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Back to 'Grimsby Station.
BY JAMES WIIITCOMB RILEY.
Pap' e got his patent right, an rich as all
creation;
lent where's the peace and comfort that we
elflike" before ?
Lore go a-visithe back to Griggeby Station—
Back where we used LO be eo happy and so
pore !
The likeof no a-livin' her I It's just a mortal
pity
eee eec us in this great, big houee,with carpets
on the steers,
And the pinup right in the kitchen ; and the
city! city city I—
.And nothing but the eity all around us
everewheres !
Climb clean above the roof and look from the
steeple,
And 'lever see a robin, nor a beach or ellum
_ tree!
Amaright here, in eershot of at leaet a thousan'
pwple
And none'that neighbors with us or we want
to go and see !
o o aevisitinback to Griggeby Sth4aon—
Back the lathh string s a-hangin' from
the door,
And every neighbor 'round the place is dear as
a relation --
Back where we used to 1Jo so happy aud SO
pore
1 want to see the Wiggenses—the whole kit'and
blithe
Aghivile up from Shallow Ford, to stay the
Sunday through,
And I want to see enn, hitohin' at their son-in-
law's and pillin'
Out there at Lizy Ellen's like they used toelo
l•want to seo the piece quilts that Jones' girl is
makbe
And I want to peSter LaUry 'bout their
freckled hired hand,
And jeke anent the widower she come purt'
nigh a-takine
Till her elep got his pension eoweclin time to
save his land.
Tales go a-visitin' back to Griggsby Station—
Bieck -where's nothin' aggervathe any more,
She's away safe in the wood around the old looa-
tion,
Beek where we used to be so happy and so
pore!
1 want to see Merindy and help her vvith her
se Wile
'And heaa.her talk so lovin' of her man that's
dead and gone,
And stand up with Emanuel, to show Inc how
he's growin'
And smile as I have saw her 'fore she put her
mournilf on.
And I want to see the Samples, on the oldlower
Eight -y,
Where John, our oldest boy, he was took and
buried --for
Nis own sake and Katy's—and I want to ory
with Katy,
Ai she reads all his lettersover, writ from the
Mar.
What's in all thiagrand We and high situation.
And narypink nor hollyhawk bloomin' at the
door 9
lest's go aevisithe back to Griggsby Station—
Back evhere we used to be so happy and so
pore.
Just Too Sweet.
'When Clara gots a smnmer hat
.And takes it home with her,
The other girls, with one accord,
Prepare without demur
To atnplifyits every point,
With rapture quite complete •
lend then wind up with this rereark:
"Oh, that is just too sweet!"
Remakes no difference what it is—
A blazer or a dress,
.11.. new necktie that dearest Maude
Brings home to show to Bess.
The latter, as she takes it in,
Will tap her pretty feet
_Amd then exclaim in cestacy:
"Oh! that is just too sweet!"
And when upon the beach they 'walk,
Or play upon the sand,
Or gather neanthe big hotel
To bear the summer band,
When on their view there dawns a man
Bes presence they will greet
331. shouting with j oyful throats :
Oh, heis just too sweet I '
Cloak Review.
A Bail Spell.
The woman was illiterate—
in spelling she did fail—
And, when her house she wished to sell,
Sho wrote, "This House For Sail."
Then on tho door she tacked the sign,
And to her housework went;
The while a stranger saw the words,
And spelt with merriment
"" This house for sail!" he laughed and
laughed,
With enicker and with roar;
And when the woman heard the noise
She caxne unto tho door.
When will your house set sail I" he asked,
As wickedly he grinned.
e` At once," the woman laughedin scorn,
If you can 'raise the wind."
WHAT IS LOVE 7
What is love 7" I asked of sweet sixteen,
But the only answer that I could glean
S'irora a flow of words from the maiden rash,
Was a witching plea for a big moustache.
Mliglitoen desired a dashing youth,
.And twenty fancied that love was truth. •
" Truelove is to wed," said twenty-two,
"But -with circumspection "—a cautious view.
Mach thereafter piped this refrain—
Though at lest its firmness began to wane—
Till eager thirty 1 etude to scan,
And she gasped and whispered—" Just a man!'
...—There are 64,000,000 stars.
—White tar is something new.
—Russia has the longest frontier.
—Chicago has twenty-nine parks.
