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THE JOURNAL. WEDNESDAY, JULY :., 1SS2. Xr.trcl at til ParEce, Cslaafca, Kab.. u :iMad else setter. LONGFELLOW. la MesMrlasm. A shadow resting on familiar places; A sense of loss in bands that clasp and part; A tender sorrow touching all men's faces; A dear possession missed in home and heart This word was flashed along the mystic wires From coast to coast, and under mighty sea. Our pout's gone." 'Twaa told by household tire. And. requiem-like, was boras on very breeze. The seer whose pure and consecrated vlsloa Shed golden hnlo o'er our common days Has pasted beyond our ken to realms of Sly ian. Has found the clew to life's entangled maze Here, dwelling higher than the souls around him. Time swept his harp and sweetened every string; In that far country now his peers have found him. The tuneful few whose songs the agesstng- The grand old bard, whose sightless eyes, up lifted. Discerned the gods, and read their hate or lore. Who caught the splendor when the clouds wtre rifted. Aud dared to wield the thunder-bolts of Jore. Great Homer, matchless minstrel.and no other. Is flnst on this new tomb a wreath to lay; He In Valhalla claims this latest brother, Fit wearer of ths laurel and the bay. And he whose numbers told .Eneas' story In stately rhythm, silvery and bold. And he whose solemn gaze pierced Purgatory. Then, rapt and dauntless, scaled the gates of gold These, too, and many a glorious master-singer. Thronged close to meet him when, death freed, he came To enter life and youth. The true light brlnger The poet is, whatever planets flame. All poets keep the child-heart, sweet as Heaven; Child-led, they walk amid the worldly-wise; And so their gentle talk, like angel-learen. Attracts us to the beauty of the skies. And therefore when they leave us we have sorrow. Though still their accents linger in the air. And from their legends every day we borrow Armor of proof against the earth's despair. A shadowy host of great and good have blessed thee, O man whoso manhood was above thy art. To-day, by thousands mourned, O poet, rest thee: Thy In Memoriam is in every heart. Margaret E. SanatUr, bi Harper"! Bator. EDELWEISS. "I was born in my littlo shrouds, All woollv, warm and white; I live in the mist and the cloud, I live for my own delight. I see far beneath me crowd The Alpine roses red. And the gentian blue, sun-fed. That makes the valley bright. "I bloom for the eagle's eye, I bloom for the daring hand; I live unto God, and I die Unto Him and at His command." Do you know the Edelweiss, the rare and beautiful flower of the Alps? Its home is on the steepest and most inac cessible cliffs, and the daring mountain eer who risks his life to procure it calls it rightly the "royal white" of the mountains. In one part of the great chain of the Tyrolese Alps a single peak rises con spicuously above its neighbors. a giant among its brothers. A snowy hood en velops his mighty head, and a heavy growth of Sr and spruce forms a shaggy beard below which a green robe of beauti ful pasture land sweeps down to the val ley at his feet, where a rushing mountain stream leaps and tumbles like a child at plav. Under the shelter of the groves of fir and spruce stand a few rudely-built chalets whose roofs are dotted with great stones overgrown with moss. Connect ed with the chalets arc sheds and ac commodations for cattle, for this is where the shepherds of the valley past ure their flocks and garner hay and feed for winter use. A middle-aged man, in the picturesque costume of the Alpine peasant is busy before one of the sheds, and a young girl, also in peasant garb, stands before the door of the adjoining chalet, and shading her eyes with her hatid gazes intently down the path leading to the valley. "Wei!, Gretel,' says the man," ap proaching her and speaking in the gut teral but not unpleasant German of the Tyrol. " What dost thou seek?" The girl started. " I cannot think why Hans is so late to-night, father." "Never fear for "Hans, my girl. He is as sure-footed as the chamois, and knows every pass of the mountain blind fold. But thou art pale, child. Thy mother must see rositr cheeks when we go down to the valley or she will never trust thee to my care again " He was interrupted bv a loud, clear jodel re-echoinnrfrom cliff to clifflhrough the quiet mountain air. The girl sprang lightly down the path, the elder man following at a more leisurely gait. At the first turn she met the delinquent, a tall and sturdy young peasant, who bent to kiss her after their custom first on one cheek and then on the other. He was a handsome fellow, this Hans, with his loose green jacket and his black leathern breeches, which were short enough to show the bare knee, tanned and ruddy from exposure. He carried an alpenstock in his hand, and a glossy cockVplume nodding at the back of his pointed hat. " Welcome Hans," said his sister, but she started back in surprise when she saw that he was not alone, but followed by a young man of foreign dress and air, who paused panting and flushed from the unusual exertion of the steep ascent. " Explain it to them, comrade," he said, in the broken and hesitating ac cent of a foreigner. Thus appealed to, Hans related simply how he had gone into the town of X. to ell his bunches of rare flowers, and had been stopped before the Gasthaus by a group of English tourists. The ladies had bought his flowers at a high price, and with the insatiable curiosity of trav elers in foreign parts, as well as to his embarrassment, had besieged him with many eager queries as to iris home and manner of life. Finally this young man had touched him on the shoulder and said: " Take me back with you to your mountain, friend. Let me stay through the summer in your chalet, and you shall not lose by it." " I smiled at the good jest," went on the honest Hans, "and told him our fare was coarse and our