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M-4RJORTE GRAY.
BY ADA NJ. Z. NICHOLS.


Blythe in the sun of a summers day
Tripped little old-fashioned Marjorie Gray,
Maiden quaint of long past day
Marjorie GrayI
Loud sang the robins on branch and spray,
Madly and gladly and long sang they,
Carolled to Marjorie on her way
Loud sang they!
Sweet was the roses breath in the air,
Clear flowed the brook through the gardens fair,
White lay the road in the suns bright glare
Warm the glare!
But maid Marjorie, waiting there,
Had not for heat nor dust q care
Knew not that she and the roses rare
We're so fair;
Saw not the 1.-THE and graceful hound
Running to meet her with graceful bound,
Leaping and springing over the ground
Friendly hound!
Farther away, with gaze profound,
And girlish forehead slightly frowned,
Her eager eyes their object found
Gladly found!
She was little belle from the town,
Dainty III manner and face and gown;
He was poet of no renown,
Far from town:
Yet the naughty eyes so brown,
Under the poets smile or frown,
Cleaned with joy, or. shy, looked down,
Soft and brown.
Sad that one could not leave them so,
Maiden and poet Of long ago,
Meeting with joy by the old hedge-row-
Long ago.
But times departure, steady and slow,
With years of roses and years Of Snow,
Has wrapped the park in chill and glow
Roses ard snow.
Marjorie married the son Of peer;
M'.rjorie's life was short and drear;
Forgotten she, for many year,
In charch-yard drear:
While to the poets record dear
Came sweet fame and long career,
Fortune, and love, and all things dear
Blessed career!
Bhthe was that summer passed away;
Happy the little maid they say;
Tender the poet that sunny day
Passed away.
Flown are the birds from tree and spray;
Dust is sweet little Marjorie Gray;
Deathless the honored poets lay
Weladay!
farper's Magazine.
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tina. "Some one else will come. You
have taught other people too much.
They will never come back to Herr
Worstanadrum.
"But there is another reason" he
said. 81 am very unhappy. 1 love a
little blue-eyed girl, who is my next-door
neighbor, but her: father hates me. and
1 don't think she would marry me with
out his consent-do you?" And he
looked straight into Martha's eyes, as
if she knew anything about it.
"I don't think she would" answered
Martha. " if she is good girl"
"She is very good, " he said, positively:
$50 you see there is no hope for me,
and must CO."
On which Martha whispered some
thing in his ear-to which he said ::
"Do you think so ?"-to which she an
swered 81 know so r'-on which he
said: "Pll try"-and went away.
That evening the professor was quite
alone, and the door was open. He was
wondering what kept Martha so long,
and grumbling terribly as he smoked
his pipe, when in came the dark-eyed
stranger.
81 came to make my peace with you,''
he said, mournfully. CT am going
away"
"Take seat, sir" said the professor,
growing civil at once.
81 am going" he repeated, seating
himself close to the Old man, "for two
reasons. The first is, that I love your
daughter Martha, and am sure you
won't let me have her; but the principal
one 1s-Herr Worstanadrum.
I" Herr Worstanadrum p' repeated the
old man, opening his eyes very wide.
=" Yes, [ an tormented by the recol-
lection Of your superior excellence. Ny
style of playing pleases; it is popular.
Why? Because the vulgar can under
stand and appreciate it-just like the
children like the primer better than
Cicero's orations. Yours is the true
school-the only fountain of excellence.
But it is only great minds like yours
that can comprehend the meaning of
such wondrous melodies like those of
Herr Worstanadrum; but to play them
ali that is reserved for you. I have
tried, and failed
"Really!'' interrupted the old man,
hugely delighted.
yes, really. 1 am continually try
ing to recall it, but in vain. It haunts
me; it crazes me; and since I cannot
bear the torture, I fly"
But the professor was already at the
long-closed piano.
"You shall not go away, my poor
boy. I will play it for you every day,
and perhaps you might learn it by de-
grees. 1t is not your fault, you know,
if you did fall
Impossible" returned the young
man, sadly. "You are only too good;
but [ cannot stay"
"Not if L will give you Martha ?"
urged the old man-as eager to keep
him as he had ever been to drive him
away.
"That might alter the case" he said,
hesitatingly. "But would you play the
adagio every day?"
81 viii if you like" And he did.
And the young professor, with his arm
around the waist of his blue-eyed wife,
smiles as the old man crashes away at
"Herr Worstanadrum, saying pityingly:
"Poor fellow he can never play it. "
Reader, it is not probable that there
are any such cross grained, quaint, crot-
chical, fog-brained old curmudgeons
nowadays; buff ever you should chance
TO stumble on any, find out their partic-
ular Herr Worstanadrum," and go and
do likewise.
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CROSS EXAMINATION.
a Fair Sample of Buu-Head Lawyers
Methods.

