' 01II: 111^ Will 8UPPLE1KEHT. ' CAPE MAY CITY. NEW JERSEY. SATURDAY. MAY 31. 1884.

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Too wonA,T tbit B J Irani abooU tow. ' "JEr'— ; i H:£l^rT-- ' TM God IcrtilA 1B.I 1 UmU 1» ' I ' The Haunted Corridor.. "I don't believe a word of it!" said tj Aunt Hebeoa&. The wine-like glow of «nnoct yet flln _ milted the great bey window ; bat the • rest of tbe Apartment w*« Already ea 1 nbrondod in the gray shadows of twilight, [ in whoso misty indistinctness the huge | claim of horved oek looked like.gigautic j 1 monster* from aomo foreign ebons ' | Prom the walls frowned down dark old family portraits, and the arimsoti hang | ings above the arched doom waved rait- | | Irmly back and forth in the draughts of ■ j wind'that swept through the vast oorri- ; • ^or"I donl believe a word of it!"* ro- : I prated Aunt Rebecca. with more empha- I I »i» tlian before. " A ghost story in j | deed ! " "Tell me about it. Violet," said young j liazclwood. to whom the doep bay win j low, with ita far-off prospect of aaoivi ; hills, veiled in gathering twilight ; tor. iv j - nothing of protty Violet Ormi's clou i i. ! cinagn, -arere infinitely more attractive j than the mure modern regions of Alnwick ; 1-laoS lj "It is not much of a story," said V.— i let, flashing up to her very evelas'u:- . • | the sound of her own soft voise, "o. ly j . i years ago, long before my great-grand- | L ! papa built this house, the bite wai nil ■a one unbroken wood, and there was n tr.i c ditiorrUrat a bcoabfal gid was mard - by her lover! Her grave, they said, war ,e r Irenes tk the foundations of the hour.- ; j bat I scarcely croilit this part of the le- " Of course not." interrupted Miss ReIrooca. with a toas of her false curia. " I , liave no patiesioo with the relics of old i nnpcnitiliuii." , "What are you looking for, auotf" ' Have you dropped anything? Shall T • u call for Harris to bring a candle! " asked Violet, a moment afterwards ooming to her aunt's side. "Nothing, nothing," said Miss Be- , lieoos, with s littlo embarrusement iu , • lier voioe "Oome dont stay here any j luogcr in tile biting odd. unless you both , j "11 isnotoold. Aunt Rebeoea,"pload-d j, I Viulvt, "and the starlight is SJ beautiful ( on tire stone pavement Just let us wai: until that fiery planet mounts a littk higher." But a peremptory summons from Out . Urme himself, who had juat waked from ] a ooniinrtable nap beside tire glowing lire iu the library, to a aort of vague won- ' dor as to "where Bebeoca and tiro young ( people oould poesibly be," spor-dilv eet- ' lied tbe matter. "Neror mind, Violet," whispered Charier Hanoi wood; "by and by wlreu , vcor father baa guoe to bis room and Aunt Kobooca is bnyy with her ouripapers in her own special dormitory, we > vac have a stnriight stroll through the ' !■ ghosts territory ! " Violet gave him an arch glsnoe aa she ' tripped after Aunt Brbeeaa into the hall siiiob led to OoL Omie'a brilliantly u Hgbtedbbrary. "I wish Gap'- lUlJwbod wouldn't re ( i- main out tlrere," avid Ann^ R-beooa anx ( " cold : ami. beside. " "Beaidos what. Aunt Betooea?" ' "Violet." Mid the maidan -lady, " I j ( wish yon would go down and tee if tire , housekeeper has prepared that posset for ' my sun- throat, that's a good girL 1 think' I ahnll go to bed." ! Violet went to execute her Aunt's bo- f How peacefully the distant hill, and ' valleys slept in their snowy mantles tlral glorious December night. Itremindod . oue of a lovely painting executed with 1 ' brush oa dipped in liquid pearl, and I shaded with pencils of glimmering ril- 1 , At least, so they teemed to Charles L. Haxolwood aa he stood in the deep reeesa of the gigantir bay-window, nearly bid1 den by the curtains, tbe faded splemloi r j of wboae tarnished embroidery carried ! the mind anbocsciooalj a century back- > . ward on the stream of time. But then Charlea Haxnl wood was in love. ' 2 The tall, old-fashioned clock in the hall x was striking twelve, and the colony of crickets under the warm k earth-Won twvra falling into a dreamy, aluopy aort of chirp, 11 if their small lung* were fairly wearied out. prbwi Annt Bebenca emerged from her door, tratding on tiptoe, and carrying a dim light in bar band. No*. Aunt Retwooa, in nodding fal-e • u In lsce coiffure, and eighteen-year-old ■ style of draa, was a very different aort ■t of penunaga from Aunt RehoriA, with : bar bead tied up ia • alk handkerclurt

