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BX JS, 0. aiEDMAN,
5*9 coufprciU!) meeting thsough at (oat,
WoTwyiJMunaihasatry waited,
So ope tUo.Blrlo come AUUbb past,
I4&0 snowbirds willtaB to bo mated.
Wot braver ho that leopa a wall
ByJovol rmiBkct-flashea litton,
Than I who stepped before them all,
Svjio longed Jq see mo got the mitten.
But no—ehe bluBhod and toolt my arm
Wo let the old f olka take tbo highway,    „
And ntarled toward the Maple Farm,
AloDg a hind of lovers' byway.
I can't remember what we Bald j
■Twoa nothing worth a Boug or qtory,
yet that rude path by which wo sped
flocmed alt transformed In glory.
The snow was nnsp beneath our feet,
The moon woo full, tho Holds wer,o gleaning;
By hood and tippet sheltered sweet,
Her face with youth and health was beaming.
The little hand outaldo her muff—
Oh, sculptor, if yon could but mold it !—
So lightly touched my jacket cuff,
To keep It warm I had to hold it.
To havo her with me—there alone—
'Twos love and fear and hiumph blended; •
At last wo reached tlie foot-worn atone
Where tno delieicus journey ended.
The old folks, too, were almost home;
Her dimpled hand the latches Angered J
We heard »ho voices nearer come,
Yet on the door-stop stEl wo lingered.
She shook her rlnslets from her hood,
And with a " thank vou, Charles," dissembled,
But yet I know sho understood
With what a darling wish I trembled.
A cloud passed kindly overhead;
The moon, was slyly peeping through it.
Tet hid its face, as If it said,
" Jome, now or nover! do it! do it I"
My lips till then had only known
The kiss of mother and of sister,
But, somehow, iull upon her own
Sweet, rosy, darling mouth I MsBed her.
Perhaps 'twas boyish love, yet still,
Oh, listless woman, weary lover,
To feel once more that fresh, wild thrill
I'd give—but who can live youth over?
THE  GKEKN XKAYES WHISrEH LOW.
The wind-harp sings in the casement wide
A fitful song that is sad and slow,
Whilo the summer sunset burns outside
And the green leaves whUper low.
A fair head leans on a lily hand,
And clear eyes study the sky-s red glow—
The loveliest lady's in all the laud-
While tho green leaves whisper low.
" Oh wmd-barp, listen, and cease to grieve i
Oh warm south wind, less wildlv blow;
1'or my lover rides thronph the golden evo,
While tho preen leaves wtt'sper low."
A step, a cry, and the dusky rt-im
A splendor Rwift serais to ove; How;
A Rlory lights the enchanted gloon,.
While the green leaves whisper low.
He brings the dawn in his happy ey s;
Yet griove, oh wind-harp, sad and Blow—
Grieve, for tho matchtCES moment files,
While the green leaves whisper low.
To-morrow, choked by the battle's breath,
A new embrace shall her lnver know-
Not the kiss of love, but the kiss of death-
While tho green leaves whisper low.
—Celia Thaxter, in Scribncr far June.
HOW I BECAME A BURULAB.
Subscription: $1.50per^.nnum.
QLARE, MICHIGAN.mPAY, JUNE 7,1878
Single Copies: Five Cents,
*£":
Unless ho would get himself into a
"condemned difficulty," as Mantalini
would say, I would earnestly ndvise no
reader of this veracious experience, who
has the good_ estimation of his fellow-
man before his eyes, to lease a house for
residental purposes in a block where
there are precisely two alike.
My Masons for* giving this ?dvicc are
serious. I was caught in an "ugly
scrape," as a police magistrate subsequently assured me, for not carrying out
my philosophy in this thing.
My excuse is my -wife. And her reason was the exceeding cheapness of the
rent, considering the elegance of tho
structure and the nearness to business.
Those of my friends who reside in that
most charming thoroughfare, Two
Hundred and Ninety-ninth street, are
aware that it possesses many attractions,
and one glaring, and, on tho part of the
architect, inexcusable fault.
The fault is, that from end to end the
houses are of brown stone, and each is an
night-key—"now, hush! you'll wake
Mrs. Screwsir up. If—if you do, Tom,
here'll bo the old Harry to pay."
Tom promised, and then, boing exceedingly tired, he leaned against the
framing of the door until I had inserted
the key.
I gave the thing a turn and the door
ew open.
Quietly as we could manage it, we
stepped into the front basement.
It was not until I had rummaged over
half a- dozen shelves, and wondered
where Mrs. S. had put- the • matoh-box,
that I found a new sort of contrivance,
from which I succeeded in getting a
match. Striking it against the wall, I
ignited it, and then turned on and lit the
gas.
The moment I had done so, I noticed
that tho furniture was somewhat strange
to me; but, also knowing what a changeable woman Mrs. S. *was, I paid no further attention to it.
"Let's have some supper, Tom," I
aid, " and then we'll go to bed. Got a
splendid spare room for you."
"All right, ole—ole feller," replied
my chuni.
I managed to get into the back basement, where, upon lighting up the gas,
.' found some more strange-looking furniture, and, in a pantry, plenty of .good
provender; and, what surprised me
more- than all else, a bottle of excellent
wine,
"Mi's. S.—considerato creature," I
murmured, " is in a good humor. She
provided for my inner comfort, knowing
how wearied I'd be with my lodge duties
when I got home."
