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···- :r . I:r" :\·;I!I! :i.:. ! i:. '. ; i .. •~~ .-. j" ., '..,'L. Ir III I I I , J. A. EANOUS E, Attorney and Counsellor at Law FORT BENTON, ~. T., 7uTA.4Y PUBLIC A.JD JFSTICE OF T71l PEA CE. OFFICE: Main Street between Baker and St .John'n 'tretcs:. Dr. .P. E CALDWEL.L, Homeopathic Physician, l'OICT BE;NTON, I: M.ONTANA, OFFit'E H1OURt: 1Froml 10to 12 a.m., 2 to 4and 7 to n p.m, SHOBER AND LOWRY, Attorpeys at Law and Co:lecting Agenot ,ackmon Street nea:r Wood Street. II]ELENA, 31. T. HI-. P. R1OLFE, AT T NEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW. - .r uit andr & (ullen, of Helena. Coi:ections and Business Promptly At tended to. , . r.O,, Tntorn, near Wetzol & Coo. J. J. DONNELLY. Atto rney at Law, Pro:.pt Attention Biven to Collections. MASSENA BULLARD, H~E3LEITNA, M. T il%'ll Prnellr)e nld Make Collectiolns in nla parts of he Territory. II[oiFt It. fICKs. WM . IL iH Ni, Jo. (. . o t, ,,ymi- ionor. Notary bl'ttlir. BUCK & HUNT, .Aitorlleys Ind Coumnslors at Llaw. IfORT BENTON, - - MONTANA. rel.c,'e: Diagodally optpocite Court (lotuse. J. W'. VHIEELOCK, PHYSICIAN & SURGEON OtffP b hi p ofessiooal services tt the citizens of For lBenton and vicinlity. OFFICE at Flanagan's Drug Store. CIVIL ENGINEERING -AND SURVEYING -OF ALL KINDS Accurately and Promnptly Performed -BY H. P. RO, JFE, Fort lcnton, : Ilontania! --o0- For oirotM('lal [ ' :[1aears conneCted with the Unitted ,taoies coat Survey-. The bst transit and sotlar o' in the country nSed. lollmesteadti, Pie anll]l i all d Desert Land Entries attended to. Ch;arges reasonable. INTERN ATIO NA L HOTEL, RINA & 8KLOWER, Progw! Corner of Main & Bridge Sts. HELE TTA, MI. T , CO81OPOLI TAN HOTEL. Nos. 37 & 39 Main Street, - ,-ELENTA , M1V T. SCHWAB & ZIMIYMERMIAN, Proprietors, Centennial Hotel, G(EOItGE V. HIEAL, Proprietor, ('Oil.ti'R OF" MAIN AND GRANITE STR'EETS; I-UTTE CITY, MONTANA. St. Nicholas Hotel, . 1. 3TY, MONTA ,1A .; .. : ney House,! t,. , J)I: MON'I"NFA AYrI ES1'OITH I&McFARLAND, Proprietors. lFirst-~Class? IEotelrc in UEvery II esiectt. 1880- ESTABLISHED- 1867. ClHAF8 E$ ARKIIAI, MAIN STEETrN, IelENA, M~. T., SECOND 1DOOR BELOW FIRST NATIONAL B3ANK, --Whoic:dalc and Retail Deatler in Harness & Saddles, lhorse (ollars, Spaiush Bits. Stagye Lashel, Mcexicani Spurs, Side Saddles, Curry Combs, I'ack Saddllts, Buggy Harness, lil;ksialke Whips. Buggy Whips. --CASH PAID FOR- HIDES, FURS and PELTRIES Sales tlMade at Lowest Cash Rates. REPAIRING DONE AT SIORT NOTICE. Youtr Patrotnage Solicited. Satisfactioh GUARANTEED. Poetry. THORNS AND ROSES. E From morn till night John's hammner rang, The tale of labor telling; t But oft he marked. with envious eye, Squire Htards's cosey dwelling. . Onedlay the Squire himself came by: "My horse has lost a shoe, John, And thalt' the least of all mycares, But cares don,'t come to you, John. The lightning struck my barns last night; * My chill near death islaid, John; No! life is not what folks suppose, 'Tis not of roses made, John." i And then the Squire rode sadly off. John watched him in amazement; And as he watched two faces bright Peeped from the open eacement. lie hear, his wife's voice, sweet and low, Ilis haby'.-i merry laughter; John giveu his anvil such a blow It -.hok each smoky rafter. 'I would not chiangle with Squtlire," said he, i '"For a11l his land and money; There's thorns for hinl as well as me, Bult not such roses bonny!" I'TE Pi AR SON'S LEAP YEAR. BIY ii;ILEN FO(ilRSnT GRAVIS. "It is a very pleasanit p:!rish," said the I.i"iev. lMr. R qliic:tt, "alild very pleasant peolik. The elder ladies are steady, con asist t workers; the yoliunger active and etlhusiaelit. I ldon't think, if I had pos sessed t he privihlge of selecting for myself, I could lhave found a more delightful po sitlion." dIr. Rod eric R:acquet was six-and-twen Ity, twil) : straight !ose, pleasI:nit, blue eyes, and a general talent for hbeing I satifliid wit l ev.ery thing and every body. Slies was lociated in his first parish, a pictur esque little knot of houses overhanging at brisk cataract which ntade work for mills lanl I hltois, and filled all thte adjacent Iwoods wilth its ntoisy umelody ; and so far he Swa tite of thosie exceptions in lift, a per fi.et'ly satistied man. "Ai," siai, his friend, 3r. Alton, who was it nlisatithrolpe. "The ladies, loh?" "Yes," said Mr. JRnequet, quietly; "for ofl'olurs, you knlow that hutch of the pros plerily ofla countrl' parish deptlends upon its femallne tleCitbers." ''"Yes," observed Mr. Alton, dryly. "You are an nl rrllllll ied iman, I btelieve.?" I tllm an unmarried man-yes, cert/tin ly." "And this is--leap year.' 'Nonlselse !" cried the parson, briskly. "I hope you mity find it inontlsense," said 1r. Alton, pursing up his lips; "but I am told that there are a good many single la diles this year who are driven desperate by the prospect of spinsterhood-- " "Nonsednse!" again exclaimed Mr. Rae luet. "My dear Alton, this is a little too mtuchl of a:t burlesque. You don't serious ly believe in this-this ttbsurdity?" 3Mr. Alton only shook his head as he rose and reached for his hat. "I'll get my book, Racquet," said he, as lie looked lugubriously iaround the room, "and go out for it stroll in these delicious, pine-scented woods. My doctor says that pine sapl is very healing for lungs that are consulmptively inclined."' "Very well," said the Rev. Mr. Racquet with a glance at the scattered sheets of the half-finished sermon that lay on his desk; "a'-nd I will join you after at little period of time.' lle took up his penl, dipped it determiln cdly ill tlhe ink-stand, antd wentl resolutely to writing; but, ill spite of all his ilndustry the words of his iconoclastic friend rang persistenlltly ill his eatrs. "If there shouldl ( tane fionlintdation for Altonl's absunrd idea'" he pollndered, with hisi pen suspended above tthe partially written sheet; "Blut of course there canii't lbe; but if such :1 possibility did exist-and a !lmarried mllan is re.ally a better mleln ber of society than :a single one. I never did adhere to the rigid doctrine that cler gymen should be celibates." And all the while Rose Appleton's cher ry cheeks and tangled yellow hair were ldancing a hunlt will-o'-the-wisip before the horizon of his mind's eye. "ShCe's youtng," he said to hliself, "bnt perhaps ai tritle inclinied to be giddy; bIut she's certainly very ci'htitriltitin. ;n.d, sillce the Appleton'si h:ive fatiled, intl tile mother las opIened a boarding-rhouse, and Lncilla its gone to tea lhingt, I don't lhink I could do better 1t1an11 tO mar;!r'l'y--' "Rona A1ppleton, 'ir, if yout pletase." It wts a tilid little voice thit broke in iiotn the threadl of his rellections, and Ro ;a herself stood blotfre him, coloring all o er like a piink oarnrttion, with a basket of Iate i1eah'tles in Iu:ul , and white, Ilittering tilubons in her htt. s;'. 