The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-11-27

"Never mind" said he, cit is not
castles and diamonds that make people
happy. Who knows but may be the
merriest of the three, after all.''
So the brother and sister departed to
their grand home, and to riches without
stint or measure. They found some
things, too, which they had not bar
gained for-lawsuits and losses, vexa-
tions and notifications from abroad,
and strife and contentious at home, for
poor little Nellie had found husband
who liked better to spend her money
than to love her.
What care for all this splendor,"
said she, as she walked over her velvet
carpet. {" I am not half as happy as
when 1 played with the flowers in our
homely garden, or sat on my fathers
workbench while he made the shoes %
All, poor Nellie, you found pleasant
things, too, sometimes and might have
enjoyed them, had you not always been
pining after something pleasanter still !!
"Let us go and see Crispus," said
the grand brother one day to her; for
he was gentleman now, and Crispus
would scarcely have known him. Let
us see how he and his wife live %
So, after journey of many days, in
great style, with coaches and footmen
and outriders, they arrived at the cob
bler's cottage.
Their old father had long been sleep
ing in the church yard, and Crispus had
taken his place, to mend, as he had
done, all the shoes in the village.
He had wife now, and some rosy
children, but he had never been able to
oh fhonoh ho So1I0,,,
troubled about the matter, yet, when
the grand company arrived that day, he
looked at his pine table and bare floors,
and wooden chairs and benches, and the
brown crockery on his shelves, and the
hard beds, and said, "What fool 1
was not to take something better from
the gnomes." Then he looked at his
wife and children; such red, rough
hands she had, and such scanty skirts,
and that tight little cap on her head, and
the blue woolen jacket she wore.
"What Il fright she must seem to my
sister," thought he.
He had but one resource, and he turn
ed to it; it was his wooden cup. He
drank off the bright drop, and looked
about him.
"Welcome to you," said he to his
brother and sister. "Come in; we are
poor, but come in! You shall have the
best we have got; and we are merry
and happy, if we are poor!' Just then
his wife came along, with her bright,
smiling face, and the little children
rang out a merry laugh, which made
one laugh to hear it; and Crispus
thought he had never before seen them
all look so beautiful. The wooden chairs
were soon drawn to the table, and they
sat down to a nice supper, prepared by
Crispus's wife. What if her hands were
red and rough? Hands which make a
humble home happy are beautiful, even
in the sight of angels.
Thus they spent the time in pleasant
talk; and when they were about to de-
part, the brother said to Crispus,
cannot offer you anything, for you seem
to have all you want
"Not exactly" said Crispus. "No
one has all he wants. But have what
will make up for many DEFICIENCIES, and
what l would not give away-no, not
for all your possessions. have what
the good gnome gave me-the best he
had to gi~e-the drop of contentment
in the bottom ofmy little wooden cup
New STYLE OF BUILDING IN PARIS
La Patrick has the following: "There
is at this time in course of construction,
as an experiment and possible model,
in the Quarter de Roule, house hav-
ing nine stories above the ground floor
and, with basement and cellars, alto
gether eleven stories. AS land in the
centre Of Paris is of great value, and,
Irrh ha oh
.ject of the building in question is to OBJ
creased elevation. The house will have
this popularity, that it will have no
staircase, but it will be provided with
an hydraulick apparatus similar to
that in use by builders to raise their ma
terials to upper scaffolds. This appara-
tus consists of two large platforms,
ascending and descending every minute
without making any noise. Upon these
platforms will be placed seats, so that
the dodgers in the house will be enabled
to reach the highest stories without any
fatigue From this arrangement it
would follow that the upper stories,
being most airy, commanding the best
views, and being free from all inconve-
nience from dodgers above, will proba-
bly, obtain higher rent than the other
apartments. Thus an entire revolution
in house arrangement will be effected.
The new buildings Of the Bank of
France will, it is said, be provided with
ascending stairs such as we have de-
scribed.
ANOTHER ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH1c
PRoJECT.-At the late meeting of the
British association. Mr. T Holmes
read paper describing the route of the
propoposed North Atlantic Telegraph
ic. There are to be four submarine
lengths the first, from Scotland to the
Farce Islands, of 21o miles the second,
of $50 miles; the third, Of 642 miles /;
and the last of II miles. 1t will be
laid with much less risk and at less ex-
pense than the cable between Ireland
and Newfoundland and the author cal
culated that messages to America could
be transmitted at something like half a
crown a word. A short discussion fol-
lowed the reading of this paper, in the
cnurse of which Ihe scheme was snnken