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YOLUME III
GirABE, MICHIGAN. SATURDAY, MAT 14,
NUMBER 16.
.     ELAKPO ETOlS'iriVE.IIETra
f^I:o as Ea> firszjEdx roso yoa esq,
<i:? Hio-a b!os302s oh. a tree,
©s 2JSo C- dainty Hover in Mby,
©? Ete tha 213052120 to tho <3ay,
€? liis tke ewe, or li&c t&a nhaaa,
Os Jilso tike goard wMch Jonah EasS—
•Bven jmeii issaan, whosa- thrcad'io Bpun,
Zn.'n.vT3. onisad out, and eo 13- donfe.
Sha scio ^nftiioraj tho fe!os3osa. bl£?f$$b,
•    53iG £o7re? fcdeo, tho morning baateth,
Zhst caa este, tfcs shadow fliea, •
dLQgoa?a eansaiaea,, fco man—lio dieo,
like io ti.it gia&s thf«b'B newly sprung,
Os? Mire o tale that's Bow begun', ;
Or lilie tha bird that'o here to-day,
O? like the pearled flow in. Slay,
Or Jibe on hour, or like a span,
Or Jiii&tiie singing ofa swan—
Kvsa sneh is man, w&o lives by breath,
2s Iierej now there, in life and death.
Ehe grass withers, the t&Ia is ended,  ■
..Xhs bird is flown, the- dew ascended,
"ThQ hour fe short-, the span not long,
Eheyews-n'oiiec.-r death, man's life is-'dono,
3&o to tha bubble an the "brook,
Cr hi a glass 'much. Kke a look,
Cr like the shuttle in, weaver's handj
Oy like the -writing In tbe sand,
Or like a thought, or like a dream,
<te like the gliding-of the ctr-eam—
E"->~\ audi 3d man, ■srirp. !ive3 by treaty
Is L _■■:*, now there, in life and death.     .  ■
K-.S bh'SSSe'-s otit,- tho look forgot,
1h<s £h<*ttle's iiimg. the writing's blot,
Ehs thought i3 past, ^013 dream is gone,,
'   Tho v/atsra glide, man7o life is done*
Js&q to go/ orrrow from the bo^r, .
Or like ths swift course of water flov7t
Or like the tide 'twist flood and ebb,
. Of like the. spider's tender web,
Or Iit3 a race,' or like a goal,.
Or lilro the dealing of a dole—-
Uvea such ia man, v/bose brittle stato
Io always gubjest unto f ate."
Ihefivisnv shot, ihe.llood soon spent,
Tho tiniG no stay, iha web so.on rent,
• The race copn run, the goal sosSn ■j?oii,
She dole soon deals, man's life coojadono.
Isike tothe lightning from the eky*
Or like a post that quick doth hie,
Or Wis & 4uarte;r in a song,
Or like a journey three daya long',
Oe.like csnow when qununerrs como.
Or lifes the pear or like the plum,
-Even such is man, tfho heaps up sorroWj
Saved but this day, rad dies to-morrow.
.The lightning's jiact, the post must go,
!2iie song is short, the journey bo,
Shgpecn: dothTct, the plum doth faD^
ibe dhov c&solvos, and, so must all.
RBflH! m HmmB
u "Wh-j* uhere are you 'going, Isabel
I^asfeaaa? Ifoft into ihe farm-yard,
aarelyf' " '
" Miss liotiae Mayell, I saa going la-
bs> iihe fssaEtijardj sorely," replied Ijbb-
bal 1 'mik a miseMs-TOHs light'ia-jher gay'
•oys35 "cad a clKiiaaang.'SSJadDLe 'oe- he? prater 'Cai"?ed lipsj ,-as- d|xq opened the gate
lz2&3igttG "Sfeafiplse^. sfHowhesre else
c^-a va bs coaSd'ential "vrathout ran-
£?•'££ fef? i&k of bssns.oveEh^srd, Th.©
ftm^'/c ±3>iiv r.r<?" da" fibs 'oa'ctcrii j ■■
Lir/css 6^e playing iii the flower-garden ;
here's a yomig couple ia the parlor at
the piano, he making love, and she not
-   ' mplnBg miisie,   asid  »   still   younger
<3traple whispering and giggling in the
ibay-win&ow ;■ auntie in my room enjoying e Splendid Misery;' and grandma is
an ann^e's room darning stockings; And
so, if you really want tp hear bright
.    away1 why I am here instead o£ at one
jr c     of my usual summer haunts, ypu must
■-^\.      ofetL follow me to the farm-yardi,   Be-
•sides which"—speaking with increased
-        :' animation—" I have lately, strange as it
snay seem to you, developed quite a passion for farm-yards,'*
f ":lt doesa't seem -at all strange, to
me* say Sesik* fox Siring our ten 'years'
' feiendshij) you've always   been  devel
oping some odd passion or other.   But
IVa never lost Mth iri you.   Lead on;
0 ,        I'll follow.".
