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awoke. His remains, when they were ready for
burial were placed in his painting-room, with
an unfinished portrait Of Dante looking down on
his coffin. They were then placed temporarily in
the vault at Lawrenceburg, and removed in May
to Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati where they
were buried The most eminent artists of that
city, with several dignitaries of State who had
had been his warm friends, watching his career
with deep interest, hoping all things for him,
stood beside his grave as the coffin was lowered,
each bearing witness to his devotion to his art
his cheerful courage, and his exalted character.
For he was not one whose genius had been made
an excuse for degrading excesses mad folly, and
unworthy deeds He had the gentle manners of
child, the purity of thoughts and deed which
we attribute to good women. His life brief
though il may seem, was full, perfect, and com
plete. In a few short years he accomplished
more than many upon whom all the opportuni-
ties of life have been lavshed and who live the
allotted three score years and ten. There is
however, no compensation for the loss which the
State and society sustain in the early death of
such man. Time cannot reconcile us or force
us to believe, with the hope which is born Of
faith, that the early close Of such career was
for the best
CRAWFORDsvILLE, Feb. Is.
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Boston Post.

''Some very funny things have happened with
children in plays but the worst occurred to a
star, said Barley Campbell to a reporter. II
think it was Ada Gray, who was going to play
East Lynne in Richmond. On her arrival for
rehearsal on the morning of the performance the
child who was to play Willie was not forthcom-
ing. The stage manager assured the star that
he had child who had often played the part be-
fore and that it would be all right at night
But the child was i'll and couldn't come The
manager put his smallest ballet girl in the bed,
but as she couldn't memorize the lines he got
under the bed with the prompt book. The star
was staggered when she saw the length Of the
child lying beneath the Clothes but she strug-
gled bravely on When the prompters voice,
disguised. but still harsh and hoarse, came out,
star and audience alike Uttered; but the lady
made an effort and threw herself in simulated
agony upon. the bed. The property man had
forgotten to take off the casters and away it
rolled, leavingthe stage manager and his prompt
book fully revealed. That was the end of East
Lynne for that night"
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A LITTLE SPICE.

Gray hairs are honorable, but lots of old sin
ners wear them.-New Orleans Picayune.
My son. which would you rather have, a big
heart or big brainl" The boy answered prompt
ly: "A big doughnut"
A Dublin paper contains the following adver-
usement Lost, cameo brooch, representing
Venus and Adams while walking in Sandymount
NEAR Dublin last Sunday"
Let us play we are married" said little Edith,
'and will bring nay dolly and say, See baby,
paPar. Yes" replied Johnny, land l will say,
Don't bother me now; want to look through the
paper. Punch.
Some go North and some go South. Eyes"
said Fogg, I've met with many successes in my
life. That's the trouble, you know. The things
fellow meets are always going the other way"
Boston Transcript.
Sunday school Teacher Ito bright boy): ''Now,
Tommy what is the outward and visible sign in
baptismp
Bright Boy "The baby, marm." Sunday
school teacher bushes and boys snigger.)
An eccentric old man in New Hampshire sur
prised his neighbors and Friends the other day,
by shouldering his gun and starting for the
woods on the morning of his wife's funeral On
being urged to come back, he refused, saying,
''She haint no blood relation of mine"
At a Restaurant Particular 0ne: ''Hum-
awl Where's the liver with this cod steak!T
Waiter iocularly): This cod don't seem to
ave 'ad any liver, sir; leastways avent seen
one"
Particular One: 'Hum-awl Happy cod"
where are you taking me to-" asked a Grim
inal, addressing the detective who had Just ar
rested him. Il am taking you to the Office Of the
police Superintendent, was the reply. Il wish to
observe in this case, then said the culprit, that
it is the office seeks the man, and not the man
the office"
A young lady entered music store and in
quired for a bird song written by "a B. T."
''When the Swallows Homeward Fly" by Abt,
was given her. But mistakes like these are COM
mon, and even when 'Lucrezia Borgia' is con-
verified into Lucy Busby" the clerk hands the
song over without smile--Boston Journal
To write on metals take half pound of nitric
acid and one ounce of muratic acid. Mix and
shake well together, and then it is ready for
Cover the plate you wish to mark with melted
beeswaX; when cold write your inscription plain
ly in the wax clear to the metal with sharp in
strument. Then apply the mixed acids with
feather carefully filling each letter. Let it re
main from one to ten hours, according, to the APP
pearanee desired; throw water, which stops
the process, and remove the wax.
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MRS. McELROY.
White-HOuse Life of President ArthUr's
Charming Sister.
New York Journal.