'The Rev. Rodlerick miov'ed forward his chair. "P'rayl le seated, Miss Appleton," said lie, not without somel confusion on his part. If they had been living in the Palace of Trlth now, and JRosai cOild hlave seen into thie depths of his lheart! And Miss Appleton sat down, pulling nervously at the lingers of her brown I thread gloves. "It's about outr Iucilla," said she. "Indeed ?" said Mr. lRacquet. "We want to get her well started in life," said Rosa, appealingly. "I thought she was teaching," cried Mr. ] Racquet. ''She doesn't like teaching," confessed t Ilosa; "or rather, to be candid with you,. the trustees don't like her. She isn't very young, you know, aind has sOilie odd, for- t lnal little ways, and only one eye and the 1 children inake fun of lher, and the trustees say she has no dignity," "Very u:lfortunate," said Mr. HRacquet, bending a transplarent pearl paper-cutter back and forth, with the sublime indiffer ence which we :re all apt to display to wards the tribulation of others. "if there is anything I could do-"'' i'O, but therc is.'" said Rosa. "Eh ?" ejacul:atetd lev. Rlaciluet. "She thinks, and mamma thinks'-" "Well ?" "That she mighllt com here,"' said Rosa, with her blue eyes fixed full on the young clergyiuan's face. (lick i click and the two pieces of sev eredl paper cutter flew into opposite cor iers of the room. "IIere," cried M'r. lacqnuet-"to the parsonage ?" "Yes," innocently assented Rosa. "She isn't pretty to look at, to he sure, but :s you yourself said, itn your address to the Sunday-sEhool, last week, beauty is a mere nothing; and you'd .nd her very beauti tu! and :accotplished." "Indle:d?" said MIr. Racquet, frigidly. "She has been highly educated," went on Rosa, gaining confidence as she t:lked; "but at the same time she would not de spise descending to menial duties for the sake of one she loves and knows as she does you,. And so, Mr.. Racquet, she \wants to know if you'll have her'." A cold perspiration broke out around the Reverend Roderic's mouth. He drew back his chair with an instinctive move ment of self-defence. Leap year was up on him in very truth and fact. Alton was right, and he should be coerced into mat rimony before he knew it. "1--I'd rather not!" said Mr. Racquet, very decidedly. Rosa looked at him, half amnazed, half offended. "Rather-not?" she repeated. "I don't think Lucilla expected thait decision: Per hap' she'd better come and see you about, it herself." "o, no, sishe netedut Iio that," '-gasped Mr. Racquet. "My °decision is irrevoca And, hurriedly gathetig his papers, 'he caught bispen and fegneid great assiduity once more. "I see you are blusy," said Rosa, softly, after an instant of hesitation. "Yes," said Mr. Racquet, "I am rather busy." "Then perhaps I had better bid you good-morning," said Rosa. "Good-morning, Miss Appleton," said the clergyman, with his eyes glued to the paper. "What!" he cried, after the fashion of the soliloquizing heroes of the stage, marry that wrinkled, one-eyed hag against my will, just because she wants some one to provide for her, and it is leap year! And worst and cruelest of all, to think that Rosa should come to propose it!" Just then Rosa's voice, soft and plain tive, talking to the old housekeeper in the kitchen below, chimed upon his ear. In voluntarily le listened. "I know it is very foolish in me to cry, Mrs. Megson," faltered Rosa, "but, in deed, I can't help it! You see, we heard you were going away next week, and Lu cilia was so anxious to obtain the situation of housekeeper. She's so middle-aged and steady-going, you know, that it would be the best place for her." "Certainly, certainly, Miss-Rosa," said good-natured Mrs. Megson. "And what objection did the master possibly have to it?" "I don't know," said Rosa, "but he was so cold aed stern and short with me. He didn't seem a bit like himself. And, O! t Mrs. Megson, please do give mea glass of water, for I feel all in a flutter. I didn't even have a chance to tell him that Lucilla was willing to come without wages for the first montli, for the sake of learning the c household ways, and-" But Roderic Racquet heard no more. Scattering the sermon sheets right and left, he seized his hat and rushed down the back garden to a certain shadowed walk, 0 which led out to an angle in the wall, which conmmanded the highroad by which Rosa Appleton must return to iher own i home; and when the light figure came, moving softly along like a shadow, lie stepped out and stood directly in front of n her. She started like a frightened fawn. "Rosa," lie said, "do not be afraid. I I do not think we quite understood each other just now. Your sister wanted to take the position which Mrs. Megson is n about to vacate of housekeeper at the par- y sonage?" 1k "Yes, sir," said Rosa, with downcast eyes. o0 "But I should prefer another housekeep er, Rosa," boldly spoke out the parson. s, "I shall prefer you as my wife, darling- s8 my own beloved life-treasure " "I never thought of such a thing," said ei Rosa, beginning to color up and tremble. "Think of it now," went on Mr. Rac- te quet, "Lucilla and your mother can live with us, if you like; but you must be the t little keeper, Rosa." hi And after a singularly short period of ' deliberation, Rosa Appleton decided to ac- er cept the situation. al When Mr. Alton came in from his solita- di ry meditations among the pine groves Roderic met him with a radiant counte- M nance. m "Old fellow." said he, "I'm safe! No i more of your leap year intiimidation for sue. I'm engaged !" hi "So she has asked you, eh?" groaned th fMr. Alton. re "No," said the parson: "I asked her." A Mian's Reason Preserved. A curious story is going the rounds of the English newspapers of an exhibition in the show windows of one of the leading jewellers of Vienna. The object of attrac tion is a brooch magnificently studded with II: gems, il the middle of whose chasing is inclosed the most singular of centres-four t common, old, bent, and eorroded pins. This brooch is the property of the Countess Lavetskofy. The pins have a history, of course. Seven years ago Count Robert G Lavetskofy, as the story runs, was arrletetd B at Warsaw for an alleged insult to the Rus sian Government. The real author of the insult, which consisted of some careless words spoken at a social gathering, was his wife. lie accepted the accusation, ti however, and was sent to prison. In one of the lightless dungeons in which of the Czar is said to be fond of confining his Polish subjects, the unfortunate martyr t for his wife's loose tongue spent six years. tl He had only one amusement. After he [ had been searched and thrown into a cell, iI he had found in his coat four pins. These of he pulled out and threw on the floor; then de in the darkness he hunted for them. Hay ing found them, perhaps after hours and even days, he scattered them again. And a so the game went on for six weary years. "But for them," he writes in his memoirs, i "I would have gone mad. They provided me with a purpose. So long as I had them to search for I had something to do. When c the decree for my liberation as an exile c was brought to me, the jailer found me on so my knees hunting for one which had es caped ine.two days. Theysavedmy wife's husband froim lunacy. My wife, therefore, collid not desire a prouder ornament."' On Which Side? A corrcspolndent writes to the Philadel phia Times for an answer to that question ir which has long puzzled the beaux-On o0 which side should a gentleman ride when escorting a lady on horseback? The edi- t tor says: This is a point on which usage a is not sharply defined. It was formerly G the general custom for the gentleman to f ride on the off side of the lady, for the rea son that he could thus bring his horse b: much closer to hers without inconvenience b 1o her, and would avoid the danger of en- 1 tangling his stirrup or spur in her habit. The shorter and less voluminous skirts now worn make this last consideration - of less a importance. Though a man riding on a a, lady's left must still keep a respectful