Bloomington Courier, Volume 7, Number 43, Bloomington, Monroe County, 27 August 1881 — Page 3

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BARVBSSP.

jy liast don this tb in ?" I cried ery ilia; plotted while 1 slept! stole while I, confiding:, kept : my fiiire t, dearest uel d beside ;

neia so sunny and so wide, udnight could a foe nave crept this nana." Ala! in vain, I wept; c the poison tares to pluck or hide, ".s is loss ; sue hurt can not be healed: ver, spite of al I new seed I sow, -summer's sun and winter's purest snow, ever poison tare s my beautiful field, shining harvest? waving to and fro. rever poison tans is doomed to yield ! l9 with swift clear-sighteaness from pain, s -

one long on no, wo suction gaining

sight, ....... out at first, in suffering from the light, bacfc and-fenow, with anguish keen as

rain.

; who Iiftd In ;reaoheroua ambush lain,

stealthy sowed nis poison tares oy nteht.

work unon ainv beauteous field this

blight. ible I walk be? ide t h e loaded wain :

.ead bowed down by shame, and dumb

my tongue- . rives each man the gifts he has be

stowed,

m 3ets exactiaxi measures wmcu are

ovred.

. seed from which these poison tares

have sprung ' One idle day my own hand carelessTfinng. I only reap thecal vest tnat I sowed. H. Hi In. Independent.

gomp:sn8atio. f: ,

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Argonaut. : - .... "Ach! I have no letter from home!"

We were sitting, Herr Schenning

ana 1, m tne sm.aeot some young red

woods, far op ni the mountain side, uaying strayed a little from our own band of nicnieers. The trees, scarce moving in the light breeze, drooped their long shade ws down the grassy slope, where in the sunny places the yellow butterflies flitted in and out among the purjle lilies. The madrp- ; nas spread their broad and shining i leaves to the sun, delighting in its fervent heatj and " making cool shade where the deer might rest when there were no picniefcian revels txr desecrate their solitude. Through our sympathy with this beautiful spirit of solitude there hadf alien upon us a long silence.. . '..,... .; "What news aave you from home?" I asked- Herr Seaenning at last, merely by way sayings something; Without a movement of a muscle to show that he htd heard me, he continued to gaze at the mountains, or rather far beyond them, to some white clouds slowly sailing through the blue. I was about to repeat my question, but paused, seeing the color deepen on his " dark, German face, and presently, with , a great sob, as the flood-gates burst, came the cry: "Ach! I have no letter from home!" . , Ke buried his face in his hands, and with dismay I saw the swift-falling tears slip through his ringers; but the storm was as, brief as it was intense. Herr Schennin g was .not one to give way to maudlin grief.

. "You must thins l am a guttering idiot," he said; as he laughingly shook the: last tear3 6om his Angers. "Kb," I answered, "I think you are homesick, and I know the misery of thai malady."1 ; .. " "Yes; in fact, I had a sudden and overpowering attack of it. Your question was a droiS added to my heart's full cup. That tree" pointing to a fir tree hat points to the sky -"with its great waving arms and whispering boughs, had oorne me . far through . yonder calm &y to the fatherland. I was a boy again, and had strayed to my favorite fir tree at the edge or the forest: rocked in its branches, I heard the wild songs of the woodland ; I saw the silvery gleaming of Murg flowing down the "Rhine ; I saw the blooming or chards. the Dirt- haunted grove and the little white house of Bluaieawald. The fragrance of ito flower-garden came to me across the meadow, and I knew who walked there, wearing in her golden hair the blue flow rs that I ioved my little Barbara. I cannot remember the time when I did not love her, and think of t er as mine. For her I ' studied, and struggled and won my school-day prises; for her I sought to make myself vise and honr-rcd i for her sake, who hatl no gold for her dower, only her swee o self, more precious to me than all the gold of California heaven know-, too precious, I thought, io be degraded by the slavery of our old world-life of poverty for her dtar sake I put aside her little clinging hand? and kiijsed her pleading mouth, and came away to this great golden land of Ameiiea. I so wise with my Latte and Gieek. so skilled in .meta-

pensstioii" and just then we discovered that we were out of sight of our companions. Herr Schenning touched the horse, and we sped over the rojad at a pace that promised to soon bribg ns'un with them ; but, to our surprise.

we neither saw nor heard them. The way began to seem strange. Herr

Schenning adjusted his spectacles and

toofc a survey of our surroundings. ,

"It is altogether the wrong wav," he

said, "but if we make haste backward

we may reach home before it is very

late."

My Heart sank a little, for tne way

over which we had come was particu

larly mountainous. There were places

which! hardly cared to pass after dark

and Herr Shenning, with his short sight, was, as he himself said, "not a pretty good driver. And how they

would laugh us! However, there was nothing for it, but to retrace our way as swiftly as possible. Our . conversation

drooped somewhat, we both seemed to

have a good deal of .tbiukiug that

would not bear putting into words, al

though we made a brave joke no w and

then to keep up the illusion of not

caring.

"But you are getting chilled," said

Herr Schenmnsr, anxiously.

I was indeed shivering in the cold night wind that came rushing down

the canons.

"Will you please out on "my coat?"

he implored, in comical distress.

1 stood but a moment upon cere

mony, tnen allowed mm to WTap tne

warm garment about me.

"jNow "1 said, lausrning, "it you con

tract an acute bronchitis through your

gallantry, I shall take you home and take care of you."

