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Vkg. vT PPS W?c jTW J . I I -- S N i I V m r r . SL' JT V i nsfi D CLOUD CHIEF. THOMAS Editor. ). NEBRASKA. M'nlccning-. ull do without you, -while tlie sky is fa'r, Julte smile of Summer t tie golden air; Ji with Its myriad wblsj.ers In the ear of Day tit that great glory 6 her-rar away. I, there are fairer racei ! more brlpht in the sun, whose touts. It may he, othly and sweetly run. ver Tale and meadow a mantle, flows. 8 of the distant hattle. ts the heart or the rose? ) a nlRht or sorrow y of scorn; ! the smile comes treason, 'the rose a thorn; tul Is Kirk with thinking and the lies of men, 3f.j'fior.H.-vrn wiuout youthen? retraeand tender ai heart before! .osefalthrul clasping fore-ermore! rsoul, unchanging bubt and loss and rain, ow to know you, at last In vain? n and whisper: 1 bruised and hint, ace, not Ionor not desert!" itch your hand and lift me wn un worth? can do without you ton earth' lApp!etoir& Journal. Y A GLASS. JLsinsyow. - was the pretty house Villa, a large, square, on the Hill Staten Is 3, soft morning in Feb Dolishing the windows , and occasionally look trim, graceful figure face, as reflected by the resently the gate click round, Mary saw a man. A bright color looming cheeks; she and regarded the new quiring smile, was the first remaik, r telling me that this is . Dearborn ?" Id I be telling e a lie, 1 Mary. "Sure it is the rborn; more betoken tell the misthress so ylien she'd be to high srtiseinent said Mrs. irely, my jewel, didn't ew gardener ye are ?" hat I'm hopin' to be might plaise the mis psyou wouldn't mind ord for me, like the tare ye are just for the :ongue." t?" asked Mary. rouraesn." JnTit?' laTighed Mary, .knew the taste of the Ion our lips." rling?" (there's lim pnmirrii iiyad.-iy. But I will to the misthress sure be after telling her y, her humble serv fne, and the slave of r-life,anyway." U with a laugh, and l prospect of a fellow .ised to be so entirely lis was taken en trial, he proof, turned out t clever gardener, and in --"iy and he id sweethearts. Mrs. Iised enough to have Ji to realize that she easure in her garden ither treasures, there lit rted a taste for poteen If; and although he for strong waters as ulge in "only a glass" 1 scarcely understand 3, unless it was the rhich he took his re y Mary Maguire was i could while Den e most fascinating :dwater;andhehad 3eher a promise that his own, he would the poteen at all taste of her "swate quite believed her rt, but Mrs. Dear remarked to Mary, n of tl noblegrmd r wholly overcome ; and then Dennis disposition, and no mind. Aren't vou or Pennis.-ma'am," ith a bright smile; itterthan the drink." s, but do you think isn't Irishmen that vives," Mary retort Itle toss of her head, violently polishing her. the year, Mary and ied, and all their nd though it was ding to the bride Jis a whole week to fter that, indeed, he a long while, and iivc Villa as house- continued as gar e had indeed yhigh SfS ao ewanm bottle of roietimes did. Dennis part there ings from grace,and Midicular, but they e first three or four laved well. But by Blf year of wedded , lit a very consider- 4, able portion of time was occupied in the effort to conceal her husband's drunken sprees ; and toward the close of summer Mr. Dearborn made some pretty sharp complaints regarding the condition of the garden. But a young wife is not ea3ily dis couraged, especially when she is still deep in love, so Mary would put a bright face on everything, and hoped for the best, and despite the pain in her heart, she still went about her work singing snatches of sweet, old Irish love songs. Matters didn't mend, however.though Mary constantly hoped they would, and went regularly to church, and even asked the priest to bid Dennis sign the pledge. Dennis refused, saying he would not perjure himself by swearing a lie, when he knew right well he couldn't keep to it; and, besides, where was the harm, any way V Couldn't a boy take a glass now and then, just to pick up his heart a bit and to warm his blood when the frost w;is so cruel cold ? The year drew to a close, and the ill luck that poor Mary felt must come, at last came. Mr Dearborn, out of pa tience with Dennis Connelly's neglect and slovenly performances of his work discharged him, and of course Mary gave a week's warning, and followed her husband. The shock sobered Dennis for a while; and he vowed he wouldn't touch another drop of drink till well, till he couldn't help it; and he kept his word better than the form of it would have led one to anticipate. He was a clever fellow, and although a gardener, could