--Gernaany boasts a priest 95 years old.
—Cleveland has a deaf mute policeman.
—The Prince of Wales will do Europe
—A Gainesville, Ga., negro is the father
.of 27 children.
—Warning to blowers. .A whale was
blowieg about a pilot boat and got run down
by it. He will never blow about anything
again.
A SUDDEN snownet.
Barefooted boys scud up the street,
Or skurry under sheltering sheds;
And school -girl faces, pale and sweet,
Me= from tho shawls about their heads.
Doors bang; and mother voices call
From alien homes; and rusty gates
Are slammed; and high above it all
The thunder grlin reverberates.
And then, abrupt, the rain, the rain !
The earth lies gasping, and the eyes
Itehind the streaming window -panes
Smile at the trouble of the skies.
---A little Scotch girl, being examined at
school, was asked, "What does patience
=man?" Her answer was Wait a wee,
and elinna, weary,"
—Some old dinner customs still prevail.
Ile Romans used to recline at their ban -
and the habit of lying at public
;nbanere still prevails.
—Mrs ()Sear Wilde and Lady llubberten
are two of the noted Englishwomen who
lave adopted the divided skirt as part of
their everyday attire.
.--A companion that is cheerful and free
groin swearing or scurrilous discourse is
worth gold. 'Tis the company and not the
cluirge that makes the feast.
SUMMER MAN.
He Wears a flannel suit of white,
A sailor hat of Aram, •
]lis shoes are tan, his necktielight—
Yon gaze on him with awe.
lie strong :throes the sad sea sand
And wielda Palm leaf fan
While listening to the hotel band --
He is tho Summer Man !
—When the mouse laughs at the cat be
sine there is a hole near.
—He whe related the faults of others to
you designs to Mato yours to them.
—For cankered throat, sore mouth, etc.,
IlSe borax and honey; drink sage or slippery
elm tea.
—Seeing inuch, and suffering much, and
studying much, are the three pillars of
ANCIENT LONDON,
Tfliat LieS Beneath the Pavements of the
Modern City.
To form a true conception ef the Roman
City we inuet sweep away all the acumu-
lated results of modein art and industry.
We must create a tabula rasa, and remove,
as the mere figments of fame!, the cathedral,
the abbey, the tower, the swarming throngs
of Cheapside, and the endlese squares of
brick buildings that shelter the millions of
the London of to -clay ; dissolve the splendid
vision end think only of the past. Conftued
within the naerow limits of these walls, its
greatest length the river front, its greatest
breadth between Cripplegate and the
Thames, We see the Roman city. It
is enclosed by a wall of sboneswork
and cement from twenty to thirty feet high.
Towers or castella appear at intervale. It
was built upon the plan of all other Roman
cities; and resembled Pompeii or Lindum.
Its our chief streets, at least forty feet
wide, met hi its forum ; they were perfectly
straioht and led directly to the gates. At
their side were narrower limites, or lanes,
all equally straight and free from sinuosities1
The Roman engineers laid out their strata
witla unchanging regelarity. Every street
was paved with smooth stone, like those of
Pompeii, Beneath the streets ran the
sewers and the water-pipes—we may assume
—so invariably found in every Roman city.
It is impossible to determine expeetly the
site of the London forum it is only proba-
ble that there must have been one. We May,
however, infer, from evidence too detailed
and minute to enter upon here, that the
forum stood upon the oldest part of Roman
London, viz., south of Cornhill and east of
the Mansion House. It is by no means
certain that there was a forum. But an in-
scribed tile seems to show that the seat of
government of the province was at London.
Those, however, who consider the later
importance of Roman London can hardly
believe that it had no public buildings. At
first an insignificant town, although a port
of some trade, for more than two centuries
it controlled the exports and imports of the
entire island. Its wharves were filled with
animation, its harbor with ships of burden.
All the authorities point to London as a
centre of commercial activity.
