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LOVE'S CHALLENGE. 



I picked up Ihis Irille lioin the fl<)i)r, 

 Uiikiiowiiig from whose teiidi-r Imnd 



It lell— Iml liDW woultl tiiiu resiore 

 A tLiui; wliicb liaih iiiy lietiri uiiniaiined. 



I say unmiiiiiu'il, for 'lis not now 

 A manly nmod to dream of Lore, 



"When i-ach l)()ld champion knils his brow, 

 And lur War's gauntlet doffs his glove. 



But we're exempt, and have no heart 

 Of wreak williin iis for the Ir.iy; 



And there-lore leach our S' uls the art 

 With life and life's concerns to play. 



Yet, lady, trust me, 'lis not all 



III pi ly ihat I proclaim iiit -nt, 

 "When next you h t ih- gauntlet fall, 



To take it as a challen<:e meauL 



Sir Carpet-Knight, who ranst not fight, 



Thy gallantries are nut fWr me ; 

 The man whom 1 wiih luve requite 



Must sing ill a more martial key. 



I have two bro hers on the field. 



And one beneath it — none knows where ; 

 And I shall keep my >piril sieeled 



To any save a soldier's prayer. 



If thou have music in Ihy soul, 



Yoi hast no ^inew for the strife. 

 Go leadi thyself ihe war-lrunVs roll, 



jVnd woo me better with a fife! [AtlanUo Monthly. 



Quick Work in Coat-Making.— Iu ISll Sir John 

 Throckmorton, a Berkshire Baronet, offered to laj- a 

 wager of a thousand guineas to the following effect : That 

 at eight o'clock on a particular evening, he would sit 

 down to dinner in a well-woven, well-dyed well-made 

 suit, the wool of which formed the fleece ou the sheep's 

 backs at five o'clock on that same morning. It was no 

 wonder that, among a class of persons accustomed to 

 betting, such a wager should eagerlj' be accepted, seeinc 

 thai the achievement of the challenged result appeared 

 all but impossible. Mr. Coxetter, of Greenham Mills, 

 at Newbury, was entrusted with the work. At.five o'clock 

 in the morning, on the 28»h of June, he caused two 

 South Down sheep to be shorn. The wool was washed, 

 carded, stubbed, roved, spun and woven ; the cloth was 

 scoured, fulled, tented, raised, sheared, dyed and dressed ; 

 the tailor was at hand, and made up the finished cloth 

 into garments ; and at a quarter past six in the evening 

 Sir JoH.v Throckmorton sat down to dinner at the head 

 of his guests, ia a complete damask-colored suit that had 

 been thus made— winning the wager, with an hour and 

 three-quarters to spare. Of course every possible pre- 

 paration was made beforehand; but still the achievement 

 was sufBciently remarkable, and was long talked of with 

 pride among the clothiers. 



Train tour Pasmons.— Passions, like wild horses, 

 when properly trained and disciplined, are capable of 

 being apjilied to the noblest purposes; but when allowed 

 to have their own way, they become dangerous in the ex- 

 treme. 



Make GoonSEss AfinKRABLB. — Archbishop Usher says: 

 "If good people would but make their goodness agree- 

 able, and stnile instead nf howling In their virtue, how 

 aanj would tbej win to the good cause." 



Tpb Dukk's Razors.— My friend, George Smyth, ti 

 late Lord Strangford, once told nie that, staying at Wa 

 mer Castle with the 'Duke of Wellington, thelDuke ii 

 formed him, one morning at breakfast, that he w£. 

 obliged to go up to London immediately, as all his razoi 

 required setting, but he would be back to dinner. Lor 

 Strangford very naturally offered to lend the Duke hi 

 razors, which, luckily for the Duke, he did uot accept i 

 for Lord S., who was somewhat careless about his pei 

 soual appearance, shaved with razors something lik. 

 miiiialuie saws, which made one shudder to look ai 

 Lord S. then offered to take the razors to Dover, but th 

 IJuke replied : "The man who always sharpens my razor 

 has sharpened them many years; I would not trust ther 

 with any one else. He lives in Jeimyn street, and ther 

 they must go. So you see, Strangford, every man has 

 weak point, and my weak point is about the sliarpenin], 

 of my razors. Perhaps you are uot aware that I sbav 

 mj'self, and brush my own clothes ; and I regret that 

 can not clean my own boots; for men servants bore me 

 and the presence of a crowd of idle fellows annoys m.- 

 more than I can tell yon.— Gronoiv'sReminiscmces.' 



A Keen Answer.— Iu the days of Queen Elizabeth . 

 scholar happened to be in disgrace with Her M.jestj-, ^u 

 he manacred to secure the good offices of one who was ii 

 high favor at the Court, with a view to regaining his po 

 sition. The time airived when he was to be presented 

 to the Queen again. " Well," said the Queen, " I under 

 stand you are a great scholar. Shall I ask you one qnes i 

 tion?" Anything, madame," said he, "that lies withal 

 the compass of my understanding to resolve you, I will.' 

 " How many vowels are there?" said the Queen. " That 

 your .Majesty," replied the scholar, "is easily known 

 but as you have asked me I mu.st needs answer. Five.*' 

 "Which of these five could best be spared'?" said the 

 Queen. " Not any of them, madame," replied he, " with- 

 out damaging the language." "Then," retorted Hei 

 Majesty, "I will tell you differently. We, for our part 

 can best spare ti" (you.) 



A Safe Wat to Vote.— Two free and independent ves- 

 trymen were recently conversing upon the subject of 

 voting, when one of them inquired: "Well, now, what 

 IS a man going to do when he don't know anything about 

 a matter?" " Well," replied the other, "I have got two 

 rules about them : when anything comes up, I keep my 

 eyes peeled and vote as somebody else does who I believe 

 is honest, or else I vote against it. I believe, as a gene- 

 ral thing, the safest way is to vote again.st everything." 



New Invention.— a genius "down East" intends ap- 

 jilying for a patent for a machine which, he s.-iys, when i 

 wound up and .set in motion, will chase a hog over a ten ' 

 acre lot, catch, yoke and ring him ; or, by a slight change 

 of gearing, it will chop him into sausage, work his bristles 

 into shoe-brushes, and manufacture his Ifll into a cork- 

 screw ! 



The greatest capture of men mentioned in modern his- 

 tory was made bv Bonaparte at Austerlifz, where he took 

 SO.OOO. General Grant took nearly .31, OdO at Vicksburg. 

 Napoleon's spoil at Austerlitz was 1.50 pieces of artillery; 

 General Grant's at Vick-^burg was 218, embracing nine 

 siege guns and 209 pieces of light artillerj. 



