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POsnaellaneous Selections. It
A CHINESE STORY.
Br c. r. Citnectt.
None are so wise as they who make pretense
lr To know what fate conceal, from tuortal sense.
. Tiis moral from a tale of Ilo-hang-ho
itgh li haver been drawn a thousand years ago,
Long ere the ,l:ays of apwetacles and lenss
V I When anoen were left to their unaided sewn..
Two \orng short-sighted fellows, Chang and
,r .r th.eir ,h lticks Idly chattering,
Fell to aisputing which could see the- best:
At hLo-t thev agreL d to put it to the test.
aMt ('hangr " A marble tablet ro I hear, I
II llac upon t ,he ,-hee em ale near,
With an inerei,tinn ,n it Ilt ns go
And read it (sine , you boast your optics so),
Standing together at a certain place
lI arent, whser we tihe letters Just my trace.
Then he who lyuokest reads the- inscrlt tunll there
Itse palm for keenest yes henceor rtlh shall
libear. " r
" Agreed," said Chlng; " but let us trt it soon :
Sulppose e say to-morrow afternoon.'
"Say, not so soon," said Chang: " I'umbound
To-menrow, aday's ride from Ho-haNg-he,
Anat she'n't be ready till the followilnj say
At tea a. m. as Thursday let us say.
'o 'twas arranged. But Chlnrwas wide awake: t
Time by the liorleck lee ra-,,lvtel to take;
And to'the temple went at once, and read
Uot the table: ' To tile Illustriols duad
The chief of mandarins, the great (.oh-Bang. " s
Scarce ied he gone when ,tealtily came Chang, t
Who read the same; lnt, ~wetinag closer, he
Spied in a corner what bhang failed to see
The words, '" This tablet is erected here t
By thue to whom the great Gth-Bang was a
dear. "
Ito, on the appointed day--loth Innocent
As abes, of ourse-these honest tllws went f*
And took their lestant station and Ching sdli,
"I can real plainly, ' To the illustrioe e head
The chicef of mandarins, the great Goh-Bang.' "
" And is that all that you can spell I" said
hamg. t
'' see what you have real, but ftrthermore, -
In smaller letters, towarnl the temple-door,
ite plain, Ths tablet I. erected here I
y- those to whom the great Goh-Bang was
dear.' " S
" My sharp-eyed friend, there are no such
words!" salt Ching. a
"They're there," mid bhang, "if I see any
As a sreavlliihtt"" l' Patent eyes, Indeed,
You have!" criese Ching. " Doyouthink I can
not read " I
!" .ot at this alietance, as I can " (:hang said,
' If what you say you saw is all you read." a
In line, they quarreled, and their wrath in
creaseed,
Till Chang said, "' Let as leave it to the priest: (1
Io, here he come to meet Ue." " It is well "a
usid hones Chinug: " no falaehood he will tell."
The good man heard their artless story through,
And said, "1 think, dear sira, tLre must be
few
Bleat with aust wonalrous eyes as these you wear. t
There's no suehtahl.t or ineiription there.
There was one, it is true; 'twas moved away,
'l d placed wiAin the termle yestelrday.
-eippicett.for April.
"ONLY AN OLD BONE "
Ants anel ages ago this world of ours
was not like what it is now. Where we
have laud, hard, Arm, and rocky, there
were seas ; and again, where we now have
neas there was land. In fact. it was all so
difterent that had you lived then, as I did, E
and survived till now, you could tell
strange stoagý, of. the ebenges you had
witnessed.
My first introduction to life was in the
huge jaws of a megatherlttm; for I was
one or i teqLh. I lad atmny tbrothelrs and
sisters; we were A very united, loving
family. Now we are all dispersed. 1 do
not even know whether they are living or
dead. You wonder, perhaps, that I can
speak so calmly on the subject, but if you
had lived ages as I have, you would know
that one cannot mourn forever.
A wild, merry life we led in those days.
I should not like to return to it now, but
I enjoyed it then. The world was at that
timesmoddy, marshy place eventhelrm
led was not wry table. Whatelsecould
you e pet lese iron rocks you see
now we very oung then, and st
thlbrrl, and a Serce battle they had to
wwae for their existence, what between the
' Are and the water. There were somenat
that tims, nothing but animals, huge
kee, and plants; and aine time they had
Of It.
