UK ADVERTISER. ;. V. FAIKItKOTIIIIlt .no., - i ii - - m ii i ' r ROMANCE OF THE NINE TEENTH CENTUliY. J It's nehllly Iy when two lovers oim Not get the best or tho girl's old man. 1It flml approved of the young man's I'dHltlou iinil character, And yet o'erthrow all their One plans; Would not lot til tn nntrry her. Hild he. with n smile iilto pleasant: ".lust wait ii while If you will. For to marry Just at present My daughter's too Juvenile. Hut Ifsho wait till she collars 1'ho ago that inaysult my whim, Her full weight In silver dollnm I x tut 1 1 give with her to him Who wed hi r. ' This didn't Hurry The lover, They formed a plan Jly whleh they thought they could hurry The whim of the teiuold man. The tourist who Islts Tuiil Till singular fact doth tell: 'I hi' girl who moflt like the moon 1, In shape Is the reigning belle; And the ladle of that Nation, On lieltiK falr-tornied Intent, Have found nut u kind or ration That will make them corpulent; And thl maid, In view of gaining In Height, d herdad she'd iiire, lli'Kiin on n eoure or training with thu Afr.cblllof fare. And the lather, wonder-stricken And tilled with Kreal nmn.o. Haw hi Hlender daughter thlel.en Highly pound In fourteen day; And he hiiw, If long he grow no, Hhe'd elalm on her wedding day A fearful pile. Ho her troussouii He ordered made right away. Though married andtileed with money, Not happltieHHyet hIio'h found; She ha ceiiMfd to think It funny To lie seven feet around. And moNt auxlounly she's looking, Car and near and high nnd low, Tor the land whom they hao cooking That will make her thinner grow. HmUni I'ost. AIIOUT COMETS. In old times niun lookud on a comol, or "blazing star," us u Bign Bout from Heaven portending some dreadful mis chance, as plague, pestilence, or fam ine, hoiiiu great wur. or (what strange ly enough was lookud upon lliun iih much nloru distressing tlian llio death of any ono else) tho death of some groat ' Kino; or Emperor. It was not. perhaps, vory wonderful that men should have had such ideas. I For thoy did not understand then tho laws according to which comets move; anil whatever wo do not understand is vory apt to appear to us something su pernatural. Moreover to any ono who docs not understand what has boon discovered of lato years respecting " comets," there is .something dreadlul and threat ening in their aspect. Some look like mighty swords limning in tho heavens. Others have been compared to tho "bo som of tho destroying angel." and cer tainly some comets havo looked singu larly like swisli-talled brooms. Others havo suggested tho idea of oimetors, lance-heads, great Umues, or the heads of uncouth monsters. In modern times these fears have boon removod. At least they atl'ect, now, only very ignorant or else very foolish persons. Astronomers havo learned to understand the movements of comets. Evory comet as soon as it is detected is carefully watched until its motions aro understood. Years before the time of its return in 1759, llalloy's comet was in tho toils of tho mathematicians. It was ftirboyond tho piercing vision of tho tolescopo; it was wandering in depths whore only the .sun and planets hail power over it. Hut Clairault and other mathematicians wore calculating its every movement; and when in 1759 it returned to tho neighborhood of tho sun, it followed tho vory track which mathematics had nssigno'd to it. In former times, comets woro usually noticed first when already presenting a very striking appearance -with a blazing head and a long tail. Hut. in our own time nearly till comots aro dis covered long beforo thoy have bocomo thus conspicuous. When thus first discovered, a comet appears generally as a small, rounded natch of diffused light, or liko a woolly ball. As time pusses and tho comet draws nearer to tho sun, this ball changes into an oval, and lator into a Jong streak of misty light. Tho length of this streak of light extends always directly from tho sun, and tho end toward tho sun is brighter than tho other. Soon after, tho difference between tho head and the tail of the comet be comes still more marked. It is seen that tho head or brighter part near tho sun is formod of a bright spot (called tho nucleus), surrounded by a sort of halo, or glory, of soft light, which, on the sidos furthest from the sun, seems to sweep oil'; as if tho hair of tho comet's head woro combed out in that direction. Or ono may aptly describe tho appearance of tho comet at this stage and afterward