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Answering Literally.

Literal answers are sometimes quite
witty. "Win you kindly pat my fork
into potato?" asked young lady of
her table neighbor. with pleasure, )"
he responded, and piercing the potato,
coolly left the fork extended from it.
Again, we hear of very polite and i'm
pressive gentleman who said to a youth
in the street: "Boy, may [ inquire
where Robinson's drug store is 2" Der
taally, sir" replied the boy very res
pectfully. "Well, sir" said the gentle
man, after waiting awhile, "where is it ?"
81 lave not the least idea," said the ur-
chin. There was another boy who was
accosted by an aesthetic middIe-aged
lady, with: "Boy, 1 want to go to D
street." We'll, ma'am," said the boy,
"wly don't you go there!" Sometimes
this wit degenerates into punning, as
when Flora pointed pensively to the
heavy masses of clouds in the sky, say
ing: II wonder where those clouds are
going?" and her brother replied II
think they are going to thunder" Also
the following dialogue: "Hello, there!
How do you sell your wood?" "By the
cofd." "How long has it been cut?"
"Four feet!" IT mean how long has it
been since you cut it?" "No longer
than it is now" And also, as when
Patrick O'Flynn was seen with his col
Lar and bosom sadly begrimmed, and
was indignantly asked by his officer:
patrick O'Flynn, how long do you wear
shirt?" "Twenty-eight inches, sir"
he replied, with an air of inimitable
drollery.
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4 Cruel Surgical Trick.

AS they were lounging around on the
grass, Col. Stoddard Johnston slipped
off by himself, bored small hole in
very long nail on his little finger, and
taking a long, thin straw and ran It up
the side of his hand, and letting one end
concealed in his coat-sleeve, pushed the
other through the hole in his nail so as
to just show the straw on the inside. It
looked for all the world like he had a
splinter in under his finger-nail. He
came up toward Zach Smith, of Licking
ton, wringing his hands and appearing
to be in great suffering. Smith, who is
kind-hearted fellow, ran up to offer
assistance. Colonel Johnston, after d
great deal of hesitation, turned his hand
over to Smith, who began working to
get the straw out. Colonel Johnston
let him pull it out gradually, and Smith
was all sympathy, drawing his breath
in sympathetically and now and then
saying: Colonel, this is frightful." AT
length the splinter was far enough
above the nail to be caught hold of, and
Zach gave quick jerk to end Colonel
Johnston's suffering. To his surprise
he drew out splinter near three feet
long. He saw the joke Immediately
and joined in the hearty laugh of those
around him.-LolsisUi!le (Ky) Com
4; nieTcidl.
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The Cypa.Rs Sponge.

CyprHs sponges are the best in the
world, but the Turks monopolize them.
Only those of the very best quality are
used by the Turkish and Circassian
bellies, who make the size, shape and
quality Of their sponges as much a mat
ter of fashion as a Partisan lady does
the trimming of her bonnet or the color
of her parasol. This quality is known
as the "apida," or peer, and "aspro We
loudo" or white velvet, and commands
fabulous prices the moment it is brought
up, as Constantinople Cairo merchants
are always moving about among the
fishers ready to pay almost any price
for the much-desired quality. I saw
some specimens of this sort, and must
say that it is beautifully fine. In shape
it is like hollow pear, cafe-au-lait col
oTed, soft, elastic and velvety, and some
idea may be formed of its value by the
fact that a sponge-fsher refused 94 in
my presence for a sponge of the size of
a newly-born baby's head.
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(STincOln'S HeigIlt.3

