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WEDS ottoman the mature age of fifteen, and fell THE CM1PMUfVF WAS CHARMED. h,an 10, rr ., ra ru°ul;ttr inti anru , . ;+. "'en HOW GEPJTLLlvlf:i'1 1tl aS.
HOW SUMMER WEDS AUTUMN, in love with Miss Camille, tilt he was far en
Lightlyeuminer• goes .%•roving, all her trusses in years, hie biography lx pluoWully npooklod It raid tin Attention to Pletol. Hhotn rotes
!Tie; Intima One suited the Mollie. has cumnuunded hint tc• design men's fashioue would only take rail
1 Iwr pan66t • lips all crimson with the with fair itanas, " Another illustration of the dog's Intel. titan anti .rut wax li gutrs for modals,
broken, but it lueln t, and he has refused tc 1
n I
:ca many the man exorpt when hie I tei New Yoga, Oct. `28.-• 1t tete artists who
the
Aulberries 11usele 1slnIeo, • Berlioz, the eminent i runup composer, " These knowing folks who ridicule the It novo is told by the mune gentleman. 6
Beth her soft bands fulluffowur-onyxIn9mmed wrote: " Oh,that 1 weld Lind her,the idea that u rattlesnake can therm do bird The dog's nano turd he were 10 the reeding fault of tha'faslliwa writer would be rosier,
with honey for feu hausfor who mold be ex eeted to few eul.huni- 11•'IF
countless throngs of mltstrelm singing all Juliet, the Uphelia that my heart calls to, m animal ft covets for its dinner don't want roma sup day when 1 hu deg xtrodv in and , 1 B
around her la the them that I could drinlr In the intoxication o1 to talk to mo, after an experience I had a lay Qawn nn the earprt, " L wpn't morrtiott %stip about wax wiei'h4, purticnlurly whoa A
Withs' hor itvay,coronet of roses, o'er the ldlla andhie name er mai any hr0tluu0," said the 140(000000 many pretty a3J livin;; wwmma
vales Wray, mingled joy and miners that only true love few days ago," said Edward Blundell of landlord to his boarder, referring to the to write about
'2311 kinrl. number cones to Ond her, then et hide.
an mine they play,
Ohasing through the lotion orolnrds, shaking
down the mellow fruit,
Making 00810 en tho Manchu as upon the
tuneful lute,
Swinging in the wild }loos' tangle, leaping
through the wayside liedgo,
Loaning down faces
o'er the stream -
lees to
Then October cones, and Seminar lays aside
her ghlloh ways,
And her steps grow slow and stately, las be.
comes maturity.
In a not of tneshy:.rout-work all hor annoy hair
silo twines,
With a slender amber girdle all her flowing
robe confines, its sober trailing poop her shin-
ing, sandaled foot,
As she walks with gentle musings through the
n10011. ldas' pleasant heat,
And her heart 'gins snake confession, and on,
blushing8 cheek reveals
All the tender, hoarded eoeret,that her down-
cast aye contends,
While the Autumn woods and wooer her, till
her flushed and panting charms,
Yielding to his fond embracing, lightly clutter
in eta arms.
Winnowing winds blow subt00 mime 00 their
lips and chocks and bah',
Loitering birds pour wedding mares out upon
tb0 hazy air,
Mellow fruits lay all around thenu, bursting
grapPes with nectar drip
From the popped stained Chalco potions
charmed they lightly alp
All the trace their brilliant plumage, red and
old end purple, shed,
And a, downy couch prepare them wlroro the
forest branches spread,
Like u canopy above then hang the amethyst
Ina sldca,
Tender mists litre curtains veil them in their
happy mysteries.
MUSICIANS AND MATRIMONY.
knows ! Could I but rest in her arnte one Hawley, 1'n, "1 was always a 1;1•tle abet( - dog, "Int I'll say sometime to you in an I To the feminine eye there 10 00 apparent
autumn evening, reeked by the north wind cal myself on the power of the shake to ordinar tone, and see if he will notion it.' j ohmage in melee clothes, unless the attention
on some gild heath, and sleeping my last, charm, and consequently when I was taking Than the landlord added : " I think hie ; is especially called to points of difference,
nail aleop 1" In a few years after these gush.
pm lines were written, he arranged asepar•
atl0n from his wife, hie former divinity,
and left her to die in misery and solibudo
Nt'W THAT WAS A ROW
Three i nlverattp Ern now ream oxford
to ruiner, Till 11SIrN.
