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PENA.NOE OFA MAN WOLF. have us It strong idol of the men wolf's A GARDEN FOP OF ENGLAND. live, which open one into another and the
fighting powers. One ear WAS torn off,grouar's contain every lovely eftaot thee can
Al ReIn nkuhlo ii i In on India. annex both eyes plucked out, two legs broken, tlmae or the amino ut she s.o or anion_ be produced in lendeoape gardening and
beetweeta a Man Wort nod a Hyena. it tongue nearly bitten off, and it had ; the home ohne Poet Tsutuynmt• miles of greenhouses mad uontuhvetoriea,
While with the animal hunters in the nn• eeverul horrible gashes fa the belly. Ib where tires, poaches And Tukay grapes grow
i was plain that the creature was a match for beside muskmelons and Indian camarandu
glee and foothills to the north of Benares we p Her palm-honee oontaiva a grouter and
heard of a man wolf. Oa two former ocoa- y fluor variety of planes from•Indie and other
simile we had received like reports, but had b '1 1 fi k p h p i g P broploal countries than the ealm•hoaeo at
given little attention to them. The super. lookout.
Y Kew, while the infinite variety of ferns,
atitioua natives of India have many ttrtnge angry," h p orohids, lilies and charming plants finds a
beliefs, One ofthenhis that a brother ala wonderful background in a marvellous ar•
has murdered a brother tarns into a man rangomont of oork and pork bark as frame.
W011, and rosins the jungles 100 years as A N h h t Id h f 'b bh work and receptacle, The iotures uo offeob
penmen), While they hold this animal in p "g ," bh tit i p lbl pl ' , to greatly heightened bythedivision of
fear'and'terror, as well they may, they reason But who could have bold him? Our destination was Shaokhn, the famous the main conservatory by arch and terraced
that if he is killed auother relative of the I 1 atepa into a 000ooetion of floors or ea-
familymust take hie lame and eerve out the \V' h h' h h
remaider of his sentence. Therefore while [ g B ' , loops, o, floer o with anatunry, as wall as the
+ e p p p rara9t flowers and pleats,
they would talk to us of these menden, they 1 Iolre• Harvey's income is £30,000 ,per an -
Were always very careful not to locate them j d h h to h tb' til following num. 13eeidae giving the " tomo," whioh
and bring them into danger, We had long We plaoed sentinels on the watuh whoa whin the evil roes ou ata velvet lawns its has been made over to trustees, she has en•
before made up our minds that there was dowed it with £40,000, whioh insures its
nothing so very queer in finding a wild man q ' ly t'1 b t 'd 'g t t d h ld l fy i g ' continuaune,maintaining it perfectly with the
in the jungles of India, Children are carried d b til d to til addition of tbo inoomo derived from its ia.
toff by semi -wild men or by wild animals al. g 1 h mates, She will not allow it to be called a
most doily, and even the oivilized countries N 1 d t p charity, treat(' the occupants as ladies and
have their wild men roaming through the h h f b d d h p d $ t , h says it is ,elf supporting. Besides this
forest. We were willing to pay a round p h h' 1' I island, 1 d home and her estate, and a great "home
sum for the capture of a man wolf, believing d h 1 S 1 t S h farm," whioh she manages herself Mrs,
he would turn out to be or ly a wild man, but g q Harvey is the loader in all beneficial publio
at the same time a greater curiosity than a y " enterprises. She was the aotualfounder and
gorilla. I 1, I Id is
We had been making our headquarters in d f t d h THE AOTIVE PROMOTER
a village for several days. til y t b d 1 3 of the moat popular institution in Shanklin
BAITING OUR TRAPS FOR HYENAS ut hand When he news w t round that —a olub that owns its olub-house and in
and natives on the look our, for serpents, I and worker the record F h 1 1; whish gentleman and ladies are members an
when one midafternoon I got into a ham• Leigh Rinhmond and his "The D equal terms. The club house is beautifully
mook slung between two trees on the out.
eicua nil, with a charming outlook on the
sea, and nas been a great promoter of the
skirts of the village and dropped off to sleep,
social life and interests of a somewhat ex.
