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JAMES RUSSELL LowELLs RESIDENCE.
The home of the late Henry w. Longfellow
has been often described and its appearance
is familiar to most readers. 1t was built in
the early part of the last century by a
wealthy West India trader who settled down
to end his days in Cambridge. His son sue
ceeded to the estate and lorded over the
young colony. When the revo.uti IN swept
over New England the house was confiscated
after its Tory proprietor fed During the
siege of Boston it was assigned to Washing
ton as headquarters, and he who SO
much needed rest and had had an oppor-
tunity of testing the soothing qualities
of the best homes in America, pro-
ynounced this house at Cambridge one of
the most comfortable he had found. After
the, war Andrew Craigie, the apothecary
general of the army, purchased it, and here
it was epigrammatic old Talleyrand was
entertained, and Everett, Sparks and Wor-
cester, the photographer, lodged. Long
fellow, while college professor, was also
boarder there, and later purchased it so that
it will remain in history as Longfellow's
home. Yet this house after all was but
plain, square two story wooden structure,
with broad piazzas on twosides. The interior
is made up of broad hall, easy ascending
staircase and plain, hard finished walls in its
spacious OLD rooms but there is an air of re-
pose about the whole that is rarely met with
in modern homes
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HOMES OF CHEAT MEN.
HOUSES WHICH SHELTER DISTlN-
GUlSHED NEW ENGLANDERs.

The Contrast Between the Roomy and
Restful Homes of the Past and the
d Oddities of Modern Architecture-Resi
Il denees of the Adamses. Et..zz ae{s.s.
Our people are paying considerable atten-
tion OF late years to the subject of beautiful
homes. The tendency seems to be to build
snowy and unique structures with all sorts Of
surprises in the way of odd shaped rooms and
curious nooks produced by numerous gables
Windows stuck here and there are used
more Tor the architectural requirements of
the exterior, than for practical value to the
interior. Then the rainbow-hued glass of
the windows, the dazzling wall coverings
and highly decorated ceilings all take away
from the interior that restive quality which
it should be the endeavor to produce.
The nervous man of the present turns from
the whirl and rush of business to the quiet of
home for rest; but there, in its kaleidoscope
Interior, his eye, followed by his already
over excited mind, wanders round attracted
by the brilliant coloring and the glistening
objects, without any opportunity for repose,
until often he breaks down under the bewil-
der1nent and confusion, without knowing
tue icdSoA 1Heu thc puJsiCieau TeSo
for him; removal to quiet farmhouse or a
trip across the sea is recommended-and
why? Because the monotony of the sea is an
antidote to the delirum with which ne has
been surrounded, while the plain country
farmhouse brings rest to his eyes and mind.
The facts are, that in our endeavor to beau
tify the home we are OVERRIDING it. We have
gone from the simplicity of the Quaker
meeting house to initiate the dazzling splen-
dor of a theatre interior. The reaction has
not yet made its appearance but when it
does come it is likely we will model our
homes more after the stalwart Americans of
the passing generation. aJ , r.# II
Let us look at some of their homes. and as
the New England states were the earliest set
tied we will find most of them there.
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One day the papers announce that ex-
President Arthur is preparing to go fishing
soon, either at his favorite West island, near
Newport, or to Canada, it is not yet decided
which. The next day they say he is slowly
dying of Bright's disease and heart trouble,
and that, in fact, he really has come nearly
to the end. Then next day again his physi-
clans or somebody else deny the whole story
of Bright's disease, and say the ex-president
is not dying, though they do not deny that
he is i'll. 1t is race between the newspapers
and the doctors, which ON the one hand can
tell the most and on the other can conceal
the most
MIR. Arthur seems to be really in an alarm
ing condition. Not long since his old pastor,
who breaches in the church President Arthur
used to attend in Washington. was sent for
to go from that city to New York and visit
the invalid. Now, man does not usually
send for a preacher unless he has good reason
to suppose that it is all up with him. More
over, any one who within a year has met the
ex-president in the street in New York city
must have been struck with the look of age
and declining health that seemed to have
suddenly come over him. No wonder. Tt
is enough to kill a man to be president Of the
United States. The storm of abuse, the mis-
construction and out and out lying, in short,
to which he is subject, must break man Of
iron 1t seems as though an American presi-
dent is not entitled to common decency Of
treatment. He is one whom no man need
envy. 7'ss
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The Public Display Of the Dead.

