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Ije a1ekln Iteletnper PUBLISHED %EEKLY BY ALBERT BIENVENU. A general suslension of payments for one year has been f,,un nec:.sary in the Argentine lRep;uble to all, ., the c:,nlmer cial and financi i; men th et ov:er the r - sults ot the wil l 1.: i alit: ai in ,i t hh they hate itemn ;n'luiin ,, : '. Amnon. ti ii rimr:in:~a -w int' l in N.; Y'ork Ity,, n I h r ,''- ,t ', ng ftai tit. l ,n tit l n i t : t" a i:.. , ! r,. :t" s th l t L, , . . , :t , .. T :t"' . - ' in ii e o n a ' I t I . ,- n I t t :i .1 -. thatol oinl thy at ti: a tno . t t Chinei trothoiirrtw ltr at ,r , i: t thse nu ou,: of rn'rn .ri t In ,,le IhI.. Fromi tie lira, in n,,:norial Stv,'r , i r thi, been hper:itt ' I to lie t n th- n, ' : n : tell tv e lu tl: t lll"y til l i t "' t lt'ngt Emrtpror i .tcl Ia d"r. r t' al taehi- :a f h, stopped :Ind th',t the li t:, run,,' t.'i t he truth. Th, downfall of thhe Ib'pire, in predicted throiugho; tho ut ar;n Small storckeceper< oI tea c ,mlpit' of be ing ruined by the nonstet': esthblish meints which sell evcrythini an 1 mheonl) oize the tra e faormnerly shared by their minor neifcibors. Th : same co) mpaint has been rais I in Paris, and th, French Government will lay additional license operations and allow small tra lers a fair chance. American, S ttwho grumble beVausl e in some of our Western cities let-ers are collected oly e on Sunday, ought to be Ianishei. to Vendsburg in the Trans vaal (South Africa) Republic where mails from the coast arrive only once a month, in charge of carriers who haverri to swim half a dozen difftuerent0, rivers and take their risk of being shot by Cahtir hush whackers or treed by enterprising lions. The following is an acntnrate list of the portaits on the national cbrreny o tn United States no.tese-$v1 Washinton; $2i, Jefferson; $5, Jaunkson iti$0, Web ster; $20, llaniltoa; $ý50, Franklin; $100. Lincoln; $501), General Ma-sdelhd; $1000, De Witt 'lintou; $59i ), iron ison; s,00, Jacthikson. On silver cer tifin ies lr10 Robert Morris; $2th Cm-t modore De' atur; $50, E lward Eteratt; $10t, .lamns Monroe: $50U, Charles Sumner. ;10)), W. L. Marcy. In gold notes--912J. Gartiel:l; $530, Silas Wri,,it; $100, r;oml s t. Bent on et; t.), A. Lin coln ; $l ),), Aler::n ter 1[.tmiltoa; $500, .lames lJt'i-,,', $10,3'º, An drew .'a.kson. Who: t is b:lireeti to b one of t ihe Itargest wate: w.,.els ever built in New oE.gf t:i h- 111 n'1 lriu cet. in Green onwich, Mtls., for use under .itI nditints in which a tuircint wrhei Iii e of ironl would n it give satisfactory reinul to the hopmateri that usefor in thi inmeAs lo-Anstrue tioan is larg y white unftrld which will sor ethig o tic cvmbine nvale foreet inol the El iti 'a letaking wol. -' .'al-l alof the Gae tate Mall Gazette 'TIs Better to Laugh. The sunniest skies are the fairest, The happiest hours are the best. Of all of life's blessings the rarest Are pictures ,of pleasure and rest. Though Fate is cur wishes denying, Let each bear his part like a man tNor darken the world with o'r sighing - 'Ti' better to laugh when . e can. Each heart ha, its birden ofi ,rrw. Each soul ha. its =haldows ip-ooundd 'Ti. sunshine were yearntig to b.rr.,w From th,.se h. may gather a rountd. The let is wear fare' of plasure The w ,r; I w:11 be ha .py to san. .\ -rw, i- , . , -.'n. a tr.a'-:re 'I':- t' r . a ' h whit. "e c:ut. - I ' : II /1" I. HIS NEIGHBOR'S SEES, is P , % !'tl: " ;y . 