Indianapolis Sentinel, Volume 34, Number 32, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 February 1885 — Page 11

THE INDIANAPOLIS jJAlhY SENTINEL, SUNDAY MORNING FEBRUARY 1, 1885.

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XTUAT IS A UIVIT

Definitions Ethtle. Melentlfle an4 C'oinmonplaee. The puzzle editor of the London Truth recently oflered a prize for the best briel definition of a kiss. An immense num fcer of answers were received and many of them published. The following list, containing the bent of them, make interesting reading: K language 11 con understand, la any age and anj land. A kU is ft declaration of Io by deed of mouth. My"df.nitkm commercial one, A till pretexted, and a atamp thereon. The rigtit of a mother, The toy of a flirt. Th hop of loTer, The true one's des?rt. Kiss are moth that stem from oat the night. Flutter awhile, and perish in the light. A Speer Of thint A speechless token 1H so wet They can't I spoken. A kiss is merely a contraction of the orbicularii rismut.'!. LoTe proof impression taken Wdh tefore And (liter letters. Oddly, too, the more The print repeated the' im press inn' stronger. And the true artist's Lest effects last longer. A monosyllable form of communication, rowEd only of labial, frequently ueJ a cooaction, although an arWel , aiid more common in proper. If fit material fur a kis you seek. You need tut two lips and a little cheek Two par of lips and couple of fools. The best definition of a kis? Why, barely, two mouthful of bliss. It may mean little, it oft means much. And offener nothing at all; And it's always off as woon it's on. And it is never theaar.e to all. What part of speech is H? A noun some say. Common and projer, yet no speech it hath, Jor is it e'er a part. It take away The breath, so that we teM it not in Hath." Noun it may t, yet is its leading function To lead the lips to form a awt-tt, "conjunction." The salute by Ubitd coition, the sweetness ft which depends" u-n the ape of the parties. A most uruTSthefic reult of the cloe contact cf two face, sometimes) exquisite, often daiigercus, and always unsatisfactory. Whtlükii? Simply thi: Four hp meet, two hearts greet; Sans deceit, union sweet! Kapture! Miss! "'hat' a kiss. To pout your lips and place them, sir. Toothers clone; and then. By suction to compress hetn, sir, A vaeuurn within; And. when this doth distTM them, air. To open them ag:n. BumiJ sea! of f.nd aftVction; promise of a futur f..s; Outward sin of inward pasiion, such thy definition, ki III 1nIhü AecouiiiMt lor. fhiliadelpht Call Plumber's Wife (fitting by Iii led clad in an embused vi lvet gown, and with f 125,000 worth of jewel- srintilhiiing on her ears and finger) ''I, lie dangerously ill, doctor?" Doctor "No, indeed. He is the most comfortably off of all my patient." "But nh:it m.-ikes his r iirh t arm and hand shake so?" "That only scrivenei's paly." "Palsy !" she exclaimed, with a clap of her jewelled hand; "what could have so rotrited my dear Algernon?'' "He has been writing too much wiihout rest," .mtled the doctor. "He tell me he has len steadily at work day and night, for four month pas!, maki'.g out his annual bill." An Edltor' Protect. Ayr Recorder. J We don't mind taking country pro. duce occasionally in payment for sub scriptions, but we do object to having our subscribers send in eight and ten year old roosters with a note attached to credit them with a pair of chicken.. We got a sample of that kind the other day, and after the wife had boiled one three days it had the audacity actually to flop out of the pot and crow. There has got to be a line drawn some where. We don't mind uing considerable firewood in cooking them, or the exertion in carvine, although this is weakening us considerably; but when it comes to crow ing it is like the last straw on the proverbial camel's back. T1TRIIT. A Virtue Not to Be Dlaposed of, or Dispensed With. ( Boston Sunday Herald. 1 The old monkish doctrine that poverty is holy is not of much weight in the secu lar period, whose gospel is political econ omy. The soft climate of Syria and its eternal sunshine permitted and permit an indolence and carelessness as to a provision for tht morrow which in our rigid latitude would speedily lead to the extinction of the human race. The most thrifty of the nations, according to all accounts, is the volatile, pleasureloving, sensuous French. Malthus himself wouM be delighted at the self-control f the French peasant in the matter of a family. He obeys the primal com mand in Genesis just no far as it is pru dent to do so, and no farther. hen the warmth of the French temperament fcs taken iuto account, the average Frenchman must be admitted to be a model of self-control and foresighted calculation. Meantime, the population ji France remains not stationary, but its increase is slow, and her soldiers grow ore noticeably undersized. However, a manikin, armed with a breech loader, is as effective a killer as a giant, frith the added advantage 01 not Deing to eood a mark for the enemy, which Falstaff regarded as a great merit in hii recruits. Economy ia France has long been re duced to a system, as everything else has been. The French are philosophers in the matter of expenditure, and of utilizing everything to its utmost nore. Fjtthis proverbial French economy is itiDDlemented by a territory more lortunately situated, perhaps, than any other of the same extent on the globe, and by an industrial skill which makes all nations tributary to the artisans and manufacturers of Prance. Within her ttraitened limits, straitened by comparison with our own, France has a North and South as distinct as we have, which extend over so large a part of a contiTn J intriil(w die i semi-troni-caL and has all "the wealth of light of the South" alone the shores of the Medi terranean, while in Brittany, with its ir -end-haunted Atlantic coast,8he has the fcrtdrrr air of New England or Scotland. Frrjsea is, indeed, a aelf-contained. czü-K-Ccing country, with ereat vari ety cl risducL cliciita " tnd scenery Cithia t-rx o?a bordsra. so that bet

