Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 4, Number 9, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 30 August 1873 — Page 2

JOHN JANKINSSERMON* the rain Inter said la*t night, say* he, is •'Don't be afraid of at vin 1 If roar life ain't notlun to other folk*, why. vb»t'i the use of llvln And that'* what I say to my wlfs, says I,

Thcn-'s Brown, the raU'rable sinner, He'd »ooner a btggar would starve than give

A cent toward buyln a dinner.

Xtell you oar m'nlrter'a prime, he la, a 1 couldu' it in When I heard blra a-glvln' It right and left,

Ju»t who WM hit by hte rmon. Oi course there coaldn be no mistake When he talked of lone-winded prayln', Sor Peters and Johnson they aot ana scowled

At every word be was sayin'.

jind the minister he went on to say, "There's various kinds o" cheatln', Aiwl religion'* as Rood for every day

As It Is to bring to meetln', I don't think much of a man that gives The Lord Aniens at my prcachln', .ami spends his time the followln' week

In cheating and overreaebin'."

1 guess that dose was bitter enough Vox a man like Jones to swaller

Sot 1 noticed be didn't open his mouth, Not once, after that holler, Hurrah, says I, for the minister—

Oi course I Mild it onletGive us some more or this open talk It's very refreshing diet.

5tbc minister hit 'em every time And when he spoke of fashion, And rlggln' out in bows and things,

As woman's rutin' passion. And a-coinin' to church to see the styles, I couldn't help a-winkln' And a-nudffiu' my wife, and, says I, 'That's you,"

And 1 guess it sot her thlnkin'.

HOTf* I to myself, That sermon's pat 6ut man is a queer creation And I'm much afraid that most of the folks

Wouldn't take the application. Howif hc had said a word about Mr personal mode of slnnin', I'd nave gone to work to right myself,

And not set here a-grlnnin'. Jhst shen the minister says he, "And now I've come to the fellers Who've lost this shower by uslu' their friends

As soit o' moral umbrellas, tk home," says he, "und fltiil your fault*, instead of huntln' your brothers' 40o home," he says, "anil wear the coats

You've tried to fit for others."

2(y wife she nudged, and Brown he winked And there was lots o' smltln', And lots of looklu' at our pew it sot my blood a-biliu'. BITS to myself. Our minister bglttin' a little bitter ni tell hint when ineetln's out thnt I

Ain't at all that kind of acrltttr.

Bay Window and Mansard Roof.

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S. ARTIIL'R.

•It would bo such an easy thing for Idui «ald Jacob Maxwell to his wife. «ach an easy thin#. Ho would never rolMta comfort, and and would bo lifted oat olnn much trouble.'

Miis Maxwoll did not lirt bor eyes fcoui the lloor, nor mako any reply to her husband's remark. 'Not achick noraehild to look after --^only himself and his wlfo—-and I'vo gota houseful, continued Mr. Maxwell. M've never asked tbetn for a dollar in TKy life, though I've been in many tight places.' •And you have always got through them,' Mrs. Maxwell Bald in a tender TClee, leaning toward her husband as ahe apoko.

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mountains have look

ed very high and tho valleys very deep, but you havo always passed tbetn safely.'

Yen bnt no mountain llko this on« las over crossed my path beforo. I annnot got over it without a helping band.'

Maybo not. Wo never overcome any d'iillculty without holn.' Then, lowering her voice and speaking with reverence, Mrs. Maxwoll added 'God Is our helper. In the future as in tlio past-to-day as yesterday—ho will be present in time of tronble.'

All very true,' roturned her husband 'but "lie helps by human agency,' TO this Mrs. Maxwoll did not reply. She loved her husband, and never liked tooppofie him in anything. It would Jhave saved him many of the tight places to which ho had Just referred if she had done so often. Ills present trouble had eotno about In this wlso

Mr, Maxwoll owned tho house In which ho lived. Ho hud bought It sever*) years bofore, and until within a •ear It was burdened with a mortgago. To pay off this mortgage had Iwen long Mid hard work. Twico bad there boon a foreclosure, and a narrow escapo from being sold out by tho sheriff. Ills luuuo was saved only through tho intervention of neighbors and irlends.

