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THE OH,ItqAQO BAQLB. TV. n. Henley's edition of Byron's work, which the Messrs. M.ncmlllin tvtll lte. will Include, besides tho complete poetical works, the letters of Byrou, public and prlrat. Thcr wlU Vo ten volumes. Mine. Uolloo. In her new Tolum, "In Walled Uimlen." describes her llfo In Home with Mrs. Jnmeson, and In tho Paris of INTO, and plves n full account of many fatuous people whont.she her self has known Intimately, among them beltiK Ueorge Kllot, Cardinal Manning, Joseph Priestly, Mrs. Booth, Mary Hewitt, liasll Moutapie and tho Proc tors. Atexaudre Dumas says he has arrived at an age when the best thing a man can do Is to hold his tongue. He quotes lluy de Maupassant as saying to him one day: "If I were rich enough not to bo obliged to write, my dream would be to write only one more book, n short one. at which I should always coutbiuo to work, and which I should order to 1h burled on the day of my death." "I think." Dumas adds, "that I am begin ning to realize the dream of Maupas sant." ".Mark Twain" is being made a great nodal lion In Australia. At Melbourne and other cities he was formally wel comed by the municipal dignitaries; ho mid his wife and daughter have been the honored guests at many social en terta'.ntueuts; and in some places since his ndvent the American drawl and ac cent have become the latest fad. Ills lectures are always crowded, and the demand for his books has been so greaf that the local supply has been exhaust ed. The sea voyage was of great bene tit to tho humorist, and the entire party lire in the best of health. Apropos of the rumor that Lord Sails, bury means soon to appoint Alfred Aus- till DOCt l:lllfi Ihv HlU ulnn' la tnlil- 'Tin the death of the Duke of Clarence, ho nont to a morning newspaper some mourning verses, for which the editor returned him a check for twenty-fire pounds, but the ioet sent It back with the statement that 'he could not accept payment on account of a nation's tears.' When the Duke of York married hlf brother's tlauce. Austin sent tho same journal an eplthalamlum. The editor this time failed to send a check, and was reminded of the fact by the poot. The editor recalled the former Inci dent, but Mr. Austin replied that tho cases were quite different. 'Whilst I could not.' he said, 'consent to mako money out of a nation's tears there It. no reason why I should not be paid for adding to a nation's smiles.' " HEADSMAN OF NAPLES. Death in llvllc of u Man Who Had Taken .Mmiy Lives, On the little l-tlaud of I'stlca, forty mlltM from Palermo, Italy, there died the other day a man who was for years the terror of the peoples of Naples and the kingdom of the Two Sicilies. Ho was (Inctauo Impelllzzcrl, once the heads mail under rerdluaud II., of Naples. The useless executions attributed to Impelllzzerl nro countless, and, with the cruelty which he showed, led to his denunciation by Mr. Oladstono forty years ago in the phllllplcs which tho statesman directed against Ferdinand. Tho executions were only In part pub lic; It was tho executions In secret us ually at nlght-whleh gare the man his power. It was ho who executed In San Francisco place, Naples, the Calabrlan Agesllas Mllauoiiuc, who on Dec. 0, 1830. had made a bayonet thrust at King Ferdinand II.. and patriots In numerable became his victims. When Qarlbaldl entered Naples In September, lbiiO, the excited populaco went In search of the hated headsman, but he cared much for his own life, al though ho thought Ilttlo of that of oth ers, and escaped with his wife. Later ho was Imprisoned on tho Island of Ustlca, where ho became nn officer of tho fort built In those days to protect the Island against pirates. Ho wns In receipt of a pension of $5 a mouth much moro than ho deserved. Ho was HI years old at tho time of his death. Now York Tribune. "Flsrlitlna llol" Was Mad. During tho Chilean war Americans ' were very badly treated, and "Fighting Hob" Kvans did not like it. All clnsscs down there use tremendous quantities of garlic, and tho result is unpleasant, for your nose Is offended constantly, oven In the street. One night a boat was sent ashore from Captain K vans' hip, and, believing It safe, tho sailors . who had acted as oarsmen left It on tho beach for a few minutes while they went to slake their thirst. Upon their return they discovered hat n party of ijiilleans Dad loaded It with stones. "Fighting Bob" was lighting mad when lie heard of It tho next day, and was asked what ho was going to do about It. 