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Xa. I. Ave., San I-'rancisco, i3. 1)2. "-xirkrA cl women : ';ca my baby was born, ::5 ar;, I g,,t up in six ; Far tuo s.-un. Result: j':t the womb. Ever sinca jca miscraMe. tnei everything : doctors, -:s, apparatus ; Lut grew hu !!v stand ? and lt Inw an advertise- : I.y.:u E. I'iiikham'a t. "...-., anj de .? -0' t Ti.c effect was f"v Since I took the r-' womb has not r.e, ar.J. thanks only 2- sr.i n.)lV well. Every Z t ' "Vetcetblo Hifilisvn UUOHAIR ENEWER. -."ritTrf t!,U preparation. Ti- .w'f ar3. sUoulJ be an v"".'" U":": ' I'1'' "!. that sj-, u 'f who hare H. "" I'tsKvkKK kuovr that '-f.Z f,r":" of "'r on bald 1 II. fcvr f., I,, ...... . w "-"'tl1 !!-!: restores LE:'L" f""r faiiinu' off or H to grow long and V,"., . ''""n.-e of its " t. .' !' n 'uvlfforale ;'' D-', lye, and u '.-k."""1- !t n..t .v..w L1t-,Wi''rrLLfl ,L" "tural oil. ri.,'r4fn anJ brittle, aa d. 'SKERS ,. Orr, I,"r:ntnil!url lor; and; VlalCis ' Bat, V'"D ,T A-ari la MaiicUs; ED AGENTS rtimr. 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They are an admirable Ijver ami After-dinner pill, and every where endorsed by the profession. ( " Aj-er's Pills are highly and univer sally i.ken of by the people about fcere. I make daily usn of them in my practice." Dr. 1. E. Fowler, Bridge port, Conn. " I can recommend Ayer 's Pills ahove . all others, having. Ioujj; proved their valun as a cathartic for myself ana family." J. T. Hess, Leilhsville, Pa. " For several vears Ayer's Pills have Wen used iu my'fatnily. We find them an i y Effective Remedy 1 for constipation and indigestion, and are never without them in the house. Mums Greuier, Lowell, Mass. " I have used Ayer'a Pills, for liver troubles and indigestion, during many vrars, and lav always found theta prompt and eiticieut in their action. L. N. Smith, L'tica, N. Y. I suffered from constipation whicb. assumed such an .tstiiiat form that I feared it would cause a stoppage of the Jewels. Two boxes of Ayer'a Pilla ef fect e. I a compleuj cure." L. liurke, baco, Me. " I have used Ayer's Pills for the past thirtv vears and consider them an in valuable family medicine. I know ot 110 Wtter return I v for liver troubles, and have alwav found them a prompt cure for dsj psiit." James Quinu, SAJ Middle St.. llartii.rd. 4:oiiu. Having krn tr.ulled with cosUve ness. which seems inevitable with per sons of se.lentarv habits. I have tried AVer's Pills, hopijig for relief. I am cla.1 to say that they have served us better than auy other metlicine. 1 arrive at this conclusion only after a faithful trial of tbeir merits." SamMl T. Jones. Oak St.. iioslon. Mass. Ay er's Pills, rmriKin T Or. J. C. Ayer tc Co..1 Lowell. Mas Bold by Oi UeaJorB la Medici Steei Picket Fence, phfapfr . THAN I WOOD I mil ttMHWTM b' ' s ii f, ;i ii ' i : vFi ' ' inn . M ritt Out. fTals la art a pru.. ujiUiy. S-b "". DWlHl. ulilVKItu.,.. Fir. ttUHi ..S FIKK KMCirKS C.ll a.4 !.li-.. Br a., 1 If. Orlll. Wl a DoO JI1 TLaIUr MLiiir'r N-J, w.b4 til Aiodr IRK WOIi, TAYLOR DEAN. '01, 203 205 MarkatSU Piitsaurflb, fa. Mist mm mch 'MAUL. CHAiNGES IN 31AX. Startling Developmenta In Physical Structure. the Undergoing a Mental Metamorphosis M Weli Changes in Cuittotua Following in the Wake of Intellectual I m pro veuient. It is a fact we are assured of by paleontolofristsandanthropologistslha't primeval man not only had four more teeth than men now have but had fewer bones in the skull, and less foldings r con volutions of the brain. The skull, too, has changed according- tu environ ments and use from an uval to a glob ular shape, or to a compromise of the two. The jaw has retreated as the front brain has protruded. The tearing tusk teeth have shortened up, and are neat ly and gently inclosed in the mouth. Kars. from being pointed ami mova ble like horses' ears, have become rounded and firmly fastened to the head. They are nu longer the most important organ, as they were to the river di iftmen to enable "them to hear the approach f danger from all sides. The nostrils, from being open and alert, have closed up to outside affairs to a great extent, and serve mainly as conduits and and as indicators of men tal emotion. The eyes are shortening in their range of vision, aud adapting themselves to a studious race. All the senses were once intensely more acute, and the tendency is now steadily to lose more and more of their capability to gather in the world of sounds anil sights, except as these are correlated into logie that is, -,ve can no longer tell poisons by taste and track our enemies by scent, or distinguish dan gers by the rustles in the air. Occasionally a child is lom with pe culiar gifts of an organic sort, aud can move his ears freely or shake his scalp. He does not use this faculty as it was originally designed, to shake off Hies or .lust; indeed, it seems to be a useless reversion to a geuerally disused type. ' Such changes iu our general physical