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They All Wanted TO See.

A shrcwd advertiser in New York
city hires a young man for twenty-five
cents an hour to stand in front of his
store and gaze tiXcdly at the windows.
The simple scheme has been found to
be very successful. The young mans
attitude and gaze attracted the attcn-
ton of a plastcrcr who was passing.
The plastcrer stopped short and fol-
lowed with his eyes the gaze of the
young man. A boy, observing tho
youth and the plasterer staring
across the street, joined them. Then
came a washwoman, then a bank clerk,
then a man of leisure, then two col
ored swells, and finally sizcable
crowd of u promiscuous nature was
collected, all looking in silent admira-
ton at two men in an opposite win
dow, who were engaged, one in swing
ing Indian clubs, one in pulling away
at q patent discrepancies,
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BY HUGH WILSON AND H. T. WARDLAW.
A Pathetic Poem.

Marc Cook C"Van Dyke Brown'O. the
youngp poet who died in Utica, N. Y, recently,
of consumption. left one or two poems
touching his sickness and the prospect of his
early death, which are very pathetic. Here
is one with a sigh in every line:
AWAITING THE EMF.
Never again to know
Health's warming, radiant glow;
Never again to feel The pulses quickened
heat
The siuews plant as steel, tempered in
actions heat,
The sweat of honest toll, bringing its respite
sweet;
But day and night. night and day,
To mark the body's slow decay,
And know that Death scores on in the game
lin sunshine and shadow all the same),
Every day, every day!
Never again to dream
Of all that may be, or seem,
In the sunlit future hid from the eager eye
of youth:
Never to raise the lid of the precious casket
of truth;
Never to hope to delve in the field of thought,
forsooth;
But day and night, night and day,
To watch the hours waste away,
Still in the world and still not of it
Still learning more and more to love it
Every day, every day!
Never again to stand
In the thick of the battle grand
In the Cooled battle of life, the goodliest
battle of all,
Where noble it were in the strife, manfully
fighting to fall
Never in actions ranks to answer the bugle
call
But day and night, night and day,
To passively sit and watch the fray,
With a skeleton specter always nigh
Oh, worse than a thousand times to die
Every day, every day!
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FOR THE LADIES.
News md Notes for Women.

News md Notes for Women.
A"boss" carpenter at Jackso
Fla, is one of the gentler sex.
Costa RIGA has sent a woman, Mad
anne Beatrice, as envoy extraordinary
at Washington.
Mrs. Margaret V. Longley, of Gin
cinnati, has published a book entitled
"Type Writer Lessons" for the use Of
teachers and students.
There were 1869 weddings in Phila-
delphia last year, which, leaving Sun
days out, is an average of twenty-five
a day. The Quaker city will surpass
this average this year.
Among curious vagaries of fashion
is noted the hat in which a London
beauty recently appeared. This hat
represented a gigantic bronze spider
web, with the voracious tly-eater ready
for his prey.
The competition of girls to obtain
appointments in the p~ostotiice tele-
graphs in England is increasing. An
examination was held a short time ago
at which there were no less than 800
candidates for thirty appointments.
The salary is small, commencing at ten
shillings per week.
Miss Maria p. Brace, teacher Of elo-
cution at Vassar college, will this year
divide her time between that institu-
ton and the State University of In
diana. Miss Brace is the first woman
instructor at Indiana University, which
receives both sexes as students. Her
salary is the same as that of the other
professors.
The Louisville School of Pharmacy
is now open to women, its first young
lady student having recently entered
with the intention of taking a full
course. A practiced chemist in Louis
vile declares that after having en-
ployed beth men and women he is
persuaded that the latter will make
the best drug clerks.
Judge Kingman gave at the Omaha
convention a statement Of the prac-
tical working Of woman suffrage in
Wyoming. He said that it had done
much good, both to women and So
ciety, and that none of the evils so
often predicted had followed. About
eight-tenths of the men of Wyoming
voted, and fully nine-tenths of all the
women. After thirteen years expert
ence, he declared, nc a. or woman
who had resided one year in the Ter
ritory was in favor of its repeal. It
was universally accepted as a per-
manent and benefieent fact.
Needle painting is the latest contri-
button to decorative art. BY this
novel method a lady of Cincinnati has
already completed a large number of
landscape pictures, which are said by
connoisseurs to be remarkable produc-
lions with the needle, equaling in effect,
if not surprising, the finest oil and
water colors. Several artists and
prominent society people are making
an effort to have them exhibited, so
that ladies who have a penchant for
embroidery and house decoration may
see how easy and inexpensive it has
become to beautify their homes with
their own handiwork.
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WISE

