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“Down we plunged, the coach swinging and rocking like a toy. There wasn’t a place wide enough to zigzag or break the velocity of descent. I turned my head for an instant toward the director. His wife had fainted, and he had all he could attend to in holding her in her seat. There were places where the outer edge of the roadway had been ground off, and, in hugging the bank, the wheelers nearly caused a. collision several times, fairly bouncing and balancing the stage on two wheels. At last the horses dashed around Cape Horn, and there I gave up the stage as lost. These stages are so built that when they overturn a pin drops out that connects the pole and horses to the coach, and the driver has a chance to save himself by being drawn ed by the horses. \Vhen the leaders were out of sight around the rock it flashed through me that I might save the little woman. So I took a firmer grasp on the lines with my right hand, and was ready to swing my left around her body. The stage swirled and actually made the turn on the two outside wheels. Then,thank God, she settled down again and went on bouncing down the range. It seemed an age before we reached the level, where the horses ran two or three hundred yards before .1 could stop them. \thn I did finally get at their heads to caress and encourage them for bringing us down safely, the perspiration was pouring out of every pore of my body, although it was a cold day in the mountains. ’l‘lu: Nit/11w reports that Mr. llarhnm, an experienced surveyor, is to start soon for Western Africa for the purpose of making a survey for a. light railroad from the Gold Coast through the little-known gold mining region of VVassaw. If the railroad is built it will open up a country rich not only in the precious metals, but in palm-oil, india rubber, and other 'aluahle articles of com- merce. Her hair was black, “But black,“ she sighed “Is very much too cold;” And so she bleached her locks umil They looked almost like gold. A simple satin robe she wore, Which closely to her clung: (ln fact it was cxtrcnwh/ scant), Andl'rom her belt n 1in pale And four sunflow 's hung“ Four big sunllowc ‘ hung. “ Of course, I felt a little anxious when the leaders went over the brow of the range; but my wheelers were powerful and game, and trained to obey every word of command and touch of the whip, while the others were steady and fast enough to keep me out of harms’ way. As the coach began the de- scent I placed my foot 011 the brake with a firm hold. The heavy load required extra pressure, and I gave it steadily. \Ve had- n’t got more than twenty yards when the brake broke! In an instant the coach was on the wheelers, and they were on their haunches, snorting and using their fore-legs like plows. It was no use. The leaders went in the air like wild horses, and to save themselves from being crushed the wheelers sprang to their feet and joined in the race. One yell came from the men on the coach, pierced by a. simultaneous shriek from the women. After that they remained still as death. The little woman grasped me round the waist at the first jump of the horses, holding my arms as if in a vice. “ For God’s sake woman!’ I exclaimed, ‘ let go of me and take hold of the rods by your side. Our only hope of safety lies in my being able to guide the horses.’ She unwound her arms and I handled the reins as best I could. She was the most poetic thing ; She wouldn't harm I). fly: "Its life is short at. best.” she'd say “0h, pray don’t make it (110!" The very cat for catching min: In tearful voice she chid, And then at last she married (And seemed quite glad to get him, L00) A butcher ; '05, she did* Upon my word she did ! She would not touch a bit of meat, But, 0ft she'd sit and weep, To think the broiled chops were unce Part of a baby sheep. “And oh!” she‘d moun, “these sml‘ed steaks, 80 full of gravy new" ('l‘his was a slight mistake, I think), “Once wandered o'er the lields .Lud meads. Attached to a cow; A gentle browsing cow. a Hero Frank grasped the butt of his whip and curved the tip of the lash over the leaders‘ heads. The handle of the whip was highly ornamented. 