distance, there is the very strong argument in favor of this position that he has his b right hand toward her, disengaged and ready to aid her in case of accident, to e, cttch her bridle, or herself should she fall, li or her saddle-girth slip. And this is not all. It is probable that tihe custom of rid lug on the lady's .right really arose from the fact that in England you take the left of the road. and the man should always be i1 next the passers-by. But with us the law o of the road is reve;sed, and the man should h therefore ride upon the near side, that he may be between his companion and those a whom they muay meet. Tie practical ar rangements seem thus to favor the near side, and it will be found thateustom tends increasingly in that direction. Danish Butter. s The London -CGrocer says that Danish f butter commnands the highest price in any v market in London in the 'winter -months, b because it is the best. The butter is made on large estates, where are usually kept from. one "hundred. to two hundred- and eighty cows, ind in some-cases even more. I It is satisfaetory to know thiit everytlhing c shipped as butter fromf.Denmirk ita'pure," a most important fit to dealers. Denmark exports about ten thousand casks of but ter per week, averaging eighty pounds uset, out of Which, at present, about foulr thou-' sand are sent to London. Butter is also packed in tins of various sizes for ;export to hot climates. `Danish butters arrive in London once or twice 'weeklvt vi the North and the pesent dimensions of this traffle jinsy be understood by the fau that the goods manager of the Farrangt6io -Street station of the Great Northern Rail way receives weakly for distribution iu London iabot btsixty tons o a nisb butter a is casks, ty HOW SHE MblIA RIEII) Hi'NIY ,.Keziah Buckthorne had survived, by a considerable period, whatever of feminine Ir charms and graces she might have once possessed, when a handsome fortune drop u ped down upon her as if from the clouds. Had the riches come a score of years d sooner, there is no telling what might have ie been. Keziah's attractions, had never been, so to speak, dazzling. But twenty )f years have great potency in turning dim ples into wrinkles, and lines of beauty in g to crow's feet: and many an adventurous SCaelebs who might have found Miss Buck thorne a match not unacceptable, with o such ta fortune, at twenty-five, passed her e by at five-forty, saved from the sin of cov etousness by the reflection that she and her money were inseparable conjuncts. e Even Tophahi Gynblaney, the daily pro blem of whose life was to keep adjusted the balance between a very moderate in come and quite expensive tastes, and who looked upon a thrifty marriage as the goal of human wishes, after a few visits of re connoissance to Keziah, which left him in doubt that he had hut to say the word to receive a gracious answer, left the word unspoken. Mr. Gynblaney's visits had ceased for some weeks, when a message came one day that Miss Buckthorne was quite ill-had fallen into a decline, in fact-and had been given up by Dr. Croke. She desired to see Gynblaney and such other friends as might wish to bid her farewell ere she started on that journey whence there is no return. Of course there was no refusing, such a request. Decorously clad in solemn black, and with a face put on to match, Topham Gynblaney presents himself at the invalid's door. "How is she, doctor?" he inquired gravely, of a dried-up little man, who met him at the threshold with a countenance in which was a whole homily on the vanity of hope. "Sinking rapidly," Dr. Croke replied; "those who wish to see her alive have no time to spare." "There is no chance for her, then ?" "Not the slightest. Constitution gone nervous system shattered-lungs collapsed -no recuperative force-no-" "How long do you think she'll last?" interrupted Topham, anxiously. "Eight-and-forty heurs at the furthest; more likely less than half of it. Would you like to see her?" asked the doctor, at length. "I called for tlhat purpose," returned the other. "Let mse apprise her of your presence," said the doctor; "in her present state any sudden surprise might prove fatal." After a brief absence the doctor return ed. "This way," he said, leading the visitor to the sick-room. Mr. Gynblaney was shocked at; the spec tacle that met him. His heart, we have hinted, was pretty tough; but tough as it I was, it was touched at the sight of the pale t emaciated face-enough of itselt to dispel e all doubt of the truth of the doctor's pre dictions. "This-is-very-kind-of yon, Top- Mr. Gyn--blaney, I mean," the sick lady e murmured, a spasmodic cough interi upt- 1 ing her words. Mr. Gynblaney took the chair placed for him at the bedside, and clasping in his own the thin hand extended to welcome him, returned its trembling pressure. The doctor and the nurse retired to pre pare a posset for the patient, leaving the latter and 'Mr. Gynblaney alone. "I trust you will be better soon," said Mr. Gynblaney, with well-meant hypoeri- E sv. '`lThat-is-past-lhoping-for," wuas the t '"That-is-past- oping-for,: was tile scarcely audible answer. "Dr.--Croke has-told-me--the-worst." Dr. Croke, we may here remark, always told his patients the worst. If they got well, the more credit to hin. If they died, of course it wasn't his fault. A sudden thought flashed across hMr. Gynblaney. If he could only marry Miss Buckthorne noee ! In two days, or less, he would be a widower, and the lawful pos- t sessor of his wife's fortune. Here was an 1 opportunity indeedl ! Rubbing his eyes with his handkerchief till they watered and looked red from the force of the friction, lie gave the hand an- t other and more tender pressure. t "Dear Keziab," he whispered softly be tween his sobs, "how-how--cruel that- - that we sh-should be parted thus! I have 1 long cherished the purpose," he went on, hurriedly, mastering his emotion with an effort, "of asking you to be mine. Difi-] dence alone restrained me. But if you: will even now consent-" "Do-you-feel-that-it-would-be-d a-comfort-to you--Top-Topham, dea-" The cough would not allow her to fin ish. "It would ! it would !", he exclaimed, with a burst of well-feigned feeling. "To call you mine, but for an hour, though I lost you the next, would forever link my 4 soul to a precious memory which-which I Mr. Gynblaney was on the point of end ing his flight with an inglorious flop-down ] when Keziah came to the rescue. "It-shall-be-as-y-ou-please,-dear," I she sighed. "No time is to be lost!" lie cried, spring ing up. "Let us send for a minister at i once!" i Just then the doctor and the nurse 'e turned.; The minister was summoned, and a few minutes sufficed to make Topham i Gynblaney and Keziah Buckthorne one ]l flesh. A tinge, which nmight have passed for aI blush twenty years ago, overspread the i bride's countenance. For some moments i she lay like one entranced with happiness. i "Toppy, dear," she said, when they were again alone, "I feel as if I could eat something; they've kept me on gruel till I t am nearly starved." "What would you like, dearest?" "Some tea and toast, and chops, and boiled eggs, and-" "Good Heavens!" exclaimedd the doctor, entering in time to catch a portion of the list, "do you wish to commit suicide ?" "What hurt can it do?" she answered. "You have already told me there is no hope." "I think we might as well gratify her," her husband added; and finding himself outvoted, the doctor held up his hand , in horrified protest. The repast was brought and- re2eived ample justice. Next morning Mrs. Gynblaney was iup by-times packing her trunks for an elabo rate wedding tour, from which her hus band and the doctor in vain tried to dis suade her. It would be hard to tell which of them was the most amazed. Both were firmly convinced that the age of miracles was not yet past-unless, as the disconso late Gynbhlmey halfsuspected, lie had been made the victim of a cunning plot. The years have passed, and Tophami Gynblaney has still, the old problem to puzzle over; for Mrs. Gynbhuley holds her own purse-strings, and insists on "Top py's" living on his own income. Well Loaded.