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They are strictly vegetable end do not gripe or purge but by their gentle o Caton iilease ail who use'them. in vials at 95 Ceti tS ; fiyo for SI . • Sold everywhere, o1. sell t by rnalL il.:81,71 SSMC'S:F., 00 "Iv:, York 6111 Pill '1os, ko1Ihiloo . .,- 81 I YOUNG FOLKS: In Ninety -Three. This is my birthday—I'm most a man; ExetOtly I'm growing uP, says my Uncle Van, .tan awful rate. But 1 can't enow everything quite °leer, - Not quite, says he. Before my birthday comes round next year In Ninety-three, • What makes the moon grow thin andlong Like a paper beat? How did, they get the canary's song Iri lns little throat? Why hasn't the butterfly something to do 1 Or whyluis the bee? What will become of Ninety.two In Ninety-threo1 rinalways thinking and wondering As hard as I Can; But there isn't much good in questioning My Uncle Van. For he only says with a funny look, shall probably see - 1(1 keep on growing and mind my book— In Ninoty.three. It's long ahead till a fellow's nine, When he's only eight l Bat the days keep passing, ram or shine, And I can wait, For all these puzzles, that seem so queer Just now to MO, I'll understand by another year„ In Ninety-three. —.[St Nicholas. Eow Charlie Lost His Book. Charlie had needed a geography tor some time. One night his father came home from the store with apeckage neatly tied up in white paper. Ile gave it to °was, who found it was bis loneelooked-for geography. He was fond a his studies, and was de- lighted with its clean pages and bright perteres. Although he had seen the other boys' books often eneugh, his seemed as new to him as if he had never seen, a geography before, He beamed hi a lessons for the next day, and then went to bed, thinking how much cleaner his eook would be than the other boys', • The next morning after doing his chores around the house he seeded for school. On the way be bad to pass Mn Simmons's or- chard. A fine branch of a tree hung over the fence and. the apples on it looked very - tempting. Although he had brought some apples from home, he decided to take some from this tree. He laid his books on the ground and climbed on the fence. Then be saw another tree a little way off that had larger apples on it. Be got down and filled his pookete from it. When he got back to the road again lie looked for his books. What do you think ? There was Tom Saunders's goat making a meal of his geagraphy 1 He was tearing out the handsome maps, and munching them as if he thought they were some now kind of highly colored vegetable, • Charlie made n, rush to save what be could of his book. Billy did not want, to lose his paper breakfast, so when Cherlie stooped for the book Billy doubled up and batted lib» over ; then as heattempted to rise,over he went again, spilling his apples as he fell. Mr. Simmons, hearing his cries at last, came and coaxed Billy away. Alas the new geography was spoiled. Ma Simmone for- gave lum for taking the apples whou he saw how badly be felt about tlie book. But his rather Ina some important business with him in the wood shed that night which he never forgot. My Fat Squirrels. Come, children, and listen; ru toll, if I may, A story of pots that were found ono bright day. Once upon a time —as .1 used to think al stories should begin—once upon a time I had seine pet squirrels, and this is how they Came to me One bright spring day a friend was at work in the woods, and, after cutting down a tree, he found within is hollow place a nest with f onr baby squirrels ; wee bits of things, with tails like rats' tails, but which afterward became beautiful, bushy gray plumes. They were homely little creatures and seemed all claws, as they would try to elutch our fingers or climb about on our clothes. For some time we fed them with a tea- spoon, and, thongh they were such uneasy, elinging little creatures, they soon learned to take -their milk in this way. Bat they soon grew too large and too spry for their basket, and were so full of mischief that we had a house matle for them, with a wire wheel at one and and a Isere front. We soon had to line it in many places with tin, as without this, their sharp teeth soon made a way out They had a little chamber overhead. in which we made them a bed, and almost every day they would bring that out, shake it up and play with it for a while and then gener- ally lout it in its place. They had great fun running and. swing- ing in the wheel. Sometimes both would run together and how it would fly, thea One would often get the wheel going swift- ly and then he would cling to the wires and swing over and over till itseemed as though he must get dizzy, but as the wheel began to slacken in its mocion he would run again as spry as ever, and it did not seem possible any little animal could run as swiftly as they often did. I3ut when both were in the wheel and one run oue way and the other tried to run in an opposite direction, it would not work so well. We often let them play around the house for a little while, and they were in great glee then, climbing upon our shoulders and running about as tame and fearless as if they led charmed lives. Our old