"Thank vou." he answered, fervent

ly. f ;To be taken home and taken care

of seems to me, just now, to. he the

greatest good. If you kindly condset

me to some asylum for tne um been

ions' i . snouid De iorever graierui. What compensation, think you. there

can be for pur present woe?"

"I&et us await developements," I re

plied, with, I confess a-sort .of tremor

jn my faith.

Hooked at the frowning cliffs and

glaced at the yawning gulfs below. The sun had set long smee the night

was deepening. Ipt all courage fad

ing; i ttitt nor care now wnat tney

thought." x wanted to be out ot tne

terror of the way, safe under some

roof.

41Herr Schennicff. do you remember

that snug ranche we so , much admired

as we came along this way?"

"Yes, we must be near it; and there

indeed,- is the light from the little

house "

We soon reached the gate. The

moon at that moment rose grandly

above the mountain?, and poured her radiance do wn upoQzthe . cottage with

its elustering out-buildings, its embpw-

fornia to mafe e my fortun e. I laugh to think how I have eroned and stumbled

in the broad; bewildering light of this! fact that we belonged to a picnic

ering shrubs and trees, the orchard

and vineyard stretching far along the

hillside. The fragrance of mignonette

and roses came down from the garden

like old friends to welcome us. "How lovely!" I exclaimed involuntarily.. : "lt is a little Blumenwald,"; said Herr Schenning with-a tremble in his voice. ' Our first greeting came from the porch, a cloud of smoke from a generous pipe, and from its neighborhood came an unmistakable German voice, making answer to Herr Schenning salutation. A rapid conversation in their own ianguvie seemed to put us in the right light, for our host usher-od-us cordially within the cottage. aI dinks you moost pe- quite shilly," he said, placing a chair for me near the hearth, where a pleasant fire added its glow to the hospitality of the kindly voice. "It is zo-cold aut der mountains ; it is petter you taste dis viu e. Mein frau will pooty quick come ; she is mit der shildren. Ach, she is come, " he added, as a fair-haired, rosy young matron entered. t4Katrina, dese pe zom young people vat got lost from a bignig." "Ach zo!" exclaimed Katrina, com

passionately, looking at U3as if she

t nought wo migat be tne veritable Babes in the Woods grown up. At that, and the toueh of womanly sympathy in her look and tone, I burst into hysterical weeping. Her arms were about me in a moment; and what wit h her droll English, her humorous expressions and comforting assurances, I recovered my composure, and glanced at Herr Schenning to see how it was with him. P-de; and with hps tensely set, he was azm g at Katrina as if intent upo" penetrating some mystery. Kaina, in her en thusiasm,Avas running about the room, and putting sup

per on the table, quite jgnorant of the

1 I T . il Ll A. I

tne simnie xrucu is !3meumes tue

sharpest kind of sarcasm.

1 'My brethren , ' said a Western m inister, 'the preaching of the Gospel to

some people is like pouring water over

a snoitire it soaks m and stays. To

others it is like wind blowing through

a chicken coool My experience of

this congregation is that it contains

rnojre chicken coops tha.n s ponges.

It i?i tho pride of America that she offers an opportunity to the humblest

to become great. We knew a boy who was so poor twenty-five years ago that

he ! had to secret 1 v borrow a 1 oa f of

cako from from a passing bakers cart

to keen him from starving, while now

he is one of the best shoemakers in

Sing Sing. ..,

It is said that the real difference be

tween a blunder and a mistake is that

When a man puts down a poor um

brella and takes up a good one he makes

a mistake, but when no puts 'down a

good one and takes un a bad one, he makes a blunder. For the former there

is abundant excuse, but for the latter

there is none at all.

Some knaves are meek like Uriah

Heep, and others are hut knavish and impudent. A judge, after a teasing examination of a culprit, lost his pa

tience and cried: "Sirrah, you are an

unmittisrated rosrue." The fellow

looked blandly at; the Jud&a and re

plied: "Sir, just as you-uttered tbat

sentence the clock struck two. Did

you notice?"

TABLE TALK.

of the jockey Derby

Freaks of Lightning,

Lik'htuing struck a tree at the head

of'Colvin's Creek, 0,. and kindled a

fire that swept 7,000 acres of land, des

troying timber, crops and turpen

tine.

Mother and son were struck by light

ning m tne residence of Widow C'ran

si. at Watertown, Wis, The mother

lost her hearing and her twelve -year-

old son was killed.

Lightning struck the house of A. J.

Smith, at Amherst, Wis., and made

kindling "wood of the iour posts ol the

oea cn wmcii Air. ana Airs, smitn were

sleeping, killing Mrs. Smith instantly arid injuring her husband and child.

Air, Lul, of JNew. York, was talking

with Air. Payne and Air. Wvnn.in

eir warehouse, at Dadeville, Ala.,

when lightning struck the warehouse.

Mr. Lill was tossed up against the ceilings, Mr. Wynn threw an involuntary double somersault backward, and Air.

Payne was stripped of his clothing and

thrown to the floor.

The sun was shining bright at Adri

an, Alien., although there were indi

cations of a distant storm, when a

tehtning stroke instantly killed

Charles Mead, a boy who was playing

ball. The bolt struck the boy's right

emple. burning off his hair, stripping

him of his clothes, and sent into the

air the ball he held in his hand.