A feat of oxuollont endeavor and dogged
endurance was performed on the 19tam00
yesterday that deserves to be chronicled. It proaehes it being well known to me.
was once argued, and it has since been "Tho squirrel's side was toward me, and
wholly disproved, that severe training in i it was as motionless as if it had been a part
youth makes manhood suffer soceroly for it. front the rock itself. Itwae gazing intently in
Well, here are three well-known University : the direction of a log that lay a few feet
oarsmen, whe,lad not In any way preptired I of the rook. I Mopped within less than a
themselves for the task, rowingfrom the Pp
University Barge at Oxford to the Leander rod of the rock and watched the chipmunk a
Club house atParley, 110 miles, itinderecl i moment. I had my revolver with me, and
by innumerable and ,mfmrenen obstacles, in made up my mind I would see what the
qQugh the Woody non.11awloy one place la twined the b -oh in front of the
ge 1 One point w•as shown 111 the short overcoat
ess wait.
day last weft, andaaw a ehipmmlk aitting maned tomice n;m olnof tiattention this nrito Wlr'at had' It lomadoks aof s if itlrni ht bella very nifor ntfortablo,
on a rook and giving 00 sign that my near j preen maid, but iso got up right array, walked I but is not so dignified as the longer veal
through long ball, pushed the that goptlemeu generally wear. But what
approach to it disturbed it in the Toast, the I slowlya
thought that the influence of , snake hod , gate open hack of the desk and ley clown in I ju
poor feeble wordo of mine could do stice
anyfront of the safe. ^ 4 to
wiWtl s
o tlr
thing to do with the indifference of the whita glo ed
little squirrel was the furthest thing from I and dross nultwho
hands Gelding au opera glass, is just toady
my mind, although it struck me as being , ACTOR AGAINST OARSMAN. ' for the opera! Lovely manna 1
uofthe
singular, the agility with which the chip- Attention is called w the elegem)
musk makes itself source as a person ap- Tha rrrntmn el ltetw•em Edward Stanton 1 satin lapel to his dress coat. The taunt
and 1131w,1rd lex-chs who furnished me these detnile also said
Edward Ionian, the ox-oham time
Dura• that the newest gloves are In Eiffel red,
num of who world, and the law fii•n' of Innes widen is a rusty, brick dust color. Cravats Boll, were yesterday engaged in trying to aro four-in•haud, took and a louse putt
straighten out a very peculiar suit, in wlifelscarf, 'Pronsers aro neither loose nor tight,
the once groat outlier finite himeelf. Ili and boots aro rather lung and pointed at the
August, 1887, 10(10)1 Edwail- f1anitm toes. White silk handlcurvhiefs arc used in
was preperfng to visit Australia, he w•as preteroioe, largo noel with hemstitched
awaiting the arrival front the otllco of the borders. C'nliacx are various, according to
London 8 mrteman the sem of e100, tench tante. Ger evening, whet lawn sr narrow
Oarsman each was to allow hie as 001penaes bias satin tine cru were, The Prince Al.
exactly twenty-tti•o hours and a half to the effect of a Elicit at the swami walla be. I to moot the Australian on his native heath, Tort and cutaway, coats in scute s}tgut v'mri•
ver second.
Their stakes bad been deposited with the %tions will be w00n 4111 the winter, The
It is a fent hitherto recorded to the 11 0d, not aiming do eft the chipmunk, and 8portannan, and the i 101) expense mailer lapels to the costa are wider au. mune
famous waterman, Lord Kilmorey, and t0 . the bullet furrowed the rock damn by it. was to come from that quarter, mvhich Ham poi•
nted, and the collars rather higher, hull.
