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NUMBER 8.

Thanksgiving he ran away from home.
He didn't go TO sea, because the ses
was too far OF. and he couldn't make
much of voyage IN a week anyhow,
He got a Job IN = lanyard, grinding
bark, which answered ail the purposes,
for he coald imegine his g bark was on
the sea-" as he fade the old horse
around the circle. He called the mill
the world, and imagined himself sailing
around the world ct every revolution.
With a beating heart he approached
the paiernal mansion He locked in at
the window and saw the folks Just sit
ting down to the Thanksgiving supper.
A chill OF disappointment crept over
him as be saw there was no vacant chair
and there wasn't an Idle plate on the
table. He listened at the door as the
blessing was asked, but although several
prophets were h0nored with fietterinz
notice, his name wasn't mentioned.
This was little hard on the boz Who
had ran away from home and WIS liable
TO turn mp on that or any succeeding
Tbankselving day.
Recolleetions OF him didn't seem TO
cluster around the henrthstone to any
very great extent.
Repressing G chilling foreboding that
arose IN his breast. he flUng open the
door, rushed into their midst and ex-
claimed-'' Gather I mother 'tis I.
Sammy Crabapple home again homel
home I" and then threw himself on his
fathers breast, sobbing eonvulsiyelY.
What did that father do Did he hug
him and sob tears over him, and call
him his long I" lost bo-bo-boy p Not
much. He took him by the collar, led
him into the wood shed and worked
over him more thai an hour with bar
Fel.stave, his brothers and sisters dane
ing around on the back stoop ia an
ecstsoy of delight, while his mother
screamed, sThst's tight, Ambus give
it TO him Learn him bstter'n to ran
away from home again I"
Then he was sent to bed without any
Thanksgiving supper at all, and threat
ened with being deprived of both Christ
mas and New Years dinners.
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Little Gertie.


Gertie Mayhem wound her golden
curls in massive coil around her
shspely little head, fastened the dainty
ruf1e at her throat with a rose coral
pin, hung the drops iii her delicate
ears, and threw herself into q sleepy
hollow chair to think.
So absorbed was she IL her medita-
ticns that the dinner-bell sounde d twice
ere she needed it, and when at last she
rose wesrily from her seat, the blue
eyes were brimmiDg with tears, and the
rosy mouth was quivering. =
Twelve years before, when John
ROCKFORD stood by the bedside of his
only sister, and received from her .dy-
ing lips the charge to be kind to her
little girl for her sake, If for nothing
else, tears stood in the strong mans
eyes, and his lips tTembled as he prom
ised to be father to the little Gertie,
who looked on with wide-open blue
eyes, too young to understand what it
meant. and only wondering why man.
ma didn't get we'll"
So Uncle John took her away from
the pretty village where she had always
lived to his own grand home in London,
and stately Aunt Irene kissed her and
bade her welcome.
3D. GIuaHJ5 blGH uGduL 10 Db KIM 10
her; but Mr.. Rocheford was wholly alb
sorbed in his business, and his wife
was a fashionable woman of the world,
indulging her own childien, Irene and
Bell, in every whin.
And so Gertie was stranger and IN
loved, with the sole exception of Lloyd
Preston, her uncle's ward, who, from
the time he frat saw the beautiful
child, constituted himself her protector.
But, two years later, he was sent TO
one of the far-famed German univer-
stiles. And during the long ten years
of his absence Gertie was lonely indeed.
Now, after this long absence, he was
home again and it was no wonder that
our little Gertie trembled as she de-
seended the stately staircase, and en-
tered the brilliantly lighted dining
room, where the family had alreaoy
assembled.
It is a week later Christmas Eve
and Lloyd Preston entered the bril-
liantly lighted drawing room.
" Where is Gertie ?" he asked.
s. Gertie ?" said Belle. "Moping, 1
suppose. She always is.
g Will you please bring me a book
you'll find on the library-table, Lloyd -
asked Irene.
Ard SO entering the dimly-lighted
| library, he found a very disconsolate
little girl sitting in the corner.
[" "Gertie r he exclaimed, ''why aren't
| you with the girls %
A half lf-suppressed sob was her only
answer.
g Little one, come to me only give
me your love, and tomorrow will be 8
| blessed Christmas. 4"
All there was no mistakiDg the looh
in the brown eyes then, aid In the din
light a little white hand was slipped
into his, and they only knew that they
were very happy.
Irene opened the door.
Can't you find"
| And then she paused, for she real
their secret in the happy faces befor
her.
"Look, girls, here is a pretty tab
leau 70
Yes," said Lloyd. proudly drawiDl
Gertie's hand within his arm, '' Mis-
Mayhem has promised to be my wife.
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Fashion in New York.

