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The 811301}ers:- A. COP"ttrafftv. *
Iiiebeld them lartitibering:side by aide,
Fair smiling youth and liciaryage.; •
.04441,01E3i a worldly Perlin and Prides.
Where men a godlesii warfare wage;
Theother dreams Of sunanaer bowers,
Bright onnehine, warbling birds and ihnvers.
One View is maxked`with 4neg of dare.
Which showsthe world -worn spirit grieves;
, The other gleame,neatlioluetering hair
rake a fair flpir through quivering leaves.
One heart ie grasping, proud azul cold;
The other generous, warm and bold.
One breathes a long, a weary sigh, .
And dreams of earthly gain and loss,
As with a keen, suspicious eye, . ,•••
He counts once more his glittering dross;
The other bonndii with joyous tread
O'er fields a clover white and red -
A groan escapes the old man's lips,
;, A. groan ef mingled rage. and pain.
For, lo f his esihemes, like phantom ships,
Haive.vanished Ineatla the treacherous m
fastretches forth one wrinkled hand '
iild his treasured hoard but sand.
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m parted lips of tender bloom
* A trill of merryiaugiter steale.
Whose fairy music Etna- the room -
The happy boy.in dreamland kneels
. Above a littie crystal stream,
Where rushee wave and pebbles Omani
And bebeholds.witli sparkling eyes
His shipa water lily -glide•
'Beneath the rotiy-tinted sties. ' •
. Right bravely down the dimpling tide.
• Zia banine no sordidhopeidoth
But dances on, he cares not Where. •
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• Hark new the dreaming worldling Epealut • '
"Tho path to wealth, how drear, tow Jong l'
"Ab eries the boy, with glov5ing cheeks,
•ss Hew lovely is the skylarks song,• '.
.High-searieg 'raid the. blue above,
. Forever singing • God is love "
Anwhen,thenaorning sun shall rise_
To eharm away tbe mists of -night,
The boy will greet with gladdened eyes' • -
A world of beauty batbed in light, P
For a fond mother% morning kiss Will
Will opo its golden gates of bliss.
Hut the poor worldling, what of him?
4Will• he not seek. the busy mart, •
*Like some gaunt spectre, stern and grina,
No joy within his withered heart?
Per life is qnipty, vain and cold
To him who only seeketh gold •
, „ • .
--Fawn, Forrester iikehambers' Journal. '
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• 444149P9O8E IWN043.4
Incident of *13•Xfirlr PIT!.
It was on a solemn quiet 'afternoon at the
close of the year 181.4 that John -0-• bglie
Off from his carousal at a erualltavern at
the oldontlet of Illa-caess, Water. Although-
•VerY hair:1100s men erilinarilh• ha was.
novertheleas selhieet to Med. Petulant des-
pondency which ;sepia only be relieved by
imbibing large quantitiee of the pale Cana
-
diets rye whiskey for several days in suc-
cession. Thio. usually brought ,his head to
Adeati level and he •13-ectime a philosopher
again -until the, return of ,his irresistible
thirst for stimulant's. He was the son of a
U, E. Loyalist ..and had limed in the
Canadian Flankers during the recent
war with the United States. He was
well posted ' in Indian characteristics,
having et profound respect for the
half civilized , Massissaugas, but, for
the wild Northwest Indians; -whom the
Government had brought to the front as
aindliaries; he, in common with all the
Old Canadians, held in supreme contempt,
These Indians Were 'Wonderfully reliable
when it came. to; ,drawing suppliefi,;but
when, an engagement with theenemy was -
imminent, notably at Lundy's Lane, Lo
could not be brought within gunshot; but.
soon as La' discovered that the Glen,
garryg were arising back the enemy, he put
in an appearance, and---wars--yerylcusy. dur-
ing the balance, of • the„ night (the engage-
ment was fought by cloudy moonlight) and
the following morning plundering indiscri-
minately both friend and foe, the dead and
the helpless wolinded. In consequence of
WhiohttutalityseveralIndiane were sham
'the field -by the --Flankers—If-the-reader
can pardon the above digression, which I
Consider. somewhat apropos as giving the
cause in part of the old Canadian's hatred
of thewild Indian, we, Will return to John,
Whose house stood on the present. Harris
farm on the north of the Bay road. , Thither
my Informant's motheranli.a neighbor who.
