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Crushing q DOOrkeeper.

A doorkecper of one of the ladies' gal
leries in the House has succeeded in get
ting himself quite thoroughly dislikcd by
his colleagues and by the ladies who are
not hungering for the devoted attention
of strangers. This particular doorkccper
appears to live only to be beautiful, and
in that view of the case his life is largely
a failure. Many remarks have been made
about his constant habit Of coming inside
the gallery and staring i%ntently upon any
wcll-dresscd young lady who happens to
be near him. The other day this crush.
ing doorkceper persuaded one of his col
leagues to take his place for half an hour.
The crusher went down on the floor OF
the house, took the seat of a Congress-
man who happened to be absent, stretched
his thin legs over the desk. and tried to
look interesting and very much at home.
When he returned to the gallery he asked
the doorkcepcr who had taken his place,
did any of the ladies see me down
therc?"
"Oh, yes"
s.Did they make any remarks about
me?"
'Ycs, several of them inquired who
that long, lean, cadavcrous looking i'm
beetle was down there"
What! They didn't say that, did
they? Who did you tell them | was!"
II said you were hired to stay down
there and keep the lighted stubs of the
members cigars off from the new car
pet"
The "mashcr" doorkeepcr did not go
on the floor of the house again for Il
week. Washington Rp"bIiran
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THE DEFENDER

Cere came and laid his hand upon ne1
shoulder,
And Sorrow came, her lids with salt tears
wet;
And Pain, with features marred, and white
and set,
Pressed to her side; and then, stern visaged,
gaunt,
Frightening her shaken soul, IMPLYING Want
Stared in her face; and then, growing
holder
By all these ills, Temptation, smiling, fair,
Spread for her weary feet a charmed snare,
With tender, cruel hand. So cold the world
All her weak soul in a strange tempes
whirled,
With whitened lips, and sal, implorine
breath,
She stretches out her helpless hand to Death.
Then 10! one came, before whose radiant
grace
Sorrow grew dumb, and grim Care hid hi
face;
Before whose presence as radiant as thu
day,
Temptation, vexed and beaten, fled away:
| For whose dear sake she trembled at TIN
thought
Of Death, whose pallid kiss she vain hat
sought.
With a strange rapture, holy, ~restful, sweet
Against her W she felt a true heart beat.
Oh, Life! she cried, no i'll of thine can hol'
me,
Since Love, the mighty, in his arms dotl
fold me.
Charlotte Perry, in Vanity Fair.
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EARTHQUAKES and Luminous Paint.

The connection between earthquakes
and luminous paint would hardly be an
parent to any one without explanation.
1t nevertheless exists, and the recent
earthquakes in our own country have
served to remind lis of its existence. AS
a matter of fact large consignments of
this paint are sent to those countries
where earthquakes are prevalent. The
use to which it is put invests it with the
utmost Importance just for the few crltl-
cal moments of the shock. In the Philip
pine Islands, where earthquakes are not
uncommon, small metallic plates coated
with luminous paint are so placed about
the premises that at the first warning the
inmates arc quickly guided to the door,
and thus to the street. In Manila 1t is
laid on in patches about the bedrooms
and staircases, serving as guides for the
door handles and the stairs, night lights
being considered especially dangerous as
likely to set fire to the falling house, and
thus to roast the inmates in their
homes. 1t follows that those who live in
districts likely to be visited by earth
quakes will do we'll to adopt this plan.
and to burn no flame lights at night, es-
pccially in the case of gas, the pipes for
which might be broken asunder, and the
gas escape and take fire. The gas should
be turned off at the main nightly, and
luminous labels be so placed as to indi-
cate the door handles and other guides
to the main point of egrcss, which would
enable the residents to find their way out
of their houses in the dark before the
walls perchance buried them. 1t will be
remembered that at Ischia there was just
sufficient time between the first shock
of the earthquake and the downfall of
the Grand hotel to permit those who
acted promptly to save their llvcs.-hon.
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WISE WORDS.

