mm r,74 INSECT HORSES. SPRUCE CUM. what if I were to take away your S O IT IS grumbling at the post-boy's ignorance, opened the window, aa in.rang Matilda which he said was all owing to "these just as Lady Beauchamp entered. sandals?" railways." But beiore the dowager could assert Ants Can Carry on Their Backs "Behold!" and the deverish uncov-" How It Is a re in an3? Here's a jYiend who says that sorrow ti§i Sir Charles gladly recocnized his herself, the husband and wife were ered a foot and exhibited a sole as l*s&J&i Many Times Their Own Weisrht.?^ Come-* today or comes"tomonow. it Is is Of uncle, and speedily found consolation clasped in each other's arms, and all tough and leathery as that of a Here's a longfacc who JS» moainngl^lisSyW In November, when the cold weather A gentleman on the island of St. -w in acquainting him with his miseries Tell him death i-» far away! camel. ended happily, with the approval and Croix instituted several experiments Let dull age go weep and pray has fairly set in, the gathering of and some comfort in asking his advice acceptance of "the ultimatum."— "But suppose I was to strip those Heed not grief, the ghost tliere, groaning, and assistance. spruce gum begins in Vermont. Genuine with reference to ascertaining the Boston Globe. rags from your back. Who would cloud the jocund day! "This morning," he said, "I refused spruce gum has almost entirely truth of what he had often been told "Sun and simoon have scorched my Ah, they sav tfyit anguish found them, to go to meet of the Py tchley hounds, LUCKY LAURA LIBBEY. back for seventy years and it matters disappeard from the Bennington market of the ingenuity and apparent reasonings Men cut down with battle round them— because it took place in Lord Oussulton's little whether it be covered or not. (Hear the boys there gayly singing.') as aregular article of merchandise. of the ants of that beautiful island, park, and it might give Matilda, And now," continued the dervish, In boire region fai away' She Makes Pocketsf ul of Money or rather her mother, room to Formerly the supply was abundant, says the New York Ledger. "shut your bread-winner and let me What caie weTCIIOJaugh today9 Writins. talk •M^'^'j the price low and the quality firstclass. Bring no tears, whate'er jou're bringing: Having slain a centipede which had talk. You think your equipment perfect, "You should have done nothing" of Probably the most interesting female Honor to the jocund da}'.' but you are not rigged for a longdistance a, I been gent him by a friend, he laid it the kind,'* remarked his uncle. personality in New York just race. A little accident bv Whata that sound that cools our laughter on the wiudow-sill within his apartment, But the supply* now largely depends "What, Charles, would you pass all now is the authoress Laura Jean Libbey. the way will rattle you. See me prove Whats that form that follows alter? your life in Lady Beauchamp's leading-strings? where, though not a single individual Funeial music sadly sounded— on chance, the gum-pickers not being it'" and grasping his staff, heexecuted Her name is more advertised certainly One more man is turned to clay. No, you shall go to the of that mischievous race of a flourish and with one swift, clean, so numerous or industrious as in than that of any other woman Let dull age go weep and pray* hunt. Make yourself happy. Sing horizontal stroke he hit the delegate's hereabouts. She is personally a modest former years, as there is little money vermin had been seen, to his great Youth by death was ne'er confounded. dance, laugh, chuck the lasses under plug hat in the middle and knocked Long shall shine our jocund day. little lady, says the New York Recorder. in the business. The sawmill, pulpmill gratification, in the course of a fewr the chin, kiss the pretty girls and it a shapeless thing upon the sand. She has childish blue eyes and Oh, my dear one, to my weeping never fear but I'll bring you through." and forest fires have wrought such hours, one solitary ant suddenly With a look of anguish the delegate is as unaffected in her manner as a Marble Mlence sternly keeping, In half an hour there was Sir devastation among the big tracts of picked up the wreck. The top was gone, made its appearance through a crevice Lying there in breathless blindness— Charles footing it away merrily in the New England school-teacher. She the sides were caved and the brim spruce trees which formerly clothed Death is never far away in the casing, attracted probably farmer's keeping-room, the bow-windowr came from Cincinnati a few years ago, was cut across and hung dangling Even youth can weep and pi ay' the Green Mountains, that the occupation by the odor of the dead body. of which commanded the entrance poor and unknown. She