dog, Watch, caught a great many squirrels about the fields, but he never of- fered to molest these, though we were care- ful that they did not get far from the. house. One clay one got out and did not wish to be caught, so lie ran into the cellar. . One of us went after him, and as she saw him sitting quietly just ahead of her, erept up carefully, and, reaching out her hand, caught him, but at the same time he ceught her, too, putting his sharp little teeth through her finger. . They did not often try to bite, but he was frightened and it was done in self-defense. They were very found of nuts, fresh ber- ries or fruit, and were very dainty and cun- ning as they sat up, holding their food in their forepaws and nibbling so surely to the sweet kernel within. . It was amusing to see them scold and chatter when we washed •the floor around their house. They seemed to dislike have ing the water so near them : They were pretty little things, but very mischieveuS, and after a time we gave them away, where we knew they would be well taken dare of, , but we missed there very netich ween they were gone.— Careless Jack. Although Jack Stone WAS a pretty good boy in the main, he had several grave faults, one of which was carelessness. This fault of Ja'ck's grieved his papa and mamma greatly am d often caused them great annoyance. • Oneernorning it was raining herd when Jack started to school, and being ie a hurry he forgot to shut the gate after him, as he had always been bulden to do. Now Jack had a beautiful Shetland pony and eolt, which his papa had givers him. The Moth er pony was tied in the barn, but Skip the colt, was allowed to run sent play ebout the yard. A few minutes afterJaek had gone to school his inanitna, who was seated by the window saw Skip slip throu h the or en gate and trot gaily down tee sidewa!k.. Now, ttI was raining very hard, but Mrs. Stone, fearing the silt would run so far that she could not catch her, ran right out in the rain in her bare head, and with thin slippers on her' feet. By this time Skip was out in the middle of the read in the mud. Come, Skip, c'ome," said Mrs. Stone, bet Skip did not know what"..come meant, and anyhow, had not the slightest notion of coining. She had ever So much more room to run out in the road than inside the fenee, and she liked to stand in the puddles and feel the soft mud on her feet. So she only teased her head saucily in a knowing way, and pranced a few feet farther ou, corning, however, near enough to the sidewalk for Mrs. Stone to catch her, if she only stood still lone enough. She allowed Mrs. Stond to come up to her and pet her, but as for budging one inch toward the gate, she would not. • Mrs. Stone now pee her arms around the pony's wet neck and then tried to coaie her along. Then she got behind and. tried to push her. She even picked up is stick and tried is few gentle blows on her, but it was no use. Mrs. Stone wee now ia despair. She feared to let the colt run till Jack or his papa would come et noon, lest .sorne. thing shoeld happen to her. rhe street cars were passing everyfow minutes just at the corner, and Skip might dash out to the track and be run over and killed. As last some ideastruck Mrs. Serie. She went to the barn where Skip's mother was and said: " Lady, ,yeur child has been behaving very badly, She bite run away down the street in the mud and I cannot max hes back even. I want you to OM with me and call her, for perhripa she will minde you." So. Mrs. Stone and lady went down the street in the 'pouring rain after the naughty run -away. By this time the little scamp was a block away and standing in the middlesof a yecant lot which bad been filled irewith clay, so that it would have been impossible to walk to her. As soon es Skip's mother sew ber she called to her in pony language, and Skip came bounding to her. After this it was an easy matter to get the colt inside the gate. Bat by this time Mrs. Stone was very wet and her patience well nigh exhausted, and all because a very care- gleastaelittle boy had forgotten to shut the The Bie'.a Comet. Astronomy does not profess to be en exact science,. It is perhaps ae well that it does not. Star -gazing in a scientific manner ie is brilliant and beautiful success as a liberal and speculative occupation, but it was never meant to be tied down to tee hard, straight lines of exactitude. The opinions that have mite from a score of observatories regrading the now comet shoes how this is. They are liberal to a feat, and the man who eitunot find oomething in them to plena° him is bound to pick flaws in the golden pave- ments if he ever gets an opportunity to look at them. For is hazy and unobtrusive visitor like the comet that the papers have been full of recently, the astronomers have been remarkably clear in their expres- sions of opinem. Presumably they have felt it their duty to tell the public all they know about it—and quite possibly more. For example, Professor 0, A. Young, of Prince- ton; says Biel& who discovered the famous comet of 1826, never saw the present one, but that it, is a brand new individual. Pro - fowler Sharpless, of Haverford. College, thinks Young is probably right