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A Romance OF History.

The romantic union and cruel death Of
Agness Bernauer have embalmed her
memory, and she still lives in song and
story. She was the beautiful and anna
bic daughter of poor citizen of Augs-
burg, IN the fifteenth century. Duke
Albrecht sole son of the reinging Duke
Ernst, saw her at tournament given in
his honor by the mobiles of Bavaria, and
irrecoverably lost his heart TO the charm
ing maid. Albrecht, young, handsome,
brave and very proud made her ac-
Quaintance and wooed her passionately.
She loved him In return, though she
was too pure and prudent to listen to his
suit until he had promised to make her
his wife
He kept his promise. They were Sc
cretly welded, and went for their honey
moon to the Castle of Vohbburg, inheri-
ted by the young duke from his mother.
His father, knowing nothing of the TO
mantle alliance, proposed that his son
should marry Anna, daughter of Erich,
Duke of Brunswick, to which the young
man very naturally, under the circum-
stances, would not listen. His stubborn
opposition opened the fathers eyes to
the mesalliances, and he resolved to I'M
do it.
Ernst accordingly contrived that Al
brecht should be excluded from a tourna-
ment he was anxious TO take part IN at
Regensburg, on account of his living as
was alleged, IN concubinage, contrary to
the rules of chivalry. Albrecht then
swore that Agnes was his lawful wife;
but his oath was not accepted; he was
still debarred from entering the list. He
gave his wife a sumptuous Tetinue,
placed her in the Castle of StraubIng,
and caused her to be honored as a prin-
cess. But she, with n sad foreboding,
prepared an oratory and tomb IN a
Carmelite convent of the town.
During the life of Albrecht's uncle,
Duke William, Ernst made no further eff
fort to interfere with the lovers, for he
stood in awe of his brother, who was
deeply attached to his gallant nephew.
But William having died, the anger Of
the father broke out afresh, and II the
absence of his son caused Agnes arrest
and trial for sorcery, and its exercise on
the lord. The trial was of course a farce.
She was quickly condemned 10 he
drowned in the Danube. She was thrown
into the river in the presence of the
populace, and, floating by the current
toward the shore, one of the execution
ers twisted long pole in her golden hair
and held her under the water until she
was dead
NIaddened at the atrocity, Albrecht
combined with the other enemies of his
father. made war upon him, and laid
waste his country. Ernst sued in vain
for pardon, but at last the Emperor Sigis-
mund interfered and placated his right
eous wrath. The young duke afterward
married Anna OF Brunswick, but never
ceased to worship the name Of poor
Agnes. He raised n beautiful monu-
ment, rs his father had raised a chapel,
to her memory, and often visited it to
weep and pray.
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Thread from Wood.