! A bolt of lightning shattered an elm

in front of the residence of Gooige Tate, at Biudeford, Me., entering ihQ

house by a seoud story window, ahiv-

The Pullman 'Company had at the works near Chicago, a fortnight ago, 3,175 men on the pay roll. All the chief French lighthouses wiU soon be lit by electricity, and provided with powerful steam trumpets

for fog signals. On a r ecen t race d ay in on e English meetings, Archer, the of Iroquois when ho w?on the

rode five winners out of seven.

The BfiV. Mr, Yetterling, a Detroit

pastor, got drunk on an excursion

steamer, was caught kissing a girl, got a violent blow from another whom he

tried to kiss, and was finally arrested.

Plagiarism has mat with punish

ment in the ease of William A. Mo-

stayer, an actor, who produced in Boston, after an injunction had been ob

tained, a play which he had stolen.

He has been fined $1 ,481.

A Philadelphia man. being slapped

in the face by his wife, turned white

with rage, stood still for a moment as

though irresolute, and then, procuring

a gun from an adjoining room, committed suicide.

Italian laborers are nearly as unpop

ular in France as the Chinese are in

California, because they work for wages at which a Frenchman turns up

his nose, and because they are steadier

and more intelligent.

A ladv who occupied a cottage at

Mount Desert last summer had a box

made for her jewelry in imitation of a Bible. While absent one day some

one entered her house and carried off

her silverware, but her box ol jewelry

was undisturbed.

The hanging of nineteen Alolly Ma-

guires in the anthracite coal region of

Pennsylvania completely destroyed

the order of assassins there; b it the re

cent murder oi a mine manager at j Dunbar brings out the fact tbat an or- j

ganization or the same kiuu exists in

the western part of the State.

An attempt is to be made in Phila

delphia to enforce the law against carrying concealed weapons. Policemen

are to arrest every man whom tney

have any reason to suspect, and arrest those on whom pistols are found. The Mayor,, who is responsible for the

movement, believes that it- will do

much to prevent murders.

Do clergymen commonly tbh on

Sunday while on their .summer vacations? A minister's wife says so in a letter to the Congregationalist, but the editor replies; "We believe this to be a gross libel upon evangelical ministers

generally. We have seen a large num

ber of such ministers ou their vaca

tion year after year in various places, and have never known one to go a fishing on Sunday.

Mr. James .Hurley, the inventor of

the modern bicycle, is dead at the age of fifty. He was the son of a poor farmer in Albourne. England, and

showing great skill as a aiaohinist, be

came foreman of the Coventry Mae nine

without injuria ? the Company, in which capacity

splendid young world, while those who

can scarcely write the pieman names they bear; dig into the mysterious earth, and' lift their, hands glittering with treasure. At noma I might have walked with princes.. Here, poor, illdad, and shall I 2ay it-?- sometimes weajc with h inger, I wander uncared or, except when some gentle heart, ike yours brings me. for pity of my Ioneliness,in to a pleasan t day like this. But forgive me, for showing you such a broken spirit." "Broken !J Oh, dear ! I exclaimed; struggling wildly with my tears. I

L jahftuld ' think it would be like that of Mr.' Ploviu st's fathe r. pulverized,

crushed quite out of you. Herr Schenning," I added abruptly, why don't you put you C' pride lh your poeket7. and go home." - ' :. r . ' r"" ..r ' He laughed. s : "Alas! my pockets are too small, aiul, beside it would not be acceptea for fare, No, I have committed suicide ; I have no p lace, there or here. If I should one day slip from the sun-loved heights in some black abyss, where the starlight never fails. I should not be missed." T : "What!" I said ; "not even by little Barbara, who is wait log for her in Blumenwald? " "Heaven!" he cried 'in anotherexcess of despair, "there is no one wait

ing for me. jThink you such a foot such a begfer as T, should, be wrorth thatf Noj the father was right; he did well to marry her to Herr Heimsteher, whese broad orchards stretch to the verge of our beloved forest. Frau

Bar bar a is rich, I trust, and happy, Cith her fair haired children chrterins

araer kiie t. I f she eve r gives a t ho ugh t to the lover who-left "her so long ago. it is to smile at the fairy like future he promised her, though I dare to hone that sometimes, when the voice of my 1 fir tree comes to her through the twilight, or when she plucks these blue flowers f rem her garden, she will remember ne with a little throb of the old love. God bless her aud pitv a poor vretch like me. : ; ' The fir f ree waved its long arms in tho freshetri ng breeze ; the shadows crept up-from the gorges and spread along tne hillsides, as if seeking him who had spoken of their dark retreats; the bold outline of the palisades showed stem and frowning sgainsfc the skyr but the face of St.-Helena, grand and sweet, lay smiling toward the west, waiting for the sunset glory and the

solemn sfcmis nights

.eribff the mirror

tame, broke a fragment from the steel

plate of a sewing machine, cut a round

hole through tho floor into the room

below, broke a vase on the mantel in

this room, and departed after throwing to the floor Miss late, who was sittil u g in the next room . In a recent storm in Iowa, ball of fire came out of the sky, remaining apparently motionless for a few seconds, and then sent out in as many different directions, fully thirty zigzag bolts of lightning, which flashed over the whole northern heavens. In this same. storm a wave of light shot up from the southwestern horizon and illuminated the heavens for twenty minutes. Tbe light was flame-colored and bright as sun-lrght. It changed to violet and bluish-red, which colors lasted forty minutes.

