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PROPOSALS FOB ICE.
pIPABrMIkf OF Tsl IEIEsIok.,

WAsBIHssoS. August IL, ls7e
Sealed Proposals will be received unuI ~ o,cIocn
n. HRIDAY, august goth, ls7s, for furnishine
this Dep0rtnent and fts various BureGus. MIR
daily supply Of enDebee or Boston lee Of The ver1
best quality, for ths fiscal year ending June NM
ls27. NV stss
Biddsu must state what they wiz furrssh IN. Ia.
for per one hundred pounds 60 be delivered N snes
The bids WIN be opened In the once OF the A 49,
intsnaent 10 tne presence Of soch bidders - nav
A setisieotory bond win Be required OF the .ae-
essIn eioasrs Tor the faithful perform ancs Of tss
~, Ihs sisss % ssset any or III bids d reserved bv
susIe 81 q. ouANpLpR. s.,rss.rx
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nUNOANsON BIOS, AuctioneerS.

nUhCAHSOH BIOS, Auottoneers.
MARBLE: TOP AND OraER BuRlAus,
SSL9Jns; .hATTRAssls, SID iBoARbs. IA.
BBLnS; CAMS AND WOOD. SEAT CHAIRS,
o THEK sToV1s, OABP1TS, &C., &C., Ar
Also,
BAY HORSE, WAGON AND HARNESS.
On MONDAY MORNING, August 2Ist,A
commencing a. 10 O'Clock, We will sell, atN
store, corr er 9Th and Q streets northwest, the Il
entire stock, consisting as above, and with III
humorous other articles.
The sale bling positive, the attention Of buyers is
aUgH DUNOANsoN Bros, Auctioneer,.
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BOOTS AND SHOES.

NOW Is THE TIME TO BUY BOOTS AID
~ SHOES AT sELBY's
M9mens q. Gsiiers ss low ss 61c., and MP
wards; Wenens Last. Buskins, e0c. mp; Women
roxed Laced. 81 Is, 81 50 up; Womsn's Toxsd
sutton. ~ upi Womens new Boots, lsoodJ
Misses Kid Slippers. &c. mp; Misses and Boys
School Shoes. si mp; Men 70 Congress, si so, worth
Quarters, q rs worth ii So See our 3 i OhiIdrens
eboes. 10 H. with great many other obs 60 offer
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l50 dozen Hrck Towels, at 81 50. 81, % Is and
B, and o..
900 yards Richardson 3 Linens. IN short lengths,
selling very fast.
and 10 4 bleashed and Brown shsetings, at -
cents per yard Table Dsmask, Wine Cloth, Nap
kins, Pillow Linens, all widths; and 40 White
Spreads, sl qualities and patterns. We would call
the special attention Of our Customers to the above
goods, IS they very cheap. Also, Bleached aud
Brown Canton Flannels, at 8, 10, AZ Is, % and IS
cents. 50 dozen ladies' all linen II. 8. Handker-
chiefs, at l2S, -, IS, 30, 40 and 50 cents. Black
Oeshmeres, Union, at 80 and 62S cents. 10 pieces
Lupin's Black Csshmeres, from Use. to 81 50; all
prices; new Goods, Just opened 10 pieces White
Cambrics At 1Z1s cents, ss good IS LOnsdAle. New
EmbroiC cries, In handsome patterns, received al
most every day. We intend 10 satisfy every one
who favors us with call. w. 81. BLOWN.
sugl4tr No. S14 9Th street northwest
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STEAMERS. &c.

