fwaHBgBgwgwayu.ui i, ia.u
T Tlio Pleasant Passenger.
Ho had ovidontly gone homo vory Into
tlio night before anufound Mrs. Cnudlo
wido awake and inclined to converse,
for ho was in such a stato of cheerful
ness that, had ho found n five-dollar bill
on tlio stroot, ho would have grumbled
becauso it was not ten. Ho waited un
til tho street car got nearly past him bo
foro ho signaled for it to stop, and then
sworo at tho driver becauso tho car was
not brought to a stand-still at tho cross
ing. Ho took a scat next tho door,
throw hia right knee over his loft, and
set about fourteen inches of muddy boot
oscillating across tho passage-way so
that every lady who entered or left tho
car could help herself to wot clay.
" Ting-a-ling," wont tho driver's faro
box. "King, and bo darned. If you want
my faro, you'll como and get it!"
growled tho happy man to himself.
"Fare, sir!" said tho driver, opening
tho front door and thrusting in his head.
"If you want it, you como and got it.
I'm not paid to bo a conductor of your
darned bob-tail cars!"
Tho driver took a hnsty look out
nhoad to sco if there wore any children
making mud pics botween tho rails,
.ttyistcu his reins around tho brako and
camo in for tho nickel. Tho amiablo
Srontlcmau do'.iboratcly thrust his right
mud down into tlio depths of tho cor
responding pocket of his pantaloons, as
deliberately withdrew ft, and then start
ed on an exploring oxpedition with his
Jeft hand. , ,
"Hurry up, ploaso," said tho driver,
glancing out forward to seo if tho old
milk woman was going to got across
tho track in time to avoid a collision.
"Well, if you bo in too much of a
hurry to take my faro jest you drivo
along without it," said tho humorous
passenger :is ho drew forth a handful of
coin, from which lie slowly selected
four pennies and handed them to tho
driver.
"One more," said tho driver. "Hero's
only four."
"That's all tho coppers I'vo got,"
said the passenger, as ho rattled tho
coin back in his pocket.
"Then give mo a picco of silver.
You'vo got plenty of it there," said tho
driver.
"That's all you'll get out of mo this
morning, so walk oil!"
"You'll havo to pay your faro, or
get olV tho car," said the driver, firmly.
"Oil, 1 will, oh! Jest you put mo off
if you can! I'll not get off, and you
can't put mo off! Now what arc you
going to do about it!" said tho pleasant
gentleman in a bullying tone.
The driver evidently wasn't going to
do anything about it, for ho wont for
ward, dropped tho four nennics into tlio
box, and as ho resumed tlio reins and
slammed tho door behind him, muttered
something about tho pluasuro ho should
feel' at mooting tho passenger in
soma out-of-the-way placo on a dark
nighfc
"Nono of your impudonco!" yelled
old mud-foot. "I'll have you discharged
off the road! sco if I don't. What aro
"yon giggling at, you infernal littlo
fools?" remarket! ho, jocularly, to a
couple of school girls near tlio front of
tho ear, who wore smiling at his mirth
ful remarks to the driver.
"Will you please tako down your
foot," said a lady who wished to leave
tho car, indicating tho mud-covered
cowhide monstrosity.
" No, I'll not! If you can't stop over
that foot, jest you walk around it!"
"Smack!"
A littlo follow, weight about one hun
dred and twenty-fivo pounds, had
reached across tho car and loft tho pat
torn of his right hand upon tho pleasant
gentleman's face.
" Lot mo out of your infernal car!"
yelled the funny man, as ho jumped
up and made for tho door. "I'll not
rido with such a gang of loafers and"
"Plunk!!"
It was the littlo fellow's boot this timo,
and it has assisted the passenger to
alight.
"Thank you," said tho lady as sho
tripped through tho door.
" Quito wefcomo, I assuro you. And
so is ho," said tho littlo follow as tho
car rolled along with tho giggling of
those "infernal littlo iooh.DetroU
Free Press.