In a few minutes we had, in a quiet
way, a famous set-out, and when we had
finished tue ropast, including tho wine,
there wasn't enough left to encourage a
mouse to come out of its hole.
"Now, Tom," said I, rising, "come
on, and I'll get you a bed."
"Yer" well—ver' well—ole—olo- feller, " responded my guest. "Say, Da-
Dave Screwsir, th-that's suporb wine—
jbio.-;- j
Again Tom rested on my arm, and together wo ascended- the  broad  stairs j
lending to tho second story. t
My room was at the back of the build- :
ing, and that I had assigned to my guest [
in tho front, and on the same flat.
I leaned againBt tho balustrade for a |
moment, and then, slowly advancing up :
the corridor, still fearful of awakening'
the "mistress," not knowing in what
mood of her temper she might addreBS j
me, opened the door. '
There was a light within the chamber. (
In one corner stood the bed. j
Pointing it out to Tom, I reclosed the
door,  glad   I  had  got rid of  him so'
cheaply, and noiselessly turned my face
tears in her eyes and in her voice, to
condole with mo.
I explained how tlie mistake happened, and sho at onoo saw the reasonableness of-it.
She said she would make matters all
right, and for mo not to trouble myself.
Mrs. S. is a true wife, oven if sho does
wear the bifurcated garments.
She galled at the wrong " thirteenth;
house" in' our street, and explained to
the indignant and virtuous old maid
who had raised the row and tho subsequent trouble how it happened.
It was not of the slightest use. The
idea of a man being found in her room
at 3 o'olook in the morning was more
than—with all her Christian forbearance
and known virtue—she could pardon.
Wo were promptly tried.
1$ was only by our friends rallying
arpsnd iis that we succeeded in proving;
previous good charaoter.    . ' ,*^ :
35he District Attorney appearedbent
on qohyiction, for what rqason I coWd
not say, But our counsel fought rn&n-
fully for us—tho fees being heavy*  ' '  :
Finally, the learned Judge charged
tho jury.
His Honor was explicit.
He. intimated to tho gentlemen who
were to determine our fate that if they
were satisfied that we, tlie indicted, entered the dwelling with felonious intent,
it was their duty to tind for tho State;
but if they wero not so satisfied, then
thoy ware to bring in a verdiot of acquittal 1   Tho wise Judge added:  "
"It was not for the oourt to pronounce upon the guilt of tho prisoners
at the bar. That was the duty of the
intelligent jury. The court, however,
without expressing it, had the opinion,
and it could not too soverely censure
men—even if not burglars, in fact, but
certainly morally blnmable whether convicted or not—for forcibly entering tho
residence of a maiden lady, and unprotected at thnt, in the dead hours of the
night, feast and riot at her expense, and
then in a most ruffianly mnnner attempt
to intrude upon that lady in her private
apartments for purposes that wero unquestionably criminal!"
Tho Judge scowled at us when ho
?avo utterance to the above words, and
felt the blood actually grow cold, and
oven congeal in my veins.
As for poor Tom Burke, ugly, burglarious as he looked even on ordinary
occasions, and who, I knew, would not
knowingly harm a fly, I felt that the jury
were prejudiced against him. And because he looked tho villain I was satisfied that I was in tho position of dog
Tray among tho outlawed criminals.
I was growing desperate; conviction
Btared mo in the face.    I even began to
give, trie.   Oh, "my
prayed that ho will1
that I'll meet him.
Before his focojj
Turning again tof||:
' I've been wicketftl
man that feared at1
the devil; I've beo§^
and murderer.   Bwtf|
.farewell.   I'm goij|;
heaven, and "from'I
whole universe.   ;uj
never get to Him iC
like this, and Ho fix*,
by killing this man
the angels in he»\
was then adjusted;
12 m, the trap fell;
feejt, and his neok
hqwl have
heaven, and
this evening.
to be judged.'
Sltitudo, be said;
d; I've, been a
God, man nor
mkard, gambler
"and sisters, all,
bo an angel in
iskies" -view the
id that I would
He called me
that I would
7 I'll ba with
Ihe- black cap
faos, and at
dropped six
P0PULAK1
SNCiV
''* -.
The hoofs of ho:
flat; in tho ass the;
and in tho zebra the;
and square at the hi
;of that part which
This causes the limb
cally upon Hie paste:
firm tread upon decli
It is stated that
accomplished tho f$
water at Taunton;
a quarter of a mile, 01
six minutes.   Ho w^
shoes made of tin, a!
and three feet long,
fined, and ho make
stating gait;'
Dr. Pkatt, a
discovered a inet
brimstone direct
which arofoundin
ties in tho north
The process is simi
cosls about on6-th:
. ordinary article of
fright-,
how is a jovial, light-headed and soft-
heartedman, returning from his " lodge'
at 1 or 2 o'clock in the morning, to tell
which is which, particularly if tho same
night-key will answer for half a dozen
residences in a row?
The thing is not possible. The hilarious gentleman, under such circumstances, may—may, does, make mistakes
 errors of judgment, let us call them.