turn his hand to many other ways of earning an honest penny; and as every one liked his handsome, good nature-! face, he got many odd jobs by which he earned enough to carry himself and Mary safe through the winter. Presently, however, came a christen ing, and then Dennis felt that the time had come when indeed ho could not help it; the christening was celebrated by a long spree, and to keep himself in practice the happy father took a fre quent glass from time to time while waiting for another fit occasion. The oc casion came only too often. Poor Mary did her duty by the census with ex treme conscientiousness, adding to its number one and sometimes two nearly every year. Theie were soon a half dozen mouths to feed and less and less every day to teed them with. In an evil hour Man proposed to do washing.and orten earn ed four or live dollars a week as a laun dress, but the more she worked the la zier and more shiftless grew Dennis. He soon ceased working entirely, and spent every penny he could lay his hands on to pour fiery fluid down his thirsty throat. And at hist, even Mary, good and pretty and industrious as she was, be -coming heart-sore at the misery she san about her, and often sadly" tired aftvr a hard day's work, began at first to take but a taste, just to give her strength to bear her troubles, but rap idly found herself depending 0n it. and often sank to sleep in the stupor of intoxication.after a battle both of words and blows between two people whose whole world could once be seen in each other's eye3. From bad to worse the descending scale was so easy as to need no descrip tion. The path to ruin is left both smooth ami slippery by the many trav elers that go that way, and few who set out on that track are strong enough to pull up before they reach the bottom. It seemed that Dennis and Mary Con nelly had long given up the effort. Xeighbors shunned t',em,and few even of those that had helped them down ward would now give them even a word of pity. The children, such of them as were old enough to speak, were beggars in the street; and many a cruel cuff little Patsey got if lie failed to bring home pennies enough to buv his lamui uigntiy glass of whiskv. Scold ings, swearing and crying were the sounds most often heard from their miserable dwelling, and it would have oeen something far more than usual that would have caused even the police man on that beat to pause before that home of vice and misery. Mary Connelly had just come home from a day's washing and scrubbing She was quite sober, for she had been working for her old mistress, Mr Dearborn, but though sober and niiiet there was little of the fair, fresh and neat Mary Maguire to be traced in the worn, patched dress, the disheveled hair, and red, hard, bloated face, purple about the eyes from blows and bruises. There was still less of the handsome Iri3h boy who had stolen her girlish heart in the unkempt, dirty, red-faced, blear eyed man, unsteady with drink, and evidently more than half drunk, who turned to greet her with a sillv laugh as she entered "Ye're welcome, acushli'" he said "Sure I've been longing for the sight o' yer purty face." The woman flushed, a dark, painful blush spreading all over the face now so far from pretty ; but she never an swered a word, only turned away. "Sure ye wouldn't be giving me your back, alanna, when I tell ye how I've been longing for the sight of your facer "Air the few shillings ye think I've got with me," she answered, scornfully "Oh,divil a lie in ir.darlin'; the sight of that same's even purtier than yerself.' "Then ye'll be disappointed, the saints be praised, for not a penny o' mine will ever cross yer hand again.iazy.drunken. low vagabond as ye are. If I'd never laid eyes on ye it's a happv woman I'd be this night." Mary had come home determined to ntxol herself, whatever happened, It seemed less than an instant, and yet she was already enveloped in flames. For some moments the man was utterly dazed, stupefied at the sight of what he had done. He heard her shrieks, her screams of agony, and never moved; she flew wildly from side to side of the room, every moment increasing the fliines that leaped around her; she shrieked for help, she filled on her husband and her children. The eldest boy ran toward her, but she screamed to him to go back, and then the poor child pitteously implored his father to he.p her. People from the street burst open the door, and Dennis, at last roused from his stupor, helped to smother the flames with blankets snatched from their wretched bed. It was too late: the unfortunate woman was burned beyond the possibility