The manufacture of thread from wood
Tor crochet and sewing purposes has, it
Is said, been started in Sweden. The
manufacture has arrived at such state
of perfection that it can produce, at a
much lower price, thread of as fine
quality as Clark's, and has from this cir
cumstance been called thread "a la
Clark. 1t is wound in balls by ma
chinery, either by hand or steam, which,
with thelabeling, takes one minute twelve
seconds, and the balls are packed up in
cardboard boxes, generally ten in box
Plenty of orders from all parts of Sweden
have come In, but as the works are not
yet In proper order there has hardly
been time to complete them all. The
production gives fair promise of success,
and it Is expected to be very important
for home consumption. = Scientific
american
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To test nutnegs prick them with
min. and if they are good the oil Will IN
stantIy spread around the punctures.
BAR soap when first bought should be
o,t in square pieces and put IN a dry
nIace. 1t lasts better after shrinking.
All. fish skin should be washed, dried
thoroughly, cut IN small bits and put in
a box or paper bag, to use in settling
coffee.
New ORLEANS or other good brown
sugar Is best for raised fruits and we'd
ding cakes 1t should be coarse grained
and clean.
ALWAYS prepare Sundays dinner on
Saturday if possible, that domestics may
enjoy the Sabbath day privileges as well
as you.
The small white sage called pearl is
the best. The large brown kind has an
earthly taste. 1t should always be kept
in a covered jar or box.
SALT cod should be kept IN a dry
place where the odor of 1t viii not pene
trate to other parts of the house. The
best kind Is that which Is called dun,
from its peculiar color.
MoLAssEs Cur CAKE.-Two cups mo-
lasses, two cups butter, one cup milk,
teaspoOnful soda, the same of lemon,
half nutmeg and two eggs; beat well
and bake in quick oven.
ELEPHANT on ToAsr-Take cold meat
and put on the fire in a stewpan with n
little water When tender, take 1t up
and mince very fine; then put it back
and flavor with pepper and salt. Make
some toast, butter each slice, and spread
the mince over each piece; then pour the
gravy over II. Serve hot.
OILcLoTH--A Henry Ward Beech
er, IN giving some of the results of her
housekeeping experience, remarks that
neither soap, hot water nor brush should
ever be used on oilcloth. 1t should al
ways be washed IL lukewarm water with
piece of soft old flannel and wiped per
fectly dry each time. And the appear
ance of the cloth, Mrs Beecher declares,
Is greatly improved 10y using half milk
and half water, skimmilk, If not sour,
being Just as good as new milk.
COOKING BEErs.-One of tine most
satisfactory ways to cook beets Is TO bake
them. When boiled. even if their jack
cts are left on, great deal OF the best
part Of the beets Is dissolved. and so lost
1t Will Of course, take little longer to
bake than to boil them; but this IS no
objection Allow from fifteen to twenty
minutes more for baking; slice them,
| and heat as you would If they were
| boiled. After they are cooked, season
with pepper, salt, butter, and a squeeze
| of lemon
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Jonah in the Whales Reilly.

Two hundred years ago Dr. Zachary
Boyd wrote the following quaint descrip-
ton of Jonah in the whales belly. He
was minister of the barony parish
of Glasgow, and Rector of its Uni
versity
What house Is this, where's neither coal nor candle,
Where nothing but CUTS Of fishes handle?
and my table are both within
Where day ne'er dawned where SIM did never shine.
The like Of this on earth man never saw
living man within monsters nav
Buried under mountains which ar high and steep,
Plunged under waters hundreds fathorls deep.
Not so with Noah, from his house ~ tree
For through a window he light aid sec:
He sailed above the highest waves-a wonder;
and my boat are all the waters mn der.
He, in his arke, might goe, and also come
But sit still in such straitened loorne
As is most uncouthe, head aud feet together.
Among such grease az thousaud smother
md no way now for my shrinking hence.
But here I've, and die for mine of,euse
Eight prisoners were in Noah's hnIk together;
Comfortable they were, each one to the other,
In all the earth ike unto me Is nome
Far from all living, here I've alone
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The Poetry of Sleep.


