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THE JOTJBNAL.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 1883.
Zsterti it tli fttteSci, Colutu, Xri., u new.
cUm sitter.
GEOGRAPHICAL DERIVATIONS.
44 Now," in a Chili tone she said,
44 1 will be Frank; 'tis true.
Although you Arab brilliant catch,
I do not Caffre you."
44 O, lady! Bane to bear my suit
This heart is Scot by thee."
44 Nay, sir, I cannot heed your word
For you Arnaut to me I"
44 Tie Welsh," she added, freezinfly,
44 Since Siam pressed so far
To Hindoo you no lonjrer here
And so, good sir, Tartar!"
What Ottoman like me to dor4
Bewailed the stricken man;
44 I'll Finnish up my mad career.
And wed the Galilean !"
A SIGHT OF ADVENTURE.
It was a hot, weary morning at the
far end of the London season. There
were not very many carriages left in the
park or the streets, yet Zoe Conington,
one of the greatest beauties in society,
was driving down dusty Oxford Street.
And sho was crying quietly, beneath
the parasol which sne held well oyer
her eyes. Presently the carriage turned
up one of the substantial side streets and
stopped in front of a very neat and prosperous-looking
house. The door was
painted a dark green, and on it was a
bras plate bearing this inscription:
44 Mr. Zdcar's Home for Trsihed Kurs-
." Mrs. Conington quickly left her I
carriage, rang the ben at tne aoor, ana
was immediately admitted. She was
shown into the " office," where she
found Mr. Edgar and his lady superin
tendaut, both apparently very busy at
large writing-tables.
4 1 want a nurse, Mr. Edgar," said
Zoe Conington, rather helplessly. She
knew her eves were red, and she did
not like the feeling.
"Certainly," said Mr. Edgar; "what
sort of case?"
4-It is for my sister," said Zoe. "I
really don't understand what's the mat
ter. They say she has what they call
antenna, and the doctor who attends
her fears she will not live long. I be
lieve he is an old fogy and does not un
derstand the case."
44 Then you want a nurse of experi
ence?' said Mr. Edgar.
44 Exactly," said Zoe, eagerly; "and
I should be so glad if I could have one
that is lady -like as well not a common
hospital nurse. You see my sister is
quite alone, without any lady friend,
and I can't go to her because her hus
band doesu't like me."
44 Nurse Harcourt," said Mr. Edgar
to tMe lady superintendent, who nodded
and rang a bell. " She is exactly what
vou want." he added, turning 2-
4 TO
JK-TZ - - - -
She is an experienced and clever nurse
and she is a lady. We don't have many
like her. She belongs to a good' family.
I feel sure you will like her. Come in.
Miss Harcourt," as the nurse thus
named entered. "This lady wants y6u
to go to her sister."
"What is the case, sir?" said Nurse
Harcourt.
4 'It is said to be anaemia."
"I can undertake that, I think, sir."
"Of course you can," put in the lady
superintendent.
Zoe had quickly taken in the girl's
appearance. She was slender, active.
with an intelligent and interesting face.
Her features were not good, vet there
was a charm of color about her. She
had large and very dark eyes, and
strong dark eye-brows; while her thick
hair, cut quite short, was all bright with
warm gold and red. This certainly was
not Zoe's idea of a "common hospital
nurse."
1 don't know whether I ought to say
so," said she to the nurse, "but I don't
think the doctor understands the case.
Have you often nursed anaemia?"
"Yes, in the hospital," said Nurse
Harcourt, "and I have had cases since
in which it was present. I don't think
I should be easily deceived in it."
4 'Then you must have my address,"
said Zoe; and write or telegraph to me
direct, as you think fit If there is any
mistake being made in the treatment, I
will send down a physician at oace.
Will vou undertake this?"
44 Yes," said Nurse Harcourt
quick, bright smile; I think
undertake that. Shall I get
sir?"
"What station?" asked Mr.
with a
I can
ready.
Edgar,
a mag-
armed with an "A. B. G." and
nificent glass
4Lostqyvil," said Zoe, "somewhere
near Penzance a wretched little river
fishing-place. People ought not to go
so far away from everyboly. Is there
any chance of her getting there to
night?" "Lostayvil, oh, yes; she can get
there at ten. The train starts in half an
hour. She must have some sandwiches
made up to take with her," he said to
the lady superintendent, who rose and
hurried away, pen in hand, to give
orders.
Mrs. Conington drove to a telegraph
office, and sent a "wire" to her brother-in-law:
"From Zoe Conington, Hyde
Park Gate, to Edward Mertoun, the
Old Hall, Lostayvil. Your account of
Agatha has alarmed me exceedingly.
I am sending her a nurse, as I think it
may be a comfort. She will arrive at
the Lostayvil Station about ten. If you
cannot send for her, she will find sdme
onveyance."
Nurse Harcourt, dressed all in gray,
and with a gray veil over herbrignt
hair and clever face, caught the ex
press, and took her seat without any
fuss or excitement, although she had
only half an hour to get ready and
reach the station iu. When she arrived
at Lostayvil it was a clear, sweet night;
the station seemed to stand alone on a
fragrant and indistinct desert, with no
sigu of any houses near.
