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Through, life wttbuild'eur Men:inner:Oa
Df honor, and; perhaps, of fame;
.Ther little and the great events '
Are biopics of glory or of shame.
'Wile modest, humble and ohectlre,
_ LiVing unnoticed and• unknown,
May raise a shaft tbat will endure,
Longer than pyramids of stone.
' The cariten statue turns to dust,
And marble obelisks decay;
But deeds -of pity, faith and trust
No storms of fate can'sweeP
.„
Their bam, etands on the rock of right,
Their eyex reaches to the sdes; ••
, They glow with the increasing light
. Of all tbe cii•cling centuries.
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Our building. must be,good or bac ;,
In words we weak, in deeds we•do;
On sand or granite must be laid
_ .Thashaft thet,showsus false ,br true.
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: How do we build -What can we show,
For hours anddays and years of toil?
Is the foundation firni kelow,? -
1.e„it On roc* or frdy sol]? •
The band that lifts the fallesn'eP.
That heals a heart, orbinds a welyid.,
; That gives the needed erust-and cup,
• .1s building upon solid 'ground, .
le tbere.it'block of stainless white
Within the monumental wall,
On which the sculptured skill can write:
e builded well; so should we all! "
, -Christian InteliiPenqr,
. • A ts.h.,...,Jewel Case.,
Giles Busby, a Toledo fishmonger, was
cleaninga white fishiest'Mond , .
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DV& ,D,I4 cottelmt.•
Ron. 14 S. Co P,fiPolibOs the Sem of th
Dellke$ofSiikkipes.
_The. 'following $14' an extract from the
Ron. S. S. Cox's recent Tammany speechLaBt :
sunInter it was ray
pleasure to live in
one of the isles of the princes. It ij called
'Prinkinos; It is- a few miles below Con-
stantinople in the Sea of Marmera. It is
a sant of Saratoga for pleasure and -health
seekers, set on a mountainous islahd, of
pinee-a paraclise-a new South, bursting
out of th.aniti berried Propontis 1 There
'Was one drawback to the. pleasures of
Prinkipos. . The isle,, like that of Shake-
peare'e !‘ Tempest,' was " full, of strange
noises "-'-not the nightingale .in the even-
ing, nor the cocks at dawn; nor the shep,
herds, nor the vendors of fish, nor the dry
cicada, not the .fian a the American flag in
front of our legation._ Thesewerepleashres,
and they did , not interrupt my, morning
dreams, but hark! when thesun paints in
gold and purple the Asian meruntains, I
hear an ethuirocal. Sort -Of bruit. Is it the
distant thunder of . Jove from -Mount
Olympus; in sight of our isle?. Its it the
rolling of the Israid train across the
channel? It starts afar! It approaches t
w It is ---No ? Yes? It is 'the•igrand diapa-
son of the jackasses. (Roars of prolonged
laughter. It fri• 'eloiroinits-pro
prig' y.
• ‘Be it known that the isle its ffill of
_on eye._:Tjie.y.,_carry-waterand-vegetattles--
-and.tpuristsr-up and down and oViir the
mouritathe I am not:'-iinfrtendirtn-th-t-
donkey,He has agoofl name for patience
an .
d d y.,1 was familiar with them in
and out of Congress. 1 admire • their
courage. They can whip a California
___tholarder-intestines-oftlie-n-sli're-foiiiid
,diamond ring. The ring /3ed engraved
• --upon ite inner -surface 44J. A. B., Chicago,
y forwardetl the prig to the
Chief of Polies in. this city. Yesterday
.110. &did A. Lennox, of 12 .Lennox place,.