0n the broad band at the butt there was an inscription of several lines. “\Vhen the director got in and related the incidents of the ride to othe" members of the company they asked: ‘ \tht shall we do for Frank?’ ‘Give him to cheque for $100,’ replied the director. They gave me the cheque and the passengers clubbed together and presented me with $165 in cash and this whip, which I shall carry as long as I live.” Driving a Coach in the Rocky Mountains. T‘VI» seldom handle this whip without thinking of that ride,” said Frank. See- ing that I was intereste'd, he continued: a We had it load of nineteen passengers Inside and outside the coach, and ten heavy trunks in the boot. \Ve were going from Silver Cliff to Canon City. I had the best six-horse outfit on the line, and felt a. pride in driving, although I knew the load was too heavy for the coach in some places. At my side sat a pretty little lady, and on the end of the seat was the wife of one of our direc- tors. The director sat behind his wife. All went well until we came to the top of Green- horn Range. The drive down the range for two miles and a, half is one of the most perilous in the Rockies. In places there is scarcely six inches to spare to keep you from going over the precipice, and on the other side is a wall of rock. About half- way down is a point culled Cape Horn. The road has been built out around this rocky point, and the turn is so sharp that when the leaders of a sixAhorse team have round- ed the rock they are out of the driver’s sight. This place is the dread of all the drivers and temnsters on the road. The de- scent is about 260 feet to the mile, and when once you start there is no stopping until you reach the bottom. “Did you ever meet with an upset on these mountain roads?” “N6; but I had a. terribly close call near Grand Canyon 21 year ago the 10th of Au- guy,” 1‘ . 1 n , 1 "LL -c \ :A _..L:“ Upon My Word She Did. MARGARET mmxm'. Harper's IIIugacinc for Jfarclz JEHU'S STORY. I»<<- > By the law of development man progress- es to physical perfection. But by the se- eidents of civilization the eye, which is the light of the whole body, is in imminent dan- ger of deterioration, and after being,r evolved by the brute, it is being ruined by man, Already the increase of shortsightedness and color blindness is nttraetiag conside 'ahle attention, and even when these defects are not present the eye of civilization is much inferior to that of many birds and beasts and savages. Not to speak of the cat's ability to see in the dark, what eye can compare for range With that of the condor of the Andes, or for keenness with that of the Indian on the trail of his enemy. Brudenell Carter, whose address at the Health Con gress at Brighton is one of the most interest- ing and suggestive of recent contributions to popular science, insists upon the importance of checking this gradual deterioration of the organ of vision. School Boards, he says, should educate the eye as wellas the tongue: volunteers should institute tests of distant vision, and trade unions should strike against every employer whose factory is bad- ly lighted. Even the most short-sighted people can see the importance of Brudenell Carter’s warning, and. as the spectacle-mak- ers are not a very powerful corporation, there is seine possibility that “ science, common sense and humanity ” may succeed in arresting the further deterioration of the eye. Let us take usly glance in at Nature’s kitchen and watch her guests at their meal. \Ve shall not call it breakfast, dinner, sup- per, or lunch, for there is no such formal division. It is a. whole-day feast, and a whole-night feast, too, for that matter. The tables are always spread, the guests always hungry ; they crowd in from high-ways and by-ways ; always one ready to take up every vacant knife, fork, and spoon ; or to plunge in with lingers, teeth, and claws, in the true primitive fashion. There are guests of every shape, size, and description, alike only in the one particular of being normally hungry. Like the sitters- down at a. public dinner, they all seem to have been saving up appetite for the occas- ion. Some there are,‘ indeed, of such omnivor- ous tastes that we would be quite willing to have them left out from the general invita- tion. But that is not Dame Nature’s way. Every crumb must be eaten ; and we know