-It was one night when a neibghbor had been in and told burglar storihe, that the old man hnd his two sons, eaceh, without mentioning the fact, felt rather searey, and 'went and loaded the gu&i and it was the old man who got more scared in tbe night, and, getting the gun, Aired it ait t n imaginary mant, and got kiked clear through the chin-eloset door. and broke up six dozen of table ware. He says he just wishes the burglar had fired the gunat him, as the villain Wouid have been killed sure :Apl TIlE DEATH OF RACH EL. a Most people will remember that she ie caught cold while attending a great cere ee molly at the Jewish - synagogue of New p- York in 1855, and that, through her hav ing unfortunately neglected it, it eventu rs ally settled upon her lungs, and in a few re months utterly destroyed the constitution sr of this very remarkable woman. A winter y in Egypt, far from improving her health, 1- seems rather to have aggravated her mal 1- ady, and on her.return to France she was is advised to spend the following winter of 1857 at Nice. M. Sardou, with exquisite h politeness, at once placed his villa at her r disposal, and, on her accepting it, N. Ma rio Nechard, the accomplished author of r "La Fiammetta," who was inhabiting it at the time, withdrew to another residence near Cannes. d When Rachel left Paris she was fully - aware that her last days were drawing o near, and before bidding a long fare vell .1 to her relatives and friends, she ordered Sher carriage and drove to the front of the 1 Theatre Francaise, where she stayed a long time contemplating the scene of her great I est triumphs.: According to her sister, Mile. Sarah Felix, who was in the car t riage with her, she did not, while thus employed, utter a single word; but the I rapid changes of the expression on her wonderful countenance spoke a volume of mental sufferings and blighted hope. The journey to the south was performed t by short and easy stages. At Draguignan one of the stations on the road, a beggar woman happege.d-t come to the door of the inn just as Bilc. Rachel was getting into her carriage. Touched by the story I told by the poor old creature, the great I tragedienne opened her purse and gave t her two or three gold pieces. This act of t generosity exasperated Mile. Sarah, who n was a very parsimonious person, and she remonstrated with her sisterfor her prodi- a gality. Rachel quietly answered, "My fi sister, what does it matter? In a few days ii I shall be dead. Let nme do what little ti good I can before I go. If the old woman d is an imposter, so much the worse for her; ti God will judge with what intention I gave ti her alms. 3 On arriving at Le Cannet she was re- b ceived by several eminent persons, among p others, by Dr, Manre, her physician. - When she was introduced into her sleep ing apartment she was seized with such a paroxysm of terror 'at the sight of the statue of I'olmnia that her attend ants thought she had lost her reason. She stood before it, trembling from head 0 to foot, her brow contracted, and hier eyes 1 flashing, and her cheeks glowing with an unnatural, hectic flush. "Take away that awful statue; for God's sake take it away i" she cried in the hollow tone of voice which ei had so often struck awe into the hearts of thousands. "Take it away! It has sealed my doom, for under its shadow I shall surely die." In a few moments her deliir uin, for such it seemed to be, so increased that, before the statue could be removed, t she was in strong convulsions, which were succeeded by a death-like torpor. On recovering her senses, she explained the cause of the horror the statue had occa sioned. On the night of .July 8, 1852, she had a dream, in which she imagined her self in a chamber draped in white; in the center stood the figure of Polentia, which seemned to cry out to her, "'Under tile shad ow of my hand thou shalt surely die." This story was no invention, as was after ward found by reference to an entry in an old diary. Strange to relate. the statue n couldl not. be rlemoved from her room, and was only concealed, without her knowl edge, in au aullcove above her bed. Rachel, like niany exceedingly iagina- e tive persons, was given to what in other p1 people would be called lying. She would at times tell the most extraordinary un truths, and in perfect good faith, so that I her brother Raphael once told me it was cC difficult to sift out the truth from the false- te hood in what she said. If she liked peo ple, she imnaglned and related a thousand agreeable anecdotes about them ; and, if it she hated them, any number of enormi- th ties to illustrate their evil qualities. At m Le Cannet, however, a gravity came over g heir which showed that she was inwardly preparing for the change that awaited her. Almost the only book she now read was the "Imitation." Being asked by a skep- II tical friend wh:at she considered its litera- w ry merits to be, shIe said, gravely, "I do m not care what they are. If Monsieur, Ia had been carefully educated and trained se from my youth, and had read this book to earlier in life, I should have been a differ- in ent woman. I advise you to read it with tI attention; its perusal will do you no harm." tr She frequently retired to her room to pray, rT and oni several occasions held long con- m versations with her friend on religious ce subjects. I have been aissuredl thtt shortly se before her death she was converted to Ca- v tholicismn and privately baptized. st When in Rome, ihn 1851, Rachel had fre- t quently expressed her admn iration of v Christainity, and was observed to be great- s ly moved by the splendor of the rites in the various basilcas. It was during the t sojourn in the Eternal City that c she was presented to Plus IX., under t somewhat peculiar circumstances. She ( had been visiting the gardens of the Vati- r can, toward the close of a very mild even- t ing, when suddenly the Pope and his court r traversed the alley in which she was walk- a ing. She knelt as the Pontiff passed her, t and on one of his attendants whispering who she was, he turned to bestow a bless ing upon lie . Rachel bowed low. His Holiness addressed a few kindly words to her and asked her a few questions on her religions opinions. Whether purposely or a by accident, she is said to have answered t is the words spoken by Pauline in Cor- e neille's superb drama of "Polyeucte," d when that heroine becomes a Christain , "Je vois, je sais, je crois, je suis Chre- f tienne enfin"-a speech with which she t used to electrify her hearers in the ( days of her glory. Her life at Le Cannot was very simple. c Sheerose at mid-day, and spent a great t 'eal of her time in sewing, an occupation which, whilst it kept her employed, did not excite her as did reading and conver sation. She also received a few visits, and r sometimes, when