My two white men wore already asleep in
elusive community.
hammaaks some distance away, and such There are manyinterestin and charming
•of the natives as were nob out for us were people at Shankli, but time or space doo
lying by to pass the heat of the day. There nob admit of particularizing them •and
were two or three children playing at the p g +
lion or tier, and we begau to feel very
uneasy, Bythe advice of the head man we
built eevera extra res andkept e par
"The fellow is evidentlyveryan " whioh atterwarde poems a steadyenetrat-
explained the old man. " You are white Ing down -pour, But the country looked
men, and he is not pleased ab your coining. lovely notwithstanding, and everyone spoke
ar ape he as been o you were ere to cheerily o i andthoughtitso goodfor e
oa tura him."rouse a i was impressible a to oom ala
n u •
"He had a cousin who was turned into a little town on the channel aide of the Isle of
vulture for striking his father, and another Wight, w io hail the "°nine " and is con.
uouaan who was turned into a ser enb for eidered bymanythe prettiest 'mob ob on the
cursing our faith, Either one mayhave oar. island, It would have bean hard indeed not
vied the man wolfthe news."share is opinion emorning
ready to turn in, bub everythingpassed off thick, preen, blossoming hedges and its
met until about midnight. It , Then a gum• starred holds andleafy trees,covering in tit.
aoasiuu ofshrieks an earemma androars most luxuriance a ground, where ear.
andthe waters mot andclasped ands,
Aver in the wide worldwas there a s tot
eases i0 ofgreater, or more variedtherm
than this little surrounded bythe
channel andthe Solent, ea, To the anti•
narian ft oontaiva remains of Roman villa
and stone workmanship,in exoollenr preset,
vation, and to the student of history weeders
an fortresses connected with
BY JENNY JCNE,
ft was a drearymorning upoi whioh we
left London, gra , and cleudet by mist
brought everyman, woman and child out of
sleep with a bound. I bad no other thought
tante man wola seize one ofthe sena.
Halo, but as I leaped out of the hub one call-
a tome :
" Sahib, you have caught the beast in
our trap!
It was a mi a as have toyou,from
the village to the spot where we had set
9 trap,and0 the screams gemma close THE at 1ST 151PMIrAVT EVENT
there was Horden danger the village soon rioted of early English reigns; to the pious teaoher
down, but there was no further steer for o such over as ev,
any one.Whether caught or nob the , alryman a
creature seemed fastened to one locality for
the remainder of the night, and of all pro-
ceedings I ever knew a wild beast to engage
10 his were the worst. He had
A VOICE AS STRONG AS A LION'S,
and he was not quiet for ten minutes at a
time, He roared, screamed, shrieked, lam-
ented and growled, and the wind brought;
no every sound. He still hada full head
of steam on when daylight came, and after
a hasty breakfast a party of twenty of us
moved in hie direction. He probably heard
us coming, for his anger was freshly aroneed,
and pretty soon we could hear him tearing
at the bushes.
I am free to say that the first eight of the
man wolf, caught by the hind foot in the
trap, and hanging head downward from the
swaying sapling, took the courage out of me
sooner than if I had met a tiger face on the
path. He hung about three feet front the
earth, and as far as is oould reach in every
direction he had pulled up the bushes by the
roots. He was supple as a monkey, and
could double himself up and reach the trap,
but strong as he was, he could not spring
the jaws open and release his foot. There
was a foot of chain before he could get to the
rope, and the way he bit on that chain made
us bold our breathe. Had it been of soft
iron I have no doubt ha would have cut it in
two. He had been oaeght where we first
heard him scream out, and had been sus-
pended for four hours. You would have
thought he would be exhauated with pain
and struggling, but he was not. As aeon
as we came near he made such tremendoae
efforts to get away, or to get at us, that all
the natives fled in terror,
We quickly understood that we could do
nothing with the beast until the had lost his
etrength and temper, and we returned to the
village and left him hanging. All that day
he yelled every two or three minutes, and
all that night we heard him at intervals.
On the seooud morning he was still ugly,
but late in the afternoon hunger and pain
mastered him. We brought up a nage, got
three or four ropes around him, and finally
made him a prisoner. His foot and leg were
terribly swollen, and he made but little re-
sistance.
We now had opportunity to look him over.
Daughter," and "Jane, the Young Cobrager,"
who lived and died and aro buried bare.
The Rev. William Adame, who wrote the
' Shadow of the Croat,' and other sacred
allegories, and John Starling, whose life was
written by Carlyle and who wan the friend
of Archdeacon Hare.
Everyone knows that Lod and Ledy
Tennyson have a home at Farringford, near
Freshwater, that point of the island which
lies near the "Needles" and furthest'out
upon the Atlantic' coact. The poet and his
family do not occupy it all the time for he
is nervously afraid of curious visitors and
takes himself away from them as soon as the
Summer swarm begins to appear upon the
upper decks of steamers or the tops of in-
land coaches, which run from all parts of the
island to fresh water.
There is some reason for this distaste in
the persecution to whioh he has been nub.
jeot and the vandalism which has stripped
trees from his grounds, root and branch.
His house is embowered in trees, and it is
orly possible to obtain one view of it. Mica
Mary Auderson is a frequent visitor, the
family of the poet being amongst her dear-
est friends. On a recent oocaoion walking
with her in the garden and talking in his
"genial, delightful way," the poet suddenly
took to his heels, and Mies Anderson had
some difficulty in following him into retreat.