shelter comfortless for one of his kind. But he would not take no. He loves our mountains he says, and hopes to get strength and in spiration from them for his pictures, for that is his art. His English name is hard 'and strange, so he shall be called Herr Oeorg by us.' This point having been settled by Hans with quiet decision, the artist stranger was received without more formality into the simple hospitalities of the chalet, and soon adapted himself to their primi tive wavs. What a wonderful life it was! He breathed the exhilarating mountain air and was shut in but not imprisoned by these ancient sentinels. How silent they often were through days of dazzling sunshine and nights of clear, cold frost, and again how many-voiced as they echoed the wind and storm and avalanche, or repeated the wild jodel of the peasants. Ho watched Reinhold, the elder peas ant, and Hans toiling early and late with simple, faithful hearts at their menial tasks. Perhaps even more, as was BAtural, he watched Gretel moving with a light step about her little kingdom, leading to each of her household duties aa unconscious dignity. The clouds that often lay beneath them, hiding the alley from sight, seemed and he felt it almost with alarm to be blotting out his old life with its achievements aad in terests, till they grew faint as a hajf fMsvmbered dream. He thought of I tntfr nra.ntaiti hit; as ot a pit-Mine Ion z wa 4 1 aji at f mm mM jI a maIv. k Jm m. ft W Villi BllllJJ.U, uiaivuv OUUMi iUU I1U1I, pure coloring, and of his v n, in com parison, as a piece of licate genre paintiug, executed with ' .erish and morbid attention to dcta md finish. And he strove to attain tc th strength and serenity of those v - had lived habitually on the heights. Yet Gretel was human nil compan ionable, too. One day a month must have passed since his arrival she said to him with gentle solicitude: "I fear you will not have many sketches to show when you return to your country, my friend. This is a fine, clear day. Let mefetchyour pencils and paper and you can get a rare outline of old Dreizacken opposite." "But, Gretel, what a beautiful day to gather flowers, and you need the air. Let us climb to the point where the Edelweiss grows. ' ' So her mild reproof was as usual un availing. "You see I am gathering inspiration, though my pencil and brush are idle," he explained to her as they swung them selves up to a bold promontory where red and pink rhododendrons blossomed in brilliant profusion. Gretel, always fleeter and surer than her companion climbed rapidly to a still higher ledge and brought back in triumph a beautiful specimen of the pure and starlike Edel weiss with its strange woolly coveriug. Her face was flushed with exertiou. Ordinarily it was so pale and transpa rent that he had sometimes compared her to the Edelweiss, although he had never told her so. Sometimes also, though not habitually, he had seen a sunrise in the Alps, and his artist soul had thrilled, as even an inartistic soul must, at sight of that marvelous rose tint which touches and glorifies the cold snowy peaks until they seem to glow with hie. Of such a sunrise he thought now as he looked at the flush on Gretel' s cheek. He was right. His artistic sense was by no means lying asdormand as she had fancied. " What a Deautif ul world this is up hereP' she said. If only it might remain so! But soon the winter will come, and this happy summer be over, aud there will be change and parting, Gretel." " Yes," she said, quietly. The air, the place, the girl and the flowers wrought a sudden mood in him, a mood both daring and unpractical. " Is she formed of the white ice of the glaciers?" he thought; "can nothing thaw her frigid heart?" Then aloud: " But need there be parting, Gretel? When the cruel winter reigns here with its ice and snow, there is another land where a happy home and a bright hearth and love and good cheer awaits out coming." Ah, the sunrise glow was in her face again! He saw it and triumphed. Then she turned her full gaze upon him without a trace of self-consciousness or dissimulation in it. "Look at this Edelweiss, this child 01 the mountains, placed here by God tc bloom for Him. Do you not know how, when the covetous tourist has torn it from its native soil and transplanted it to his own, in spite of all the care and tenderness bestowed upon it, it droops and dies in the uncongenial soil? Shall we be deaf to the lesson it teaches us, my friend? No, I must live and die here in my mountains. It would wrong us both to do otherwise. Let us go down, for I hear already the tingle of the cow bells." " Neighbor Bachmann has moved to day to the chalet on the Dreizacken," said Reinhold that evening. It is most unwise. Why, Herr Georg? Because it lies in an unprotected spot, and an avalanche might at any moment sweep down upon it. It has not happened for many years, but the snow is treacherous under this warm sun, and I would not trust my life there." The next morning the artist sat on the bench before the chalet sketching more busily than he had done sii ce his ar rival. Gretel came out with a s all basket on her arm. " I am goin to carry some curds to Frau Bachma 1 and will return by noon," she said. He followed her with his eyes until she disappeared over the meadow. An hour must have passed and still he sat musing. The morning was still calm and clear, and only the distant tingling of the cow bell fell upon his ear. Sud denly he was startled by a dull rumbling. It could not be thunder, for the sky above him was cloudless. It grew louder and clearer. "Great God!" he cried aloud " the avalanche! And," as old lteinhold's warning flashed upon him with horrible distinctness. " Gretel has gone to the dangerous spot." mth the swiftness of terror and de spair he followed in the direction she had taken. Soon he came upon a group of awe-struck peasants, who had gather ed at the first signal of