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I) 14 THE ALLIANCE -INDEPENDENT. Above St. Irenee. I rested on the breezy height, In cooler hade and clearer air, Dencath a maplo tree; Hclow, the mighty river took Its sparkling shade and sheeny light Down to the somber sea, And clustered by the leaping brook The roofs of whito St. Irenee. And there I saw a little child f Between the tossing goldenrod, ; Coming along to me; " She was a tender little thing, So fragilo sweet, so Mary-mild, . , ' I tlicught her name Marie; : 1 No other namo me thought could cling: -' To anyone so fair as she. t -t'. And when wo came at last to meet, I spoke a simple word to her, , , v "Where arc you going, Marie?" " She answered and she did not smile, But oh, her voice her voice so sweet, "Down to Saint Irenco," And so passed on to walk her mile And left the lonely road to me. And ns the night came on apace W ith stars above the darkened hills, I heard perpetually, Chiming along the falling hours, On the deep dusk that mellow phrase, "Down to Saint Irenee;" It seemed as if the stars and flowers Should all go thero with me. A Dog's Decision. A slight variation of the story about the doff which is claimed by two per sons, and which is allowed to decide between them, and goes straight to his rightful master, putting the thief to sha me, has been recorded by the news papers of the town of Projestienten, in Hungary. It appears that a hard working knife-grinder "'came ' to the police authorities of the town, and re ported that a rag-picker had stolen his dog, and still had him. The matter was , looked into, and it was found that the rag-picker had in his possession a splendid tlog of the variety known as the Great Dane, of which he could give no satisfactory ac count.' t-?i:,-v . -. y ' " The case was brought into court, and the judge decided that the dog himself should settle the matter. The two claimants were placed at each end of a long table. The dog was led in by a bailiff, and held by a string at a point between the judge and the table, and exactly halfway between the two claimants. The judge then clapped his hands three times, and the two men began to whistle vigorously to the dog. At the same instant the bailiff loosed the animal. The Great Dane looked at the rag picker, then at the knife-grinder; then at one bound'' he cleared the table, rushed down an aisle of the court room, and disappeared through the door, to the astonishment of the court and the spectators. The fact was that the dog belonged to neither of the contestants, but to a gentleman to whose house he went straight from the court-room. He had been stolen successively by both the knife-grinder and the rag-picker. Novel Riding. y "There is no motion so delightful as riding on horseback,"4 writes the author of "The ' Naturalist inLa age, and learned -. iook at ... t as a parasitical creature, fitted to occupy the back of a horse. t The pleasures of riding flow from the agreeable sensations attendant on flight-like motion, and from th knowledge that something with life and thought sustains us and carries us over the ground with speed and safety, and that, too, without any material or physical exertion on our part. The author mentions one species of pleasure in riding that few English speaking riders have ever heard of. When riding by night on the pampas, he used to enjoy lying back on his horse till his head and shoulders rested on the animal's back. His feet were raised till they pressed against the horse's neck, and in this position,5 made by practice safe and comfortable, he gazed at the starry sky, seeing nothing of earth, but letting his mind absorb the impression created by the vast circle, of the heavens glittering with innumerable stars. To enjoy this method of riding thor oughly the rider must have perfect con fidence in the sure-footedness of his horse, and the horse must have a simi lar confidence in his rider. The ani mal must go over level, grassy ground, and at a swift, harmonious pace. Then the illusion is that of soaring through space an enchantment height ened by the muffled sound of the hoofs on the soft sward, which suggests the rushing of wings. THB globe) An Interesting Little Comet. Winnecke's comet, which is now pay ing another visit to the neighborhood of the sun, the period of its revolution being about two months short of six years, is especially interesting because its motions have given evidence of dis turbance similar to what has been ob served in the case of Encke's comet. It was at one time quite generally supposed by astronomers that these variations were due to a resisting medium filling spac, through which the comets were compelled to pass, but much doubt has been cast upon that conclusion. The variations unquestionably exist, however, especially" in the case of Encke's comet, and an explanation i required. Instead of the theory of a resisting medium, it has been suggested that comets which exhibit indications of being retarded in their motion may pass at every revolution through some cloud of meteoric matter which is also circling around the sun in an orbit in tersecting that of the comets. The observations which are now be ing made on Winnecke's comet may help to settle the question whether it actually is retarded in its motion around the sun. Unfortunately this interesting comet cannot be seen with out the aid of a telescope. It is true of comets as of people that the most con spicuous are not always the most im portant. "Sit" and "Set." Some one who believes in teaching by example ' has concocted a lesson in the use of two little words which have been a source of mortifica tion and trouble to many well meaning persons. , A man, or woman either, can set a hen, although they cannot sit her; neither can they set on her, although the hen might on them by the hour if they would allow it. A man cannot set on the wash-bench but he can : set the basin on it, and neither the basin nor the grammarians would object. He could sit on the dog's tail if the dog were willing, or he might set his foot on it. 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