Abraham Lincoln was just six feet
one inch when [ measured him in April,
1860, I placed his back against the
studio wall, and made mark over his
head, as had done in the case of Sena-
tor Douglas. two years before. I meas
ured from the fooc up to the mark sew
cral times, in order to be sure I was
right, desiring to know the difference
in the heights of these two men, which
was just twelve Inches. I thought Mr..
Lincoln fairly erect when I marked on
the wall. Possibly he might lave
stretched up All inch or two higher but
at that date it is hardly possible he
could have expanded three inches in
length I am now reminded of a story
told me while at Springfield, few years
since, of Mr.. Lincoln's faculty for
stretching himself out in length. [ did
not know of this, however, at the time
I measured him, or / should have re-
quested him to give his fullest height.
The following is the story:
A wager was made one day in Spring
field, between some old friends of Mr..
Lincoln and of o. NJ. Hatch, late Sec
rotary OF the State OF Illinois (also a
tall, slender man), as to their relative
height. Mr.. Hatch was first placed
against the wall, so mark could be
made over his head, MI Lincoln re-
marking at tine time, "Now, Hatch,
stand fair" When tie mark was duly
made, Mr. Lincoln was placed beside it,
and at first Mr. Eatcls's friends declar-
ed that they had won the wager. Wait"
said Mr.. Lincoln. "The mark is not
yet made for NE" Then he began to
stretch himself out like IRdia rubber,
and went nearly two inches above Mr..
Eatch's mark, carrying off the stakes
amidst the shouts and laughter OF the
bystanders.
In the model of the statute 7 made
of him 1878, I represent him six feet
three and half inches high, which is
over his real lifesize.
Mr.. Lincoln looked taIle: than he
really was, owing to his thin, bony, lank
form. ,-LeOhaTd ". Folk.
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PhOsphorescent Phenomena ON the New
England Coast.


On the New England coast these dis
plays of phosphorescent phenomena are
particularly noticeable, and the castel-
lated rocks are frequently bathed with
their splendors. When
The day is done, and the darkness
Falls from the wings Of night"
the phantons of this world of light
spring into existence, changing the
bosom OF the ocean to a scene of weird
revelry. Every drop of water seems a
CLEAN of light, and the grim keeps AMI
sea-weeds depending from the rocks
drip with liquid fire. Ahead of o7t
boat waves of light appear; benea!a
the surface moon and stars move be-.
and there, revolving and rising in en-, &.
fal curves with gentle undulation; ". l., a,
swift flashes, coming from the gloom
beyond, dart across the field, kav;rE n
bpiAiant nebHorss train bahind TIE
scene, as the waves break UPON the
rocks, is one of dazzling splendor. st
spou&mg Horn, Nahant, the water,
forced through natural crevice i'll the
overhan@ng crag, is thrown high ia air,
for :. moment hangs suspended, lNslli-
nous mist, thea settles upon the grim
batKements, bathing them IN warm,
lambent light that winds it's WY in
cleaning rivulets to the sea.
But what are these mystic shapes? In
answer we dip the scoop-net into the
water; the wish of Midas is here we'll
nigh ful&lled The meshes become o
shining web Of golden fabric, and en-
tangled in them are various myriads of
cleaning living creatures, the veritable
lamps of tho sea. They arc me3us.e
jelly-fshes, if you will-too common to
be described; unsight@y objects when
stranded upon the shore, but at night
possessed of n loneliness peculiarly tier
own. Large forms OF aurcla ..>. va
nea move around surrounded by halo
of golden-grecnish light. The cvanea
is q giant of it's kind, a fiery comet
sweeping in and out among the lesser
mimic consultations. One of these
large jeflies was observed near Nan
tueket from the mast of 4 vessel moving
lazily along, its disk encircled by halo
twenty feet in diameter, while the train
OF cleaning tentacles stretched awe =
txo hJladred feet or more. Mrs. Aes,..
six measured one whose disk was seven
feet across, with tentacles over one Hmm
bred and twelve feet in length. In fire
esaytiIne the great semi-t1ansparent disk,
with it's flexible lobed margin, is dark
reddish-brown color, while the tentscles.
bristling with lass0 cells and spiral
darts, are yellow, purple, brown, Or
pink. While the cyaneas tint the sea
with q greenish light, the little dysmor-
phosa, that at times appears il vast
numbers where currents meet around
rocky points, illumines it with light
Of deep aureian hue. On successive
nights we may find as many different
varieties changing the water to white
and yellow tints.-HG1per'S Magazine.
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Charleston in the Var.

