THE RI3BAL NEW-YORKER. 
lUatmtg for fljt fjoitiui. 
THE LOVERS’ CONVERSATION. 
" How's your father?” came the whisper, 
Bashful Ned the silence breaking'; 
‘ Oh, he's nicely," Annie murmured, 
Smilingly the (mention taking. 
Conversation flagged a moment; 
Hopeless Ned essayed another; 
nnie, 1 —I—then a coughing. 
And the Question, " How's your mother?” 
Mother ? Oh, she's doing finely !” 
Fleetiug fast was all forbearance. 
When, in low, despairing accents, 
Came the climax, “ How’s your parents ?” 
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THE LAST MAN IN THE BATTERY. 
“ No you want me to tell you about a battle, do 
you?” said Captain n-of the navy, as ho 
leaned back In Ills easy chair after dinner, and 
looked round upon the nlrole of eager laces. 
“ 'Veil, that’s what you all want that haven’t 
seen one: but If you’d once had a ralr taste of a 
real light, with all the blood and wounds, arid 
dismal slghls, and the poor fellows moaning and 
shrieking In their agony, you’d be glad to forget 
It. as Quick as you could. However, 1 know l 
shall have no peace unless 1 give you what you 
want; so here goes— 
“It was Just berore the first, bombardment.of 
Sevastopol that I was ashore with a pa rty of our 
blue-jackets, helping ro drag up some guns to a 
battery on the rlg'lrt of our position, fronting the 
left face of the Redan. I was only a young middy 
at the time, and this was the first bit of fighting 
I’d overseen. 
“ As for the sailors, they seemed to enjoy It 
above all things; and so did my chum, .Jack 
Larklngton, who wms along with me, as he had 
been wherever I went, ever since wo were at, the 
Charterhouse together, before mounting the dirk 
and monkey-jacket. 
“Now this bombardment, as I’ve said, was the 
first time I had ever smelt powder; and as the 
time drew on (lor it’s only in books that men are 
never disturbed by the approach of danger) 1 be¬ 
gan to think a good dual about It. Not tha t 1 was 
very likely to run away but still, the thought or 
having to stand up and be pelted at by several 
hundred big guns at once, wasn’t exactly the 
pleasantest thing In the world; and when I lay 
down behind the gabions on the night or the 16Lh, 
I felt as If I’d give all I had for It hi begin at once, 
and not have to look forward to it any longer. 
“It was just daylight on the morning of the 
lltli when I awoke: and everything looked so 
still and peaceful, with the clear sky overhead, 
and the green hills all around, and the bright 
blue sea below, that II was hard to believe that 
those iinlet-looking grey mounds or earth, a few 
hundred yards otf, were really going to spit, fire 
and death among us in another minute or two. 
Hut JuSt then came the whir, ot the signal-rocket 
from the French lines, and then ill roe shots, one 
after the other, like the strokes of a great Clock. 
In a moment the face of the Redan broke out in 
a Hash and a roar, and all the air was tilled with 
smoke, and we were at It In earnest! 
“ Before we had been at, work five minut es, you 
couldn’t have seen a yard (before you lor t he 
smoke, and the noise was like nothing 1 ever heard 
before or since—tt. seemed to split the very sky. 
Wo were In a. pretty warm corner where we were, 
for the Redan, though it, hadn’t out so many teeth 
then us It did later on, had quite enough to attend 
to us very effectually; and for the first halt-hour, 
with the shot flying and the gabions crashing, 
and the dirt and gravel sputtering up all round, 1 
felt a queer kind of tickling all over me, and an 
Inclination to duck my head and hunch up my 
Shoulders, just as when you think some tellow’s 
going to shy a snowball at you from behind. 
" But after a time, finding myself still alive, and 
all my Jlmbsln their right places, I got over all 
that, and began rather to enjoy It, As for old .1 ack, 
It was Just as If he had been at a‘skylark’on 
board ship: he laughed and whistled, and snapped 
his fingers at the enemy, and hollowed out scraps 
o! chair, and seoincd to think It the finest run m 
the world. 
“ Hut as the day wore on we began to suffer. 
