mused, when she had gone. ' What an unmannerly dog she'll think me ! Sac's not far wrong. I ought to give ofcher fellows a tnrn, and I'm not sure whether a lighter m an at No. 3 Well, I'll'sleep on it. Who the deuce can she be ?' Whe the dauce cm she bo ? was the ques tion which filled his mind when he woke— much earlier than usual —in the morning, and diligent inquiries made of all the servants about, failed to satisfy it. Should he ask Annie? No; he was a little piqned with Annie. It was absurd to suppose that these two were not in concert. And how unfair to m ake him promise not to speak of what should pass, and then send this person to lecture him ! True, he had ' this person's permission to talk it over with Annie if he could not make up his mind to follow her advice : but he had done so, and there was an end of that part of the case. He had mode a sacrifice much against the grain, and therefore —man like—he hedged by getting cross with a woman. He: wandered about from one room to another, fretting, fidgeting, unsettled He tried to read. He opened one book, and it was too heavy; another, and it was too flippant. He went out into tbo garden, and the chirrup ing of the birds annoyed him. He returned to the house and made for Mr. Annesley's study. Hi3hoßtwp.san early riser, and he wanted some one to talk to Mr. Annesley was not down yet. On his table lay a black leather BibJe, with silver clasps Jthat Frank had not noticed

; before. Ho undid the clasps and opened it ! It contained a photograph of the woman who had visited him the Bight before. ' Now I I can find out all about you,' he chuckled, : 'without breaking any promise,' As he gazed at the picture, and took in its details, a recollection arose which puzzled him. Man 'as he was, he remembered that his visitor's I dress, though of costly materials and ia excellent taste, was made in a fashion which had long since gone out. The dress of the picture was in the sums style How was this? As he mused, Annie tripped in, gay |!and bright as ever, and laid a sofc little hand on his shoulder.

'Up so early!' she cried, gayly. Then, as she saw what he held, her face became suddenly sad.

' (Whose likenes3 is this ?' ha asked, not noticing the change

' Poor de-ir mamma's,' she replied, with a sob. Then his heart gave a great bound, and a cold, sickening stupor' fell upon him.

'Annie, dear,' he said, whea after a mighfey effort lie regained some command over his suspense (she, poor child only thought he wag sharing her sorrow, which the sight of %ha£;loyed and long-lost face had awakened), ' you- must give me back my promise.' ' What; promise ?' ! ' Thai I made you tha day you rode over to s<?e t&e Melvilles.'

| ' I don's; remeniber you prornisiDg anything taiatJday;- Whafc was it ?'

, To remind you would be half breaking it. surely you ia-utioh have forgotten ?' 'L3trnss=2. You read me ' How Santa [Clans' came,, to Simpson's B*r,'oud of Bret jHarce, and pretended that it did not make you cry.'

'Thafcswa's'after dinner.' I 'la.t'fiß in^-ain; you ami papa wore talk ing about Bib. n-i, and I listened.'

. ' Is; was no-; in the morning nor ia the Ivenidg that I mule you that promise, Aanio. tivvasm the twilight, when you returned Jroin your ride.'

I ' Why, Fr ink ! I went straight up to my jroom. Ifc was so late I had hardly time to ,'chr.nge my things I never srtw you from the linioyou mounted me at 11 o'clock till when ire met at dinner. What; are you dreaming about ? Oh, ii'iank darling, what is the mat ter? Are you ill ?' I Again the old yickeningstuporrai through him, and he fell forward over the tablo, Speechless.

I I, who tell this story, was a surgeon in the navy, and spending a short; leave of absence Is a visitor ia tho house wh^ro the scerjes I Ir.ve attempted to describa took place. An nie's shrieks called her farther, who called iiio, and between us we restored poor Frauk tpconsciousus-ts. I did not like the lojkof this Seizure, but mkl nothing. No one consulted me. Still, I iva'.chud him closely, and at breakfast, when the mail bag came in, and he read his correspondence. I noticed that he received a second shock.

Thai; afternoon he called me into his own Dom, and told rue what had happened to him, lmost a3 it is worded hero. He added

jjvidence (acquired since morning) -which |roved beyond tho possibility of a doubt Ijhaf; Annie was miles away from the house phen what he took for her spoke to him in the library. I hoard him out and made the BBual reply. Ho had been dreaming—his nerves were out of ordsr.