How it? could have happened to the ever-splendid Uirich and myself to to lose ou-way I cannot imagine, but we achieved that brilliant feat. Driving quite by ourselves in the rear of the .small pien icing procession, we fell into further UJk of California ways. I was trying tc- impress mHnheer that he was too Jouug to 0 IMris life a failure; that no ene, at any ger in Califor aia, need despair, outers be lay down like

uuwaru ami jet tne crowd rush over

him; that ho must fight, and keep on fighting; that as often as he waa thrown, no t speak, he must get up and rush at it again that just as sure as fate there was a competence, if not a forJun, for every brave mau here, then I repeated my well -tried motto, "For cttfery: woe there is soaw com-

Taking up a book that lay upon a table

beside me, I sts.rted . at reading the name, "Frau Heimsteher," and gave Katrina such a look that she came to see what was on the page 11 Ach, yes; that is pring me from Germany by mein sistei. She comes pooty soon. She makes asleep mein kleinemann, mein ketle Uirich vat she give him de name. "It is," she added, confiden zly , 4de name of vc n she lofe long, long ago. He is dead now- poor Uirich. Ach, wat a peety! Zo nice he vas,so vise,und she so much lof e him ! She vill never get in arri ed to any odder von. Ach, no!" said Katrina, pen sively returning to giAre another touch - to the neatly spread table. ' - Herr Schenning sat" with bowed head, his face hidden. I heard soft footsteps apprbching, and a faint odor of violets came through the door. , I looked. There in the doorway, with the 1 1 tie Uirich slipped from her arms and clinging to her dress, stood a golaeh.haired woman, fair and sweet as any . pictured Marguerite,, .though a little past the time of blooming youth. She loosed beyond me, her blue eves

slowly dilating;, to Herr Schenning, I

as if spell-bound by an angelic vision. Her sweet face flushed like any rose.

tih, with an ineffable smile and crv ot"

joy she reaches uit her.aVms to him: "TTlril.t"

'Barbara, rlieblingf Ach, Gott in Himmel! : , . . . When some months after this, Herr Schenning hadJ taken out citizen's papers, and, with his little frau, settled upon some Government land : adjoining Herr Hei msteher who, after all, hadn't stayed at home, and hadn't married Barbara and had, as a climax discovered upon his ranch a geld mine that promised to pay for working, I asked him what he thought, of the. law of compensation. . , . "It is divine Vf he anawered. fervent..T.V",. ' Moral Musings. , It was said of a Boston nhilosopher that he had grown to be so'tali that he had forgotten most of the incidents that occurred during his childhood. When you say in praise of a. man that he is a tried man, your judgment is made more, valuable by adding the name of the court in which the trial took place. It does not follow because you and

your wife both agree on one point

namely, that you want to be master.

that you should therefore ha ve a peace-

iui anu narmonious househoid. i' It could hot have been an Irishman

wno pm a si.n ooard on a road across a bog with this inscription, "Please

take notice that when this board is under water the road is impassable."

. n.you Buuum nuver worry about a

misfortune until it actually happened, you would be far more cheerful than

vou are. w e borrow trouble, as natu rally as we would like to borrow money.

The farmer who (old Lord Lands-

downe that he was so accustomed to

the company of "honest, plain snoken

peole" that no felt out of place in the

Keep th$ Blood Pure. , I will now tell, writes a physician in Harper's Weekly, of a few things which tend to render the blood pure and healthy. Rising in the morning at an early hour, and going out for a short walk before breakfast, does, previously liaving bathed and dressed without undue haste. The walk need not be along oue,and a glass of pure cold water can always be taken, j os t before starting, with advantage, or a cup of milk by those who are weakly. Seven o'clock, or earlier in summer, is a good time to get up. It is just possible, however, that, when called you may be enjoying a sound sleep,not having resteti well in the first part of the night. If such be the case ara you to get. up? Yes. get up all the same; you will sleep better tho next night. Secure yourself being aroused at a certain hour every morning by an alarm or otherwise. Early rising is a habilt that is not by any means difficult to acquire, but it really is a blessed one. The walk too, before breakfast may not be relished for a lime, but it will soon be found to have improved the appetite. The breakfast on the live-by-rule priaciple 'should be a fairly substantial one both in quality and quantity. As to the latter, be guided by 5,-ur own judgment: there ought to bo a sense of satiety after eating, but no feeling of fulness and no depression of spirits or sleepiness. The morning meal, and indead all meals, ought to be take a at

the same hour every day. By getting

up soon you gam , many advantages, two of whichlire these: you have not to hurry through wjth breakfastdue mastication is the , very first act. in the manufacture of healthy food aud you can spare half an hour alter the meal qefore going to work or business; this gives the stomach a fair start, aud enables it to do its work properly. If you have more than a half an hour to spare and letters to write, by all means WTite them, for tbe evening before retiring to rest should be a time of perfect peace

j of mind and repose of body.

. .e.. .

Quick Fortunes.

Oil City Derrick.