I her false curls laid aside, and a long , j white dressing -robe enveloping her lank ' j figure ; and the latter was by no means i the more prepoasessing of the two. ! Probably some such consciousness i : swept across the good spinster's brain, j j for she shuffled ngth accelerated rapidity j ( past the solemn eyes of the grave old I . family portraits on The wall. " I ain sure I dropped them somewlun-e ' •</ the bay-window. "How provoking! ' light i- a.) bright Mereyupouus! what . > thst? Till' ghost!— the gli.el And Aunt IMiecoa fled abrieking >wn Ike corridor, her hands clapped over her , eyes, before which was imprinted the up- j pulling vision of a tall figure sweeping • I osl, ull in white, with a crimson stain at : ; ilt j lallid throat I I 1 ho house was aroused into instauton- ' ; ecus commotion, lights .flashed into I hrigbtnees at the various doors, and an : eager circle of inquirers surrounded Auut j ihbeoca, who evmcecj strung symptoms ; of an intentiou to go into hysterics. "it glided past nie like a gust of „ wind ! " she shrieked, replying at bar- . j ard to the questions rained down upon i "her —"all in white, with that dreadful „ 1 umrk of blood upon its throat ! It's a D waroiug - 1 know it's a srurnifig that I _ , haven't long to live • Oh. what shall I j d»— what slatll 1 dof " . j "But 1 don't understand what you . i were doing out in the Ghost's Corridor 1 1 at this time of night," interrupted Col . j Urme, staring at his sister as if not quite j certain whether this were au actual . occurrence iu rail life or merely afnkg- . | meutary part of his last dream. . j "Wen, if yon must know." said Mi« ; llcbecoa, with a little hyatcrio sob. "I ! . | Irojijied my {also teeth there, just nt I dusk, aud 1 dhhi'l like to iiaik for the;;; | , with Violet nod GapL Hazelwood stand- j ; iug by, so— aud so" . I "(Mm! that's it, tdi ? * said Col. Orme. . j laugliing. " Upon my wont Sister j . I Ihoky, you are tatjicr overqinrtieular ! for a woman fifty years old." "Only farty-iiiue James," interrupted 1 1 Mia* Il -iwoca, with a shrill accent of indignities. , "But Uie ghost!" inquired young i H;i»ilwooii who had just arriral on the I seeue .if ucbom witli rutiier a flushed ) ■ blow and embarrass- 1 air. ' Upon which Annt liebeopa gave way I to thc_ oombjuo.1 influene-M of lier • brother's unkind remark and the fright of ghost-seeing, and. fairly fainted witli- ■ further notion. According to the nana! I Col. Orme and all the other gentlemen sore hustled out into the lult while the victim of the femrl; officials was deluged j ' with ran do ooli.gui', stifled witli-lmrid ' I fe .tliexA and vigoroosly treated with hot ' ' flannel "She's ooming to. po-w dear ereatnrol " was Uie final verdict hurled al j 1 GoL Onne through a crack in tlie d'Hir. i "Well. I'm ghid of it I'm mm-." said I ' the Colonel dolorously, rubbing liia ' hands, "for it's cold oat here in the kaiL Why hill.* ! is this you, my little Violet ? \Vh.it'« the matter? You haven't seen a ghost, I hope?" "So, pa]*," faltered Violet, "but" — "3npp"se we three adj m'ra into the j binary, CoL Onne. and I will uuuertoke | tin- in.k of lahkiiatiou." iiiterpoe. il | Ciatflm HAXelw'sid^Mllle Violefh cheeks j "Well, may I venture to inquire what | all this uiram< ! " interrogated the be - il- j dered Co'.ouel when the library door was ! eufily closed. " It means sir." aaiil Ohariee, lsugliing. yet a Utile puzzled how to proot-,1. " dial Violet, your daughter, and I were just looking out at the starq. in the em- ' 1 rasure of the grrat ball window, when we saw some one approaching with a liglit. Violet went to sue what the ap- ' 1 1. ritioi; meant, when Miss Bebecon (whom it proved to be) dropped her candie and ran shrieking sway. " "Bo Violet was the ghost, eh?" said j tha Colontd. reproaaing a very strong in-i-!iiiatiun