identified and recovered' the rind.:: She tells,
an interesting story of its loss. In 1869
; she, as Mies Bennett, became engaged t�
• Mr. Lennox, and he gave her this diamond
, ring, for which he 'paid. SW. Upon their
• bridal trip in 1871 Mrs. Lennox lost this
ring; while she was washing her hands in
the -toilet room of the Pullman oar the ring
slipped from herfinger and dropPed through
'the waste pipe. As the train - happened to
•be °reefing the bridge over the St,. Law-
. rence•River, near Montreal, ' just at that
• time the bereavedivide haci no hope of re-
aolPering, tbe ring. There • are' no white
• fish in the St. Lawrence ; the theory is
• !:,that a small fish 'seized nponthe-rink; and
•' that at some future time this email 4sh,
while cruising about the lakes,fell a • prey
, to the, white.' fish in which the long -lost
• ring Iwas 4iiiaiivered. • ',20iles 'Bushy;
edo.1.4elimariger-,m.651V.atrZedik:1
WOW:Or<
ketos.. •,
kis a rhistie • patter? •
• Mr; Justice Rekevvich was 'Ocaupied yes-
terday with tbe hearing ..of an action rebat-
ing to • patents in dress :improvers.. The
• court was strewn with: various specimens
of these articles, and considerable amuse-
ment was :caused by the sPeotedge of a
, •,jildge and several `leading counsel, includ-
•. ing the Attorney -General, arguing gravely
on the intrioachee of the various designs
for &eel: improvers- • . • •
, • Mr.. jiisti.celIekiswiCh; aftey'lOoking at
several designs said I .hope: you are
going to produce- another of these artiolest
Mr. Aston, 'which I 'do not *see here; It is
• called the Jubilee: (Laughter.)
-Mr. Aston -I have never heard of it,. my
Eis•Lordship-It is one which ..wheh'a
:lady sits -twain playa the National Anthem,
(Groat laughter:)- • ..•••• .
• Later on .Mr.• Aston. argued that a , .dress
.. improver was virtually the same as a ger:
His Lord,sthip-Dcryou mean that seri-
, Mr. Aston -Yes I do, My Lord. They
ate the seine, though, not in size. •
, His Lordship -Very well, Mr: Aston,..
:can see I shall went a jury of Matrons On
this case before it, is done,--.Pcin
" Gazette.
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ri*City Man .as a Farmer, ,
'irrem Our donntry"
dkrrui; saves rinsT
,Conceit: •
Money, -
Farm„ '
Practibal Knowledge. •
• , :•Experience, ' •
' cArirtki., &rock 'F.ND or' TsN.,,VEARs.
v
n EXperience. ^ • .
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o Practical
o Br011ey
o Conceit.
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Attacied by abteer..
• Andrew :Aitken, Of Paris statien, yvap
atta ked by a steer on the road, the • Other
:day • After dodging the first 4d1icarge' Mr.
„Aitken made for the fence, but, before he
• gat there the wild steer: with upon him,
threw him to the ground; and began asav-
• age attack on his prostrate form, Mr.
:Aitken is not only a courageous map but a
man of cool nerve; He kept -his presence
of mind at this moment Of deadly peril and
Managed:by a' series at quick movements to
avoid a throat' from the long, sharp. horns.
"Filially the opportunity he :wanted arrived.
Turning quickly on his back & grasped the.
• nose of the.beast a it niade• a blind lthige'
athim, and held it by, the, cartilage in a
vicelike grip. His eztraordindrY strength
. enabled him to retain his hold, which he
in reseed With the other hand, and so he
b e steer until, the drover got a rope
n tied its horns' to its. fore leg. •
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t• oneiy Jacob's Ladd4r.
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• On „MoUnt Whitney, thNtigliedt• moun-
tain in California, at a level 14,000 feet
above *krises and POO feet' above the tim-
ber line, Where theta:- is no soil and no
moisture save snow and hail and ice, there
-grows a little flower shaped , like a bell
'flower, gaudy in o'er(' of red, purple and
blue. ' It is called Jacob's Ladder, and its
fragrance partakes of the white jaemine.
It bloom's' alone, for it not only has no floral
sesiodiate: but there is no creature, not even
bird or inteetv to keep it cornpany,
Purekti (Nev)Sentifth.
I earth, don't it sthrld to reason that there
-will be nothing left inelde for the final
hitrnini up of the worldi. is just elioit.
Gdgett9',
When jack salutes Jenny, though miles
apart, then the 'jubilee of noisy affection
begins. ' It is an infernal concert, amorous;
*hind and ear•hehinubing; It starts with
an exaggerated case of ' asthma. (Latigh:.
ter.) This rasps your Soul. The least
loses, then catches its breath With a harsh,
squeakish sibilation, until a roar as of forty
hungry hone comes toils relief. (Laughter.)