So complete was the security in which
South Britain remained for centuries, under
the protection of Hadrian's wall and the
fortified cities of the west, that London was
left without any other defence than a strong
castle on the banks of the river until the
age of Constantine. Unlike nearly all the
other Roman cities, it had no walls, was
unprotected even by a ditch, and lay open
on all sides to attack. Ablaze, however, at
some unknown period, but between the
years 350 and 369, by some unknown band,
the Roman wall was built. Its extent may
easilybetraced; fragments of it stillremain ;
and recently, at an excavation made by
the railway company, a party of anti-
quarians were enabled to study
mi
and ex-
plore
ore than one hundred feet n length
of these ancient defences. Saxon and Dane,
Norman and Englishman, have in the long
course of fifteen centuries altered, over-
thrown, or rebuilt them ; but their course
and circuit were never changed. The Roman
wall fixed the limit of the city, and its
venerable fragments still recall the days
when the last .Roman legions marched down
the Dover street, when Alfred restored the
even, or when Pym and Hampden found
within its shelter thb citadel of modern
freedom. From "Roman London," by
Eugene Lawrence, in Her,aper's Magazine for
May.
SPENT IIER QUARTER.
The Poor Bitty Needed the Money Real
Bad.
A few days ago, says the Philadelphia In-
quirer, a little girl—a tiny thing only four
years old—went with her mamma to pay a
visit up town. When she came down she
had a twenty-five cent piece clasped tight
in her fat hand. As they walked up the
street, suddenly the little one espied a most
disreputable -looking cat lying on the lower
step of a stoop. It looked sick and forlorn
and lay as if dead. The child rushed
up to the creature and stroked.
its back with soft little touches
until the poor thing opened its eyes slowly
in recognition. Then the mother called the
child away and reproved her sharply for
making friends with such a wretched street
cat. The child said nothing.
When they got home the mother said :
"Gracie, where is the quarter Uncle John
gave you ?"
"1 spent it, mamma."
" Yau spent it ! How in the world
could you spend it without my seeing you ?"
"1 spent it to the cat, mamma ; the poor
cat I put it right down on the ;stoop by
the kitty. I thought she needed it worse
than I did."
" MMUS " FOB. MADAM.
Scraps for the Housewife's Commonplace
Book.
Ground coffee sprinkled on a shovel of
hot cinders is a good disinfectant.
It is said that flowers, carefully packed
in air -tight boxes, will keep as long as ten
days.
The handles of stocking-darners make
good glove-darners, as they are just the
right size for slipping up the fingers.
A very good cement to fasten on lamp -
tops is melted alum. Use as soon as
melted, and the lamp is ready for use as
soon as the Cement is cold.
If matting, counterpanes or bedspreads
have oil spots on them, wet with alcohol,
rub with hard soap, and then rinse with
clear, cold water.
New lamp -shades made of deep -green
tissue paper, slightly crinkled, are cut to
represent the drooping foliage of a palm
-
tree, and are very effective.--Housekeeperee
Weekly.
The Conunanderdn-Chief.
"Why is this boat backing up ?" asked
the passenger on the steamer.
"Oh," said the mate," the Captain's wife
and baby are on board, and the baby
wouldn't go to sleep until he'd seen the en-
gines reversed. —Arew York Sun.
Atchison Mae: If you would please a
woman, praise her children; if you would
please a man, praise him.
The people who would have done so and
so, if they bad been there, never get there.
Much is forgiven a woman who under-
stands the precious art of dressing well.
The tyranny of clothes is mighty. 13ut I
am sure that whether marriage is a failure
is never discussed in the houses where the
wives wear elaborate bangs, and bewitching
the-gowes to breakfast. ' It begins the day
80 well that the glarnieur remains over the
male member during the'day.—Roselerne
New York Herald: A century has
passed, and the changes that have oceurred
are like a series of miracles. The impossible
has, been achieved,' the' uhexpected hae
come to pass. Nothing is so strong to -day
as an educated populace, and, nothing so
weak and unstable as thrones.
—When a young man asks a young
woman to be his Wife, he almost invariably
" presses " her for an answer. —Drake's
Magazine.
SIGNED THE FLEDGE,
And the Trouble it Caused When He
ileaolved to Stick.
" I don't know what I will do," eaid a
South Washington WOITian.
" Family trouble 1" asked her neighbor
from the next porch.
" That's what it is, It all came of his
keepin' out of nights."
I can sympathize with you."
" Well, I don't know whether you can, or
not. You see about three weekago he
started out, promising to be back by hen
past 8. He didn't come till 10, and as soon
as I saw him I knew there was something
the matter with him."
" Intoxicated, I suppose ?"
