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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
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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. But if he should set on the
aforesaid tail, or sit his foot there, the
grammarians as well as the dog .would
howl, metaphorically at least. 1 i
And yet the man might set -the tail
aside and then. sit down, and be as-
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