And,, stepping daintily and gracefully,'
■animpeded byvtrains or demi-t??2ins, the
Yon&g girls threaded their way through
&e crowd of hens and chickens holding
© loud and li^y conversation prepara-
,; ■'        ^ory te ^aaag to roost; past the cows
" waiting to be milked, and turning their
Jseads to look after the intruders with
\   /  .®ceat solemn brown eyes j and old Low-
.,.■"•   " ' aead, "the white  horse,   slacking   his
thirst at the water-trough—to. the ex-
-fereme end of the yard,.whereapile of
cabbages, neaiiy arranged in the form
43»f a pyramid,- confronted them.
"Behold," Said Isabel, stopping before it, "how nature lends herself to
wi I (That sounds well, though I don't
fenow as . it means anything). This
saighty str^are, formed of the green
pact .succulent cabbage, is9 no doubt, the
-work of som® hionble field-laborer, who,
leaving heard of the pyramids of Egypt
•-^-ineiteA thereto, nodoubt, by the newspaper paragraphs about our own deax
usbelisk—has sought io vary the monotony of cabbage life by building as
. \ ©lose sn imifetion as his nmterial * would
.efflow. ttet;. uf hope thai /this. jSight of
imagination:.'m&y lead to. a higher one,-
jbA' and that the cabbage |hah, like the but-
fer woman* niay^iaeet' with public tecog-
initioa, snd st l^lt be qrowneld with a
xjxe&ith. of Isuiehy >:.0ftenJr6m-ihe hum-
Ijlest sources spring great wops of .genius. Biirxi^-Jluottie'' (breaking off suddenly and assuming a reproachful tone),
"why do you break1 in upon my eloquence with rude and unseemly
laughter ?• I was about to repeat to you
1Dongf6llow% last poem j now I won't.
See what your feivoiiiy has lost you!
Jyad take a seat on the extreme base of
the pyramid—-1 prefer the mound of
sods ih this secluded corner, sacred to
somebody's raise and hoe—while I go
■    back to the commonplace."
" Thank you, Bell, dear, Fll share the
sods with you, if you please. I have an
idea that a cabbage would prove a very
uncomfortable seat under any circum-
stances &.nc£ do 'go »back .to the com-
'«■ iBonplace, feat's a darling, for I'm dying
io know what has happened. since" we
parted an age ago/'
"An age ago.   One year and a half
exactly.   I was.then engaged to Glaude
'Wenner.   Ketty name, isn't it? And he
■was a pret^ little fellow, with nice curly
• hair and lovely blue- eyes, with lashes
long enough for s bang, small dimpled
faantls, said not 'ain*.adea in Ms Httle
":* ,   soundhead. *' Mymother-^—with all due
Reference 1 say it—ahd hfe mother—to
'".. ' ^hom.I. accord much less deference—
made the match when I was bxtb 18, and
, I unmade it at 20. I never loved C&aude^
How eould I? And he never loved me.
How could he ? We were the victims of
circumstances find match-making mammas, and two mortals more unlike it
woidd be hard to find. He was the most
conventional ol mea,, and would have
"nearly died if at any pne of those dreamy
dinner parties^ in which his soul delighted, somebody had whispered to him that
his backhair Wasn't parted straight* while
I have often been strongly tempted to
shock the fuH-dressed guests, at the very
start,, by asking for some more Soup.
"Well, last June, at Newport, my
diminutive friend, Eda Smythe, with a
head lhe exact counterpart of Claude's
appeared upon the scene,  and she and
my* betrothed fell in love with each other
at first sight. Mamma fretted and fumed,
&B& scolded, and ask^d me, witjbt'^tragic
emphasis, how I could look.cahnly on
and see so many thousands of-dollars
being lost to the^amily, for she was sur$
that artful minx Would persuade poor
, dear £3audeto elpp&orsomething; but
I continued to look calmly on, until one
evening Glaude,. witlt a deep sigh, kissed
Eda's hand as 3fc|.6, bade her good-nighty
whenl turned suddenly upon them, and
bade them follow meip my room. There
I forgave—quite as the manner of a
stage parent—-the infatuated midgets at
their base duplicity, gave them mj* blessing, kissed theni; both"; and as soon as
they, beaming with joy*' had departed,
I, ^Iso, beaming with joy, and not quite
in the manner of a stage parent, except,
perhaps,,  a f"ihafore  one, executed a
pfrouette—-yx honor Of my newly  ac-"
- quired freedom.   Mamma was awfully
angry, but they are   awfully happy,
and|hey've named the baby after; me.
