and ignorant. I very well know that no one would oome to me to criticise .or tell them anything of the wonderful works of art thee are born in Signor Winthrop's dual°. That is folly, and what you se.y is not true." "Leonora " I exclaimed, "if I ever de. oeived yea you need not believe now. It is true what I said. Did you not make me all that I was that was not gloomy once? Did you not make me paint better than I ever painted before? And oan you not do it again if you chooae ?" "You never deceived me, Signor," eho replied, "end yet it was a very great mistake Mat I listened to you before. I know SIM weak and foolish to be tempted to listen again, but one is alwaye happy to hear that they helve made others so, and if you will tell me truly net what it is Mat you ask of me now, I will think ie over and decide." ' Comprehending only the longing of my hone for eorodbing to initigeto my soli- tudo and lonelineem, I repeated from the dong she hea been singing, which seemed to exprese my sentiinente eo perfectly : " , All I esk is friendthipM 'demure.' " " Friendelnip, Ftiendithip ? " the re- peated elowly, itt nvoice that wtol so much like the vitamin so soft and low, that I could tiot wonder that, encomoionely, I had felt • f nepiration in my work. " Friendehip for how long, Signor?" " Forever,' f I replied, determined not again to stiorifioe a bleesing of my oevn free will, 44A frieodship *hat shell last forever and be nothing, nothing more 2 a ehe asked de, liberately arid mciing in the thought the ideal of my hope replied more earnestly: 'A friereaship thee shell lest forever, and be nothing more.'" Slowly, very elawly approaohiug iene with that subtle, graoeful motion, seeneing hardly to naove the while, she saug the lase lines of the soeg egain " "Once, in caution. 1 could fiy tbee ; Wow, e nothing could deny thee: La a loek, if there deatn there be, Conle, and I will gaze on thee." And with then rokl she reachei me, she placeed her little imea in mine. It waa the firet time I had ever touched it, and eagerly ClaSping it I preesed it passionately to my lips. Then she Mole the puree that I yeas holding, looked at it earneatly for is raomeat, 'timed it it and gave it baok to nee, au, bending over me, she whispered: "1 will come to the ettulio tognorrow, just before the sun eets. You will have finished your vrork. Good night." Oh, the night (or wise it Leonora) wee marvelouely neautiful as I walked back again, through the Roman Gate and down the old drone of Florence. CHATTER XII. FRIENDSHIP'S PLEASURE, I knew Leonora, too well to doubt that she woult keep her promise, end, AB no emu:dainty perplexed ine in the meaner, I was aotuelly con - edema, Lor once in my life, of vaguely pondering upon the wieeiom of what 1 wee doing. When I was alone in my studio, the net morning, after the find flush of joy had ohe,nged to oalniter &Mich pation, 1 aeked myself if it were really, humanly pomible to make and keep such a compeot. There wee is wareatla of south mem in the manner in which we had sealed it that was incongruous. Why had the said : " In is look, if death there be 2 " Possibly because it was so written in the eong. Why hed ehe kissed the little puree and given it beak to me ? Was it eimply to mourn me of her friend. ship? Why ehould she come to me when I had finished my work? It was while I was working that I had told her that I needed her. So far as I, personally, was concerned no fear ennoyed me, for I could readily under. steed my own pleasure in her frienclehip, and for the rest was I not Mitts's ? All the world could not have shaken me from that rock. Nothing, indeed, but is complete misconception of all that I have tried to say of myself could make my action or thought in this matter appear in any way ae a conscione intuit, belying the senti- ments I bore toward Mina, or as indicative of any chrome in them. Had Mina been with me I should not have thought, much lees have longed, for ocher friendship, and while that love for Mina wee in my heart I saw no possible danger in ceeking and expecting external relief from loneliness, My fears were aroused only for Leonora. I wondered it she thoroughly understood, and asked myeelf if it were possible that I was leading her where my father had warned me lay unutterable misery. I even began to dread the approach of sunset, and carefully arranged with nmself is logioel and elaborate system by which I ehould ever guard our friendship, that it might last forever