lived near(now) the • Hamilton Water -
Works had gee on a short visit to John's
wife 'during his absence. Wbilo there a
.stalwart Northwest Indian came to the
house,, and after satisfying himself that
there, was not a men- about to oppose him,
he went to, the pig pen, in which there was
a shote; in fair condition,- • •The three
-women understood from, pest •• experi-
ence that "Lo, the poor . Indian,".
intended to catty away the pig. They ex -
04040 _With him ;as best they could, but
PgWililir4tLIOXEtt Ori*
Alitrpig,-and,tiemritadisgeategigherdneadht
A way that by: placing the 'strap :across Ilia
breast the pig rested on his back, then
turning to the women, he grunted " Ugh!"
;-:-whion always seems to mean" Well,,what
of it ?"-;--he Marched away towards the bay.
The Indian had not gone fat, When John
hove in eight; his .locomotion having been,
somewhat hastened by his hearing. the re-
port of an Indian gun near his house -
which could be easily known; as the
Indian- ,gun barrel's were thinand
light and their report feeble as
competed with heavier barrels. or the
Boar Wife's Lettere. .
, Charles Dndlegi Werner,. in replying to
• the qiiestion : Cori a man open a Wife's
letters 2" said that it would depend upon
• What kind of a husband he is. I think it
would be,neater right to say it would de-
• pend- -upon What kind. of a wife she is.
44 DiaeretiOn is the better part of valor," an
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tacti_ontaffirs4Refidottaxi,.;;Ohore'ls
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•bansufficientlyinto her confidence to tell_
- ' who her letters are from and to read
• them to him, or, perhaps, let him read
them himself; but this Ma very different
matter from having them first opened, read
and ponied Upon by one • for, whore they
iverenot intended...Of course rainy women.
receive letters that never reach' the eyes,Of
their life partners, not because they contain
• aught that would not heat the light of day,
noticedanse the wife is afraid or ail:Limed
. to show theta, but simply because they ccin-
• tain things that are none Of his affair. Hew
• often the.home letters are writtenonly for
;sharp creek of the . old eight -square rifle
-claughtereorsisters1-eyee-1--HOw4muchnf•
• f man-don-trequently;-
th,e family•oares can be told•her that would 139-rrn10 sc"
PleMaire. Melancholy fastened en him for
tins rest •of days, and he alwaYs.became
densely gloomy when the Indian and the
pig were. spoken of by his neighbor's,. '
"Shoot Him" Sentences.
Ionlaharies Beresfeid'e Marvellous abil-
ity to dismiss 0202,0 ftom his Mina was
very aptly illgetrated the other day by . a
navy man who had been,with Lord Charles
in Egypt: He was in A railway carriage
with me and was giving, another man op -
mite the benefit of him ,Beresfordian
impressions, .
"1 tell yon Charlie l3ereefotd'a a tonglat un.
It don't take him, long to settle a point.
When he was in eompland of the police at
'Alexandria every 'morning a; lot of poor
'devils whothe police had arrepted•need
to be brought before hina:• He'd eome out
anniking a cigarette, With a bright, cheery
face and a devil;may -care look. A. wretched,
half-starired, half-naked„native Would be
dragged up.; " • • • :
" I. What has he been doing ?'.asks:Und
Charlie. ,„ , •
LoOting' the shops,' ' • • • .
''*. Shoot him.' ' . ' • ,
•
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ONTRIOVT.PrO TO PX1374144F4
Payments From Accumulated Wealth spirt,
Frosn'Daily Earnings., •
D. Macdonald, of Hamilton, writing
to the Catfncla Presbyterian on the subject
of snpporting Clam* enterprises, ' mibmito
a coupleof ideas that are worthy ef the
earnest consideration of ,ministers and
ohnrch official's Of all denominations. He
sari • . •
For iny Cwsi part 1 do not think that the
people of the Church; are lea's • diapoised to.
be just to ittienterptisee than theywere of.
