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By and By.
Farewell, bright dawns and perfume-laden ails,
Faint with the breath of roses newly blown,
Warm, slumbrons noons when sleep our haunt-
ing cares,
Lona,r summer jays and nights too swiftly
flown )
With 5 :s and sad regrets we saw you 20;
Why did you leave us, who had loved you so f
'Neath sapphire sides, by starry hedgerows
sweet.
Laced with pearl threads of gossamer, we
wont ;
Wild summer blooms beneath our wandering
feet,
And summer in our hearts, on love intent.
“I will return.” you said, “when roses blow,"
That time you said “ Good-bye,” a year ago.
But I alone have seen them bloom and die.
While you have passed beyond the shadows
here ~
Into the light. f’ll follow by and by.
Meantime I wait and held the roses dear,
And summer sacred for the love I bear,
Until we meet again, some day, somewhen.
.—-—o¢—‘
Mignon’s Heart.
During one of the long journeys I
made in my youth I met with a. German
singer traveling on foot, carrying his ‘
knapsack. The poor artist had sold his
theatrical wardrobe, had no longer the
means to pay for a night's lodging and
was singing in the streets to obtain the
price of a meal.
Pitying his forlorn condition, for it
was evident from his appearance that he
had seen better days, I asked what had
reduced him to such extremities. Scid-
ler—for that was the name of a once
celebrated tenor—wept bitterly as he
related to me the history of his misfor-
tunes.
“ There was a time," said he, “when
I had a beautiful voice ; the public de<
lighted in listening to me andI even
loved to hear myself, but alas! between
one day and the next, my voice became
harsh and broken through my own
fault perhaps. I am no longer an artist,
because I was too much ofaman. I
have lost the heart of Mignon l"
“The heart of Mignon?” said I.
”ch, when one has lost it as I have
one can sing no longer. Whilst one has
it, one sings and delights great audi-
ences. To lose Mignon’s heart is a
proverb well known amongst all singers
of my country—a story and tradition,
call it what you like." , ‘ ‘
“I would like to hear it, Seidler.
Let us go and smoke in a quiet place
and the Johannisberger which colors
the glasses will enlighten your memory
with its golden lustre. ” .
The gloomy countenance of Seidler
brightened up, his last tear was lost in
a smile, and be related me the following
story, short, simple and yet mysterious,
full of poetic sentiment and charming
morality.
O . .' C ‘ . O C
A young singer from the Imperial
Theatre of Vienna, walking in? the
Prater one day, saw a young girl sing-
ing to the promeuadcrs. Her voice was
refined, sweet and melancholy. The
singer approached and asked her name.
“My name is Mignon ; till this mprn-
ing I belonged to a troop of acrobats and
tumblers, but my little talent displeased
my master, the head mountebank; he
wished to teach me dancing and I would
only learn music;he could see in me
Only a bad ballet dancer, and I think I,
am good for nothing but a singer. "
“What has become of your master,
Mignon ?"
, {“I do not know; he beat me this
morning and then went away. "
“ What are you going to do then ?"
“I am going to sing. that I may not
seem to beg.” -
“ Will you come with me, Mignon ?"
“Who are you ?" One does not go
with strangers."
“ I am an artiste who does not sing as
well as you do, Mignon, but I love sweet
voices and pretty singers. "
“An artiste! a singer," cried the girl.
“ Give me your hand. You shall be’ my
master and your servant is ready to
follow you.”
, A month after the meeting the actor
whose name was Stephen and the singer
whose name was Mignon were. already
the best friends in the world. They
sang together every day, they lived
amidst tho-fruits and cadences of an
interminable duct. In a case like this
duet‘music resembles calumny some-
thing always remains behind.
For Stephen and Mignon the result
was much love and agreat deal of sorrow.
One evening Stephen had been singing
the exquisite “Il mic tcsoro." Mignon
sat motionless at the foot of the singer
whom she silently admired.
A tear suddenly fell upon the young
girl’s forehead. Raising her little hand
to dry her friends tears, she said :
“ If Stephen is unhappy what will be-
come of Mignon?"
“Look at me,” said Stephen, “Is
_ there sorrow in such tears ?"
- Mignon knelt before the artiste whom
she called her master, she leaned her
pretty head upon Stephen’s knees,
without noticing the long black hair
which fell over her shoulders. Stephen
tried to raise the young girl, and felt
upon his hand a tear from the eyes of
Mignon, and said t6 her in his turn :
“If you are unhappy what will be-
come of Stephen ?”'
"Look at, me,” said Mignon.
there sorrow in those tears?" .
“Mignon, my darling Mignon," said
Stephen, “ weep in my arms, let us weep
\ together, so close to one another that
our hearts may guess the secret of our
weeping eyes." .