by saying that tho comet looks as though "tho sun had raised a sort of cloud all round tho side of the head toward him, and that thon a mighty wind blowing from tho sun had swept away this oloud-liko matter in a long tail streaming out in tlio oppo site direction. Still this description is not norfoet, for tho tail is not straight, but slightly curved, as If after tho matter had boon swept into tho tall by a sort of out breathing from tho sun it had boon car ried oil' by a sldo wind acting more and more strongly upon it tho farthor it had traveled from tho head. Hut lam horo speaking of tho appearance of comots' tails, not of tho wuyi in whjch thov aro actually formod, a matter about whleh wo know little or nothing. Usually a coruot'H tail grows longor and brighter us tho comet draws nearer to the sun; and after tho comet has passed its point of neurest approach to him tho tail gradually diminishes In length, until when tho comet is about to pass out of viow it presents merely the same rounded, cloud-llko form which it had when first discovered. This, however, is not always tho coso. Somo comots have been far more splen did after than beforo tho time of thoir nearest approach to the ami. In ono cuso tho return of llalloy's comet in 18!J5 -tho comet, which had pre sented a brilliant appearance as it approached the sun, was found to havo entirely changed in char acter soon afterwards: it no longer had a tail, or oven tho oloud-liko envelope round tho head called tho cotnu. in fact, for tho time it looked just like a star. Hut as its retreat continued, a now tail was thrown out, though not nearly so bright or so long as the ono it had lost. The last of the great comets was that called Coggia's, seen in tho year 1874. It had a long and conspicuous tail. Besides tho great comotB, wjiioh trav el for tho most part in orbits of enor mous slzo, pausing far away into space boyond the track oven of tho remotest planets, there aro others usually much smaller which travel inorbitslylngwlth iu tho sun's planetary domain. Tho first discovered of these was ono called Loxoll's, after the name of the astronomer who calculated its path, in 1778. Astronomers were much sur prised to find a comet traveling in an oval path of no very great extent (passing a little beyond tho orbit of tho planet Jupiter) as compared with tho enormous paths, some oven limitless, along which most of tho comets beforo discovered had traveled. j Hut thoy woro oven more surprlsod by tho subsequent behavior of Loxoll's comet. It should havo returned in live and one-half years after its discovery, i and probably did, though it was not scon, tho earth belng unfavorably situ ated for securing aviowof tho stranger. Hut it should havo returned a second time olovonyenrsaftoritsdisoovory, and it certainly did not do so, for astrono mers searched carefully with pow erful telescopes all along its track, I and no trace of it was soon. In quiring into thocausoof this, they noted that its course had carried it close to the giant planet Jupiter, so close that tho mighty attraction of that groat body had turned the small comet out ! of Itn course. It has never been seen j since. Anothor comet of short period and small path was discovered in 1818. It j is called Enoko's. It circuits its patli in about throe years, four mouths, or three times in ten years. As its path .seems to be getting smaller though vory slightly some astrononiorsbefiovo that the comet is resisted in its movements by somo ethereal matter occupying tho regions through which it travels just as a light ball is resisted by tho air. However, it has not yet been itrovr.d that there is any real' change in tho movements of this comet which should require us to accept this explanation. Another comet of short period, ono whose history lias been full of interest, was discovered in 182G, by an Austrian ofllcur named Hioln. This comet has a period almost exactly twice as long as Enoko's, going round tho sun once in six years, eight mouths, or thrice in twenty years. Also it is to be noticed that during two of those three return's tho earth's position is such that tho comet can bo well seen, whereas dur ing tho third the earth is so placed that tho comet is in the part of tho skylit up by the sun, and therefore cannot bu seen. In February, 181(1, when it roturned, a singular thing happened. Captain (then Lieutenant) Maury, of tho Wash ington Observatory, discovered that tho comet Imd divided