"la there anything come to fetch me
from the Old Hall?7' asked she, in her
clear, determined voung voice.
"Nothing at all, miss," said the
solitary porter; and then, after a
second's pause during which he shoul
dered her box, "so I suppose ve'll ero to
the hotel."
"No indeed," said Ada, who im
mediately suspected him of being in
the pay of that same hotel. "I must
go to the Old Hall to-night. I sup
pose I can get something to drive inr '
"There's post-horses at the hotel,"
said the porter, dubiously.
"Take me there, then." said Ada.
It seemed to her that she walked about
a mile and a half after him over a
lonely road. At last they arrived at an
inn entrance round which there were
some signs of sleepy village life. After
a stern interview with the dull land
lord, Ada succeeded in getting him to
have out a "po'shay" and two horses
for her. A driver was extracted from
the bar where he was drinking; he came
out surly, and, getting on the box after
Ada and her luggage had been waiting
some time in the "shay," began to
whip the horses. This amusement he
continued to indulge in until they ar
rived at the Old Hall, taking the horses
at a rapid gallop up hill and down dale.
The Old Hall stood high, with a wide
lawn about it, dotted by clumps of fine
trees. On the way Ada was charmed
with glimpses of the winding silver
stream ana the wooded hills about it.
AH was very lovely; yrt something in
tH .- of the Old Hall madVher
shiver as she approached it.
A.wir- nnW the window
It
seemed
2ii lit- the front door seemed to be
kcmetfcally sealed.
But Ada courage-
J - J ..! srli1a tan an
r?'Z7LrZ T.wr filed up-the time
h tmniKeu, ouu
, ZZZStae hersurly driver the f abuloas
of POTg "l-S h. At last the
doormoTsd; it opened slowly, sad aa
the steps stood a tall man.
4Are you the nurse?" r-e said.
Yes' answered Ada.
4I didn't suppose you .Id get here
to-night. Well, come in.
The coachman whippc p his horses
in the familiar style, and -n tied away.
A servant who looked like a. groom
came out and'lifted Ada's box into the
hall. A lamp. stood on a table-there,
and by its light Ada tried to discover
what sort of a house she was in. She
was standing in a big, old-fashioned
hall or house-place. Opposite her, his
hands deeply buried in his pockets,
stood the man who was evidently
master.
"I told the maid to get a room readv
for you," he said. "The man shall
light you up there, and vou cau see my
wife in the morning. Shall he bring
you some supper?"
"If you please," said Ada. "First
I'll take off my hat, and if you will
allow me I'll ro to my patient at once."
"Nonsense!" said Mr. Mertoun; "you
must sleep after a journey."
"But it is niy duty to see her first, it
you please, sir."
Ada followed the man-servant up
stairs to a little bed-room, where he
left her, saying he would brin her
some supper, she washed her hamls
and combed out her bright hair. When
he came back she said: "Shall I find
Mr. Mertoun down stairs?"
4 'He's gone to his own room," said
the groom, "and he says mis-sus is
asleep, and not to bo disturbed."
"Which is her room?" asked Ada.
I must know, because I've come down
la nurse her."
"I'll show vou the door," said the
man. He led lier a little way-along a
corridor, and pointed up a "short stair
case. "The door.ou the left," he said,
and immediately harried off, carrying
his light with him.
44This is a queer house," thought
Ada. However, she found her way
back to her own room by the glimmer
of light from its doorway. , Tkea, Uk:
ing her candle, she went straight to the
door of the room the man had "shown
her. She knocked geatly; -there was
no answer, so she quietly turned the
handle and looked in. A solitary can
dle lit a largo room; she could but
dimly perceive that on the bed lay a
woman, who, seeing her, started up as
if in terror, and , then fell helplessly
back again. Evidently this was the
sick-room. Ada shut the door, put
down her caudle, and approached the
bed.
44 Don't be frightened," she said; "I
am a nurse your sister has sent down
to take care of you."
"I thought you were a spirit," said
Agatha Mertoun; "I have had strange
visions to-day." Then she relapsed into a
silence, and seemed to forget Ada's pres
ence. After awhile she spoke again.
44 1 am dying," she said.
Ada went close to her bed and looked
into her eys. They were very strange.
Suddenly the unhappy woman was
seized with a violent sickness. Ada,
with her quick wits, noticed some things
which made her wonder. When her
patient, weary and exhausted, lay back
again on her pillow she began to make
a tour of the room. There were a great
many bottles in different places. She
took out all the corks and smelled the
contents. Suddenly, while thus en
gaged, she happened to look toward
the bed and met Agatha's oyes fixed oa
her with a gaze full of some extraor
dinary meaning or intelligence. It al
most frightened even the brave Ada.
She put down the bottle quickly and
went to the bedside. But Agatha had
closed her eyes, as if too weak to keep
them open. Looking earnestly at her.
Nurse Harcourt realized how wonder
fully lovely she was in spite of the dead-
y pallor which lay on her face. Sud
denly the sickness came again, and then
a violent spasm.
