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He asked me for the choicest gift
Twas in my power to give;
I could not say my lover nay.
And so bade him live
Within my heart.
o, loving heart
Thy faith on faith was stayed;
On bended knee be promised me
A price-he has not paid
He pledged his honor and his truth.
To love ill death should part;
With love he bought the prize he sought,
And thus obtained my heart.
0, happy time
o, happy cline,
Through which we idly strayed
What JOY was ours, as through the flowers
4 fragrant path We made
But soon we reached the outer edge
Of this our Eden land;
Where love had reignei, and happy fe'guel
To do the Kings command.
o. loving heart
o, trusiful heart
How was thy trust betrayed
With love he bought the heart he sought,
But has the price been paid
If should live a thousand years,
ne'er again should know
The same regret, or could forget
Those days 0f long ago.
hen first my heart,
It's choicest wealth displayed
This foolish heart
With love twas sought, with love twas bought
But has the price been paid
III
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From the \. Y. Evening Post.
.h Ii crrh,n.a-

George Thompson, an English civil engi-
neer, directed the engineering operations Of
Lopez, Dictator Of Paraguay, during part
of the war against Brazil. lie has lately re-
turned to Europe, and has published book
IN which he gives a curious account Of Lopez
and Of the Paraguayans over whom this mon
ster rules.
or Lopez we are told that he is brutal,
naughty, cruel and cowardly. lie is forty
i've years Of age, Of short stature, vain and
fond Of dress and was good rider till he
becpme stout and indolent is very fond of
his children by Mrs. Lynch, " but not of his
other ones, of whom he has a number -
( and has no friend alive, having shot all who
in his earlier life were his companions
| lie eats enormously. Is an excellent Judge
/ OF claret, Of which be keeps a very fine quail
/ ity for his own use but. Mr.. Thompson re-
/ ports, serves his guests, and even Mrs Lynch,
with poorer quality. lie speaks French,
! but prefers Guarani, the language Of the
Paraguayan Indians spends good deal Of
time IN checker playing places no value
on human life has caused nearly a thOus-
and persons to be tortured to death is in
solent 70 all under his command and is 50
arrant coward that in the field he deprived
his guard Of their splendid peace uniform,
discarded his own iavJrite scarlet poncirl.
and wore his saddle-cloth turned wrongside
out, for fear the enemy might make HIM a
special mark.
lie Is arttul, has a smooth tongue, and the
wit to cause his subordinates, By secret or
ders, to do those acts which he knows TO be
disgusting to his people. He appears to be
extraordinarily suspicious Of foreigners. 10
PEI has, Mr.. Thompson asserts. caused his
own sisters to be logged by soldiers, and
nearly starved 10 death he ordered not only
iuglJeves after a lost battle but all prisoners,
and those Of his own soldiers too weary to
keep up on a march, 10 he shot by dozens
and flties. In short, he seems to be mons
ter, Inscriptions, reckless. greedy, selfish TO
the last degree. This is the person whom
some American journals have praised as the
brave head of a republic
As TO the people whom this r15ber ruled,
and who Mr.. Thompson thinks are nearly
exterminated, obedience of the most ahicct
kind seems to have been one oftheir most pro-
mlncnt qualities. Lopez they called olrm
GtaSse-the big gentleman Or toifq Qp1ses-
tac big father. Whatever be did or ordered
10 be done was right In the eyes of bic sub
jects. a widely diifused and yisilantly
maintained system ofspying kept tae Dictator
informed Of any lukewarm admirers he might
have and iacS of zeal was punished with
death. The soldiers lived ou beei-one bull
lock 70 eighty men olch day. the lack OF
salt caused great suffering and mortality
during the war. The uniform was "a white
shirt, scarlet bl0uses, belt. white trousers
and no SHOES. Fl1gging was 50 constant
. sI.s.#H o O.