a Fair Sample of BuU-Head LasUyers'
Methods.
From the Boston Transcript
Lawyer-"You say you know Mr..
Smith p"
Witness" Yes, sir"
Lawyer-'You swear youknowhim?"
Witness" Yes, sir"
Lawyer" You mean that you are &C
quainted with him ?"
Witness" Yes, sir, acquainted with
him."
Lawyer-"Oh, you don't know him
you are merely acquainted with him.
Remember that you are on oath, sir.
Now, be careful. You don't mean to
tell the court that you know all about
MI. Smith, everything that he ever did"
Witness No, I suppose
Lawyer" Never mind what you sup
pose. Please answer my question. Do
you, or do you not, know everything
that Mr.. Smith ever did?"
Witness-"No, /"
Lawyer That'l do, sir. No, you
do not. Very good. So you are not
acquainted with all his acts?"
Witness" course
Lawyer-"Stop there. Are you, or
are you not?"
Witness "No."
Lawyer" That is to say. you are not
so well acquainted with him as you
thought you were?"
Witness" Possibly not"
Lawyer" Just so. Now we begin
to understand each other. IF you don't
know anything about Mr.. Smiths acts
when you are not with him, you can't
swear that you know him, can you"
Witness" If you put it that way?"
Lawyer Come, sir; don't seek to
evade my question. I'll put it to you
again. When you say you know Mr..
Smith, you don't mean to say you know
everything he does?"
Witness" No, sir of course not"
Lawyer-"Just so; Of course not.
Then you were not quite correct when
you said you knew Mr.. Smith ?"
Witness" No, sir"
Lawyer 'In point of fact, you don't
know Mr.. Smith ?"
Witness-"No, sir"
Lawyer-"Ah, 1 thought SO. That'n
do, sir. You can stand down"
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-06-10
AGNOSTTCS,

In recent sermon Mr.. Beecher spoke
of the agnostics, the know-nothings il
philosophy, who say that what they ad-
nit as true must be demonstrated. They
say there may be God and a future
life, but they don't know, and not to
know is as bad as not to believe. 81
have no venomous feelings against these
men, but an inexpressible sadness for
them; they have drifted so that the veri-
ties of religion are matters of ignorance
to them. Things are true which are not
susceptible Of material proof. The soul
is not be measured by the tests of rea-
son. Every man knows the difference
between calm reason and being thun-
deringly mad, but he cannot explain it.
The man who gives up all he can't
prove, must give up honor, poetry, he
roism, and much that is best and richest
in life. tits all beyond the last analysis
of science.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-06-10
Il CRUISE IN THE ARCTIC REGIONS

A CRUISE IN THE ARCTIC REGIONS
We had been sailing about the en-
trance of Bafin's bay for fourteen days,
in fearful storms. The rigging was stiff
with ice, the sides of the vessel were
covered with great shining plates. The
sailors were half frozen, and we could
not move a rope through a block with
out pouring hot water upon it. We had
but little daylight on account Of the thick
fog, and the long nights were still more
dreadful when the ship rose over the
huge black waves and sank down again
into the abyss, so that every moment we
expected to be shattered to pieces on
the masses of ice which the storm drove
over the roaring sea, and which seemed
to be sent for our destruction.
One morning, near the end of the
storm, after fresh fail of snow, an ice
berg 500 feet high approached us with
fearful rapidity. Already it was close to
us when the cry arose, SIT turns /" On
it came, its tottering top bending over
our ship. Our fate seemed settled! We
were lost! The whole of the gigantic
mass was falling over us and must shat
ter us to pieces. We all fell upon our
knees and prayed in silence, thinking
every moment would be our last. The
iceberg was already half way over us,
when, to our JOY and thankfulness, it
turned aside, and moment after fell In
to the sea few yards behind the stern
of our ship, hurting the water over the
tops of the masts, and binding us for
time with the icy drops which splashed
over our faces. For a minute the waves
were checked in their course, the sea
seemed to boil, the ship rocked and
plunged, the sails tapped against the
masts and scattered about the ice with
which they had been covered. Then
the sun broke suddenly through the
clouds, and with his rosy tint shed on
the snow We saw, to our delight, within
a short distance from the ship, the land
spread out before us, which promised
rest and safety to the weary Mariners
CHGtteybOr.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-06-10