I ' They arc now,' he said • ' but suppose any one had asked you about them the day Before yesterday, what would you have Raid?'

Had I bean obliged to reply, I muse have admitted that a Joss nervous person, in the Senas of being likely to give way to delu lons, could hardly be found, but ho did uot gait for an answer, and went on :

I'Aa for dreaming, that is—excuse me, joctor—absurd. I was wide awaka on Biesday evemog, and I did not go to bed for an hour at least after my visitor left mo on Thursday nighs. Now let us consider the prroundings. I was warned of a warning ! Warned in the kindest, gentlest manner. ? It I hitd been unprepared for the Second man ;fe.j ration it would have startled, Shocked me. Why wat! I -a hale, strong ffiaa, as you an.t nil the. roat thought me—to Je guarded aghinss adiosk ? Why was I to be turned from pursuits which you and all ?he rest would have s'ifid yesterday had maite toe so hfeie aud uo"sbr'dfig by supernatural peaas? llead tunfc.' He hauded ane a letter, tho one he had pd at breakfast It, was from the Secre- Bry of a life insurance company, thanking .Dim for the preference.'he had shown the boiefcy, but deciiniug his proposal. '■ t 'Tho woek h forn jnat,' ho continued, P wag ex?.mhv ! iiy thoir trjulical olliccT — 88 a mattrjr of form, thoy said. Hu.UQttasured ie round th<j eo;-t, aud tapped mid steth psooped me, ami this.is the result.' Insurancd evrapAnies iu;ve all sorts of crotchets,' I began.

' Djctor,' he interrupted, quietly taking off his coat and vest and slipping the brace off his lefc shoulder, ' yon knows well as I do what it means. There is something wrong—awfully wrong —here', (placing his hand on his heart ) That is why I was warne 1 against a surprise ; that is why my 'poor darling's dead mother conjured me to avoid violent sports ; that is why the in surance company rejected me ; that is why I confide iv you.' Now tell me the truth.' I placed my ear to his side and took three different soundings. Then I told him, as carelessly aa I could, that I had no stetho scope with me, and he was too agitated just then for a fair examination. 'I'll see iflcau't borrow some tools,' I said, ' and see you to-morrow morning, when you will be more composed.' lAs you will,' he replied; ' but you are mistaken about composure. I shall never be more composed then I am at this mo ment.' ' How can you say so, after your attack only « few hours ago ?' I asked. 'That is over. I know all now,' ' Tush !' I sneered, trying to get out of my difficulty by appearing impatient. • You know absolutely nothing.' ' All right, Doctor,'he said, with one of his bright smiles and resuming his coat ; 'I admit it. I don't know how I breathe or how I swallow. I dou't know how I was born or what will happen to make me die. I don't know why I wink an eye when a grain of dust comes along in the air. But I do breathe and swallow. I have been born and I shall die. and somehow the grain of dust will be caught on my eyelash. I don't know why these visitations have come to me, but they have come, Doctor, and for a reason. Look me in the face, and tell me that I have a sound heart' I could not do it. 'So farewell,' he wont on cheerfully, 'a Ion« farewell to all the old fun. ' Othello's occupation's gone.' ' And he will settle down into a quiet mwied man,' I added, to humor him ; but his face darkened. "Do you think I am justified' he began,— ' But you shall answer me that to-morrow.' ' I hope you have not said anything about this to Miss Annesley ?' I asked, after a p^use. 1 God forbid I' 'But she must have guessed that something j was wrong when you spoke to her about that promise.' ' Perhaps sho did for the moment, but my fainting fit-I couldn't help it, Doctor—put it out of her mind. If she returns to the subject, I shall get round it somehow. Of course I may rely upon your silence.' 'Arc you two going to waste all the day up there ?' cried Annie, from the garden. ' 'Come down, Prank ; I want you to help me cut somo flnvers.' He joined her, and T stood watching theni from the gallery. To-morrow I would tell him what I knew too well already. > There was indeed something awfully wrong with hi 3 heatt And who would have thought it to look afc him ? H> seemed the very picture of health ; but tha las'; ten minutes of the foot race, the last frfcy strokes oE the oar, when the, spirit forced the flash to more than mortal doing, had done their silent work. I should have bo tell him to be very, very careful. I should bo abla to comfort him by sayino that men as badly off a3 he was, had m*de old bonas, and died in their beds atla3t of some ohing else. I stood rehearsing how this w.is to be told, when I heard Annie's voice a»ain : ' No, not that one ; its too full blown. There is a lovely bud .i little higher up. No, no, you stupid great fellow—there, t;o your riaht.f They wore standing undor ?* climbing roso bri3b, and she was pointing to a spot about a yard over his head. Standing; on tiptoe, he' oould jusfc touch the stem of the cove'ied flower, but not hold it, and of courseit-bobbed from his Muger3. 'If you jump you can catch it,' said Anni<). As she spoke he sprang, seized the roso (whic;i was pulled down by his weight), and f.ill against the fence upon which the bush wa3 trained. ' Oh, how awkwnrd you are to-day !' Annie cried. ' Wei', why don'fc you break it off and give it to me ?' The nexb moment he slid to the ground at her feet—dead ! The champion athlete of hia day waa killed in a struggle with a rosebud.