" This is a queer sort of anaemia,"
said Ada'to-herselfand, after a long
look at her patient began to smell at
the physic bottles. Just then she, heard
a faint sound at the door. Hastily ap-
Sroaching it and opening it sho .saw Mr.
ertoun disappearing, through the op
posite door. " He wanted to watch
me," she thought. "Now, what can
this mean?" She looked the door in
side and continued her investigatloms.
Suddenly she came upon a bottle iajide
a cupboard nearly empty, the smell
from which almost made her cry out.
But she remembered her patient and
refrained. She merely put the bottle in
her pocket, and then, without hunting
about any more, went back to watch
poor Agatha. The color of her face
grew steadily worse, and her weakness
was rapidly increasing.
44 What on earth am I to do!" ex
claimed Nurse Harcourt at last, " in
this out of the-way-placo? I can't see
her die before my eyes. If I could only
get the doctor!"
She had , spoken out loud, thinking
Agatha quite unconscious. But she
was not She opened her eyes and ap
peared to express something by their
earnest gaze. It seemed as if she
understood Ada's words.
"It's the only thing to be done, I be
lieve." said Ada to herself; "and I'll do
it." She took out her watch and looked
at it half-past three. Going to the
window she drew the curtain a little
aside. There was a faint gray haze all
over the world; but the light would be
enough to find one's way by, and every
moment brought the dawn nearer, "if
I did but knew the way," she thought.
"Well. I must wake up some one and
ask it."
Having made up her mind she no
lodger hesitated. She took a final sur
vey ol her patient anil then lelt the
room. She locked the door on the out
side and took the key with her.
Quickly entering her own room she
caught up her gray cloak and traveling
nat, ana put tnem on as sne nurriea
dqwn stairs. "If I only knew where
the servants sleep!" she thought; "but
I'm so afraid of rousing Mr. Mertoun.
I'll wake up some cottage people!"
With some considerable difficulty she
opened the front door, and then drew it
close behind her without absolutely
shutting it. To her delight she found
it would stay so without moving; this
would enable her to enter the house
again quietly. As quickly as swift feet
would carry her she hurried out of the
grounds.. She saw no cottages; so she
went oa along the widest road, hoping
to reach some habitation in time. To
her delight she saw at last ahedger and
ditcher trudging away to his work. She
ran after him and, almost breathless
with her quick movement and excite
ment, caught him by the arm while she
asked him her question.
"The doctor?" he replied. "Right
oa till the cross roads, then to the right;
aot more'n a mile."
Not more than a mile! Nurse Har
court started off on her way gleefully.
That soon would be accomplished, she
thought. Had she but known how
strange is the Cornish miad en the sub
ject of distances she might have stayed
to ask further information. -But, in
stead, she hurried away, leaving the
workingman to stare after -her in com
pletc and bewildered amazement. The
cross roads were reached before
long, and then she turned to the right,
and hurried quickly along the -lonely
road.
At last Ada began to reflect oa ta
fact that she must'have walked a great
deal more than a mile since her meet
ing with the hedger aad diteher. la
fact she was beginning to feel a little
puzzled and hopeless, for there was ao
sign of houses. Still she hurried on,
hoping to meet some ohe else'wh
would direct h er. Suddenly on.her ear
fell the sound .of laurkter-ugkY clear,
hearty laughter. Odd, at tktotHM ia
the morning; bu,t, atfanhekftp, 3 tbsV
Oa a Baft la a Freshet.
44Curley" Peters, the steersman, Jo
Billings, the front oarsman, and Billy
King, the hind oarsman, sat in the
smoking car on their way to Big Eddy,
from where they were to start down the
river with a three-oared raft. The
train was booming along at twenty-five
miles an hour.
"This is a gettin' over the groua'
pooty tol'able scrumptious, I'm a takin'
on it," said' the hind oarsman, "an'
ruthar knocks the sawdust out'n raftin'.
I reckon that 'we'rn a scootin' 'long a
leetle bit faster th'n the riptearinest
fresh on record ever druv "a hemlock
raft, don't yo' think we be, Curley?"
"Not by a pow'rful sight, we hain't,"
said the steersman. "I guess if you'd
a ben 'long o' me on a raft o' toggle
timber that I run from the Gap to
Easton bridge, on the roarin' old fresh
ez come from the big June rain, back
in '62, you'd think this yer train o'
keers wan'tmore th'n keepln' out'a the
way of a funer'l percession."
"See yer, Curley," the front oarsman
put in. 44y' haint" agoin'ter run us up
agin that baldheaded yarn, be ye? The
las' time y' tole that he, which it were
up in the Long Eddy tavern, don't y'
reekomember that the tavern were
struck b' lightnin', an' we was longer a
t'utchin' you to th'n ef y'd a clum out
sid'n three drinks o' the Eddy rum? If
you steer us ioui o tne oiame ining
again I'm afeerd they'll be a wreck on
this ver train, sartin ez hemlock. Head
y
.ear timber clear o' that snag an' gi
is a chance to tie up safe, won't'y'r
ive
us
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Hain't th' yarn true?" asked the
hind hand.
