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to her picture, smiled, thinking to ncrseu u wp 
more -wholesome than the smells of most boarding 
houses, whose kitchens arc in close proximity to the 
parlor. Presently Peggy appeared at the door, very 
rosy for ft chilly winter day. 
“ Como to our dinner of herbs, my Bister. Oh 
dear! 1 should really relish a stalled ox once in 
awhile, by way of contrast. Wouldn't you like to 
be Mistress Haddington now, with roast beef and 
plmn pudding served in six courses and u dessert, for 
dinner?” 
“No,” said Quack, emphatically, Bitting dow-n 
behind the tea urn, (another remnant.) “ 1 would 
rather live on our two frugal meals a day, with 
Gketciibn’b face opposite nt table, than dine on 
luxuries, and he served into the, bargain, while a 
person that didn’t interest me sat opposite.” 
“ I like my German name,” said Peggy, medi¬ 
tatively.” Father used to call me Grktchen. 
Peggy is so old-fashioned; it isn’t pretty, is it?” 
“ Yes, it is. It is a very pretty little girl. And A6 
to looking old-fashioned, we don’t mind whether a 
bird has on Its new dress or not.” Tenderness spoke 
through the elder nistor’s raillery. 
“There, now,” said Peogy, “ you are always treat¬ 
ing me just like a baby.” 
“Then for once J’H treat you like a mature spin¬ 
ster, Miss Gimbeklank, or myself for Instance. 
Can 1 help you to another; cup of tea, ma’am?” 
i Rnral New-Yorker. 
more like heaven 
Written lor Moore’s 
earth were 1 
by LEWIS DAYTON BURDICK, 
Ir more of men, in every land. 
Were to their fellow* kind and true; 
If fewer men would raise the hand 
To do what they ought not. to do; 
Were more controlled by power of Love, 
Did fewer need restraint of Fear, 
More of the bln* of heaven above 
Life hud, within tide lower sphere. 
If rights of men "ere more the song, 
And self more hidden from the eight; 
If men dared more oppose the wrong, 
And all cared more to live the right; 
If deeds of love, not deeds of land, 
Seemed to mankind to be more dear, 
Life were below more noble, grand, 
And earth to heaven would be more near, 
CLARA—“Dear Augustus, do get up; it is really worth looking at—just see how beautifully 
Poughkeepsie Is situated." 
Atkidhtub— “So am I beautifully situated, and well worth looking at; and yet Poughkeepsie 
doesn’t pay nte the compliment of getting up to look at me. Why shall 1 then get up to look at 
Poughkeepsie ?” 
For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker, 
MISCELLANEOUS ENIGMA. 
I am composed of 66 letters. 
My 40, 49, 43, 30, 40 is the disposition of many. 
My 1, 7, 9, S3, 9, 7 i» a vegetable. 
My 31, 29. 20.18, 64, 14, 40. 6 is a wild animal. 
My 66. SB, 4, 41. 63 is a girl’s name, 
My 80, 4b, 27, 10, 38 is very sweet. 
My 23, 32, 84, 21, 28, 32 is where all should go. 
My 28, 22, 36, 22,19, 37 is one of the twelve months. 
My 13, 42, 50,17 i* a boy’s nickname. 
My 89, 44, 61, 15, 34, 26, 27, 6 is a kind of bird. 
My 44, 33, 11, 66, 8 is an article of furniture. 
My 47, 62, 24,10,12, 2 is a relative. 
.My 8, 49, 20, 27 is n metal. 
My 62, 31, 46, 55, 5 is what is not true. 
My whole is one of Solomon’s Proverbs. 
Syracuse, N. Y. Lottie. 
15?"' Answer in two weeks. 
Written for Moore’* Rural New-Yorker. 