old times, but whilethe, Work of the chutell
has been, auddenly expanded, the tegotircea
of the people beliebeen rapidly contracted;
Ewa.' itea persuaded that they do not con -
:tribute just because the means so to, do are
not at hand. It must be admitted 'that
the Masts of onr people does not consist of
those who are possessed Of realized
Wealth, but that the Church treadtity
has been every year . filled from
the .fruits of - the industry of the
Contributor's:dining the yearpreceding. As
0otm as thia indsistry ceases: to be profitable
the resources of the Church nanst he cut
off. :Will any one venture to Say. that
industry has been prOfitable in Canadafor
the lastten years? Perhaps we may ex-
cept the iqustrY nf the 00 tinge," but that
is 'hardly a legitimate indubtrv, and is not
"Tho Poor alai begins whining, and brY;
ing, and pleading. ' , •
" Next!' . Lord Charles calls, and away
goes the man. , • •
",Another native is heeled up by the col-
lar
?' " ' ;
Resisting ROHM.?
'Shoot ' • • •
"And ea an until dozen twenty fetes
are sealed by this young judge, *bra whine
•desidionliesnaappeal. iln-
•iehed, he -goes into breakfastrhis alTetita'
quite undisturbed bY the volleys Which
presently greet his ears. I tell you, he's the
chap for busineag. There's 116 hinnming and
hawing plant him.",-Tlye Argonaut. • '
• Hints to Housewives. .. •
Clean piano keys With a soft rag ',dipped
in alcohol. '
Egg stains on silver can be taken Off with
table salt and a••wet rag. ,
'Leatitenieliair seats. ratty be revived by
rubbing' View, with well -beaten white of
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LOST IRVEIPIWICIP14.$741,
The Terrible .Fate. of a lroring, IHninter Ofl
t he itinit Leandro. AiLerehes%
The dog that soisompaniei trainee 4.1011-
ardson on his hunting trip has been found,
and there ii3 now little doubt as to what
has become of the hey. 'Nfar Melrose.
station, on the San Leandro marshes, is
very dangerous .plasce, where quicksands ".
are known to exist. On Wednesday Morn-
ing following the disappearance of young
Richardson, Mr. Damon, who lives on Ale
San Leandro marshes, heard the long -
drawn howl of amdog on the marsh. For
While Mr. Damon thought nothing Whot-
ever about the matter, until the howling
was kept up at intervals, when he Went 010 11
to investigate. Following up the 'lona,
he found a, valuable 'bird dog lying On
the edge of a dangerous bit of marsh land,
where ;several quicksands are known
to be. The dog was viatohing -the
marsh and howling. .He was nearly dead
from cold and lack of food. Mr. Dainon
took hini home; thinking that he was a 100 •
dog of a hunter, and the next ;lathe wail. '
sent to San Francisco, where yesterday he
was recognized as the dog that accompanied •
Richardson on his last bunting expedition.
There is little hope that the boy is alive.
The father the boy is nearly crazed with
grief, and he spends his time searching the .
.much, if of any, use to us. Then is Per- marshes, for sorne trace of his son. The
'feetlY right-thArweldiculalcciF at another -aootor.wha. has been attending -Mr, Rich -
White and pale shades of paint may be
beautifully cleaned by using whiting in
the water. '• , ' • •
; Cold sliced potatoes fry and. taste better
by 'sprinkling teaspoonful of tient' over
them while frying.
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mesAestflatkgema---alotrt*prni*de-z.vigt,
WhitkodroiCkvsregoidittliCalittle yt`;',1•11're-1
A:pad-rile for the use of the different
kinds of ,flour is, to use pastry. firm
Wherever baking ponder is used, and bind
flour with yeast. ,•
When e person is "sick at the stomach,"
ice taken into the Mouth in sma.11' pieces
and `allowed to • melt before swallowing
will, in very -many-instances, relieve the
discomfort. . • - •
To cure a wart, • place the; thumb upon
the wart And; Press , it against the hone.
Move tki3 wart bapkward and forward upon
the hone until the roots become irritated or
sere, When the wart Will disappear. „
thatia-properly-baked-wilt,slip
Nom the tin With careful' handling, and if
Placed on a wire ,fra-Tiiie-where-thbedrince-
accesii to the bottom it Will. cool without
becoming Mead, and when 'ready to ,be
served it be transferred to a plate.