That the oil region is a country Where ior tunes are made quickly, is well known. The man who is begging his bread to-day may be wearing a diamond in his shirt front to-morrov, aod the day laborer of last week is a rn anted man of the next month. On our

streets wre can point to men who

couldn't draw a check for ten cents six months ago. Now they can draw their check for $10,000 and the bank wouldn't accept it. Yonder is a man wrho walked into Oh City as a tramp a year ago. To-day he is a porter in a hotel. Here comes a man w ho boi rowed ten cents of us to get a glass ol' millr. Now he wants to borrow ten cents more. He says he wants to buy a meal. He dines on liquid meals. Go to Bradford and you will see the same evidence of prosperity. A man who came into this field when the excitement began, with less than $100, is now worth as many thousands. Another, who was' put in the lock-up and borrowed mouey to pay his fine, was arrested last week and sent tojn.il. He couldn't, borrow any thing this time. Here's another ruau who went there with his last cent in his pocket. Last month he drew a Check for $20,000. He, too, is in jail. He signed another man's name to the

check. Such are the ups and downs of

oil life. Hereto-day, in jail i;o -morrow. The diamonds sparkling in your shirt front in the rays of the morning sun

may bo pawned for fifty cents ere the

orb of day sinks to rest. The man w:ho hasn't a place to lay his head to-

:aiKnt, wm oe provided wra a oea in

the "cooler" before morning, but the man with pluck andperseverenee, who

has less than Slu on ins arrival here,

wm in three weeits own a ten acre lease and an oil well, with a $15,000

mortgage on it.

n?s in

vent, ve mind conceived and carried out the bicycle. But the first macbine was very rude, and has since been much improved on.

It has been the practice of the Inter

ior Department to hand each Indian

reservation over to tho religious teaeii ings of one- particular den oaii nation,

io that the converts oceanic

Methodists, Baptists, or something else, purely according to chance, and never from, choice. This is not to be changed.

Under the new arrangement the Ro

man Catholic church will go into the

field with a large force of priests.

A compound is described for the

preparation of what are termed safely

envelopes. That part of the envelope covered by the flap is treated with a solution of chromic acid, anion ia, sul

nhuric acid, sulphate of copper, and

fine white paper. The flap itself is coated with. a solution of isinglass in acetic acid, and, when this is moistened and pressed down on the under part of the envelope, a solid cement is formed, entirely insoluable In acids,, alkalies, hot or cold water, &team, etc- . Mrs. Prouufut is. one of tbe loveliest girls in Southern Kansas, and a year ago was the recipient of much admiring attention from the opposite sex; but now there is a disposition ou the part of the young men to tay away from her. The change is caused by the laet that three of her sui ors have received gun shot wounds white in her company. It is not known who the assassin is, but he is supposed io b-i somebody who, being unable to secure the prize himself, is determined that nobody shall do so. Fourteen beavy-ladeu freight cars broke away from a train on the Chicago and St. Paul Railroad and started down a grade of eighty feet to the mile. A locomotive went in pursuit, and made a brisk chase, but gravity proved too much for steam, and" t lie runaway cars were soon thundering along at the rate of j sixty 'aii Irs an hour., A telegram was sent to clear the track, but It could not be obeyed cuiek enough by one trai n of oars. :rom which the occupants escaped just in ii ;ue to avokl death iu one of the most violent collisions that ever happened. The hero of "The Romance of a Poor Young Msn," at a lilwaukee theatre, resolved as usual to burn the -paper which proved his ownership of the proud Marguerit's home. ,This sacrifice do I make to my love" he

I cried, and held the document over a

lamp. It did not ignite, and he nerv

ously thrust it do wn the lamp chimney,

uuiueu ma uugurs, unu exunguisneu tbe iiame in his niad eflbrts to make

the sacrifice to bis love: but all in vain

and the paper only got a crumpling.

American Indiaas bas been newly considered by Col. Mailery, who arenes

against the theory that the tribes speaking mutually unintelligible dialects, or languages, have a common system

of signs. Jle believes that the signs

were used to enforce, ratier than to

convey, meaning. The Indians in general know comparatively few of

the more abstruse signs, though facility

or expression dy stmpie sums js co:n-

mon among them, and is due to

wTaudering individuals frenuentlyeom-

ing in contact with tribes whose speech

they can not understand.

The drains, leading from the Phil a

delphi Mint yielded about $1,000 worth

of gold and silver ut the last annual

scouring. The recovery of metal by

bv that operation has amounted toS2L-

prestir.ee or am orusmp, snowea that ! Ut'U in nineteen years,

' turned awav with a laueh of keen en-

iovment.

'Will you go to the iu ilr mary? We have an infirmary and quarantine;; for

sometimes the poor creatures we take

in need a good deal of purifying. We

have one boy very ill with consumption: he can not live, and I wi3h to

see him, for he would be disappointed

if hp knew I had been hero and had

not seen him."

