Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 1, Number 10, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 3 September 1870 — Page 2

Rural.

[For the Saturday Evening Mall.] PLUM CULTURE. There is a wide spread disinclination among ho fruit growers of the Western States to neglect tho cultivation of this delicious fruit. This is mainly due to the ravages of the curculio, which has wrought such widespread destruction to this fruit for the past few years yet an acquaintance with the habits of this pest, and the best means of defense against its depredations would enable us to conquer t^iis tireless foe, and unless these aresttidied and united efforts put forth for their extermination, it will not be long until we will have to surrender the apple crop, to the apple curculio for in many parts of tlie country these are scarcely less numerous than their larger cousins. They are doubless varieties of the same species. The appje curculio is smaller, and differs slightly in anatomical structure form the former, but in most points they are the same, but for the present season instruction comes too late as the work of destruction is already accomplished. the fruit has been stung, the egg has been deposited, the Larvae has come forth and done its work, the fruit has fallen and the Larvae has entered the frame where it will remain until the coming spring. One thing, however, can be done, and that is, if you plant plum trees this fall, make your selections mainly from the cling stone varieties, as the little Turk expresses a decided preference for the free stone varieties. The McLaughlin, Corse Field Marshal, Smith's Orleans, arc among the best of the cling stone varieties.

CJl'INCE.

If your quince trees show signs of blight, cut ofl'all affected limbs, sprinkle half peck of salt around the stalk or stem of the tree reaching out three or four feet. There are several varieties of the fruit Ray's Seedling is by far the largest, highest color, and best flavored fruit, it is however not old enough to determine whether in longevity it surpasses the other varieties. (IHATK VINKS.

In this day when grape vines can be purchased for a few cents each, and can bo brought to maturity with so little effort, it is presumed that most of your readers are able to sit under their own vine, if so, it is not unlikely that some of them have been troubled with the sight of mildew. Flower of sulphur is a specific, it should be dusted upon the vine in the early morning. A bellows for this purpose can bo purchased at any of the seed stores. Caution is necessary on two points—First, get pure sulphur there is an adulterated article sold that is useless, if you get that kind you will bo ready a some others luivo dono to report the proposed remedy a failure.

In the second place wliilo dusting, keep to the windward or you will be apt to conclude that you have contracted Wabash scratches.

I'LOWKK OARPEN*.

Tuberrosos and Japan lillics should have a good supply of water, the latter are coming in bloom, they need a constant supply during the season of bloom. Among the flowers to bloom for the next month, none are more beautiful than the French and Jcrman Asters. The most destructive and persistent enemies to the cultivation of these, arc the small red ant, and the blush beetle, they burrow in the ground and eat the bark from the roots and thus destroy the entire plant. The latter destroys the petals of the (lower, as soon as they open. It is a great trial of one's patience to have a bed of beautiful asters dest roved by these marauders. A remedy against these depredations is found in whale oil soap suds li pound whale oil soap dissolved in two gallons of soft water, and applied with a fine rose watering pot. At any time you find your plants infested if you cannot get this preparation, the root of the May apple (Todphylin) soaked in water, in the proportion of one pound to ten gallons of water ts equally eflleaeious.

A ronni:srovrKNT of the Horticulturist says that every one who has become acquainted with the habits of the rose-bug must have noticed that it has a decided preference for some grape vines over others. The Clinton is one of their special favorites. He has in his garden a seedling of the Golden Clinton, that he considers one of his most valuable vines, although it has never lmrne a grape and jjcrhaps never will. Its value consists in its special attractiveness to the rose-bug. They swarm on this and abandon all other vines.

TUK (iartleuer's Jfonthly says that some persons think that as the hemlock is a large forest tree, it cannot bo kept down as hedge plant but Summer pruning will keep the strongest tree in a dwarf condition for a number of years. The pruning has to be done just after the young growth mushes out, which generally is about the end of Ma v. It Vs very important the hedge should be rut with sloping sides, so that every

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)Mrt of the surface should have the full of the light. A hedge with upright sides or a square top, will not keep thick at the bottom long.