"True?" said the front oarsman.
"True? They hain't no more truth in
it than they is sap in a forty-year-old
tombstone"
" Jox Billings, " said the steersman,
"yer pinted dead wrong, far if they
ever were a regular old seasoned-in-the-log
fact, warranted to cut four foot at
the butt an' to work up without nary a
knot, this yer one is'the stick o' timber
es'U git the cant-hook fust, ev'ry time,
an't don't ve furget it!"
"fhat's'all right, Curley," replied
the front oarsman, "but ef I was you
amPspected to keep on tellin' that air
story I'd git my life iusurcd. Annynias
and Sapiry Would a' left their folks a
durn sight better fixed ef they'd a done
it, too. But, pull out! pull out with yer
'tarnal ole yarn an' jes see wharye will
land us."
And Jo Billings lit his pipe and re
signed himself to his fate.
44 1 b'lieve I said ez how I run that
air raft from the Gap to Easton bridge,"
the steersman begau, "but that wasn't
the way on jt. That raft run me an'
done it durn han'some. and no mis
take. 44 Thay hadn't been sech a rain
know'd 'long the Delvwar' fur forty
years ez come a dippin' through the
valley in June, '62. It jest came down
in hogsheads full fur three days and
nights. The river begun to raise, an'
it kep' oa a raisin' till they wa'n't
scarcely no more land fur it to git hold
onto, an' folks begun to give out con
tracts fur the buildin' o' Noar's arks.
'Long in the fall o' '61 I bad started
with a five-oared raff from the head o'
vthe river fur tide, but the fresh didn't
"turn out to be nothin' but a scrub fresh,
aa' when we got to the Gap we run out
o' water an' had to tie up. They didn't
come no water agin that season, an' we
didn't frit none o no consekence till the
big' June fresh. Soon ex they wa'n't
ao 'doubt that we was agoin' ter have
water 'aough to float the Great Eastern
clean to the startin' place o' the Dely
war'. I struck 'em in fur the Gap to
git my raft in shape fur gittin' her tho
rest o' the way to tide. They were a
good fresh by "the time I gat to the Gap.
an' we overhauled the raft an' tightened
her up. By the time we had her in
shape tne river begun to raise like ez it
it was a tub an some one were a
pumpia' water, inter it through a six
inch pipe. It riz so fast that when we
went to work on the raft at seven o'clock
in the mornin' she lay at the foot of a
big buttonwood tree ez stood on the
bank. By ten o'clock we had to cut
away the branches o' that tree so ez we
could stan' up an' work, an' them
branches was thirty feet from thegroun'
by actival measure! An' it seemed ez
if that water was a mnnin' more'n a
hundred mile an hour. Wall, we see
they wa'nt no use o' thinkin' o' startin'
out on such water ez that, an' we un
shipped the oars to wait for a fresh ez
'twere safe to run on. The two fellers
ez was helpin' o' me had left the raft,
an' I were pickin' up some tools to carry
off when one o' the snubbin' ropes
snapped in two. Quicker' n lightnin'
thet eend o' the raft swung down
stream, and kerbang! went t'other rope.
In two seconds that raft were makin'
its, way down that tiver at a rate ez rail
road keers mebbe kin come up to one o'
these days, but the fas'est time ez ever
were done vitr on the best road in this
kentry is like an ox train 'long side a
2:40 hods when you come to talkin'
'bout bow that air raft went slidin'
'long. An' thar I were on the durn
thing, without nary an oar. an' knowin'
that when she stove up they wa'n't no
more show o' me a gittin' ashore th'n
they was fur me to steer her with a pine
shingle. The only thing I could do
were to jest set down an' take in the
scenery an' wonder how much they'd
find o' me arter the fust bridge pier we
met had got through with us. All of a
suddint I thort o' Foul Rift, which it
takes a man ez knows every rock an'
bush they i9 on the shore an in the
river to steer inter without stavin'. an I
says to myself: 'We may run clear o'
everything till we git to Foul Rift, but
when we git thar Mrs. Curley Peters is
a widder, sartin ez sap in spring.'
"Wall, we got to Foul Rift. The
openin' to it 'twixt the rocks did't lopk
no wXder 'n this keer, an' the water
jest got up aa' howled. The raft ended
for the rocks, and I shet my eyes an'
tried to pray, but, durn sing'lar ez you
mebbe fll think it, I couldn't git my
mind oa nothin' but wonderin' who my
widder would marry. While I were
tryin' to settle on.the man ez 'd be inos'
likely to hook outer her an' the three
hundred dollars I had in my chist at
hum, I felt myself A goin' up tords the
clouds an' a sailin' through the air, ex
if I'd a ben settin' on a powder kag, an'
somebody had touched a match to it.
I opened my eyes to see what were the
matter. Ez I turned a summerset I
see that I were suthin' like a couple
hunderd yards ahead o' the raft, an it
were a bilin' 'long with one side kind
o' tore out. She had stove on the
rocks, bat not head on, an' the shake
up only jest slackened her speed a
lettle, while I kep' agoin1 right oa.