Stephen gave her a kiss, which Mig«
non perhaps returned. With a girl
who loves you a kiss is like a 'good
action, never thrown away. At this
moment his heart, moved by the caress
given and freturned, the amorous actor
could think of nothing more gallant
than to repeat “11 anio tesoro,"still con-
templating, adoring Mignon. He sang
with unparalleled spirit and inspiration ;
never had his voice been so pure, so
brilliant, so charming as now, in this
supreme moment of joy and love. One
might almost have said the singer had
discovered taste, sentiment, the true
passion and genius of music upon the
lips of his mistress, in the heart of
Mignon. In the inner life of" great
artistes, those elect who live through the
, imagination, the heart, the spirit, there
3 is nearly always 9. women hidden, a
muse, an Egeria, an cnchantress, who
loves and inspires by her heart or her
kisses. ~
From that day forward Stephen, who
felt that he was singing wonderfully,
promised himself to reach fame and for-
tune. Mignon promised herself to aid
him by her counsels, her memories-and
her lessons;she would be the one to
help and secretly direct his new studies;
she became his instructorin‘loveand
song, When Stephen reappeared at the
Court Theatre after a long absence, the
audience absolutely failed to recognize
the voice of the singer. It had become
penetrating, spiritual, caressing, 11131“.
vellous. Never had been heard any-
‘ling so brilliant yet so Soft, so expres-
3" so impassioned as the song of that
nderful actor. The heart of Mignon
.ng there. She was proud of the talent
id fame of Stephen. The poor girl
.udied from morning till night. the
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better to teach her’ lover all the wimde'r-
ful arts of song, the most difficult re-
sources of music, the verymysteries of
perfection. Stephen's success was hor
masterpiece and it was truly the heart
of Mignon through the lips of Stephen
that sang in the Court Theatre. So
long as her beloved loved her still
and was good enough to tell her‘so, so
long as he brought her the bouquets the
public bestowed upon the wonderful
singer, so long as he returned her valu-
able lessons with protestations and
tenderness, so long as the young girl
behaved she had nothing to ask or de-
sire in this world. But her joy was not
to last, her happiness was to end as
quickly as a romance. In the pride and
intoxicatiOn of this triumph, Stephen
began to resemble the hero of a French
play; when the gambler is fortunate he
forgets and disdains the love of Angeli;
que. When fortune leaves and betrays
him, he returns to the woman who loves
him and adores her again. Just so was
it with Stephen's grand passion ; when.
he was happy in the enthusiasm of
the audience, neglect of the beauty,'.
tenderness and devotion of Mignon If
the public was cold and lost some of its
enthusiasm, then he became loving to
the poor child once more; he found her
charming, pretty, clever and adored
her.
Soon Stephen imagined that he no
longer needed to draw inspiration from
the taste, the lessons, the voice or the
heart of Mignon. ‘ He ended by seeing
in her only a poor girl to be pitied, a
faithful mistress who loved much, a
devoted friend with much resignation.
Stephen liked to live in the land of
rouged gallantry, in the equivocal king-
dom behind the scenes. Mignon had a
great fault in his eyes ; she was not an
actress, she had at her feet neither
flattercrs, slaves,lovcrs nor poetsg’she
wore no garlands of Jaded flowers, and
her simple attire was not theatrical
finery. Her face was rosy without paint,
her hands were white without bleaching,
_ her breath sweet without perfume. No l '
She was no actress, she was satisfied
with being a woman. Mignon did, not
think of complaining, or grieving ;.per-
haps she determined to let herself die as
quickly as possible-without suicide. 7'
The health of the young girl failed
daily and alarmed everybody except
Stephen: Mignon forced herself in
vain to struggle against sufierlng'and
weakness, and one evening she fell un-
conscious and almost dying in the arms
of her physician.
When she came to herself late at
night, pale, motionless, voiceless and
unrecognizable, Mignon saw Stephen
seated at the head of her bed, bending
sadly toward the young invalid, as
though to whisper to her pity and con-
solution.
She thanked him for his visit, his
kind looks, his sadness, with a smile, a .
tear and a sigh.
“Dear Mignon," said Stephen. “ God
himself has avenged you and punished
me. .
“ God avenged me ?" murmured Mig-
non. ' -
“Yes, my fame andfortune are ended ;
the dayI began to forget and betray
you, I felt the first effect of the Divine
anger." . ' .
“What has happened, Stephen ?” ..
“I cannot sing any longer, Mignon,
the last notes of my voice died away
with the last sighs of our happiness. I
have lost all tlmt I owed to the inspir-
ation of your love, God has..‘brealhcd
upon my lips, and song has ceased.
“ You cannot sing any more, Stephen?"
“I shall never sing again, Mignon."
“But you will sing, " again cried the
young invalid. “You will sing if you
love and Obey mo. Listen to me."
Stephen knelt by her.