Professor Very, of Allegheny Observatory, is very sure it is the wandering and erratic old Biela, and Professor Boss, of Dudley Ob- servatory, at Albany, is positive it cannot be any such thiug. Professor Elias Colbert, of Chicago, not being gifted with prophetic insight as another E has, shrewdly evades the question. Professor Porter, of Cincinnati is confident it is Biela's comet, while Pro- fessor Jacoby, of Columbia, unhesitatingly pronounces it a tramp. Such an able consensus of opinion ought to settle the matter, of course. Then there is its distance from the oath. One author- ity puts it at 5,000,00e miles, and an- other equally good says the thing is 250,- 1000,000 miles away at least. One declares 1 with great positiveness that it is receding ;from the earth, another is equally certain it is coming this way. It is asserted with all Iassurance on one hand, that it has no tail and on the coutrary that it has a handsome caudal appendage, which at present is invis- ible, because like Bo -peep's sheep, it is carry- ing it behind it Professor Swift, of Warner Observatory, says the nearer it comes to us the less bright it becomes, while half a dozen others insist that it is brighter now than when first seen. The measurements of the celestial visitor are wonders of ac- curany. One learned observer tells us its head is 80,000 miles in diameter, while another affirms that it is not less than 3,000,000 miles. It is said by some that the earth is likely to soon be in the vicinity of the comet's tail,' and by others that we won't come within a million miles of it. Singularly enough, all authorities agree on two important points: The cornet will, not hurt the earth or the inhabitants thereof, even if it should collide with it head on, and head and tail alike are principally or wholly gas. After comparing all the knowledge and all the guesses of the astronomers, this last piece of information is particularly impressive. Not Satisfied. Some persons are hard to satisfy. The thing in hand is of little worth but the object beyond reach seems all desirable. A, clergyman en Melee, who lives near the sea -coast, narrates an occurrence which gave him a moment of disappointment, but which has also supplied him with a very good story to tell. He had planned a beautiful drive for the benefit of a lady from the West who was visiting his family—a lady who had never seen the ocean. The route was chosen in such a way that not a glimpse of the sea would be had until, at a certaie bend in the road, the party would come out upon a high open space, commencling a magnificent view of the broad Atlantic. As the carriage clime out upon the plateau the plergyman turned a, beaming face on the lady, expecting from her an exclamation of delight; but instead of happiness is her countenance, he saw a look ot longing. " Oh," she said, with a sigh, "how I wish I could seo the Pacific 1" , The sultan has 300 wives the Xing of Dahomey 250, the Shah of Persia, .400, the King of Siam 600, the King of Ashantee 3,000, and the Emperor of Morocco aboat 6,000. , • The new iron monuments being placed on the eational boundary line in Arizona ano. New Mexico are seven ,feet higb and weigh 800 pounds each. They are placed sive milosr CHARLL9 WON.ENS- compared Willi other Noveltsts. AN E$84.1( -111C J. sE. P'01.0,001i,, D.A. \011.E'eU ll M: iShakespearenalotigt ois v S.thtn118:11!)? zd' Ira?: 0 ont a peer, aa author without an equal. As Shakespeare "held the mirror up to nat term" portraying all menkind, se Dickens is pre-eminently a delineator nf chareeter, revealing the follieaan the foibles, the shams 0.14 the inconsisten- cies, the strength end the, weakness, the truth and the falsehood, and whatever good and evil underlie- thesu,perfieial modes and maoners, of maakind., •When we consider thestyle, the language, thetruth, the objecb or. his writings and the great good they 'have accomplished, Dick- ens deserves first places, not only among English novelists,. but Ireton Writers of fie- dioo in every age and in every land, and this position has been accorded hixn by the ConSensus of public Second to Inin stands Sir Walter Scott Let us compare them. Scott wrote rapidly hence frequently incorrectly, with regard both to laeigeage and to facts. Dickens wrote slowly and deliberately revising with the greatest care. His language is pure, gram- matical English. In it we find no French, .German, Spanish or Italian phrase. It isnot a conglomeration of dialects or of toegues, It is pine English undefiled, consisting lergely of the strong Anglo-Saxon element, &Kitt wrote mostly of the feudal period mingling history with romance and seleet- ing heroes remelts for deeds of war. There is a c c taunt gathering of the clans, flash of steel, dash of eves, sound of battle. It rings out in his poems as well as in his no' els. He had the spit it of the feudal Knight and the Norman Baron. I/fattens, on the other hand, wrote of the ego bo which be lived ; portrayed the characters he beheld ; drew. true pictures of London life under fictitioua nainee ; chose his heroes frequently from the lowest °lessee and even front the outcasts of soeiety, Hence