"No, indeed. He'd got into the society
of some of these temperance people and
signed the pledge. Now that he's done it
of course he's got to stick to it. First his
digestion and then his nerves gave way, an'
now there ain't any livin' with him, much
less cookin' for him. I declare," she seid,
with an explosion of woe, "I never heard of
a husband yet that was fit to be trested
away from home a half hour at a time."—
Washington Post-.
HINTS TO LADY GARDENERS.
Bow to Raise a Crop of Checks for Seashore
Distribution.
Now plant schemes for summer travel.
'Rake in your husband's loose change and
cut back his superfluous flesh.
Cultivate hectic fleshes and headaches,
showing the need of fresh air and of trans-
planting to the seaside.
Prepare few summer dresses and get ready
your guide -books.
Water the family doctor with generous
fees and cultivate his ideas that the travel
treatment would best suit your case.
Begin to mulch your husband with kind-
ness and flattery.
This should be kept up until he begins to
drop his big leaves from his check book ;
then you can all be transplanted. —London
Saturday journal.
The Abuse of "Baby."
New born babes in particular are the help-
less victims of an ignorance which has crys-
tallized into divers' "old wives' notions."
The little one's skin is noticed to be of a
yellowish color ' • he has the jaundice, and
must be dosedimmediately and liberally
with saffron tea. The gratuitous assump-
tion is made that he has come into the world
hungry, and his delicate little stomach is
filled up with molasses and water, sweetened
milk, etc., while the food that was naturally
intended for him is perhaps drawn off with
a breast pump and thrown away.
Now it should always be remembered
that a new born babe is in a strict physio-
logical condition. Be needs no food other
than that which nature has provided. His
skin is always of a different color from that
which it will assume later on. Dosing a
new born infant is inexcusable. It bas
killed thousands. The little bag which
some oldtime nurses used to carry about
with them, full of all kinds of herbs, oils
and other notions, is an abomination. Un-
happily, it is not yet wholly obsolete. It
will be well for humanity when we learn
that :the less nature is interfered with the
better. A good principle in dealing with
all classes of patients until the doctor comes
is embodied in the old saying, "When in
doubt what to do, don't go and do it"—
Babyhood.
Not Net Desperate.
Boston Herald : Middle-aged Spinster
(as tramp comes into the yard) --What do
you want here, anything to eat?
Tramp—What else should I want,
madam 7 Did •you think I came to offer a
proposal of marriage ?.
Setting the Example.
Exchange: "You young scoundrel," said
the father, seizing his disobedient son by
the neck, "I'll show you how you ought to
treat your mother !" And he gave him
several bangs on the ears and then shook
him tin his hair began to fall out.
Couldn't Fool Him.
Judge : " Them's not tematies," said
Johnny, when the tomato patch was shown
him. Tematies gwows in big yed cans."
SOME time ago Sir John Thompson sent a
circular to all the judges of Canada asking
their opinion on the abolition of grand
Juries. A summary of the replies gives 48
in favor of abolition 41 agttinst abolition,
and 12 doubtful. .Among those in favor of
abolition are Judges Gwynne and Tas-
chereau of the Supreme Court, Chancellor
Boyd and' Judges Sinclair and Senkler.
Among those against abolition are Hon.
OliverMowat, Chief Justice Hagerty, Chief
Justice Galt, Justices Falconbridge, Mac -
Mahon, Ferguson, Street, Robertson and
Rose, and Judge Benson. Among those
classed as doubtful is Chief Justice Armour.
• The American grand jury system is some-
what different from that of this country.
Speaking of it the Rochester Herald says:
In his argument before Justice Rumsey in
the clothing case on MondayMr. Van Voorhis
remarke(1: "To permit a review of the action
of the Grand Jury is in effect to abolish ehe
Grand Jury." Well, it is becoming more ap-
parent every year that the Grand Jury system
es susceptible of grand abuses. It has become
too much the instrument of interested. parties
for gratifying revenge, grinding axes of one
kind or another, smirching good reputations
and perpeerating other outrages. As ofthn
made up it contains a large proportion of third
or fourth class men with a fair sprinlding of
scaly ,chafacters who are ready to be made
the Instruments of any. job ' that will
make life look a little brighter and more
golden for them. Da sessions are secret, and
while an honest and innocent man who has
spent many years in building up a character
and reputation for integrity is attending to
his business, some plausible scalawag may be
pleading before the grand jury for the honest
man's indictment on a trumped up charge,
knowing that even an indictment, thoroughly
ex-partc as it is in character, loaves a dirty
mark on a white name and causes pain to a
sensitive mind. If the grand jury system
cannot be reformed it ought to be abolished.