Hat ofr fc»st, through industry and economy, tho mortgage was paid off, *B$JobMaxwell rejoiced in tho ownorstoJpofa house freo from all Incumbrances. He had nover in his life felt so rich ami so much at ease in his »ind.

But, with most of us, pt rmanent satisfaction does uot eomo with full posMw»k8t We soon tire of what wo have, and begin to look away to something MW, and as it seems to us,more desirable* It was not long before Mt^ Max•awut began to note the difference between the outside appearance of his bouse and that of some of his neighbom. Ho had been too much Interesthi paying off his debt t« think of vaklug such contrasts Iwforo. Hut •mm they were continually pressing themselves Upon him.

All at onoo he discovered that the white palings which inclosed the little Jkvwer garden in front of the house h«d a very common look—being flat and inted at the top. Ho saw nothing iga for a week afterward, and was'so fully posted in regard to them

it palings for a

that he couurtell every" style In the aeighberhood. .... I don't think that I can stand these palings any longer,' wild Mr. Maxwell, .-dug in one day. 'They're a perfect e.i soro!'

He was really excited. What*# wrong about the tilings, Jph?' asked his wife In hormnild way. Walways thought them very pretty.'

Pretty 1 They are the meanest in MM whole neighborhood. Even Peter J( Mshas nicer ones. I was looking at iiu :n this morning.'

Mrs. Maxwell was satisfied they neat and taatefnl In her eyes, 3 s: they hsd lost tbclr good looks for Job, alter he hsd compared them with iv-'r nf! *hbors*, that be could see no r.ellr" in them. So, nothing would 4o bnt he must have new palings.

4Let

us wait a littlo longer,1 urged

Mrs, Maxwell. 'Whit's the use of waiting? If we bave them, the sooner the beUer. I positively ashamed of the «k), pocr looking things, and wonder bow I ivc endured them so long.'

Mr*. Maxwell understood her hnslan too well to m»ke any decided t»H ton. She knew there would be ao nsat with htm untU had new paliw, now that his miuJ waa set on t]r .}. •if much are they golng to coat?' abei .ilred.

I got an estimate from Malcolm this 3Br ruing,' replied Job. 'lie WJ sat think it will cost over twenty

dollars for a fence like Squire Morton's and that is by all odds the handsomest in town.*

Twenty dollars! How much that wonld boy for the children! Their clothes were very much run down, and it took half the mother's time to altar, patch and mend. But she did not utter what was in her thought. Job divined It, perhaps, for he said: 'Malcom doesn't want the money. I can pay any time that it is convenient.'

On the next day the old fence, sound in every paling, and well covered with

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aint, disappeared from the front of Maxwell's house, where it had stood and done as good service as the prettiest one in town for over seven years, and in due time another of more stylish pattern and costly workmnnshlp took its place.

The ornamental always costs more than the simply usoful. The 'desire of the eyo' is not satisfied with cheapness. Before the fence was completed many changes from the first Idea were made and when the work was at last finished Mr. Maleolm'8 bill, Instead of being but twenty dollars, according to the estimate, footed op to forty-six dollars. Its reception was a wet blanket to Mr. Maxwell's enjoyment. He took no more real pleasure in the handsome now fence, for he could not look at it without thinking of tho forty-six dollars he should have to pay.

After the fence some better shrubbery had to come. Ho began to look more closely at his neighbors' gardens, and to see, by contrast, the meagreneas of bis own. He had few, if any, choice plants. So this must be remedied—his garden must betlxed up. It would cost only a trille.