New York Journal.
The Presidents sister is instituting number
OF reforms in the White House. She hasa system.
Mr.. Arthur has none He leaves everything to
the servants. Mrs. McElroy insists uponskeep-
ing her eyes on the servants branch of the ex-
ecutive mansion. 1t has made marked i'm
provement. Mr.. Arthur used to take breakfast
any time before o'clock Mrs McElroy insists
on having it served before 10. She has her own
way. 1t was rather hard ON the President at
first, but he seems to like the change now. If
Mrs. McElroy should remain in charge of the
White House during the remainder of Mr.
save up something from his salary for q rainy
day that may come in the future. Unlike Mr.
Hayes Mr.. Arthur does not know how to save
money. Up to the present time he has spent
every cent of his salary.
Chester has such expensive habits, y remarked
Mrs McElroy to a lady friend few days ago.
He does not seem to appreciate the value of
money. He thinks it is necessary to spend all
his income He has an idea that IT would not be
right for him to make anything out of the presi
dency The President holds his office, he says,
at the will of the people, and should represent
them The salary IS given him simply to enable
him to maintain the dignity of the nation. 1t
was never intended that President should grow
rich off his incomen
81 tell him." continued Mrs McElroy, chat
he is too sensitive but it doesn't seem to change
his mind. Chester is not rich He has private
income of about So 600 a year, and am afraid it
will not be increased any by his savings from his
official salary / intend to save something for
him. The steward used to buy three or four
times as much as was necessary, and waste as
much more. have shut down on that, and keep
general supervision over all the orders that are
given for thh table"
Mrs McElrey indicated many other ways in
which the President displays extravaganza. He
paid four prices for his horses and carriages and
in fact everything he had TO buy. After break
fast Mrs McElroy makes a tour Of inspection
through the White House, keeping sharp look
out for any evidences of carelessness on the part
of the servants. The rest of the morning up to
IL o'clock she devotes to mending and sewing.
Her New England training prevents her from
becoming above such things.
Mrs McElroy resembles the President in her
face. Her soft brown eyes have the same ex-
preston as Mr Arthurs She is very small and
dresses very plainly. Her feet are the envy Of
most of the ladies. They are very small and
well formed. Mrs MeElroy in street dress pre-
sents study in brown, commencing with her
beautiful hair.
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Danger of a Sensational title.

EsE York Letter, III St. Louis Advocate.
Let me close with little story about Dr. J.
o. Peck and the secular press. He has a revival
going on in Hanson Place Church, and being
chaplain of one of our city regiments Brook
lynn and member of the G. A. r., cast his net
in that direction. Nothing could look more un-
promising, but the tax collector Corporal Tan
ner, and some of his friends were soundly con
verified. The Doctor has a passion for
sensational titles for Sunday nights
sermon So he beguiled the innocent
with the announcement that he would preach on
THE Converted Tax Collector Those of us
who knew him had no difficulty in seeing that
Matthew called from the receipt of customs
was his objective point The Brooklyn Times
had no reporter present that evening So some
one sent them report. Among ether things,
after eulogizing Collector Tanner, and saying that
Mayor Low had assured the Doctor that the re-
appointment of the Collector was assured, or
words to that effect, went on to say that the
Doctor, considering the wonderfully clear con
version, would waive the question of proba-
ton, and receive him into full connection at
once. AS we read it we could not believe our
eyes. They say we are all crazy at times; could
this be one of the Doctors insane streaksl Next
day the Times made the amende honorable. 1t
a lie made of whole cloth, but the men
dacious rascal was evidently of Methodist breed
ing.
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Another Chicago Man Gone Wrong.
London Truth.