into two comets, each with a nucleus, head and tail of its own. These travoled along side by sido, drawing further and farther apart, until tho distance separating them was about two hundred and thirty thousand miles. In 185'J both comets returned, but now thoy woro about out million two hundred and fifty thousand milos apart. In 1859 thoy may have roturned, but thoy woro not soon, nor, indeed, looked for, that being tho time when tho comet would bo unfavorably placed tor observation, in loot), However, and in 1872, when tho two comots should havo boon well seen, thoy were looked for in vain, though all tho best telescopes in Europe and America woro enlisted in the search. It appeared that tho process of breaking up which had begun in 18 10 had gone on in such a way as to change tho double comet into many comets, too small to be sep arately visible. To enablo you to understand tho rest of tho story, 1 must tell you of a strange discovery respecting those bodies culled meteors, or failing stars, which no doubt you havo often soon. A full ac count of tho discovery would occupy much more snneo than can horo bo spared, yet without a full aivount you cannot thoroughly understand how comploto is tho evidence on which tho discovery rests. Tho discovery is this, that moioors, or falling stars, aro bodies traveling in tho track of comets. Thov do not belong to comets' tails, but fol low in tho tra-k of tho comots (the tail never lies in this tra -k, and seldom lies oven near to it). Now it chances that tho path of Rio la's comet passes very near tho path of our earth. So uoar, that when, in 1872, tho comet though unseen had cer tainly passed tho place of nearest ap proach only a few weeks before the earth eamo'th at way, it seemed reason able to think that a number of tho small bodies which produce fulling stars would lie behind the comet and in tho way of tho earth when she reached that particular part of the orbit. This would happen on November 27, 1872, and certain astronomers (I was ono of the uumbor) ventured to announce that probably there would at that time be a display of falling stars. This actually huppenod, moro than ono hundred thou sand falling stars being counted on that night. It ought, however, to bo mentioned that none was seen in 1879, when next bucIi a display was expected. Hut there was a bright moon on that occasion. Astronomers do not in the least undor tand how tho tracks of comets como to be occupied in this wav by meteoric bodies. Nor do they know how tho tails of comets are formed. In fact, though many vcrv interesting discover ies havo been made about comets, and though some seven hundred of thoso bodies havo already come under astro nomical scrutiny, comets still remain among the most perplexing of scientific mysteries Prof. It. A. Proctor, in Youth" a Companion. Esthetic Housekeeping. She was a graduate of Vassar, and, when bIio married Julius Augustus Smythe, was verv much liko another young lady who has been embalmed in song Ml I'ulliis Andora von Illurky, Who didn't know cluekeu from turkey: High Spanish nnd Greek she could fluently sneuk, Hut her knowledge of poultry huh murky. Howover, she told Julius Augustus that she was a good housekeeper be cause her mother and grandmothci were, and it ran in the family. So, on tho strength of this, ho wont to house keeping She bought a sweet little morocco-covered note-book and an em broidered market basket, and carried a gold pencil, woro an esthetic morning costume, and appeared liko a vision of delight before the magnates of tho cleaver at tho Central market. " O the dear, sweet, cunning little pigs," she exclaimed, stopping at an aldermanic ptand where several little roasters woro on exhibition. "I'll take a couple of thoso; how much aro they a pair?" " Five dollars for two," was the real istic answer. " Isn't that rather high? 1 guess I'll take a yard of beefsteak and a pound of chewing-gum instead, and some O yes! somo sweetbreads. Julius said he wanted some; nice fresh ones, please, with plenty of raisins in them." Then sho sailed over to a poultry stall: "Have you any clockings?" sho asked of tho woman in attendance. " Heaps of 'em," was tlto reply. "How much do thoy cost a heap?" sho asked in rather a faint voice. "Half a dollar a-pieco, mem." "Well, send up a piece to my resi dence," and she turned to the next stall, and picked up some little pack ages that looked very nice. " What is this sweet stuff that smells so