of recovery; but she lived long enough to remember how she used to love this man, and to feel that the love was not dead, only sleep ing. The usual questions were put to Mary Connelly when she seemed fit to be examined on the subject of the circum stances which were to cause her death; but she did not seem to comprehend what was required of her, and nothing that she said could be construed into a charge of any kind against her husband. "Sure he always loved me, poor Den nis! Perhaps I wasn't as good a wife ;is I ought to be, but he loved me always, I know he did." She turned toward him as she spoke. and with a sweet smile that seemed to restore much of its vanished beauty to her face, untouched by the fire, she closed her eyes with a gentle sigh, and passed into the sleep that will not be broken till time shall be no more. Dennis Connelly passed through the formality of a trial, and, by advice of his counsel, pleaded "Xot Guilty." He was acquitted, to Mrs. Dearborn's dis gust, when she read the verdict. "Nothing will convince me he didn't cause the poor girl's death," said Mary's old mistress, "and I wish they had hanged him; it would have been better, for nothing will alter Dennis Connelly." Hut Mrs. Dearborn was mistaken. The conscience-stricken man was chang ed to the core of his heart. The sight "'"""' "i1"" mi iicu nun siiK. tie woiked like a slave for his motherless children, and his one prayer is to live for their sake. For his own, he would welcome death ; for, sleeping or waking, that figure enveloped in flames is ever before ins eyes, the shrieks of that anguished voice are ever ringing in his ears. And he knows that it will be so till the hour of his death. But sincere repentance and earnest prayer give him the hope that at last God's foigiveness will let him meet his lost wife in heaven. the thinl tint has not yet been found to correspond with a tint emitted by any known substance. The skein of light from that double fluff-ball has thus far been unraveled by the spectro scope, after journeying millions of mil lions of miles, and has been sorted into three tints, two of which have been matched against the known tints of earthly gases, but the third remains as yet unmatched. Prof. 11. A. Proctor, in St. Nicholas for A wjust. A Plan of Dealing with Pauperism. The following plan of dealing with the pauper classes is suggested by Nich olas Minturn, in Dr. Holland's novel of that name (ticribner for August). I ll-n',1 Ul-rk i. . .. 1 t. .11. J. nuuiu i.rvc IU 3CC C CI V CUiUilrtOie organization existing in this city, in cluding my own enterprise, swet out of existence. I would like to see estab lished in their place a single organiza tion whose grand purpose it is to work a radical cure of pauperism. 1 would like to see the city government, which is directly responsible for more than half the pauperism we have, united in administration with the chosen repre sentatives of the benevolence of the city, in the working out of this grand cure, r would like to see thu mr.vriivirioii intn dist&JtsK) small that one man can hold in each, not ouly a registry of every family living in it, but obtain and pre serve a knowledge of each family's cir cumstances and character. I would have a labor-bureau in every district, in connection with this local supprinten dent's office. 1 would hive the record of every man and worn in even more complete than any that has ever been made by your mercantile agencies. I would have such vagrancy a1 we find illustrated by the tramps and deid-beats who swarm about the city, a sufficient sundry of the old Cornish Scriptural dramas, the "Origo Mundi," the "Passio Christi," "Resurrectio Christi," by Mr. Norris, and the "Beunands Meriasek.' by Mr. "W. Stoke. It is expected that other similar manuscripts will also shortly see the light under the auspices of the "Cornish Manuscript Society;" and it may be added, as a connecting link with our own times, that not a few old Cornu-British words are still im bedded in the modern Cornish dialect. The celebration of this forthcoming "Centenary" is expected to prove the occasion of a reunion, in one of the westernmost towns in the kingdom, of some of our leading Celtic philogists and antiquaries; and the gathering, if it should be held, will be one of the ic sults of the interesting Congresses of the British Archie )logictil Association held in Cornwall in August last. London Times. the foaming Rinnc emulating the mad dening speed; now glancing back to take a last look at the glistening pinna cles of the receding Andes; or strain ing eagerly forward, to catch the first glimpse of the royal