My mster was a soclable creature. He
was the sdet of a large family of The
lums; his brothers were called Ano,
Anthrace, Palo, and Dino. They all
roamed over theground together, seeking
food, and lots of acquaitances we made hI
eour wanderngs There was the amlly
of Dons-- to, Smlo, and Glypto; but
they were small reatures, and we rather
dowan on them, though they were
agreeable enough in their way, Much
more nteresting were the Saari, whom
we casme to know on the shores of a huge
lake. They were called l Polek o,
MeYglo,sa Ido. The only to
them was that they were rather inelined
to conel, for they would nlsist thattheir
fhaly was 'older than oeurs. As if that
made them whlIt better I
Ah lf yo ad h amown all those bIe
eesures, Ia amem yoe would only pity
their m ncesesrs ow lvliag In the
wold With tbhirdales names, too! It
seem to me wee a py thorn good old
onsaemeere ge oat of thio.
s I sad, r wir a earemu s lving world
u-erngmt ,aepas traid hir bodi es
o a mud, wi wgedereradres
sr ed td , alnd our gl eal sdlvse
forests of plaesaed rm
There was a pgrand set of the whole
world;the -ea u et er ade me
grobd keaved ad tered; l t was
aonvulaon of the s o , amnthe
easemy mtt aow, br was
dashed oat Of his month. I s useed
hither ad s thlther a v ery loa I tim
durig whiek I witmeseed mverel more of
t ra I-was binglhtd nowa
sonssd o almthe
when l masate had e threiws
- lete s ,I ' "It w lthUIL
' tem -pt, 5D th tatq u esatoe s
rhadd w the k si ad d ea ,t my
m:aster and his li they would not
S TLy I t yMpr e evi od ofw h wis
ver. 1 y bt iatr pails
ever. a5 I easy ;bt it was sharp, painful
work, and if [ had been wise, and recog
ulzed my changed poetiton at once, I
msrt have saved myself a world of sa
fer n. i wI knew that sas ab i ro ,
1. the world is the best for the time being; qi
but I shut my mind to that truth then. la
Meanwhile,. as I was changing In char- W
acter. so also was the earth-for it was
consolidating and hardening. The whole T1
mass was becoming packed together, and cc
there was so much material to be die- In
posed of that there were tight squeezes in p
pl:aces-so tight that sometimes fractious cI
rcuks broke out in fire a.d flames, and de- m
claredl that they could not and would not to
d staind it, that they would have room to ex- isl
panl as they chose. Of course in this Is
general squeezing I got much crushed, In
rand wherever I was pushed I met with dc
insult. Even the little room I took up
was grudged me. pr
Finally I got thrown in with a company! In
of minerals, who held themselves immeas- im
urably my superiors. mi
t "It's a shame." I often heard them de su
dlare, " that that bit of old bone should
: be in our way." ke
So they rubbed and knocked against ag
,, me, pushed and jostled, till they di1 suc
ceed In fr. tting me to leos than half my pr
original site; and even when everything ag
had sauhsded, and I had found a tiny ear- on
ncr to rest in, they often cast jealous eyes do
e: upon it. They were not pleasant com- tal
panions; but I bore all their unkindness de
in silence. I remembered how disagree- va
able I had made myself to others, and
i. felt that I was paying a just penalty. ly
If I could have gone away, and left be
them the space they so unwillingly w
as awarded me. how gladly would I have of
do:.e so! But there was no possibility of as
my escaping. buried as I was, deep in the ib
earth. So I lived on, sunk in my little sit
hole, as far out of sight as I could, quiet g1
and unobtruive, never speaking unless I
idwere addressed, which did not happen ey
twice in all the ages. My whole exist- on
ence was a depreestlon for my unwelcome
presence.
I think they might have been kinder In
when they saw how humble I was. How- th
ever, they were not: and perhaps it was of
h as well, for I was only a scrap of oldhi p
y hone, I kept repeating to .yself-only a qt
frarment of a once mighty monster; but pa
such k poor fragment that I very made- Is
quately tepresented him. It was better I an
-hould iave It alone than attempt it, for I di
should only have met with ridicule and pa
Incredulity. a
, Of course I knew nothing of the flight it
of time; I only know that it was centuries la
I lived down there, an old bone among sr,
"Ithose aristocratic minerals. And;hs the sy
years rolled en. I think they grew to de- ab
splse me more and more. If [could have gi
done anything pe make them iamprove ga
r. their opinion of me, I would have done it. ca
But I could only remain quiet, and think in
back on the grand old days when we had
led such a fee, wild life, my master in
and 1. h
I don't know why the minerals thought %
wrorse of metas time passed. I think it s1
must halve lien because they had nothing as
todo. ad it was little amusement to th
them to abuse me. Anyway, they .often
called out to me in injurious tones, that I
had los" my ly beauty- . inm white gi
3 complexion; and they wonded- I was a
not ashand to show my ugly changed hi
lace in their circle. Ibore Itall In silene: jo
whatsý I havogainqg b I9Pli g?
And iiat lost 1n7 co0 pixorn, how
could I hdp4ti thought; we none qus d
d improve by age, suppose, and ifey al
were indestretiMb e and uuallteble -was
not conceited enough to think I was.
SYou mne,Itw aos a fin pt life I ed
)n down there, DhJt, , t hi-olna e
as tsan I have found all things co in this
w world, if we only waitlongenough.
Great disturbanes occurred t us
after our long quiet. I, aeeastoled to
such matters, thought they foreboded an- ki
other convulmon. ald, as my po ton TI
It le could but be , the
sounds ladly, rejoicing at the thought lo
of release from. my . I was
somewhat mistaken. diturhances th
and aoises I heard were caused by men, elC
those beings who were at that time stran
I gers to me, though now they are familiar
friends, .