We went into the cool and sweet

chamber, and there lay the boy. He

wns verv much excited when he saw

Mr. Spurgeou. The great preacher sat

bv his side, auc I can not ciescnoe tne

scene. Holding the boy-s hand in his,

he said: .s

11 Well, mv dear, vou have some

nrecious promises in eizht all aiound

the room. Now, dear, vou are going

aud you aro very tired lying here, and

soon vou will bo free from all pain

and vou will rest. Nurse, did hs rest

last night?" "He coughed very much." , 4Ah, my dear boy it seems very hard for you to lie here all day in pain and cough all night. Do you love Jesus?" "Yes," "Jesus loves you. He bought you with his precious blood, and He lenows what is best foe you. It seems hard for you to lie here and listen to the shouts of the healthy boys outoide at play. But soon Jesus wrill take you

home, ami then He will tell you the reason, and you will be so glad." Then, laying his hand on the boy, without tin? formality of kneeling, he sai l, "O Jesus, Master, thus dear child is leaching out his thin hand to find thin e. Touch him , dear Saviour, wi th th.y loving, warm clasp. lift him as he passes the cold river, that his feet be uo" chilled by the water of death; take hita home in thine own eood time. Comfort said cherish him till th,ut good time comes. Show him thyseli as he lies here, and let him see thee and know thee more and more as his loving Saviour." After a moment's pauso ha said,

would like? Would you like a little canary in a cage to hear him sing in the morni ng? Nurse, see that he has a canary wwuorrow morning. Goodbye, my dear; you will see the Saviour perhaps before ! shall." J had seen Mr, Spurgeon holding in in his power sixty-five hundred persons in a breathless interest; I kneiv him as a great man, universally esteemed and beloved ; but as ho sat by the bedside of a dying paupei child, whom hw beneficence had rescued, he wa- to me a greater and grander man th ip when spying the mighty multitude ut his will." . : : r

The T'ty, Bill Nye's. Bqemwiitig. Much ha&iraon said of the flj of the

ieii. our lew write aooux mm wno

arc bald-headed. . Hence we say a word. It i of no

use any more to deny tho horrible truth. Although as beautiful us a peri in other ways, our ti esses on top have seccumbed to the inclemency of the weather and our massive brow is slowly creeping over toward the back of our neck. Nature makes all things even. If a man be possessed of such ravishing beauty and such winning ways that his power might become dangerous, she makes him bald-headed. That is our fix. When we have our hat on: and go chasing down the street with that camel glide of ours every one asks who that noble-looking Apollo with the deep and melancholy eye is, hit when we are at the office, with our hat hung up on the French walnut' sideboard, and the sun comes softly in through the rosewood shutters and lights up the shellac polish on our intellectual dome, we are r ot so pretty. Then it is that the fly wit a gentle tread and seductive song, comes and pr ospects around oa our bump of selfesteem, and tickles us and raakes us mad. When wiget whore for bearanee ce ases to be a virtuje, we hat! of and hi t the place where. he was, while he goes over to the inkstand and snickers at us. After he has waded around in the carmine ink a while he goes back to the bump oi: spirituality and makes some red marks over it. Having laid off his claim under the new mining law, he proceeds to sink it. If we write anything bitter these diys; if we say aught of... our fellow man that is disagreeable or un just, and for which we afterward get licked, it is because at times we gel exj-jsperated and are not responsible. If the fiy were large aud weighed 2 X) pounds and came in here and told us if we didn't take back who t we had siid about him, he would knock out t ie window with our remains and let -i fall 100 feet into the busy street, it wouldn't worry us so much , because then we could strangle him with one hand while we wrote a column editorial with the other. We do that frequently. But a little fragile insect with no home and no" parents, aud only fonir or five million brothers and sisters, rains our confidence and then tickles our scalp till we have to write with a sheet of tar roofing over our head. Then he comes in and helps us read our proof. We. don't want him to help, but he insists on making corrections and putting punctuations iu ihe wrong place, and putting full stops whera they knock the sense all out of 1;he paragraph. , If the fly could ho removed from our. pathway we would inaieh along on our journey to the . tomb in a way Chat would be the envy and admiration of the civilized world. As it is we feel that we are not making a very handsome record, , . -ti-p- -""

Odd Tastes in Jewelry.

N, X. Sua.

way in a

Gough and Spurgeon An Affect sng Incident. Jol-nB. Gough 'snow book: "Sunlight and Shadow. A beautiful day it was for London as we rode together, chatting all the way. Tbe history of the Orphanage is intensely interesting. The commencettient was. a. sum of 20,000 to Mr. Spurgeon, from a lady, to commence an orphanage f or fatherless boys. All the money that has been expended has beeu raised by voluntary eontribu. tton, and j:he -20,000 is invested t& tu endowment. When we entered the grounds, the boys set up a shout o joy attheei&rht of their benefactor. I asked,. ''What are the requirements for iidrnisaionf He said, uUtter destitution. Nothing denominational. ;ye have more of the Church of England than o f the Baptists. We have Roman Catholics, Presbyterian s, Methodists all sorts. 1 ' After the boys , . had gone th rough their gymnastic exercises and military

drill, I. spoke a few words , to thera.:

Mr. Spurgeon was like a great boy among boys. He said, "There are two hundred and forty boys only think How many pence are there in a shilling?" "Twelve." ! "Bight. How many shillings i:a a pound?1' . "Twenty," "Right. Twelve times twenty, how many?" . "Two hundred and forty." " "That's a penny apiece for each boy." . .. ...

: "Here, Mr. Charles worth." handing him a Boyereigu, "give these boys a

penny apiece;" when a shrill hearty

hurrah was given, as Mr. Spurgeon

"Here is something new in the of ornamentation." a salesman

large uptown jewelry store aid, ojiening a box. Out Aralked s. monster beetle, fully four inches in length. About its body was a solid gold band, locked by a tiny padlock, to which was attached a costly gold chain, about two inches in length, fastened to a pin. The beetle's: back glistened in the light, having been treated to a suit-. of gold,

aud as iit lumbered along itn long legs

worked together m a curious fashion.