My chains (they were never very heavy
I must confess) broken be /ond repair, I
flirted more than ever, all the time growing as weary as eould-be of hearing the
same replies, snd doing this' thing in the
morning and that tt'ang in the afternoon, and the other*-pi   the   evening,
and at last I fled from the old familiar
throng   precipitately  one   rainy ' day,
leaving my maid to pack mj wardrobe
and follow.   And I determined that this
summer I would try pastures entirely
new.   Auntie had often told me of the
pleasant, old-fashioned farm-house which
she  had discovered years ago, snd I
coaxed mamma — promising  to   taks
■ Ghagley, oSr youngest, who is the *" worrit* of he? life,-with me—and to spend
three oi my foul1 oat-of-the-city monthc-'
Izcsz - -£_>£, L.0uub, x jauv'd neves? been
as happy before, and I am Srmly convinced that hererhave found the kind
of life that would suit ine bet.   Iwas
bom. to love  cows  and   chickens, to
make butter, to build pyramids of cabbages." . "   '■   •'
"Youf   laughed her  friend. •   "I
think I see you in the dairy, in a neat
cambric dress, with sleeves rolled up to;.
the elbows, stamping the pats of butter
with ypur monogram, for that's as near
as you'd ever come to churning j and in
fche hennery,   scattering  Com  to. the
chickens from a dainty white apron, a
curiously-shaped rustii* hat -meanwhile
shading you| rose-and-cream complexion
from the sun.   You born to love cows
and chickens ! you, who have reigned a
city belle folr four long years i"
'"And for three been most ready to
abdicate. By the by"—with assumed
carelessness—"^have you seen the young
farmer, the only child of  our host and
"Certainly not," and Miss Majell
glances at her watch, " I only arrived
two hours ago, and have seen no one
but you and your aunt, But I ean se?
him in my mind's eye—tall, ungainly,
and speaks through his nose, eats with
his knife, says /How?'and stares at
you as though you were a being from
another sphere."
"Your mind's eye needs nn eyeglass,
Miss Mayell. Its'vision is weak. Tall,
broad-shouldered and gainly, if I may
use the word as I mean it,. I saw him
tossing hay to-day, ahd he looked like
an Apollo who had exchanged his lyre
for a pitchfork and profited by the
change.
"And his table manners are as exquisite as yotir own, Miss Mayell, and
he has a deep, fell voice and does not
say'How?' and has scarcely looked,
let alone * stared' at me. I have an idea
that he regards girls of our ilk with quiet
scorn, and thinks of us all as hothouse flowers not to be compared with
the daisies growing wild in the meadows."
"How long have you been here, Isabel?"
"Six weeks," -
,'' Quite long enough, I think. You'd
better go away. You're regarding this
yonng farmer, who never looks at you—
I don't believe that, however—too sentimentally. You might come to believe
he has fallen in love with me."
"He is so different from the
soft-voiced, perfumed darlings by
whom I have been surrounded all
my life that, to use your own
words, -with a different application, I
stare at him as though he were a being
from another sphere. The young farmer reads, Lottie, and reads books which,
though printed in our native language,
would be Greek to yon and me; and he
numbers the poets among his friends.
I peeped into his room one day, and saw
them all, in blue and gold, on his bookshelf. He is an honest, manly fellow,
with no false pride about him. I was
idiot enough to fancy that he might be
the least bit confused when I first saw
him at work in his red shirt, and coarse,
very broad-brimmed strawhat, buthe sa
luted me as calmly as though he had
been arrayed in the finest garments.
And. .his name is Nathaniel—not as
pretty as Claude, but it means * the gift
of (&od.' The gift of God, indeed, his
old mother says he has been to her, and
so will he be to the woman he m&sme'S;
And that woman must be a bee, not £.
butterfly. Lottie," with sudden fierceness, "if ever you tell I'll kill you."
<•' My dear, when 1 do, yon may. ^ Isabel, I begin to suspect that you csrc
really in love with JSathaniel—anothe:
of' your odd passions—and that beneaiii
your butterfly wings Itprks the spirit o:-
thebee0* A^d I may'live to see jo:t
helping the pitchfork Apollo toss the
hay, building obelisks and pyramids *c"
cabbages, copy celebrated sculptures in
beets, and heap turnips in imitation oi
classic old fcuins."