A shaft was being sunk In the ground;
for the place of our abode had been pro
nounced a vanab is, likly to produce
e o re . Ily ld eu came nearer
, ourelr 0 them ham- as
mtot I b m tread of my
m's erashed theven
rblrs ealed took rathera I
stayet ttookem oaeth ah
adlow. t iw hI7 htd nestIe
sto 1t t fe e ere al bove-o
A How relentlylay t d away mas a
S. o t the torte haway man a
at maoer I oraet Im hi mani wod
L hadhbe ; t eeled to feel t 
ysewtloo. "omlu ad resisted the inI a
s trUan as their strength would its
allorw. lahaI wichI hadneleed he
Id watorn od to, md we wMere all convey- o
iedlt thfte iar. He eerw hand VlI
Id ed e dl ametiou a man who di
vided wmh pm m valuable, and d
: [asfolly paeIwbpm y tra cme nl
~to k the o w* d u lae pleceof hi
aLe met, ad orla.his d, the I p
m Jedaled oa, . y
"le haveindlim t il h re. Seethis h
e spleadi t urqo have covered i. iIl
sd-"ed ya admU giow beaati- t
tIta miayb Ar e e,! , b
. It a we ll ot oo is momenat se bele 
SIemIraliIte that Ilwasthe objeet ofdi
ead thes ywa ts. 1
Th owls am do.bt about however -
fIr I was r amomtoa ete rad
i foundm illaat lest the lur,
I wo ao a about the vo -it. i
". I, sraoi despihse, hl mtheth kmr "r
atalu eyes. I did ,
wish the mmy M tr
_rab I t t ma o o , aold ome B on
meleakramme I . befs ml& 1 : r
an e ladr4,niI was tkeout of y ea -
sot ad lo show tohimJi . t
.ed "A very good turquoste inde," he a
S d . shallegldtbuyitof a
' a yo u ' A e d Mmi n 'r
m chase. It was not immedlatel to t
sot some little bhagaining oconred. but It a
Icr- ended in my he comi ig his property. S
)w " But do tell mi.." asked he who had
Sul/ found me, .. how came the turquilse <
og- morig the copp. r?"' I
, "Turuolis."' rpled the other. " are
1of 1ts ofd bo hi, more. By con- I
)t with tW ogpur g titilla their ea- <
L. . ~.
quisite certlesa blue. The ore this has
lain among has changed it to a jewel.
Who knows as what it btwgan life?"
I was grown more astonished than ever.
This was too marvelous truly, that the
I copper, the mineral that had so despised 1
me, whose taunts and Insults I had borne
patiently so long, had been the means of I
changing my whole being into something 1
most precious. It was too curious! It a
took me days to recover from my aston- i
ishment! ihad led a despised life so long. t
I aould not grasp that I was suddenly of 1
Importance; but I was : there could be no 1
doubt about it.
The old jeweler polished me lovingly,
praising me more and more as I increased I
in beauty under his hands. Then he set 1
me in a golden ring, and finally exhibitedc
me in his shop window, naming a large I
sum for my purchase.
"' And I have been only an old bone," I
kept' repeating to myself, again and t
again. I
One thing I determined, that retarning
prosperlty should net make me proud
again; 1 had learned too thorough a less- a
on for that, and I resolved to love, and to t
do all in my power to serve, those mor- t
tals who had raised me from the lowest I
depths of degradation to such a height of I
value and esteem.
I was soon able to become more active- t
ly useful in their behalf; for I had not I
been long in the jeweler's window ere i 1
was purchased. I passe into the hands
of alovely young girl, who presented me 1
as a souvenir to her lover on his leaving
the country for.a time. lHe kissed the I
slender hand that had slipped me and my a
golden band upon his finger.
" I shall think of you and your blue a
eyes, sweet," he said, "whenever I look
on this azure stone."
Then they parted.
We roamed through many a foreign a
land, my new master and 1. - We visited a
the regions of everlasting cold, the zones a
of perpetual heat. We slept under the a
palms of the desert, the hut of the Es- 1
quimau, in the junk of the Chinaman. the a
palaces of Europe, the Indian bungalow.
Isaw all the changes on the globe with I
amazement ; the world had altered in- I
deed from theplace'I had known it. We I
passed through many dangers, too, es
caped many accideats. several times my
master, whom I learned to love dearly.
lay stricken 'with sore sickness, and 1
trieved for him lest he should die, and the
sweet, blue-eyed beauty whose gift I was I
should see him no more. Folk said I
grew pale when he was ill and only re
gained my beauty with 1iis health. I
cannot vouch for the truth of that state
nent.
The time at length arrived when my
master was able to return home. Why he
had been so long absent I know not. He
spoke of business and imperative neces
sity that kept him far from her he loved.
and I know it could be no slight cause
that detained him from her side.
hIowjoyfully he turned his steps home
ward! It was a pleasure to' me to se his
gleeiul,happy face: He would often gaze
upon me as a mementoef his sweet isa
belle, and once or twice on our homeward
journey he exclaimed that I had grown
maye beautiful than ever.