The city of Charleston was under
siege $50 days, and for over five hun
dred days under fire. When Gilmore
got his Swamp Angel" planted and
sent word that he would open fire on tie
city, the citizens of Charleston laughed
over the message. His guns were five
miles away, and the idea that he could
do any harm was too absurd to enter
tain.
1t is just midnight.
W-r-r-r-r! S-s-s-s! Scream-rrsh-
bang!
Gilmore has sent his first shell into
the city. It strikes a brick building
opposite the postofice and explodes
with a crash which turns 5000 people
out of bed. Men who heard the horri-
bic screaming of that great shell as 1t
came over the waters of the bay Will
never forget the sound.
In five minutes a second one came, but
this failed to explode and is now on ex-
hibition at Major Willis office on the
wharf. 1t just fits into and fills q nail
key. By the time the third one arrived
all Charleston was awake and full of
alarm and horror. This was the begin
ming of a siege which has no parallel in
American warfare. Day after day
week after week-month after month,
with only intervals of a few hours at
a time for the guns to cool OF some
new move to be made, the lombard
ment continued.
BY and by She people became used to
the situation, and seemed to go to bed
without any more fear than would have
been shown in New York. While the
street cars ceased to run, all other bus
mess was transacted as usual, and dur
ing the hottest fire of the whole siege
men were loading vessels at the wharyes,
various factories were running and
children were playing in the public
parks. Federal history pictures
Charleston in ruins and filed with woe
and desolation within thirty days after
Gilmore opened fire. AS matter of
f2ct business was not suspended for a
single hoNr. While few families left
the city, others came in, and after the
first fortnight the shells were looked
upon as matter of course, Probably
not more than thirty inhabitants were
killed by the missiles direct, and both
the big fires had their origin in other
causes. As Charleston began-haughty
imperious and defant-so she remained
to the last, and wnen evacuated the
southern Confederaey was drawing It's
last breath of Efe.-DetroH Free Press
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RED HAIR.
Its Beauty and Advantages.
Whitehall Review

lN hCFl6Wl
I shall be considered unorthodox
when [ say that next in loneliness of all
the hair have ever seen comes a chez
clare of golden rel. Very red hair is
orange, and orange hair is far from
beautiful; but the abundant tresses to
which I refer were of the color of per-
fectly ripe corn, with that reddish tinge
which makes the waving harvest fields
so beautiful. Red hair, even if unloyelv,
has Its advantages in practical age,
when girl or woman dares not be in
significant, invisible" on penalty of
being nobody The writer of little
book on the toilet sets forth as follows
one of these advantages: "Enter aroom
in daylight Coy artificial light red loses
much of it's ferocity) where there are
women without bonnets or hats; and if
there be one of them with bright I'M
Inistakable red hair, she will stand out
from the rest with never-failing prom
inerce, whieh. if she be o pretty woman
and red-haired women have very often
great beauty of features and very often
lovely complexions-is of the greatest
advantage to her, socially speaking.
Another advantage lies in the fact that
the possession of red hair restricts the
owner to a narrow but select range of
color. And you call that an advan-
tage?' cry the phalanx of the red-haired
sisters. Undoubtedly I do, and to
prove it, ask if, in your inmost souls,
you do not adore pink and cherish the
belief that it suits you? Of course you
do. I never knew anyone of your color
ing who did not. Restriction as to color,
if universal, and regulated on basis of
good taste, would make England more
celebrated than ever for handsome
women or pretty girls, many of when
now ruin their looks by wearing wrong
tints. And what may the red-haired
wear? will tell you. If you wish to
be insipid and commonplace, wear pale
blue. That has been the heritage of the
red-haired for centuries. If you would
like to jump out of that deepened
groove, and wish to look O very poem,
buy warm golden browns, oraage-tintetl
yellows, raddy cream colors, with o
flash as from russell leaves upon them,
terra-cottas, and The whole range of
such tints as are exenplified in prim-
roses, buttercups, marigolds, tea roses,
Marshal Neils, and Gloire de Dion,
chestnut browns, chocolate, dull wall
flower reds, and dull gold color. A
bnautisul rousse WHO Is great favotite
in English society, wears gold band
in her hair, and usually dresses in the
evening in yellow satin OF gold-colored
velvet. She is picture, indeed; and
in her walking gowns of chocolate, re-
lieved with amber, On of tawny red and
gold, is as picturesque woman as one
would wish TO meet WhitehdH ReUieU.
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Sebastian Cabot.