'N l ý 1r: " I . ...t . :i.. n, .n: in', t. '1 :e ll r wlt is T : wl .th \ ! t ai om:i'.,. a:s, :1 one to l, i .l t ) rneC I iok I,: , t e'.l I Fenw:ck. "M ,o :.m ;.:,, li-:ht l h. e ' ti p!: I 's '.ph t::li we xer i.r m I ." "A:,l v ri :', n't - ti, v,,: ' ni ourn fully uttcr:.l .Jick lT rev y . *'Ami I lonl' t ran" ,ar7 vye.' .i ks e:s' c himeef oa tl:e ýtone wall. just w!.e:o the bars iu: Leen taken ,down. !Ie was a an him, sunburned fel'ow, with s:ar.hli:g Ida e eyes and Srich, dark complexio:, as if, in his far back ancestry, there had been some ol.ve-bro-sed Spaniard. Fieda leaned against the bars, the moon turning her fair hair to gold and lingering like blue sparks in the deeps of her laughing eyes. If ever opposites existed in nature, they existed there, and then. "I've a great mind to go away to -ca," said Jack, slowly and vengefully. "Do,' saucily retorte I F.e la. "And never come back again!'" '"Oh, Jack!' "The idea," he cried, raising both hands as if to invoke the fair moon her. self by way of audience. "of a girl re fusing to be married simply Lecause she hasn't got acsome particular sort of a wedding gown to stand up in." "If I can't be marred like other girls, I won't be married at all," de clared Fleds, compressing her rosy "The ides of keepirt¶ a man waiting for that! ' groaned .Lack. "It won't be long," coaxud Fleda. '"'ut, look Loere, Fkda, why can't we go quietly to church and be mar tied, any day, and get the gown after wards?" p:ealedl Jack. "But, Jack, it wouldn't be the same :hing at all. A girl gets married but once in her life, an she wants to look decent then." "My own darling you would look an angel in anything!' "Now, qu.t that, Jack!" laughed Fleda. "It's what my school children call 'taffy.'" '"1 hate your school children," said ,Jack, venomously. '"I hate your school. I despise the trustees, and I should like to see the Lui:ding burn down. Then you would have to ccnma to me." "*No, I shouldn't," averred F;eds. ''Ishould take in millinery and dress making uatil I hal earned enough for the white silk dress. I never would - Oh, Jack! Who's that?" "A tramp? I'll soon settle him with my blackthorn!' cried Trevelyn,spring. ing up. 'N,, don't," whispered Fledla, shrinking close to him; "it's Mr. Mingden. lie's on his own premises; those woods belong to him. It's we that are trespassers. Wait! Stand still until he has gone by. He's very near'sighted, and he will never see Os." "And who," breathed Jack, as a itout, elhlr:y ers'rn trotted slowly scros. th, p':' c f mr ,liils:, andl viin Mr. M:nuden."'' ' D an't viu ,:Onw? Our neighbor. The new en:Ic::in who has bought nmoke IId;." "The ill c ve who is always qua: :cing with you?' "Ye -lh. very man who hates bee,; mo intolerably, and wants miamnma to take away al' thoce lovely hives, down by the south fence. lie sas he can't take his constitut on in p ace, because he's always afra.d of bl.ing stung." "Why don't he tak'e it sclnewhere -1se, thenl" 'rTuat's the very qucstion," sa.d F.cda. 'Mingdca, ch? I believe he must be lHarry 3mtngden's uncle-it's not such a very common name.' said J.lack, reflkc tively. "And Hlarry's my college chum -and I'm going to ask him to be my bes: man at the wedding." ` '(, Jack! Ihope he inu't as disa-. greea!':e as his uncle!I" cril E l:das. H'II s a trump!" "B. .ides, I don't believe his uncle nri!l et hiii comei!" aIled the g:rl. ''Not iet hiin c WU, Why shouldn't ".:':ohe hce ht u; s) on account f the ) '." ''', I ',y, i' ! Ii"' ii 1 the scunmg I tn, ":hs c to i s mit.iter '. I \r m:O 1 o , , ,.: 1 I ry .:n n ,, 't -': i,:, t." ; :t d in't , .,r votr I n .I 1 I : 1 ::' '. 1":.'t it the :i: ,,ce "(bh, . clk, v, : "i',1 (,niv n e lmtetl tr:: , ''! It' 1 e uw ,:; ti. :1 the b e , . I': : i ' a , . :k, cr Il Itat.'- never s1.: uh, to 7 A' : , A: .'