e;itliv and fashionable classes have lit

lie occa-iou to travel abroad for pleasure and to enrich other countries by their expenditure, while the opulent cf all lands in both heraipheres make 1 ans their headquarter or purpo4s of relaxation, dissipation arid pleasure, lavishing in that capital their gold with an un sparing hand. Uur own philosopher, franklin, who preached a gospel of thrift in his maxims, which are as homely as thoe of the ploughman's ret, Hesiod, doubtless drew a part of hi inspiration from r rench sources. Even in this country, with its gparse population scattered over a continent, and with its unparalleled opportunities for all to acquire a competency, it not opulence, thrift is not to be despised or Uipenscu wun a a neeuies vinue in the midst of so much plenty. or wicked waste makes woful wait, here as elsewhere. The race here is on fire, as an English observer says, with the allurincr Trosnect of wealth" for all. But the slow and sure methods of accumulation areata discount, and everybody wants to vault into a fortune at a bound. Hence the country is always ponulous with failures, and is strown, like a beach fter a storm, with financial wrecks. "Poor Richard a Almanac, as a code of economical ethics and guide to prospority, is not much consulted in these Jays." Ex peui veness is a trait of commercial and industrial nations living in cold climate. The people of New Eng land, before they liecame industrial and commercial, were a most frugal people. filial 1 thin;: properlv husbanded, un erringly lead to great things. If New England is opulent and luxurious to-day, it is because ot the th ritt ot the iNew England of other days. We American; of to-day, for obvious reasons, not only have not the thrift of our ancestors, but we are far behind Europeans of what ever nationality in that respect. Uur southern people were in other days unthrifty, and rather prided themselves on the fact, scorning the inventive and gainful disposition of the Yankee. Hut the southerner of to-tlay isbecinnine to be a changed man from him of the antebellum jeriod, who regarded it as unbecoming a gentleman to contribute anything to the patent office. (Jarlvle alludes to the fact that the ancient Romans, before they were distin guished as conquerors, were a thrifty people, laborious hubbandmen. Thrift, he says, U a quality held in no esteem, and is generally regarded as mean ; it is certainly mean enough and objectionable for its interfering with all manner ol in tercourse between man and man. But thrift well understood includes in itself the best virtues that a man can have in the world; it teaches him self-denial, to postpone the present to the future, to calculate his means and regulate his ac tions accordingly; thus understood, it in cludes all that man can do in his voca tion; even in its worst state, it indicates a great jeople. It is natural enough for a Scotchman to eulogize thrift, which is an indigenous trait of his race, and the ladder by which his countrymen so frequently climb to affluence, both at home and abroad. The profuse man, who is above considerations of dollars and cent, unless he has the re sources of a Croesus, and even if he has, generally cones to grief. People praise him, as Tiradh's parasites praised him, as long as his purse shows no signs of flaccidity and collapse, .but, when the bottom dollar is reached, the lavish man's beneficiaries and boon-companions are found calling attention to the fact that they had said all along that their friend Timon must ultimately go to the bow-wows. It is wonderful with what resignation the parasites of nrodiealitv see it finally reduced to the husks of penitence and poverty. Meantime current civilization has devised and is de vising, all sorts of schemes and institutions for promotiong thrift among the masses of people. tirent .Men at Table. Baltimore Herald. "There's President Harrison who died so quick after he got into the White House. They all say he died from excitement, nervous prostration and all that. But the man who waited on him said he died from too much din ner. He had been in the White House but a few days when he told the water he had brought from Indiana to get him up what he called a regular old-fashioned South Bend dinner. That was Mr. Har rison's home in Indiana, and his order meant cabbage, pickled pork, fresh roast pork- peas, cucumbers and sweet potatoes, with corn meal fritters for desert. That was on a day that Mr. Webster had a long talk with him. Mr. Webster was in his cabinet, and he paid: 'Harrison, if these d d office seekers don't kill you, that dinner will.' Well, sir, he never siw a wen moment alter inai amner. He had indigestion, .headache, and swimming in the head, and they say his mind wasn't right till he died. It might have been something else but I be lieve that it was that dinner that caused his death. The old cook at the White House said she had cooked for five presidents, but that Mr. Harrison could eat more than all of them put together. Why, sir, be could eat two whole white head cabbages and pork to correspond, with corn cakes and molasses, at one time. The story at that time wa that when he was in the army he always ate double rations, and the commisary did not charge him extra for it. While he was fighting in the amy his favorite dish was raw pork and hard tack, and the other othcers used to sit around and watch him get away with it. A LaujrJiinir, IMarit. Yick's Floral Magazine. This is not a flower that laughs, but one that creates laughter, if the printed stories of travelers are to be believed. It rrows in Arabia and is called the laiicrbinrmlant- because its seeds produce eflects like those produced by laughing gas. The flower are of a bright vellow and the seed-pods are soft and woolly, while the seeds resemble small blact Deans, and only two or three grow in a pod. The Natives dry and pulverize them, and the powder, if taken in small dose, make the oberest nerson behave like & circus clown or a madman, for he will dance, fing and laugh mos: boisterously, and cut the most fantastic cspers, and be . I ! ..I in an uproariously riuicuioua couuuum for abaut an hour. When theexciterneritcease th exhsute l exhibitor of these antics Mis a-leep, and when he awake he ha not the slightest remetubrance of