little of her facility of invention if we im- agine that she can not find a tooth for every hard morsel. She is ready for any such enl- ergency, and you will be bound to find some queer creature gnawing away at the indi- gestible fragment, with as mueh zest as if it were a. dish fit for a king. It is interesting to follow her through this portion of her housekeeping, and watch the care with which she gets all the life-force possible out of her organic stock in trade, letting not a crumb go to waste. She invites a. guest with a special appetite for every morselâ€"guests furnished with teeth to rend, nip, and gnaw, claws to tear, angers and Chisels to bore and gouge, saws, drills, punch- es, and suction-tubesâ€"that ‘_n0 fragment of the feast shall be left on the unswept tables. now he Fcll Among Confidence Men 11: Wicked Chicago. Notwithstanding all that has been said about confidence men who beset the path of the traveller to Manitoba. occasional victims to their wiles are forthcoming w1th tolerable regularity. For instance, a young man from Stratford, a schoolteacher, thought he would go out there and get rich right away. On the way he formed an alliance with a young Ontario farmer of robust proportions and lots of spunk. At Chicago aconlidenee man spied the school master and concluded that he was a fit subject to operate on. He there- fore addressed him in afl'ectionate terms by his name, and enquired about his (the school- master’s) sisters and cousins and aunts in Stratford, to all of which the tendcrfoot re- plied in appropriate terms. Then the Chicago man explained that he was engaged in a large business in \Vinuipeg, and was on the lookout for a clerk. He thought the young school master would just suit him, cx« actly, and as the latter was n t averse to dropping into a. good situation at the outset the interview resulted in his being engaged at a liberal salary. Then the merchant mentioned incidentally that he had a lot of freight on the way out. and would he accom- pany it to \Vinnipeg. The tcnderfoot agreed to do so. Then the pair, accompanied by the farmer, went to the freight agent to see about getting the stull forwarded. The freight man wanted his pay in advance. The merchant rcmonstrated. It wasn’t custom- ary. The freight man pointed out a new clause which made it imperative freight should be paid in advance. The merchant was astonished and after a sharp alter- cation with the freight man, ended by borrowing $570 from the schoolmaster. Then he requested the school master to go to the depot, get a receipt and look after the freight. The farmer, who had hitherto been contemplating the situation with dreamy in~ difference, smelt a. rat at this particular juncture. The more the “ merchant ” want- ed to get away the more the farmer smelt the rat, until he just collared the freight man and made him disgorgc the seventy dollars, to that functionary’s intense dis- gust. The fact was that the \Vinnipeg “ merchant ” and the freightman were pals, and the schoolmaster escaped being plucked, by the interference of his rustic friend. The story leaked out on the train to \Vinnipeg, and the schoolmaster was tormented nearly to distraction by his fellow passengers, who had “ tumbled to the racket.” Nature’s Housekeeping. Popular Sclcnce Monthly. Nature has many of what we are accus- tomed to call the small economies of life. She does nothing without 9 phrpose, fuld §h_e has a horror of waste. Intthe world of living beings, particularly, is she careful of her materials. It is no easy lift to bring matter up to the organic level. She has to call in the sun to her assistance, and get their un- ited shoulders under the load, ere it can be raised to the required height; and she can not afford to let it down again while there is any pith left in it. HE “ CAME FRUH ONTARIO.” Deterioration of the eye. Emerson International Pull Mu” (queilt‘. .4.