feeling well enough, a played cards--her favorite amusement. d She was now always gentle and kind,.and s still paid considerable attention to her a dress, which usually consisted of a white t muslin or silk peignoir, with natural flow- 5 ers in her hair. The kindness and atten tion of her sister Sarah cannot be exagger- t a ited; she who was usually impetuous and ill-tempered was now beyond praise pa tient and loving. It would be difficult to describe the in terest which was manifested, not only in France, but all over the world, in the wel fatre of a woman who had once played the - guitar in the streets of Paris. Telegrams of inquiry were sent daily from half the courts-of Europe, especially from that of St. aetersburg; and the quantity of fruit and flowers which arrived for her accept ance was positively incredible. Many la - dies and gentlemed of distinction, from Nice, went-iu person to inquire after her. lI remember thait one day Msme. S. wdnit with her daughter, and took me, then a r smadl child, with them. I was perched on the box with the coachman.': On arriving at the Villa Sardon, we found Rachel, as the day was fair, in the ardenl She wore a white dress, and an old white-black plaid shawl wrapped about her body nsd htead.i She camne to rthe door of the brouigham and received the ioweiirs iy friensds brought her with pleas 'ant courtesy. I had become in the mean a time, rather restless, and maulfested a tronst insleilation to get down. The la dies entered the house; and still I renrain ed on my perch, no one paying me any at the tention. Presently Mile. Rachel turned re- round and said to the coachuman in her pe ew culiarly resonant voice, "Faites, done, de iv- cendre cet enfant. u- I shall never forget the tone or the wo sw man who uttered it. I can see her now : on A very small, snake-like, but beautifully er shaped head; features smnall, but straight :h, and regular; hair raven black, and simply a1- bound up behind in a knot; eyes peculiar, as one, I am sure smaller, than the other. of The last peculiarity was so remarkable, at te least to me, that I took special note of it er in the room afterward. I cannot recollect a- what occurred during tih visit, but 1 do of remember being presented with a hand it kerchief containing a quantity of marrons ce glaces, which, like the contented witch, I munched and munched on myi homeward ly journey. ig On January 1, 1838, she became sudden 11 ly worse, and on the following Friday her d life was despaired of. She rallied again me on the Saturday, but on Sunday, the 5th, iR all hope was again abandoned. "I am dy t- ing, Sarah," she said, "and will soon be r, with my sister Rebecca, and then God will r- show mercy." Rebecca was her favorite is sister, and died, when only twenty of con ie sumption. 'r Early in the morning of that fatal Sun if day she wrote affectionate letters to her parents in Paris. Sarah, seeing her sis d tar's danger, summoned the Rabbi and i Jewish singers from Nice. They ap .r proached the bed, and began a' mournful f chant in the Hebrew language, "Ascend, 0 daughter of Israel to God. Behold, O, ' Lord God, the agony of thy handmaiden, Lt Rachel, and pity her sufferings. Shorten e her pains, Good Lord, and break these I r bonds which bind her to life, so tlhat she 0 may be at rest. Lord God, pity Thy ser e vant, and take her unto Thee, and let her I agony redeem her sins, so that she may Y find peace." Whilst they werestill sing- f s ing Rachel fell asleep in death. Just as e the soul and body parted she pressed her a devoted sister's hand and opened her eyes, to fix them on her with an expression of n tender affection. Six hours later, Dr. 1 IMaure felt the corpse and found it flexa- i ble, even warm, and it was long beflire he r Spermitted it to be placed in the coflin. (i -The Theatre. I Popuhation Statislics. Alabama is as large as England, and yet has only 100,000 of people to England's 21,- e 000,000. California, with less thall 1,000, 000 of people, is very litte smaller than France with 36,000,000. Nevada is a little smaller, and Oregon is larger thn NSew York and Pennsylvania combined ; so eith er of these new States could easily hold two older St'ates' combined population of 8,500,000. We do not think Massachusetts overcrowded with 1,500,000. nor Ohio with less than1 3,000,000, nor New York with 4 t, 500,000. And yet if Texas were settled as thickly as New York, its 1,000),000 of peo pie would grow to 22,00,000; if like Mlas sachusetts, it wou1ld holt 52,000,000, ori more than the whole present pop)ulation of i the Union. Theire are oily lifteen States out of the thirty-eight which have each more than i 1,000,000 of people. \while there are four- I teen States which have each a larger alrea than EnI-lan-d with her 21,000,000. Settled like 'England, these States would haveC more thanl 300,000,000. .The States toward which emigration is now mainly setting are Minnesota', Nebras ka, Kansas, Texas, and Colorado. These about equal Missouri i in population, w hile their area is ten times hers. So, to be cv-t enly populated like Missouri, sparsely peo- I pled as that State is, these five should have i 20,000,000; mrd to be settled like IMassa-I clihusetts, being ninety times as large, the) I must have 135,000,000, or three times our country's present population. If the whole territory of the Union were settled like New York, it would contain 270,000,0000, if like Massacnhsetts, 560,000,000, and if i it reached England's ratio of inhablitants to the square mile, its population would al- 1 most equal the present population of the globe. One or the Other. She was a woman of Bloomington, Ind. ter husband was a meclhanical genius I with a hankering after a perpetual-motion c machine, and her son was a live boy with c a taste for hunting rats. The son one day t set a steel trap in the cellar, and went I to borrow a rat dog. The worman went I into the cellar with a requisition for ra- l tions, and her eearclling gaze fell on the trap. "O, dear," she sighed, "John Hen ry has made another perpetual-motion machine," and prolmp)ted by womallnly curiosity she picked it up by the trigger to see how the old thing worked. She saw. With hideous howls she climbed the cellar stairs like a whirlwind, and went wailing 1 through the house and fled1 into the street., waking the echoes with disconsolate shrieks, while the neighbors shouted I "Fire!"' and thronged into her house and began pitching out the furniture. Ordert once more reigns in Bloomington, but that woman has posted a p1lacard on the I' doors, notif:ing all11 to whomn these presents may come greeting, that hereafter it is to t be all perrpetual-notioin machlie or al i" rat-trap about that house, she doestn't carei a cent which, but she isn't going to have I the thing mixed any more. WIhat Becomnes of Fijialln UWidi Owi. ! There is no uniformity of custom in Fiji, I so that no description of what is done by 1 any one tribe can be taken as applicable to the others. The strangling of widows,how ever, that they might be buried with their dead husbanids. seems to have been every- w where practiced. The Widow's brother per forms the operation, anrd is thencefo)rwar'd i treated with marked respect by his brother in-law's kinsfolk, who present him with a piece of land, over which the strangling cord is hung up. Should he, however' fail to stangle his sister, he is despised. V When a wcman is about to be strangled, she is imade to kneel down. and the cord (a strip of native cloth), is put around her neck. She is then told to expel her breath as long as possible, :mr , whel she c.an eia dure n- longer, to stretch out her hand as a signal, whereupon the card is tightened i and soon al is ever. It is believed that if this direction be followed, inseosibility en sues immediately on the tightening of the cord; whereas if inhalation Ilis taken place, thereis an intervi ofsuflering.