hi frisky doings.

TRIAL Of' A 1. 1 IF. It A RY MAS'!

Oh! I'm the wife -f a literary man, and jolly good time have 1; So jolly md-d, thst many on hour have I sat mc down to rr. Thst fellow's enough to sorry a hore; he' nto-t pM iil::r insu; II oo I at nie h-n he wunt to writ it even I rattle a pan. He sits down there in his easy chair, and he puts In r'i in hi mouth. And then he proceeds to star and frown, nor look esht, west, north, south. But atrait at hi feet, and he tumbles his hair, and I merely ask him why lie don't pet up and cut some wood you should nee hi in then, oh.myl You would think he'd snap my head right off, and he ssvs, "you should and ought, Leare me to 'Ju my literary work when you see I'm wrapped in thought," "Your work, "says I, 'if bu call that work you've a preciou eay time. What I call work is sawing wood; not hammering away at rhyme. Toronto tirip. NTLIYI.J FOR THE STAC.K. Exchange. "Nothing could be more interesting," said one of the managers of a New York school of acting to a tiun reporter, "than to sit here as I do all day and see the people who want to go upon the stage. Hundreds of young women all over the country long to become actresses. Some pretty girl on the east side, after rolling cigarettes or measuring ofl' ribbon all day, goes to the theater in the evening and her head i turned by the lights, the fiuery, and the excitement. The applause that meet the prima donna makes her position seem the proudest in the world, and the chop girl no in the gallery looks and longs and says to herself: 'She wouldn't look a bit better than I do without her makeup and her fine things; why shouldn't 1 be like that, instead of working hard all my life to make jut enough to live!' Then the pretty girl's eyes flah a she lean back and pit Hire to herself her future triumph. She how M-arcely any excitement when her young man mentions ice cream on the way home, and e goes home and goe to led and dreams all night of ilk and Ixiuquets, and clap ping and stamping of feet. She doesn't see the actres whom she envies going home late every night, rehearsing every day and worried and perplexed as she has never dreamt of being. Some of these girls conqutr their infatuation and goon with their old life contentedly. Others plunge into a theatrical career without forethought, acd while an infinitely small number furnish the Rachels and Bernhardts to the profession, the müj rity f.tir miserably and get more and more discouraged, until they look back with regret upon their old life. "But pretty shopgirls are not the only novices we hajfe to deal with, by a great deal. Although the majority of those who select the stage for a career are poor, yet the rule doesn't always hold good, ami ninny a daughter of wealthy parents drives down in her father's carriage, and comes in here to see what she could d, and how s wn we think she would be at the head of her profession. Few of this class of aspirants are apt to get along well; they take the rosiest kind of a rosy view of the life before them, and when they see anything that isn't rosy they get discouraged very quickly. If they are full of ambition and have los of pluck they may get along, but when a young girl has failed a dozen times, and has been others climbing far above her, and herself not as far advanced in a year as she expected to be in a month, she is apt to go back to her comfortable horn, if it is still open to her. A rich man's daughter becoming an actress with her father's consent is almost an unknown occurrence in this or any other country." "Which turn out the best among actresses, the pretty or the plain ones?" "Well, that's "a funny thing, too. Of course, almost all the girl a who go on the stage are pretty, lhey imaeine that beauty is the first requisite of a first-class actress, and pretty girls are more apt than others to become stage-struck. Still, there are just enough of the other kind to make up the larger number of the celebrities: If you look at the very great actresses (take, for example, the two whom I mentioned before, Rachel and Bernhardt) you will find that they are not the beautiful women of the profession. I don't know why, unless it is because the great amount of character necessary to make a genius is incompatible with beauty." "There is one great advantage which the plain woman has over the beauty. A woman always knows when she i handsome; that is always safe to bet on. She knows that she is good looking, and she depends too much on that. If she has to render a part demanding great passiou, she is apt to tone it down a little, so as not to lose the eflVct of some dimple or curve, which she considers sufficient in itself to carry the house. She may be moderately successful and her picture may be for sale everywhere, but she isn't likely to set the newspapers talking, and doesn't stand much chance to be preseuted to royalty. "The