frame, says the 1 tost on Traveler, are startling and suggestive, but no more important than the mental and moral changes that are as demonst ratable. Our ancestors were indubitably carniv orous, to the degree of cannibalism. The instinct for savage lieasts anil revelry, involving bloodthirsty disre gard of human suffering, may lurk in us yet. The history of the Stanley expedition suggests that positive savagery is latent in us. in such degrees that the absence of restraints of civilization may cause it suddenly to blaze with ferocity; yet we eertainlj- arc transformed to a deep abhorrence for customs that our fore fathers lived up to without a qualm. Changes in customs are simpler than chauges in organic structure, but loth are easily possible. The rudimentary tail is still iu our possession, and I have no doubt that if advantage could he found in its development we could get back to this appendage in its fullness. It would not be impossible to develop a race of men with tails if tails could be used. Certainly highly civilized races have lapsed in moral and intelligence to savage and animal conceptions c-f life. Such changes grow together and are interlinked." AS the eye and the ear are less oc cupied in detecting the. approach of dangerous foes, they an- more occupied in listening to the sorrows of our fel lows. The pathos and sympathy of a noble eye. the keen intellectuality of a student's nose, are art of the evolu tion; the organ changes, and at the same time exchanges purpose and power. Darwin says man may be excused for feeling some pride at having risen, though not by his own exertions, to the very summit of the organic scale; and the fact that he has thus risen, in stead of having been aboriginally placed there, may give him hope of a still higher destiny iu the future. THE ALMIGHTY-DOLLAR. National Banks National banks were established in the United States in 1S16. Legal Tender Notes The highest denomination of United States legal tender notes is ten thousand dollars. ltn.i.s or Exchange These were first used by the Jews in HiW. and in England in 1307. The First English Exchange This was called the - Burse," and wasojeiied at London by Queen Elizabeth in 1571. Money as a Servant To have your errands rightly done, says an oriental, you must employ a messenger who is deaf, dumb and blind and that is money. Paper Monet The largest circula tion of paier money is that of the United States, being seven hundred millious, while Russia has six hundred and seventy millions. Wealth or the Vatican Impartial writers say that "the gold contained in the medals, vessels, chains and other objects preserved in the Vatican would make more gold coin than the whole of the present European circulation. Weight or Coin In round nuinWrs. the weight of one million dollars in standard gold coin is one and three fourths tons; standard silver coin, twenty-six and three-fourths tous; sub sidiary silver coin, twenty-five tons; minor coin, five-cent nickel, one hun dred tons. Origin or Budget This financial term is cognate with the French "bou gette," a small bag. In Great Britain, from long usage, it is applied to that miscellaneous collection of matters which aggregate into the financial statement made to parliament by the chancellor of the exchequer. Banking Capital The capital em ployed in the principal countries is as follows: Great Britain. H.02U,0(K).000; United States, f2.6ri5,0O0,U0O; Germany, 1,4-25 000.000; France, 1.0-25.000,000; Austria, f sriO.OOO.OOO; Russia, $775,000, K)0; Italy, $455,000,000; Australia, $425, 000,000; Canada, $175,000,000. Hhlp Laanchlng In Japan. a. ne Japanese apply one of their many "pretty ways" to the launching of ships." They use no wine. They hang over the chip's pr$w a large pasteboard cage full of birds, and the moment the ship is afloat a man pulls a string, the cage opens and the birds fly away, making the air. alive with music and the whirr of w ings. The idea is that the birds welcome the bhip as she be gins he? career aa a thing of life. RURAL GEORGIA JOYS. The Old-Tltue Log-Kollings and C'orn SriurkinK Are Things of the Fast. "The old-time corn-shuckings aud 1 og-rollngs have played out in the land of the south," remarked a Georgia farmer from Elbert couuty recently to an Atlanta Constitution man, the conversation turning to farm life and its joys. "Yes, one rarely ever sees the genuine old-time Georgia corn shucking these days. You, see, for a number of years the farmers of this section of country did not grow enough corn to have a re sectable corn-shucking, and as for log rollings, the farmers have not been in the humor of late years to clear up much new ground land, and for this reason there has been no occasion for much log-rolling." A listener wanted to know what was a log-rolling anyhow. "Why, have you never heard of the log-rollings we used to have in this conn try?" asked the farmer. "Then you've missed half your life. It was the greatest