but to the end benothing more; keeping constantly before Leonora the pledge we had made and ever holding my- self so ooneciously that there should be no danger of is moment of forget fellness which might insinuate is thcught of 'anion, suggesting irretrievable unhappinees in the fature ; euch is fool of is phtlosopher will pratioal ignorance make of one who is theoretically wise. Before the sunset Leonora came. As ever, she was better then her word. Was it Leonora? The eyes 1 the ernile ! the grace ! They were Leonora. But where was the poor, ignorant model whose beauty I had bar- gained eo long to bin 2 Fled it been light the night before I should, doubtless have asked myeelf that question then, and had I not been drawn by the singing to the villa, and in its charm been lost to everything but sentiment and Leonora before I (Iisoovered that it was her home, 1 should, probably then have thought how much too flne it was for the home ot is poor model. All this ileethed &Grose me, now, when, at last, I could not emape seeing it, for Leonora stood before me, dressed, e,s only an Italian woman can dress, in that exquisite harmany where the drapery is lees than a part of herself, only an inferior &memory that is graced by the wearer—not gracing her. True, her coatume was of the most costly fabric, but one conld hardly notice it, for it clang about ber figure SD exquisite in its perfection that, with unaccountable heeitation I approached her and my hand trembled as I placed a chair for her. She shrank timidly from before my ad- miring eyes and a deep flush suffused her cheeks—the first effect of that manly watohfalness that was ever to stand guard for her—eaying "No, Signor, I may not sit while you are standing, for I am only what you have made of your little model.' Then, by fate- ful Marmite, her eyes fell upon the canvas at the oppoeite side of the studio, which, by instinct, be must have known WAS that whioh I had painted as the "Sunrise," for, rapidly 'arming the room, she lifted the cloth which covered it. Had I thought of the change which I had made in it I should have put that picture out of reach, for it was creel that thia should be the first work upon which to test the strength of our new compact, and I trembled as I saw the frown that gathered on Leonora's forehead, am motion- less, slae stood before " The Night." My lipe wore sealed and helpless. Silently I waited the result. The frown gradually faded from the forehead and is etrange emile gathered about the lips; neither of them casting is shadow over the eyes. It was as if those eyes were too deeply en- grossed for external expression and must leave the forehead and the lips to betray the sentiment of the heart. Whet that sentiment was, however, that was thus betrayed, I could only wonder; for I had never seen that look on Leonora's face be- fore. It was sad; it was paihetio; there was something in it that seemed almost heroic. She was very pale. She did not raove ; she did not turn her eyes from the canvas; bet, at length, speaking very low yet so distinctly that every word gemmed to pierce nee, she said : This, Signor, is what I have been since you mew me. It is not what I was when you painted the Sunrieee Till then 1 heti been se pure as the morning. Now I have been as black SS the night.' Even that delicate drapery, ea she held it in her extended hand, did not tremble or wiener, though her worde, cm she epolee them, fell like poieoned delete upon the motionless figure watching her frora at11:0130 the studio. Before me stood the most beautiful women that my eyee ever rested upon. If there in all the world a facie and form • without is blemish, a beauty that was rib. solately perfeot, it woe thim Stunned and helpleris I stood there, refuelling the words Which elm had °poker( upon entering the Audio. Then, suddenly coming to tnyst,if, I rapidly approatilled her, aimed clutching her by the shoulder as I grasped "Leonora! you meant as beatitleal as night," Than he turned tipon nae, Het eyes met mine, and I trenabled under the flash. ing splendor. Sbe leid is delioate bend upon my arm and tire seemed thrilling through my rhea She gpoke. No matter what the words the 'Said, her voiee wee raeiearsereldeA us, bewildering melody. dell Yet sh "Signor, as bleak aS night." " God, help me " I cried. "le thee what 1 ha,ve made of my model ?" Then tears glistened in those wonderful eyes. The face WAS es white se marble; as beautiful as the yenus de