But the trillo did not fall short of twelve dollars. It need not have been half if ho had been contented with fitness and beauty. But bo must have costly exotics, because some of bis neighbors bad thom. So it went on. Tho new fence was only the beginning of change and improvement.

He fixed up here, and be fixed up there—made this littlo change, and that little addition all of which added to tho comfort and good look of his house but added also to tho burdou of debt he had tiken up so soon alter the old wearisomo burden of years bad been laid off.

One day, as he stood at tho window, Job Maxwell saw the carpenter in earnest conversation with his neighbor opposite. They were in front of Mr. Fowler's hoase, looking up at the building and talking about it, as was evident from their gestures. Maxwell became Interested at once, and crossed the street, to find out what Mr. Fowler was going to do. Ho was soon enlightened. His neighbor had caught the bay window and Mansard roof fovor and was consulting with Mr. Malcolm, who was diagnosing tho case. Maxwell listened with great interest and as he listened his eyes wandered across tho street, and ho saw, in imagination, a bay window swelling out lrom the second story of his houso and a Mansard taking the place of its slant shingle roof.

Mr. Maxwell was unusually quiet and thoughtful all that day. Tho fever was getting hold of him—creeping into his blood, and making its insidious advances upon tho vorv citadel of his life. IIo dreamed all nigiit of bay windows and Mansard roofs, and awoke at dawn unrofresbed. He fought against the diseaso for ho knew if it got fairly hold of him he would have an exhausting struggle, and might not survive the ftttBck*

The first thing Maxwoll saw on looking out, next morning, was the carpenter at work in front «f his neighbor's house. Two of his men woro with him. Scaffold poles were alroady on the ground. A little pang of onvy shot through Job Maxwell's heart. Why couldn't he have a bay window and Mansard roof aa well as Mr. Fowler? Ho sighed and turned away.

Day alter day he watched tho carpenters at work on his neighbor's house with scarcely less interest than the neighbor himself and when at last the window was completed, and tho new roof lifted above tho old dwelling its bold proportions, all tbo attractions of his own modest house faded away from Mr. Maxwell's sight, and it bocamo mean and common In his eyes.

The bay window and Mansard roof fever did not let go its hold on our friend, but continued to increase until it had consumed all discretion and prudence. Then he held almost dally conference with Mr, Malcolm, who made for him a drawing of his house, with the desired improvements, and so helped on tho disease to its crisis.

Blindly, and against all his wire could say, Mr. Maxwell told tho carpenter to go to work and make the coveted additions to his house. The question of ways and means had been settled. The now window and roof would cost, according to the. carpenter's estimate, about twelvo hundred dollars, and the money te pay for them was to be raised by anew mortgago on tbo property.

Only a matter of seventy or eighty dollars ft year in interest,' said Mr. Maxwell,lightly, in answer to his wife's mildly urged objections. 'And see bow much more room we shall have and how elegant the house will look!'

They had already all the room they noeded, and the house was us neat and genteel aa any of their neighbors'.

Tt took nearly four months to put in 1 window and build up the %ew roof, during most of which time the famllv sufiered many discomforts. The work was begun In August, and It waa nearly Christmas before Its completion. Mrs. Maxwell took a severe cold in consequence of the exposed condition of the house, from the effects of which she did uot recover all Winter.

On the first of January Mr. Malcolm rendered his bill. It was two thousand dollars. In addition to the new roof and bay window other improvements were made in the house which "might as well be done while they were about it and the cost of these footed up far beyond what Mr. Maxwell bad imagined. A mortgage was executed, and the bill paid. Another mortgage!— Through years of patience, and hope, and self-denial, Job Maxwell bad work* ed to get free from the burden of one mortgage, and now he had taken up burae

the len of another I Was he any happier' for his Mansard roof and bay window? Did the mortgage alt any lighter on him for these? Not a whit ibey made the burden heavier, for he was self-convicted of weak news and folly.