Lato Fashion Items.
Tho now shade of blue called bleu do
mer is a rival to cadot bluo for stroot
costumes.
Detachable bows of ribbon aro now
used for trimming night-dresses.
Somo of tho daintiest and lightest of
straw hats havo tho crowns ontiroly
covored with volvot.
Quaintly shaped carved teakwood
handles aro seen upon somo of tho most
cxponsivo parasols.
Jotted laco bonnets, stylish in shape,
can bo purchased untrimmed.
A pretty elcganco of tho season aro
rich colored street jackets, not matched
to tho toilet, mado of marvoillcux or
moire.
Littlo girls wear hats, sashes, stock
ings and ribbons nil matching each
other in color, tho favorite huo Going a
now deop shade of china rod.
An old-fashioned stylo is revived in
tho modo of finishing off tho pointed
bodice. A thick cord is sot at tlio vory
ctlgo of tho corsage, and tho tunic and
panniors aro set just underneath the
cord.
Dress cardinal "my lady" houso-
Iackets of vivogno or oaskot-cloth will
o much worn at tho seasido this sum
mer over pretty high-colored skirts of
satoon, foulard, muslin, or white dresses
of any description suitablo for morning
toilets.
Tho favor which foulard enjoys is per
haps due to the fact that a dress mado
. of it is always bright and protty in ap
n poaraneo; it is muoh cooler ami ploas-
lUJWui'mtiHiL'iMifwjiuiimLViiiuvnywtMii
antor for summer wear than gros-graln
silk; it lends itself to any sort of drap
ing or trimming, boing sit mile, yot firm
in texture, and is muoh less liable to
crumple or grow limp than lawn or mus
lin, and tho silk is so light that it proves
a happy medium in dress for our fitful
climate.
White and cream-tinted Spanish not
will bo much employed this summor for
dinner and evening dress, mado wholly
of laco. This not is cut in plain prin
cesso stylo over a foundation of whilo
morveilleitx. Tho skirt and bodico aro
then draped with ruffles, scarf and
bertha of minted Spanish laco. Theso
exquisite drosses aro among tho most
beautiful and becoming of summor toi
lets. An English novelty in collars is called
tho " Diroctoiro," and is mado of whlto
Renaissance laco, with vory open-work
insertion bands of white chenille dotted
with pearl beads. Tho vory largo capo
liko collar is formed of three rows of
lace, which is vory deep; at tho head of
each ruillo is a baud of tho insertion run
through with black volvot ribbon. This
is ropeatod with tho band around the
throat, which is drawn up and brought
together in front with a cluster of broad
volvot loops and long ends of tho samo,
which fall far below tho waist.
White China crapo shawls aro being
utilized for polonaises, and aro mado up
over underskirts of silk or satin. A
vory simple yet elogr.nt ono mado up
over an underskirt of peach-blossom
satin had the front of tho polonaise cut
in a long point, thus showing tho rich
embroidery of the shawl corner to lino
advantage. Tho narrower embroidery
formed a border all around the polo
naise Tho fringo of tho shawl was re
placed by wido laco of tho creamy tint
of tho crapo. A portion of the embroid
ery upon tho other half of the shawl was
sacrificed to decorate tho short sleeves
and bodice.
An uncommon and exceedingly ele
gant costume for a child is mado of rus
set brown velvet and golden-brown satin
sublime, edged with English silk om
broidcries. A model formed of these
materials showed a French redingoto of
tho velvet, open from below the waist
lino, showing tlio lapels of a haudsonio
embroidered sash of golden-brown satin.
Tho fronts of the roilingoto wore crossed
and open at tho foot. Tho deep Charles
II. collar of volvot was cut in squares
and faced with satin. In suit was a
soft Moorish cap oT russet-brown satin,
trimmed with velvet, with plume and
tips of tho samo dark hue, shading to
gold. This suit was designed for a
carriago dress for cool weather at tho
seaside.