NAMKS, addresses, etc., may be printed on fruits, by cutting from tough, thin paper the words proposed. This is pasted upon the sldaof the specimen most fully exposed to the sun. That portion of the fruit covered by the paper will assume ft different color from the rest «f the IVuit. When the fruit is ripe thff paper is removed leaving the name distinctly visible. Upon squashes and melons names may be inscribed bv rueing the letters with*a sharp pointed instrument wounding or puncturing the ski*, over each incision a little projection of the skin or pimple will grow formiag the required letters or figures.

FA it* nits, prepare something fbr exhibition at the County Fair. You have some article that will make a meritorious exhibition, if you will only take it.

Sunday Reading.

HOW TO REBEA UTIFUL. 1I«)W to bo beautiful when oht 1 1 can tell vou, maiden fair— Not by lotions dyes and laments

Not"lv washes for the hair. While vou're young be pure and gen tie,

Keep*your passions well controlled Walk, work and do your duty— You'll be handsome when you ro old.

Snow-white looks are fair as golden, tJrav as lovely a-s the brown, And the smile of age more pleasant

Than a youthtul beauty's frown. •TN the soul that shapes the features, Fires the eye. attunes the voice: Sweet sixteen, be these your maxims,

When you're sixty you'll rejoice. 1 Do not squander time, for timo is tho stuff life is made of.

SAVE your money, and you will find it one of your most useful friends.

Tho whole of summer is at work, not merely to make leaves and flowers and fruit, but just as soon as the leaf is largely formed, it begins also to make a bud for the next year. That bud is for the next year's blossoming, not this. So our whole lives are forming tho bud seed and to be developed in another life. Of what kind is it to be?

(iossir.—A great deal is written in a wholesale way against gossip. Malicious gossip is evil-speaking, and is breaking a commandment. Awav with it! Kindly and thoughtful gossip is incidental to our interest in and contact with our race. Talk of fashions, habits, accidents, economy, babies, and the weather is the limpid flow of a large number of minds add the shame upon any mind, however strong or stored, winch cannot readily relax to it and luxuriate in it. There is nothing common or unclean, there is nothing really trifling which affects humanity the greatest will be the tenderest,

Take courage, for, rest assured, every thing may be borne, with God's help, by tlie good and true. Mortification and anguish, that wistful yearning which, like hope deferred, uiaketh the heart sick, have but their day. Endure then1, lift them up and carry them as a daily burden, permitted by the Master, though perhaps administered by a fel-low-servant have faith in heaven and earth forget yourself in others pray, work, enjoy—it is wonderful how many enjoyments are left to the smitten and the new dawn will rise sooner or later, which will ever brighten into the cloudless morning of eternity.

OBSERVANCE OF THE SABBATH.— Efforts arc made in London to discourage the publication, delivery, and sale of newspapers on Sunday. One of the largest proprietors is willing to discontinue his Sunday issue, if others will do the same. One news-venderstated that in the last eleven years he had been robbed by two-thirds of the boys whom he had employed which he ascribed to the corrupting influence of Sabbath work. The principal shops in Paris are henceforth to bo closed on the Sabbath, the merchants having taken the steps of their own accord. They appeal to the good will of the public to aid them in making the measure general.

NOTHING LOST BY SABBATH-KEEPING. —Count Bismarck of Prussia, hearing that the peasants on his estate were in the habit of: working on Sunday, wrote to his bailiff to stop it. He replied that all their time was occupied in working on his estate, and they had only Sundays to look after their own land. The count then authorized him to allow those who had land to harvest their own crops first when they were ripe, but to forbid their working on Sunday. The peasants were so much affected by this generous offer, that they resolved that the count should lose nothing by caring for them first and as the result, his work was better attended to than ever.

THE BIBLE RECORD NOT DISPROVED.— It is sad that so many men of science are eager to seize any fact that appears to discredit tho Mosaic account of tho creation but many as have been the discoveries which have been expected to overthrow the Scripture record, they have miserably failed, and its integrity is unimpeaelied. A large number of human and seemingly very ancient relics, which were some timo ago found near Natchez in Mississippi, were pronounced by certain scientific men to belong to an age of extreme antiquity but on examining them carefully, a hog's tooth was found among them, which, as that animal was introduced into this country by the Spaniards, brings down tho clato of their history a long way this side of the Deluge.