On the eve of leaving America after her sue
cessful tour Madame Sarah Bernhardt received
the visit of not less enthusiastic than wealthy
merchant of Chicago who offered to buy up all
the stalls, seats and boxes of the theater If the
great artist would give but one more performance
of "Frou-Frou." AS her departure would not
admit of any delay, Sarah Bernhardt declined the
offer of her admirer but said: Come to Paris, and
promise you to play Frou-Frou just to please
you" On Thursday last the merchant of Chicago
went to see the actress, guessing that Madame
Bernhardt had not forgotten her promise. He
guessed rightly; -, 'FT9u-trou- was immediately
took as many boxes and stalls as were required
for the accommodation of his numerous friends
and acquaintance, but sent to Sarah bouquet
of three roses. They were kept together by a
girdle of huge diamonds.
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twenty years ago, there were two students of the
same name, one youth of leisure, the other
man of study They sat side by side in the Greek
section under Professor Sophocles who was as
is known, a better scholar than instructor The
mark lists at that time were made out monthly,
and Jones, the student, was surprised one morn
ing to find that his marks were low; and the 9TH
mans were high. The Professor had evident
ly mixed up the names, and Jones demonstrated
An adjustment was promised; yet next month
came the same mi stake. For the third month
the marks were correct; the fourth time brought
around the same error. When another remon-
STRANGE was made Professor Sophocles was rath-
nettled, and, turning fiercely on Jones, said:
Your name is Jones' sir, and you must abide
by the consequences"
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A Great Loss to Art.


The well known Austrian painter, Hans Mack
art has suffered great and irretrievable loss His
reception hall has been destroyed by fire. Herr
Mackart had by degrees transformed it into a
most costly, artistically arranged, and yet habit
able museum. He was about to dine out with
his wife, who, having dressed herself went with
a candle to the hall to look once in the great
mirror. She passed too near a curtain which
suddenly famed up. Losing her presence of
mind, she dropped the candle and ran up stairs
to the floor above. The fire rapidly spread over
the mali. the valuable carpets old furniture and
invaluable ;,ictures by Dutch masters feeding it
in turn Although the fire brigade was soon in
attendance, all that could be done was to confne
the flames so that they should not extend to the
other floor. Besides the completed picture of
'Spring, there was thus saved a rich collection
of Gobelins works and other costly tissues, anti
duities and objects of art.
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extant, were put into a little book A
first edition was soon exhausted, and a
second and larger one was issued. These
poems are gems in their way, quantity combining
strings by their sympathy and naturalness; but
Mr.. Riley has done more pretentious work, and
there are enough of these other poems to make
larger volume and one that would contribute
more to his reputation. -
Ben d. House and Dan L. Paine, the latter of
the Indianapolis News, have each written
number Of fine poems, and each perhaps enough
to make fair-sized volume of poems deserving
the permanence of book form. Mr.. Houses best
known poem is 1.-THE Wine of Summer" Mr..
Paines poem on Garfelds death was acknowl
edged by every one to have been the best to which
that event gave birth.
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They All Knew How.

Portland (Ale.l Press.
I took large spider from his web under the
basement Of a MILL put him on a chip and set
him afioat on the quiet waters of the pond. He
walked all about the sides of his bark, surveying
the situation very carefully, and when the fact
that he was really afoat and about yard from
shore seemed to be fully comprehended, he pros
pected for the nearest point Of land. This point
fairly settled upon, he Immediately began to cast
a web for it. He threw it as far as possible in
shore and made fast to the spires of grass. Then
he turned himself about, and in true sailor fash
ion began to haul in hand over hand on his cable.
Carefully he drew upon it until his bark began to
move toward the shore. AS it moved the faster
he the faster drew upon it to keep his hawser
taut and from touching the water Very soon
he reached the shore, and quickly leaping to
terra filma he sped his way homeward. Think
ing then that he might be a special expert and
an exception in that line of workmanship to the
rest of his companions tried several of them,
and they all came ashore in like manner.
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A Cat,s Remarkable FalI.


