) A REVERIE. BY EDWARD O. AT.T.AN80B. X ?m drifting away In a beautiful bark Far out on a boundless sea, And the sweep of the waves o'er the sounding deep Tine a wwcfiVfil r>V?oT?m frvr mfi. But the heart that is sheltered with purple and gold Is cold In its 6plendor and pride, nd the waves In their revelry mock a* they pass. And bitterness sweeps with the tide. There are beautiful Isles and bowers of love, And glist'ning fountains of tears: And pitiful wrecks of sorrow and shame That pass with the fleeting years. om trenrhfiTouB dcnths where the waters whirl, Where hate and sorrow stay, Where the shattered wrecks on the breakers of fate Are silently drifting away. They are drifting away to rest with the yeare Where the sunlight has faded and gone, To wake in the morn at the Judgment bar In the light of eternity's dawn. Oh, voice6 of love, that falter and break, And speak of tho past ever more, Tour echoes lead on 'neath the day-star of hope Till they break on eternity's shore. 1 Anita, Iowa. Hw TllfV?r? w+mn nllinniATi Dr.??lMUll B RemarKable Romance. a m BY EMILY THORNTON. CHAPTER XIII. THE EVENING TASKAs an elegant clock, with old cathedral ehimes, struck the hour of ten, Ethel, with a pale face, and trembling hand, lighted a candle, possessed herself of the etrange-looking knife, then opening the wardrobe, and drawing back the bolt, ^ stepped into the passago and from thence through the small door in the opposite wall. As this opened, she looked timidly around for the entrance to the ruined rooms in which she was to find the basket of food. 8he found herself as soon as the small passage was left, in a long, straight, dark gallery or corridor, that led directly to what Sir Reginald assured her was the Haunted Tower. At the end wrrKo??UC 1 MIKO, UUM Tower, 90 that she might become accustomed to all the dangers and peculiarities of the place before other offices were required at her hand9. With this resolution still in her mind, fihe restored the candle and knife to the secret drawer, and then sought the luxurious bed that awaited awaited her, aud there fell at once into a nleasant sleep, from wLicti sLe~ii6Ter aroused until the bright ra^s of another morning sun stole v into her room. Springing up, she dressed as soon as possible, and opening her door found, by ' Questioning a. maid. th&t_the family did not rise until lale, a? their "breakfast hour was from ten to eleven. All being quiet in the room of the invalid, she returned to her own apartment, and fastening the door securely, resolved at once to start upon her exploring expedition, as she felt that she would be for at least an hour and a half unobserved and mistress of her own time and motions. Tt was now naif after eight. With a little of the trembling nervousness of the night before the brave girl opened the intervening doors and stepped into the corridor. All was folded in the same solemn still ness that made the place oppressive on the previous night. She resolved to explore the ruined parts before she sought the tower, therefore unhooked the door and stepped out. As she did so she noticed that the covered basket was still there. The door opened directly into a small rickety hall that led into several large rooms, all dusty, moldy, and more or less dilapidated. Broken windows, torn wall papers, bare rafters, seen through immense places where ceilings had fallen, were every where visible. Some rooms were filled with broken furniture, pieces of old china, and fragments of time-worn, cast-off clothing. All, even the floors, were in an advanced state of decay. Ethel looked at these dilapidated objects and found herself wondering why Sir Reginald had not had the whole pulled down and removed? Its destruction certainly would heighten the value ; of property, while jts presence only spoke of neglect and untidiness. One thing she observed in her ramble there was an easy mode of egress and < ingress to this part into the hall, and i marks of recent footsteps on the floor < told that this formed the entrance place ( to the person who prepared and bought the food she was nightly to place on the . ; iron shelves. < Another thing struck her; in all the premises there was not the slightest ap- ( pearance of the concealed room, in which . she knew the treasure was secreted. Only a bare, blank wall appeared upon : the side where she knew it must be. T> j-xiyn rr VAM C + AWC Q 11 }l Q fl h/JOn XVCbia^JU^ iiU oitpo aiwi uu Iiiuu wwu | examined, she unfastened the door, and , then sought the Haunted Tower. The door leading to this was closed, j but not bolted, so she opened it, and j crossing quite a large square place, she j began ascending a long flight of stairs. , The steps were steep, and not at all ' easy, and she became very tired before she reached the top, but pressing on, she did reach it, but not