He Didn't Want the Scription.

He was an old man, aud he bad a bit of con ductor's paatboard card stuck in his hat. He walked into the drug store and enquired : ' Have you gob any good whiskey ?' ' Yes sir ;' replied the gentlemanly drug-

gISS. ' Gimme half a pint. ' Have you got a doctor prescription ?' 'No.'

'Can't sell it, then, sir. Jury in session ; must be strict.' ' Where can I get a doctor !' sadly inquired the aged inebriate. 'I aro'a physician, sir,' winninglyresponded the druggist. '' Gau'jtij.yoa give me that—what you call it, 'scription !' 'Well, I might.'. And the doctor wrote out a prescription blank- calling for so many ounces 6f opifitus furmenti. He filled a snug looking !bo'.tla with the article, pasted a label on it numbered to correspondjwith the paper, and.presented' the bottle to the venerable royesterj remarking, in the most business like way, imaginable, 'A dollar and a half, sir.' I ' A dollarand a half!' gasped his astonished customer. ' Ain't that pretty high, mister V

'It's pur pripe-a dollar for the prescrip tion and! fifty cents for the medicine.' • Yes, j well, 'slowly replied the wicked old duller as he slowly buttoned up the half pint iv hid ovierupat pocket. ' I guess, boss, that I don't want the'Eorip'ion Here'syourhaif dollar,' and he'stm-.R his tongue in one side of his month,■winked ironically at him of the mortar a|ud pestle, and wilked out.

An iidvanca hnilk—"Ladles forward.1 ■ Ajouu',r laly, on bciug asfcel wlut business her lover was in, and not liking to saj he bottled soda, an sweied: 'He's a practical fizzician.'

Good Living And Good Looks.

The penchant of the fair sex for good living has something in it of instinct. A series of exact and rigorous observations has demonstrated that a1 succulenb diet, delicate, and well attended to, repulses for along time and very far-the exterior appearances of old age. It; gives more brilliancy to, the eyes, to the skin more freshness, to the, muscles more support ;• and as it i 3 certain in physiology, that wrinklesi those formidable?" enimies' of beauty, are due to the depression of the muscles, it is equally true to say,,all things equal, that those who know how to eat are comparatively ten years younger than those to whom this science is a stranger. Painters and sculptors are well aware of this fact, for they never represent those who are abstinent, from choice or duty, as misers or anchorities, without giving them the paleness of sickness, the leanness of misery and the wrinkles of decrepitude.

S'posin'

While Judge Copley was sitting in his office the other da?., looking over some law papers, the door opened and a man hobbled in upon crutches. Proceeding to a chair, and making a cushion of some newspapers, he sat down very gingerly, placed a bandaged leg upon another chair and said:

* Judge, my name is Briggs. I called in, Judge, to get your opinion about a little point of law. Mr, Judge, s'pos'n'you lived up the pike here half a mile, next door to a man named Johnson. And s'posin' you and Johnson was to get iuto an argument about the human intellect, and you was to say to Johnson that a splendid illustration of the superiority of the human intellect Mas to be found in the power of the human eye to restrain the ferocity of a wild animal. And s'posin' Johnson was to remark that that was all bosh, because nobody could hold a wild animal with the human eye ; and you should declare that you could hold the savagest beast that was ever born if you could onco fix your gaze on him.