TfJ a tjhnw run. Ynil Pfi tllfi mil IS

j. v j - i - i

used to fasten lace or a shawl, or per

haps worn on the bonnet, the insect

crawling around the leng ;h of the

chain. They are perfectly harmless and not expensive, as they live on air that is, thev have never been seen to eat. This one was brought hero to mount, which is a very tine operation, as the Ugs and attentfa) are'all so delicate. After all there is nothing so objectionable about them, except the idea of having them crawl over you- They all come from South America, anil the only lot now in the city is to bo taken to France, were theowuier will try to introduce the fashion of wearing them. They cost from $10 to S50, depending ent irely on the mounting of the ring. There is nothing crueii about it, as they are bound loosly, and the gold has no effect on their hard sides." In Brazil, the fashion of wearing beetles is carded to a great extent, A well known resident has a beetle with a collar of gold wrhich meets at the top, s ml is there ornamented with a diamond of great value. The insect has a cage, surrounded by nho plants among which it lives in its native state, and nothing is neglected to make it as comfortable as possible. But the most popular insect used for ornament is a small phosphorescent beetle. These ar ofteu worn fastened in the hair und m the two phostphorescen tor lightgiving spots are on the sides of the head, the black insect is of course invi si able, especially when In the raven lq jks of the fair 'Braziiiiar s, Twenty or thirty of thee beetles wr.tll throw out a light sufaclent to read by, and wheu ai ranged fiiroimdWujhed hi a? circle,

r or grouped over the forehead and held in place, tho efteet is beautiful. Several years ago a New York lady gave a masquerade ball at her summer house in Newport. The dancing was on the lawn, and tho guests were requested to bo there half an hour before dark. The hostess wore the, costume

of night, and in the daylight her black dress, covered with ivy leaves, did not

attract special attention, nut when she

appeared in the erav throng after dark

she presented a perfect blaze, of light

and was the center of an admiring and

wonderine company. tremulous

waves of reddish-yellow flame seemec

to move over her entire dress, while in

a .

a cap on her neaa gieameu one nrey

star. The cause of this illumination was the phosphorescent light of more than five thousand - fire flies. For

weeks previous to the ball the designer

or the costume hau neen storing away fire-flies, and on the day of the fete

they were rapidly put on tho dress. As the licht-friviner is on the ventral sur

face, each one was placed on its back

and held down by a fine silver wire, so

skillfully caught that it could not turn

over or escape, anu wras not miureu.

The star was formed of many beetles.

In Jamaica a large beetle, the Xiam-

pyns, is used by ladies, eome or tne

phosphorescent beetles used by them

give out lights that have to be seen to

be appreciated, and more than twenty

different kinds are used, representing

as many different degrees or light,

shade, tint. &c. One, the Pygolampis,

has a rich orancre color, changing to

yellow, nickering in intermittent fiashes'of light; another, called Pho-

uns, is curious for tho gradual increase

of light it shows. Commencing with a faint reddish hue, it rapidly grows in

brilliancy, finally blazing like a torch,

a rich green light, and then dying

away to reappear again. They attract

other light giving beetles, and frequently numbers of lesser lights are

seeu flitting around them, combining

reu and yellow lights of the greatest

hnihaney. Other uses are made of

hese beautiful creatures than as orna

ments. Travelers have fastened them

to their feet and earned them in baskets of wicker to light their way in the dark. Southey mentions this in following lines in his poem, "Madoc:" She beckoned and descended, and drew out From underneath her vest a cage, or net It rather might be called, so fine the twigs Which lemi; it where,confined, two fire Hies Gave their luster. Snakes has been used as ornaments, the small iuoffensive green snake being the most popular, on account of their beauty and harmless nature. They coil around tho arm, clinging on with all the tenacity of their golden, bejewelled imitators that are now so fashionable. Animals, or parts of them, although naturally the adjuncts of barbaric splendor, are generally used in the make-up of fashionable toilets of the present day. Some of the handsomest sleeve buttons and studs are made of polished fish skin shark or dogfish being preferred, as they take a fine polish, and closely resemble the fossil coral Favosities, that is also used and when highly polished the delicate cells that were once the home of the coral polyp are distinctly visible, and as a whole resembles honeycomb. An expensive costume was a cape made of an extremely rare humming bird. The whole bird was- hardly larger than one's thumb, and on its breast a single patch of gold was found about an inch in lengtb. The cloai was composed wholly of these patches,

and in the sunlight must have vied

with the golden fleece. The birds are volued at S50 each. . A lady jin St. Augustine created a sensation by appearing in public with a chameleon resting on her headdress, aud held there jjby a delicate silver chain. The little creature was perfectly tame, and made uo attempt to escape; but yhen touched by other than its owner its throat purled up and curious waves of color passed over the whole body, ranging from deep green to a dark" Drown. Small lizards are used in Egypt by some of the native ladies as ornaments, and lie half concealed in the drapery that overhangs the face. The red-clawTed soldier crabs are some times used in Mexico as pins. The crab is dislodged from its stolen shell and given a beautiful pearly one, or one that has been plated with gold or silver. Fastened to the lace by a in and chain, they make unique ornaments.

es of professional life, for instance,must not inimasine that the fact of their having college education will permit them to leap to the top round of the ladder at once. The discipline they have is valuable, but chiefly so. as , a basis for the acquirement o;' practical knowledge, without which success .is imnosRible. Bv practical knowledge

wa mnnn finfiiisiin tance with the min

utiae or little details which go to make up all occupations Such knowledge

a college education cannot give, and

is not intended to tfiye. It is only to

be acquired by patient application.