FOR NORFOLK.
Steamer LADY OF THE LAKE leaves the
Company g wharf, foot Of 9Th street,
every MONDAY, WEDNESDAY,
ana FRIDAY, ct m, for Norfolk. E2sass.ss=S
Be.urniIg g, leave Norfolk Tuesday, Tnursday and
saturday, q p M Fare, o.; round trip, %.
FOR POTOMAC RIVER LANDINGS.
Steamer yH0. w. THOMPSON leaves Com
papy's whsIf, foot Of 9Th street, every TUESDAY,
~ o. m. for Currtoman and intermediate land
River, Stopping ut intermediate landings.
For Information apply at the ONCE OF the
COMPANY, under the Metropolitan Bank, 18th ST.,
wharf. ivH-tr
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TNHOe. BOWLING, Auct1onesr.
TRUSTEDe, sALE-OF LOTS ON Sd STREET
WksT, BEIWBEN AND STREE rs
HOBTH, AT PUBLIC AUCTION.
By virtue Of deed OF trust recorded amonF -
the land records for the District Of Columbia, f.
In Lber No: 7c0, folio 49, will sell, at pub Jul
rc auction, In front OF the premises. on WEDN CO.
DAY, the 23d OF August, 1876, ct 8 ,. m Lots 90
", a. - and %, In the subdivision OF original lots
Nos and Is, In square No. SIS, recorded in the
once Of the Surveyor OF the city Of Washington In
Liber II. ID. o.. folio "A.
Said Lot No. s. has front OF is feet inches BIZ
depih q 50 feet 70 IN alley feet vide.
said lot go: "a has front OF l6 feet inches by q
tsid Lot no: 50 has q front Of ls feet inches by
depth Of III feet
taid Lot No IS has front Of Is feet inches, and
Is described as followg-Commencing on Sd street
west the dividing line of said lots IS aud
"a, and running thence north along the line OF said
I'd street 10 feet inches; thence east liz feet;
south Is feet 4 inches; thence west 81 feet; thence
Forth loot inches thence east 80 feet 70 the point
q beginning; Each lot Is improved by Q good
Terms Of sale: One third cash; balance I'm email
instslments at 8 and II months; the pursh assr 10
give bis notes for the deferred payments, bearing
interest at the rate Of per cent per annum, and
secured b. deed Of trust on the property 100 on
each lot when sold. Conyeyaacing ct cost Of par.
chaser.
NATHANIEL CARUsI, JR., lr
EUGENE OARUeI, AIusseos'
sugl3 eo6ds THOS BOWLING Auct
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DRY GOODS CHEAP
We. Bid WTLIE mas reduc>d
Mach OF his extensive stock
Below the rates usually obtained
In other drst-clAss stores,
Reductions extraordinary m all
Dre-s Goods, Suit Materials,
White Goods, Lawns and Summer 9oods
foung aud old can be supplied with
Linens for Ladies, Gents or Children.
Insertin g and kmbroiderfes cheap, and
Everything st lowest rates for cash
IN. BIRD WILLIE,
101A fth street northwest,
ass9ey for DsuOrsds PstssTns and the i.sA
saht jel7-tF
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AUCTION SALES.
YHIB AYTERNOON.

nOWHMAH d 9REEN,
II Real Estate AuctionoerS,
SALE AT AUCTION OF VALUABLE LOT
slTHAIk On H1RTH A, BkrwnnH ofH
We VIII sell ct public auction, on sATUR- -
squsre S6s, containing AIT square feet o.
ground.
Terms made known on day Of sale.
sugB-eoSt n, G. LUTTRILL, Salesman.
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Picnic LUNCHBs.-The American Grocer
a'ter recommending the busy mothers 70
take Gay now and then TO HE away to the
woods with their little ones, tells what TO
Ike 10 eat: Sandwiches can be made 10
me following fashion: Boil q few pounds OF
ham, and chop ii very fine while IL Ia still
warm-fat and lean together. Rub dry mus
taro In proportions TO suit your taste
through the mass; add as much sweet
butter as would 60 TO the spreading of your
sandwiches, and when IL Is thoroughly mix
ed split light biscuits In halves and spread
the ham between. These can be eaten vim
cut trouble and will be found excellent.
AGO 70 them some oranges. or aly other
NUT 10 season. q loaf OF cake IL YOU are a
notable cake baker, a bottle Of cold tea we'll
sweetened, small lump of Ice wrapped In
nannel-and you are well provisloned for
the day. II your excursion is to the sea-
snore, instead Of the woods, you can hoist
your blanket upon four sticks and make q
TENT, under which you can sit or lie shield
60 nom the sun while you children pad
Die In the water, dig clans, or do any OF the
thousand and one things which children fiud
10 do on such occ asious,
A taste for this kind OF out door living needs
10 De cultivated among women OF our coun-
uy-a taste which would smooth the wrin-
kles OF care from their brows, and chase the
sallowness from their cheeks.
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AUCTION SALES.