Well, then, s'posin' Johnson was to say he'd bet $100 he could bring a tame animal that you couldn't hold witli your eye, land you was to take him upon it, and Johnson was to ask you to como down co bra place to settle the bet. You'd ro, we'll say' and Johnson'd wander round to the back of the house and pretty soon como front again with a dog bigger n any four decent dogs ought to be. And then s'posin' Johnson'd let go the dog, sick him on to you, and he'd come at you like a sixteen inch shell out of a howitzer, and you'd get skeery about it and try to hold tho dog wif,h your eye arid couldn't. And s'posia' you'd suddenly conclude that maybe your kind of an eye wasn't calculated to hold that kin I of a'dog, and 3'ou conclude to break for a plum ti!ee, in order to have a chance to collect your thoughts aud try to reflect what sort of an eye would be best calculated to mollify that sort of dog. You ketch my idea, of course ?

Very well, then ; s'posin' you'd take your eye oft'of that dog ; Johnson, niind you, all the time sicking him on and lau^hin^, and you'd turn and les it for the tree, and-'begm to swarm up as fast as you ennld, Weil s'posin' ju«b aa you pot tlirea foot froia the groundl, Johnson's dog'a grab you by the log iuid hdldyou liko a vice, shaking you until you nearly lost your lioUi. And s'posin' Johnson was to stand there and holler, ' Fix your eye on him, Brigys ! Why don't you manifest the power of human fntollont ?■' and *o on gassing away with iroriiclo remarks like those ; and s'p >«in' ho kept tho dog on that log until he made you swear to pay tho bet, and then, at hist, had to pry the dog off with a hot poker, bringing away at the same time a half pound of your meat in the doa's mouth., so that you had to be carried home on a stretchor, and (;o hire four doctors to keep you from dying with look-jiw. S'posin' this, what I want to know is, couldn't you sue Johnson for damages, and make him pay heavily for what that dog did? That's what I want to get at.' The Judge thought for a minute and then said : 'Well, Mr. Briggs, I don't think I. could. If I agreed to let Johnson set tho dog at me, I should bo a party to the transaction and could uot recover.' , 'Do you mean to say that the law. won't make that infernal scoundrel, Johnson, suffer for letting his dog eat mo up ?' 'I think not, if you state the case properly.' ' ' . , ■ ' Ifc won't, hey ?' exclaimed. Mr Briggs hysterically- : ' Oh; very well ! very' well ! It's a beautiful government, tins is ! Beautiful, ain't it ? I s'pose if that dog had chewed me up, and spit mo our, it'd 'ye been.all tho same to.-this- constitiv-' tioaal republic But blame me .if I don't have siiusfacton.V I'll, kill. Johnson, poison his dog, and emigrate to some country' where ..tho rights of citizensis protected. If I; don't you may bust me open.' , .: - i Then!Mr Briggs got on his crulc.hos and hobbled out. He is still1 a citizen,, and will vote at the next election.

In Missouri tlio Coii'te h-.vo d. c'ulert '.lift'"- a vromau is iot an oid maid until Biio i* 85 jea<ji v'd 1 ho liik of feminine euieKr.uiou to Missouri liVlAtrcn 1y ?etin ;»nrt tllere is not :iii emigrant;-.* ovei: ; 34 .vevisold. j Tliero is a long :ist of graucl pVivatb 07H;rtii'iaieuts to bßKiven'ia Pd.lidelphii* prior t), or i>heion aid eve of the rentennsa One of the tinest will be the 'Ladies' Centennial Bali' at the Academy of Music.

Danbury Fun.