Blake's cradle song is very pretty, but
rather too long, and not too grammatical
in the later verses
Sweet dreams, form shade
Der my lovely infants head;
Sweet dreams Of pleasant streams
BY happy, silent, moony beaIns
Sweet sleep, with soft down
Weave thy brows and infant crown
Sweet sleep, angel mild,
Hover DER my happy child.
There is something of the disconnect-
ed conference of the visions of the night
in Beddoes " Dream Pedlary," which
reads like a memory of poem heard IN
sleep
" there we're dreams to sell,
What would you buy7
some cost passing bell;
Some q light sigh,
That shakes from life's fresh crown
Only rose-leBf down.
II there we're dreams 10 sell,
Merry and sad 10 tell,
And the crier rang the bell,
What would you buyi
But a sleeper and more soothing song
than this is Sydney Dobell's chief sue
cess IN verse, a passage of drowsy and
monotonOus music that rings
on the margin gray
-Tsixt the souls night and day,
Singing awake away,
Into sleep.
have made would discover many more
lullabies and songs of sleep, which might
make a charmed volume for wakeful
ewes. Mr.. Tennysons cradle song in
= Sea Dreams and the verses from the
Z" Princess -
Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white
with the languid choral music of the
sI,otos Eaters" should not be omitted.
SheIley's poem, 1.-The Magnetic Lady to
Her Patient :"
sleep on, sleep on forget thy pain,
Ny hand is on thy brow
would try the force of its mesmeric
spell. Shelley's poem on Night, too,
might claim a place IN a volume of lul-
Iabies for grown-up children by virtue of
its lines
Thy brother Death came and cried,
..W0udst thou me "
Thy sweet child Sleep, the hlmy-eyed,
Nfurmured like a uoontide bee,
Shall ! nestle near thy side?
Wouldst thoq me and replied
Nc, not thee!'
Fihcaia's ode must not be forgotten, nor
Cowley's, nor Denman's song In " The
Sophy." But Keats sonnet may close
the list of invocations which Homer
made Hera begin:
oh. soft euibalmer ef the still midnight,
shutting with careful fingers and benign
our rloom-pleased eyes, emb1wered from the light
Eushaded in forgetfulness divine;
on soothest sleep, II 80 It please thee, close,
IN midst Of this thine hymn, my willing eyes,
Or wait the sInen, ere thy poppy throws
Around my bed its lulling charities;
Then save me- the passed day will shine
Upon my pillow, breeding many woes;
save me from curious conscience that stn lords
Its strength for darkness, burrowing Ike mole,
Turn the key deity in the oiled wards,
And seal the hushed casket Of my FouL
In spite of Keats. and of the proverb
about the sleep of the just, we fancy
that conscience keeps few people awake.
Coffee snd overwork, and tobacco, and
the noises of the night may demand
choral, but not conscience. Men have
lain awake, and the night has fretted
them. but not for conscience. Saturday
RcrielU.
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a few minutes Sammy came back TO say
there was nothing in the pertater field
but lot of men hoeing."
"Wen, L told you there was nothing
particular.
"Then why mustn't we tell Robert?'
Because don't want him to know
there said Mrs. Skllings.
That's funny, said Sammy, med
itativelv, and from that moment he kept
his eve on the window that he might be
the first to see Robert coming.
When he saw HIM he ran ont and fol
lowed him about the barn while he IN
harnessed the horse and put away his
grist, but he didn't tell, not sammy; all
he said was:
You can't guess what happened this
afternoon.
Nothing bad, l hope"
''If it wasn't why did mother say we
mustn't tell o.
This, coupled with certain mysterious
hints about the potato field" led Rob
ert to take a look at that part Of his
farm before going into thehouse. There,
as we know, a pleasant surprise awaited
him; his friends had shouldered their
guns and gone, but the work was all
done.
sammy ohlLllnBS yo0 ought 70 DS
sent to bed without your supper, sand
Mrs. Skillings, as her two sons came IN
TO the kitchen hand in hand
"What for ?" asked Tommy.
For telling, when Tim Nolsn wanted
it kept secret, said Mrs. Sl1illmgs.
80 Tim was at the bottom Of it,
said Robert, laughing Il thought as
much.
There, I've let the cat oIt again,
myself, said Mrs. Sldllings, wpereupon
Judy went down ON her knees and began
searching behind the funiture Tor that
mysterious animal.
But it made no difference who let the
cat out, for Robert was sure to have
heard the whole story the next day.
miserable! Do not insist upon this
sacrifice
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One of Mr.. Moodr,s Stories.

A man came into one of our meetings
in the East, called me aside, and said
g want to be a Christian, but 1 am
defaulter. 1 have taken 81 800 from my
employers, and have less than 81 900.
What shall do? Hadn't better take
what have and go into business, ana
try to make enough to pay what owe %
"No, sir" said; "you haven't any
more right to that money than if you
had taken it out of my pocket. Go and
return all you have, even if you leave
your family penniless. The Lord will
not receive you while you have stolen
money in your hands" The man came
night after night, but found no peace
until he brought all the money he had
(S9SO) and gave it to me to give to his
employers. 1 took it to them. They
forgave him. They helped him, and he
soon found peace in Jesus"
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True HerOiSm.