soa.Ss.. s corner A So ana street..
s Mi.ssr rA APP SJHIs I NE
oHisf or GARPIsfiRs roofs. 10''
SAWS. s.rcHErsA, L'e alsMnrss. CURRY,
ksRP RUkks dTrEFIY
on TUIsPsf MoBNIEa. August ass, COM
msnelns a. 10 O'Clock, We will sell the above men.
.usls Il DUNOAssoH BROS, Aucts.
TROs. Z. WAG0AMAN,
Zeal Estate Auctioneer, SIS Tth street..
InPBoyEp rEePERrY-so aso b STREET.
On = m AN o A1ss gs1 . ass on Is ,ss
premises. At public auction, Lot 30. II, in .:lk
s2oare ssi, improved By two'story Frame House
Terms dsy Of sale.
DowSMAH GBEsN, AuOtiOneeIs.
TsgsIEKs sALI OF TWO Two:sroRY
sHsFssg LOIS 5Fs 4as9
isth; a. p; ISIS, and duly recorded in Liesr
the District Of columbia and 81 The request Of me
psrty seeur thereby, will SELL at public auction,
wiDE sspxf, August soth. A. b. is7s. At $50
III h Ss cite ~ or e
and snown a. Lots leitered AID numbered W. aud
10 Ii l. and u.s. in sSusrs %umSSre d one bssdT o
aud ttgtso l52I, ss said subciyi is recorded
In The Surveyors Office If said city In Lfber @. ii
folio T.
These II ouses will be acid separately.
Ter ms Of ale: One third cash LOT which $50 on
.sch house must be paid At time OF saleD; and the
balance In six AID twelve months in equal gay mens
TO be secured b. purchasers notes bearing interest
ON day of sale AZ the rate OF eight per cent per
snDum until paid, and deed OF trast on the pros
erty sold Corresponding and rec ording At pure ha-
chaser cost If terms If sale not complied with
six days after sale, the Trustee the right
to resell ct risk and cost OF defaultng purchaser
WIN. n. HOFFMAN, Trustee,
auele-d No. 1921 street northwest.
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overseers OF the poor for relief and upon
be was proper object for parochial relief,
ne enforced his suit with much earnestness
"Och, yer Honor" said be, SEIZURE I'd be
for what?'' asked the astonished interroga-
tor. Me cat" rejoined the Irishman.
Your cati how sof" "Shure, yer Honor, 4
and she was always home before could get
here meoelf.0
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A SUDDEN REPENTANCE. Yesterda v
forenoon, says N. Quad, farmer entered a
restaurant on Griswold street, hat on the
back OF his head, and joyful look In his
eyes, and ninging his hat on the door, he ex-
Claimed: "WnoOpi Sold my wool, and now
want Thanksgiving dinner"
de was INVITED 70 sit down 70 a table,
dishes.
~ want chicken, turkey, oysters, nsh,
quail, snipe, pie, cake, soup, wfne-bring on
the best you've got In the shanty!u he said
as be pushed the bill away,
The waiter started out, and the farmer
hauled out bis wallet and counted bis mon
ey. His face grew serious after a moment
as ne began To realize that luxuries Cost
money, and In another minute he pounded
on the table and called out: "I want to see
that waiter!"
The waiter entered and the farmer con-
t1nued: "You hold on q little. You NAV
scratch out that other order and bring me ia
some meat and 'taters and bread. I've sold
my WOOL, as said before, but just happen.
ed TO think that the corn crop, may bust on
me, and where'd quail on toast be them"
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ID FOLEY, Auctioneer,
l. Nos. s07, 500 and sis 7th street northwest.
On MONDAY, August 30. at 10 a. m.,1a
Will sell o. suction all the effects Of large, "
northwest, consisting Of Parior Suites, Oman. nj
Der and Dressing case Suites, Marble top Bureaus,
Also: a complete set Of Dinip 2. room Furniture.
including Tables, Dishes, Cutlery, &c.
Aho, Carpets and Kitchen Furniture, and every.
thing pertaining to ell-furnished house
AZ the owner 10 about leaving the city, the above
Terms cash. A. M GPRAQUE
auRH GaIesnso
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FOX POTOMAC RIVER LANDINGS.
"a THH sTfAMER "MATTAAO," OApr. W.
q 4, s 3 q street, syery MONDAY and
iansih nSp "a M aQpHslnGs a. 9'oiock, Tor
Sonlnf, Including the favorite summer resorts OF
eoL1oNs, River SPRINGS, and BLAEIsroN's Is
LAND: Returning viii arrive fn Washington on
TUESDAY, anc RSIDAY BVENINGS aboat ann
down sAML P0LkIHH0RN, Agent.
ylI oln 9Th street wharf.
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4 GREEN. Auctioneers.