He had detected a pair of eyes peering
through the hedge, and though they were
only those of a nursery mud out with her
charges for their daily walk they sent him
to cover.
Tennyson's house and the Queen's Palade,
Osborne, ars the principal atbraotiona for
New World,visitora. The latter is the home
of bile Queen, the only one elle possesses in
her own right—and about it are grouped her
personal interests—her early house
what a5 true of Shanklin is more or less true
door of a but near me, bac making little of other parts of the island, for it is econcm-
or no noise. It was as quiet as if a spell ioal as ell as love( and for that reason
had been placed upon every inhabitant. I
has become the home of man refined eo le
Iliad not slept over half an hour when n whoeo small, fixed inoomes will nob admit of
mosquito bit me on the cheek and started Javan m great centras et
nd a
me up. 1 lay en my right side, and through
change wen the want it by hrentin o can fltheir
the meshes of the hammock could see the houses at high they
for a ew weeks in
edge of the jungle, about forty rods away. Summer or al a leasrive in Winter, and
The children were still at play, and were a taking an inland trip ora Christmas holiday
hundred feet nearer the jungle than I was. upon the Riviera:
Almost as soon as I opened my eyes I saw
a dark object leap from the mover of
the tnioket to the shelter of a single
bush on a cleared ground. It looked to me
in the brief glimpse I had like a gorilla.
I measured the leap afterward with a tape
tine and it was twenty-three feet.
I did not start up, but rubbed my eyes
wide open to identity the strange creature.
It had cowered until I aould see nothing
but a blank spot, and it was two or three
'minutes before it moved again. Then it
suddenly leaped into view, bounded for the
Children exactly as a monkey leaps, and
before I could call our it had seized a little
boy about two and a half years old, and was
retreating with him. It was on its hind
lege, both arms around the child, and run -
ming with great awiftnees. The body was
waked and hairy, but I woo convinced that
it was that of a human being. I yelled oat
and the creature whirled about, raised tho
child on high, and, with
A SHRILL SCREAM OF ANGER,
dashed it down on the hard, baked
earth with terrible force. Then it shook
its fists at the villagers swarming out, and,
dropping down on all fours, bounded away
Into the jungle. Wefound the child gasp•
ing its last. That fling had broken almost
every -bone in vis body. It was not until
the villagers were convinced that I bad seen
bbe creature and was assured of its identity
chat the head man acknowledged it to be a
man wolf, and that it had long been a mea.
see to the locality. It was, be said, his
cousin, who had killed a brother fifteen years
before. As the creature had now killed throe
-hildrea, against whom it seamed ro have
a particular spice, and as its pretence menac-
ed the .safety of the village ho would give
his cement for us to seek its capture. I
helped him to reaoh this conclusion by a
present valued at $20, and by agreeing not
to give the matter away in any other village.
The flat thing to be done was to learn
the habits of the creature. He was known
to eat meat, mote, barks, and almost any-
thing
nything else which came in his way. He must
sleep, but no one could say when, as he had
been seen prowling around at all hours of
the day and night. He was very strong
and fierce, and it was doubted if one of the
tiger cages would hold him. We decided to
tempt his curiosity, and, to this end, one of
our cages was placed in the jungle, and the
door so arranged as to shut the creature in
if he but entered. But he took no notice of
the curiosity, or, if he did it was to fight
shy of the sualeeted trap. Twice in three
days he was .seen again on the borders of 1,
the village, evidently bent on further mis
chief, and the natives finally found a path'.
whioh the man wolf used in going end room:
Mg from a water hole. As goon as they
CAME IN WITH THE NEWS
we started out to set a different trap for',
him. The steal traps to catch wild animals
have no teeth, and jaws come together in a
way to give one a leverage on the other.
I have kora of a full-grown tiger being
caught by the foot and firmly held in a trap
no larger than the boys set for mink and
muskrat, We replaced the chain with a
half.inoh rope mado of native grasses, and
ail soon as a suitable spot had been selected
we excavated a hole, buried the trap out of
sight and then bent down a sapling and tied
the end of the rcpe to it. This sapling was
held down by a trigger whioh a sharp pull
would release.
When the trap had been set no eye could
detect anything suspicious around the spot,
and we felt certain that the creature would
get into trouble if be passed that way,
When we could do no more we retired to
the village, aboub a mile away. It was
about sundown when we arrived, and we
worn just in time to see a wonderful pro.
vending. A large and savage -looking hyena
came out of the Jangle and sniffed and enuffed
and growled at us from a distance of about
20 rode. We refrained from shooting for
fear the reports would frighten the man
wolf away, and while a hutdred of us stood
gazing at the beast another suddenly ap-
peared. It was the same oreature I saw
from tilt hammock.