-LiIan Foxe. BLirds in a Gong. A curious t~c i1n naturat'l listory is no- i ticecd at the depot at Yilliamsport, Pa... where two spa:'rowvs hti."e built their nest and are rearing theiryounig inside tlhe gong which announces the departure of trains. The gong is about eighteeni illnches in di - ameter, and when strnuck lby its hammerllnr Shas a deafening soutid but, notwithstand Sing its racket, and the rioar aid rattle of eghines and carl, the birds ire unimoved the male, indeed, beingt fiequently observ ed sitting upon the iron knocker itself while it is striking. A Baltimore paper suggests that, inas Smuch as the sight of a horse-car incites all pedestrians to tremendous exertions;, it Smight be a good_ plan to utilize he vehicle e in walkingmiatches, infusing new life an Sto the contestants 1ow ,and thenh by brin i ing a car into sit iat the other end of the Ati t O soyou think the bikgrou FTelhtuaJ;y Critic-O, ino, my dear fellow! Thaat' j st whis, theya re sot! 1- Professor Huxley on Dogs. d Professor IIuxley pointedrout by the aid - of a diagram, in which force was given to the illustration by the skeleton of the ani nmal being raised on its hind legs, thllt in ternal construction the only difteriane be ! t.ween man and dog wits one of size and i proportion. There was not a bone in one it which did not exist in the other--not a , single constilneits in the one that was not to be found in, the otlier. In the case of the dog there was not that which, on su t perficial examination, answered to the t collar-bone of the man; but 'close dissec t tion would disclose, il the case ofthe iow eier animal, a little bone varyin.in leongth - from a third to haif an inch, oeaupyving the same place as the humain collar-bone, [ which was indulbitably a rudimentary I collar-bone. It appeared to be of no func tional importance, but there it was. Considering the psychological nature of the dog, the lecturer remarked that he might be met at the outset with the ob jection, "Talk of the mind of a dog; why, I don't believe he has a mind." 'Well, the only reasonlie he d for assuming that the dog had a mind was the same reason by which le assumed that all present had minds. There was no direct evidence of the fact any more in the one thanl in the other. Run a pin into a rman, and there was a stiart and a cry, by which they came to the conclusion that pain had resulted Run a pin into a dog, and there was.a howl, and attempt perhaps to bite, by which we inferred that the animal was in a state of Gonsciousncess in which it also suffered pain. Could they say that the dog was a mlere piece of :llinii:ted illa clhinery ? It was quite true that certain philosophers had heli views of that kind, but counnlllol-senlse people would lnot 1 have it, land he believed the colilOlmmon-sense people were right. At the samin time lihe was disposed to think that in dlogs the t feeling of pain was infinitely duller than i in humlan beings. AsI to the other senses i belonging to dogs, he was inclined to ( doubt very much if dogs could see with it W iS :1 r.l' trk l e f 'I I t It it s' lte ' lwlt regulated on a totally different scale iii 1dogs as compare" ,ith hlu beings. Did they ever he::i' a iof ' do takingX ail1 pleasure in isie? )1 the colntrary thele SOtuld of imuisic s.eetmill to rates= ei h.l Witte pain, ac:Pollmnlied I). a lhor'ibh sort, of asipot at whihli . he wais sultbjectei to the doing its worsti n the str',Ieis, w\ihy did lhe jil tul oil his l a lnches ail how! wihei lie might gI t up and run iway? Yet he t toften wondered whether dogs really dil t, suffer pain from musih, or whether itey howtled i r(lt in! syt ' mlathli'.y, aP did l the jackal;s of the prairies. lTheises llof smell in at don" Was Some thinilg mar'elus-matrvellot s nlot only for 1 its deli'c:it'y, but ftr ihe fact tilat its dis lrisillisaction otif what wii t l greteabile andli disagreeable wAt , oea-tly the reverse eof ours. They ever l ii ai'd of a dog being inlfatuted with lavll eiir water or plit chouli Or Eau de 'olog'lwn; lie rather re vililed in the smell'uus whitcih to ilmen were a source of tlnfeiielld horror td il!islust. i lie once possessed a dogs which hle fre quelntly left ac o ngst the thouIallnds fre self behind ;t tree. So sool ;s theli animal found that hlie had lost his master, he laid his llnose to the grountid, dll in thailt li er T l very soon trtue'd him to his hiding-polace. l That showed that thl e dog'1 had the power d of distinpguishing th !,a, rticular modificas q tion of the leather of the boots caused by s the wearingll of his mats.ter', ill contradis tinction to the modifications prodiced by hill dreds of tlhousalids of other people present at the ImiomhII nt. 11 As to the ability of dogs to tlil their a way frlom place to plt:ce, he believed there u was an hl onsciho s registration in their 1 ,inds of the visual pictures presented to it in the various tracks through which they passed, land. that the irelnOry worked lbackwtard until the alnimal reahted its des tination. No one could doubt the moral Xeither was there any dou)t that a dog A Baboon .)inner Episode. Bishop ('oleu,' givres thlis incidet in the t, early liie of a South Afri,,:n baboon. 1 There is soImeCtiig qu'iintly huntan about i ou ii : It wa Ii hot d11:ay, antld ai IIII(number of - bib oonlS w(re sunnling" themselves alolng the t bottomi of' lth i Do)n. They lay upon their backs, with half-closed eyes, rubbing '] their stomachs in a estlte of placil enjoy- s luent. T'Io or three young balboolls had c wvanlelredt to :1 little dista-llce downi the i I)o.iy, searching iIfor scr'pioIs fromi stone to stone jst )below them. 1'llThey ere not I t very s:ul°ecsf'l, alnd it diM not appelar that a their tliOventc:nfIs were of 1imuich concelr I to tihei. ctdliel.. l1reeuly, hiCeve'r, onle of the yo!ung oline td!!iiu i 1ng :up one, lit I uptoi 1 fathe :And prt riculurly ifat scorpioll, t whichll, 1i1h a futirtiv glannce :it hiis elders, a lie s.ized a:ld popped into his mltouths, hav- I S ing firs piilched off the st:ig'. He a once i proceeded to turn over the stone with gre:i. assidiity, is if in lftrth." unsucc-essful I setrch tfor storpiOIns. lili had not escapied aIl notice. iHow,) ver, for dovni the gully in a I sluggish roll canmo a great hbaboon, who c seized the young onle by the sc.l. of tlhe t neck, shalinhg hlil vigorotusly u:il the t plinll)p mnlorl dropped froml his:' pouch. I HaviIg gobbtle this up, the elder babooni t onice regained his lounge, atd: il went 1 on as before in th1 -leeepy 1 1hollow. Supper in the imoking" tar It 'Sulppelr i, now ready in the smokillng t ar!" shouItedt the brakemlan; an111d a -young tihan from I f:utford, who was on his way 1 to Sill Frl' .lcisCO, went folward t[o see 1 what the brakiem:n ilant. lie went into i the smoking car aund found a party of Bi:- i Ivrians cooking two kinds of cheese and I three denominations of salsages on the store. tHe caue.out very, pale, and gave i the lutkemann lhalf a dollar to burn match-- t {es e1nder his nose, "Was it very bad?"i