All the powers of Wheezy, whistling, gasp-
ing suction .are exhausted. - -Then follow
terrific expirations of the bellowing mons-
ter.• .(Laughter.) Suction and emission=
repeated with " daMnable_.:
until the noise dies Out in an agonytthutter.
able. ,f.used to hear when a boy the'creak,
irig.of the manned wheels of -the Conestoga
waggon from Pennsylvania: I have lately
twirl he 2inmembigonfity.ppuidi 45,51
95.4ffeeflorttig*gethaNileapoxi4he
Iridtful ianatitEgypt, but 'never • lieffere-OY
since have I heard Such a diabolical concert
as this braying of the clonkeYe of Pritik,inos.•
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• • Heir the *,,iteishey, stole the ittOsity.
• In a house on the boulevard Napoleon
of Toulowie,.a woman locked up her money
ina desk and went Out shopping'.i on . her
return she missect-thresr-napoleons, 'a gold
five -franc piece and a:trap(' in • silver,
There was no trace. Of ",a burglary? Very
much bewildered by, these losses, the good
Woman was deep in .reflection over the
Matter when she heard a -roar of laughter
from her • neighbor's garden. ", Oh, the
thief !!' erred several persona' 'at . once.-
" Where has he stolon this ?'' 7: The dame
descended instantly,.. ran .out and . said:
"Oh ! my money, meesiehrs ; 'Where is the
thief To' " He is up a tree, madamet
pointing up to a monkey in a high branch
above them, " but -here is the mbney
The monkey, who crtainly would be an in-,
-Valuable assistant to * burglar, had been
seCh to 'climb' into the Window of One Of the-.
good lady's rooms, had unlocked a drawer,
found the rnoney and, concealing it in ' his
jowl, had brought it to his master. I' find
that no less an authority than Buffone•Fle-
Aaren that a 'female chimpanzee who went
out to service at Leafigo .mado..the beds,
swept thehouse and •so farassiated • in the
,hooking 0.8 to turn the spit. ' M. de Grand -
pre, an alder of the French • navy, tells of
another chinipanzee, on board a 'French
.man-of-war,.. which (waists the 'cook and
turns the capstan • and 'furls:. sail as Well
any of the sailors: In: • China
motikeys help in the tea picking, and Lord
Monborldo ,hsed..to gravely. contend' that
,apes 'coiild. talk readily . enough, but that
their' superior Cunning told them to hold
theirienguee lest they, Should be. Put to
hard work -Leeds 'Mercury. '
• A Life 'Wasted on rerpethal Motion.
George Johnson, 'aged 78,- died at the
Bristol' Town 'Farm on Sunday.•• He was
an'interesting character, his chief notoriety
being in: his, effort' to pexteet, perpetual
.inotiom-He-became• so engaged in this sub-
ject about 4.6) Years' ago, at the time of .the
perpetual motion Ora* that his Mind be
garde unbalanced; and since that time he
contrived severaP,ingenious devices which
are ,curiosities. johnson waes me.
oluthic of 'inare than common skill in the
uee of tools, , yet he was -never able to nee
his ability to acoutnulate any property.•!7.
gartforcl Times. •'
, Slow Starvation.. .. • .
Rev. D. Frank Culley,„ missioria'ry'to
Labrador coast of the Society for the Fro -
negation of the Gospel, :has published it
letter in the St. John's (Nfld.) Moran. y, in
'Which a pahiful'accOurit of the slow starl
vation pf the people is detailed. He cites
instances where villages had to gubsiet on
rock cod for months; where men walked
hundredi of miles for &for and • could Only
get One barrel, " •
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.bitien to Deinieration.
Jack-What:I. ;Are you snioking cigar-
. Harry -Yes; dash it all 1 Cote reftieed
'my offer ofinarriage last night, and I don't
carenew what becomes of m.o.-rid Bits. '
Sound Adfrie•.: ., '
An mnoceht Cheyenne man „wrote to a
. Denver sport the Other day and aiiked the
' question: "-Hd* can it mat get rich et
pbker ?" ' The sport'. pternptly 'replied' ;
I"Dontnpoke."-Denver News.