Despite all the croaking about hard
times, says a correspondent, New York
is very gorgeous this winter. The
turnouts on the avenue and in the park
are as brilliant as ever, and even more
so. Sales of extravagantly costly furni-
ture are as frequent as ever, and the
great jewellers and expensive dress peo-
pie are doing more than their usual
business. The fact is, the gociety
woman in New York refuses to recog-
nize the existence of hard times. She
considers it the duty of the man who
undertakes the contract of supporting
her to furnish her with what she wants
Just as freely one year as another. If
the poor fellow pleads embarrassment
and bad business. she answers, "What
is that to me? I know nothing about
your horrid stocks. I do know that
want that diamond necklace, and viii
have it" And she generally gets it,
for several reasons. A man always
stands IN awe of very handsome and
very fashionable woman, and besides a
great many New Workers have discov-
cred hat 1t is very good thing to have
$50 900 or 100000 diamonds an
such things, which belong to his wife,
to fall back upon. This is the secret of
very much of the extravaganza that is
seen in the public places of the city.
The poor feel the hard times, and those
supposed to be rich may also, but the
| latter don't show it if they do. The
| theatres are filed nightly; the parties
were never more brilliant or expensive.
| OF course smashes without number will
occur bat they are having a good time
while they can. This is the very center
/ of Vanity Fair.
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A Generation of Viperp.

j" What No scandal about our good Queen
Elizabeth horef'- Told Plsy.
Every age has its vices, but ours has
more than its share. Il has all of its
own and nearly all of those ages that
have preceded it. One of the worst Of
these is the fundness for gossip and
scandal--a fOndness which is being
illustrated, we are sorry to say, 10 our
own city, and at this moment Is almost
assuming the form OF IN epidemic.
Neither court nor cottage can escape the
viper calumuy. Tt creeps in the palaces
of the kings, finds access to the hum
bic home of the peasant f; and often
nesiies its Shiny head IN the bosom of
Innocence and love. But few months
ago there was an indecent and cruel
story going the rounds of the American
papsTs, and reproduced In certain dis
reputable sheets of England, seriously
affecting the honor of the Duchess of
Edinburgh. The duchess had only
been married some six months, and one
newspaper said that an event OF some
interest to the royal couple was imme-
distely anticipated, which should have
followed more slowly and decorously,
in the ordinary course of nature and
another quoted with malicious zest the
words of Horatio TO Hamlet:
Indeed, my Lord, it followed hard upon.
The story was false, as subsequent
events proved, and yet, a scandal-loving
society had swallowed the entire calum.
ny without the preliminary preparation
Of greasing. There have also been
other scandals circulated, the victims
being in our own country aud selected
from some of the highest and most re.
spectacle walks of life. There are some
of the grossest in our own city.
We sadly need reform in this respect;
for the evil has gone TO an extreme OF
persecution and prescription which
rivals the atrocities of any other social
inquisition known to history. The
murder of a reputation Is worse than
the taking of life for what has a young
girl to hope for or live for when heI
character is stabbed at every turn by
subtle and invisible shafts cuDningly
fixed in her pathway and glimmering
with poison It is not necessary 10 say
this or that is so. There is language
known to the initiated scandal-mongel
which is far more fatal because less re.
sponsible, and because it affords the
broadest area for the play of the imaRi
nation of the malicious and evil-minded
Swift satirized the class with deserved
severity, saying, in one OF his bitter
epigrams, that they could
- read nod, shrug, look,
Far better than printed book;
Convey q libel in a frOwn,
And wink reputation down;
Or, by the tossing of a fan,
Describe the lady and the man
And another poet, who suffered by
the same brood of revilers, tells how
some hope things might rot turn out 81
they fear how some swear they car
not believe the half of what they hear
how some look perplexed, while other
look profound, and others pity viii
! sincere regret. It is this mendaeity o
hiuts that leaves the most ranking ant
\ incUrable wounds. Louisville COiLrie
/ Tq9fTanI
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Loss of Memory.