Comparatively few women can ap
propriately or becomingly wear tho hair
in drcek stylo with its aceompan'ing
lilot of ribbon or silvorcd bands. In tho
first place, tho hair should bo very
abundant; in tho second place, tlio feat
ures should bo classic in outline, and,
lastly, the face should bo beautiful, 01
at least attractive enough to boar the
test of this severe stylo of coiffure. The
women of Greece, who adopted this
fashion of banding down tlio waves of
hair, did so to keep in position their
overabundant locks; but when one sees
a "thinly settled," wisp-like head of
hair tightly banded down a la Roman
damo or woman ot the French Diree
toiro period, ono is led to suppose that
tho wearor of tlio filet has determined
by this means to secure what few re
maining locks ungonorous nature has
left her. N. Y. Evening Post.
How n Slrcel-Car-Irlver Changed a
$100 It II I.
"Supposo you come across a gooa
many strange customers on your daily
journey?" observed tho reporter.
" You bet 1 do. Not only strange cus
tomers but aggravating ones, also. Tho
change system reminds mo of a trick I
once played on a man which cost mo a
year's savings. Ho was a tall, lank in
dividual, looking very much like a Meth
odist parson. Ho got on a Sixtli street
car; (t was driving tiion), and oiler tho
conductor a $100 bill for his fare.
4 Haven't you got anything smaller?'
asks my mate No, my friend,' says
tho lank individual. So ho rode that
timo for nothing, as tho conductor could
not give change, and did not like to put
him off; ho looked so respectable, and,
besidos, wo did not havo the rule wo
havo got now, Conductors not forced
to give beyond $2 change' Tho lank
individual rode two or three times on
tho car, and nover had any money ex
cept tho $100 bill. Tho conductor told
mo of it ono night, and I got an idea in
my head. Jack,' I says, 'if that por
son rides with us again and oilers tho
$100 bill you bring it to mo.' I had a
littlo money savod, and I got n friond
to chango 100 for mo into live and ton
cent pieces. These I put in a bag and
placed in a private locker I had undor
tho seat of tho car. In a day or two my
mato camo in front and says: Tom,
gentleman's only got a $100 bill, can
you change it?' I gives tlio conductor
tho key of the locker. I had told him
about tho silvor, and my mato took
twenty-four cents out of tho bag for four
faros which were owing, and thon hand
ed tho rest, bag and all, to tho lank in
dividual. Ho vowed and protested ho
wouldn't tako such change, but my mato
said ho knowed him and that ho wasn't
going to play tho $100-bill game on him
any longer, and so tho lank individual
got out, shaking his list at my mate,
with tho bag of silvor tucked tinder his
arm. Tho next day I took off, and I
went to return the $100 to tho bank. I
handed overtho bill. Tho cashier takes
it up, looks at it, anil says: 'Hero young
man, this won't do, its counterfoil.1 If
you had seen my actions for tho next
ton minutes you would most likely havo
suggested a straight waistcoat. I havo
no er como across that lank individual
since; if I do . one-Car' Conduc
tor, in rulaiUljihia Press.
Tho Hungarian Plains,
At first tho plains softly undulating
are dimpled hero and thoro with shady
hollows; whilo liko golden Islands in an
ocean of vivid greon lio long strotchos
of yellow colza ami rlponlng corn. On
tho gently rising upland yonder a dark
round spock nppoars against tho sunlit
sky; gardtmlly it olongatos,'and wo hoar
a volco singing in a quivering troblo
somo national idyl. It iaa husband
man emerging from tho hollow and
trudging homoward along tho crest of
tho undulation. Thon all issilonco and
solitude onoo more till coming to a
standstill at ono of tho, 'primitive- wolls
by tho roadsido, wo "hear tho distant
rumble of a wagon as its wheols grind
heavily along, tho driver of it singing,
as it goes, a melancholy ditty in tho nii
nor key. Then ono by ono tho villagos
and solitary farms lying on tlio horizon
dlo away, and wo enter tho boundless
plains. How lonely wo feol, and what
tiny atoms of creation, with no objects
to measure ourselves by save birds of
prey, and tlio white clouds sailing far
up in tho great, bluo, glorious sky! Our
carriago, though imposing only in the
mattor of size, proved very comfortable,
its ponderous hood shielding us from the
heat of tho sun, save where, taking
moan advantago of weak places in its
constitution, it shot liory nrrows in up
on us, scarcely less piercing than those
that pour down upon tho head of tho
traveler in tho dosort. Tho sun reflects
itself in tho whito mid dusty road.