- <W>O¢i Another death is reported in London of a lady who had taken an excess of “anti-fat” medicine. ' The nostrum is supposed to act 3 a slow blood poison. Gladstone, in the House of Commons last night, referring to his alleged Home Rule utterances, said that “he simply repeated regarding local government for Ireland what he had often saidâ€"~that the supremacy of the British Parliament must be maintained.” While the Queen was driving from Pad- (lington to Buckingham Palace, a horse rid~ den by an outrider became restive and threw him. This matter caused false reports that the Queen had met with an accident. Mr. C. B. Allsopp, Conservative, has been elected to the Imperial House of Commons for ’J‘aunton. The vacancy was caused by the death of Sir \Villiam Palliser, also a Conservative. F. D. Mm'cattabe contributed £1,000 to the Jewish relief fund. and offers to contri- bute one per cent, on any sum not exceeding £1,000,000 collected within two years. One hundred and twenty persons were en- tombed by an explosion in a mine near Dur. 1mm, but thirty 0f the number were subse- quently rescued. At Elizabethgl'ad, Kiel}: Odessa, Niezjin, I’ecmer, Kona, and Pribslay over two hun- dred and fifty women were outraged by J ew- baiters during the disturbances. Two servants in a. Brantford hotel have been arrested for stealing towels. Montreal has only got $4,000 of the $20,‘ 000 required to open coffee houses. At a meeting of the \Vestem Fair Board, it was resolved to offer next year 315,000 in prizes, being 533,000 more than at the last Show. A conference was held in the Navy De~ partment at “rashington, and an extensive scheme submitted for increasing and im- proving the United States navy. GENERAL. Slavery is to be abolished in Egypt. Commander Selby’s assailants have been arrested, The Jews in a village near Kichinef were attacked from a Russian peasants on the 5th inst., and ten nearly beaten to death. At Odessa petroleum was poured on a man’s head and set on fire, and the man died in agony. Subsequently many children were mercilessly killed. Mr. Creall wants $30,000,:md Mr. Latham $20,000 from the Montreal corporation, be- causethcy fell on sidewalks. Allison Smith has been chosen President of the Nova Scotia Sugar RefiningCompuny, and Michael Dwycr, Vice-President. Several members of the Temperance Colo- nization Society have waited upon Sir John Macdonald in regard to the Society’s pro- ject for obtaining lands in the Northwest. Some Congressmen want to be paid for attending Garfield’s funeral. Claims for services, articles, etc., amount to $200,000. Helena,Ark., is flooded by the breakingof the Mississippi levee. The river is so high that steamboats cannot land. The levee is being repaired. Bontoux and Feder, of Union Generale, have been released on bull. Count Schouvalofl‘lms been appointed adâ€" ministrator of a Russian department. A telegram received from the cableJaying steamer Faraday, sent on the night of the 13th inst., states that all on board were well. Montreal is to have an open stock ex- change. The Upper Canada steamers of the R. 8: 0. Company are to be leased or sold. Narcisse Hutu, a brakcsman on the G R.. was killed at Montreal recently. John Merkler, a. London shoemaker, acci- dentally shot Joseph Burridge in the cheek recently. A ten-year-old lad named McGuire was drowned at Lakefield recently. Another boy was rescued. The dead body of an infant was found on the steps of the Sacred Heart Hospital, at Quebec, a few days ago. The police authorities at Montreal are looking for “ Billythe Kid,” a sneak thief, who stole $117,000 from a. Cleveland bank. The second report of the Civil Service Commission contains an elaborate scheme of theoretical organization of the various de- partments of the Civil Service at Ottawa. His Excellency has announced a tennis tournament at Rideau Hall on March 6th, at which the lady members of any tennis court in the Dominion may compete. Six prizes \1 ill be offered for competition. Mr. A. Prevost, advocate, and Mr. A. C. Decary, notary, both of Montreal, will be the Conservative and Liberal candidates re- spectiver for the seat in the Quebec Legis- lature for Jacques Cartier county. Patrick \Vllalen, to whose house little Johnny Connors ran from the Donnelly homestead on the night of the Biddulph murder, was buried yesterday. llehad been ill about a. month. Pat Donnelly attended the funeral. died. The U. S. crop report for 1881 shows a. decided falling off in the production, with an improvement in prices. There is great distress among the people of Sweden. NEWS IN A NUTSHELL. Summary of Foreign, Bonn-silt, and War