fun the darkies on the farms had for years and years. The farmer who had cleared a new ground, when the trees hail all been cut down and the brush clipped off and burned, wanted to get all the logs off the field Wfore he could cultivate it. Therefore he would give what is called a log-rolling, to which he would invite all the -darkies and laborers on the neighboring farms on some suitable day. There was no compensation in it, for it was a pic nic, though you would never think it. for it was the hardest sort of work. The darkies all would come in high glee, knowing that a great jug of whisky would In dished out to them and that a big dinner would Ik? given by the landlord who gave the log-rolling. What is meant by rolling logs is putting a handstick under them, with a darky at each end of the stick, and lifting the logs from the ground and then conveying them to a pile here and there alMiut the new ground, where they would be burned later. The fun came in with the rivalry among the darkies to see w ho was the champion lifter of the day. They won 1.1 have great straps of leather that went over their shoulders in a loop, and through this loop they would stick their hand sticks, sometimes enabling them tu lift w ith their hands and their whole bod ies at the same time, throwing their strength against their opjonent, who had hold of the other end of the hand stick under the log. This strap of leather, for Mime reason, was called an 'Alabama. It was great fun to see them straining their very lives awav under the great, heavy logs here and there about the field. When night came on the frolic wound up with a great dance and 'hot supper.' as they called it, in the landlord's kitchen." PASSED MANY MILESTONES. Ralph Swinbi rn, said to have been the oldest locomotive engineer in the world, died at West Virginia recently, aged niuety-one years. Mr. Amos S. Brackett, of Saco, Me., has just started life afresh, when near ing the age of three score and ten. He has been a night watchman for forty four years and has just retired. The world will look different to him. Abraham H. Cavender. of St. Paul, now nearly eighty years of age, is liv ing on the exact spot where he settled fort3-seven years ago, when there were only five American families in the place. Mother Mary Gonzaga, who is said to be the oldest Sister of Charity in the United States, celebrated the sixty ninth anniversary of her initiation into the order at Philadelphia recently. She is eighty-five years of age. In the Russian government of Sa mara, Laurenti Eftimoff died recentl3 at the age of one hundred and fifty. Under Catherine II. he belonged to PongatchefFs band of brigands, was captured and spent thirty years as a prisoner in Silieria. A few years ago he became blind. THE POETS. IIiERONYMt's Lorm, the famous poet, philosopher and critic, of Germany, is totally blind. Jl'Ll A Ward Howe says that Long fellow was a gHd deal of a dandy in his youth. His linen was immaculate and he paid particular attention to his collars. Sixteen hundred dollars in cash has been handed over to Rev. S. F. Smith, the author of "America," as the sub stantial evidence of the people's af fection for him. Alfred de Mtsset's sister refuses to have any of his works in her possession published, as she says they will not add tu his fame as a poet. She likewise refuses to let his letters be seen, among which is the correspondence between the poet and George Sand. A Schiller museum is to be founded at Marlrach, where the poet was born, by the king of Wnrtemburg. A Swa bian lady has offered to buy for it the valuable Cohn Schiller library, which contains, among other rarities, a com plete set of the Schwabisches Magazin, where his earliest poems appeared. IMPERSONALITIES. A 8CHOOL-TKACHER in Worth county, Ga., keeps his pupils in order by threat eningly displaying a pistol. A horseshoe hung over the door for good luck fell from its nail onto the head of an Atchison (Kan.) girl a few days ago, injuring her seriously. A traveling hypnotist has been sued in Ohio by his confederate, who demands the sum of fifteen dollars for pretending to le hypnotized when he wasn't. His hypnotic influence was merely arranged on a promissory basis, the same as political influence. "Well, the brazen thing; and I'll bet she's got on three pair of stock ings," one woman was heard to remark to another in a spiteful tone on a crowded Lewiston (Me.) street the other day as a third woman, evidently an acquaintance, went ttyiufe- by on a bicycle attired in a stunning bloomer suit. Spiders Are limit Katera. Sir John Lubbock has recently made some studies of the alimentary habits of spiders. Selected specimens were weighed before and after a full meal, with the result of learning that if a man were to absorb the quantity of food proportionate to his weight con sumed by a spider he would devour two whole oxen, thirteen t.heep, a dozen hogs and four barrels of th. QUEER FREIGHT