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JUNE 49 
BRIC-A-BRAC. 
As It will soon be time to ask: “ Wbat are the 
wild waves saying?” we take this early opportu¬ 
nity to candidly confess that we do not know. 
If there's a note that’s due, you bet 
You’d better remember it. while you may: 
For it’s important you shouldn’t forget 
To-day was to-morrow yesterday. 
A husband telephoned to his wife: “ What 
have you lor breakfast, and how Is the baby I 
The answer came : “ Buckwheat cakes and the 
measles.”_ 
Thebe was a lady named Ella, 
Who carried a silk umbrella: 
There came a typhoon 
Which made it a balloon, 
And floated her off with her fellow. 
A stobv Is told of General Butler's sarcastic re¬ 
tort upon a Massachusetts Judge whom he was 
teasing for a ruling favorable to a cause he was 
defending In court. The Judge got out of patience 
at last, and somewhat testily exclaimed: “ Mr 
Butler, what da you think l sit here for ?” The 
General quietly shrugged his shoulders and re¬ 
plied : “ The Court has got me now." 
“ Hebe, John, don’t eat those crackers up,” 
Said she with a hateful snap •, 
" They’re some I’ve saved on purpose 
To put in the baby’s pap.” 
" Well,” said John, edging for the door 
And reaching for his hat: 
“ What makes you look so cross about it, then ? 
Aint I the baby’s pap? ’’ 
The Pa shot's Prayer.— Capt. James Ktchbcr- 
ger has a par rot who can say several words In good 
English. The parrot used to he In the room In 
which the Captain's family met to pray. One 
morning the parrot went out Into the garden, 
when a large hawk dew down and caught the 
parrot In his claws, beartog It oft over the tree 
tops. All at once the parrot shrieked out, " o 
Lord, save us! O Lord, save us 1” which fright¬ 
ened the hawk so much that he dropped his prize 
never so strange a year. 
Thebe never was so strange a year; 
The seasons seem all out of gear; 
The summer took so much of fall. 
We had no autumn clays at all; 
The fall, in order to get square. 
Took all of winter it did dare; 
And winter evens up the thing 
By lingering in the lap of spring.—Puck, 
An old farmer out In Indiana says, that for his 
part he don’t know where Ihe present rage for 
trimming bonnets with birds Is going to end Only 
four or five years ago he bought his daughter a 
humming-bird ; next year she wanted a robin, the 
next a pheasant, and afterward he had to chain 
up his Thanksgiving mrkey or she’d have had 
that perched on top of her head. 
fate of a dashing young man. 
A dashing young man in St. Paul 
Loved a maiden exceedingly tall; 
Two nights in a week 
He would muster up cheek 
And make the lair creature a call. 
One day her pa shouldered his gun, 
And went out to discover the sou 
Of a sea-cook who would 
On a young heart intrude, 
And say he was only in fun. 
He met the young man in his store, 
And blew him out through the front door; 
A father-in-law jury 
Let him off in a hurry, 
But the boys shunned that gill evermore. 
—Chicago Times. 
Savings by Josh Biddings.—' Those who are too 
proud to enquire what a thing kosts when they 
buy it, are the fust ones to And fault when they 
cum to pay for It. 
Thare lz a grate deal ov religion in this world 
that Is like a life-preserver, only put on at the 
moment ov extreme danger, and then half the 
time put on hind side before, 
Pashunce lz a good thing for a ma n to hav, hut 
when he has got so much ov it that he kan lish all 
day over the side ov a boat, without enny bait on 
hlz hook, laziness lz what’s the matter ov him 
It lz the prudes In this world that need die 
most watching, coquets are too kareless to b 9 
dangerous. Most men are like a hop vine, If they 
don’t hav sum kind of a pole to klirnb, and then 
stlk to It, they won’t promulgate much hops. 
Ondy a woman’s hair, 
Binding the now to the past, 
Only a single thread 
Too trail to last. 
Only a woman’s hair 
Threading a tear and a sigh, 
v nly a woman's hair 
Found to-day in the pie. 
—Steubenville Herald. 