“ I have no strength left, no memory,
andI can scarcely see. you and I feel
that I must die scanspresentlv at tin
last moment you mustcome softly. to
the bedside, you must bend over her
who has so deeply loved you. you will
know by the pallor of the countenance,
the agitation of the features, when the
last breath is about to escape me, then
you must hold me in a last embrace,
your lips pressed to mine, you will feel
that I am expiring and your last kiss
willreceivc ‘ the heart of Mignon. If
you will receive it within your own and
once more listen to its counsels, you will
recover all you have lost, the voice, the
expression, the passion of the inspired
artiste. My best beloved, you will re-
ceive the heart of Mignon ; it will live
in and inspire you as long as you do not
degrade it by your actions or thoughts.
My heart shall breathe into your voice
those exquisite notes, treasures of mel-
ody and poetry. So long as you remem-
ber the poor girl who adorednyou the
heart [of Mignon will be faithful and
bring thee happiness l” i
A few hours after this scene Jill" poor
child was at the point of death. ,‘Stephen
gave her a long melancholy kiss ; she
breathed her last sigh and thefs’pirit of
Mignon passed into the heart ofStophen.
Two or threc days after her death '
Stephen entered her chamber, the dreary
look of the room inspired the poor artiste
with singular ideas, with loving regrets,
with fantastic sentiments, which almost
resembled madness. —He handled the
little articles she had used, he caressed
the head of Mignon On that pillow where
it no longer lay, and he uttered aloud
to a phantom words which had once
been whispered to the woman. Mignon
above might be happy and proud; she
was still loved and regretted.
Suddenly it seemed to Stephen that a
mysterious voice, as sweet as that of
his mistress, whispered low in his ear,
“You can sing, God pardons and I in-
spire thee, Sing.” . _
Stephen dried his tears and sat down
before (Mignon’s piano. With tremb-f
ling hand he struck the notes, his eyes
turned to that heaven where he hoped
to see the belovéd one, when suddenly, ..
that recalled his, grandest inspirations
the “Ilmio tesoro," which he had so
often sung at the feet of his mistress.
It was the loving heart of Mignon which
once more sang in Stephen.
From that time forward Stephen
never sang in the theatre: without think-
ing of Mignon ; he had loved herself
and he adored her memory and this ad-
oration brought good luck to his talent.
'W
Amoonm ' m occur.
Aman who will summoned to serve
on a jury began to make, excuses, when
the judge, intorruptinghim, said:
_ “Never mind'vallthat, You should
know, sir, that it is your duty to serve
your country. Thefcctthat your busi-
‘ bass is likely‘to sufier is Ito-excuse.
Such men are summoned every day.
“Hold on, Judge, you ain’t heard
my excuse ye . " .
‘i'I'don'twaut to hear it.” , _ _ _
“ But you must. "
“I tell you that
Sherifi‘—"
I will not. Mr.
say‘I must sarve, why, I'll carve. Mo
an’a lot 0’ tellers was playm' poker
when the ofiicer—” ‘
"Poker!" exclaimed the judge.
“Why, dear fellow, where's the game ?
I’lljineyou. Mr. Sheriff, adjourn the
court. "
as if by a miracle, he sang with a voice ,
,“Jest a‘minit, Jedge, air then of you '
SENSE 0F SHELIJNG.
' A man may walk for miles and miles
without once being actually conscious
that he possesses such a sense as smell
beyond the general sensation of being
in a pure and fresh atmosphere. Half a
dozen times perhaps in his_walk he
wakes up toito A bcanfield in bloom
or 'a bank of violets or burning woods or
new-mown hay or some blossoming wood-
blue or the wall flowers or mignonctte
in a cottage garden—some one or other
of these may arrest his attention at rare
intervals by their fragrance and-so steal
into notice ; but the man does not look
for them,. and he is quite content to
begin and finish his walk—if it so hap-
pen—without any of them. How differ-
ent with a dog-who has set out with him -
and has been enjoying his walk side by
side with his master, receiving impres-
sions from the same surroundings and
under the some circumstances! What
a completely different aspect things
have had for him! His sense of enjoy-
cording to his capacity ; but what differ-
ent influences have appealed to him i
able to make known his impressions,
and spread them out side by side with
his master’s, they would probobly be as
opposite as the poles—just as unlike as;
earth, and the others among the mount
tains of the moon. Watch the dog for
an instant and secwhat his interest is
centered in, what’”“ soft is that en.
and ergo . aroundiith idl'stumpflclose
by and .in‘agaiu'jxvitliout, . being de-
tected, The faintest rustle ofa leaf,
the slightest movement, . would!» suffi-
(:iont~ to betray its pi‘ésience,,_ Either
through eye or car, very likely through
both at the some instangl’tho dog will
be made conscious_;of the interesting
little circumstancdfi But quick as all
his senses are, it is to that" of smell,
above all, that? the dog trusts. ,' This is
the final arbiter-tithe test to which all
difficult problems are subjected, and by
which all. doubts are solved. It is in a
world of scents that a dog lives and
moves and has his being. Whatacuri-
ous scent this brambic leaf hustand
this spot in the road ! and thatlast
nettle he passed—how interesting !< How
unlike all» other nettles he ever met with!
