{V i,' wp? &*o?: '--i^gqpQSii. /n- THE WILD WSBTBBS GXRL: and nearly died of it, Madame Barbarine, while TEE BAR OF GOLD. was stifling hoi, 1ier little brothers were she was nursing her little girl for appearance's 3Tg rssmm EVENTS. ri% compelled to remain in their room. Ned and sake, never once forgot to put on Her greaced Chicago Son. Pergonal Mattitts? Jim had been guilty of the enormous offence of gloves at night to keep her hands white. Dr.-John J. Moran attended'Edgar' She tenches my cheek, and I quiver overcharged river "littering the house" with the trimmings and "Loot Ned! Juhen de Rhe learned all these things when Look now. It's like them In Virginia peannts are now ground a I tremble with exquisite pains slik pieces of paper they had gathered at Judge Allen Boe in his dying moments. He he enrolled himself the flvrag squadron that 8*Sb curlecuo things a on Mrs. Jones' walk ain't into wha't proves- a rery fair flour for Hanner's house, where the paper hangers were was always manoeuvring round about Mademoiselle now writes that the habits of intemperance making pie crust and other light pastries. at work, Such brilliant paper was never seen My blood rushes oathrough my veins. Oi?a Barbarine. Yet li3 fell in love did to some extent cloud thepoetjS befora The boys swooped down upon it as She smilesand in mad tiger fashion, with her desperately, thi3 strange and touching "So 'tis," said Ned, looking over his sister's misers might appropriate a gold mine. They As a she-tiger fondles her own, early life, but not his later rears. Poe's girl, who looked him so straight in the face, shoulder. 'Nel can do anything." Hood River, (Oregon, claims to produce wore it round their arms, legs I clasp her with fierceness and passion, and who, the day the lieutenant was introduced constitution wae such thafche could not "Thur ain't so good,'* said NelL modest- and bodies, and waltzed away the most lucious peaches in the And kiss her with shudder and groan. to her by a mutual friend, said to him, as she become a dram drinker, and for four y. "I wish I could do anything, Ned Td Ella Wheeler. arest, and will have an abundunt crop with it home, where in due season Mrs. lit her pnsreali cigarette: years previous to his death he wa3 per Chapman gave them "such a warming" that paint a, nice lot of flowers to hang over yonr Dfthem this year. "Ah: you are the man who is so much in She smiled when I mentioned the oysters, they both cried themselves asleep in broad love with mo? How do vou do?'* fectly temperate. Hi* death was caused bed." Paper from Cottonwood is being successfully And grinned at the sight ot a stew, daylight in their bedroom. Ned on the floor And she shook nis hand like a man. i by ill treatment and exposure suffered "Do, Nell.'" Jim exclaimed. Yery much a& afrolicootm boy ethy Jim in Nell's shielding armi When she laid manufactured at La Camas, He fell in lore with her, the gx honest "When he dons hisfirdtjacket of blue. from a party of Baltimore roughs^ who ami Jow beside Ned gently, and seated herself "Yes, make that for us, NelL" Ned added, as sailor, and to love her all tha more that, before Washington territory. I gazed with enchantment and wonda" againr it was an attitude the Almighty never long, ho come to undei stand and pitv iior. caught him, cooped him up, drugged he looked admiringly upon the drawing on the Patience has a limit. A French tailor 1 On her beautiful Omaha hair, intended -routh to take. For he was no* mistaken Olga was strange, him and voted him during an excited table. At that instant the Utile group And squandered my money like thunder recently committed suicide after paving Her elbows were planted on her knees her and badly brought up but she had no coquetry, around the table were silenced by a woman's i election. In attending him during his On this wild witching niiiden so fair. palms clasped her cheeks and chin, and she and her soul was proud and true. Who forty-six unccessful duaning visits looked straigHt before her into vacancv. knows? Perhaps she feft the vauity of her voice. last illness Dr. Moran saw that his to a single creditor. But when she was filled to repletion, As she sat there hi the darkened room, she patient gave no signs of a debauch. He life oi pleasure and agitation What is certain 1 "If I were- your father, I'd take them notions With stews and hot coffee and fries, A small speckled'irout haveinc been recalled a face hi which compassion and tenderness is that she judged, and judged severely, refused a glasa of spirite the day before And the supper had reached a completion, out of you mighty quick, miss!" blended so sweetly that her memory all tho-e young fellows who danced attendance found in the milk of a- Phiiapelphia could not grasp the approach of a frown u-pon In front of her Ben Butler's eyes upon her in the hunting field, and wrote he died. The girl looked up, turning a frightened face milKman, he has raised the price of it It was not possible the dead could see-the Behold, she arose from the table, their names on hor programme everv evening. to the speaker. Her lips trembled, but sha mastered his milk to 40 cents a pound. livingif her dead mother could see" them Thoy were all hi love with her, but none of And accepted the arm of another, I The appearanoe of Mrs. Oscar Wilde now, it