Abovo tho soil on either sido there is a
fiickering motion of the air like tho haze
from a lime-kiln. Everything is hot and
dusty; not an insoct is seen hovering
about tlio low bushes which now
and then skirt our pathway. All
nature is taking its siesta in the dreamy
noontide, and nothing is awako but tho
scarlet pimpornel that with wide-open,
unblinking oyo looks straight up at the
blazing sun. Wo now como to a marshy
district, whoro a lonely heron is con
templating its lovoly imago in a small
still pool, and then away wo go again
out into the broad purble patches of
newly upturned soil, bands of emerald
corn, and speckled streaks of tobacco,
with its largo rod and greon leaves, anil
on through cool labyrinths of maize,
till wo como to vast tracts of uncultivated
land, where wild horses with Hying
manes go scampering across its surface
with tho natural graco of untamed
things. As day advances and tho
shallows of tho clouds begin to lengthen
across tho plains, nbrcczo springs up and
plays about us softly, rustling tlio largo
white, surplice-like sleeves of the drivers
garment, but not sufficiently strong to
stir his black and ilowing locks, which,
weighted with somo unctuous mattor,
rest calmly on his shoulders. Our
nearest town is Voszprim, but at the
pace wo aro at prosont going wo aro
scarcely iiKoly to ream it botoro night
fall, if thou. Hut what docs it nmtlor,
when wo havo the whole of to-morrow,
and the next day, and the day after that,
aye, and our whole lives, to do tho
distanco in if uecossaryP How delight
ful to enjoy for once the truo feeling of
rest in this world of hurry-scurry, where
wo aro but too often compelled to live
at high pressuro! Let, oh! let us for
once tako life easily under the broad
and peacoful canopy of heaven, and re
duce the dolecfar niento to a soionce
From 'MagiarlanU.'
Tho Arctic Fascination.
There is something about tho solemn
fascination of Arctic voyages that nono
but the' who havo made tlieiii can con
prchend. Even when tnoso expeditions
end in tho disaster which almost in
variably attends them, the adventurers
aro no sooner recovered in body and
mind from their alllictions than tlioy aro
ready and sometimes eager to essay
once more tlio stern, solemn mystery
which tlio ico barrier of tho polo guard
with such pitiless jealousy. A corres
pondent, wliointerviodJDanenhowor im
mediately after his return to New York,
found him in what might bo called a
pitiablo condition. Tho prolonged suf
ferings and privations he hail under
gone, tho remembrance of tlio loss of
tho gallant ship crushed in the ico, and
of the mournful fato of his companions,
and, more than all, tho sudden transfer
from tho desolate wastes and over
powering lonolinoss of the Polar region
to tho warmth and light and lifo of New
York civilization in the month of May,
had so unsettled his mind that ho was
unable to control his thoughts and ac
tions. Even memory had left a portion
of its powors'bohind in the cold, dreary
region from which ho had escaped, and
in tlio course of conversation tho dazed
adventurer would halt and gropo for
tho forgotten word to express himself
in. " Oh," said ho, "I can't find tho
word 1 want; that Arctic nightmare is
still on mo." And yet when asked if
ho would liko to joinaiiotherexpodition
to tho dismal region, ho instantly an
swered, "yes."