city of the plain and the shining ocean the nrienifl cence of the scenery and the magnitude of Mr. Meiggs's achievement break upon us with fresh force, and not for any formances I at Ia3t succeeded in foL.,, ingtheairand in getting it by he Once after this, when Iitth AII-K ; came to see me. with the interpret r the trouie, I took his forefinger in r hand and made him play th uielodv the piano. lie recount--"! it at one although seperated from the drr.nl sounds he was accustomed to hearw it, and cried out delightedly, in Ja; i peril of the way would we forego the ese: "Oh. that is what my father pi 3Ir. Tom.kin' Small Story There w;is once a hen who talked about another hen in not a very good way, and in not at all a friendly way. The hen she talked about w;is named Phe-endy Alome. Her own name was Teedla Toodlum. They both belonged to a flock of white hens which lived in the far-away country of Chickskum eatyourkornio. Now, the one that was named Teedla Toodlum went around among the other hens, making fun of Phe-endy Alome, on account of her having a speckled featner hi her wing. She told them not to go with Phe-endy Alome, or scratch up worms with her.oram thing, because she had that speckled feather in her wing. One of the hens that Teedla Toodlum talked to in this way was deaf, and exhiliration and noveltv of the trip. Far otherwise was it with one of the party a stately commodore. He, who could face unflinchingly a whole broad side of murderous mi-siles, sprang from the car after ten miles tver the wildest part of the route, declaring that noth ing would tempt him to repeat such a foolhardy experiment. For the rest of us, the excitement and exhiliration of this mode of travel became so attract ive, that we often went up to Anchi for the sole purpose of making the down trip. Fiom "A Railroad in the Clouds," in the "Midsummer Holiday Scribna: when I am up on the jMle' (" Louise Kdlwy: Smlmer. therefore could not hear very well. Mc crime for condemnation to hard labor !ia1 ,,l'rume deaf in consul icnce of not The Dumb Bell Nebula. In Vulpecula there is a remarkable object called the Dumb-bell nebula, or star cloud. It cannot be seen well with out a very powerful telescope. It was formerly thought to consist entirely of small stars, so remote that they could not be separately discerned ; but it has lately been discovered that the greater part of this nebula's light comes from glowing gas. The vastness of the space occupied by this cloud of luminous gas will be understood though no mind can possibly conceive it when I mention that at the distance of the nearest of the fixed stars the whole of our solar system would appear but ;is a mere point, even in a powerful telescope. The Dumb-bell nebula covers quite a large space as seen in such an instrument. It is also, probably, much farther away than the nearest fixed stars. It must, therefore, occupy a region of space ex ceeding many times that through which the planets of our solar svstem pursue their paths. Yet thespan of our earth's path around the sun is fully 18-1,000,000 miles, uhile Neptune the remotest planet of the solar system tiave's :jo times farther from the sun, having thus an orbit spanning more than five thou sand millions of miles. A globe just fitting the path of Neptune would con tain 'many quadrillions of cubic miles -and probably the Dumb-bell nebula exceeds such a globe in volume (or, to speak more exactly, occupies a spice exceeding such a globe in volume) many millions of times. Very strange is the thought that as tronomers should have been able to find out what this mighty mass of glowing Ki3 winsisis or. riaced vonder amid the glories of the Milky Wav, lost to human vision through its vast remote ness, only brought within our view at all by means of powerful telescopes, and only revealing its true shape when seen with the most powerful telescopes men have yet constructed, what at first ight can seem more amazing than that men should be able to tell what kind ot sub stance it is which gives out the milky luter of that cloudlet in space V The very light which conies to us from the Dumb-bell nebula has probably taken hundreds of years in crossing the tre mendous space separating us from that object. Yet that light has conveyed its message truly. Examined with that instrument, the spectroscope whose ( dice I lately described in a paper on the planet Venus the light of the Dumb bell nebula pr-.sents, not the rainbow-tinted streak which comes from glowing solid and liquid bodies, but three hi ight lichts only. At least three lines are seen if the nebula is examined through a fine slit ; if the field of view in prisons and factories built for that purpose. I would make beggary on the street a misdemeanor punishable by iiiiii.