" It is the man wolf," moaned a snore of
natives in ohorusand at least a dozen of
them slunk away into their huts,
But tile{ beast had not come to disturb
Us. He had evidently been traoking the
hyena, and he was there for revenge.
He bounded over the ground with great
leaps, and the hyena did not suapeob his
approach. The lest bound was a bremend•
oils curve in the air, and as the man wolf
mama down it was full u on the hyena's
He wag certainly a man wolf—that is a
native child had been carried off when young
and brought up with wild beasts for twenty
years or more. This creature bad a human
face and form, bat the body was covered
with coarse hair, the teeth were long, the
hands out of shape, and he had learned to
go as a four footed animal. He wan indeed
' A (HORRIBLE L0011100 SIGHT,
but the worst features about him were his
eyes. No true wild beast ever saw through
a more ugly pair. There was a villainous
squint to them and the balls seemed to be
aflame, We were congratulating ourselves
on his easy o.pture wl en the head man re-
plied :
" Wait a bit. Wait until his strength
returns. You will never get him away from
here."
We drew the cage to the village and gave
the beast food and water. He readily ac-
cepted both, and hie conduct was as humble
as we could desire, He was biding his time,
however. On the the third day be minute-
ly rxamined the oonatruotion of the cage
and tested every bar. He did this when he
thought he was unobserved. On the fifth
day he began to Gnarl and growl and allow
his temper, and on the sixth we started off
with him, the cage being dragged by twelve
natives. Everything went well up to noon,
when we stopped for a rest and a bite to
eat. As all were sitting down the man
wolf suddenly sprang out of a corner where
he had been sulking, seized a bar in either
hand, and with a tremendous effort wrenched
them out. One ise retained for a weapon me
he leaped to the earth. It was so sudden
that no one was prepared. He did not seek
escape, but revenge, and before we oould
pick up our guns and open fire he had killed
three of the natives and eeverely wounded
two others, He was still laying about him
screaming with rage when ono of the white
men gave him a °barge of buckshot and
ended his career. He had struck only single
blows and yet each one bad been hard
enough to cripple or kill. But for our guns
he would have killed every man in the party.
IN WHIOH 311E LIVED WITH HER MOTHER,
the Duchess of Trent. The little ohureh, of
which she laid the first stone when she was
prineoso, and in whioh her youngest daugh-
ter was married ; the cottages she built, a
long row of them, in which to retire her old
servants, and the graveyard, and mausoleums
in which her dearest friends and hopes lie
buried. An old-fashioned " kissing " gate
takes you through the field of waving grain
to Wbippingham Churoh and its churchyard,
and the canes and hedgerows whioh sur-
round Osborne are as simple and pastoral as
those which enoloeo the humblest dwelling.
A delightful summer knight be spent in a
walking tour of this charming epos, taking
ib leisurely from point to point, and stop
picg wherever fanoy led. In every part of
it are rural nooks, wayside inns and piotur
eague bourses ; and the distances are so short
and the paths so captivating, that he must
indeed be insensible who could not find for•
getfulnese, if not happiness, in this charmed.
island.
Ose of the famous walks is from Shanklin
to Bonchurch and Ventnor, through starred
meadows and "kieeing" gates.. The ter-
raced hills showing green depths and velvety
stretches down to the water's edge, bordered
with hedges of blossoming May, the path
losing itself in the tangled mazes of the
celebrated landside and reappearing amid
walls of ivy, and the gray old oharoh which
has guarded the pretty village for 1100 years,
its oldest portions dating from 700. In she
churchyard ei the " old " church at Bon-
church lie the remains of Rev. W. Adams,
who wrote the " Shadow of the Cross," and
John Stirling, the friend of Archdeacon
Bare, and Thomas Carlyle. It is still in a
fair state of preservation—tenderly kept by
the ivy, which wreathe, and the daisies and
forget -me -note, whioh bloom about it. 'Vent
nor is onlya mile from Blnohuroh, but is
totally diferent in its oharacter. Btueharoh
is a neat of quaint cottons and Inose -grown
dwellings, shrouded in greenery. Ventnor
suggests Carlsbad, with its villa residences
built on the hillside, but it is hilly on one
side only and
ITS £ERR. =E FRONT ON THE SEA.
A hospital, under royal patronage, has been
established at Ventnor for oonaumptives and
is the finest in the kingdom.