the deathly' mes senger. but too Tate to warn the thraa ened family. Bachmanu's cabin with all its inmates had vanished from sight, and in its place spread a vast and pitiless field of ice and snow. Search was unavailing, as they knew by past experience and silenU admitted to one another. Gretel and her friends were laid to rest like the seer of Israel,, and no man knew their sepulchre. Repressing his own grief, the artist endeavored to comfort the unhappy father and brother in their overwhelming afflictions. " Your Gretel was like the pure Edel weiss," he said to them. " It blooms in beauty for a time and when its mission is fulfilled God gathers it painlessly to Himself." "She is an angel of Paradise," said Reinhold, weeping. Thus her simple life was ended, and with the " royal white" of death on cheek and brow she rested in the shadow of the mountains she bad loved. At the winter exhibition in London there was one picture which attracted general attention It was a crayon head of a pale, girlish face, with just a faint rose flush on the cheeks like the glow of sunrise on the snowy summit oi the Alps. Beneath it was written the name Edelweiss. Our Continent. The Doctor and the Lawyer. A smart young sprig of a lawyer had a grave old doctor on the witness-stand in a case of assault and battery, and he questioned him unmercifully. "Ah, doctor," inquired the lawyer, did I understand you to say the cut in the man's head was dangerous?" "Yes, sir," replied the doctor. "Well, doctor, doesn't it sometimes happen that even a less cut than this one is dangerous?" "Yes, sir." "And, doctor, is it not true that even a scratch is dangerous?" "Yes, sir, and I have known of resnltkag fatytry. whenjanot c scralcbT wasvisible. Ualy reccj man died under such careumstanes. rf'AhHdced." quifkly putfin tl tprney in a pleased and satisfied wi 'will j-ou be kind enough to tell tl jury the facts?" "Certainly, if you desire it." "You say there was not a scratch on him?" "Not one that I could find." "And he died?" "Yes." "Now, Doctor, just tell the jury how it was." "Well, you see. he had tlte colic, and he was dead before I could get him un tangled." The young attorney called another witness. StcubenviUe (O.) Herald. m m It is an uncommon thing in Lapland for a person to have two Christian names. One is all they can live under. cases (Bit Rrjla j? bV- k Poet Who Was a Hero. In all the range of literary biography one comes across very, few lives so full of quiet, unvauntcd self-denial and hero ism of that of Robert Southcy, Poet Laureate of England from 1813 till his death in 1843. He was an humble Christian and self-sacrifice was the law of his life. He married his wife when he was so poor that he could hardly buy the wedding ring, because her circum stances were unhappy, and he, who loved her, wished to be allowed to send her all the money he could make during an approaching absence of sis months. From that time he lived for her and their children, rather than himself. But he did not live for them alone. Coleridge had married Mrs. Southcy' s sister, and Coleridge was the typical poet of the old satirists too poetical for the prose duties of life. He went away and left his wife and children on Southey's hands, and Southey worked for them just as cheerfully as for his own. When he had but little, he lived upon that little; for he had a clear conscience in the matter of debt. In the year 1821 he had become the possessor of six hundred and twenty five pounds (about $3,000). He was then forty-seven years old. This sum of money was all that he had saved through his hard-working life his sole dependence in case of illness, or when helpless old age should come. But no sooner had he congratulated himself on its possession than he heard of the misfortunes of his friend, John May, to whom he had formerly been in debted for much kindness. May had suddenly lost his all. Instantly Southey's mind was made up. He wrote to May thus: " By this same post I am writing to Bedford, desiring him to transfer to vou six hundred and twenty-five pounds in the Three-per-cents. I wish it was more, and that I had more at my command in my way. I shall have in the spring, when I am paid for the first volume of my history." He goes on to urge May to visit him to "come to Keswick, and lay in a pleas ant store of recollections." One can hardly read this letter without tears in one's eyes. What other man ever lived who, at forty-seven, would have transferred to an unfortunate friend all the accumulations of his life and neither asked or hoped for return, or considered the deed as one about which it was possible to hesitate? Yet Southey made no parade of his affections or his friendships. He wrote once to Coleridge: " Your feelings go naked. I cover mine with a bear skin; I will not say that you harden yours by your treatment of them, but I am sure that mine are warmer for their clothing." He lived for others up to the very end of his life. In 1834 a terrible malady which had long been assailing his beloved wife reached its crisis, and he wrote to a friend who was as near to him as his own household: " I have been parted from my wife by something worse than death. Forty years she has been the life of my life, and I have left her this day in a lunatic asy lum." Thank God that after a year of treat ment in the asylum he was able to bring her back again to wear out the rest of her sad days in her own home. This restored to Southey some measure of hope and cheerfulness, for "through the weary dream" which was now Mrs. Southey's life, she always knew him, and took pleasure in his presence. The strong arm on which she had leaned for forty-two years supported her down stairs each day, and bore her up again at evening. In 1835 she died; and though, when she had been dead nearly four years, Southey married Caroline Bowles, then a woman of fifty-two, it was rather as a refuge for the