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strike the ear, as a musical sound, have more
than two thousand times the rapidity of the
sloWest.-TyadalL
Sir John Lubbock, in discoursing on Crusta-
eea, says We do not understand how they see,
smell, or bear; nor are entomologists entirely
agreed as to the function or the structure OF
the antenne. THIS interesting subject offers
most promising field for study, and would
particularly call the attention Of entomologists
20 :, a remarkable memoir by Hensen, on the au-
t.y ttilory organ in the decapod Crustacea Hensen
uAs SHOWN taat the Otolithes in the open auditory
- oi shrimps are foreign particles of sand,
~ I,HI'rodueed into the organ 6g he animal itself.
lI -ie proved TINS very ingeniously by placing a
~ ,ulp IN uttered water, without any sand, but
W %i'u crystals Of uric acid. Three hours after
'ne animal had moulted he found that the sacs
Sou'ltued many Of these crystals. NJ. Hensen
mas aiso shown that each hair in the auditory
sac Is susceptible Of being thrown into vibration
oy particular note. which is probably deter
mined by the length and thickness Of the hair
lt may be experimentally shown that certain
sounds throw particular hairs into rapid yibra-
ton, while those around them remain perfectly
sill ES
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W1sh Thee Well.

know but that your face is fair,
So fair, it well might task nv wit
To wit. the sweetness smiling there
In utterance meet and music ft.
Your heart, have DO share in It:
Your home, | am a stranger there;
Yet think not that care no whit
For one So gentle and so fair:
Cold were the heart that wished you less
Than smiling days and happiness.
Youth fills your girlish path with flowers.
May Age with blossoms strew your way
Love gilds, guess, your present hours;
May he forever with Won say;
Young sorrows lightly fleet away,
Your tears are yet but April showers;
May Ages griefs no longer stay
Nor darklier cloud your evening hours
Dear daughter, friend and girl and wife,
May Love home with you au your life.
Nhst more pen ean Wish you here
OF good may IT TO you be given
4 quiet mind, a faith sincere,
That makes this earth lowlier heaven:
And when your age shall sigh for heaven,
And find this life no longer dear,
May hope alone to you be given,
And death FOR you have not fear:
An angel here, your exile past.
Smiling. ragain your loWe e, H.
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Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe 10 an article
on " Tie Handy Man, in Hqr.i oel Home
says:
\ handy man is 50 practiced iu the regu-
lation of the little utilities of The house he
inhahijs. that by slight touch here and
there-a screw turned here auJ screw
loosened there, and nail driven ia time
be keeps all working smoothly, and ayerts
these domestic catastrophies ana break-downs
OF which PHHcA makes 50 much capital in bis
pictures.
The handy man knows how to use every
sort of tool that keeps his house in order.
They are neatly arranged, in his own uri-
yate drawer, sacred from the meddlng Of
children and the borrowing Of the careless
Is pane of glass shiycre1 on co.d day.
the unhandy man first stui- It with a bun
die, or pastes it over with newspaper. and
then rushes to a glazier's, who of course is
not at home, or who says he will come and
mend it Immediately, and doesn't come
meanwhile the wind blowing in gives the
h,hy the Group. and the mother p severe
cold.
The handy man, ON the contrary. has his
uldluuluf HIS lhtieuAAti- AuAt- MS putty All
10 readiness at q moments notice, ard the
replacing of the pane Of glass is an affair Of
a quarter of an hour, before he goes to his
Office or store.
There springs leak in the joint of hot
water pipe. The handy man has his solder
ing tools and kettle and it is stopped in a
moment, while the unhandy man is running
up town after a plumber
The handy man has no small bills to pay to
any kind oi mechanic, for he stops every
leak in Its commencement, and replaces
every screw the moment it Is loose.
\ piece Of veneering starts on the side
board door. The handy man has an invisible
brad of precisely the size to drive in this
place-it is done in moment. The IN
handy man sees the crack widening day by
day, in imbecile despair. Finally, the mold
ing falls off, and leaves long, unsightly
seam.