before she paused to f rest upon a broad, flat landing; paused, , too, with horror, at an unexpected sight that there presented itself. . It was the stuffed image of a man, ] fixed upon wires, that worked upon the j same principle as the jumping-jacks ? often bought to amuse children. This, however, was nearly as large as f life; Its head was hollow, with red glass ? in place where the eyes would be, so tfcat a ligntea glass jamp, piacea wiimn, { would give a flaming appearance to those ? eyes. j From each side horns projected, and t she could easily imagine what the whole j terrific effect must be to an outside be- ] hoWer. This ficute, sh? saw, could be elevated and put ic motion by winding 8 up a crank to which it was attached. Arrangements for different colored j lights were also on every hand. After carefully examining all the ma- g chi'nery until she perfectly understood ^ its workings and the wnole wicked plan j to give supernatural appearance to the tower, Etnel passed upward until she g could gaze without hindrance upon the tall windows of this lofty placo. . Then exclamations of delight escaped D her, for there she could catch an unobstructed view of the grand panorama that a stretched for miles and miles away on a every side. But she did not linger, fearing she j would be seen by some of the villagers, j, and her presence reported to Sir Reg- v, inald. This visit she knew would be displeas- I ^ ing to him, if he wished it to be a place [ $ that should fill every heart with fear, in ; ^ order to keop visitors from it by day as ^ well as by night. c After, then, one more glance around on the glorious scene that lay before ? her, she descended, glad that she had c been there, had seen the true inwardness of the Dlace, for now it certainly could never have a feeling of terror with which to inspire her heart. Let any person ever speak to her of the fearful sights seen in that lonely Haunted Tower, she could turn away unawed, knowing the whole thing to be a de- , ception, a heartless imposition, a wicked / fraud. CHAPTER XIV. J DAILY PROGRESS. ' Day after day passed, during which J Ethel bccame quite accustomed to her routine of work,and quietly persevered 1 in her duties. . JJothing_difficult lo accomplish was j ] But this morning he seemed to linger j and converse quite freely upon many of ( the topics of the day. Finally he com- j menced giving an account of the severe ; < storm that had swept over the country ; the night before the baronet's accident i and ended by relating his own adventures and what he nad seen in the tower. "Sir Reginald, I thought I would tell you this and ask if you can explain tho r meaning of the spectacle then manifested?" "I cannot," was the reply Ethel j i watched for with anxiety. "I am told by i people far and near of strange appear- j ^ ances in that tower, but I have never seen anything of the kind there myself, therefore put no faith in the story." "uut you may oeueve me, sir, wuwu j. assure you such things are really to be seen there. Now. in order to satisfy my 1 mind and perhaps enable" me to ex'plam the mystery to the frightened inhabitants, I crave your kind permission to visit the premises. Have I that permission?" "It is impossible for me to grant it. When these things were first whispered about twenty-five years ago, we, as a | family, were exceedingly annoyed by j constant visitors to the spot, and the thing became so much of a nuisance that I It- was closed forever from all inspection. No. you must not ask this. Doctor, as I required at ner hands; hotMng oeyona spending a couple of hours each morning in her own room, writing letters, of , which an abstract was taken from Sir , "Reginald's own lips; then an hour or two, just as he felt inclined, reading the , daily papers for his amusement. 1 Very often would he find a chance to whisper the question: "Do yon perform your evening tasks I regularly and well? Does all go on as safely as I could wish?" Then when the answer came, "All goes nroii " hp wrmld sfcm so satisfied and re- I J licved that she felt almost happy in givI ing the information. ! About a month after her arrival at | Glendenning Hall, she had been reading ! one afternoon a work in which he was particularly interested, when she was j Interrupted by the entrance of Dr. Elfen! stein. I As the baronet mouonea 10 ner 10 re- i j main where she was during the inter- | I view, the regular nurse being absent. ; | and as the Doctor might need some thinp9 j j from bcr hand, she became interested in | 1 the conversation which ensued. Now. Dr. Elfcnstein was rather a i small talker, and this natural reserve tended to make his professional Interviews at the Hall brief, and usually cou' fined closely to his medical work. cannot consent to tEe placFbelng entered after being so long sealed. As it is, take my word for it and be satisfied. It is merely a vagary of the brain, an optical delusion, something better to be forgotten. Dr. Elfenstein Baid no more, but inwardly resolved to pay a surreptitious visit there, if not a permitted one, as this mystery he determined should be unraveled. As he rose to leave, he happened to glance toward the young girl opposite to him, and saw her head bent low over the book she held, while a sad and pained expression had floated over her speaking face. Bidding them good-morning, he rode away, woDderfng" "why Mfss NevergaiT should have seemed so deeply moved?" 