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4 Rad Eai1urp.

The old man Gerdy lives down the
River road, and he probably enjoys him
self as we'll as most old men who labor
for dollar day and backache thrown
in. Nevertheless, he does not always
sgree with his wife, who is far younger
and full of original ideas. For instance,
when he failed to send home meat the
other day for dinner, she cooked, or tried
to cook, five or six brickbats. They
were put on the table smoking-hot, but
Mr.. Gerdy didn't appreciate her cookery.
He showed back from the table with the
declaration that he would drown HIM
self, and in about two minutes he was on
his way to the river.
Being man of his word he took to
the water like duck, but for some rea-
son or other he couldn't stay down.
Some sailors pulled him out and gave
him kicking, and as he limped home,
wet and shivering, his wife stood in the
open door and laughed till she cried. He
was trying to scalp her with, fence
picket when the police lassoed him and
dashed his Joyous hopes.
Cant you live happily with that
woman?" asked his honor, as the old
man walked out.
Eyes, sir, can"
And can you let this suicide business
alone?"
Eyes, sir"
"After this, when you don't want
brickbats for dinner, send home corned
beef You can't expect rice pudding
from sawdust, nor custard pie without
eggs"
"That's 50, sir, and next time I jump
into the river, you may shoot me with
gravel-stones. I'm an old ibex, sir, and
I'm much obliged, sir. and I wish you
good morning, sir."-Free Press.
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every one of my birds is sold, some at
ten and some at fifteen dollars pair,
just as the secretary chose. What do
you think of that for wealth." she cried,
gayly. "My receipts and my orders from
this poultry show will be only little
less than one thousand dollars. Now, Phil
you're listening?-if you don't feel
ashamed of it (and Pm sure you won't If
you really wan, w lnarry dear Bessie), l
propose to sell out my hen business to you.
You can double it; you're man, and can
do twice as we'll as I could; and you can
have, anyway, in spite of accidents, good
income of fifteen hundred or two thousand
dollars year, with everybody buying your
rare breeds and coming after your choice
eggs, you know. And you can pay me in
the course Of your life, and you can marry
Bess tomorrow"
Then there was silence moment, while
she looked at the gorgeous illumination of
the azure on the peacock breast, and feared
that Phil would hear her heart beating.
"Marcia," said he, presently, getting hold
of her hand somehow, "you are certainly
the most inefable little goose in this hall.
What in the world do you suppose l want
to marry Bess for? It's you [ am in love
with p'-Harpers Basar.
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History Of the Alphabet.

A lecture in London, giving these facts
on the History of the Alphabet" was
delivered by H. G. Seth Smith: Writ
ing was that which made paper speak,
and without it we should have no such
thing as history, unless what was misty
tradition. Writing originally consisted
in drawing pictures Of the idea intended
to be conveyed. We are indebted to the
Israelites for something of the art Of
writing. for it is spoken of in Exodus as
familiar to them. Probably the Canaan
ties were also acquainted with the art,
as one of their towns was called "the
town of books" There was an Irish
tradition that q great grandson of Seth
invented the Hebrew, Greek, Latin and,
naturally, the Irish alphabets, On trac-
ing the letters back to their origin, we
find they consisted of pictures. This
practice still finds favor with the Ameri-
can Indians. The Mexicans also wrote
their history by means of pictures; but
on their discovery they were destroyed
by superstitious hand, and now but
few are eXtant.
Among the Chaldeans the following is
an instance of the change sign under
went. Probably on account of the wear
ing of combs by the ladies, the sign Of a
comb stood for woman, but afterward
became the sign for feminine gender.
The Persian alphabet was very large.
In the Egyptian language a pair of eyes
signifed vision; fight Of steps, ascent; ;
a bird catching a fish, fishing; and so
on. But the Egyptians had large num-
ber of signs for one letter, there being
twelve signs for the letter S, for instance.
They also appear to have written indis-
tinctly, for after writing word they
would affix picture Of a meaning they
intended to convey. The English alpha
bet comes, perhaps, from the Egyptian
at all events, the principles on which
both are founded agree. Our alphabet
is directly derived from the Phenicians,
a race we'll qualified to disseminate Ian
guage. The Greeks have a tradition
that their alphabet was derived from the
Phenician. The Phnnicians introduced
the alphabet into Italy, and from Italy
it was adopted by almost all the Euro
pean nations.
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How the Nutmegs Grow.