'Do about It?" returned tho sailor; "why, I'm going to turn my men Into traveling arsenals, and If tho thing ver happens again, or If our flag Is again Insulted, I'll make hell smell llko KarllcS" Statues of American Heroes, 'Plin Hoclotv of tliu Arinv of thn Ton. ncsseo has appointed a committee to solicit funds and to Importune congress for an appropriation to erect a statuo to Gen. Grant In Washington. It Is a Insular fact that while any number of statues, equestrian and otherwise, havo been encted in Washington to the memory or teaucrs in mo great civil ,vnr nonn liriH vnt Im'OII ronroil tn thn jrreat triumvirate, tho giants of tho struggle, uraiu, auuriuuu uuu sucri dan. How I.oiijj. A very learned man, tho Iter. Ed mund Ledger, of England, has Just demonstrated, after a series of nice ralnulatlnns. that tho sun cannot innln. ' tain a temperature siifllclcm to support llfo on the earth for moro than 10.000- 000 years longer. The. Unlnhabltod World. Dr. Ontiel. tho (Trent German con. Icranher. savs that there nro still 1.71V).. loot) squaro miles of tho earth's surfaco swai aro uninuamtea ana ownerless. An Arkansas lover wrote to bis sweet- irt: "There is not a globule of blood 1 my heart that does not boar your BtogrsjaV ALWAYS SOUGHT by the Best People. FOUND in the Best Places. FOR 56 YEARS HALLET & DAVIS PIANOS Have Been a Conspicuous Success, They are REMARKABLE for ORIGINALITY. BEAUTY and DURABILITY. Sold Only by the Makers, at Makers' Prices. Visits of Inspection Solicited. Catalogues Mailed Free. HALLET 239 - wwwy THE COCOANUT PALM. Its Manner of Growth mid ltn Ketctit less llncrjj-. Those who have never seen n long, straggling grove of coconuut trees, by tho seashore, with their feet burled In the gleaming sands and their heads held aloft In the nxtitu of a tropical why. can form but little Idea of the pic u:tviueness of these- Interesting palm. Though facetiously described by Math Twain ns "gigantic feather-dus. ters, struck by lightning." they are. nevertheless, princes of the vegetable worm nun sometimes attain the height of ll'O feet, with steins two feet In di ameter. Many of the tallest specimen-, however, arc blown by tho wind to such abrupt angles that their altitude cocoanut oitovi: nv tiii: sua. is mulct hilly diminished. The trunks being formed by the annual falling of the leaves, It Is possible to tell the age of the tree by counting the circular scars on the bark. Though also nour ishing In the Interior localities on coral islands, they are especially vigorous when within reach of the salt spray of the ocean; ami tho nuts, fulling upon the restless waves, aro cart led to dU taut shores to vegetate. The arch enemy of these palms on the shores of most of the cocoanut islands of the l'acllle and Indian oceans Is what Is known ns the "robber crab," a singular ciustncean which sometimes reaches the length of nearly four feet, though the average measurement Is twenty-three Inches from the point of the front claw to the end of the abdo. men. Tho grip of their powerful pinchers Is said to bo sutliileut to break the arm of n strong man; and It has been aserted that these lleice creatures occasionally carry off and devour very young, helpless children, though one tluds It dlttictilt to credit the state ment. There are practically no bonds to tiii: to(QAXifT riiA n. their depredations, ns they nte catried on mainly In tho nighttime and with greatest legularlty, while their num ber mo often so great as to discourage any attempts at extermination. If Mir prised while sleeping, however, In thu daytime, In holes or hollow stumps, they nro captured without danger, If tho formidable claws aro deftly seized in n bunch. Healing tho long, slim tree trunks till they leneh the branches, they sevr tho largest mid cholceht nuts from their htems by tearing away tho strong libers until tlie prlzu falls to the ground. Then, swiftly descending, the thlof drags Its unwieldy booty to Its neigh boring den, and proceeds patiently, bit by bit, to reinovo tho tough outer husk. This accomplished after several d tys' work, one of tho pinchers Is Inserted In an "eye" of tho Inner shell, and the nut either pounded upon u rock to crack It, or broken up Into Miinll pieces with the claws. 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