The front of the battery crumbled away bit by 
blr, and an unlucky shot smashed one of our gun- 
carriages, and dismounted tbit piece. Several of 
our gunners had been bowled over, and poor Bill 
Ha wklns,one or our quartermasters,08 fl tie a felloe 
as ever stepped, was cut In two by a round-shot 
at my very side. And at lasts Just about three In 
the afternoon, a shell burst right among us with 
such a crash and blaze that it quite stunned me 
for the moment, and down I fell as If 1 were dead. 
" When I came to again, the first thing I saw 
was poor old Jack lying dead, wit h t wo more of 
our men beside hlrn. And at that I got quite mad‘ 
and sprang up and pulled the lock-lanyard of the 
nearest, gun with one hand, while i shook the 
other at the Russian batteries. And then there 
came a bang that was heard above all the roar of 
the cannon, and up from the face of the Redan 
went a spout of flrn like the bursting out or a vol¬ 
cano, and some of our fellows gave a cheer; but. 
In the midst of that great uproar, It sounded as 
weak as the cry of a child, 
“ When the smoky cleared away, wo saw the 
parapet of the Redan all broken to bits, aud one 
gun sticking bolt upright out of the mess like a 
post, and the ditch half filled In with the ruins, 
aud the bodies of men scattered about like leaves. 
But In the midst of it, all there was a young officer 
(not a bit older than myself, oy the look of him) 
sticking up the Russian flag again as coolly as 
could be, although, as far as I could see, he wits 
the only man left lu the battery I 
“Our men were ho pleased with his pluck that 
they gave him throe cheers, aud 1 jumped up on 
the gnu and waved my cap to him; he took off 
his in return, and bowed to me; and then the 
smoke rolled In between us again, and 1 saw no 
more of him, 
“ Rut one night, about two months after t hat, 
we were keeping watch In one of the advanced 
works—for what with the cold, and what with the 
lesson we got at Inkerman, we weren’t often 
caught napping. Suddenly 1 thought I heard Mo¬ 
duli tread of march!hg men right in our front; 
and when I put my ear to the ground, J was sure 
of it. 
“Our lads were soon on the alert, and it wasn’t 
long before he saw a grey shudow creeping up to 
us, like a mist rising from the ground. Then we 
I just gave ’em one volley and charged. 
“ We had to fight, almost by guesswork, for lu 
• that darkness you eouldh’t, tell your right hand 
from your left. In the scrimmage I got separated 
from the rest, and was Just, wondering what.being 
bayonetted fell, like, when somebody ran against, 
me and almost knocked rne over. I caught hold 
or film, arid just then the flash of a musket showed 
mo the face of the young fellow I had seen In the 
Russian battery! 
“ 1 made up my mind to have him, but not to 
hurt him If I could help It, so 1 gave him one be¬ 
tween the eyes that tumbled hlrn as clean as a 
whistle, and one of our own chaps helped me to 
carry him In. And then, when he saw Micro was 
no help for It, be put a good face on it like a sen¬ 
sible fellow; and I gave him one of the only two 
weeds I hud left, and he gave mo a bit of black 
bread—the only food I’d had for fourteen hours, 
by-thohy—and by sunrise we were like brothers! 
“ r dld’nt keep him long, for he was exchanged 
soon after Tor one of the officers taken at Balak- 
lava: but he was the joliicsl company I ever met, 
and the way he picked up KngUlBti was wonder¬ 
ful. Why. before I’d learned three words of Russ, 
1m could tacklo mo In English quite pat!” 
"And what became of him?” asked the four 
voices at once. 
“Why, there ho sits I” answered the captain, 
pointing with t he stem of his short, pipe to a stal¬ 
wart figure with a heavy military moustache on 
the other side of the lire; “and when we* all go 
to Russia next summer, you shall sec his nice 
little house on the outskirts of Moscow, where he 
aud 1 have had rauny a pleasant day.” 
MAGIC WITH TWO MASTERS. 
An exchange newspaper furnishes the following 
account, of an amusing Incident: 
“ There was a comical encounter between two 
noted professors of magic In San Francisco a lew 
evenings since. Heller, flesh from the East, cas¬ 
ually dropped Into an evening exhibition given 
by a rival magician named Cazeneuve. When 
the latter inusi.riotis eon Juror invited some of the 
audience to step upon the stage and enter Ihe 
dark cabinet with him. Mr. Heller, who was en¬ 
tirely unknown to Ills confrere. Immediately as¬ 
cended the platform and was ensconced with the 
professor. 