would be torture inconceivable. her emotions as she replied: them really respojted her, for there was not And ere to pursue I was able, at a recent social gathering in London A rose bush in Chico, Gal., is between 1 one among them who hal as yet m*d up his She had gone with her strapping big What could a girl like her do? If her fatib- i "I washed the dishes, ma, and swept the thirty and forty feet high, and is thus described: JEstheiicism culminated mmd to ask hor to marrv him. And she brother. er did not recover his eyesight, her brothers kitchen." fifteen or twenty feet*in diameter, and treated them pretty roughlv, and called them would be bound out It would be as much- as in Mrs, Oscar Wilde's costume "After I told yon a dozen times- or more." the top is now a mass of wlidse roses. to orderwith a good stroke of her ridingwhip, she eould.do to pay her own way. THE LION'S CLAW. i of a wollen stuff in dull reseda trimmed like the handsome horsewoman she was As she sat there*with stony eves staring- at Anybody hearing that voice and tone- would Cincinnati stands fourth among the when they ventured to whisper too close I the dor. the cat pushed, its Win, and rubbed with pink, a kind of Kate Green1 have boon prepared for bad grammer, and the publishing centers of the country^ her away dress, tied at the waist by a droop- her ear in the whirl of a walu, or to squeeze against her, purring. It hastened to little Jim's gross exaggeration a scold commonly indulges. annual product of books and p'apers the hand she hold out to them in good-fellowship. sideit always purred around him when he i Julien de Rhe, lieutenant in the navy, had ing pink sash. Round the* neck sue thinf buttonst onuthem, insteadrofi putting all the Juhen, whose refinement of heart 'Why don' yo hunt up you clothes and sew criedand curled beside him Mrs. Chapman amounting in value to more than So come back in a sad condition from his expedition tu a stood him instead oi quickness I number t^o hanged at the front door, i wore a wide Toby frill of-two rows of dll 000,000. to Cochin China and when, after three leaving it wide open, and when Nell, recalled mey'r ficelle lace with various colored beads ot perceptionit is often the work on It is a singular fact that many of the thein to herself by the eound looked down unon the long months of illness in his Tourame home, he simple-minded who see the mo3t clearlyhad ni mm,,i V-I *V -V.^ and a large pink bow fastening a bunch men most popular hymns were written bypersons floor,, a bi id bar of sunlight falling through grew strong enough to walk a few yards on the discovered the hidden treasiues of lov.iltv the door of the room, wanted across the floor. ttay bar to learn to draw and paint a little." who were not religious- at all, of yellow mar?uerites on her head a the soul of this patrician, -nho was in reality so terrace of the banks of tho Loire, with his mother It fell upon the tangled trimmings of paper or whose claims to religion were based unhappy. He loved her for her noauty cer- "Learn to paint! What does a colt hke vou small Tarn o' Shanter cap of the same and sister on each side of himhow lovingly "them, little wretches brought in" around tamly, and his senses reeled when he felt hor know about drawin on very slight foundations. I greenish-gray material was the aeeoinpaniment It's downright laziness, their legs and amis, and drew with them in a they had numed him, the good souls!those lean upon his arm the pauses of the dance There is a bill before the Massachusetts heap as they lied fiom the heavv hand of the to this eccentric costume. and I'm going to sea if you.- father's going to this grand, fair woman, with her dark eyes, shivering fits still came over him sKnnetinied if stepmother. The scarlet tints-burned like fiie legislature to punish a. person and her skin that soemod so like the rose after encourage it, when you ought to learn to make the autumn winds were colder than usuaL Mrs. Helen L. Capelof Pleasantown, the purple shimmered the vellow stones a storm, when, in her nonchalant way, she who makes a noise in a public library your own clothes. When I v. as as old a3 your-" shone like gold As Nell looked at the queer talked to him, intoxicating him with the violet "You should go to Pau for the winter," said Ks., has abandoned the newspaper business, and disturbs other people. New for a The supposed head of the honae entering at patono* ot purDle and. dull brown interlaced fragrance of her breath and the glitter or hor the dootor "the climate is mild and not too hot after some years of successful bill to punish persons who talk at the with a neUoik of tangled tinnnnngs, she that moment, :ira. stairy eyes. But he loved her .is well, he loved Chapman turned to him management. In her valedictory she 1 just the thing for youci.lming and soothing staited Her pulse quickened An idea opera and the theater to the annoyance her above all for the pain she hid so proudly urathfuliy. lormed itselt slowly in her biaiu. Then she' and hM hoart burned as he watched the s-ad, and you will come back to your mother, in three I says: "As the editor and business manager of others. flowfairly flew to" her raea-ure in the cupboard, "That girl has just had the impudenoe to sorrowful glance that Olga bent on her mother months' time, a