llom ('onciw, ruby, and Pointed. The anti-polygamy bill has been earned in the United States Senate. A pension of $52,000 has been granted to Mrs. Garfield, Widow of the (ex-President. The coloured Jubilee Singers were on Wednesday night denied admission to every hotel in \Vashington. N0 trace has yet been found of Miss Blood of St. Clair, Michigan. Mrs. Five Minutes’ Select Reafiing. C. M. Rollison suicided at Ithaca, in a barrel of water. Her only son U N ITED STATE DOMESSIC “It am myvopinyun Gut (l0 only thing needed to make dis club solid fur all fucher time am a lecktur’ from do pusson named, but we can’t aflle it. As tle nex’ best thing Giveadanl Jones, Chairman of the Com- mittee on Lunatic Asylums,reported that he had tor the last two weeks been engaged in correspondence with Oscar \Vilde, with a. View of securing him to deliver alecture be- fore the Lime-Kiln Club. \Vilde’s latest reply was to the effect that he would deliv- er a lecture entitled “The Relation of the Damphool to the Sunflower” for $300 in cash and half the beer checks-3 found on the floar next morning. Samuel Shin moved that he be telegraph- ed to at once to come on and deliver the leuture,but Brother Gardner settled l\11-.Shin with one look from his left eye, and then went on to sax The Committee on Agriculture, to whom had been intrusted the query from Indiana; “Are we advancing in agriculture?” report- ed that they had spent seven weeks in in- vestigating the matter, and Were quite ready to answer in the affirmative. Among other instances of progress in agriculture might be menti0ned that of hoeiug com. A dozen years ago the plan was to lean the hoe against astump in the field and go off fish- ing. It is now done by giving a chattel mortgage on three steers and hiring a neigh- bor to do the work. Ten years ago turnips were heaped up in the barn or cellar and supposed to be fit food for only cows and calves. Today they are carefully wrapped in tissue paper, laid in bureau drawers, and are considered a tit diet Zfor even a. Senator. When wiped off with a dish-cloth and scrape with a butcher knife they furnish a. Very bracing and enervating diet. Progress had been made in plowing, dragging,reapingfind many other particulars, and the committee felt safe in saying that the time was not far distant when a farmer could sit in an arm chair in n lager beer saloon and raise sixty bushels of wheat to the acre. 77 ""“'“‘l ’ “My fricn’s, (le past am noct de fucher,any more dill] day after to-morrer am day befo’ yesterday. As time fades so does glory fade. To-(lay you may march at de head of de purceshun, yer hat on yer ear an’ a. red sash tied aroun’ yer bodv~to-morrer ye may be in jail fur borrowin’ somebody’s woodpile to keep yer feet warm. (Sly and suspicious winks all over the room.) Do not prize dc present too highlyâ€"do not forget de warn- ings of de past. “'0 cannot recall de past, but we can look back an’ see whar’ de gro- cer gin’ us short weight on codfish, an’ whar’ we took advantage of a cloudy day to pass a twenty-cent piece off fura quarter.(Cheers and app .ause.) “My hearers, we should not lib fur do past, but de fucher. What am it to us as we rizc up in do inawin’ wheder Caesar met his mother-iu-law at the depot or forbid her his house? What am it to us a s We retire to our humble couches fur do night Whether (lo orators of Athens greased deir butes wid larder went har’foot‘.’ As We sit on a box in do alloy to consume our noon-day lunch car’ not whether Brutus dyed his gontee or was cleanâ€"shaved. (Cries of ‘No ! 1101') But de fuelier am big wid events. To-day we may be full of sorrow. If so, we hope (lat de morrow will bring clam-chowder. (Great smacking of lips.) If de present am full of biles an’ chilblains an’ heart-aches,de fucher may be as bright as a cat’s‘eyes shinin’ out of a, bar’l on a. dark night. Nebber look back on de past. It am as much gone as a three-cent piece paid out fur Fourth of July lemonade. Nebber dispair of de fuchex‘. When do heart is heaviest, de fire lowest. un’ work do skeereest, you may find a. lost Wallet, or strike some bucher willin’ to give credit. (\Vhoops'of applause.) My frien’s, ‘r a.