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glass and silver, and another following
on behind carrying my travelling -bas
and parasol while an elegant French
man, curIed and perfumed, stood in the
middle of the door bowing as if ht
were under eternal obligations to mt
for so much as coming In his establish
ment.
sat down, feeling much as if I were
an imposter, venturing meekly to lool
around little after the waiter had sim
mered away.
Then, for the first time, 1 noticed G
supsrbly- dressed young lady one or two
tables beyond, in a lovely hat. with Q
long, lilac willow plume, and hair like
a shower of gold.
sob, how pretty she is" thought [.
Chow proud her lover must be of
her."
I leaned the least bit in the world
forward, to see the young man in ques-
ton.
Good heaven!
| 1t was Clarence.
And as sat staring, completely con-
ceal0d from his view by the golden hair
and the lilac willow plume, | could hear
his light, peculiar laugh.
You wouldn't have me yourself,
Kate" said he =; "yor have only your
self to blame for it. -
"That's no reason you should throw
yourself away" pOuted the lady.
"She's desperate old maid" said
Clarence, "as old as the hills and twice
as antiq uated. But she's got the money.
A man IN my position has got to lcok
out for your money, you know, Kate.
WOuld you like to see her photograph ?"
"And then the two heads were close
together for an instant, and the young
lady's ripping laugh mingled with
Clarence's mellOwer tones.
"The idea of carrying such q thing
next to your heart '' said she.
"It does seem rather outrageous,
don't it ? said he. "But when we are
married all that sort of thing will be
over. Til sea that she finds her level"
Yes, when thought |, now thorough
ly disenchanted.
And I got up and hurried out OF the
restaurant, nearly stumbling over a
tray, dish of oysters and a cup of
coffee.
Give changed my mind" said I,
fiiDging a sovereign toward him. "Never
mind those oysters"
l took the next train to C, and
wrote a scratching note to Clarence the
same evening.
Do you want to know what was in it ?
OF course, like all women's letters,
the best part of it was in the postscript:
"Oar engagement is at an end.
II. H."
"P. S.-The next time you examine
ladies' photographs in a crowded res
taurant, it might be well to examine
your neighbors."
Clarence had some sense after all.
He never came near me with useless
apologies.
1 gave the wedding dress to little
Dorothy Miller, who was to be married
in October, and couldn't afford a trous-
seau.
[ suppose [ shall wear out the blue
and the peach color and the maroon in
time.
Oh, forgot to say that Mrs. Rich
ford was very angry.
It seemed that Clarence had prom
ised to pay her hundred pounds that
he had borrowed of her when he got
hold of my money.
And I am thankful from the bottom
of my heart that still remain Hattie
Hyde.
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Going to the Dentist

| I like to come across a man with. the
toothach6 There's something so pleas
ant about advising hlr to stud cotton
iu it, to use camphor, creosott, AaftHeri
miut, and "rellef, that l always feel
better aftcr giving i.
haze teeu thsre-bad an aching
snag, and I know Just ho1 it feels. 1t
used 20 wake me up at flight end make
| me mad at noon, and set me TO swear
| ing early in the morning.
| / didn't meet man or woman but what
they advised me. One said that hot
| knitting needle pnshed down on the
root was excellent another said that
opium was an excellent thing; and
Others SAID that it must be aug out Oy
the dentist
HIsat down to dinner that old tooth
began to growl. If L went to pea, or
got up, or went to a party, or stayed at
home, it growIed just the same.
1t wasn't always groWI. Sometimes
| it was jump that made my hair stand
up, and again sort of cutting pain that
made me make up faces at the baby,
slam doors and break windows. L ate
| cotton, peppermint, camphor and opium
until / got black in the face, and that
old song kept right on. put bags OF
hot ashes to my cheek, applied must
ard, held my head in the oven, took
sweat, and the ache still ached,
After the third week nelgh0orS didn't
desire to let their boys pass my house,
and hawkers and book canvassers went
round another street. ] was becoming
a menagerie, and at last [ decided to
have my tooth out. | decided to, and
then | decided not tC. / changed my
mind four times III one afternoon, aud
at last | went.
The dentist was glad to see me. He
said that if he conld not take the tooth
out without hurting me he would give
me a million.
It got easier as he talked, and con-
cluded not to have it pulled. l started
down stairs, but Jump caught me, and
[ rushed back. He said he would look
at it perhaps it did not need pulling
at all, but he could kill the nerve.
By dint of fattery he got me in the
chair. Then he softly inserted knife
ald cut away the gums. ] looked up
and said | would kill him, but he beg
ged me not to-said the cutti g was all
the pain there was in it. He finally got
me to lie back and open my mouth, and
then he slipped in his torceps, ana closed
them round the tooth.
Observation-Disclosures T. | cried.
But he dind't pay any attention to 1t.
He drew in full breath, grasped the
forceps tightly, and then he pulled.
Great spoons but didn't it seems as
if my head was going tried to shout,
grssped at him, kicked, and then he
held mp the old snag, and said
"There, I guess you won't feel any
more aching"
L leaped down and hugged him. l
promised him ten millions 1 told him
to make my home his house forever l !
hugged him again. I shook hands with !
everybody in the street, kissed my wife,
bought the baby dozen rattle. boxes in |
a heap, and it seemed to me as if the |
world was too small for me-, was so |
happy.
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Night in the Moon.