man again." of a newspaper my business is bionght forth her poor little box tf The latest noveltv in "ginger icecream," when Madame Barbarine, at her four-to-six talk back to m& because I spoke to her about cheap water COIOTSpathetic in their And so it was that, toward the middle of November, more with men than with women, and tea-ltting with hor back .to the light to hide in which the heat of The ginger attending to her own clothe* instead of fritterm'away cheapness, and her shabbv pencils tho black spots on her nose, against which Juhen de Rhe, leaning from his sunlit my work, to be done successfully, must counteracts the chill of the cream, and a piece of paper, and began to 'paint her time in nonsense on paper." even the anti-bolbos was powerlesshinted window the Hotel Garderes, looked out on be done as men do it. If I do not follow and the frigidity of the cream nullities almo3t openly at her royal conquests in the The flies hummed through the ouen doer, Mr. Chapman, who, after taking to himself a the sublime panorama of the Pj renees, puffing the lire of the ginp-er, producing, it is the beaten path, the business must northern courts. the cat purred loudly beside little Jim, the air second wife, discovered he had voluntarily palpitated with heat, but Neil as obln lou^, to said, a happy medium most gratifying the \s bile at those cigarettes which seem so dohcious suffer. If I do my work like a man, I He would marrv her! Yes, he would take placed a heavy yoke upon his neck, looked at these. It was only when Mi-. Chapman number to the epicurean palate. to a convalescent, and ii.ll to thinking of ht-r ay from those perilous surroundings am made the subject of such a continual two returned and noisily slammed the door I the httle group now huddled together mute, He-would tako her to his own mother, uho was those he had smoked formerly in secret between The schools established for boys and fusillade of malicious gossip that I to, that Nell paused her work Then she a good woman. She shoulu breathe tho purifying anJ ith sacied faces. docks on the Borda They brought back all tho put hor paint box and paper thur hiding vonng men and voting women by choose to abandon a profitable business and strengthening atmosphere of a home "I tell hor, if I was her fathor, I'd take that plac& sensations ol his sixteenth year. Evangelist Moody, at Northlield and that wao worthy of the name. In a word, he rather than to bear it any longer." laziness and nonsense out of her. A girl as ould save her! Gill, Mass., cost 8105.000, and two "Why, the place is full of pictty women," said If you please, indeed sir, I did it all my- big as that ought to be to work. Ton ought to otten thought of it ho thought of nothing I James Knox Polk, a nephew of the move buildings will soon be completed self." the young fellow the first time ho went out to olse now. Ho evon fancied sometimes that take har to the factory with you. Chapman. at a cost of 8100,000. The money was 'H'm'."-Mr: Hague, the elder, looked down listen to tho band in the Place Hoy ale, and to late President Polk, who for many Olga guessed his intention, and at Madame She can carry spools up and down stairs, or upon her through his glasses in a ivav that almost obtained from ricii Irionds of the distinguished Barbarine's four-to-six. where Olga treated ail stroll in tho sun in front of thefetatueof good made Nell lieau stand still, she -nas so years was a bachelor of independent do something useful, 'stead o' sprawlin' all her admirers in that tiank boyish way of hers, evangelist. King Henry and though ho was neither a overcome with awe bv tho appointment* of means living on a farm in Wostport, when she handed tho sailor his tea in a glass, over paper and slates, usm' up pencils." Mr. Hague's private office, and bv tho manaer libertine nor a fop, the sailor, beginning to enjoy Leaf-ciftting bees cut cylindrical after tho Prussian fashion, ho thought he saw Conn., about three years ago married "I didn't think Nell big enough to go to of Messrs. Hague, father and son." I in the depths ot the omi gill's eves a sweet life again, dressed himself in his best cap, and spherical patches out of roseleaves a Swedish lady. Later he showed "My father did not intimate a doubt of the work yet I'll thing about it." iar-away light that seemed to respond to his and seal up their nests to protect and his frock coat with the throe new gold truthfulness of your statement he simplv generous pity and infinite tenderness. signs of insanity, and until March last The father's hoart pleaded for tho little girl the young. The mason bees make bands, and the rosette of the Legion of Honor, expressed surprise. This is, I must sayOh*! had been some months in the insane whose upbraiding eyes forcibly recalled the by the way, what i your name?" '-Nellie Chap- Lheir houses from smal 11 grams of sand that his mother had brought to him when "Yes, Mademoiselle, my sick leave is up in a asylum at Hartford. He then returned man." I dead, and reminded him of his obligations to and clay attaching rhem so solidly to he lay in bed so ill that he never hoped to week I shall leave Pau to-morrow. I shall "Young Mr. Hague looked meaningly at tho I home for a short while, but the change the living. spend a few days in Tourame with my sister, walls that a