I know I did, and thereby hangs a
tale that's too serious—i. e., in one's
mhcT moments—to contemplate without
a shudder and a bluBh. _ _
Tom Burke was my cnum. He is not
a handsome fellow, I admit. The Indies
do not take to him. They say he has a
villainous, cutthroat look. But severing
jugular veins is about the last thought
Thomas entertains. On the contrary,
he will empty his pockets for the benefit
of a friend, and he will run a mile to
serve a stranger. Tom can sing like a
nightingale or a thrush, or something of
that sort, and ho can drink'' your health,
my boy," "until you are glad to slip from
your chair and take refuge under the table, leaving him alone in his glory.
Tom  admits his gift of thirstiness. ,i    -rr;e maje g00a time in going down
He even prides himself upon it—beirrf | the stairs to the basement and tho door
a bachelor, and therefore -having n-*™- j b  wlueh wonaa effected an entrance,
ingelse to care for.   _     _       _      J    As we passed the doorl had supposed
that direction when I heard the most
horrible howling in my chum's room 1
What could it mean ? ;
Next one of tho windows was dashed
open, and a thin, cracked voice, evident-
ly a woman's, commenced yelling, in
frantic tones: '
" Help I Help ! Murder ! Pohco!
Burglars I   Thieves 1  Help 1 "Wa-atch-T-' j
"Good heaven!" I cried. ""
I turned around.
The door flew open.
There Btoou Tom, very much
ened and perfectly sober. *
"David," he hoarsely murmured,
"there's a woman in the bed,, She's
raising the neighborhood with her cries.
Shalllgarokher?"
It now struck me for the first time 1
that I had made a serious mistake—had,
in fact, got into the wrong house !—that
tho ."thirteen" I should have counted
was really ȣ the other end of the block. :
"Com",   Tom!"  I cried, hurriedly. ;
"Beqruek! we havo got ourselves into
a coaiounded scrape by having   these j
houses  alike.   We'll  bo  arrested  for
Varglary.rm afraid, if we don'thurrs."
working it in the m\
and tho fiber* obtai
speculate -upon the ",torm" I would beliUV^ii*^^'
tare round and
t and hollow,
i;ovalat the too
r.the spreading
|rmod the frog,
and more vorti-
i'givesashaxp
9.
iteseault lately
' ydlung upon
!f|He walkod
dinton river, in
pair of patent
one foot wide
%ph air is con-
in a sort of,
SABBATII HEADING.
Resignation.
rather, I have learned to tiusv.
And feel at length that thou art just
To tako away
Each Btafl* and stay
Which hindereth mo
l'rom. trusting Theo
1 now resign
My wllltoThino.
Not till I found mysolf forsaken
And all I clung to most was takeiu—
Of friends bereft,
•Till few wore left—
Could I look up
Accopt the cup
And calmly say
Bi> Thou my stay.
Now with confiding love I rest
Upon my precious Savior's breast,
And feel that Ho
My friend will be;
Through all the strlf 0
And toils of life
With JesuH near
I need not fear.
Ptfy
chemist,  has
making  pure
iron   pyrites,
iistiblo quanti-
-|rfc of the State.
id the brimstone
tho price for the
;erce.   A patent
has been obtained,|ui   works will soon
bo established.      ?'
*s. ' i
Wild cattle feedji flooks,_ because
they experience a W a of insecurity
and dread of attack ley act instinctively upon tho m$5| t that union is
strength, and tlwuft ad against sur.-
prise. Tlie domestii d varieties scatter and browse sepai^ ly because they
have no snch dreti .and each animal follows its infl ctttal caprice or
sense of enjoyment. '. ,
Sojee infcresting «{ pmenta'have recently been made in*^rmany with the
common nettle, whicj
that modest weed
able  importance.
"Well, one night, shortly BV*>se(ln0.n*
to onr taking up our resider>* m P'datial
Two Hundred and Nlnetr-ninth street, I
met my old chum ** the club—Mrs.
Screwnir, my nark's Screwsir, labors
under the impr^sion that it is a lodge
of some or*''* °r other that 1 ornament
—and T had a jolly good time. Of
courff I expatiated on my new house,
nn<? about 2 o'clock in the morning I insisted on Tom going homo with me, that
he might see it in all its glory. Tom
accepted the invitation.
"I'll go—go w—with yo—u, ole—ole
boy," I remember his saying, as he
looked at me through the bottom of a
goblet, "to—to the en—ends of the
e—a.—earth."
So Tom, assuring me that I was a little " off" my legs, took one of my arms
andBaunteredtomy new house. Iwasn't
in a bit of a hurry. Tom and I, leaning
against each as lovingly as a pair of
twin-brotherB, Bcanned the heaven b, and
expatiated astronomically on the celestial stars until a terrestial one came
along and gently hinted that we were
encroaching on his orbital path, and that
we must move on.
We finally got to the corner of Lincoln
avenue and my new street, where we
again paused.
I had an idea.
"Tom," said I, very deliberately,
"this is a splendid street. But it—it
has all the houses alike. It's dark as
Tophet, and—and I don't know the
number. Now, how—how'll we get at
it. Tom?"
My friend couldn't enlighten me,
"Weil," I continued after a grave
pause, "my house is the thirteenth
from the corner, but, blow me! if I can
say whether it's tho thirteenth one from
this or tho other corner, and it's on the
south side of iho street, that I know."