HOW SHE AVENGED HEUSKDF. 
in the absence of the head of the household, 
the nurse furnishes the census-taker with the In¬ 
formation he desires: 
•• My master,” she says, “ Is an Idiot.” 
“ completely v” 
“ Completely. Not of the violent kind, but 
harmless, ills wife Is elghiy-two years old. Only 
one child, a son aged thlrty-nve. No, he can nei¬ 
ther read nor write." 
*• Thank you, mademoiselle.” 
“ I)o not mention It, sir.” 
'* Catharine,” says the butler, when the official 
departed. “ Where do you expect to go when you 
die? You know master belongs to the Academy, 
and missus is only ihu ty, and their boy Is at the 
lnfanl school.” 
* l know It; but I’ll teach them to sack me lor 
having a few habitual discre a les Ln the mar¬ 
keting account. Avenged t” 
Queries to the moved: 
Well, how do like your new quarters ? 
Are you all settled yet t 
How did the stove-pipe lit? 
Hid the carpet stretch out all right ? 
How did the crockery pan out? 
Found your tooth-brush and razor yet? 
How does thn furniture look now? 
Bon’t you wish you had never moved! 
Yonkers Statesman. 
AN EDUCATED HORSE. 
“ You ask If we ha ve any particularly bright 
horses,” replied a hook and ladder man. " Here 
Is Peter ; he’s been with us nine or ten years, and 
we rather brag on him. Let me Introduce you. 
Peter, here Is a chap from the Detroit Free Press.” 
Peter nodded his head and pawed the floor. 
“ Peter, have you been to a are to-day ?” 
He shook his head. 
“ Were you out yesterday ?" 
He nodded. 
“ Peter, how old are you ?” 
The horse pawed thirteen times with his right 
foot. 
“ That’s right,, old boy. Do you remember when 
a loafer stabbed you at a Are?” 
He did. 
“ Where Is the scar ?” 
Peter bent himself almost double to bite his hip 
at a spot where a soar could be traced. 
Now, Peter, Bhow the Detroit man how you 
take your place at the pole. 
Down went, the chain, and the horse covered 
the distance at two Jumps. 
“ Now walk rouud the truck and come and take 
my hat oil.” 
The horse obeyed to the letter. 
“ Now,” continued the man as he laid down on 
the floor, “ stop over me." 
Peter lifted up his feet very high and stepped 
softly over, and returned to his stall. 
“ That horse Is one of us,” said the man as he 
brushed the dust off and sat down. ** We can 
rest the foot of a ladder on his back and he will 
not move. Wherever we stand him at a Are there 
he will stay without watching lie eats with us, 
chews tobacco, likes beer and would learn to play 
dominoes In a week If he could only handle 
them.—New York Letter. 
T>ABABJ. ES. 
I knew a man to whom the boon was given 
Into the beauty of eternal heaven 
To gaze one wondrous day :— 
He looked,—and turned away. 
1 knew a man upon who e dazzled sight 
Once, through the utter blankness of the night, 
A star of Truth did rise:— 
He saw—and veiled his eyes. 
I knew a man who stood one summer morn 
Between two paths; and him a voice did warn: 
“ This path,—not that, my brother 1” 
He heard—and took the other. 
1 knew a man to whom a human soul 
Turned trustful once with sweet self-uncoutrol: 
Before Love’s supreme call 
He faltered—and lost all .—Barton Grey. 
“ My boys,” sold a strict ohurohwoman to her 
children at i he beginning or the recent Lenten 
season, •* l should like very much to have you 
deny yourselves something during the solemn 
weeks oi Lent. Will you dolt?” “ 1 will, mamma, ’ 
said Johnny, a sedate child, who was very fond of 
grladle-cakes; “ I’ll do without my cakes ln the 
morning." “That’s a good hoy. And what will 
you give up, Dairy?’ she asked of his little 
brother, a bundle of the purest mischief l hat ever 
lived, who was lond of play, but had no love lor 
books. “ oh, I'll give up going to school, mamma, 
for my part," was his ready answer. 