lovely?'1 she asked of u red-headed boy behind tho table. " Limburgor, miss, and it's just splen did; tastes over so much better than it smells havo ono?" Sho took one, and then she asked the boy where thoy sold thoir quail on toast. " i, "Ain't any in the market," answered tho voting reprobate. "Mother's gone after a load, though, and we'll send you some soon as they're in." "What are these lovely navy-blue berries?" she inquired. "Thoy will just match my china. You may sond mo a bushel.1' Finally she decided to try a quart, which alio carried herself in tho artistic basket. "Have you any hen-fruit?" she asked sweetly of an old follow in a whito apron. Ho scratched his ear with a pencil for a moment: "Mebbo you meanh eggs," ho volunteered. Thoso sho also took charge of, as sho wanted to iuuko an omelet for Julius Augustus. Hut sho novor did, or, rather, when sho got homo tlm omelet was made with a liberal admixture of blueberries, and the front of her esthetic dress was ruined. Added to it was an order that sont Julius into spasms, anil frightened tlio cat to iloath; the limburgor had melted. Tho Vassar girl did justice to high Spanish and Greek in the explanation that ensued, and the next day thoy burned tho morocco note-book and woiit to boarding. Detroit Pod. Itelallon or Foul Air to Consumption. Experiment has shown that if an ani mal bo kept con lined in a narrow, closed apartment, so that tho air sup plied is always more or less vitiated by tlio carbonic acid which it expires, however well fed that animal may bo, tubercle (consumption) will bo devel oped in about three months. If thi bo tho case, a largo percentage of cases or consumption should be met with among the inmates of badly-ventilated .-chools. Hut, torfunatoly, tho disease is comparatively infrequent under tho ago of fifteen, and added to this is the protecting influence of the active eor ciso in tho open air usually indulged in by sehool-ehildron. It is upon the teachers that its blighting efforts aro most apparent, as thoy aro predisposed by ago, thoy neglect exercise in the open air. ami their mental labor is se vere, and worry of mind exhausting. Of eleven teachers who died during tlio last eight years within tho limits ot ono county in Pennsylvania, two died of aouto disoase, ono of an overdose of an habitual naicotic, and of nino attacked by consumption, eight died six ladies and ono gentleman; tho other, a gen tleman, will recover, at least for a time. Popular Science Monthly. The American honoy trade with Groat Hrituin is growing rapidly. A recent English order calls for 58, ,000 pounu cans. Youths' Department. LULU TAKES CARE OF KITTY. Thoy brushed tho clothes, thoy bent tho clothes, One Bunny April dny Thoir winter clothes, 1 menn nnd then Thoy packed them all away In nuper boxes tied around With very strongest Hrlngs, First freely sprinkling thetn with somo Tobacco dust nnd camphor gum, And other uncciy things. And when, their lnhor done, thoy took Their tea nnd toasted bread, "Why, where I kitty" some one inked. And "know," I.ulusaid: "She's In my dollle's biggest trunk; I brushed and heated her; There can't not any moths, 1 dcis, Del Into her nice fur. Bho Hcrntehed my tinders when I put Tho camphor sttiir about. Dlv mo some toast that's buttered froo. They left it nil to her, nnd Hew To let poor kitty out. , Harper' Yuunu i'eopte. UNDER A FLY-WHEEL. It was ten o'clock in the morning. Evory ono in tho factory was at work. Tlio clicking and rattling of tho lighter machinery, tho groaning of heavily laden shafts, the oilv thud of hundreds of cogs, mingled m busy din. Tho huge "engine sighed as, with its brawny arm of polished steel, it impelled the main shaft to turn tho wheels of the factory. Tom worked by tho door, near tho engine-room. He could, therefore, eas ily see tho engine and all its surround ings. The interest of its rapid, cease less motion partly roconciledliim to the fact that, while most boys of thirteen woro enjoying full liberty outside, ho was shut up within doors. This morning, moro than usually, ho had been watching tho forbidden splen dors of tho ohglno-room, for tho engi neer allowed no one in his sanctum. The great machine fascinated Tom with its easy grace of movement. His o.ves dwelt long on tho neat finish of tho hexagonal bolt heads thut gleamed about tho cylinder. Ho tried to tell, from his position, how full tho glass oil-cups woro, as thoy flashed to and fro on tho polished arm; and