Wo may bewail tho loss of so many
gallant spirits and stout vessels that
havo perished in tho search for this yet
unsolved mystery, and robuko tho
daring which seeks to tear from tho
icy heart of tho polo a secret which,
when brought to view, would probably
bo absolutely destitute of all practical
value; but lamentations aud robuko will
be of no avail as long as this unac
countable fascination holds its spoil up
on tho minds of hardy navigators. That
insalinblo thirst for knowledge which
animates tho mioroscopist in his searoh
for tho ultimate atom, the chemist in
his pursuit of tho vital forco, tho as
tronomer in his analysis of ghostly
uobuhe, tho African traveler in his hunt
for the sotiroo of tho Nllo, and tho
arclucologist in his ceaseless question
ings of the dumb tumuli beneath which
repose tho relies of past civilizations
will, no doubt, draw victims to tho Arctic
Mipulohro as long as the mystery of the
polo rumuiui.--St. Louit, lti publican.
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.
Half a century ngo Edward Stabler
was appointed Postmaster of Sandy
Springs, Mil., by Androw Jackson, and
he is still serving in that capacity.
Mrs. Mark Hopkins has proscntoi!
to tho Univorsity of California Emman
uol Loutzo's historical picture, "Wash
ington at Monmouth." Tlio painting is
insured for $20,000.
-General John C. Fremont, now in
his seventieth year, is living in Now
York in a vory quiet, melancholy way,
aud is said by a cot respondent to havo
tho air of a man whosu "to-morrows aro
all yesterdays."
Homy Johnson, who kept Gonoral
Androw Jackson supplied with water
during tho battle of Now Orleans, and
who cleaned tho warrior's sword tho
next day, is living at Oborlin, O., at tho
ago of 109 yoars. N. Y. Post.
Cadot Whittakor, in his lootnro at
Buffalo, N. Y., roeonUy, said that tho
theory that ho mutilated himself was
evolved to save tho Academy itself, as
a storm of public indignation was pro
paring to shako it to its vory foundation,
lie denied in the most positive manner
possible that ho had tampered with his
own ears.
Simon Cameron, in his speech be
fore tho Birthday Club, the other day,
said it was as a journalist that ho began
taking tlio first stops out of obscurity,
and that ho could readily recall the day
when ho started in at $'20 a year to learn
the printing business. At that timo it
took a day to do what can now bo ac
complished in a minute.
Goorgo Jones, tlio magnate of tho
New York Times, will sail for Europe
after his son Gilbert returns. His health is
very frail, and ho finds an ocean voyage
affords relief for tlio asthma, from which
ho so constantly suffers. Ho is now tho
oldest publisher in Printing-houso
Square, and his income from tho Times
is estimated at $80,000.
Frederick Harrison is not plcasod
witli tlio onorinous increase of books.
" It is," ho says, " almost a matter of
chance what a man roads, aud still moro
what ho remembers." Ho contends
that the accumulation of new material
is not ending in increased powor to
think, stronger mental grip. " When
we multiply the appliances of human
life," ho says, " we do not multiply tlio
years of life nor tho days in tlio year,
nor 'ho hours in the day; nor do wo
multiply -ho powers of thought or of en
durance; much less do wo multiply solf
rcstraint, unselfishness and a good hoart.
What wo really multiply aro our dllllcul-
ties and doubts."
HUMOROUS.
Hibernian, after attentively Biirvoy-
ing tourist's bieyclo: " Arrah, now, an'
sure that littlo wheel will never knpo
up with tho big wan at all!" London
Fun.
A largo noso is a sign of character.
If it has a turkey-red finish or a big
knob on one sido, it is a sign that char
acter has gono on a protracted vacation.
Lock-port Union.
A Philadelphia youth who is learn
ing to play tho cornet cannot under
stand why people who shoot at eats will
be so careless. Half a dozen stray bul
lets havo ah-cad' come through his win
dow. Philadelphia News.
A preacher in Tennessee tried to es
tablish a church in which there should
bo no members who used tobacco or any
boverage but water, and his only con
gregation was an old woman who
chewed slippery-elm and believed in cat
nip tea for measles. Detroit Free Press.