The loss of memory during illness or
from some sudden shock has, no doubt,
been observed by every one; but some
curious phases of it not generally known
can be found in the books and journals
of physicians. A Scotch Highland wo-
man, long accustomed to use English
language, was placed under the care of
DIR. Macintosh at Edinburgh, during
an attack of apoplexy. She so far re-
covered as to look around her with an
appearance of intelliPe but the doc
tor could not make her understand a
word he said. At last it occurred to
him to have one of the attendants speak
to her in Gaelic, her long-unused native
tongue and to that she Immediately
and readily responded. When she re-
covered her health more perfectly, her
English came back to her. DR.. Rush
mentions the case of an Italian gentle
man, who died of yellow fever in New
York, and who underwent, during the
malady, a series of mental changes.
During the first part of his illness he
spoke English, which had for some time
been his familiar language in that coun-
try during the middle period English
was driven from his mind by French,
which he had learned earlier and on
the day of his death he spoke only his
native Italian. Abernethy, the great
surgeon, told similar story of a man
whom he attended, who was born in
France, but had spent the greater part
of his life in England, and had for many
years lost the habit of speaking French.
| An injury to his head brought him un-
der the care OF Abernethy, who OBJ
| served that during his illness the man
spoke only French, going back to his
| English as he recovered. We all know
how, to the very old and the dying, the
/ language of their childhood comes again
and the old scenes rise before the dying
eyes like pictures, 50 that from the re
covery of childish peace they go Ou
across the tide to the unknown, new life
beyond.
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Eads eight million dollars for construct
ing the works and obtaining the depth
of thirty feet in said channel, and the
annual eum of one hundred and thirty
thousand dollars for each and every
year that said depth of thirty feet shah
be maintained by the ietties sfld auxil-
iary works aforesaid in southwest pass
during twenty years after securing the
said depth, An amendment was added
to insure the permanency and durabil-
ity of the work. It directs the secre-
tary of war, if Eads is not permanently
constructing the jetties, to report the
facts to congress for action.
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A GREAT IoE SLDE.-A correspond
ent of the Scientific American, who re
sides IN Norway, states that, in the
eastern part of the country, laige guam
titles of ice are gathered and stored IN
the ordinary manner during winter, for
shipment abroad. Last summer a com
pany tried to make the vast glaciers
near Bergen supply the ice I; to that ef-
feet a shoot made of spars was built,
starting at an altitude of 1920 feet,
running down the ford, the whole
length being 5000 feet: the incline
varies from In to ! In feet. At the
lower end, the. shoot runs level for a
short distance and terminates in a shed,
at which the vessels are loaded. The
blocks of ice make the run IN minutes,
although the speed is checked at several
places. The average velocity Of the
ice blocks is "a miles an hour. The ice
is of fine quality. and the supply is,
of course, next to inexhaustible.
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A CHARMING WOMAN.

a charming woman, I've heard It said
By other women as light az she;
But az IN vain puzzled my head
To una wherein the charm may be.
lifir face, indeed. 81 pretty enough,
Aud her fofrn n quite as good as the best
where nature has given the bony stuff
And clever mtliner all the rest
Autelhgentr Yes-in a certain WY
with the feminine gift of ready sp5ech,
Ana knows very well what nor to say
whenever the thcnIo transcends her reach.
Snt turn the toFio Cn things 10 wear,
IRON An or sra cloak to a robe de nuif-
-, - uos or bonnets-'tStu make you are
70 80 how fluent the lady can be.
ne, laugh is hardly a thing to please;
For an honest laugh must always start
From Rleesome mood, like a sudden breeze
Aud hers j. purey matter of art
muscular form made TO show
What nature designed t. lie beneath
The inner mouth but what oan she do,
II that Is ruined 10 show the teeth2
10 her seat in church, good half u,tia-
Nhen tne Day is hne she Is sure to 20
Arraye4, 81 course. in the htest style
La mode he Pans has got 20 show,
Ane sae puts her hands on the velvet pew
A9an hands - white have a taint of sin D
And thinks-how her prayer-bOokB tint of blue
Must hsrmonize with her milky skin
Ah what shall we say Of one who walks
In helda OF flowers to choose the weeds?
ASeads authors OF whom she never talks,
m ana talks OF authors she never reads3
she's charming woman, I've heard It said
By other women as light as she;
but All IL vain puzzle my head
10 Dnd wherein the charm may be.
John G. Iydre.
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In a GondOIa.