An act of distinguished bravery was
performed in one of the principal mines
in the district of Linares, IN Spain.
Three miners were engaged IN sinking a
shaft, and, after charging the borehole
with dynamite, two of them climbed to
the gallery above, the third, as is Gus
tomary, remaining behind to light the
fuses attached to the charges. Having
done so. he signaled to his comrades,
and was in the act of being hoisted up
with windlass and rope when, on near
ing the mouth of the shaft, he by some
accident lost his hold and fell distance
of fifty feet to the bottom of the shaft,
where he lay stunned and disabled, in
close proximity to the burning fuses. A
chain ladder Fortunately communicated
with the bottom of the shaft, and, on OBJ
serving the fall, one of the miners at the
windlass. placing his drawn knife be
tween his teeth, went down without a
moments hesitation to the rescue of his
injured comrade, and severed the fuses
as they were on the point of igniting the
charges, and thus saving him from an
awful and instantaneous death.
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"a Great Moral Lesson. ,,

Those who pass ''the boxes, wherein
the aims of the congregation are put,
see many moral lessons, but none more
graphic than this one
At meeting of some colored breth-
rem 1t was decided to make a collection.
The President concluded to pass the hat
himself, and, in order TO encourage the
others he put In a ten-cent piece. After
the collection, during which every hand
had been in the hat, the President APP
preached the table, turned the hat up
side down, and not even his own contri-
button dropped out.
He opened his eyes with astonish-
ment, and exclaimed, Use chen lost de
ten cents 1 started wild "
Then there was CONSERVATION on the
faces OF the assembly. 1t was evidently
a hopeless case, and was summed up by
one brother, who rose in his place and
said solemnly, Oar pears to be great
moral lesson roun' heah somewhat.
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William HOgarth.

The celebrated painter Hogarth was
once employed to paint the portrait Of a
uobleman not remarkable for personal
beauty The artist executed it with his
hRppicst manner but with rigid fidelity.
The peer, disguised at the exact corn-
terpart ofhimself did not feel disposed 10
pay for the picture After some time
had elapsed and numerous unsuccessful
attempts had been made to obtain pay
ment the painter sent him the following
card: Mr.. Hogarth's respects to Lord
-. Finding that he does not mean to
have the picture drawn for him Lord -
Is informed again OF Mr.. Ho0arth's press
ing necessity for money If therefore,
his Lordship does not send for IL in three
days 1t viii be disposed Of with the adj
dition OF a tail, and some other append
ages, to Mr.. Pan. the famous wild beast
man, Mr.. Hogarth having given the gen
tlaman a conditional promise Of it for an
exhibition picture on his Lordship's re-
fusal The intimation had the desired.
effect
Hogarth was once applied to by GER
tain nObleman to paint on his staircase a
representation of the destruction of
Pharaoh's host in the Red Sea. IN at
tempting to fix upon the price Hogarth
became Disguised with the misery con
duct Of his patron. who was unwilling TO
give more than half the real value of the
picture. At last, out of all patience,
he agreed to his terms. The nobleman
soon was told that the work was finished
Surprised at such expedition, he i'm
mediately called 10 examine it, and
found the space painted all over red.
''Zoundsl" said the purchaser, what
have you here? / ordered scene Of
the Red Sea. The Red Sea You
have" said the painter "But where
are the Israelites?" "They have all
gone over ''And where are the
Egyptians?" They are all drowned. 3"
The miser's confusion could only be
equaled 10y the haste with which he paid
his hill
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A Posfhnmnns Inke.

In the London probate registry is a
viii dated 1871, by which the testator
left $50 year to be spent on whisky to
be given to a number of Irish people,
not exceeding twenty, who may visit the
cemetery on the anniversary of his death.
stick, and the whisky is to be distributed
in half-pint doses. The object is thus
explained by the testator: Knowing
what know of the Irish character, my
conviction is that with these materials
given they viii not fail to destroy each
other, and when, in course of time, the
race comes to be exterminated, this
neighborhood, at least, may perhaps be
colonized by civil and respectable men :"
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A Blizzard,

A blizzard" Is described by the Chey-
anne Lc0dcr as follows: There Is no
clearly stated definition of the word
" blizzard, as it Is not found in the
dictionaries. 1t is a purely Western IN
vention. Blizzard came out since the
dictionaries were built. But then biz
zard Is an unspeakably mean thing. Oh!
1t Is so mean. No one ever thinks OF n
blizzard without apOlogizing mentally
for touching upon so base subject
What the cayote is TO the hunter, the
freighter, the cowboy, and the miner,
the blizzard Is TO the average citizen.
The blizzard ranks about as high IN me
teorologv as does the skunk IN zoology.
And then n blizzard Is the only thing
known TO history or science that Will
blow thirteen ways at once. 1t describes
course precisely like Scotch plaid.
You turn from a direct llne-to the lee
way-of the fierce wind in order to catch
a good square breath, and the blizzard Is
there too. 1t catches you on the point
OF exhalation, just as your lungs are an
immense vacuum. Your mouth is open,
OF course, and the blizzard suddenly
fills you SO full Of wind that nothing but
a heavy conscience prevents you from
soaring aloft at once like a balloon. You
feel miserable and tighter'n a bass drum.
You want TO swear, but you haven't time.
Your only relief Is TO strain the blizzard
through your fingers
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Rirds in HeIigOIand.