Count (to his servant) "John, I
have noticed that ever since your wife's
death you como homo drunk ovory even
ing. Why is this?" John "I am only
trying to console myself for my loss."
Count" And how long is this going to
last?" John "Oh, sir, I am inconsol
able. ' ' Frankfurter Zcituny.
Johnny, aged twelve ran into tho
houso and exclaimed, in woll-foigncd
astonishment: "O, ma! I saw a littlo
baby out hero with only two ears and
ono noso!" " Good gracious!" ex
claimed tlio startlod motlior, in a singlo
breath, throwing up her hands. "Good
fjracious! you don't tell mo, tho poor
ittlo dear! howovor did it happen?"
Norrislown Herald.
Now wo aro to havo "inland oys
ters." Talk about theso active bivalvos
boing unablo to climb a treo, why, bless
your heart, thoy havo scaled tho Rocky
Mountains and taken up their abode in
tlio Great Salt Lake Wo predict that
when tho Mormons can stay out nights
eating "natives" on the half shell, tho
at tractions of a homo with thirteen wives
will bo as nothing. Burlington Hawk
eye. Tho "Boo Association of North
America" is composed of gentlemen of
tho learned professions and tastes of
culture, so wo hoar. If tho idea is to
oultivato tho disposition of tho boo, to
mollify it, to bring itdown tothatcontlo
stato of roposo that a man can hereafter
fc i nttiiit a lif 11 I, vlfcS linn tn n r 4 I t a- I fr
uasuuiuiu wiwi uiu irou, juuul 111111 iu
some ten-aero lot without feeling an in-
olination to run and thrash tho air with
a hat, just becauso tho boo is coming
."stern on" towards you, wosympathizo
with tho association. Otherwise, not.
New Haven Register.
Pharisee and Saducco.
To church tho two toifothor went,
lioth, doubtloss, on devotion bont.
Tho parson proachod with fluont oaso,
On l'harlsoc s and Haduccos.
And as thoy hoinowunl slowly walkort,
Tho lovors on (hit sermon talked,
And ho ho doonly loved tho maid
In Bolt and tondor iiccoiiIh said:
" Darling, do you think that wo
An Pharisee aud HaduceoV"
Hho Hashed on him hor bright blnoic oves
1 ii ono swift look of vx lid surprlso,
And thiiH ho hnstoncd to aver,
(Ho was hor constant worshiper)-
" Hiit.dnrllnir, I Insist," said ho,
'That you aro vory falr-l-soo;
J know you don't caro much for mo,
4ul Ibut muVw mo lo eud-you-uoo.
A Warning- to Muggers.
Thoro is a "case" on tho practice
book of a well-known physician of West
Oakland which ought to constitute a.
warning, and is, besides, an interesting
surgical example of "tho dlscoheslvb
yleldings of tho flexions in old ago "as
tho doctor has It. Somo months ago a'
young man arrived iu Oakland from
Montana. Ho proceeded at onco to
tho homo of his parents. Tlio door
was oponod by tho voting man's grand
mother, then nearly seventy years of
ago, and for whom ho entertained a
most commendable all'oelion. Tho
young man wits a groat favorite with
the old lady; when ho was a moro child
alio had mado much of him, had sympa
thized in his boyish troubles, and had
furnished him tho sinews of war for
many a youthful frolic. Ho had boon a
good and graceful grandson, and nat
urally, as thoy had been parted for sev
eral yoars, tho grcoting was an offuslvo
ono. Hut the old lady failed to realize
that hor favorite was no longer a bud
ding stripling. Tho full-grown, board
ed man before her, with brawn on his
shapely limbs and toll-toughened mus
clo on his sinewy arms, was thirty
pounds heavier and moro than a littlo
stronger than tho boy whom sho had
kissed and sent to bed for tho bust timo
eight years before. And oti his part tho
young man did not realizo that " gran'
nm"wasno lomrer tho viirorous ladv
wnom no nan
played with rompingly as
1-boy in their far-oil East-
a merry schoo!
orn nomo.