had no great Lips that loved have lost their kindness from the crown. of the gumpicker is almost gone. Shortly after, having surveyed the Dead are they this Ditter day! to the park, up the great avenue of life experiences has never traveled "There!" said the dervish, "your premises, it disappeared, but speedily which the Lady Beauchamp and her Sometime^ a lumberman or a mountaineer —Hose Hawthorne Lathrop, in Scnbner. has never seen the commonest phases power is gone from you, for what is a returned with a host of companions, charming daughter were at that moment in Woodford, a town adjoining of humanity, and yet she seems to walking delegate without a plug hat? to whom the discovery of a prize had advancing. Bennington on the east, discovers Oh. Bismillah! Oh, Marshallah! Oh,' HER ULTIMATUM. have discovered the art of fixing tlie unquestionably been communicated A mutual recognition took place between rats! Yah'" and, brandishing his staff, attention of the shop girl, the factory a tree that will yield several pounds a more careful survey of the magnitude the Colonel and her ladyship, he drove the delegate forth. And as the girl and the young women who all expect of marketable gum. which is brought of the object was evidently instituted. followed by an invitation for him on burning Syrian sun rose higher in the IR CHARLES VAVASOUR to marry rich young men and live to Bennington, where it finds a ready The whole company then disappeared her part to visit them at the manorhouse, sky the vanishing forms passed over a palace. Miss Libbey now has an simultaneously through the which he declared he felt great was the happiest market at good prices. the line of the horizon, the delegate crack, but an army was put in requisition, regret at haviug to decline in consequence elegant home in Brooklyn, where she man in England. Young, The price depends entirely upon the ahead, with the dervish a good second of the melancholy position of for the third appearance was a lives with her mother and she has a quality, ranging all the way from 50 about two jumps behind. handsome, in possession multitude. his nephew. nice carriage and a pair of sprightly cents to $1.50 a pound. Gum ofpoor ot a large fortune, The sound of a violin and a "Now quality is readily distinguished by its horses. One oftheMunros pays her England's Money Guarded. Having mounted the carcass, examined a splendid domain and take your places, take your places" opaqueness and by its intimate admixture a handsome salary. She writes stories The Bank of England's doors are minutely its exact position from the farmer's windows opposite noble mansion, he of minute bits of bark, which and they sell so well that she probably mow so finely balanced that the clerk, and satisfied themselves that it was drew off the attention of the party for became entangled with the gum when wanted but a wife to makes just now more money by actually bereft of life and that no by pressing a knob under his desk, a minute. it exuded from thetreein a semi-liquid complete his felicity. her own efforts than any woman in danger would be incurred from their can close the outer doors instantly, "Oh, my dear, you must not mind state. Poor gum is further distinguished this section. That, of course, does premeditated opera tions,|a new and For a year he paid this." remai-ked the Colonel, it's the as being too heavy or too and they can not be opened again except not count investments. Miss Libbey unlooked-for series of labor was commenced, anniversary of Mrs. Peabody's wedding light, bitter and permanently sticky his addresses to the only by special process. This is done is about 30 years of age. She goes to bearing such a striking analogy day, and Sir Charles is obliged, to the teeth in some cases, and hard daughter of Lady to prevent the daring and ingenious to human reason in what is of course, to open the dance Avith her. Saratoga in the summer, to the Berkshire and crumbly in other specimens. Gum unemployed of the great metropolis -=«., Beauchamp, and then commonly called "contrivance," that, See he is proposing her husband's hills in the autumn, and her entertainments of the finest grade is either translucent from robbing the famous institution. became her happy bridegroom. It if there is no intelligence it—why, health, and eh! what, kissing Grace'" or transparent, of a light amber in Brooklyn are now attracting *?S» the metaphysicians have in reservation The bullion department of this and color, filled more or less with the then seemed to him impossible that "I can't believe my eyes," cried the fashionables of that city. an unexplored field of observation. other great English banking establishments minute bubbles of air, breaking with a Matilda, in a rage, stepping forward he could evince the