The last stage of his traveling he un
I dertook on horseback. He was cantering
along, singing, out of the joy of his heart,
SUhland's charmting couplet:
"O brich nicht, Steg. du zitterat sekr!
O I nith. Fels, e du dirsam hwer! .
i tntr.  fall icht em,
Suddenly the horse atubled, and my
master was violently thrown..
' lIe must not be hunt, he eaMtnt be
killed, I cried, in amy s*tey of heart.
Then a sharp pain thrilled through my
frame, I became unconscious of what fol
lowed.
When next I regained my senses I felt
the warm touch of Isabelle; she was
clasping my master's hand.
"Oh, George, she sobbed, "what a hap
py thing that you escaped unhurt!' If
you had been killed at the last, after all
pe e were safely over,
I coul dd not have borne it."
"Comfort yourself, sweetheart," he
said, "In aalive and well. That I escaped
Is truly a marvel; I cannot conrprehend
it yet."
"See!" she exclaimed, suddenly, as she
released her grasp, and her gaze fell upon
me. "Why, what thas ppened
to your trquoise? You never told me it
was ."
"'Cracked " he repeated, in astonish
ment. "That cannot he; only this very
morning I was admiring its increased
loveliness. But indeedt Is," he said as
he examined me more elosely. "I must
havebroken t in my fall. ls tr my
beautifuml treasured stone, the compalnon
I and friend of my wandering !"
A sudden lash e ght passed over the
r girl's h.
S"George, that lthal tarquotm e has
savedyour lh. I meeit all. Ittook aupon
itelf te conseqenees of your fll. ad
I has restored you unharmed to mse. I read
She was right; it had truly been so.
I My ery ofagoas we fell had wrought
i lratio, Ilowhppy I was tbaT I
l had bees the meas o-er joy I hbow
geoerm met r I had obtained in
rand worth Ia the eye ot the happy
l pair.
George wore me upon his iager uato
, hisdyin day, ndIabellanaddame,
showed m bergwatr lded bute
three days aeas the met predosa thg
in her posess won h eh she l an
Sdewn to them and t ir cehdmren's chB
I drem as their most trued reli and
deleie bt a Us -he.
S-
I Mn. Dasw nay sndanewprootof
L eht b at ae de aewn to eammltm
F teables. TheflhUo eeislap lt:
, into lhidssw pasiwgnte maa'he's
* w ita s Jat om der s Fao s i arm,
rm th h ayr thait Mmld be ema
*t vs a a es w or th eM
S heeate. "~b" thmghw
**WIs w el ease. The salmalve
ato-, resed at It f, i-mhe a ri
t ta m tk . • T'he IhmIUbU heIr--w
A as·er swe e ta an  t·d
Sto a e±mI. erabeutimus
to min its holhe monkey rantic
' ally endavereud to tasr itaway. Weary
Softhe sarPle, besuaspendedhlmselftoa
bar, by the tail, aand swang v0 etlyto
maeed ft., hopsg this tl o
ii enemy theate.aps d bew on th
r. F0o&ro mo, 'on wih astnshmet at
1:the stmrge spectacle. Saddenly the poor
it aoimal beame motiolems. Le wH s o
eye-witness suggests, thinkinr, and his
d refleetions, we are told, were ofa melaa
4e c homly characteras they ended in suilide.
He let go the bar to which he had been
re us.pended, an i falling headforfmost, wa
a- killed instantly, his nose still in theclaw
H1 t hl \er@liator.
mWomams Wages.
1to far as wages are fixed at all by mere
personal will, they are determined by
those who receive wages rather than by
those who pay them. But.in truth, wages t
are not determined by either one class or
the other, but by certain conditions which t
the economists call laws, but which laws c
are susceptible of modification and adjust
ment when understood. The inevitable:
tendency of all wages is to gravitate to t
the lowest point that will support life.