to laugh "Yon ace, ]*pa." interposed that ' young lady. " I wore my long casbmen- ; ; mantle, for I was afraid of taking oold. ! and it was, tied at the throat with red ' liblKinx'and" "And Adnt Bebeoaa took it f-ir granted that you were the murdered heroine of our family ghost story," aaiil the Colonel, archly. "But allow me to ask. young pooplu. what you were so much interested in! ' "Well, air." aoid Hasnlwood. "I liad just asked her if alie wouldn't marry me ' don't run away. Violet— and alio Mid J "Yea' that is, if I could win her father's | "Well! " 1 "And I would like to hear what her ' lather Myi to the proposition!" added I Violet, who was struggling to crape. t "He aaya," answered CoL Orme, "that' ' ' intrepidity in facing tbe ghost do. 1 ocrvea some reward, and be likewise sup- ' hi have her own way. Take her, Charley. and don't spoil bra !- Ko m-— V- now, but ' U-t roe go andjnu after your Atmt Be1 beooa. ) . "Papa! " whisjierod Violck sake roa<^ I with hia hand on the dour. "Well my deer I " "Don't Id! Aunt Booky that—that"— I "That you were the ghost! Just a* i you please." . after hia sister's health. There is no evi-

® I dmor flat he ever did In-tray Violet's 1 secret ; tilt two things may be regarded " • aa settled facta in the records of Alnwick ! I lace— one is that Aunt Itelo-oca strerin- ' " i ouaiy ilenina the exirtenes of ghosts, and \ L ( abhora the very sight of her nciqp's white J j mautlc with cherry trimmiugS ; the otiier 1 J ; is that she is particularly careful never ' to | map through the solemn old haunted 1 " hall alone after sunset ! « a ' ( The number of invention* that fryve 1 . been made during the past fifty year* is ! , u ouprooedeuted in the history of the wurld. j . luventious of benefit to the unman raoe 1 | K ( hare been made in all ages since man | , K ' was created ; but looking back for half a j , , hundred year*, how many more ore | crowded into the past fifty than into auy j , other fifty aiuoe recorded initiatory! The , 0 pcrfecttan of the locomotire, anil the , q now world-traversing stiamslrip*. the | ( t' legraph. the telephone, the audiplKine. | , the aewin^omchiue. the phptograjih. the | cylinder printing press, ciiroino litis.- j ,[ graph printing, the elevator for hotel* , aud other many-storied buildings, the , Q cotton gin and the spinning.jcnuy. the , ] reaper, the mower, the steam UireshiT. ( a the steam fire engine, the improved pro1 ova for making steel the application of , I ether and clilorofonu «Odratroy sensi- . bility in painful^aurgery cases and no on j r through a long catalogue. Nor ere we , r yet doue in the field of iuventiim and div , om-ry. The appliostion of coal gas am! , . petroleum to hratiug and cooking opera- . ] tions is only trembling on the verge o! , I ; pig is forrahsilowcd ns sniou^tlie coming | ] c'enti; the artificial production of but- , . ter has already created a ooilsh -ruati'in . among dairymen ; tits navigation of the j air by some device akin . to our- present balloon would also seem to be prelignml, t ! md the propulsion of lnackuiory by cloo- i r tricity is now clearly m iirah-d by the ] march of experime it There are some . I problem* which we have hitherto doomed . r them more snbtle to grasp iiuu tluit o! , , ''gp ceam^fle or that ^Uie phoUvgrnph , more from where wo articulate before the . microplione. Uudcr the blaring sun of > j rivaling the most aoliii nudcrystaliue pro- - 'I net in: is qf nature. Oar surgeons graft q the akin from one person's arm to the , I faoe (4 another, and it adheres and tie- - ! oome* an intregal |"irtiou of liis body. ^ ' | 1 'ld scud it on u spool that a perfecting | ' j printing prwes Unwinds and print*, and ( ' | many thousand* per hour. Of a verity, f ^ | world reached a atop|iing-;-Iaoo yet i There is a pretty good story from Antwerp of a reoeut pcrfonnanoe of " 'Hie Huguenot*." The grand theatre of Ant- . j *~wp draws ita operatic "supers" largely ; | fr"-n t!ie seiui-military population of the " . j < iimlier of .x-eiraisaliosl dignitaries in the ' t j K-mre--. OjMwatic rehearsals are aoocai l; - j esrjy aomewliat limited iu number, an li 1 I I the alvgo-mauager, not trusting to ones, " I ]. laced himsi-if in the wings, in order to >< - ensure the clearing of the atign at the , proper moment Unfortunately that gen- ' t thimnn lust the peculiarity of speech • found chiefly among the Mediterranean i Trench (he was from Martinique) and ' i was ntiahle to prouonuoe the letter r. All 1 - . was going beautifully, nutil the time came v I to give the signal "Sorts:!''