Shanklin possesses to typical modern lady
who has founded and sustains at " Broad.
lands " a double philanthropic enterprise—
most admirably conceived and sustained,
This consists of a home for gentlewomen in
How Jones Proposed. reduced mreumwtanoea, and a training sohool
P for servants drawn entirely from the young
Jones—" Miss Arabella, do you like cab• daughters of poor but well oonduoted and
bage 1" respectable parents, The number of ladies
Arabella—" What a strange question, Mr. le limited to forty and they 'pay eight shil-
Jones." tinge ($2) per week and a small sum for
" I know it is a strange question, but washing and in Winter for fire. The whole
please answer it. 'expense is perhaps $110 or $115 per year for
"Yes, Mr. Some,1 am very fond of cab. I eaoh individual, ,and for this they have a
bags." 1 beautiful home in lovely grounds and gar-
' Ah, I am glad to hear Haab," dens and aro attended by maids who have
" Why 7" 'graduated from laundry to eoullery and
" Your liking cabbage goes bo show that kitohen, from kitchen to pantry, from pantry
we were made for each other, °I dote on to parlor and bedroom Work, only those
corn beef, Why should we not unite our who show decided Mete receiving the train.
fortunes ?" ing of woke, So great is the demand for
"0, Mr, Jones 1" Ieer71Oe equipped under the
They will be married next week, I EFFICIENT MANAGEMENT OF THE 01AT1100
that every girl who enters the institution is
A Storm of Cabs, under engagement in desirable families bo.
Policeman (to citizen dingin to lamp fore her two years of preparation have ex.
post(—Shall 1 hail a cab, friend 7 pired and thenceforth
commands beet wages
,
Citizen— •graahua no (hie), o�hur ;donFrom thirtytoforty girla are received at
beak. He uttered a terra le scream as he i (ilio) hail any more Dabs ; they're haalin' all one time and there are always more aandi-
struck, and the hyena rave vent to something 'noun' now,I dates than van bo a000mmodated to bake
_ their places, The present home was former.
ly the site of the factory and dwelling of the
Silo—" where are you- oing, Charley?' richest lace manufaoturer on the island.
Hs—•" Going to the o era,'She—" Ah I I Hie daughter, Mrs. Harvey, inherits his
like a shriek. They rolled over and over
on the ground, biting,
CLAWING, GROWLING AND GURGLING,
but the fight dud net last over Mixt seconds,
Then the man wolf sprang up shook him. understand, The beila6. Bub why don't wealth and with it an extraordinary amount
.self and uttered a yell of triumph, and you go to the monkey show instead 11 think of energy and the most unbounded kindness
after threateningtie for a ooaple of mmutee you will like it ever so much bettor. The of heart, Her house at Shanklin faces the
re-entered the ungle, We wont out to monkeys, you know, have four lege—twice cliff, from whioh it taken Ito name, but it is
the body of the hyena, and ata condition es many as the ballet danco.a." secluded within courts and great walla of
Beer is Sing in Old England.
A000rdiug to the latest Parliamentary re-
turns, $7,500,000 was received for beer Boom
aes in England last year, and as an incline -
don of where the profits go it is announced
that Lord Lansdowne has just sold three of
his fittest pioturee, two Rembrandt(' and a
Cuyp, for $250, 000 to Sir Arthur Guinness
who has made his money in brewing
beer.
A Problem Solved,
Old Man—lf I give my daughter to you,
young man, whore will you take her 1
Yoang Man—Well, er—I thought perhaps
we might stay here with you until I can get
things straightened out a bit.
Old Man—Han, yea, I quite overlooked
that easy solution of the difficulty, but my
house is very small.
Young 4Lau—Y e. ea, I thought of that, too ;
but the idea occurred to to me that possibly
the house could be enlatged.
Why He Was Late.
Ominous Voice (through the keyhole)—
" le that you, John Smith?"
Mr, Smith—" Yeeh, m' dear. I (bio)
brought home fry in (hie) box."
Mrs. Smith (opentng the door)—" Well,
come iu, dear, but be careful of the fry.
Poor John, I &poem you had to wait to have
'em cooked."
A Oharming Duet,
Mr. Sampson (to Bobby at the front pats)
—" Is your deter in, Bobby 7"
Bobby—" Yee, she's in the parlor with
Mr, Peatherly. They've been singing to.
gather,"
Mr,•S ampson—" Ab, and what have they
been singing Y'
Bobby—" We're going to be married, ha,
ha, mamma,"
On a Foraging Expedition.
Sam Johnsing (to Aunt Dinah)—" Wha'e
Uno. Raktua die ebenin' 1"
Aunt Dinah—" He's gone ter de grocery
eto' ter gib aumpin fo' brekfus."
Sam Johnsing—" Wha'—what yo' gwyne
ter have 7"
Aunt Dinah—" Well, of Rastas don' hob
no bad luck we's vine ter hab picked -up
aodfiah. Wow, wow, wow 1"
Tsaoher—" What is velocity 7" Boy—
"Velooity is what a man puts down a hot
plate with."
"And is that yellow dome, which rises fn
the field yonder, the roof of another dwell.
tag 7' asked the oity visitor of his country
friend. "Oh, no 1" said the farmer, "that
is my prize pumpkin you see, whioh is grow-
ing right along for the agriou'tural show."