There is one loose screw in one of the
hinges of the wardrobe door-the door will
not shut, the difficulty increases day by day,
until the whole hinge is loose, and finally
the door, hanging by its whole weight on the
lower hinge, and assisted by the unskillful
hands OF green Erin, tears off altogethe-,
with such a wreck and crash as make It
necessary to send the wardrobe to the cabin
ct maker, or bring the eabinet-makcr TO the
wardrobe. What journeys and consultations
of the helpless, unhandy man
In like manner, there is leak somewhere
in the roof of the house. and every time that
1t rains, through the leak, in some mysteri
GUS manner, the water drops down through
the ceiling of the rooms. The unhandy
man is exhOrted by his wife that this ought
to be attended to. He promised to attend to
it and forgets it-he never thinks of it un-
til it begins to rain, and the water begins to
drop, and pals and tubs are in requisition
to catch the superAuous moisture. Then,
agonized and penitent, he flies to the house
carpenter, who promises to come, and for
gets it likewise; ana 50 on through success
i've showers and aoodingt, till finally there
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'aturaI Biography Of lnc Hum a-r.

Josh Billings gives us the following the
natural history Of this omnipresent insect:
The most vain and impudent bugg known
to naturalists (or emmy other private indiyid-
ual) Is the hum bugg.
1t has no very particular parentage nor
birth Place is born o good deal az tud stools
are, wherever they can find good soft spot
1t haz been sod by commentators that Sa-
tan himself ia the father Of hum bugrs-if
this IL iakt, he haz got more children than
be kan watch and some very fast yunc ones
amungst them.
The hum buggs don I generally live great
while at once, bat have the fakulty of dieinc
in one place and being suddenly born in an
other.
They are Nv awl genders, including the
masculine, feminine and nutral, and kan live
and grow phatt where an honest bugg would
starve to death begging.
The hum bugg will eat emmy thing that it
kan bite, and rather than lose good meal
will swaller thing whole.
Every one sez they dspize the hum bugg,
and yet everybody is anxious tew make It's
acquaintance.
They have the entra to all cirkles of socie-
ty without knocking, from the highest to the
lowest, and tho often kicked out, are wei
cumed again and iattered more than ever.
The hum bugg has more friends than he
knows what to do with, but he manages tew
give general satisiakshun by cheating the
whole Of them.
The bible sez the grasshopper IL bur-
den, and believe it-but think the hum
bugg is the heavyest bugg ov the two.
But the world kant well spare the hum
buggs; take them all out of the world, and
it would bother even an honest man tew get
a living, for there doesn't seem, Just now, to
be honesty enuff on hand to do our immense
dry goods Dizziness with.
Honesty IL undoubtedly the best policy for
a long run, but for a short race, hum bugg
haz made some excellent time.
have been bit bad by this bugg miself
several times, but not twice in the same spot
i follow the scriptures when am WHARF
the hum bugg is plenty, if one bites me on
the cheek turn the other cheek also, but
don't let him bite the other cheek also.
1hare amt emmy body, suppose, who ac-
ktually pines tew be bit by this celebrated
bugg, they only luv to see how near they
can cum tew it without missing.
Human natur IL chuck full Ov curiosity,
and curiosity IL jist what hum bugg makes
meny a warm meal oph of.
Sum ov theze bugs arc not so sharp bit
ten and prizen azen az others, but this IL
not go much owing tew their disposishun az
it IL tew their natur; they all ov them bite
the full length ov their teeth. .
If there IL ennybody who hain't never
been bit of a hum bugg yet, he must be
somebody who has always staid at home
with his uncle, and lived on bread and milk,
or was born numb all the way through, and
couldn't find any kind of'a bite.
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NUMBER 9.

woman standing by ran home. and said to her
husband, Is Hurry up with me, sam. here is a
htty dollar j1b for you" and the two were soon
at the well sam looked a little discouraged
when the case WAS stated to him, whereupOn his
wife said, " VIII you give me the fifty dollars if
Sam IS killed in trying to get the white man
out p g We will" was the ready response
" Well, Sam, sad his wife, So now 90 in, for
blood will tell" He did 20 in, re eased his white
brother. brought him safely out, and got fifty
dollars for the job.-P0st.