He must return and investigate! And,
doing so, he becomes for a few moments
so engrossed that even his master's com-
mand can scarcely persuade him to
leave it. And then, as to judging of
character, let a reader who possessesa
dog say whether he knows of any test
that can be for one moment compared
with the test supplied by the bundle
of nerves that spread themselves out
at the tip of a dog's nose. If a pun
may be pardoned, I would express
my belief that by no other means can so
correct a diagonisis of a man's character
9 obtained. At all events, all will
agree that a dog depends upon it with-
out any reserve whatever, and no
amount of flattcy will serve to alter the
opinion he has by such means arrived
at: And who does not remember how,
when Ulysses returned home after his
many years" absence disguised as a beg-
gar, neither length of time nor change
of appearance and clothing served for
_ a moment to deceive his faithful hound.
While every other member of the house-
hold was regarding hini as a stranger
his dog came up and instantly dis-
covered his ideutity. .
AN AUSTRALIAN CORBOBORBEE
The music was of the very roughest
description, but it answerd its purpose,
and wildly excited both listeners and
dancers. A monotonous wrroborree song
was sung by all the women in chorus,
to which they kept perfect time by beat-
ing two sticks together. and by drum-
ming violently on opossum and kan-
garoo skins tightly stretched across
their open knees. The only variation in
the music was the speed at Which it was
produced; it was gradually increased
from a very slcw time up to a wild, mad
swiftncss. The dance was just as
monotonousas the music, and I soon
became thoroughly sick of it, but the
Nurruru men sat watching it for hours
with a perfectly motionless intentness
which showed their keen interest. Both
song and dance were new, and tho
Mangorans were teaching it to the Nur-
rurus, whohad tonso their very best
powers in acquiring a knowledge of it,
for learning ”anything new, howeycr
’ short andbiniple, is a severe mental
exercise fOr the untrained mind or an
Australian myall. The music began
‘ shortly after the little passage of arms
over us had taken place. At first it was
slow and feeble. Suddenly out of the
great gloom beyond tlic‘iilight of the
fires a'wild figure leaped into view; so
hideous was it, and so startling the
almost magical way it came into sight,
thatIgave a little unconscious move-
ment of surprise, at which Ben-ill, the
~nervelcsa brute, laughed, and told me
painted to represent a skeleton, with
"white lines down his legs and arms and
whitestripcs that follows the curved
ofhis ribs. His long-black hair was
tied up in a tangled mop at the top of
his head, in which white feathers were
sticking, andinhis hands he held his
boomerang and nullabnnuaah. His black
body hardly showed against the night-
dark background, , but the flickering
firefight threw these deatholiko lines
into brilliant relief. This first dancer
-'took-' his place, and was swiftly and
silently followed by others, painted in
exactly the same manner as himself,
till about thirty men were taking part
in the mystic dance. The position of
the men was the 'samc;their arms,
bent at the elbows. were raised above
their heads till the weapons they held
crossed one another; the head was
slightly inclined to one shoulder, and
tho‘fierce gaze of their wild . black eyes
nmame fixed in onc direction. Their
" were wide apartigand bent at the
knees, and this position they never
changed, as they jumped from the feet
and hips only. '
flab-00W ‘
nous non manuaxn comma.
——
Minister (to deacon of the church)—
“I~ want to refer to a matter, my dear
deacon, that has been preying on my
mind for some time. I am sure you
will overlook any apparent meddling in
your affairs, knowing that ,I only speak
for firm own good." '
Deacon (cordially)——"Certainly, my
dear sir. speak your mind freely."
Minister—",1 understand... you have
been speculating a good déal of_"lato.
Now, aside frontiitbe danger of such a
business and the consequent misery it
' 4=mayentail upon your» family, do you
consider it just the proper thing for a
deacon of the—" . ,
Deacon—“Yes. . I admit that I have
speculated some. I cleared fivethou-
sand dollars only yesterday on a wheat
transaction.”
Minister (astounded)—-"No, is that
so ? What’s wheat worth to-day ?”
ment has been—like his master's—ao- ,
If, when they reach home, the dog were
if'they had been received, these on this" ‘3
notto be frightened. The dancer was s
NORWALK, COHN,, TUESDAY; DECEMBER .8, 1335, -_
Divnns DIAMOND Dncnr'nons.
“Is therea largo amount of imposi-
tion at present in your business ?"psked
a reporter of a diamond deder.
“In an article where not one in I
hundred has any knowledge whatever,
and not more than one in ten thousand
is a good judge, there must necessarily
be a good deal of imposition. The
methods of cheating. may be divided
into three classes. The first and most
common is when flawed, imperfect or
water, flawless gems. This takes place
every day and every hour of the day.