Our acts make or mar us; We are the
children of our own deeds.
To count but few things necessary is
the foundation of many virtues.
Women enjoy more the pleasure they
give than the pleasure they feel.
To succeed one must sometimes be very
bold, and sometimes very prudent.
Whatever the world may say, there are
some mortal sorrows; and our lives cbb
away less through our blood t~hanthrough
our tears.
The knowledge which we have ac-
quired ought not to resemble a great
shop without order, and without any in
ventory; we ought to know what we
possess, and be able to make it serve us
in need.
Love is indeed q transcendent excel
lencc, an essential and sovereign good;
it makcth the heavy burden light, and
the rugged path smooth; it beareth all
things without feeling their weight, and
from every adversely taketh away the
sting.
An Oriental portentate once babe his
prime minister to compose for him q
motto that would answer both for sea-
sons of prosperity and adversely. Here
is the sentence which he had engraved
upon his signet-ring: This too shall
soon pass away
If you want to look for heroes in our
day, you must 60 down to the kitchen,
you must go to the sewing %attics, you
must 20 where persons endure everything
almost without a murlnur, where they
divide their penny with their parents,
and work on through days and months
and years, and die i'll ~wretchedncss and
neglect.
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The Elevator.

The person that first put an elevator
into a high structure, so as to save pas
scngers the labor of walking up many
steps of stairs, little dreamed Of the i'm
portant results hat have followed the
adoption Of that expedient. 1t has
practically revolutionized the domestic
and business architecture of large cities.
In New York there are literally hundreds
of high buildings accommodating thous-
ands of persons, although the apartment
and office buildings are a thing of yester-
day. In this city there are scores of
dwellings between 40 and 100 feet in
height. One house is over 1870 feet high.
The lower part of New York has q num-
Der of enormous structures filled with
offices luxuriously furnished. The &C.
cupants of the upper floors prefer them
to those nearer the surface of the earth.
The air, they think. is purer, and there
are fewer annoyances, while the elevator
is q swift and pleasant means of com,
Observation-Disclosures
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Aspects or the Body.

1t may seem a dream to those who have
not thought upon the subject to suppose
that any connecting link cal be found
between such animals as worms, mol
lusks, crustacca, spiders and insects, on
the one hand, and fishes, amphia, rep
tiles, birds and mammals on the other.
Yet it is a significant fact that if any one
of the first series of animals be turned
upon its back, the heart, nervous system,
stomach, etc, standin precisclythe same
relative position to each other as they do
in the latter series. The only thing that
differs in position is the mouth, which in
the first series opens out between the two
nervous ganglia which form the brain,
and is directed toward the side of the
body on which the nervous axis is
situated, and in the second series opens
out beneath the brain, and on the OPP
positc side of the body to that occupied
by the nervous axis. Professor Owen be-
lieves that certain structures which are
situated in the center of the brain of
back-boned animals, and have known
use. arc remains of the primitive course
of the upper part of the gullet, and show
the vertebrate developed from the in.
yertcbrate.- Ptts6urg Dispatch.
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0sier Willow.

The cultivation of the basket willow
has been undertaken Il number of times
in the United States, but each time
abandoned from the fact that American
labor could not compete with the cheap
labor Of women and children in Europe
in pccling and preparing the shoots.
The value of osier imported into this
country is about Sc, O0O, coo annually.
and it sells at from 500 to $50 per ton.
The cost of raisingis from $50 to $50 ton,
and the product varies from one to four
tons to the acre. To raise it the soil should
be deep, we'll drained and thoroughly
worked, but moist and capable of being
ovcrflowcd in dry months. The osiers
are propagatcd by cutting its rows three
feet apart. The ground should be- kept
clean of weeds. The crop the first year
is of little value, but should be cut in
order to have i good stand Of shoots the
second year. The shoots for market are
sometimes cut in November, and from
that time to April are equally good.
After cutting they are tied in bundles,
and the lower ends placed in water until
they arc peeled in April, May or June.
After peeling they are cleaned and placed
in the sun to be dried. Chiogo NrTS.
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Overlooking At Sea.