an old gentilemlen asked him, when he re- ! turned to the coc:b,. "Sir," said the] young man of Hartford, you will never 1 smell :anything like it until you have lec.,l i dead about six lIlonthit.'" A Cot.iundreui Answered., I A silI't yoinug l1tnto alsked at geiltlemlll I froml Catlpe Cod, "VWhlat is the difflrencel between yvou ndti cllan?' thinkinig that the Cape Codger would s:iy that he didn't I kinow, aindthlen the young n1111 would pity- him for not being able, to see any i diffei-ence betvween himself altnd a clam, I baut the tihing didn't work. The Codger, t took the young manl and brushed a path -1 ,eross the street with him, mtd thien, after I cro.ji ing hulm into an empt!y fish barrel I anidiyanking him out again, taid, "A clim isouldln'tlbep hyiit ngwitlh you in this way. That'. ffers th nee di 'ti .it ae and a clain."' Tie young mlan had no moreI questions to ask'. ,J3r Ieep said to a drukenk felilow "H'I I were in 'our place, I would lgo out to the Woods: tind bnug myself.' The' Ins t'wer was, "If yooz in my plaiah, you cotuldnit get theret' WA CELE.BATEiiD PA\IST Pl D(5I5t 5 t o! SHODD0YITE. i n- Henry Ketten, the pianist. says tie San e- Fransico Post, not only left -behind him 'l the g~l-will and hiearty favor due this ie most aceoniplitsed artist and courteous gen a tlemnan, but as well the memory of so thor ot ough . aind matchless a snub to one of those of intolerable vulgarians who forii at least t- the superstructure of 'Frisco society that e wve could alTbrd to ever hohl him in grate fuil reiemrancll ~ce for the latter reasonl aldone. 1 It appears that Mr. K. was invited to a ie party at the house of one of our local Phi tocrats, a large importing merchant, and Y attended the same with his wife, precisely as would any other expected guest. To his surprise, however, he found the f company sitting solemnly around, as c though in a concert-hall, and himself at once pressed to "play sonmething'' by his host. The courteous Frenchman compli I, ed, and, in response to repeated requests, It continued to entertai-, the company lbr I nearly two hours. When at last he was d thoroughly fatigued, supper was announc f ed, whereupon the host arose and said: ' "You've got piano punching down fine, " Ketten, old fellow. Now if you'll play e these young folks a few quadrilles and - polkas while the balance of ius go dtown to. a hash, I'll send up Martha Louise to relieve lyou presently; or, if you like, you can Shave something sent up, and eat it right here on the piano. I ,first kinder clcudlat ied to have to engage', a couple of tiddlers, but the old lady said she thought you wouldhh't mind. I'll make it ll right Swhen you go." lThe astoinded artist gazed at the spleak er-iwho was well known to have been a barkeeper in the- "good old days"--for a few moments utterly dumfounded; then, controlling himself, he gravely turned his back iand began playing dance music ;s re lqueste. When the comllany had all reas- i sembled inl the parlor, he raised his voice and said; "Pray let somel whiskey, lemnols:ad su iar be brought in." it was done. '"Now, then," said Mr. Ketten, lixitg i his on eye the host--tnow, then, mix u; somei cocktails, mny good fellow: every : ian to his trade." There was anl a\\wfl silence, and then the shoddyerat, with a glmastly attemnpt to ear- t ry off the joke, prepared the drink and handed it to the musician. The latter drank the beverage critically. "You're hlsing li practie, my good inlai? ; the elilow at the hotel bar dtoes much bet ter. There, you may keep the change:" and tossing the alimost asphyxinted million- i aire a half dolular, he liput his wife underhis a arm and walked out. HBlazing" (Cadets at . W'est Point and Annapoliu. 'there is hazing :at the colleges, but the I sophomlore class has not the facilities for 1 indulging in the pastime that are possess ed by third class-mlen at West Poit anlld Annapolis. The third class is above tihe new-comier, the "pleb" or "youngster," and exercise a certain sort of supervision over him. lie is made superiiltenldent over the fourth class floor. As he hlts just come into a little ailthority, lie delights to exercise it. The "pleb" is "spotted" or reported for every thing. l1e is not spo ken to :ti a geIntlelllll, jilt more like a dog. He has to put a "sir" .t'ter every question to an upper elassman. lie lmust stand uptll atnd take oilf his c:p ' whenever onle of these important and angust indi vidlltls enters his roo0im. lie must standtl and have his looks, figure, :and his nanle made fun of by iperhaps a ytoung stripling t foot shorter than himself. The lInguage used is often insulting, but it is seldom the pleb dares to resent it. If hte lhappeins to get off somiethling that atiproaches . wilt and the yonlg'jcter smiles, lie is then pitched into for diaring to Ilaugh at all tiupper class mate. Tils is the nlilder forml of haL'zing; it is called llnintlg."' To most young'tI mlen it is !more galling thlan lhaLzing proper. The latter affects the body, while the for mer consists in slurs and personal abuse. On drill the youngster is yelled at on ev ery occasion by the cadet officers, and sileeilng remarks are made at the manlner in which he conducts himself. As a general thing none but the third class are supposed to h:aze: but all three of the tipper classes combine to make tile new cadet uincomfortable. One that is always practiced mtore or less every year is the "shirt-tailparade." After taps, when everybody is supposed to he in bed, a few of the choice spirits of the third class go to the floor where the plebs are in bed. 'They tulrn them out and make each one of them armn himself with a broom. Night clothes are all that are worn. The plebs are organized into companies, and under the dim light in the corridor, are drilled in all their phantom-like picturesqueness. The wardrobes ill the cadets' rooms aire very narrow; thle youngsters are mllalde to climb thenm very quickly. Often the wlrdrobe falls on theim. At Annapolis a sheet is stretched across the wardrobes, and the two roomt-nmaites are madtle to go through the evolutions of loosing, reefing, and furling sail. They get dusty, anid w'!hat is worse, are often kept in their cramped positions on top of the wardrobe until their limbs ache: they are iladet to get. on the table, dance and sing; 1io tmatter whether they can dance or sing they have to go through the mIotions. A favorite a:nlsemlent for tile festive hatzer is to make out youngster get into at wardrobe to sing, whlne :nother one acts as if lie was turning the etankl of a hand organ. Wlthenever a iew tune is wanted, the outside mant taps oil tile war'robe and the siiger sings him another lay. The mattresses are taken from the beds in sev eral rooms and piled tip around a few se lections of the genus plebs, until thie hol low colunn reaches near tihe ceiling. Into the top of this, water is poured upon the recumbent youngsters until the Ihazers get tired. Sometimes, but not often, a partic ularly cheeky young iman is made to eat soap. Frequently lie is shaved with a blunt piece of titn, comlon soap being used for lather, -and a whisk broomi for , a brush. If a youungster gets to exhibititng too much"'gall," or evinces a determination not to submit to his many persecutions, lihe is taken into a dark room, -where some twenty. or thirty upper classttment are as sembled. Thei peration of palssitg around, is then carried out. This consists in one man giving the rebellious pleb a