Character is mainly shaped by the minor circumstances of life. Small thefts from the family purse led Judas at last to sell his Master. It was Ruth's simple choice to accompany her old motner-in-law to Bethlehem which made her tlvo ancestor of David's royal line.

Nor is character ever finished by anything but the common duties well done. The trival round, the common task *.

Will furnish all we ought to ask Koom to deny ourselves—n road To bring us dally nearer God." Just as success in file's calling is obtained by doing common things uncommonly well, so growth and stability of Christian character are the result of small excellences slowly and patiently lived out. The religion of Sundays and revivals, of jjreat reforms and large contributions, is not the religion which matures piety. Something more constant and pervading and painstaking is necessary. We must live truly in small thing*, and adorn the ordinary occasions and duties of life with heavenly tempers and practice.

JO IS ED THE CHURCH. Has Mr. Andrews joined your church?" asked my sharp, crisp, discerning sewing-women when she came the other day to stitch me up. "Yes," I said, a few months ago."

I said so," she cried triumphantly I said so. I told Sally so. I said to Sally, Andrews has joined the church, yon inay depend upon it.'

Mr. Andrews lived in the next house to Sally and her sister, both under the same roof, with front doors side by side, neighborly little houses, with very little neighborly intimacy between their inmates. "Why did you think Mr. Andrews had joined the*church?"

Because he is so polite," s*d Mary. He has left off his gouty ways, and says 'Good morning' to us as pleasantly as* you please. On, I knew he hat! joined the church. I told Sally so."

I was glad to find the church has the credit of teaching good manners. It ought to be tho true school of politeness, since true politeness is kindness kindly expressed. Our piety ought never* to fail in kind words, in cheerful civilties, and neighborly courtesies. For how can we expect others to honor our Lord whom we practically dishonor by selfish and unlovely lives.

Young Folks.

Answers to Enigmas, Ac., in last week's paper: Charado No. 2.—Melodeon—Mo-Lo-Iee-*\'harade No. H.—Rhododendron—(How-do-deiidron.)

Knlgma No. i.—Mujur-dcneritl Quiney Adamit Uilmore, Enigmatical Names of Cities in Asia.— Liuui-a. Shanghai, Luck-now,Nag-poor,Cash-mere, Hue, Candy, Uo-a.

Kiddle.—The.pen was on the other side. Charado No. 4.—W-O-inan (Double you, O man.)

Knlgma No. 5.—Time is precious.

PROBLEM No. 1.

A youthful gander, in a yard, its foolish eye did cast upward, And spy a Hock of geese.

A hundred geese, lo! nui'm," It cried. o, child," the sober dame replied, When will thy folly cease A hundred there would be, my.lad, If thou as many more wouldst add,

One-half, and one-fourth, too And then thyself. Now, tell to me llow many In that Hock there be, or I will make thee rue." §FH S. \V. GAMBLE.

NIGMATICAL NAMES OF CITIES IN THE UNITED STATES. I am the name of an animal. My tlrst is not old, and my second is a large boat. My tirst Is a boy's name, and my second

Is a weight. My llrst is the act of making clean, and mv second is a weight. 5. My'flrst is not high, and my second is a measure. 6. My first is used to lock or unlock, and my second is one of the point# of the compass. 7. My first is a boy's name, and my second Is a small city. 8. My lirst is not large, and my second is a large stone. EMMA.

ENIGMA No. C. *.*

I am composed of 22 letters. My 20, (i, 1,18, is a fierce quadruped. My 10,10,2, is a fluid we be breathe. My 3, D, 12,17. is an animal. My 13, 21,19, is the oily part of an animal's body. My 18, 8,1,22, is an exhibition. My 11, 9, 5, U, 4 is in poetry a stanza. My 7,12,19, is a number of things suited to each other.

My whole is an old adage. L. E.

ENIGMA No. 7.

I am composed of 23 letters. My 11,13, 15, 8, is apart of a tree. My 18, 4, 21,10,20, is a bank of earth. My 1«, 17, 22,19, is to miss. My 11. 9,6, 3, 4 is a river in Prussia. My 7,12, 2,14, is a substance formed by combustion. My 23,5, 20, is a solution of allciline salt. My 1,17, 8. is something made of rushe's.

My whole is a true saying. L. E. G.

PROVERBS.

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Out of the following fifty-nine words make nine well-known proverbs: All rolling children are in no fool's hand.