"fetch's co-count," suggested Tom.
We hitched over again, and slowly
proceeded on our search.
Wheh we got to the ninth house, Tom
swore it was the tenth, and so we had to
go all over it again.
It was not until we had walked backward and forward many times that wo
finally agreed that we had reached the
thirteenth structure.
"Now, ole fel-feller," said I to Tom,
confidentially, aa we approached the
faont basement door, Ihaving succeeded,
after q protracted struggle with my
pooket, ia getting possession of my
opened into my chamber, a sweet voice,
not at all like Mrs. Screwsir's, cried out;
"Whatis the matter, aunt?   Is one
of your beans serenading you ?"
When we had reached the street,
evdrj" window of every house in -the
vicinity was open, and a head or two
might be seen, protruding from each,
while, at Jhe same time, the air was
vocal with the bowlings of the women
and the policemen's signals.
Alas, we were not destined to get out
of our "condemned difficulty" easily.
Just as we emerged frpm the, basement of the house we had so innocently
enterel a couplo of Goliah-liko policemen caught us and shook us, and then,
without giving us an opportunity " to
rise Md explain," put handcuffs,"on-ur
and hurried us as a "brace oV welt-"'
known burglars" to the Hundred and
Twentieth Precinct station-house.
There, Tom Burke's face and name
told fearfully against him.   «   '
Ab for myself, when I handed in my
card as David Screwsir.Esq. ,the Sergeant
on duty looked knowingly at me and
asked if that was my latest dodge.
Of course I repudiated the insinuation,
but I was only laughed at for my pains.
It was "too thin!"
When we had been searched, and
everything taken from us and pat away;
we were hurried to filthy cells. There
we were advised to make ourselves comfortable.
In our case, I can assure you, there
was anything but " the law's delay."
We were examined tho next morning
by a fat-headed magistrate, and before
sundown ■ the Grand ijusy, wliioh happened to be in session, found true bills
against us.
Wo 'were, thereon, removed, manacled,
to the Toombs, where we were permitted
tp? jfpd-of <Snr hurglarjquS;, exploifcih
what I had at the time' "supposed was my
own house.
In this veracious chronicle I learned
for the first time what a villain I waa,
assuming the. name of a well-known citi-j
zen named Screwsir. Poor Tom Burke,
it was declared, had his portrait in the
rogues' gallery, and he was "well
known_to the police," having served two
terms in State prison.   '
When poor Mrs. Sorewsir read all
this, aetshe certainly did-r-^a hind friend
having called her attention to the account—she hastened to the Toombs, with
_  "6~lffoXTW6\\f5r!5S'S!JHJJH!JP""""""">**"
and then I began inwardly to" curseknn
man who was so devoid of variety that
ho must needs build whole blocks of
houses exactly alike.
The jury wero absent nearly two hours
deliberating, during which my counsel
confidently assured me that it looked
black for me and my friend, and that the
best thing that could be done would bo
to ask the presiding Judge to Buspend
sentence until certificates of previous
good character ceuld be sent into court
in mitigation of its severity.
Thank Heaven, that was not found
necessary!
Tho jury finally came in, and the
foreman of it remarked that, although
there wero certainly suspicious circumstances attending the case, yet a verdict
of guilty could not be agreed upon.
Upon this the Judge said it was extraordinary that such a conclusion
should havebeenarrived at, considering
the directness of the statements of the
witnesses for tho State !
Wo were discharged. And now, dear
reader, if you are anxious to reside in an
elegant brown-stone house—one of many >
that are exactly alike exteriorly and interiorly—such a one will be found with
the ominous words, "To be let" posted
on tho door in Two Hundred and Kine-
ty-ninih street, near Lincoln avenue. By
myself all such hereafter are "tobe let"
alone. I've sworn never to rent a house
in any street that, on tho same block
even, has its counterpart; and then,
when inclined to go out of an evening on
" lodgo" business, to paste on tho building itself a peculiar form of paper, by
which, should I be detained until say 2
or 3 o'cloek in the morning, I may know
it indubitably.
'"As: for Tom Burko, he has forsworn
tho club, and all its promises.
fair to malce
of consider-
<S0nsiBted in
ez as hemp,
m fine as
hemp
Prance, re-
rmoua ca&e of the
:al traits to tlie
an named Game-
M. Lengwsn, of
cently made known a
transmission of
third generation, A
Ion, who lived at the!;close Of the last
century, had six fingers, two thumbs on
each hand, and two great toes on each
foot. This peculiarity was not perceptible in his son, but in the third generation all of the children conformed to the
malformation of their grandfather.- A
similar instance has been observed in the
lower animals by M. Qaatrefages.
A PnniADEiipniAN has just improved
the steamboat propeller. There are
four wheels, two* on each side of tlie
boat, run on endless steel cables from
one wheel to the other, like a belt over
two pulleys, both ends of each paddle
being securely fastened into a triangular-shaped piece of iron which" works
like a cog, dropping into notches in tlie
iron wheel at proper intervals as it revolves. Thus there are continually
several paddles iu the water all working,
at once, instead of only one, as in the
ordinary wheel. Purther, these paddles are working in comparatively still
water, while with the common wheel the
water is churned into foam, and, after a
certain point is reached in the swiftness
of tho revolutions, speed is lost instead
of gained.
