Show HAPPY AT art HOME imme the little straws of every day habit i floating slowly and silently down the stream of life show very plainly which way the tide bots sots and when mrs purple says with a groan my husband never spends his evenings at home it is natural to enquire within ones self why it is that mr purple finds other resorts so much more attractive than the household alter 1 I dont see why he cant be a little more domestic I 1 says mrs purple well why is it there thero is a reason for everything in the world say eay philosophers and there must be a reason for this in tho the first place mrs purple is one unfortunate housekeepers whose work is never done there is always some something thi rig dragging a room to be swept lamps to be trimmed fretful babies to be put to sleep while one oyo oye is on the boiling meat and the theother other on the muddy footprints foot prints unwittingly left by mr purple on the doorsteps there purple I 1 knew just how it would be i I 1 wonder if you know the use of a scraper or a door mat I 1 should think after all the time ive spent in cleaning up tip and mrs purple goes off into a monotonous recapitulation of lier tier troubles arid and trials that has all the effect ofa of a lullaby upon a baby howe however verr trying it may bo be to the feelings of the babas fat fattier bier fier Mor hor moreover dover mrs purple with all her cleanings gleanings clean ings up does not understand the first principles of keeping a house neat things are always round in the way table covers put on awry dust and an ashes dashes under the grate curtains torn away from their fastenings and pinned up until mrs purple can find time to readjust re adjust them somehow it looks fur lorn and desolate and when the master of the house comes anat in at night mr purple manlike cant tell where the defection lies he dont analyze the chill that comes over his heart as he crosses the threshold he only knows that things dont look ship shipshape shape and so he takes his hat bat when his cifes back is turned and sneaks ignominiously off die ole glad giad ad to get away from the dead alive niro fire the dusty room and mrs purples tongue who wh 0 can blame the man mr purple may bo ba lazy and careless very likely he is most men have a tendency that way but nevertheless he dont like to be told of it over and in that persistent illogical sort of a way that reminds you of an old hen running from side to side in her coop and poking her head through the tho bars in the same place every seven seconds mr purple naturally wonders why his wife dont occasionally allude to the few good qualities lie he happens to possess mr purple has lias every inclination to be happy at home if his ills better half would only give him a chance of all the sweet tinted pictures of domestic happiness that we find in the pages of holy writ there is none that suggests more quiet comfort than abraham sitting in his tent door in the heat odthe of the day und under erthe the shadow of the palm tree of mamre depend upon G n it the good old patriarch never spent his evenings away from home he believe in just going across the plains to lots house or running over to sodom to hear the news no abraham liked to set sot quietly in his hia tent door and very likely mrs sarah would come and lean over his shoulder and chat wilh with him bim after tho the oriental we have the very best of testimony for knowing that she sho was very amiable under the ordeal of unexpected company when the calf tender and good was dressed dressed and the three measures of meal baked on the hearth the idea of looking beyond the sphere of home for enjoyment is at the root of many of our modern evils home should be the very vers center and sanctuary of happiness and when it is not there is some screw loose in the domestic machinery if you want to surround a you agman man with the best possible safeguards guara guard dont overwhelm him with the in maxims and homilies homilius ho milies as to what he is and is not to do but make his home happy in the evenings let him learn that however bad and cruel the outside world may be he Is always sure of sympathy and consideration in one place tim THE gelm GERMANS OF OP ST louis louls A correspondent afan of an easter caster exchange writing from st louis of the germans ger inells in that city says statements recently published show that they fill nearly all the luera lucra lucrative tIve offices in this city our tax list show their avidity to become landowners and the significant facts that their language is taught in all the tho public schools and that clerks unable to speak the language have difficulty in securing situations 1 are sure indications of their present s strength and future growth JUVENILE JUVE nile for several months mouths pasta past a gang of young boys the oldest not exceed exceeding ilig fifteen years and the youngest not over ten or eleven have been ranging along the city front of san sair francisco stealing whatever they could lay their hands on and disposing of their thein plunder to various junk 11 shopkeepers and other dealers the little rascals had affected a magnificent achievement in the line of scientific mining or civil engineering criminal engineering ring nearer the term having cayot ted under the sidewalk from a shop on davis street to sacramento street and thence along sacramento nearly up to front through this tunnel they have been conveying th L plunder taking it from the mouth i on the inside to the sidewalk in a vacant lot loton on sacramento street and disposing of df it at various places around town rieso eiver river reveille transylvania ITS PRODUCTS AND PEOPLE under tills this title a london house lids has published a work which gives a full account of the singular country of transylvania vania the author charles boner seems to have studied the people with care and ills liis sketches ar are e piquant i auant of 01 the two million inaam inhabitants innabi tants 0 of f transylvania are hungarians Hung arians and germans but hut nearly twice as many as both of these numbering about are the Wallach lans ians relics relies of dihe the old tenants of the soil augmented by a great many strangers of nil all sorts A wallach peasant of today to day says mr boner will take all the fruit in your garden or orchard be he having none and being to indolent to io cultivate e any and on remonstrating him he will not allow it as a theft for what god makes grow must belon belong g to him as much as to you by the same mode of reasoning he steals now as he did three hundred years ago the trees from his neighbors foreste forest and drives his herds into their carefully kept meadows it 1599 they bored a gimlet int into 0 the backbone of the clergyman of grossau grassau Gr and hung him up by it in his hia own sacristy and during the late lato hungarian hun garlan garian revolution they daily committed similar cruelties cruel ties if not worse gipsies abound