Nutmegs grow on little trees which
look like 1ittlr pear trees, and are gener-
ally over twenty feet high. The flowers
are very much like the lily of the valley.
They are pale yellow, and very fragrant:
The nutmeg is seed of the fruit, and
mace is the thin covering over this seed.
The fruit is about rs large as a peach.
When ripe it breaks open and shows the
little nut inside. The trees grow on the
islands of Asia and in tropical America.
They bear fruit for seventy or eighty
years, having ripe fruit upon them at all
seasons. A fine tree i'll Jamaica has
over 1000 nutmegs on it yearly. The
Dutch used to have all this nutmeg trade.
rs they owned the Banda islands, and
conquered all the other tribes and de-
stroyed the trees. To keep the price up,
they once burned three piles of nutmegs,
each of which was rs large as a church.
Nature did not sympathize with such
meanness. The nutmeg pigeon, found
in all the Indian islands, did for the
world what the Dutch had determined
should not be done-carried these nuts,
which are their food. into all the sur
rounding countries, and trees grew again
and the world had the benefit.
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Words of Wisdom.

What cannot be required is not TO be
regretted.
Attention to small things is the econ-
omy of virtue.
Truth is often wounded, but never
slain outright.
The scales ofjustice are tor the weight
of the transgressor.
Men may bend to virtue, but virtue
cannot bend to men.
Witticisms are never agreeable which
are injurious to others.
Flattery is like your shadow; it makes
YOU neither larger nor smaller.
A needy man, who 81 ives costly dinners
paws large sums to be laughed at
From the ordinary manner of spending
the time we may judge of any mans
genius.
Strength of mind depends upon SO,
briefly, for this keeps reason unclouded
by passion.
There is no less grandeur in supporting
great evils than in performing great
deeds.-Liry.
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He Wanted Only Five Minutes.

The recent election Of Judge j: I.
Thurmon to the mayoralty of Dallas,
Texas, calls to mind an incident which
happened to him in a mining district OF
Colorado in its early history. The judge,
then a hedgling attorney, procured a
through ticket from the railroad termi-
nus on the back of broncho-a cross
between civilized mule and wild ass
and journeyed toward his future home,
the suburbs of which he reached one
afternoon about sundown. Riding to
the center of the village he found group
of men surrounding a HORSEBACK, which
resembles a horizontal bar with pegs in
it, over which The bride rein is thrown
to hold the animal; over the HORSEBACK
was a rope, at one end of the rope a
moose, and filling the moose mans neck,
to which was attached the balance of
him. The command had just been given
by the leader to "h'ist away" when the
proceedings were interrupted by the
Judge, who asked of what crime the
prisoner had been convicted. He was
told that the man had been caught an
hour before with a couple Of horses not
his own, and he was known to be a
chronic horse.thief.
"But, gentlemen" said the judge, ris-
ing in his stirrups and thinking his op-
portunity had arrived for making, a
favorable impression on the law-abid-
ing element" "this summary proceed
ing is not right. You would not hang
this man without giving him the benefit
of trial and the chance of O verdict by
a Jury of his countrymen--his peers!
No, gentlemen, I feel assured that an ap-
peal to your cooler judgment, and pro-
test, which, Il here earnestly enter, in the
name of Justice, will prevent the COM
mission of this barbarous outrage-this
crime, of which in the heat Of passion
you are about to be guilty. Yes, gentle
men, give the man the protection OF the
court; and if he stands in need Of legal
advice my services are at his command.
NV diploma" Stranger" said the
leader, quietly interrupting him, "shis
claim is registered; we've struck q lead.
an it's a going t. pan out 'cording t.
previous calc'lation. Stranger, you ken
hev wun hour tn prospect fer the su-
burbs Nv this ere camp"
The judge, to use his own expression,
tumbled" to the situation at once. and
grasping the reins he settled down in the
saddle and replied: "My dear sir, am
grateful for your generosity. You give
me an hour to get out of town, but if the
strings hold and this blamed mule don't
buck, all want is five minutes" and
clapping the enormous rowels into the
TANKS Of the beast the judge adjourned
inc die. '.r
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Why He was Insane.