another equallyy enthusiastic equtatfe noble- ' The squirrel did not novO a. lair. I fired lan expected would be cabled daily, eating n leaning toward the diroetoire
mot, It Las been done when there were I again, but the chipmunk aid not the In addition to this £100 Ii:,nlan was at legis roman le to the the d, Hots
no locks at Bray and lloveney, und when n slightest attention tothe noise or rho whizz intarostad in another £]U0. \\ hen ]Edit°r aro ninth the ;one, (tidy extremists wear e
kerrifie stream almost like a millrace took
Busboy of the Now York Turf, Field and rnthor aniall elnsr aill t hat. Derb s hold
the boot on its will career between the of the bullet tial struck rho conk directly fn Faint •was 1n Te onto refereeing the Hanlon- (heir popularity, with the brim rolled a
wooded hooka of Clivanden trod the front of it. I began to think that the little loonier race, Hainan in a bipaheax transact- little closer than Inst season. Little fu
historic playing fields of Eaton. It has animal was dead. I stopped a little closer lion became Busboy's debtor to the extent will be worn by the gentlemen except fox
been done by men who have trained for tete and got directly behind the squirrel and fired of 1'1[10, It was therefore lis intention to •driving.
purpose, and in longer time that, Woe taken a bullet close over its head and foto the log. nue f<ontthe ithoySportsm with money 0lp August loth collars of astrakhanLittle tnir l belaverl m00 a s Cheic
00 the
yesterday. It hos been done with couriers Th° result was startling. Something fell Ire received n wire from a Now York firm of
overcoats, with handsome Brentleboutge •
nen °rNato en eevcrs.Itesbaads and Family. on horseback to open the locks, and with from the logd began to thrash around
Olen. - nothing whatever to impede the slow and ung
Bacon tolls us that "the best works and silent progress. among the ferns and low bushes. The chip
those of greatest merit for the public have They had decided to row the coarse in nnmk started up, ran to and fro on the rock
rooncodod from unmarried and childless w}rat was ended a half-outriggod gig, with . 9n a dazed manner, and thou dodged with
p eliding seats—the first time such n tlfng its peculiar r chirp into its hole off to one side
man." That seems to be only partially true has ever bean done on a long journey, and it the rook.'stepped forward off to the io
of the groat composers, some of whom have with three pale of sculls. Mr. Lehmann ipP e
been "very mucic married." The groat Se- rowed stroke, Mr. W. A. Grenfell was No. to see what wee the cause of the disturbance
bastien'Bach was twice wed, and had a un- 2, and Dfr. Holland took the boy, In this there, and found an enormous rattlesnake.
ited familyof no fewer than children. order they started and finished, A11 were ' It had been shot through the neck, and was
Y in fairly good condition, but nano In thor- i still writhing under the effects of the wound.
He was the very model of a pater -families, ough training. They had not prepared 1 had been so taken with the strange con.
fond of home, and hardly ever absent from themselves for the trip in any way what.
his own fireside. He was never outside his ever—in fact, Mr.. Grenfell has scarcely I duct of the chipmunk that I had not nor
native country; and the appointments which touched ant oar for over two years. They the snake, which must have boon lying on
he held duringhis life -time were all in were steered from %tart to finish by an the log, among the moss that covered it,
Oxford watorman, '1'hoy were accompdniad int range of my bullet. That the snake held
towns, only separated from each other by a throughout the journey by a steam launch,
the squirrel under )ties ell of its fascinating
short distance, his second wife appears to which was occasionally boarded in order to q P E
have beou of great service to him in his pro. take their slight ninth!, to snatch a few powers, which accounted for the chipmunk's
feesfcml work. She both sang and played, r confds' reswluo1 to they i on taped seltenjes o iied doubt indifference
to my ontemy bull tre struoke ne
and she ied, besides, n beautiful hand for morn Ilan anything else as a stimulant dui- rattlesnake and knocked it from the log
copying music, and constantly helped her in their long voyage,
husband in tho laborious work of writing out The cloak struck midnight as they started, the fatal spall was broken, and the squirrel,
hie compositions. He gave her lemma on amid hearty congratulations from Oxford recovering in a few seconds from its effects,
the lrarpischord frequently, and wrote a folk, and they rowed as strongly and in as was able to mope into its holo.
deal of mvaie for her to la ggood form as in the old university Lays. "In that same vicinity, some years ago,
goodplay. But it was a dismal and uncanny commence. Solomon Purdy, who lived near Hawley, die.