Dickens', -works, eentain more truth than the books of some divines Lastly Scott wrote for fame and fortune, Dickens chiefly for the reformer abuses, and for the poor of the city of London for whom, it is said, lie has accomplished more benefits by arousing public attention to their wrongs and misfortunea than any man of his time not excepting even the renown- ed philanthropist Geo. Peahoey who en - dewed an institution for the poor of the city of Loudon, It is mad that Scott's writings will some day cease to be read, but thee Dickens will live in his writings while the English language remains. Disraeli wrote for fame and gained it in his first novel —" Vivian Grey,' His writ- ings deal chiefly with the aristocracy. They show great genius bet have refortned no abuses arid have left no permanent good. The seine may be said of Lytton's novels. Wilkie Collins, the friend of Dickens, deals in mysteries. "The Women in White," his chief work, is a mystery from first to last His writings are sensational. Dickens is the least sensational of novelists. Now, we ask what gond these aud kindred authors have accomplished, aiid the answer is'they wrote simply to amuse. But now we crime to two noted English novelists—William elekepeace Thackemy and George Elliott, each possessing gertins of the bighese order, and each among the first of England's novelists, each having this in common with Dickens, the keen perception of the true character underlying the surface of society, but while Thaekeray pierces with shafts of sarcasm and irony the shams and conceits of society, George Elliott enters thearena of philosopby. Now Dickens vein ofhumour running through all his i works s droll and pleasant, Thackeray's, bitter and sarcestie. Diekene philosophy is the plainest of the plain, dealing with life in a practical way it resolves itself simply into good or evil, while George Elliott sees in life its deep problems and metaphysical mysteries. We shall compare briefly two other au- thors. Of the host of French novelists, one alone deserves comparison with Dickens —Victor Hugo—who has the same deep sympathy for Wien humanity; the same deep love for childreu; the seine hatred of unjust, oppressive tyrannical laws. The equal cf Dickens in genius, he possesses superior powers of description. Read his great 'work" Les Miserables," in 3 vols. and his "Toilers of the Sea," written while an exile in the Isle of Guernsey. His works Save left an influence for good in the his- tory of France. Of all the light literature of the neigh- boring Republic, and its name is legion, no novel deserves 'comparison with Dickens' works with one exeeption—"Uncle Tont's Cabin." A rather homely common -place title, to be sure, but a wonderful book. A. book that hacl its share with the voice of Oliver Wendell Phillips, and the sword of the nation in the abolition of slavery. Compare it with Dickens'. It was written for a great and grand purpose, the freedom of the slaves • it was a true picture of slave - life ; in it the serious and the humorous, the sublime and the ridiculous run side by side The reader is moved to laughter and to team- alternately. We find in it the saroe types we find in Diekens—the villain- ous "Legree," the good "St Clair," the mirth moving "Topsy." the sweet and affectionate little "Eva" whose death touches as tenderly the human heart as the death of "Little Nell." What pen has ever touched so gently, so pathetically the sorrows of humanity as that of Charles Diekees ? In this he excels almost all writers. His love for children seems unbounded. The trials of young Copperfield under the °meters:aliment of a brutal step -father touches the deepest chords of the human heart. His sympathies are all for the sorrows and sufferings of mankind; for the pure, the beautiful, the noble, and the true, however low in the social scale is may be found. • Tiventy-two years ago last June Charles Dickens was carried one day from the midst of his friends at dinner and. died "suddenly of heart disease At his funeral loving hands 'literally covered his coffin with wreaths of flowers, and England honored Sia memory with e burial in Westminster Abbey among the greatest, the noblest and the best of the melon's honored dead. Bridging the English Channels The question of constructing a bridge be- tween England and France instead of, or in addition to, a tunnel may for the present thinks the President of the Institution of Civil Engineers, be dismissed.. The possibility, however, of the realisation in the more or less dislant future of such it strueture is probably, he ' says, not more visionary than would have been that of such it work as the Forth Bridge fifty years ago; and " who knows whether a future generation may not undettake a work which the present generatiou would regard as too gigantic, both as regards _risk sad cost ?