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The bolt has fallen we dii dread.
Mousuers have followed home their deli
The grave received i's prey.
Slowly the sadieued crowd Isperse.
Ready returns the empty her-a.
The mausuers 60 tier way.
The sexton ills the uer-maie grave
Al then the sombre cbui,h-,ar. leave.
The wild WINS, chanting, play.
To-morrow's sun viii iry tae 7llu
We shall forget the funeral train.
The h.ios form Of clay.
Our footprints nay "a passing shower
Wash lightly ga. wi-h.u au hour.
Or on the coming day
The busy world will trend them oat
As rings the air with tu.t.ir- .B48t.
The living here bear ,wlv
The dead are re,e NTH, .t,, ,.,t
We Mace tbe.T ss.r rbq- -, t.rs -o,,,
IT, act ON trsy.. NAV
Tho .,rss. yrir, ..-.-- ..t.-,....r...7..r
Tho fris,f. ,,;i7 ,,i,.. ,1s 80 ,i..' .r...i.
Tho world ,gi..rI ,.- ,ts 1..,.
With c,rels.. les. We ber..,.,,.i .....
For life is life 10 Nd. sl-1.u,b
We feel A .borr Ii.~,v
But long the wind 'ts Urge sha.. wall,
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srlrtt S1listrllanp.
On the score.

" Going away" l think you said
With never 4 word for me;
Going away and | turn my head
In vain. for the sun IN the west IS dead
All dead on the darkling sea.
Why did he leave like this God knows;
Weary, think, Of his love;
lie left me a kiss and new-plucked rose,
And for the flncy's sake, | suppose
Gave him my violet glove.
The ships sail over the seas, I know,
Too far for q maiden's sight
The ships sail on, the strong winds blow,
And some to the lands Of the Orient 20,
And-some to the stsrless night,
look, and over the waves afsr
The white sails flicker and CLEAN.
And the ship rides gany over the bar;
Bat the night is black with never a star.
And my heart is sad with It's dream.
Only the dim Of the seas far strand.
Only the dark | see;
For be left me here by the troiden sand,
With only a rose in my little hand,
And never a word for me-
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If should hear man brag that one ov
these bugs couldn't bite, should set him
down at once for a man who wasn't good
Judge Nv the truth. The bite of hum bugg
Il wuss than hornets, and always different
from dogs, for the dog growls, and then
bites, but the hum bugg bites, and let's you
do the growing artewords.
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VALUE OF Protective LAws-The value Of
weli-enforced law for the protection of fish has
been well tested within few years past n the
neighboring Dominion. There are no finer sal
mon rivers in the world than those tributary to
the St Lawrence below Quebec Nevertheless,
twenty years ago. several ofthe most productive Of
these rivers became almost destitute Of fish part
ly from the reckless and idiotic way in which fish
were destroyed At improper seasons, partly from
the establishment Of saw-mills and factories Of
various kinds. the debris from which disgust
ed and repelled the fish, and the dams Of which
were so built as to prevent salmon from ascend
ing the river to spawn. Within few years
past the Legislature of Canada has passed strin-
gent laws for the regulation Of all this and these
laws have been rigidly enforced under the su
pervision Of competent inspectors. Rivers that
had for years been better stocked with sawlust
than with salmon, have been restored to their
productiveness of fish. Last summer the sport
enjoyed by rod-hshers was excellent, and we
shall. doubtless, soon have good accounts from
the sportsmen who are now fishing these " heart
breaking rivers"
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BLOOD WILL TELL-An article on BLOOD s"
in one of the journals reminds us Of an incident
which occurred in Dresden, Ohio, last fall.
Some white men we're at work sinking well,
when large stone fell and caught two of the
men in the wall One of them succeeded in
getting out, but the other was fast, and his fel-
low-workmen were afraid to 20 down after him.