plain or ugly girl, on the other hand, feels that she is handicapped in the race, and works bard to make up for it. She sees at first her hardest work pass unnoticed, and mere leauty of face and figure applauded metre than all her hard work. Then, if ehe has the true stuff in her, she works all the harder, and whatever she has in her is bound to come out. With successful actresses, big mouths, thinness, and other physical disadvantages pass unnoticed. But now come and have a look at the classes, and see how the actors of the future are being turned out." In one room were a dozen young meu under the tuition of an elderly gentleman with a perfectly smooth face. "Attention, gentlemen," the instructor said, "I'll now show you how to come into a room with an expression of surprise up n your features." Jfe went out, and walked leisurely in. Suddenly he stepped, raised his hards with hi fingers pointing upward, and said: -liar A carelew observer would have thougt from hi air that he had feen a cow walking up the id of a houfe. "Now," said he, "go out and do as I did." The young men went out one after the other, and their expressions varied all the way from horror to meek remon

strance.

"Go back," th instructor said, "and try to imaeine that Home one has paid you a dollar borrowed a month ago." They tried again, and succeeded better. No one laughed, because it is against the rules. Bad and good marks are given, and pupils are expelled after the fourth oflense. In another room there were a number of young women, and they were very much absorbed. On one side a gentleman was teaching them to "make up." There were some young men among the crowd, but they didn't seem so much interested. The instructor had a model in front of him which he painted and blackened and roughed to an unlimited extent. Then he operated on himself. With a few touches of the pencil on his forehead he had the appearance of being frightened to death; a few more strokes made him look very old, and then he made himself younger than he really was. He explained to blondes and brunettes what each should do to enhance her beauty, and when the girls understood how to put the paint on, he showed, them the best way to get it off and how to avoid ruining their complexions. All the young ladies, the professor said, took naturally to his course of instructions. On the other side of the room a lady was instructing the irls, and showing them how to stand, and walk, and hold themselves gracefully. It surprised all of the girls to find how incapable they were of standing on one leg, mid keeping the other in a graceful Hazel Kirke-like position. As to throwing themselves into a lover's arms, not one had the remotest idea how it should be done, and that surprised them, too. They weren't nearly as limp as they were expected to be, and they couldn't hang over bis shoulder in the proper willowy way. Then they had to bend their backs clear over, and say, "Back, villain 1" They kneeled at their old father's feet to be patted on the head, and did their best to shudder and appear convinced that all was lost. Then they had a rest for a little while, and the teacher told something about the pupils. "They're nearly all good," she said, "and some of them are very good. But you can't judge of the average amateur from that. Those in the school are the best of a great many who apply for admission. We examine them at first, and if we find that they are hopelessly awkward, or not smart enough, or in any other way unfit for the profession, we will tell them so as kindlv as we can, and generally persuade them to give up the idea of going on the stage. Nearly all who apply, however, are well educated, and that is a great help. Sometimes the least little thing unfits them; we find that they cannot lift their arms above their bead, or their organ of speech is imperfect. There was one wad instance of the kind. A young girl, very enthusiastic, came here and went to work. She studied hard, and showed talent. Suddenly something happened to her throat. She was unable to pronounce one of the consonant", and had to give up her career." "What class of young men go upon the stage?" "Well, all kinds. Plenty of newspaper men, among others. Then some young men have been brought up to le actors, and have made up their minds to it since they were boys. Others go into it because they think they are handsome, aud have shapes to which the? think justice will never be done until they come out in tights. They always choose pretty names for themselves, like Algernon or Ricardo, and you can see crowds of them out of work on Union square. "The girls are very particular about the names they select, also. Most of them likeßome extremely distinguished name; but the smart ones are those who take some simple name, like Lotta, that folks like and can lemember. Attention, ladies I I will show you how to faint."