hapiuness he felt Her success is entirely due to her own short shining fracture and having a are nightly submerged in several to enter the house. "I will confront exertions. by showing too much happiness and Not being able to move the mass sweet, peculiar and balsamic odor and and shame him.'' feet of water by the action of the •devotion. Even the caprices of the taste. The word "gum," however, is entirely, they divided themselves into \f "Matilda, my daughter," said Lady machinery. In some of the London platoons and cut the body into charming Matilda—and she had'them popularly misapplied, as the sustance r— AN OD RING. Beauchamp, leading her away "think banks the bullion departments are is a resinous matter. portions of about half an inch in —rendered her a thousand times moie of your dignity don't degrade yourself connected with the manager's sleepingrooms, length, which was effectually -and ret us leave this disgraceful scene." A considerable portion of the gum engaging in his eye1, and it cost him For a Delusion Riven. and an entrance can not be skillfully done between a late hour in "Oh'" said the Colonel, as they offered for sale in Bennington is sent nothing to give way to them. affected without setting off an alarm Mam'selle recently saw a ring a the afternoon and the following night walked off, "it is quite plain that it West in small packages by mail. The and each piece transported to their near the persons head. If a dishonest of twisted and cut steel, set with a It was about this time that he is time for us to prepare our ultimatum reason for this is that large numbers citadel through some contiguous aperture official, during day or night, now. Well, Charles, how do you of Eastern people who have gone West peculiar opaque green chrysolite, dispa! ched a letter to his uncle, Colonel of sufficient diameter to allo'w like your dance?" send back to their old home for small should take even as much as one from which was handed round from man avasour of three or four pages of the loads to pass. supplies at a time. In this way, too, But when the Colonel told him that a pile of one thousand sovereigns the to man to examine, and was admired panegyric, crowded with notes of admiration, When the observer arose at daylight his wish was gratified and that Lady quarter-pound packages of gum are whole pile would instantly sink and a by all. To mam'selle's eye—uneducated every part had been carried which the old bachelor perUt-ed, sent across the continent to California, Vavasour had just departed in a perfect pool ot water take its place, besides away except the head, which was where the article is valued almost fury at witnessing his dancing, iu that line—it looked as if it were as he said, with terror. letting every person in the estabhshmentknow really moving off toward the hole drinking and kissing performances, the beyond price. The Ohio and Michigan Dunns the second month Sir Charles worth about 4 cents, and even three of the theft. surrounded by an immense concourse branches of the Olin family, that recently poor husband was perfectly bewildered began to perceive that Matilda (whom of those might be thrown away. It of "admiring spectators, probably on he refused to sign the "ultimatum," held their annual reunion in until then he had believed all perfection) was known, however, to have cost the qui vive, happy in the delightful Bennington, "cornered" about all the as his uncle called it. Japanese and Chrysanthemums. had some trifling faults, and anticipation of future feasts and revehngs. spiuce gum stocks town —Chicago even the first time he hazarded a slight $160. Not much for the ring feminine, Matilda was a little confused, and The Japanese consider it especially Tribune. dilleience of opinion. had scarcely recovered as the Colonel perhaps, not a good round sum difficult to arrange chrysanthemum*, On further scrutiny he found that "Ah, Charles,'' she said, "you love came up and inquired for Lady Beauchamp. to pay for such an article for a man. and seven faults are noted which the decapitated head was mounted on me no longer." Burglar-Proo Glass. must carefully be guarded against in the backs of about a dozen bearers '•Not lo\e you!" exclaimed he Another ring much admired by the Matilda set to wnrlc to coax the Under the name of wTire-glass a new who, like a roman phalanx with a disposing of large blossoms of this "rather than think so do what you Colonel and bring him over to persuade fellows was the product of a young invention has been brought on the testudo upon their shoulders!, were plant. A blossom must not present please, act as you will, order, command," her husband to apologize and man's own ingenuity. The foreman market in Dresden. The process of marching off in orderly manner toward and so