He was doing very nicely n the parlor,
when a solemn voioe came through the open
window from the porch. " That young man
makes me very tired." "Don't be alarmed,
sir. Sampson," acid the girl as ne hastily
started up, " it is only Polly, our parrot,"
" I understand it's the parrot'," he replied,
"but I would like to know who taught her
to bulk."—IVs Y. Sun,
A monster bunch of asparagus raised by
Robert Niobole, a market gardener near
Philadelphia, has been on exhibition in a
Courtland street, N. Y., seed store. The
bunch is two feet in height, thirty-six indica
in circumference and weighs forty pounds,
or nearly a pound a spike, all of which is
edible. There is soma doubt as to its vana
sty, but it is believed to be the now south-
ern sort "Palmetto."
Centenarians of any kind are rare enough,
but oontenariane in the active service of a
railroad company must be worth going a
good many miles to see, They have a men
of that kind down in Massachusetts. His
name is Perkins. He le treasurer of the Nor.
with and Worceater railroad and has been
in the servioeforfiftyyeera. Hecelebratodhis
hundredth birthday the other day, on whioh
auspicious omission :he directors presented
him with A testimonial expresslve of their'
high tense of the value of hie services,
Books in oases w!thou b glass fronts retain
their lreshneso longer than when put in
closed oases. More dust will collect upon
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An Old Man's Adegr,
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When but a boy 0 nen I met,
Who one good lesson taught me
nut has throughout 101 sue veiling 7 ears
Sweet eousolatlun brought we,
This waif the maxim wide h he gave me
(You'll smile when 1 Melon If),
"The pin0111ug shoe grows easier,
The longer that you wear 11."
A honrel5y• preverh, 71 emdlaa,
Van; one
MOaltea truth explabd"g,
And one that 00g01861" trouble 'a hour
Us WWWe•gtlr for calor enstalnIng;
For every 111 drth lighter seem
As more we born bo boar It—
', The piooh0ng shoe grown °oilier,
The longer that you wear It."
The care that ie at Bret 00 great,
The once o'orwhelming sorrow,
W111 lawn as tho days go by
And morrow follows morrow ;
Though groat the force of grief may be
Time will in part impair it --
"The Moiling shoe grows easier,
The longer that you wear 14"
Did time nob bring this sure decrease
To bitter"es• amt anguish,
How many, many hopeless hearts
In ho lelees woe would languish 7
Ah well It le we dud it true '
fioe•obr with us may faro It,
The plOOhtng tilos grows easier;
The longer that you wear it."
Two Babies.
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There is a little baby
Always gentle, always saint.
Who doesn't lack a be rilty
That 080 make a babe complete ;
Who never arise untimely,
Who le never, never rude,
While anything elle doesn't know,
No mortal baby cond.
So winsome and so dainty
Teat the careless turn to look—
But oh 1 thin perfect baby
Is a baby in a book.
There Is a little baby
With sunshine In her 0009;
And many a fault the oritieal
Might coldly criticise.
Her nose is over•sattoy,
Her temper does Incline,
When her shall world is going wrong, '
To take a twist like n ane,
And half the peopla lass her by
Nor deem her wortha look,
But oh t she sults 111.6 better
Than the baby in the bock 1
Los and Gain.
5Y MAN T110a\ltrena •r roman,
I sorrowed that the golden day was dead,
Its light no mare the count y side adorning;
But whilst I grieved, behnin l—the east grew red
With morning.
I sighed that merry Spring was forced to go,
And doll the wreaths that did so well become her ;
But whilst I murmured at her alr1en05, 10I—
Tw•as Summer,
I mourned beoauee the daffodils wore killed
By burning skies that scorched my early p -ales ;
But whilst for IhtsoWith rose1 phtod my' hands were filled
s,
Half broken•hrnr'od I bewailed the end
01 lrlendshlpa than which none had once seemed
nearer ;
But while( I sept I found a nae er friend
And dearer.
And thus 'learned old pleasures are estranged
Only that something newer may be given ;
Until at last we land this Earth exchanged
For heaven.
Fun in the Ohoir.
In a church in Baltimore a noted tenor
singer was reuderiug a nolo in Warren's
"Te Daum," and, miateking the inatncotione
to the organist as to the use of the stops for
the sacred words, smug out ab the top of his
voioe, '•Pedal, great probe and swell," to
the astonlsbment of the congregation. He
oould not aouounb for the uncontrollable
and convulsive though suppressed laughter
of the choir, and was not aware of his mis-
take until i6 was explained to him, when he
was overcome with morti&cation. Another
instance, more intensely amusing, was that
of a wall -known baritone singer in the game
church on another 000asion, who iaadvert.
enbly plaoed the Blur on the wrong note.