You never get to the end OF Christ's
words. There is something in them al
ways behind. They pass into proverbs,
they pass into laws, they pass into doc
trines, they pass into consultations but
they never pass away, and after all the
use that is made of them they are still
not exhausted.-Dea1a Stanley.
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PREHISTORIC MINING IN MICHIGAN,

PREHISTORIC MINING IN 1EICHIGAN,
The Lake Superior mines have the
advantage of producing metal free from
any alloy of antimony or nickel or
arsenic. IN many of the mines great
masses Of native metal are found, SO
large that they must be cut in place
with chisels.
All the more important mines are sit
uated on the ancient workings of pre-
historic race. They seem to have been
Ignorant of the fact that copper could be
melted, for they left behind them the
fragments too small to use and the
masses too heavy to lift Every day
they subjected it to temperature nearly
high enough, without making a discov-
cry which would have lifted them out of
the Stone Age into the Bronze Age, and
perhaps have enabled them to survive
the struggle in which they persisted.
They must have been very numerous,
and have reached the point of develop
ment where they were capable of organ
izing industry.
In Isle Royale, near the Minong mine,
their pits, excavated to a depth of from
ten to twenty feet in the solid rock,
cover an area of from 800 to 400 feet
wide and more than mile and half in
length. The labor expended here cannot
have been much short of that involved
in building pyramid. Isle Royale is
ten miles from the nearest land, and is
incapable of producing food, SO that all
supplies except fish must have been
brought from some distant point. Their
excavations could Of course never go
below the point at which water would
accumulate. Their hammers, frequently
to the number of several thousand, are
found in heaps, where they were evil
IDENTIFY placed at the end of the season.
As no graves or evidences Of habitation
are found, we can hardly doubt that the
ancient miners lived south of the great
lakes, and made yearly journeyings with
fleets of canoes to the copper mines.
The aggregate amount of the metal
which they carried off must have been
very great, and it has, I believe, been
generally thought that the copper nipple
ments of the ancient Mexicans came
from this source. NJ. Charnay, in
recent number of the North american,
seems to think that the Mexicans re-
duced copper from its ores. A chemical
analysis of their hatchets would solve
the question, for Lake Superior copper
is so free from alloys as to be unmistak-
able.
The superintendent of the old Caledo-
MIA mine. IN Ontonagon county, kindly
took me TO the top of cliff where three
Cornish "tributers miners working
not for wages but for share of the
product-had cleared out one of the an
cient pits in the outcrop of the vein.
They had broughtout quantity Of cop
per, and had Just uncoyereda large mass
which would weigh certainly not less
than seven tons. Many battered stone
hammers lay around the mouth of the
pit. The active little Englishmen, be-
longing to race Of hereditary miners
perhaps as old as the mound builders
themselves, had come around the world
from the east to finish the work of the
departed Asiatic race who reached here
from the west at time to which no date
can be assigned. Not fan. away another
e.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-06-10

SAYS social critic "Women are all
more or less born actresses the first
word with most of them is, How will
it look?' They know that their pretty
pretense of fireside needlework looks
very well to their admiring friends and
even to their husbands. They know
that its meaning is understood and ac-
cepted."
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-06-10

YoUxe lady-"My dear Professor, I
want to thank you for your lecture. You
made it all so plain that I could under
stand every word" Professor" am
truly glad you did understand it. Z
have studied the subject for about Dir
teen years, and am not clear t3le.ss 1 IN
llerstand it vet"
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-06-10

AMONG the Athenians the per1orat1on
Of the ears was a mark of nobility; with
the Hebrews and Romans it indicated
servitude.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-06-10

AN ambitious man whom you can
serve will often aid you to rise, but not
higher than his knee, otherwise you
might be standing in his light.
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FoRTY-NINE out Of every fifty beggars
are rank swindlers and base impostors,
and yet the average beggar collects
about 70 cents per day.
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THE sPHENX AND TIE BROKER.


