The swallow and the cuckoo are generally hailed as harbingers of spring and summer, but, perhaps, many of our readers are not aware that it is only lucky to hear the cuckoo, for the first time in the season, upon soft ground in contradistinction to hard roads, and with money in the pocket, which the youngster is sagely advised to be sure then to turn over.

In due time, the mansion was finished; next came the upholsterers, with magnificent furniture; then, a whole troop of black and white servants, the harbingers of Mr. Gathergold, who, in his own majestic person, was expected to arrive at sunset.

" "And justly, love; for they are the harbingers of a renewed vegetation.

He hastened to their assistance, but being punctiliously religious and likewise a great dealer in compliments, he made an harangue five times more prolix and insipid than his harbingers had already delivered.

In due time, the mansion was finished; next came the upholsterers with magnificent furniture; then, a whole troop of black and white servants, the harbingers of Mr. Gathergold, who, in his own majestic person, was expected to arrive at sunset.

The gay Provencal singers were harbingers of Dante, even as unknown poets prepared the way for Homer.

The Persians, for instance, believed that spinelle and the garnet were harbingers of joy.

Si nescis, oculi sunt in amore duces, "the eyes are the harbingers of love," and the first step of love is sight, as Lilius Giraldus proves at large, hist.

The attempt of those of one State to control the domestic institutions of another can only result in feelings of distrust and jealousy, the certain harbingers of disunion, violence, and civil war, and the ultimate destruction of our free institutions.

She drew the girl's slim figure round till they were face to face, looking into each other's eyes, the dowager's eagle countenance lit up with impassioned feeling, severe, awful as the face of one of the fatal sisters, the avengers of blood, the harbingers of doom.

The spring came with less observation than had been devoted to the winter previous; and the usual harbingers of advancing warmththe small singing birds and northern flowerswere present ere we were well aware of their welcome appearance.

The harbingers of victory!

Women are the sure harbingers of an alteration in manners, in approaching a country where their influence is felt."

They stood huddled together, dressed and undressed; now in red lurid light, showing ghastly faces of terrornow in white wreaths of smokeas far away from the steerage as they could press; for there, up from the hold, rose columns of smoke, and now and then a fierce blaze leaped out, exultinghigher and higher every time; while from each crevice on that part of the deck issued harbingers of the terrible destruction that awaited them.

The stifling heat of the atmosphere was, however, soon changed by slight gusts of wind; the leaves trembled; and a few heavy drops of rain fell as harbingers of the coming storm; the pattering ceased; an impressive pause succeededbroken by the deepening roar of thunder.

As harbingers before the Almighty fly: Those but proclaim his style, and disappear; 40 The stiller sound succeeds, and God is there.

A few small birds made their appearance from the southward, and these were hailed as harbingers of the coming summer.

All honor to Jeffersonto the man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document an abstract truth, applicable to all men and all times, and so to embalm it there that to-day and in all coming days it shall be a rebuke and a stumbling-block to the very harbingers of re-appearing tyranny and oppression.

SWANS White Swans, ye harbingers of Spring, a greeting fond from me!

The patriarchs, prophets, and sibyls, all the personages, in fact, who lived under the old law, when forming, in a picture or altar-piece, part, of the cortège of the throned Virgin, as types, or prophets, or harbingers of the Incarnation, are on the outside of that sacred compartment wherein she is seated with her Child.

Little did they imagine, as they gazed upon our small party and its solitary boat, that they had seen the harbingers of an approaching revolution in the fortunes of their country!

The winter at last retreated sullenly and reluctantly to his arctic home, and when the first harbingers of spring appeared, singing the memorial songs of the Resurrection, the old country fever, inherited from many generations of farmer ancestors, seized me, and we bought a small plantation for $4,200, in N, Mass., to which we moved April 28, 1887.

What a lot he has to say! Give it all together, boysMe-e-e-eh!" Harbingers of Springtime!

* Those singular meteors, the comets, which flash through heaven with long trails of light, and of old astonished the nations as if they were harbingers of some overwhelming calamity, were also the frequent subjects of our astronomer's investigations.

I believe they are the harbingers up there.”