Our local poet came into the sanctum
Yesterday with wild look in his eye.
and asked our opinion concerning the
easiest method Of committing suicide.
We questioned him, and he finally di-
vulged the cause Of his sorrow.
II sent a poem to literary paper"
said he. Here is one of the verses" :"
and he handed us a slip of paper which
read:
Twas all my lite to sweetly gaze
Into those liquid eyes,
And oft turned away my head
10 heave internal sighs.
every pretty" said we, ID consoling
manner. "There is nothing in that to
cause one to feel bad"
"No-o-o," he blubbered, but this is
the way it was printed" and he passed
over printed slip from some news
paper, which ran rs follows:
Twas all my life to sweetly gaze
Into those liquid eyes,
And oft turned away, and had
Heaves of internal size.
"That's what's killing me-" said he in
a frenzy. THAT'S what's sucking my
life away like a child at an orange.
'Heaves of Internal size' Oh! I'm
going crazy" and the poor fellow only
stopped to ask for cigar ere he bolted
out the door.-OI City Derrick.
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His Speciality.

There was feller, writes Little John
ny, wich wanted to marry ole mans
dotter, and she wanted to marry him, so
he went to ast her father mite he hav her
for his white. The ole man he sed: II
don'tnever sea you doin anything; wot
is yure bisnis?"
The feller he spoke up fore he thot and
sed he was a dockter. Then the ole
man he sed other time: "Well, that's
a nifty honorable pefession, but you
don't pear to have much practis."
The feller he sed: "No, aint got no
custom yet. that's a fack, but that's cos
I haint had a chance for to show my
strong pints. line aspeshlist, and only
treat folks wich has got particular
disease; no use wastin my time on any
thing else."
The ole man he sed wat was his spesh-
atty. The feller he schratchet his he'd q
vile, and then he sed: "Ole age"
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Accomplishments OF Western Mules.

Two miners were seated on bowlder
alongside the road to Sutro, says the
Virginia City (Nev.) Chronicle, discuss
ing the kicking powers of the mules. One
had Just returned from Sutro and the
other was on the way there, and having
met near the rock they sat down for. a
talk.
"Have you quit over there?" said the
one who was eastward bound.
"Yes."
"Why?"
"Mules."
"Fraid of 'em?"
"You bet. I saw one yesterday along
side an old boiler kickin' off the rivet-
heads one by one. Never missed one. /
was just going on shift, and when / saw
the mule and heard there was more of
EN- inside, threw up my job I've got
a wife and three children depending on
me, and I don't take no chances"
"The worst mule I ever saw" said
the other, "was in Phoebe some years
ago. 1t was one I owned. One day it
rubbed against some nails sticking out
of post, and it turned round and drove
those nails one by one, using single
blow of the hoof with the iron shoe on
for each nail. 1t never missed its kick,
and always drove 'em just into the head.
Then it saw few tacks on the post a
little lower down, which were only half
driven in, and it drove them in, too, with
light taps of the hoof, just as gentle and
easy rs could be. One day a man came
along and set out a can of nitro o-glycerine
and giant power. He wanted to get the
mule to kick it and get killed. I saw
him about the corral with the can. and
knew what was up: At first I was going
to stop him. hut then I thought if my
mule was any kind of a mule at all he
could take care of himself. Sol just
watched. Well, the mule saw the can
and, walking up, smelt of it, and then
squared himself for the kick. The man
was sneaking off. and just as the mule
was going to kick the can. he canght
sight of the fellow and changed his po-
sition so that his tail was toward the
man. He let fly his right hoof. The can
went flying through the air and hit the
man square between the shoulders just
rs he was gettin' over fence about a
hundred feet away. The thing exploded,
and never saw the man again. But next
morning Pat Holland came out in the
Record and said that the town had been
visited by shower of blood"
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Curious Means to Revive the Drowned.