A well-known broker travelling on the
Nile strayed away from his dahabeah,
and found himself face to face with the
sphinx, who asked: "What do you
think of the stock market %
sIt is evidently bull market" said
the well-known broker. cred Sea
Shore is cheap at 120, Desert Union is a
gift at SO, and Nile Pacific laughable at
par. Now is the time to buy stock,
while EverbiIk Bey and Ghoul Efendi
are supporting the market. Tt is always
well to buy on rising movement"
"Buy me 100 each of Red Sea Shore,
Desert Union and Nile Pacific, said the
sphinx.
Some days afterward " the oldest OPP
orator in the Streets" being met on the
way to his dahabeah, was asked by the
uneasy sphinx What do you think of
the stock market?"
'sIt certainly is bull market, he re.
piled; "stocks are all off, especially Red
Sea Shore, Desert Union and Nile Pa
cifc, which have fallen about ten points.
Eyerbilk Bey and Ghoul Efendi want
all the shares that can be had cheap.
and are doubtless buying. It is always
well to buy on falling market.
The sphinx, startled by the familiar
phraseology, pierced the transparent
disguise of the Oldest operator" and
recognized in him "the well-known
broker who had unloaded on her.
Moral-Beware of the "Wall street
gossip. "-NeaO York Sun.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-06-10

VERY few l,rettier girls have ] ever
seen than one who sat near NE an even
ing not long ago at the table d'hote at
the Continental, Philadelphia. The
loveliest Of auburn~ hair, beautiful
features, smallest Of mouths and pref
test Of teeth!sall combined to mako
her exceedingly attractive Turning to
a queer-looking little old lady at
her side, she suddenly exclaimed 30,
ma! amt them mince-pies beastly ?'' =
NeaO York Hotel Mat.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-08

It IL explained that the Mexican BON.
stitution requires the consent of the
Mexican senate to the passing of for.
eign troops through Mexican terrific.
ry, the same formallty being neoes.
ssry for this as for the ratification of q
treaty, the Mexican executive not
being empowered to act in either case
without the approval Of the senate.
No %oficisl information has been re.
ceived at the legation OF the crossing
of Gen. Crooks forces, but 1t Is
thought they are already In Mexico,
and that Gen. Crooks movement was
the result of q mutual agreement be.
tween him and the Mexican com
msnder, under which the for
mer has been enabled to
enter Mexico with the consent
of the Mexican government and the
&C. operation of Mexican troops. The
opinion Is also EXPRESSED at the legs.
tion that the failure of the Mexican
government to accept Immediately
the notifications Of existing agreement
proposed by the United States will not
interfere with the success Of Gen,
Crooks operations against the Indians
Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-08
A VOLTS Foreeis ht

Tulars (CaD Times.
A sLrange story Is related by some
persons who reside near LsmovrG. 1t
Is vouched for by seversl persons OF
known veracity 1t relsten TO the
foresight and Invention manif ssted By
q large wolf that iniests that district
The parties In question had been mIs.
slug poultry for Bomo time. The dec.
imation had proceeded to that extent
as aroused to activity the d~efeusiSe
faculty Of the property owners While
one of them, a Mr.. Stark Hill, was
looking about for rome traces of the
d%epredstor he came across q duck
that had been raised by w. r Mass.
meyer. Its head was all that was Wis.
IDLE, The body had been buried with
the wings spread out, and the ground
trsmped down. The duck was still
alive, although it had been missing
for three days. 1t is evident that the
wolf had this plan to supply Its future
wants, and had managed to keep the
fowl alive, 80 that 1t would not spoil
before he should want 1t.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-08
Heard His Bones Rattle

q bis Bones haCtie'
Boston Herald.
A curious medical case is reported
from Mansfield, Conn. For several
years Henry 81. Mansfield, aged fifty
five, had experienced imperfect circu.
lation and severe pains In the right
foot. Finally the small toe showed a
hole extending to the bone, and 1t was
amputated. Gangrene set In, extend.
Ing throughout The foot, consuming
the tissues and leaving the bones
unprotected, so that when he moved
his foot suddenly be experienced
the rare sensation of hearing part of
his own skeleton rattle. A final am
p~utstion was made two inches above
the ankle joint, and the progress of
the disease has been checked. On dis.
secting the amputated portion the ar
teries were found ossiied and enlarged
for q short distance, alternating with
short arterial sections In normal con.
dition. During a%mputation there was
a very slight flow of blood, owing to
the Justification of the arteries. 1t Is
claimed that this is q rare case. Ossi-
fisstion of the heart Is not infrequent,
but hat of arteries of the lower ex-
tremeties is seldom reported by physi-
clans.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-08
Famous Nuggets.