Medici. With- out is quaver in her votes, without a tremor of is muscle, without is flinching of a nerve, she looked into niy eyee and replied : "Signor Anthony, it eves became I loved you. You were rich end proud and I wise nothing; yet I loved you. Your father wee afraid that My love might injure you. Wait, Sigaor, you shall Speak when it pleases you, but what I say I know. That is why I went away. My heart was torn and bleeding. For is naonth I would rather have died for my love for you, but I kept away until I turned mad. Then I killed my sorrow; I buried my love and my heart together. I buried them deep, Signor. I buried them forever. They will never trouble me any more. I havenbeen ttS bad aS had enn be since then, and lee the reeult I am as happy, de happy as the angels. A great nobleman from the S'onth played that he loved me and took me away with him to Rome. For five months I lived leech a gay lite there as morted never lived before. Five months 1 Just think how long it was 1 It VMS only is week ago when he thought that it wee time that he should be loving mine arm else, and sent me baok to Florence. But I had no broken heart et perting, this time, oh, no I I came as happy as I went, and happier; for I had lovely dresses. And oh, such dia.moads 1 Bemoan:a diamonds 1 When I first osme to you I was the pare, clear morning. While I was with you - 1 know yen did not know it, Signor—my love for yon burned like the midday sun. When I went away I was is sad and dewy evening. And &her them why, then the night, you know. Yes, now I am is clear and cloudless night. I have no more thought of sorrow; no more the danger of a broken heart; not even longing airy more for love. I am jaet like the painting. When you began with us we were both of es the senrise, and now we are both the night. Of couree we are what you have meld° of your model. You need not that I OP any one else should tell you how much you have improved upon us both. For all the world you could not turn Meet painting beak to the euuriee is wee at first. Oh, no 1 It is wonderfully changed for the better. No more, Signor, for all the world, would I be what I was when yoa peinted me. That is all. Now you Mel better about it. I can see it in your eyes. And if you think me pretty yoa oan take me with you to the Cafe Royal to supper. Then, if you will drive me to my home, I will &mop my dress and you oan take me to the opera. Oh, I will be very dignified. You. need not fear; you sball not blush for Me. No soul in Florence knows or ever obeli know what I have been, and I will never, never be at it again. I will wear my diamonds. They are real diamonds, and you shall be very, very proud of me. So we will forget the past and be jest friends. Yon looked very cross at me it moment ago, but now you may kiss me, it'd once, if you like, only to make up, you know." /lateness of bewildered folly 1 Folly of bewildered madness 1 I kissed the parted lipa that were raised to mine and we left the studio together. Was I etunned and helpless still? On the contrary I think that st that moment and, perhaps, for the dent time in my life, I was absolutely satis- fied. In the coldest, most inhuman and selfish philosophy, I could not have laid a better plot. My fears were quieted and the dread suspense and apprehension, which world have wreaked all the pleasure I was seeking, bad suddenly disappared. I no longer trembled leet my timid adoration should leave is shadow over Leonora's life, I no longer doubted that she understood and would be able to keep the compile:it we had made. What had I to do with her past or her confession that it should repel me from her? When she had told me once and again that sbe would not for the world be what she was, should I not believe her? Thus, arguing, I put the world of matter away from me, and without restraint and without puoction, gave myeelf unreservedly to the ecstacy of friendship's pioneers, which I had found before in the " Sunrise," and which I had found as dear and pure again in the star ot the evening, all unsullied in its lustre, the beautiful Leonora. CHAPTER XIII. STAR OF TEM EVENING. The days were hours. Months flew by in sweet delirium. Leonora became my critic, my model, ray friend. She was the soul of every touch of ray brash upon the canvas; she was my shield from every gloomy shredow ; my companion in every be,ppy hour. She posed as my model even, and as patiently as when she name firet to the studio. She went