Sebastian Cabot was certainly in one
sense the discoverer of America; it was
he who first made supe that it was q
wholly new and unknown continent. In
his early voyages he had no doubt that
lie Lad visited India, bat after his voy-
age of 1893 he expressed openly his dis
appointment that New Found Land"
OF most inhospitabls aspect lay as bar
rier between Europe and the desired
Asia. As the German wEiSer, DR.. Asher,
has said, "Cabot's dispIeasuye involves
the scientific discovery of q new world"
In his charts North America stands as
g separate and continuous continent,
though doubtless long after his time
the separate islands we're delineated. as
of old, by others. and all we're still sup
posed to be- outlying parts of Asia. In
this, as in other respects, Cabot was
better appreciated fifty years later than
in his own day. His truthful accounts
for the time discouraged further enter
prise in that direction. "They that seek
for riches" said Peter Martyr, "must
not go to the frozen NORTH" And after
one or two Intellectual undertakings he
found NJ encouragement 60 repeat MS
voyages to the North American coast,
bat was sought for both by Spain and
England to conduct other enterprises.
He was employed in organizing expedi-
tons to the Braxils, or to the north pole
by way of Russia, but the continent he
had discovered was left anexploEed. He
was esteemed as s1kllfM warmer and
one who had held high official station
he died dreaming of new and infalli-
BILE mode of discovering the longitude
which he thought had been revealed to
him from heaven, and which he must
not disclose. The date of his death
like that of his birth, is unknown, and
his burial-place is forgotten. But fifty
years later, when Englishmen turned
again for different object toward thc
American continent, they remembered
his early achievements, and based OF
them claim of ownership by right O.
discovery Even thea they were SO little
appreciated that begd Bacon, writing
his Reign of Henry VII, gives bat three
or four sentences to the exploration
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USEFUL HUNTS.

Tine expressed juice of green walnut
shells diluted with water is used for
dying blonde hair d light brown.
4 LITTLE spirits of turpentine added
to the water with which floors are
eashea will prevent the ravages of
Meals.
USE kerosene, or bath-brick, OF pow
dared lime to scour iron, tin or COPPER:
wash in hot suds and polish with dry
whiting.
To REMOVE spots from furniture, four
ounces OF vinegar, two ounces Of sweet
OIL, one ounce Of turpentine. Mix and
aiply with a flannel cloth.
VARIOUS materials may be advantage
'6n~iy covered with rubber enamel. iron
ia ir~t,s protected from rust, glass
r" "Ia breaking. and wood
ser mi more ornamental.
.,c ,unt4rial Is applied in
&c foundation material,
- ao.e article is sub4.
.f;sea Ct heat, the mate
s.cf, arm united and the
-,.sses',, I surf G oGtained.
/ ..1.g haf pound Of the best grc7,nd
setfE'e, PIT it into = saucepan containing
t"ree Eints Of water, and boil il DOM
TO epnt; boil The liquid, put it INTO
ss,sa Der sars'epa., we'll secured, and bou
: again. - it tolls, adj white SUGAR
Ci}ough 10 Gsve GhA consistency OF Strap
tatze 1t from tie ire, aud when it is cool
ps-5 into a botsla ,.ud seal When trav-
elm. Ii you Wish cup of GOOD coffee.
9'is cwo teaspoons ii ti.e srup IN Pr or
..ixayv o1p aud pour bo;.iMy water Upon
i 90. Il Is r-.ldy 10 l.s9.
M>r>&oXT mikes an esco1ic,lt vars ~
p g!ir scare. g O. vt cetables, and shea.I
i}e ,ln@& better kn,wn art moro used
BY tie misses here II is tie staple
T'o3 ri TIC common people il Italy, Il
I'D, of NEST c!aSs,.e. Ii is made Of
s.s.Eg'T GFlj:Hous wAt&t t:uUi. hence is
flvs.i farming, wilde lbs starch supplies
lle,,t. it may be nooi;e,t tagtder IL boil
ny water, seasoned With salt, ail,, eascn
y III ~ even witioltt cream saUcc, or
Ei,k 0r buittr. After lorling it can be
Tut NJ pudding diah, with about a
quarter rs weiHht OF grated cheese
':.}riIIhled ov~r It aud lis'ttly baked.
The addition OF this Gil csc makes this
dit aheyt equal to leaA meat as flesh
lc"re".
,.ea ~rctabIe- l5oking husk nat,
sa -.l,r.9 he Household, is not
'.; l+'~' ;~,t, and I WISH every
.,'v Nhat world of
<r.,s""',I a.@ y ping OF floors they
srf-d 'a' 4 =" Eugllt have one. One
IT,. ~,',s>..,-' ,,G.l y boxer full of husEs
: 49,. -c.,i - braid large mat. If
you nave boys OF girls, il will be Just
faG for them to braid one il the evening:
buk if, like myself, you have neither,
it would pay you to take the time and
60 it yourself. Have ready tea-ket;le
fdll OF hot water, and tarn on to the
better Of husks. Begin a comm on three
strand braid, and as you bring over a
strand place about three husks on, leaT-
ing the large ends of the husks up.
When enough is braided for a mat, sew
frHlly with Irvine in any shape you
ehoase-long, round OF oval. Then
sprinkle warm water On upper side.
Pun fork through the husks, splitting
the ends into little, curly fbers then
with the shears trim off evenly. This
can be done III one evening by a good
w,'rker. I braid enough in the fall to
fast'me the year round.
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The Mistaken Tramp.