Sierra County CAL, Tribune.
Ga the 18Th of August, 1860, q large
piece of gold was taken from the
Monumental mine, Sierra b lttep,
which weighed 1886 ounces troy, the
value of which was estimated at from
$2i, 600 to $50 600. The mine was
owned by William A. Parrish & Co.
The nugget was sold to r b Wood
ward, of San Francisco, for S21,-
636 60, and placed on exhibition at
Woodwsrd's Gardens, where 1t at.
tracted much attention. The Monu-
mental mine had yielded $40, 600
worth OF gold at the time of the dis
covery of the nugget.
A fine specimen was taken from the
Rainbow quartz mine, Chips Fiat, In
1881. 1t was taken from a depth of
200 feet. The specimen was on exhi.
bition at the office of II. Il. Noble, In
San Francisco. Later 1t was shipped
to London and worked there. 1t
yielded $22, 600. The total yield of
the Rainbow mine during the past
three years has been 5000, 900.
In 1865 q nugget wss found at
French ravine that weighed 532ounces
and was worth $40, 600. 1t contained
considerable quartz, which is not cal.
oulated In its weight.
In 1851, at French Ravine, a mug
get was found which weighed 42G
ounces and was valued at So. 600.
A nugget Is reported TO have been
found In Minnesota valued at IS, 600.
In 1850 a piece of gold quartz was
found at French Ravine which con
tanned 263 ounces of gold worth 81,
1913.
At Smith's Flat. In 1866, q piece Of
gold was taken from a claim which
was worth $2,717, and weighed lac
ounces.
At Smiths Fiat, In the year 1864.
a nugget was found CT 140 ounces,
and worth 81 605.
In 1869 a nugget was found at Lit.
tie Grizzly ~diggings which wau worth
$1,000.
A nugget weighing "a ounces and
valued at $1,770 was found at the
Hope claim, four miles below the
Mountain house.
At French r~avine, In 1910. a nugget
worth $l.758, and weighing SO ounces,
WAS found.
In 1871, at Smiths Flat, a nugget
vas found which weighed 80 ounces.
and was valued at 81, 500.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-08

four feet high. "Blg George had
become the %autocrat Of the monkey
house and the especial delight OF all
the little folks who visited the Zoo.
His death was caused by ''intussuscep'
tion"-not by the word, but q disease
of hal name. "Blg Georges" skin
has been carefully preserved and will
be stuffed, so that future generations
of children will be able to see what a
great monkey he was.
The two newly imported chimpan.
ices, about whose health so much
solicitude was felt by the superlntend.
emit Of the Zoo, are as lively rs crick'
cts.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-08
The Philadelphia Zoo.

Philad elphia Record.
The latest addition to the ouriosi.
ties Of the Zoo Is an immense python
from India, the largest aver brought
to this country, which has Just been
placed In a big cage In the aviary.
This monster of the jungles Is owe,
r~ixteen feet long, and measures two
thirds of q yard arr ind the body. A
smaller snake Of the same species was
purchased In New York when Its com
panion was bought, and the two i'm.
mense reptiles are coiled up quite low
inglytogether In their new home, They
attract almost as much attention al
the monkeys.
The death of the big Chacmr
bahoon, a few days ago, appears Il
have had a depressing influence upor
the other occupants OF the great mon
key cage, where "Big George" was
great favorite. He was brought II
the Zoo three years ago, when he wa
very small, but had grown 30 rapid!
! at the time of his death he was nearl!
Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-08
Gambetta's True Love Story

Iru0 Love STORY.
Instead of being engaged in a vul-
gar intrigue and shot by his mistress
In a quarrel, as at frat reported by the
Figaro, Gambetta seems to have been
involved in a love affair of a higher
order, which almost deserves a place
by the side of the nan of Petra
arch and Laura and Abelsrd and
Eloise. it is thirteen years since
Gambetta formed the acquaintance of
Mile. Lsonie, through her own admi-
ration and persistence, and q
friendship n love resulted
which remained warm and
constant to the end They wrote
one another long letters every day for
ten years. The distinguished widower
often proposed to marry her, but she
refused on the ground that 1t would
injure him. "Ten years ago." she
wrote, '4t would have been possible,
but now, amidst the jealousy and envy
you provoke, marriage would be .
drawback to your career. 1 sacrificed
myself voluntarily to you; don't marry
me-" One Of his last declarations was
his intention to marry her, but he died
intestate at last, and his 5000, 900 goes
to bis own blood relatives.