Hay-time shines and glitters just before the tide gathers. New and clean moss is worth a gold bird.

A generous thief sweeps time while you wait for the broom. The procrastination stone in the sun is no bush.

Be the man of truth. Is not that twd make a speak.

RIDDLE No. 2.

Cut off my head, and singular I act. Cut off my tail and plural I appear. Cut off my head and tail—O wondrous fact,

Although my middle's left there's 110thhere. What is my head cut off? A sounding sea.

What is my tail cut off? A flowing river. Far in the ocean's depths I play, Giver of mute sounds, yet mute forever.

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LITTLE THINGS.

BY EBEN E. REXFORD.

I wonder, many times, if boys and girls think about the importance of "little things."

Do they think that a little thing may have an influence over a whole life-time, when that "little" happens in childhood?

Great crimes grow from little seeds of wrong thoughts and actions, planted in tho mind in youth. The man who steals a largo amount of money, was not trained right when he was a child some "little thing" was not as it ought to have been in his character. If it had been corrected while his mind was plastic and pliable, the great crime of his after-life might have been avoided.

I havo a story to tell you about such a man. Most boys and girls havo, I hope, a mother to watch over and guide them in tho paths of right. This man of whom I am going to tell you, had none. She died when he was very small, and he grew up without her tender love and care. Perhaps, after all, he was not so much to blame for what he did, for lie never knew tho restraining influence of a mother's prayers. If he had, he might havo been a better man. I am sure he would.

When ho got largo enough, ho was placed in a store, at first as a sort of errand boy, and after a while as a clerk. He was trusted by his employer, and considered perfectly honest and reliable.

A great deal of money passed through his hands. At tirst he left it untouched, so far as appropriating it to his own uses was concerned. Ho knew that they trusted and had confidence in him, and he ought to have been proud of this, and tried to have lived up to their faith in him. But after a while he began to use some of the pennies which wero taken in for change. His conscience told him all tho time that ho was stealing, but he gave it little heed. From pennies he got to taking larger sums of money.

No one suspected him for a longtime. They trusted him, and could not think a boy of such great promisa for the future would stoop from tho high manhood just opening before him, to commit such petty thefts.

So it went along till he was twentyone years old. One of the older clerks had been caught in pilfering a small sum from a money drawer, and all that had been missed before was supposed to have been taken by him. He was dismissed, and the guiltier one left to go on alone in his wicked career, without a doubt to cast a shadow on his name, and with not the least suspicion pointing at him as a thief.

But he had got so habituated to taking money, that he could not leave off now. The "little thing" had grown and become a strong habit.

Well, one night he opened the great iron safe, and took from it fifty thousand dollars. A j?reat sum wasn't it? He intended to sail for Europe in the morning, but the robbery was found out before the steamer left the wharf, and every body knew who had taken the money at once. Just as he wag stepping from shore, he was arrested, and taken to prison. The money was found on his person, and he was condemned bv every honest man as a vile, wretched criminal, unfit for association with good society. He was tried, and sentenced to ten years solitary confinement in the penitentiary.

And all this came about through "little habits." Be careful about "little things guard well the trifles, and watch the little places of weakness in your character, and strengthen them while vou can.

LiTTLKSAMMiE.-LittleSainmieSinith was quite too young to attend school, but just tho right age to go about with grand mawhonsbe visitedner neighbors and it wag his habit to ask, where they went, for apiece of broad and butter.

But his grandmother corrected him, telling him it was not every family that had butter, nnd that ono would feel badly if askod for food which they wero unable to give. Ho promised amendment and when grandma went out to call again, little Sammie was her escort. Mre. Thurston was tho lady called on, and when his grandma was fairly soated, with shaker in hand, little Sammio stepped up to Mrs. Thurston, and asked, in a subdued tone, if she would givo him a small piece of bread, adding, "I can oat it if there isn't any butter on it."—Jessie Carroll, in Schooltlay Visitor.

PROUD OF HIS MOTHER. It was a cold night in Winter. The wind blew, and tho snow was whirled furioijsly about, seeking to hide itsolt beneath cloaks and hoods, and in the very hair of those who were out. A distinguished lecturer was to speak, and notwithstanding the storm, the villagers very generally ventured forth to hear him.'