FOR CHINA. The Skeletons of Dead 4'hlnee Shipped In Uoim Marked Finh Hone. A curious freight which is shipped exclusively from San Francisco tu China is "fish-bone." which pays tvent3' dollars a ton. It is sent in large lKxes consigned to the Tung Wah hos pital at Iloug Kong, but the contents of the Imjxcs are really the bodies of dead Chinamen sent home for burial. Most of the Chinamen who come to the United States, says the Chicago Record, are under the care of the Six Coni pauies, who sign a contract guarantee ing tu return the boues of the dead for burial w ith their ancestors in the celes tial empiie, and the Tung Wah hos pital acts as the agent on this side in carrying out the agreement. They are shipped as "fish bones" in order to evade the rule of the steamship com panies, who charge full first-class passenger rates for the dead. Nearly every ship leaving San Fran cisco for China carries among the steer age passengers a number of invalids who hote to live until they reach their native country, but several usually die on every voyage. There is an agree ment between the steamships and the Six Companies which forbids the burial of these bodies at sea, aud the latter furnishes coffins of the peculiar Chinese pattern for use iu such emergencies. They are made of slabs, the first cut of the log, so that the sides and bottom and top are rounded. A dozen or more are carried on each ship, and the sur geon is furnish with a supply of em balming fluid. When a Chinaman dies at sea the sur geon embalms the body, which is then placed in a coffin, sealed up, and lowei-d into the hold. The expense is paid by voluntary contributions from the other Chinese passengers, the crowd, and the stewards of the ship, all of whom belong to that race. No subscription pajer is passed around, but a pan containing Chinese sugar is placed beside the coffin, aud every Chinaman on ltoard drops iu his con tribution, from a dime to a dollar, and takes a piece of sugar from the pan, which is supposed to bring him good luck and prolong his life. When the ship reaches Hong Kong the coffins are delivered to the Tung Wah hospital, which disjxises of them to the surviving friends in China. Every Chinaman in the L'uited States is supposed to be registered at the Tung Wah hospital and with the Six Companies at San Francisco. OVERRULED BY THEIR WIVES. A 4'ate Where All the .IdHtlcea of the Su preme 4'ourt 4'hangeU Their Min.1. It was a matter of some surprise that Justice Shims, of the United States su preme court, should have changed his mind w ithin a few wecksupon a matter of law, but it is not many months since the whole court changed their mind on such a matter, and that in the course of a few days. The case before the court, says the New York Sun. was one arising out of a customs decision at this port, and the counsel arguing against the decision of the custom house was a New York law yer, then for the first time before the supreme court. The case turned main ly upon the question w hether an article of importation should or should not W classed as a sauce. The custom house had called it a sauce and taxed it ac cordingly. The government maintained this contention, and, of course, the New York lawyer sought to show that the article should not le classed as a sauce. When the supreme court came to con sult upon the case their unanimous opinion was favorable to the contention of the government, and one of the jus tices was instructed to prepare a de cision in favor of the custom house. The justice, on returning home, told his w ife of the case, and indicated the ground of the decision; whereupon the lady told him iu plain words that the justices of the supreme court did not know what they were talking about, and had agreed upon an unjust deci sion. The lady was entirely clear that the article in dispute could not proper ly be called a sauce, and openly ridi culed the court. The jK-rplexed justice, instead of pre paring the decision iu accordance with the instructions of his brethren, did nothing in the matter, but at the next opH)i-tunity unfolded to the other jus tices his w ife's view of the matter, ami asked them to seek domestic counsel on the case and rejxirt at the next con sultation of the court. When that con sultation came round the justices, hav ing taken feminine counsel, all report ed against the original view- that the article involved in the cast' should be classed as a sauce, anil accordingly the justice originally charged with the task of preparing a decision in favor of the government was now instructed to pre pare one in favor of the New York law yer's client. It thus hapjH-ned that the lawyer won his first case Wfore the su preme court because the wives of the justices knew more than the court it self. Safe Hiding Flare for Will. There have been iu Engjand, recent ly, two examples of the recovery of lost w ills found in Bibles. One was made more than thirty years ago and leaves sixteen