TRgsTEE's SALE OF THREE Two STORY
BRlUk DWELLINGS,, WITa CELLARS;
eOUTn SIDE OF sTRElT, BET GEEH
t4TH AND 18TH STREETS NORTHWEST,
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NEW DEPARTURE.
CL6pES WASHINGTON, PHILADELPHIA,

The steamers Of the above line win leave PhfladeI
Rhis every sATu kDAH at IN for -
yE osS.Gs returning stl, Leave
1t = m, for Philadelphia. No ,caarfass on o1a-
rom the above ports. Freiehts received and de-
nyered daily from q. m. % ,. m. Orders for
and 11tS Hh street northwest.
W. p. CLYDE d co.,
No. t2e. Wharvss, Philsdelphfa
j. II. JOHH6OH CO.,
teA r Agents for Wsshin gton, foot nth IT. Az
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CHEAP DRY GOODS.

W. w. BURDETTK q Co.,
sugA 3t,m,w.s Nos. 81 Tth and 700 X sts. n v
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S1Conp- EAkD OL0fHIHo, YUBuIfURD
i,sas sssaSiss, 0,,ss9sss, - soe1s e svsY
sas - : SSs;: = t E Ell :. ,
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BANKERS.

~ and NsSe Yors acssns, entrance on New <
York avenue. The most private Loan Once ~
IN the city. Money loaned at the lowest rsts(D r
q interest 90 Gold and silver Watches, Diamond.
esntisnsnS Oisthing. CarDs6, and Al articles Of
ynlne ion0.ly
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Big Spiders.

The sands of the steppes of Central
Asia are the abiding place Of many
species of loathsome and poisonous
/" creeping things" Mr.. Schuyler
speaks of phalange (Solpuga arameoides),
one of the long-legged spiders known
popularity as the Harvestman, or the
randfather-Graybeard, which has long
hair, sand when walking, seems as
large as ones two fists" This formid-
able beast is given to biting when irri-
tated, and with its jaws makes four
little holes in the flesh. The bite is
poisonous, though not deadly. Its
victim feels at at first no more discom-
fort than from the sting of a gnat; but,
after time, the pain spreads all over
the whole body, and is accompanied
with fever and great exhaustion. A
Chinese officer states in his travels IN
Turkistan, that the body of the largest
S0lpngQss is the size of q butternut.
Spiders of such dim ensions, with their
big, hairy bodies lifted up on long,
stout legs, must be as frightful an ad-
versary as one would be likely to en-
counter in any experience amid the
haunts Of wild animals.
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Horrible Discovery in Paris.