To his glad, grateful, grand and filial
breast ho caught hor aged form and
hugged her tight with tlio warm im
pulsiveness of tempestuous youth. Had
sho been tlio usual sweetheart, thoro
might havo been no worse result than a
fractured soction of tho whalebone
stays, or a momentary cessation of not
too necessary inspiration. As it was
the old lady said, simply: "Oh, my!"
and sank back upon his shoulder in a
"dead faint." When she recovered
from that sho complained of a grievous
pain in her right sido. A physician was
sent for, ami his examination showed
that three ribs had been dislocated by.
tho "grand filial hug," and that tho
situation was a critical one, owing to
the old lady's extreme ago, and to tho
fact that sho was rather portly, and
bandaging would, therefore, he deprived
of much of its effectiveness. Tlio old
lady has been under medical treat
ment ever since, aud is not at present
suffering much pain. Her disconsolate
and unreasonably self-reproaching
grandson is her most devoted attendant.
Sun Francisco Chronicle.
Liugiuil Slips and Misses.
A German author has mado a collec
tion of metaphors, which he calls pearls
of thought. Somo of them are worth
quoting, if only as a warning to hlgh
fiown orators not to allow their magnil
oquence to lly away with them altogeth
er. " Wo will, " cried an inspires po
litical orator, "burn all our snips, and
with ovory sail unfurled, steer boldly
out into the ocean of freedom!" Even
that flight is surpassed by an effort of
Justico Miller Ilyo, who, 'in 1848, in a
speeeli to the Vienna students, impress
ively declared: "Tho chariot of revo
lution is rolling along, and gnashing its
teeth as it rolls!" A pan-Gormanist
Mayor of a Rhinehind corporation rose
still higher iu an address to the Em
peror. Ho said: "No Austria, no Prus
sia, only ono Germany; such are tho
words tho mouth of your imperial maj
esty has always had in its eye" Prof.
Johannes Schorr, in a criticism on Lo
nau's lyrics, writes: "Out of tho dark
regions of philosophical problems tlio
poet suddenly let swarms of song divo
up, carrying far-Hashing pearls of
thought in their beaks." A German
preacher, speaking of a repentant girl,
said: "She knelt in tho temple of her
interior, and prayed fervently." Tho
Gorman Parliamentary oratory of tho
present day affords many examples of
metaphor mixture; but two must sullice.
Count Frnnkcnburg is the author of
them. A fow years ago ho pointed out
to his countrymen the necessity of
"soizing tho stream of time by tho foro
lock;" and, in the hist session, ho told
tho Minister of War that if ho really
thought tho French were seriously
attached to poaco ho had bettor resign
ollico and "return to his paternal ox
en." Hut nono of theso pearls of
thought and expression in lathorland
surpass tho speech of tho immortal
Joseph Prudhommo, on being presented
with a sword of honor by tho company
ho commanded in tho National Guard of
Franco. " Gcntlomon," said ho, "this
sword is tho brightest day of my lifo."
London Telegraph.
Handling Horses.
Men differ greatly in tho amount of
work thoy can got out of a team of
horses, and tho animals know this as
well as tho drivers. Somo will fret and
sweat a team whon only drawing an
empty wagon, whilo others will drivo
tho samo horses boforo a heavy load and
not wet a hair. This difference is more
easily scon thandescribed. Kindness in
manner and in tone of voice go a
great way towards making tho load
draw easily. Tho owner's handling 'of
the reins is frequently far different from
that of the hired man. Wo havo seon
teams kept poor in llesh by an almost
incessant worry from an ill-fitting har
ness, an inhuman jerking upon the bits,
or a frequent and injudicious use of tho
whip. Boys aro not exempt from theso
strictures. Many teams havo )nu their
usefulness impaired by a disregard of
the feelings of tho horses. It is not the
well-fed horse, only, that does tho most
work, and keeps in the best condition;
ho must also havo a kind master, ami
be treated with a just regard for equlnq
wsnsibillty. -American Agriculturist,
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