But it is firmly rooted in the Anglo-Saxon
system and only a gigantic accunenation of
abuses following its operations will lead either
th its amendmene or its overthrow.
A vulgar merchant is a gross sir, and a
vulgar woman is a gross her, too.
—Adam was proudly conscious that he
never made a mistake in his boyhood,
—The hour was late. For ten minutes
neither spoke a word. Then she spoke :
We made molasses candy to -day."
"S -yes," lie faltered, " I'm sitting on
some and can't get up."
—Why fill a store with goods and then
keep dark about it ? It costs money every
day and every hour to carry a stock of
goods. Let the peblic know what you have
to ell. Interest the people --attract them
—do not allow them to forget you or your
crowded shelves. Turn on the lights,
especially the brilliant, steady and far-
reaching light �f advertising.
Her Majesty has conferred the title of
Duke of Kent upon Prince George, second
son of the Prince of Wales, who is now
commander of one of the ships of the North
Atlantic fleet The title of Duke of 1Cent
became, extbiet When Queee Vietoriee father
died without male heirs.
She—Oh, how delightful it Would be to
drift on like this for ever and ever! He
who has hired the beet)—Not at 75 cents
an hour.
PERVERTED VISION,
A Ten -Year -Old Girl Who 'leads Printed
Matter Upstde Down Only.
A very peculiar case of perverted vision
has been presented to Dr. E. W. Brickley,
an oculist of this city, Writes a York cor-
reepondent of the Philadelphia Press. A
little girl of teu years, the daughter of one
of this city's most respected citizens, was
discovered by her ethool teacher to be
unable to read her reading exercises unless
the book was held -upside down. The
teacher, Miss 13usser immediately com-
municated the fact to her, parents, and they
became very much worried.
The oculist was celled in and an examina-
tion made of the child's eyes. They were
found to be entirely normal. The only con-
clueion arrived at was that the strange freak
of vision was the result of a habit of trying
to read with the book pages in an unnatural
position, a habit contracted. some year ago
when the child was first sent to school. At
this time the child in writing numbers upon
a slate always made them upside down, and
ea it was never observed or corrected the
graduilly drifted into the habit of reading
the same way. "
The only means of cure possible is to
teach the child everything over again, as
though she never knew anything before,
This will be carefully done, and a cure of
this really phenomenal case is anxiously
looked for in the near future.
FRUIT IN SUMNER.
This is the Thue of Year When Fruit is
Medicine.
" Some people," sagely remarks the New
York Sun, " look upon fruit as a luxury
and not a necessity, and live on coarse
greasy food until disease overtakes them
and warns them th change their diet. It
is absolutely necessary to teach some a
severe lesson before they obey the laws of
health."
"Bub why not eat fruit freely? It is
plentiful enough.
"The Pacific coast is sending us peaches,
plums, apricots and cherries. The South is
supplying. us with melons, cantaloupes,
blackbemes, green apples, grapes, pears,
etc. . Tropical America Is stocking our fruit
stalls and warehouses with bananas, pine-
apples, alligator pears, sapodilla plums,
custard apples, cherrimoyers, green or jelly
cocoanuts, immune° apples and many other
fruits, the names of which are unpronounce-
able. Yet better than all these are our
native currants and raspberries.
"11 the Board of Health would compel
each inhabitant th eat at least a quart of
currants daily there would be little use for
the sanitary corps of that department,
" A more delightful breakfast invigorator
than a combination of currants and rasp-
berries would be hard to find. The tame-
ness of the raspberry blends perfectly with
acidity of the currant."
A $4,000 LINEN CHEST.
One Bride Who Certainly Can Afford to
• Begin LiouselieeDinff•
Mrs. Crawford writes from Paris: "A
very fashionable wedding was that of Mlle,
deRiqu'etCaramen and Comte de Mortemart.
M. de Mortemart made some handsome
presents to the bride. So did the Duchesse
d'Uzes whose hand is still always in her
pocket!"
"The young lady's parents gave her a
trousseau of house -linen that cost $4,000,
ancl the Comtesse's coronet of brilliants,
pear-shaped and round pearls, which the
Comtesse cle Carainen used to wear at the
balls ofthe Tuilleries."