There are some barbaric customs which
cling to us, and bid fair to do so for genera
tions yet to come. This public display of the
dead seams to me only survival of barbar-
ism. 1 speak only of the general order
of conducting the service of the dead. To
robe the tenantless clay as for festival, to
openly display The changed ard shruakes,
I face: to invite the Indifferent gaze Of stran-
gersi to bear in snowy hearse the coffin and
its freight of dust through the hubbub of
streets at MONDAY. From all this my mind
revolts When die, wrap me In some downy
robe that shall fold me close, and bury me at
sunrise or at set of day, i care not which, so
there be3 no curious glance to criticise my
helpless clay.-aAmbern in Chicago Journal
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VOL. II, NO. 47


There IS young lady of Troy
Most handsome and winsome and COW:
We are nothing to blame
That we don't give her name.
For that might the story destroy.
She got from lady letter
In Buffalo twas that she met her
We don't know her name.
But, then, that's just the same
And perhaps it is something the better.
This letter declares, it is said,
That Cleveland's decided to wed:
The bride told the news
Said she couldn't refuse,
And will soon to the altar be led
There's the story for what it is worth
You know its career from its birth;
Perhaps you're suspicious
But of gossip delicious
You'll have to admit there's a dearth
Columbus Dispatch.
How Colonel Received Promotion.
A friend told me how the colonel of his
regiment secured promotion. 1t is fair
sample of how sham military reputation
is manufactured. The regiment was in
action in the open, this in the southwest
under Sherman. The colonel was on
horseback in the rear of his regiment, just
where he should have been. The Confed-
crate sharpshooters saw an officer on
horseback and began to pay attention to
him. The colonel, finding that the sharp
shooters had selected him for a target,
was greatly alarmed, and thought he was
TO be killed. He did not dare to ride off
the field, nor did he dare dis1nount while
under fire, for fear that his men would
suspect him of cowardice.
He speedily concluded that he had best
be moving so he galloped his horse up
and down behind his regiment He was
nervous and excited, as well he might be,
with score of sharpshooters trying to
gather him to his fathers, and, to relieve
his feelings, he shouted to his men to "Give
it to the rebel l--'--
Furiously he rode, expecting to be killed
every instant An advantage gained by
our troops in another part of the field dis
lodged the sharpshooters, and the colonel
was at rest His riding his line and his
sham encouragement of his men had been
seen from corps headquarters. There his
actions were construed to indicate that his
regiment was hard pressed, which was
true, and that he was gallantly holding
his men to their work. which was not
true, as they had no intention of abandon
ing the field. The colonel was recon-
mended for promotion as q reward for his
gallantry in action. Speedily single star
thone on his shoulder strap, where the
bird of freedom had been wont to roost.
And ever after he posed as the fighting
brigadier. Wilkerson in New
York SIM
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oSss"Sesoo W. NJeo' fttHa
If a man really courted retirement, and
wanted to write humorous lecture or a
So homily, he could insert himself through
the second story window, pull in the stair
case and go to work Then no one could
disturb him without bribing hook and
ladder company to come along and let him
in.
But the great drawback was the annoy
ance incident to ascending these ladders at a
6 late hour in the night, while under the infiu-
ence Of Aztec rum, a very seductive, yet
violently Intoxicating beverage, containing
about eight parts cheer to ninety two parts
inebriate. = I'D 81 Eai gEGf Ea4F
These residences were hardly Gothic in
style, being extremely rectangular, with a
tendency toward the modern dry goods box.
It is believed by ADLER men than am, men
who could believe more in two minutes than
Il could believe in q lifetime, if had nothing
else to do, that those houses contained about
thirty yeight apartments on the first floor
and nineteen on the second. These apart
nlents were separated by some kind of cheap
and transitory partition, which could not
stand the climatic changes, and SO has gone
to decay; but these Indians were determined
to have their rooms separated in some way,
for they were very polite and decorous to
fault No Aztec gentleman would emerge
from his room until he had completed his
toilet, if it cost him his position. Bill Nye
in Boston Globe. "18 Fs@
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THE LIME KILN CLUB.
Chunks of wisdom from Brother Gai
nnn.-nnr