cold solitude of old age than with hope of anything like happi ness. Happiness had been buried with her whom he had called the life of his life, and whom, in 1843. eight years after her death, he went gladly to rejoin. There were far greater poets among Southey's contemporaries than he, but where, among all the poets who have ever lived, shall we look for a truer or a nobler man? He could truly say, 'My thoughts are with the dead. Anon My place with them shall be. And I with them shall travel oa Through all eternity. Tet leaving a name, I trust. That will not moulder in the dust." Youth's Companion. Citttletsk. The " arms" or " feet" of the cuttle fish demand a somewhat detailed men tion, on account of their armature. In all cuttlefishes, save the exceptional pearly nautilus, the arms are either eight or ten in number, and are provided with acetabula, or "suckers." Those cuttles in which ten arms are present and of these the squids and sepias form good examples have two of these appendages 1roduced beyond the remaining eight in ength. Aristotle noted in his day this peculiarity of the ten-armed cutties. Speaking on this point he remarks that all of these animals " have eight feet provided with a double series of suckers, except in one genus of Polypi" the genus Eledone, in which there is but a single row of suckers. "The sepia, teut hides and teuthi (that is to say, the sepias and squids) have besides two long prcboscides, the extremities of which are beset with a double series of suckers." The two "proboscides" of Aristotle are the " tentacles" of the modern natural ist; and Pliny, speaking of the uses of these tentacles, remarks that they may be used for the capture of prey at a dist ance, or may be employed to anchor their possessors safely amid the boister ous waters. The "suckers," which con stitute a most noteworthy armament Of the arms, are borne on short stalks fci the ten-armed cuttlefishes, but are un. stalked in the eight-armed species. Each sucker exhibits all the structures inci dental to an apparatus adapted to secure effective and instantaneous adhesion to any surface. It consists of a horny or cartilaginous cup, within which are mus cular fibers converging toward its cen. ter, where the v form a well-defined plug or piston. By the withdrawal of this plug a partial vacuum is produced, ami the suckers adhere by atmospheric pressure to the surface on which they are placed. The sucker is released by the projection of the plug and by the consequent de struction of the vacuum. The number of the suckers varies, but it is always considerable; and when we reflect that the array of suckers can be instantane ously applied, and that their hold is au tomatically perfect, the grasp of the cephalopoda is seen to be of the most efficient kind, In some cuttlefishes, and most notably in the sp-called "hooked squids" (Onychotcuthis,) the pistons of the suckers are developed to form pow erful hooks, by means of which the prey may be secured with additional facility; and in the common squids the margin of the sucker is proviTlcd with a scries of minute horny hooks. The "arms" them selves, it need hardly be remarked, are extremely mobile; the' are highly mus cular, and can be adapted with ease to the varied functions of prehension and movement they are destined to subserve. As regards their arrangement they are arranged in four pairs a dorsal and a ventral pair, and two lateral pairs; the two elongated tentacles, when developed, being situated between the third and fourth pairs of arms on the ventral or lower surface, Belgravia, i A large number of well-executed counterfeit silver dollars have recently been circulated in the towns of Rocking ham County, N. H., and its neighbor. York County. Me. California Grapes and Whir, The time has at last conic, illustrating the prophceies of the croakers, when the agricultural interests have come to the front. All legitimate branches of busi ness have nourished aud been profitable. The merchant, the mechanic, the trades man, have all been doing an excellent business and are still. The great impe tus eiven to the srape interests b' virtue of the demand for export has given in creased value to lands adapted to grape culture. Again the fruit crop has been utilized. Hitherto it has been allowed to go to waste mostly, but now that re frigerator cars have proved a success and enabled the producer to land his fruit in the Eastern cities in good order, it opens up a market at once for all that is left after the canneries are supplied. The wine goes to France to be reconstructed and shipped to you as genuine Medoc and St. Julien. The Eastern cities are beginning to be important consumers also, though the fact is beginning to dawn upon the public that a perfectly pure wine can be had at its doors at one half the price. When good, pure claret wine can le delivered from the agencies in the East at much less price than the imported decoction of logwood, it would naturally be supposed that the average consumer would prefer the pure article, but the young American of the present day thinks he is nothing if not foreign in his tastes, and I regret to say that even that does not redeem him. Two-thirds of the wine consumers are no judges of the article. The French label is their guide, (printed down iu Nassau Street,) and this humbug is not confined to greenhorns either. There's many a fel low who thinks himself very smart that drinks Jersey champagne and logwood solution. Until within the last two or three years grapes have been an unprofitable crop, that is to say, there was little demand be yond sales for home consumption and what wine each producer chose Jo make, but latterly the increased demand abroad has induced capitalists to embark in the enterprise of wine manufacturing on a much larger scale and now the grape grower can realize cash for his crop. He receives from twenty to thirty dollars