A ship was sent to sea terribly over
laden. The captain was as fine q young
fellow as ever stood on q bridge, and he
took his risk like q man; but before sail
ing he wrote q letter which, with its
hard and unrestrained pathos, is enough
to wiring ones heart. He said to his
father: awe are badly overladen, and |
do not think we shall return any more"
This letter was brought out at the in
quiry, after the poor fellows prophecy
had been fulfilled. It is now in Mr..
Chamberlain's possession, I believe.
Pass on to another case. This ship
went down and an inquiry was held.
The court decided that she was over
laden, upon which the owner jumped up
and made protestations until he was 81
fenced. The ship was bought for e24,'
600: she was. according to the evidence
given, insured for e33, 600, and the fact
that the owner cleared So 900 by the
loss of the ship makes it easy to under
stand his strong feeling when the cour1
settled that the vessel carried to much
cargo. The owner was nowhere uea'
the place where the ship started, yet b
was held responsible Pail Mall Gnzett
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S~hakesperian Slang.

The power of Shakespeare over the
public is shown by the extent to which
his phrases, and even his slang, has be-
come incorporated into IL language.
In this point, indeed, he is u%ncquaIed.
Among these is "bag and baggage
dead as a door nail" g. proud of ones
humility" - tell the truth and shame the
devil "hit or miss" love is blind"
.sscllinp for Il song" wide world"
"cut copies" 1" fast and loose" uncon-
sidcrcd t%riics," "westward no" "famili-
arity breeds contempt" "patching up
excuses" misery makes strange bed
fellows" Ito boot" tin q tradc), short
and long of it," "comb your head with
a three legged STOOL dancing attend
%ancc," "getting event. (revengc), birds
of Il feather that's fiat" ''tag-rag,"
"Grcck to me" (unintelligiblr), "send
II packing" " rs the day is long"
"~packing a jury mother w.t.. Kill
with kindness" '.mum' tor ~silenccJ,
'.ill.wind that blows no good" "wild-
goose chase "scare-crow.' ''luggagc,"
crow of pins" las a mark of valncl.
"viva vocc." give and take, sold"
lin the way of joke, "give the devil his
due" 90 your cake is dough- These en-
p%rcssions nave come under my W no.
ticc, and Of course there must be many
others of equal familiarity. The girl
who playfully calls some youth "a milk
SOP" is also unconsciously quoting
Shakespeare, and v c "loggerhead' is
of the same origin. "Extcmpore"i is first
found in Shakespeare, and so are "alman-
acs." The "elm and vine" (as a tlgurel,
also be mentioned. Shakespeare is
the first author that speaks of 1.-The mali
in the moon" or mentions the potato, or
uses the term ''cyesorc," for annoyance.
Another often.quoted utterancc may be
here mentioned, simply becauscit is gener:
allv misunderstood: Zone touch of
nature makes the whole world hln,"
which is supposed to express the power
of sympathy, whereas it solely referred
to the widespread operation of selfish
ness. -Iern.H, IN Troy Times.
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How TO Eat An Orange In Society.

GLOW shall | cat an orange in society:
asked a subscriber. Now, what in the
world do you a to cat an orange III
society forl They arc not there to eat,
but to look at, or to hold in a cold,
clammy way in your hand, or roll off
your plate while YOU are using both hands
to steady it. But if you will PERSIST in
being old and eccentric, and eating your
before the world, there are several
ways of sacrificing it and yourself. Then
skin it gently and throw the pulp away.
Or you can quarter it and choke to death
on the sections. Or you a dissect it.
TOW with it, and ruin your clothes and
YOUR hosts furniture with the juice. 1t
is usually adventure enough for one even
ing to cut the thing up. Either 1t is a
ripe orange, and holds a cistern full OF
Juice, which squirts all over creation, or
it is drv, with a hide like a rhinoceros,
and nothing inside. You can impale
yourselves on either horn of the dilemma.
The only safe way to eat your orange is
to leave it.-Nep York Mail and Erpress.
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4 Turkish Military Episode.