— "Betire! ' ' - cried the manager ; lint the word sounded r ! like ■'Sasfo!"-"Danoe! " "Soidc!" 1 1 lie repeated, a* the liewililero.1 sujm-t> | ; vitation. The poor -fellows had never 1 I ' tricl to daooe in publia The thought I ■ | lud novo- entered their simple minds ' ; that such conduct would lie expected ol ' I ; bishops and priests. But the necessity ' j fur immediate aotion became apparent " f Tin- manager oommeuoed to danoe with 1 rage in the wings reiterating bis oom *' I mauds more aud more audibly, until at ' • last with Uie courage of desperation, the ' > unfortunate supers overcame their first T I iiiidity. aud proceeded to tonus or dauo < to the best of their ability, until at last 1 amid the hilarious s]pieks of the audi- , • enoc. the frantic efforts of the performers, j, and the wild yells of the unfortunate e r most original termination of on act ever * 1 witnessed on auy stage. , I ... C As s matter of fact, and in spile of it- ~ I listing carried Mahomet in four jump. ^ from Jerusalem to Mecca, seven miles an ^ t hour, says a contemporary, is ths oamel's "n beat pa® ; nor can it maintain this rate (| i rvsr twe hours. Its urual speed is shout u l , fire miles an hour— a slow, lounging pace ^ Ivyond which it is dangerous with nine camels out of ten, to urge them, or el— p . as Asiatics My, they " break their hsarte " , and die "literally" on the spot Fooooe a camel has been pressed beyond J this speed and is spent it kneels down. " . and not all the wolves of Aria will make k' jt budge again. * ®

.Smyrna is, as the most important city of A«ia Minor, naturally the heodquar1. rs of the dealers tu Greek antiquities. Mr. Whittsll a 'well-known merchant ti.iwc, hud formed a very fine collection of cuius which was dispersed in London in 1807. and fetched ATTH'.i. When excavating at the base of the colossal statuo ! of Athena, in her temple at Friene, Mr. j Clarke found five letrndrachms of Oronude king of Cappadocis by Demetrius . j iii 158 B. C. These were absoluti-ly j j uuiqun.. Iu Cypru* aome yeara ago the > British ounanl at Larnaoaobmiuedalnrge , ; which had been discovered during ' I building opcrationa This was a par- ' j alariy rich find, as amongst them hapjiened to be no fewer than thirty-four j J undohcriliod pieces of Philip, Alexander; theGreatand Philip Ariiheos. Mr. Wood. | when eiravating on the site of the Tem- j pie of Artemis at Epliesns. catno upon a ! lot of more than 2,000 coins of the! 1 thirteenth and fourteenth oeuwrios. In! 1870, some workmen, when digging, catno 1 a vase containing,- among other! relics of antiquity, aome fifty electrum ; staters of Cyricas and IampsaGU* all of tbe cod of tlie fifth unitary B. C- Only ; a f.-w vetvn, ago. in that must out-of-the. ! part pf Ceutra] Asia more thau 100. mile* Ira-Ond the Oins. was di-«ovensl a' of coins chiefly of tlie Helcucadsy ! listing bom the thin! century B. C— j showing how far. even inlhose surly days, i trade had been tarried. A few of tliem. ! too. were nnknowu piece* of Alexatuier j the Great. Without being prepared tu : go into exact particulars, we should ituiigine thai a find in 1877 of 20.852 Bomsu i coin* in twu vases iu Bhotanoor Park, j Hampshire, was one of the most ex ton- ■ rave ever known. Gold rings nn» mad- from l*rs nine or ! < fifteen inches long. A bar fifteen inchos! nbout two indies wide and tiiree' Kixtelmtha of au inch thick, is worth about £2(10. • It would make liOO fmr-pramt • | weight rings. A do^cti ]mwvi„-i an-1 j I the lor into merohanlaWe rioga. A pair ! ! of idicora cufa the Irani into strips. Byji tii-turn of a wheel one. two or tliroe 1 1 time* tlie guillotinc-lile bhule of the ! ' Inwrs cut* Uio bar into slices, one, two I