William Amncsly, buttoned up to his chin in his thick overcoat, accompanied his mother. It was difficult to walk through the fallen snow against tho piercing wind, and William said to his mother: "Couldn't you wait easier if you took my arm?" "Perhaps I could," his mother replied, as she put her arm through his and drew up as closely as possible to him. Together they breasted the storm the mother and the boy, who had once been carried in her arms, but who had now grown up so tall that she could lean on his. They had not walked very for before he said:

I am very proud to-night mother." Proud that you can take care of me she said to nim with a heart gushing with tenderness.

This is the first time you have leanedfapon me," said the happy boy. There will be few hours in that child's life of more exalted pleasure than he enjoyed that evening, even if he should live "to old age, and should, in his manhood, lovingly provide for her who, in his helpless infancy, watched over him.

TRUE FLIRTS AND FALSE. When a clown follows the will-o'-the-wisp to his discomfiture, we blame the foolish man, and not the misguiding light. And so, if men will be so vain and so unthinking as to imagine that every plea-ant beauty adores them because she does not snub them, and designs to marry them because she vouchsafes to chat, whose fault is it when the pres mptuous lover is informed with cold politeness that his position is that of a friend only? The real mistake consists in conceiving nothing possible between the sexes but love. People rush into the error that a woman must either be discourteous to a man or in love with him the possibility of her entertaining a proper and healthy friendship for fifty of the opposite sex never seems to strike the world. Now the so called flirt is eminently free from all the charges that are usually alleged against her. She is open and undisguised. Her affability is known and commented on from tho fact that she converses without hesitation and laughs without constraint she "wears her neart upon her sleeve" there is no concealment, no attempt at reservation, no affection of reserve. The really designing woman is of another cast. Her plots are darkly laid and da. kly carried out. Her demeanor is staid, her style irreproachable.

She gives aside glance and looks down. She encourages, not with the open invitation of an assault, but with the covert affection of a retreat. She leads on quietly, but without appearing to do so, and the world is kept in ignorance of ner plans till her discretion is rewarded, and a prize secured. So anglers fish—q iet 1 y—concealed—cautiously. But he who chatters on the bank, flaunts his rod and line, and flutters his brilliant hues, fails if he thinks to net. The Misses Pecksnitt were very

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rudish, but very deep, and those who fathomed the world at largo will learn to suspect the deepest schemes from those of the most innocent temperament.

Writing on this subject, the illustrious author of "Coningsby" has said: "A coquette is a being who wishes lo please. 'Tis a career that requires great abilities and infinite pains, a gay and airy spirit. 'Tis the coquette that provides all amusements, suggests the riding party, plans the picnic, gives and guesses charades, and acts tliem. She is the stirring element amid the heavy congeries of social atoms tho soul of the house: the salt of the banquet." Mr. Disraeli here indicates by the coquette exactly what we have represen.ed as a flirt. There is, in fact, a slight difference between the two. In the passage above, to our thinking, tho word flirt would moro accurately apply for a coquette is rather one who seeks admiration for admiration's sake, instigated thereto by personal vanity whereas a flirt, which is a more comprehensive phrase, would comprise those whoso freedom of soul and general love-bestowing nature prompt the readiness of their wit and the zealous willingness of their desire to make themselves pleasant.

Flirting is to marriage what free trade is to commerce. By it the value of a woman is exhibited, tested her capacities known, her temper displayed, and opportunity afforded of judging what sort of a wife she may probably become. Those who assume tho prudish air, and chide the young lady who does nothing else than mope or turn aside, or simper "yes" when spoken to, are tho protectionists who know their goods cannot compete in the general market, and, therefore, strive by artificial means to keep the bidders from an open choice. It is good for both sexes the men know what they will marry, the women have to look around them before they decide. There is nothing more prejudicial to the happiness of married life than the ignorance which most girls have of the oilier sex. A boarding school girl thinks Signor I«ascinati, the singing master, a god, and elopes with him. After two years she finds him a rogue. The manufacturer daughter, who meets the Hon. Adolphus Landless at her first country ball, is struck with his attentions, and catches at his offer at once. Had sho seen more of the man, she would have known how shallow his brains and how deep his debts before she linked herself to him, to endure misery fori life, or to cast her affections on some future acquaintance and to jjocur 'he peril of the Divorce Court. Solon was right when he proposed that the sexes should exercise together in the gyinnaslum a thorough knowledge and a! freer footing between young men and women is one of the greatest safeguards against ill adviaed choices.