"Her late grandfather's gift is a silver and
rock:crystal centre -piece for a dinner -table.
Be'left it to her mother in trust to be
handed to her, in sign of his Feat affection
foe her, on her wedding -day.
The Agony of Dying-
" Many persons wonder," said the house
doctor of a well-known hospital to a New
York Telegram reporter, how physicians
can watch unmoved the death ,of persons
whose dissolution is seemingly accompanied
by evidence of great suffering, and the re-
mark is a common one that doctorsare heart-
less and unfeeling. This harsh criticism is
founded on a wrong idea of things. The i
fact is that what s known as the death
agony is largely restricted th the imagina-
tion of the watchers at the bedside of the
dying person. The visible spasms apd dis-
tortions of the facial muscles which in many
cases mark the ending of life are not only
painless, but take place unconsciously so far
as the dying person is concerned. .
"Even in case of death by hanging, where
the prolonged agony of the sufferer is feel-
ingly described by. witnesses, it is reason-
ably certain that in. a few moments the
person becomes unconscious and dies in that
condition. Such has been the experience of
people accidently or purposely hanged, lent
afterwards resuscitlited. It is a fact that
persons who have been nearly drowned
agree in the statement that after a few
moments of painful struggle a feeling of
tranquility ensues.
"The suffering is while the resuscita .ed
person is being brought back th conscious-
ness. Then it is he often suffers physical
pain. It is a merciful compensation of God
and nature that, when the last moments of
the dying -man are at hand, vital forces give
out, and the long-drawn-out gasps for
breath come and go, the apparent sufferer
is happy in a comatose condition, and so
passes painlessly into the other life."
Nothing Like Foreign Scenery.
New York Press: First Stranger—Tray-
ening for pleasure, sir?
Second Stranger—Yes, bid I am on my
way to see the Alps and Europe generally.
Traveling for pleasure, yourself?
Pirst Stranger—Yes. I am on my way
to the United States to see the Rocky
Mountains, Niagara Falls and other won-
ders. Have you seen them?
Second Stranger—Oh, no ; I'm an .Axaeri-
can, you know.
In a Practical Age.
"Don't you think I am doing well in
drawing, papa ?" said Maude.
"Splendid 1" said Mr. Calliper, proudly,
as he looked over the drawing which she
had submitted to him, "but I don't think
this corkscrew is quite perfect, is it ?"
Why, pap, 1" said Maud," that isn't a
corkscrew 1 That is a drawing of a gimlet !"
Lord Rothschild ne a Milk iletzler.
Lord Rothschild's dairy herd, at Tring
Park, UertfOrriShire, iS one of the finest in
England, and in a very few years his Jerseys
may be expected to take a most prominent
piece in every show -yard. All the milk
from this farm is sent th London for sale,
but no butter is made, except the lquantity
which is required for home consumption. ,
Prof. John Stuart Mackie of Scothowl and
Prof. W, S, Tyler of Amherst College have
been teaching Greek for more than 50 years,
And what is more, they are still tpectery
lively, thongh close on th 80, for people
who specialty is handling dead languegets.
Herreehoff, who designed the Glotianna,
hag a blind brothet Who tat; model boats as
well al he, and who tails around the harbor
at Bridel alone and as ftarleasly as anyone.
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A WISE GARDENER.
Ile rays lHs Master for Attempting to Trick
Bina.
1VIeissonier, like many. other celebrities,
had a passion for gardening. His gardener,
an accomplished botanist, knew to perfec-
tion the seeds of every. plant, and Meis-
Renter had often tried m vain to throw him
off his guard.
" This time I've got him," the artist re-
marked to a party of friends at the dinner
table, ancl he showed them a smell packet
containing the dried roe of a herring, He
sent for the gardener.
"Do you know this seed ?" IVIeissonier
inquired.
The gardener carefully scrutinized the
grains. " Why not ?" he said at last. "They
are the seeds of the,polpus fluscimus, a very
rare tropical plant.'
"How long will they be in coming up ?"
Meissonier asked, with a chuckle of sup-
pressed exultation. '
"About a fortnight," was the reply.
Two weeks later the guests were again
assembled at Meissonier's table, and after
dinner tho gardener was announced.