GRACE HODGE AND HER SISTER 
BY AGNE8 RAIN 
o’clock one winter day. The room in which the 
young lady Eftt was devoted to several uses. It was 
studio, parlor and library: an ordinary looking 
room with thread-bare carpet and sad-colored wall 
paper. But on the walls hung several paintings and 
sketches,—some liuished, others incomplete. Op¬ 
posite Miss Hodge an old book case held its few 
treasures in affectionate embrace, and through the 
clean glass doors yon read 6uch titles as “Lcs MIs- 
erables,” “Corinne, on L'ltulie,” “Aurora Leigh,” 
etc., from which might be inferred that the Misses 
Hoikib were choice in their literature. 
For the lady artist was not alone. On the shabby 
Bofa beside the stove Pkuuy Hodge sat weaving 
some dainty work with a shuttle. Little Peggy 
Hodge was eighteen, aud hud blue eyes. The oilier 
ingredients of her make-up arc thereby suggested. 
“ Perhaps you would rather 1 should look at it 
some other day, and as I could not take it with me 
now, I shall be obliged to do so, if you will allow 
me the privilege.” 
“1 had not thought of parting with —I had be¬ 
come attached to this,” stammered Grace. 
Just then Peggy came in, whether from a per¬ 
fumed boudoir, or an outer hall, or from just drop¬ 
ping oni of the skies, who could tell? There she 
was, modestly and quietly wnlking across the room 
to take her work from its little basket under the 
book-case, bowing returns to Mr. Haddington’s 
salutation, aud slipping unnoticed by the strange 
gentleman into her seat by the stove, lint, Grace 
saw Peggy,— her one lambkin,—the girl-child that 
must be fed, and clothed, aud lodged, and made 
happy by Grace' giving up things she loved. So 
she attracted Dl. Hi.ion's absorbed eyes from her 
picture by naming with a business-like air the price 
she set on the portion of her life he desired to pur¬ 
chase. 
The gentlemeif bowed tliemselvoB out of Miss 
Hodge’ a studio, Mr. Haddington engaging to come 
for the copy of bis ancient painting as soon as its 
colors should have dried. They lifted their hats to 
Peogy, who only at that instant lell under the 
Doctor’s keen glance, and then the door closed upon 
them.—[To be continued. 
MACAULAY’S ENIGMA. 
Cnr off my head, aud singular I am; 
Cut off my tall and plural 1 appear: 
Cut off both bead and tail, and strange to say, 
My middle part remains, tho’ nought Is there. 
What is my head cut off?—a sounding sea ; 
What is my tail cut off 1—a roaring river, 
Within whose eddying depths 1 ceaseless play. 
The parent of soft sounds, tho’ mute forever. 
Answer in two weeks. 
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MIXED (Green anti Black,) 70c.,Hue.,90c., nest *1 ¥ lb. 
ENGLISH BREAKFAST (Black,) 80c., !Klc., $1, * 1 , 10 , beBt 
*1,20 Tb. 
IMPERIAL (Green,) 80c., 90c., *1, *1,10, best *1,25 * lb. 
YOUNG HYSON (Green,) 80c., hoc., *1, SUO, beBt *1,20 W ». 
UNC01.0RKD JAPAN, B0o„ *1, *1,10, beat *1,25 lb. 
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Hotel*, Saloons, Boarding-House Keepers, and Families who 
nec large quantities of Coffee, can economise In that article 
by using our French Breakfast and Dinner Coffee, which we 
sell at the low price of 30c. per pound, aud warrant to give 
perfect satisfaction. 
ROAHTED (Onground,) JKlc., 35c., best 40c. per lb, 
GREEN (Unroastcd,) 26c., 80c., 33c., best 35c. per lb, 
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UK WARE of all concern* that advertise themselves as 
branches of our Establishment, or copy our name either 
wholly or In part, a* they are bogus or Imltaltons. Wo have 
no branches, and do not, In any care, authorize the u*e of 
our name. 
POST-OFFICE orders and drafts make payable to the 
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aud orders to tho (as below, no more, no less) 
to contemplate her picture. Grace Hodge had a | 
tinge of the masculine. She was a sound, deter¬ 
mined, electric woman. She could not Help it. 