with me to the Cede Royal and was not less refined than the datliest dame of Florence. She wile with me at the opera and she was more beautiful than any. She was the admiration of all my friends in whatever paths we found them, and I the object of their lavish envy, foraooth, the beautiful and accomplished Leonora was my friend. A year wont by, then another was also gone before I realized it had league, and the compact between 1:19 Yi-ea unehaken. Was I tiring of Leonora? On the contrary, not is day paseed that did not find me more dependent upon her, that she did not develop some new charm, sera° new, re. markable facility, mere() unsuepeoted attraction. She told very little of her past history, and what she did not tell I re. frained from aekingfiabout, knowing well that it might be in some way connected with her secret, which I WAS by no means eager to probe more deeply and to which she never again alluded. She was an orphan, left alone se is little girl, to be educated at a convent. She had, been leas than a month from its confines when I met her first, outside the Roman Gate. Later the death of is relative had left her mistress of the picturesque little villa where I found her, and to that returned on coming baok rorn Rome. Had thie friendship of ours been love, true love, it worm would not have rola tso ISILIDOI.h. Hari it been anything, indeed, than whet it weo, and had he been anyone in all the world bat Leonora, it would long ago lieve become either lege or more weari• some, or disappeared through he own fan - term. Indeed, I waited just SIS eagerly for lam coming, I enjoyed ail intensely the drive, the open and the supper afterward ea upon the first week 01 our friendehip. Ti is, true that I noticed, with a eletidder, how marked is change was coming into any work at the mod ; that each eummeding piece grew (limiter ; that all my favorite Mete were neutrele; that every light wad fading, every shadow bearing aome tenth ment of night. "Bti merely," said I, "thio is not through eny &Menefee of my life by Loners ; for 1 have never been so bright and happy since I left that earthly par. %dim upon the Rhine." I thought it must be the effect of the paintiog, the "Night," that had stood eo long before ea tO influence ray eye for color and meedisposition at the ecosel, and, closely covering it, I placed it in the darkest corner of the staid°, My paintinge were not commauding finch prioes as they had, that waa esaily accounted for iu various ways. They were not go large, 00 striking, so unusual. I save thet, in some pointe, at least I wee proems, sing, and meld Emily diecever emprove. went in my work during the two yeara. Then, too, I bad learneil the eeoret of pidoing rapidly ; Pordething that I had. never aotentreol to any degree till Leonora came to my (Audio. She seemed to give wing° to my brush, mid I more then gained hi quantity all that I lost in quality, se that my income continued to inorease, which wits entirely ediefectory to my present mood; for I was paintiug for matey now, not for ambition. I waa working for Leonora, not for Mina. The second midwinter mime, mad with it is promise of is new conapeany at the Opera House, for the semen with it new liet of operas, end is celebrated prima donne who had never sung in Florence before, but who came literally wrapped in laurels, frora Paris and Vienna, from Dreadeu'Munioh, and Berlin, from London aud 81. Peters- burg. It was a grand occasion for the city, which, fur yeeirs, had been deluged with old stook compenione and threadbare pro- ductions till the audience as well AS the prop:11)1;er what was coming noxi; for all Florence waited with eager expeozetion the grand opening night. It would be the event of the winter. Stella and boxes cone - mended fabulous prices, yet the Opera Home would be eested O ite utmost What an opportunity for the beautiful Leonora Peet:n(301y es she promised, I had become extravagantly proud of her. Even now I do not wonder for I very math doubt if Florence, Italy, Europe, or the world could have produced her rived in beauty, while the modeety and refinement, the unosten- tatione timidity with which the shrank irom all the world for me, made me the more anxious to avail myself of every opport- unity to show her to the world, and let it see how very beautiful she was. Thus, without a moment's hesitation, I secured the most prominent and expeneive position in the house, the large box jest upon the right of the Royal