punch in the ribs, klnocking him to the next timan onl the right. He is carried around te circle tutil he either gives in or becomes ex lhausted. Thiis treatment is known to bring even the most cheeky youngster to a proper sense of what is due by him to his upper clas slmen. Frequently twenty or thirty plebs are gotten into a room, and eateed in chairs. The most religious one that can be found is made to take the desk and preach a ser mon from a text in the Bible. The audi enceat proper intervwdls says "Amet." lie then calls on a brother for "prayer." The prayer nmust be forthcoming. Tying plebs up ii sheeets and ihanging them ont of win dows is not :is commulon now as it used to be. CUadts aire frequent, however; of tying them in their bedls on their backs ind tleaving thliem theie. Running a piece of rope into a room over the transom af te taps, and tihean making it fast to the feet othtiepleb is commnon. The youngster ia sudddely awiakensel by feeling hituself drawn outrof bed He is pulled up to the traiansom by hisfeet andm then lowr\tiedtiagai. Thes are soncde of the :iilany ways tlhat the pleb is made to feel thati he is ta he obedi einit to his uplpers. hiflhntio t..~i - AfSoarts ofPara graspin ' The heir is very set in ways. The jokey leaus on a 2.40 gait. A smooth bore-A life-insurhuce .eult. , s a rule the safe blower is a retieaint S.\Very seldloil 'rounltd-T'he square: e.on. i "A% chiel llong ye, taking notes' -''fTl pickpocket.-P-'uk. The mall who "has the key to the srit-o tion" keeps ain intelligence office. I The forests of the eartl are estilrttea to cover one foulrth of the land surfiace. A tate Ilnumlleroulsly inhabited, butit not on the Iiap---The state of suspense. I Stock, generally go down in the suimlni r. This rillle iloe nIot apply to corn-stails. The Arab who invented alcohli die i nine hiundred years ago, brit his spirit sil t lives. There i.s somielhiiig in the wind, i: olyl0 couighi ;l!til eatarrhI, sate the .1. 1' "Pay al yol go' is ta lIle, tilhe applie. lion 01of which is most general on horse railroads. A Philadelphi i phbitiisop)her has di.0cov ered that all fools are not flops, but al lips are fools. A great manly en who start oUt o 0 .' form the world leave themselves off t.\ the hilt job. The Mrs. Blloomer who invented L-t.!. cel iebrated "Bloomer stmLtllle"' is Stili :live and happy. When tie t!'beJr'' shops are all fuili voit (ln get'i :I clothes shave :at sone o: tie clothing stores. SForty wonen stiudlied in the Loctildoo I School of Medicine for women during the term just closed. 'rile glazier who was cleated out of' hId pay complained that lie got only his troubln for his panes. There is a church in Norway with its interior tmade of paper. The bhas r.'iefs are of laper also. The Prodigal Son is the only indlv dual we. ever knew to acknowledge that h got tired of it husking. New proverlb-Yon cannollt raise si1ver crested Hamlbugs by setting a het, on nickel-plated eggs. Thilere is one class of pIersons to w.Oj:n tile board of adlieri'en has never givlen "hearing"-1The deaf. A 1mau explained his extreme b-aldness by saying that he wasn't h aroun. l hen they were giving out hair. People always sympathize with the ui Stler do ;' in the fight, but they -. thah lno lley oil hIbe othe1 r animall11il.1 ,. 0, A couple of 1pliuibeirs are tail.l i ,a ill, Niagara Fulls this sunnmer :>,:. }ate= senting it to the government. Paste1o, ard .b1oxes are beco01llli! po.'l iu-* har as tholt, made ,of wood fafr .ip.,in¬g fruit, alld :te 4 lulctl-h cheapl, er. PhI'liladelphia has the Honor 1of dI vsi Aigl thie silence party, where, until -.;.1 r time,. o one is allowed to spelak. At the preselnt rates of inlnlli;. vast territory of the tWest isbe.;<; - .ij filled up by tile nations of Eur . 'the Oil City Derrick says the A'::i . River is so cullrving that a mal ..'. : oil its banks will snometimles tei ,. 1 owo heels. Iow m1any can atlopt the d 'i - words of Payson as their own li\'lig r wicrna:. "I long to hand a cup of IhIt.-..-S toi every hiulan being'?" A certain junior has at last t ii'-,:.t 5 one advantage in the faculty. ER b:y - that tihey write to his parents so cit .-i it saves hiin the trouble. Never point an unllloalded g l::a: for full. If the gun goes off, it ' i l.pt to kick yo0i like sixty, and if :. . the mlln may do it himself. i\olliell always claim to be .ux-!, t"a have as good husbands as possible, --id yEt we never attend a wedding hea'se t.0 .s bridie malrried the best man. One of tilose hligh-toned b,-,:·. "'.hi ihalg around New York's best ';A. '.y hlos turned out anll origilal Italimi--F? w with an orliginal wife and seves s ad.j! i'S wives. "If you grasp a rattlesnake fid i: . ;'i:.t the neck, he cannot strike yoe," .. a Western paper. 'There is now no c~ cu:ise for any'one's being bitten by then- s:r penlts. The IIon Jrnl stks to its cp.'.g e t ih a przstncy worthy a betr koz. h'ies inng wage to luk like a vtern ov thl .at war, minus wnn arm and both legs---.L Y, Corn. Ado. A French office-holder goes i,-o 'diGes with full pockets, and comes out with empty ones. The French has,. not yet reached the sublimity of the Amecicatn republic.-N. Y. Mail. One of our dry-goods dealer, aldve>r -a, "something new in corsets." W'e dto not know what it can be that is any 'mbtter ;tan what was in them before. No' any 3._w thing in corsets if you please. The teachings of Rev. F. Mo:re, of Cov ington, Ky., that it is proper to de v ote Sunday to recreation as well as redtiion, were pronounced heretical by 'he pri eby tery, and he has left that body. At a police court: Jpci.-'" " our aute cedents are not too good. Yo:, hasv ld ready been three times in prison,;' Pr',svaner -"But you forget, Monsieur .e J~ldg e, that I ani sixty five. At that, age it iL not lmuich." It sce.ne on!v necessaryforsoieumeuiiýal institutions to have a lot of larils print ed, to wit: "This is a doctor," to r:.a] dJon.; diplomas, and to hire a small bo; to olte them on candidates for professional htoors. - I. . Mail. lie was watching his neighbor's a.y climb a tree. and he had a look of pailiul anxiety on his countenance. '.Are you afraid the lad will fall and break is aneck?" was asked him. "No," lhe repli:ed; ".' san deucedly afraid he won't. The latest plan for crossing t!he English Channel is embodied in a mod now be fore the British admiralty for a monsler floating railwary station, which i- to e.srr trains holding two thousand passengers across at the rate of fourteen knots an hour. Mr. Justice Page was renowtrd fo: hi1d ferocity upon the bench. While going osi circuit, a hmeetious lawyer nandtcl (;rnwle - was asked if "the judge was no:- jus. hind." "I don't know," sai(' Cszwle, "but if he is, I am sure he was c:ver jisat before." A barometer shows the ilhfight of a mountain thus: For every lCd' fe. of perpendicular height the bh:aromoser will frill one-tenith of an inch; if, th:bs ore, barometer hia fallen one and alT bi.&` ; 'i -e know we have ascended to ' beigit 1'00 feet. A Vallejo father told hi. ,:ira ni daughter lately that she must not. ste< t flatterers. "But, pap'a," sh.e rEio7_ l 1 w can I tell that they flatter mu ani listen ?" "Tur-rue-tur-rue, :i g And he leaned over tile end of lt and commenced to think . Freshmnan--' "Please iraljdid Professor-'"Well.no, I'n. si that you did not, come up t4 , Freshmnan--"Thank you sir;,` outsmiling all over, as if igh afraid .you.inun.e ... irte n haa't pas3ed.': Freshmn bet just the same. - i·;'I