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Show THE UNKNOWN, We strive to pisroe tiw vast unlmowa- To probe Us inmost heart While all about us Ilea a world That wou-M to us Impart More knowledge of its Joys and griefs, IJnsensed by senses dull, For, In our night to otbsr realms, We fail to see aad cull. - Fail- flowerlets of the rarest hue That blossom on our way ; We do not feel the pulsing waves That o'er the heart strings play. Affection, sympathy for man, But surge on rock girt shore; As citadel impregnable We close and guard the door.. Lies all around a stranger world, Its wonders little known, For we, in blindness, pass the bud To pluck the Cower full blown. 'Twere well to learn tiie lesson here Life's mysteries to solve ' In harmony, each day, to lire The truths that lives evolve. To know in heart our brother man, To feel with him akin; To read in nature's face the lova She daily ushers In. To make a realty of this life Proves the great oorner stone, When thlshe known worlU we exehangs For that we term unknown. Emma Belle Huse in SomervtUe Journal. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. It is seriously announced that the cm-perior cm-perior of Japan is having a state coach Iiuilt at a cost of $175,000. Tsu Kwo Yiu, the new Chinese minister minis-ter at Washington, is a stout man of fifty and has a wife and one son. Ho was head of a college at Pokin. William Lee; who claims to be tho sole surviving British officer in India who was present at the capture ot Delhi and the carrying of the Cashmere gate, is now living in a destitute condition condi-tion at Blunt, Tal in the Himalayas. Miss Augustus Holmes, the young Irish composer, who has adopted I ranco as her home, has received a letter front Signor Crispi, Italian premier, thanking her for her "Hymn of Love," which he calls "a remarkable .work." Oscar Wilde refused an invitation to tho dinner of the Thirteen Club of Loudon Lou-don on the ground that the object of tho club to abolish the superstitution was reprehensible and "dreadful." 'Leave us somo unreality," he cries; "don't make us too . offensively same." Joseph Jefferson's beautiful summer home at Buzzard's Bay is adorned by quantities of stained glass, for which the actor has a great liking. Tho most magnificent piece represents a scene in a southern swamp, with banana trees, date palms and water lilies in the black-ground. black-ground. Advices from Rome are to the effect that King Humbert grows more melancholy me-lancholy day by day, and that Queen Margheritta is afraid to leave him alone. Perhaps if the queen were to leavo him alone tor a few months he would become ruoi-e cheerful. It works that way iu some cases. . A newspaper mau who called to iu-quire iu-quire concerning Mine. Bernhardt's health during her recent illness was ushered directly into her bed-room. Around the room were seated a dozen or more authors, artists, ct al., of varying vary-ing degrees of eminence, who took turns at sitting in the one favored chair, close to the bedside. |