Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-08-08
A Genuine Wid0Wer.

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but am terribly oppressed With sense o.
loneliness. A thousand objects Of interest upou
which she daily looked, tend to keep her con
tinualIy in my thoughts. There is her Wrtiug
desk; the unfinished manuscripts lay upon the,
table; note addressed to friend, but owing
to some circumstances never sent to her; an
unfinished piece of fancy work kept for stray
hours amusement; her books, her pictures --
indeed, everywhere the mute otj cts which te:
eyes or fogers rested upon. Aud where Is shr
now? comes to me with appalling f'lca. S..4..
VIC meet again!
"July 9. 1t is recommended by rly friends
that | shall surrender housekeeping. Mrs.
Agnew is constantly troubled with her Serv,n",
the children have grown very restless under hrr
management, and Arthur refuses to obey hor
at all. 1t is thought l had better send the
children to some good boarding school, and fad
some homo for myself, where shall BE- sui g!
to lees perpeyity aud sooner regain my former
cheerfulnes5.
July 90. The decision is made, a0d have
been gathering al the relic, OF dear Mays
handiwork for her daughter Graaa TO presclve
as precious legacy. The dear children are at
a we'll recommended school, and | take odsirgi
to morrow 10 public house. 1t ls thought (
shall be more 10 society IN such place, ana
wear off the effects Of my great losa But The
idea of quitting homo where l have enjoyed
the most exquisite pleasures, where bol
charm seems to pervado even the cparimcr
through which she 50 often pllded and adolner
is, indeed, painful. But theu, with such y
bousekeeper. what is Lett Tor me- but to pursr'
this course? | cannot fad one half the nice
a. Dhi Now T,1l:p
time. Mrs. Agnew says the servants muat have
carried them away. What was in drawers Is
mostly abstraced but as | never gave atteui,ou
to the minutiG OF what was contained 10 trurE1
and rcceptaces, but gave all the keys to lig
housekeeper, | have no meaus OF kDowlog wha!
has been purloined. But whoever is tho a.
gressor must suffer more by tho gain than
can by the loss.
August s. do not exactly enjoy this bust-
ling whirl in which l live. l sometimes picture
to myself regathered family, where we caa
again garner up our wasted hopes. and DIT hy
our cheerful freslde. If lhcro were anoth!r
Mary 10 this wide world who could but supply
the place of her who has gonc-but what haye
| said ? 1t is-it is scarcely five months since
she Left me, and have every week since water
cd her grave with my tears.
Sept. 20. Have not visited my dear wife =
grave for three weeks. At first had aims gl7
ing, as if she were conscious of tho neglect
but it is only tho material form which Is co
tombed-her gentle spirit would gladly spare
children need home and mothers care!
"Oct. II. When / was first intrcduc I'd I"
Amelia Bond. she at once reminded ula q r'9
dear wife. True, she is mere glh csinparo.i
with hcr--somo fifteen years youDgcf--bu: s.':i
| all the eraoes Of womanhood are .ny dnV@i
opcd. IL -hcavensl blush to enter it upDu
| my journal How Mrs. Agnew, my old house
keeper, would glory in the fulhl lmcnt OF her
prophecy, made 10 my deepest bc1caVemcn'.
! Mr.. Herbert, said she. your feelings viii be
materially changed in few mouths and ~
less than year predict your marriage.
Such violent grict rever survives more tian
ono season. could have turned her from my
Threshold for such a. ictimatioD; but,
| alas, how little we know ourselves
| Mary, you: image is still cnshriard III my
| heart; but must | g wccplag Though
| the remainder Of my. Journey b.cau-'
| you were taken from my side? me! Dr., Fros!
| Yesterday he first vonturcd TO joke no un1n
| being married again. This led TO serious con
versatioD upon tho subject-the doctor has been
| through the depths Of sldiction three succes ,
sive times, and now is In tho full enjoymant 81
domestic bliss. He argued no objection TO Miss
| 0DO Dut uGT age, UuL SOLue biIls hI t"CuIy W
| as tit to rule household as others ~ Ety. d"
| not myself think her age IN insuporAbln 0hJ'~'
ton she will be more companionable to fraca.
But howdo know that che would marry msn
80 much hor senior? The doctor says: Ho"
! will you know unless you ask her,?
| November 4 Since my last entry IN lei
journal have taken grcat slept. Tho nroposAi
| TO marry Amelia was accepted and hnh my
self in q new world; the old, restless. di=c1h
! soate feeling have endured geem' leaving mo-
My weed is horribly rusty upon my hAt ana
outward marks Of mourning arc superilu1u-
! have thought would not uao any moro Grape
surroundings. I must express my +3eng7 |"
| nv dear frIond to whom ! go recently com
muricsttd my deop sorrow. well assured. how =
ever tha, sho will reply, 'Henry l trcmbla t.;
your
WINGS OF BUTTERFLIES The COLOR anC
pattern of the wings are due 10 the scales. Ii
some genera, such as Sesla, the scales ar
wanting over large portion OF the wings
which arc then color!css or translucent. Thcs
q scales appear to the naked eye like hne du''
and their form only becomes. Visible unaer
: m;cro,e,pe. They arc small discs, compose
ortuo or parhups three, layers OF czcecdlng'
ca membrane, and are attached to the wing o
sbor, stalk. 90 that they lie over each othcr /
= row., like the states on roCl, anh cover ~
,o"J' ro"tu of the next row with their ends The
acncrally eUJ lie fat 10 oae direction. with thel
ends turned toward the hind margin but the
are sometimes erect IN certain parts OF tne "int
or opposed to each other, forming smal' raise
n matches. Their forms are very dineten1' o1t
accoTd;np to the particular pos aluons OF tn
scaIes. They may vary, from being compar
), .;,eIv broad to very narrow and linear, so as
:. % nsss iulo the form of hairs. One partieu
~ tiod Of scales called plumules il only found
Certain parts of the wings OF sono ma!o ,r1 Sv
teIAies mixed with the ordinary acaes. II
- scales on the hind margin are clteu more
: I less deeply toothcd. They are not only pso
on the surface of the wing, but arc also plac
n on one e or more parts of the border. when tn
ar are called frngcs, or ella: 10 the Micro y Lf q
ID. doptera the friuges are often Composed OF Il
hairs.