It is oAen asserted that marriage is the 1 only object of a woman's life, for which [she lays herself out, to achieve which

she makes any sacrifice. But marriage Is llko religion, not an act, but a condition. It is not a thing to be obtained like a victory, once for all, but to be gone through like a campaign. Hence women who do throw their whole heart into tho single fiet of getting married, and regard nothing further, fall into an error as fatal for this life as the doctrine of those baptized into tho church, but ignoring tho life of a Christian, must be for the next. Tho mere husband hunters, no doubt, exist among flirts, but wo should rather separate them the genuine typo of a flirt is one who has not at present this object at all in view, who trusts to its coming in the fulness of time, but who makes herself agreeable for its own sake. As such, we are prepared to pronounce her not only harmless, but tho proper specimen of a woman. To one whose mind is cultivated aright, no amount of freedom, which prudes may call forwardness, or attempt to please, which old maids may stigmatize as man-hunting, can be in the slightest degree detrimental she will be above their sneers and stigmas, uninjured by misrepresentation, unslandered by envy, because, like Godiva, "clothed o'er with chastity."

Another writer has different views on this important subject: FLIRTATION.—The proximate cause of flirtation is said to be a wish to please, to bo polite, .and to make the party pass off well but the primary one is. wo fear, nothing but a selfish wish to shine, and to attract praise. It may bo all very pleasant, but it is certainly wrong and. being wrong, it is stupid and unwise. It goes against true propriety in both sexes. With a woman, it is *unfeminine as well as injudicious with a man, it is unmanly. With only one class of people can "it be excused, and that class is a large one, formed of those light, facile, agreeable persons, wrho have neither real heart nor feeling, but who fancy they have plenty of both who are compounded of a graceful desire to please, and a continual and selfish wish to be pleased, and who flutter about trom one person to another, saying tender nothings, and amusing themselves in a butterfly way, to the best of their ability, and to the utter forgetfulnessof anybody else. The only thing we would wish to do with these pleasant little parties is that which Sam Weller did to the Fat Boy, when he tried to flirt with pretty Mary.

O Sam said he, slowly, "shouldn't I like to give her a kiss?" Upon which it is related that Sam, with a long whistle, took liini into a corner, and dismissed him with a quiet kick.

.1 COOL TIIIEF.

A cooler pickpocket than is spoken of in Stuttgard, was never seen. He was an obsequious little man, who offered his services to his victim, to show him tho lions of the city, but the other refused the offer.

The officious personage, however, was not offended but politely asked him what o'clock it was.

The other answered that he did not know, as his watch had stopped, and continued his walk toward the Museum of Natural History, which ho entered.

Ho had hot been there many minutes before the samo person canio up to him, with the air of an old acquaintance, and offered him a pinch of snuff.

This Mr. W. declined, saying he w.s no snuff-taker, and walked away but some minutes after, having a presentiment of something being wrong, he felt for his snuff-box, but insteisd of it found a scrap of paper in his pocket, on which was written:

As you are no snuff-taker, you do not require a box." He thought the logic of his unknown acquaintance rather impertinent, and resolved to bear his loss like a philosopher but what was his amazement when, a lew moments after, he discovered that his watch had also disappeared, and in his other pocket was another note, in the following words: "As your wutcli does not tell the hour, it would be better at the watchmaker's than in your pocket.

It is unnecessary to say that he never heard any further tidings of the two articles.

THE HERO OF.TILE SUEZ CVl.V.l L. Ferdinand do Lcsseps will never see sixty again. I am afraid for his sake that he will not be long in seeing seventy and judging from his look ol health, strength, and energy, I havo every hope that he may see any number of years more. He belongs to a typo of old men—if I may apply the term "old" to a man apparently in the primo of life—whom you meet with only in Franco, and chiefly in the south of France a tvpc which, if I remember rightly, Thackeray mentions in the "Newcomes" as one of the handsomest he knew. Ilair as white as snow, a complexion clear and red as a rosy apple, dark Hashing eyes, and a black moustache, make up as handsome a face as you would wish to see. A spare, short, lithe figure, clear cut features, small hands and feet, a smilo of excessive sweetness, add to the charm of M. de Lcsseps' appearance. There is some thing English about his neatness and symplicity of address and, indeed, as he told me tho other da}-, bis family wero orinally of Scotch extraction, having conic over to France with Jame* II.—Dicey's TVUIY.'.•.