eeats, with plsoea for fifteen but with chairs set alone for Leonoris and for me. What did I eare for money compared with each is chance ! My chair should be plaoed behind the curtains while Leonora's should stand at the very centre of the rail. The longed•for nigdt arrived and Leo- nora, outshone herself. Verily, I eonld have fallen at her fed and worebipped her as the living Galatea. I realizea the con- summation of mortal admiration. There was stbsolutely nothing in Leonora which I did not admire. Memory could not recall for me one unkind word, one cruel glance, one thoughtless, indelicate or annoying act, one motion that was not graceful, ono word that was not musio, one expremion then; was not in perfeet harmony eelf- poised, not incapable of parnion or emotion but capable of oontrollieg them, she sat there without ona fleck of dues to dim the lustre of the diamond. Love ! Were those sentiments of love? Was there no difference when I thoaght of Mina 2 I ooneidered my claim upon Leo- nora precieely as I considered her claim upon me. Had she told mo that night that she was to marry some one in the morning, I am confident that I should have said: "How happy will be the man whom you will blame And how much, ob, how much I shall miss you." Would those have been my words had Mina told me that? (To be Continued). THE PERFECT MAN. -- Rules of Measurement Used by Greek Sculptors. From the crown to the nape of the neck is oneetwelfth the stature oZ is perfectly formed man, says the St. Louis Republic. The hand from the wrist to the end of the middle finger is one-tenth of the total height of is man of perfect proportions. A men of good proportions is as tall as the dieter:toe between tlae tips of his fingere when both arms are extended to fall length. The face from the highest point of the forehead, where the hair begins, to the and of the shin is oneetenth of the whole stature of a man of perfect mould. If the face from the roots of ttie hair to the chin be divided into three equal parts the first divieion determines the place where the eyebrows should meet, the second the opening of the nostrils, if the man be perfect in form. The proportions of the human figure are six times the length of the right foot. Whether the form is slender or plump the rule holds good on an average. Any devia- tion from the rule is a departure from the besets, of proportion. It is claimed that the Greeks made all their statues according to this rule. The Grave of Hamlet. Succeeding generations have been very kind to Hamlet in taking such pains to build him a grave and keep it in repair. It is necessary for the would.be vieitor to this spot to pros through A garden and pay is pay a smell fee, after which he may wander st his own sweet will among the great trees in is pretty grove on is little ridge. In the farthermost rear corner is. a pyramid ot stone of artificial roughness, about iwhioh is sickly ivy struggles for existence. That is all there is of it. Hamlet doesn't seem to care for mach style in this smatter; he probably finds this rustic affair amid the trees more to his taste. I imsgne he might find it very pleasant to come out fine evenings, sit down and brace himself up against this pile of stones and gaze out over the moonlit watera somas to the spectral tower of Helsingberg and muse over historic bygones. Over the wall, down in is little dell, they have named it trickling Armin " Ophelia's Springs," inasmuch as that maiden did not consider it quite the square thing teat Hamlet should have a grave and he be left without any such little re. merabrance. It is very convenient, ac- cordingly, for tho lovera of old when they wish to hold little spiritualistic menus up in the grove, and it is easy to imagine long and interesting meetings by the little pyramid in which the original ghost of Hamlet's father very likely retakes desultory remarks about hie former spouse.—Berlin Letter in New York Times. it Web Streak of Silver. One of the Over mines in the faraoue Broken Hill district in Australis recently raieed six tons of ore that contained 13,500 ouncee of silver. This is equivalent to a yield of 52,760 per ton of ore. Many of the Nevada Ittirl.33 are could. °red god producers when yielding from leld to 90 in Efflver per ton of ore raised. Prod met Barillsa of Guatemala hae not been a iinprovident ruler, and if the preen, ent tzo Jaime force him °idot hie country he wil ot go pennilesa. Beeideee2 000 000 or 43,Q00,000 which he has lately realized On leis property he hadis matter of 420,000,. 