' son -in -law -or acl'hn suspected mischief. John's wife "Van'
out to meet him and -tell him of their lag;
and nes.doubt, Eve -like, told him "kr shoot
the tarned Injuin." John made no reply,
but hitching up his waistbands on his bang,
lanky sides, and • thrusting a big quid of
tobacco into his left cheek and bracing'
himself up generally,as was becoming the
occasion, he stepped into :the house, and
taking down his trusty.rifie from the Word
hooks against a beam and coolly examining
the priming ofthe old flint look, he Struck.
-.brotherlin-laW 1 Then there iirethe letters
from dear, intimate ditl, friends; who: petit
out the sedrets Of their heart; upon paper
for the sympathy ' and „ entertainment • Of
sweet Mrs. Jones, but riot for ' the eyes of
sarcastic Mr. Jones... A very'laughable but
;sensible reason for a 'wife withholding her
• letters from her hutiband was given by: a,
• contemporary not long ;since. '• She said:
These letters. contain the confessions' of .
another soul, the confidences of another
, ,
mind, that weuld be.rudely treated if even 43the direction Indianhad taken,
• any sort of publicity. And ,While :husband -diverging
• however little to the ' left in
• end wife are.one eachother, theyeretwo
...in the .eyOs Of other people; and it may well;
happen a 'Wend. Will desire' to impart .
-.something' e discreet Woman, Which .ahe
Woul'd, not intrust tothe babbling husband
Of. that Wonsan." That's. the whole thing
Ina nuishell.Philadelphict.NorthAmeriean.
• . •
•
' Personal ;Points. *
At_AllWarth, „late editor of . the
• -Paps .Revilio, has, it it .said, .up the
• 1:43ty,spaper:bitsinecja. Oregon; ita: gone
•
into Argticultgrai purisaits. ,
Hon. David gray; ex -editor of the Buffalo cent messenger carrying the sad tidings to
• 'Coarier,• who Was injured in .the, accident. on the region"; above, John MosalianiCally
the D.. L. it 13:„. it Vestal lest Friday reloaded:hia rifle and strede SlowlyforWard
Morning, died at Binghamton last 4vening to catch a sight Of Lo;. Every bush seemed
• Jamets A. Garfield, son of the murdered to glare .0,t him, with the eyes of .1denionas
„. . • . .•
**resident, wile •has just been acitaitted to and a , cold •shudder came over ;Adm.'
e Ohio hat, tedeisibles his father There lay his .V.ietint linked. in death
Lhis personal .:' traits. Ete. is a clever, with his booty:. No hung* pappoose was
ever' to See .him 'again; The bullet : 'had
reserved rim% man. • • .,;
•
tornthrough the base of the brain, and the
. Arehdeacon . Farrar -thinks there ;is a
blood 'trickled slowly ;Over the Wane. dark
• ,neeeSsity.fora .neW, close of clergy, a • class
fade:.1 He ,was stiine. dead,' nere . was a
" Of mission priests Ruder a 'threefold .yietV
Zilesnma i'nto Which John haa' hastily
of ,poVerty,Chaetity, and obedience, ,a new Shouldanyof Lees ;escmiiides•Ooine
order of Dominicans or Franciscan's. • ,
. suddenly ,upon ;the 'scene :John would as
• The",Yenerable Sir Frederick Bramwell sorely .; get his . fotlough, soon or, late, for
• .••
• will•Pfeside at the ibeetibg. Or ths Pri#eb the white • :men's ',future .world, as he had.