Health and Science. Dtmorest's Monthly A good many years ago an epidemic of disease was supposed to be a "visitation," or a "judgment," and prayers were offered up that its progress might be stayed. Now-a-days, when individuals or neighborhoods are attacked with typhus fever, diptheria, or any one of the long range of malarial disorders, there U an immediate inquirj as to the condition of that house, or that neighborhood, and the disease" is traced to its source of rotten vegetation, putrid filth, foul air, bad drainage, or some other of the uncleanly causes of zymotic disease. For this advance we have to thank physiological and sanitary science, but it will not help iw much to know a thing unless we act upon our knowledge. It will not get rid of the causes of disease to know what those causes are, unless we go vigorously to work to counteract them. It has been ascertained now beyond a doubt that infectious disease is primarily occasioned by living germs that these germs have their origin in dirt, overcrowding,, bad air, putrid vegetation, imperfect drainage and the -like conditions. It makes no difference whether these conditions are fmmd in tenement bouse, cottage or palace in the streets of the city, or the green lanes of the country, the result is the same it is sickness and death. It is not entirely a gratifying thing to lazy, irresponsible people to find that health, and the best conditions for living useful and reasonably happy lives, are within their own power, and that they are responsible for their fulfillment. It is so much easier , to keep on in the old way, to pile up refuse, to let the drainage go, to build a Louse like a soap box, and transfer the consequences to the shoulders of Providence, or the Almightv. But it is too late to do this now. Providence has been made responsible for te results of our shortcomings long enough, science has discovered that they are within our control, and that it is ouv business first to discover what the laws are that govern health and dis ease, and then adapt ourselves and oui circumstances to the obligations they impose. There is no occasion, in the nature of things, for persons to be born diseased, or die prematurely. A pure and temper ate life, in a healthy location, and amid healthy surroundings, are fair guarantee! for a green old age, Rev. Joseph Cook has been figuring about our future population, He estimates that in the year 2JC0 our population will be 400,000,000 in the rear 2200 it will be 800,000,000; in the year $300 it will be 1,600,000.000, and in the year 2400 it will be 3,200,000,000,

A MAX IU itll.II A I.I VC.