Mozart's reasons for marrying, though menu. There was 110 m0011 visible. The covered a red squirrel on a log,in a condition
quaintly put, are unanswerable—viz., be. stars refused to shine, and the river wasq
cause he had one to take care of hie linen ; dull and dead with mist and fog. It was similar to the one in which I discovered the
because 110 could not live like the fast young dfffionit eanough for the abeam launch to chipmunk. He knew the habits of rattly
men around him ; and last(, because he woe its way through tea darkness and the snakes, and understood at once what the
y weed's, and more difficult still for the oars- situation meant. He got his eye on the
was in love. He married when be was men to follow the fitful lights. However,
twenty-six and his bride eighteen. He they all reached If}ley Lock at 12,11, whore snake, which was coiled on the and of the
passionately loved his wife to the end and the local oarsmen had prepared a pretty log, its head uplifted, and its eyes fairly
the lost wordy ho wrote 07000 to her—" The show of Chinese lanterns.
dawn when Cleave Lock glittering. Ile shot the snake's head off
Dabegan to.
hour strikes. Farewell 1 we shall meet was reached at 5.01. The day that broke
again." so beautifully over the misty river proved
Hadyn married on a salary of little more true to the very end. Maplednrhan was
than £20. His choice fell first on the young• timed at 6.27, Cavernham at 7.15, when
est daughter of a wig -maker, with whom he the captain ordered a wash, and the Drew
B B enjoyed a heorty breakfast. Cookham at
had fallen in love while giving her lessons. 11.5o, after encountering that dreadful
Tha daughter, however, took the veil, and " dead now " in Cookham Reach, which
the father anxious to keep Haydn in the was anything but pleasant. Beulter's Lock
family, pursuaded him to marry another was ranched at 12.27, and here, after the
daughter, throeyears his senior. Ho did so, cheery dreetm at Bourne-und and tea'
B proepecttve welcome at Maidenhead, no-
m and laid the foundation of unutterable do. purred the first disaster. Mr. Grenfell, who
mesti° misery. The wife proved to be was now in his own water, so to speak, and
everything that was bad, and cared not a within eight of Taplow Court, was attacked
straw whether her husband was an artist or with violent muscular Patna and contraction
a shoemaker. A. separation was the 'myth- below the breast bone. It was a kind of
P muaodar cramp, and the pain had to be
able result. endured on and off from that point to Put -
Handel was one of the few great compos. ney. The hands had all stood fairly well.
ore who remained unmarried, and he seems All the oarsmen rowed in ggloves, and when
to have been almost insensible to female blisters cams they were softened down with
charms. He never showed the least inulin. lumps of cotton. But notwithstanding in-
eipient orarnp sad irritating blistore, on
ration for the cares and joys of domestic life, went the oarsmen, encouragodgby the hearty
etB}yd apart from his relatives, the ono to and sympathetic cheers of Maidenhead,
whom he was most attached was his score. till, plucky as ever, they timed Bray
tary, Mr. Smith. On one occasion he tried Lock at 12.52, and sensibly repaired
for an organ n intment but when ho to the cabin of the Means launch
B appointment, for a hearty luncheon. Darkness came on
learned that the successful candidate must apace as the undaunted crew toiled on in
marry the daughter of the retiring organist the gloaming to Teddington, the last of the
he fled from the contest with all possible locks, which was reaohed at 8.10. Every
oarsman was still fit to row fon his life, but
speed.
Beethoven on the ver threshold of Irl} the monotony of the journey provoked
y lassitude, and at last the muscular cramp
career was met by poverty and demise, and pains at the base of Mr. Grenfeil's ohest
those aeeonpaying him through life probeb• yielded tory treatment of amateur massage,
ly kept thoughts of marriage in the book. with the aid of a lotion of pure brandy.
ground. Yet he Woe not without passing Once Kew was passed, their energies re.
fancies for women. The Countess Quite
rived again, Tiny w•ero on thdr old battle
gground. They had arrived at the Ship at
°iardi he spoke of at one Lima as his "int• Mortlake ; they were passing Barnes.
mortal beloved," and• to her he dedicated , Once more they were going under Hammer.
the famous song "Adelaide." smith Bridge, with no crowds on the shore,
The dream of Chopin's life was union with and only the stare to witness- them, but
Madame Sand, but unfortunately for him
the It eta of Putney came in ai ht on
marriage found no place in the peogliat
system of morale advocated by that eminent
novelist. Madame Sand declared math
mony to be a snare to a man, 'and, a delusion
to a woman, and accordingly Chopin -woe
mot with a refusal. After this, as he says
himself, " All the cords that bound me to
life are broken." His health visibly decline
ad, and not long after his disappointment 111
breathed his last.