Young ladles who wish to have small mouths 
are advised to repeat this at frequent Intervals | 
during the day • “ Fanny Finch fried five floun- 1 
dering frogs for Francis Fowler’s father.” 
SNATCHES OF HISTORY. 
Cards were Invented ln France ln 1390. 
Windmills were first known ln Spam. France 
and Germany In 1299. 
Alexander the Great died 323 years beiore the 
Christian era. 
Mexico was colonized just one hundred years 
before Massachusetts was 
The Egyptians made glass and colored It beautl- 
fuhy three thousand years before Christ. 
The first building of the Egyptian pyramids Is 
supposed to have been about lf>oo years before 
Christ. 
Excess In dress was restrained by law ln Eng¬ 
land under Edward IV, 1465, and again ln the 
reign ot Elizabeth in 15U. 
Sir John Chardin, in his “ Travels ln Persia,” 
says that the Persians smoked tobacco Jong be¬ 
fore the discovery of America. 
The Habeas corpus—the people's writ or right, 
passed for the security of Individual rlghtr-was 
made a law May 27, 1072. 
Charles Lamb was born of very humble parents, 
and received his education at Christ’s Hospital, 
London, a great free public school founded ln 
June 155, by Edward VL, the hoy-king, only ten 
days before his death. 
Lord Macauley was born at Rothley Temple, 
the country-seat of a relative, on the 26th of Oc¬ 
tober, tsoo. He died on the 28th of December 
1859, at his residence, Holly Lodge, Kensington, a 
north-western suburb of that modern Babylon 
London, 
The Romans looked upon the comet of the year 
44 B. c. as a celestial chariot of Are conveying 
the soul of J ulius Caesar to the skies. The great 
comet of 160(1 was deemed a presage of the revoca¬ 
tion of the edict or Nantas. Even that of 18 Ll 
was thought to have forshadowed the Russian 
campaign and the burning of Moscow, 
Jor (RRoiiifTt 
CONDUCTED BY MISS RAY CLARK. 
DOMESTIC GREETING. 
As homr w ard comas the married man 
Ho’b met by wife at door. 
With fond embrace and loving kies. 
And—” Baby’s throat is sore! 
“ And did you think to stop at Brown’s 
And get that, marabout 
I ordered yesterday ? And, dear, 
Fred's boots are all worn out? 
“ I'tn glad you are so early, John, 
So much I miss you dear- 
I’ve had a letter from Mamma— 
She’B coming to live here. 
“ How very glad you look, dear John; 
I know that you would be— 
The flour's out, the butter, and 
Yon must send home some tea. 
“ That plumber has been here again— 
If you don't pay he’ll sue: 
And Mr. Prendergast called in 
To say your rent was due. 
“ Fred’s trousers are all cotton, John; 
You thought they were all wool— 
O! that reminds me that your soil 
Was whipped to-day at school. 
“ The roof has leaked and spoiled the rugs 
Upon the upper hall; 
And Jane must go. the careless thing! 
She let the mirror fall. 
“ To-day, as she was moving 
(The largest one, dear John), 
Of course it broke: it also broke 
The lamp it fell upon. 
'• What makes you look so grave, my love ? 
Take, off your things and wipe 
Your feet—and only think, to-day 
Jane broke your meerschaum pipe, 
“ Oh, Johu ! that horrid, horrid word; 
You do not love me. Hear, 
I wish that I—boo-hoo—were dead— 
You’re cross as any bear." 
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BRACKET AND COVERING 
When themautel lambrequin described ln my 
last article, w«s finished, there was a half yard of 
brown cantou-lUnnel left and there was a corner 
that needed a bracket. A cover to a wooden cigar 
pall was sawed to lit the corner, l have learned 
to use saw, hammer and nails very well, and Insist 
upon my girls learning also, so we are not depen¬ 
dent upon the busy farmer and his “ men” for any 
little work that requires their use. The bracket 
was covered with the cloth tacked on smoothly 
with window shade tacks, and a lambrequin cignt 
Inches deep, cut ln three Irregular scollops and 
pinked. The points to lit or t HU in the scollops 
were ot dark blue opera flannel Each brown 
scollop was decorated with two slender lily leaves 
of salmon-colored flannel vinea with green silk 
and button hoied loosely on. Between the leaves 
was a lily bud of white flannel embroidered with 
scarlet and blue ln herring-bone stitch. (Never 
mind following nature very accurately; Improve 
on her!!) The points were embroidered with her¬ 
ring-bone and chaln-si Itch ln bright colored silks 
and worsied, Tne cuds oi the scollops and points 
were finished with tassels of the salmon-colored 
flannel tied with blue. The bracket Is very bright, 
pretty and cheap. 