And now it happened that a great depression came in Maxwell's line of bu

siness.

Trade ceased for a while, and

bills could not be collected. A failure In his collections made it impossible for him to meet his own business accounts. litnauueoU followed, and then suits. If it had not been for the mortinure already on his bouse Mr. Maxwell could have raised enough money to tide him over his difficulties. But a second mortgage no one would take.

Hie depression in trade continued, and matters went oa from bad to worse till poor Maxwell was at his wits' end, and almost harassed to death.

It wa» in this extremity that he said to bis »It would such an easy

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thing for him sueh an way thing! He would never miss a comfort, and we would be lifted out of so much trouble.'

He spoke of a wealthy relative who lived in a large city a few hundred miles away, to whom he proposed te write and ask the loan of a flaw thousand dollars. But the proposition, aa we have aeen, waa not favored by bia wife, who believed more in God's help, when it flowed into self-help, than in any other kind. She understood her husband better than he understood himself, and felt sure that a loftn from a rich relativo would only add, in the end, to their embarraaament, and leave them, moat probably, under the lifelong humiliating of a debt that could not be exacted, and for the payment ef which her husband would not use the needed self-denial.

All very true,' he had repllod to her exhortation to look upward for help 'but He helps by human agency.'

It waa some time before Mrs. Maxwell replied. Then she said 'Ood works in our affairs more in ua and by us than tbiough others. When we come into difficult places it is better to call into effort our own resources, small though tbey may be, than to give up and call to others for help.'

But I have no resources,' replied Mr. Maxwell, with a distressed look and tone. 'I can neither sell goods nor cellect what is due me. I am on the verge of ruin. Without outside help all is lost. If it wasn't for this wretched mortgage on our house I could get along but no ono will lend on a second mortgage. I was a fool ever to have put It there But I'm nevor willing to let well enough alono.'

He struck tho key-note there, and well his wile knew it, but she did not add to his self-reproach by a confirms tory word.

Let us give up tVis house,' said Mrs. Maxwell, abruptly. '(iive up the house!' he exclaimed.

Yes bay window, Mansard roof and allT We shall nover have any more comfort here. It is spoiled for our use. Let us sell it, and take a cheaper home.'

Why, wile! what are you driving at?' 'At tho solution of our dilliculty. The mountain that stands across our path to-day has been reared by our own hands. It is not woll for us to ask another to lift us over it. We built it up. Let us pull it down.'

Mr. Maxwell droopod bis head, aud sat in deep thought for a long time. Looking up, at length, be said, in subdued voice:

Not our bands, wife. Wo did not rear the mountain. It was builded by me. But I cannot take it down alone. You will have to endure like toil aud privation. Ah! that is the bitterest thought!'

With a tender smile Mrs. Maxwell drew her arm about her husband's neck and kissed him.

The labor will be sweet,' she answered, 'for I shall know that its end will be peace and rest for you. That will make the way plain and the trouble light.' it did.

And it did. The house was sold for a liberal price, aud alter paying off the mortgage Mr. Maxwell bad enough to clear his business of all embarrassment, and to give him comfortable surplus. A pleasant little home was taken at on annual ront considerably below the interest on the propertysold, and into this the family drew closer together. •The heavy lines that so ofteu marreu the brow ot Mr. Maxwell, the expression of care that had taken the old sweetness from bis mouth, the fixed, absent, look shadowing his eyes so long, were all gone now, and In their place were cheerfulness, hope and confidence.

It has taken me a long time to learn these lessons,' he said, one day. 'A man so well advanced in years should have known better.'

What lessons asked his wife. And he replied: 'That self-help is the surest dependence that a thing not easily afforded is never enjoyed, and that to be in debt is to be in purgatory.'

MRS. IiOOTENTOOTS RECIPE FOR MINCE riES. -T •Well, as for tellln' any one bow to make mince pies, It can't be did. Some likes one kind and some another. But for a good strong pie I can lay over any woman that ever mauled pie crust, and give me shortening enough and I can make a crust that will throw you into fits when yon bite into it, though I say it as shouldn't.'