Those who are the principal sufferers
are would-be smart persons who match
eta sc-called bargain and deserve what
they get. If people would'remembu'
that fine diamonds are the easiest thing:
to sell in the wind, that any jeweler
who deals in gems is always willing to
purchase at a small deduction from cur-
rent rates, they would not be bitten so
often.
" The next two methods are swindling
pure and simples. _Thero are several
precious stones which are of an entirely
different composition to the diamond.-
but resemble that gem so closely that
none but experts can distinguish them.
Even experts have often to test these
.‘before they can discover the imposition.
The basis of the diamond, as almost
everybody knows, is carbon. The basis
of the stones I now allude to is alumnia,
and they are known under the generic
term ‘carodums.’ The principal stones
substituted and sold for diamonds are the
white sapphire, white topaz and the
zircon or jargon. White sapphire and
topaz are worth from $2 to $8 scant,
zircon much less. Bushels of these
stones have been and are still sold for
diamonds. They can be at once identi-
fied'by experts for their inferior hard-
ness and difi‘erence in specific, gravity.
The specific gravity of the diumondis
8.9, that of white sapphires and topaz is
8.5, zircon 4.4. .
"The last method of swindling is
when imitation stones made in various
ways are sold for the genuine article.
More of this is carried on than you
would think possible. In Europe, es
pecially in Paris, the art of making fine
imitations of diamonds has been brought
to perfection. Many of these, of course,
are sold for what they arc, many are
made for wealthy people, who, in tem-
porary difficulties, wish to raise money
on their diamonds, and have these stones
set in the some manner to wear while
the real article is out of their reach, but
large quantifies are set in fine style and
sold for first-water diamonds. A dealer
or jeweler is seldom victimized in this
way, except when one or two stones'ar
mixed with a very parcel. " '
-—'-—-.-O.—"O——
HALF-EDUCATI‘ON.
A Maine correspondent tells a good ~
deal of truth in relation to the fact of
too much teaching of youth; that is,
too much half education. The writer's
statements remind us of what Daniel
Webster once said. namely, that he
learned more the first year after he left
college than he did the whole time he
was there. Here iswhat the correspon-
dent says: ‘
“ The sickly colleges scattered around
the land are responsible for the very
large number of failures in life. Boys
have been taken from plow, plane and
anvil-and sent to the great cities to be
poor lawyers, miserable doctors and
matched ministers, until failing in these
pursuits they degenerate into lightning—
rod pcddlers and book agents, to finally
disappear beneath the earth they had
encumbered when above it. Worst of
all, it engenders a feeling of public
dependence in the minds of youth. It
takes away the spur to which we are
indebted for most of our great men.\_ A
thorough common school education is
ample basis for good citizenship.
“Why, my dear sir, we have men in
this town (Saco) who think a boy with
all the common school education in the
world a fool, without a smattering of
Greek, Latin, French, German, and
particularly botany; and these are the
men who would demoralize our country
by giving our children a fancy, fashion-
able education, which unfits at least
nfiie-tenths of our young men and
maidens to get an honest living. It is
as plain as the noonday in this town and
Biddeford that the free high school is a
curse to the rising generations. It fits
them only for consumers. Our grammar
schools are excellent, and if it were not
for the high school temptation we should
have some first-rate farmers and ma-
chanics and fishermen.
“ The result of this kind of education
in these two towns is that the Yankee
is becoming almost helpless in the
way of getting an honest livelihood,
while the French and Irish are living
on what we waste on ornamentation,
and laying up half their wages, and
becoming possessors of a large amount
of our real estate which formerly ba-
longcd to native citizens. A distin-
guished citizen remarked: ‘Yankccs
must inevitably become fashionable
dudes, educated sharpers, and a dis-
grace to their hard-working fathers and
mothers.’ But our most intelligent men
and deepest thinkers are waking up to
thc‘great evil that a free, fashionable
education is a curse, and that labor is
an honor and not a disgrace to o Chris-
tian people."
o—oo
THE PAPER AGE.
The paper age proper may be said to
date from the discovery of the manu-
facture of paper—from, say, about 900
A. D. Since that time the path of
paper has been smooth enough. People
began with books : newspapers followed;
periodicals, magazines, professional and
trade journals closed the triumphant
march. Although scientists then began
to look upon the paper trade as having
reached its close, or, at any rate, as
having seen its best days, that time has
not come yet. 'It is true that paper
home made them smile, but paper
boats, paper barrels and paper wheels
gave them a chill, paper collars, paper
handkerchiefs and paper serviettesset
them' humming and hawing, while
paper bottles, .paper tea caddies and
paper chimneys created quite a flutter
in scientific circles, and paper timber
and paper flooring rendered them rather
uneasy, until paper shirt fronts and
paper slippers broke them down on-
tiroly. But the worst hasto come yet,
for we are, in reality, only just entering
upon the border, so to speak, of the
genuine paper age. In' a few short
years, in our paper shirts and paper
trousers, we shall sit down to our paper
tables, upon our paper chairs, and eat
our eggs with paper spoons. When we
goout of a'morning we shall put on our
paper shoes, paper overcoat and paper
glove‘s,"scizc our paper umbrella or
paper cane and paper but, kissthe baby,
- happy in his paper pinafbre, trip lightly
down the paper staircase, over "the
paper pathway to our paper carriage,
and start for town, continuing our
noiseless ride over the paper pavement,
but stopping once more, possibly, to
order the latest paper no‘clty' for our
better half. Who would be bold enough
to predict the and of the paper ago ?