Following Cheerfully in Own Co da Shronri to Ilia ;rnte. rOreriand M.ul. In the village of Chira-long, where the Basel Chinese Mission has a station, the following sad event has latelv taken place: A man of CO years of age was afflicted with leprosy, and lived in a hut within the village. The villagers often urged on the old man to remove his hut outside the village, and live on the hills to prevent contamination, promising that they would always provide him with fiod. However, the leper did not wish to l?ave the village, nor dared his relatives press him to do so. Lately it happened that the leper was lying asleep in his hut. His son came and wanted to bring him something to eat, but, calling into the hut, he received no answer from the father. There was soon a gathering of the people, but no one ventured to go inside the hut. Some stones were thrown at the door, to fee if the man took any notice of it, and, as there was still no sign ol life in the hut, the general conclusion was that the occupant was dead. The resolution was forthwith taken to have the leajer buried. His mn went to a neighboring Tillage to engage colie! for digging a grave and carrying ihe corpse out. During the absence of the win the elder of the village came to the scene, and, learning how matters stood, boldly opened the door and entered the hut, when lo and behold it turned out that the leper had only enjoyed a sound sleep. However, the coolies had Wen engaged for a certaiu sum of money, and came along with the con, ready to do the work which was r quired of them, or at all events to receive the promised pay. After some deliberation the villagers uuanimously put it before the leper that, as thiDgs had com to this pas. he hfd lelter make op Ins mind and allow the funeral of himself to go on. To this the unfortunate man consent d, and took leave of his daughter-in-law and two grand-children, enjoing upon htr to feed the two pig well and alro take care of the poultry. A coffin whs now provided, and the shroud redeemed from the p.twnshop. A fowl was killed ami rice and pork provided as a farewell dinner for the leper. Next morning very early the procession started from the hut. Firt came the coffin carried by the coolies, and behind it walked ihe leper to his grave, the son and the elder bringing up the rear carrying the shroud and the pot which contained the opium. Having moved up a hill to a distance of about two miles from the village, the paity halted r.nd a grave was dug. The leper took a last meal and then swallowed the opium. After this he put on the shroud and a pair of shoes, and laid himself down in the coffin, when the coolies put the lid on it, without waiting till the leper should have ht consciousness, and lowered the f'ffi" in the erave. Birds in Borrowed Plumage, and. What Their Folly Leads To. Boston Budget. It appears from recent revelations that many rich people are in the habit of hiring their diamonds with which they shine resplendently at balls, parties, and that the untold wealth which they display upon their persons, to the astonishment and bewilderment of the vulgar, does not belong to them any more than the "private" carriage with the coat of arms upon it for which they pay so much a day. They are really birds in borrowed plumage, though they put on more airs than the peacock whose "unnumbered eyes" belong to himself and to no other biped. And after all, how much pretence tnere is in what we etil society! We bow down before rich men or women because they are reputed to be rich, when in reality they are no better if so well off as oursel ves. We take the shadow for the substance so often that we are incapable of distinguishing one from the other, and we maice our salaams to a bejeweled and bedizened madame or sir, who may be but one day removed from the common jail. When they are discovered to be impo9ters we shake our heads wisely and say, social hyp-writs that we are: "We always thought so." Then we rush on to worship the next idol, who usually is no more worthy of our adoration than the one we have jut dethroned. Meanwhile the philosophers sit and smile at our folly aud sav that the world has not improved since the days of Diogenes and his tub. Fashion in drcs may change, but history constantly repeats itself in the struggle for shortlived social distinction. Everything is sacrificed to it. Banks are robbed by their cashiers, mercantile houses by their bookkeepers, mauufacturiug companies by their treasurers, in order that their families may shine the butterflies of a season. The crash comes of course at lat, and they retire to well merited obscurity. But they have plenty of followers. There are always new creatures to flutter about the flame, though inevitable destruction await them. Vive la bagatelle! Let the diamonds glitter though they are not your own. The world believes so for the time being at least, and you are comparatively happy while yon play the old, old game of diamond cut diamond. Keep a Few Be. (Indiana Farmer J Aside from the hope for any pecuniary gain, there is a greater judgment for the keeping of at least a few colonies of bees. In these times of adulterated sweets.about the only thing left is to buy directly from our neighbor or raise our own. Honey is one of the mot delicioni sweets producible and can be raised with as little cost and labor as anything, especially so in a small way. People who mate a specialty of poultry-raising, bei keepiog, etc., give all the time possible that they think will pay one penny wore. Yet honey may be raised ai chick ens are, for home use, with but little care. The perfectly straleht combs sell at a better price but do not effect the flavor of the honey. A partially filled section will only bring hilf price in the market, but is jut the same coney s filled the section without an empty cell, and with the knowledge of the day we re able to secure more money from throe or four colonies than our fathers did from three times the oucibsr.

THE SNOW-FLAKE.