Heligoland is the most celebrated
station in the world for studying the
migration of birds. This little island Is
hardly hundred acres in extent-an
isolated. triangular rock of red sand
stone. with perpendicular cliffs 200 or
300 feet in height all around it. 1t is
mostly cultivated, and its resident birds
are hardly more than a dozen species /;
but in spring and autumn migrating
birds make it resting-place, and these
are watched for and shot or trapped by
almost the whole population, and the
results have been carefully chronlcled
for the last twenty-five years by Mr..
Gatke, an experienced resident ornithol-
ogist. The amazing result Is that as
many species of birds have been OBJ
tanned in this minute islet as in any
country In Europe, while the vast num-
Der of the migrating iocks is shown by
the fact that $1,000 larks have some
times been caught in one night.
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Hooking VALLEY Ner..

In the absence of anything startling
or terrific, politics and the exploits OF
the army worm excepted, news from
this delightful valley viii not prove nerve
tingling. However, an item Of very great
Importance to many people Is communi-
Gated by Mr.. f. Harrington, Wholesale
and Retail Druggist of Logan, who thus
writes: Mr. Alex McClurg, Union Fur
mace. states that his wife had been af-
fiicted with rheumatism for the last
twenty-five years, being unable to walk
without canes or other help the most of
that time; has now used two bottles OF
st. Jacobs Oil and walks not only about
the house but also in the fields without
any helps.-LOga'a co. Hooking Sen
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HOUSEKEEPERS' HELPS.

EVERY closet and room in a house
should be thoroughly inspected once a
week
NEWLY ground -four which has never
been packed is very superior to barrel
-four.
In roasting meat do not salt before
putting In the oven as salt extracts the
juice.
In warm weather put your eggs in
cold water some time before Won are
ready to use them
LEMONS may be kept fresh long time
In jar of water; changing the water
every morning.
A TRUE test for eggs is to drop them in
water, and if the large end comes up they
are not fresh.
HAMS wrapped in thick brown paper
and packed In barrel of wood ashes in
the cellar will keep all summer.
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A Great Day for Fishing.

did you have much luck, Uncle
Nose ?" asked a gentleman of an old
Galveston fisherman.
Nebber seed de like. TWAS all day
long jerk up comes a five-pound red
fish jerk agin, up comes a six-pound
trout jerk agin, up comes a seben-
pound sheephead. 1t nebber stopped
one second.
rHow did you catch fish that fast
without stopping to bait your hook ?
Come now, Nose %
Bait de hook? All dem fish was on
de same hook. Oar was no chance to
bait de hook. De six-pound reddish
swallowed de five-pound trout, and seb-
en-pound trout Just jobbled de six
pound reddish, and 1 Jest kept on ontil
day was about twenty fish on de hook,
and den 1 hauled EN- In and put on
; fresh bait. Has yer cotched my mean
in '-GdlUeStOn NeDs.
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An EniscopaIian Horse.

The Rev. DIR. Broadus, an old Baptist
parson famous in Virginia. once visited
a plantation where the darky who met
him at the gate asked him which barn
he would have his horse put in.
Have you two barns? ?" asked the
doctor.
Eyes, sah," replied the darby !;
"dar's de ole barn, and Mas'r Wales has
les build a new one
"Where do you usually put the
horses of clergymen who come to see
your master q
"Well, sab, if dey's Methodis's or
Baptis's, We gen'ally put 'em in de ole
barn, but if dey's 'Piscopals we puts
'em in de new one.
well, Bob, you can put my horse in
the new barn I'm a Baptist, but my
horse is an Episcopalian."