-M7iiiufuu i would nave everv helpless person understand where help in emergencies can always be had bv a representation of facts, subject to im mediate and competent ex iminaiion. I would see the matter so arranged that a premium would be put upon the truth, and a bin upon lahchood. Temperance and intemperance should always be considerations m dciiing with the poor. There is no limit to die lew ti's which such an oiganizatn.u as this would haw the power to inaugurate and perpetu ate, and, gentlemen, 1 verilv bplieve that under its intelligent and faithful administiation we could banish beggais from our streets, introduce a new era of prosperity and viitue among all the suf fering poor, and save ourselves foievo-r from the terrible pauperization that curses and almost kills the cities of the old world." A Word About Fairies. A suppose none of you, dear children, believe in fairies. When I was a little girl, I used to believe in them just as much as I believed in my father or mother. In those days fit was a great many years ago) childien did not know so muc h as they know now. It almost frightens me sometimes to see how very muiuku 'ojs and girls are expected to learn things now, how many books they have, and how much they are like grown people in everything except then-size. I thinkthat the old-fashioned wavs were' best; that we had a better time than you have. We had only a very few books, and used to read them over and over and over again, till we knew tiiein by heart; and we used to go in calico gowns to afternoon pai ties that began at three and left oil-, with a good supper of bread-and-mi'ik and baked apples and caraway cookies, at six; and we had just one piesent at Christmas and one .. ew i eais, and one on our birthday and that was all. Andlasf.biit not least, we helieved m fairies. Many is the time that we have been out in the woods on Satur day afternoons to look for fairies; we used to take hold of hands and make a circle around the bigger, toadstool we could find, and walk .--lowly aroui.d it aim an sav out ;iu.i I together: ''Fnirfc-' fairic-: fairies ,u. Hae come here r.iiri.-, to er " But we never saw a single one. Vet that did not shakeour faith in the least. We only thought tli.it we had not gone io uie rigiu wood, or that the fairies didn't like us well enough to show them selves. Now I dare sav you will think that all this is very silly, and that your ways and plays to-dav are a great deal better than our wavs and plays; and that it is very stupid for old people to be always saying tint the old times were best; and, at any rate, that I would better go on and tell my dream, if r am going to tell it at all. As a general thing, it is not worth while to tell one's dreams; but this dream wu such a pretty one uiougnt i would write it out. Even if we do not believe in fairies, they are very nice to dream about; and I rea lv did dream this whole pleasant dream, this very last nigh just as I am going to tell it to you this morning. H. II. St. Nicholas for August. undei ' Vou I've heard of is opened, there are seen three faint J n a t I- - . - -. i ittsred an oath never tnfptp DenntT ,d'bUt She ke oath. vS Thmi m lang quite as PasS qSckltr iT"; abuslVe epitbet5 wife tin lyftWeen hu5baud and Hue, till at last, m a paroxysm of rase he seized the lighted kerWne hufn from the table and hurled itTher i images of the cloudlet- The correct way of describing what the spectroscope teds us aliout this object is to say that instead of its light presenting all the colors of the rainbow, it is found, when sifted by the spectroscope, to contain three colors only, all of them greenish, but slightly different in tint. One of the colors is precisely such a tint of green as comes (with four other colors) from glowing hydrogen gas. and shnn us that there are enormous masses of The Ancient Cornh-h Tongue. Next year.' 1ST-, being the 100th year Mnce the date which, as iscomminlv supposed in th Un of England, the Cornish language a-nmily ceas-d to be SKikfcn, through the death of th hist person who could converse in it fluent lyan old woman of Mousehold. near Penzance, who usr-d the language chiefly for the purple of swearing in it it has been proposed to commemorate the "Centenary" by holding at Penzance or at Truro probably at the former a Congress of Cek'c scholars. At this Congress pajrs will be read and dis cussions invited up m the history and athnjt.of the ancient and now ex tinct (.fcigh language Although this