The presence of a cat on the roof Of the First
Baptist Church, Broad and Arch Streets at
traeted the attention of large crowd of people
on Saturday afternoon. How the animal had
reached the roof no one knew, but it was sup
posed that it had been attracted by the twitter-
ing of the sparrows that nestle in the vines on
the side of the church, and had climbed up
after them Pussy did not know how to get
down, and it was its loud meow" as it walked
along the edge CT the roof looking down at the
street, that attracted attention. Sympathy for
the cat was soon aroused among the bystanders,
and dozen or more men went to the house of
Truck A, at Broad and Race streets, for ladder.
The longest one was procured, raised against the
side of the church, and fireman mounted to
the rescue of the cat. But kitty did not I'M
derstand the good intentions of its rescuer, and
scampered to the tower, and soon had climbed
still higher up the vine. Here it hung for few
minutes, fully seventy feet from the ground,
when it fell. The eats nine lives stood it in
good stead, for no sooner had it struck the
ground than it ran up Arch street, apparently
unhUrt
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HOW Fred Douglass Met His wife.

A private letter received at New Haven,
Conn, on Monday from Honeoye, Ontario coun-
ty, n. Y, gives an account Of the first meeting
of Fred Douglass and his new wife The writer
says: Mrs Douglass was Miss Helen Pitts, q
daughter of Gideon Pitts. Douglass spent part
of last summer at her fathers house. Years ago
Pitts was a strong Abolitionist, and his house
was a refuge for colored people making their
way to Canada by the underground railroad
and furnished quarters for all who were in the
locality advocating abolition principles. One of
our neighbors says that forty years ago Doug
lass was one of number of guests at Mr.. Pfts's
residence. Helen was then six years old, and
on coming into the room kissed everybody until
she came to Douglass When she reached him
she stopped. Her father ordered her to kiss
him: but she stamped her foot angrily and re-
fused A threatened whipping frightened her
Il don't know how the Pitts family feels about
the marriage. but it causes great deal of ex-
element in Honeoye."
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ABIGAIL ADAMS.
How the Wife of a President Presided in the
Early Days.

L. w. Higginson, in March Harper.
Abigail Adams, the Presidents wife, was I'M
woman Of her day, whether by position or by
character When writing to her husband she
often signed herself ''POrtia." in accordance with
stately, and perhaps high-hown, habit of the
period, and she certainly showed qualities which
would have done honor to either the Roman or
Shakspearean heroine of that name. In her let
tiers we see her thoroughly revealed. While the
battle of Bunker Hill was in progress, she wrote
that 1t was dreadful but glorious" and in the
depression of the battle of Long Island she said
If all America is to be ruined and undone by a
pack of towards and knaves, / wish to know it, y
and added, Don't you know me better than to
think me a cowardF When, first among Ameri-
can women, she represented her nation at the
court OF st. James, she met with equal pride the
eontemptuous demeanor of Queen Charlotte;
and when her husband was chosen President
she wrote to MIN, my feelings are not those Of
pride or ostentation upon the occasion; they
f fbe SSgaoe t by ssnSe S Sf
and numerous duties connected with
it." When finally, after four years, he
failed of reelection, she wrote to her son:
The consequence to US is personally that we
retire from public life. For myself and family
with dignity, can at least fall with ease" This
was Abigail Adams. In person she was dis
tmguished and noble rather than beautiful, yet
1t Is satisfactory to know that when she was
white lutestring, trimmed with white crepe, fes-
TONED with lilac ribbon and mock pont-lace
over hoop of enormous extent with a mar
row train three yards long, Topped
up by q ribbon. She wore treble lace rufles, a
dress cap with long lace lappets and two white
plumes, these last doubtless soaring straight
into the air above her head in the extraordinary
style familiar to us i'll Gillray's caricatures of
that period.
1t was, in those days, no very agreeable task
to be the wife of the President. Mrs. Adams
has left on record graphic sketch of the White
House where she presided for three months
The change in the seat Of government had been
decided upon for twelve years, yet the building
was still vast unfinished barrack,
with few rooms plastered, no main
stairway, not a bell within, not a fence without
it was distressingly cold in winter, while the
Chief Magistrate Of the United States could not
obtain for love OF money man to cut wood for
him in the forests which then surrounded Wash
ington. Fron Washington to Baltimore extended
an almost unbroken growth of timber, varied only
by some small and windowless huts. There
could as yet be in Washington no such varied
companionship as had given attraction to the
seat of government at New York and then at
Philadelphia; yet at Georgetown there was So
ciety which called itself emnently polite, and
Mrs. Adams records that she returned fifteen
calls in a single day.
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Poet who was Not Posted.