>I
though
each and every one of those occupations," as soon would 1 expect thev
compact mass of greens to suddenly
tremble tb its base and then tojppic
ovef, separating one huge body into
100 or more heads, as -dream that*K"t>
thaniel Ijeigh would ever care fpr me."
The pyramid trembled to its baseman:,
its apex tumbled to the ground.   The
girls rose quickly from their throne pil
sods and with little shrieks fied to^ a safe
distance, then turned to look again. ' It
toppled over, its many heads rolling fe
efesy direction, and in.the place'it ht?,d
occupied stood the young farmer.
• S"I bless your brother for building e
pyramid to-day,   Miss  Eastman," *'ho :-
said, "though he did unlpad one pf &£
market wagons all ready for market foi';
the purpose.   And 1 bless the hapj£'
chance that kept me from the orchard,
and sent me here to fall asleep behin^
to waken at the ;sound, of your voaca.
Spell-bound, I remained concealed, hail: [
believing that I was still dreaming, to
prove the falsity of the old provefb, .
'Listeners   never   hear any good oi'
themselves/   But can I—dare I hope
that grains of earnestness mingled wifeh
your jest, and that the pats of butter 5x;
ourr dairy saay some day be stamps:"
with your^monogram? S&nd my friend, '
Miss Mayell, and you shall hot he. forgotten when we make .ihe beet-statues
and the turnip ruins." ,   .  _ •
"Well, 'pon my word!" exclaimed
Miss MayelJ, with a frank glance ©^admiration at the handsome young foliar,-,,
and a smile that threatened io become c
laugh in another minute.
"And of all things I" scid Mies Bast-
man, a lovely bbteh mantling hei* face
and then youth and fun conquered nl:
three^". and they laughed until the £&?e> . ^
vard resounded. iSnd IAoj?. th/r-: tzrzfaV   '-.
teAlPS 03? SCHSOTo
3itec Httle ecltpetr© ot carbonate of
sib, with water, and it will preserve
-overs for two weeks.
•ISsxebs EsjfA^r, wriMftg. from the rC-
. Aotx of the. Hile,- claims to have discov-
zjcA a little model of a sewing machine,
supposed to have been made over six
A: oiisand years ago, -by an Egyptian,
•r'Zed .Zynger.
*Panssro acid remains for a consider-
v!s time in the bodies of animals pois-
•ned with it, and arrests their decay.
A. Brame killed a rabbit and a cat by
: Jrainistering to each a gramme of this
,.dd.   A month afterward the bodies
"•ere found perfectly preserved, the dose
>?Ing sufficient to permeate the tissues
.•"id to become intimately incorporated
'.Tils, those of the stPmach.
Ts3 subsoil of Paris contains abuhd-
^::ee of sulphur, now in course of forma-
-: s, as was recently proved in making
■::e£,vatkms in the Place de la Bepub-
Htie.   M. Baubree says that this nave sulphur has nothing to do with the
-"sape of gas from the mains, but that
"i  origin is due'"to the  simultaneous,
x-seneeof vaiioits kinds of organic sub-
'.ances end of gypsum in the soil.
( Peos*.  CaenexiIiY,   of Sheffield,  has
*~Q7m that Hquids can be reduced to a
, lid,   or frozen  state, and still retain
• .sp heat. In order to convert a., solid
:S a liquid the pressure must be above
certain point. As long, therefore, as
io necessary pressure is maintained, no
-icranfc of heat will liquify it.   By ob'
• rcing this law, Prof.   Carnelly 6ue-
"dedin freezing some water in a glass
"szel which remained so hot as to burn
'"hand.' •
According to Prof. lyndall's defint-
m, the brain is the organized register
infinitely numerous experiences reived during the evolution of life, or
Alhes during the evolution of that series
argsnism.through which the human
^aiMsm-has been ioached; the effect of
"i most uniform and frequent of ^these
j/arienees has been successfuUy he-
.octhed,   principal wid interest, and
,73 glowly mpuntedto that high intelli-
~ riCQ- which Meg latent in the brain of
.i'.: infant.
ths
iAi-<2 readers may Jsnow
expen-
; fc, whieh a lighted match or candle
zz\e:-A '"■
Mo'
dark room, ireveaJs the
tiUCAiJ.,  <.v. <
ing with loud bow-wowa what was
matter,,   .''--.