the lady had her own its back in a composition, nor yet make it up at once. of a large steel works, he had employed manufacture consists in furnishing the same orifice through which way. turn its full face to view. The different The Colonel, like an old soldier, the rest had disappeared. Her mother, too, Auth whom lie was some of his hours when on night glass in a hot, plastic condition, with saw his advantage, and'told her that flowers must not have stems the always in the wrong, came to pass a it was impossible to bring about areconciliation duty in manufacturing a curious, a flexible metallic layer, iron wire same length three must not be arranged AN INSTRUCTIVE FABLE. few days with them, after which time that the character of netting for instance, which is completely clumsjr, unfinished ring made of iron in a triangular form, nor may any they had not a peaceable moment. Sir Charles had been greatly altered inclosed by the vitreous substance and set with an unpolished turquoise. number be placed 111 aiegular steplike Ashamed at last of his weakness, the fiom its original gentleness and docility The Joyous-Tale of the Dervish and effectively protected way, the flowers should not be Turquoise, moonstones and opals are young husband resolved to seize on that, in fact, he had become a and the Walking Delegate. against exterior influences, as rust, hidden by leaves, nor should a large the first pretext, no matter what, ior complete tyrant, "and in the first the favorite stones used in both scarf A dervish journeyed forth to teach etc. The new glass possesses much open blossom be put near the base of recovering his authority. place he I'equiies you to write him an pins and rings for men. They were mviteJ to a ball at a affectionate letter." greater resisting power than the ordinary mankind the uselessness of riches, says the composition, and, finally, the artist What men save in jewelry they make neighboring country seat, where they must not fall into the sin of color "That I will do." material, and is, it is claimed, Truth. He was scantily clothed in the up in "sticks," as it is now the fashion would have met a certain young "Yes, my dear niece," said the Colonel, sandwiching, or placing a blossom to call canes and umbrellas. Few indifferent to the most abrupt changes filthest of rags his head was bare and wadow, a Lady Oussulton, of whom "and express your sorrow' and of one color betwreen two others of men do not indulge themselves ad of temperature, and will even withstand on his feet were fragments of sandals. liady Vavasour—thanks to the kind regret." libitum in these articles for their own •another tint —Garden and Forest. open fire. The glass is specially offices of her mothet—had taken it into About his neck hung a* leather scrip "Me! Regret—never' Confess I was rise, and the man who possesses "a adapted for skylights, the powerful her head to be cautiously jealous. in the wrong! He should do it first, at with a handful of dates. den" is very apt to have a passion Th Cunnin of Gulis. Matilda refused to go, and absolutely resisting qualities of the material all events." for canes and "go in" tor making a On the edge of the desert he met a forbade her Husband to go, too. An example of the cunning of gulls "Then, Lady Vavasour, do not detain enabling the usual wire protectors to collection of them. He must have a ii.T.-a walking delegate who was on his way But. he stood firm, and told her it was observed at Tacoma when several me. I know he will refuse." cane rack made to suspend from the be dispensed with. As wire-glass can would be an act of marked disrespect to Mecca to order a strike among the alighted on a bunch of logs that Presently Lady Beauchamp rejoined wall or from under his mantel shelf, not be cut by the diamond, except it they were both to refuse the mvitation her daughter. Matilda acquainted her pilgrims—a non-union hadji having ior each one ot his collection is as had been in the water for a long time, under the application of great force, that she miqhtdo as shepleased, with the proposals of the Colonel for choice, in his opinion, as any painting, with the submerged sides thick with been permitted to kiss the holy Kaaba. and can not be broken without creating but that he should most certainly accept an accommodation, and of her indignant and quite as worthy to be held up barnacles. One was a big gray fellow, "Hello, old duffer! "said the delegate. it, even it he went alone. considerable noise, the substance refusal to apologize or express before the eyes of the visitors to his who seemed to be the captain. He "Where do you buy your garments? Lady Beauchamp at once said that regrets. is claimed to be, in a measure, burglarproof. own particular sanctum.