Chunks of Wisdom from Brother Card
ner-Our Coast Defsnces.
Just previous to the opening of the meet
ing Elder Juneberry Davis and Judge Hold
back johnson got into dispute as to whether
the crowbar belonged to the glacial epoch
or the drift period, and after some hot words
had passed the elder punched the judge on
the nose and received a crack on the jaw in
return. Brother Gardner came in as they
were pulled apart, but he seemed to take no
notice of the affair, and nothing was said
until the meeting opened, Then he looked
around the hall and observed: .'
'If Elder Juneberry Davis an Judge Hold
back johnson am in de hall tonight should
like to spoke few remarks to 'em"
Both gentlemen walked forward to the
platform with anxiety depicted on their
faces, and the president continued:
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He worshipped the Poet whitaker.

o-worshippers have better time of it
than the heroes who have to submit to their
worship. The latter Gncluding all dis
tinguished mem are largely at the mercy of
a class of admirers who are too obtuse to see
any violation of good manners or taste in
their pursuit of interviews and autographs
William Warren tells delicious story
about St Louis man who went east last
summer, and hunted up the poet Whittier.
He found the quiet old Quaker poet trying
to hide from civilization in farmhouse near
Nahant. He had gone there to escape just
such bores as the st. Louis man was.
At first he declined to see the visitor, say
ing that he was not feeling strong, but the
Missouri man was SO persistent that at last
Whittier yielded, and he was admitted. He
pounced upon the poet and nearly shook his
arm from the socket. He declared that he
adored the poets works-in fact, he read
nothing else. 83aa 1853 adl as
4 He asked Whittier to write his name few
hundred times on a sheet of note paper, that
he might distribute the autographs among
his friends, and it was all the poet could do
to keep the impetuous visitor from cutting
the buttons from his coat to carry away as
mementos.
aAnd all the time, . said Whittier pathetic
ally as he told his adventure, 1he called me
Whitaker n--Youti'S Communion
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BILL NYE ON INDIAN EARMARKs.
Aztec Indians the Orisinators of the
Modern ADart,nent nouse

Axfec Indians the Originators of the
Modern Apartment House.
1t has been my good fortune within the
past ten years to witness number of the re-
manning landmarks left to in licate the trail
of the original inhabitant of this country. 1t
has been pleasure, and yet a kind of sad
pleasure, to examine the crumbling ruins Of
what was once regarded, no doubt, as the
very triumph of aboriginal taste and mechan-
ical ingenuity. can take but Il cursory
glance at these earmarks of a forgotten age,
for short treatise like this cannot embrace
minute details of course.
We are told by the historian that there
were originally two distinct classes of Indians
occupying the territory now embraced by
the United States-village Indians, or horti-
cultural Indians, and the extremely rural
Indians, or non-horticultural variety,
The village Indians, or horticulturists, sub
sisted upon fruits and grain, ground in
crude wey, while the Observation-Disclosures
lived on wild game, berries, acorns and pill
grirns .-4
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Burdetfe's Bubbles.

ayes, indeed, Miss Clara" continued Mr..
La Dedah, giving an account of his travels,
II have been in great perils, don't you
know. One time on a railway train out
west don't you know, we were stopped by
the train robbahs, don't you know, and one
fellow, terrible brigand he was, you
know, he put his pistol to me head, don't you
know, and he said, Your money or your
brains! an 'pon me soul, Miss Clara, l had
nothing for b i'm"
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A CoWARDLY INsINUATION.