ofi'—colored diamonds no sold for first-'
racers concnnivmo onus.
perhaps never will. It is conjectured
mat it is due either to the presepce of
water in its oomposition or to tho disin-
known. Tho Turksbelieve thatth‘e gem
difficulties at once. The ancient opal
there were no doubt deposits of the pre-
cious stones in Arabia, . Syria and per-
haps other parts of‘Asia'JrOm which the
ancients obtained their ”gems. '
, _ Central Amcrica and Mexico abound
in opal-bearing districts, which are much
more abundant than might be supposed ;
' but perhaps the finest opals of the pres-
, out day are obtained in Hungary. The
, fire opal is found in the greatest perfec-
tion in the porphyrite rocks near Zima-
. pun, in Mexico; but while this variety
,is the most beautiful of all Opals, it is
also the most sensitive, and is frequently
' mined beyond hope cf‘mpair by damp '
. or exposure, or even by a sudden change
:in the weather; There is probably no
gem, however, ' which is, more, subject to ’
injury than the opal}: Exposure m-thé
light injures it very materially, though
there is not one thin strange about this,
the fact being trucafso of amethyst,.thc
garnet, and almost all other“ precious
colored stones, V ‘37
As stated, the finest opals are now
found in Hungarian mines. When first
extracted from their native matrix, the
gems are soft, friable, tender and easily
broken; The first thing to be done is to
expose them to the air and light for a
few days, until they have become hard,
and then their colors begin to appear.
At the same time the change takes place
in the gem, it becomes also reduced in
size from the evaporation. of the quarry
water contained in its veins. , Great care
,must be exercised in drying, the stone,
or it will split and crack in a thousand
directions, and become utterly worth-
3less. It is also liable to another calm-
ity, if exposed to a high temperature——
that is, of losing iridescenc'e, and, when
this once happens, the stone is abso‘
lately worthless. ’
o—oo
HOW FISH ARE SPREAD.
. In looking over the most recent fauna]
lists of this portion of: the country,
writes Dr. C. 0. Abbott in his forthcom-
ing “ Rambles About Home, ”I find that
much of our zoologiml literature is
somewhat amusing. By a preconceived
notion‘of what should be the geogra-
phical distribution of the fishes, and
other animals as well, these “system-
atic" writers gravely assert that in such
a river a fish is found, but that it never
wanders either to the eastward or west.
ward. Perhaps originallythis was‘trne
of our rivers, as the river itself deter-
mined the range of specific variation
that has ultimately come about ; but no
river could retain all the species that
Originated in it. There are too many ,
possible ways by which fish can be
safely transported long distances for us
to assert that none of them have oper-
atedin stocking a neighboring stream
with species not native and to the man-
ner born. There is undoubted evidence
On record of whirlwinds gathering up
“imniense numbers of'miuutc fish and
landing them miles away. These show-
ers of fishes, frogs, and even salaman-'
dots, are not unknown, event if they are
uncommon ; and strange would itbe if
all such wind transported species should
fall upo'n dry ground, and never. into the
water. Fertilized eggs, too, can like-
wise be blown a long distance even over
lbw ranges of hills which sometimes sep-
arate river valleys, and so give rise to a
race of fishes that previously were
unknown in the locality. Eggs, too,
might readily adhere to the mud that
often clings to the feet of wading birds,
and would thus be gently replaced in a
distant river, miles away from that in
which they were deposited by the parent
fish. The present extensive system of
canals also has tended to mingle the
ichthyic faunas of our various river
system. And when all these possible,
probable and actual conditions are con-
sidered it need excite no wonderif in
any one of our rivers or its tributaries
we now find occasional individuals of
unsuspected species. ' '
nod—o .‘vw
noun: Losl: voon TEMPER. 4
Mr. Briggs was bothered nearly to
death with callers, one day, all of them
in the cause of some charity or other,
and his temper was sadly crippled.
There was a slight cessation about three
o‘clock, and just as Briggs began to
breathe easier, another man came in.
"‘Well i’" inquired Briggs, turning
impatiently to the visitor.