This is just as true of men's war· s as of
women's. The pressure which exists (
everywhere to purchase at the lowest t
price, to reduce cost, to obtain for at
minimum of expenditure the largest re- t
sult ceaselessly presses down wages. a
Every consumer in the land, every neces- e
sity which exists for making little go far, t
every instinct of economy, every force in a
the community which operates for cheap- a
ness-all these are responsible for low t
wages. Every man buys in the cheapest a
market; a newspaper bargains for paper
at the lowest figur. for which it can be ob- t
tained; it pays its printers no more than t
they will consent to receive; it* conducts t
its business, just uas all oth,-r kinds of e
bunlness is conducted. upon the strictest a
economical principles, at minimum of cost r
consittent with the result designed. And e
this uniform, steady, persistent, invaria- a
ble, unalterable pressure is what deter- I
mines wages. If one class of work men i
can be obtained who will consent to re
ceive lower wages than another, they will
be'employed. And where the conditions t
are exactly equal-that is, where the ser- c
vice, the performance and the competition
are the same-A will receive the same a
wages as B; women will have an equal a
chance with men; blacks with whites; or t
Chinese with Caucasians. This is a fixed t
and recognized law. Women are paid just t
as much less than men as they will con- a
sent to receive; just exactly as Smith is paid I
as much less than Brown as Smith, or I
men of capacity on a par with Smith. will I
accept. The whole and sole reason why
women of skill equal to that of men earn
less than men is because of sharper com- i
petition between women-because of their
readiness to work for less; and this readi
ness, arising from many causes, is greatly t
determined by the fact of how the wages t
are to be spent-what the necessities of r
I the laborer are. If women as a class can c
i live on lower wages than men do, then, $
in all those arenas of employment where i
[ competition is most active they will be 1
sure to accept less. What people have to t
Sdo with their earnings is a very control- a
ling factor in the rates of wages; and, al- I
though it is quite true that some women
1do have amilies to support, yet the fact
s that as a class female operators do not I
have the same responsibilities that men I
have brings down prices. What the ma- I
jority consents to receive enforces com
plansp on the uinority. It is entirely
certain that wagerfare thus determined by
definite law. The pressure of society for t
cheapness of production is so great
that wages gravitate to the lowest I
point the laborer can accept and I
I live. Women, as a class, can a
1 accept less than men, and hence their wa- I
ges are lower. But men have adopted I
.methods to resist this pressure, and wo
men have not. Men have organized into t
trades unions, they have combined in as- a
sociations, they have created a resistanceI
ta a pressure which otherwise would
grind them to the earth. Co operation
and union have removed that ruinous
competition which before was destroying
them; by combinatin they thus counter
act law by method, one force by another
force. It is quite true the power of reesist
ance they thus employ adds to the cost of I
production, and lessens the purchasing
power of their earnings; but we do not be- t
lieve, what we sometimes find asserted, c
that all thus gained no one handis lost on a
the other. 1
We have thus indicated whereinlies the a
remedy for low wages among women.
Let all the talkers and declaimers put
Saside their sentimentalism; cease their
clamor about justice, and rights, and i
equality, their emotional appeals and
fiere denunciations, and study a few ele
Imetaz prilelples on the subject of
Swhikh talk so muchand know solit
tie. Let thm understand that the reme- I
dy for low wages lies solely with the wo- I
men themselves. Let women organize.
I Let them combine. Let them arrest reck
t less oommtIa-n. Let them establish a I
counter toad tnthe powersfl social for
- es which, as consumers, they have their
own share la produig. Letit be real
I ized and accepted as uethat. In cases
I eAere all tLAs eodictios are equal, women
I are now as well paid as men.--Applios'
r Jou nal.
The bespo nne ht ae fna Egypt.
I ahtla l tho dlav trade LIn ion a
I recent letter, semads the fodlowl notes of
t thetra~s la slave in
r t lu ur d ad l vap wa hi~ch a
t Als proprtly qaLmdau. No Uar
i rteimae eoblmIlaj gsina mspete
bls quaarter eof atowmuntless he h a wib
or a male slave. Thi men who visit
Slar o blamdges~ sad who are
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An Imperial Battle. h
THE nursery-maids and their little el
charges who usually haunt the vicinity of 54
the Old Arsenal in the Central Park yes- :
terday witnessed a most exciting ici- S
dent. Anybody who has visited what t
the Park Commissioners are pleased to K
call the *'zoological collection" must have n
noticed the large wire inclosure, with its
gaunt leafless trees and small oval pond b
assigned to the eagles. Ordinarily, there w
is no particular interest taken in the awk- t:
ward and sailor-like movements of the he
imperialcaptives. The sight-seers usually ii
treat this part of the show with cool con- w
tempt. Whether it was this action on a:
the part of the visitors, or sofe private w
and domestic rivalry, that aroused the ire ci
of the eagle, is not known; but it is cer- bi
tain that yesterday a most contentious of
spirit was exhibited by the birds. They R
seemed divided into two factions. Hos- 1
tilities commenced early in the day; but iN
after individual combats had taken place. It
without any other result than a great scat
tering of feathers and the spilling of some
blood, it was apparently decided to settle
the matter by selecting a champion from
each side to contest the victory. The el
method by which this decision was ar- ifl
rived at was not made clear to the obscrv- N
ers outside the cage. But that some to
agreement was entered into was very ev
ident from the subsequent conduct of the tl