Mendelsaohn fell in love very early, but
hpving reason to :mistrust himself, he deaid•
ed to test his affection for the lady by n
lengthened absence from her society. Jia
name through the trial eabisfaotorlly, and
shortly after he was married to his first and
only love. His relations with his wife were
all. along tender and satisfactory, although,
curiously site is hardly ever mentioned in
any of his published letters.
Wagner married an actress while be was
yet a young man, but site had little sympa•
thy with hie work and aims, and after a
time he separated feoln her. Ha next mar•
And a daughter of Liszt, who appreciated
his wine,
and with her lie lived 0 truly " Well, .John mphA., I m not drinkmphhappyantlpcauefullffo. naw, bub if I do take anything It e gnat
Oh!As, far Liszt,' from the period when halved
about
1* 0)1'..". , WhaU will you havo .
thce
ey went at racing pace, With a fewThere are some individuals, undoubtedly,
strokes they passed the launch, and as the I who cannot drink leo•water without injury,
olooketruck 1071 stepped upon the accustomed ( and who ought never to use it, but to a great
neuro of Putney. The average rowing wad majority of person it is refreshing and
nine utfnutes to a mile, and, as a rule,
thirty strokes a minute. healthful. Its use, temperate and discreet,
As has been said before, they ware none is in no way to be condemned, which cannot
of them "done" when they landed. Theybe said of eomeof its substitutee,--Americas
The s quirrel dropped from the log also.
Purdy went to the spot where the squirrel
had disappeared. He found it lying on the
ground dead, although there was not a mart
of injury upon it"
Exploring a Fallacy.
There is a prevalent impression, based
upon wo know not what traditions of other
wise medical men and snperstitutions of
ever -ignorant old women, that the use of ice
water as a beverage is always fraught with
danger. We are gratified to observe that
the editor of the Sanitary Volunteer, the
official organ of the New Hampshire Board
of Health, takes up the cudgele in opposi
tion to this sweeping denunciation of n drink
that under proper conditions should be ao
copted as delicious and wholesome. Ho
says truly that there is a great deal of mento
ment and many opinions regarding the use
of ice -water, that vanish when the light of
reason and experience is turned upon them,
The fact 1,, that ice -water, drunk slowly and
in moderate quantities, constitutes a health
ful and invigorating drink. There is at
doubt that ice is a great sanitary agent, and
every family ought to be provided with 31
during the warmer months of the year. II
is true that the inordinate use of ice
water, or its nee under some, special condi
tions and circumstances, is attended with
great danger ; so is improper use of any other
drink or food. Tho assumption that iced
Water is dangerous, and that iced tea,' 03
iced coffee, or iced lemonade is a barmiest
substitute, is simply a delusion. As the
source of danger feared by some is the do
gra° of cold, we fail to see clearly how fla
ver modifies the effect of temperature
could have gone on rowing to Wesninsted
or Gravesend ;For the .natter of that, but
they were lroartil9 sick rf the dull, dead
monotony of Idle 'teak.-•- London Standard.
Old Bay.of 111linte Manners.
There is not b0 moll, drinking now as
thorn Was years ago, said' ho Old Man the
other night at dinner. Why, forty years
ago on the Bay of Quinto I d p000eb In with an
old farmer and say :
" Uncle Silas, will you 1alce'eorlatl1i0g ?"
" Well, John A., I don't (moi;. I'm hot
drinking ninth now, but if I de attalto any
thing it s juot about this time."
:Give amides after you would say a sin,
"Uncle Silas, will you take something
" Wall, John A., I don'b know, I m nbt
drinking much now, but if I do take any\
thing it's just about tide time."
In five minutes morn 'Uncle Silas would
turn nronid and say•
Analyst.