san ffanCIsCO NufOnlCIt.
In the Current, Chicago's new and bright liter
airy weekly journal, is poem on Arizona by a
bard who has probably never visited our sister
Territory The poet gives vivid picture of a
herd of '1ong- horned cattle stampeded by In
dams, who shoot the herder with 'feathered
was good for twenty years ago, before the Indian
agent had sold the gentle savage the latest i'm
proved breech- loading rifles and the best ammuni-
ton. Now an Indian in Arizona with bow and
arrow is as great acuriosity as a man who refuses
good liquor or a prospector who has not struck it
rich and made and lost a half-dozen fortunes in
five years The 'feathered arrow must be laid
away with the stories of the good Indian who
never got drunk, or the gentle savage who
nobly refused to scalp the white man who had
fed him
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A Slip Into Profanity.

San Francisco Argonaut.
Most women say damn when they get mad.
1t is not virile or a venomous damn. Its being
quite intransitive may take the harm out of it,
for they never damn anythingor anybody. They
simply emit the expletive itself with considera-
BILE force and brevity, and with a triumphant
satisfaction in their faces of having done some
thing enormously wicked. But they always say
it. young lady with pale, rapt angelic sort
of a face, occupied the adjacent divan to mine
as one of the pale high-bred type of girls, she
went out into the massageroom to cool for a
moment, and, slipping upon the wet marble, fell
prone upon the floor With the readiness of
habit, she exclaimed: "Hellity- deyilty -cussedy-
damnln
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Life.

In vain our pent wills fret,
And would the world subdue;
Limits we did not set,
Condition all do:
Born into life we are, and life must be our mould
Born into lifei man grows
Forth from his parents stem.
And blends their hoods as those
Of theirs are blent in them;
80 each new man strikes root into a Ear foretm
Born into life! we bring
bias with us here
And, when here, each new thing
Affects us we come near:
To tunes we did not call being mast keep chime.
Born into life in vain
Opinions those or these,
Unaltered to retain
The obstinate mind DEGREES;
Experience, like sea, soaks all effacing in.
Matthew Arnold.
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There are thousands in the world to whom re
ligon is what Matthew Arnold calls Sweetness
and light" but there are some, however, on
whose natures spiritual influences seem to have
quite contrary effect Some are never so
vinegary as when they are most religious
Dear" said a religio-shrewish wife to her hus-
band. 'isn't it time our daughter Amanda
Joined the church-shes got to be a grown-up
womanl7 Heavens no." said the husband; it
is all we can do to get along now, with your re
ligion If we had two such Christians in the
house it would be impossible to live in it,
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Polishinr the Wrong End.

Many men daily polish their boots who never
give thought to the condition of their hair, ex-
cept to harrow it causually with brush and comb,
or submit it to the paralyzing attentions of the
average barber. What happensl Why this:
From neglect mental anxiety, or any Of score
begins to fall out Parker's Hair Balsam will at
once stop the latter process and restore the orig
inal color An elegant dressing free from
grease
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The Gear Depressed with Fear.

IOndOn IfutH.
hear from St Petersburg that for the last
month the Gar has been in such a deplorable
state of nervous depression that to all intents
and purposes he may be regarded as insane. He
is thoroughly terror-stricken, and lives in a
state Of panic which would be ludicrous if it did
not produce such melancholy consequences. The
present state of things in Russia cannot last
many months, and what the issue will be no man
can predict The attitude of Russia toward
deDendpncp