birds. A little after noon two eagles ad- .t
vanced from opposite ends of the cage to- .I
ward the center. One was a compara- A
tively small bird, with a white head; the ci
other was a splendid specimen of the large i
gray eagle. They met near the little ponad, w
and after glaring at each other for a few tr
seconds, commenced the battle. The aj
movements of the combatants were not il
unlike the unfeathered bipeds, who some- ec
times contest in the roped arena. Five or fr
seven minutes were consumed in what aj
in ring parlance would be styled "tight- In
ing for an opening." At length the cham- of
pious rushed in, and for a moment there q1
was a terrible screaming, Iapoping of aa
wings and flyingoffeathers. The 'round,' al
however, was completed without any se- al
rious damage to either of the contestants. hi
After a little more fencing the smallest of F
the two-the birds being at this time at aa
the edge of the pond-by a dexterous 11
movement succeeded in fastening his tal- D
ons in the neck of his opponent and drag- g
ging him into the water. The utmost ef- a
forts of the gray eagle failed to throw off 13
his adversary. The excitement among h
the spectators at this time was consider- ft
able. Somebody called for a keeper, and
in a few seconds one of these officials ar- al
rived, and rushed into the cage armed ft
with a large stick. The smaller bird he It
beat on the head with all his force, and tl
even lifted both birds out of the water with k
his stick. His efforts were not attended c
with success. The small bird held on a
with the tenacity ofa b ill-dog, and never a
relinquished his hold until he had, partly p
by keeping it under the water and partly t
by tearing it with his talons, killed the el
large eagle. After the battle the white- ci
headed champion stalked with dignified ra
steps to an adjacent perch, and spread- t
ing out his plumage to dry glared fierce- t
Iy, and dly round at his fellows, who si
signified their approval or otherwise by si
the most unearthly screams. The dead ti
eagle was carried away by the keepers.- sa
N. y. Tres. o
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A Dlsagreeable Visitation. a
A Tuaxian paper gives an account of a 1
curious forced emigration which has re- v
cently produced great excitement on clas- Ii
sic ground. On the European banks of c
the Hellespont stands the city of Galli- v
polil teresting as the first possession of I
the Turks in Europe in 1357; and nearly v
opposite to it is Lamsaki, a villae long t
renowned for the vineyards in its neigh- v
borhood, and situated near the site of the a
celebrated lampascus of classic times. a
During the autumn the authorrties of Gal- t
lipoli came to the conclusion that. there e
were in that town-as where are there
not!-too many ownerless dogs about; S
and instead of issuing death-warraits a
against these vagrants, they took the ex- t
traordinuary course of exporting them b
to their opposite neighbors across the e
Hel espon who were alrealy plentifadly r
provided with canine tresures. On the r
arrival of thse twothousand immigrants. e
who were very unraly on the passage, I
they started, in quest of food it may e
supposed, to the mountaas; but not find- a
In anything to suit their return- b
edto the tow. Here tag of ewar v
commenced. The leasakian canines. on a
reoonizingthe altastlon, "turned out to a
dog, 'and a frightfurl cofit, with terri
ble owlinge and barklags, sued for
four hours. At the endof that time the
foreign e was worsted, and, beting ly b
retret, ed ed to t aay: two e ps ao
were klled, and the rest retreated, but .
of oursem a to meturmn. The Djeri~di
Hsedie aresi the aseseont by mildly I
ayin that the Iamaim are much die- I
a the eeeutrie condute of the t
tol te mh e t eam alaw mrantstosa
deser t isand. aI
-- It
M" Meran" (Mr.) was a p snze dig ¶
Abed in theotd cooaleat daysthat noame ts
"'ee~sen," L e. voters, (wo wereadl- I
ways memes e the nor) were peI
mintd t wrar it. It as bem I 1
s anowdar myerI y e ra e bet lidt: I,
wIt as t tele a of the Meaa w, I
wbhmn mt O ate ( em e rweSIv 5 I
brevettitles. Whla m i e 1s t
and were leratd stem i n e i
Sto' e Our Aen y badsmst a
whose wo·rds were hem or aei d
we i no eo a dbm" atBuar, I
s-mmtgr aryordoleateert an
ALuMO sa very eelrel blessed with the
egotist. who exeroeles a kiad of ditator
hip overit. Ae in miste ke as dotsd
,aster of fetI e annot suEr yu to
oa o word a theend ofyar tongus?
drop a word to which be has devoted
Sauch research? le asks you whether
a you know Its primitive lgolcation, and
a ~ l~a o ci the reele alogo
( s When you re
i 5o o t hc h 40t(1
late an incident which you suppose new
and afecthV, your friend listens without
emotion. When you have done he ob
serves that he has heard the same long E
ago, and aids a very material icum- hi
stance which you omitted. lie is never t
taken by surprise, and it is Impossible to at
give him any information. And yet he hu
never takes the lead in conversation, nor gi
advances an original thought. It is his ec
business to come after, and pick up the d
words which others let slip In a running bi
talk, or to check their Impetuosity, that fh
he may point out to them their missteps. pr
Had he lived in the days of Solomon, be to
would-have flattered the royal sage with se
an intimation that some of his proverbs dc
were but plagiarisms; or, had he been a pi
contemporary of Solomon's father, would le
have felt himself bound to give the slayer m
of Golla!, some lessons on the use of the in
sling, and hinted to the sweet singer of fu
Israel his private opinion that the shep- In
herd bard did not perfectly understatid tr
tthe te of the harp.-Exchange. ra
The Executlem of Fester. he
ON the 21st of Mar ch William Foster to
expiated the crime of murder on the scaf- tr
fold. The following is the New York ca
Herald's account of the circumstances at- fo
tending the execution: di
The Rev. Dr. Tyng, in a clear vole, t
then commenced to read the Episcopal ec
service for the condemned, and the tall,
spare, young minister gave the responses.