If you wish to remove avarice you
must remove it's mother, luxury.
The sweetest thing on earth is little
child when it has learned to know and
love.
Conversation enriches the under
standing, but solitude is the school of
genius.
He who lives to benefit himself
confers on the world a benefit when
he dies.
Brain is the impelling force of the
world, and thought is the symbol of
progress.
Genius at first Is little more
than a great capacity for receiving
discipline. .
There are more fools than sages ; and
among the sages there is more folly
than wisdom.
Education is the only interest worthy
the deep, controlling authority of the
thoughtful man.
A woman's dress is like the envelope
of a letter !; the cover is frequently an
index to the contents.
The trouble and worry and wear and
tear that comes from hating people
makes hating improbable.
To the generous mind the heaviest
debt is that of gratitude when it is
not in our power to repay it.
He that wrestles with us strengthens
nerves and sharpens u skill.
Our antagonist is our helper.
The best portion of a good mans
life is his little nameless, unremem-
bered acts of kindness and of love.
Every real and searching effort at
self-improvement is of itself a lesson
of profound humility. For we cannot
move a step without learning and feel
ing the waywardness, the weakness,
the vacillation of our movements, OF
without desiring to be set on the rock
that is higher than ourselves.
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How the Emperor of Brazil Rides,

\ correspondent writes to the Nor
ristown Herald: 11ark ! DO you hear
that racket? Clear the track! Get
out of the way there! Here comes a
calvacade that won't stop for any
thing. Don't stop to look until you
have lodged into the shelter of adoor-
way, but when you are safe you will
sec-first, a half dozen horse guards
with drawn sabers flashing in the sun;
then Il couple of mounted chamber
lains; then an old black coach drawn
by six braSs-mounted mules (harness
brass mounted), ridden by postillions,
two gaudy footmen standing at the
back of the trap" inside the carriage
sits a whitc-haired, whitc-bcarlrd,
handsome man in military costume,
his kindly face beamins on the
startled people who had so hastily
taken shelter. When the coach and
the company of cavalry following it
have passed with ill the speed that
mules, and yellow mules at that, are
CAPABLE of, ! draw Il sigh of relief. l
have seen this turnout almost every
day since | have been in Rio, Lut you
will probably have to be informed that
it was his majesty Dom Pedro H.,
constitutional emperor and perpetual
defender of Brazil" who has just
passed. Although Dom Pedro is
rather more progressive-minded than
most of his countrymen, he still re-
tains an affected display of pomp and
power which he does not really
possess.
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HUMOR OF H DAY.

A cuff on the wrist is worth two on
the ear.
In point of real value the hen over
lays all domestic fowls.
A well-conducted husband, like a
well-conducted candle, never goes out
at night.
Latin is a dead language, and that is
why doctors use it for writing out
their prescriptions.
A popular writer, speaking of the
ocean telegraph, wonders whether the
news transmitted through the salt
water will be fresh.
1t is said ninety millions of postage
stamps are annually sold in this coun-
try, and all of them have to be licked
before they will do their duty.
Arthur to Raoul-"Well, did you
kill many partridges?" "Not one, but
still 1 am very well satisfied with my
self. I came much nearer than last
year"
A mother who fondly put the query
to her young son, What would YOU
do without a mother, Tom?" was
dumbfounded with the reply: "Do as 7
like, ma"
"Some scoundrel tucked a plugged
h~alf-dollar off on me-" "Can't you
pass it?" asked his friend. "Well,
don't know" he said, "but you bet y
shall try"
Professor Sharpless has published q
new and popular work on astronomy.
1t will fill a long felt want in those
cities where banana peel is thick on
tn esidewalk.
Some philosopher has observed. that
"To be a good conversationalist, one
must needs be a good listener" This
is especially true if the conversation is
to be by telephone.
"Do you buy your music by the
roll?" inquired a young lady ofsthe
deacon's daughter. ooh, no." she re-
piled. 81 always wait until Sunday,
and then I get it by the choir"
About the most discouraging thing
that can happen to a man is to be
doing the handsome thing in keeping
ahead of a cross bull, and find, on
reaching the fence, that it is of barbed
wire 10
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1t is related of Siebenkees, an emil
nent German scholar, that having
finished reading one of his beautiful
imaginings to his wife, who appeared
to be listening with batcd breath and
eyelids cast down, he closed the book
with inward satisfaction ut the COM
pletion of his labors only to hear the
shaer of his joys exclaim: My
dear, pray don't put on your left stock
ing to-morrowAthefe's a hole in it."
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4 Poets Appeal for a Blind Man.