—Chicago walked to a particular log, stood en he was a tyrant, who wanted to murder "That is my own dear darling you look like a locked-out tramp.', Herald. one side of it close to the water, and her poor child to -which Sir daughter. How could he think us "I am dressed," answered the dervish, then uttered peculiar cries. The other Charles responded by tellinaher plainly capable of such a weakness, when he Where Money Was of Little Value. The Law at} Expensive Luxury. "as befits my vocation and in all gulls came and perched on the same not to intertere betwixt husband nearly caused your death?" En Englishwoman, describing a visit Just how expensive a luxury the and wife. respects am equipped for any emergency. side of the log, which under their combined "Don't say too much about that, to an extensive gold mine in Victoria The night came. Sir Charles felt a law cau be upon occasion is illustrated No blight of fortune can cast weight rolled over several mamma for, to tell youthe truth, my little uneasy at his wife's silence, but twenty-five years ago, says that by a recent case in London where the life never was in the least danger." inches. The gulis, step by step kept me down or impede my mission." plucked up courage andresolved to go "What the is that?" whispered many of the workers in the mine were costs were seventeen times as large as the log rolling until the barnacles "So?" replied the delegate "suppose through with it. As the clock struck Sir Charles to the Colonel, as they the sum originally in dispute. A Mrs. shareholders and very rich men. Few showed above the water. The birds I were to confiscate that bag of grub?" he rose to depart, upon which Matilda listened unseen. Large reiused to pay rent for a house picked eagerly at this food, and the of them seemed to have the slightest rushed to the window, threw it wide "I have been inured to hunger from "Not in danger?" exclaimed Lady on the ground that it was in such an log was not abandoned until every idea of the value of money or how to open, and, with a terrible calmness in Beauchamp. "But unless the wagonload my youth up and seldom is the thought insanitary condition that her husband barnacle had been picked. her eye, told him that E he stirred a spend it. of hay had been there you would of food uppermost in my mind. Besides inhaled sewer «as there and fctep she would throw herself out! have killed yourself." "Many of those who can count died in consequence. An action was it is the fast of Ramadam and it Before he could approach—before "Yes, mamma, but—I knew it was THOM\S MCCUE, a workman employed in their money by thousands live in the he could prevent her—she had precipitated brought against her, and for some is not lawful to eat." finishing the new Franklin Trust company's there before I threw myself out'" same little shanties which they built building, 111 Brooklyn, fell down the herself irom it! By a providential reason which does not appear, she Both ladies now prepared themselves "The stones of the desert are sharp elevator shait from the eleventh story,. chance, however, there on first coming to the diggings. They to receive the Colonel, who failed to defend it. Judgment was happened to be a wagon loaded with came forward from the lodge—with a treat their friends on every possible given against her for the £41, and the hay standing just beneath, and she very grave and important air—holding costs amounted to £700. Mr. Justice occasion, and when they go to the fell on it without hurting herself in a paper in his hand. Grantham went so far as to declare nearest town buy for their wives the the least. "Ladies," he said, "I must bid you that it was "one of the most scandalous Lady Beauehanrpimmediately took most expensive dresses they can find? farewell Sir Charles and I start at Use Di\ Price's Cream things he had ever heard of," adding her daughter to the manor-house, once for Constantinople." Few of them have any higher idea of that "the moment a fund was in leaving Sir Charles in the elegant "Constantinople!" cried Matilda the pleasures or the advantages or Court it seemed to be treated like a lodge where they had spent the honeymoon. "that dreadful place where they have even the comforts to be attained by cow—a thing to be milked." The so many wives' Oh, mamma! And Baking Powder. the possession of wealth. And so matters had remained for a yvou, sir—did you not try to persuade Judge's indignation, however, did not month, Sir Charles lingering at the him?" help Mrs. Large, as she practical^ "As illustrating the characteristics lodge, without being able to catch "What could I do, my dear? You of such men, a gentleman told me had put herself out ot Court by not eight of his wife until at last, ari\ en declined his former proposals, and this story: defending the action. to