“ .1.._ rm “My dear fi'ien’s wlxar’ am de past? Look fur it under de bed, down cellar, up sta’rs,in do wood»box or whar’ you will, an’ you can- not find it. Why ? Kas it am gone. It has slipped away like a. streak of grease run- in’ acrose de kitchen floo’, an’ it will neber, neber return. (Sighs from all over the hall.) Do you meet Plato as you g6 up de street ? Do you fin’ Cicero Waitin’ at de ferry dock? Doyou h’ar of Diogenes hangin’ ’round de Union Depot to work de string game on some greenhorn? Not any I Dey belongs to de past an’ gone. Dey sleep in the dim- ness of odder centuries. Whar’ am de glory of do Roman Empire ? Let the dust of de past answer.‘ (Much blowing of noses.) The Glee Club struck up: “\Ve’ll Swim or Sink T ogether,” and as Sir Isaac \Valpole passed the bean-box down the aisles no liv- ing man could have told that he had ever made a running jump overa fence seven feet high to get away from a dog which seemed fourteen feet long. The following members were elected in cold blood and with malice aforethought: Old Lime Jones, Elder Tuck- er, Anxiety Hastings, Glad Tidings Taylor, Zeke Anderson, Heroic Brayton, Texas Me- Fadder, Prof. Kipp and ‘Vintergreen Brown. In about five minutes the stranger made his appearance and was greeted with a burst of applause, which upset the water pail and filled the shoes of eight or ten of the nearest members. On +akng the platform he was introduced by the President,hauded :1 piece of slippery-elm to keep his throat moist during his oratory, and he then bowed and began: ,_‘ -fiu. flu vuv. vuv VA Juu During the wild excitement which follow- ed the close of the masterly effort, Samuel Shin and Trustee Pullback fell upon the hot stove in an enthusiastic embrace, and seven windows had to be lowered to let out the odor of overdone mule steak. “What I was gwine to remark," said Brother Gardner, as the rattling of hoofl (lied away on the calm evening air, “was to de eli‘cek (lat Prof. January Sunbeam, of Mississippi, am waitin’ in (le ante-room to address (1e meetin’ on do snbjeek of ‘De Goneness ob de l’ast.’ De l’rotessoram not only know all olier de kenti‘ylur his theories on astronomy, but he am do only man in America. who kin skin a woonlelmck in sehen minits hy de watch. Sir Isaac \Valpole,you an’ Giveadam Jones will put; on your yellei' kid gloves an’ longtailed coats an’ escort <10 Professor into do hall. ” . . W’ “I "A “‘V“ “’ I am dun. Thallkillgl§0u severelnyor your infectious distraction, I ’x'ambulate to my seat wid oderiferous feelings of concentration towards each an’ ebery one of you.” 1'\ n - A A ' .1. .. THE LIME-KILN CLUB. HE wox‘T COME. AGRICU LTCRAL. Detroit Free I’NQS‘ LECTXON. “011,” replies his fellow, in a. superior manner, “I suppose he \‘zmtcd to remind of something when he \mkencd up~~that’s why.” ‘ ACCORDING to a, calculation made by M’.‘ Auguste Felsch, a theatre or concert; hail lasts on an average only 2‘2 years, and is than destroyed by fire. Why He Did it. Twu countrymen pause at the serpent house in the Jardin dus Plants and contem- plate the goodness and wisdom of heaven as revealed in the hon constructor. “ Say,” says the first (goizlltx'yxnmx, “what‘s that; insect Hut] himself up in a knot for like that 1‘” That is why all the leaves of my new al- bum are h11mk~~purc, spotless, just as the fair page of her little life was ; but you, who think these characterson the dedicating pageunmeaning. have never had the key to them. Mothers can tell what they are. Angels will be glad over this record without blot or stain. There is no handwriting 50 line that I would exchange it for the baby’s autograph; as for us: Our lives are albums written through With good or ill, with fuch or true. And as the blessed angels turn “The pages of our years, .1 "J "“'J V ‘ U v ' “\Vhile dis club may not favor prize fightin’,” observed the President, “it seems hold (lat if two brutes want to go out an’ pound each other to pieces it am cheaper to git rid of ’cm dth way dan to hang ’em. We will now disrupt do meetin’ un’ purceed homeward.” How long is it since Christmas '3 Counting by heart-throbs, I should say years ! years ! It is only a couple of months and today I would give, oh! what would 1 not give to have those little hands doing their sweet mischief. Peace, foolish heart! “He giveth His beloved rest.” The baby is gone, but when