—especially 1 may emphasize cost, for notwithstanding the strides made in bridge building, the cost of it Channel bridge be, tweon England and France would even nose probably be at least five time the cost of a submarins tunnel.", Children Cry for Pitcher's Castoriat • IlOW AN EMPRESS LIVBS. something About letruhrttilfe tbe anew:in The duties of lady ia waiting to the Empress of Austria. ere soinewhat fatiguine, especially when the court is en vellegiatere at Godollo in Hungary, for her Majesty is a very early riser. Every morning she attends mass in ette private chapel of the castle at fi o'clock, wheel of course entails getting up soon after 5. After chapel she takes a cup of strong black coffee without; sugar, or anything to eat, and then attended by her lady mounts her horse eud gallops off through the magnificent perk, treversed in, every direction by sandy avenues, espis bad adapted for riding. If the weather s bad the morning is divided between the im- mense riding sehool adjoining the casele and feneing hall. In the riding school the Empress amuses herself by performing in the 'most skilful manner possible all the equestrian feats, such RS bareback riding, jumping through hoops, etc., usually SEEN AT TIIS CIRCUS. No one bet the lady in waiting and the grooms are admitted to the rising school when she is there. She is it first-rate fencer and never allows a rimy to pries with- out aeleast half an hour with the foils. At 11 she returns to the castle for a bath and breekfast. The latter is pf the simplest kind, consisting of it minute morsel of very rare steak, dry toast, a eup of tee without sugar or milk, aud a glass of Montrose claret the only person et table with her being the lady in waiting. After lighting her cigarette she retires to her OWG apart- ments, where she remains until 3 o'clock, sometimes dozing, and other titles chatting with her youngest daugbter, the Arch- duchess Valerie, who is her favorite child. At 3, attended by her lady, end some- times accompanied by her brother Duke Louie, of Bavaria, she again goes mit riding and only returns in time to dress for dinner at 8 *leek, at which the, Emperor, the members of the imperial family, together with the chief personages of the court, are present, The lady in waiting, to whom are intrusted ber Malesty's gloves, fan, and irrnettiteitaite vicinzty is invariably seated at table in the i of the Emprees, who, after dinner, lights her eternal eigerette, nay, even somethnes one of tbase terribly strong Austrian cigars, end smokes until 10 o'clook, when San ?LEVEES TO REST. The lady in waiting then proceeds to the apartments of the grand mistreat of the robes, to spend -the remainder of the even- ing there, In company with the chamberlains and aids-de-camp, It is hardly necessary to add that eight weeks of such a life are sufficient to exhaust the forces of even the strongest lady in waiting. Apart from the necessity of being perpetually on the qui vive and alwaysin good humor, it requires an exceptional constitution, such as that of the Ltripress herself, to be able to spend every day seven or eight hours in the saddle. All of her 'Majesty's ladies have naturaliy to be excellent and fearless horsewomen, and to those who ride the best she is par. ticularly kind and indulgent. Although close upon 59 yeara old, and having grand- children of over 12 years of age, she is still one of the most beautiful wemen in her dominions. Her magnificent chestnut color- ed hair reaches down belowherknees, veld her feet and hands are perfection. It is indeed surprising that her three children are all of them so remarkably plain, particularly as 'the Emperor is an exceedingly handsome man. Notwithstanding tbe face that her repu- tation has never been assailed by calumey ref any Med; she is far from popular in Austria, and it is only with the greatest difficulty that she can be induced to attend those state functions which necessitate her appearance in public at Vienna. The in- habitants of the latter city so seldom get it sight of her that when she does happen to favour them with her pretence at any cere- mony, opera and rate glasses, nay, even telescopes, are used by the crowd in STARING AT 111511, a fact which considerably annoys the royal lady. In her beloved Hungary, however, she lays aside all her cold and formal man- ner, and has won all the hearts of that im- pressionable people by her unaffected gra- etousuess and the absence of haughtiness. Besides being the most perfect horsewom- an in Europe, her Majesty is an intrepid mountaineer and first-rate shot, spending sometime.s whale days in stalking chamois up the most inaceessible The story of her betrothal to the Emper- or is somewhat romantic. A marriage had been megotiated for him veeth the eldest (laughter of Duke Maximilian, of Bavaria, and the Emperor arrived et the castle of the latter to be officielly betrothed. As soon, however, as he caught sight of the younger sister, as yet in that dresses and in the school -room, he fell madly in love with her, and at length broke off his en- gagement with the elder sister in order to marry the younger. The marriage was not a popular one at Vienna for a more grand alliance had been looked than that with the impoverished family of Duke Maximil- ian, a,ncl during the first years of her wed- ded life the Empress was simply boycotted by the haughty aristocracy of Arstria, a -fact which she has neve.fleorgotten nor for- given. 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