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. • ,.it :cheerful Believer.
' A'farmer etood, e.t :the-, /that* 'gli'n well.yeeterday and sadly • declared it wad. justinkling Bible -prophecy to ' dig such things..
On beihg asked' to explain he said t l'If
I the oil and gas is all punIlled out of the
It is Only within the past 500 yean that;
women have daii9ed publiely with inen.,,
Italy first began:Vithe
Ohio& condemned e austoin; but
in Bib e prophecy; and ought te be stop-
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?KAMA
ER 04 LTA:IL
A.ih;rnta Arian rrefer$ Death to afahomont,.
A passenger' who arrived 'here last even-
ing from Sarnia tells of a startling tragedy
that took place in that town yesterday: ti
would seem that a carpenter named Prank
Howard has Atticently been paying marked
attentions to a Miss Lafarge, „whese friends
are said to live in Tilbury Centre. Matters
finally came to a oriole, and -the pair were
to have been; married yesterday at: the
Farmers' Hefei in Sarnia. All the prone -
ration(' were made, thewould-bebride, the
witnesses and the clergyman were On.
but the bridegreem was missing. 'After
waiting for a Considerable time a generall
-searchwasinetituted; alid' thedead body
of Howard was; found suspended by a rope
to one of the beams ih the barn on the
hotel premises: It was evidently a easeof
suicide-, the Motive for which /re not yet
transpixed.-Lohdint ,
• . •• Latest front *the Northwest.
, Superintendent White, of the
who has just returned from the. West, days
the trestle bridges between Calgary and.
Donald,- B.C„,will be made to give to
iron bridges. • ' '
Mr. Burgess,Deputy Minister of the
Interior,_bae.returned froni-his---Weste
trip and will await here the arrival of the
Minister of theInterier. • •
Gopherearedoing---considerahle-damagn
in some portions of the Territories: Mr.
Gramford-i-lr member-of7the 'Sbr-thwest
Connell, :says that the 'municipality of
Indian Head., Which offers a bonne for their
destruction, in the month of May last.paid.
for seventy-five thousand. tails at three
Cents per tail. • - • •
The United States authorities havihg
.
granted the extradition 01 Pant, Chief Mo.
Rees assailant,' he was brought to the city
to -night. , , •
Mr. Daly,M.P., was bahquetted by his
constituents at' Brandon, to -night. •-The
general tone of the speeches shows that the
Province is entirely united on the. subject
of disallowance, though r a portion of of : the
West debts not like the *ay in which
Win-
nipeg has: been; according, to their views
exclusively running things. .
'A 'Vial:Iris, 13.C., despatch states that
the Grand ZrAnk-Bail apply-,th-the
British: Columbia Legielathre, at its next
Session for a franchigefoiarailway through
Yellowhead Pass and Chilcoutin county Via
Bute Inlet to EsqUiMait.' ' • "
AirkadySri/Wathallre'
ffhe.111*,glIlsratlic,4,3 thmantg,Lreaze:"
graded.---- ' "'"'• 7.- • . •
Captain W. C. B. Graham,. DominionImmigrant 'Agent, hasreceived a despatch
informing - him that 822 Icelanders.' •left
Glasgow en+mule to Manitoba on July 7th'
by the steamer Buenos Ayres; The party
its expected to arrive in Quebec On Monday
and to reach Winnipedat the end of next
week. The Icelanders-, who arrived last
Saturday have not yet takini-tip: land; but
.have nearly all -secured situations.
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HO, Alexander Mackenzie • and ., Mr.
Duncan McIntyre. passed tlirotigh the city
for Banff this morning.. Theser-,Prernier:
appeared to be still vary weak: ; •
• About Ii100,000' will -he expended this
year,--in----the-construCtion- and repair • of
Northwest Mounted Police ha/Tacks.
• It is:believed:that there: is 'every likeli-
hood of the onatruction of the Northwest
Central Railway being deferred for at least
another year: , .