4 .1 - Ji i? J 1 J ? J Alter loe reoumg u?u wuuuueu, uuo baronet said be would excuse her further attendance upon him, therefore she started out for a ramble over the grounds. She had not gone far before she regretted having done so. as she wa9 Joined a short distance from the house by Robert G-lendenning, a man she instinctively disliked. This afternoon he seemed particularly disagreeable, as he fell into his usual patronizing way, only embellishing it by gross and fulsome flattery. The truth was this young man was a great admirer of a pretty face, and from the first look into Ethel's speaking eyes, and upon her rare beauty, he had acknowledged that he had never seen a person that so exactly met the standard of the beautiful he had raised in his soul. But her proud bearing in his presence, her shrinking from his approach, gave Buch evidence of her dislike that he felt Irritated, and consequently determined to annoy her in every way possible dur' * ^ -4 1- - TT~n *> lag ner stay ui tub nan, tuiuugu a aym* of teasing. This flattery, he saw at once, was utterly distasteful, therefore persevered in Its use. "0 my dear Miss Nevergail, the fates certainly have befriended me, this time! To think that I should have met thus your beautiful self, just as you start on i ramble, is too fortunate for belief! Which direction shall be go, for I at onco constitute myself your devoted attendant?" "Mr. Glendooning, you will excuse me. If I decline your services. I came out tor a quiet walk by myself, and therefore shall not certainly trespass upon pour time." "Pardon me. my angel, my time is of 30 consequence at all. I must insist upon accompanying you, as I could never illow so lovely a lady to stroll around without a protector." "Sir," said Ethel, now really losing patience, "there is no danger certainly ;o be met with in your uncle's grounds. But since you aver otherwise, I shall in stantly return." So sayinR, the young girl wheeled ibout, and began rapidly to retrace her iteps. "You will do no such thing," was the nsolent reply, as Robert sprang to her lide, seized her hand, and drawing it irmly under his arm, hold it tight, and bus drew her back to the walk. "When : propose walking with a charming girl, ! usually do it." "Whether your presence prove agreeing ,le or no." "Sir, release my hand. I have no doire to eo further. I shall merely add hat your presence is disagreeable, and 'our words of flattery almost insulting." "Notwithstanding that, my dearest ;irl " "I am neither your 'dearest girl' nor our 'angel,'' and you have ho "rTghlTo address me in that style. I am your incle's secretary and amanuensis, and ,m here merely to carry out his wishes, ;nd work, not to be attended by you n any way whatever," returned the ndignant Ethel, once more disengaging ler hand, and retreating toward the louse. "Miss Nevergail, go, since you are so letermined, but remember, although you [ocline my frienship, nothing you may o will provoke my enmity, and before aany days you will spend hours in my ompany voluntarily." Ethel made no answer, and the next A * 1 1 11 1 1 A I aomenv re-eiiierwu tue iiitu, jeaving uie hagrined youth to his bitter reflections. ITO BE CONTINUED. 1 ? t TEMPERANCE. ;> THE r>BrXKAED*S DAUGHTER. )ut in the street with naked feet, I saw the hapless drunkard's daughter; 3er tattered shawl was thin and small; Sne little knew, for no one taught her. Ter skin was fair?her auburn haic Was blown about her pretty forehead ; ler sad. white face, wore sorrow's trace, t And want and woo that were not borrowed. Jeart-broken child, she seldom smiled, Hope promised her no bright to-morrow ; )rif its light flashed on her night, Then up came darker clouds of sorrow. She softly said. '*We have no bread. No wood to keep the fire a-burning ["he child was ill. the wind so chill Her thin cold blood to ice was turning. rhat long night fled, and then the light Of rosy day, in beauty shining, ripped dome and spire and roof with fire, And shone on one beyond repining. Vsleep?alone?as cold as stone. Where no kind-hearted parent sought her; [n winding sheet of snow and sleet, Was found the lifeless drunkard's daughter. ?George W. Bungay. WHEN HE BEGAT?. Every drunkard will admit that when he >egan to indulge he had no intention of beaming a drunkard, but simply a moderate Irinker. Then with these facts before us, vhicb our owu observation will confirm, let is ask, is it right or wrong to indulge the labit when we know that our example may ead others to do the same? Is it right or vrong to deny ourselves when we know that he habit often leads to physical and moral lebnsement? Is it right or wrong to conlemu the habit by word ami example and to lse all lawful means in our power to stop it, ind is organized or disorganized effort most ikely to be successful in slopping it??Sac ed Heart Review. TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES. For every four shillings spent in England :>n drink, only a half-penny is expended on aducation. Captain H. H. Siverd was recently shot ind killed by a drunken joint-keeper while trying to enforce the prohibitory law at Wichita. Kansas. Investigations show that color-blindnoss is about twenty times as frequent among men as among women, the difference being asscribed to the use ot tobacco. The boatmen, porters and water-sarriers of Constantinople are famous for being the strongest and finest set of men physically in al! Europe. They never drank any kind of intoxicating liquor. It is said that the thirst for drink can be stopped for a time by drinking four or Jive glasses of water; as much, in fact, as the stomach will hold. This is worth trying when the thirst comes on, and a man foeis as if h? must flrink. Le Caron, the Government spy who came to America to investigate the doings of the Olan-na-Guel. says be was brought up in a strictly teetotal family, and that heatiributed his success as a spy to the temperance habits he learned as a boy. A larpe manufacturing firm in Cincinnati recently made the following statement: "A drinking man will turn out from twenty to thirty per cent, less work than a nondrinker ; and, in addition. hi6 work is apt to be defective and require overhauling." i rrrrrvmcm T TUP unim iioni ijir ?j, PECULIAR CUSTOMS AS SEEN IN THE CITY OF CANTON. Pawnshops and Poultry StovesBirds' Nests For Food?A Visit to a Prison?Varioas Forms of Punishment?An Execution. "T~ VISITED Canton several times I while at Hong Kong, staying from 1 one to two days each time, and 6 under the same gnide, Ah SiD, writes Frederick Stearns in the Detroit Free Press. This, as well as other guides, knew some "pigeon English, as it is termed, but as for any - * _H_- '^1 1 A* inteuigiDie expiu,xi?nuiie ui uiDiunuai i objects, religious symbols or reasons for most habits, ways and customs, they seemed densely ignorant. I shall in this writing give without close con UCCUUJL1, OI" lii bUC BCIJUCUOD ooa Don them, some interesting points. The pawnshops are a striking feature in the architecture of the city. They are lofty (seventy feet or so), about fifty feet square, brick, with but few and small windows, and those high up; a large doorway in one front corner?sis feet?a strong wooden partition, a barred opening in this about five feet from the floor, behind which Chinese clerks receive the bundles of clothing or other things which are offered in pawn for money. These pawnshops exist under imperial licenses of sixty years, for which a large price is paid, as well as a moderate annual tax. These places charge from one and a hali to three per cent, per month interest on the money loaned on things in pawn, the limit being two years. The city treasurer loans money to the pawnbrokers at twelve per cent, per annum, which aids them in ready money capital. If foilo 4-V*^ vAnfa era ro. UUD paVTUOUVJk/ 1UUU vuv AVUVO mv *v quired to make good the Government loan at least. Some bad years, late in the season, when the distressed poor need the winter clothing and bedding placed in pawn in the previous spring, the Government interferes and compels the pawnbrokers to reduce the interest, so that really the system is under some sort of control. In Canton there are over a hundred of these pawnshops; in the province over a thousand. The flouring mills arc common and primitive enough. One?Hop Sing's ?a narrow but deep building, in one lofty story, has twelve run of stone, not cased in at all, each about thirty inches in diameter; the lower stone fixed, the upper one revolving, the grain fed in a centre hole in the upper stone; a scoopful at intervals runs as coarse meal from the middle of the edge. The power was in shape of blindfolded oxen, blinded so that the short circle they tread, going round and round for hours, would not make them dizzy. To keep the droppings of the animals from contaminating the flour and mill, tubs were tied under them. The sifting of the flour from the bran was done by a simple sieve or bolt. One whole street is devoted to preserving eces. mostlv rather small w -/ V ducks' eggs, which, as offered for