Would yi u like a poem Vn the snow? I can Dever write rne. You mut With ti e let 1 1 miorosccp?! Where the flake. Lies in parkling reutT On the lake. O'er the ervsfa! waters As jmi ko, Il-aol with via the poem Of th snow. Home Journal. A Hare Occurrence. I Fr- Pres J "Mister," began a small boy, a he entered a Woodward avenue grocery yesterday, ama bought some mackerel here last night." "Yes." "And in making change you gave her "No, I didn't! I haven't had a quarter with a hole in it for a month?" "But ma says you gave her a " "Don't believe it don't believe it! I remember, now; I gave her a half-dollar, a quarter and a nickle." "Ma says you gave her a gold piece for a penny, and here it is." "Good gracious alive but so I did so I didl 1 remember now that I gave her dollar bill and a lot of small change. Bub, what' your name and do you think von can eat three sticks of lemon candy? Vh! it does me good to find honesty and ew:rd it." Tho Woman. who Works at Home. I noli e says a O iicago lady, that in all of this talk about what is- designated as women's labor the every day routine work of the housekeeper is ignored. There is no reference to the work of the women whose lives are pased in home-making and home-keeping. Thev are regatded as a negative, non-productive das?. Yet the profession of the house keeper is regarded as the most nat ural and proper avocation of women. There i no other trade hi complex. None more dilbcult. Ald to this the cares of motberhrod and what else can a woman engage in wiiich will as completely absorb every energy of which she is capable? io be a good housewife and mother is by no means the occupation of an idler. Perhaps my notions are obsolete, but I think the woman who creates a comfortable home and raises children worthy of manhood and wonanhood is the noblest work of God, and is quite as much of a producer as the woman who writes a book, invents some machine, or follows a profession. A oted Xew Yorker and Ills Wit. Texas Sifting Lord Coleridge, when he visited this country stood with William Evarts on the banks of the Potomac opposite the city of Washington. "Do you know, Evarts," said his Lordship, "I have heard that George Washington, was a man of great physical prowess. I was told that he once threw a silver dollar from this spot across the Potomac." "You must remember, my Lord," said Mr. Evarts, " that a dollar would go a great deal further in those days than it would now." The gloom that the recital of this old story had thrown over the gang was wafted away by our friend in the long ulster, who said: "I would suggest that Evarts might have said something else." "What?" "He might have said: "I never heard that he threw a ilver dollar across the Potomac, but history tells us that he threw an English sovereign across the Atlantic." The Successful Farmer. Kan sat City Journal J The good farmer cultivates forethought. His plans are not made for a single year. He looks over his farm, divides the arable land into about six equal parts, one-half of which is devoted to grass, the other to the plow, as each shall take its turn. Every year he raises just about so many acres of corn, so many acres of wheat, so through all his crops. He keeps just about the same amount of stock, and of each about the same, whether it be cattle, heep, horses, or hogs. No matter whether wheat brings 75 cents per bushel or $1.75. No matter whether wool is 31 or 50 cents per pound. No matter whether cheese brings 6 or 13 cents at wholesale. No matter whether live hogs bring 3 or 8 cents per pound. Thus he continues year after year, all the time studying to improve the productions of his farm, ana thus increase its capacity to produce a little more of each of the different articles he raises for sale. But no single one is dropped from the list that he may raise more of something else without a long considered and sufficient reason. If anything he may have for sale is very low in price, he knows at once'that the great endulum of equilibrium has swung away from it. He also knows that it will surely swing back again sooner than he can change his rotation, even if he wanted to, which he does not. He is accurate in all his affairs. He knows jut how he stands. Knows who he owes and who owes him, what it is for and when it is due. He also knows just how he expects to meet every claim against him, ha calculated the matter accurately before he incurred the debt, and with prompt payments, thus in a fewmonths making his word us good written bond. He knows wh.tie average price of every article he raises for sale has been in his market town for all the years since he has had produce to sell. If he has an article for sale and the Erice is a long way below the average, e holds the same until the pendulum swings back again. If the price is fully Up to the average he does not wait with the expectation of rin the very highest cent that will paid just beforetfie pendulum falb back again. He sells at the highest current price, knowing that once the highest price is reached, stagnation and a fall so quickly succeeds that not one in & hundred men can be the lucky man to get the highest price paid. Thus bis average gains will compare with the best. Slowly it may be, but surely he is getting rich and all the time living better than many kings of Mammon. While he sleeps, his crops and his animals grow. Panics can not ruin hia. As it has Uken time to acquire riches, he generally knows how to keep them, while the merchant or .manufacturer maybe rich today and poor to-morrow and rot froo tay fault of his etra.