Mt Intelligent Deg.^
A Iargo dog at ono of the Scranton hotel;
became very much attached to one of dui
boarders. He dot in the habit of following
this man in his leisure walks up town, and
the boarder liked to have him along. But
on a rainy day the dog didn't see the matt:
start out, and the latter had got around the
Omer before the dog caught sight of him,
The big dog was so tinkled when be same
that hie 0111 companion was not far away,
that ho clashed up and rubbed his great wet
shin &gaited the gentleman's good olotbea
Chat was a form of boisterous familiarity)
not to be put up with, and the met(
spoke harshly to the dog and drove hint
back. Tyle dog's sensitive nature resented
this unkind treatmeet, for from that day
to this the man has novas been able to gtty
tlluo flog to walk out mvit1t 1)Im although lid
11a111a dtOho ovevilieigho eon d think of to sem
badiF the dog's friendship. Ho followed the
inapt mum, but he did it much against lig
wilt foul only after his miner hail 0rcicro(1
brokers saying that they held £140 to his across the front. When a boy has worn the ,
credit, winch they 1(0d received from a Lon- first frcehnees off' an overcoat a careful
don source. Hanlon could not understand mother can buy half a yard of astraldra
how it was £140 instead of £100, the amount for 70 cents and a Dot of Brandebourgs, and
in the agreement with Beach, nettle thought with an hour's work make it handsomer
it was owing to the difference in currency than it was before by making Duffs and con
or some such cause, so he wired the Now lars which hide the worn places. This infer
York people to pay Mr. Bnsbey £100 and 04111ptt is based upon successful experience..
loud on the other £40 to him, which they The Fauntleroy suits are seldom amen now,.,
promptly did. About the same time, the and I guess the boys are glad of it, for the
ex -champion oarsman alleges, £100 came to sashes were much m their way. A very
New York from the Sportsman direct, and pretty suit for outdoors for a boy
this also passed into the hands of Mr. Beach. ns really overcoat or kilt, according to
On August 17th, the next day, he left the material it is made of. If of cashmere,
Toronto for Australia via San Francisco and or camels' hair, or ladies' cloth, itis suitable
he has never heard any more of the transac- for the house. Of velvet or beaver cloth,
lion since Until the other day. for outdoor wear, and it should be warmly
Then a very strange incident happens. lined Onc is of slate gray beaver
Tho NewYork firm of brokers (whose names cloth with alive green plash facings and
the World diel not learn) who gave Edward belt. LeggInc of dark cloth are to be worn
IIaulau the 1:140 failed. That (1140 was for cold days. The Tam o' 8hanter cap
not for Edward Hanlon, the oarsman, but alumni be of tate sante material as tiro coat,
for Edward Hanlon, the actor. The Now Fora boy of 12 or 13 an overcoat should
York people said they knew of no other reach about to the knees, and this style hat
Edward Hanlon in Amnion but Edward the seams laid fiat and stitched.
Hanlon, of Toronto, and sent the money to Stockings for children are of heavy ribbed �.
him. It carte just at the time he expected wool, with doable heels and toes, and
the Sportsman money, and he says he double also over the knees. The persue
naturally supposed it was for him. Edward who will invent something to save or make
Hanlon, the actor, was at that very time stookings more durable will have done 0
playing in Europe, and his money sltottlti greater thingthan he who writes a book,
have never crossed the Atlantic, It is said elalt 1
to have bean paid him by a Paris firm. There will be more bright colors worn by
Actor Hanlon is 1101• looking for his money children this winter than heretofore. There
from Oarsman 'Malan. The latter says he are many new new and very brilliant colors
is quite willing to return the 1140 and ex- adapted particularly to children, and it is
pecks Mr. Busboy to return his £100. Mr. well, for though children always look pretty,
Busboy, it is said, repudiates having re- yet they should always be associated with
ceived the second £100 from the Sports- everything bright and fain
man, but Oarsman Hanlon affirms that he There is a lovely purplish crimson called
petunia, which chows off the pearly fairness
of a child's skin wonderfully, and there are
some rich and pleasing dark and light blues,
which are very becoming to children, and
there is a groat variety of material in
Turkey red, and a deep, saffron yellow.
While these will not be used together,
separately and trimmed with black they will
be very handsome. HATTIE Wson,u L.
d1d.
Jet all events Actor Hanlon is looking
anxiously for hie £140, with interest, but
the matter has not yet got into the courts.
The Blessing of Childhood.
Blessed be childhood, which brings down
something of heaven into the midst of our
rough earthliness. These 80,000 daily
births, of whioh statistics toll us, represent
es it wore an effusion of innocence and
freshness, struggling not only against the
death of the race, but against human cor-
ruption and the universal gangrene of sin.
All the good and wholesome feeling •whiolr
is intertwined with childhood and the cradle
is one of the secrets of the providential gov-
ernment of the world. Suppress this life
giving dew and human society would be
scorched and devastated by selfish passion.