then his eyes rested on the fly-wheel that re volved so gracefully in its narrow pris on. Only one-half of tho wheel could he see at once, tho other half boing bo low tho floor, almost filling a narrow, rock-lined cavity called the "pit." As Tom watched tho whirling spokes, it seemed ns if tho mass of iron stood still, so swift was its motion. He re membered that onco tho engineer, see ing his interest in tho machinory, had invited him in, and that ho had stood loaning over the frail wooden guard, his face so close to the fly-wheel that the wind from its surface blew back his hair, while ho looked down into tho pit with wonder and dread. Ho remem bered asking tho engineer if ho sup posed an) ono could climb down there while tho engine was in motion. Tho answer had come: "Thoro isn't a man in tho factory that lias nervo enough, even it there were room" tho space between the whool and tho wall being hardly a foot and a half in width. The boy's eyes not wandered from the object of his tlwughts, and rested on the bright brass domes of tho force pump that occupied a brick "settlo" on ono sido of tho room; and then up to tho maze of pipes that crossed and ro crosod above the toiling machinery. Suddenly, glancing down, ho saw a little child standing beneath tho guard, close to the groat fly-wheel. Tho engineer was nowhoro in sight, and little May was his only child. Tom's heart gavo a great lea). In an instant, ho had scrambled down from his perch, and was in tlio engine-room. As ho passed tho door-way he was just in timo to see tlio child toddle for ward and fall into tho pit! With an awful shudder he waited to see the mousTor wheel spurn the baby-girl from its cruel sidos; but no such sight camo. Ho dashed forward and looked into the pit. Sho sat on tko hard, rocky bottom, sobbing softly to herself. Tho fall had not harmed her, yet .she was still in groat danger. Any attempt to move from her position would give the relentless wheel another chance. Tom slipped out of his brown "jumper," tore oil' his light shoos and stood inside the guard. Ono eager look in tho direction of tho iron door through which tlio engineer would come, and then he bogtui tho descent. The great mass of iron whirled dizzily closo to his oyes; tho inclined piano down which lie was slowly sliding was covered deep with dust mingled with oil, tho thick, oily, damp air, fanned by tho heavy breo.o from tho wheel, al most took his breath away. Whero tho curve of tho whool was nearest it al most brushed his clothes. With his back prossod tight against tho rocks, he slid down until his loot struck tho bot tom. And now came tho worst part of the ordeal tho ponderous whoel, sweeping in giddy curves above him, so atfeetod his nervos that his strength began to fail. Thoro was ono space whore tho wheel curvod away from a corner, so ho dropped on his knoes there and for an instant shut his aching oyos. Tho child was in tlio other corner of the pit, sitting in an open spaco similar to that in which Tom knelt. As ho looked past tho torriblo barrier, sho made a movoment as if to stand up. That brought back Tom's llooing sonsos. If she should stand upr tho wheel would strlko her. Lving caro fully Hat upon tho bottom of tlio pit, ho began hlowlv and cautiously to work his way beneath tho mass of Hying iron. Ho could fool the awful wind raising his hair as he crept along. Nearer and nearer ho camo to the child and nearer to tho ourvo of the wheel. As he passed beneath it, an incautious movement and asuddon "burn" on his Bhoulder showed thut ho had touched it. The little one had not seen him at all yet. as she had been silting and rub bing her oyes, but sho looked up now, aim seeing tho pale fuco streaked Ufith oil and oust coming toward her. she covered her face again with her little hands and sobbed harder than over. Tom crept on until he camo so near the child that he could lay hold of her dros; then ho stopped. A strange, dizzy blur kept throwing a veil over his eyes, and no tried in vain to over come a longing for sleep. Ho could feel the ceasolo'S whirl of tho great wheel, and it made him almost wild. Curious vagaries and half delirious fan cies danoed through his head. With an clfort ho threw them olf, and, raising his face from the rocky couch, called for help. Instantly, a do.en mocking voices from tho sides of the pit Hung back the cry into his very oars. Hit, the wheel caught the cry, and whirled It awa, up into the engine-room, in