- A few weeks after Miss Isabel Eastman became Mrs. Hathaniel Leigh, her
husband, lying'at her feet in the orchard, and locking up into her face with
adoring eyes, said : **I never would have
.gained courage to'have told you of my
Jove, though I loved you from the very
first, had I not heard from your own
sweet lipg^that you eared a little for'me.
What good spirit, my blessed, sent you
of all places to.the farmyard that afternoon?". A ,- ■ _
.- " It was an imp sent me there," she
answered, demurely, '' Mother's youngest, who whispered to me, as I left the
house with Lottie, 'There's something
awful jolly way back in the farmyard—
a pyramid of cabbage, and Nat Leigh
fast asleep behind it.'"—Harper's
Weekly.
<a!lsr
- IiotteieS' li
An employe of the Italian Lotto administration has published an interesting pamphlet respecting the lotto playing in Italy, to which rich and poor,
learned andtolearned, are addicted with
equal passion, and which contributes a
considerable to the Government revenue,
*N"ot counting the Island of Sardinia, the
lottery in 1879 brought no less than
67,513,269 lire into the treasury. The
•^)tal amount of prizes was 32,614,126
fire. The sixty-seven chief provincial
towns, with 629 lottery offices and a
population of 4,019,520 inhabitants,
caused the enormous sum of 43,-
031,814 lire to flow into the treasury.
The rural districts, with 1,102 offices
and 22,145,074 inhabitants, contributed
24,451,454 lire; in other words, the population of the chief provincial towns paid
a voluntary tax of 10 lire 71 centesimi
per capita, that of the rural districts only
1 lire 11 centesimi, making an average
of 2 lire 58 centesimi for every Italian
subject of either sex. The Basilieuta,
the two Oalabrias, the Abruzzes, Molise,
the Marks and TJmbria, containing the
smallest number of persons unable to
read or. write, furnish also the smallest
amount in lotto-moneys as well as in
direct and indirect taxes. The provinces
with the greatest number of persons not
able to read and write, and a population
of 10,533,884 souls, spent 21,689,808 lire
for lottery playing, i e., 2.05 lire per
capita, and the remaining ones 2.22 lire
for eaeh inhabitant. People play more
where the game is facilitated by a large
number of lottery offices.
Twenty-four provinces with 1,279 offices expended 52,228,277 lire; the other
43 provinces with 452 offices-only 15,-
285,011 lire, making an average of 4 lire
17 centesimi for the former and 1 lire 12
centesimi a head for the latter. In those
provinces which pay a larger quota of
taxes the inhabitants are more given to
playing. As a curious and at the same
time regrettable fact be it mentioned
that the city of Turin, with 39 per cent,
of persons unable to read and write,
pays on an average 10.73 lire a head to
the letto adminisigration; Milan, with an
equal percentage, "9.41 lire; Venice,
47 per cent., 14.70 lire; Genoa, with 68
percept., 8.06 lire; Borne, with 60per
cent., 19.91 lire; Florence, with65 per
Bolpgna, with 68 per
Naples, with 69 jper
—Wiener AMgemeine
cent., 16.33
cent., 6.70,
cent., 19.91
ZeUuna.
lire;
and
lire„-
±a th's retina.
s.^/Lt£i     ^Jx.^mS.'viU.KriJ.-Lt^Ji, '  u*-!i     UJU£1     i~uijU&'_
has beeii lately observed by M.
CFarpentier. Looking at a sky uniform-
lyilluminated with diffuse white light,
lie'made the two fingers of his right
ha|id (separate  about 0.1 to  0.2 m.),
, tp pass rapidly tp an fro before his eyes,
anl in about half a minute the uniform
aspect of the sky was greatly changed.
' On a white background- appeared a mosaic composed of hexagons of violet purple color, 'separated by white lines.
Other persons, he says, • have' repeated
the experiment with success. He gives
reasons for thinking that the hexagonal
images correspond to the cones in the
fovea and. yellow spot, which cones,
pressed together, form a sort of hexagonal mosaic. The white lines probably
correspond to filaments charged wi$i
crystals of pigment, which descend from
the chorodian cells.
Dk. Lb Bon continues his researches
regarding the products of tobacco. The
new alkaloid found in tobacco smoke
(with other aromatic principles, and
prussieacid as'well as nicotine) is a liquid,
of Yeiy agreeable and very penetrating
color, and as poisonous as nicotine, the
twentieth part of one drop sufficing to
paralyze and. kill a frog. It is the prussic
acid and the various aromatic principles
that cause headache, giddiness, and
nausea, in smoking certain tobaccos that
contain little.nicotine; Other tobaccos,
rich* in nicotine, have no such effects.
