Dr. Beecher's First Carpet

Seveuty years ago carpeta were rarely seon in American families of the middle, olassee, as they are now rarely round in Germany. Dr. Lyman Beecher gives uu amusing account of the autobiography of his first carpet at East Hampton, L. I. His wife spun a bale of cottou and had it "voven. Then slio iitted it to the Hoor, sized, and painted in oils, vriñi a bright border around it, and bunehea of roses mil other flowers ovor the center. Sh_o took also sorne common wooden chairs and cut out figures of gilt paper, gluing tlieni on and varnishing theni. The general effect was very beautifnl. The East Hampton people were quite Ktartled by tbe uovelty. One of the uli draeons rulled at the house, but stopped at the parlor door, as if afraid to enter. " Walk in, deacon ; walk in," said the minister. " Wliy, i enn't 'thout stepping on it," was the answer. Then urveying it with evident admiration.he gaspedont, "D'yethinkyo can havo all this and heaven too ?" " (8 Os." - Ata bauquet of the fempenmee people in Chicago ï-eeently, 11"' toast . " Our Prospecte, " was véapaaUbd to by liev. Thomas L. Poulson, of Baltiraore. 11e closed by reeitiug tlie following original poem, which he had linil the honor of reading in the ehiel' cities ■) (reat Britaio, to be sung to the tune pi " Aukl Lang Syne: " " Ho on, K" on, H" on, go cm, Go ". it" ah, 'go on, iio mi. (o mi, go "", go OU Go on, go on, go on." The report says it was then sung amid side splitting laughter and merriment ; the jolly company contiuuing to "go on " so long that the piesiding Offlcër h:ul to give the order ''Xow stop!" Thero conld scarcely be anytliing more eomically absurd. Tnr; following is given as tbe costume of a fashionable lady in 1700, p'i' ye Jast ship from ye port of Bristol, Eacland, to his Majesty'a plantatíona in North America: "AblaekKÍlk pettíooat, with : red and while (MUCO border; chen y colored stays, trimmed with blu an.l silvrr; a red and dove-eolored daniasU gown.'üowered with large trees; ayellmv satín aproó, trimmed witli wliite l'.r Kian; muslin liendcloths, witti ci;rviool edgiïig; a black silk furbelowed warts and spotted hooil." The Sioux City Journal makeR tlie curious statement that imme&se (uantiticK of black ba.s.s afe being ennglit mi: .:!' the Upper Klkhorn. in tíeMrfcaka. üidh thing fta i blaak Vass wns never kiiown in t'n:it oountry Vntfl tdttet the toilxoad ttooiden) M BlkhoTD ÚtfeeeRra ago.