• Association next September path,. iV Lo his fOis the happy hunting ground:
brother, Lord Brarnwell; who will then be. NO tinie, was to be lost. Only .% ncomentie
81 years Old,; will. - DirectOi of the,. 'consideration and John broke Ahole in the
. Economic Section. ' ... • ' fed , with the breech , Of his :rifle, large
. Gee, rAtif ,WEilie.CO, the ,.authorof tett, enough to..adialit,.Le!'&' and: sepatat:
Hur," said ' to . be. .distressingly absent.;. ..ind it from the:pig% threw:it in, • Tlien
Minded. Ed has bliPii,•;• known • When at searching . about he found convenient
. breakfastia put tsige heaping 'epOonfnid• .of pole,' With which stiedeeded in thrusting
• 'sugar On soft-boiled egg and then,. alinoet the body • ee' 'far' down into the rand and
before the laughter .had .died. away, telt weeds that it Waenever What
• his coffee with great deliberation.' • ' ' beettnie Of the Pigmy .informant saith not:
Dread winter •passed away, cheery spring
The. Welland. Telegraph, • says: We ire
pleased to state • that Capt. W. T. Samle, ;PROlg abal3arlY .1311binier.`' John had °CCP, -
proprietor'," of the Telegraph,. is dedclealY eio4. to fortify hit system itgattult • 'the
He has been eetdbed e'ndroachmenta of approaching hcWweethet,
improved in health,.
to. bad .101.,...tue, • luta week _boon but and acdordingly. resorted totho little tavern
• .the, inlet, where he indulged more fteelY
etpects to. be up again now:
than ever fot, two or • three' days, or until
his Storinteli reirolting 'he could , drink no
• New Ilse of Electricity. longer,. and he Set out in the co.osiiinghoMor
The science of electricity 'hue. . ward Nom& • HO had .got 14 fat as where
• ' been. passed ,• into the service, of, fushIPP.e. Jelin Dynes' hotel ' • is ,at present.; -the
• • 'When, at d0,4CO Or a dinner party, a 04. weather being dull and murky, and Withal
tefing dew -drop ,rifeeins suddenly to sparlile •Eithet.hot-Land the road becoming tennis
he • cast his eyed about for help in getting
hOsiie and espied'. a aiei light.' .the
Marsh alsOre, and being' inst. a little. be-
wildered he 'inicpOsed it to be a fishing light
and. that he .could get hiniself , paddled over
•tri the main larid.. Approaching the light
ho was pair astimidhed to find that it•ineved
away from him, and crossed the marsh,
just Skimming the- water, and .halted orithe
Otainlazid,• on 'illo bank of the inlet, Ovet
the .exact spot Whet° he had shot the,
Wilson-CranfOrd,- of „ .Coftsville, near /what. .11e.re hOYcs,red, , inOment., Lynd
YoungstOWD,D,,,Wasprosttatecl by a seYere tin% disappeared. Jinni never having The Vance's:wet; frintiLiteipool; With the
, attack...of hieCongbieg: a few daYe ago and 'heard of the ign4lifatid fibPPenna this to he 'weekly mails and 48' cabini;52 interinediate
4itA Of exhaUttiln hoforo eauld.be inteuded'an retainder to hini Of lalacrime, toia, '216 •etedra- d IlaWiabgettio' arrived at
. niad aldO 'in.. a' Mark Of the PiYhie Halitat. at 4,o. Oak on Saturday Mailing, the Wrong pitied.. • .
: Wed: , • •
order to head him off. 113 soon reached the
bank of the second inlet, about where instinct
told hina the Indian would cicada. He had
not long to wait- Poor Lo came up within
easy range, and halted'ori the brink either
to rest or to consider the. strength of the
ice., John: took a deliberate aim at , him,
but, Lo being all unconscious of any danger,
John's heart relented and he hesitated a
moment, then levelling his rifle a second
time, he said to hiraself,, " pull, may
the Lord direct the ball." „ Lo instantly•
fell. The blue smoke from the rifle sanded
upward among the tree tope like in inn°.