Heaven bud made her Bo, and transmitted the talent 
of her father, filtered and newly-colorcd through her 
compact head. The Hodge sisters were orphans, 
and they were poor. Grace’s brush supported 
them, and Peggy wrought thread-edging for the 
stores, the proceeds of which quite delighted her. 
They had two rooms in a quiet lodging house, and 
economized with all their feminine tact, or with all 
the feminine tact of Grace. Once a day they went 
out together to buy supplies for their little larder, 
except in very stormy weather, when Grace went 
out alone. Their rent, provisions and fuel con¬ 
sumed nearly all the brave girl made, for though her 
work went off readily, she could not expect to com¬ 
mand such prices a» a gentleman with her skill and 
genius could have done. 
Grace pat down her palette and brushes with a 
yawn. She laughed ft little, and pushed her dark hair 
back. Her mouth was full und rich, with bright teeth 
hiding therein, but her forehead was severe. Per¬ 
haps tills latter gave her the air of independence 
that made her more than womanly. 
“Mr. Haddington ought to be suited. I have 
copied his beloved heirloom as accurately as its 
blurred snrface can be copied by me. Surface in¬ 
deed, aud nothing else! His ancestor* would have 
been better employed on worsted work.” 
“Let me see, Graoie,” said Peggy, coming with 
her shuttle. “ How pretty you r picture is! 1 didn’t 
think that cracked, smoky old thing could be trans¬ 
planted und made to bloom like this. It is parallel 
to turning the old apple woman at the corner into 
a handsome dowager. How you could convince 
that goat that it was Intended for a cow, and make 
a forest out of a calico bedquiit, quite puzzles me.” 
“Don’t scandalize the genius of the line Had¬ 
dington.” 
“ O, praise awarded to you even at the expense of 
‘my respected haunt,’ is no detraction from the 
general effulgence of that house. Miss ’Oboe, will 
My first is found in tho ocean wave, 
In the spring, the pit, and the mine; 
My second below earth’s surface yon have, 
Where the suu doth seldom Hhine; 
My whole does your dinner-table grace, 
And seldom fails to find a place. 
Answer in two weeks. 
For Moore's Rural New-Yorker. 
PROBLEM. 
On the 22d of July, 1851, in 1st. 43 (legs. North, I placed 
myself iu an erect position upon a plank, and turned my 
hack towards the sun, and observed the length of the 
shadow cast by my height and the Bun was 8 feet. Re¬ 
quired the lime of day, my height betug 6 feet 8 inches, 
New London, N. Y. S. G. Caowin. 
1 1ST Answer in two weeks. 
Birds passed—Green backs. 
Laid on the table -The cloth. 
Ordered to be printed- A kiss. 
Passed to a third reading—Love letters. 
«* Ik all the world were blind what a melancholy sight 
it would he I” said an Irish clergyman. 
How do we. know Lord Byron was good tempered? 
Because he always kepi Ids choler down. 
A cull ei, turned a hakl-headed friend into an enemy by 
advising him to have his head “ frescoed.” 
Wiikn 5s a smack on the mouth no offense? When it 
is received from the lips of a pretty woman. 
lx lime, is money, how docs it happen that those who 
have most of the former have least ol the latter? 
Why should marriage be spoken of a* a tender tie, 
when it is so confounded tough that nothing but death 
can cut it? 
Mus. Partington says there must be some sort of kin 
between poets aud pullets, for they are both always chant¬ 
ing their lays. 
Hook, once raid to a man at whose table a publisher got 
very tipsy, “ Why, you appear to have emptied your wine 
cellar into your book-seller.” 
I ,Tu it rk was a great deal of human nature in the remark 
of u lady, who, holding a glass of water in her hand, said: 
“Ol,, U' it were only wicked to drink this, how nice It 
would be I” 
A Western paper advertises thus:— “Run Away.—A 
hired man named John; his nose turned up live feet 
eight inches high, and had on a pair of corduroy pants 
much worn.” 
A Kansas reporter, having been on a bufluJo h nit, says 
that the party killed seventy of the animals, and he has 
lived on tho meat so long that his head Is shaggy, ami he 
bellows when he tries to talk. 