The Goldon A., «., O.
The following selections nro from the
"Life and Sermons of Bev. Dr. John
Taulqr":
Aptku a manly, and uot a childish Fort, yo
■$haU, with thorough OfiruestuoBS, begin a
new Ufo.
Bad wavs yo shall ouchow, and practice all
gooiJue'es with diligouco and full purpose of
mipd.
CimrouiV endeavor to Iteop tho middle path
iu all things, with sccmllnoBB and moderation.
Demean yoursolf humbly in word and work,
from tho inward holiness of your hoart.
EntiheiiY give np your own will; overmore
cleave earnestly to God, and forsakoHim
not.
Fokwabd and ready Bball yo bo to all good
workB, without murmuring, whatever bo commanded you.
Give beqd to oxorciso yourself in all godly
works of mercy toward the body or tho
Bpirit.
Have do backward glancoB over tho world, or
tho creatures, or their doings.
Inwabdly iu your heart ponder after your past
life with honestv, sincere repentance in tho
bittemoss of your boart, RUd tears in your
oyoB.
KtuanriA- and resolutely withstand the assaults of tho devil, the ilosh, and tho world.
Leabn to conquer ]ong-cheriehed sloth with
vigor, together with all effeminacy of the
body, and subservience to tho dovil.
Make your abode in God, -with fervent love,
in certain hope, with Btrong faith, and
bo toward your neighbor aa toward yourself.
No other man'a good things Bhall ye desire,
bo they wbat thoy may, corporeal or spiritual.
OnMn all Ihingfl so that you make tho best,
and not tbo worst of them.
Pjijiance, that is, BUfTering from your Bin, you
Bhall tako willingly, whether it come from
God or from creatures.
Ooittasce,  remission,  and absolution you
-., *H xehall «ito to all who havo over dona you
ness, and draw improvement from~thenx
A louisfaua Excciitio'i.
l^dward Bowen, a son of Dr. E, G.
Bowcn, of Brookhaven, Miss.,.went oyer,
to Mhnchac, 'La,, Inst summer, with-ah
excursion party, In passing tho platform at the depot ho noticed a party of
negroes dancing, among whom was Isaiah
Evans. After watching them a while,
Bowen remarked to a friend that Evans
did not know how to dance. EvanB,
who was under the iufluencn of liquor,
immediately drew a pistol and fatally
shot Bowen. He attempted to escape,
but was overtaken and captured. His
trial, conviction and sentence quickly
followed. Through the efforts of his
counsels however, tho execution was
staved off until tho 10th of May htBt,
when t»i« sentence was carried into effect.
From a Southern exchange we glean the
following particulars of the». hanging,'
which, wo are told, was witnessed by sov
eral thousand people:
"The prisoner was accompanied by
several colored preachers, who kept up
a constant praying and singing, in which'
they were joined, by a large portion of
the assembled multitude. When Evans
had ascended tho Scaffold tho Sheriff
asked him'if s he had .-anything, tosay*
He: stepped tr> iM edge of: the^bafrold-
and said: ' My friends, I hop© this will
be a great warning to many of you. Today I am here" before you to meet death.
I hope to meet my God in heaven. I
have come through the darkness and
been brought into the light. I've been
baptized •in the rivet of Jordan, and am
ready and willing to die. When I get to
heaven I'll not be a murderer there, I
ain't felt; that I'm going to die; I'm just
Igoing to step off from thiB world and
rest in paradise to-night,' Turning to
Dr. Bowen, the fiithqr of the murdered
man, he continued: 'Mr. Bowen, I
murdered your son.   I bog you to for-
Theatrical Burnings^
From the year 1569, when the Teatro
Delia-Corito, in Venico, was consumed
by the flames, on to tho end ofl877^:523
theaters -have been completely destroyed
by fire. Classic authors also chronicle
tho destruction by fire of 11 Boman
theaters. Astley's Amphitheter, London, has been burned down four times
(179.1. 1803, 4830, 1841); DruryLano,
Oosenfr Garden, and Her Majesty's, haye
eacffibtien copsuiued three times; .trnd-Sf
existto'jf'kondpn theaters sptenhtjv^ib*-
fore Jlsp'n'destroyed. "So lesd Hhaffipl
fircs'mTjondon theaters are chrSiiioleS,
tho hesf largest nrrmber: -(29)" 'rJlij|§
.recorded in, the oUso of Paris, while New
York follows with 2d, and modern San
Francisco with , the astouBdihgCi number
,o" 2Li, Arrjold chronicle r^ccifdsUhatthe
Teatro AfXrazanos, in vSevilli|, was
burnt down in 1616for the' sixth time,
that it w^flrd-orectedin 163l,.f4pd that
itwn^cOflsuihedior the sevelth^une in
1675. Anion? the moat disastrous fires
recorded is that of the Theater of Capo
d'Is*riaKin, 1734, when abouti.OOO; persons-were .burnt to death. Nearly §00,
were killed in the fife which broke out
in Lehman's Theatorland Oirous at, St.