thousand pounds sterling to certain missionary societies. It was an illustrated Bible, which attracted the attention of a little girl. If there had been no pictures, it is sad to re flect, nobody would have looked iuto that Bible. It is curious how the old custom of looking into old Bibles not, iudeed, for wills, but for bank notes has gone out. It used to In the way of religious folks to give the sacred vol ume to their godchildren, interleaved in this excellent fashion. In ( apt. Marryat's novels the first act of a young midshipman upon receiving this present used tu Ik" to go through it vers carefully from Genesis to Revela tions. ' Swedish Simplicity. Miss Margaret Howitt, in her work, "Twelve Months with Frederika Bre mer," tells several curious anecdotes illustrating the simplicity of the lower classes in Sweden. Thus, two servants were given tickets to go to the theater, from which they soon returned. "You surely have not been?" asked the mis tress. "Oh, jest" they answered. "We went to the theater and sat there till suddenly a curtain drew up and some ladies aud gentleinen began talking to gether; but as it was on family mat ters, we felt we were intruding and so came home." . peopled i;y ex-slaves. The Sea Islands of the South Now in Possession of Neprroos. WTblte I'lanters of Former Iaya 11 Ave Al most Entirely ItlaapMrared Shlf t leaaneaa and Squalor of the sreaent Inhabitants. There is no more delightful spot along the whole Atlantic coast than the little fringe of islands that thickly em broider the line from Charleston tu Savannah. Here the stately, pictur esque palmetto flourishes in all its glory. Ferns of wondrous varieties and countless sHcies thrive immensely in the alluvium of hollow and raviue. These sea islands cover a large terri tory. They lie very near together, separated only by narrow lagoons. Those lying between Savannah and Port Royal are not so large nor seem ingly so fertile as those Wtween Port Royal and Charleston. The land here recuperates itself wonderfully from year to year, and produces the finest cotton aud the highest priced in the world. The plant is rich aud silken, beiug used only for the finest kind of cotton goods, and when carefully gath ered brings fifty to sixty cents ier pound, and when carelessly gathered ne'er less than twenty-five cents. These are very high prices for cotton, aud the thrifty planter w ho owns from ten to fifty acres of land is sometimes very -well to do. but thrift is not one of the shining characteristics of the island ers, and many of them are very poor in ded. In by-gone times, says the Philadel phia Times, stately mansions, the homes of planters, who were iu their small way feudal lords, dotted these islands. But the families have almost disap-jH-ared, and most of the lordly man sions stand dismantled and ruined, wrecked and torn by the frequent storms that sweep with such pitiless fury at times over this charming t-xt. And in consequence negroes form the bulk of the population, and they are negroes of a very eeuliar kind of the true slave type of African, the unadul terated descendants of ancestors brought from the dark continent years ago, but still retaining their many forms of speech or lingo used by the half-civilized ancestors. They are also superstitious to an ab surd degree. The devilish art of witchcraft is believed to be possessed by old crones who have lingered out their days tu an incredible length of time. The holy dance, too, is practiced in all its wildest and most grotesque abandon. They are gentle, unobtrusive and friendly, patient aud uncomplain ing when storms come with little warn ing and turn the smiling paradisical field and gardens into windswept, wave-washed opens of desolations. With the exception of here and there a dismantled mansion the houses have small pretentions to architectural dis similarity. They are the one-room, primitive log affairs common through out the south, overshadowed by luxuri ous growths of trailing vines and masses of palmettos. Pigs, children and chickens swarm over the puncheon floors alike unrebuked, the children as inuoceut of conventional clothing as the young of the lower animals, with whom the squabble for possession of stray bits of corn cake or other edibles. It is a common sight to see a small pickaninny wallowing in the soft white sand beneath the scorching rays of a tropical sun. totally devoid of clothing of any sort except a necklace of mole's feet, lizard's claws and cat's teeth, for the newborn babe ma- not have cotton cloth enough to be swaddled iu, but it will have in readi ness this most necessary necklace as a preventive against spells of all. sorts, including witchcraft, the evil eye or a hoodoo of any sort. Then, too, "the mole claws are supposed to impart some beneficent influence, which causes the teeth of the infant to grow with out pain or danger to the babe. Fre quently the ebony little cupids are adorned with a necklace, bracelets and anklets of these repulsive articles, and were it not for such articles of civiliza tion as are always seen about a negro cabin one might- well fancy one's self in the very heart of the wilds of the dark continent. 