per ton, according to quality, at his own door, which pays liim a handsome profit. In some of the older localities the phylloxera has made its appearance, but it has been demonstrated that 03 overflowing the vineyards the insect is destroyed, hence the lands along the line of the irrigating canals in the San Joaquin Valley have come to the front and are in considerable demand. It is already a great raisin producing location, and the industry is extending. It is a mere question of time when California will eventually supply the United States with raisins. In the quality of the Frisco grapes little fault can be found, they are fully equal to the Malaga. The product last year was about 250,000 boxes, and will exceed that the coming season. Raisins make a profit able crop, paying about 300 per acre. California will soon be the land of the vine and the fig truly, for thousands of acres of hitherto idle lands are being planted, and the area with the prolific production will enable us to supply the world with wine. A ship that sailed for Bordeaux recently took several hundred thousand grape-cuttings, somewhat re versing the order of things. There is no good reason why California should not supply the wine consumed of the East. It certainly is better, has the merit of be ing pure, and in body aud flavor is su perior to the imported. All it wants is a French label to make it popular. San Francisco Cor. N. Y. Times. Cannibalism in Fiji It was only people who had been killed that were considered good for food. Those who died a natural death were never eaten invariably buried. But it certainly is a wonder that the isles were not altogether depopulated, owing to the number who were killed. Thus, in Namena, in the year 1851, fifty bodies were cooked for one feast. And when the men of Bau were at war with Verata they carried off 2G0 bodies, sev enteen of which were piled on a canoe and sent to Rewa, where they were re ceived with wild joy, dragged about the town, and subjected to every species of indignity ere they finally reached the ovens. Then, too, just think of the number of lives sacrificed in a country where infanticide was a recognized in stitution, and where widows were strangled as a matter of course! Why, on one occasion, when there had been a horrible massacre of Namena people at Viwa, and upward of one hundred" fish ermen had been murdered and their bodies carried as bokola to the ovens at Bau, no less than eighty women were strangled to do honor to the dead, and corpses lay in every direction of the mis sion station ! It is just thirty years since the Rev. John Watsford, writing: from here, described how twenty-eight vic tims had been seized in one day while fishing. They were brought here alive, and only stunned when put into the ovens, home of the miserable creatures attempted to escape from the scorching bed of red-hot stones, but only to be driven back and buried in that living tomb, whence they were taken a few hours later to feast their barbarous cap tors. He adds that more human beings were eaten on this little isle of Bau thau anywhere else in Fiji. It is very hard, indeed, to realize that the peaceful vil lage on which I am now looking has really been the scene of such horrors as these, and that many of the gentle, kindly people around me have actually taken part in them. Cumming. The Resemblances Between Men and Monkeys. If the skeletons ot an orang-outang and' a ohimpanzee be compared with that of a man, there will be found to be the most wonderful resemblance, to gether with a very marked diversity. Bone for bone, throughout the whole structure, will be found to agree in gen eral form, position and function, the only absolute differences being that the orang has nine wrist bones, whereas man and fiie chimpanzee have but eight; and the chimpanzee has thirteen pairs of ribs, whereas the orang, like man. has but twelve, With these two exceptions, the differences are those of shape, pro portion and direction only, though the resulting differences in the external form and motions are very considerable. The greatest of these are that the feet of the anthropoid or man-like apes, as well as those of all monkeys, are formed like hands, with large opposable thumbs fitted to grasp the branches of trees, bqt unsuitable for erect walking, while the hands have weak, small thumbs but very long and powerful fingers, forming a hook rather than a hand, adapted for climbing up trees and suspending the whole weight from horizontal branches. The almost complete identity of the skeleton, however, and the close simi larity of the muscles and of all the in? ternal organs, havo-produced tbftt strik ing and ludicrous resemblance to man which everyone recognizes in these higher apes and, in a less degreo, in the whole monkey tribe; the face and fea tures, the motions, attitudes and gestures being often a strange caricature of humanity. Prof. A. R. Wallace, in Popular Science Monthly. m At the meeting of the Unitarian Club in Boston the other night President Eliot, qf Harvard University, told a good story of Professors Day and Pwight, of Yale. The former, he said, is long of speech, and the other is concise and pithv. The two were out taking a walk, spiced with conversation, when tbey were met by a friend, who greeted them with the paraphrase of a Bible text: Dav unto Dwight uttereth speech; Dwigbt unto Day showeth knowledge." KY.PoL The Great Ilal Question. The hat in the House of Commons is likely in time to come to be dated back from the week that has just parsed. Mr. John Bright's hat has become famous in the House of Commons. You may pos sibly be awaro that in that house it is customary for nicmocrs to remain cov um.iijr wi iiivhiuv . .v......... ,- 1 except on certain occasions. When r speak before the Speaker they must ered thev take their hats off; they retain . them when the chairman of committee is pre siding. They take