@Does your cow cringe and curl" asks The
New England Farmer, "and appear nervous
and fi,lgsty when you sit down to milk herr"
Wei MT much, she doesn't. She isn't that
kind OF IL COW. She isn't one Of your shy,
timid bashful cows. She just fixes her eyes
on vacancy with a glare that will raise a
blister on an oak knot, sticks her tail
straight up in the air, stiff as a poker,
plants three feet firmly on the ground and
then feels around with the other for the
milk pail. milk stool, milk maid; finds
them; fires them up somewhere in the blue
empyrean, and remarking "Ha, ha, amid
the shouting. jumps over a six rail fence and
tra,nples down an acre of young garden.
Don't talk about cringing and curling to
COW that has to be. milked with a pipe line
and pumping station. .s...
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A Young Performer ON tine stage.

Z The youngest performer in the London
theatres is the infant that takes part in the
baby song in the last act of 4My Sweetheart"
It is Is months old, and is the fourteenth
child OF gunnaker of Edinburg It lis put
to bed every afternoon at 4 o'clock and
brought to theatre at 3, and Is in bed again
half an hour later, earning in this duby, is is
said, more than its father Chicago journal
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UNUSED TALENTS.

"Iancelot," asked Elaine, looking up from
the paper, aHow do the strikers kill an en-
gine2 can't understand it at all. = EASY
as lying" replied Lancelot, promptly. 'You
just climb over the tailboard into the cab,
open the blow off cock by lowering the CON
Meeting rods until the erankpinis is level with
the crosshead of the fulcruln connections,
push in the brass throttle ratchet till it
reaches the crown sheet, which let's the
water glasses fall into the fire box" "Oh,
now I see" she said, joyourdy, sand of course
that puts out the fire. But, Lancelot, if
knew as much about engines as you do
wouldn't stand at the ribbon counter an
other day. I'd just go out to where the
strike is and be a president,of a railroad my
SELF And Lancelot kissed her and said he
would, just as soon as his new tennis suit
came home.-Robert ]. Burdette, in Brook
lyn Eaple ''A- o+s -fss ssa ss@F4 Ht6Ssai
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where phi1adelnI,ia Was Ahead.

A Brooklyn gentleman relates the following:
After the comforting of the pallium ON Arch
bishop Corrigan listened to some Of the dis
cussion going on among tho audience relative
tto TIE appearance nf the rreIates uhe zuere
present. Archbishop Ryan, of Philadelphia,
is splendid specimen Of a man, standing six
and q half feet in his stockings and possessing
the frame of an athlete. His head is covered
with hair suspiciously near an auburn tint.
The Philadelphians were proud of him The
Baltimoreans, equally proud of Archbishop
Gibbons, boasted that other cities might have
archbishops, but that Baltimore would soon
be honored with the red hat. aThe red hat,
sir, retorted one of the Philadelphians. "what
of ifa Baltimore may have the red hat, but
Philadelphia, sir. has an archbishop with
red headl" DIR. Ryan's appreciation of this
defense is not recorded. Brooklyn Eagle.
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T,,g nenefit. q yyeenIv !, p.vr.,,..

Weekly payments have become quite gem
eral in western Massachusetts,, and ON the
whole the change has proved beneficial, al
though its results has not been as sweeping or
immediate as its advocates anticipated. In
some few instances the factory operatives
still continue the old credit system in spite Of
the fact that they are now able to pay cash
each week. e Chicago Journal. aeE3
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The eldest of the present Representatives OF
the family lives in a house of molern con-
struotion, but it has at least the advantage
in its site of a commanding view of Boston
Larbor This is one Improvement we have
made ON those who have gone before. We
are choosing better sites for our houses, for
the reason probably that u fine view costs
nothing to preserve f DID,
would be considered a barii-1ike structure, is
the residence of James Russell Lowell The
house was once the home Of Elbridge Gerry.
another Of the signers OF tie Declaration of
Independence and it was here that our poet
Lowell was born, reared, and has always
lived Everything about this house Inn
presses one also with that feeling OF rest and
roomy comfortto be found in these old homes.
Would that our modern architects would take
some lessons from them E2s8S 1a ~
~ =
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Tl,c Flag Saves Him.