lang- c i to be vernacular minding her mother. It happened in this way: A tall Shanghai roost-cock crowed close to her ear, when she was quite small; when, in fact, she was just hatched out ol her shell. Mie had a number ol brothers and sisters who came out at almost the same tune. The Shanghai stood veiy near, and in such a way that his throat came close to the nest, and he crowed there. The chicks wanted to put their heads out from under their mother, and see who w.is mak.ng sucu a nur,e. Meir mother aitl. "Xo, no n! Keep might be be made deal ! such a thing happening." But one of the chicks did put her head out, and che to the Shanghai's wide-open throat, too! and when he was crowing terribly! Then her mother said: "Now, I shall punish you! I shall prick you with my pin-feather.-,!" And the chick was pricked, and she became deaf besides: so that, when she grew up, she hardly could hear herself cackle. And this was the reason she could not understand, veiy well, when the hen named Teedla Toodlum was telling the others that the hen named Phe-endy Alome had a speckled feathei in her wing. One day, the hen named Teedla Toodlum scratched a hole in the s md, beneath a bramblebush, and sat down there, where it was cool. And while I the was sitting there, a cow came along at the other side of the bramblebush with a load of "passengers" on her back. The cows in the country oi Chickskumeatyourkornio permit the hens to ride on their backs, and when a great many are on, they step carefully, so as not to sh ike them off. In frost weather they allow them to get up there to warm their feet. oinetinie3 hens who have cold feet fly up and push off the others who have been there long enough. The cow passed alorg at the other side of the b ish. and by slipping one foot into a deep hole which was hidden with gr:iss, and therefore could not be seen, upset the whole load of passen gers. She then walked on ; but the pas sengers stayid there, and had a little talk together alter their own fashion. oi course. 1 he deaf one happened to be among them, and after a while, see ing that the otheis were having great sport, she wanted to know what it was all about. I pon this the others those of them who could stop laughing raised their voices, and all bgmat once to try to make her understand, and this is w hat they said - "Think of that goose of a hen, Teedla Toodlum, telling us not to g .vith Phe endy Alome. because Phe-endy Alome has a speckled feather in her wing, when, at the same time, Teedla Tood lum has two speckled feathers in her own wing, but doesn't know it!" Teedla Toodlum was listening and heard rather more than was pleasant to hear, he looked through tke bramble bush and saw them. ;ome htd their heads thrown back, laughing ; some were holding on to their sides, each with one claw; and some were stretch ing ther necks forward, trying to make the deaf one understand, while thedeaf one held her claw to her ear, in order to hear the letter. "Ah! I feel ashamed!" said Tedia A Fly's Toilet. The toilet of the fly is aseaieiully attended to as that of the most frivo lous of human insects. W ith a con tempt for the looking-ghiss an article which he reserves for the most ignoble uses -he biushes himself up and wab bles his little round head, chuck full of vanity, wherever he happens to be. Sometimes, after a long day of dissipa tion and flirting, with his six small legs and little round body all soiled with mi up, and butter, and cream, he passes out of the dining-room and wings his way to the clean whitecord along which the morning-glories climb, and in this letired spot, heedless of the crafty spider that is practicing gymnastics a tew feet above him. he proceeds to purify ami sweeten himself for the re freshing repose and soft dreams of the balmy summer night, so necessary to one who is expected to be early at breakfast. It is a wonderful toilet. Resting himself on his front and middle legs.be throws his hind legs rapidly over his body, binding down his frail wings for an instant with the oressnre then raking them over with a back ward motion, which he repeats until they are bright and clear. Then ),o. pushes the two legs along h:s body under tlie wings, giving that queer structure a thorough currying, every now and then thiowingthe legs out and rubbing them together to remove uh.it he h.us collected fiom his corporeal surface. Next he goes to work upon his van. Resting on u hind legs and middle legs, he raises his two foi clegs and begins a vigorous scraping of his head and shoulders, using his proboscis every little while to push the accumulation from his limbs. At