009 in the Bank of England. LORDS OE APPEAL. A carious Feature of the English judicial Smitem. The pointment of Sir James Efannen to be a Lord of Appeela, eaya the London Sanirday Review, oornpletes the number of life peerages( authorized by Parliament. There are pow four of theee funationeries in faded hernese toed in the receipt of salaries. They are Lord Wataon, Lend Msonaghten Lord Morris and Lord Han - nen. Lord Blieekbern, who has retired, is permitted by recent leeialation to retain his peerage end with it hie met in the Home of Loran The history of the new tribunal Ihtla gradually formed is conic= and interesting. No ohange less ever been effected in the position oe the House of Lords as the Supreme Court of Appeel for the United Kingdom since 1800. Lord Selborne attempted to abolish he judicial powers in 1873 ; but be met with such strennotte resistance that he had to aban- don the project, one of his roost active opponents being the late hamlet:1M. Before 1876 there had been no recorded instance of Et life peerage. Lord Palmeraton had recommended the Queen to confer one upon Baron Parke. But the House of Lords, in- stigated by the bete Lord Derby, would not allow Lord Wensleydale to take his seat until hie patent had been made out in the ordinary way. The Appellete Juriediotion Aot of 1876 authorized the mention by Blow degreemand itt carefully cipeoffied drown. stances of four official peers, or, as Prof. Freemen would perhaps prefer to senior& of. Parliament, They were not to bo lile peers Lord Redesdale objected to thitt. It would be contrary to precedent, he eaid, whereas if they were members of the house only during their terms of office there wee the precedents of the biebops. Lord liedesdele's soenples prevailed and 14 was only after his death thee is lord of append became is life peer—at haat is linelong member of the House of Lords. It is fifteen years sinoe the Appellate Jurisdio• Lion Aot was pamee, and yet the fall number of these Jams has only now been completed. They were° ineended as substi- tutes for the peed members of the Judicial Committee, of whom Sir Barnee Peacock was the Met survivor. Before 1876 the Lord Chancellor was the only peer bound by his office to tit and hoar appeals. Ha had to depend upon the voluntary assietanoe of emehancellors and any late or present judge who happened to have been ennobled. Lora Eldon was content to affirm hie own deadens in the presence of it bishop and a lay peer, who made the quorum. Lord Devon provoked mach mindere by sitting with the law lords, although he had only been is master in chancery. Yet to thie day it is norai. nally the whole house which decides legal ORM, and every peer is technieally entitled to vote. In O'Connell's case is coueieerable number of them attended for that purpose and were with difficulty induced by Lord Brougham to retire. Since then the right has never been claimed, although an es. centric nobleman did attend in his place and intimate diesent from the judgment which declared the liability of MI share. holders in the Glasgow Bank to be um limited. The forme of debate are still pre- served. The lords rise to state their opinione, they address the House, the Chancellor puts the queseion from the woolsack, and in the event of an equal division the rule semper preesunitur pro negante applies. THE NEWEST INVENTIONS. What the Ingenious Workers Now Offer the World. A new railway appliance enables the son- duotor to feigned to the engineer accurately and promptly by means of compressed air. It is is trigger devise. By the use of a new machine potatoes may be planted in a etraight line and with the hills at, Equal distances apart. A cotton steilk puller has is pulling wheel journalled near the ground on the lower end of a abort vertical axle, and operated by gearing from the maba horizontal axle. brash scraper for paint pails is new. Scienoe even buries ns ingeniously. A kneekdown frame is adapted to be plitoed over is grave, with parallel tracks, and is carriage forming is bier running on the tracks to receive the coffin, the ceirrie,ge having pivoted handles to facilitate low. ening is coffin or casket to the bottom of it vault or a grave. The latest cash regisber prints numbers and cats off is °hook in one inotion. The amount is, of mune, registered at the same A new device of clams and catches holds a ham like is genteel vise while the