At last, however, night sets in Crate
fully it comes after the sun has gathered
up its smiting beams and gone to his rest.
All at once we are plunged into compar-
ative obscurity, for again there is no
twilight to stay the steps of departing
day. At one stride comes the dark.
But, looking up into the sky, we behold
vast orb, which pOurs down miIder
and more benefcient splendOr than the
great lord OF the system. 1t is such a
moon as we terrestials cannot boast, for
1t Is not less than thirteen times as large
and luminous as our Own. There it
hangs in the armament without apparent
change of place, as if fixed in its
everlasting seat." But not without
change of surface. For this great globe
is a painted panorama, and, turning
around maiestically on its axis, preseng s
its oceans and continents in grand sue
cessiOn. As Europe aud Africa, locking
the Mediterranean in their embrace,
roll away to the right, the stormy At
lantic offers its waves t. view when the
two Americas, with their huge forests
and vast prairies pass under inspection.
Then the grand basin of the Pacific, lit
up with islam fires, meet is the gszer's
eye, and as this gIideS over the scene
the eastern rim of Asia and the upper
portion Fof Australia sail into sight.
The Indian ocean, and, aiterWard, the
Arabian sea spread themselves out in
their subdued splendOr, and thus, in
four and twenty hours, 1.-THE great TO-
tundity we tread" turns its pictured
countenar ce to the moon, and gra oily
repays the listening Iunarians by re-
peating, to the best of its ability, the
story OF its birth. Nor is the sky less
marvellous in another respect. For the
absence of any atmospheric diffusion of
Iigt permits the consultations to shine
out With a distinctness which is never
paralleled on earth. They glitter like
diamond points set in a armament of
ebony. Stars and clusters which we
never see by the naked eye, fCck into
V ew and crowd the lunar heavens
Ry.ifiSE Dly0TfFT1V
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are, as in the same process with the
egg; test of good breeding. have
known the most inexpert persons to
master the few difficulties in the way
after two or three efforts and their sat
isfaction was IN infinitely pleasant
sight. To hostesses who like to have
their table preserve in some degree, at
the close of an entertainment, the beauty
which dazzle the guests upon entering,
this method is most desirable. Ser
vants--let me put in plea for the silent
ones whose interests are too seldom re-
garded-are spare d the tedious duty of
gathering up the fragments, and guests
who look with d'smay at this tempting
apple OF the Hesperdies, can thus enjoy
it as they never did before. Only the
delicious nectar of the fruit is eaten
with the more delicate pulp: the tough
fibre-of which, indeed, there is very
little in an orange plucked from the tree
under its own skies-being left in tn
shell.
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How the Ladies Assist the London Re-
ViValists.