.ck li l to pr>nmiue, af:cer som:e unwilii flshjon. Mr-. Fenw :ick, a pretty, fa tle l little willow was full char:. I with in liin t tio. when Fit d:1 teturne I frctn her stroll in the woo is. "Mautma, whlt:, is the :mate::!" said F:e ta. * One of the hives was t-tippel over ton:ght," sobbed M3rs. Feniwick; "and I'm sure hie did it." '"It was the wind, nmantna."'' 'No wind ever did that, Felea. But I set it up again. I will never, never sacrifice my apiary to his absurd prejudices." DI)ear mamma, if you would only have the hives moved to the o:her side of the garden! ' p :eaed Freda, caress ingly. "And sacrifice a question of princi plc! Never!' rep:ied the widow. Mrs. Fenwick, ordinarily the most ami.able of women, was rousel on this subject to an obstinacy which could only be charactcr.zed as v.ndictive. And Mr. Ezra 3I ngden was ten times as bad as his neighbor. "That woman is a dragoness, Ha!" he said to his nephew. "She keeps those bees simply to annoy me. I hate bees. Bees hate me. :. a-y time I walk there I get stung." "IBut, uncle, you shouldn't brandish your cano about so," reasoned Harry. "It's sure to earage 'cm." "I don't brandish it on the woman's side of the fence. If her abominable buzzing insects persist in trespassing in my garden, am I not bound to protect myself'?" sputtere i Mr. Mmngdcn. 'C.an't you walk somewhe:e else?" "Can't she put her bees some where else?" "-But, uncle, all this seems such a trivial affair." "Trivial, indeed! If you'd been stung on your nose ani your ear and your eyelids and everywhere else, would you call it trivial? I never eat honey, and I've always considered bees to be an absurdly overratec sec ion of ento. mology. What business have her bees to be devouring all my flowers? How would she like it hlerself?" Harry Mingden smiled to see the de gree of fury to which the old gentleman was gradually working himself up. lie was already in Jack Trevelyn's confi dence, and thus, to a certain extent, enjoyed the unusual opportunity of see ing both sides of the question. "Lok here, sir," said he. "why don't you set up a colony of bee-hives, yourselfl If her bees rifle your flow ers, let yours go foraging into her gar den. Let her see, as you suggest, how she would like it herself. Put a row of hives as close to your side of the fence, as you can get it. If they fight, let 'em tilght. Bees are an uncommonu ly wa- like .ac, I'm toll; if they agree what is to prevent 'em Iritnging half ti' t'onev miSt ii h vo .. . "'y .Jve," uit 'I:. 3MInlgden, star: ing to h: f:et, ''1 niever thougtit of that. I'!l do it! I won ler where the dtiuce they ssell bec,! Tlere isn't a iioiiie::;t to be lo,t." "I t:hink I kaw of a placa where I could buy lhal' ' d.:z.a hives," said Hlarry. '"Th ent ema wntem n ts to buy some bees," sa:d F.esa. "l).ar mamma, do sell yours; we can easily get all the honey we want-" "Bit I've kept bees all my life," sa'd Mrs. Fenwick, pitoons:y, "'Yes, but they're such a care, mamma, now that you are no longer young, and you are hardly able to look after them in swarming time, and-" (she dared not allude to the trouble they were making in neighborly rela tions, but glided swiftly on to the next vantage point)- "it wi I be just exactly the money I want t> finish the sum for my weddnmg dress." Mrs. Fenwic:'s face softened; she kissed Fleda's carmine cheek, with a deep sigh. ' For your sake, thea, darling," s'ti :-he. "But I wouldn't for the world have Mr. 3Ming len think that I wcuid c-,ncede a sin;h inch to--' "1 den't kaoiw that it is any of Mr. 3 1i; : i 's b ' i'ie' ," saidl Fleda, quietly. Tl:. next dy MIr. 3I:nllca trotte I toi." .,kati~i.L ,, i i,. o' t oo lil :It ILt:ry hal to go btek Ito to .: ; rl a cnCe to cec h w te .