carver esthetically slices it. .AN IMPROVED STOPPER. A Secret Device that Appeals to tt e Thirsty.3 An English syndicate has introduced an improved stopper for bottles, which bee the important advantage that it enables elm part of the contents of is bottle being drawn off without injuring the remaining fluid. This resalt is reached by employing a glass ping and an India -rubber ring, as shown in the engraving, an air -tight joint resulting between the ping and the bottle neck. The more the pressure inside the bottle the tighter the joint becomee, but when the glaao ping is pressed inward, opening a passage at ee.ch side under the rabber ring, the liquid escapes very readily. Upon relaxing tho pressure on the plug the joint is again made and tbe flow stops. An arrangement is used to prese the stopper ; but a thirsty man could easily contrive to reiease the liquid with the finger. Two Buttons on is Coat. A Chicago tailor, oonvereing with a Hai reporter, suggests several improvements which might be instituted in male attire. Ile sap "Why do you want your tailor to sew those two button(' upon the bask of your coat Of what possible advantage are they? And threhnteons upon the coat elevo, too—what pupae° do they serve? Do you know then the buttons upon the beim of the coat and upon the sleevea are relics of is pad age Well, they are. Those buttons have held their own through all the mute.tione of time and Mullion from away back in the feudal ages. (len you imagine how they originated. They wore first need at it time when every MAA cer- Tied is aword and wore gauntlets. The battens were tweed in fastening on the Efword belt tend gloves, Bat nowadays very few men wear movie, Mellon& all still merry around those buttonthat were seeved on hundrede of yeere ago to keep the sword belt in plece." Same Kind of a Game. "Did you ever me anything like ilia 7' Raid is young lady to her escort at is church fair where raffling was in progress." " Only (Mee," "When was that ?" "11 wag when isbutto0 man in New York steered me into a little game bf fete° and wen robbed of $75.—Texas Siftings. Mrs. Woodworth, thee Matto evangelist, wan/anted is divorce from her hueband. FISHING IN TfiE MIMIC INken the Wish Are Pulled Out They Instantly Freeze Solid. Wherever there is is leVia Aela of thie, emmon's iee endued by Hoeg of hummocks the fide are euro to be plenty, elaya is writer in Forest and 8tregen Silt% G field, " this, about hall a mile long, practically afforded a living to most of the people oe the village during the meson of 1883, because that year the eco Wee very nafayorable for chafing, and food was pretty scarce iu the villege. Tiao fishing is oarried oa nimbly by the worreon and obildrem though one or two old men generally go out, and one or two of the younger men, when they cannot go sealing and foced is wanted at the house, will eoin the fish- ing party. Each fishernacen is provided with is long-haudled Mee piok, which he frs. quently leaves etioking in the mow near the fishing eround; is long line made of stripe of whalebone, reeled leregthwise on a slender wooden shutele about eighteen inches long, end provided wit& a copper sinker end two peershaped "elm(" of walrus ivory, armed with four barblean hooks of copper, and a ecoop or clipper made of reindeer antlers, with a wooden handle shoat two feet long. Hardly en Esquimau, end eepeoially rio Elequi- ms,u boy, stirs out of the honee in the winter without one of them mops in his Woad. To every party of twee or three tlaere will also be is good. sized bag of sealskin, generally mode of is piece of an old kayak cover, for bringing home the fieh. Arriving at the fishing grenade each proceeds to piale tit hole through the ioe, which ie about four faA thiok, clearing out the chime with the meop. Tine "jigs' are then let down through the hole, and enough line un- reeled to keep them juin clear of the bottom, where the flab are playing about. The reel is held in the right hula and servea as a abort rod, while the s000p is held itt ehe left hand, and need to keep the hole dear of the mem of new ice, whioh, of mune, is constantly forming. The line is kept in constant motion, jerked up quiokiy is abort distance, and then allowed to drop back, eo that the little fide that are noeing about the wlaite " jige" after the menner of codfish, are hooked about the jaw or in the belly. Ae soon as the fisherman feels is fleet on hie book lie centime rip it bight cot the line with