The tobaccos containing most prussic
acid and collidine are those of Havana
and the Levant. The dark, semi-liquid
matter which condenses in pipes and
cigar-holders contains all the substances
mentioned, as well as carbonate of am-
.oaonia, tarry and coloring matter, eto.
It is very poisonous. Two or three drops
of it will kill a small animal. The combustion of the tobacco destroys but a
small part of the nicotine, and most of
this appears in the smoke. The proportion absorbed by smokers Varies according to circumstances, bui hardly ever
falls belbw fifty centigrammes for every
100 grammes of tobacco burned. About
the same quantity of ammonia is absorbed at the same time. Naturally,
more of the poisonous principles are
absorbed when the smoked is breathed,
as in a room; less in the open air. A.
frog* placed in a. receiver containing a
solution of nicotine, with about a drop of
that substance to a little water, succumbs
in a few hours. Tobacco smoke contains
about eight millilitres of carbonic oxide
per 100 grammes of tobacco burned.
The poisonous properties of tobacco
smoke are not due to this gas, as has
been maintained in Germany.
-• TJie Mother *
A ccrrespondent ef the rTew York
Times was, during a flood, crossing the
Snake river in a crowded boat. There
was in it a mother with an infant, which
a gentleman volunteered to hold. In the
middle of the stream the rushing waters
terrified the woman so that she clutched
the boatnervously, whiehrockedit, endangering the lives of the passengers. In
spite of remonstrances she continued to
grasp the boat, when the gentleman,
raising Ms voice above the roar of the
waters, screamed to her: "If you do
thii again I will throw your child overboard." She closed her hands tightly
and crpssed them in her lap; On reaching the shore she fainted! Her palms
were covered with blood where she had
dug the nails *of her clenched hands into*
them. On recovering consciousness she
began to abuse the .man who had threat
ened to throw her child overboard. The
bbafanan told him to "never mind heE
blather;" for, he h&A saved all their lives.
Then she burst into.tears and asked his
forgiveness. Shewasawomaa all over
—at any rate she would have been if she
hadn't done as she wae told.
The.Bnmor of SimSI^So.
Generally speaking, there fa nothing
excruciatingly funny about -smallpox';
but the doctors who are called to prescribe for patients occasionally mm onto
something that ticldes them. Hot many
years ago a doctor here was caHed to see
a man at one of the hotels, who lived out
in Iowa. The man was sick asJ a horse,
and the doctor had his suspicions about
what ailed him, but couldn't tell exactly,
so he gave him something to quiet him-,
and told the friend who -was with him
that he would call in the morning. The
friend said he thought as much of the
sick man as he could of a brother, and
he would see him through.' The next
morning the doctor called and ■» the sick
man was alone. He examined him and
found that he had smallpox. While he
was dealing out some medicine the
friend came blundering In. Baid he,,
" Doc, that medicine ain't worth a continental. This man is very sick." The
doctor said he had come to that cpnclu-
sionhimself. ""Why,"said the friend,
"I rubbed him all night. I think he
would have died if I had not rubbed his
head. When a man is my friend he can
draw on me for all that is put, and don't
you forget it/.' The doctor said he was
glad to hear it. He said thera was
nothing more touching to him than pure
friendship between men, and he was
glad the sick man had a friend that
would stick to him, "You bet your
life," says the friend. And, then lie almost intimated that the doctor did not
understand his business, and said something had gpt to be ' done, if there was
any doctors in Milwaukee that could
handle the case'. The doctor wa3 getting
a little hoi; and when the .friend asked,
" Do you know what ails him ?" thes
doctor said he thought he did. Then he'
pulled down the bed-clothes and pointed
to a little swelling near the little toe, and
asked the friend if he could see it. "See
it!' ~ Of course I can.   It's only a'little-
<,rm about near the side of one { pimple."    The -doctor said  4fceza was
only one disease that shoved that Mnd
of pimples.   ""Whatfe*bhe.t$" r^Ir.erf?, '--ke'
the doctor!
^h-"t-*5 "
:^z
FBK MB BOSK,
in the most aggravating way.
'' Suffering Moses! let me out of that
door ! " shouted the Mend, and the doe-
tor said yoti. could have played marbles
on his coat tail. The doctor fixed up the
patient, and when he went out in the
hall the friend was leaning against a
trunk, -white as a sheet and weak as a
cat. "Doc," says he, in a quivering
voice, " that man in there is nothing to
me.' I wouldn't go* in that room for a
thousand dollars. Is there no w^y to
fumigate me? Say, Doc, I want {x> be
vaccinated. Put a pint of virus into me.
