u.
Rose, York and Lancaster--War.
Rose, Wild--Simplicity.
Rue--Disdain.

Saffron--Excess is dangerous.
Sardonia--Irony.
Sensitive Plant--Timidity.
Snap-Dragon--Presumption.
Snowball--Thoughts of Heaven.
Snowdrop--Consolation.
Sorrel--Wit ill (poorly) timed.
Spearmint--Warm feelings.
Star of Bethlehem--Reconciliation.
Strawberry--Perfect excellence.
Sumac--Splendor.
Sunflower, Dwarf--Your devout admirer.
Sunflower, Tall--Pride.
Sweet William--Finesse.
Syringa--Memory.

Tansy--I declare against you.
Teazel--Misanthropy.
Thistle--Austerity.
Thorn Apple--Deceitful charms.
Touch-me-not--Impatience.
Trumpet-flower--Separation.
Tuberose--Dangerous pleasures.
Tulip--Declaration of love.
Tulip, Variegated--Beautiful eyes.
Tulip, Yellow--Hopeless love.

Venus' Flytrap--Have I caught you at last.
Venus' Looking-glass--Flattery.
Verbena--Sensibility.
Violet, Blue--Love.
Violet, White--Modesty.

Wallflower--Fidelity.
Weeping Willow--Forsaken.
Woodbine--Fraternal love.

Yew--Sorrow.

Zennae--Absent friends.

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MASTERPIECES OF ELOQUENCE

The following masterpieces of elegiac eloquence are unsurpassed in
the repertory of the English classics, for lofty and noble sentiment,
exquisite pathos, vivid imagery, tenderness of feeling, glowing power
of description, brilliant command of language, and that immortal and

seldom attained faculty of painting in the soul of the listener or
reader a realistic picture whose sublimity of conception impresses
the understanding with awe and admiration, and impels the mind to
rise involuntarily for the time to an elevation out of and above the
inconsequent contemplation of the common and sordid things of life.

AT HIS BROTHER'S GRAVE.

The following grand oration was delivered by Hon. Robert G. Ingersoll
on the occasion of the funeral of his brother, Hon. Eben C. Ingersoll,
in Washington, June 2:

"My friends, I am going to do that which the dead oft promised he
would do for me. The loved and loving brother, husband, father,
friend, died where manhood's morning almost touches noon, and while
the shadows were still falling towards the west. He had not passed on
life's highway the stone that marks the hig