i or three-sixteenths of au inch wide. A > rolling machine presses out tbe strips! t and makes them flat or grooved. Each ! I "trip i* then put uuder the blowpipe and j I aunealed. Hie oxide of oopper ou no* toj i the -urfaoc, and is put into a pickle of I $ nilptiurie arid, the bit of gold is atatii|M*l! I with its quality, and tlie name of tli- j uaik-r. and is put through a maehinellnit - • into the shape of a ring. th»| 1 *ame making a ring of any size. The ! ' "lid* are soldered with au alloy of inferior ' flu. now to the quality of Uiering. Many , I tieople imagine that rings are run iu a ; a mould lxvause lliey tan'l see where titer | * •in- soldered. Tito ring spin* through i the turning lathes, is rounded and pared, t and polished, first with tripoli and then < witli a'et-1 filing* aud rouge. t 1 know-many people in "this oonntiy ' who have a* their atiecial bobby the : hreediug aud flying of pigeon* in a fri- j" vale way. quite independent of clnbs— tx-nple wlio never go very far away from 1 Inline without takitg a pigeon or two ' along witji them t i send back with news "f their safe arrival, or their mioeem or ' in matters of business. 1 1 had the following told me by a friend and ' have tw reoMKl to doifbt tlie truth of il : ' A gentleman of rather shy ili«position ' came down from Loudon to a town not a ' hundred miles from Warwick, bout on 1 proposing fo a young lady with whom li" greatly in love. Sbe was the daughof a well-to-do landowner and a fancier of Antwerp camera The Londoner, larked tlie oourage or opportu- ' uit.r of popping the question. He wa* ' hold enough, though, before takilig leave. 1 beg tbe loon of oue of his lady-love', ' pots, just " to tell her of his safe arrival 1 in town." The bird returned from Lou- ' don the same day, and in the Utile quill ' It I sire to ita rnisl^M a meaaage— that. 1 after all, might ifiore simply aud natur- 1 a'ly have been conveyed by lip — to wit, a ' •1'vlaration and a proposal A more art- ' though innocent way of getting ont c if a difficulty oould hardly havo been do- ' vised. It was successful too. " TWO CURIOUS WII.LK > Peter Symonda, by his will made in „ ordained that sixty of the youngest > iu Christ's Hospital should each re- j ive ouoj a year a gift of a new penny 1 and a bag of raisins. These were to ta distributed after Divine aervitw evriy a Good Friday morning in Allhallow'a c Cliureh, Lombard street Tbe inatrno- l tiona liave been carefully carried out ever I «inoe the donor's death, which took plat* t about 151KI. At St Bartliolomew' thi, 't Great Weat Bmilhflelil another ciiriou* li annual custom is observed ou the same p day "-one which has been regularly kept 0 up for nearly the last 400 years. Twrmty ■ a churchyard, and each oarriM away a new sixpence which has been laid thnreou for ^ the purpose. . Tlie name of tlie l>enefaot- f re* has long sinoe been forgotten. l To what alight mod poor beginning* u may not the greatest roaulta be traoed « back, ereo by our own imperfect know!- li edge! » '

>* When a ship is built for a particular I - t radu and for the purpose of carrying e«r- I t tain specifia cargoes she may then, of I t c.urae, be so dteigued aa to be quite I r stable, in all conditions, while thus em- I a 1 1 loved ; but when vessels are built, as I - they often are. to dimensions fixed by I o owners, for general trading purpose* it I '. is wldom possible for the designer to I - provide against instability arising in some I s poraible or conceivable orcumatanoea of I a loading. The dne preservation of sta- I r | liility in anoh aasea requires to be watched I 8 and provided for by those who control J o the loading. It i* erronoooa to suppose, I If as appears to be aometimee done, that a I - ' cargo-carrying atoamer should be so oon- I . urneted and proportioned aa to ran no I r ii*k of becoming unstable, however she I r ; may be laden. If thi* idea were acted I , upon such a mode of preventing inatabil- I - , itv. however easy and plausible it may I a at first sight appear, to be, would only I 0 ! defeat the desired object of promoting I 1 . '--ifoty at sea. because it would, make I