hammer and chisel must wear it but onceon the black cloth of his elder Hague, the elder Hague said something in did not prove beneficial, and he was and from there 1 shall go back to Brest as alddo-camp "Wellonly don't be too long thinking about be used to break them off. a low tone to his son, then the latter asked coffin. to the naval protect. In a year or I taken back to the asylum. He stole abruptly: The use of the railway on the Brooklyn it," said Mrs. Chapman number two as she left eighteen months I shall go to sea again." It had been a good idea, all the same, to come away from the institution, and was "How is your father, Miss Chapman?" bridge is steadily increasing. About tho room Nell stole to hor father's side, and They were alone tho reading-ioom of the to Pau. How beautiful it wastho sun that It sounded so strauge to be called Miss Chapman" found at Stratford. I was necessary four-fifths of the people who crossed hotel, standing near an open window, with slipped her hand in his. warmed without burning, the blue heavens that she was flurried, but she managed care but I'd rather with thousands of stars twinkling and ghinniering I to use 3rce and apply handcuffs to secure it last month were carried in ears. As the wild landscape, with its far-off boundary mindt, "DonHu pa. If it wasn't for Ned and to say, "The doctor thinks ho mav see again." woldQ, above them in tho dark heavens. of hills, and beyond its snow jeak rising into compared with Mrch, 188-i, the number his return. "H'm'h'm!" said the elder a peculiar Jim "Good-bye, then, and a pleasant journey," I the sky! And how amusing it was to stroll manner. "Very oddunaccountabla" of railway passengers increased home.: answered Olga with hor fresh, firm voice. you in the factory than at The statue to be erected to the about that cosmopolitan crowd, among the "Not at all," said tho soa "I havo heard of 34 per cent, while the number of footpassengers "I want to a.- you for something, Monsieur "Hush!"' He felt ashamed of-it but he was fair foreigners, and listen to their voices talking cases almost similar." I memory of Commodore Oliver Hazard do Rhe. Yes, that lion's claw mounted on a fell off 8 per cent. every language in Europe, and mingling "H'm! rarerare, I should say." He wheeled afraid his wife would overhear her. "I'll see httJo gold ring that you wear at your watchchain Perry has arrived at Newport. The together like the different sougs of the birds in around to Noll suddenly, then, "Mv child i about itdon't fretand don't talk back You The president of Costa Riea lives in I have a fancy for it It came from a an aviary. It is true that there were some disagreeable this, I scarcely know what to sav of "it. Best statue is of bronze. It pictures the lion that you once killed out hunting in Ainca, the iinest house in. the capital city, iJi must be good children." This was addressed sights as wellsuch as the young put it in Boone's hands and let him decide." didn't it? I am a sort of wild animal myself. naval hero in a striking attitude. He is and his residence and the Palacio Federal, to the group collectively. The boy mutineers Englishman, for instance, in the last stage of "Now that is precisely what I do not propose That trinket ploases me. Give it to mo I will to do," said Hague, Jr. It won't be fair. Boone which is near it, are about the i represented as he reached the deck of consumption, -nho was wheeled about in a were preparing to knuckle their eyes, when he keep it in remembrance of you. must not know where we obtained the design. added harshly,"None o'that now!" whereupon little carriage by his servant, wrapped in only two-story structures in the place. the Niagara, after his perilous trip in a 1 Julien unfastened the little charm and put I suggest I be permitted, as usual, to order him shawl andcomfoiters the Englishman who had it into the girls hand thou suddenly ho caught He receives house-rent free, the use small boat from the disabled flagship the boys choked lumps down thair throats to supply any details that may occur to him, eyes like a boiled cod-fish, and wore a black .her hand both his own and whispered nassionatoly: of two horses and a carriage, a salary in preparing the design for the frame." I Lawrence. The commodore is hatless, and pushed their fists straight down into their respirator over his mouth. Ah! it was enough t'f 810,000 a year,, and uses soldiers "You are rightquite right. And you Miss to make one shiver. And then after the first his right arm is uplifted, his index finger "I love you! Will you be my wife?" pants pockets, while their father glanced at for his servants. this is the most extroardiuary case that ever movement of pitymen arc such egotists Olga loosened ner hand gently, anil holding i extended, showing clearly that he is in the paper Noll lett lying on the table. He came under my noticecall "on ussay in a I Juhen remembered what he looked hke himself the lion's claw then, crossing ner arms unon Chickens, two minutes after thev week." I i the act of giving directions to those who bent suddenly over it, then turned to Nell: her breast, she looked Julien full the face when he landed at Toulon, as thm as "Make it Saturday if you wish," interposed I Dave left the eggs, will follow with were about him. He wears a jacket "You'copied