Victor Hugo, leaving the Cafe de
where he had just hrcakfastrd,
saw on the %boulevards a wretchcdly
Door blind man, and in an impulse of
pity improviscd the following lines,
which he wrote on the placard hung
around the bcggar's neck. Freely
translated the lines are:
"Blind, rs was Homer; MS Belisarius, blind,
But n weak child to guide his vision dim.
The hand which dealt him bread, III pity
kind
He'll see it not: God sees it, though, fol
him."
The SOUS of the passers-hy flowed
freely after reading this touching ap-
peal to their commiScratiOn.
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In a Sunbeam.

In a sunbeam-eyelids white,
Hiding merry, sparkling eyes;
Curls half brown, half turned to gold
Fast asleep the baby lies, :
But a little gurgling laugh
From the parted lips steal out;
What do babies, fast asleep
In a sunbeam, dream about?
Buds and flowers, .
Rainbows, showers,
Butterflies and honey-bees;
Peaches, cherries,
Apples, berries,
Brides singing in the trees.
Grass all over
Fragrant clover,
Dandelions golden bright;
Chickens peeping,
Squirrels ~leaping,
Big-eyed COWS in daised meadows,
Sweet warm milk and yellow cream-
Of all these, when in a sunbeam
Babies fall asleep, they dream.
-Aad1e Elliott, in Baldwin's Monthly
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donor, she added, cam I acquitted o

capriciousncss?"
In regard to the hcat-handed Phyl-
lis episode-yes. But suppose you
inquire why | came here"
"Why did YOU" she returned, ODE
dicntly.
"Because I, also, G the hay fever.
Loye, it is clear that you and l were
made for each other; for are we not
pursued by Il common enemy and
united by a common bond?"
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H,lssar-blue cloth dresses are made
with a plain skirt bordered with vel
vet, above which is military braid,
and a plain redingote with braided
wheels down the front, and plated
fullnesS behind,
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The ourang-outang, which escaped
from the Cincinnati geological garden,
has been recaptured. This effectually
disposes of the rumor that a bogus
Oscar Wilde has been roaming around
the West.
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"lIaJ was Il DlcSScu capTlccO l yours,
Loye. If it hadn't been for THAT l
couldn't have monopolized you as l
have done all these weeks. And per-
haps, but forthat, you would have said
Yes to solne n else, and | couldn't
have you for my own all a long life
time, as l hope to do, sweetheart said
Traitor, a few days later, as he slipped
a cleaning ring on her finger.
"Capricc." she echoed.
"YeS, the caprice that led you to
wait at Mrs. B~landing'S table in order
to give me finishing SURPRISE"
"As if you were worth the troubled"
she retorted. "Perhaps it is Il caprice
to have the hay fever" she mildly in
quircd.
"No.-a thousand times no!' cx-
claimed Traitor, energctically.
at may be Il caprice, to wish to go
where YOU will not have it,
"Thcre could not be Il more emf
ncntly sensible DESIRE" feryently re-
turned TraftOn.
"And | suppose, of course, that it
is a caprice not to have much money"
continued Loye, with deadly sarcasm.
"Alas for frrakish humanity if that
be so"
81 have snccZcd through the hay
fever for 50 many years that l wanted
desperately to escape from it. But we
haven't nearly enough money to allow
me to 90 as a butterfly, so l decided to
90 as a bee. The New England girls at
the White Mountains put the
idea in my head, and l rccol-
lected Mrs. BIanding, an old neighbor
of ours in New York, who was
keeping boarders here. I wrote tc
her, stating my dire need, and asking
if | could come as waitress. She re
piled that l might. So here I came
and here l met Prince Charming, who
has been very good to me and giver
Inc a lovely ring" With a glance a
the sparkling ring and a smile to it,
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Marc Cook ("Van Dyke Brown"). the
young poet who died in Utica, N. Y, recently,
of consumption. left one or two poems
touching his sickness and the prospect of his
early death, which are very pathetic. Here
is ono with q SIGH in every liue:
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BoycOtting an Idol.