I look at the little short lines that dedicate my albmn-â€"â€"the sweetest, saddest lines to me that were ever writtenâ€"~soon ended like her little life-iv] am glad that I took her in my arms, kissed the rosebud lips, and put the hook away without one re- proving wordâ€"glad that I caused no angry feelings in that baby heart, or left memories for myself that would now have power to wound! Resolved, Dat dc Lime-Kiln Club will use its inflooence on all possible occaslums to suppress de brutal and barbarous bizness of prize fightin’, Medicated French called for the ayes and noes 0n the resolution, and without further remark the roll was called and the resolution was voted down by a majority of 36. “‘17:, :1 , 1 - he Baby's Autograph. They gave it to me at Christmaskthe pretty new autograph albumwand I was very proud of it; the binding was so ay, and the white, gilt-edged sheets so spot ess- ly pure. I could hardly make up my mind who should have the honor of dedicating the album, or what verse was grand enough to be inscribed on its pages ; and before I had quite decided, baby found it! She had tod- dled into the parlor and taken it down from the table before we missed her, and was sit- ting cross-legged, like a Turk. with the pre cious book in her lap. That would not have been worth recording, and I should not val- ue my album beyond price now if it were all. But she had a pencilvfor she dearly loved to scribble on bits of paperâ€"fund she had made her mark on the front leaf (the title page) of my beautiful book. She had made a. dozen marks, criss-cross and zig-zag, and there she sat, her bright huir tossed down over her face, her little demure mouth pursed up, her blue eyes full of mischief, half-shy, half-defiant and we three women looking at her. The Rev. Pcnstock offered the resolution : V , ",2, “ WU, warning of the approach of earthquakes. No arrangements have been made for reporting earthquakes at all, and the colored populaâ€" tion have had to depend on luck alone. Brothern Gardner announced that the Lime Kiln Club would intlorse the petition and for- ward it to Congress. Bro. Gardner: DEAR SIR.â€"Incloseil you will find the pen which ourfirst President, George \Vasliing- ton, used in writing his first love letter to his wife. Accept the same as a contribu- tion to your museum. Hoping it will prove a great addition to the relics you already have, with best wishes I remain, Yours, cte., NOT ONE OF Till-2 FAI'I‘HFUL. A communication from one of the Alder- men of Norfolk, Va“, announced that a col- ored man named Dick Riddick, of Portsâ€" Inouth,had been taken to the pest-house with small-pox,a11d that he claimed to be a. mem- ber of the Lime-Kiln Club and demanded financial relief from the same. An inspec- tion of the books proved that Riddick made application eighteen months ag0,but was re- jected on the information that twenty-four mu“. A: “A_AL , I was angry enouth to do it, and had made one step forward intending to wrest the book out of the clasping baby hands, and thenâ€"â€" what! beat my own child? I was saved that degradation of my own good mother, who shook her head at me Over aunt Hurrict’s shoulder. Thu Fecretul‘y then :mnouncod the follow- mg : , _. _. “,wa w.” bans 0f poeches were found in his house next day after, a. fire in a grocery. A PETITION. The Secretary further announced a. peti- tion from twenty-four colored men of Rich- mond,asking the Signal Service of the Unit ed States to give at least twentyâ€"four hours Mfr” - I will nppint Pickles Smith an’ Trustee Pull- back to have fo’ dozen sunflowers painted on (le walls, an’ at do nex’ two meetings Absolute Jones an’ Uncertain Thomas kin dress in knee-brooches un’ look as utter as possible,” "Oh: you naughty, naughty baby!" 1 mi- ed; “you’ve Just ruined my new album, you had little thlng!” “Bless her dear little heart,” saikl my m0- ther: ‘ doesn’t she make a picture?" “Whip her!” said aunt Harriet in a viw dictive tone. She has no children of her' own and knows just how to bring up other 1) eople’s. The pages of our gears, God grant they ran the good with And bio: the bad with tears.” __ r, «o. 4.-» 00»7 W ANO'Z'H 1'11 \7.\ LITA RI‘H “£11.10 RESOLUTION DE OLEBUIHE, T032, February 44 w <<-v>cm PARDON DAVIS folk)“ lug smiles,