As the awful self-accusing words were re- r14
cited the doomed man bowed his head still Op
more. At the end of two minutes his as
weakness visibly increased. His limbs wl
trembled as if with palsy, and a faint but
agonized groan escaped from his lips. His
left hand still nervously rubbed over his DC
eyes, and his body began to sway to and li
fro more painfully still. In gaing on his
agoay the words of the service becamean ea
intolerab'e monotone. The strong frame W
of the man, broken with unutterable de- ur
spair, as it swayed like a reed ia the wind in
and trembled In every nerve, excluded at
all things else from the mind that could ch
appreciate the unspeakable misery rolled ua
into these fast-ebbing moments of his life. h(
For five minutes the reading cntinued, st
and Foster'a weakness had so increased is
that Sheriff Brennan whispered sharply to fI
Dr. Tyng. "" Its to long.'" The reverend in
gentleman indeed brought the service to la
a sudden termination, and, turnirg quick- s
ly to Foster, grasped his righthand and it
hurried away overcome with emotion, b
followed by his assistants. t
lie who has stood by agallows tree can fr
alone tell the nature of the moment that at
follows when, the clergymen goe, the dl
imminence of death seizes one with en- st
thralling awe. The seconds to the on- lid
lookr seem whole minutes; but o the w
condemned, whatare they? SheriffBren- in
nan went through the hand-grasping for- et
mality. All was done as expeditiously as ti
possible to shorten the misery-that is, cc
to shorten the life, for life then was a mis- of
ery almost too deep to bear. The black
cap was pulled over the face. A tremor
ran through the miserable creature's tot
tering clay. The executioner, a nimble
fingered, dark-eyed, stout-built, medium- t
sized young man, stepped forward in- tt
stantly and linked the noose to the rope
that danglJ from the beam. A glance t
shoawed that it still hung slack. One sec- t
ond's pause in perfet silence, a handker- n
chief waved, tlp sharp sound of a falling
axe, and at eijhteen minutes past nine f'
Foster's body fairly leaped into the air. fi
The legs were erked up to the body con
vulsively, and opening wide as they re
laxed,the heels eame together with a sharp I
click. The left bandwas also thrown up- ti
ward, but fell Immediately by his side.
In the first half minute following there
were five distinct nervous writhing mo
tions of the trunk. After these there C
was no sign ef str le. The cervical A
vertebrae were evidntly dislocated by the d
shock. After hanitc five minutes the P
body was lowered fit-the doctors might c
examine for signs of life. At twenty- f
-even minutes past nine a faint trill was 1
felt in the pulse. At thirty minutes past
nine pulsation eased at the wrist. At 0
thirty-three minutes past nine the heart
had ceased beating, and Justicebad exact- a
ed the fll penalty for the murder of Ave
ry D. Putnam. Such were the physicans' t
repo as they stood taking turns In lis- ti
en at the breast of the thing of clay. t
Bute crowd were wild with excitement. t
After the first shock the line of polie
movedlo elr to the scld,and the trong
behind pressed close upon them. Neck
were craneI to catch a glimpse of the a
alght of shamse. U
A erae Iamtesm.
Tns strang acidnt of Albertaeee a
--
! t eht enieal noti an obeere rI
cCita em whisb aingulry con
tresi with the d yft, eral eemo
SalesefChristd Taeswesth
tritI Styled, Ipably an nheitnc
t hmtheds caicl omqUm es the e
I ad, nowprservd denlyla sum o the
I lmsrior tul wheo thme hen e a
state sa tabMelat t e m , our.
black and with bhem ahaea b
Uhopis the the mot I
ofeI wnaeI s ..th .u.. in
i I I ;ma ue rles th hed ra
c, orpo duad t et eres mirelr
amor sr a hermii se asYl , t d a
tosewto ab em. Ie nm. A•
fs Il t arrives, arll ia hsheI,
bdt e weares nalw the treplan
hievertheehilemtw to the astenea
o teiret, whnsee r weeah a clir nts w
Ir midhmly precipitalted ntf mel
b dythe eivLwy leer.lr K"I
Stweei members ca tfaml meree m o
? one of the bill tribes, and the deio
a belag gvnds l the ensuceei d a o
s party to the Prv cl. The se
n allitigante, fid their means exhaust.
I ed a adthemsclves unable tomploy coun
Ssel, reverted in thi s dlmto the fh
d of their ,noestorseaught an old kidot who
r was wandering boout, carried him to the
d top cfa hill, andl herce mrdill hlmto
,g pnmtalethe ndswho L trhedsclalos
The Carrler*Plgeae.