Susan Coolridge writes Would
you know how gondolas are ordered
IN Venice You step out on the baleO-
ny and call 'Giscomo 7 Instantly from
below comes the response, At your
service, Signora 2 and the gondola,
your little private carriage, shoots to
the door. We are fond of our Giacomo,
who was stout, handsome fellow, with
face and arms dyed by the sun to a
beautiful umber brown. He affected
bright colors, and his orange and red
awning, his yellow shirt and scarlet
sash, made, when taken in connection
with his brown face, a vivid bit of
moving color which was Joy to see.
This evening, my evening, We were
without awning, and was glad Of my
parasol as We shot into the Grand
Canal, which was all a dazzle of gold
and red from the sun, as yet a good
way above the horizon. Where will you
go, Signora?' To the sunset, Giocomo.
/ Go to the other side of the Giudecca,
and I'll choose a place. Another
second and we were gliding towards
! the Giudeeca, which is the widest OF sll
| the Venetian canals. The motion of a
| the world. Smooth, swift, effortless,
without jar or culver, without apparent
motive power (fOr the oarsman is be
hind and out of vie y, it is a very bliss
of movement like q birds fight, like q
i darting fish, or, better still, like pro-
gress by volitiOn, turning, swerving 70
right, to left.by the power of thought,
Giacomo has poetry in his nature. BE
rowed softly, and did not speak to break
/ the spell of silence as we moved on
Leaning over the side of the gOndola
could see the swaying figure reflected
in the blue canal, a distinct red and
| yellow shadow. On the other hand was
! the SUP, ball Of fiery gold floating il
/ an intense pink sky. The light was toe
vivid ] could not look, and closed my
eyes, but still the color pursued me and
danced in almost painful briilianey uPoT
/ nv hrain .
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An Iowa lady concludes an anti-suf-
frage lecture as follows You may
look Rt this matter in whatever light
You like, but simmer it down and 1t Is
but a quarrel with the Almighty thst
we are not all men"
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saw himself the victim of his ambition
to possess a fine horse, which ultimately
cast him his life upon the scafold, may
be easily conceived.
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JoLLIBoY-'' say, waiter, which did
YOU put in first, the water or the spir-
its ?" Waiter" Whisky. sir and you
told me to fill it up" JollibOy-"Ob,
that's all right haven't eome to the
whisky yet.
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SIBERIAN ExILEs.-BetUeen May and
October, 1874, there we're baDished to
Siberia, 16, $50 persons. OF these un-
fortunates, 1920. being criminals Of the
worst description, we're sentenced to
hard labor, and ], ,624 had been expelled
from their communities as obnoxious,
drunken, or bnFdensome. These exiles
were voluntarily accompanied by 1. .0S0
women and children over 10 years Of
age, with ,269 younger children. Ten
wears ago the number of criminals ex-
lied to Siberia in a twelve-nonth was
ten times greater than the above total,
which shows either diminution Of
crime or merciful mitigation Of pun
ishment.
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A GIRL was smothered to death while
on sleigh ride near Bangor, Me-, on
one of the recent intensely cold nights
A party of young people were out on a
frolic, filling a long sleigh. This glrI
grew very cold, and to keep her WtrI
her sweetheart wrapped her closely In a
huge blanket. covering her head and
face. Too drowsy and benumbed to
stir. she suffocated without her com
panions being aware that she was dying.
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IDLlNEss is the dead sea that svai-
lows up all virtues, and the made
sepulchre of a living man. The lo Ie
man is the devils urchin, whose livery
is rags, and whose diet and wages are
famine and disease.
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A KANSAS hypOchondriac, meditatIng
upon the death of dog-fancier IN MS
neighborbood, gives vent to the mourn
full thought "Our great men are Pc
teIinR out sort o. rapid like these times
Whisky kills most of 'em some tum-
bile overheard, and 'casionally one gets
hung"
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FHE Shakers are not msking much
headway In Paris. 1t is said that 55, 0GO
babies sIe born there every yesr,
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SAVINGS AND DoINGs.