sale, look like lumps of soft mud. The process, I understand, consiets of pickling them in a paste of wood ashes, common salt and lime, wet with water aromatised by boiling cedar or fir leaves in it; after some days of this they will keep almost indefinitely. Near this is'a poultry street, where fowls?ducks, geese, as well as many kinds of game birds, including owls and storks?are sold alive, with eyelids sewed up to keep them. quiet; and here I should mention that enormous quantities of ducks' eggs are hatched by artificial means by special persons, who sell the young as soon as out to ; certain boatmen, whose business it is to feed and raise the ducklings. These I boatmen have broad, verv low boats, on each 6ide of which are bamboo coops to accommodate sometimes 3000 birds. At first they are fed with boiled rice and similar food, but they soon get so as to forage for themselves. These duck villages float around the shallow places, where at low tide they are let out on to the flat and where they find abundant food in the mud and shallow water, and from which CHJNESI they return promptly to the boat fit a given signal, with a perfect rush, as the laggards are sure to come in for a beating. The coffin stores are abundant, and a good coffin is a costly thing?when of precious wood, a thousand dollars ; and it is one of the proper things for a Bon to crive his father a nice coffin ns ft birthday gift on the close of any decade in his life alter fifty. They are of the form of the lower trunk of a tree, and, indeed, consist of the trunk* of two trees, including the spread at the root. Each trunk is sawed into two planks lengthwise, and the four planks bo joined edgewise ae to afford wpace for the body; that is, the Bide 1 h . ... . V edges of the planks are fitted bo tl plain snrfaceB are at right angles each other, the convex surfaces or side; a square panel is placed in ea< end. It takes six to eight coolies carry one of these; they are smoo outside, and sometimes painted. A large industry consists in makii from paper imitation money, clothin shoes, hats and many sorts of objec used in worshiping the dead and | funerals, -which are afterward burr and in spirit nnd their way to t abodes of the dead to help thei or pay their way to Nirvana. Tseting-lan street is largely given i to shops that deal in the edible birt nesta. It is evidently a prospero business. In the back of each i? restaurant where one can have the soi made from this delicacy served ipsi EXECUTION OF A CHINESE CRT>fTNAl*. prices according to its quality. The nests are found in or near rocky se coasts, caves in Borneo, Java and S m&tra, and are builded by species swallow, from probably a delicate se weed which they find in the surf, ai which, with some secretion of tl crop, they form the neat, which is lil a little rounded shelf, slightly co cave, of the appearance of Bussii isinglass, and is affixed by ite o\ gluey substance to the face of t] rocks. The best white ones are $! a catty; the darker ones, soiled wil feathers, etc., less, down to even ) per catty. These darker ones I ss soaking in warm water, by which th< fell apart, looking like shreds of wilfc cabbage; from these the long, dirt; nailed Chinese clerks were picking o the cleanest bits. I bought of clei nests enough at least for one soup. The wholesale drug stores were vei low buildings, full of strange-lookii bales. At the doors were many Ch nese, shaving or planing roots in1 thin sections and drying leaves c bamboo frames. The retail drug Bho] were full of strange-shaped packagi and curious vials, as foreign to me i if I had never been in a drug stor My guide was useless so far as helpir me in obtaining any information : these places. xne pottery stores were aisappom ing, inasmuch as the ware now mac seems rough, heavy and withoi beauty. "Very few old pieces are see in the curio shops, which latter a: abundant, and such pieces are not i line as commonly seen in the collei tions of Europe. Henoe it must 1 that the ware of the old dynasties scarce and has mostly gone abroad* Jade ifi the precious stone of tl Chinese. Every man, woman ar child, even coolies, seem to wei heavy, round bracelets or amulets* < this subetanco. It varies in color froi a grayish-pearl of a greasy appearan< to mottled copper-green. Earring linger and thumb-rings, amulets, ha: ornaments, besides buckles and opei work carved ornaments are seei these, however, without grace < beauty. Jade is very hard and t? difficulty of working it adds to il cost. Ornamental silver work, consistin of jewelry and various vessels, in bot filigree and repousse, abound, and th white silver amulets on the brow skins of the children and women loo appropriate. Ivory carvings by the Chinese ai familiar to most persons in our ow country. Such show much labor an detail in deep and