it" tor a moment -nith no sign ot emotion on her a skeleton, with circles around his eyes like Hague, Jr., kindly, as ho looked into the wist- i ,heir ej-es the movements of crawling own. i adorned with epaulets, his sword being two rings of chocolate and he "thought "No, indeed I didn't, pa." she said, at last, "no! And yet you ful eyes that seemed to search his very soul "No,"5 nsects, and peek at them, judging that, now how as cured, ho had had a narrow buckled on, while his larsje pistol is "I saw her do it," saidJim, coming to his sisi in thoir anxiety. are the first man who has loved me and told escape. distance and direction with almost in^ ter's aid manfully. "I will be back Saturday," Nell said simply stuck in his belt. Tho statue will be me so in that straightforward way. It is foi And Juhen de Ene felt that it was a good thing "She did it all "but of hor head, pa," Ned afJirmed, fallible accuracy. They will instinctively as she skipped out. She* thought she would unveiled Sept. 10, the anniversary of the that reason that I refuse." to be alive, to breath tho soft -naiin air out they both looked at Nell, and NeU have fainted if she had remained a moment appreciate sounds, readily running "Olga!" cried Julian in a changod voice. battle of Lake Erie.. there the sunshine, well dressed, freshly flushed as she cast her ey.- down. longer, her jov was so groat toward an, invisible hen hidden1 shaved, and proud of the rosette at his buttonhole. "Listen to me," she wont on, interrupting i "I can do evor so liiucirbetter than that, pa The Boston Recorder tells this story -'call.1 in a box: when they hear her him by a gesture, "and understand thoroughly And he gave money to the beggars, Mr. Chapman sighed Ho wished ho was not The present owners of Hague's factory, the i why I answer no. I fool that I am not worthy about a distinguished clergyman of gazed after the pretty' women who passed' quite so poor. He wished he could send her foremost in tho land, point to an elegant residence An immense ledge of white metal of you, and I should not make you happv. \o\\ to school. He wishedso many things that ho him, and at last stopped, feeling quite softened on the summit overlooking the town, that city who went out to a country lias been discovered in Antelope valley, remember that letter of your sister's that you realized keenly for the thousandth time, he had at the sight, to watch tho pretty little where the hobby-horses of the grandchildren Mono county, Cal., the nature of complained of having lost Well, you dropped made the mistake of his life in marrying Hannah town the other day to lecture. He arrived American girls, black stockings and gloves and children of JIague, senior and junior shine Cone. It would not do to let this nonsense' it here, and I picked it up and road it Your which puzzles all mining experts to under the trees. The Hagues amassed a competency and floating white dresses, who were dancing early in the afternoon, and all the growto encourage it. Best tako Noll to the sister auswored the confessions you had made and retired from active pursuits. The in a ring aiound one of the trees of tho Place whom specimens have been submitted. tactory. Work would occupy her tiniokeep of your feelings toward moieehugs that I I to-n of course, "spotted" him within greatest stroke of business the firm of Hague i Royale, to tho tune of the double-quick The metal is fusible at iirst, but after peace in the house maybe. had guessed long ago. She rejoiced at them, & Son ever did was when theevmarket put their famous five minutes as a very great and very march which tho band was playing. pattern on th The se the first time- it fields to nothing except like tho simple, innocent child she is, but in Gold- So it was settled to the satisfaction of Mrs. "Bar of saintly man. He went into a drug terms that liavo shown me what a wide, what a mixture of acids. A pound, of Chapman number two. Nell, at the age of ries of patterns following yielded them larger store, and, in tones that froze the young a terrible difloronce there is between me and fourteen accompanied her father to the factory profits in two years, than all the profits of the rock A ield half a pound of the metal, He was just ready to fall in love, this happy the real maiden. When I road that letter I blood of the clerk behind the "counter, the following Monday. two years put together. There is a story current convalescent, and it was a case of love at first and there are millions of tons in the saw what your family was like. Hague's factory was so vast, the crowds of in the trade that the profits of the o'rigmal said: "Young mandoyou sight the day he saw Mademoiselle Olga Barbarine, plant. It contains platinum. Yours is an old and honorable house men, women and children who were shut up "Bar of Gold" pattern amounted to upwards the most beautiiul girl of all tho Russian J3mokeV" "Y-es, sir." said the trembling is it not?into which you should Statistics have been published designed in it from early morn till night, HO numerous of two hundred thousand dollars. Incidentally colony, jump from her horse front of clerk "I'msorry,but I learned the brm none but an honorable wife. You shoidd that a score more or less were never noticed. to show the increase in the I may mention that the succeeding