a While angling for refuse in the Seine,
in Paris, recently, vagrant felt an un-
usual weight encumbering his line. He
took steps to pull out of the water what
he expected would prove a valuable
find, when, to bis surprise, he discover
ed it to be trunk of young woman,
the hands of which were tightly tied to-
gether with cord. The body presented
marks of having been cut open with a
Ratchet. Horritied at the unwelcome
sight, the poor man ran for the Com
missary of the district, who Immediate
ly telegraphed for NJ. Jacob, Chief Of
the Police. The latter had the river
dragged, with the result of finding the
legs and other parts of the corpse.
These, as was the case with the trunk,
were found wrapped in petticoat of
printed cotton. AS soon as they were
collected, a medical examination was
made of the remains, and they proved
to be those of female of about twenty.
eight years of age, who evidently be-
longed to the working class. From
their appearance they could not have
been in the water above two or three
days. Crowds went to the Morgue,
where the murdered woman was placed
on view. No trace has yet been discov-
cred either of identity or of the perpe-
traitor of the crime.
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he went along my head struck against
q tree, and my back chafed on the
rocks; nevertheless, shouted out:
= Captain, take my gun; it has still
one barrel loaded
I do not know if he had heard me-
but he did nothing. It was in these
frightful tortures that arrived at the
bottom of the ravine, always borne
along by the lion, but also holding by
him with the left hand. This resist
ance irritated him so much that he
made two desperate efforts to shake
me off, and felt my shoulders crack
ing in his formidable jaws. Suddenly
| saw him sink down and fall over on
his left side, his headquarters pressing
my legs; the lion was expiring. It was
high time. let 60 the name, and
clutchipg by tuft of grass raised
myself by a supreme effort, stepped
over the PROSTATE beast, and climbed
up to the point from whence he had
dragged me. Then the pain in my arm
became agonizing, and trying to move
it, arm and fingers both obeyed my
will. I saw with joy no bones were
broken, only the arm had been fright
fully bitten"
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THE LAND OF THE VINE AND OLIVE.
inc Atanan Coast On the Adrfatic-NOt q !
8a Tree Nor Bush in Sight.

The Italian Coast on the Adrfatfc-Not q
Tree Nor Bush in Sight.
From the Geneva Continent
The Italian coast on the Adriatic ex.
hiblts already, both in the look of the
country and in the features of the peo-
pie, seml-Oriental character. We
are here in Magma Grecig, and the heel
as well as the point of the Italian Boot
-Puglla as well as Calabra-bear dis
tinctly the marks of that ancient civil.
zation which set in with the tide of
Greek colonists, and which the vicissi-
tudes of after-times we're in great
measure powerless to affect. AS the
traveller breaks through the Apennine
gorges after Benevento, he advances
across the Tavoliere di Puglia, a gran
airy now, as it was in Roman times, a
vast wind-blown, flat surface, unlike
any other region in Italy, and for par
allel to which one must 60 to the fer
tile but dreary and desolate districts of
CASTLE and Aragon. There is not a
tree, not bush in sight-.nothing liv-
ing or telling of life, save here and
there, at great distances, some huge
farmhouse, with high fencing, walls,
and turrets, the tokens of former inse-
curity, and in the home field around it
a shaggy herd grazing, tended by a
herdsman still shaggier. There is moth
ing to relieve that ocean-like even, mo-
notonous vastness. The mountains in
your rear vanish in the autumn
haze before you are ia sight
of the ridge of the Gargano,
long, smooth ridge, dipping in the sea
far away on your left, and forming the
clumsy space above the heel of the
boot. As you reach Barletta, and the
railway tends seaward to the shore, the
look of the country improves. The
land is still level, but it teens with the
vine, the olive and mulberry. A few
evergreen oaks and stone pines tower
aloft over the orchard, the acacia lines
the railway track, and each station has
it's attempt at flower beds and shrub
berries, as on the Rhine or in Switzer-
land Towns, villages and isolated
houses, however, as you hurry past
Barletta, Trani, Bari, etc, almost in
variably whitewashed and fat-roofed,
remind you of Eastern habitations.
One may fancy what must look like in
the long summer months, glaring IN
the sun, unrelieved by the shelter of a
tree or by the shade and freshness of
more sober hues. The movement
along the line and at the. stations was
considerable; the peasantry are in
the main a .welldressed and well-to- do
looking people, for Puglia, unlike CAL
abria and the other Southern prov
inces, is an orderly and laborious COM
munity. In first class carriage,
however, I should have been alone but
for the company Of priests of high
rank, in fine, long robes, purple stock
ings, and with large golden crosses on
their breasts, portly bishops and mon
signors, attended by their almoners,
bearing witness to the thriving con-
dition of a part, at least, of the clergy
In Italy, after so many years of the
Hsquabble between church and state.
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An Artists Will.