Yes,' replied wo, 'evory one knows that but how do you make them Well, as far as I am concerned, I won't brag on my pies—they always speak for tnemsolves,likean old cheese. They ain't so pnffy as some, but tbey are rich, and what insides I put into •em always stays there, for my mother always said to me, 'Kotura, always keep the insides in your pie* for it they slop over into the oven and burn, ft kind o' scents 'em up so that they ain't fit for a pig, and your father can't bear

Yes, yonr pies have a splendid reputation, Mrs. Hootentoot,' said we, 'But what meat do you use?'

Well, I declare meat! why, I never puts much meat in 'en» some folks always takes the bash from breskfsst and then throws it into a pie-crust for mince plo for dinner, but for my part I don't see how a pigcanatummick them they always sicken me. I can't stand so much dead hogs in pies. When you have got a lot of scraps, and don't want to make up soup with 'em, it is well enough to make 'cm up into pies and sell them to the hotel-keepers, but I never put a pie of that kind on my table but once, and that was when we bad sewin' society at our house, and old mother Cavendish called 'em 'dyspepsia tablets,' but she eat two pieces and was laid out stlffer'n a wedge-be-fore morning. 8ince then I fork in more fruit and less meat, snd for a good strong pie—'

Yea, but how many apples do you use?' Well, I declare, apples? Why bless your American heart, I am the most particular about my apples of anything In the lot. I generally take about as many as I think I shall want, though sometimes I have to threw a lot into the swill-barrel. But if I want a good batch of pies, or if the minister or school-master la comin' 1 allow for them, and fling in more cores and parings, they work up beautiful, and there ain't no man In ten that can tell what's in a pie anyhow. Some folks puts in the seeds and worms. I never do: I am the most particular woman in tie world about that. If there's snytbing I bate, it's apple seeds in a pie. Tbey are eternally gettln' into your holler teeth, snd then you have to work an hour to get 'em out, and one night the baby (we always call him the baby though he is going on seven, now) keipt us awake all night, just because of a pesky seed in his tooth. Father gave him two bottles of Godfrey's Cordial, a bowlful of peppermint tea^paaked him,and finally took a string and pulled out a sound tooth, thinking be hsd the toothache, but noihin' done anv good until I went to work and pryed out an apple seed bigeer'n a chip, when be quit cryln' --y p/ illliSS

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Onoe in awhile I sat the ohoppln' up (be apples

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but ahe always eata more'n she ehops, and ao I set to work and flx myself, for I always make it a pint to haah my atuffup finer than chicken feed. If I don't

Yea, that is very important, Mrs. R. What next?' Well! of course what next! why the butter. Mince pie ain't worth a goose

aownwithout

uill butter it makes it slip easier and besides—' How much butter do you tske

How much butter do I tske? Well, I generally put in quite a chunk but

must be very particular not to put too much. Some folks think It don't matter what kind of butter tbey use for cooking but I am tbe most particular woman in the world about that. Hpmetimes, when I don't expect company, I ring a lot of old frows butter in on the old man he chaws so much tobacker be don't know tbe difference but as a general thing, have your butter fresh,'

How much butter did you efty Wall, as I said before, that depends on tho amount of stuff I want to make up and the amount of cider I take. I always use more or less cider. Some folks put in whisky, but that's the last thinfc I'd waste in that way besides fktber gets crosser'n a bear with a sore head when be finds his bitters gone. If you use whisky, don't put in much. There is a great deal in bavin' just the right quantities of ingrejlences and one day when I got too much whisky into the pies, the minister's wife came ovor to borrow a pie before they got cold, and that evening some ot the neighbors called in and found the whole family laid out with the 'jitn jams.' •Thereain't a better pie in the world than a good strong mince pie when it's mixed right but, my lady, when the insides ain't half stirred up I'd just as lief eat au old shoe, though it's all the way one's brought up. I once eat a piece of mince pio at tbe hotel in Cleveland, and good lanu! of all the pies. I sometimes git to dreamiu' of that pie yet, and wonder what the landlord was thinking of when he made it. Why the boarders told mo that they used to take a whole plo down to "the jewelers and get it made into a bair chain or watch guard. 'Necessity's the mother of invention and I don't wonder now when 1 soe a bald-headed cook.' •How muchBUgar do you take?'