a ; many vessels dangerously stiff wben laden I r ! with aome classes of cargo. The true and I i ! reasonable mode of procedure is not to 1 attempt to construct a ship so that ehe I j- ; will be stable however she may be laden, I - 1 hut to see that any tendency she msy I » have toward instability —if any «ueh exist I a —is understood by those: in charge of I , her, and that she is always laden with I . ; careful referenoe to il There are no I , ftcamcra afloat, whatever tendency they I 1 "-ay liave toward instability as sometiuMa I r laden, that they may not be' kept perfectly I j tale if treated with full knowlodge of . what their stability is, aud the stowage J regulated ncainlingly. One great prob- , Jem that tlie mercantile naval architect . has just now to solve is, how any dangwrj ou* features Of a ship's stabihty are to be I made clearly known to those in charge 1 of her, and in what manner they ran be ; brat taught to regulate the loading in r cases where special care mar be required. DECLINE or THE sih.it The dancer lias ceased to be regarded I as a serious artist, for tho very sufficient i r.ason that dancing has declined from ■ III" icvol of a genuine art Tho poetry • : "f motion lias degenerated into a florid iiuromantic and often, it must bo i aided, a somewhat meretricious prose. I I Dancing is no longer a vehicle for the , exhibition of the beanty of measured i! movement; it is merely a medium for 1 the display of tile symmetry of female I ; firm. The beginning of the decline set 1 1 it is not fanciful to imagine, with the f gradual change in the ballerina's on- ! ll tnnie. Tho "pcti of tbe ballet" whose ,1 portraits adorned the walls ofthedau- » generation ago were eocum- | hi red, aa their suooessors must think. ; with ■ superfluity of drapery ; but as tho ; flirts shortened the true vitality of the waned, and when the last point of ii abbreviation was readied Torpnicliorr. | ho to those that rightly understand her. i* every whit as modest as her sisters, retired scandalized from the stags Assuredly, there ore only eight Muses now. have young women who can caper with more or 1om agility, who con perliupe lea]i higher Uinu their mothers becross a pair of blue satin boots with a 'iarzling swiftness that leaves nothing to Is- dmired ; but tlie grace of floating movement, the speaking charm of g»e ure, the ever-varying enchantment of " woven paoee and of waving hand*" are Uodgned to show nothing but the sliapocarer lii-rw-ll has seldom anything else •xis.pt mere nimblcneM to show. The •riph of the era of Taglioni has become Uie female acrobat of to-day. Whatever distinction* oomos from a title the American of to-day eagerly , craves. Kich American girls are laughed at fur going to Europe aud giving up , home, old aasociations, their freedom, their fortunes aniT themselves for the sake who has absolutely nothing else to ilis- , beings ; but only a minority of our titleare of tho gentler sex. Our men. those of them whose reputation for sense is cnviaLle, seem willing to luae time, money and peaoe of mind to onyflWent, if, by so doing- they can be odloaTiy any civil or military title. Law. vera whose practioc is very remunerative, frequently beoorne judges, at low salaries, 1 as to be occasionally oddreraod as "Your Honor. " Clubs are organized, apparently that aomo particular man may liave his name appear^jn 'print aa p resilient ; and as for societies. " councils" and "lodges." their names and the title* of thedr offioers are innumerable; even the very secret and ex elusive order of Masons number mora members in tin. United Stales than in any other country. and it is impossible not to believe I hid many men are attached to it by the ixwobility of attaining official position, or. al loast, of wearing the signs of their It> not »1 ways, and perhaps not often, tbe gravest men and womenlare the strongest or the most earnest, ftf* true there is a mirth born of Irreality, whoso shxllusrncfls is soon apparent, but there is also a joyonsnsM and freedom of heart uid manner which beepeok a tullnere of life and a depth of character, and tail ol abaBdut www for future needs.