The cigar palls can be found at any tobacco 
store, and coat only JO or 12 uents, pall and cover. 
The palls we flna very durable and useful on the 
farm. 
A high, narrow mantel in the “ spare room” Is 
decorated In a fanciful Japanese manner that 1 
may desc: lbe at another lime, Mrs. 0. VV. D. 
HOW TO MAKE A CARD KnCEIVEK. 
In the autumn when the long brown cones had 
ripened on the Flue, Norway Spruce, and other 
Fir trees, It struck me that something pretty 
might be made of them; so, after comparing their 
beauty, I decided on the cones 01 the Norway 
spruce, and accordingly collected a quantity of 
them. 
Our center table had no card receiver and I had 
no money to buy one I concluded therefore to try 
If one could he made of the cones; 1 cut each scale 
or shell from them, and sewed them on six leaves 
of exactly the same size, cut from card-board. 
These leaves were wider at the top than the 
bottom, when 1 had sewed the brown scales on 
them, so that each scale covered the one above, to 
the point where nature had burnished it. 
I sewed all six scale covered leaves together, and 
covered the seutna with scales. This formed a 
bottomless basket measuring 8 Inches across the 
top, and each leaf forming a scallop, 1 next cut a 
card board bottom, which measured 4 Inches 
across, tills I covered with glazed cambric, the 
color or the scales, and sewed llnnly at the bot tom 
of the leaves; I then put another row r of scales 
around this to hide the stitches. The basket was 
lined with qidlted crimson satin, and finished 
around the top with a silver cord. 
The scales 1 varnished with copal varnish and 
after this had dried off, 1 set ray basket out for use. 
Euladik. 
WHITEWASHED BABIES. 
A missionary’ stationed at one of the south sea 
Islands determined to give ills residence u coat of 
whitewash. To obtain this ln the absence of lime, 
coral was reduced to powder by burning. The 
natives watched the process of burning with in¬ 
terest, believing that the coral was being cooked 
for them to eat. Next morning they beheld the 
missionary's cottage glittering in the rising sun 
white as snow. They danced, they sang, they 
screamed with joy. The whole Island was ln com¬ 
motion. Whitewash became the rage Happy 
was the coquette who could enhance her charms 
by a daub of the white brush. Contentions 
arose. One party urged their superior rank; 
another obtained possession of the brush, and val¬ 
iantly held It, against, all cornel’s; a third tried to 
upset the tub to obtain some of the precious cos- 
metlo. To quiet the hubbub, more whitewash 
was made, and tn a week not. a hut, a domestic 
utensil, a war-club or a garment but was as white 
as snow ; not an Inhabitant but had a skin painted 
with grotesque figures; not a pig that was not 
whitened, and even mothers might he seen ln 
every direction capering joyously, and yelling with 
delight at the superior beauty of their white¬ 
washed babies.—Chambers’ Journal. 
ABOUT WOMEN. 
Eugenie has arrived at Cape Town, South 
Africa. 
A college for young women Is about to he estab¬ 
lished at Norfolk, Va., by the citizens of that 
place. 
Mrs. John C. Green has given $100,000 to the 
American Sunday-3Chool Union, to he used ln de¬ 
veloping a higher order ol Sunday-school litera¬ 
ture. 
The Queen has declined to let the Prince and 
Princess ot Wales occupy Windsor Castle during 
the Ascot races unless they wUl allow her to re¬ 
vise the list of their guests. 
Mrs. nartlot Beecher Stowe and her family 
have returned to Hartford, Ct., from their winter 
home, ln Mandarin, Fla. Her orange grove at Man¬ 
darin during the last year brought her a profit of 
$ 2,000 an acre. 