Shoot it in with a gun. Damned if I
ever go near a sick man again." The
doctor says " such is life."—JPecKs Sun.
fhe Habit of tthxift.
Tho habits of thrift are defined: hy the
London Globe as facts of self-denial for
the sake of some objeci in the future,
and it is just such acts as these which
people in all cities find it extremely difficult to practice. It is a matter to a very
great extent depending on natural disposition which varies just as much in one
class as in another. There are some who
by nature are endowed with the accumulative propensity of the squirrel, the bee
and the ant. They find a keen and absorbing pleasure in hoarding what they
get; not, perhaps, for itsown sake, but
as a measure of successful action, and as
a. kind of reserve of power which ihey
liave at command should they choose to
exert it. Others seem to have nothing
of this in their composition. The power
that money gives seems to them dormant
and useless until it is put in action.
Theyare sanguine as to the future, rarely
foresee trouble, and are gay and light'
hearted ia the present; whereas the acquisitive individual will usually be found
apprehensive of the coming time, and
very,apt to meet his troubles half-way.
These two types of character are as
marked and distinct as any two possibly
can be, and the extreme of eaeh can
scarcely be considered amenable to modifying influences to any extent. Moreover, they are confined not to one class
but are found in all. Education is commonly regarded as fhe proper cure for
thriftless habits, and, to a certain ex*~nt,
no doubt, itis. But education cannot
eradicate the constituent jraits of individual character. The accumulative
and foreboding will always remain more
or less so, and the sanguine and freehanded will always feel the passing day to
be the one really important point of time.
Moreover^ although education implies
self-restraint and thoughtfulness, it, of
course, has a tendency to expand the.
view and to create desires which may or
may not be of a simple and inexpensive
kind. The habit of Self-restraint is the
one point to which education must tend
if it is to develop thrift; and looking
around on society generally it is difficult
sometimes- to discern the existence of
this control of individual proclivities in
one class more than another, though the
nature and direction of those proclivities
may vary considerably.
AKEHUB.is good at singing a rousing
song. Well, Wheeler and "Wilson have
both heen Tice-Presi4ents, anditisrlgM
to give Singer a chance.—Betroit M'ee.
Press. Yes; but we're tired of machine
men in the office. —Boston Post. A-hemI
Is thai sew? What a feller you are!—
Syracuse Standard. Baste you &SI
You ar© too funny for any use.—- Washington Gazette.
4 sight affair—-A la
Liee's bitterest ie£so&-
simmori.
liMag Qtjjf.
VS'
as soon: as possible.
■-.' A woaaAi? has been asresfeS m ifeo-
York for abducting' a little' boy, IFse^
time; she'll know' ©nough to. iafi;© 6 '"
one.      -.'...
The Secretary of the Ifavy Tmmsnr
something about one ship, anyhow". "W©
refer to courtship. -Ha has ,ha5 fisss
wives,  .     _ .  {■
■ A s2?b£Ngeb in St* £oaissiMal|agfe
recognized his coat on th© back, ei a ]£s~
destnan,, shouted,^ "Stop Mieif' £m&
about thirty, of the Miabitaaits siad<Se3al|f
disappeared ""down/a side sfceefc
" Whae would the couiitry hm® *2*eS&.
without corporatipns ?"  ihquirei. iS&j-
Gould. "Whatwoald Ike Tyodi fevo
been without navigation?"" €>a]pft, WM<$.i
might have asked with equal eogea^,
A CEffiNE says to his wiae-dealei? wife
proposes to sell him & brand of ima
wine : "TeE me, now, this wis*© la s&&
too heady ?" WiAe seller, with sfesffrjr
-—".Heady 2   Why it's not even xtmb IT
Asr old bachelor, who ps?M«jiila2?%?
hated literary women, asked m. amftcs-
■ess if she could throw eny-light osa. Mss-
ing. " I could," said she, looking aseKlir
at him; "but I think it's better im £fe>
dark."    '
A sohooijBq:? being set to wi-ifea csesse-
ppsition oh the ox, after a long ^faog-
gle, produce'd the following; isJ$M ©il
does not taste as good as an. oyster^ isisfe
can draw a bigger .load, and aiss tedes-
as fast."
A WESEKBH- OU®.   .-
I am walting-fai the -wMwooS. witii a «Mfc,
I'll meet yoii 'iwJSS 4Ji© gloaming o»<6l fits ifcs&g.