Wal, thut depends on whether you want it very sweet or not there ain't one in ten that likes a sweet pie, and then again some can't git away with a mouthful il it ain't sweeter'n a molasses jug.

Now father was alwaj's a great hand for sweetnon before he failed in biziness (sent to Columbus for stealin' horses), but after that he kind of soured on everything, and said he didn't give a cent whether he had sugar or not. I'm a great hand for sweetenin', aud every one in my family has a sugar tooth In their beads, which makes a great difference, you bet! wbon it comes to mixin' up mince meat.'

Do you use eggs in your mince

•Why, of course I do eggs is what gives em' richness.' How many does it require?' •Well that depends upon whether the hens aro laying or not. When eggs is plenty I use plenty, but when the old scratch gits into the hens, and you can't find an egg once a month its precious little use puttiug in eggs. It does distress mo when I thiuk of thom pesky hens. Some dr them tend right up to their blziness and lay all winter long, but there is a lot of them blasted •sbangaroos,' that father bought out to the Northern Ohio fair, and the Bramy's they ain't worth tho time it takes to wring their necks, they just go round all day squawinglike all posessed eating up everything,spoons, forks, shingle nails loft out doors, and don't lay anv more'n one egg a year, and that's *a soft shelled one. Then last spring I went and chalked off an odd number of nice fresh eggs and put 'em under a hen that bad been clucking round for a Veek. About two weeks after that I went out to the barn and found she had left the eggs and had been sitting on a lot of corn cobs. My raoionsl I never came so nigh losng my temper in the world. I tied about ten yards of red flannel to her tail, ducked her once or twice in tho horse pond, and let her go. That spiled her fun.'

Yes, what do you use for flavoring?'

There agin you'll have to use your own judgment. Some likes one thing and some another, you know. If you go the whole figure on temperance,why some other kind o' flavyrln' '11 do as well as wine or brandy, I s'poso. But whatever you make up your mind to use, bo pertie'lar to get in a sufficiency, or else your pie Ml be flat. I always make it a pint

How long must it bake

Well, bakln's wbat makes the pie if it ain't chucked right iu the oven as soon as the crusts on It's apt to sour, or if its in a chair, tho cat wftl jump on it and He down, and there's nothln' that makes a pie so soggy and flat as to have a cat lie on to It an hour or two. I havo worked sometimes half an hour with a bellows and saleratus to git a crust up agin af*©r a cat's laid on It. Roback's planter Is all that will fetch pie up after it's boen sit down on or dropped. flatter myself that I can throw np jest aa good a pie as any woman in Crawford county, cats or no cats, and as for iettln' such things botber me—'

Hera we left, to lay Mrs. Kootentoot's nwips for mince pies before our readers.

AN AERIAL HOTEL.

The latest thing in hotels is suggested by an ingenious correspondent of tbe Galveston News. It Is to be a huge balloon, firmly secured by strong attachments at a proper heigbt. 'Galveston,' he saya, 'is within one mile of the most delightful climate in the world and this climate directly overhead.' To tbe enormous balloon there is to be attached a framework of sufficiently strong wire, fitted up to accommodate one hundred guests. This airy saloon will be reached by a smaller balloon acting as an elevator. When the barometer indicates disturbing weatuer the gas can be let off, and the whole establiabment brought down to solid earth. We can imagine a caravansary of this kind perfectly delightful. Owing to the purity of tbe air tbe chambermaids would bloom in perpetual youth and in such vicinity to tbe immortal gods every man waiter would develop into a Ganymede and every table girl into a Hebe. As for the gentlemanly clerk, what limit wonld there be to his celestial gifts and graces? And here would the landlord grow solid, impressive, and jovial as Jove himself. So new the moon and stars, wbat mors charming place could there be for flirting? And when we call to mind how eaaiiy the bores could be thrown over, we feel that we need sy no more.