A biography Of the artist Turner will
soon be published in London. Taking
some of the facts given, M. d. Conway
writes:
"Turner left cloudy will. It was
evident that he meant that certain
sums should 60 to poor artists, but
these bequests-written in a codicil
with his own hand-were so full of in
terpolations and confusions, that when
the next of kin had failed in their eff
forts to prove that the testator was of
unsound mind, they succeeded SO far
as to secure a compromise. What
ever, therefore, Turner may have in
tended, his estate consisting of G14O,-
600 and his vast number of pictures,
sketches and ngravings-was disposed
of on March 10, 1856, as follows: 1.
The real estate to 60 to the heir at law.
q. The pictures and sketches to 60 to
the National Gallery On the conditions
of the will. 3. One thousand pounds
to go to the erection of a monument in
St., Paul's Cathedral. 4. Twenty thou
sand pounds to the Royal Academy,
free of legacy duty. s.. Remainder to
be divided between toe next of kin.
The documents in this chancery suit,
which lasted four years, are of several
tons weight. The bills of cost alone
would Fill a butchers cart The law
yers grew fat on the wealth for which
Turner stinted himself that he might
endow English art. He heaped up
riches, and it is to be hoped knows not
who may have gathered a large pro-
portion Of them" .4.qa.
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Something to Rally On.

Just before dinner, yesterday, a
woman living on Larned street entered
Jefferson avenue grocery with snap
ping eyes, and as she slammed a tin
pail down on the counter, Kissed out:
Mince-meat is it? Why don't you
call it slop, or stuff, or hen-feed!"
Yes, that is some of our mince-
meat" replied the grocer, as he IN
covered the pail. 6 / remember of
your buying this yesterday"
Il bought this hash for mince-meat p
she exclaimed.
cit is called mince-meat madam"
"But it tastes like sawdust and pork
scraps chopped together p
6 shouldn't wonder if it did, but you
see most everybody understands that
ready-made mincemeat is simply q
nucleus to rally on. It is the founda-
ton, as it were, of a good thing. You
want to add more meat, more apples.
more raisins, more cinnamon, some
brandy, some cider, a few cloves, a
sprinkling of sugar, triae of spice,
and you can't fail to have good pies"
"Then why not make my own mince-
meat p she shrieked.
why. not? We keep it on sale
simply as an objective point to rally
on"
s"Well you and your whole caboodle
of clerks can rally on this half-gallon, y
she firmly said, turning the pail upside
down on the counter.
g Just as you desire, madam" was
the afable reply" and when she reached
the door and looked back, the mer-
chant still wore the same kind and
patient smile.-Detroit Free Press.
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BESIDE THE SEA.
BY MARY AINGE DEvERK.


Beside the sea one summer day
Three merry children were at play.
The great warm sun was sinking low,
The waves were beating to and fro,
And silvery shell and pebbles white
Lay glittering in the rosy light.
Around the rocks, like ribbons hung,
The pretty fringing sea-moss chung.
And green sea grasses gently swayed
With every throb the ripples made;
And like asnow-feld, smooth and wide,
The beach sloped down to meet the tide.
All me, that hour was passing sweet
Altar from town or GRO 1ded street,
To look across the oceans space,
And fee. the rough wind on my face,
To hear the ripple's measured song
The children's voices fresh and strong,
Half drowning on the eager breeze
The old, old music of the seas
0 merry hearts o voices glad.
The sad sea is no longer sad.
A charm is lent to rock and wave.
More fair than Nature ever gave,
The while your joyance echoes so,
And light your footsteps come and go.
Dear appy-hearted children three.
At play beside the summer sea i!