profitable the Hotel Gassion, where she lived with her thank God, Monsiour de Rhe, that you have a It made a great difference to Jim and Ned however. habit young and haven't been able to patterns were designed by the same hand number of deaths in Massachusetts mother. gray-haired mother of whom you can never The stepmother's breath grew colder the hand that was appropriated by Hague, i quit it yet." "Then," Baid the great from pneumonia. In 1857 there were It was five o'clock in the evening, and she think without feohng a proud tenderness melting now that Nell was out of hearing. They had Jr., before the firm retired from active business. divine without tho movement* of a had just returned from the hunt The five or 1,075 deaths reported, and in 1883 your heart Ihavoa mother, too, but I more surprises now in the shape of smart blows, six admirers,, in pink, -ho had accompanied have been forced to judgo her. You have only niusele or the abatement of a shade of there were 3,045. But in estimatinotbe and the stepmother's voice grew shriller. Two Necdtfcs to add that Nell's brothers and her had jumped oil their horses together, to seen the ridiculous side, monsieur, but I know pillows were bedewed oftener with tears, and fhe awful solemnity ot his voice, "can father shared her good fortune, or that her signilieance of these figures two help her down. She took the first hand that her hotter. you were to ask her for my two trembling, fearful children became afraid father thinks to this day that there never was you tell me where- can get a good things must be kept in mindfirst, hand, she would refuse you, because you are of came, and as soon as she was off her horse, of theiiy own shadows. a pattern as handsome* as "The Ear ot Gold" cigar?" the great increase in population, and minor nobility, and your fortune is moderate. she knocked on one of the tables in the veranda Meanwhile the great chimneys at Hague's My mother has made up her mind I am to second, the improvement during that with the handle of her riding-whip, and calling factory projected the smoke ot thousands of I Ex-Senator Chaffee made this remark make a grand marriage or, if notn not, she I tons of coal heavenwaid, the looms produced for a cup of milk, which she drank at a period in the methods of collecting Appomattox Apple Tree. Willl find maeu somethinng. else. Hein? You' seo about General Grant: I see that a draught, stood there a moment, laughing, aci-33 upon acres of beautiful. and costl.y fabv* hlul mmn -.Mi! such statistics. /.l 1T-.J girl TT _.___ *i I am pretty experienced Bntsoitis.ofAnd for a nineteent! ncs and Nell Chapman's feet toiled up and Rooking like some goddess of old with her scribbler in the-World says that the General Grant to a Comrade in Philadelphia. tha not.J It is horribleis it down stairways that seemed untirthereTe"emed"tolbe to lengthen as th slender form distinctly outlined as if molded An adjustable mirror has been patented general cannot write, and that he only When I reachecLAppomattox C. H., is why we wore at Nice last winter, at Skew- day wore onweaiilv her black riding-habit, and tho waves of her by an inhabitant of Charlestown, makes memoranda,, which General eniugue last summer, and why we are now at no end of them "It was easy work Mrs Lee had been in McClean's house for shining auburn hair loosened from her man's Mass. This invention covers Pau. That is why we kuook about from one i Chapman number two said "A babv'mi^ht Adam Badeau fills out for him. That hat and falling on her shoulders. She held some time. All there is of the appletree end of Europe to another like so much baggage carry spools." Meantime Nell, witn dark, the use of a specially contrived frame her empty cup in both hands, satisfied, and, is a great mistake. Badeau dops nothing story is this: When I received a ^hy we never sleep but in hotel beds, and only heavy lidded eves, hollow cheeks, and tired for holding the mirror, and in which as it were, intoxicated by the fresh bevorage, of the kind. Everything GeueraL I and behind her the setting sun lit up her golclen note from Lee asking to meet me at the mirror can be readily adjusted and almost a royal princess, you know, and ever Grant has prepared has either been* factory, untilbut I will not anticipate. hair till it encircled her face like a halo. he'd in anv desired position, fpr use of since I was fifteen she has given me to understand Appomattcx, where he then was, I sent The inhabitants of N were stunned one with his own pen or dictated to a stenographer. Then, suddenly growing grave again, she that I am destined to bo an archduchess, either tall or shoit people, or for children burning July day with a sound that smote thenears bim a note saying I would be there as put down the cup on the table, gave a slight, I have read much of it in his. if onlj a left-handed ono. Marry a gentleman like the crash of worlds. Doors were burst sitting on the floor, so that mirrors disdainful bow to the group pink, and walked hardly more than a mere* bourgeois! soon as possible. There was an old apple own handwriting. Ho can put moreI open walls trembled the earth vibrated every of medium size may be made -with a queenly step, into the hotel, tapping Why, in her oyes, I should be lowering myself. pain of glass in the town was