AS agreeable little paraaite has been discovered in beef and mutton, and is said to be more dangerous than tbe famed tricl-h"%$piraU*. te

SARATOGA DANCINO. The fosbion of dancing Is not at all oonmopolite—not even natloaal. In Saratoga tbe different styles make a medley.

If you see a two-hundred-pound man and woman perspiring around with their pompous bodies tossed lightly and springily in tbe air, arma swaying keeping good time, and making grand Pendens salaams for a bow in tne Lancers, you can set them down as belonging to the old Tweed-Fisk-Loland-Americus Club school.

If you see two heated young people tripping fast away ahead of the music, taking short steps, and jerking through a square dance as if the house was on fire and the set must be completed before any one could take to tbe fire-es-capes, you can set them down as from the plantation districts of Pennsylvania and the West. It is the steamboat quickstep.

If you see a black-eyed youth with long bair, and a young lady with liquid black eyes, and ske has her two bands on tbe young man's shoulders at full length, andstauds dlrectlv in front of him,and tbey both go hopping round like Siamese twins with springs under them, you can wager they are from Louisville, Memphis or Little Rock. Tbey bavo the square-hold wrestling step.

If you see a young fellow grasp a young lady firmly around the waist, seize ner wrists, stick her hand out like tbe bow-sprit of a Sound vacbt, and both hump up their back like a pair of mad cats on a door-yard fence, and then go sliding slam-bang against people, over people, through people, up and down tbe room.sidewise, backward and up sbd down like a saw-mill gate, you can, having learned their dancing, join the Morristown, Rivordale and Yorkers sociables. It is the suburban New York saw-mill jump up.

If vouseo a couple gliding gontly and slowly and lazily through the Lancers, just as fast as the time, but keeping step with the music, quietly sauntering through the "grand chain," too languid to whirl their partners, talking sweetly all the time, as if tbey were strolliug in a graveyard, you can rest assured that they aro from New York, and from tho most fashionable sections, between Madison Square and the Park. This Is tbe graveyard saunter step.

If you see a fellow clasp a girl uieltingly in his arms, squeeze her hand warmly, hold her swelling bosom on his, and the both go floating down the room locked in each other's embrace, looking like one person, his feet only now and then protruding from a profusion of illusion and lace and so on, rely upon it, you can sat them two down as belonging to tbe intense Boston school. It is tho melting Harard jacket raco embrace.