A BEAUTIFUL. SENTIMENT.—'In Augustin Dalny's great pi ly Under the Gaslight" Laura Courtland utters these beautiful sentiments:—

Let the woman you look upon be wise or vain, beautiful or homely, rich or poor, sho has but one thing she can give or refuse—her heart. Her beauty, her wit, her accomplishments, she may sell to you—but her love is the treasure without money and without price. She only asks in return that when youl ook upon her, your eyes shall speak a mute devotion that w'hen you address her. your voice shall be gentle, loving and kind. That you shall not despise her because she cannot understand, all at once, your vigorous thoughts and ambitious plans, for when misfortune and evil have defeated your greatest purposes—her love remains to console you. You

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for strength tnd t-raud* ar d~ not despise the flowers because their fragrance is all thev have to give. Hemember, love is" nil that a woman can give—but it i« the only eart ly thing which God permits "S to carry beyond the grave."

A CERTAIN barkeeper having been frequently refused payment by loafers, after they had finished their whisky, concluded to bestow a dose of boota a A occurring, he accordingly jumped over the counter, and administered .1 severe dose of the aforesaid. After enduring it for a moment, the martyr innocently asked

What's that for, boss?" To pay for the whisky," was I'ufc r«s8jxns\

Well, now, If that ain't darned cheap. Jcs hand out the bottle. I guess I'll take another round I

[From Punchinello.] MY TURKISH BATH.

Dear Punchinello It happened to be eleven o'clock some time during yesterday afternoon.

I generally take something at that hour. Yesterday I took a Turkish bath.

I took a horse car. (That, however, iS| neither here nor there but it got within! two blocks of there at 11:25.) Iran up^ the steps of the T.B. establishment, and?, wired the inmates. The door flew open, and an ideal voter, erst a chattel (I liopo I am not obscure in this deeply interesting portion of the narrative), pointed his thumb over his shoulder, displayed a choice assortment of ivory, chuckled with great natural ease, "i supposed this to be a custom with tho colored population of Turkey, and passed on.

Everything, was Turkish. I was struck with tlie order of the bath also the seinietary of the apartments. As I! think I before remarked, I passed on.

The M. D. proprietor shook hands with me very cordially. I also shook hands with him. I told him that I wanted no ceremony but if agreeable to him, I would gird up my loins and go in. He intimated that tho only ceremony was to fund a small portion of the contents of my pocket-book. I am a little hard of hearing, and I passed on.

An assistant, in the light and airy costume which I have so often noticed in Central Africa, in midsummer, beckoned to me, after I had laid aside a quantity of goods (belonging to my tailor, and other down-town business^ men), and 1 followed him.

The room we entered was heated by what I took to be a successful furnace. I must have been mistaken, however, lor I understood the assistant to apolo-J gize because, by reason of a delect in the flues, they had been able to get tho temperature up only to about 475 de-i grees that morning, I was a little disappointed, but simply suggested that the thermometer was F..ir in Height but if 1 lelt chilly I would send out for some blankets.

He laid me on a slatted couch. 1 experienced a gentle glow, Afterwards (1 don't know why, exactly, I havo always attributed it to tho temperature), I felt hot—hotter—Hottento ter! It seemed as though the equator ran right along the lino 'of my backbone.

I didn't care. I couldn't recollect whether my namo was Sliadraeh, jsnack, or Abeilnego but 1 was backing and sizzling just as furiously as though I had paid in ad-5 Vance. My pores wero opening, and the perspiration was immense. A red bandanna handkerchief would liavo been swamped.

There was a bald-headed man next? me. He said lie had been lying there three weeks, and he was going homo next Saturday it he didn't strike oil. I grappled wiih the allusion, and replied that that Was a poor opening any way, and 1 uidn't believe I could myself lio there so coolly.