4 hie meets very few white faces among the sea islanders, aud, what is rarer still, a yellow or mulatto negro is not a very common sight, as iu other places where the black race alxiunds. England's Flrnt 1'ateut. In the archives of the patent office there are many curious documents preserved, but to paK-rmakcrs the ex tract given below froiu the tirst patent granted for making "writings and printings" must le interesting: "Where as, wee have bine informed by the humble peticion of our trusty and well beloved Eustace Burueby, Esquier, that he, by his travailes abroade. and greate charge and industry, hath at tayned tu The art and skill of making all sorte of white paper for the use of writing and printing, being a new manufacture and never practised in any of our kingdoms or dominions, and wee being willing to give all en couragement to the inventors of such arte as may be of publique vse and benefit, and particularly to the said Eustace Burueby: Know ye. therefore, that wee of our especial grace, cer teine knowledge, and meere iiuK-on, have given and granted by theis pres ente. vnto the said Eustace Burneby, theis our letters patente witnes the King at Westin the one and twentieth da of January 175." Mysore Infanta Moat Mot Marry. The maharajah of Mysore has re solved to put down by an act of the legislature the custom of infant mar riage among his subjects. A bill tu that effect was published last year. After a good deal of discussion the measure has now assumed a definite shape and form. When the act is en forced any person causiug or abetting infant marriages, or any person of eighteen or over eighteen marrying an infant girl will be punished with im prisonment of either description, which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both. The same punishment is prescribed for any man who, having completed fifty yeara of his age, mar ries a girl under fourteen years. Six months' imprisonment or fine, or both, wili be meted out to the abettor or abettors of this offense. All girls un der eight years of age will be consid ered as infants under this law. CONCERNING DUPPIES. The Shadows Are Not the Soula of the Departed. When I first came to Jamaica the surroundings of that lovely tropical island seemed to my unsophisticated eyes to forbid the conventional ghost, says a writer in the National Review. The tiny wooden In.xes, bright with creepers and gay with green and white paint, that for the most part did duty for houses, offered si rely neither sjaee nor attraction to a properly constituted apparition. lt was a surprise, therefore, to find that iu the daily life of the neirro pop ulation "duppies" occupied a very con siderable and indeed dignified position, and were not only recognized as a se rious fact, but were to In spoken of if, indeed, it were advisable to speak of them at all to strangers with fit ting reverence. Even the more edu cated were not above a lurking lelief in their existence, while for the ordina ry negro that there were duppies around him was as undoubted a truth as the dear sunlight in which he li ved. Now It is the general idea of Eng lish people, even those who have lived all their 1 ives in the West Indies, that a "duppy" is simply the negro equiva lent for our "ghost," but after many aud atient inquiries from the negroes themselves this I found to 1h a mistake. To Ik- exact, a true "duppy," although an apparition, is not the spirit or the soul, but only the shadow of the depart ed, the soul Wing Jierfcctly distinct from its duppy, and going to heaven or hell, as the case may le, leaing its shadow or duppy to linger In-hind on earth, where, unless exorcised by certain cere monies, it may work mischief, or at least cause annoyance to the living. For instance, the soul of a notorious evil-doer, a noted Olieah man, for ex ample, Ls supposed by them, naturally enough, to go straight tu hell for bis crimes, but his duppy will remain be hind him; only Wing the shadow of a bad man, it will purt-ake of his vicious qualities and probably become trans formed into a "Tolling calf," that bug W'ar of all negroes. A "rolling calf", is a very terrible creature that haunts the hillsides and lonely places, to the terror of tiavelers. It has fiery eyes and is accompanied by the sound of heavy, clanking chains. Apart from this, it is sha(ed much like an ordinary cow. and tu W caught by one is death, with the additional horror of W-ing forced afterward to lieoome a rolling calf one's self, tine chance of escape, however, remains to the unfortunate victim. The rolling calf cannot ran up hill, and therefore if a slope can be reached, so that one is alnve instead of on a level with or Wlow- tnis terrible pursuer, safety is insured. Possibly some