undercutting, ai in design crowded, crude and taeti less; for export they follow Europea designs. I noticed that each street at its en or where there was a jog in it ha strong, wooden gates, which are close at night, and a special watchma guarding them. Besides funeral undertakers ther are numerous wedding undertakers who furnish on hire everything, sue as sedans, umbrellas, ornamenti bridal crowns and other requirement Furniture of Chinese models, < heavy woods, is stained black and coi siderably carved and often profusel inlaid with bits of mother-of-pear Little of this is exported, but there : a very large home market for sue among the wealthier classes. I visited the places where weavin of Chinese figured silks was done. Ti same old primitive hand loom, clun sily made and half buried in a dirt floor, with a stout Chinese "cherub of about one hundred and fifty pount S BOAT. "sitting up aloft" on the frame, pul ing up alternately clusters of tl warp threads as the shiittle went bac and forth below and so formed tt figures in th& web, all of which changed in western countries by th Tnrtrtn orrl rlotrinA I went through a narrow stree nearly a half mile long, which was oi cupied almost exclusively by pea button makers, each with a little r< ver6ible lathe and a file or two fc tools. Another was a spectacles street, an there everyone was busy cutting ot lenses from water-white masses of na ural rock crystals, by long steel wii saws and oil and emery powders. . . . ' .-. ' : . \ *Cipp$ ae I A curious but rather coarse - painted to enamel on copper was the product in it- another district; it is rather pretty ih and very cheap, the painted design to being burned on. th Whole streets seemed to be nothing but fan-making shops, and feather ig fans, at that. I do not remember ol g, ever seeing such in our country. It :ts is said that whole villages in China do at nothing but make the common oper it, palm-leaf fans so much used in Amerhe ica, and that the palms are especially n, grown for this purpose on large farms. ip The shops for head and foot weai Is' and for clothing are endless. The us Chinese shoe with its thick felt sole if i a a crood idea?eaev to wear. noiselfifiR. ap -warm in winter and water-proof, al] at excellent qualities. Of course th< M^UUI UttiMJOT1"** ee coolies are barefooted, or wear onlj a- straw sandals. u- There are many places where secondof hand embroideries, the slightly-worn a- garments are sold, of the wealthier id people, mandarins and their wires, and be of such I was enabled to get some very se fine examples at nominal prices. Every n- master of snch a shop brought out his in recommendations given by foreign m patrons, many of which read, "I have tie bought embroideries of so-and-so and 20 found them unusually clean." fch The prisons and the halls of justice $5 claimed attention. 1 found myself in w with a lot of miserable creatures, who jy crowded around me, saying, "Money, sd money," I asked the guide who they y? were. "Those sentenced to be beat headed," he said. They were in a sort in of dirty court yard with a shed for Z """? 6, palement, crucifixion and all that sort >e of barbarity. From thence I went to n the execution ground?a long, narrow d space used between times for drying e coarse pottery before it is burned. I e- interviewed the big headsman, numn ber one, with his sword. When he saw me draw a bead on him with my d camera he scowled and went back into l(j his den, but headsmen number three d saw some silver in my hand, and he ,n took up the scimeter, rich with the blood of many hundred dissevered e necks, and struck an attitude, so I boxed that picture, the crowd grinh ning. The pavement, gory with s> bloody sawdust, cheap and common, J * ^ ?- ?" "" a o+/\A/1 gt greai jars us lurgc m umicio oiwu 3f there full of heads, from which quick! lime was slowlj eating away the flesh, y About one execution a day is the aver1. age, though they are generally bei6 headed in lots of four to fifteen at a h time. It is said that at the close of the Taiping rebellion, a few yearB ago, g over 50,000 of the rebels were beheaded ie in one year in this yard. Life is cheap t. in China, and nothing so convinces y one of the fact like a sight of the prisons and of this Golgotha of a yard. ls In the street Sheung-mun-tai, or _ street of booksellers and publishers, " * 1 1 fnr. is an oia aouoie-m tucu " "j??