" Meissoilder," the man said, " the seed
has just come up." •
" Ah ! you surprise me," the artist ex-
claimed, as he rose and led the way into
the garden to examine the botanical phe-
nomenon.
The gardener lifted a glass shade and dis-
closed to view a small bed with three rows
of pickled herrings' heads peeping out of
the earth. Everybody laughed. leleissonier
dismissed the gardener on the spot, but
took him on again the next day.—Etoqe
Beige.
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The ChielMourner Absent.
London Free Press: The dog -shooting
fiend is abroad in the Sixth Ward. One
day this week a valuable spaniel belonging
to Mr. C. J. Winlow was destroyed. What
makes the case peculiarly sad is the fact
that Mr. Winlow is absent from the city.
Henry Hart, one of New York's railway
and steamship magnates, is over 80, a
bachelor, of short stature'.rugged build,
and is as active as a man of 30. He is said
th be worth over $50,000,000.
—At Honolulu Sarah Bernhardt had her
choice as to whether she should play before
O $4,000 audience or go for a drive. She
took the drive.
Important
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every thought flashing through the
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The human race as a whole is in
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There are about 2400 disorders incident
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cdndition of the blood. Very few in-
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fewer still have perfectly pure blood.
Scrofula, a disease as old as antiquity,
has been inherited by generation after
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virulent and virtually unchanged from
its ancient forms. If we are so fortu-
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in the blood, we may contract disease
from germs in the air we breathe, the
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In Hood's Sarsaparilla is found the
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No remedy has ever had so great suc-
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FINGERS BEFORE ;FORCEPS. '
Mow Japanese Dental Students Are Trained
to Pull Teeth.
Japanese dentists use no instruments.
This is how they are able to work : A num-
ber of holes are bored. in a plank of wood
and pegs inserted in them. The plank is
laid on the floor and the novice pulls them
out with the finger and thumb of his right
hand. By this practice strength and dex-
terity are acquired. Then an oak log with
oak pegs is tried, and the young man is kept
on this for a year. The third year is put in
by operating on a slab of marble which con-
tains numberless pegs of the hardest wood.
After this he is qualified to go into business.
--Chicctgo Herald.
TO TAKE OFF TAN.
A Sunburn Remedy 'Used in the Geed Days
Zang Syne.
This is the remedy your great grand-
mother used efficaciously for a sunburned;
face when she was a girl like you:
Take a piece of clear pine gum arabic
about the size of a filbert and melt it in a.
wine glass ftdl of boiling water, softened
with a. slight pinch of carbonate of soda.
Melt a piece of camphor the size of a pea; in
a teaspoonful of eau de cologne and add this
to the boiling water with. a teaspoonful of
glycerine. Shake the mixture for twenty
minutes Dab on the face with a soft cloth
every night before you go to sleep. --New
York. Sun.':
Coats Di Theaters.
What ought one to do with one's coat,
hat and umbrella on entering a restaurant or
other place Of entertainment? What one
ought not to do is to hang them on the
nearest peg. However, invitingly these
conveniences may offer themselves, it is at
your own risk that you entrust your pro-
perty to their keeping. Yon have no
remedy if (as will sometimes happen even
in the best regulated restaurants) some-
bodymakes off with them, leaving a livery
inferior assortment of articles behind. If,
however, a polite waiter offers to help one
off with one's coat, all is well. If he takes
your property and hangs it up for
you he does so as an agent of his employers,
and you Call recover from them if it dis-
°MenaT principle as just
been
asserted alct cloak rooms '
by a -
decision against Mr, Augustus Harris in the
Westminster County Court. A gentleman
had left his coat and hat with Mr. Harris__
that is in Mr. Heals; cloak room—on the
occasion. of one of t e recent fancy dress
balls at Covent Gardere They disappeared.
Ho had to leave withotit his property, and
has only lately and partially got some of it
back. His Honor said (we are glad to see)
it was monstrous to say that Merely nomi-
nal damages were safficient.—Pall Medi
I3ud&t:
An Eye to Economy.
Buffalo „Newe : "11 yea must knew,
ma'am," 5aid the doctor, "your husband
won't' live 24 hours."
Goodness gracious 1" ejaculated tho
heart -broken woman, "and here you've
ono and prescribed trietheine enough for
—Many poor people, ambitious of social
distinction, are kept down by trying to
keel) up.