dim remembrance of tho African buffalo and its habits lies at the root of this strange tradition, for I Wlieve a buffalo cannot charge uphill. THE FLEET OF MONITORS. Their llintory a Iug Keronl of Kxtra vm ganre 4 'onwetjueiit 'Min Neglect When the history of the monitors in the United States navy shall come tu W told it will lay bare a long record of extravagance consequent uihhi neglect. Some of the uncompleted or recently completed monitors, says the New York Sun. were W-gun while many officers of the navy were still in their cradles, and the fleet of monitors just ordered from the James riven, near Richmond, has been lying there rusting these twenty years. They are of the single turret type. 4)ne commander aboard the Ajax served for the whole fleet. They are all single-screw steamers, of S40-horse power, aud each carries two guns. The Ajax, Cauouicus, Mahonac, Manhattan, and Wyandotte are 2,100 tons each, while the Catskill. Jason, Lehigh, Montauk, Nahant. Nantucket, Passaic, and Comanche are of 1.VT5 tons each. Only two out of the six remaining at Richmond are tu W prepared for sea, aud it is said that of the four that have not lieen ordered immediately from the James some will probably W sold as scrap iron. The history of the old double-turret monitors, several of which have lately lieeu completed, is somewhat like that of their single-turret sisters. The largest of these great ironclads is the Puritan. She is of O.OtVo tons and of 3.7O0 horse-power, aud she carries ten guns. She is a double burWtte turret monitor aud so are the Monad nock and Amphitrite. They and the Terror, a double-turret monitor, are each of 3.WO0 tons and 1,hi horse-power. The Monad n K-k carries six guns aud the other two carry four guus each. All of the double-turret monitors are twin screw projK-llers. - The w hole fleet has Wen the mystery of the navy for near ly a quarter of a century, and the com pletion of several of these ships has dis appointed the expectation of every Inxly that kuows their history. Their cost was enormous, and there have been great changes in their plan of construc tion. One of them lay for years at a shipyard at Wilmington, Ik-1., until the shipbuilders put iu a claim of many thousands of dollars for dockage, lt used to W said that the double-turret monitors, if completed, would never W seaworthy, though, through change of construction, if nothing else, this evil prophecy has been disappointed. I'ouilug Down In the World. History furnishes but very few in stances of persons of exalted station who have freely reuounced their titles and their fortunes tu don the garb of a simple workman. The duke of l.al leira, lately deceased, is a casein point. At the death of his father, he firmly re fused to assume his title, but dressed himself as a workingman and took the simple name of Ferrari. His mother tried her utmost to make him listen to reason; all her arguments proved un availing. Persuaded that it would W foolish to bequeath the large family in heritance to such an eccentric char acter, she left the greater part of it to charitable institutions. IlawaU'a Animal Life. The Hawaiian islands, as the result of recent exploration, have been found to W richer in animal life than was formerly supjvosed. As the result of a year's investigation by the British as sociation, through its committee, it'haf been found that of birds there are seventy-eight species, of which fifty-seven are peculiar to this group. All the land and fresh water shells are peculiar, and of a thousand species of insects, seven hundred are not found elsewhere. It thus seems that these islands have by no means been populated from the continent but have been centers of in dependeut creation. COLD STORAGE FOR HUSBANDS. lriwtun'a t.reat Srbrnir to Seeore to the AlnM-nt HouM-wlfe I'rmc-e of Mind. The resources of modern civilization are capable of meeting nearly all the demands of the woman who wants to go into the country for the summer with a free mind, aloolutely devoid of care for the home she leaves W-hind her. There are. says the Rochester lk-iuoerat and 4"hronicle, storage ware houses where she may safely Wstow all her house's furnishings, safe dcj.o?it vaults for her valuables, places where her dog, her cat. her parrot or her canary can enjoy all the comforts of a home. But in one most important and es sential oint modern civilization fails this woman. For if not the most val-ied. certainly the most imort.aiit and frail est object in her urban entourage, the source of more anxiety and care , than all the other accidents of her environ ments combined, nu place of safe W- stowal is provided. Tu her question: 'What shall I do with my luisl-and?" modern civilization rx turns nu answ er. She cannot 1ake him along. In the first place, lie won't go; in the second place, she doesn't want him. But there is no safe place to put him. She must leave him knocking alout. entirely out of view of his law ful guardian