Massachusetts, take our hat!—[N. Y. Graphic. „4

LONG BRANCH ON SUND'A 1*. Matthew Hale Smith writes to the Boston Journal

Long Branch is fast becoming tbe Ba-don-Baden or America. For years tbe Branch was one of tho quietest places on Sunday in all this region. It could only be roachcd by boats, and no boats ran on the Lord's day. Jim Fisk has this memorial, that he made Long Branch accessible on Sunday to tbe roughs of New York. The same influence that depopulated Bath, as fine a place as Long Branch,and quito as popular that drove respectable families from Rockaway, of 'Old Long Island's Sea-girt Shore'* memory that has made Cooney Island the home of gamblers, roughs, pugilists, and rows on Sunday, these influences are at work on Long Branch. The rough foreign elements, Jews, Germans, Italians, men who would hail with delight a continental Sunday, outnumber all others, and when they get possession never lose their grip. The Plymouth Rock and Jesse Hoyto go down to Long Branch Sunday morning's crowded to the waters edge. Tbo hotels are jammed full and the cottages bring a rental second only to Newport. Saturday night the rush for the Branch is tremendous. The President's presence, lhaugb he lives two miles away from tho hotels, gives a sort of courtly tinge to the place. Evory train brings in some distinguished straoger. Of course, politicians are plenty as blackberries. Officials from tbe departments are here daily. More or less of tbe Cabinet are at the Branch. The crowd.around the station is trifling. Magnificent turnouts can bo counted by the score. Everything is quiet on Sunday morning. The dancing is kept up on Saturday until midnight, and tne revelers sleep late. Some of tbe great hotels are entirely occupied by Jewish. Everywhere tbey outnumber all other nationalities. The watering stylo of dress provalls. White is almost universal with ladies for morning attire. The church-goers are not few, though the non-attendants at oburcb outnumber all others. The houses of worship are small, but the attendance In the morning fills every seat. The Episcopal Roformed and Methodist Churches would be called elsewhere. Everything is quiet until after dinner. Then tbe scene changes. Pleasure soekers, wbo come to spend the day,show tbelr band. Tbe beach is black with bathers. Everything that has four legs and will bear harness is put into requisition. The economical go in droves past tbe Presidential cottage. Tbe bars are in full operation. The bowling-alleys are still, bnt tbo click of tbe billiard-ball can be beard distinctly from the road. As yet there is no dancing on Sundays but that is to comc. As the sun lowers thofasbionablo turnouts begin to crowd the roads, and a market day In England is not more lively. 'V"

AKAMCSIXO EXPERIMENT.—Tbe gaa of our cities van be lighted by frictional electricity, excited ny a lady's ordinary fur muff. Thus—place four tumblers upside down, upon the floor or carpet, and upon these lay a board or other substance to stand upon, within reach of tbe burner. Upon this insulated board let a person stand, and a second person take tbe muff and rub it down tbe back of tbe coat of tbe first, by which be or she (if it be a lady, with a woolen shawl on) will become charged with electricity sufficient to light the gas with the tip of the finger, as effectually as if done with an ignited match. To perform the experiment well requires three persons, one to turn on and off the gas, for If done by tbe person insulated and charged he will not only receive a shock, but discharge the electricit* before applying it to the gas. A number of person* can participate in the amusement at the same time, by insulating themselves and joining hands. Let the frictloif of the muff be applied te the person farthest from tbe burner, until all become charged, and the other extrome can light tbe gas, all feeling a sensible shock at the time of ignition or discharge of the fluid.

A GRiraraoitx sat alonfr time, very attentive, musing upon a cane-bottom chair. At length he said, "I wonder what fellow took the trouble to find all them ar boles and put straws around 'em." Hr-j 1 W* 4

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LITTLE PEOPLE.

Oh, Ma," said a little girl who had been to the show, "I've seen the elephant and he walks backward and eats with his tall."

A little boy hearing the phrase that "Matches are made iu besvon" said he "should think tbey could be made easier in tbe other place, where the brimstone is." This youngster's practical turn of mind will probably save him from becoming a gloomy sectarian.

Here's another illustration of the sublime truth that little boys wbo disobey their parents never rail to meet their own reward. A South Bend boy was told to milk the cows, but didn't, and when his father moved around in bis rear be dodged so quick that his father's leg was broken and now that boy can do as be sees fit until his father gets well.

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SINCE the passage of the Illinois law prohibiting discriminations by tbe railroads of the state, it is reported that a conductor on one of tbe roads has forbidden honeymoon "billing and cooing." Observing a bridegroom's arm out of place, he forbade other demonstrations. "But I hive a right to hug her." said John. "Not on the railroad," saiu tho conductor "Th£re is a law against all unjust discriminations on railroads, and as I haven't a woman for each man on the train to hug, your action is in violation of the luw and must be stopped."

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