The personal bravery of the Turkish
soldier Is too well known to require
repeated assertion, but | may men
ton Il remarkable exhibition of it which
fell under my own notice. During Omcr
Pasha's Bosnian campaign, in which, &C.
companicd him in order to report to
Lord Stratford on his progress in sup.
pressing a great rebellion, we marched
along the valley of the river Bosnia, which
was too deep for fording, in the hope of
being able to cross it at a ferry some
miles further west. The enemy were in
force on the other side. A captain of
cavalry was sent on with fifty men to
take possession of the fcrry-boat. When
we reached the place, the boat was there
and the captain was there, but instead
of fifty men there were not more than
twenty. The Pasha asked where the
rest were. The captain pointed to the
river, and replied with perfect quictness
of manner that he had found the ferry
boat on the other side of the river, de-
Tended by hundreds of armed Bosnians,
and that he had been obliged to swim
the stream and bring the boat back un-
der a fire which had killed thirty of his
men, "Afcrin, Dervish Agha," was all
Omcr Pasha said. / lost patience with
his cold, "Wcll done, Dervish Agha,"
after such a gallant feat. l told him that
in an English or French force an officer
would have Immediately been promoted
for it, and asked him how he could en-
pect his troops to distinguish themselves
without other acknowledgment than such
faint praise. "Wcll, well, you need not
get excited over it, "answcred the Pasha,
coolly, lighting IL cigar. "Dcrvish Agha,
I promote you to the command of your
regiment, which is vacant. You shall
have your firman as colonel by return Of
post from Stamboul. Fall in, and pass
the word to all the colonies that we halt
in half an hour here to give their men a
smoke" The young officer salutcd and
fell in at the head of his regiment with
an m]conccrned look which surprised me.
Omer Pasha. who could not live without
smoking, never INDUCED in a cigar with
out allowing all those with him to light
their pipes. AS Turks, they adorcd him
accordingly. al latcr pclloV VI lllls
campaign, Il trustworthy officer of rank
was required to take charge of an expc-
dition into Herzegovina. Omer Pasha
said to me that he had no one fit for it.
| suggested that Dcrvish Bcy might suit
him. The Pasha adopted the idea, and
the expedition was perfectly successful.
The colonel was made a general for it.
Long aftcrward | met him as Dcrvish
Pasha. and he reminded me that he owed
his quick promotion to my taking his
part at the ferry of the Bosnia. In tine
last wal with Russia, he commanded the
army corps defending Batoum, and his
name has since become very we'll and
very favorably known to Europe in
connection with Dulcigno. Temple Bar.
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Civilized, But No Bread.

There are civilized nations a large pro,
portion of whose peasantry cat little or
no bread. Baked loavcs of bread are I'M
known in many parts of South Austria
and of Italy and throughout the agricul-
tural districts of ROumania. In the vii
lagos of the Obcrstcicrnark, not very
many miles from Vienna, bread is never
seen, the staple food of the people being
sterz, a kind Of porridge made from
ground beech nuts, which is taken at
breakfast with fresh or curdled milk, at
dinner with broth or with tried lard, and
with milk again for supper. This stcrz
is also known as heridcn, and takes the
place of bread not only in the Steicrmark,
but in Carinthia and in many parts of the
Tvrol. In the north of Italy the peas.
antry live chiefly on polenta, a porridgc
made of boiled maize. The polcnta how
ever, is not allowed to granulate like
Scotch porridgc or like the Austrian
stcrz. but is boiled into Il solid pudding,
which is cut up and portioncd out with a
string. 1t is eaten cold as often as
hot, and is in every sense the Italian
peasants daily bread. The modern
Roumanians are held by many scholars to
be descended from q Roman colony, in
other words, to be the cousins of the
Italians, and, curiously enough, q varia-
ton of the polenta called mamaligs is the
national dish of Roumania. The ma
liga is like the polenta in that it is
made of boiled maize. but it is unlike the
latter in one important respect, as the
grains arc not allowed to settle into a
solid mass, but are kept distinct, after
the fashion of oatmeal porridgc.
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Poetic Arabs