But that raft shot ahead so durn fast
through the rift that when I got down,
more'n three hundred yards from where
we stove, she were plumb in under me
an' I jest plunked back on to her, an'
away we tore again. I were kinder
stunned, nat'rally, an' when I sot up
agia' thar I see a bridge pier right
straight in front of us. They wa'n't
ao help for us. Bang! went the raft
squar on to the pier. When I come to
I.were layin' in a boat on the Pennsyl
vania shore, more'n ten rod below the
bridge, two men alooking at me.
44 4Wall,' says one on 'em, 4whea I
see you a comin' over that bridge, a
whklin' like a circus tumbler, an ye
kersoused later the water 'loagside o'
this yer boat, I were afeerd ye'd hurt
yerself, but I'm durned if y ve got a
scratch.'
"Y see, when the raft stopped agin
the pier. I didn't Ez luck had it, I
weat clean over the bridge, aa it's a
auaderd foot high, aa' come dowa ia
water tm t'other side, whartwo mea
was ketchia' driftwood. When the raft
aa' me left the Gao it were iis't half nasi
tsi Wfcttfi looked at xay watch after
omin' to ia the boat, it lacked, two
seconds o' bein' ten minutes to 'leren.
Ez it's thirty mile from the Gap to
Easton bridge, I'm a takin' it that a
makin' of it in less than twenty minutes
raCher knocks this train's time clean
out'n the channel."
The hind oarsman didn't say whether
he believe'd the story or not, but when
the train stopped at Big Eddy he told
Curley that he had changed his mind
about going down the river, and when
the tram 'left Curley was looking for a
man to take his place. Callicoon (N.
X.) vor. Jv. r. Hun.
Orerstaay.
The great strain of the school year
generally comes in the spring, and at
this season the effects of oyerstudy are
most apparent. The body 1s debilitated
by enforced indoor life and by the
breathing of air that is less pure than the
out-door air, and the mind and sinews
of the body are relaxed. But the exam
inations come in the spring, and one
cannot afford to lose what has been
gained by hard and continuous study
when a little more exertion will win the
coveted honors. It is this little more
exertion which is "the last straw that
breaks the camel's back." And just
now the question is pertinent whether it
is worth while to spoil the camel for
bearing all future burdens that he may
bear.a3ittle more now.
The strong are in even more danger
than the weak from ovorstudy. Inva
lids live on year after year to ripe old
age, while the strong are cut down as
grass. And why? The invalid knows
is weakness and takes care of himself,
and avoids strains and weights; the
strongman, rejoicing in his strength,
cherishes the idea that he can bear
everything, endure everything, and so
he loads himself till a little thing trips
him and he is down past recovery. The
one secret of holding out to the end is
not undertaking too much.
The student should keep clearly be
fore him the great fact that the object
of study, the end to be attained by it,
is that the mind may be informed and
the life enriched, that the capacity to do
for one's self and for others may be en
larged, that permanent good unmixed
with evil may result from the years
given to books. The mind is to be fed,
not crammed, the intellect is to be
strengthened by exorcise not strained
by it; tho faculties are to be developed,
not overlaid with armor so heavy that
they are incapable of movement. We
understand this in regard to our stom
achsthe wise among us, at least and
do not overload them, lest dyspepsia
torment us, but many a student treats
his intellect as though its capacities
were unlimited for doing and retaining
and exacts constant activity from it and
constant appetite for fresh supplies of
information. As a result he finds, after
a time, that he begins to be surfeited
with study, and loathes his books, and
longs for a change, and finds great dif
ficulty in compelling his mind to work,
and grows desperate as he thinks of ex
amination day. This simply and only
proves that he has been over-working,
and is the natural clamor of the intel
lectual organization and its servant, the
body, for a remission of tasks, a lighten
ing of its burdens.
It is scarcely possible for the student
to estimate at their intrinsic value col
lege and academic honors. He is
almost certain to overrate them. But
if he will run over the list of great
names he will find that very few bear
ing them got the very highest marks in
the recitation-room. They may have
held the highest rank as scholars in the
various departments, but preferred a
wider general knowledge to the specific
knowledge required to receive the high
est marks. Such generally reap more
benefit from college training than any
other class of students, and carry with
them through, life the width of view
and thoroughness of preparation for
duties to be done which characterized
them in college. It is often the case
that the student who walks rigidly the
narrow line held in the recitation room
carries off the honors when there are
many others that more fully deserve
them. We would not say a word to
discourage an honorable emulation for
the highest prizes in academic life, but
we would caution the ambitious student
against paying too high a price for
them. They are not in any sense like
the pearl of great price, worth all one's
possessions of health and strength, and
yet many a student will recklessly en
danger both in the attempt to gain
them. Five years after they are won
he can see, too late, that he paid too
dearly for them, and that he might
have reaped larger benefits had he
widened his search and aimed a broader
and less specific acquisition.