Adelaide Nellson blusblngly acknowledged to a 
reporter that this Is her Anal farewell to America, 
and that she Is going to change her name—or 
Addle new one to it. 
Mrs. L. A. Cones, of Cincinnati, lias recently 
been appointed official reporter for the courts of 
Washington county. This, says the Dayton 
Record, Is perhaps the first case of a lady’s being 
appointed to such an office ln this state. 
Miss Kate Fiudd will soon go to Europe to con¬ 
sult Worth with regard to dress, to see about es¬ 
tablishing relations between the London and New 
York Ladles’ co-operative Dress Associations, and 
to procure fresh music and novelties for her mono¬ 
logue. 
Madame Jenny Lind Goldschmidt lives ln a 
large and pretty house in South Kensington, 
within a few doors or Madame Albanl. it Is sur¬ 
rounded by trees and flowers, and furnished with 
the modern art draperies and quantities of pic¬ 
tures and old China. 
The local examinations of high aud middle class 
boys and glrlB at Cambridge, Eng., the past year, 
show that the girls care much more for English 
history than the boys, and that many of them 
have acquired a moat useful grasp of the princi¬ 
ples or political economy. 
Miss Howard, a popular lady physician at 
Tlentsen, China, Is a Canadian girl, and received 
her education at the Michigan University. For 
successfully treating the wife of a prominent 
Chinese statesman, she has been sent to Peklu 
ln a royal barge loaded with presents. 
Mrs. John M. Paul. 1 Miss Belle Cook." ot Cali¬ 
fornia, who was to ride tbe twenty-mile race on 
horseback next .September at Minneapolis, Minn., 
with a prominent female rider of .Minnesota, was 
attacked by a robber a few days ago at her home, 
wounded by two pistol shots and struck on the 
head with a pistol. 
Mas. Gladstone, the wife of the famous English 
statesman, is said to be the most popular member 
of the distinguished family to which she belongs, 
mainly on account of her faithful discharge of the 
duties appertaining to her social position, and the 
thoughtful kindness and consideration she habitu¬ 
ally displays ln her relations with deserving 
women who belong to the classes frequently 
snubbed by aristocratic ladles. 
MIbs Lizzie M. Guthrie, whose name Is widely 
known ln connection with missionary enterprises 
lu India and Japan, died on Saturday lu San Fran¬ 
cisco. She was on her way to Y okohama, having 
been ln this country the greater part, of the past 
year recruiting her health. She was going out 
again under tne auspices of the \VOman’s Foreign 
Missionary Society of the Methodist Protestant 
Church, and was the first missionary sent out by 
that society. 
At the marriage of the Princess Pauline ot Wur- 
temburg, to Dr. Willem, the clergymen ln a brief 
address preceding the ceremony reminded the 
bridegroom that in marrying him the royal bride 
had surrendered a good deal that was grand aud 
valuable in life. When the bride's turn came, 
however, to make the marriage response, she 
added to the syllable •• yes” the following words 
In a quiet tone : ” I declare I give up nothing that 
can at all be valued In compar ison to the happi¬ 
ness awaiting me, and I consider my lot a most 
enviable one.” 
Queen Victoria’s Daugutehs.— Of the five 
daughters of Queen Victoria, the Princess Beatrice, 
the youngest, will soon have remained the longest 
unmarried The Crown Princess of Germany 
married at eighteen; the late Princess Alice, of 
llesse-, was married when she was nineteen; the 
Princess Helena married at twenty; the Princess 
Louise, who had until that time remained longest 
single, when she married the Marquis of Lome, 
was about the same age that her young sister is— 
that is, twenty-three. It Is natural enough that 
there should be gossip and rumors about the wed¬ 
ded fate of the last of the quintet. Romance has 
not been absent from the stories told about her, 
but the truth seems to be that the princess has 
chosen, up 10 this time, to be the confident and 
companion of her mother, the queen, rather than 
to leave Windsor, Balmoral and Osborne, without 
any of the daughters of the widowed monarch. 