Petersburg, on Feb. 14,1886. On May
25,1815, at Cantonia Chinese theater
caught fire. As ustil there, the structure consisted only of bamboo, mats;
boards and light stiff, the whole Ijeing
surrounded by four |aiis, and only one
exit^ being providet Of the many,
spectators, JOnfy sCiai were ablo Jfomavd
themselves. Tho Mndarin, in. his of-
ficial-report, stated fhat 1,370 corpses
had been found, ant"; hat therO were no
lete than 2,000 persqs injured, of whom-
'80Q expired shortly #er. Another disastrous fireiu ChiniSvas that, of Tien-
.t8ln> in Jilay, 1872, v§ea 600 people per-r
ished. |
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word, of Hebrew origin. Prior'to the
time of Christ it was found in no other
language but the Hobrow. Pagans did
not make use of it in their idol worship.
But with the introduction of Christianity it has found its way into tho
languages of all nations, who have received the Christian as their religion.
In the Greek, Latin, German and English tongues, it is tho same in orthography, in signification, and, with very
slight deviations, also in pronunciation.
It has been left uutranslated, and has
been transfers d from the Hebrew just
as it is found there, because there cannot be found in any language any single
word that expresses its precise and complete sense and meaning.
2. IU Sense.—Luther, in hia Smaller
Catechism, defines it thus: "Amen,
amen, that is, yea yea, it shall be so."
Oruden oays of it: "Amen in Hebrew
signifies true, faithful, certain." It is
used in the end of prayer in testimony/
of an earnest wish, desire, or aBBuranc.o
to bo heard; amen, bo it so 1 So Bhall it
be." Webster Bays: "Amen, as a noun,
signifies truth, firmness, truBt, confidence; as a verb, to conform, establish,
verify; as an adjective, firm, stable. In
English, after tho Oriontal manner, it is
used at tho beginning, but more generally at the end of declarations and prayers in the sense of, be it firm, bo it established." All these definitions agreo
in making amen to mean: "Verily,
true, certain, be it bo, shall it be."
Some ancient forms of ritual have rendered it into English, namely, " Somoto
it be."
It is used in address by man to his
Maker, and by Him to us, and accordingly, as used by either, differs somewhat in application, as must be evident.
For man mokes fiwor<», and God bo-
stows them; God makes promises, and
man pleads them. When man says
amen, he claims tho divine assnronce;
when God says amen, Ho confirms it.—
Lutheran.
Odds at Whist.
The question is often asked, What
are the odds in favor of good play at
whist? Hitherto it has generally been
stated as about eleven to^ten, but, according to a practical experiment recently made at the Athenaeum, this seems
to be somewhat over the mark.
On the occasion referred to two tables
wero made up. At one four really good
playors wero placed. At tho other two
good players wero pitted against two
bad players, admitted duTTers. The'
same hands wero then dealt ou£ to each
table, and so the play continued on two
consecutive nights, ot tho end o£ which
the result merely showed a difference of
5 per cent in favor ot the good play as
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Hush, my pretty one.   Not yflt.
Wait a little, only wait.
.Other hUuUlaa'frs are aa wet
At your eyce, outsido (no gaw
He has shut forever.   But
In tho gate forever abut ?
Just a young man in the rain
Baying (the last time?) "0O°<l-ntght
Should ho nover coraongain
Would tho world bo ended quite ?
Whero wonld all these roaa-buds go 7—
All thcoo robins?   Do you know?
Buir-ho will not come ?   Why, then,
Is no other within call 7
There aro men, and men, and men—
And these men are brotbera all!
Each sweet fault of Mb you'll find
Just aa Bweot in all his kind.
None with eyes like his?   Oh-ohl
In diviner ones did I
Look, perhaps, an hour ago.
Whose?   Indeed (you must not cry)
Thoito I thought of—are not free
To laugh down your tears, you ueo.
Voice like hla was never heard ?
No—but better ones, I vow;
Did you over hear a bird ?—
Uaten, ono ia singing now!
And Ida glovea ?   His gloves 7   Ah, well,
There aro glovea like his to soil.
At tho play to-night you'll Bee,
In mock-velvet cloaks, mock earls
With mock-jeweled owords—that ho
Wore a clown by!   Now, thoae oiirls
Aro the harbor's pride, 1 Bay;
Do not cry for them, I pray.
If no one should love yon?   Why,
You can lovo pome other Btill;
Philip Sidney, Shakspeare, ay,
Oood King Arthur, if you will;
Haphaol—he was handsome, too.
Love them, ouo and all.   I do.
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PITH AH J) POINT.
Som, and body, estate and reputation, keep
■   undofllod, with all caroand diliKenco.
Tkdthitji, and upright shall yo bo toward all,
without guile or cunning.
VVantonness and oxceso, of whatsoovor kind
it may bo, yo shall learn to lay aside, and turn
from it with all your heart.
Xr., our* blesecd'a Lord's Hfo and death shall
yo follow, and wholly   conform  yourself
thereunto with all your might.
Z^aloublv kesp a rein over your will and
your senses, that they may bo at poaco with
all that God dotb, and also with all His
creatures.
All this lesson must be learned of a
free heart nnd will, without caviling.
" Tlie Perfection  of Bounty."