When a student is almost worn out
with early and late and constant study,
one of the best preparations for exam
ination is abundant sleep, till the mind
resumes its tone and easily commands
its treasured stores. Fear and worry
only increase his difficulties and cloud
his mind. Instead of increasing his
burdens he should lighten them until
they are easily borne. The idea that
one is through with his education when
he has passed all the examinations-and
gets a diploma, lasts perhaps a week or
two, and then the conviction deepens
that the great work of life is all to come.
The fierce contests of rivalry in college
halls begin to look like boys' play in
view of the long rivalries and contests
of mature life. Then if vitality has
been hopelessly sacrificed in the prep
aration for real work, repentance comes
too late, college honors may prove all
the honors that shall crown a life, the
chase for them having exhausted power
of further conquest
What we have said of college boys
and girls applies with equal force to
younger students. It is of no use to
force intellectual activity, to cram chil
dren with information; precocious chil
dren make dull grown folks, while dull
children often grow and develop into
the most interesting and notable people
of their time. N. T. Tribune.
Beat Waat the Place.
The story comes from Washington
that a few days ago, when a $1,200
mnlove of the Senate died. Sdroreant-
at-Arms Bright, received an applica
tion tor tne vacancy, voionei rjngnt
read the recommendation, and said at
nee: "Very well, you can have the
place." The applicant was evidently
asvoulsllcu, buu mjlou, i una vau
taVtinll?" "Youcanbefrinto-dav " be
gan Colonel Bright; "but let me explain
tne situation, iuuiw, wuw nr. &
John was buried it left his 91,200 place
vacant The next man under him, a
very capable one, receiving $900, was
promoted. A laborer next below him
at $720, 'stepped into the $900 place,
and a man under him was then lifted a
little, aad so on through the whole list
until the place really left vacant by the
death of Mr. St John is a place in the
stable to curry horses at one dollar a
day. You can have that, and begin work
atonce." The applicant withdrew.
m $ m
Mrs. Riggins, living a short dis
tance from Cambridge, Md., apparently
died a few days ago, aad was laid out
for burial. In the evening, a short
while before night, she was observed to
move, and actually got ap aad talked.
It was not long, however, before she
again became uaconscmus aad sooa
after died. Chicago Times.
According to the Philadelphia
Times the Canadian method of oaring
for the Indians is much snore certain ia
its results than the American method.
Ia America the Indiana are audeto
keep the army ia exercise; ia Canada
they are allowed to starve BoH
Btmr.
OF GENERAL INTEREST.
An Ithaca (N. Y.) man ate seven
dozen oysters in a Mated time and won
teu dollars. A physician visited him
several times afterward and charged
him twenty dollars.
The last census of India shows that
there are 21,00,,U00 widows in the land
of elephants and jungles. This is due
to the fact that no woman whose hus
band dies is allowed to remarry.
The late Marshall Jewell, of Con
necticut, is to be honored by the people
of Denver, Col., who have decided to
name a new park on the outskirs of
that city "the Marshall Jewell Park."
In u recent letter to the Ohio State
Forestry AMeiation. Mr. John G
Whittier Mays that he is pained and in
dignant at the wanton destruction of
forests iu the New England States.
A farmer in California carried a
mouse around on the inside of his clothes
for several hours, the other day, before
he discovered what it was. He felt its
struggles, but said he thought it was the
twitching of one of his muscles,
The wife of a brand-new member of
Congress told her neighbors that her
family would remove to Washington,
but she was undecided as to how they
would live in the capital she favored
takiugone of the Potomac Hats. Wash
ington Post.
The belles of the Piute tribe of
Indians walk along the railroad tracks
of -civilization in Nevada and gather the
blaek "dope', which drops from the
axles of the cars. With this they .smear
their cheeks and arms and grow more
beautiful.
A woman and her three little children
were recently discovered in a hogshead at
Wilkesbarre! where they sought shelter
after having been turned out of their
house for non-payment of rent. The
husband and father is iu jail on a charge
of larceny. Philadelphia Press.
Roselle, N. J., is the first small
town in the United States to be lit by a
"village plant" of Edison electric lights,
which consist of eight miles of wire,
five hundred lights in thirty-live houses,
one hundred and fifty street lamps and
clusters at the depot, all run by a one
hundred and fifty horse power engine.
A rural typo in setting up a farm
item, made it'read "the temperature of
the soul depends upon its humidity," and
when the editor came in with his wet
boots on and lifted the wretch out into
the soil of the adjoining pig pen, he had
time to reflect upon the uillerence be
tween soul and soil. Rome (X. Y) Sen
tinel. To a j'outh who inquired whether,
in saluting a lady friend whom he met
in the street, he should rai.se his hat
merely or bow as well, a Toronto paper
replies that he should do both, as the
hat was "raised out of courtesy to the
entire sex; the bow is an acknowledg
ment of the individual recognition."
The mother of Senator Jones, of
Neveda, fell down stairs at his residence
at Gold Hill the other day, and arose
with painful bruises. For years she
had been suffering the worst pangs of
dyspepsia, but as her bruises healed
she found that her stomachic troubles
had been jarred out, and she is blessed
with better health than she has had
since 1868. This certiticatiou of the
efficiency of the movement cure is
gratuitously inserted for the benefit of
the afflicted. Detroit Post.