his scoop and another with his reel, and thus reele up the line on these two Eiticks in loose mile until the fish is brought to the surface, when it skillful tom throws him off the barbless hook on the ice, where he gives one convulsive flop and inetantly freezes eolid. The elastic whalebone line is thrown off the sticks without tangling and paid oat through the hole again for another trial. If fiat are not found plenti- ful at the firet bole the fisherman shifts his ground until be " define! is school." They are sometimes ea plenty that they may be caught as fest ea they can be hauled up. One woman will bring in upwards of a bushel of little fish—they are generally about five or six inches long —from is single day's fishing. 'This fishing lasts until the middle of May, when the boa begins to soften. A good many are caught along the there in November in ehoet foot et water, when there are no tide °make in the ioe. At this seaeoia theEsquimaux um a HMIs rod about two feet long, with is short line and little ivory equid, at which the fish bite. EASTER GLOVE TALK. Why a " Glace " 1 Better Than a." Suede' —Finger "Tips." A glace kid is euperior to a suede kid. A suede is formed by removing the outer portion of the dressed skin, jest sa though we removed the outside °reticle from a human skin. An inferior or dameged skin will answer for is suede when it could not be uaed for is glace kid. The patented buttons fastened by simply pressing one (portion over the other do not 6, take" on ladies' glovee, as they cannot be moved if the wrist is too large or too small. Ladino' sizes rnn from si to 8, ohildren's Iran 4- to 6e, and nion'e Mora 6,2- to n. A short.fingered glove makes the hand look miller, but not of as good is shape. Handsome riding gauntlets are of a heevy grade of lamb -skin in brown and resset tans, with the stiff gauntlet ouff. Cotton is used for sewing the gloves, as it will not out as Boon as eilk. Whitemewn. gloves are passe. The long, wrinkled or Bernhardt glove comes in lengths of 20 to 30 buttons in light shades. New gloves should be kept folded in oil paper to prevent any &Waning. VillE]SE THE BLOW FALLS. -- An English Plan for Lessening the Dangers of Railroad Collision. An interesting feature of reilway mod. dente, to which the Railway Press, of London, calls attention, carries with it suggestion for its remedy. A large pro- portion of the Monsters on the mil result from the collision of moving Maine with standing Mains or single care. In eacb collisions the loss oZ life is tidally confined to the occupants of the forward oar of the train. In fact, the Bathyal) Press declares that "recent accidents have demonstrated, with all the force of carefully arranged experiments tint an express train travel- ing fifty ranee an hour or more oan run into a stationary one without serious risk to life or limb, so long as the carriage nest the engine is not occupied." The remedy suggested by this foot is the plaoing of is baggage or freight car next to the engine of every express train, sothat in case of collision the brunt of the shook would he unstained by this oar unoccupied by passengers. Thio is the common pradice in this country, but results have not entirely sustained Mae English theory. Be Ought to have Advertised. Printer's Ink : I am at the head of the trade; why should 1 adverbise 2" said it prominent manufacturer of cocoa. He was sure that he was right. The majoriey of his business friends agreed with him. He might as well have said, " I am in good health; why should I insure my life ?" but none of them looked at it in that way. Asleep in his feeling of eeouriky, he did not realize the necaseity of °reciting it fortifica- tion of advertideg around his businese, and although he had a grand stark of alt leis competitors, younger bonne grew more Active ea he grew older, foreign competition cane° in despite the tariff, and hia declining years were moveifled by hie taking second place; next, third place; linasily, fourth, fifth and sixth placate in mercantile rank. W. W. Skory, the American aoulptor and poet, whose home is the Palazzo Barberini, Rome, id modeling it figure of Chriete droned iri the (Martel Jewish robes, with the keflyete (couvrenthef, kerchief) on his head --the meal head-dress in the Moalone East, whore the tatben is not wenn. --Benevolent individtial—LYoung mane didn't you how that tobacco walking was vet y ininnouti ? Small boy—Well, 'AO'S iehaane / This ia a cigarette.