An advertising tallow chandler modestly says that, 
“without Intending any disparagement to the sun, ho 
may contideulJv assert that his octagonal spermucesi uru 
the bust lights ever Invented." 
The friends of a wit expressed some surprise that with 
his age and ills fondness lor the bottle, he should have 
thought it worth while to marry. “A wile was neces¬ 
sary” lie said ; “ they began to say of me that I drunk 
too much for a single man.” 
One of the younger members of the French legation at 
Washington, hard pushed for a compliment to a fair lady 
whoso face was marred by an nudemanly dat nose, re¬ 
marked, “ Madame, yon are an angel fallen from heaven, 
but you fell on your nose,” 
“Jennie,” said a venerable old man to his daughter, 
who was asking his consent to accompany her urgent and 
favored suitor to the altar, “Jennie, it is a very solemn 
rhino to net married.” “ 1 know It," replied Jennie, 
and Grace's life had taught her a kiud heart is a 
good thing to meet with. 
Dr, Bligu also looked at the picture, and he 
smiled. Grace saw he was divided between amuse¬ 
ment at her patron’s conceit, and surprise that she 
who would copy daubs should 6et up for an artist. 
“ He doesn’t know how hard it Is to get bread," she 
thought “ 1 doubt not, If he were needy and could 
make himself more comfortable by selling physic 
to dogs, that he would sell physic to doge. Art 
must often be degraded if the artist would live.” 
She turned his attention to a nearly completed 
picture on the wall. It, was of a little ehlld, stand¬ 
ing alone on the beach, its wet garments clinging to 
its limbs; the subsiding breakers still heaving up 
pieces of a wreck toward the lifting clouds, where 
lightning played swiftly. The child had that won¬ 
dering look of infancy on its face, and holding Its 
dragging robe with one plump hand, reached the 
other upward tb catch the fiery brightness that fled 
In sueh crooked tracks. 
The stranger, who considered this picture a long 
time, while Mr. Haddington was exhausting his 
stock of compliments on the artist, finally pro¬ 
nounced : 
“ Very well done. May I ask from whom you 
copied it?” 
“From my own imagination," she answered, sim¬ 
ply. “ Each mind has Its own images for certain 
thoughts. This attempt arose from long pondering 
‘ Consider the Lilies,’ but as that name might not 
seem entirely applicable to others, 1 call my picture 
‘ Fear Not,’ ” 
The Doctor looked at her curiously. “You will 
not think me impudent, Mias Hodge, if 1 ask who 
has been your master in the art ?” 
“Certainly not,” she replied, with frank dignity. 
“My father was tho only master 1 ever had. He 
used to take me with him, when 1 was a very 
little girl, to visit the picture galleries; and we 
shared together dreams of some day visiting Home, 
—but he died, aud ouly his mantle of hope descend- 
she continued, 
Answer to Miscellaneous Enigma:-It is no disgrace to 
have un old father anil a ragged shirt. 
Answer to Problem: — The first pays *1,015.33)4' and 
owns 4-18 of it; the second *1,623, and owns 8-18; the 
third *2,030,fifijfi, and owns 8-18. 
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od to me. 
turning timidly toward an oval painting, hung in 
the sliudow tvs if its designer felt she had been pre¬ 
sumptions, “if this reminds you of any thing ?” 
There WttS an old man on his knees beside a bed, 
grasping the covering in his hands, with a look of 
great and dreadful agony In his eyes. He had u 
noble face, haggard and Bet, but by some influence 
hallowed; ^in the mean, low chamber, thrown 
against his scanty couch, he struggled in darkness, 
and age, and despair. 
“ Hi should think,” remarked Mr. Haddington, 
after some minutes’ attentive consideration, “hi 
should say hit was Habraliam haftcr ’e was com¬ 
manded to sacrifice Hieaac. But hi never was 
good hat riddles, Miss ’Odge.” 
Dr. Bligu deliberately looked at his companion 
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