them off whenever the speaker enters the house, and only reassume them when the door is passed. They must take them off for prayers. The' must uncover whenever a royal message bearing the sign manual of the sovereign is brought up, but they may keep them on when any other royal message is delivered. Altogether it is a most intricate question when to wear and when to doff the hat. One ought to be drilled in it for a week or so before taking part in the business of the House. And even then he might blunder as Mr. Bright did last Monday night The House had only just begun business when Mr. Gladstone was seen standing at the table before the Speaker with a paper in his hand. Directly he announced that he had a message from the Queen about Prince Leopold, all the members except Mr. Bright aud another Birmingham man, Mr. Jesse Collins, M. P. for Ips wich, and about three Irish members took off their hats. Mr. Bright appeared to be in the land of dreams, and paid no attention to the cries of " Hats off!" which rose from all parts of the house. The message was read when up jumped a conservative member to demand what Mr. Bright meant by keeping his hat on. The speaker ruled that Bright was out of order. But more was to come. When next day the minutes of the House ap peared, it was seen that the report ran: "The message was read, all being un covered." This again was brought be fore the House, and again the Speaker ruled that Bright ought to have taken his hat off. But, st range to relate, when Eresently another royal message was rought in, though it Bore the sign man ual; not only did Bright but several oth er radicals, keep their hats on. So that now it would appear that the hat ques tion was raised purposely, and that in future the radicals of Parliament don't intend to pay ancient reverence to roy alty. Many strange things have come of hats. Can it be that the retention of Mr. Bright's broad brim is the signal of a change in the attitude of a large sec tion of English politicians toward the throne? London Letter. Strange Beads in Africa. Both Aggry and Popo beads are glass, the former opaque, the latter clear but rough. There are many varieties of Agfjry, some more treasured than others; only one of Popo, I believe. Both are dinr from the earth, where the corpse with which they were interred is thought to have long since perished, but I am not aware that the circumstances of any such treasure-trove have been recorded by white men. The Aggry is found, as the)' say, all along' the west coast, far into the interior. The Popo is rare in Ashanti and Fanti-land, becoming more frequent near Lagos. It must not be understood, however, that either sort is immon; quite the reverse, as prices show. Our Birmingham manufacturers, and more especially the Venetian, have been trying these many years to imitate the Aggry oead. To an English eye superficial and untrained their success is perfect, but the youngest negro is not deceived. For all their scieuce and study, for all the wondrous effects of the same kind which they have produced in transparent glass, our people cannot find the secret of running a colored pattern through and through the opaque sub stance exacted. They can make a fac simile of the surface, and that is all. The Popo bead, 1 am informed, has defied all attempts of imitation, f but I speak with diffidence. Its peculiarity is that the glass looks blue in light, yellow in shadow. This change puzzles our crafty workmen, who could turnout blue beads or yellow, exactly like it. 10.000 of them, for a less sum than a single tiny cube of the real sort fetches. To con clude this dissertation not uninterest ing, I hope, to any reader, though he be not connected with the African trade it may be added that the best authorities suppose them to have been Egyptian manufacture ancient Egyptian, that is. Such glass is seldom or never found with mummies in the form of beads, but small bottles of material very similar are frequent enough. If this be so, it is not surprising that Aggrys and Popos are not discovered in Egyptian tombs. Made for a savage commerce, the civil ized manufacturers disdained to use them, and one would only expect to find deposits in the excavations of a mer chant's warehouse or of a glass-blower's works. The curious point of the matter is the evidence thus offered of a com merce much wider than had been credit ed to Egypt Chinese and Indian pro ductions have long since been identified in the plunder of her tombs, and it would seem that she dealt, directly or indirectly, with negroid races on the shore of the Atlantic. All the Year Hound. Mrs. Kellley's Expectation. Sometimes amusing things bappen in police courts. A New York, city paper reports the following unexpected termi nation to Mrs. Rcilley's expectations: "Mrs. Reilley," said Justice Otter bourg, after half an hour's hard work in endeavoring to settle the antagonistic feelings between Mrs. Reilloy and her neighbor, Mrs. Murray, "I will hold Mrs. Murray to keep the peace." " God bless your honor," said Mrs. Reilley, "sur's its just before comin' to coort that I says to me old man phat a foine giutlemin you were," "I hold her," said the court, not heed ing her remarks, "in $300 bail, or stand committed for one month." ' Serves her right," said Mrs. Reilley approvingly, "and I hope your honor won't let her go on bail, Gowd-bye again, your honor, and may God bless you for this day's work." "Wait a minute, Mrs. Reilley, you needn't be in such a hurry. Mrs. Alur lay's complaint against you will be tbiough in a few momunts." "Mrs. Murray's complaint against me!" said Mrs. Reilley, in astonish ment.. " Yes, she also declares that yau were drunk and committed an assault upon her." "I'm sure your honor is too much of a gintlcmin to believe a word that woman says." "Certainly I do not," said his honor. " How could 1 for a moment question the veracity between a lady