E"Mr. Briggs," he began, in a gentle
way. “I want-—"
l'You want, do you ?" interrupted
Briggs. “Well, everybody wants. It’s
want, want, want all day. There’s been
a. thousand in here to-day wanting. I
wa‘nttoo. Iwantatest. Iwantyouto
leave." .
"But, Mr. Briggs," continued the
gentle voice, “I know it, but I want—"
, “Don’t say ‘want' to me," shouted
Briggs, “ get out of this quick or I'll go ,
"' But Mr. Briggs, I want—"
‘i‘ Get out i" howled Briggs; “I want.
too, I told you." and Briggs melts?! for
a. paper weight. While thousi LLFP
and flow, and about tcnf '
wards' , there was a call at
Briggs mowed.- ' *
“Hello, what is it ?" ho asked. ‘
“In that you. Mn 3158!?! "
query- ' , ' ~ -
“Yes. all right. go ahead;
"Well. Mr; Briggs. -I filed to pay.
you five hundred dollar? ’ If '
owing you for'abdut,.aj“ ', V
wanted me to pay it, but i
at youriplacc, a few minutéfi‘
wall, kicked it out thcé'lfi'on door,
jammed his headvinto his hat'clear'up
to bisects, and went out to find a mule
to kick him serene.
: . " -
“W? 915.!!!“ “‘0“
One who, is accustomed ,to railway
traveling mitigation realize him much
he aficssenussnonnteey upon the
engineer. ' Added to the responsibility
of their station. engineers are also in
constant danger of accidents caused by
' the tricks of‘jcal‘ou's rivals. - ' ‘
This rivalry, it is said, sometimes
prompts to 'thc‘domg cf utterly mean
tricks Ono engineer, atterln's very
first: trip, waslaidofi because hehad
“ out dfit "bl!”thébearings of hilonginc.
He was reinstated however, - after he
proved that. auburn had filled his on-
inc can With smerv- . Another new énxfi
mm m suspended "torment the
fines of his build-.1 Throughlig’rief at
the loss of his'pasi’tios’héfdied. and
then "a ccnsciencertifiick'en rival con-
fessed that ho had put oil jitthc tank,
so that itgfoamed and showed5watcr at
was‘scarcely a quart 'Of water in “the
boiler.
, Thcminegulogists and geologists have .
ofifered. many clever theories to. account ,
for the splendor of the opal, but : no 6116 '
has completnly satisfied www.ma
tegrnticn of the lamina or layers of the-
stono, but even this is not certainly.
is of celestial origin, and thus escape all ‘
mines have never been discovered, but»
. Illustrative sample 6 cents.
6 been.
(1 you
Briggs ymked'the'telsbhw .thi'
; the topfgaags,m.vfualfii. reality agate ,
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THE
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PETER L. GUIGUE,
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. . UNION AVENUE,
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FOR sALE'
On Wilton Avenue
Apply to
B. J. STURGES. or 0. E. WILSON,
GAZETTE BUILDING at
Factory to Let.
A!“ {Dozen Hat Factory with 25 horse power
boiler, will be let on reasonable terms. Can
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' Apply to or add
JOSEPH SllEPHBRD
m9 . _ , Norwalk,Conn.
For Sale Cheap.
WILLbcscld Mammal," applied for soon
ssmnll neat Cottage ofsixr coma in good
Icignborh 'and three iiimutec’Jvmk' of the
- bridge. App 1 it GAZETTE OFFICE.
.F or Sale. ,
A Chestnut StandingDesk. App'iy ato‘
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NF. two seated square box side bar wagon.
One light lumbeer wagon.
One second-hand square box wagon.
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mo
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w. r. aummnn,
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GE 0. WARD Imam-on, .
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. B. Ems, Furniture Dealer
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A Small House with about. one acre of ground at
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Apply to J. B. ELLs, Furniture Dealer. ‘
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A Small Farm
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consistln of Plow, Meadow, Pasture and Wood
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Apply to I. B. Er Ls. Furniture Dealer.
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House and Lot opposite residence of Charles E.
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The Homestead of the Subscriber, No. 8 Camp
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meat to such filings.”
Still, there were one or two men who
did not despair. They began to con-
spire, and as a result they led a fighting.
dog into a barn near the widow's haunt,
the other day, and one of them paid a .,
cm at the honseand said :
"In course we knows how you feel: .
about this dog fighting. We feels tho. ,
some, butthere’sa woman was tho...
alley who owns a dog which she brafl _'
m!’ ‘ .
"She can’t_be no lady,"wac the go- .
tort. 7 ' ' .
“ Exactly, ma'am, or. she wouldn’t
Speak of you as she does." ~ - I .
,“Speak of me? Why, I don't know
her!" ' '
.“In course you don't, and I should
hate to tell you what she said of you.”
“ But you must! . If she’s talking
about me I want to know what she.
says!"
“But, ma'am, yoffll excuse me, you
how."
“No, I won’t! What does she say ?"