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: . The 'Scribe aithe:Direue
Oh„ the druzns were heard and the ,pic•••
cola nate, as the drops up -toren- paraded,
and- the shorn -off rattle and whiskered goat
and the elenhiniturither Shaded.. Vfolldtved
it -calmlyat early morn, my work and.My
labors spurning, and I harked to the sound
Of a rusty horn with a ;Wild aintuntiallOwed
•yearning.FeWithd short were the tunes
they played,' and they paused not it all to
monkey; so I elOWly followed :the route
they Made at the , heels of, the lop-eared
donkey:. I bought hp a seat at the show
that night; and looked at the limber woman,
whcitied herself in a knot • tio tight'she
'seethed more likehempthan human; •• .A.hd
I eagerly looked at the wondrous bloke who.
swallowed some cotton blazing, and hie*
.froni his-neetrils-O-clou&of-innnifertill
thought he ' Was • sheol raising. , And
watched the clown as he ran and rolled and
stood in* dozen poses, and worked Off a
String of •jokes so old they came Troth the
time of iirosesiltcliison (Kan.) Mae. '
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The, A4drese of Venus and Adorris.
The non-dliivery,of•s, telegram tient-froni
Manchester•to• Lichfield. a• week di,so age.
*was attended by some 'arousing circum-
stances. Some old tapestry was lent- by
Mr. Litchfield, ari.Strt dealer, to the Jubilee
Exhibition, •and, requiring the retitiim Of 'a
certain panel; he partictdariied in his tale
gram- by statingthe - siee. and .; subject,
"Venus and Adonis," ending the 'message
'with sender's name Litchfield„"!. A. clerk
at once replied to "'Venni and Adonis.
Lichfield," and'after making -every effort to
deliver the :magma, the Post-Office:Officials
were constrained to wire hack to Mariolier
ter that no Venus and Adonis • could be
found' in the cathedral city. -Electrical
Review.
French as She is Spoke,
Mrs. A. (Wbct is taking French lessons)
-" Now, Bridget, .when Prof. Blaiique
conies you Must say entree ' to biter and
ho Will knew what you mean and come
into the parlor." The bell rings and Bridget
'goes to . the doer., It is the professor-
" Ontario," sari Bridget. "Vuol. ye walk
into the parlor, sur ?" The professor
walked in, and., Bridget 'report'ed her
triumph to the'cook,-Hatper's Better. ,
• " ••War 1114Ctehtte. • •
Mins ShawSgerden (of. St, Louis to ;Maisie
•
breezy, of Chicago)- Well, 'how is every-
thing Chicago as usual, I. sup.
pose." •
Miss Breezy-" No, things 'are looking
very bright., How is the pasturage in St:
Louie ' ".--Clearleston News and Courier.
' liu a Series of experiments made bythe
Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station 031%
Cabbage warms, the most efficacious remedy,
was found to be it Mixture of one ounce Of
pYretlariun with buckwheat flour.
That is the -Iasi novel 1 shall'ever read,"
said it gentleman; throwing the book 'down
in disgust.'41-What'irtliiriinitter,'' ear 7"
inquiredhis Wife, "doesn't itend ha ily ?".
7Ntl, they were married.'? ``• '
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'Cute 'for WhooPheIC cough -
q.
Maryhill is &large imdunPOrtant fftihn*lt
Of Glasgow. On ThaTedeg, a travelling
OandY7rnan and rag -gatherer, with a; cart
drawn by an ass, drew up in front of $ row
ofliouses known as Pirrat's row, 0..little off
the highway at MatYbillt. el'asitQw, Two
children living in this quarter are suffering
froin whooping cough. . -Altera short 'cot-
versation with the proprietor of the ass, the
mothers of the two children took up a, posi-
tion, one on each side of the, animal. One
w .thruin then took One of the children 'and
passed it below the ass's belly other
*imam, the child'if,face being7Favs,rd the
ground, „? The woman on the other sicie
eaughthald-of the ti1414; and, giving it a
gentle somersault,' handed, it back to
the ,• other woman :over the ass,
the ' face being_ *toward
the sky: .The process' having • been re-
peated three times, the child was taken
away to the house, and then the second
child was: similarly, treated. ' ' While this
was going On two other children were
brought to undergo the Magical 'oure.:, In
order that the operation may have its due
effectthe as% Must not be fmotten, and at
the close of the Ceremony' each mother
Must ' carry her child to the head of the
animal and allow it to eat seinething, Such
ae-bread-or-biscuite,---ouref-the
This proceeding having been..performed in
turn by the four mothers , the prescribed
course - . concluded, -tt;Vhen it began
there was not'31137'_ Pe9Pie present,, but
hefOre-.-it wa(1.,:flins ed. quite a number of
spectators had gathered. From • inquiries
made it seems `the Mothers • are thoroughly
satisfied that their children are the better
of the ehohantinent.4Netes and
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Egyptian 'Street Vries. /:*
• The street Cries of any city arefull of
interetit, but thbse of Eastern • thorough-
fares are particularly sighificant. The
Muskee,,of Cairo`, its great native street, -is
a singular, Oriental looking, place, always
crowded with strange•peeple eome-
.tvh et after thiefashionl--4,-- '
. Sellerof sugar 'and water-Refreshthy
heart! Qhench the heat .