The New York Evening Post has an
article copied from the Boston Chronicle,
"from Monday, April IS, to Monday,
April Is, I7s8.a The article in question
is letter from a correspondent of the
Chronicle, asking that paper to insert
some curious remedies for reviving
drowned persons, given by DR.. Tissot
in the second volume of a work pub
lished by him. DR.. Tissot's remedies,
as given by the correspondent, are as
follows:
Since it appears from authentic ac-
counts that persons have been restored
to life who have been drowned and actu-
ally lain under water from one to six
hours, no efforts should be wanting to
recover such persons, even though no
signs of life should appear for consid-
cradle time after they are taken out
the water.
Persons in such circumstances should
be treated in the following manner:
l. Immediately strip off their wet
cloaths and put them naked in a we'll
heated bed, rubbing their bodies smartlS
with dry coarse linen cloath. A dry
hot bath of ashes or sand, mixed with
salt, will answer as well as a hot bed. or
to be covered up in a hot dunghill. The
ashes or the sand, mixed with salt, may
be heated in kettles, and there must be
a sufficient quantity to bury the
drowned person IN and to be of several
inches depth all over his body and kept
hot if no signs of life appear soon; then,
Q. Let some strong, healthy person
force his own breath with some tobacco
smoke into the drowned PERSONS lungs
by pipe or quill introduced into the
PATIENTS mouth, having his nostrils
stopped. If no motion is excited by
these operations, then,
be taken from the jugular vein, or any
large vein in the neck-in the mean
while, or soon after the letting of blood,
4. Let there be strong volatiles ap-
piled to the nostrils with the powder Of
sage, rue, margerum or tobacco. AS long
as no signs of life appear it will be not
only vain to pour liquor Of any sort into
the mouth, but as soon as any signs ap-
pear, the patient within an hour should
take five or six spoonfuls of oxymel OF
squills, diluted with warm water, or a
strong ten of cdrGlalas 6enedictuS, or
chamomile flowers sweetcned with
honey.
And though the drowned person
should appear to be terminated, yet he
must not be neglected, but if he remains
under an oppression or cough or fever
ishness, then he must be bled in the arm
and followed with warm diluting stim-
lating medicines, as barley water. elder
flower tea, etc
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IS Eccentrics.S