Fifty dollars were offered as a reward to any one
who would 20 down and help him out. negro
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4 Merchants Sermon.

Merchants Sermon.
NJ
PCAo III louc, Ia'' IicI IicI,
''-',' DieU oi s'otAs ana Iuhus' VIII
- u.'- o- g'Hl ounl interest ana strong
NJ ,i '-ie most intense IesPectaoiiI'y-
ny Te"r sir' you preached ina; sermon
-. 3; ilJ nr .i! YloA i' % myself. IN ID 'ne na
ol1 OF 'aEiig thlns7 To myself Ano" yoI
were 'lIlAinS Oh me. occupying my Il'I
''n' t Impossible you sholld h'' "e-
4ue",tg '7 e3i'7l'a4iAs ny oe'''Al -. Z
N'"' "Aeh yoa iIe1,n In 80 . 7, ,
say % myself " -s''il1l' IA H.. ,on,
Ahoug4lLe-sne5s' ou ''' Al. - In
er' ou. l - y'- ~. -. -
But "nen il ~ IN c..,,iI. a, -
"HgH .-- ~, .,- ,, r,,-selc -,
IT,. H. ,...'' ,,,,,,,i-,,, .,Tl.,+,s -,
- W., ;,r5,-.rs-,J5 - hol5, -
- - L,i5.
NJ P.,l9- s.-5 -,-,,t5,.-. t...+ ,,-,-,. t....,.
and .at 51,rr f., Trcrar .c--oo, l ~ ~
>1n5av
When he roBp+ei tbe rulrit and tbo tov+
was given out. it was found thar the subject
be had chosen was b.. Frotjsm.-
Now. lam hauuv in knowing that | am
ult bound To give .hc text Of this sermon.
because I freely comics. I couldn't do If 3.
tut that Mr.. Butler did find in some nor
tiou of the Iolv Scripture a counteDauee to
bis discourse. and indeed there is one hid
den In every race. is certain. otherwise. as
cveryb1dy Knows. tbeserpon copld not have
been urescbed
. There Mary - said be- 90 his wife. as
Dc ftr., himself hack in his armchair af-
fer ..rgi.s. e. hone Mr.. Wiseman will take
tla+t1 himself For once in INV life have
done what he mncics / do regularly. For
guce IN NV life have thought of him. and
rreacheI against him alone. with a view To
fl one else in tire crmrch-speciallv. mean
rau know
.- DC would fea sad modification Il be knew
tat. -lil she
. SO, don't know tlat at all. lie is 80
eaten uu with eyYti-m. that really believe
d.. would be more aattcred he yuessed that
I.hal composed and delivered long dis
course fur his sole benefit than yexed al the
-ea-.u If it."
This bee -aid. not the least intending to
.e.l him, You understand.
Next day the merchant and clorgvmen
met.
Come along with me, cried Wiseman,
-. it's the shortest cut the way YOU re e5iar.
All. Mr. Butler (uckng his arm inside
his clmuau.un'-). e. v9u forgot all about me
,'l.+.-''l,. ,,',-,,ir1-
This was view OF tie s.liset Nr. Butler
ms no+ r~sr,reI c,r r,r-.natelv a i,ng
Iire 5r .l.ad cart. ,.s-sipo with -5saicrinS7
-.5s. AM. i.i,r -..ie n, -b;rl, Loc,rs We
.Ir;81
:, I.au.. rs-os,,I.ar all ms s,,Is g. bo
as ragueiy
All d,rsssv Some or tbor, orita
--.lr r,o SIN ra, ,.9..s4 me Inv q.
=. H. ir3oeJ -, t,,., .i,-.,,,,,,., ,,,,.