: Seller of raisin water -It is well clarified.
Oh my son! By the life of thy father, it
is well clarified! • ' '
chir morningbewhite
Pretzel seller -0; all nourisher 0 all
good • 0 :determiner! 0 omniscient
pretiels ! • ; •
„iciligge4Ivist/d-lionsteetteefActi6340.1kth.
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srelninnatpaiis.qinizters.
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spronleti-gr&bamenotegetebrzerkfasted4gra
zialegeraty4inetreply)15/orlwq3B32seindh
the hearts of mon! Another (to one eneezihg)Praisie God!:
Thank God! • •, .,*
-:All present -God have mercy on -yon!
.Tbe sneezer-God guide ,me and you!
God reward you .• . / •
Muezein, • (from a .'inesque)God ,', 'is
greatest!' I declare that there is no . god
but God !....4._declare-that Mohammed is
the prophet of God Come to prayer!
Come to salvatien I Prayer is better than
sleep! God is Very great! There is no God
butGodl
Seller of Wheat cake -:-These belong to
thee, 0 fasting man V HOW they did knead
thee in the night, 0 cakes! -
Rose seller -The reae.viaa a thorn; sbe
bloomed from the sweat of the prophet. •
And thus the Cries :centinuehour after
hour day after day.- •
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'The' X'siesingOrowd-
Did you everetand in the crowded stree• t',
In the light of a city hump. •
And list to the tread of the =Wien feet
In their quaintly musical tramp. ?'
.As tbe surging, crowd goes ,to and fro,
TiTnini.,atahareipjhveeaers.cmaiu.atnxeoginifightoht4!,beuetiivoeerzi.een.cind g..0
!fere the tstiblican walks with the sinner proud It
And the priest. in his gloomy cowl, • ,„Az
And Dives stalks in the motley crowd; ,
With Lazarus cheek by jowl;
And tht,. daughter of toil, with her fresh young
• 1.8.1411tturrte 47 • S, r Spotless fe me, ^
-Keeps' step with the, woman who inakesi•ther
- mart - •-• ••
/12 the .4itente of and shame. . .
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When time shall baYe beaten the day's tattoo,,
And in duskyarmor night ' 1. •
,TP treading with eche:less footstep, through
The gloom of the sileusnJgit,-
Some -few -of these. shall 'bii'clamtaryjed,-
And sink, te slumbers' sweet, •
While many 'Will go to Et sleepless bed. '-
With never a crumb to eat
Ah, me -I when the hours g� joyfullyty, „
How little we stopped to heed
0n, brothers' brothers' and sisters' despairing e"ry.
In..tliiir woe and bitter peed.
Yet spell a world as the angels sought
This world of Ours we'd call, •` .
If the brotheriylove our Father taught
" Was fejt by:each for all.
A Rat and aRar.,,roa.