Ill Mt you "mt& my •vreapooo'B Wg-gest jmbj.
And. ImosJlryou pretftr mucin bceqes ib© graft.
A thousand saining oters you'U soon discerns^
-■ And pyrotechnics tsli you-ca&aofcsaaS.
Ok! comecadMm9M6youforyo32i?EsoSltc2^   - .
My tangle-headed gosfc ol Qis Week
—Chicago Tribune.
•Dkacoh StiEiXiz remarked fo & ip-saosS-
(ous companion that the Mngstea <s3
Satan was to be 'destroyed, caSl .es&eS
him if \he wasn't glad of it.
replied, >"I suppose so, bui
"jjdty to have aaxythisg wastei
. "WHydidGea. Wasfeingt-oa «saj2s *%e>
Delaware ©a, the'ice daring fbs otsimi&£
5 n
1—1- WwJ
piped a 'small yoice in aaswes?,
.because he wanted to get on the ©the?
side."
.STBONO-ipNPEB   wife-"-4'*®^   feffi®^.
you are great on language? :j what mi$m*
difference between exported and feeaas-
prirted?" Submissive husband—ilW&y^
my dear, if you should'go to JHurOpe y©fe,
would be exported,-aaid I—-well, IshooSsL
be transported!" ,      ■"■
. ' As eede -family of a very 'orthodox iS~
vine were gravely discussing --why .%^-
b&by was so naughty, a boy of "1%z^xb
had just commenced to study tlie sfeasaa
engine as well as the catechism, asied,,
"Papa, as we all inherit .the sia t®£:
Adam, and the baby is such a little fial-r-
low, is there not a greater pressure, ©f"
sin to the square inch in the b'abytham wu>-
any of the rest of us ? "
" Dn> you serve in- the war, uncle T°"
"Ho, sah; I was^acowardlyniggah. J
was a Kentucky niggah. And what $SM
I want to 'list for?" "Were not -ihe.
white men fighting ior you ?" " S'pjssefc
dey was. Bat. was no sign why u?&
should fight, Massa, did you ever see-
two dogs iightin' over a bone ?" *c Wells..
what's rhat to do with your fightingf*
"A heap, massa. Did ypu ever see Sb
bone fight ?" The questioner left, fcoaatiL
a general laugh.—Cleveland Leader.'"
A good parson, who had the happjr
faculty of sjiying a kind word for evety—
bocty in whose behalf one could possiMy
be'said, recently officiated at the foneisl
of a farmer who was known as the meanest and most miserly man in the nelgHst-
borhood. lustead of execrating tti© &e*
ceased for his extortionate and niggardly habits, this kindly disposed clergyman simply "spoke of him as " the.-bests
arithmetician in the country."—-Ga^sMlB
Recorder.
The; wild storm still raged luriotfslyu
Ever aiid anon the vivid lightning, sa;
fantastic shapes, illumined^he darksoma
and angry heavens. At last eu£ yoBn^
hero, maSing a sudden, strategic movement, surrounded the band of.fifteen
howling red 'demons, and with no ofes?
weapon than a seven-shooter, a. cava!^
sword, a dime novel, a JEtemingfcpn riB©&
deck of cards, a bowie-knife and a pais*
of brass knuckles, he .mowed dpwa Ipb?
pursuers like grain before the scythe <#
the reaper; then, seizing the fair."®£hel=-
inda around.the waist with one arm sasM.
plunging a bayonet into .the breast of sn.
lusty Indian who exhibited signs <os£;
returning consciousness, he vaulted safes*
the saddle of ihe swiftest hozge Sa ^Sa&
Territory, and cried, io. a deliriaM %2
triumphant joy~r-"To be continues-aa
oar next,"—NorHslovm 'S<3£aJA%,
The metric system of weights s&0
-measures is- advancing in the "On^teS*
States. .'It was legalized here in 18S%„
and has now* been made obiigatorsr ijg?
the Marine Hospital Service and 1k©-
United States Qoast Survey, TheB®ffl#>
of Education of several States have Sa,-
troduced it in the publie schools, v^Mlo*
a.laowledge of it Is required for &3mm>
si©ntomostof ourcollegesl Th© mail'.
tiplicityof measures in continewM Sfeh-
rope—an outgrowth of the feudal sysfeKs?
—was long a barrier tP eommeseM ia*
tereour&e. •• Uatil recently : &en& yjtszss
mote than 100 measures -. feem fcscaiiag
the name of foot,, iiotw© of whlelai^ss
-alike.    __________
Thai? is-the best part of beatt^ wMsli
a picture cannot express*
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