source, of impoverishnlent for the classes
of which the Presbyterian Church is Mainly
fornaed, theolasses, who occupy a middle
plaoe as to ealtla., The day was When
ardson • for the past few years bite ordered
that he shall not 'go down on the marshes'
again or he will not be respensible for the
result. He met him recently going on his
very many 'of, the most wealthy Mee old fruitless search and compelled him lg. • *
•Tin - -the -Province Were.- main strength triter hisbuggyand drive
•home-with-hincr--Sinoe the return of, the
got over the habit . of ex, pecting dog all hope has been ebandened, and . it is
the large sums which used to be given by
the rich and'generous few, and which ()nee
filled the treasury of the Church. But the
fathers have fallen asleep, and the sowed')
not often walli in the, fathers' steps. The
Presbyterian Church is not so muish as it
should be the Church of the poor. ' is
Mit either the Church of the rich, at least
in Canada, nor need it desire to be,but it is
,the Churoh of class Which 'feels' most
heavily the burden public' taxation. The
dry universal that it is hard to live; and
why is it hat() tolive ? The necessaries of
life are produced more cheaply . and
More plentifully than ever, • : but
our , sYStem, •of ' taxation adds so
enormously to their cost that it ' is
diffinult for the Man of modetate means to
4:22Wg,tilunaw..4,11"stisgsacer --ir-
gralaiszden-d.itionsotteit,Wat ,
litaihisfraM/Irtoirm-areloillaTsikke ofthe
growing -claims of the Chnich.'-Net--is he
at -all in the mood to be'smoothed down by
'theses writer's ' in. the religiona press, who
tell.hiric that, in their Opinion, he is mean
or sordid. Il looks as if the Church must
set itself to a reconsideration, of its mode of,
seotch inusicians in London.
. Another London correspondent writes:.
"The Scotch colony here, and especially
that by no means uminportant section of
it whichis fend of Music, has been rejoic-
ing
greatly over election of Mr. A. C.
Mackenzie; the .,Edinburgh and
composer, to the Presidency of. the Royal
Academy, of Music. Mr: • Mackenzie'll
abilities . have . been very fully recognized
here for some tinceback; but belied a, Most
forinidable rival in Mr. jcisePli 'Beinby,
who is admitted to be One of . the best con-
ductors. now in London:. Mi. Mackenzie
received a great ovationWhen, for the first
time since •he went to Florence,,he appeated
to Conduct An orchestral Concert on the
sivening after his election. • While Mr. Mac-
kenzie is the .first coroporierin the 'Serious
sense-in.Lcinclini, the best writer of Comic;
°Feta Music is Mr, Hem/. Brougham Far,
nie. Mr. Fein% is 4 Scotchman .and
newspaper man, I believe, having been en-
gaged on either a Mirlindor aPerthpaper:".
finance suiting itself to changed conditions. to
MoreespeciallY will it lae needful to give atten- The "rd. salt nInY mem Phan enough
but to the chemist it is vague and
flouts the tources of supply,to have better was*.
meaningless. Put on paper; however, the .
acquaintance with details as respectsthose 'official •Latin name of table' salt and yolk
can present that to a druggist in Pans; ,
Rothe, Madrid or ,Berlin with the csertainty
of getting precisely what would 'he put up,
b . druggist in Biddeford,. Me. Fatal.
believed that the faithful animal .flaw. • the
boy sink in the quicksand and daye.tlieonly .
slept he could without leaving his post. It •
is supposed that Jerices, stayed out later,
thanhe intended to, and in returning in the ,
dusk he fell into the quicksand and. was
unable to esdricats himself. -Oakland, Cat.,
.Thfrane.
Writing Prescriptions in Engliah., •
Those who talk glibly about "„plain Eng- .
lish " may be surprised' to learn that there ,
is neon& thing as plain English whefi we :
oome to deal with Materia ;medics. The .
"plain English" for some ircsportant herb: , -
will be one thing in Ifttass,chnsetts, Gonne. •
thing else in.Pennsylyania, and semething
Iliffezent 4froni :either in England. To in- ••
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Za,P11414133.1trAVV."'''a4tatiOaati .
-to-11timetliing"440-011-trw;eiffaxent
another. Thousands --of valeindinatiatie.
cross, the Atlantic ' yearly,' carrying pre:
soriptions, on which their- health depends....
Careful pharmacists in all countries omit -
pound, them alike, . because presaription
Latin is precise; unequivocal and uniform.
among the ilewera on.a lady's shon der, or
a diamond -light flare araws • attention to
her pretty doifare, the admiring observer
•
may talte'it • for granted the possessor of
the .dew -drops arid the starry light in her
hair is secretly pressing a tiny battery, in-
geniously ;concealed about het parks), and
by means of which the electric spark flied
to the danger perhaps of the beholder;
• , f not the posseseor.-1'alZlTall Gazette. •
„ Probable _Origin, of" !gizzard."