Waiting lin iny identity was pretty much gone, I dropped into another marble liail. This .assistant (to whom my warmest thanks are due) scooped up wnat w. left of ine and laid me on a slab,

The issistant said I needed him, but," to the best ol my recollection, he kneaded me. lie went all over me, taking up a collection, and did first rate. I threw off all reserve—about half a pound, I shouui juuge. lie seemed to take a fancy to UK'. 1 noy^r Know mmi to get so iinimato on shoiv acquaintance.

We talked rationally on a good many subjects. lie s..id he I ar jly|got a living there, was surpised. 1 supposed ho managed to scrape together a good deal in tho course of a year.

He said he wanted to go into sonio wholesale nou.se. 1 venterod to predict that success ..waited bun in tho rubber business, in fact, we kept up quite a str am of conversation, which he supplemented wi.h a hose that played over me in a gentle, leisurely manner, as if I were fully insured.

Ho then shoved me into a deep watertauk wnere (he "'Kuhs for Restoring Persons Apparently Drowned" whizzed! thro'my mind ami I came very near forgetting ih..i, I didn't know how to swim. I .naged, however, to tish myse.l'ou. in season to observe the baldhoaded An.nii.IS, who murmured that ho h.id IHVII laid upon tho table and and should take a peel! 1 came out lo the drying room, and made ilieui think I w..s (Jen. Gr..nt, by calling tor a cigar, ir..nk a cup of oolite. After awhile I rattled into my clothes and fell belter—so much so that 1 did what I seidon do—walked? clean home.

If I live .o be IKS years old, and an: pensioned by Congress, iheexplaiiation wilirh 1 snuii give.to the country at,largo is that is due to the'1 uiKish bath. I can't tell you wh it 1 owe to it.—Vu-/\v-Jicld Youuj.

CORRUPT BLOUD.

The commonest seruicn ola pinon the: hand of a m..:i wiiose blood corrupt, will not get \yell idrmoiuh« il the skin is abr..ded or scraped oil' by a misstepl or other accident, a running sore is' sometimes osiublisjiod ior tic* remain1der 'life i. is because the blood is bad ii is poor, too .hick, and even poisonous.^

Persons n..ve poor mood when it is observed iii ser..ieJi.s nd cuts nd bruises ..re long inne in lie. ling, and this shoulu oc a irieiK.iy .ruing to correct o. condition ol tilings, because it show« .here is bu. iii.le v.. 1 i:y, litlo stamina, ..nd disease of !-,oio' kind is impending '-specially of 'h- typhoid typ*, 'covery will lo w, doiibtlul, .n .i oi uy oases no. jiofisible,

Til. lii.. .1. '.o be ken 111 all ISCS, to gel ral of bad blood, spend a large por i. ofd \iiyu' oldoorsin reniuner iv labo." gr 1 1«• emplovn.cn or n. .,oui ne\ in. oil horseback being the nest: tins »i"ip" nature to work ?h -d blood oui of iiie body, and ..t li *a ne tini g-\s a good -ppetife an 1 .-ignroU'i lig« s: 'U. which makes pur' biood s.ippiy toe place of theb.d, i-i lie is w-ii without an a.#m of nmdh-ino "r

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LAHOK II :.VD*.—A 11"N" 1 H"j holds ground. ... rg ii ds mean large in-ti'lJ.'H-t* tit wolfh4 of brain n'dicatess mental in !h. Bu. h. notion is a false oil'.*. is int'-rior .o some apes in the propor on which 1 in bears to bis bod... When we come niin ds the dill# r. are very striking. To ran?" the coiriinonesl nim .Is in the order -f brain -i-iits. we have tho following declining scabs:—Cat, dojr, bbis p, :•««•*, pig, horse, and ox. To- six liinvii much brain pr«»i#».rti .o her as the hrrs p/opoi'.imi ii.i .m/*-. The.' pig .«• .or .h the horse, th"lieep more ih it L. These almost, set us woiid. rimr whe her the br»iii has any.hingto do wi .n ,cllect a., ail.

W I:A? MHT~ pr-» H.I.S off. I'IE Van be laid up"ii i\" 'j i" oi a in us ii"art !h th« sir&t l«vr of pure, rani' st and ':i ,t# u,ir), wi ar) undivided, inten in tght writer IOI nd fourteen three-* ory aotis-•«?