Striking at swallows with lafcha is the juvenile amusements now '■ in order,- and for brutalizing purposes is fully equal to any enjoyment in vogue. . A. fleshy gentlomaa was crossing Main street, Saturday evening, and on a run so as to avoid a coming- team, when a boy made a tremenduous sweep with a lath at a swallow. There was an awful report, and a ' broken lath, and the fleshy ge'ntlemari'sat down on the crossing with sufficient vehemence to thi'eaten its per manent disfigurement. Sympathizing citizens hastened to his aid, and removed his neck cloth,, and fanned him with a piece of board, ?and one thoughtful man forced a piece of ice down his back, but it was some little time before he was sufficiently recovered to take any^notice of whao.was goingbu around him, The boy threw away bis cap, and tore out of the vicinity like a maniac. Iv the general excitement and confusion it was not known what became of the swallow, and as the injured gentleman did riot show any interest in the matter, the subjecb waa allowed to drop. . . Everybody must feol more at ease now since the advene of a patent mustard plaster They are clean, compact, and can be carried in the vest pocket and slipped on at any moment. This invention will work a revolu tion in socieby. It can't help it Now, for instance, the writer does not go to picnics. They are enjoyable, but he was afraid ho would appear to be ostentatious if he went. with a quart can of mustard in his haud and a roll af muslin under his arm, and ifc would hardly do to go unprepared for an emergency . There is no trouble now. Everybody can go to picnics and clambakes and church festivals with impunity. It will take but a minute to step back of a tree, pull up the vest, and slap on the plaster, and pain is harnessed at one's command. The only saddening reflec tion is that forty years aftor the death of the inventor, his grave will bo overgrown by weedo, with no stone to mark hi 3 laat resting place. This will be apt to cause trouble. Young Reynolds is off courting nearly every night, to the regret of his mother, who would like him to stay home occasionally. The other evening ho promised ho would s!;ay with her. He wanted her to fix his work day, pants and vests which were in need of repair. He was going to read to her while she sewed. To give her the garments ho had to don his Sunday clothe'i. Ho felt a degmo of exhilaration in the enjoymoufc ha was t-> givo her. There is always a satisfaction in aacrilieing for others. When he got hij bn-.fc clothes on he began tc foul uaoasy, Xc surveyed himself several tim ik, and then glanced furtively at his mother who was fchreadiug fcha needle. He tried to put hi.s mind on the promised reading, but the fit of those garments, and the general feeling of ' going' which, they vivuUy sui/geste-i, con fused him to such a degree .that he finally, pot up, slipped on his. hafc, ami apologetically , gaspim? 'that ho would be back in a few minutes, cowardly fled from duty. After patiently waiting two honfa for him, the ohl lady sighed and said : ' Til bet anything that that chill Ins streaked over to LydiaV Th-ire'were no takers. r ( This is what may be called a sample of practic.nl allVe'iou, True love i.s •imt.oontcut ■ to bask intlxe sunshine wifchtmkun uiabr jila handy iv case of rain. The following kitten is a sample in question : , ;■ '■, 1 My Dim it >1 OSBA.ND : I got hero last.uh;hb _ ali aafo,:arid was met at th? station by uaciu, and aunt. They wero bo glad I hail eoirfo,, ■bub were sorry thaV you are no; along. I misß ynu bo much. We had hot rol's' for breakfast this morning, and they wore so' delieioua. 1 want yon to be so happy while 1 -jm here.:- Don't beep tbe moafi upstairs It wilJ surely spoil. Do you miss mo now ? nli! if you *-'ere only hero, if tflifc for one hour. ; 'Has Mra. 0' 11 ■ brought back you. siiirts.? 1 hops the; bosom will suit you. You will rind th : miik tiok.efca i:» tlio clock. I for cot to tell you about them uiu'ii 1 came away. WhaVdid you do Ip'st evening ? Whore you loueflOrTiß without.me? Don't'forget to scald tii.i millc ovory morning. And I'wish you would-seo if 5 lefbUia potatoes in the pantry. If I did they must bo sour by tbia I.itn.3. .tlow arc you getting along? Write mc a'l about it. Bu'; I niust eloaouow. Oceans of love to you Affectionately your wifo. P.S —Dpn'bsot the toapo.t on tho a'r.ova. -['News.

She Knew the Beast.