AS long as Mr.. Jetf.rson Davis makes his
harangues with the flag of the Unioa waving
above his head his REMARKS are harmless
Tie flag makes speech to th eyes of MS
woris tbs reach their ears - Philadelphis
Henoysi-
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Conlan.t stand Civilization.

A bear broke into e house of q Nevada
miner the other night. He was away. and
his wife thought he hal come home iile-
2 briated. Sac did rot wait to lighs a lamp,
but began operations at once When the
bear finally got away, it IS said that he did.
not stop running I'll be hail Travelled eight
miles into the heart of the mountains, and
I he was such \ sight that tn other bears
would not associate with him = Nevada
Journal.
The First Electric Telegraph Inventor.
Junius Henri Clemnlons, who claims to
have been the first electric telegraph in
yentor, is now 20 years old, with abundant
white hair and beard and bushy eyebrows.
STOPPING shoulders. and slow step; but his
sight is good. his voice firm; and his hand
steady He Is clei:.. of q congressional
committee - Chicaso Trihura 4ss8a III
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A Rise in Values.
Are you a customs officersn
llUo.s -, ~

Z wen. nau IIIIIe package semi 0veT t0
me by the steamer Oregon-just little,
vaIueless package, not worth more than slo
Has it come yeti" Ha@H
he sWhy, man, haven't You heard that the
Oregon was sunkr
aNo; was she? by Georgel must go
right up and put in d tili for that package.
There were $12 001 wos th of diamonds in
it"-Chieago Newssp
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states Evidence.

An old negro much alarmed, went to
judge and said: 4Jedge, dars er lot er kaugs
been sto.d down in my neighborhood lately
an fust thing yer knows somebody's gwine
ter be crested knows who tuck 'em an
ef yer'll LET me turn states everdenee I'll tell
yer. You were concerned, ehf' sYas,
sab. an ef yer'n let me turn de everdence III
tell yer zackly who took dem haugsH GAN
right aW ont do nothin' wild me ssNot
thing 9Will yer sw'ar itgn sYes, If neces-
saEy." aRut win yer put it in writin'ap
s3Yes.n The Judge drew up an agreement
and when he had read il the old negro said:
dat sounis sorter like it Sho' dis docky-
mint'n stan.!" 4Of course it viii Now tell
me who stole the hogs aWonit do nothin,
wid mesn mo-" s'lEall, jssige, stold dem
haugs by mersef Good day, sab. 4 thanks
Yer fur yer kinness. y Arkansaw Traveller.
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Destructiveness of Dynamite shells.

q 1t is thought that adozen shots from the
new German bomb, charged with dyna-
mite shells, would destroy the strongest
Notifications in the world.
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The Musse1 a Riyal oe the ovster

The mussel has been turned to account
for stewing at North Haven, Me-, and is
already said to rival the oyster for that
purpose among local epicures. M
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ARTHUR'S ILLNESS.
DISQUlETlNG RUMoRs ABOUT Taa
Ex-PRESlDENT,s HEALTH.

Poor, But Handsome Boy-BriIliant
College Student aud Successful Lawyer.
His Portrait and Picture of His Resi-
dence.
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The Enterprise Had q Good start.

I'm the speculative days following the war
several Milwaukee capitalists organized
railroad company, projected a Inns go miles
long and came to New York TO secure capi-
tai. A party to whom they were referred
listened to their project and asked:
AHaye you secured the right of way yet,
made survey or estimated the costsn
mo s*as 8Na3Aa
Then you haven't any railroadis&
sNot any actual railroad, but we've been
paying ourselves salaries for the last three
months, and that's big start, you know" ~
Wall Street News - stf
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One Mans opinioan 4 or Evar.s.

A western sight-seer being told that the
dried-up man of 10 pounds weight was
Evarts, the New York senator, said: aBy
goshi I'll bet he boards. rs
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The PhiIadelphia normal school has
substituted cooking for mythology in the
studies. &f fl1sa a9a
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