The Danbury NM& ea:Ye Snow ha8 '
arvery...ftnexat and a- parrot. '„Both occupy
prominent quarters in his office, the oat
mostofthe time- monopolizinghis chair,
and the parrot confined in a Cage hangs
beside a window. •As• is natural, the cat
and Parrot have become friends and take
great interesfiti each other. The other • '.
daY the doctor returned from his round of ,
iialls, and on entering his office was met by.
his cat, whit* seemed to be evincing :great
uneasiness. She -ran on before him • and.
kept looking up and !hewing ; she would •
advance a short distance ahead of him and
then run back. The doctor ccinclinledthat.
she was hungry and went' and Procured a.
piece of meat and offered'It-tirreE----sAir
refused to touch it, but kept up • her run.. •
ning back and forth: Finally she sprang
upon the'sill of the open windowand looked •
mit and mewed. This called the dootorto
the window, and he looked out, and 'then. ,
disecivered the cattle) ,of,:thej. cats - distress -;,-
the parid,'Which Was walking majestically; '
about the Yard in the grass. Ife had escaped ;!
fromhis cage andllovvii out of the window,
and the cat Was trying to fell her ;master
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Ethics Of 9htmblip4.
. Paterfaniilias (at the breakfast table) -
"'Mabel, I have learned--that---young Goit
hard; who comes to ,see you, gambles
- Daughter MiSo's.edly)--"Oh;yeu mhstnIt,
believe all you yoli hear, pa." • '
• 1).--," Well, .I kin* he has been seen play.:
ing bilhiards, and youmustdrop him. Mee
way for a young man to begin life. Let Me
lave the part of the paper with :the atOCk,
Market, -please." . ,
• D-" Certainly; pa. I don't think there
a great deal of harnli_in,..hiiharde—,...,--;
(warmly)--;-" The loser pays, and what
is that but gambling, ? (Consults his
w:•Y, bq'aEl:satbeiroi*P, 13.1
vsord.for ' What! hello! Big drop
in Sou' -sou' west-half-westAittiewestern I
Gracious gitneili t Five hundred-gene-tif.a.
single sip! Whew!„I W813* an idiot to
P.-” Ah--,a-a-nothing; nothing.
little disappointment; that's all." -Phila-
delphia .Inquirer. '
•' Why Hannah Lehhe 'tChurch,
' A lady was relating to the the other day
, .
her trials and tribulations in the matter Of
arranging the household machinery sothat
the inevitable hitches and jars"of the inner
workings should not he apparent to the out-
side 'w6r1d,„ In describing -the --Vali*
idiosyncrasies of Servants which had come
under her notice she Said "Some. years.
ago Tbad it good settled Whife woman as
house servant,; who, though of .most ex-
;eniplary deportment in every 'other respect,
seeniedto corisider-Sniidays as in nowise
-different from the ether:de:y(4; of • the week:
_Finally-4-eaid-tkeher-t Hannah, why don't
you, take your Sundays off? You should
take some advantage Of the opppert unity to
,go to church! You ftn. '.appreciate rely
feelings when she replied ; Well; Mts.
I used to'.gci reglar to church, but 1
never,jined.. My next 'door neighbor Waif a
shoutin' Menther, and X tell you What she
don&L-she scalded my dog. That's ben
twenty7qicre-arririttralti't nem.wont to
church (since,' ".-7.Wei1thington Capital. .
. The Old Maids at the Jubilee.
An elderly'maiden my, hying near Sid-
.
chip, wrote to the Lord Chamberlain !tt few
weeks ago saying that She believed •• every
•elaes of Her Majesty's subjects would be'
represented :at the Abbey excepting one;
" the old realds'"ef Her Majesty's Poniint
ions; and she asked for two tickets to have
the honor of representing the "old maids,"
wishing to have a ladyfriend to accom-
pany, her. In due course she: received a
polite reply from Lord'Lathom, sayingthat
he Was (pito Unable to resist: the three of
her argument," and would; therefOre,send
ber, a tieket. for the 'Abbey, whither; of
Course; theltld lank went 'Op Tuesday week.
-7-•Londirp, court trOttritat. ' • . '
• Lord Pahnerston used to say that one of
his best services to the country was the pur•
ohagie of the camp gratind.at Aiderehot for
fifteen pounds per acre.' Since ilieri,' And
largely as it .eoneeqteriee' _of -the °stabil-eh.
ment Of the °atop, land at Aldershot hae
Wen Bala at Ake rate of a thousand potuide
A Toronto Boy's"' Itonaantie .Adventures.