M. cazeneuve, on these occasions, boats drums, 
blows fifes, and fires pistol shots close to the ear 
ol Ills companion, and, as a general rule, scares 
him half out of his senses by the Imposition on 
his head or spirit hands anil other supernatural 
demonstrations, lie also makes a practice of ab¬ 
stracting tire watch of his victim, which Is pres¬ 
ently discovered secreted lu the pocket or one of 
Mm audience, who Is, of course, overwhelmed 
with confusion at being apparently detected lu 
the commission Of a dishonest, act. 
On this evening, however, the Interest or the 
performance was considerably enhanced by the 
circumstance that while Caz.eneuvc removed Mr. 
Heller’s watch from Ills pocket, the latter spirited 
the dapper little Frenchman out of the cabinet 
altogether, and thereafter removed himself also 
to the at,reet outside. Mr. Heller then, using bis 
extraordinary powers of ventriloquism, threw bis 
voice right across Hush street to the stage of the 
theatre, and gave. In Caztmeuve’s voice, tee word 
to draw open the cabinet curtains. The gentle¬ 
manly Interpreter who assists M. Cazeneuve 
promptly obeyed the command, and, with the 
audeoce, was astonished to find the interior un- 
tenanted, while Heller and Cazeneuve at the 
same moment floated lurough the ambient air 
from the. upper pari, of the house on to tee stage. 
Mr. Heller’s watch simultaneously disengaged It¬ 
self from tee pocket of Senaior Sharon, who was 
In a stage-box, and advanced with loud ticks of 
welcome to meet Its owner.” 
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MISNOMERS. 
Some of the articles In use in commerce are so 
misnamed, that persons unacquainted with them 
would form a very Incorrect Idea of their cha rac- 
ser If they Judged by the names given to teem. 
The following substances are samples: 
Black lead does not contain a single particle of 
lead, being composed ot carbon and iron. Brazil¬ 
ian grass does nor. come from Brazil, or even grow 
there; nor Is It grass at all. It consists of sr.rlps 
ot a palm leat [ofiainrceops ctrgeMea), and la im¬ 
ported chiefly from Cuba. Burgundy pitch Is not 
pitch, nor Is It manufactured or exported from 
Burgundy. The best Is a resinous substance pre¬ 
pared from the common frankincense, and brought 
from Hamburg; but by Tar the greater quantity 
Is a mixture of resin and palm-oll. Cat-gut is not 
the gut of cate, but of sheep. 
Cuttle-bone is not bone at all, but a structure 
of pure chalk, once embodied loosely In the sub¬ 
stance of certain extinct species of cuttle-fish. It 
Is inclosed in a membraneous sac within the body 
ol the “ fish," and drops out. when the sac Is open¬ 
ed, but it has no canneetion whatever with the 
sac or the cuttle-fish. Healing wax is not wax at 
all, nor does It contain a single panicle of wax. 
H Is made of shellac, Venice turpentine and cin¬ 
nabar. Cinnabar gives It the deep-rod color, and 
turpentine renders tee shellac soft and less brit¬ 
tle. Merman sliver Is not silver at all, nor waatbe 
metallic alloy called by t hat, name invented by u 
German, but has been in use In China time out of 
mind. Kid gloves are not made from kid skins, 
but or lamb or sheep skins; at present, many of 
them are made of rat skins. Meerschaum is*not 
petrified “ sea-foam,” as n« name Implies, but a 
composition of magnesia and water. Mosaic gold 
has no connection with Mosea or the metal gold. 
It. is an alloy of copper and zinc, used In the an¬ 
cient mvsivum or tesseluted work .—Commercial 
Bulletin. 
A Bai.timokk belle, Just, from Vassar College, 
when told by the waiter that they had no goose¬ 
berries, exclaimed—“ What has happened to tee 
goose?" 
atrbatlj failing, 
OVER-NIGHT. 
Yesterday a forward bud 
With a promise filled the room, 
And to-day I hero in its stead. 
Blessing, stands a rose in bloom. 