Through every part of the Arablan
desert, says Burckhardt, poetry IS equal
" esteemed. Many persons are founi-
who make verses of true measure, al
though they cannot either read or write
yet, as they employ, on such occasions,
chosen terms only, and as the purity OF
their vernacular language is such as to
preclude any grammatical errors, these
verses after passing from mouth to mouth,
NAV at last be committed to paper, and
will most commonly be called regular
and correct. l presume that the greater
part of the early poetry OF the Arabs
which has decendcd to us is derived
from similar compositions. lbn Saoud
had assembled the best poets of the
Desert of Derayeh; he delighted in poetry,
and very literally rewarded those who
cyccllcd in it. According to the Arab
custom, if a reputable poet address some
verses to a shcika, or a distinguished
warrior, he will receive a camel or some
sheen as a present. The largesses, which
in former times ere bestowed on poets
by Arabian chiefs, are still the subject Of
frequent conversation among the Bedo.
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The Bible.and.key Test for Theft.

Reports of crows" between the Anna
IONS, of London alleys, do net often fur
nish such interesting reading as does
case which was before a Thames police
magistrate the other day. Mrs. Lyons, it
seems, had "misscd" her shawl and she
made up her mind to find out the thief by
means Of the unfailing test of the edible
and key" The door key with a piece OF
string attached was accordingly laid In
side the Bible, with the wards fat upon
the leaves. Mrs. Lyons then closed the
book, took hold of the part of the key
which she had left projecting, and pro-
ccedcd to pronounce the names of various
''suspects,' repeating after each nanle the
following in%cantation:
Turn, Bible, turn, turn round the key;
Turn, key, turn, and show the name to M
At the name of Mrs. O'Brien the KEY
gave such Il turn that it twisted itself out
of her hand and fell on the floor. There
are, however. several Mrs. O'Bricns in the
nciehborhood--a contingency for which
the test of the Bible had been unprepared,
and the confusion which naturally fol
lowed led to the crow" in qucstlon.-i"N
Mall Gazette.
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IF WE HAD BUT A DAY,

We should fill the boar with sweetest things,
If we hal but a day;
We should drink alone at the purest springs
In ourupward way;
We should love with a lifetime's love IN an
hour,
If the hours were few:
We should rest, not for dreams, but for
fresher power
To be and to do.
We should guide OUR Maynard on weary
wills
By the ~clearest light:
We should keep our eyes on the heavenly
hills,
If they lay in sight:
We should trample the pride and the dlscoh
tent
Beneath our feet;
We should take whatever n good Col sent,
With a trust complete.
Weshould waste no moments i'll weak regret
If the days We're but one
If what We remembered and we regret
Went out with the sun:
We should be from our clamorous selves Sc
To work or to pray.
And be what our Father would have us he,
If we had but a day.
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Singular Phenomenon.

There was once found II pair Of fled
glasses in the desert near what is known
as Death Valley. The glasses are sup
posed to have belonged to Hahn, Il lost
guide of Wheeler's expedition. They
were brought into II of the interior
towns by an Indian. and were purchased
from him. The most singular fact con
nected with them is that every object
within range Of where the glasses had
been lying for a year or more is distinct
ly photographed upon them. We have
heard of such phenomena before, but this
is one of the most remarkable Instances
we remember.
Both object glasses are covered with
perfect and beautiful photographs or etch'
ings of desert shrubs; stems, branches,
leaf stalks. Leaves and leaflets are dis
tinctly marked as if laid on by Il mas
ter.hand. There is no mixture or con-
fusion of one plant with another, each
having a clear border of unmarked glass,
rendering it probable that the sun or
lightning photograph, or whatever it
may be, was received through the eye
glass.
These pictures seem to occupy a posi-
ticn about the center of each of the OBJ
iect glasses, but a little nearer the plane
than the convex side.-Myo Independent