The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-09-13

granaries, oases. and obelisks of the planet
Uranus easily disputable and refutable; UNI
brellas In tubes levers OF steel that shone
with frost and so awry as to be useless for
leverage. sooty garments that were fit food
for moths, raspberries preserved in oleo-
margarine, the profile portrait OF a gaunt
courtier, always chivalrous, implacable, in
exorable, and diplomatic combatant, who had
often been ogled foudly by maidens fair at the
ancient joust, as he rode his admirable steed
with stold languor, or received his gauntlets
and falcon from the 'ostler; fragmentary parts
of an elegant trousseau, which seamstress,
herself having previously been the sewer of
the garments, found In the interstices of a
sewer near its orifice, after a drought, when
she sought a portable draught from the pub
lie faucet; some genuine seckel pears along
side scallops and sedative herbs on an eartben
hearth, and other things too numerous to
mention. The chief curiosity, however, was
a Partisan calf in booth, slipping sarsapa-
rilla, while its pedal extremities struck the
pedals of an organ with vehemence, and
sweetly played ''The Flowers that Bloom in
the Spring, ira Ia"
The curator and conservator of these OBJ
iects, for the last decade, at least, was an ex-
emplary evangelical prelate, whom neuralgia
and hiccough had made recluse. He was
related to the Cockburns and Majorbanks, OF
Bangor Wales mot Bangor In Maine); and he
had lived in Louisiana, st. Louis, Louisville,
Coxsackie, and Schaighticoke. AS an academ-
ian he was thoroughly conversant with the
deinitive tenets of art He sat reading, in the
Tribune and Pail Mall Gazette, about the i'm
portance to mercantile industry of refuent
tides, and of the continent streams that rise
on many rise Of ground in Arkansas. just
as he began, in an orotund voice, dolorous
rectative concerning the grievous aggrandze-
ment of power inherent in the mayoralty,
those despicable scoffers, Cromwell and the
brigand, completed their promenade. For
moment they stood to contemplate the zealot;
then in their mischievous rancor they seized
him by the nape Of his neck and would not
parole him until he had procured parole evil
dence and surety of his preferable partiality
for occult and tripartite sociabilty. When
they said to him ''Is this thy troth for aye ?"
he replied, "Aye, aye, sires; it is irreparable,
irreferrible, and irremediable, however ex-
plicable." Then they bade him conjure the
magicians to conjure a demoniacal apparition
in proof of his consistency. But he pleaded,
"Cease your contumely Of me; do not contro-
vert or confscate my honor; grant me rather
your coincidence, which is comparable with
the best" The eloquence of his desultory
discourse touched them, and at once they
made him secretary pro temp0re of their
coterie and invited him to ride in their phae-
ton.
Often afterward the three gazed in the gas
light and again retraced the route of the
aisles, slaves in hand, to accost the comely,
lithesome damsel with the liauescent opaline
eyes, their cicerone, concerning the ceramics
and miraculous brio brac in the museum,
until their receptivity found safety; and then
they would give her respite from their inter-
rogatories and take recess for themselves.