A Lively 1'licht ritt Cirlielx. St. Tau! Dat. It wa in 1879, in a little canyon that opens out into Clear Creek" ssid Mr.

i Perrin. "1 wandered off into the moutains in search of herbs to pice up some new stomach bitters I was dispensing to the boys. The day was warm and I hid just thrown my coat, and was walking along just above the walls of the little canyon a mile or so from Clear Creek. I was startled by a crash among the bruh just behind me, when upon looking quickly around I saw a grizzly Coming for me, his jaws wide open, his long red tongue protruding from bis mouth, his sharp teeth gleaming, and his hot breath almost burning my face, he was o close. I was struck with dumb surpri?e for a second, but regaining my presence of mind, I threw my coat over his head and made a break for the railroad. He soon disentangled himself and joined in the race. It was no walkaway for me, I can tell you. I had heard that a bear couldn't run well on a side hill, so I caucht on to a brush and swung down the wall of the canon, which was not very steep at that point, and rushed on. But he was too cute for my tactics. He ran along above to head me ofl. Finally he ventured too near the canyon, and, losing bis balance, rolled over. To my horror be tumbled down upon me. And then we rolled down to the bed of that creek together. Right there was fought tbe hardest bear fight that eve r occurred in Colorado. We fought for three-quarters of an hour. "How did the fight come out?" came in a chorus of hoarse whispers from the party that had been listening eagerly to the recital. "The bear killed me," said Perrin coolly, as he led the way to tbe sideboard. ChooInK a Hnshand. Home. Journal. J A girl, if she cannot always choose, can always refuse, and generally her difficulty is this it is evident that this man is making love to me. I do not love him, but I think I might do so if I chose; shall I choose or shall I forbear? It is here that the power of choice comes in; and it is here that the voice of prudence must be heardr if it is to be heard at all. In such circumstances a girl will act wisely if she pays considerable attention to the general opinion that is held of the gentleman in question by his professional brethren or his business acquaintances. It is, in short, not the man who is agreeable among women, but who is well liked by his own sex, who is the man to choose as a busband. There are certain persons, however, of the opposite sex who are almost as good judges of a man's disposi tion as those of his own, and they are his sisters. A girl can always tell how a man stands with his sisters; if they ore really fond of him, she may feel almost sure that he will make a good husband. A mother, cf course, always speaks well of her son; it is not what she says of him, but his behavior to her, that is to be looked to. And the lady may feel certain of this point, that as a man now treats his mother and sister, so he will treat her rix months after the marriage. All this may seem very cold blooded, very far removed from the tender feeling which the courtship induces. But, after all, a girl has a choice to make, a choice upon which the happiness of her whole life will depend; and there is always a time, whether she notices it or not, before she parts with the control of her heart, at which she ought to listen to her judgment. He Got the Train. Philadelphia Pres. An officer of the Nineteenth district station house, Eight and Lombard streets, last night brought in a well dressed, slightly intoxicated man with a valise whom he had found holding an animated conversation with a lamp post, and threatening to pulverize it if it did not direct him to the New York depot. "I told him I would bring him to the depot," whispered the policemen to the Sergeant. "Gimme a ticket for Noo York," said the prisoner to the JSergeant, laying eighty-seven cents on the desk, all the money he had. "Here you are, sir. One through ticket, including a lower section sleeping berth," said the sfergeant, handing him a ticket for a raffle. "All aboard!" shouted the turnkey, in' a tone that would nave caused an ordin ary station hand to blush for his own un worthiness. "Whoop I" came from one of tbe pa-; trolmen in imitation of a locomotive,' while another picked up his valise, and, throwing it on the stretcher that stood: in the corner, wheeled it around thej room, completing the deception and making the would-be traveller believe he was in a railroad station. He was quietly led to a cell and soon fell into a slumber. ft a He (lot the Traiu. f An officer of the Nineteenth district station house, Eight and Lombard streets, last night brought in a well dressed, slightly intoxicated man with a valise whom he had found holding n animated conversation with a lamp post, and threatening to pulverize it if i did not direct him to the New York depot. - -rgjyj ' "I told him I would bring him to the depot," whispered the policemen to the Sergeant. "Gimraearicket for Noo York," said the prisoner to the Sergeant, Isying eighty -seven cents on the desk, all the money he had. "Here you are, sir. One through ticket, incluilinga lower section sleeping berth," said the Sergeant, handing him a ticket for a raffle. "All aboard!" shouted the turnkey, in a tone that would have cau-ed an ordinary station baud to blush for his own unworthiness. "Whoop!" came from one of the patrolmen in imitation of a locomotive, while another picked up his valise, and throwing it on the stretcher that stood in the corner, wheeled it around the room, completing the deception and ""king the would-be traveller beliw he wa in a railroad station. He was qnietlv led to a cell and soon fell into a

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