times he is so en tigeticthat it seems as if he weie try ing to pull Jus head off, but no fly ever committed suicide, .someot hia motions erv much leseinble pussv at her toilet. It is pla-n, even to the naked eye. that he does his work thoroughly, for uhen he h.us finished he looks like a new fly, so clean and neat has he made himself within a few minutes. The w Jute cord is defiled, but Floppy i.H himvlf again, and he bids the morning-glories a very good evening I.ouLscilleCotirirrJour nul. I Origin of the Handicap. It was a custom at ore time as pr alent in Kngland as the modern pr lice of rattling. One person, let it ' supposed, had a pocket-knife which ' wished to exchange for another pers..; pencil-case. He would "e!mlhHH" t owner of the H'nctl-case to make t exchange with him, and. this b agreed to, a third person would Ih fi.- to "make theuward."or. in other wo: ' to arbitrate as to the re!ieviive va! of the two articles, and to award a tain sum by way of equali.ng if . Before the award w.ia mmle ail t '. would deposit in a hat or cap a rerr.i stake, which the arbitrator would . propriate m the event of his ap proving satisfactory to ltbj parties. . in the event of his award proving sar factory to neither party. Thi wa which this willingness or unwitlo ness to abide by the award of umpire w.is expressed seeim orijrin.i . to have heen this: The twot xchaiure were to stand each with a "Iwutl-i'-f cap," ami on the award IwinK "tlerr-I after an amount of cucutnloruuott p posely intended to confuse l limn th were ius'antly to withdraw thiir hai" and open them. It !!, hands- h money m them, both uvr uukrf. to accept tl e awatd. thr cxrh.ing u made, and the arbitiator pKkH-t stakes. If neither held monev. lr gain was not concluded, tuid thestak were still forfeited to the arhilni' If only one of the two displ ived a r.. that one drew the stake and thr. " change was not made. Accur.Itn: modem rules "a hauCjcap match k B and C to put anrqual sum htloa Y. . C, who is the handir-tpur. maters match for A and B, nh. whn h have perused it. put iheir h,tnd t. their pake's ami diaw them out cIikh then they open them together, and both have money in their hunifct v match is confirmed, if neither ha money, it is no mulch." Tims it be seen that, whei ens the old pi art ., was litera'ly a hand f-the-cap." v modem Iijls become a "hand i tf pocket."-A '. 'timet. an Snake Charm Bitd- It a general belief that snakes, moie especially rattlesnakes, possess a imste rious power over birds that renders them perfectly helpless and easy vic tims to icptile rapacity. While with some this belief amounts to an absolute ceitainty in then own minds, others scout the existence of such a jower. or at least its possession by snakes We never heard of an well.esti.hii.shed proof that would go to confirm the belief that snakes have power to charm but the following incident, which has been related to us by a perfectly relia ble authority, may g fr wh.tt it is wo'th : ... 1..1SL Saturday, while Messrs. I. J. ihel and John Doerr, of perryille. were on their way to Wittenlwrg. thev observed a bird by the ?ide of the road going through strangeantics.and wi.hin a few inches of it a large black-snake. The snake lay jK-rfecUy still, while the bird tlutteied aUnit weakly ;m if trying to fly away, w held by a strange l.tsci nation. .Mr. Ii.x-rr sprang Trom the wagon and killed the snake with a club, after which the bird U-w away. Jrn" mediately afterwards it came buck and lit on the sjot where the snake ban been killed, and then i'-w off and wsm not seen again. If the ,irii w;t3 nol fascinated, that at leant is the readiest explanation ot its otherwise unaccountable conduct, and until some other explanation Is maue, must remain as the true one. Perry rjtle. Mo . Criion A Hidden Mlily. Several ye;irii ago when thft tnnj,e of Japanese jugglera were in NVw- York. i'i"u io remain m town lar in A Prairie .Minuet. "" One autumn day, watching fr due . while ensconced on a inufc-mt hMi in the great Mendocio marsh. hi. extends back many iuiIi-h fnmi the it sissippi U, ver opposite Clintw. I n. ticed surne object moving on then mit of a knoll. Jty careful u-hI. r.ing discovered they were prauic-fV.wl. M. t ' move! by curiosity, carefully p.j...M ! ' ed them. As I drew nrar Idiw.cr.. fifteen train-fowl apparent! ..i . u a minuet. They were M-aUeied .. on the short turf, twentr yanh i:.u nodding their head at one anoth-r. . presently two would ninoiit ard "! form the KKri. whwh Ul u cour,.r, dance is known a "cioMnver a,d I." to places." all the while uLteri .. ..A note of co(, eooe."Um la nyll.cl buing much elotntmed. Then . follow "salute your pnrUienT Ni.. , a oW T,i8 scene of luenmei.t t sustained for half an Ivor and ..