'You see this hoss, don't you ?' called out a woman a bruit forty years of age, 'as she drove up to a Grand 11 Ivor avenao blacksmith shop yesterday. ' . The smith cams oub and'replied that his sight was good, ' I want a shoe om that hind foot right to once,'she continued, and she jumped down and had tho horse almost out of the old wagon bcforoSho srmfchreached the cuihstoue. She led the beast; into tho shop, sat down on tho bunch and prepared to tike a smoke, and as the blacksmith took dowa a shoe she observed1: •No foolin' now. I want the shoo to stick to that; foot for:a whole year. • You cau't impose on mo 'causa I'm a woman.' After; the hoof had beoa prepared the liorse suddenly became restive, ciancmg around and bothering, the shoor ,so : that he could not proceed. 1 'You don't seem to have . had riny experience with hqs3es,' remarked the woman; >as aim rose up and laid her pipe aside. , 'I kniMV this henst.from Dan'l to Besheba,. and yoii'jist■g'i'i biok a leetle.' Tho' smith retracted a few feet, and the woman caught the horse'by. tho bits,' gave' hiuVit'Ui'o-hundredpOuud'kiclt in the' ribs, ■anciiyell'ed :■; -! ""■ > ■ ' , VWhoar! ,Charles EUnery, gitnaroiuid there.;»«''aacl I-.over and take that—and thia - and p'im't! more ! JS"ow cttine up and. too tho mark !',... , ' '. j : ~ „. , Charles Henry kicked , lliy. aayil oil fchu the' block a-- she' kicked his ribs, hut she kicked the hardest-and when the horse-shoer stuck hisi head into the shop, tho horae wa? half over; a bench, bdfc*»b quiet 'aa a lamb 'Nov purbeed,' said the wonmn, as: *'.•' ' picked up hbi- pij-e. ' Whnu a Jj.jss gooa w looking around ma aud aciiing fur a row, hen laying up sorrow for his gray hairs.'

Fun With a Spider.

Spiders in many respects are just; like other animals, and can be; tamed and petted, and taught a great many lessons, which they will learn, as readily as a, dog or cat. But you must take the trouble to study their ways, anc get on the good side of them. One day 1 had been reading in a book how spiders managed to get their webs across streams and roads, and from the top of a tall tree to an ther. ; I went out and caught a large garden spider, one of those blue-gray sprawling fellows, .arid fixed hi oj up tor my experiment. X took a stick about eighteen inches in length fasfcqucd a piece of iron to one end of it so that the 'stick would stand up on that end qf itself. . Then I put this stick in the centre of ajlange tub half full of water, and pliced the spider on the top of Oho stick. I wanted to see if he could get to the 'land,' which was the edge of the tab; without any help. He ran down first one side of the stick, and then the other ;. each time he would stop when he touched the water, and shaking his foot as a cat does be, ; would run up again. At taut he ciaie to the conclusion that he was eptirely surrounded by wa'.er -on aa island in fact. After remaining perfectly quie*; for a long while, during which, I have no doubt, he was arranging his plans, he begun running around the top of the stick, and throwing ouc great coils of web with his hind feet, in a few minutes little fine strings of web were floating a vstay ia the slight breezj that was blowing. After a little, one of thess threads touched the edge o£ the tub, and stuck fast, as all spider webs will do. Thi3 was just whafe Mr. Spider was looking for, and the next minute he. took hold of his web and gave a jyrk aa a sailor does with a rope when he wishes to Reo how strong it is or make it fast. Having satisfied himseif that it was fast at the other end, he gathered it in till it was tight and straight, and then ran on it quickly to the Bhore^—a rescued casbaway, saved by his own ingenuity.

Clubing Together.