A woman who elopes takes great
chances in England, under the new
4 'married woman's property act," if she
takes any of her husband's property
along with her. Mrs. Margaret Fletcher
has reason to regret her foolish act.
She ran away from her home at Work
ington a short time ago, and carried
with her jewels and wearing apparel
valued at sixty dollars. Her husband
first sued for a divorce and got it, and
then prosecuted her for a thief, and the
Judge sent her to jail for three months.
Chepeta, the widow of Ouray, the
Ute Chief, has become the bride of a
White River Ute. Instead of the fine
silk dress which she wore on her visit
to the "Great Father" at Wash
ington in company with Ouray, she is
now content with buckskin leggins, a
waistcoat of rough material, and a
blanket on which "U. S." is woven in
large black letters. But she is just as
haughty now as when the wife of a
Chief. Her sheep number thousands,
and she has many more ponies than she
has any particular need for. Besides
this, she has nearly $3,000 in the agency
safe. Cliicago Tribune.
An Unexplored Region.
Hearing the report around town that
valuable redwood and yellow-pine forest
had been discovered by R. D. Cook, of
this place, about eighty miles east of
town, we dropped in upon that gentle
man and received full confirmation from
him of the report. It seems that about
three weeks ago he became alarmed at
the long dry spell and, in company with
another gentleman, he started for tho
headwaters of the Sisquoc in search of
food for his stock. He reports the
scenery along the route after he left civ
ilization as exceedingly grand, rivaling
anything he ever saw fn his life, and he
volunteered the information that he had
twice crossed the plains and been
through Central America. After riding
as far as they could they left their horses
and footed it over the mountains and
through canyons, and near the head
waters of one of the tributaries of the
Sisquoc they found themselves upon the
brink of a precipice over which the wa
ters of the creek poured with a deafen
ing roar, falling a distance of six or
seven hundred feet. He threw a rock
over a brink to test the distance, and
waited to hear it strike the bottom, but
after waiting some time he concluded it
had lodged on the way down, and was
turning to leave wheh the rambling in
tonations told him it had just reached
the bottom. The view from this point
was grand and awe-inspiring, and if
properly opened to tho public would
rival the Yoeemite as an attraction.
Fish and game abound, and to illustrate
the plentilulness of the former he stated
that his companion on several occasions
took a common gunny sack and fas
tened it at a rilHe, and would drive
enough fish into it while he was making
a fire to serve them for a meal. In
coming down a canyon they discovered
a redwood forest that has never before
been known to exist in that locality.
He describes its extent to be from two
and a half to three miles long and from
three-quarters to a mile wide. The
trees were from'one to six feet in diam
eter, and, to use his own words, "there
is enough timber there to fence this
valley into ten-acre lots." On the outer
edge of this grove he found a tree that
had been felled years and years ago by
chopping around it with a tomahawk,
the blade of which was not over three
inches wide. He is confident that no
other white man ever stepped feet in
side the grove, for, said he, it would
have been impossible to have reached it
a year ago; but about that timaa forest
fire burned off the thick underbrush for
miles this side and made it possible for
them to reach the grove on foot He
does not think that the discovery of the
forest or the magnificent falls will be of
any value for years to come because of
the difficulty of building roads to them,
but nevertheless, he intends to start out
in a short time and further explore that
interesting region. San Luis (CaL) Re
public. m
4 'Where have you put my barome
ter?" inquired a country squire of his
man, an importation from the wilds of
Suffolk. "I heard you say, sir, that the
higher it was the finer the weather; so ae
I anew you were going to ride to the
'siaes to-day I hung it in tie front attic"
i -jm TnmsmfL
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.
Newman Hall's church, in London,
has 1,071 members. Its thirteen Sunday-schools
have 6,500 children and 400
teachers.
Riots occurred lately between Budd
hist und Romanists in Colombo, the cap
ital of Ceylon, on account of insults
ottered by the Buddhists to the Catholic
crucifix.
The moral effect alone of a well
kept bed of flowers in front of any school
house is beyond estimation. JSo child
is wholly insensible to their silent gen
ial influence. Christian Union,
The Congregationalist says that
"there are more than eight hundred
Congregational ministers who are not
engaged in pastoral work, and yet we
talk of the dearth of ministers!"
Dr. Mark Hopkius, in a recent lec
ture to the theological students of Prince
ton Seminary, is reported to have ex
pressed his views in regard to evolution
very forcibly, saying that the theory was
not only "atheistic, but entirely insuffi
cient to explain iu any way the origiu
of the human species.
A New York school girl says her
studies are arithmetic, algebra, geog
raphy, astronomy, grammar. United
States history, general history, etymol
ogy, spelling, composition, drawing,
reading, writing, and singing by note.
It looks as if her education is being
sadly neglected. Unless French, Latin,
mental philosophy. calculu, civil en
gineering and hydrostatics are added to
her .studies she' will be totally unfit to
asunie the duties of a wife and mother
a few vears hence. Norristown Herald.