-. , shot from a uoig!tM,rii,K KMri ra(lH., t birds to run intu the UB cover ,' ; reedH. The bright aiuwtmm of .i.- ir and the conspicitutui group ,T rutiT birds uuprewii the 8om viti.1I toe upeciai.ra mtiMl. farmer to whom th mentioned. whi : 1 es iMern j. ...,. i:. t. . . " T'lil'l WIOS HT1 .l!"ltV there monlly every day." f The other varieties of pr,tin. ' indulge in the ,,. kjj RrniJ .. A Sea Serpent, and .V 3Ib.Uk.-. The Untphlf. of last w-vek. 'v-i t sketches, drawn by Lieutenant Hir.- f H. M. S , Oiborae. of the -., :n.r . which the oflicMrg t)f tltllk r.l ,w C the co,wt tl .stair, on June 2. "i ieirh is merely 0r ;i j, wW . 9 just anpearutg .'dwwj'th w. r. irregular height, and extending ? Lieutenant Ihun'. fr.rfi. thirty t - U feet in length. The other nkt ' f t? creature is been "end on," and ' Old tlie head, whfrh wju"lJlet-t..k, -! and quite six feet thick." nd n ; of flappers, one on emch vide, 'friv ture. was. says IJeuL Haynei. t' ! fifteen or twenty feel wide rr- - '" buck, anil irm the up of the I-; u the ;,art of the hswk where it r ro" Immersed I should rmmWr ml-1 rr j- .... . . . fhi ." i !. aim wMit se-Md ain tit "l" A aeihlx tri ne rtrctiNra:ie .l.'ol. itM w !!. !. l, - 'r..w it .v&rtafal. the season, and attended a mni ,.r I from ehht to Hffe.-f. !.,.-. lojur m theremarkaleentert.'tinment.Hivenbvany kJ- &d hitherto " thern.tt the Academy of Mu-Ir. The i 'hgMt. and la at Je: " iiuirJ&4F t.e u! wonde' T.rtai... I ,f -T . ... -nTWJiuuj luuriM! . i see. now. lival i , - ' i iirr. it fit. i at . - one ehonlH n.vCr tI1i- f , c.',i,. ' "" '- " "yn; .yme;,t of their crunru as mu m feathers one sees in other,. Vince one i IT "",' 1U'' ,Mte- 'k alW P tj I ''"" r' . etc, and teU'f-iallr :h.r I " TTT can never be sure that on- has not 1 1:..lt. ... ... . , . Z " .,,"se.of .... - ,.,S7. .. .iT .'-loH WV,,.,. -.r, ie. ,f o.,wi(-r-wiu1ii,(. .Mrs. llUir.wiJ " " t-raactt 1' jH" . exce.iulv harsh arnl duar aWv died recency- ll ait.jd ti . speckled Abby Morton Dia7. in St. Sirhola.. Dawn the Ande bv Hand Car l .--.: j nois- made by the .Iap,tnese orcheni. ' sora- of thf - ttortaia iUtil . CHl-tiirir. nf ?tr. ..... ..... i . I ...i . . lrt .'.. Ik il ; - " - r""u,'ws'stM on ' i in ;c, "-- fc; frirMl tk; j the floor at the rear of the sue. Hut t as j-.rfnl an ajy 0f j a most emmus n . tenieL t Anrhi I'Jfi'rfl fat ilv. o !.. ' .. i- . i. i ... t . . ...-. i .. . ." -v .... ..-. Lr i . u.r. u,Kl aii(.r saving attended tay p"rf'n.'-r -wnu jiiair. In - "".- v"v " " e.c iui i enieriamrnen'u ten or iwive nines I ii:e v --- goiuiy aIm tied .0 iieiKic- ot mx aiiveniurous sni-seers, j ma(j -R-ht was tn m- cioseiy braced together. It is of ordi nary construction an J appearance, and does not oiler any temptation v, a ir marrk-d ViU pleasure excursion down the precipit ous and tortuous gorge of the Itimac, except that it affords an unolistructed view of the shifting grandeur and ter rors of the r ute. w. j. and Interesrtnjr dicovery. ;i,e mo- j arly l: ??. ;he and her h tuba- 1 r mtr.t when httle All Rirht was pr- ' wmr-1 their physical and -: - forming on the pole. v. bich was ivp j str-rth in an untmt.il trr 'd. - -. --1 .. . . . 1. m. .u portwa m a socxei auaenJ to a t-n w"r,J "vr tnyrnn of sf. tJ around his father's waist, In ih f'jueatly have b-- sen nd miiLsi of the strange sounds made both Washington on homHMurk. by the orcaestra and by the man him- rm our niurrh vpfoclp -at rhe rut nf ivt r:4 ii-rfr I ..- r, ... I . forrth-V;ii i -' Known miles an hour; Jiving across aerial vh.- A. . " "" "uumoeroi man- dueLs. or !,? . j -m- .- rmmm are luirts Which were written oscnof which havA yc immense vul. " "".- nd. wX2iZ S We descend m srff. wh.l Was (Wlllv nbrin-r nn :. Nam- Jcni.lft.lu-..-. .l... . . . ; f....j .. v.. - -"'-. i jii .ioni' .--h4. iseng" while balancing the boy in m I the Kngiih ntJWail, li yoin?.ha; !ie- If -r V through sepulchral . UK.-WVU v. SSrSm.th.reinote cloud ; another uscrT ar llh "TJI" m lU ad tunn : threatened, now, to be crushed ;. " !! a m n manner, that there 'somi anH M-T .renu' oetween converging mountain-walls. air, I suddenly noticed a mtrMr. at and a natuntJ frLzs.t .rrnj first indistinct, but afterward asu:fliag definite shape as I waa able to sfcu: out or the disconlant aceomDanimenL After OIL" -'HCeS-- Hanlncr frtatl. .lr. ti..l r. work in j and equal to rr in rorejf i cr'1 rta-. c -. . .1 - . i , "w-t- nc urawii rri,?.i Aendveno wo i vi i. Ami v I -ltir combined. i - 5 AbAbj uiiiiujc ,-r- ft 14 .a-