Supposing that humanity had boon com-
posed of a thousand millions of immortal be.
mge, whose number could neither increase
nor diminish, whet° should we be and what
should we be? A thousand times more
learned, no doubt, but a thousand 310110
more evil. There would have been a vast
accumulation ofscience, but all the virtues
engendered by suffering and devotion—thou
Into say, by the family and society—would
have no existence. And for this there would
be no compensation. Blessed be childhood
for the good that it does, and for the good
which it brings about carelessly and unmet'
scioeely by simpty making tis love it and
letting itself be loved. What little of par%-
diae 100 coo still on earth is due seta
o aged Once among us. Without fatherhood,
without motherhood, I think that love
itself world not be enough to prevent men
Item devouring each other—mon, that is to
say, such as Flat]
uman passions havo made
thmm. The angels 1(070 'Zits of birth
and death as touhdations for their life, be.
cause their life is heavenly.—Amiel's Jour•
nal, translated by Mrs, Humphrey Ward.
8,osm Enviers.
There is no doubt about it, if you keep
your eyeswide open at the fashionable
bathing hour, you will find down by the eta
not only bewitchingly pretty surf sirens,
but all sorts and kinds of comical accidents
that could not by any poseiblo means hap.
pen at any other hour of the day. One of
the most common 10 for the fair ones to loved,,
their garters. The mischievous waves play
all sorts of pranks with these all•importaa
bite of the feminine make-up, seemingly
somehow to possess the power of untying the
hardest and most discoeraginglooking knots.
The season after season soamber° girl has
long ago learned wisdom in this dirootion
and is quite toady to sacrifice her pot pair
sooner then be subjected to the decidedly
uncomfortable sensation that is euro to fol.
lows lose of this kind, but it is the bather
new in all tltoso experionoes 110(1 who 15
about to indulge in the luxury of a first dip
in the surf that accepts without a murmur
the rather enoertoin.looking straps that
the bathroom woman smilingly and sondes•
cendingiy allows to go along with rho
hideous straw hat No 0 black stockings
People Talked About.
Chief Grass, of the Dakota Stens, has not
yet bitten the dusk.
Having whacked a groat many heads,
John L. `Sullivan wants vindication at the
polls.
Thomas A. Edison, on his return to this
country, will give his friends a phonographic
account of his trip.
Lord Mayor 'Whitehead, of London, has
worked so hard that he has injnrctl his
health and his white head is bowed in
sonny.
Kalakaua, King of the Sandwich Islands,
is writing another book. Its subject has
not been announced, but a royalty on it is
assured.
Prince Bismarck has given very little at-
tention to affairs of State this summer. He
has spent many hours playing the game of
solitaire,
They have a " Tomato King" in Califor-
nia. His shipments average 2,000 boxes a
day, and ho bears the name. A. L. Graham.
His tomato ranch is at Hayarde, Alameda
Count
Queeny. Victoria was much pleased while
iu Wales with the music of the Welshmen.
She especially liked their singing and their
manipulation of the ]tarp: At nue dinner
Dight harpers played during the banquet.
Six of titan were brothers, under the leader-
ship of their father, w ro appoa„ed in full
bertha costume, with a cap of antique form,
Mee robes and a red girdle. One Sunday a
few ahoniaters were brought thirty-five
miles to at the Queen's private service.
On the Whole, Queen Victoria Ives ration_
pleased with her visit.
” Tiny" Quantrell, the English jockeys, is
now riding for a stable in Pennsylvania.
He is a little fellow, notntore than four feet
in height. He has had a wide experience
fn, his calling. He has had mounts in hun-
dreds of races in England, including a num-
ber of Derbys. Helms ridden in the Grand
Prix at Paris, ]las plied the whip' and spurs
in South Africa, and lies raced on every
track in Australia. He has been fn the
Went for some tine, and is malting his way
back to England, leaving got as far as the
Kcyetot)o State.
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An extraordinary stqry is toll here el
the miraculous escape of a woman and a
little boy at Broig. During the mane:smoe
there they got in front of a regiment of
maniere which Wait riding at fell gallop. till'
It 176s impossible 'for the w011180 to escape
and for the soldiers to halt. Cho pallid
raised a uliont of herrn., thinking tvoutau
and 0111141 would be trampled to death,
and the foremost officers called to her to lie
down. This she did, placing the boy urt-
tlorneatlt her. The whole regiment rade
over her, and as the hours welt ell made 1
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