-hi.is ,oo e. in their i , " s :I,, t ire. "'A capni:l I' St, tIat of ih. I waon lr what the o. '.ly w.a .a) when slh sees the op p :i a pary Won' t she be furiou!i Il. ht, hia:' II' a,'l u<e 1 his spectacles as he hat-tenel dow to-nards the sunny south walk s hiet had lceretofore been the biattle-groitd. There was the row of 1 are, white hives on his side of the fence-but lo! an i behold! the bench that hal extend ,l on the other side was vacant and deserted! "Why !" he exclaimed, coming to an abrupt standstill. "What has she done wi:h h:-r Leesi' -*Sold 'em all to you, sir," said Jacob, the gardener. "And a fine lot they be! And not an unreasonable price neither! Mr. IItrry looked arter that hisself." '"I hope you'll be very kind to them, sir!" uttered a soft, pleading little voice, and Eltleda Fenwici<'s golden head anpearel just above the pickets of the fence. "And I never knew until just now that it was you who b.gght them." "Biumph!" said Mr. Mingden. "''Bt, I hope, after this," kindly added Fleda, '"that we shall never have any more trouble-as neighbors, I mean. It has made me vej utnhappy, and -" The blue evyer, f(e faltering voice, melted the old gentleman at last. "Then don't let it make you unhappy any longer, my dear!" said he, reaching over the pickett to shake hands with the pretty special pleader. '"Hang the bees! After all, what difference does it make which side of the fence they're on? So you're the little school teacher, are you? i'm blessed if Idon': wish I was young enoug'-' to go to school to you myself!" Fieda ran biLk b the hase inm ~a glee. "I do believe," she thought, "the Montague and Capulet foul is healed at last! And Ido believe" (knitting her blond brows), "that Jack toll young Mingden all about the bees, and that that is the solution of this mys tery I" But that evening there came a pres ent of white grapes from the Mingden greenhouses to Mrs. Fenwick, with the old gentleman's card. "Ile must have been very much pleased to get the bees," thought the old lady. "If I had only known he liked bees, I should have thought very differently of him. All this shows how slow we should be to believe servants' gossip and neighborhood tattlel If i had known he was the pure. aser, I should have declinal to negotiate; but perhaps everything has happened for the besti" Jack Trevelyn hought so, when he stood up in the village church, a fort night from that time beside a fair vision in glittering white silk, and a vail that was like crystnlized frost-work. And the strangest part of all was that old Mr. M~Ingden was there to give the bride away! ''I take all the crcl1t to myself." mith.evoully vlas:,e ei ela-ry 3ug. de.i, the '"best ma'i." 'But l'm afraid it is easier to set muachincry in motion than to s:t, it a:ft'rwards! And it's jaut I),oss:l,ie that: I may have an aunt In-law yet." 'S:ranger things, have happened," saId the Trlegroom.- Tw Ledger. He Was Convinced. mbllle-Prisoner, do you confess y W qtxillt 'N, Your honor. The speech of my lawyer has convinced even me of my entire innocenc." SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS. A great geological map of F: ancS commenced in 1852. has just been cow. pleted. making 43 sheets. A method of expanding hoops add wheel tires by heating them with the electric current has been devised. An analytical balance of variable sensitivencss-alaptinag it to ordinary weighings or delicatte deteriuinations. has been brought out in Germmiy. Since 18S9 encouraging progress has has been i:ad'e, un hlr an etli lent