The United Baptist Societies of
Connecticut have nearly consummated
the project of establishing a denomina
tion summer watering-place at Crescent
Beach, on the shore of Long Island
Sound, about seven miles west of New
London. They propose to purchase
thirty acres of land, divide it into $100
lot-;, and sell the lots to cottagers. In
the center of the proposed settlement a
$1,000 tabernacle will be erected, in
which daily religious services will be
held during the summer. Boston Jour
nal. PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.
It is at the quilting "bee" where
you hear the stinging remarks. Ar. Y.
Sews.
Notwithstanding his retirement on
account of ago. General Sherman will
dispense with his staff.
If an idea strikes you forcibly rub
arnica ou the bruised part, andyoumay'
never be affected in like manner again.
N. Y. Herald.
Oscar Wilde's recent statement that
he "feeds on himself," reminds us that
this is about the right tinio of year for
eating orreeus. Lowell Courier.
The Hindoos are said to have 330,
000,000 gods. In order to give the
requisite attention to theirreligion these
heathen must have a lot of idol time at
their disposal.
" Yes," said the country telegraph
operator, "some people don't seem to
have any sense. A dispatch arrived last
week for a luau around the corner, and
the darned fool hasn't come for it yet."
Chicago Tribune.
It is a breach of etiquette never to
be forgiven to sneeze in.the presence of
royalty, but royalty has never bothered
itself to tell a man what to do with his
nose when he feels a sneeze working
along up his suspenders. Detroit Free
Press.
A young lover in Iowa paid forty
dollars for a locomotive to run him
thirty-five miles to see his girl, and
when he got there the family bull-dog
ran him two miles and didn't charge
him a cent. Corporations have no souls.
Peck's Sun.
"Do you think smokers are a
nuisance?'' asked a Harlem man of a
fat individual who sat next to him on
the train. "No, sir; I do not," em
phatically growled the person ad
dressed, as ne got up and went into
another car. "Who is that man?" in
quired the first speaker, turning to a
fellow traveler. "He is a hani-curer
and runs a big smokeheuse down town,"
was the reply. "Ah!" murmured the
Harlem man, relapsing into sudden
silence. Harlem (N. i.) Times.
"Boss, does yerwanter buy aham?"
asked a negro of a white man. "What
is it worth? ' "Wall, as its yerse'f, yer
may take it fur fifty cents." "That
won't do. You can afford to sell it for
less, for I believe you stole it, any
how." "Boss, doan' 'cuse me so rash.
Have a little niussy 'bout yer pusson.
But, I tell yer, boss, if yer won't say
nothin' 'bout it, I'll let yer hab it fur
forty cents." The white man agreed,
and paid over thp amount. The negro,
just as he crossed the street, was ac
costed by an acquaintance, who said:
"What did yer let dat man hab dat
ham so cheap fur?" "O, I could
'ford it, 'case I stole it outen his own
smoke-house." Arkansuw Traveller.
The Pistol Fool.
The pistol has a harvest of victims
even week. The circumstances are
accidental or criminal, sometimes both
and often criminally accidental. The
sad case of Beal who was shot by
Frickett on a Sound steamer, the two
men being partners in business at
Boston, is a common illustration near
home. Frickett heard a noise, woke
anil blazed away, killing his partner.
We are not surprised to Tiear that he is
"completely unnerved;" that is as
natural as 'that "a gloom" should be
"thrown over the entire community"
when leading citizens shoot each other
down South, and no arrests follow. One
singular reason given for Frickett's
sleepiug with a pistol under his pillow
is that he has done so since his marriage
because "his wife was of a nervous
temperament." A wife of such a nerv
ous temperament that she requires a
loaded revolver in bed to calm her silly
fears would be a genuine home comfort
for the Czar.
Generally the pistol fool wakes up
and shoots his wife. Such instances
are frequently reported in our news
columns. Sometimes, however, he does
not live to get married, but only to be
refused. In that case he resorts inevit
ably to his revolver. He resents the
exercise of woman's unquestioned right
to refuse proposals of marriage as a
crime to be avenged only in blood; he
invests in a cheap revolver and peppers
her, and then perhaps shoots himself
the markmanship in both cases being
generally bad. A man who will take
this way of ending a love affair is a first
class idiot
The murder of a whole family at
Brooklyn was all due to pistol idiocy.
The brother of the murdered man be
lieves that the mother had a pistol and
in excitement shot her boy, that the
father tried to take the pistol from her
and shot her, and then, realizing that
the boy was dead to whom lie was
devoted, shot himself. Springfield
(Mass.) Republican.
The Vest Important Thing ia Life.
It is wonderful how very few things
are absolutely necessary to human hap
piness. It is a great privilege to gaze
into the most attractive shop windows
just to see how many things there are
in the world which you don't want
It is pretty difficult to say what the
most important thing in life is, but
Owen Meredith had a very clear in
sight into human affair's when ho
wrote the following suggestive lines:
We may live without poetry, music and art:
We mar lira without conscience and lire wltk-
mtatart:
We mar lire wltaout fritada, we aaj live
without books;
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