Ile had adapted the air of "The Jewish
Maiden" to a hymn beginning, " Before
the Lord Wo Bow," and instead of plaoing
the slur on the first two syllables he platted
it on the last one, ped rendered 16 thus,
"Before the Lind We Bow -wow -wow."
The effect wee immense. As he had and
still has a powerful and beautiful voioe, his
hearers were thoroughly elootrified at this
unwonted and unlooked for oaoine imitation
He bas never entirely reoovared from the
effect of his ludicrous mistake.
Fatal Saturday,
Iu connection with the element of super.
abition whioh generally accompanies the
deaths of monarchsthe following. record
(says the Pail Mali Gazette) would seem to
show that for 170 years Saturday was very
much of a fatal day to the Royal Family of
England :
William III died Saturday, March 18,
1702.
Queen Anne died Saturday, Maroh 18,
1714.
George I died Saturday, June 10, 1727.
George II died Saturday, October 25, 1769
George III died Saturday, January 29,
1820.
George the IV diad Saturday, June 26,
1830.
Dnohose of tient died Saturday, Marob
16, 1861.
Princess Consorb died Saturday, atom.
bar 14,1801,
Prince Alive died Saturday, December
14, 1878.
It Made Him a Little Vexed.
"Adolphus, d'ye know that I'm a little
vexed at Mies Simmons 7"
" What happened, Arthur, old boy 7"
Well, you know I pride myself on my
singing. We were at the piano, ' I'll sing
Ono more song and then go home,' I said."
" Was it lato 7"
"About midnight."
" And what did she say 7"
" She said, ' Can't you go hoes first 7'd"
" And did you l'
"Yes, Adolphus. I tell you I'm:a [little
vexed about it,"
No Brains to Blow Out,
She—Mr. Siihhead sent me such a lovely
novel, end Ikzow he meant me to think t0
hero himself. The hero is disappointed in
love, and at lest blows his brains out,
The other She—Well, Mr. Sillihead
couldn't do that, e,t all events—for reasons
Will Want More Later On.
Passenger (in crowded oar)—Aren't;
Toronto drummer, Sir ?
Drummer—Yee.
Paesoogor—Your first trip, isn't it?
you a
books exposed; but le is duet whioh oomes off Drummer—Yes, jb's a new business to me
readily. When put behind glass doors, or butt: m selling more goods in my line than
in oupboarde, lose dust gets on thorn, bub in any two men on tho road, 'Why do you think
localities whore soft ooal ie used it is a fine We myfiret t trip 1
sooty dual, whioh, when treated with a
cloth brush or dilater, note like a blank,
oily paint, data: bore the loather and delle the
gilt. Oh booke whioh aro openly exported
bhfe sooty dust mixes with an innoxious and I think "feather -weight" is the name that
(loaner dust and it all comma off together. they gave
These facts explain what theme at first The umbrella 1: purobased toaday,
paradoxical—that the more we try to keep They palled it aright, for the thing took
books away from dust, and the more we wings,
clean them, the dirtier they become." And alas I it has floated away,
Paeeenger—Beeauso you only 000upy two
seats.
The Old, Old Storv,
PASSING NOTES.
Iia is a bold man wlm dares always to say
whab he thinks. Besides being bold he is
generally an awful bore.
A perfect] representation of a butternut
in bright diver snakes a pretty bonbonniore,
The interior is either gilded or in satin ell.
ver finish,
!ie (poetical)—" But whab is money oom.
parollwith truelove?' Sbe(praatoal)—"Ah,
now I wonder whether my dressmaker would
a000pb that sentiment ?"
At the oloso of n Ierios of revival meet.
Inge held in Kentucky recently by Sam
Jones the owners of twenty seven loot am -
brollies were eurprieed at finding them mys-
teriously restored to their possession.
The Right Answer,—Teacher (to elasi)—
" Why ie preereatination called the thief of
time 1"
Boy (ab foot of clues)—" 13eaauaa it takes
a parson so long to say it,"
Constant sweeping is whab woare out
carpets. A carpet] often looks dusty so moon
after it has boon swept that you know ib
does not really need sweeping again. In
that case, wet a cloth or Sponge and wipe
off the dust, A fow drops of ammonia in the
water will brighten the colors.
The largoet umbrella in the world has
been made in Glasgow for a King of East
Africa, It can be opened and shut is the
usual way, and when open is 21 feet in
diameter. The staff is oleo 21 feet long. Ib
is lined with cardinal rod and white, has a
lob of straw tassels, and s border of orimson
satin. Tho canopy is made of Indian straw,
and the top terminates in a gilded ouae.