A Tramp, who had not tasted Food
for twenty-seven days, and who was
Anxious to reach Buffalo in time to see
his Mother die, knocked at Door, and
asked the Woman for Heavens Sake to
give him some work whereby he might
Earn an Honest Quarter.
walk right around to the Back
Door," she Promptly replied, and in
About four Minutes the Tramp was in
troduced to Pile of Hickory Wood
and Buck-saw. Then his Heart glad
dened, for he meant to steal the Saw
and Ak, but as he made for the Alley
Fence 20C-pound Dog played with his
CoatTMls and rolled him over the Ash
pile until the woman came out and
Cllideti him for his Impulsiveness and
SAIL to the Tramp:
Now rou Climb! and as YOU Pursue
vrar weary way through Lies Cold
:':fil@. remember that Truth is Mighty
All -loae@ty is Big thing on Ice"
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~, madIy the sight OF her lad brought
him back from death to life; he knew
her free and yet he hesitated. How
could he forget all that was past with
the child always before him? A fierce
jealousy consumed him. The child
might die ! This thought he brooded
over till it became his one wild hope and
desire.
One day he met Kathleen in the pas
sage. He was startled by the change in
her. Her face was wan and pinched
with care her eyes, unnaturally large,
were dim and sunken with sleeplessness
and weeping. Her whole aspect was
piteous. She chung for support against
the walls as she slowly stumbled along.
When Fritz saw her grief he felt
ashamed of his wicked hope. All his
generous nature sprang up in love and
profession toward her and her lMtle
one.
Kathleen, he said, taking her hand,
=" let me nurse your child with you. I
have had much experience with the sick !;
may be able to help you"
She opened the door and drew him
into the room. The nurse who watched
the child motioned them to be quiet.
and, as the mother took her place beside
the couch, whispered, "She sleeps
this is the crisis" and left the room.
Kathleen knelt down by the bedside,
leaning her wan cheek on the ehild's
little haad. A lovely, tender expression
rested on her face. She was praying.
Fritz stood behind her and locked on.
Ehe chHRs little face, which he had
seen last so radiant and sunny, was wan
and deathlike. The silken, faxen hair
hung over the pillow, matted and damp,
while the breath came so softly that she
hardly seemed to breathe at all.
His breast heaved, and the scaldimg
tears chased one another down has cheeks
the first he had shed since he had
learned Kathleen's untruth toward him.
And so the hours passed in silence,
| while blessed hope and Joy crept int
Fritz's heart for was he not there alone
with his beloved and the little one whose
life he now crayed as much as he hither-
to wished for it's death?
At the first gray streak of dawn the
child opened her eyes.
Mother" she said softly.
Kathleen arose.
"Saved " she cried, "Oh, mersiful
God, l thank Thee"
"Amen !" answered deep voice be-
! hind her.
"Fritz you here ?"
"I have been here all night, love. My
prayers have gone up to heaven with
yoursfor the recovery of your-our child.
May it not be SO, Kathleen p"
She disengaged one hand from the
chila's neck and passed it around his,
while she laid the other, clasping the IT,
ny hand, into his open palm.
YES, ours" she murmured, "our
white violet"
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From French Philosophers.

The attractions Of Women are not in
the ensemble but in the details.
White hairs are the foam-points
which cover the sea after the tempest.
The heart causes us to do stupid
things; the hand makes US avoid them.
It is of love as of soup; the first
spoonfuls are too hot, the last too cold.
To believe that you are loved for
yourself is the height of human folly.
Pride is bad counselor, but sure
friend; it obliges us to consider the
Judgment of others.
Give moaey, but do not lend any, to
give makes persons only ungrateful,
while to lend makes them enemies.
Il We could give, as charity, to those
who employ it we'll, the time that we
waste, how many beggars would be
rich.
What is wanting in woman is the
intermediate sentiment between love
and hate; she knows nothing of that
weapon of the strong man, indifference