TRi speed of the carrier-pigeon has been
generally overrated. Carelul experiments
have shown tha! thirty miles an hour is
the average, although, in a few well
authenticated instances, thrice that speed
has been attained. In 1800 an English
gentleman laid a large wager that his pig
eon could fy thirty.'i e miles an hour. To
decide the question, three of his trained
birds were taken exm tly that distance
from his residence, and let loose in the
presence of witnesses. They arrived home
together in just fifty-three minutes, or
seven minutes ahead of time. In 1838,
(luring the great annual trial of carrier
pigeons at Ohent, twenty-four birds were
let fly at Rouen, one hundred and fifty
miles distant, at five minutes before ten
in the morning. There flight was care
fully timed. One of them reached Ghent
in one hour and thirty minutes, having
traversed the distance at the marvelous
rate of more than ninety miles an
hour. Sixteen made the journey in two
hours and a half. Several werenever heard
from.. In the East wonderful stories are
told of their speed and endurance. The
traveler Lithgow tells us that one will
carry a letter from Baby lon to Aleppo in
forty-eight hours, the place being thirty
days' journey apart by the slow modes of
travel used in the East. But the stories of
early travelers are to be taken with many
gains of allowance. Although for a short
distance, or in exceptional cases, the car- ,
rier-pigeon may attain a much greater
speed, thirty mlesan hour is probably Its
average. It could not sustain a long flight
with greater velocity.
Even this speed cannot be maintained
alithout rest. for the carrier-pigeon has
no* the endurance which belongs to many
birus of passage. It always descends at
night for shelter and repose, and hence it
can rarely fly across a wide expanse of
water. To this was partly owing the fail
tare of the attempt to use them for ec.nvey
ing intelligence from the arctic explorers,
and partly toanother cause. Some writers,
chiefly poets and romancers, would have
us believe that the carrier-pigeon finds his
home from remote places by a kind of in
stinct: but this is not the case. Its flight
is guided by sight alone. When let loose .
from continement it riscs to a great height
in the air by a series of constantly en
larging eircles, until it catches sight ot
some familiar landscape hy which to direct
its course. If flown onl a foggy day it soon
becomes bewildered, and either returns to
the place of flight or is lost. Let loose
from a balloon on a clear day, and too far
above the ground for objects thereon to be
discerned even by its piercing vision, in
st ad of risil.g, it drops perpendicularly.
like a plummet, until it nears the eartLh,
when it begins to wheel round in a descend
ing spiral, constsntly increasing In diam
eter, evidently for the purpose above men
tioned, of ascertaining its locality and dis
covering some in lie tlons for the direction
of its course.-Harper's for April.
Advamee of the Hmasu iae.
Paor. HanRy, who writes on the impor
tance of the cultivation of e'dence, rays in
the Popular ciesece Monthly :
" Whatever opinion may be adopted a,
to the origin of man, it cannot be denied
that we have descended from a race of an
cestorsbut little elevated ah',ve the brute-
from naked savages, the denizens of caves.
feeding upon wild fruits, e.evouring shell
fish, or struggling for mere existence
with the large quadrupeds of the timers.
gradually emerging from this state by the'
invention of weapons of flint and bone.
through long geological periods, into a
pastoral condition; thence, again, into a
higher state of mental development,
which culminated in the civilization of
Greece and Rome, in which the true in
sentiment and the beautiful in art were
developed in an astonishing degree. This
progress was mainly due to the migratory
character of the races which contributed
to the condition we have mentioned.
Tribes which remala entirely Isolated
may utilise the suggestions and facilities
of i which are adbkd them by their lo
calities, and when these are exhausted be
come per mtly stationary, but tribes
imped by want of sbestence, or the de
sire of conquest to migrate to other local- .
ies, as is stated tohave been the case with
the Aryan race in their migration from
the East to the West, gather up the sepa
rate- civilization they advance, and
hence, by aretion or intercourse with
othr, t higher plane. But this
mahe no ihrther rowresm than thatex
bibed In the bl t though uanmet
leal civsation of Oeee and Rome.
This dvhaostho gh it char era our
admiration and masts an ds e t era
in the history of the bum re, de
imt is two of thea eeents
. . then in the
o.. erat. . and toemployIts
I ha _ 'unct his purpose In eeleora
I P~~'eoom ae -a-earth. witeut
r si.t , pfte o pores the Rmo atn
l ha e oa alasVecef eee
For detsiLa the eyes, arolid rubbing
ah water into them; remove eiaders,
etee, with the mean poi nalaea lead pen
o. lerst. rom the earby tepid
water; ever pt a hrd l smirum brent le
"amoher rwth ein,
twa.e btreatr o wery bmidembi,
iam pin orse my dsomo a hyr oinut.
| Tw aay Itea ate em) boer
whoeflea - ealqet lt andbeae
weIRbra adt tasp wae but
ei re a- ou supoii wral eai at. .
I aree wolrun yd or, biter,
' et st t he pak rtwithou d.la i "
foeu-r h perse1 baon
Tach l has onlyV on teiin
w to bear,1sKvery con -
Iafa Iben o the g wdc r ates
Si --
whic, to be sureps a dery conllderabw
; m thr n cnsience Nasoleong
hoke le, tsanof thi. :hi heat ·
he akes voa for a boiw?'