shattered It was in a few words than most men. orchard on the hill-side, opposite more useful than large mirrors as ordinarily her boot with her riding-whip. Ah, you must be disgusted with me and I am just after the noonday meal. The great engines I thinks a great deal. is not a McClean's house, where the advance of ashamed of myiolf! No, don't deny it No, Three days later Julien de Rhe, who had hung. in Hagues carpet* factory had made two you oould never take me to your motherI spent his time asking his friends, "Who is classical writer by any means, but you or three revolutions, when the workers were Lee's army had halted when the white The information may not be contained whose heart has been so defiledas your wife. she? la madly in love with her I adore appalled by a sound accompanied by a blow know what he means when he once flag was exhibited. A farm road ran in works on natural history, Besides, I am only an expensive and useless her," etc., was introducednot a very difficult that threatened the total destruction of the factory. puts it down, without any trouble. All luxury that you ha-ve no need ot, and that but it is asserted that the giraffe can matterto the Barbarines, and made one of diagonally up the hill, through the orchard. The towns people running to their doors, could never make you happy. And, for that his messages, as President were prepared the squadron of admirers of the beautiful Russian 30 closely immitate nature that the looking towards the factory saw a puff of yelowish In places where trees were matter, I don't love you1 "don't love any one. by himself.'" 1 i smcke hanging a few moments most practiced eye has failed to distinguish Love is among tho things that have been forbidden close to the wheel tracks, on the upper Was she really a Russian, this intoxicating over one corner of the null. When the smoke me. Farewell, Monsieur de Rhe. the animal from one of the creature, who had been galloping about all clay cleared away, a hole in the wall as large as the side of the road, the roots had been cut Joseph Smyth, another prominent Go away, and say no more, for God's sake. dead and blasted trees which abound and waltzing all night, ever since the beginning side of a small house was observed. Around Onlyvou leave me your lion's claw, won't criminal who figured in the ossassinaI off by being continually run over. This in its haunts. Lions have been known of the season? Yes, by her reputed fattier, this the workers in the factory, now standing you i It will I emmd me of a true-hearted man, her mother's first husband, the Count Barbarine. silent and grim, gathered with pale faces. The tion of Lord Frederick Cavendish and to gaze long and earnestly at a motionless left a low bank between the road and to whom I have acted like a true-heaited woman. But every one knew the mother had towns people mingling with them beheld a few No say no mora Wo must part forever. giraffe, and, being unable to i Mr. Burke in Phoenix Park, is dead. trees so cut. When the officer (General been divorced just at the very time of her courageous sculls bearing out the dead engineer, Farewell" decide that it was not a tree, to turn Smith traced the murdered secretaries daughter's birth, and that Madame Barbarine, and half a score mainod for life. When O. E. Babcock,) who bore my reply to and skulk away. -whose father was a New York banker named the authorities collected their wits, and investigated to the Park. When he had identified General Lee reached him he was seated Three' years after the steam transport, I Jacobson, had long kept up a liaison that was the matter, they arrived at the unexpected them, he waved his handkerchief as a Last fall a small boy at White Plains, Couedie, returning from Senegal, touched at almost public, with a northern princesome on one of these embankments, with his conclusion that it was a merciful dispensation N. Y., had his ears filled with oats by signal, and the assassins ran across the the Canaries to take in letters. After she had Christian or Oscar. Had she any nationality, of providence that so few were injured, feet in the road and his back against the started on her journey through the rough some boys with whom he was skylarking -this child who had been brought up, by turns, and but one killed, when, had the "ac- sward and attacked their unfortunate night again, the boatswain came into the officers' tree. He was then invited to pass in a Scotch nursery, in a convent at Naples, in cident" occurred five minutes later, or fifty in a barn. He scratched and cleared victims. Smyth turned infcner, was cabin and laid a packet of newspapers on a school at Geneva who had slept half iier minutes earlier in the day, hundreds Would through our lines to a house to await out, as he thought, all of the horsefeed, the table. pardoned and sent out of the country. nights on the cushions of express trains, and have been killed and wounded by the explosion and went home. About six weeks my arrival. U. S. GBANT. in whose memory, as in a stereoscope, there Juhen de Rhe opened a news sheet about of the boilers. Smyth and his wife went to Sydney, ago he was taken with a severe pain three weeks old, from Paris, and read under was nothing but a succession of wateringplaces, As it was. the factory. would resume operations To