“Well then, begging your pardon, she
makes fun of your red hair.
“She does l"
“And sheridicules your dress." ‘
“The vixen !"
“And she says she never saw such
feet on a woman. "
“I'll sue her for slander. I’ll see a
lawyer at once!" exclaimed the woman.
“ We've got her dog in the barn.
ma’am. It’s a dog she brags on. She
was wearing that if her dog could only _
get at your dog once there—" ‘
"But he can! You go into the back
yard and untie Bravo and take him over
there i If he can't whip any such ‘
woman's dog I'll disown him!"
“Exactly, ma’am, and you can trust
me to see fair play. The arrogant head
of sich a slanderful, boasterous woman
should be humbled, you know, and it’s »
you who’ll do it.” '
The dog was taken to the barn, and
he did not disappoint his backers.- a
After a fight of fifteen minutes ' he was
declared victor, and as the referee gavel
his decision the widow's voice was heard? .
saying: ' "
“Goodl That pays her for abusin
my hair! I‘ll fix her on the big feet-4:5
before the week is out i" I ’ " " 3* ‘
She had been watching the
through the cracks of the barn. -
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MOUNT SHASTA.
In strong contrast with the Arctic -
condition of Mount Shasta (0.1.) to-day,
are the circumstances attending its
rip-building, when it was an active voi-
cano belching forth streams of fiery lava
thatfiowed down the slopes now Occu-
pied by ice. It isa battlefield of the
elements within the earth against hose
above it. In its early days the forces
beneath it were victorious, and built up
the mountain in the face of wind and -
weather, but gradually the volcanic
energy died away, and the low temper-
ature called into play those destructive
agents which are now reversing the pro-
cess and gradually reducing the moun-
tain towardageneral level. A micro-
scopical examination of the rocks of
Mount Shasta reveals the fact that it is
composed chiefly, if not wholly, of three
kinds of lava. Several small areas of
metamorphic rocks occur within its _
borders, but there is no evidence to
show that they form any considerable
portion of the mountain.
From the fact that there are three.
kinds of lava in the structure of Mount.
Shasta, it must not be concluded that
they all issued from the same volcanic
vent, nor that'they were efi'uscd from
three separate and distinct openings.
ing of Mount Shasta have be ‘de by
‘over twenty volcanic openings, of which
two have beenprincipal and far more
prolificthun-all the parasitic vents com-
bined. This enumeration does not in-
clude those large fissures in the side of the
cone, which are evidently attributable
to the hydrostatic pressure of the molten
mass within. The small number of ’
parasitic cones on the slopes of Mount
Shasta is somewhat remarkable; especi-
ally when we compare it with the largest
volcano in Europe. Although it is much
higher than Etna. its base’is less expan-
sive, and its size is about half that of
the mighty monarch of the Mediter-
ranean. Upon the irregular slopes of
Etna, there are 200 prominent subsi-
diary cones, besides over 400 of smaller
size. On the contrary, Mount Shasta
has but a score of such accessories, and
the remarkable regularity of its acute
form forcibly expresses the highly con-
centrated typo of volcanic energy which
it represents
GENERAL FORREST AND THE 14.... ..
General N. B. Forrest, the famous
Confederate cavalry leader, visited New
York shortly after the close of the war.
One day, while riding down in a Fifth
avenue stage, a dude of the most pro-
nounced type entered and took his seat
in the corner opposite the genéral.
While searching his pockets for some-
thing thc youth withdrew a large envo-
lope from which a number of papers
slipped and were scattered on the floor.
He picked up those within reach, and .
turning to Forrest, who looked like “a-
member from the rural districts," said
in the drawling, consequential and
snpercilious tone peculiar to his class,
“I say, can you reach those papers 1’"
The general grasped the situation in a
moment, and extending his arm until
the cuff and shirt sleeve separated, ex-
hibiting a broad expanse of wrist, re-
plied with well-assumed country patoz's,
" Wall, I jis’_ kin, stranger, .an’ that's
about all." Then he drew himself up
to a sitting posture again and looked
innocent, while the .occupants of the
stage roared, and the embarrassed duds
proceeded to help himself, and as quickly
as possible leave the unsympathetic
company.
An old gentleman, who, to judge from
his shaking sides, heartily enjoyed the
scene, now changed his seat for one
next to the general, and remarked to hiin,
“Stranger, excuse me for the question,
but where are you from ?" “ Arkansaw,”
was the rejoinder. “Well," said the
old man, “I’ve always heard that
an Arkansian is a —'— of a fellow,
and nbw I believe it. Shake hands.
stranger!" He was doubly delighted
a few moments later when, on arriv-
ing at the New York Hotel, Forrest
introduced himself proprim persona, and
invited his new-found friend to become
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his guest at dinner.
In reality, contributions to the upbui’ldy,
canine of blood-thirsty appearance, but; .
, the widow wouldn’t hear to this. '
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