like you and a woman like Mrs. Murray?" "God bless jTour honor, for you know what's what!" " I will, therefore, send yc-il alio on the island for one mopth." The language which she used a moment before was very contradictory to what she used then, and, heaping curses on no one iu general, she was leu from the court room. Jamaica ginger has been declared contraband by a Maine Sheriff. In the coming summer time when that Sheriu gets too much cucumber aboard, the in habitants of that district will dance in t;Iee about him while he sutlers, and no Jamaica ginger wjjl asauage his grief. Courier-Journal, The oldest Inhabitant of Prince Ed ward Island is Mrs, Graham, of Alraa, who was born at Cove Head, 105 years Sjo. Tbto venerable woman was mar ed twice and raised two families, most of whom are dead. She retain all her jsculties almost unimpaired, PERSONAL AND UTERART. Eugene Field is the funny mm ! John Otiiner A !...;. was in the e re:uimr t!,e Hiblc through every Rvv 11,. 'i' i . ..,. j. annate, OI UrOOfctVn j celebrated his fiftieth birthday recently ; John II. Starin, of New York who -o -? "w-oroe ot flOO.OOO a year, began his life selling horse liniment The Empress of Austria has set a fashion, already largely followed in Eu rope, of wearing the hair flowing over tha bonlders. --TU hsnlth of the late President'f mftUsrr fa singularly good, and, though she falls into moods of sad nUtxtioa now and then, she is usually sorurhtlv and talkative. r J Mr- Cameron, the new Governor of Virgmia. is, happily, a married man, so, for the first time in twelve years, a lady will preside at the executive man sion. Miss Kellogg told a Cincinnati re porter that the late Henry G. Stebbius had managed her mouev affairs from the time she went on the stage until his death, and most successfully. "During my recent tour in Europe," she said! "he made $250,000 for me by fortu nate investment." Julien A. Scott, one of the most prominent citizens of Scott County, East -Tennessee, who was drowned while at tempting to ford the Emory River, was the character from which originated Mark Twain's Colonel Sellers. He was asohoolmate and personal friend of Mr. Clements. The London Spectator says that " Mr. Lowell, the American Minister, generally contrives to beat his English friends in saying the happiest thing at meetings where nothing is so desirable as to say what will diffuse a sense of pleasure over all who are present." Mrs. Logan, the wife of the Senator, belongs to "the Methodist Church and believes in total abstinence. It is re ported, by the way, that a number of ladies in Washington some of them prominent in society have organised a secret association called " Guardian An gels." Its purpose is the exertion of social influence for the reform of Con gressmen and others who are inclined to the cup that inebriates. A gentleman who had passed half his life in Utah recently said: "I was intimately acquainted with the late Jo seph A. Young, Brigham's most tal ented son. He was a man of noble per sonal appearance and of the most brill iant talents. I have heard him preach with an eloquence that drew tears from the eyes of his Mormon listeners. In the pulpit he was the embodiment ot dignity, grace and intellectual power. Then, after the audieuce had departed, I have known him to laugh and make sport of the deluded creatures who had been listening to him. I reproached him for continuing such deception, and urged him to go forth into the world and win the noble name his abilities en titled him to, Pshaw!' he repUedwith a smile, ' the human race loves to be humbugged." ' It is said that Hon. Benjamin H. Brewster, Attorney-General of the United States, loves his profession, and is a man of great executive ability. It was a matter of remark, when he was Attorney-General of Pennsylvania, that he was swift in the execution of busi ness. Report says he intends to return to the custom of some of the old-time Attorney-Generals, both in this country and England, and appear in the Su preme Court in all cases of any conse 3uence whatever, as Wirt, Pmckney, ohnson. Black, Stanton and ether were accustomed to do, so the Court may receive that attention and respect due it Tt is believed the Judges of the Court have desired this course to be pur sued by the present Attorney-General, in order that it might be advised of the importance of the interests affecting: the Government General Brewster's per sonal attention to his practice will un doubtedly attract a large clientage in the Supreme Court HUM010US. A criminal seldom sits down to take arrest. If the good die young how do you account for bald-headed editors. Mod ern Argo. Why is Vie discovery of the North Pole like an illicit whisky manufactory? Because it is a secret still. The facetious postage-stamp clerk who told a man that asked for two twos that this was not an aesthetic Postoffice is now looking for a new sit uation. Never be at your place of business when a person wants to borrow money of you, because if you are in you will be out, but if you are out yon will be in. Salem Sunbeam. It is said Hindoo girls are taught to think of marriage almost as soon as they can talk. That is much better than the civilized idea of talking of marriage as soon as one can think. New Orleans Picayune. A Detroiter, who has failed twice and paid live cents on the dollar, bought bis wife a velvet carpet, a velvet dress and a $50 bonnet on Christmas. We'd like to see even Chicago match that, Detroit Free Press. Grammarians are puzzled over the question whether "mumps" and"meas els" are singular or plural. They often look singular, but that is no criterion on a question of this kind. Lowell Cit izen. An Irish gentleman having pur chased an ajarm clock, an acquaintance asked him what he intended to do with it. "Och," answered he, "sure, I've nothing to do but pull the string an' wake meself." The poet says " A kiss without a