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Show THE ped little difference to u3 what might be the name of such fabrications or whether any name at all was given them. They would have no individuality, and where- foreaname. It would be equivalent to making a paragraph description of the nine Worthies and calling it John Doe, to distinguished it from another called Richard Roe, which we may have made of the Furies. But suppose we scan a few lines from the magic lore. Enter FERDINAND, bearing a log. Frr. There be some sports are painful; and their labor Delight in them sets off ; some kinds of baseness Are nobly undergone, and most poor matters Point to rich ends. This my mean task Would be as heavy to me as odious, but The mistress which I serve quickens what’s dead And makes my labors pleasures; O, she is Ten times more gentle than her father’s crabbed, And he’s composed of harshness. I must remove Some thousands of these logs and pile them up, Upon a sore injunction; my sweet mistress Weeps when she sees me work, and says, such baseness Had never like executor. I forget: But these sweet thoughts do even refresh my labors, Most busy, least when I do it.: Enter MIRANDA; - Mir. Alas, now, pray you, Work notso hard: I would the lightning had Burnt up thosé logs that you are enjoin’d to pile! Pray, set it. down and rest you: when this burns "Twill weep for having wearied you. My father Is hard at study; pray now, rest yourself; He’s safe for these three hours: FER. O most dear mistress, The sun will set before I shall discharge What I must strive to do. Mrr. If you’ll sit down, Tll bear your logs the while: pray, give me that; Dll carry it to the pile. . FER. No, precious creature; I had rather crack my sinews, break my back, Than you should such dishonor undergo, While I sit lazy by. Mir. It would become me As well as it does you: and I should do it With much more ease; for my good will is to it, And yours it is against. Mrr. You look wearily. Fer. No, noble mistress; ’tis fresh morning with me When you are by at night. I do beseech you— Chiefly that I might set it in my prayers— What is your name?— Her name, indeed! There is after all something in aname, when it turns out to be really the name of something. It is these names of nothing that disgust our imaginations and stultify the intents ‘of true fiction. When a page appeals to one’s sympathies in the terms of the foregoing, whether it be anovel, a drama, or a history, you may safely look about for the finger-marks of Nature. Her unerasable imprint is upon it. The master strokes of a true disciple of Nature are never shrouded in obscurity or a sense of something new and strange. ‘They come for the most part like the visitations of our youthful friends and sweet-hearts, bringing with them so many familiar memories that with difficulty we persuade ourselves that they are not a veritabie quickening of the past. Ferdinand, per se, is a fiction, an empty name; but considered as an embodiment of human traits ASSOChe ated with others equally true to Nature’s fitness, he is a part and parcel of our in- in our mind’s tellectual cosmos, filling of a living eye every necessary function soul, To presume now that Ferdinand could be anything than what he is, one of Natures noblest that creations,or Mi- randa might by a trick of the imagination be transformed to anything but the sublimest of womanly ideals, would be as absurd as the presumption that our nice, attentive Chawley, he that has been our convenient admirer these several years, might not be Chawley after all, but only the smiling shade of a beau ideal; that gentle, confiding Helena whose bright: eyes are Helena, the mag- nate of our destiny and whose continence and womanly personality have been the sole genius of our expectations, is not Helena, never was Helena, but is simply of the persistent glimmer No. women, a day-dream. True books are like true men and they linger about our lives, to ameliorate, instruct, inspire us with the realities and beauties of things that are, and quicken our reflections into a purer sympathy with Nature’s infinite subtleties. >~+—~<>—_ >. According to a French scientist Adam and Eve were the greatest giants, as he asserts Adam was one hundred and twenty-three feet in hight and Eve one hundred and eighteen. Many tall stories have been related"about our first parents but the French writer has established the fact that of Munchausens. he is the King THE FATAL OPAL. It is a fact that instances of ill luck, misfortune and disaster have been known to follow closely upon the acquisition of the opal;. but would not the results have been the same either in the absence or: possession of the gems? A lady of wealth and prosperity purchased a full set of opals and diamonds. In five years she has met with more misfortune and reverses than 1s usually crowded intoa dozen life times. Divorce, loss of fortune, beauty, social position was her lot and to the baneful influence of the wonderful opal she attributes her downfall. Au.ther lady traces her troubles to the fact of ewni.ig a beau- tiful opal ring which she keeps because it is an heir loom, but no power of persuasion can make her wear it, and her children have been warned to shun it as they would some. evil and poisonous thing. It was given her by her brother on his deathbed. The first day she wore it the water pipes burst and cause! a damage of several thousand dollars to the beautiful dec- orated and frescoed ceilings. it away, and several years She put later her daughter put it on. A gentleman friend who admired the gem asked permission to wear it. What followed is rather remarkable. He had been very prosperows, having made a for- tune with great rapadity. With the possession of the ring success deserted his efforts. Loss after loss followed one another in rapid succession and he returned the bauble a ruined man, fully assured that the baleful gleam of that mysterious stone of the ancients had exerted its influence against him. —San Francisco Chronicle. A Joke Supply my cenfidence, them; that is, if I can I tell you, m boy, scheme. ’—San Pane Perilous Balloon Great excitement was I will expose Match, No hot at home. A little package of jewelry and a note settled me. Miss M—— might have got over that coolness, but it happened that one of the Kllises had seen me climb that confounded lamppost, and the next thing [I knew the little imp of a dauber got upa cartoon depicting the ‘evolution of a smoker, beginning with a picture of Crowley and ending with a devilish good likeness of me hugging that lamp. My girl saw it, and was so mortified that she gave me the mitten.” New York Star. Writing Sade.n> Goetyorative Mercantil Institution. NYACK-ON-THE-SUDSON. 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Speedily passing out of view the balloon, asit was afterward proved, descended on a piece of land near Enfield Lock, a distance of about seven miles, at 3:58 o'clock, and the welcome intelligence was received at Snaresbrook that Higgins had eseaped a fate which all feared was inevitable and had sustained no injury beyond a severely sprained ankle. — London Telegraph. : No WEEKLY House. ‘Jokes to Let” is a sign that may he read on some office door before long, if a young man who thinks that he has got an inspiration carries out his threat. He revealed his scheme one night recently toa person whom he happened to meet. Saidhe: ‘‘Lhave gotan idea that is going to make me a fortune, and a big one at that. I am going to start a joke shop and a funny story factory. You see, 1 am something of a hand at making jokes myself, and I can hire two or three others to get up funny stories for me. Then I intend to advertise for patrons, and I'll get them easy enough. 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