The discipline of the college curriculum

must be supplemented by another kind

of discipline, namely, the discipline of

drudgery. JNo one, however largely

endowed With mental power, can r be exempted from the necessity of acquiring this discipline; It is far more essential to success than the discipline furnished by a college coursed

JOCOSITIES.

TIs well to quote the census number, To show the greatness of a nation, But better yet's the green cucumber To double up the population , ,.

HUMAN PINCUSHIONS.

How Needles anct Pms Work

and Out of the Body.

Bathing. Among the luggage of an English family the leather-covered hat bath is as inevitable as a portmanteau or a hat box, and is packed with movables of one sort or another, as if It were a trunk, and the well brn Englishman, women and child takes his "tubbing" as certainly and as much a matter of course as his. breakfast. This bath is usually a bedside affair. The maid who cads you in the morning lays be-, side the bed a soft thicK drugget, and places upon it the tub, fills it with water, aud places your towe!s,oue Hus sian and one huckaback, within easy reach, and you step from your bed into your bath, ; People who have no opportunity to enjoy sea bathing will be glad to know that a substitute nearly, if not quite as strengthening, is found in an ammonia bath. A gill of liquid ammonia in a pail of water makes an invigorating solution, whose delightful effects can only be compared to a plunge in tne surf. To weak persous this is an incomparable luxury and tonic. It cleanses the skin and stimulates it wonderfully, and leaves the flesh as firm and cool as, marble. More than this, the ammouia purifies the body from all odor of perspiration. Those in whom tho secretion is unpleasant will find relief by using a spoonful of the tincture in a bain of water, and washing the armpits with it every morning. Many people lind great comfort and benefit from salt water baths, arranged in this way: A coffee cup of fine distilled salt is mixed with a gallon of water, and with a hair glove or Russian bath cloth, the body is thoroughly bathed with the mixture, rubbing until the. body is aglow. Then follows ah exhilaration akin to surf bathiug. The druggists sell boxes of salt especially prepared, and weighing three pounds, for fifty-five cents. For a delicate child such a bath is recommended as especially beneficial.

Man y people h nd an occasion al bran bath greatly improves the condition of the skin. The French women find it leaves their dark clear flesh as soft as a baby's. A peek of common bran, to be had at any of the feed stores, is stirred in a tub of warm water. The rubbing of the scaly particles of the bran cleanses the skiu, while the gluten in it softens and strengthens the tisues. The friction of tho loose bran calls the blood to the surface, and nervous and irritable people find special benefit from it for their minds as well as their bodies. Physicians say the habitual use of soap on the face leaves the skin brown, "and recommend a little oat meal ixvthe water, or the ammonia suggested above. Ladies who have moist or cily skins thou Id use

quite not water tor men uatns, and a little fine bay rum rubbed over the face or a little of any of the fine toilet waters. A tablespoon i ul in . the wash bowl of water prevents that shiny appearance of the Iskiu wbieh is so annoying. The Discipline of Drudgery. New Haven Palladium. A "liberal education" is a capital thing,and the thousands of young men who are now honored with the title of A. B. are to be congratulated upou the good fortune whioh'has permitted them to acquire the mental discipline resulting from a four-years course of academic study. But these young men must not make the mistake of supposing that this discipline is an all-sum-cicnt preparation for tho higher callings of life. That is, the young men wiio propose to enter any of the braacU-

London Lancet.

Hildanus related an incident of a

woman who swallowed several pins

and passed them six years , afterward :

but a more re mar Ka me instance of pro

longed detention was recorded by Stephenson, of Det roit that of a lady aged 75, who last year passed, after

some month's symptoms of vessieal irritation, a pin which she had swallowed while picking her teeth with it

in the year 1835 -for ty -two years pre

vious. M. Sitty records some . years

ago the case of a woman who had a

penchant for pins and needles so strong

that she made them, in fact, a part of

ter daily diefc,and after her death 1,400

or 1,500 were removed from various

narts of her body

Another case almost as striking has

been recorded by Dr. Gillette, that of

a girl in whom, from time to time, needles were found beneath the skin,

which they perforated, and were re

moved by the fingers or forceps. Con

cerning the way in which they got into

her system no information could be extracted from her. She was carefully watched, and in the course of eighteen

months no less than 320 needles were extracted, all being of the same size.

The largest number which escaped in

a single day was sixty-nine. ....

A curious phenomenon preceded the

escape of each needle. For some hours

tbe pain was severe.and there was con

siderable fever. She then fel t a sharp pain, like lightning, in the tissues, and on lookiug at the place at which this

pain had been felt, the head of th-3

needle was generally found projecting.

The needles invariably jame out head

formost. ISo. bleeding was ccaasioned,

and not the least trace of inflamation

followed. The doctor in attendance

extracted 318.

That little weight is to be attached

to tbe place at which the needles es

cape as proof of their mode of mtrodue?

ion is evident from a case recorded by

Villars of a girl who swallowed a large n u m her of pi u s an d n eedles, ' an d two

ears afterward, during a period of

nine months, two hundred passed out of the haud.arm, axilla, side of thorax,

abdomen and thigh, and on the left side. The pint?, curiously, escaped