Messrs. Moody and Sankey, the re-
vivalists who have succeeded IN awaken
ing such grand religious demonstrations
in England, despite the protests of some
of the eminent divines, both Catholic
and Protestant, are receiving efficient
aid in their work from the devout women
of London. Tuey do not mount the
public rostrnm, but go about the city
distributing tracts and organizing com
mittees tor ''house- house" vlsltatlOns.
By their constant labOrs in this direction
the crowds that have attended the
preachiDgs of the American revlvalIst
and his co-wOrker have gradually in
creased since their advent into the great
metropolis. The ladies conduct monster
tea-meetings for the poor The latter
are thus gathered together IN Large
numbers, and it is comparatively easy
then to persuade them that their souls
need the evangelical tutelage of Messrs.
Moody and Sankey. This may seem
somewhat ludicrous, but it is said that
without these tea drinkings not even
Mr.. Moody can attract the sinners In the
south and east of London. "Certaln 1t
is" says a correspondent, "that In the
north, where as yet there has been no
tea drinking, the attempt of the evangel-
lists to reach down to the masses has
been thus far futile" The principle
involved in this tea, drinking expedlent
may be suggestive of good to the reVl-
vallsts on this side of the waters.
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Mrs. Siddon's Lady Randolph.

Macready says in his "reminiscences in
speaking Cf Mrs. Siddons But who
that had ever seen it could forget her
performance of Lady Randolph? In
tie part of Mrs. Beverly the image of
cOnjugal devotion was set off with every
charm of grace and winning sOftness.
In Lldy Randolph the sorrows of widow
hood and the natural fOndnees of
the chieftain's daughter assumed a
loftier demeauor, but still the mothers
heart showed itself above all power of
repression bv conventional control. In
her first interview with Notval, pre-
sented as Lord Randolph's defender
from the assassin, the mournful admira-
ton of her look, as she fixed her gaze
upon him, plainly told that the tear
which Randolph served to start in her
eye was natures parental instinct in the
presence of her son. The violence of
her agitation while listening to Old
NOrval's narration of the periIs of her
infant seemed beyond her power longer
to control, and the words, family artc-
ulated, as if the last effort of mental
agony, "Was he alive?' sent an electric
thrill through the audience. In dis
closing the secret of his birth to NorvaI
er, how exquisite was the tenderness
with which she gave loose to the indul-
gence of her affections. AS he knelt
before her she wreathed her fingers in
his hair, parted it from his brow, in
silence looking into his features to trace
there the resemblance of the husband
of her love, then dropping ON her kn es
and throwing her arms around him, she
L.,
fastened her eyes on him, repeating
the lines:
Image Of Douglas Fruit Of fatal love!
All that | owe thy sire pay to thee!
Her parting instructions, under the
influence of her fears for her sons safe
ty, were most affectionately delivered.
When he had fallen under the treacher-
GUS stab of Glenalvon she had sunk in
a state of insensibility on his body. On
the approach of Randolph and Anna
she began to recover recollection. To
Randolph's excuses her short and rapid
reply, "Of thee / think not ~ spoke her
Indifference and disregard of every
worldly thing beyond the beloved ob-
iect stretched in death before her.
Leaning over him, and gazing with
despairng fondness on his face, she
spoke out in heartrending tones
MY SON. NV sou!
My beautiful brave. How proud was I
or thee and OF thy vslOr; my fond heart
Oerfowed this day with transport when l
thought
OF growing old amidst a race OF thine"
The anguish of her soul seemed at
length to have struck her brain. The
silence of her fixed and vacant stare
was terrible, broken at last by loud
and frantic laugh that made the hearers
shudder. She then sprang up, and with
few selfquestioning words, indicating
her purpose of selfdestruction, hurried
in the wild madness of desperation from
the scene.
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PROTECTION FROM Frost, pre-
vent frost from injuring fruit blossoms
in orchards and vineyards, few hours
preparation, in having on hand a supply
ofwet and dry sawdust, shavings, leaves,
or straw, with good thermometer in
dicates the approach of frost. Then,
with cart, small heaps of dry leaves
are deposited about the orchard or
vineyard and set on fire. Immediately
after, each heap set on fire is covered
with wet leaves, causing it to evolve one
enormous volume of smoke, which at
once settles in clouds over the orchard.
Thus all around, but especially on the
windward side, the heavy cloud Of smoke
effectually prevents the frost from kill
ing the fruit blossoms. In Peru the
vineyards are thus planted high up on
the Andes.
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The White House.