despair, the fond young husband now he demands things—absurd IF YOU WISH TO AVOID THE TWIN DRUGS, "He arrived at a port in Australia, had wiitten a letter, imploring forgiveness, things—unheard-of things—conditions and finding no one who looked like a the delivery of which he entrusted Various Uses for Newspapers. quite inadmissible—inexcusable con-' porter by profession to take his ^LUM AND AMMONIA to Mrs. Grace Peabody, the ditions." .,, The uses of a newspaper, aside from portmanteau to the hotel, he said to wife of a farmer whose dwelling "I should like, nevertheless, to know its readable qualities, are not perhaps a rough-looking man who was standing abutted on the park gates. what they are," said Matilda. fully known. If on a raw day on the wharf with his hands in his But the messenger returned in dolorous "He says, Lady Vavasour, it was pockets. you have to walk across town for mood, with no answer from Dr. H. Endemann, for twelve years chemist of the through the Avindow that you departed several blocks and meet the keen wind "Here, my man, if you'll take this Matilda her mother was with her, it is through the window that up to the hotel for me, I'll give you which New Yorkers invariably encounter, New York Board of Health, in his paper read before the and she took the note from her, in you must return,' said the Colonel, half a crown.' stop at the corner stand and spite of the information that it was a finishing the sentence and coolly taking "The man scowled at him, took a American Chemical Society at Washington, in October, letter which Sir Charles had written buy a newspaper—its politics are nonessential—which a pinch ot snnfb "J-^% couple of sovereigns out of his pocket, his wife, and to no one else. slip beneath your Mrs. Grace Peabocly burst out "1891, states that an ammonia baking powder acts on the threw them into the sea, turned awav •'No," said Grace to Sir Charles," laughing Lady Beauchamp pronounced fur cape or wrap, from neck to belt. without a word, and marched off with *he never answered a word to that, the proposition inramous, Its protection is remarkable. Two -gluten of the flour, altering its chemical properties, and the most contemptuous expression but she sat herself down and scribbled Matilda wept. •£,«. newspapers spread between the insufficient on his face." „r away, and at last she handed it jady Beauchamp went off in a rage, cites numerous high authorities to prove its injurious covers of a bed on a cold night to me, saying, 'Give the poor madman and the Colonel sat down by the tree, A Stern Parentt.. g|g| YdiM are an excellent substitute for the unprocurable this where he was pined by Sir Charles. effect on the stomach and kidneys. blankets or comfortables. it was a note to Sir Charles, commencing Mr. Lefaucheur, enraged at the coift On a sudden they caught sight of Webig the great chemist says: "The use of alum in "This is our ultimatum. Jn traveling, one of these clean, new Matilda and Grace Peabody carrying duct of his son, a student in Paris, My daughter will only consent to receive sheets on the floor of a dirty car a ladder between them, and, much to wrote to him as follows:—"Monsieur, \bread is very injurious, ^and it is very apt to disorder j'ou on one condition-that their surprise, could see them, as they means valuable dress protection. And I am so angry with you that I am determined 3011 acknowledge your fault, return concealed j^hemselves behind the tree, iight-soled shoes arc most efficiently to stop the supplies. Any '^the stomach and occasion acidity and dyspepsia." to the manor-hout-e and make an place the ladder against the balcony, added to by two thicknesses of the money that you receive after this .ample apology both to me and to up which Matilda mounted, and actually i% The folloTgng powders are known to contain either same thing. Stand the shoe on the date will be sent by your mother, and hei got over to the window as if paper and draw an outline of the sole, At tins moment a chaise drove without my knowledge. I may tell about to enter, as Grace held the ladder ^ammonia or alum or both: Royal, Chicago Yeast, Calumtt, which then cut out. This slipped in rapidly up to the lodge-gates and at the bottom. you that if you will not attend to loithwith descended a stout elderly, place is as good as a cork sole, and *%£on Bon, Taylor's One Spoon, Unrivaled, Forest City, Snow Ball Sir Cnai le« could stand it no longer, your studies you will always remain %.\ nit1!!.-try-looking gentleman, inquiring vastly more comfortable —New York but l)ioke away from the Colonel's an ass—Your father (signed) Lefau^' l:is way to the manor-liou&e and grasp, rushed through the lodge and Thnes,^f.«^ cheur."—Le Nationale. I ^1 •jy, mmn item mmmtm ma^fmmu^ •IIIIMIMW iwmiiliiwiiMwiiiiiii.