mustache, is like an egg without salt." May be it is, may be it u: we can't say positively, for the girls we've been used to kissing for the last twenty-five years didn't wear mustaches. Norrutown Herald. Emerson says: "This world belongs to the energetic." It appears then that the loafer who stands upon the corner aud says that the world owes him a liv ing is in some manner harboring a men tal delusion. N. 0. Picayune. A watchmakeris sitting in his shop, surrounded by clocks and watches, all going, and.no two alike. He perceives it is getting.late in the afternoon, and anxiety rushes upon him. He runs out of his shop and stops the first passer-by, "Sir, what o'clock is it, please?" French Pleqsqntry. Not long since Gus De Smith, being under the influence of a dinner party, called at the residence of Colonel Mc Spilkins on Austin avenue. "Ish Col onel McSpillkinah in? I want ter ahee him on 'portant bizmsh." " Yes, aar," responded the dusky menial. "Shew heesh in, is he? Well, ef heeeh in, never mind disturbin' him on my ac count. I'll call again shorn day when heesh out." Texas Silings. Do you see tlie big portly man eom inr down the street? How high h holds his head and how proudly h steps. He carries hj3 hands in his ulster pockets to keep them warm. See, he is sitting down on thesidewalk now. Per haps he sat down, top tie. his shoestring? No be did not sit down to tie his shoe strinp.Wnat is -he7ssvyingP He is breakiBghia NewiYear'a resolution, into ten thousand pieces. He is quoting Scripture for the benefit bf the man' whS didnVput imthm on "the sidewalk. KENDALL'S SPAVm CURE I 0Ati4.tK . IT I i:i. si'.w i vs. --n.i.vrs. i:iv HONKS. ; Villi AND M.I.SI.M1I.AKHI.K.V 1SHKS AND it i 3iovKrm: r.iwi i. WITHOUT BUST.. I ING. erv TBiMrjBar8 i KEND ALL'S SPAVIN 0VEE! It ha- cur. l i!.i!aml- of ca.c and i destined to euro itiiliion- and millions moiv KENBAIiL'S SPAVIH 0TFEE! I the only ;.oit'.ve ur. known, and to show wh.it tliN renn-ly will do we give here as i .-.in.l.-of e:tM uri'ilhv it. a -tutfiiutil lu-'li '7. is G1V23T UNDER OATH. Ti v. '"Un it .May Ooneiin.--lii tbt jrar It. . I trcatet! with "Kendall V v in (. lire." a lione -p-iviii of several :ii:iih';rtvth, nearly null' .i large a :t N.-us esr. and eonipl'-telj .-topped the ::in neandi eiiioxed the eii .ugeiiieiil. I I .ive worked tin- hore e-r -tuee wry li..n!, and he never ha- lieen l.-uae, nor eould I eer see any dinVri-nee in Hie .-ize of the lioek joint.- -ine. I trt-'tetl him with "Kendall.- Spavin i 'ire.' IS. A. iSainks. Kiio-I.uih ''.IN. Vt.. IV... i". ::. Sunrn and Mil-ertled t hef-ire me tin- -"ills day ot Felt., a. i. tT'.). .Imix (J. .Ii:xxk. .Iutiei- el" ie:;ee KENDALL'S SPAVIH CUKE; ON HUMAN FLESH it has been uscerhiiited by repeated tr its f be. the very best liniment ever used 'or am der rented pain of lonn sfandtm or of short duration. Alio for JUUN. IsrNlONS. FUOSritlTKS or any bruise, cut or lameness. Some are afraid fo use if on hit nan Jlesi simply because it is a horse medicine, but iou .,,, uid remember that what is good for JtFAST is nood 'or MAN.' and ire A-notr from Fsticriencc that "KENDALL'S S'AVN VUU1' ran be used in a add 1 year old with perfect safety. Its Effects are wonderful on human Jlcsh and it does not blister or make a sore. Try it and, be convinced. KENBAIifc-'S SPAVIN CURE; Read below of its wonderful effects as .ilir.iuit"tt for the hi: in family. IlKMA-IIiK. MlMUl:l. Alll-t L't, ISMI. I. J, KENDALL Co., fiKNTS: I am so nveij-jn-tl in iew of the r--;ilt of an 111 pllcation of your Kendall'-Spavin Cure that I iV.-S ;h.it I oiiiit for Hiimaiutit--' sake publish it to the world. About thirtv-live .-ar- a-o wh.- ruin c a v.jiin Ufjly hor.-e, I was injured in one of my testicle, and from that tim to throe week aoa slow but const.ir.t eiilariimnt ha.- been the ie-ult. nivim: m a r.at amount or trouble, almost entirt ly preventing me from hof-ebii k ridin. whVn va- mv usual way of tiaelii.. 1 .in a m.tiee .f .in- K.-nd ill- -p : m . "nr.-, i., n-r on. e thought ofit for. inythiiiirexeept t.r h.i--s. bur after r.ee-Mim lnediein. md reading over hat it was ood for, f.elin terribly ex.rei-ed .ib.nu tin ik.'hVutU f..r J had consulted main phy.-ieian.-and none irave me m- -.-.-ii;-b.if - li.-n it eosiM be endured no Ionirer to remoxe it v ith the knil. . ! ..p, J. ,i , ,., ;,... tn .-i.-i.hi Cure as an experiment, and it was so painful in its aipli.atioji that I eonet.i.ie.l iiut to repeat it ami thought un more abiit it until n.-ir .i w . .;. .i.., b. .md br-...M e-hair thcfrize was -rone, with joy 1 could -eaie.lj behe- it, I immeili.itelv ap plied it over again, and h ive made in all about '.: dozen applie turns ri!tiiii,,.rVt:r a space of two weeks and the terrible eiilarirenient it almost t:oie. in vu-w , f "Uhith I caiinotexpie.s-niy feelinsrs of deliijhl. It ha- b.-.n .i 'cd -end to me. ma he dend to others with like trouble-. .lou I'lcv I'ator of Hematite Congregational Ciuivh. '"" I S. You areatlibertj to put this in anv shape ou m.. ;.leae. I am not ashamed to hae my name under, oer or by the side of it. KENDALL'S SPAVIN 05RE! J Ken is spavin yure blister, it is pcueU'atin ...- . . . i ful move ajy bony or spavinr, splints. c:ribHi afi the joints or limbs of rh is usffl for man offlieast. actriiraruild yett-rtain in i itjnl sefci.-ons.sTt he vejr. SendVddsVss for nhi-t virtues. Nrfrremedv ha.- n ii it beast as well as man I'riee?l per bottle, .' i.VsiJbe in. iftftthei fcls!V Mt&yiin 1- ISKV I. is I.ai,j. Hi i tJPied Cul-ir, IV-t -. it rf -n,- . . , ALL DRUGGISTS have ic or can get it for yoa, or it will bo sent to any addres-t on receipt of p- i. . bv he p-opri. u .-. IS Dr. IJ. .1. KENDALL.'.: t;t Iv.o-Mi F..3Wnii"i:t. WHEN YOU TMVEL ALWAYS TAKK Till-: B. 8c M. R. R. Kxamiiie map and time tabic- circtiitU It will be seen that this- line coincct- with C. li.&li. K. 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