IlrrrEK RAS-TAe.-
A ourIy. bright head, and perched upon It
Little Rae-tag Of brown un-bonnets
A pair OF old shoes forever knitted,
whose seies have holes whose toes grin vide.
Come sIil1 or come shade, come shine or come
rain.
To littie Rar-sar it's ever the same;
with su air OF the most supreme content,
She paddles and plays till the day Il spent
YVhv people complain she nsver can ees,
When God is as good IS ever can be
She talks to herself and laughs. ard sings
About the world and iss beautiful ihingss
But though tie IA good to all OF the rest
she is verr sure that hs loves her best
or hov- much better This world would Wag
II We All had hearts ike little Rag-tagi
-Christimi Union.
The daily gazette., 1875-11-30

How TIE DAYS GoT THEIR
NAMEs,-He Professor Proctorl
first showed how the hours and days
came to be regarded as each ruled
over by particular planet Divid-
ing the day into twenty four hours
and regarding these as ruled over
in succession by the planets II lhe
order of their distances according
to the old system)-vis: Saturn,
Jnpiter, Mars, the Sun, Venus,
Mercury, and the Moon, Ii will he
found that if the first hour of one
day be ruled by the Sun, the first
hour of the next will he ruled by
the Moon, the first hour of the next
by Mars, of the next by Mercury,
the next by Jupiter, then Venus,
and of the next by Saturn, and SO
to the Sun again. Hence the order
of the seven days ; the Suns day,
the Moons day, Mars day (in
French, MardG, Mercury's day
(MercredO, Jovc's day (Jsueli}.
Venus day (Vendredll, and Sat
urn's day, saturday, or the Sabbath
of the Jews, a day of rest with the
Egyptians, because an unlucky day
for any sort of work, as ruled over
by the mslefc planet Saturn. =
Professor II. Il. Procior-Lecfure
IN New York Irf6un}.
The daily gazette., 1875-11-30

TIE treasure that Captain Kidd,
rs he sailed, accumulated and bur
led are now being sought, on the
farm of William II, Seaman, on the
west side of the harbor of Amherst,
y. S, by an elderly gentleman from
Horton, who has employed three
laborers, and is Systematically dig
ging over the whole beach. He had
been induced to undertake his task
by an old French sailor who was
ship-wrecked in the Gut of Canso
many years ago, and stated that a
large sum of money had been buried
near Amherst, in a locality that he
described circumstantially, and
which has been perfectly identi-
fed.
The daily gazette., 1875-11-30
Rover's Hoof Lin1men'

After so years OF practical experlenooo, learn.
horses, in staging, teaming, &c, lhai,'o,ed By
ed that more horses have been crip5Pe 5Pseases
inattention TO the feet than all othet oth.a I have
comblned. After man sexperlm1lselmTs0 the dp,
found he true remedy TO PREnENd ,,;Sence TT :,
ease the hoof, or restore 1t after hde be--,As
TO WI AT nature intended 1t sh9u,th tho boot
cy2at support oCthe noble animal. II sno nomnsrsl
inilamed and diseased, the animal Is M 91r rsrrelT
lively worthless. This Liniment wi WI, traciior
prepent this worst of all diseases, n,, ri TIE
Corns, Quarter, C-acks, Contracllons ondo snrrnA
Rack Sirew generally called hneo c-,pnltt
Nc. and restore those that have peeh
nv the want of such remedy. Il r-ope..7
sTry 1t, and 1t Will never iAil Il
Bathe the horses foot once week,. ,.or oI SsI
o- II necessary, at the heel ana HVs'
orouni The hoof close TO the half'
rorristown, "a d.
D.. MIR. NJ, c. BoYER-DedT SiT; inns a,t in u"
t,iv that have used your l4inlmen. n-s - thsa
stshIe Tor three months past, on m3a hast pre-
one hundred horses, and hnd II .ns Il i5t
naration have ever used on horseS, e.d me ly8
better than you recommend IL ScnN
csses at once, by express, Y. ~ u; TON.
No. 1s2 West Slst street New io'A
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Palnts. white lead, red ca d white zinc, IRON
pa,.t, lubricating oils, linseed oil, sperm oil,
lard oil, meats foot oil, coal oil. Tifaen Nep-
hew's varnishee, English Yarnishes, aicohoi'
turpentine paint mills, paints ready mixed,
artists materials, wax flower materials, dc.
calcomania pictures, all kinds Of foreign and
domestic glass, stained, otnamental ana eni
grayet; coach painters material, stencil col:
ors, ladders OF different lengths, ready glazed
sash, gold Leaf bronzcs, vermilhons, looking
glass plate,
NOS. L AID EAST THIRD STREET.
WILMINGTON, DEL.
y. Il. Particular attention paid so HOUSE
hED SHIP PAINTING, SIGN WRITING,
FPC. apl-