A Fashionable Parlor

How many people do we cali on frotn year to year, and know no tnoro of their feelmgs, habito, tastes family deas atid ways, ihan if tbey lived in Karutscahtka ! And why ? Because the room wbich tbey cali a front purlor is made expresaly so tbat yon never sball know. Tbey sit in a bank room - work, i alk, read, perbap. Alter the servant has let you in and opeited a crack of the shutters, and while you sit waitiug tor them to change their áreas and come in, you gpeculate as to what they may be doing. From sume distant región tbc laugh of a child the ong of a tiauary bird reaehes you, and tben a door claps hastily to. - Do thcy love plants ? Do tbey write letters, sew, embroider, crotohet ? Do they ever romp and frolic ? W bat books do they read ? Do they sketch or paiut? Of all these possibilities a ruute and muffled room says uothing A sofa and six chairs, two ottomans fresh from the upholsterer'n, a Brussels carpet, a centertable with tour gilt books of Beauty on it, a mantleclock from Paris, aud two vases - all thene teil you only in frigid tones, "Tbis ia the b-t room," - only that and nothiüg more - and sooii h trips iu her best clothes, and upologizes for keepiog you wai in, asks how your motber is, and you rcmark tbat it is a pleasaut day - and thus tbc ac.jiiaintariee progresses from year to year. One hour in tha little back-roora, wbere the planta and canary bird and childrcn are, uiight have made you fast friends lor life ; but na it is, you care no more for thein tluin the gilt clock on the tnantle - Home Papers- The povernment cavnlry depot at St. Louis is an immense eRtib'Í6hnent. Sinoe Out ober last 17,549 have been purehafed at $130 eiicb, mnkingan outlay of over $2,200 00.0 and the p'hIIb for the aDimalf numborcd over 7,000