sU. perintendent, towa:il ratoring tile for. -ets of Cape Colony, SJut Af::ct. A new meteorologicld a: 1 vO:lanic oibscrva'ory is to be open 1 ii Pa:npeii, alien thero. w,1 bc a cugreii of sc:ea. t:l; mein to (c:ebrate the ucc.tuirn. S:hlnco fur ten days, siea:tkiag only in w1:i:pcrs for ten days m3re, thee gradual retur:n to the orl Inar voice, isa rccom, nuda'ion for stai nurers. \Wisuloin teeth, the in )it "'.rriable of ill in siz , shape, an I ginerai chara ter, arC said to show hlere litar y char. acleristics m )re strongly than any of the other teeth. A new inddutry has bec:i startcl in Sweden in the manufacture of paper from moss. Paper and pa,teboard of d.ftercnt thickn;=ses up to nearly an inch have alreldy been male of it. Claims are laid to the discovery of the method of raising sugar cine from seed instead of from cuttings. The seeds were discovered by means of a microscope, in the flower head of the cane. The appliance of hydraulic power to the manufacture of steel seamless boats is one of the latest things in England. These boats are thought to be in every particular superior to those made of wood, and can be made at about the sanme cost. A further step toward the artificial production of the diamond has been made by passing an electric current through carbon electrodes in a cell cos. taining a fine white sand and eleo. trodes, the whole being under consid. erable pressure. The depth of a sea about six miles Jeep is reduced by 62) feet by com pression. If the ocean were incoma pressible the level of the surface would be 161 feet higher than it is at pres ent, and about two million square miles of land would be submerged. A prisoner in Bohemia recently con structed a watch eight centimetres (3} inches) in dinmater, with no tools or materials except two needles, a spool of thread, a new.paper and some rye straw. The wheels, posts and cags are of rye straw; the watch runs six hotms without winding and keeps good time. Recent inventions with illuminating reflectors have made it possible to make the Suez Canal almost as light as day. By means of the Mangin projector sad the strongest electric light, the danger of a night passage has been reduced to a minimum. The night traffic on the canal is m consequenco rapidly incree ing. An alchemist when experimenting !a earths for the making of crucible found that he had invented poredals; and a watchmaker's apprentice wh.iL holding a spectacle glass between hs thumb and forefinger noticed through it that the neighboring buildings ap peared larger, and thus discovered the adaptability of the lens to the telescope. Flowers and the Childrea. There are but few children who ae not attracted by the beauty and swee ness of flowers. We have often wath." ed with great interest the seemingly ntural tstdency of young children to admire flowers. Frequently we have seen them gazing with rapture upon the picture of a flower, and smelling I with apparent disappointment that I yieded no perfume. The child appea to instinctively know that a flwer is d lc·ee. i:::locni an l ; re'tr; and i n:;a: L~e ia:d I ,twL :.s.i n *i r rule that a boy that is brought uI) among flwre will develop Into a better man than oiW who is a stranger to flowers. If we could hii ve our w iv, we would 5 adorn with fowers the homes fro wi.ich come our cr minal classes. Th won d not banish crime from the coar munity, but they would greatly lesse, it. Flowers make peop e gentler. softg and better, and the lather and mothl who do not neglect to provide thishOl influence for their children are dogl them a service that perhap, the etersul ties alone will tell the value oL.