and one of t heir their set I 1 tl thus described A GIPSY settlement it consisted of earth huts about seven fee feet high thigh you might as well weli have e been in new zeland or among the aborigines of australia for any signs signi of culture to be found here the habitations seen by livingstone in the interior of africa showed far more neatness and skill in their construction children vero were running about quite naked nake dandas and as darkas dark as nubians Nub Nu ians blans nothing can exceed the misery of these huts huta as human dwellings within on the earth for cooking purposes or for warmth they make a small fire tire as there is no chimney the whole interior is filled with smoke on one side is a board with a miser miserable ablo able blanket or some rags and alyd this is the bed of the family the sides of the hut are made well mixed till it assumes a consistency and within this place like a large beehive squatted on the ground were women and children occupied with their household work listless or at play asleep on the bare i earth was a naked child a state more befitting a wild abild animal the whelp of a beast of the forest than a human being but its face was pretty and it lay with that exquisite grace which is I 1 inherent in infancy some of the huts have a division and th the I 1 inner part parl a rt serves as a storeroom store room for corn an old pd barrel as a lair for some of the family in one hut a mother was on her knees bathing her babe of a year old in a sort of large wooden tray and with her hands splashing the warm water over the brown little animal she was herself very youn young gand and it was a pretty sight to see her delight as the little creature chuckled and enjoyed the rough bath in each such settlement one man is named the overseer of the colony and has to keep order and prevent quarrels in the I 1 was today to day it so happened that the son of the overseer had beaten his father and separating himself from him had gone to live apart in a hut close by on our approach both parties came to complain of their wrongs and the mother of the worthless son immediately took part ji against her husband the young wife of the delinquent was standing outside her hut and seemed rather embarrassed at hearing her husbands behavior so P publicly canvassed N Y evening post tim THE Louis louls louisiana iana laua country papers give sad accounts of the floods and the distress consequent provisions are being constantly forwarded the corn cane and cotton of three parishes have been destroyed the work to close bouligny Boull gny crevasse is progressing but the floods are high another crevasse a hundred feet wide has broken through below new orleans on the right bank and threatens the opelousas railroad the bed red river country and the ouachita Qu Ou achita i and atchafalaya Atchafala ya rivers bivers are adne one vast I 1 ocean RUSSIAN AMERICAN TELEGRAPH major P F L pope the assistant en gigear of the russian american telegraph has reported to col bulkley that he has surveyed the country from lake to the head waters of the river british Coluin columbia bla bia a distance of three hundred miles and found an excellent route for the building of the telegraph line the entire distance it proceeds th through ronall a fine region of prairie land and a right tight wooded country where a trail can be opened at a very slight expense this is the section which was most dreaded by the projectors of the line as all reports concerning the same led to the belief that it presented formidable obstacles to the successful prosecution of the work the country north of the river is of like character as near as can be ascertained major pope left lake on the of february with one white man a and nd two indians and traveled nive five hundred bundred miles on snow shoes he descended the river in a boat from the head of steam navigation to the sea a distance of one hundred and eighty miles he reached the ocean even seven hundred miles north of victoria V L I 1 on the of may having been seventy days out from lake major pope has shown great energy in pushing this survey through resul resulting fing so favorably and is is entitled to much credit for his tact and skill in the manage ment of the various indian tribes in the northwest with whom he be is on the most friendly terms contrary to the expectations peet actions of many persons the natives manifest a disposition to give every encouragement coura gement and assistance to the great grent reat enterprise now in progress seem beem aug fug ang to recognize its vast importance i alta aita ila alia I 1 june 2 AND ART ant A remarkable derogation from the law of mahomet has just taken place at tangier the koran as is well known forbids the reproduction by painting or sculpture iture of any living creatures and confines those arts to flowers and ara bosques bes beas ques the Cheriff of a ade de cendana of the Prop prophet het bet and a man held in great reverence by the people of morocco has just had his portrait taken by the well known french artist M landelle baron daquin french minister at tangier who possesses a remarkable talent as a draughtsman has also taken a likeness of the cheriff and presented it to him A CUNNING trout g readers Reader of the bulletin who have had occasion to call at the office of the spring valley water company in this city may have noticed the fine mountain trout there confined inan in an aquarium trout are proverbially cunning but this specimen seems to be gifted with this faculty almost to reason fed with flies by the attaches of the office and visitors he rises readily to take his food from t the he S surface of the water or as is often ofton the case leaps into the air to take an impaled fly from the tip of a broomcorn broom corn stalk some months since one of the clerks used arteel pen in the impaling process by which the fish injured its m mouth orth when ll 11 jumping in consequence of which he has as fallen into disgrace with his trout ship when this clerk offers a fly the fish rises to the surface sees who the donor is and quickly subsides to his lurking corner contemptuously waving his tail tall and and paying no attention to the bait it matters not how hungry ho he may be or how tempting the fly the trout will not touch it but let a stranger come immediately afterwards the offering is accepted with avidity san francisco bulletin A jolle JOKE ON ox henry wd ward Bee nee beecher cherbas has hab lately been pitching into the practice of working railroad conductors and drivers on sunday the other day mr beecher in his peculiar way was making inquiries or 01 a conductor to whom he was unknown as to whether the sunday riding could not be broken up gli ill 1 I think it might be I 1 said the conductor but for that confounded fellow beecher so many fancy people from all ou parts visit his establishment that it makes the road profitable labe if he would only the thing could be bo dope dong 11 |