DEUX PENSEES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume I, Issue 2, 17 April 1880, Page 2 (Supplement)

DEUX PENSEES.

Bs Mbs. Zadbl B. Gustafson.

HE. Wheee the cool and pleasant grasses Fringe the field rill's mazes, All the way that she must pass is 'White with daisies. Will she haste or will she linger, Look austere or kindly? The light wave of one white finger Leads me blindly. There's no riddle like a maidenPliant, ductile, simple ; Into grave looks, thought o'erladen, . • Glides a dimple. Eyes — with tears that run not over—; Swift with, laughter flashing; Smiles tbat bless a doubting lover ; Fiowns, hope-dashing. See 1 she comes. Her exquisite motion Sways the daisies whitely. Never wave on summer ooean Moved more lightly. Nearer ! Oh, in what sweet fashion Will she give me greeting ? Whether with love's enow or passion ?— Haste, my sweeting 1 SHE On the grove's cool shadow yonder, How the heat is winking ! 1 Does he Bee me yet ? I wonder What he's thinking! , Shall I haste or shall I tarry ? Which would be most seemly ? Will he love me, when we marry, So supremely? ' • Love a-wooing is so dooile ! 9 Honey moon scarce over, Lo ! the husband is the fossil Of the lover.fj Ah ! he sees me. How he started ! Let us seem debating, Little daisy, yellow-hearted, While he's waiting. 11 Loves me." Ah I but do J, tell me, Love him as he sayß he Loves me ? Prithee can you tell me That, my daisy ? Ah, what a dear bouquet ! Such blending Of colours < , Dew yet on it ! • For me? Oh, thanks! Pray don't; you're bending My best bonnet !

WoNDEBITJIi PbESENOE OJF MIND.— OIBI6OOB Connelly iB a plucky man, it is to his grit and coolness that he owes his life. A few days ago, while working in the Allepheny shaft, on' East Fryer Hill, he prepared a blast and lighted the fuse, and jumping into the bucket, gave the signal to hoist away. The ; Bhaft is 240 feet deep, and when about forty fee* were 1 gained the toggling gave way< and the bucket started back' for the bottom of the shaft. Connelly felt it giving way, and managed to oatoh hold of the loop at the end of the rope. As soon as he found that he had a hold he began to yell to the men- above. They thinking he, was in a hurry to get out of reach of the blast, put on extra steam and jerked him a hundred feet in a twinkling. When about fifty feet frdm the surface, Connelly felt that his strength was giving way. He knew that he could not hold oat till the top was reached, and made up his mind to risk a bold stroke fox life. Throwing himßelf across the shaft he let go the rope, and with wonderful dexterity and good luck managed to lodge with his baok against the other. Thus braced he managed to remain until the rope, whioh had reached the mouth of the shaft empty, was sent down to him, and he I was rescued from his perilous position. — j American Paper.

Child Bbidksmaids. — The appearance of baby bridesmaids is growing common in England, and their dress iB usually so very preity that they really add. to the beauty of the bridal precession. Skirts of Langaedoo lace, looped with ruby satin ; polonaises of pink cashmere, trimmed to match the skirts, and Daohess of Devonshire hats are the principal details of the costumes of two little girls who followed Bix older bridesmaids up the aisle of an English village church the other day. Juvkniub Smokebs.— A British physician, observing the large number of boys under fifteen years of age on the streets with cigars and pipes in their was prompted to examine the breath of this class of smokers, and for that purpose selected thirty-eight boys between, the ages of nine and fifteen. In twenty-two of these cases he found various disorders of the circulation and digestion, palpitation of the' heart, and more or less marked taste for strong drink. In twelve there was frequent bleeding of the nose, and twelve had slight ulceration of the mouth, caused by tobacco. The doctor treated them for their ailments, bat with little effect until the habit of smoking was discontinued, when breath and strength were soon restored. The effect of tobacco in creating a taste for strong drink is unquestionably very great. If the testimony of some tobacco users and medical men is of any weight one of the most radical methods of keeping- the young from being led to intemperate drinking is to deny them tobMoo.— Tht Sanitarian. ■