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Show Th Story of New York Hons. There is in New York, npon one of the most fashionable thoroughfares, a most magnificent house yea, it is a veritable palace which can never be looked at by the sentimental woman without a tear coming to her eye, because of the story attached to it. It waa designed and built by one of the richest men in New York the head of an old Dutch family for the woman he loved. Throughout the whole house, which might have been called "The House Beautiful," were the colors, furnishings, furn-ishings, ornaments and dainty touches that were the young bride's taste. The ball room, in which she expected to trip so many merry measures, was walled and ceiled in many colored marbles; but the lover himself directed the building of the porte cochere under which her carriage was to roll, so that, stepping out, she would not be touched by a drop of rain or a flake of snow. Everything was ready; the horses were pawing in the stable waiting for the day to come when they would carry their new mistress out; the coachman and the footman foot-man had their big, white rosettes at hand to wear on the wedding day; the house was full of fragrance, for beautiful flowers flow-ers were massed to please the coming mistress, and everything seemed to be in harmony with all this thoughtful, loving I care; for the sun shone bright, and it was somebody's wedding day. Yes; but it wasn't an earthly wedding, for when, with quick footsteps, her mother went to wake tho expectant bride, she found her dead. The last kiss she had given had been to her lover the night before. The last kiss he ever gave any human being, he ga ve to her as she rested in her coffin. Bnt he lives on in the beautiful house and does, with his great fortune, a deal of good, all in the name of the woman he loved. The shutters are never opened in that wonderful house, the carriage has nover been used, no feet have danced in the ballroom; bnt it and the solitary man are there as evidences of the fart that a love can so completely fill the heart that all life is nothing without it. Ladies' Home Journal. J osephine Payol was recently sentenced to one week's imprisonment for allowing herself to be hypnotized in a cage containing con-taining several lions, in a menagerie at Montpolier, France. The hypnorizer is more severely punished. While the girl' was nnder the magnetic influence one of the lions tore her limbs savagely with his claws.'' - - |