'The origin of the Word "'blizzard" has
been. taxing the etyncologists quite severely
of • late, and , various . are ' the hypotheses
advanced. Yesterday afternoon p. Dakota
man, who is naturally familiar With the
article,:if sibt with its derivation, blew into
the. Giebe office and 'settled it. Ife
,cluoed a eery of the Lyon County News, at
Moorhead, ' Which credits Deacon Seth
,
Rnewles, Of that town With the coinage of
the Word. He used 'the sentence, "'Cis
browingclike blitzardt," which would con-
vey the idea that the wind travelled like
lightning (blitzen): •A German would say:
"Der stiirra koiritait 'blitzartig." From
" blitzardt " io "blizzard":it'very slight'
transition. This language Was used to
describe the great storm of janutity, 1878.
And this settles it -',5t. Pa'ul Glebe.
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• An tn0.elfisli Man. •
.:$01)MbOdy „Vgants our definition of "
truly unselfish Man." Well, to boil it down,
we should say that ammi who would. rather
chop "wpm) after business hours for the
benefit • of the hired ,girl than see a tax
. collect:it streak by lightning, is a - truly
unselfieh man. -Burlington Frei Press. ,
sources, and to .establish an. organization
for the management of those details. If
we may not expect large donations in our
hour of need, let its exercise foresight and
care. with- our emaller-offeringss-Thos
more numerous contributions will not only
fill the treasury, .but. wilrbe a -means ;of-
errore by pharmacists are rare when cont.
pared-with_thenumber of important pre-
scriptions compounded daily,' Taken as
increasing the interest of the givers in the
work to be done. And 'let the Church :Oa", I believe druggists to be, more careful
• and painstaking than any other branch Of
•,1
decline to be led by those ardent brethren
who ere, ao often teed,* with new scheme's,
but do not trouble their • minds mubh;11
at all; With the question Of the providing
Of Means.
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Sure to lie. Hit Somewhere.
At•a recent gathering of Unitarians, one
speaker recited an anecdote Which. admits
of large and veiled application: it was the
story of a minister who, preaching 'on ex-
change, Said some ;strong things about fast
horses. • lInwan told After 'the sermoirthat
he had touched one Of their -best members
on a tender point. "Weil," Said the
preacher; "1 cannot change.my semis:in-:for
him." In the evening the man was intiia-
-duded-tothe:Minister, who .said.: "1 'un-
derstand that what I said this . morning
touched one Of yOrtr 'weaknesses. I assure
you that' I was altogether Miconciehnis of
the weakness when .said it:" (. Oh; do
not trotible yourself," said the men. "It
hi a very poor 'sermon that does not hit Me
somewhere.' -Christian Intelligeneer.
tradesmen. ,But, if we want , tei see 2,000,
mistakes where there are twenty now, lot
us have prescriptions in this alleged " plain,
English: -Letter in Boston Glabe:
Brave Women; .
There are lots.of latent .pinek in a woman
after all. Miens of delicate members .of
the fait sex faced, the blast and 'snow,
pluckily climbed drifts, ten feet high,
reached their plebe Of , business, worked
during the day and then footed it home
again. And they' didn't, ad a rule, seek
liquid inspiration behind green baize doors,
eitiaer.--PrOoldyn , :
• Cause and Eireist.
'Remit:die Mise -Oh; dear it judt Makes
me Mad the way things go,' ,
Sympathizing Friend -Why, vciaat'a the
,mattet novr ? • '
.• "There I've b' een playing the piano for
five Mortal hours, ,straining my hands all
out of shape trying to make it pound bond
enough to • attract the attention, of that
'handsome young stranger who was writing,
by the window in the next house, and- he
only looked over this way three times, and
now he isn't in eight at all.". • • .
• 0* No. As I came in I saw' hicia leaving
the house With two bid satchels:"; :
You did? Oh, dear! :That woman
who has' that lionise never can' keep a
lodger."
Metaphors a Little Mixed
A 'speaker at ..a iinanoialj conference in
England is reported by the London Sp'eetet-
tceas alluding to a certain Cum as "a' nest
egg for us to take our stand upon.''' An-
other desetiliecka projected, economy as "a
mere ilea, bite in the ocean of Indian debt."