distorted echoes. Ho called again, and the sounds scorned less terrible. Tho little girl tried to get up, butlio hold to her white dross and soothed her the best ho could. A moment lator, he distinctly heard footsteps in tho engine-room, thon ho felt that some one was looking into tho pit, and then the clattoring of tho pis ton in the empty cylinder showed that the engine was soon to stop. Less swiftly, and at last slowly and more slowly, whirled Tom's massive jailer; fainter and fainter came the clat ter of tho piston, until both ceased, and tho engineer, with great beads of per spiration on his white forehead, swung himself between tho harmless spokes of tho ll3'-whcel and got down close to the two prisoners. "Is sho hurt, Tom?" ho gasped. "iNo, sir," said lorn, laintlv. if you'd only stop tlio fly-wheel, I'd lift nor out." "It is stopped, my lad it's your diz zy head that deceives you. Letmetako my little May." The engineer reached down and lift ed his darling up from tho dust, and, holding her fast on ono arm, climbed out. Tom lay still. Ho did not seem to care, since the little ono was safe ami the fly-wheel had stopped. He felt a tearful weariness stealing over him. Ho would liko to sleep a year. The engineer was by his sido a mo ment later, asking if ho was hurt. "No, sir, I think not only a little tired," said Tom, and slowly and wear ily his eyes closed. Without another word the strong man lifted him up from tho rocky floor and its foul air, and, climbing again by tlio spokes of tho fly-wheel, boro the boy out of his dungeon. Tho air from tho open window soon cleared tho "sleepiness" away, and ho was able to toll tho whole story. Tho engineer grasped his hand, but lie could not speak, and there were tours in hi? eyes. Many AVere the words of praise frorj. tho sturdy workmen that crowded in from tho "stool works" to see why the engine had stopped. Tom was tile hero of tho dny. When tho Superintendent henrd of it ho sent for a hack and had Tom taken home in style, with a comfortable little present in his pocket, and tho permis sion to bo out until ho should feel all I right again. It took about a week to I clear the dizzy feeling entirely away. and at tho end of that time he was working at his machine just as if he had novor boon under a fly-wheel. St. Nicholas A wealthy land-owner at Goncsse, France, has founded upon his ostttea private asylum for superannuated ani mals, which, except for his protection, would perish of neglect. Many of the inmates of this strange establishment havo attained extraordinary ages; in-' deed, tho figures representing tlio num ber of their years, which their bene factor carefully records, severely tax credulity. The patriarqh of tlio family is a mulo in his seventy-third year; uoxt comes a cow thirty-six years old, a pig of twenty-seven, and a goat of eighteen summers. In tlio quarters assigned to fowls tho visitor is intro duced to a goose in its thirty-eighth your, whoso paunch touches the ground and who&e feet aro disfigured by count less warts. In the aviary aro a spar row, in his thirty-second year, and a bullfinch reputed to be twenty-eight years old. loiing and frolicsome creat ures need not apply for admittance to this asylum, for only tho aged aro re ceived. The Hritish Government has com pleted arrangements for the conven ience and security of Cetywayo. They have purchased two farms, ono of 1,050 nQres and anothor of GO acres, which, thrown togother, will form tho limits of his future realm. No strangers will bo permitted to entor within tho bounds of tho King's location except under writton order. Cetywayo and Ids fol lowers will not bo permitted to Jio ab sent from thoir rosidenao between sun sot and sunriso, but will havo liberty to inovo about during tho daytimo over the land. Thoy will bo supplied with everything necessary for their health and comfort. Tlio e'stimato for tlio an nual cost of tho maintenance of Coty wavo and his suite amounts to 5,200, of which by fur the greater part is for tho custodians and interpreter. Coty wayo's household consists of live wives and two attendants. A Pennsylvania railroad gavo an excursion into Uolawaro, and some of tho excursionists helped themselves to a farmer's fruit. Ho didn't rush out with a shotgun or rush for a constable, hut quietly brought suit against tho railroad company which brought tho marauders out to his place, and, strange as It may seem, ho got judgment for tho amount of loss incurred.