At a place called Brindabun, in the
Maharajah of Jeypore's territory, there
has long been a Hindoo temple contain
ing within it's walls particularly sacred
idol named Gobindji This was sup
posed to watch over the royal dynasty,
and in return successive Maharaiahs
We're very polite to Gobindji and very
liberal to his attendants. So all went
smoothly until the late Maharajah came
to the throne. His predecessors had be-
longed to the Vaishnava sect, and the
idol spriestly attendants were, of course,
of that persuasion also. But the new
man not only proved to be SILVA, but
actually introduced SILVA priest into
the temple to help him in worshiping
Gobindji. When the Vaishnavas, who
hate the Shivas, heard of this desecra-
ton, they sent the Maharajah to Coven-
try and made a solemn VOW that they
would never look upon poor Gobindji
again or enter the door of his temple.
This by itself might not have mattered
much to the idol. but the enraged Walsh
navas surrounded the temple with
Gordon of trusty emissaries, who warned
away pilgrims under divers pains and
penalties. The consequence was that the
shrine became deserted, its revenues fell
away to zero, and Gobindji suffered so
seriously in reputation that he became
quite an unconsidered dol.-London
Globe
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.ys9 @yissaasaI
$500 per Annurn.
t.'"' s. NUMBER SO. 2r"l1
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The United States spend $S4, ,OOO,.
o00a year upon education. l-a'st H
The 200th anniversary of the intro
ductlon Of Presbyterianism into America
! will be celebrated next year. ".'''5' II"
| The Young Men Christian Asso.
citation of Brooklyn issues a little paper
7 called the Weekly Bulletin, giving ac-
count of the work done during the
| "eeh- aiHt951.g & imu#gi = u. f}is, .t-
| Henry Willard, the President of the
Northern Pacific Railroad, has offered to
endew Oregon University with $50, 600
u the State will increase its annual Leg
! islative allowance from 50, 500 to as. 600
MIR. George Z. Seney recently sent
Miss Rutherford his check for 81, 600 to
educate ten girls at the Lucy Cobb In
stItute in Athens, Ca, and Miss Ruther-
ford has made lit cover fifteen. scholar
ships for voting girls from that town and
other piaces.=-N X Heraldg s.o.s y.E.
The closing sentence of the Rev.
Newman Smyth's first Sermon as pastor
at New Haven, Conn, was the Scripture
passage;, ARISE, let us 60 hence.n The
reporter Of one of the local papers,
whose religious education seems.to have
been neglected. rendered the words:
II Amen, let US go home. 20 Chicago
1fzoune.5dE .fi ~ ID og3d3 liA aHa,
1t was a warm summer night, and
some OF the congregation in the little
church were slumbering languidly, ex-
cept. one man who snored in manner
not at all languid. The preacher OBJ
serving this, left his notes, and said to
one OF the deacons in the front row:
ffWlll you please ask the brother to stop
snoring, 1or he Will keep the other breth-
rem awake. = The rest of the sermon was
listened o.-Ipdsanapolts Journal.
. The Mississippi Hand Book, recently /.
published, gives "a few figures concern
ing the free schools of the State: In 1870
there were 1,564 schools, I ,728 teachers
and 43s45lpupilss, In 1880 there were
b,O24 schools, $3.50 teachers and 276, ,65l
pupils. Number of children at school i'm
the State in 1880: White l75, PSI; colored,
251, 438; total, 426, ,689 There was ex-
pended in 1880 on the free schools of the
State, $3.50, 7O1 ey,i,o.r s.,..f..,,
TAt. the recent annual meeting of the
baptist Association Of Southern New
York the following statistics were given:
Number of Baptist Associations in New
York State, A; churches, 87S; ordained
ministers, 786; baptisms last. wear, 3, ,545;
1882; Sunday schools, S7S;
officers and teachers in Sunday schools, 8
1S,lsl; scholars, 1885; number of
Baptist Associations in the United States,
| ,155; churches, 26.373; ordained min
isters, 1914; baptisms, psL $40, mem
bers, 2,336, ,022; Sunday schools, 14,437;
officers and teachers, l2O,6z8; scholars,
,006. .4l2. Contributions From churches
and Sunday schools in the State of New
York. S941 ,943. go; in the United States, ~
HOW, ytO.of.4L IT,. OIL. Z
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Took Tumkla.