An Irish imedical Man outdid the lemons
exordium Of the western legislator,,begin•
ning, "Mr. Speaker, I smell a rat," etc.
•Some change was contemplated„ of which
lio expresseci••the most .veheniont disap-
proval, declaring that it would thriptv "an
apple of diseord in their midst Which; if
not nipped in the bud, Would buret out
into n ilame that would inundatethe whole
country." • ;
'Voting in. Switzerland
After divine aervioe On election Sunday
I went to the Croix BlanOhe fOrmy coffee,
to pass the timetill the Voting should
hem. On the ohuralldoor was posted a.
printed summons to electors, and on the -
cafe billiard tables I found bellido of the,
different Parties scattered. Gonda:rinse
had also distributed them abOnt in the
chnroh pewe ; they, Were enclosed in: en-
velopes, which were voted sealed. On al; '
table 'before the pulpit the ballot -box --a
•glass urn -was placed; and, .beside it sat the,
judges of election with lists' Of the • reels-.
tered , voters. But in any precinct Of the ,
canton an elector who could prove that he
had not voted it hatie might deposit . his '
ballot in any other. 'The 'church bell rang
for the people to assemble, and the Voting P
began and ended, in pedant quiet. But I ,
could not witness an election in' this
ancient republic, where freedom was so
many centuries Old, without StrOng emo-
tion;, it had from its nature and • the place
the consecration of 4 religiousrite.-Har-
per's Bazar.. ' •
A Correspondent mixes metaphord a little
when he: writes of politicians 41 They
stand at the Goyerninent crib, with an axe
to grind,"--/sfese York Tribune. •
• " Oh, girle, pow° and aee the- walking
match And When they got to thewindow
all they -saw Was a sliver Of, it dna& with it
red bead.
• And. Only One. e
Utah in knocking loudly for admission
into the union. Nothing shoeld avail except
a ticket bancribed.. at'Were Artemtat Ward's.
free pusses to his lecture 'on'the •Uormond,
Admit bearer and one wife."Teras
,
SY/tirsos. •
A Montana paper recently centained this
remarkable notice: Mr. Charles Johnson
and Miss Fanny West Wm Married by the
Rey: S. Hills On Wednesday, So fat. no
trouble has resulted,: and those. best
informed as to the situation 114 there will
be Witco • The next day the editor .apolo.
&led and explained ,that part of an item
regarding an incipient strike had got into.
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. A Preacher Holds the Fort. •
• Rev. 3. G. Owens, pastor of church at r
Cornwall, Wales, was , given by his con-
gregation a three months'. notice to quit.
The time expired one Saturday evening,
but the pastor barricaded himself in/hie
pulpit and hold the fort All that night and
most of the following day. For two hours-,
on Sunday he preaohed to his congregation
while they drowned his words by hymns
sung at the top of their voices. At last the
preacher marched out of the church with
the honor's of war, under. the protection of '
the police.
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Papa lseverely)-Did yon ask mamma it
you ould have that apple?
Three-year-old 'Cyclone -Yee, sir.
Papa -Bo careful now. ask natiminai
if she says yen didn't ask her I'll whip you
for telling a story. Did' you ask mamma?
• Oyolones-Truly paps,. I asked,her. .•(A
pause!). She 'Paid I couldn't have it.
Gloom at the Hub.
Young Bostonian (to servant)-" Is Miss •
;Waldo in: 2" Servant-" Yie, god; but
rihe is that sick she can't see anybody."
Voting Bostonian (alarmed)-" Is it .posei.
ble ? Has she been ill long ?" Servant- '
' Iver since the neWei came about Misther,
Soollitan, sotr, -New York Sun. , •
An innocent:Wink.
L
Fearing that some woman may sail in
upon us and give•us a cowhicling,,we will,
explain : The Winking and blinking of
our rigbt eye goes on oftentimes when we
ate , net aware of it, caused by it recent
spell -and a long,one, toe -of neuralgia in
that ram?a,ber.-.---13ronleood (Oa, ) .1,?eperrter.
•-"•-17.factannt :Everrsley is the 'oldest British .
peer Ile is ge, and hid %antithesis in this
re;earpeeaia
t oist,he Dtike of Albany, who is only
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