angel, the sport of fate and bachelor acquaint ances, subject to all the risks agsliust which her presence by bis side ordi narily insures him. The result is that man a u-ninan who really needs aud deserves a long summer rest abandons her cherished project, and the pro prietor of some sumiuer resort I.iscs her patronage. We are pleased tolearn that in Ilim ton. whence all good things come, this want has been recognized, and an ef fort that promises to W successful has W-en made to supply it. A cold storage warehouse for husbands lias 1-een es tablished by a "refined widow lady." who offers tu contract with wivesalKiut to depart for the sea shore orthe moun tains, tu store their husbands during their absence and return them in as good condition as when received, at the end of the season. Her establishment has some slight resemblance, it must Ik? confessed, to the ordinary !oarding house of commerce, but the resem blance is only superficial. The great feature of her plan is constant super vision of her charges. Every care will le taken to interest and amuse them, but the strictest discipline will be main tained. No latchkeys will W allowed. an efficient corps of stalwart assistants or keeHrs will W maintained, and, in the terse and significant language of the prospectors, "no funny business" will W allowed. If the "refined w idow lady" is of suffi cient age and hideouMn-ss to invite femi nine confidence, if she lias the record she claims as a stern and iiiicoii.'-roiiii.iing manager of liubaud.-.. the Hotel keepers at the resorts frequented by RoMouese may anticipate an unusually profitable summer. There may Ik- some little dif ficulty in luring a husband iuto this asylum, but once she has got himthere, his wife may detiart for her "villejria tura" with a mind free from anxiety as to his safetv. MYSTERY OF A NECKLACE. Genuine Diamonds 4 Arelrm.ly Flnced in Theatrical Froperty in Ixiudnu. In support of the idea that it is not easy even for t he practiced eye to de tect the false from the real diamonds, a writer in Ioiidon Sketch repeats this story of an actor's experience: A very popular melodrama had been produced in Iondon, a piece in which the heroine did as new women are pop ularly supposed tu do, and then re pented in the last act. To emphasize her rejH-utanee, she took the diamond necklace from her neck, cast it upon the ground and spurned it heavily. The long-suffering necklace was made of aste stones, with strong gold set tings, and had to W repaired two or three times a week, owing to its cruel usage. After a very loug run in town the piece was sent into the provinces and the toor necklace was, as usual thrown alxiut and trodden on. until i came to grief once more and was sen to some provincial jeweler for the usua rcoairs. Toward the evening the man ager sent a man to fetch it in time fo the performance. "Where is you written order?" said the mau of jewels. Said the messenger: "Ain't got none it's only a property necklace," or words to that effect. "Well," said the trades man, who knew a good thing when he saw one, "you go buck for a writteu authoritv; 1 don't give diamond neck laces worth more than a thousand Munds to the first man who calls for them!"- When the mauager received the message he was furious and went to the shop at once. There he found to his amazement that the necklace so recklessly treated o" nights was i-otn-posed of genuine diamonds worth a large amount. For a long time nobody could understand the mystery, but it was afterward cleared up. At the shop at Iondon where it was regularly re aircd the stones had once been set aside by those In-longing to a noble lady's tiara. - They were, by some some strange chance, very similar in size, shatte and uumWr, and by mis take the aste went to the tiara and the diamonds to the property necklace. F earls for the roar. By the will of the late taroline, duchess of Montrose, the amount realized by the gem of her casket of jewels the wonderful necklace of over three hundred earls is to Ik' devoted to the relief of the East end poor. As the necklace realized no less than eleven thousand five hundred iM.unds sterling I hojK? the money will W wisely expended. One could do a great deal of goisl with eleven thou sand five hundred pounds sterling, but one could also do a great deal of harm with such a sum, and create quite a small army of paupers with it. A "Negro Superstition. The following amusing instance of the queer ideas current among the ne groes of the south is related in a story by Miss E. F. Andrews, in the Chau tauquan: "De jaybird is de meanes bird a livin"; he is wosser'n a crow. He go off ever Friday to de bad place an tel ole Saturn ever'thiug mean you done endurin o' de week. Dat why you woan nuver see no jaybirds a flyin alout uv a Friday; dey's all gone off, a car'yin dere tales to the debit, an' dey jes' eavesdrop aroun' all de balance o de time to see what dey kin fine out agin' yo." .' .1 t XT If