The presidential mansion is just one
mile and a half from the capitol. 1t
stands on elevated ground, and forms a
c lnspicuOus object in the landscape,
seen from a distance. 1t is an old
fashioned, cumbrous- looking edifce,
with a double porch, immense windows,
and has the appearance of cross be-
tween a demoralized Greek temple and
a New England village town house. 1t
is 10 feet in length, by S6 feet III depth,
and is two stories in height. The en-
trance hall is 80 feet in length by 40 in
width. the two parlors which flank it
30 by 25 feet, while the famous east room
is 50 by 40, requiring five hundred yards
of carpetipg. The height of these
rooms is % feet. A writer, some time
since, in describing these apartments
happily says they are as "home-like as
a connected series of meeting houses. "
The reader who has never penetrated
the mysteries of the presidential mansion
may be astOnished to know that the
entire first floor is public property, and
that the care of it does not at all apper-
tain to the household arrangements of
the occupying family. The private
portion Of the building is confined to
part of the second story and three rooms
in the basement. The remainder of the
second story is occupied by the presi-
dents offices. At the foot of the en-
trance hall is the ''oval room," which is
fianked by the two square parlors
From the one on the right the visitor
enters the large dining room from that
on the left, the banqueting or east room.
Iu these rooms are held the presidential
levees and receptions. They are gorge
ously furnished, and the amount of
paneling, and glass, and gilt, and mir
rors, and gingerbread work is absolutely
painful to behold. There has been little
change in their DE- corations and arrange
ments for the last forty years. The
furniture and carpets have been renewed
and re renewed, bat with a sort of re-
ligious veneration for the taste of tho
original upholsterers, the general ap-
Dearance and effect has been retained.
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A GREAT CONTEST BETWEEN BARE
BACK RIDERS. Robinson, the
great champion bareback rider of the
world, broke his engagement with Viii
son, of Wilson's California circus, to
ride in San Francisco against Charley
Fish, a riding champion fresh from
Europe, for so, 900 side, and the gold
diamond studded belt of the world.
Wilson has commenced suit against
Robinson, the rider, for $4,000 dam
ages. Robinson is the favorite with
the San Francisco brokers, who, it is
said, have staked over a half million
dollars on the result.
They are riding in Montgomery
Queens circus and menagerie, and the
great champion will have his hands full
to get away with Fish. The match is
to be decided by vote of the audiences.
No chance for ballOt-box stuffing on
this occasion.
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Don't Eat Save When Hungry.

DIR. Hall declares unhepitatingly that
it is wrong TO eat without AL appetite,
for il shows there is no gastric Juice m
the stomach, and that nature does not
need food; and not needing it, there be-
ing no fluid to receive aud act upon 1t,
il remains there only to putrliy, the
very thought Of which should be sui
fcient 10 deter any man from eating
without an appetite for the remainder
of his life. III tonic is taken TO whot
the annette, il is a mistaken course,
| for its only result is 10 cause one b eat
more. when already an amount has
been eaten beyond what the gastric juice
is able TO prepare. The object TO be OBJ
tanned is larger supply OF gastric lnice,
not larger supply Of food; and what,
ever fails 10 accomplish that essential
object fails TO have any efficiency to-
ward the cure of dyspeptic diseases.
The formation of gastric juices - di-
re,tly proportional 90 the wear and tear
of the system, whichitisto 20 be the means
of supplying, and this wear and tear
can only take place as the result OF eN-
ercise. The efficient remedy for dys
pepsia il work-out-door work bench
cial and successful in direct proportion
a it is agreeable, interesting and profit
] able.
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How TO Eat An Orange.