There is no perfection of 1 eauty in
this world. Here the ripest fruit has
some speck in it. Tlie Bweotest rose
has a thorn on the stem, or a worm at
the heart of it. The brightest sky has
a cloud upon its surface; and the sun
itself has dark spots on its iace. There
is something to mar the beauty of all
our brightest things in this world. But
in that world—that city—that place
where Jesus is—there will be nothing to
mar tho beauty that is seen everywhere.
It will all bo " the perfection of beauty."
A little girl was gazing up at the
starry sky one clear night. She seemed
to bo very much occupied in thinldng
about something. Her mother said to
her, " What are you thinking about, my
dear ?"
" Oh 1 mamma," she said, "I was
thinking if tlie outside of heaven is so
beautiful, how vciy beautiful it must be
inside.'"
A very sweet thought, indeed, and
ono wo may often consider ourselves,
when we look up at tho sky, on a clear,
bright night, and seo how it sparkles in
its loveliness. That is the outside of
heaven.
Sometimes when people nro dying tlie
heavenly land, where Jesus is, comes
very near them so that they can seo if.
before they die.
A little boy was dying. His fathor
and mother were sitting on one side of
his little bed,.and the doctor wns waiting and watching near. He had been
silen,t for some time; and* appeared to
sleep.' They thought he might pass
away as ho slept. But suddenly his
blue eyes opened, wide and clear, and a
Sweet smile broke over his face. He
looked upward very earnestly, and then,
turning to his mother, said : " Mother,
what is that beautiful land that I see
there, beyond the mountains ?"
"I don't see any mountains, my
dear," said the mother.
"Look there, mother dear," ho said,
pointing up. "They aro Very near
now—so large and high-r-and tho country beyond them seems beautiful I The
people ar6 80 huppy, and tliere are no
szeifc cliildren there. Is that the heavenly laud I see ?"     -•'
"Yes, my child," his mother sobbed;
"that is the heavenly laud where Jesus
dwells."
"Oh, mother—Ohj father, don't be
sorry fdr-me, but come after mo to that
beautiful land. Good- by, mother dear;
I'm goingnow, and Jesus has sent His
angel to carry hio over the mountains."
These were'Ms last words. Ho died
in his mother's arms. The angel carried
him over the mountains to "see the
King in his beauty." But he had
caught a glimpse of its brightness before he went away. The beauty of this
place is one of the things that will help
tO'Biake up the glory or beauty that we
Ehall boo in Jesus when wegotoheavon.
•—Mehdr'd Newton, JX^Ij,
Amen,
1. Its Origin.— Amen is rt Hebrew
The most useful servant for a convalescent—A valet-tudinarian.
Tisie is money; of course it is, or how
could you '' spend an evening •?"
What sort of voico has a wnshwom-
nne_Y/]1yj n goap-rano, of course.
Tins Irish hate to give anything up.
Somo of them oven try to waLo the
dead. „     ,
" Economy is the road to wealth, and
wo begin to suspect that it is the one
which has no turning.
Giles asserts that tho laws aro very
unjust. A man can poach an egg ond
there is nothing done about it, but let
him try to poach a chicken—well, just
let him try—that is all 1
" You may pray till you die, but the
Lord will never forgive yon for shooting
a man in tho back," said Bowler, on being shot by Hoiliday, in Collinsbury,
La. They were negro farm hands. ,
Bowlor soon died, and Hoiliday wasso
inpressedby his words that he has twice
tried to kill himself.
2HUNOOIWHS   FItOlt   THE  CHICAGO   COM-
mehciatj advebtiseb.
Paneful site—A hothouse.
Can a kitchen-maid perpetrate apron? ,
A gross  error—A  mistake in  total
weight.
Isn't it  rascally   to pro-roguo Con- .
A girl may adore bangs, but not a
door bangs. .   ,     ,        ,
Tuneful lyre—The music teacher who
broke his engagement
A man with a mashed head may bo
given the title of crown prints.
Why is tho world like a piano? Because it is full of sharps and flats.
Can a man with a rifled pocket be
said to carry concealed weapons ?
Minnesota has a female brakeman.
Many a female is disposed to break
man.
An ill-natured editor says tho women
all use paint, and ho "sets his face
against it" .   .
Why ore types like alleged criminals ?
Because it is not proper to lock them up
the money staked wbb turned over in tho
course of tho two evenings is taken into
account, this really represents a very
considerable profit in favor of good play,
the 5 per cent, in the case of whist being, as it were, cumulative.—London
World.   __    _ _	
" Where the Woodbine Twinctii."
Speaking of Jim Eisk ono is reminded
of that expression so frequently used by
him, " gone where the woodbine
twineth." Tho origin of this was rather
peculiar. EiBk attended to the sailing
of tho Sound steamer every afternoon,
and then made direct for his usual
haunt of splendid reveliy, which was
Delmonico's, in Fifth avenue. His
best route brought him to Sixth avenue,
corner of Thirteenth Btreet, where stood
a building covered with greenery, and
called the '' Woodbine." It was a popular drinking houBO, and it is said that
some of Eisk'B cronies wero among its
patrons. Jt thus became a common
thing for him -when asked concerning
anyone to reply, "Gone where tbo
woodbine tw'neth." This year the
Woodbine yie'ds to the inevitable laws
of mutation. The houso is demolished
and all its memories and associations (to
carry out the samo figure) are "gone
whero the woodbine twineth."—New
York Cor. XJtiaa Herald.