~merly a section of the city wall crossed the street, bnt that was removed long since, leaving this ancient arch as a temple or ehrine. On top is an old clepsydra or water-clock, which has kept the time for about 700 years. It consists of four large inverted cones like leaching tubs, made of copper, placed on a stair-like mass of masonry. From openings near the bottom of each the water slowly drops from the top one into the next below, and so on to the bottom one, which has a perforated cover, and through this hole the graduated staff of a float rises as the water rises slowly and regularly. The water is returned twice a day to ? tne upper jar, and at the beginning of 1- each hour a big board with the name ie of the hour if) placed on the outside k -wall, so it can be seen from the various ie high buildings and tire watch towers is of the city. Here one can buy sticks ie or circles of punk, or incense, which, lighted at dawn, burn slowly, and t, mark the time by hours by means of c- black spots on the punk. I was much rl | interested in overlooking the house s- tops from this old gateway. The tiled >r roofs, on each many rows of round 6tone jars filled with water for putting d out fires; but what seemed most it strange whs a railed-in wooden walk t- that led over the houses, up and :e down, adjusted to the varying hights, abruptly turning to the right or left, 1 v.*T> bridging over intervals; all this for the elevated night watchmen, who in ; this way patrol large districts of the S, cily above the honse-tops, on the lookout for fires and robbers. I Robbery is very common, and yet! ' the authorities make short shrift of 4 : the robbers when canght. The gables _ a _j it _ .1 I ; or nages 01 ine roois are always i parallel with the streets. The tiles . l are coaTse brick, alternating flat with - half-round ones to break joints, these " set in mortar. > ^ Egg ot au Extinct Gigtntic Biri. f < A large specimen of the egg of the * fabled roc of the "Arabian Nightsj* 5 or JEpyornis, as the extinct gigantio ! 1 V?'r/1 r\f Ma/larraa/xxi* {a /uillarl Vta.a VwW)n I secured by Mr. J. doctor, of Tama- . * tave and Princes square, west, who/ has brought the curiosity to London. It was discovered by some natives about twenty miles to the southward of St. Augustine Bay, on the south* west coast of Madagascar It waa'floating on the calm sea, Within twenty yards of the beach, And is supposed to have been washed away with the foreshore, which consists of sand hills,, after a hurricane in the early part ox the year. The child-like longshoreman of the Antipodes, opining that' the egg had a value, showed the unusual piece of flotsam about with a1 view to sale, and it thus came into the* hands of Mr. Proctor. The egg, whichj is whitey-br own in color and unbroken* j is a line specimen, 33} inches byj twenty-eight inches, and an even higher value is placed upon it than] upon the egg of the great auk, which Iitta/1 nrifViiTi 4-Vin mnmr\4 mon TVi*.' I r Mf vu n mum vuo juli^iuva ? wa mwiii - ? ?j ^PYORN/S. f'H. & Vv CUCMtlCri ' 1* A OSTRICH^ EPT0ENI8, OSTRICH AND CB0C0DILE BOCti OOHPAKKD. I Brobdingnagian proportions of ?hej ; ' egg are better demonstrated by com-j parison-with, the eggs of the ostrich and crocodile. An ostrich's egg is* abont seventeen inohes by fifteen! inches, and the contents of six such' are only equal to one egg of the iEpyornie. The measurments of the egg of the crocodile are normal!y nine inches by 6} inches. It would require the contents,of 16J emu's eggs to equal the contents of this great egg,' . or 148 eggs of the homely fowl, cat 30,000 of the humming bird. The last egg of the kind disposed of in J London sold for $500, though crack edi ! ? A Novel Blouse. The smart blouse which is shown in this sketch is arranged in' a lovely , new material which has only just mad& its appearance in Paris. It is a soft and silky velveteen, with small silver pots scattered over it and sunk into the velveteen surface as though they had been stamped upon it with silver . paint. The upper part of the blouse, both back and front, is quite full, the graceful folds being drawn in at the, waist bo as to show the outlines of. the; figure, under a very wide band formed; of black moire, smartly held in place by large buttons of fine jet. Below this moire band there is a very becoming pointed basque of the blue. * a Ok and silver velveteen. The sleeves are of velveteen from the shoulder to the elbow, and of moire trimmed with jet from the elbow to the wrist.?New * York World. Trinidad's (Jueer Little "Lapp." The climate of the island of Trini dad is ideal, it nas an average summer heat of seventy-nine degrees, a winter heat of sixty-eight degrees, and owing to its lovely scenery, fine fishing and picturesqne natives, is coming into notice ks a health resort and pleasure ground. Sportsmen love to hunt the "lapp," a small animal, whose flesh is said to be finer and more delicious than even that of the 1 reindeer. It is a queer, spotted, long-snouted little creature that often hides in the water when pursued, but lives in the hills. Its flesh tastes of j . *u l\y I THE OL'EER LITTLE LAPP OP TRIXTDAD. 1 I veal and pork, and is better than either, or both. ; Delaware has 9000 farms valued at $37,000,000. J p I