Always, on a Southern gentleman S
table, the dessert of oranges is furnished
with small silver fruit knives and spoons.
The orange is held in the napkin-just
asiyou hold an egg--and with the slender
point of the knife a circular incision is
made In the stem-end of the orange,
and the stem core is nicely taken out,
leaving an orifice large enOugh to admit
the egg spoon. The orange is held and
eaten then, just like gourmands eat an
egg III It's own shell and the skill and
grace with which this is done, that is,
without solllng your fingers or napkin
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THE longevity of toads is again under
discussion, owing to a discovery made
near Orsay. In digging up a garden
Gotta vases, which they at first supposed
to contain treasure. On breaking them,
however, two live toads were found clad
in green velvet. This strange attire
showed that they must be at least 200
years old, as an ancient treatise on
magic and demOnoiogy mentions that
at the beginning of the seventeenth
century sorcerers dressed up toads in
this manner for the achievement OF
certain charms.
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we are but little islands in Silence
Ibat sucks and settles round rs like the sea;
But drop plant, song or deed-then see how sWif
Ihe silences again above 10 drift,
And cover, smooth ever, Has Been and Shal
BE.
Or list that strange sea tapping in the dark
10 Then loud aud subtle currents pu'ss, and neal:
Wuen in the night, inclosed a. a shut box
Sl-epiess we lie ard long to PICK the locks
BY some new. uameless seEse the soul can hear
And at the last silence submerges all.
- ne i ,oltes. mead the proudest work, swept o q
Bv iis high tide sink down and disaDrasr.
Yet diutlEgi foI etgn wood and weeds 40 cbear
our souls with certain signs of some rich shore
iTrl "- Y ~h"7'd we 50 q-ez'ion Silence. fear
- "i'g wa and DIRE "a It's deeps to dareq
= =" Clhhus-.iFe no Warnings grand
10 I' oorne on and find that rntriei Tard9
silence We trust thee; on'y bear us tLercl
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trella, suspended by chain from the
waist-belt. The most daring cOmbina
ton of color I have yet seen is a scalf
of deep poppy-red worn with dark
plum. .colored satin. The effect, though
startling, was. admirable, but in min
ksfThg two such snowy and widely con-
Etrsstihg aolors the utmost care is neces-
sary in selecting the tints that exactly
correspond in tone.
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BEFORE THEY CALL WILL AN
SWER,"
BY MADGE CARROLL.

Give me to eat Father in Thy garners
The golden grain is stored,
Thv purple grapes hang heavy in the vintage,
Thy harvest fields with promises are scored
To eat, for l so wearly have tasted,
And yet Y Kindred call on me for bread,
On me, whose harvesting the worm has blos'e
On me, with hands in helplessnfss outspread!
Give me TO drink! Father, in Thy garden
The fountains ever flow,
l hear their cool ng plash and see them glitter,
On, pour their fullness on these sands below
To drink, 1 am so weak and faint with going
To broken cisterns that can hold no rain.
Then lead me nigh to that rich overiowiug,
Let my parched lips Thy cup of gladness drain
SO prayed my soul in heaviness of sorrow,
LOi even as I cried
Bread, maDna sweet, was broken at my table,
And crystal-hrimmed the goblet close beside
Even "bffole they call. is 1t not written?
The banquet hall awaits the tardy guasts,
The faint. the thirsty and tue famne-smitten
Have but to cry, Gods love outruns the rest.
'And it shall come to pass that before they ca
I will answer; and while they are yet speaking
iab 1yy
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The Pope-win He Gene to America ,

The correspondent of the London
Daily Telegraph st Paris writes:
The correspondent of the Debats in
Rome writes thus: The appointment of
an American cardinal is an act more i'm
portant than has been generally sup
posed. At the same time the pope
nominated a considerable number of
bishops for the United States. The
prelate who carries to Monsignor
McClosky his 6eretta will not perform a
mere act of ceremony; he is charged
with a most important mission. The
holy see has firmly resolved to transport
itself to the United States, should the
stay in Rome become insupportable. 1t
knows well that neither France nor
Austria could give it asylum without an
almost certain risk of war with Germany.
1t is doubtful whether England would
maintain the offer she once made of the
island of Malta, and Spain IS too much
disturbed for the pope tOthlnk seriously
of refuge there, at least under existing
circumstances. We must not forget
that the saint siege has taken the pre-
caution to create considerable reserve
fund, which wOnld be by no means
useless in the states. This reserve does
not count hundreds of millions, az some
papers, unused to calculation, are
pleased to declare, but it amounts to
over forty millions Gel 900, 0O0), and in
creases almost daily.
l have often heard this idea broached
in Paris by Ultramonraines, and there
is every reason to believe the Debats
corresdondent to be we'll informed. IT
remains only to learn how the statesmen
of America will receive the notion. The
same obvious reasons which have made
England tacitly withdraw her proffered
hospitality will carry their weight over
the Atlantic.
How sweet is a perfect understanding
between man and wife. He was to
smoke cigars when he wanted them, but
he was 10 give her ten cents every time
he indulged in one. He kept his word,
and every time she got fifty cents ahead
bed borrow 1t and buy cigars And SO
they weIe happy.