1UEyEftJ TETG- ss.stLJ JENHI r1i &
Z A farmer and his wife came riding
into town the other day III BIG two, o
horse wagon and theswoman carried in
her arms a baby wrapped up in an old
bed quilt. As there was. good deal
more bed quilt than baby the little one
slipped out and tumbled unhurt into a
soft place in the street, and the couple
logged on serenely unconscious that any
thing was wrong until a bevy of small
boys chased after them yelling?2l JGe2
! Say, mister, you have lost sons
thin"
J ..Donrt look round,'' said the woman,
nudging her, husband. ". 1T s them CITY.
boys, and they .allus act jest So"
sS-a-y' missis, be this yoursp shouted
the boys in chorus. 9,,, ryva-fa,, tan.o,F
''Hair't you dropped nothin', Sue?"
inquired the farmer, ankiously. q 1905
''No, I haven't answered his wife.
'tThis amt the fust of Aprile, is ito It's
Jest them city young'un up to, their
tricks" she continued, shifting the bed
quilt little, then as she felt its iempti-
ness-"Lord massy, where's the baby
gone to?''L lisAs3 saTslb s'sz 83>If 2GE n
They both looked back and then saw a
crowd of boys swarming at the end of
the wagon, and in their midst a happy.
dusty baby delighted with the situation.
1t didn't take them long to recover the
youngster, and. wrapping it more Sc
curely in its patchwork, they logged on
Post,
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Varioss other phases cf undergraduates

fario'ss other phases Gf UNDERGRADUATE
imPadonee are represented by the fel-
lowing disconnected cases. the scene n
the first of which is Hobart College: -
Professor in physics, addressing a jun
ior very earnestly: :. Now, Mr. X. can
you assert positively that the sun will rise
Tomorrow morning? You would reason
from all past experience that it would,
bHt could you positively assert it?n
Junior, unwilling to lose chance for, a
wager don't know about asserting
it, Professor, but l would like to make q
bet with you that the sun rises, and give
you heavy odds''
They had reached the well-known
paragraph where Gdipqs exclaims: 80
city, city," and an unprepared Junior
was called up In the emergency he
replied: ''Here we have an example of
a word in English taken almost without
change from the Greek. Edipus being
m desperate circumstances, called loudly,
Police! Policer' 1885 ~
Professor in mechanics at Brown.
'Now, Mr.. g., what was the first phe
nomenon noted in connection with the
force of grayity"' (Mr G. hesitates and
b. prompts G. Adam fell.' AZ.
Professor in Shakesperian reading at
Union: n:2E"You have not told us how Mac
beth appeared to his wife?'' Senior:
Eyes, but you asked me to tell you how
he appeared to others, and you know he
and his wife were one.''
Freshman, translating Tacitus: "Thev
protmcted their sleep till late in the day.
Professor; '..What is the objection to
thate Freshman: ''Wel, really, never
could see any myself.'' wnisF Yl9ri rf,.
Student in moral philosophy: doctor,
who was that Scotch philosopher cons
temporary with Reid, nameI Douglas
somebody or other?" Professor: ...Du-
gald Stewart" Student: 80, iyes! T.
knew there was a Dug, somewhere about
1t, but | couldn't get, the right focus on
him. 5"a 1s Isl Vi = ,se5 '5@ =.
Scene in the class in Green's English
History" Student-'.Do you wish me
to describe the character of the Kinep''- >
Professor-''Yes." " Student Hehadn't
any character"
Professor in .sMethuselah
lived until the time of the flood.''- c.
'.Ihen he was drowned, was he?''
''No, Mr.. E., you can not leave the
room. lntermission was intended to :,
break this thing up" "Wen, profess
sor, that's why | want to go. Intermis-
sion has broken me up -r,, .,f, .-..r.
"Mr. W., should like to have YOU YOU
answer one, question this term''" ,St-l@
"Yes, sir - ----Sprtagfeld Republican,.