IOE Oouo,ut CANE—Cream together the
cup of milk, the beaten whites of eight eggs,
and lastly two cups of flour with one of
oornstorch, well sifted, with two teaspoon-
fuls of baking powder. Bake in layers. For
the icing beat the whites of three eggs very
light; boil throe cups of sugar with half a
pint of water until it candies ; add ono tea-
spoonful of citric acid and two of vanilla.
When about half cool beat in f he eggs, and
beat all together until cool enough to spread.
The most recent oloudlet on the horizon of
European polities, whioh may, or may not
lead to something serious, is an alleged
coolness between Frauoe and Italy over
affairs in Africa, whore Franco thinks Italy
has bean showing herself unpleasantly
ambitious, Germany's eye is said to have
a twinkle of satisfaction in it as she watches
tris two, thinking that the advautsgo will
turn out her own in any vasa,
Pile morbid sensibility of some natures
whioh, as leading to suicide by quite young
ohildren, is referred to in another column,
receives ttrtking exemplification in the
Daae of a young woman of eighteen, belong-
ingwMiddletowa, N. Y., who Ethel herself
with atryobnine the other day, because her
parents very naturally and properly refused
consent to her acceptance of a proposal of
marriage from a man also had never seen and
knew nothing about except through corres-
pondence. Infatuated folly could not go
further,
PULLED BREAo.—Thera is no nicer des-
sert than a piece of pulled broad, a bit of
cheese and a cup of coffee ; besides, it is
"so Eagliah you know." To make pulled
bread, take a loaf of freshly baked bread,
white it is still warm end rather underdone,
and pull the inside out of it iu pieces the
size of an egg. Put those in the oven and
hake a delicate brown. They are crisp, and
full of flavor and make a delightful ootnbin-
ation with cheese, and tender stalks of cel-
ery or leaves of lettuce.
A novel kind of beggar has made his apt
pearanoe on the Puriaian boulevards. This
is a young Mau, a former pupil of the
Boole Normals. His modus operandi is as
follows :—Lie wawa up to the torraoe of a
cafe, and eddrea.iug himself to the most in.
tellectual-looking man present, invites him
to ask any hiaterioal question he van think
of, any date in. Frenoh history, from the
earliest to the present tame, saying " I will
answer ab once." He fulfills his promise
wi h remarkable alacrity, and with equal
alacrity passes round his hat.
Bri'tiahers may be slow in some things
but they like to travel fast, ell the same,
jucginr by the records of the groat trunk
railway linea, The Great Northern, whioh
runs the famous "Flying Switchman," and
its active oompobitor, the London and
North• Western, have been screwing up their
records lately to a point whioh puts them
far ahead of anything on thio aide the Atlmn-
tio, They have been pushing ono another
so hard that it is now announced on good
authority that the Great Northern moans to
snake the trip from London to Edinburgh in
710"hours whioh will exoeod an average rate
of sixty miles an hour.
Deaths of the Apostles.
St. Jchn wee shot to death with arrows.
St.Simeon•Zealot was crucified in Persia,
St. James the Great was beheaded at
Jerusalem,
St. Luke was hanged upon =olive tree in
Greece.
St. Matthias was first honed end then
beheaded,
S6, Barnabas was atoned to death by the
Jews et Snlania.
S6. Bartholomew was flayed alive by the
oommand of a barbarous king.
St. Philip was hanged up against a pillar
ab Hiorophllus, a 0i3•y of Phrygia.
St. Thomas was run through the body
with a lance, at Coromandel, iu the East
lndlos.
Sb. Andrew was bound to -a orose, whence
he preached upon the people anti he ex.
aired.
St. James the Leas was thrown from a
pinnacle or wing of the temple, and then
beaten to death with a fuller's club,
St. Matthew is supposed to have suffered
martyrdom, or algin with the sword at the
pity of Ethiopia, in Egypt,
St. John was put into a caldron of boiling
oil at Rome and escaped death. He after.
wards died a natural death at Ephesus, in
Asia,
,9 b. Paul was beheaded at Rome by the
tyrant Nero.
Trim the Trees Low,
Nearly all old apple trees aro too high
headed. The ids& of their planters and early
trainers seems to have been that ib would
not do to let the branches hang so low that
the largest horse oould nob plow or cultivate
close to them without injury, The cense-
quen1e ie the stone mostly run up eovon or
eight feet without a limb, and most of the
fruit, exposed to winds, is blown off and
spoiled for marketing. If nob it le extreme-
ly difficult and dangeroue to gather it by
ladders. Tee way the business is managed
now is to train low—keep the branches so
that When loaded they will aimed touch the
ground, Keep the surface under the trees
well mulched with manure and this will sup-
press moat of the grass that would otherwise
creep in, Many of the apples thus grown
San be picked from the ground or by low
step ladders sot under trees.—[N, E. ,Farm.
er,