Yesterday we thought to see. 
Leaf by leaf, its life unclose. 
Or to feel the moment flush 
When the laid became a rose. 
So a child we keep a child, 
Ak we keep a bud' unblown: 
All at once, a blush, a glance. 
Comes the maiden, woman grown. 
Life, O Life! your every chance 
We waylay and tlaBh surmise; 
But it comes another way, 
In an unimagined guise. 
Watch and listen when we may— 
Out of love or out of fear— 
Something will go by unseen. 
Or unheard, that wo would hear. 
®j)t fuglfr. 
HIDDEN ISLANDS. 
1. He wore a Roman toga. 
2 . ’Twas a right-angle seaward. 
3. Sable Is costly fur. 
•t. He Is quite mad ! A gas car took fire, 
fi. Bertnn dared the school bully. 
6 . He Is to bag oranges on t he wharf. 
7. Seba, ham as a breakfast dish, 
s. A pine cone, yellow with age. 
9. From the state nearest tec Giflf. 
10 . I use oolong tea. 
11. Martin, i quelled It. 
12 . 1 go to church on Sunday. 
13. It Is too cold for Mosa to he out. 
If. The bouquet eontalned fox-glove. 
15. He wears a wig. H. told mo so. 
to. On the general’s stall, Arthur. 
17. Ho you like mulled cider. 
I#- Answer In two weeks. Little One. 
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CROSS-WORD ENIGMA. 
My first Is In Chelsea but not in Oxford, 
My second Is In Lexington hut not In Concord; 
My third Is In I,owell but not In .Springfield, 
My fourth Is m Quincy but not In Pittsfield; 
My fifth ts In Ablngtort hut not in Marlboro, 
My sixth Is In Naliant but not In Mlddleboro; 
My seventh Is lu Boston but not In Roxbury, 
My eighth Is In Charlestown but not In Duxbury; 
My ninth is In Andover but not In Swampscott, 
My whole Is a watering-place near Boston. 
S3r~ Answer In two weeks. Mkb. d. 
DOUBLE ACROSTIC. 
l. A sokt of drink. 2. A Greek letter. 3. One 
skilled In gardening. 4. A wizard. 5. A Turkish 
Judge. 6. surly. 7. To assault. 8. To push a 
ship Into water. 9. Part of a triangle. 10. Neg¬ 
lect. 11. To express. 12. A law officer. Prlmals 
and finals form two great American statesmen. 
tzr Answer in two weeks. Balto. 
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CENTRAL PUZZLE. 
1. A PHINKINO bottle. 2. A trip. 3. God’s holy 
book. 4. A domestic animal. 5. An animal In¬ 
habiting the Western plains. 6. Part of a door. 
7. A sort, of fireworks. 8. Covered with dust. Cen¬ 
trals form a metal. 
jw Answer In two weeks. d. b. 
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TRIPLE ACROSTIC. 
1. A city of Scotland. 2. A ruined town of Italy. 
3. A species of flour. 4. To ask a favor, s. The 
plural of a domestic bird. 6. An estate on the 
Hudson, Prlmals, centrals and finals form boys> 
names. 
l'&~ Answer in two weeks. b. 
TRANSPOSITION OF WOMEN’S NAMES. 
1. O let chart. 2. Bear all, A. 3. Are in chat. 
4. Oh ! bread. 5. Ten In seer. 6. Elenor C. F. 7. 
Rage, Ongl. s. All 1 sabe. 9. Oh no, Ira. 10. Tear 
rag, M. 
! r Answer In two weeks. s. c. 
STAR PUZZLE. 
1 . Pertaining to the heavens. 2 . Persons who 
are not what they seem. 3. An Instrument of 
vision. 4. Importantly useful. Arrange as a star. 
Answer in two weeks. Mn. 
SQUARE WORD. 
1. Part of the human body. 2. A medicine. 
Not off. 4 . Part of the day time, 
ear-Answer in two weeks. l. o. 
PUZZLER ANSWERS.-July 14. 
Geographical Em .ma.— Never be angry with y 
next-door neighbor I in Muse his religious view* di 
from your own; for (ill the brunches of a tree do 
lean the Rauic way. 