A. rathee romantic ending of a leap-year adventure occured in one of cur neighbour ing towns a few days ago. One.of the belles of the place, rernarkablo for her good practical sense as well as her education and good looks, joined witlr a few of her sisters in inviting some of the young men to accompany them to the Literary Club one evening-, last Spring, in the usual spirit of fun which, characterizes such adventures, intending nothing but fun. Soon afterwards her- friend returned the call, aud .then eaxne again and again, apparently much pleased with the company he ..found in- the girl who had escorted him to the Oiub.. Things went nlonjj about a,s usual in such,-qases; until a fewi weeks,ago, when, on one'occasion, she interrupted'the 'usual,course ofevehts b'y vtiymg,/' See; he.ro,. Henry,.- I'd like to laioiv! if yQU meau.'busuuisjs,' and if you loycjrne a§.vycl[. : as,l.]o\;oryou', I'd like to liialro your my lui.sbaud, ■and :\ the; sooiifr the bcUoj-.' l .,n'vipj!faaid. ' Yes,:bus'ness, and (tny tiuje you may fix .will suit me.' rhe|t.Wo. were, joiufd. in,.one-. sO/iiiai'ter, e'rery" body jmj, old .pr.udirs .admiring the 'tkti cub t-Ql- fact manner or' . tertniuatiHg wh'aß was .begun ; iu. a bit.of juvenile fun. Why not'? She had, as .niueji;" right -to make her sentimuu's. ;knowiv iv l>laia 'Engldsh'as he had, and. sue. showed: her goodi sense, in doing it. (Score piip for the. ■(Jen'U'riuiaT 'Jeapyea.r, aud";reaa this as, a practical 'a p^HcaUon pj ' ,W.omnn's liights. ■) [-—Notes about'women.' ' ■:<■.!.: vm ■

Tiny Zarate.

i , ■ j j jM i|! ■■ , ; r:;;l.l 0.1 JIH ; '■'' StiNo'liiTA TjvbiS. ZAicvT.iv;.is..ja>t twenty inches4n height," is twelve, years, old, aud weighs exactly live po.iuids. Bho is .hold ing lqvees daily lit To>iiy, X^sjor s theatre,; on Broadway,, opposite the .Mijtrop.oHl-ui Hotel.' She1 is ' smaller than the sriiallesfc lady 1 ever sa\y,,is perfectly formed, and; lively, life 'a.'cricket'. i llcc< v.oica sounds liko iUci'ylng doll 'as she talks no end of Spanish, with lightnin-g.-Jike,| 1 :rap)di^y. : Beiujjj ■'6ne of a circle..waiting for tue seuorifa,'who was out ..tit dinucr, my attention had'.fof a moment, been, ctcqupitd by'1' char i;n^c ' «'itn' my neighbor, when ' There she is !' caused me to turn, quickly to beholtl' what looked.like a doll wound up andmoviii^auout. 'Is it alive?' came in voluntarily i-rom my Jip.s. The Liliputs majr have existed, I .said, !as tlie little creature ])utbut lier pQi'i'ect hand, with, a rinj? on one linger, to grasp the end of my sun uubrella.'1 She had bo hesitation in ■fchowin^^hei' pnVi'ei vence' for men, going about to greet them, in (he circle. She vvar-i not as:ked'to pcy/orm-in. anj^ \va3 r for lier aslohislied' visitors, b,uL acted simply as a (i:iild would,' playing with a wagon, turning its wheels,'drawing it about, and siit'r]£ ; iri'it'to'be, pulled across the room. Tom Thumb'is''a' giant beside Miss ZarateL She showed considerable intelli gence. '"And' as we loo.ke.d ithe . w.onder grew' lihat slip codldby any possibility know so much ": ITbr' dark brown hair is short :and curly',; h: er: "cora'plcxpn dark^,,her features are dark 1 and rVe'ry homely ;..her eyes, while, 'dark' and Bright,,. ihaye, not a., pleasant expre.s«i_on: ; A.lady gave,, her a inn: Witlv.geiiiiino Spanish coquetry she turned the:fori)!up "and 1 down beside her face, and 'pe('peVl'fit.orn"Ibel i iind jt^s a ; Spanish i.;irl i;'^'aii.' The Z;irate is from i\lexico. Her parents are common workjrig, people residing.near the Pity of Mexico. She1 was ;small" at birth 'and Las never | grown siiic'tS but;iW perfectly healtliy, and well lUveippeVi- ' ; I 'coulci' 'only, realize her. stnnli'ness Uy seeing a, young girl pick her xip iroai the'lloor and livid Jierfji; a.few nioirierit's ; l!Vh'ptf Ire''sp'e feed,' iiidoedtijiy tia and oniy a- toleta'olc-iizKl"doll. '

M .-i.- >.■■=■ a.(l.i-u -.uiilli, ->ra naturally unsentimental A in t» will s.; oji tli ■ b-ittorn of au egg wili.out t.iiilii> i.g that Hit mother tf th*t egg is, per liapa, a hundred miiea away in the r.in,

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