.arras-ed
.. Y,g did. noticed IT, And VET mu-t
s,vI 5iI ri.ipl. WINS entitIcJ r, .,,na M
ANITA es from yo,r r,inisrrv am a ,0r-
..srt ar-ar3er End 7-.Iry :, i-,rt scst fe-
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VALUE OF VINE LEAyEs.-A correspondent
of the Philosophical Mqga-ine says:
From experiments which have made. |
find, that on being dried, which should be
done in the shade, and infused ia a tea pot.
the leaves Of the vine make an excellent
substitute for tea have also found that
On being cut small. bruised, and put into
"a vat OF mashiug tub, and boiling water
poured On them, in the same way as is done
with malt, prunings Of the vine produce
liquor of fine yinaus quality, which, on
being lermented, makes a very fine bcver-
age, either strong or weak as YOU please
and on being distilled produces an excellent
spirit Of the n1ure of brandy In the
course of my experience | found that the
iermented liquor from the prunincs, r4rtic-
ularly the teudrils, when allowed 90 pass the
yinous and TO run into the acetous lermen-
ation makes uncJmm0Hly fine vinegar.
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ton, we had the opportunity to see beds OF
the Mexican everbearing strawberry. There
were probably two acres of them in full bear
ing, and we regarded it as one of the pref
tiest sights we ever saw. Ii is clearly an
Alpine variety of FraQdria Vesca, and the
botanist who has made it a new species, is
undoubtedly in fault and vet he may be
pardoned, for though an Alpine, it is lust as
I much superior to the Alpines common in
! cultivation, as the Jucunda or Wilson's Al
bany are superior to the little trash of former
days. The fruit was not as large as the finest
Albany but fully equal in size to mueb of
the ALBANY crop sold in the market. Then
as the amount of crop the usual varieties
of Alpine are vcyv Door bearers but so
great was the proflsi0n here, that from an
estimate we made. we should not be afraid
to guarantee f,ro hundred bushels to the acre
during the whole season: a half bushel could
easily be gathered from square yards. max
ing about 10 bushels per acre at a single
picking. This variety is readily distinguished
from other Alpines grown. bv its greater
tendency to produce blossoms, We have
seen Alpines bear a few flowers occasionally
from the runners. but this one Leans nro-
flsely from the runners as thew grow. An
The New York herald., 1869-10-12
EUROPEAN MARKETS.

LONDON MONEY MARKEr.-LoSDos. Oct. 11-t:so
p. M.-Consos closed at 93h -for money, and s3ss .
eSn for the account. United States Iye-twenty
bonds, 1882, s44; 1885, old, SAY; 1857, s2's; ten
fOrtes 76A. Erie Railway shares. 23H.
LoNDoN, Oct. lis p. M.-5 p. n. Atlantic and
Great western. 26h.
FRANKFORT BoURSR.-FRAHKFoRT,O Oct ll.-Unlte0.
States 1ve-twenty bonds are firm at oIA.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.-LIyERPooL- OCT.
l1-430 r. M.-The market opened quiet, but closed
irregular at 12Ad. a IL I'd for middling uplands.
and l2Iad. 12ssd. for midding Orleans. The sales
at the opening were estimated at 1000 bales. but
the closing sales have not yet been given.
LIVERPOOL. Oct. H. r. M.--rhe cotton sales to-
DAY have been 10, 900 bales including 1000 which
were taken for export and speculation.
HAvRE COTTON MARKET.-HAvRE Oct 1l.-Cotton.
closed frm; low middng aioat, 1891. per cwt.
LIVERPOOL BREADSTuFFs MARKET.-LIvERPo0L.
Oct ll-No. red Western wheat, 9s. Id per Genital.
LIVERPOOL PROVISIONS MARKEr.-LIvERP0OL.
Oct 1l-Beef, SOS. per tierce OF 3oi lbs for extra
prime mess.
LIVERPOOL PRODUCE MARKET.-LrvERPooL, Oct.
u.-Spirts OF petroleum, 9hd. per gallon.
LONDON PRODUCE MAREET.-LoSDoN Oct. Is
p. M.-Linseed OIL f29 per ton; No. Il Dutch STAN
dard sugar, anoal, 2Ss. 9d. per cwt.