Double Acrostic.— Prlmals, Genitive; finals, A 
tive. 
Central Puzzle.—M oseby. 
But I hO|ie with all my hope, 
I may know the. now unknown, 
Sometime hear the now unheard, 
See, and not with eyes alone. 
And indeed 1 make no doubt, 
Soon or late, this perfect sight. 
Through the dark, will come to me. 
As the rose came—over-night. 
N. O. Advocate. 
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OUR LORD’S LIFE A LIFE OF HEALTH. 
It was a life of health. Among Its many sor¬ 
rows anti trials, sick ness alone was absent. We 
hear of Ms healing multitudes of tho sick—we 
never hear that he was sick Himself. It Is true 
that the “ golden Passional ol the Book of Isaiah ” 
says of Him: “Surely He hath borne our griefs 
and carried our sorrows; yet we did esteem him 
stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But 
he was wouudeil for our transgressions; He 
was bruised for our Iniquities; the chastisement 
of our peace was upon Him. and with 1113 stripes 
wc are healed but the beat explanation of that 
passage has been already supplied from St. Mat¬ 
thew, teat He suflered with those whom he saw 
suffer. HO was touched with a feeling of our In¬ 
firmities ; Ills divine sympathy made those suffer¬ 
ings His own. Certain ids Llmt the sioryof Ills 
life and death shows exceptional powers of phys¬ 
ical endurance. No one who was not endowed 
with perfect health could have stood out against 
the Incessant and wearing demands of such dally 
life as the Gospel describes. Above all, He seems 
to have possessed that blessing or ready sleep, 
which is the best antidote to fatigue, and the best 
influence to calm tee over-wearied mind and 
“ knit up the raveled sleeve of care.” Even on 
the wave-lashed deck ol t he little fishing-boat,, as 
It was tossed on the stormy sea, He could sleep, 
with no better pillow than the hard, leather-cov¬ 
ered boss t hat served os the steersman’s cushion. 
And often lu those nights spent under t he starry 
skies, in the wilderness and on the inountaln-top, 
lie can have had no softer resting-place than the 
grassy turf, no other covering than the rntlith, or 
perhaps some striped abba, such as often forms 
the sole bed of the Arab at the present day. And 
we shall sen In the last sad scene how the same 
strength and constitution and endurance, even 
after all that He had undergone, enabled Him to 
hold out—after a sleepless night aud a most ex¬ 
hausting day—under fifteen hours of trial and 
torture, and the long-protracted agony of a bitter 
death.— Farrar's Life nf Christ. 
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A NEW METHODIST HYMN-BOOK. 
The committee appointed by the General Con¬ 
ference of the Methodist Episcopal Church last 
year, of whose New England section Rev. Dr. Wil¬ 
liam Rice or Springfield Is chairman, hare finished 
their work, and it lias been accepted by tho Board 
of Bishops. The new book will contain about 1150 
hymns, two-thirds of them being taken from the 
old one and the rest from various sources. For 
tho selection ot the 400 new hymns some 1000 
hymn-books were carefully examined and anno¬ 
tated. Every hymn in the collection has been 
traced back to Its source, and the emendations in 
the text have been mainly m the direction of re¬ 
gaining the original veislons. A large number of 
translations of the Greek and Latin hymns of the 
early and mediaeval Church and from the later 
German are introduced. Thu new volume Is now 
In the hands of the tune committee, and It will be 
Issued early in the fall. There Is some prospect 
that this book will be adopted also by tbe Metho¬ 
dist Protestant Church, the Methodist Church 
South, and tee other branches of tee Methodist 
body. 
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In enlightening others, our own light and com¬ 
fort always Increase. “ To obey, Is better than 
sacrifice.” “Let your light shine,”comes from 
just as high authority as Thou shalt not steal.” 
If believers would walk in the light themselves, 
therefore, they must labor to enlighten all those 
who are In darkness. It Is not a matter or indif¬ 
ference, but a positive duty, Horn which we can¬ 
not escape, and not be guilty of a brother's blood. 
Keep it before all Christians teen, “ ye are the 
light or the world.” 
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No man can make a right out of wrong any 
more than he can paint a piece of cork so like a 
Stone that It will sink to the bottom when it Is 
thrown into the water. 
