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Show TWO LOVERS. DY GEOECE ELIOT. Two lovers bv a moss-jrrown spring : Ttify leaned soft cluieks tOKelhur there, Mir-glod the dark and sunny hair, And hoard tho wooing thrushes. O budding time ! O love'i best prime I Two wedded from tho portal stcpt ; The bells made happy tarroling. The air was ;oft as running wings, While petals on tho pathway slept, O pure eyed bride ! O tender pride I Two face o'er a cradle bant 1 Two hands over tho bend were locked; Tu.030 pressed each other while they roc lied, Those watehed a life that lovo had Eer.t. O solemn hour ! O hidden power I Two parents by tho evening flro ; The red lights fell about their Icaooa On heads that rose by slow degreoi Like budi upon the lily-spire. O, pa'.ient life I O tender strifu ! The two still sat together thoro, Tho red lights shono about their knees, But all tho hoads by slow degrees Had gone aod left that lonely pair. O voyage fast 1 O banished past! Tho red lights shono upon tho floor, And mado the space betweon them wide ; Thoy drew their chairs up side by side, Their pale cheeks joined, and said "Once moro !" O memories I O past that is ! THE LADIES. Diet for love Bick maidena tender linea. During leap-year overy woman lias an inalienable right to make lovo and the fire in the morning. It pleases a woman to see a man hold a plate of refreshments on hid knee at a party. He can't do it without with-out turning in hU toes. She asked him. if her new dress wasn't as sweet as a spriug rnsiv and tho brute said it was, even to the minor attraction of having a little due on it. lira, raran Stevens' house in Fifth avenue, New York, will cost, when completed, about $2,000,000. The malachite mantels in the drawing-room drawing-room come to $20,000. A Lowell saloon keeper recently advertised a free lunch, and a lady took a number of hungry children to his counter, and demanded and obtained a free meal for all of them, A Chicago genius has invented a "Sunday evening parlor chair," intended in-tended to hold two person?, with eoino scrouging. It cannot he intended in-tended as a "lover's chair," for lovers manage to make one ordinary chair answer the purpose, without complaining com-plaining without the lovers com-p' com-p' lining, we- mean. Xorristown lhrald. Why ia it that the English-speaking man lovfs not the presence and ia in- uuierent to me memory oi nu mocner-in-law ? And why, as a general thing, do they chuckle over such statements as this? " It was the night on which John Todd made bis great speech to the colored population on .Muujoy hill. Captain Morril, from ftiine to time, awoke the echoes with his cannon, i A man rushed up to him and said : "'For God's Bake don't fire any more !' " 'Why not ?" asked the astonished John. " 'There ia a dead woman lying in the next house.' " 'Well,' said John, 'if she's dead, the noise won't hurt her; and the country must be saved.' " 'Yea,' groaned the man, 'I know that; but she's my mother-in-law, and I've heard that guns will awake the dead !' A young man from one of the suburban sub-urban districts was into one of our tailor shops getting measured for a vest the other afternoon. "Married or unmarried ?" queried tho merchant, after Liking down the number. " Unmarried," said tho young man with n blush. "Inside pocket on the left hand side, then," observed the tailor, as if to himself, making a memorandum memo-randum to that efiect. After a moment's pause, the young man from the suburbs was prompted to ask: "What difference docs my being married or unmarried mnke with the inside pocket of my vest?" "Ah, my dear sir," observed the tailor with a bland smile, "all the! diflt.Tence possible, as you must see. I Being unmarried you want the pocket on the left Bide, so to bring tlie young i lady's picture next to your heart." 1 "But don't tho married man nlao want hia wife's picture next to bis heart, queried the aniioua youth. "Poisibly thero is an instance of the kind," an id tho tailor arching his eye brows, "but I have never heard of it." Danbury News, |