• Pour "years Aga Willie Noland, then aged
9; ran,away;'from his home in thie
bent on -Striking out. for.. himself: His,
family made every effort to locate him, but
Without avail. ' His brother, Mr. Richard
Noland, of the •Montreal House, •never,
however, gave up the search, and as lite as •
Wednesday lastvirote to a friend in the
States inquiring if he had 'seenor heard
anything of the adventurous lad:' 'By'
strange Ooinciderice the yOutigster turned "
hp at the hotel yeeterclay7lwell dressed,. •
healthy and With-morethan--4!--.815--in• his •
ineiclopeeket." The joy attending the re-
union between the two brothers may he
.YOnng Noland . hs been a4,
over the continent since he left .Toronto,',
having got into the &rens business. His ,
presence in the city at this time is due
the fact that he.. is travelling with, Mirk's,.
.shotv as a Contortionist.His professional
name -15 Willie Letelix; and hid perforin- ;
SIMS are wonderfully clever. There was a •
happy 'time at ,the Montreal House last... • -'
night Over the lost 'baying been foluad.-
Woronto 'World: • •
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Irtsoo Midenegnaer Love stories:-
yOung german.carpenter was married ,
to a pretty bohemian -girl -,•in Omaha, the..
ether day after a Six' months' ' COMteliiP, :
which must have been conducted entirely •
in pantorninie,as neithercart speak 'a word •
Of the other language., The 'services of an
interpliter were heeded at the altar, but
the young - Couple Seemed all happy:4iis if •
they had talked Tweet • nothings MO each .
other's ears all their lifetinie, . •'
A romantic wedding , teak pls.& at' Ed, '
tardsville, Ill., the other detri, when • Prof:,
Jithiets O. -Duncan, of Vandalia; a widower, ,
was married. --to - Mrs. Lillie Carroll, of
Springfield, a Widow.' Tho marriage was
the culmination of (4.• aeries • of cohicidentss
in the Jives of the Wedded pair. - The Rev.,
J. B. Thompson, who performed thercerel '
niony,' officiated in the same capacity at • .
%Pref. Dinicah'efiret marriage alid:TilieTit
Mrs: Carroll'e first marriage,' and preached • •
the funeral sermon it • the death . of Prof.
Dunoan'is wife and .at the death Of. kre:.
:Oarrollts-husbahd.It was this 'strange
fatality Of eiremnitandes :Which indueed,
the couple to Steels again the servieee of Mr.
Thompson. •. 't:••
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4ttl?ilee Story.
Two Scotch fishwives Lehdon were '
talking about , the jubilee the other day.
"Eh, Wuninien,Yr said one to the other;
44' can ye tell Me what : a' jubilee is, for I
bear a' the folk spakini abopt it?" "-Onf
.ayt" replied the other, " 1 can tell ye that '
ye see; *hen a mah /and a minimax': theta •
been inarrit for filre-tind-tWelity year, tilat"s
a Biller waddin ; and when they've': been
niarrit for„fifty year that's a gonden' Wad- ,
din'; but when the Man's deed, that's a
jubilee! •
, Cute john. .
Chinamen .entertain 464. 'exalted ideas •
of justice. The other, :lay a citizen''who
left a shirt • at it Chinese laundry to'be
wailhed and 'dressed, . was .'told when he
went to get it that it hal been hist. The
Celestial. Washeirnan (laid • he ,rhight,
perhaps; lind.the missing article. some day.
But,I want it now," said the oWner.. •
, :" Belly good, Don't' he afield," Was tbd
reply.-• ,".If 1 ho find shirt -es, you . no .pay
for Washee."-Toronto Mai.' .
RitieW 11iIy Friends. .
._ A Youn'g, phydician who -bed rectiOtlY,
hting•out his sign Came, home one day in
high spirits, • • •
" You knO*i tilY• dean."' he Baia to his
wife, "Irn really becoming quite well
known here. /he undettikere bow to me
freitay,w, 7,
I/oee Mr. Stirliiig live hero?" -Sisiked ,
fi'meohanie of a womanhe met at the deer.
44 Yeti, sir." 44 have com'e down to 1
oat
•out his furnaoe", " You.re jnat a littlet
late ; *tile sheriff batf.jtist, been bete."'
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