Xilulism.
The old truth that abstract ideas will
in time work themselves out in forms of
political combination receives a fresh
illustration in the Nihilist conspiracy
which now threatens tho peace of Eus-
sia. As far as appears, Nihilism, is another name for positivism. It denies
the possibility of religious knowledgo,and
therefore takes tho Agnostic view of the
world and man. As in Christendom all
civil institutions, law, marriage, and
morals are founded on tho Christian re,
ligion, Nihilism has begun war upon
these, and in despotio Bussia such a war
quickly brings on a cripis. Strange to
say, the seeds of Nihilism wero sowed by
a novelist—Tourgueneff. The students
of tho universities havo been foscinated
by this protest against society as now
organized in the empire, and Nihilist
clubs hove sprnng up in all directions.
The Bussian police confess their inability to put down tho clubs.—Harper's
Weekly.
Singular Deaths.
Deaths from strong emotion have been
numerous within a few days. Louis
Wassman was so affected by the imprisonment of a young companion in Mo-
line, 111., for theft, that he died of heart
disease, Henry S. Moss, a Louisville
merchant, deolined rapidly iu health
after tho exposure of his forgeries, and
died a maniac, Henry Altroch died of
grief in East Delaware, Ohio,, on learning of his daughter's elopement. Mis.
Allinghum dropped, dead from-heart
disease at tho sight of her sons fighting.
Bryant Eoloy was so scared in Water-
town, N. Y,, by a belief that carbolic
acid used in washing a wound had poi-
sonedhis system, thathedied within three
hours. A Hsrvord student named Waters
studied nineteen hours without" cessa-.*
tion. went crazy from excitement, and
died in a madhouse., May Watterson,
of Jasper, Ohio, fell dead when told ot
her lover's death.—^New York Sun,
IN times, of great extremity men have
frequently been called from the ploW to
save the nation. And yet .of tho: nineteen
Presidents wo have had^not Ono could
bo called a farmer. And yet ft majority
of all tho voters are farmers.
"Why Wlirpeopio pay no nmabi Mil -
when "they can get a good house-maid
for83or§-i?
It may seem paradoxical, but it is,
nevertheless, true, that the no-mad dog
is most likely to go mad.
Undertakers are said to bo a mercenary olass, always watching for an opportunity to BCiew you down.
The difference between a chronologist
and a command is—one is a date man,
and the other is a mandate.
There's a slight difference between an
operation on tho skull and a scullery.
Ono is a trepan, and tho other a pantry.
At some of the oily hashorieB tho butter set down before the boarders is liko
a defended fort; th-it is, rather too
strong to bo easily taken.
What's tho difference between the
Prince of Wales and water in a fountain ?
One is heir to the throne, and the other
is thrown to tho air.
QUIPS 1THOM THE CHICAGO TBIBUNK.
A celebrated kose—Smtnrkase.
A tight squeeze—Embrace ol a drunken man.
AJine fellow—A Justice of the Peace.
When both ends meet, do they " tako,
a drink?"
Can a proof-reader read the " proof of.
the pudding ?"
The oyster is the most stew-dious of
the bivalve family.
In tho langnogo of the seasons, May
is somo, but Juno is summer.
The South was defeated, it is truo;
but they continued to raiEe cano down
there.
Any child ca'j draw an oat, but it
takes a good writer to put his name on
one.
A Dutchman says: " Ouf your knife
peB ono plade gone, don dot knife bin
blade oud."
A California bruiser is named Belcher.
"Bolt yourself," his cronies say; "we
don't want any of it,"
A sailor discovered kicking his boy
through tho street explained that he was
only toe-ing tho youngster into port.
A San Francisco beauty bus a head of
hair "which, when unconfined, trails
upon the floor." She must bo a hnir-
belle.
The difference between tlie ordinary
seaman and the Captain who uses tbo
rope's end freely is : The former tars
tho ropes, and tho latter ropes the tars.
Novelties in Paper.
A correspondent wonts to know if it is
really true that car.-wheels are .mado of
paper. We can assure him that it ib.
The paper is pubjeoted to enormous pressure and inclosed between thin plates of
iron. ; Such wheelB are found to. havo
extraordinary elasticity and endurance,
and are coming to be much used not only
in this country^ but in Europe. Tho
latest novelty in use of paper appears to
bo for chimney-pots. Thoy are mado in
Breslan, and aro light aud durable. Bo-
fore the paper pulp is molded and compressed into the required Shape it is
treated with chemicals •which render it.
non-inflammable. Specimens of paper
and cloth made from tlie California cactus Wero recently exhibited before tho'
Maryland Academy of Sciences. Tho
cactus grows abundantly in many of tho
Western StnteB aud Territories, and it is
found on arid soil where nothing can bev
cultivated. The success that has been-
met with in malting paper' from this;
plant is so marked that the-bitsineBS will
probably bo attempted on a large scale.
—Journal of Chemistry.
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: Speoij£ens of the domestic tea raised
in South Carolina and cured. in Baltimore, wore exhibited in Washington/'
and wore so fine as to decoive the largest1
dealers.
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