J. L. COKNET. but the Sydney people refused to have the heading "Movements and Whereabouts," sea-side towns, winter cities, and other in a week, or ten days at most in his ear. His head swelled up *and them there, and the government the following lines: {(laces of fashionable resort, to which, for the he was in great agony. All remedies ast fifteen years, her motherstill a handsome "His Majesty the King of Swabia. who is brought the informer baei to London,, One branch of trade shows no effects Chapman was among the wounded. "All failed and his mother took him to a woman, in spite of the eruption on her ace traveling incognito, under the name of the his own fault," Mrs. Chapman number two where- Smyth has just died of dissipRcfeion. of the panic. "I am a manufacturer of i & New York doctor, who removed two liad carried her blase person, her ennui,her Count of Augsberg, arrived here yesterday evening. said "If he had been minding his own businessin samovar, and her pet monkeys? Alas! she had kernels of oates that had sprouted and his own placeit wouldn't have happened." babies' caps," said a New York merchant, aio country, this strange girl, who, with all the "An annoying accident happened at the station 4f$ taken root in his ear. The boy is nowwell. "and I regard it as the most staple Henry Clews, says, the New Y&rk modesty of a maiden, had the audacity of a on his majesty's arrival. The Baroness This in the ears of a man to whom the doctors boy, and who said, laughing at herself, "As de Hall, who, onlv accompanied by her mother, business in the country. Babies hinted his chances for ever seeing sky or Times, finds happiness sometimes in for me, I am neither from London, nor from the Countess Barbarine, was traveling with his earth again was problematical, was as bitter as A correspondent of The New York are coming into the world all the time, Paris, nor from Vienna, nor from St Petersburg. majesty, lost a jewelof slight value, though talking of the old times when a Wall anything in Job's experience. To lie up stairs Journal of Commerce says the idea that I am from tho table d'hote." she apparently set great store on it It is a and every mother will stint herself before in a lose back room and hear a shrewish i street panic bumped into him. 'Ono. fortunes are to be made in Florida Had she any relations? None, it seemed. simple lion's claw mounted on a small circlet step-mother scold his httle boys all day was she denies her infant a cap. No morning," is the-o^y he tells or^ storVj Hor true fatherthe Oscar, or Christian, to of gold. Madame de Hall has offered a reward hell on earth. There was, in these days of utter without sweat of the brow is the fiction iff MI came down town worth $5,000,000, whom Madame Barbarine so often alluded had panics interfere with my business." of two hundred francs tor the recovery of this wratchodness, a sound that John Chapman of land speculators. An orange been dead several years and her father according well knew a sound of hurrying feet, andthen jewel" and that night went home penniless. grove in Florida is not woith a cent the shrew's tongue lashed the "lazy lump that to the lawthe Russian counthad "Look out, Julien, you are forgetting the "What, penniless?" asked one hearer more than an apple orchard in New ought to be working in a neighbor's kitchen." never taken any notice of her. He was completely hour of your watch, my dear fellow." The total exports of petroleum from ruined, and had o other means of exlstance "Thank you," said Julien de Rhe, throwing the other ds^c-. "Yes, sivi penniless, England until its owner has put into As there never was any love in the case at all but hie gun. H was a dead-shot, and down the paper, and walking as from a dream. on the second wife's part, when dire poverty the United States during the fiscal year practically jpei&niless I osdv had about it years of hard work, much money, earned his living by winning prizes at the pigeon That night the man at the wheel, who was flung the door wide open allthe windows in the and much impatient waiting. He $60,000 l&ft along with my seal in the ending June 30,1884,"were 513,670,092 SS3 matches, like a sort of civilized Leatherstocking. alone onthe poop with tho officer of the watch, house were not large enough to echo her discontent thinks it could be demonstrated that a Stock Exchange." Friends say that As for the countess, though she had saw him put his handkerchief to his face several gallons, valued at $47,103,248, an increase and ill humor to the ends of towa periodic attacks of motherly sentimentalise times. There was a good deal of wind and good apple orchard pays a larger interest Mr. Clews is richer now than, he was of 7,738,476 gallons and $2,190,- that set ones teeth on edge they rang so false, sleet, yet, where he stood, it could not have Nell Chapman sat in silent despair in the one than the best orange grove in 169 as compared with the preceding i even before the srjia.sJUig days of 1873. she was blessed withthe mo3tperfect, absolute! reached him.Translated for the Argonaut room set apart for herself and her brothers. Florida. and utter selfishness. When Olga, who was year. from the French by Mademoiselle Boucuier. Although it was a little pasthigh noon* nnd the *'i^ then eight years old, had had typhoid fever, .irfel