A dry goods drummer is the pink Of
politeness and courtesy. He always pre-
sents his card.
This is about the time at which the
small boy opportunes his father to pur-
chase him rabbit.
1t isn't running four blocks to catch a
ferryhoat that settles man. It is miss
ing the boat after the run that uses him
up.
No man thoroughly understands the
solemn grandeur of floor crack until
he tries to pick pin out Of it with his
fingers.
Gay daffoLils
Blow OH the hills,
And by the pleasant meadow rills
While gayly now
On the mountain brow
Doth gambol the clumsy and brindled cow
With bell on her neck.
The length of time required by po-
liceman to take lady across Broadway
depends largely on the personal appear
ance of the lady.
The enterprising promulgator Of a new
ever-and-ague medicine OF startling vlr-
Tue WILL nave HIS dlllldllStC lOl AoOo OuU
inside OF month.
Now the blossoms flake the orchard,
And the clover lightly blows,
While sings the merry robin
Where the lisring brooklet flows;
And while the placid lakelet
Doth seem looking-glass;
The man comes to the window
And asks to cut the grass
For five cents.
1t is decidedly pleasant to have matu-
tinal sunbeams steal into your sleeping
apartment-that is, when their explora-
tions are not extended to your eyes.
While gayly the butterfly
Fits o'cr the lawn,
And opens the marigold,
Gilded by dawn;
When softly the hu,nming birds
Winglets are preened
With sunshine, ah, then do we
Hear the milk-fend
Shouting like u war-painted Indian.
The girl who will almost cry if she
happens to let drop of ink fall on a let
ter, is never put out in the least when
she is told that she has spelled disap-
pointment with one p.
He sat beside her in the lane,
And there he told his love.
He told her that she simply was
A tender little dove.
And while he looked into her eyes,
And watched her smile and pout,
She murmured in angelic tones:
"You horrid thing, get out !"
No man thinks he can do q woman's
shopping better than she can, but when
he is "stuck" on q couple of gauze
undershirts she laughs at him, and says
it serves him right for not allowing her
to get them for him.
It is one of these lovely mornings
upon which the violets, bediamonded
with dew-drops, nod languidly in the re-
dolent paths of the woodland, and the
wren skips gayly about, that causes the
black-eyed maidens to find pleasure in
encasing her snowy arms in an old pair
of stockings and going out to dig in the
garden. -NeW York STIR.
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The Everlasting Memorial.
Up and away like the dew of the morning,
That scars from the eaYth to its home in th

Up and away like the dew OF the morning,
That scars from the eayth to its home in the
sun,
So let me steal away, gently and lovingly,
Only remembered by what have done.
Ny name, and my place, and my tomb all tor.
gotten,
The brief race of time well and patiently run
So let me pass away, peacefully, silently,
Only remembered by what have done.
Gladly away from this toll would hasten,
Up to the crown that for me has been won ;
Unthought Of by man in rewards or in praises,
Only remembered by what have done.
Up and away, like the odors OF sunset,
That sweeten the twilight as evening comes
on;
So he my iie-a thing felt but not noticed
And but remembered by what have done.
Yes, like the fragrance that wanders in fresh
ness
When the flowers that it came from are
closed up and gone,
So would I be to this worlds weary dwellers
Only remembered by what have done.
need not be missed, if my lite has been bearing
CAS- its summerand autumn move. silently on)
The bloom, and the truit and the seed OF its
season;
shall still be remembered by what have
done.
Needs there the praise OF the love-written re-
cord,
The name, and tho epitaph graved on the
stone?
The things we have lived ior-let them be our
story
We ourselves but remembered by what We
have done.
need not be missed it another succeed mo
To reap down the fields which in spring
have sown,
He who p!owed and who sowcd is not missed
by the reaper,
He is only remembered by what he has done
Not myself, but the truth that in lie have
spoken,
Not myself, but the seed that in life have
sown,
Shall pass on to ages-all about me forgotten
Save the truth have spoken, the things
have done.
So lot my living be-so be my dying;
So let my name lie, unblazoned, unknown
Unpraised ind unn,issed, shall still be re-
membered;
Yes, but remembered by what have done.
-Horatio Bonar.
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At the celebration next November of
the. lsOOth anniversary of the destruction
of Pompeii, bottle of wine taken frGIl
the ruins, where it had lain since A. D..
70, is to be opened.
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GHtusWcoLys =.
The earth is fair-its fertile valleys lie
As glad as If beneath q Tuscan sky;
Scarce lisp the breezes as they slowly pass
And kiss the reaching bonghs and springing
grass. -htt
The birds sing sweetly in the sheltered shade
All nature smiles in summers sunny glow
All things rejoice in what our God hath made
And man alone would fuller knowledso
know.
The strong ship strains its rnoarings to go
forth
And breast the pillows Of LIES bounding sea
That stretches out to immensfty
And thus, mans soul, weighed down 70 sordid
earth, SE
Struggles and strives from fetters to be nee
And heevenward reaches out eternally!
=, Luther G. Riggs.
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